Wallowa County chieftain., May 06, 1909, Image 9

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Race
-BY-
HAWLEY
CHAPTER II. (Continued.)
-fhnk ; bnt yon bave not told me yet
bether yoo enjoyed your ball."
Tea, that I did; I fot lota of danc
ing, and I do like that, you know. But
how about yourself. Gren? I don't think
og quite did your duty."
-Pretty fairly. I fncy. We can t be
Tcted to consummate the amount of
pirouetting that your sex delight In. I
danced a rood deal, and it was real pleaa
, to me to ee the little aenamtion you
made. I like to mT P1-"' cousin
appreciated as she should be, and taking
her legitimate position in the county."
"And what's that, pray?"
"Why. the belle of all Hampshire,
of course. I wish, though, you hadn't
.fenced with that fellow Peannan last
night ort ot presentiment ill
will come of it."
"Ton stupid Grenville: what can come
flf it? I am not likely to see him again
, months perhaps never. At the
wont, recognition of his existence on
meeting is all that quadrille entails."
-WelL I suppose you are right, Maude :
lot it is time I was off. Good-by." And
GrenTille's pulse tingled a little, aa his
lips touched the fair cheek so quietly
' yielded to him. "Kind regards to my nn
cle and aunt ; and drop me a line now
and then." -"Don't
be afraid of that," laughed
Miss Denison; "don't I always write to
you when I want anything? and am I
not always wanting something? I think
the put might testify in my favor. Good-
ty; don't be long before you come and
see us again."
Grenville Row pondered moodily over
his visit, aa be drove to the station. He
had not quite mastered the fact that he
was in love with his cousin, but he had
arrived at some close apprehensions on
the subject He tr'.t Ibat he would have
been a good deal better satisfied had his
parting salute been much less easily ac
corded. Maude, fresh as a rose, after a turn
. round the garden, comes in just in time to
greet her mother on her return to the
dining room. Petting her mother is one
of the chief pleasures of Maude Denison's
life. On this occasion she conducts her
into the ensychair next the fire, makes
the tea, and then, drawing a stool near,
seats herself at Mrs. I Unison's feet, and
with girlish delight recounts all her suc
cesses of the previous night ; to which
the fond mother listens with quiet happi
ness, as her hand plays with her daugh
ter's silken tresses. That nobody could
eclipse, that nobody could ever be wor
thy of mating with ber peerless Maude,
was a thing that Mrs, Denison would
have deemed absurd to argue.
"And, mother, dear." said the girl, at
hist, "Grenville said, before he went away
this morning, I was quite the belle of the
ball hat do you think of your daugh
ter now? Won't that satisfy papa, al
though he did grumble so about die ex
pense of the dress?"
"Yes, love. He will be quite content
ed when he hears how thoroughly you en
joyed yourself. I am only so sorry that
I was not strong enough to have been
present myself at my darling's success."
Harold Denison entered the room in
his usual listless fashion. He kissed his
daughter carelessly, asked if she had en
joyed her ball, scarce listened to ber af
firmation, and then plunged at once into
ine letters and papers that lay piled
alongside his plate. He was a tall, slight,
handsome man, with a keen, cold eye and
rather undecided mouth, verging on fifty
years of age. The slightly grizzled eye
brows knit aa he skimmed his correspond
ence. Duns, lawyers' letters anent mort
gages and sundry other liabilities, form
ed the staple of the daily missives that
Constituted the locommninirnl to his
breakfast Can it be wondered that the
. mans temper was soured? that, the
bilom gay frolic squire of Glinn had
become a cold, caustic and selfish man of
-ne world?
Things seem to be getting worse and
orse, Eleanor," he observed, throwing
down an epistle on the best superfine
Je post and sipping his tea moodily.
