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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1899)
THE FRONTIER. rCBLISnCn EVERT 1HORBDAT l»T TH* FKONTiEU PRINT1NO COMPART. O’NEILL, - - NEBRASKA. NEBRASKA The dome of the state capltol build ing is being painted. Lightning killed five head of cattle for Mr. JefTerson, a farmer of Wash ington county. Frank Towle, a farmer living five miles northwest of Weeping Water, had a horse and buggy stolen from his barn. Chancellor MacLean has not an nounced whether he will accept the presidency of the Iowa State univer sity, but it la thought in Lincoln that he thinks favorably of doing so. During a violent storm, lightning struck the large barn at the soldiers’ home, about a mile from Grand Is land, and destroyed it with all con tents, consisting of six horses, har ness and buggies with a lot of feed. The famous herd of Holstein cattle were not injured, as they were out in the yards. A man about 50 and a boy of 12 or 14 years of age, apparently Italians, while crossing the railroad bridge near North Platte were overtaken and struck by the engine of the eastbound mail train when wit ha few feet of the east end of the bridge and instant ly killed. They had told a citizen of North Platte that they were from Col orado and were making tlielr way to Chicago. With a party of friends Lee Berry of Oxford went to Orleans and while bathing in the Republican river was the victim of a serious accident. In diving from a tree he miscalculated the depth of the water, and struck his head on a stone, with great force. At {first it was thought that even if he recovered his mind would be left in a disordered state, but later reports are more encouraging. New Btudents, says a Peru dispatch, have kept pouring into Peru this week for the summer school, which opened Monday. The large attendance is a surprise to everyone and everything eeema to indicate that the school will be a success from its start and will enable many teachers io receive the advantages of a normal training who would otherwise be deprived of the privilege. The full corps of teaching force has been retained. During a terrific thunder storm at Paxton, Fred Crook, section foreman on the Union Pacific railroad, and a stranger named John Hufman, were both struck by lightning. They were rendered unconscious, and though they received immediate medical attend ance, it Is not thought they can live. The lightning struck In several other places, doing slight damage. Howard Miles’ store building was struck and the windows all broken. The Nebraska Funeral Directors’ as sociation, in session at Grand Island, elected the following officers: Walton G. Roberts of Lincoln, president: Frank R. Scheel of Wahoo, first vice presi dent; Nicholas Carson of Nebraska City, second vice president; Charles Dangler of Fremont, third vice presi dent. P. F. Bell of Fremont was re elected secretary and treasurer. Mem bers of the executive committee are: J. Sondermann, Grand Island; M. Reed, Hastings; B. King, York. The prospect for*a wheat crop In this county, sayB a Lexington dispatch, is not very flattering at the present time, owing, perhaps, as much to the great amount of weeds in the fields as to an insufficiency of rain. A nice shower of rain fell Tuesday night, which was general throughout most of the county. Corn 1b looking fine, and aside from the wheat there !b no com plaint except that thp season is late and crops have not made the growth common at this time of the year. Burglars entered Marsteller Bros.' general merchandise store at Harrison and cracked and gutted the safe. They secured In money about $75, but the greatest loss of the firm Is in notes, mortgages, warrants, etc. the total value of which will reach $1,500. Sev eral life insurance policies are also among the papers taken. No goods from the store were taken, except a s, 1 revolver. No clue as to who the burg lars are has yet been discovered. The work was that of professionals. Owing to a misunderstanding as to when the city council of Central City would sell the $25,000 city refunding bonds, the award to Kimball & Co. of Chicago, who bid $25,345.50 for them has been refused the company. The council again took up the matter at a recent meeting, and have now sold the bonds to George M. Blnkerhoff of Springfield, 111., for $25,106.75. These bonds bear 4 per cent interest and are payable at the city’s option, from five to twenty years after date, and replace 6 per cent waterworks and bridge bonde. Prof. C. H. Miller of David City is the subject of a peculiar and striking experience. Twenty-three years ago. when a mere lad. he ran an ordinary needle into his right leg below the knee, breaking it off. about an inch and a half of the needle remaining in his leg. The other night, after putting out the