112 a i Peculiar Vocations Which Bring J Financial Success in New York % =w. Success sometimes lies in wait for | tlicj ounjfmun with an original method —l ———_______ of wooing it. I u j | I have just met two Hill' >lll' is a boyish wy I 1 -| ~ '' e<! ' ol taking a - v: 1 r" trip to Bar Ilar -1 I bor. He could not V\ N) | afford to leave his \ New York practice. \ His specialty is A Paueni tor ma iiose making noses, if Doctor. a man's nose is ground to powder, smashed flat, pushed to one side, it's all one to this doctor. He removes the wreckage, picks out the pieces that are too small to use, and studies the former con tour of the nose from a photograph. Then into the cavities left by crumbling bone and flesh he puts paraf fin tilling which assumes the proper shape and becomes encysted in the flesh. When the nose heals the shape is as it was before, and the paraffin gives the wearer no trouble. The nose expert has never advertised or otherwise won the disfavor of his confreres; his methods have been fa vorably received and his practice profitable. Almost anyone can spare money sooner than get along without a nose. My other friend doing well in an odd ■trade is a "wrecker." Not one who lures ships upon the rocks, nor a rail road operator of the Jay Ciould type, but a house wrecker, who buys houses subject to removal and uses up the old material. Of course there have al ways been wreckers. Hut the digging of the subway has caused the tearing down of hundreds of houses. The new Hast river bridge has driven 10.000 people from their homes to make way for the approaches; and all over the town old private and commercial struc tures are being torn down to make room for "sky-scrapers." Hip for tunes are being made by wreckers who have capital and boldness enough to ex pand their business rapidly. Money In 'lVnriiijj Down lloiikcn. A rich man came the other day to my wrecking friend and said: "I've bought the house number so-and-so; brown- fC"¥Ns -tone, Ihree-.-tor- j ~ ies, IS9 by CO. It ' 1 pJFI ([^] ■completes a plot ' ' ~ •on which I've been" l ' figuring to put up i< Ti j™] |fT fl a big building, i yW c l r_. 1-^- want it out of the «r2| JtK 112 way. \V h a t's i t Jftj worth? I've never been inside it." \\ i * fee "Ought to be i A)r v ' r ' •worth about $-"00, *- J W ..*-■ - but if you want The Spoils ot the an exact figure "Wrecker." I'll examine it and " "No, that'll take time. Take her for S3OO and raze her quick," Next day the sky-scraper man was fussing about with his architect when my friend called to him from the house which he was dismantling: "Come in and see what I've got," he said. The other man entered. "That man tel." said the wrecker, "must have cost $3,000 to build. It's hand-carved and of beautiful design— right in the pres ent style, too, being many years old. And see those pier-glasses. Rich man must have lived here in the seventies." "Say, I'll give you .$.'500 for the man tel." began the former owner, insin uatingly. "Not much you won't; I'll put it in my own house." Out of a dismantled buildjng ihe wrecker gets lead pipe which is worth several cents a pound; iron pipe, kind ling wood, marble grates, slabs, mirrors and chandeliers, mantels, windows, doors a'nd door trim mings. The brick and brown-stone is literally "as good as new." So are the flooring beams and boards. Hut t hey don't look as good as new? Quite so, they do trot—until they have been run through special machinery which isn't afraid of nails and leaves them as clean and fresh as you please! Tin" \\ reckttice of n City. Think of what the wreckage of a street like Thirty-fourth must have | y eori.tr Fifth I>/ -M; /jjBI aventii [nod the Ui,lii,n> Ui,lii, n> 'v ' brow n-stonr inan * 1 woodwork, built- A. T tilewart. idel.oard and the like tin i" mUkt have In en! I pon the upper corner «»• the pal nee of V T. Stewart, the merchant priliee, foi 'J ett I'.