Tbe old cry from Reynolds and Gibson
iai mat interest on the mortgage will
be due next month, and begging prompt
ettlement this time, as the fellow is get
ting rather uneasy about the stability of
the security, on account of the delay of
at half-year. It will be hard to scrape
the money together. Sheep, too, are
" nothing almost so Thompson
tens me or else I have a hundred to
that I looked to to help me through
ith this."
Mn. Denison sighed. She had gone
vurwga a good many such breakfasts in
"er time, and felt as helpless as ever In
ug wsting expedients for the- occasion.
It s very unfortunate," she said at
-Mr. Pearman is not pressing,
' all events. I hnrw
k ?5 he ha the Brce t0 'emember
?j two-thirds of the property have al-
muen into his hands. He la al
ways tolen.M l; . .1 . v:.
J hukui wjvui li la uivurj,
k ow know. moreover, that his is
"ret mortgage on the estate; and, I
ry, at times looks forward to being
we eventual owner of Glinn. Shouldn't
- wHier If he was. too, some of these
days,"
muttered Denison bitterly.
I
't
10 grieve once, Nell, that we hadn'
, i begm to now Jt was alI
V. tte best I should feel it more if I
to think that my boy would never be
"ter here. Yet that is pretty well how
' wnld stand if we had one."
Providence knows what is best for
ZT "ld," returned hia wife, softly;
, ore source of trouble to us
hi ' ,ut Ton saT t spares us some
Kh" thoneht now."
a?od,lt herself with Urn in his
ouTm ertrvagance as if she had been
"J"' to blame, though, as far as her
Jnoi. . " dred had entered
than one meek remonstrance at his
reckless
career. But Mrs. Denison was
Unu Wonmn to throw her husband's
"UUS Continual!. In li. .--.v. T .
ua mull Afc mm
for
Wife
SMART
all done now, past recall ; still, as far as
it lay within her power, the wife was
willing To bear her share of tbe burden
Harold Denison's folly had entailed on
his family.
-ad pray, Maude, did Mr. Pearman
honor Xminster with hia presence last
night?" inquired her father, sarcastically.
"Young Mr. Pearman was there, but
not the old man. He seemed to know a
good many people there. Mr. Brisden "
"Yes, it's the old story. The old
county families are swept away by these
spinners, brewers, solicitors, and such
like. Another hundred years, and there
won't be one of the old names left in
the neighborhood."
Breakfast is over. Mande flits away
to her own little sanctum, with its piano,
books, and budding camellias: Mrs. Den
ison goes off for a conference with the
old housekeeper; while the squire betakes
himself to his study, to struggle with fig
ures and hold gloomy converse with
Thompson, his farm bailiff. The mother
and daughter do not feel much mental
perturbation about the difficulties that
threaten them. For the last five years
have they not heard Mr. Denison dis
course in the same melancholy strain?
Constant jeremiads lose their effect; they
thought little of the growling of the
storm. But Harold Denison, as he sat
puzzling his head in his room .over that
complication of figures, knew that things
had pretty well reached their climax, and
that it would be hard to predicate even
how many months he should still remain
Denison of Glinn.
CHAPTER III.
In the very modem but extremely com
fortable dining room of Mannersley, the
Pear mans, father and son, are sitting.
Tbe old man has turned seventy, and
can hardly be said to look as if his
money-grubbing career had agreed with
him. He is shrunk and worn, with a
stoop in his shoulders. Altogether, he
wears tbe aspect of a man whose con
stitution is beginning to break up. Wealth
is not amassed without- much wear and
tear of mind and constitution, and your
great turf speculators seldom attain a
patriarchal age. He draws his chair
closer to tbe blazing grate.
"I think I've got a bit of a cold. Sam,"
he remarked. "Better me than Coriander,
though, isn't it?"
"WelL, father, I am sorry for you; but
I don't suppose it will be much harm in
your case."
"How did he go this morning?"