lamp and while in the act of retiring, he brushed his limb against the bed, which caused an uneasy feel ing. Iteaching down, fee pulled out the IfiSce or needle, tmnking at The time it was a splinter, but upon relighting the lamp he made the startling dis covery that it was the rusted remnant of the needle which had pierced his leg twenty-three years ago. A hall storm in the vicinity of Al ma did a great deal of damage. ' A. L. Sandal 1, E. A. Snndall, D. A. Sandall and C. A. Morgan, all well-to do pioneer York county farmers, liv ing in Lockridge township, have leased and purchased several thousand acres of grazing land in western Nebraska, on which, through the summer months, they will have hundreds of cattle grazing, and each fall will ship to their farms in York county such cattle as they wish to'put on full feed. „'• * They have organized a company among themselves and Incorporated, with a capital of $75,000, under the title of the York Cattle company. Numerous Applications Coming In for the Same. MEASURE AWAITED WITH INTEREST Several Feature* About the Hew Enact ment of Interest to Politician* and th# General Public—To Go Into Effect on the First of July. 1800. The Election Uw. Lincoln dispatch: The secretary of state is Just now receiving a great number of application for copies of the primary and other election laws passed by the last legislature. The in terest in the primary election law is perhaps the most general, and the sup ply of bills printed and left over from the legislature is likely to be exhaust ed before the session laws are printed by the contractor who has that work in charge. There are several features about the Van Dusen primary election law that will be of interest to politicians and the general public. Not the least is the registration of the voters at reg ular registration times, each citizen then being marked down as affiliating with some particular party, and only those who register their party affilia tion being permitted to take part in and vote at primaries to be held after the year 1899 for the nomination of county, state or municipal officers. This registration of party affiliation is not compulsory, and a refusal or neg lect to so register does not debar the citizen from voting at the regular elec tion, but a neglect or refusal to resig nate his party affiliation does debar him from voting at a primary election held before the next regular registra tion dayB. The proofs of the session laws com pilation have been read by Colonel Long and Miss Golf, and it is expected that the printer will speedily finish whatever work remains. The number of new laws on new ‘subjects which will go into effect July 1 makes the de mand for the session acts more pro nounced thiB year than usual, and the early completion of the distribution will be expected by the public, and a failure to get them out before the first of the month will cause a great deal of inconvenience. » A Big Irrigation Ditch. D. E. Thompson has filed a claim for water for irrigating purposes. The claim was filed several days ago in the state irrigation department. In his petition Mr. Thompson asserts that he desires the right to build an irriga tion canal from a point on the Platte river near Llnwood to a point on Elm creek in Saunders county. The ditch is to be twenty-seven miles long and is to run from the Platte river in the northeast corner of Butler county, across the northern part of Saundere county. It will empty Into Elm creek and thense back into the Platte. The creek empties into the Platte river not far from Fremont. The canal is to have its head in the south west quarter of section 30, town 17, range 4 east, and emtpy into the creek on section 33, town 17, range 8 east. Mr. Thompson went to Mexico im mediately after filing the application and his purpose is not known. The records in the irrigation department show that an application of the Fre mont Canal and Power company, cov ering almost the same ground, has been on file for a long time. It was signed by James T. Hanson. Whether Mr. Thompson has arranged to suc ceed the Fremont company or whether he Intends to be in a position to se cure the right in case the Fremont company fails to complete the work, is not shown. The irrigation depart ment has not reached either of the claims and possibly will not be able to do so for some time. Mr. Thomp son's application is for water for irri gating purposes, but the dimensions of the contemplated ditch indicate that It will be more suitable for power. As described in the application the ditch is the Bame size from one end to the other, whereas it is customary to make an irrigation ditch larger at the head than at the end. His plans call for a ditch eighty feet wide on the bottom, ninety-five feet wide on the top, and ten feet deep. The material to be