- 11l fiiie-1 ill Villi, lea I pon it the old ad lavished hi* wealth ami ingenuity, It wa Ihe dream of his wit age, an uitexp. Hm| streak of poetry In hi* arid heait. He Invented to :-ne it i»i»*< Uit( ly unique oum ImiU Maiiloii' li.eiitb. r. pr. rut. cal democracy opposed to Tammany. When Croker's carnival of loot began, the Manhattan club shrunk in impor tance. while the democrat ic club grew | suddenly great under his eye. The j marble mansion was neither wanted for a club nor fitted fur a house, ! because of the turmoil of the street I outside. So the wreckers got it! For a few j months they were tearing it away; | now upon its site is rising the new I building of the Century Realty com- I pany. Think what richness for ihe>| wrecker among those great mirrors. ! those matchless carvings; what wealth I of material, even, in the three feet thick walls, built for eternity. but last ing less than one generation! The house cost more than a million dollars a great sum in those days. Now it's wreckage; and you may be sure that every piece of it is utilized. Country mid City Home*. Yast as are the city mansions which Clark, Carnegie, Schwab and others a re building tor— — fa " int " rtCA/ZM't the hands of the " |) erha ps ? the ( p : mo st .st art ling a 111^ change is coming / *•*■ over the country • \ \ places of the /I'M / I wealthy. Time was I ivhen a "cottage" jjwtl/ J at. Newport was fvfvjk / sufficient. This aM the 112 a shionable ~ must Still have, "If Could be a Farm but it is merely Boy Again." the summer place. Somewhere —if possible near the "ancestral" home — must be a princely domain, counting its acres by the hundred or thousand. There must be a house more costly by far than the city house or even that at Newport. There must be automobile tracks, paddocks, horse barns huge and all the appliances of scientific farming. Thus the Stokes' "Shadi -brook" at Lenox, with its 800 acres and its SO rooms. Thus Whitney's 6,000-acre es tate on October mountain at the same place, his three townships in the Adi rondacks, his two homes on Long Is land. Thus Levi I'. Morton's"Rllerslie" on the Hudson —though on Fifth ave nue Mr. Morton lives in a house feet I wide. The Vanderbilts, who have reason for it.have no pride of ancestry. No one of them has a home on Staten Is land, where the great founder of their line worked as a ferryman, or in New Brunsw ick, where earlier he was born, j The Twomblys have a place in "Flor iiam," near Morristown. N. J.. that cost ; over a million. Dr. Seward Webb's I place in Sherburne. Vt., has becomean ; issue in politics. Does lie really live I there, or in New York? Upon the answer may depend some gubernatorial and senatorial prob lems. It earn. Mounts Wild Honrs, I)i»pr, When Austin Corbin became presi dent of the Long Island railroad he ; i -i got the estate jl ' ,Vir - "e stock -W- > a! ° l ' a 10' 0-a ere farm on Long 1s- M ' am ' with buffalo H ant ' "^ ler things. I' j. ' ~ That wasn't big en o ugh, so f»n Croydon Mou n- I / tain, N. IL, where U he was born, he \ j y laid out a 6,000- /JL / acre reservation |_ and put there buf- Some Little Fun for faloes, moose and the Game. wild boars. Little enough it looked like his birthplace i when he had swept away the houses ! for several miles. It was on this pre i serve that Mr. Roosevelt recently I killed a wild boar when he was in the I slate. Few of the Corbin blood can now enjoy its sweep and beauty. His I daughter is the wife of a foreign lio j bleman. The rest are scattered. This process is going on all the while. Frank Jones has become fab [ ulously rich building telephone lines 'in Ilrazil. lie huj - Hear Top Mouti | tain, near Hartford, Conn., his old j home, anil plans a baronial estate. Richard Montgomery wins money on Wall street, and goes to Richfield Springs, N. Y.. and la v - out sail acres, his father's old farm and several oth | ers. into a private park. The easurn states arc not so big that this -ort of thing doe-not make an impression. The estate mania is the biggest "bull" factor on farm prop erty intheeast. \ few game pre.i>rve» the -izc of Whitney's in the Adiron ijai-ks would i'xhallst the slate of : Rhode Island. \ how the game thrive under the new fashion! In er are mure plenty than they have bit n for o \ear-. The other day W. ( Whitney gave 1.1 moose to the tuie of New York, -imply to iar ii wild in the wood*. It i- forbi(W*a to kill them; thi \ will imiHiply until the\ are fairly eontmoi . There ire bear; wolves are not suncarce ac they ! were. | I. rn: Island is rnimt rapii v tilling „j, with l»i. r«! • tatr IV ivp- of i rot! in f* If HI or ishvw $t git at h«.ii •• l»<* built nix! it " n»j n vSt*v\, if {it - iSbSts ** 112 t Jit- v% at' P; thr is ut It foul a'l < X[IIM 112 if Hit laii'f 112 lilt I Mfitiit* > iiiii Irittt vitvi- t s nvl \ coin lis fill' l«»n 'it * v .»i " til #»!, » " ov. t.v i...n ;tov. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDA SEPTEMBER 18, 1902. OIL FIELD IN FLAMES. fir«>nt Ilnmugfi ltoue In Texan by the Fiery Demon—Oil .Tien linden vorliiß ! to Smother tlio Itiiriiliiif Miiuld ' Willi Stpum, | -Beaumont, Tex., Sept.. 13. —It was discovered yesterday that the lire in the lleauinont oil field, which started Thursday evening and is still burning, was caused by carelessness. A white man whose name has not ,yet been I learned, went into the settling tank ' of the Keith-Ward tract on Spindle I Top, with a lighted lantern and an | explosion followed. The mail escaped ; with serious burns, but a moment later the tank burst and blazing oil | spread over the Keith-Ward tract, | which comprises ten acres. Derricks I were ignited and burned like tinder. I The numerous small wood settling tanks scattered over the tract were I also burned. A blazing ember floated 200 feet in i to the Higgins Oil and Fuel Co.'s tank No. 2. The oil was ignited and is still burning. As soon as the disas ter was known in the city, hundreds of people went to the oil field, but j darkness, the dense smoke and gas prevented any effective work before daylight. Yesterday morning the fire fighters were organized and with the ; work which had been done during the j night, succeeded in confining the blaze to the Keith-Ward tract, though other parts of the field were fre quently'threatened. While the desti tution of the settling tanks entailed a great loss to individual companies, the real danger to the field was not apparent until daylight. It.was then discovered that the Woods gusher was ablaze, the well I spouting a column of burning oil and gas more than 100 feet in the air. KlTorts of the fire fighters are cen tered on the burning gusher. Levees have been constructed to confine tho burning oil. and preparations are now being made to smother out the burning gusher with steam, as was | done in the Jennings field. Beaumont, Tex., Sept. 13.—At day- J light to-day the fire in the oil field I i burned itself out and last night only j four wells and two tanks were burn- j Ing. One of the wells in a big gusher I and there will be much trouble in ex- j ! tingnishing it. The smaller wells can I be easily handled as the fire is fed j ! principally by gas. The oil is drawn ] from the tanks as rapidly as possi- | | hie, and they probably will burn j themselves out. A breeze is blowing, j ' but it is sweeping across the field and j : toward the fire. The loss caused by the fire is esti ' mated at from $75,000 to $250,000. So j ! far as can be ascertained, about 30 i derricks have been destroyed. The j j loss on these was comparatively | small. REVIEW OF TRADE. Ilun'* Hi'purl Say* Indimtrliil Activity Is renter limit ut Any Hermit llutu —Outlook In ISrl^ht. New York, Sept. 13. I!, (i. Dun &■ Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: j Industrial activity is greater than at ' any recent date. Many new factories j and mills have been added to the pro- j ductive capacity, facilities are being j increased at old plants, and idle shops ! resumed through the settlement of : labor controversies. A coke blockade 1 : still exists, the railways being unable j I to handle the output, which is above j all records and in urgent request. Large crops are being harvested. | and the greater abundance of food stuffs caused a decline in prices of; commodities during August of 3.5 per (.nt„ as measured by Dun's index' number. Retail trade is large, with ; i bright outlook for the future in job ; bing and wholesale business. Although the weekly capacity of I pig iron furnaces in blast on Septein- ; j her I was reported as :>35.1v,i tons by j i the Iron Age, it has since been apprc | ciably curtailed by the inadequate ! supply of fuel, on which account j | numerous furnaces were blown out , j or at least banked. As consumptive | | requirements are increasing, it Is | . necessary to place orders abroad I | more extensively, and in some cases I tin entire output of foreign plants ! has been secured. Xew England producers of boots i ! and shoes are insisting on full prices, j I and some grades that were slow to I ( respond are now sharing the improve- I ment. No sign of weakness is seen in | I leather, some selections rising still : ' more, particularly the belter grades I of sole and belting butts. Textile mills are well occupied, \ with prices sustained in all cases, | and moderate advances in some col-; 1 ton goods which are in demand fori quick delivery. With the completion of early orders there has come a quiet market for woolens and worst eds. but mills have large contracts ! on hand. Low stocks of wheat and poor grad ing of receipts, together with fears of frost in corn sis-lions, sustained quotations when a decline would have hi it imminent if full confidence were ; ; placed in official returns of condition, j I allures for the week numbered 2u5 in the I'nited States, against 193 lasi ! y -ar anil 22 In Canada against is a i I year ago. (•rand < Iretilt Syracuse, V V., Sept. 13. Fifteen thou and people -aw the clo ing j iMciils in the grand circuit races at the state fair yesterday. V big draw ing card was the attempt of ( minor, and Itoll'iel, 2:05't0 Iteat tli • pacing leu in record of 2:tiv Ti.