"Well, I wasn't there; but Stephen
tells me he did a good steady gallop. If
he keeps right he'll about win the Two
Thousand.'" , ,
"Yes," chuckled the old man. "I've
been racing now getting on fifty years,
and I don't think I ever saw my way
into a much better thing than this looks
like. We've got on, too, at a very pretty
price, take it all around. It will be a
hottish Monday for some of them."
"I hope so; but there's one or two
things I want to talk to you about
There's young Sheffington; he's a crack-
brained young fool, and I've got him
down in my book to the tune of a loser of
twelve hundred if Coriander wins. Now,
you have done business with him is he
good for chat amount?"
"Yes, Sam yes. We'll get that from
turn in time; but I doubt there'll be a bit
of waiting for it Don't take long odds
from him again. What else
vi ell, flashugton stands to lose a
thousand to us. He doesn't bear the
character of a very good pay."
"He's the biggest thief in England;
but he'll pay me, though be don't every
body."
"And why you, in particular?" inquired
his son.
"Because be made a mistake about his
name in early life, Sam; and he is quite
aware that I know it and could rake up
evidence enough against him, if he irri
tated me, to make things, to say - the
least of it very unpleasant as far as be
is concerned."
"Good! Then, with a little pressure,
that'll be good money, if it's won, eh? '
"Just so," nodded the fatbe.
"Now, we'll come to something else.
Just listen to this. I've pretty well come
to the conclusion that I had better get
married."
"I don't see any reason you should
not; on the contrary, I should like to
see it Not going to make a fool of your
self, I suppose?" and the old man look
ed keenly at his son.
- "Tell you more about it when It comes
off; but certainly not, I think, in the de
sign. We've made a good bit of money
between us. I'm not going to say it isn't
most of it yours; still, since I have been
having a share in the concern, I've put
some together myself. Now, what I want
in marriage is connection, more than
money."
"Yes yes, I think you are right; but
there will be difficulties difficulties, I
fear."
"Of course there will, to a certain ex
tent; there always is about getting any
thing worth having in this world ; but
money is a key to most things nowadays.
Tottering coronets must be propped by
wealthy alliances. The parson or doctor
marries the rich tallow chandler's widow.
Marriage is a social contract in these
times. A hundred thousand pounds from
Manchester stands out for strawberry
leaves in the coronet while a fifth of tbe
money from Birmingham is quite content
to put up with an Honorable. Well, to
return to what I was saying, you agree
wit me that I must look out more for
connection than money, don't you?"
"Yes. I think that's best ; but it would
do no harm if you could see your way
into a trifle of property besides."
"Exactly.' I was at the Xminster Dan
last night and the prettiest girl in the
room was the daughter of old Denison of
Glinn. I got introduced to her; danced
with her, and did quite as well as anyone
could expect to do in a first dance just
naoe ser acquaintance. Id fart. yom
'iy l marked down as my
Intended."
"Ve8" M'd the old man musinglv.
that might da if we could bring it about ;
i . " proud m!,n' the father very."
"We'll come to that presently. Just
listen while I reckon up all the advan
tages. First of all, I have taken a fancy
to the girl. Slit's a real beauty, every
inch of her. In the next place, she's
an only child. Consequently, it's only
fair to suppose that Glinn "and what's
left with it will eventually fall to her.
We have got most of the old property
now; and that would insure the whole
thing being in our hands at last" -
"Yours, Sam, yours. It is not likely
I d last to see it. Harold Denison is full
twenty years younger than I am, and hia
wife is younger again; they'll see me
out. hoy."
"Well, father. It's no nse denying It
may be so. Still, in days to come, I
should be Pearman of Glinn; and with
a wife of their own class, it would be
hard if I didn't take my place in the
county."
