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The Trouble on the Torolito.
CHAPTER I.
ANGUS THE FIRST.
It was a crystalline evening of a
«ort unpaintable in any poor word
pigments of mine; an evening vibrant
with the harmonies of the altitudes,
unspeakable for me, and altogether
indescribable to any who have
never looked upon the soul-quelling
glories of a Colorado mountain sun
set. Macpherson had propped me with
two bear-skins and a spare poncho
on the squared log which served as
a door-stone for the ranch house,
and had given me the field-glass
wherewith to amuse myself. It was
my first sane glimpse of the shel
tered upland valley watered by the
Torolito. Three days before, when
Macpherson had brought me up from
Fort Cowan swathed in blankets and
Sashed lengthwise on his buekboard,
I had been too ill to know or rare
greatly about the whence or whither.
It was a stockman's paradise, the
park-like little valley shut in by lofty
mountains, and from the heaving
pwell crested by the ranch buildings
and corral the metes and bounds of
Macpherson's small kingdom were
well within eve-sweep. Eastward, no
more than a rifle-shot from the home
ranch, a black gash in Gringo moun
tain marked the portal of Six-Mile
canyon, the only gateway to the par
adise; and from thence the inclosing
ranges diverged to meet again in the
«now-eoifed summit of Jim's peak at
the head of the valley. The "X-bar-
Z" men, with the exception of the
mild-mannered desperado who cooked
for us, were still out; and Macpher
son sat beside me, naming the mighti
nesses in their order, and pointing
them out with the stem of his black
■cutty pipe. When I lowered the field
glass in sheer weariness, he told me
about the single fly in his pot of oint
ment.
Now it may chance that when one
has given hostages to death, pano
ramic sunsets and friendly confidences
■may become alike mere flotsam and
jetsam on the ebbing tideway of
time; but Macpherson was too good
a fellow to be flouted in his time of
asking. Wherefore, when he had
made an end, 1 was fain to put a
little life, galvanic or otherwise, into
the moribund body of human inter
est.
"Then you think this land company
will ultimately drive you out of the
Torolito?" said I.
"Sure. It's only a question of time
if the syndicate once gets hold. The
stock-raiser is like the Indian; he
must move on when the farmer
■comes."
"The relentless march of civiliza
tion, and all that, eh?" quoth I, lying
in wait to spring upon him.
"Yes; it's the survival of the fit
test, I suppose."
A near-hand view of eternity is
subversive of many theories, and I
lashed out in fine scorn.
"What an infernal lot of cant we
•can swallow when it's sugar-coated
with the ipse dixit of the theorists!
Why don't you call things by their
right names and say that when the
strong man comes, the weak have to
Sfive him the wall? You drove up
liere five years ago when everybody
said that the first winter in this alti
tude would cost you every hoof you
owned. Vou proved the contrary;
nnd now, when you've set up your
little kingdom in one of the waste
places of the earth, a lot of capital
ists come along and invite you to
abdicate. I'd see them hanged first!"
Macpherson made a riumbfshow of
applause. He is a latter-day re
crudescence of the physically-fit he
ro*'* of the Homeric age, with square
shoulders and legs like posts; a man
who can bend nails in his bare hands,
and who has never found the bottom
of his well of strength; but he has
laughing brown eyes with a woman
ish tenderness in them—eyes that
may glow with righteous indigna
tion, but which know not vindictive
ness.
"Oh, you be damned," he said, af
fectionately. "What would you do?"
"I'd be governed by circumstances
and fight for my own to the last
You can do that as well as
unother, can't you?"
He took time to think about it."l
don't know. If Selter would stand
by me—"
"Who is Selter?" As I have said,
ft was only my third day in the Toro
lito. and the first two had been spent
in the spare bunk of the ranch house.
"I'll have to begin back a bit to
account for him. Three years ago
a rattletrap of a prairie schooner
oi:t say; you're sick, and I don't
want to bore you with folk-lore."
"Goon; I'm three planetary orbits
beyond the boring point."