- were driven by I'. McDonald and made fast time to the stretch, w < re llariel broke and all chances for at least, hugging the record were ; nil. The time for the mile was 2:10. j Mull- I.HW&tll- »l tt*|*illllll*MU t 111 I'M. New York. Sept, I! vt 11 meeting of the nil eon,initt if the c\»en • ~ . ••• • ..I ,i Republican t tubs jcttlerdftjf It wit* an ■em need thai at the imlioual emu en jin IVtoijff, the State league would be ; entitled lit four ilett-jrutv-i front elicit eoHlf le la mil din-1 He I and *lv dele of War Ktihti Hoot, - u.ttor IMther, | HIM, n ltd M 11, IHi Voting, of >4tt SITUAT, N UNCHANGED. t;«>v. Stone, «>(" Peiiiixylvanlll, S'alln in Illfi lCllort to .Miner,' Xlriku .'In»l SurrenUer I'neondltloiially Two foiilcreiice* 11<• I<t. New Vork, Sept. 10. —Gov. William A. Stone, of Pennsylvania, wiio came to this city and made an effort yester day to see what could be done to wards settling the anthracite coal strike, returned to llarrisburg last night without apparently having been able to accomplish a settlement. Gov. Stone was accompanied to the city by Attorney General Klkin, of Pennsylvania, and Senator Flinn, of Pittsburg. The three held a confer ence of several hours' duration with I'. A. 1!. Widcner, of Philadelphia, in the offices of the United States Steel Corporation. After the conference had lasted an hour Mr. Widcner went to see .1. Pier pont Morgan at the hitter's office and asked him to use his influence to end the strike. Ten minutes later here- I turned to his fellow conferees and told tlii'in that Mr. Morgan had dc | dined to interfere. Before leaving the city flov. Stone I gave out the following statement: "Attorney General Klkin, Senator i Flinn and myself have been in eon | sulfation for several hours with I'. A. j I>. Widcner, of Philadelphia, who is n j director of the United States Steel Corporation and associated with Mr. Morgan in many business interests. Mr. Widcner is very anxious to see the strike settled and took the mat ter up with Mr. Morgan. We are do ing wliaj we can." President George F. Tlaer, of the Philadelphia & Reading and Jersey Cent nil; President William If. Trues dale, of the Lackawanna, and Presi dent Thomas P. Fowler, of the New York, Ontario & Western railroad, had an informal conference. After it was over President Fowler said that the situation had been gone over thoroughly. Mr. Fowler emphatically declared that there was no change in j the attitude of the operators and that i nothing could end the strike but the unconditional surrender of the strik- | ! ing anthracite miners. Later in the | day, when Gov. Stone's statement was j | submitted to President Fowler, lie | sent out word through his secretary ; | that he had no comment to make on \ I the statement and did not even care 1 to learn of its contents. llarrisburg. Pa., Sept. 12.—The con ! ferenee committee of the People's Al ! lianee, appointed at the convention j last Thursday, appeared before Gov. ! j Stone Thursday and submitted a plan j | for effecting a settlement of the an- ! i thracite coal strike. Their plan eon- j | sists of calling an extra session of the i legislature to enact laws for compul- j i sory arbitration, better control of foreign corporations doing business in j Pennsylvania, and enforcing the six- j teentli and seventeenth articles of the ! constitution. llarrisburg. Pa., Sept. 13. —A crtn- i ferenee was held at the executive 1 | mansion after midnight to-night he- j tween (iov. Stone, State Senator Wtl-I liain Flynn and M. K. McMullin, nf Pittsburg. President. Mitchell audi j District Presidents Duffy, Fahey and i Nichols, of the United Mine Workers for the purpose of discussing means : of settling the anthracite coal strik?. The conference was held at the sug gestion of Gov. Stone, who has de vised a plan by which he hopes to ef fect a settlement between the opera-j tors and the miners without the I | necessity of an extra session of the