re moved is estimated at 3,500,000 cubic feet. It is not supposed that the ditch has been surveyed. The date of the filing is June 13 and the work is to be commenced within twelve months and be completed on or before July 1, 1901. Nebraska Institute for the Blind. • Nebraska City dispatch: The board of trustees for the Institute for the blind has been in session in this city attending to the transfer of that in stitution from the old superintendent, W. A. Jones, to the new superintend ent, E. Harris. A number of Mr. Har ris’ appointments have been made and confirmed. F. H. Marnell of this city was appointed steward and his wife a teacher in the industrial department. Dr. E. M. Whitten is retained as phy sician, and teachers as follows: Miss Burlock of Lincoln, in charge of the literary department; Miss Sousley. piano; Misses Baker and Truesdell, vocal. A musical director and three teachers are yet to be qamed. All the old employes about the Institution fiave h£en retained. The board at its meeting passed a resolution that neither at this school or at the school for mutes at Omaha should a member of the superintendent’s family be em ployed by the board. Dr. Sprague Will Quit. Beatrice dispatch: Judge Letton, soon after the close of the argument in the Sprague-Lang injunction case this afternoon, decided against the plain tiff. He dissolved the temporary in junction, holding that the court was without Jurisdiction. Soon after the decision was rendered Dr- Lang drove out to the institution and sought a conference with Dr. Sprague, which waB granted. Dr. Sprague received him cordially, and when the correspon dent telephoned far information Dr. Sprague said that he had decided to give up the fight Rtvward for a Hnrdfrcr. Sheriff Taylor of Hall county called yesterday at the governor’s office, says the Lincoln Journal, and asked that the state reward of J200 for the cap ture and conviction of a murderer be offered In the case of an unknown man named Tyler, who died at Grand Island from knife wounds inflicted by some one unknown. The reward proclamation was made out, forwarded to York for Lieutenant Governor Gil bert to sign, the governor being absent from the state. The sheriff was re quested to file a written statement in the governor’s office. It contained the following: “The only facts in the case that I have been able to obtain are that one Tyler, first name to me unknown, stag gered into H. D. Moyden’s drug store at Grand Island on the evening of June 10 at about 9 o'clock and fell unconscious on the floor without mak ing any statement. Upon examination he was found to have been stabbed in the back and to be bleeding profusely from the effects of which he died on the 14th of June, having been unable to make any statement whatever. “The only clue as to the probable murderer or murderers I have been able to obtain being the statements of one Appleton, first name to me un known, who claimed to have been in company with said Tyler for the past four years, and that they had Just re turned from California, beating their way on the railroad. That said Apple ton was put off the train at Kearney, said Tyler continuing his way to Grand Island, and that said Appleton arrived in Grand Island on the morn ing of the 11th and found Tyler in this condition, and stated that a certain party, whose real name was to him unknown, but going by the cognomen of ‘Fatty,’ fell In with said Appleton at North Platte, and informed said Appleton that he and Tyler got into an altercation with some other tramps at Grand Island, and that he (‘Fatty’), In stabbing at said other tramps, by mistake stabbed said Tyler. Said ‘Fatty’ then left the city before the officers of Grand Island and Hall county became aware of the affray, and his whereabouts is not known to myself or any others. “The description given of ‘Fatty’ by Appleton is as follows: About 25 years of age, five feet eight or nine inches in height, weight about 180 pounds, light complexion, light hair, slightly gray, cut quite short and inclined to be curly, full heavy face, long heavy pointed chin, largo Roman nose, scars on chin, cheeks and nose, the effects of kicks while In a fight with a brake man about two weeks ago.” Asks for Information. Lincoln dispatch: The following is a copy of a letter sent to attorneys general in nearly all of the states in the union by A. E. Sheldon of the secretary of state’s office, asking for information concerning the anti-trust law: Dear Sir: An answer to the subjoin ed inquiries will not only be a personal favor, but will aid in placing the facts of great present interest before the public. In return for your kindly co operation I promise a Bummary of the results obtained. 1. Is there a state anti-trust law or laws on your statute books? 2. Date of its enactment? 