"Are you? Well, as I was going to
say, a shaekly old schooner drifted
wp Six-Mile canyon and into the park.
Jake Selter was its skipper, and
the crew consisted of a wife, a half
grown daughter, and a flock of little
ones. Tliey were homesteaders look
ing for a bit of prairie with a stream
convenient which could be dammed
And ditched, and the old man drove
up to ask me what I thought of the
Torolito from the point of view of
potatoes and the small grains."
Now I submit that anyone save
A signs Macpherson would have di
vined at once that this was the en
tering edge, of a wedge which would
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
(Copyright, 18V8, by Francis LjimJm )
ultimately split him in twain, and I
said as much.
"You should hnve told liini the alti
j tude was prohibitory, but I suppose
| you didn't."
Macpherson grinned. "Xo; I have
my weaknesses, same as other peo
j pie. 1 was the king of the Torolito,
I as you have remarked, but I had only
I the 'X-bar-Z' men for subjects and I
| was lonesome for a sight of women
: and children. You don't know what
1 that means now, but you may, some
-1 time. I piloted the schooner to the
I head of the valley, helped Selter
' stake up his claim, took the boys up
one day and knocked him up a cabin,
and another and built him a dam, and
I there he was, a fixture."
! "Of course. Goon."
"Well, the potatoes were a success.
| That summer, Selter pot word to
' some of his old neighbors in Tennes
see, and more prairie schooners came
jup Six-Mile. We built a bigger dam
i and dug a longer ditch; and in the
' course of time the settlement at
Valley Head named itself and built a
schoolhouse."
The crimson and gold in the sky
fire over the shoulder of Jim's peak
faded to fawndun and ashes of roses,
and 1 waited for Macpherson to drive
on. When it became evident that he
had stopped at the schoolhouse, I
gave a tug at the halter.
"That accounts for Selter; but you
haven't told me how he figures in tke
syndicate matter. 1 should think he
and his neighbors would be a unit
with you in trying to keep the land
grabbers out."
"You would think so. They'll be
between the upper and nether mill
stones if the big company ever gets
control of the water. Jsut human
nature is pretty much the same the
world over—short-sighted and easily
fooled. The promoters tell the set
tlers that the big ditch will jump
their land from nothing 1 to SIOO an
acre, and so it would if they could
contrive to hold onto their own
water-right."
"Why can't they?" I had been born
and reared in a land where the form
er and the latter rains fail not, and
irrigation is unknown.
"Because the syndicate is too sharp
to take chances. It must control the
water absolutely and exclusively in
order to make the scheme successful.
As the first homesteader to prove up
011 his claim, Selter has the prior
right to the water, much or little, —
owns the present ditch, in fact, in
I fee simple. So long as he stands in
j the way, the money-people will do
I nothing but talk; but I'm afraid
"IT S HART KILGORE."
they're talking to some purpose. If
Selter sells, that settles it."
"Can't you buy him out and hold
the whip in your own hands?"
"I thought I could at one time, but
latterly he's been dodging me; just
why, I don't know."
"Perhaps the syndicate has overbid
you."
"I've thought of that; but in that
case you'd think Selter would whip
saw back and forth between us. He
is an avaricious old sinner."
I remembered the half-grown
daughter—whole-grown, doubtless, by
this time—and looked askance at the
handsome young athlete whose guest
I was. "Family coolness all around?"
I queried, feeling my way.
Macpherson was bronzed and sun
burned like any son of the wilder
ness, but I saw the red blood goto
his face.
"West if I don't believe you've hit
it. Since the school-ma'am came—
but that's another story."
"Out with it," said I. "Dead men
tell no tales, and I'm as good as
dead, you know."
The half jest went nearer to the
loving heart of him than I meant it
should.
"Drop that, old man,"he said, with
a hand on my shoulder. "It hurts
me, and it doesn't do you any good.
You must believe that this clean air |
and the out-door life are going to ■
make a man of you again."
".Not in a hundred years, Angus,
my boy; I've put it oflf too long. But
tell me the story—the other story.
What has the school-ma'am to do
with it?"
Macpherson is Scotch only in name.