legislature. Philadelphia, Sept. V'. President John Mitchell, of the United Mine ! Workers of America, came here hn»t night and was presented with a bout $3,000 by the organized workmen of I 1 this city for the benefit of the strik ing mine workers. The presentation j took place at a point mass meeting of the United Trades association, the Allied Ituihling Trades and the Cen- ! ' tral Labor Union, held at Labor Ly- | i cenin hall. The money was gathered by these organizations through house | to house collections, jars placed on i st ri'et corners and other places and proceeds from picnics. THE PRESIDENT'S POSITION. In lii-Kiiril to the Strike IN D. lioe.l by n I'ernnn \Y lio Claim, to Have Heard Illiu ICxplain It. Cincinnati, Sept. 10.— \ guest of ' President Roosevelt during a portion I of bis trip through Ohio, when asked j yesterday if the subject of the settle ment of the Pennsylvania coal strik l ? was discussed, said it was. The presi dent said that the printed interview with him on that subject was imagina- j live. The guest of the president said j that no man deplores the present condition more than the president does, but he does not see clearly how j he could take part in adjusting the j difference. \ny interference on liiij part except by request of both parties vvouhl be construed into a threat to | use the great power of his office to coerce one side or the other. If that j were really so, the action would be interference and not arbitration. If both sides should request, that ! tin president should select an arbi- | tration eommittev he would be glad to do so. but he could not give his | I time lo investigation of the subject 1 t lo the end <>f arriving at a just con eln-ion. If uch a request should lie made with the at-'•cement that the miners should be p« emitted to return to work, pending ihe decision, and both to abide In the finding of this committed, the Uniting to be effective ! from the iute the men went to work, the president would be glad to select such a committee. Unless both sides shall make the request, voluntarily, lie will not feel at Utterly to Interfere in the matter, . Mint t>} I'm* I lea I iikliuii u, Wilkesbarre, t'u„ Sept. tl The roroner'i Jury inve ligutinir the cattM* of ileallt or the Italian union miner, CilMtelll, by strikers at Maltby last Monday, returned a verdict last* even- It i» de,ifi fruit a -?nil*.hot wound la tl.eleil te. parlies unknown to the MI» #|H t (MHi M •j ' I i : •If. of !!o h-n. i W §l* i* GERMANY'S WAR GAME. ttinperor William I-.nl Sl.OOl) llnrif ■lien In nit Aanuiilt 011 Artillerymen unci ■ ul:t■■ try. Frankfort-on-Oder, Sept. 10. —The war maneuvers began Tuesday. A sunlit spread of country west of here was covered by cavalry searching for the supposed enemy; by batteries gal loping into action and by long lines of riflemen advancing along a 12-mile front. War balloons swung high in the air, and there were many other signs of warlike activity. The day was spent by the contending armies in playing for positions. It was an artillery duel, with occasional brushes between cavalry. The infantry never got into action. The German army of defense captured one gun from the Russians, but this was retaken by the invaders. Frankfort-on-thc-Oder, Sept. 11.— Tons of powder were burned yester day in the sham battle. Sixty thou sand infantry and 200 pieces of art'l lery were in action, i'he reports of thousands of rifles were broken at intervals by the tearing, ripsawing ef fect, of the firing of the machine guns. Frankfort-on-the-Oder, Sept. 12. — Maj. Gen. Young and Brig. Gen. Wood ; and their aides-de-camp, Lients. Me- j Kinley and McCoy, charged with the cavalry led by Kmperor William yes terday. The Americans did not draw their swords, but rode with the garde du corps, one of the household regi ments, and the emperor's bodyguard. This charge was the climax of the maneuvers. About '.1,000 horsemen, lancers, cuirassiers and dragoons, fell upon the flank of the retreating blues, (defending army), and cap tured 30 of the latter's guns and 2,000 of its infantry. The cavalry started at daylight, made a 12-mile curve, and swept over rolling meadows and upon the ene my's forces, which had been theo retically disorganized by a heavy in fantry attack. The 9,000 cavalrymen made a frontage of a mile and a half, ! ; and in the sunlight, over the open j country, they rushed at a hard gal | lop upon the artille.y and infantry, 1 which did not cease firing until the horsemen were near at hand. When j \ the cavalry were within 100 yards the j ! infantry quickly formed into close j platoon groups, which the horsemen ' broke up, galloping between the j groups and tin? guns. Several horses ; fell dead. The emperor, mounted on a white Arabian horse, directed the move | ments and at the finish galloped ; | ahead as recklessly as any trooper. ! : The empress was present on horse- j I back. Maj. Gen. Corbin and Lieut. ' ! Col. John A. Johnston. Karl Roberts i ! and other foreign guests were on a | hill, around which the charge was made. Gen. Corbin said it was tin* | finest military spectacle he ever r.aw. • i ClaliiiN (>reat Tiling* lor III* Selieilie. Rome, Sept. 11.