GOERS AS STRATEGISTS
THEY HAVE A SECOND PORT
OPEN FOR SUPPLIES.
Enemy Buying in England-Britain
Watches Lorenzo Marquez
to Llttla Purpose.
London (Special) The Post-Dispatch
ie-nj-ns on indubitable authority that
the recent orders to the Biitish admir
als commanding the South African and
the "Special Service" squadrons point
Nearly to a belief on the part uf
British authorities that the Transvaal
Sa3 another open port for landing
tores an J ammunition besides Lorenzo
idarcjuez. It is suspected that while
feiritisii attention is concentrated on
the latter the Boers arc quietly land
ing recruits, ammunition, arms and
foodstuffs at some point In the Gaza
Ptirtuguese) country, probably Chil
tiane, at the mouth of the Cabi river,
whence entry niay be made by the
'Mtravan route to the TranFVaal
through the passes of the Zoutpans
rge range.
H Is absolutely certain that Boer
g-enfs are still buying freely on the
continent all the stores they require.
This they would not do if they had not
ti!l an undiscovered open port.
A- dispatch t. the Host-Dispatch's
&ndon bureau trom Birmingnam.
Krtgiand, pays special detectives are
4here hunting two Boer agents, who
quite recently were endeavoring to buy
large quantity of small arm ammu
nition and 20,000 rifles for shipment to
.Antwerp, with a view to trans-shipment
to the Transvaal. These orders
wr booked, by the Birmingham
Vmall Arms company. When informa
tion was conveyed to the police the
Boer agents left Birmingham, but it
is thought they are still in Kngland.
The Doers have tested with great
success the new Belgian-made Mauser
rifles, with a novel telescopic binocular
attachment and a specially contrived
Mock so that the marksman remains
oompletly out of sight while able to
take accurate aim. The ordinary Bel
srsan Mausers are declared by experts
to be the most efficient rifle used. The
Brers have M,t0 of them, bought
within the last year.
Messrs. Zeiss, the famous binocular
manufacturers in Dresden, have sup
plied the Boers with 5.000 of their
Jmest glasses, which outrange any
procurable by English officers. Thi lat
ter have been refused a supply by
the Zeiss firm, who say they are under
-cntract to give all they make to the
Boers.
HAS A PECULIAR FAD.
SWrs. Noah Barvtz Prefers to Wear
Male Attire.
Muncie, Ind. (Special) Residing pear
this citv is a remarkable woman in
the person of Mrs. Noah Bantz. She
tfrequentlY masquerades in male attire,
mot -with the spirit of frivolity, but
because she finds this costume more
suitable to her business purposes.
Bantz is a well known farmer near
.Albany, twelve miles northeast of this
city. He is eccentric in some ways and
apparently has the notion that women
were really made solely for the con
venience and accommodation of man.
Several years ago he advertised for
a. wife, stating that she must be "new,"
according to the twentieth century
idea, that she must fill his place or,
the farm and assume the management
of the home and premises. A prompt
jreMy was received and the applicant
"was told to call around, be tni-peeted
arid answer questions. She went
through' the test, met the requirements
and -was Immediately accepted, the pe
culiar couple going at once to the near
est parson's, where the connubial com
bination was effected.
jBantz's hopes, wishes and expecta
tions were more than realized. His
newly acquired spouse surpassed his
fondest dreams and surprised the coun
try for miles around, her fame bavins
Jiprcad to the uttermost confines of the
atalc
Ctetd of merely managing the
Tarnjirije, as stipulated by her master
husband, she has actually per-
rormil much of the manual labor her-
self. Early in the morn during the past j
.snasoa she may have been seen follow-
injr n3 ruidns the plow over large
re-a of ground. From the roadside
tier identity would not have been dis
. covered for, while attending to these
"chores," as she calls the work, she
-wears a suit of her husband's clothing.
itm two being near of a size. Mrs.