His manner of attacking a tiling is
more like that of an English trooper
charging a masked battery with the
odds against him.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, tgoi.
"The school-ma'am isn't, to blame,"
he made haste to say. "She is an
angel, pure and simple; and, as I
happen to know, she has been try
ing all along to make peace. Hut
since she came, the Selters have been
offish, —mulish is the better word, —
and for no reason on top of earth,
that I can understand."
I smiled in my beard. When an
angel, pure and simple, is set over
against any daughter of the soli
tudes, a casus belli with a handsome
young athlete like my friend is not
far to seek.
"You used to visit the Selters pret
ty often along at the first?" 1 ven
tured.
"Why, yes; we were neighborly."
"Gave the daughter a pony, let us
say, and taught her how to ride?"
Macplierson laughed. "Now how the
mischief did you know that?"
"if 1 had lived a century or so ago,
your ancestors would ha\e said that
1 was fey and had the dying man's
gift of second sight. Hut never mind
that. You made yourself agreeable
to the Tennessee girl—gave her the
pony and went a-gallop with her, and
all that. Hut when the angel, pure
and simple, came—"
lie threw up his hands. "Let up on
that, old man,"he said, with a little
laugh of embarrassment. "I'm no
woman's man—wasn't in the old high
flying college days, if you happen to
remember. I've been no more than
decently civil to Nancy Selter; and
as for Miss Sanborn—"
The interruption was a scurrying
dust cloud whirling up from the
porta! of Six-Mile canyon; a cloud
which presently resolved itself into
a horseman, riding as if for life.
MacPlierson picked up the field-g'.ass
and focused it.
"It's Bart Kilgore, coming back
from his regular after-pay-day spree
at Fort Cowan," he said. "Just lean
back against tlie door-jamb and hold
your breath when he gets here. I
shall have to give him the usual
cussing out, you know."
CHAPTER IT.
THE INVADERS.
I obeyed orders literally, leaning
back and closing my eyes when the
dust-begrimed range-rider galloped
up and swung out of the saddle. But
Kilgore proved to be a bearer of tid
ings; and when he had opened his
budget the breach of ranch discipline
and its merited out-cursing were
alike forgotten.
"You're sure you know what you
are talking about, Bart?" said Mac
plierson, eying his man suspiciously.
"You know I've a good right to be
doubtful of anything you say you see
or hear at the fort after pay-day."
The scourger of dumb brutes
grinned and turned his pockets in
side out.
"I reckon that calls the turn.
Cap'n Mac., six times in the haffen
dozen, but I'm jug-proof this evenin';
no dust, no drink. An' I'tn givin' it
to you straight. Ther' ain't no kind
of a balk on it this time; Selter's
! sold us out, lock, stock and barrel,
i The deal's done dealt, papers signed,
gradin' outfit on the way, and the in
gincers a-comin' up the canyon this
identical minute, —tepees, tele
scopes, barber-poles, and all."
A far-away look came into Mac
pherson's eyes, and the pipe between
his teeth began togo up and down
in a way that swept me back through
a decade to a stuffy little college
dormitory, with a big-limbed young
son of Anak sitting across the table j
from me, hammering away at his |
mathematics.
"Who is it, Bart? —the English
men?"
"I reckon."
"And they're on the way in now,
you say?"
"Yep."
"I guess that settles it," said Mac
plierson, half absently. "We might
as well round up and drive over the
range."
His seeming reluctance to fight for
his own nettled me past endurance.
"You'll do nothing of the sort if 1 j
can help It," I cut in. "You're going
to contest this thing from start to
finish; and when your money's gone,
you can have mine."
lie shook his head. "It's no use. I
can give and take with the next fel
low when it's worth while; but I'd
have togo, in the end. These people
are well within their lawful rights,
if they've bought Selter's ditch; and
I—l'm only a squatter."
"Law be hanged!—you've right and
possession. And in the last resort,
you can at least make them pay you
to go."
Knowing Macplierson as I did, I
should have said that he was the last
man in the world to take the sen
timental point of view in any matte!
of business, but surprises lie in w r ait
for one at every turn in this vale
of incertitude.