—The minister of ! posts and telegraphs and the officials ! of his department have examined a ; plan submitted by an engineer named I'iscicelli for the establishment of a i system of electrical delivery of the mails, by which letters are to be transmitted in aluminum boxes along overhead wires at the rate of 24S miles an hour. A committee has been j appointed to report upon this sys tem before instituting experiments j between Rome and Naples. Betweei i these two points the inventor claims | he can deliver letters in 25 minutes, > while the time to send mail from ! Rome to Paris by this system could j be reduced to five hours, Mii rrrml'ii 1 Arbitration, Chicago. Sept. 12.—'Arbitration as a ! means of settling labor troubles proved a success in Chicago yester- 1 day. One strike was settled, one that was threatened was averted and two , were putin such shape that it is rea- | Ronably certain that they will be j ; brought to an end. The danger of a | i famine through the strikes of the j packing house teamsters and the bak- j c and cracker wagon drivers now ; fc-enis a thing of the past. The strik of the packing house teamsters was j effective so far as the pickets of the j union were able to discover and not a pound of meat, was moved by .Swift j & Co. by wagons. pHi-fd u .1111© In 2:()() I-I. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 13.—Dan Patch, with McHcnry up, went for the ! record at the state fair grounds here ' Thursday. Patch went the half mile • ' In 59%. and excitement reached fever : | heat in the crowd of 30,000 people j watching the event, for it was j | thought he stood a good show to beat j , his own record of 1:59':,. The third ; quarter was done in fast time, but facing the breeze on the home stretch ; he lost time and finished in 2:01)1/4. liolll* In Kained tor (•uvrrnur. Concord. N. 11.. Sept. ll.—At the democratic state convention held here Wednesday there were two candidates in the field for the nomination for governor, John M. Mitchell, of Con cord, and llenry F. Jl«► 1 lis, of Concord. - l chairman of the state committee. 110 - I lis was nominated. Ilalateud Wutiln to tiea < oiixri-imman Cincinnati, Sept. 9, The Times-Star announces that Murat llalstead, the ! veteran editor and author, is a candi date for the republican nomination for congress in the Second Ohio dis trict. represented in the last three eongrc-..-cs bs lion. Jacob 11. ltroin i Well. t Na*jr < ItaplMln Suicide*. Huston, Sept. 12. William K. Morri son, chaplain of the cruiser Olympia, commit leil suicide by shooting through the head at the naval hospi tal Wednesday night. He had been I in poor health fur several weeks. runt % iiliiiii'iltllt* Mttlliti., M.ii'elic -icr. Mass.. S.-pi. | . |t y nuloitiobil. sjHM-diiu? over an invit ing half mile trefch of road, the po ll, C ye terd»> succeeded ill e*»ehfng litre.* machines going ai a rate of 2n I.it iim \ Htirmxl. Lrtiljfeiow„ t \ j < j,i | i , • 11-. I I -ll t\ ! TO IK) POLICE DOTY. Two of Our Ripf Warships Will Goto Panama. itl«rlni'« Will Kpi'M Truimlt Arronn the | lallimu* ( lour—American Interests Will I{i> Protected Bombard* ineiit or I'aiiamu IVIII ISot lie Allowed. Washington, Sept. 12.