3. Vote for and against its passage by political parties? 4. Have any prosecutions been brought under the statute? If so, when, by whom, and how many? 5. Have any convictions been ob tained? / 6. Have any combinations or trust organizations been dissolved as a re sult of the law? 7. What, in your judgment, have been the reasons for the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of the law? 8. What suggestions have you to make regarding the form of statute and means of its enforcement in re straint of trusts and combinations in trade? Any printed matter relating to the history of the subject in your state will be gratefully received. Better Than a Mile a Minute. The run made by the Union Pacific passenger train No. 2 from Grand Is land to Omaha. Thursday afternoon, says the World-Herald, caused consid erable comment in railway circles. The distance from Omaha to Grand Island is 154 miles, and No. 2 made the run from there into the union depot in 150 minutes, fourteen minutes of which time was consumed in stops on the trip down. J. R. Grover, a prominent citizen of Albany, N. Y., made the trip on No. 2. In describing it he said: “We pulled into Grand Island a little late, and as I was very anxious to get into Omaha to transact some business and catch a train east I felt very uneasy until the conductor told me that he was going to make a record-breaking run into Omaha. Then I felt better, and never in my life enjoyed a ride more. The country through which we passed was radiant with waving fields of green grain and long rows of corn. At times it seemed ps if we hardly touched the ground, but were being whirled through space on some airship. One might have supposed that the trip would have been rough, owing to the fast time made, but such was not the case, and when I began to congratulate the conductor on the good time he shut me off by saying, 'That’s nothing. We often do this out here in Ne braska.’ ” Tne roadbed on the Union Pacific between Omaha and the mountains is as smooth as a floor, which accounts for the rapid runs often made.” After quite a contest, it has been decided that Bennett will not have a saloon this year. The citizens of Plattsmouth are con gratulating D. S. Guild of the supply department of the Burlington over the good news that his son, George S. Guild, has successfully passed the ex amination and wes admitted to the military academy at West Point. Halt Bros. & Rose of Syracuse, who recently received word from Washing ton, D. C., that they would receive a patent on the "Security” acetyelene gas generator, have got information from the board of insurance under writers at Chicago that they have a safe generator. These gentlemen ex pect to make Omaha their headquar j ters. ROBBERS ARE IN JAIL Men Held in Montana Identified as Union Pacific Holdnps. — BOTH or THE MEN ARE RECOGNIZED It Is Declared They Are the Roberts Brothers, Notorious Desperadoes and Highwaymen—Postal Clerk Who Was on the Dynamited Train Is Quite Post* tire. ST. PAUL, June 26—A Helena, Mont., special to the Pioneer Press says: United States Marshal-Woolman has advices from Beaverhead county indi cating that the two suspects captured there Tuesday by under sheriffs are the men implicated in the Union Pa cific robbery, for whose capture a re ward of $3,000 is offered. Deputy United States Marshal Bush of Utah, who has seen the Roberts brothers, notorious highwaymen, for whom the government has been on the lookout since the robbery of the Big Piney postofflce in Uintah county, Wyoming, and one of the postal clerks by the name of Ditrick, who was aboard the train that was robber at Wilcox, Wyoming, arrived at Dillon yesterday. They proceeded at once to the county Jail and both identified the men The deputy marshal is certain that they are Roberts brothers, while the postal clerk is certain that they be longed to the gang that held up the train. Marshal Hodsell of Wyoming today telegraphed Marshal Woolman that the men are positively identified and that the Big Piney warrants be sent at once. Marshal Woolman also received a message from Under Sheriff Moore of Beaverhead county stating that the Wyoming men who knew Roberts brothers would arrive in Dillon tomor row morning, fully able to identify them. As soon as the identification is further strengthened the men will be given an early hearing at Dillon before the United States commissioner for the purpose of identification. That official will probably hold them to the federal court of Wyoming. Then ap plication will be made for a warrant of removal. Sheriff Dunn of Carbon county, who is leading a posse of three men up the Stinking WTater after six suspects, has not been heard from since last Wednesday, and it is feared he may have been overcome by super ior numbers. ALL DEPENDS ON ILLINOIS Mayor Harrison of Chicago Says it can Make or Break Bryan. CHICAGO, June 26.