"Yes, you should manage it though I
have failed; but you've had advantages
i nadn t bam, lou ve a pull, you see,
in education; I hadn't much. The art
of making money I taught myself, and it
didn't leave time' for learning a deal of
anything else. You start with a tiuy lot
made; and I think I have shown you
enough to insure your not making ducks
and drakes of it"
"No, I don't think I shall hurt. I can'
take care of myself pretty well at most
games on the board. I never dabble in
anything I don't understand. Don't you
make yourself uneasy about me, gov
ernor. Now, Denison is a poor man, is
he not?"
"Yes; he has well on to three thou
sand a year nominal rental left still;
but there's more than one mortgage on
the property, let alone other charges."
"Haven't you some money on the prop
erty yourself?"
"Ten thousand, Sam, and I'm first
mortgagee; but I know there's a second
mortgage of the same amount and there
may be more for all I know."
"Well, these, you see, are all points in
my favor. We could make this first mort
gage quite easv t,v him. at all events."
"It's a deal of money ten thousand
pounds; but of course it would be differ
ent if the whole projierty looked like
coming to yon at last"
"Well, then, we must take that sec
ond mortgage also into our own hands,
and let it stand at very easy interest It
will be only virtually allowing Denison
so much a year during his lifetime, and
in the long run will fall principally upon
me."
"Yes ; but I don't follow tbe meaning of
all this, Sam."
"That's just what I am about to ex
plain to you. My chances of meeting
Miss Denison are so extremely few, that
it is quite impossible I can arrive at
asking for her band in that way. My
only chance is your proposing it to bet
father, and asking him to accord me per
mission to try if I can win his daugh
ter's hand. Mind, that is the way you
must put it ; but don t forget that you
will have to bring your pecuniary bold
over him into play also only, do it
gently,
"You may trnst me; I have pulled
the strings in so many ways in my time,
that I've learnt to be pretty cute about
doing it with a delicate touch. I'll help
you all I can when I've made my mind
quite up about it
(To be continued.)
Tim Katars Pake.
"You certainly run up against funny
things in tbe country," said the young
man who bad Just returned from down
State, where- hia pnele has a large
farm. "On tbe way up to my uncle's
house I had to pass the stock yards,
where be kept a lot of pigs. As I
piitser' those hundreds of pigs seemed
t, b' having a regular stampede or
pniilc of some kind they were rushing
madly about, apparently looking for
something. I watched them for quite
a v.hile, but could see nothing but s
small woodjiecker sitting on the fence.
When i got to the house I asked Uncle
Jim what on earth, was tbe matter
with bis hogs, they seemed so excited.
" That so? Well, It was this way
there was a spell back some weeks
when I had a bad cold, lost my voice,
and couldn't call those critters to their
feed, so I got tbe idea of brlngln'
them to the troughs by tappin' my
stick on the wooden fence, and ever
since them pesky woodpeckers enme
round tbe hogs just go crazy, tblnkln'
Im callln' them to give tbem some
thin' to eat' "Chicago Inter Ocean.
How to Grow Peanuts.
Peanuts only thrive in a warm cli
mate. The plant requires a limey,
sandy loam, and yields from two bush
els of pods planted an acre to as much
as 40 or 50 bushels of pods and two
tons of straw. The seed Is planted
about one inch deep In row from 28
to 86 inches apart, and from 12 to 18
Inches in tbe row.
Flattery.
Wedderly My '-dear, you have Im
proved wonderfully in your music since
we were married.
Mrs. Wedderly Why, John, how can
you say that when I no longer play or
sing?
Wedderly That's where the Improve
ment comes In.
Bombarded.
"Ah, my man," said the good old par
son, "you should always be 'looking
up.'"
"Not me, parson," responded ths
farmer with much emphasis. "Not with
all these here chaps In airships and bal
loons throwing over sand and cigar
stubs."
"The trouble with this tooth," salo
the dentist, probing It with a long slen
der instrument, "is that the nerve Is
dying."
"It seems to me, doctor," groaned the
victim, "you ought to treat the dying
wltfe a little mora respect"
War Commander of Apaches, After
Twenty-one Year Did Not For
give Pale-Faced Captors.