"If it were only a question of profit
and loss, I shouldn't, mind," lie said.
"Hut it's just as you said awhile
back; I've been the Macplierson of
Torolito, and I've come to look upon
the park as my own particular little
kingdom."
T wheeled promptly into line with
the sentimental point of view, and
spoke to the matter in hand.
"Put it upon any ground you
please, but don't give up without
trying a fall or two with them. I'll I
back you, as I promised; you iniyht
as well have the patrimony as the
charity-people who will scramble
over it after I'm gone. We can home
stead a quarter-section or two on
their line of ditch for a beginning,
and pull down a few injunctions on
them if they try to cross. I'm far
enough past qualifying and going
into court for you, but I can be your
consulting attorney while 1 last."
He shook his head again, as one
whose mind is made up. "It wouldn't
do any good. There isn't a gliosi
a snow for 'is in any legal fight. It
would be your bit, of money and mine
against millions."
Kilgore took the short-barreled
rifle from its sling under his saddle
flap and flicked the dust from it with
his soft hat. He had a trick of look
ing tired and sleepy upon occasion,
and at such times, as I afterward
learned, those who knew him best
watched his pistol-liand.
[To Be Continued.]
WIT WEIGHED WITH WISDOM.
Some Ilrlulit Xtnrlra of tin- I.nte Hlah
o|i Stublm, of Oxford I'nl
vemltj-.
Among the clergy generally, says
a writer in the London Spectator,
the late Bishop Stubbs, of Oxford,
was perhaps best known for his wit,
which was brilliant without being ill
natured, and of a heartening quality.
When some gloomy soul csme
burdened with parochial troubles the
bishop invariably sent him home with
a smile on his face and a lighter
heart. Bishop Stubbs even grumbled
wittily. He was not willing to be
moved from Chester to Oxford, and
he said, as lie left the chapter house:
"I am like Homer; I suffer from
translations."
In his new diocese a well-meaning
but rather tactless archdeacon con
tinually informed him of what, un
der similar circumstances, his prede
cessor, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce,
would have done. At last he said:
"Archdeacon, you remind me of
the Witch of Endor, for you are not
contented unless you raise the ghost
of Samuel."
At a prize-giving which he attend
ed at a school in Oxforl, after his
fame as a historian was assured, the
head master expressed his great,
sense of indebtedness. lie only
hoped that the fulfilment of such en
gagements did not so intrude on the
bishop's leisure as to diminish the
prospect, of his publishing another
great book.
The bishop, in acknowledging the
kindly tribute, said that, far from
writing books, he scarcely had time
to open a book. "When I say that,"
ho added, "there is one book which
as a bishop I must study. T need
hardly say that the book to which I
refer" (here a stillness fell on the
audience) "is—Bradsliaw."
There was a ripple of laughter at
his mentioning the Railway Guide;
everybody had expected him to say
the Bible.
Bishop Stubbs was a firm friend,
and knew very well how to defend
his friends stanchly and wittily.
Some one said to him: •
"There's that bishop of Manches
ter. If there is a stone wall he runs
his head against it."
"So much the worse for the stone
wall!" retorted Hisliop Stubbs, and
that closed the conversation.
All MnHKiilinniiH Secure Convert*.
Europeans habitually forget that
every Mussulman is more or less a
missionary—that is, he intensely de
sires to secure converts from non-
Mussulman people. Such converts not
only increase his own chance of
heaven, but they will swell his own
faction, his own arm}-, his own means
of conquering, governing and taxing
the remainder of mankind. All the
emotions which impel a Christian to
proselyte are in a Mussulman
strengthened by all the motives which
impel a political leader and all the
motives which sway a recruiting ser
geant, until proselytism has become a
passion, which, wherever success
seems practicable, and especially suc
cess on a large scale, develops in the
quietest Mussulman a fury of ardor
which induces him to break down
every obstacle, his own strongest
prejudices included, rather than stand
for an instant in a neophyte's way.