—Mayor Harri son declares that Illinois may decide whether William J. Bryan will be elected president in I960. The mayor makes this statement in a letter he has written to D. Turnbolt, a democrat of Lincoln, 111. Mr. Turnbolt wrote the mayor asking him why the per sonal differences between the former governor and himself should not be made up, so that the party could pre sent a united front next year. The letter says: “I agree thoroughly with you that Governor Altgeld and I should settle our personal misunderstanding through personal means- This is acting on the theory that we have any personal mis understanding. As far as I am con cerned, I have absolutely no personal differences with the ex-governor. The protest filed by the democratic state central committee against Governor Altgeld and his man Devlin at the St. Louis conference does not really con cern me as an individual. The protest against Messrs. Altgeld and Devlin is made by Mr. Gahan, who is national committeeman of the democratic party of the state of Illinois, and who had been persistently ignored in all party matters for the past two years. “Unless the regular organization of Illinois receives proper recognition I personally would despair of success in carrying the state of Illinois for the national ticket of 1900. Mr. Bryan will undoubtedly be the democratic nomi nee at that time. With the state of Illinois casting its electoral vote for him he would probably be seated as the successor of President McKinley, but Illinois cannot be expected to give her electoral vote for the democratic candidate for the presidency if the regular organization is hampered in its work, and if a reward is held out for the political bolter and the political traitor.” Ex-Governor Altgeld declares that the railroads will be placed under fire by the democratic national conven tion. “It is my belief,” said the ex governor, "that if the convention were to be held within thirty days it would almost unanimously adopt a plank favoring governmental ownership of railroads. “Without continuous assistance from the railroads the trusts could not sur vive a year. If they had to transact business on the same terms as their competitors, which do not belong to a trust, they would quickly disinte grate and go to pieces.” Goea Hack to Lnion. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24.— The gunboat Concord has sailed from Hong Kong for Lingayen for patrol duty. Lingayen is a fort in the bay of Lingayen, on the northwest coast of Luzon. If supplies are being furnish ed to Aguinaldo’s insurgents they are probably landed in this bay, from which easy access could be had to the interior of the island. Army Full Strength. WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 26.—It is said by officials at the War depart ment interested in the recruiting move ment that this work .is progressing with pleasing rapidity. Recruits have been received at the rate of 1,000 a week for the last three weeks and there ar now at the Presido at San Francisco about 5.000 men waiting transportation to the Philippines. Many of these are old soldiers and the others are being rapidly drilled and broken in. CZAR’S PEACE PROPOSAL He Asks Only That for the Present It creasing of Armament Cease. THE HAGUE, June 26.—M. de Steal, president ot the peace conference, at a meeting of the committee, intro duced the Russian proposals looking to the arrest of armaments and read a declaration disclaiming all intention of proposing a reduction of the arma ments at present. But, he added, he was of the opinion that if a stand still could be agreed upon a reduction would soon come of Itself. All the powers, he explained, had conferred with the czar relative to the immense evils of armed peace, and he, M. de Steal, now appealed to them to devote their energies toward the arrest of the continental increase in the cost of armed peace, which, he asserted, cost more than a tremendous war. Colonel Gillinsky of the Russian delegation moved that the powers should enter into an understanding for a term of, say live rears, not to increase the effectiveness of the peace footing of their forces, with the ex ception of the colonial troops, and not to increase the amount of their mili tary budgets beyond their present fig ure The speeches and the resolution were ordered to be printed and circu lated and the discussion was adjourned until Monday. In spite of the refusal of Archmed Reza Bey of the young Turks party to fight a duel with Recbid Bey, secre tary of Turkham Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation at the peace con ference, Ammoghian, an Armenian, who was to have been one of the speakers at the meeting ot the young Turks party, has written a letter to the Vaterland, denying