—•Secretary Moody has telegraphed to the com manders <>f the battleship Wisconsin, now at I'.remertcin, Wash., and the cruiser Cincinnati, at Cape llaytien, directing' 'them to proceed as soon as possible to the isthmus of Panama, the Wisconsin reinforcing the Hanger at Panama and the Cincinnati taking station at Colon. It will take the Wisconsin 20 days to make the trip of over 4,030 miles down the Pacilie coast to Panama. The Montgomery will be sent to llaytien waters. The commanders of the Cincinnati and Wisconsin will be instructed to enforce our treaty stipulations with | Colombia strictly by preventing any interference with traffic across the isthmus, and also to prevent a bom bardment of Panama from the sea, on the ground that this, in itself, would constitute a menace to traffic. Neither the Wisconsin nor the Cin cinnati carries very large marine con tingent, but any lack in this respect can be made up by equipping jackies for shore duty, should it become necessary to land a force on Colom bian soil to enforce the guarantees of the treaty, or to protect American interests. The sudden turn of events near Panama came as a surprise to of ficials of the state and navy depart ments. Affairs in that quarter had rpiieted to such a degree that only the little gunboat ltanger kept watch. The Marietta was keeping a close eye on the trend of affairs in Venezuela, and the Cincinnati was performing similar duty in Ilayti. The emergency j arose so suddenly, therefore, that | Ilayti must be left unwatched by ail I American war vessel during the in— -1 terval between the departure of the j Cincinnati for Colon and the arrival ! of the Montgomery in llaytien wa ters. It is thought that the center of trouble is likely to be at or near Panama, and it is for that reason and ' because of the small size of the j Hanger, that the big Wisconsin has j been sent to the scene. Later in Ihe day, the officials of the navy department decided to take no chances of an insufficient landing force in case <A an emergency on the I isflimus, and orders were sent for j ward to the steamer Panther, which ! is now en route to League Island, to take aboard a battalion of marines upon her arrival and proceed to Colon. Orders were issued for the organiza tion of the marines, who will number r.SO men. It will be the duty of the marines to keep transit across the isthmus clear. The marines performed ! a similar service in I^Bs. UTAH REPUBLICANS. Opponent* of It* -lproclty wltli t'nl>» Scored u Victory In tlie stale Con vention. Ogden, Utah, Sept. 12.—The republi ! can state convention yesterday nomi nated .Joseph ilowell, of Wellsville, : for congress, and Judge William Me- Carty. of Sevier county, for supreme 1 court justice and adopted a platform i in which mention of Cuban reciproci ty was omitted. )n this point the I beet sugar interests of the state won ; alter a bitter debate in the cnnimft ' tee on resolutions. Friends of Cun- I gressman Sutherland, who was one of ! the republican "insurgents" on the ; reciprocity question in the last, ses : sion of congress, were determined ' that specific endorsement of the I president's Cuban fiolicy should have J no place in the platform and they pre vailed. So strong was the feeling over the reciprocity feature that had the origi nal program as regards the order of business been carried out it is prob able than an nnpleasant incident would have ensued, t ailed States Seyator Bevcridge, of Indiana, was 1 scheduled to deliver a speech last , evening, marking the formal open , itig of the republican campaign in I Utah. This program was changed Wednes day night to have Beveridge speak at the close of the morning session yes , terday. When the beet sugar sympa thizers heard of this they threatened i to give him a hostile reception, be* | Hexing it a plan to influence the eon -1 vention in favor of a Cuban reciproci ty plank, the result being that the program was changed. Senator Bever idge speaking* last evening. Then. , with the piriform adopted, the dele gates made up for their refusal to hear him In the morning, by greeting him with wild cheering. \n amend i meni to the plntform offered I>\ Con gre - inan Sutherland, declaring ii to be ihe sense of the convent inn that "President Roosevelt be nominated fi«r president in l'.K)4 us his own --ue ccssor" was carried with a cheer. Knout lor Father* ol (.Iris. I omloit, Sept. 1". In a di-patelt from St. Petersburg the correspon dent of the Daily Mail relate* that the commander of the Cossack sta tion at Weri-.child . anvioii that hi* district should show a preponderance ol males, ho* ordered thai tin fattier of even girl baby born in the district, shall rcei e *ti irok<* with the knout. Several men have already been knouted Under this rtllliu,'. % I reltilii I'rwln lion* litiurk, B. < Ity, Mich., epi. i \n the Mielii'fitn ( >llll'd collided with it s'.kiieh i it" ne mid i.ir i' West May City ye terday. both fi • hi engine* l» up demolished and otln r damage resulting tl at will en tall a («•»» of ti 1 .'. I In-. • ,1 t».. 0.,-.! t tr- Hi ■ . I e<| 3
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