He welcomes him as a son, and what
ever his own lineage, whether the con
vert be negro or Chinaman, or In
dian, or even European, he will with
out hesitation or scruple give him his
own child in marriage, and admit him
fully, frankly and finally into the
most exclusive society in the world.—
From"The Brown Man," M.Townsend.
ScnrliiK the Shepherds.
There is an irrepressible satisfac
tion in finding that a great philoso
pher is, in the innocent ways of life,
very much like other men. Marcus
Aurelius Antonius, whose "Medita
tions" have been the guide of think
ers for centuries, wrote some exceed
ingly human letters to his friend and
teacher, Marcus Cornelius Fronto.
One of them contains the following
spice of boyish fun:
When my father returned home
from the vineyards, I mounted my
horse as usual, and rode on ahead
some little way. Well, there on the
road was a herd of sheep standing all
crowded together, as if the place
were a desert, with four dogs and
two shepherds, but nothing else.
Then one shepherd said to another
shepherd, on seeing u number of
horsemen:
"I say, look at those horsemen!
They do a deal of robbery."
When 1 heard this I clap spurs to
my horse and ride straight for the i
sheep. In eonsternatiou the sheep j
scatter. Ilither and thither they are |
fleeting and bleating. A shepherd I
throws his fork, and the fork falls on
the horseman who comes next to ine. !
We make our escape.
\ Distinction,
Son—What is the difference between !
an investment and a speculation?
Father —When you put up the money
for yourself it's a speculation, but
when a friend advises you to put it up
it's an investment.—Town and Coun
try.
When Blood DoemM Toll.
Blood never tells very much when
it meets a pooy relation.—Chicago
Daily News.
SURPLUS IS WIPED OUT.
Bank Teller I'ltcliam'a Strut I'.i tended
Over a I'erlod of go Venn.
Ballston, X. Y., Dec. s.—Bank Ex
aminer Graham was busy yesterday
examining deposit, certificates pre
sented to the First na ß, >nal bank by
holders for verification. There are
400 interest-bearing certificates out
standing, and it will be several days
before all can be brought in and veri
fied, and the actual defalcation in
that line fully ascertained. Next will
be examined the depositors' books
subject 'to sight checks. In the lat
ter line no discrepancies are. yet ap
parent.
Several new developments increas
ing the default in interest-bearing
certificates have been found. Several
certificates were presented yestrday
tlia't are marked on Teller Fitcham's
books as paid and the account closed.
The bank officials assert that the
bank cannot reopen next week on a
sound basis, admitting that their
SIIO,OOO surplus is wiped out by Fitch
am's embezzlements.
Fitcham's peculations are now
known to have extended back 20
years. His individual deposit ledger
balanced to a cent when he closed it
Sat urday.
Fitcham remains at home under a
strong guard and was too ill to be
arraigned yesterday. lie said the
"stimates of the bank's loss were ex
aggerated that that, he had not taken
more than half the sum mentioned,
lie said he was not a stock gambler,
but that his trouble was due to fam
ily extravagance.
KILLED HIS PLAYMATE.
A Sellout Boy H Yeura Old In Stabbed
to Meatli by » Companion, Ajred 11.
Cincinnati, Dec. 5. —The shocking
scene o.f a school boy 8 years old
stabbed to death by a schoolmate,
aged 11. was witnessed on the streets
of Newport. Ky., at noon Wednesday.
Joseph Creelman, the victim, had had
a quarrel in the school room with
Eddie Armines, and when on their
way home it he quarrel was renewed.
A third boy, taking the part of Creel
iman, threw a piece of brick which
struck Armines on the head. At that
moment. Creel man ran up to him, and
was stabbed. He. soon fell, and in 15
minutes was dead.
The Armines boy walked rapidly
j away, carrying the pocket knife in his
hand. He went to the fire engine
house, where his uncle ia captain, and
threw t'lie knife into an outhouse, but
said nothing about the murder until
the news of the lad's death. His uncle
then surrendered him to the police,
to whom the boy told his story of the
crime:
"Creelman missed his reading les
son and was sent to the foot of the
class. The teacher made him sit at
the blackboard and I laughed at him.