LAST OF THE REDSKIN TTATiras
Only Relenting Warrior Showed Wu
When Ho Sought Soma Taror
from Custodians.
Tito recent death of Geronlmo, the
famous war chief of the Apaches,
which occurred at the Fort 8111 mill
tary reservation In Oklahoma, where
ho had been held s prisoner for many
years, removed one of the most cruel
and moat subtle red-skinned savages
that the United States Government has
ever fought Gen. Miles, to whom he
surrendered after his last great out
break in 18S5, called him the "hu
man tiger," and the characterization
was not too severe. He reveled In
blood snd died untamed and unrecon
structed. The famous Apache, who came to
public notice four years ago when be
was permitted to take his band of
warriors to Washington for tbe inaugu
ration of President Roosevelt, was one
of the few really great fighters that
CHIEF OEBONIMO,
survived of the host of Indian lead
ess of the last two generations. Time
after time during this long period he
outgeneraled, outmarched and out
fought dozens of regimental leaders of
the United States army, and was per
sonally responsible for the deliberate
murder of thousands of helpless set
tlers and the horrible torture of hun
dreds of captured enemies. For the
last nineteen years this old chief had
been a prisoner of war.
'He had never forgiven tbe white
men, and up to the time of his death
be never spoke of tbe whites as "broth
ers" except at times when tbe wily old
redskin covered his hatred to pray for
some favor. He bad made many at
tempts to get permission to go back to
Arizona, where he said he desired to
die.
Early In 1908 Gerontmo made a trip
to Washington with a number of his
followers in an effort to interest Pres
ident Roosevelt in his case. The old
Indian was unsuccessful, however, and
to the last Geronlrao was full of bit
ter hatred for the white man. At the
time of his death Geronlmo was 80
years old. One daughter, Lola, who
lives in Oklahoma, survives the old
warrior.
From the early '00s until Gen. Law
ton then serving under Gen. Miles,
rounded him up In 1880, Geronlmo was
a living terror to the settlers of Ari
zona, New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico.
Time after time In those days he
swept down upon lonely ranches with a
band of well-horsed, well-armed sav
ages, murdering and burning, then with
tbe cunning of a snake wriggled back
into the mountains, where the little
companies of cavalry found It impos
sible to snare him.
Preferred Death to Opt are.
The country first began to hear of
Geronlmo 50 years ago, when he was
comparatively a young man. In those
days Cochise was war chief of the
Chirlcahua Apaches, an old man of
bestial cruelty. Geronlmo himself was
the son of Mangus Colorado, or Chal-e-row,
who as war chief of the Warm
Spring Clilrlcahuas made life a bur
den to tbe settlers of Arizona and New
Mexico. Cochise died in 1875 after a
career of rapine and plunder that
couldn't be matched except by tbe rec
ord Geronlmo made later. Natchez suc
ceeded Cochise and Geronlmo very
shortly succeeded Natchez.
As to how many lives Geronlmo end
ed within tbe next 10 years there is
no record. His favorite amusement
was to send in assurances of peace to
the soldiers, retire for a few months
to the 'mountains, and then when tbe
settlers believed they were in most
security to swoop down on them,
scalping every man, woman and child
who hadn't bad time to flee, and there
was seldom much warning fore Gar
onlmo's raids. Endless stories have
been told of the almost unimaginable
cruelty Geronlmo displayed toward the
few prisoners he ever troubled himself
to take. More than once ranchers who
knew they were doomed to capture or
death saw to It that their women were
X if.: J
dead before they fell Into ths hands
of Geronlmo's Apaches.
Geronlmo new fought when be
could help it A woman on a ranch
or a mall carrier on hia pony carried
as good a scalp as a soldier and was
much safer to slay. When the soldiers
caught up as they sometimes did
the Indians fought back with every
device they knew. When the pursuit
was too hot their picked men dropped
in their blankets and waited until the
soldiers came upon them, and sought to
shoot the officers.