remarks at tributed to him, but nevertheless ac cepting the challenge which Reza Bey declined on the ground that duelling has aroused extraordinary interest among all classes. > The drafting committe of the arbi tration commission spent the after noon in considering articles 1 and 7 of the Russian proposals. All that is left now is the drafting of regulations for the board’s procedure. The information from Germany is that Emperor William will not sepa rate himself from the other powers in the arbitration question, and the Ger man delegates anticipate a favorable decision on that point. The work is now so far advanced that the confer ence will probably take a holiday aft er June 28 in order to allow the dele gates to refer to their respective gov ernments for final decision. Mr. Frederick Holls of the American delegation, alluding to the German at titude, said: “This mater is much exaggerated. Active negotiations took place, but Germany is in no way irreconcilable and would not hesitate any more than any other power to agree to an arbi tration court established on an accept able basis. “The Turks themselves state that no one is able to say they object to the arbitration scheme; that when the proposal has been finally shaped they will examine it and only then give in if the wording of the scheme contains points not covered by their instruc tions.” THROWS PARTY TO THE DOGS. New French Cabinet Appeals to All to Rally to the Support of Country. PARIS, June 26-—The cabinet has sent a circular to the prefects saying the new ministry has been formed to defend the public and that it puts aside all partisan feeling, which example, it is pointed out, should be followed by the prefects. The latter are urged to promptly inform the government of all acts affecting respect of both in stitutions and public order and to be ready in case of need to act promptly on their own responsibility. The prefects are also warned to let bygones be bygones and to perform their duties with the utmost precision. The minister of war, General de Gil lifet, has also sent a circular to the generals as follows: “My Dear General—I have been forced, to my great regret, to leave my retreat and assume under the eyes of the country and the government of the republic, the responsibility for the army. I am greatly honored and in no wise frightened, and I beg you not to forget that I am responsible also for the chiefs of the army, the same as they are responsible to me for all which occurs within their commands. I count, therefore, on you, as you may count on me. DE GALLIFET.” Spaulding: Accepts the Presidency. CHICAGO, June 26.—Jesse B. Spauld ing, head of the lumber firm of Spauld ing & Co., and formerly collector of the port at Chicago, today accepted the presidency of the newly organized Chicago Union Traction company of fered him a few days ago by the Wid ener-Elkins syndicate, which recently secured control of the Chicago surface railways. Cause of Royalty Impost. VICTORIA, B. C., June 26.—In an Interview printed in a lute issue of the Klondike Miner Commissioner Ogil vie states that he never advised the imposition of royalties on the gold output. He believes that sensational reports sent out regarding the vast wealth being shipped out of the coun try were the direct cause of Canada imposing the royalty tax. The com missioner has not lost faith in the richness of the country and predicts that the whole district in the vicinity of Dawson will probably yet yield $100,000,000 in gold. Transfers Gen. Roget. PARIS, June 26.—It has finally been decided to remove General Roget from Paris and appoint him to command a brigade of infantry at Belfort. General Roget was in command of the troops Mm. Deroulede and Marcel Habert, members of the Chamber of Deputies, tried to lead from their bar racks to the Elysee palace during the troubles which followed the election of President Loubet. It was announc ed June 5 that the ministry had de cided to transfer the general from Par is to Orleans. The Ex-Soldiers Spend Sunday at Memo rial Services. LIFE OF THE TROOPS PRAISED Iowa Editor Speak* of the Campaign and It* Present Fruit*—Nation Joined by New Bond of Sympathy — Trooper* Honor Roosevelt with Gift of a Souve nir Medal—Incident* of the Day. LAS VEGAS, N. M., June 26.