When school was out lie cursed me.
I started for the engine house, and
PJumme-r threw a brick at me and
Creelman ran up and grabbed me by
the arms. I did not think the brick
was thrown at me until it hit me on
the head. Then I stuck the knife out
easy and heard his coat rip."
AGAINST SCHLEY.
A New York Paper ( Inlnx that lie
linn llcen Found at Fault on five
Count*.
New York. Dec. 0. —A special to the
Press from Washington says:
"Rear Admiral Schley has been found
at fault on five counts by the court of
inquiry. This comes from a person
who is in a position to learn the opin
ion of the three admirals on the dif
ferent specifications of the precept."
"It is understood that the court
finds against Schley:
"First, for the delay of the flying
squadron off Cienfuegos.
"Second, for misrepresentation of
the reasons for returning to Key
West to coal.
"Th'rd, for disobedience of orders
in making the retrogade movement.
"Fourth, for failure to destroy the
Colon.
"Fifth, for conduct unbecoming an
officer and gentleman in the Schley-
Hodgson controversy."
lluzcd by Cadet*,
Harriman, Tenn., Dee. s.—Four
members of the senior class at the
American Temperance university on
Tuesday night bound and gagged
Cadet Lester, carried him to the
woods near by, tied him to a tree
and whipped him. Then they placed
him under a hydrant near the dormi
tory, turned on the water and left
him in a semi-conscious condition,
'i he officer of the guard reported that
he fouiul four cadets besides Lester
out of their rooms. Lester is said
to have reported many little misde
meanors. Lester will proceed against
his assailants in the courts.
MolUcr«lii-t,a\v Hjild Prince'* Debt*.
London, Dec. 6.—The Dutch govern
ment and the Dutch court are again
strenuously denying the stories of
matrimonial quarrels between Queen
Wilhelniina and the prince consort,
but the scandal has been too public
for any hope to hush it up to remain.
According to reports a reconcilia
tion between the queen and Prince
Henry was effected through the influ
ence of Emperor William, and the
queen's mother even paid the prince
e.msort's debts.
Shot Four Hcopto.
Weit City. Kan., Dee. s.—Roma ine
Taubatix, a Frenchman, while intoxi
cated last night shot and fatally
wounded his wife and son, Oiraurd
Taubaux, and seriously wounded two
other persons at his home in this
city.
Knvorn the Nicaragtiit itoiite,
Washington, Dec. s.—The report of 1
the isthmian c..na<l commission was
sent, to congress yesterday. The j
commission favors the Nicaragua ;
route and estimates slS!),s<i-i,o(i2 as i
the total cost of construction of the I
canal through Nicaragua. The esti- |
mated cost of the Panama route is I
$144, 233,335, but. the report says, it, j
would cost $10!l,141,000 to obtain the :
Panama concession. The report sa «s
the Panama route is feasible as a sea j
level canal, while the Nicaragua route !
must lie b\ locks, but Lake Nicaragua
will furnish an inexhaustibo supply
of water for the canal.
fIUffIKKHM
Advises Against Reduction
of Military Force.
TIIE WORK OF THE ARMY
Will be Facilitated by the Con
struction of Barracks.
| TREACHERY OP FILIPINOS.
It In a Potent Factor In Continuing
(Guerrilla Warfare Our Soldier* are
Too ICantly lm|>o*<-<I I*|ion by lalse
I'rolcitaloiiK ol Frlcndtblp.
| 'Washing-ton, Dec. 7. —The war de
, partment has made public the first
j annual report of Maj. Gen. Chaffee,
i military governor of the Philippines.