A Typical Raid.
The story of one of Geronlmo's ralda
la practically the story of all, and
the biggest of them was In 18.81, when
Geronlmo led 500 warriors on the war
path down as far as Chlhushua. They
bad many diversions along the road.
On Eagle river they found a herder
with 8,000 sheep. The herder they
threw over a cliff, and as he lay there
broken-legged they burled him with
stones. They punched the eyes out of
the sheep until that grew tiresome.
In Gold Gulch a half dozen capital
ists were on their way to examine a
prospect A-small detachment of tbe
Indiana lay In the tall grass alongside
the trail and shot five of the six out
of their saddles. Tbe sixth man got
away. He had retained his rifle, and
they did not follow him.
They crossed the Gila river with a
lot of horses, killing freighters as they
found them, and swept across tbe mesa
near Shakespeare, where they encoun
tered Judge McCoraa of Silver City,
his wife and their 0-year-old son. They
shot the judge, felled his wife with a
stone, tortured her to death, and car
ried off the boy to what fate nobody
ever has been able to make the
Apaches tell.
, When Geronlmo was at the height of
his power as an outlaw his face was
one of demoniacal ferocity. Ills' fury
knew no bounds. His temper was so
terrible that he frothed at the mouth
when enraged. If a horse did not do
as he wished he killed it, and squaws
who displeased him were put to
death.
The last death trail m which he was
engaged was in 1885, and in that raid
he killed 70 white settlers. Gen. Miles
conducted the campaign against him
and, aided by the late Gen. Lawton, he
succeeded In snaring the wily chief In
1880. Geronlmo and his fighters were
run to earth at the junction of the San
Bernardino and Bavlspe rivers, near
the Mexican border, and surrendered
unconditionally. They were ' sent to
Fort Pickens, Fla., and later to Mount
Vernon Barracks, In Alabama, and
then In 1804 were transferred to Fort
Sill. It is said that the various cam
paigns waged by the United States
against this murderous redskin cost the
lives of nearly 1,000 soldiers and
$5,000,000 in money.
At one time, to curry favor with the
President that he might be permitted
to return to his native Arizona, Geron
lmo Joined the Dutch Reformed
church. But his habits were so bad
that he was dropped from the church,
and he died without acknowledging tbe
white man's God.
HIS UMBRELLA,
It Wm the Caaa of Alrlaa; Family
Secrets la Pabllc.
A young man was riding in an omni
bus. He took tbe corner seat and held
in his hand an umbrella which had
been given him as a birthday nresonr.
On the seat facing him was a lady
wun a precocious boy, evidently about
nve years oia-
The youngster regarded the young
man with attention for a few moments,
and then bis eyes wandered to th
umbrella. He gnzed at it In silence for
a second j then he wriggled In his seat.
clapped his bands and shouted:
"Oh, mamma, don't that look like pa
pa's umbrella?"
"Hush, hush, my child!" said the
mother, patting the prodigy on the
head. t
"Papa wus looking for his umbrella
this morning, mamma," continued the
child wonder.
"Yes, yes, but he found it," said the
mother hurriedly, as the oonversntlnn
was becoming of interest to the occu
pants clt the seats.
"Why, miimma," continued the
youngster, "you know he didn't. Yon
told him that he didn't know enough
to keep an umbrella. WBy, mamma"
At this stage the small boy was cnr.
rled howling from the bus. Pearaon'i
weekly.
SENATORIAL, SEAT.
(When the Suffragists Get In.)
It is another sign you are growing
old If you feel grateful to those who
Ilka jrou.
THTVEEKLY
HISTONAn
... ' . .-.
1009 Lord Ds La Warr appointed Gov
ernor of Virginia for life.
1043 Indians of Iloboken massacred by
ths Dutch.
1070 Indians made a raid on the towa
of Weymouth, Mass.