—Me morial service was the first thing, on the Rough Riders’ reunion program Sunday. It was held at 11 o’clock in the morning at the Duncan opera house and Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell, pastor of the People’s Tabernacle of Denver, preached the memorial serm on. He said that the soldier who is forced to remain behind is worthy of praise and recognition as well as the man who is at the front. The Rough Riders, he declared, have by their acts at San Juan and in the fighting around Santiago succeeded in writing one .of the brightest pages in American his tory. Their deeds would be read by coming generations and would enkin dle a new view of country and an ad miration for true heroism. Lafe Young, editor of the Iowa State Capital, then delivered an address. Mr. Young served with the Rough Riders and his recitation of the regiment’s ex perience at Tampa and San Antonio found a responsive echo in the hearts of the assembled Rough Riders. “The Fourth of July,” he said, “is our national Christmas commemorat ing the birth of the nation, but the Rough Riders’ celebration should be its Easter, for it marked the resurrec tion. It remained for the Spanish war to bridge the bloody chasm, to put old glory everywhere, to wind up the late unpleasantness with the new battle hymn of the republic, ‘There’ll Be a Hot Time in thA Old Town Tonight.’ "On the plains of Cuba.” he con cluded, “when I saw the sons of veter ans marching beneath the flag which their fathers died to save, and the sons of confederates clothed in the same uniform, bearing the same arms and marching under the same flag, and the sons of former slaves accoutered and armed like the others, with the flag above them and the same purpose in their hearts, and 100 native born full blood Indians aiding the same cause— when I saw these I made a vow to high heaven never to be a partisan again and henceforth and forever all Ameri cans should look alike to me.” The regimental parade tobk place Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The regiment formed at Camp Cochran and marched to the tournament grounds, six blocks away. Colonel Roosevelt rode as a commander, accompanied by a staff of officers. At the tournament grounds Colonel Roosevelt occupied a box reserved for him and the guests of the regiment. As the Rough Riders passed and repassed the grandstand in performing their evolutions Colonel Roosevelt stood with bared head. Each troop was preceded by its respective captain, as far as they were present. The scene was witnessed by fully 10, 000 people. While the review was go ing on rain clouds were banking heav ily in the north and Chairman Whit more of the local committee on ar rangements requested the colonel to hurry the movement of the Rough Riders, ostensibly on account of the approaching shower. Roosevelt com plied with the request and in another instant the troopers were standing at attention in front of the grandstand. This was a neat bit of strategy and be fore Colonel Roosevelt could realize why he was being spoken to Hon. Frank Springer, acting on behalf of the people of New Mexico, began his speech presenting Colonel Roosevelt with a medal. The presentation was a genuine sur prise to Colonel Roosevelt. Mr. Spring er handed the medal to his young daughter, Miss Eva, who pinned it on the lapel of Roosevelt's Rough Rider blouse. The recipient was visibly af fected and responded as follows: “Judge Springer, and to Miss Spring er, and to you, my fellow Americans of New Mexico, I want to say I cannot express in words how deeply I am touched by what you have done. I prize this gift more than anything else that could have been given to me, com ing as it does, and in the way it does, and from those from whom it comes. For it comes on the anniversary of a day fateful in the annals of the west. Twenty-three years ago Custer rode to h.s death, with his gallant men at the Rosebud, adding his share in the ‘win ning of the west;’ in the upbuilding of the west, which you have all of you upbuilt, bringing up your section level in patriotism, level in highness of pur pose with all that there is in this na tion. I cannot say how glad I have been to come here. I never was in New Mexico before, but I have never felt like a stranger for one moment among you.” Notables on the Laconia. NEW YORK. June 26.—The steamer Luoania, from Liverpool, which reach ed its pier in North river today, had among its passengers Cornelius Van derbilt, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Miss Vander bilt, H. W. Forester, member of Pari liament for Seven Oaks, Kent, Eng.; Hamlin Garland and Dr. Peter B. Wyckoff. Mr. Vanderbilt was taken on board a chartered steamer at quarantine and brought to the city, while Mrs. and Miss Vanderbilt re mained on board the Lucania until it reached the pier. Conspiracy in I’ern. LIMA, Peru, June 26.—The govern ment asserts that it is greatly sur prised by a batch of letters of ex President Caceres to parties in a re quest relative to a conspiracy against the president and touching on the po litical situation. Several important personages have been taken in custody in consequence of the receipt of these letters. It is generally considered that the present administration, though it may have made many errors, has worked honestly for the well be ing and progress of Peru, _