(Jen. Chaffee sums up the situation
| in the Philippines from a military
] point of view by stating - that the
I provinces of ISatangas anil Lagtina, in
j Luzon, and the islands of Samar, Min
| <loro, Cebu and Hohol constitute the
area now disturbed by any embodied
j force of insurgents. lie says that to
| the physical character of the coun
| try; to the nature of the •warfare of
the rebels, who are amigo and foe in
| the same hour; to the humanity of
j the troops, which is taken advantage
j of by the rebels and the inhabitants
i who sympathize with them, and to
the fear of assassination on the part
of the friendly disposed if they give
information to the American forces,
is due the prolongation of the guer-
I rilla warfare.
j Commenting upon the plan of grad
j ually replacing military with civil
i administration Gen. Chaffee says:
j "The withdrawal of interference with
J civil affairs does not contemplate
withdrawal of the troops from their
stations to any considerable extent;
on the contrary, this should not be
done hastily and when undertaken
should be gradual and more in the
nature of concentration than reduc
tion of force or abandonment of any
considerable area of territory."
Therefore he recommends that no
further reduction of troops be made
before January, 1903. The civil gov
ernments which are being- organized
—provincial and municipal—<ien.
Chaffee says are both new and untried
and there is but one reliable method,
j of ascertaining the progress of the
Filipinos in self-government, namely,
observation by the army.
In anticipation of a partial concen
tration of the troops in the Philip
pines next year Gen. Chaffee submits
estimates of cost for the construction
of quarters and barracks. He recom
mends that a permanent, post be con
structed at once in the vicinity of Ma
nila for a garrison of two squadrons
of cavalry, two batteries of artillery,
and two full regiments of infantry,
together with a hospital and store
i houses, the whole to be under the
! command of a brigadier general. He
J gives $500,000 as a rough estimate of
I cost for this project and says that
| $200,000 should be available inimedi
j ately in order to take full advantage
|of the dry season. For the construc
j tion of permanent quarters at other
I points which may be determined
I upon during the fiscal year ended
I June, 1903, he estimates $2,000,000 is
required.
(ien. Chaffee devotes a good part of
his report to the terrible disaster
which befell Company C, Ninth infan
try, at Italangiga, Samar, and which
he says, was "largely due to over con
fidence in assumed pacified conditions
and in a people who, to a great ex
tent are strangers to, and unappreci
ative of our humane beliefs and ac
tions." American soldiers, he says,
fail to discriminate between real and
assumed friendship on the part of the
Filipinos.
A table is submitted showing that
since June 10, 1901, the date of the
la.'it. table submitted by (ien. Me Ar
thur, uj) to September 15, 361 Filipino
officers and 3,038 men surrendered to
the American militia, and 20 officers
and 494 men were captured.
Arctic Weather In the 4 atHkill*. -1
Kingston, X. Y., Dec. 7. —Severe cold
prevails throughout the entire Cats
kill mountains. Friday morning the
thermometers registered 16 below
zero at Oneonta, IS below at Daven
port Center, 22 below at Stamford,
21 below at Blooniville and 33 below
at liobart.
murdered Ili* Hon inmate.
Spring-field, 0.. Dec. 7.—While at
supper in the insane ward of the
county infirmary there last night a
quarrel arose in which Fred (Irani
struck his roommate, Anderson God
frey, on the head with a chair, killing
him instantly.
Van 'Fein 1* Said I-o Slave Died.
London, Dec. 7.—A dispatch to the
Central News from Amsterdam says
that. Maj. Yiin Tets died Thursday
evening as a result of his duel with
Prince Henry, the husband of Queen
Queen Wilhelmina,
A Favorable ItcporCoa the Treaty.
Washington, Dee. 7. —The senate
committee on foreign relations has
voted to report favorably tht> new
Hay-Pa uneefote treaty providing for
the construction of an isthmian
canal.
Tile A. ol 9.. r<U!VPUtloll.
Seranton, I'a., Dee. 7.—The conven
tion of the American Federation of
Labor disposed of considerable rou
tine business yesterday. Two ses
sions were held. There was a full
attendance of delegates and business
was transacted without much discus
ftion.
llnther and Daughter I rem ited.
Pittsburg, Dec. 7. —A dwelling oc
cupied by a family named Klee, in
Carnegie, burned early Friday inorn
ir.g. Mrs. Klee anil a G-year-old
i,ilighter burned to death. Klee was
badly injured.