1724 The Rhode Island Assembly passed
an act requiring a property qualifi
cation for becoming a freeman.
1703 William Franklin, last colonial
Governor of New Jersey, took office.
1704 Rhode Island college was incorpo
rated. 1778 First salute to the American Bag
by a foreign government
1783 First' United States bank char
tered. 1780 The Cayugas sold their lands te
the State of New York.
1819 Arkansas territory formed from
Missouri.
1820 "Missouri Compromise mil" pass
ed. 1S27 Charter for Baltimore and Onto
Railroad granted. -
1820 The Alabama Legislature protest
ed agalnat the tariff.
1833 "Compromise tariff" bill passed
the House of Representatives....
George Mcintosh Troup of Georgia
resigned his seat In the United States
Senate.
1830 Declaration of Independence ol
Texas signed.
1837 The United States Senate resolved
that the recognition of Texas as an
Independent nation was proper and
expedient
1845 The President approved a bill for
the annexation of Texas.
1847 Americans defeated ths Mexican,
at battle of Chihuahua.
1848 Louis Philippe ot France abdicat
ed. 1854 American steamer, Black Warrior,
seised by the Cuban authorities st
Havana.
1857 Congress authorised the people ot
Minnesota to form a State govern
ment 1803 Union force defeated by the Con
federates at Battle of Falmouth.
1804 Ulysses S. Grant made a lieuten
ant general.. ..Kentucky University
destroyed by fire.
1805 John Young Beall, Confederate
spy, banged on Governor's Island,
New York.... Transylvania Univer
sity consolidated with Kentucky Uni
versity ... .United States Senate
passed the 1000,000,000 loan bill.
1808 Disraeli became premier of Eng
land, succeeding the Earl of Derby.
1871 Meeting at Washington of Joint
' high commission on Alabama claims.
1873 Alexander n. Stephens elected to
Congress from Georgia.
1873 Fernando Wood moved In the
House for the impeachment of Vice
President Col fat.
1875 Rev. George D. Gillespie conse
crated bishop of the Episcopal dio
cese of Western Michigan.
1877 New American theater, In Phila
delphia, destroyed by Are.
1870 President Hayes vetoed the Chi
nese restriction bill.
1887 Scores of lives lost In the burning
of ths steamer W. II. Gardner near
Gainesville. Ala.
1889 Congress appropriated IXiO.OOO to
aid American workingmen thrown
. out of employment by tbe stoppage of
work on the Panama canal.
1890 Pan-American Congres voted for
an international railway, .
1891 Charles Foster of Ohio qualified aa
Secretary of the Treasury.
1894 War between Nicaragua and Hon
duras ended.
1895 Postmaster General Blssell resign
ed and was succeeded by William L
Wilson of West Virginia.... Express
train on the Houston snd Texas Cen
tral road held up and robbed near
Dallas.
1003 Aldrich currency bill defeated In
ths Senate. .. .United States Senate
passed the Philippine currency bill.
1005 Five million dollar dork Are la
New Orleans,
1000 lows State Senate passed bill pro
hibiting Sunday base ball.
1908 New York State Senate refused to
remove Otto Kelsey, Stats Superin
tendent of Insurance. ., .The first of
the tunnels under the Hudson River
between New York and New Jersey
was opened. ., .United States Su
preme Court decided In the Great
Northern Railroad case that the El
kins rebate law was not repealed by
the Hepburn act
Wireless tor Balloons Most.
The Aerial Navigation Company
which, under the direction of Charles J.
Glldden of Boston, la constructing sev
eral airships to be used In regular traffla
between Boston and New York, la ar
ranging to install a system of wireless
telegraphy for this new air line. The ob
ject is to communicate with any aerial
craft carrying wireless apparatus that
may be flying anywhere east of the Mis
sissippi. Special sending and receiving
tations art now being constructed at
Boston.
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