Uan1x elso knows a few things about
'tuMidling- a rifle or pun and the best
mn shot in her neighborhood, where s
suiaJi game is plentiful, has his hands
fail in equaling her record. Lmring the
"Trail season, now drawing to a close,
she has bagged as many of the bob
whites as the crack marksmen of the
local run club and many a p.xir bun
ny's tal graces her barn loft as the
result, of her Rood aim. While hunting
she wears male attire.
Though past 4' years of age, Mrs.
Kaniz is a agile and alert as though
the bloom of young womanhood ha 1
scarce left her cheek, ."he is tall, well
proportoned, and her physique is one
that would excite the envy of a frail
man. Another indication of her ap
rtarent admiration 'of the manlier sex
1s that she Is addicted to the tobacco
habit. She ! net smoke, hut, as
be gws up and down the furrows n
the leld or drives cattle to pasture
cross the meadows, it may be sure
that within her cheek comfortably
stored away where the juice will exude
to her keenest delight Is a large piece
of the weed. With her "scrap" wll!
!(, plug- is better, but flnecut Is the
kind for the promoter of a trim, n
her neighborh'tod Mrs. Il-intz is well
liked for she is of a courteous disposi
tion and has affable manners. Th
women In her locality, it may be im
ined, regard her in a peculiar light.
Speaking in Figures
In Germany one newsr'tr-cr pub
lished for every 12.302 jw-rsor.?.
The FV.ilndi Iphia mint torr.ed out
$&O0f.OOV in coin last year. 11' ivy
'jwems to be made rapidly In P'.iUu!. :.
jdii.a.
The nverage scnil-nnr.unl rate of div
idend just paid by twenty of the p;i.
Ir.j? textile mills ? New Kn eland 1 1
3.J per cent, compar d with i.Z p r
ynt a year ago.
The number of new railway ; rs
'hdiit lt yenr, exciujtivi ot earn '' in
structed by the railroad- .,(.,!,.. r.if;
f herosi.dvf. was KZ.WS. "'' !- J -S2
wnre freight c-irs.
In the T'nited Fiat- nr. c -:; u
year fir- otroved proc !' ' if.- :;-.
cf f :.M.T7 SuQ. an fm-rs- of rncr
tt a a SiT W.WM) over Hie . w cf r";1.
ot-A more man 1-6,0"'.), 000 o--r those (
von.
There r ICO lost) and trust compa
nies la this country, tvllh capital g
ttreaaUnff tNM.308.725; surplus, $79.707.
1M ?thcr undivided profits, $23,908,973.
Te Individual deposit of these com
urtos, Rgrrecate $8J5,i 064, and their
Sui resource!, fl.OTl,694.
GUARD THE PRESIDENT.
Police System at tha White Houai
la Now Perfect.
Washington. (Fpecial.)F-ew personf
hu visit the national capital and, In
fact. Dot a great many residents, are
aware of the system in operation at
the White House for tl.e protection
of the president and his household. To
the casual observer there is apparently
no guard system. Those who bave
visited the White House and moved
throughout its large grounds have
wor.dered at the apparent laxity. They
have even Inquired hy go much lib
erty and freedom of access to any
portion of the president's private do
main was allowed to all sightseers.
Some people have remarked that it
would be impossible for the policemen
on duty there to tell by observation
whether a visitor was there as a s'ght
seer or anarchist who Intended violence
toward the president or some member
of his family. But at the same time
they have realized the fact that cranks
and others are invariably excluded.
The question with the uninitiated is
how the thing is prevented and where
are these guards who s-em to see and
know all that transpires.
Wh"n one considers the methods for
protection employed by the eastern
rulers the contrast with those in vogue
here Is matked. Here there has never
been felt a genuine necessity for an
armed guard for the president and hi
family. Since the birth of the republic
it has witnessed but two assassinations
of presidents, those of Lincoln and
Uaitield, and on neither occasio r.waa
the deed committed at the White
House. On one occasion only did any
person ever gain entrance to the White
House who it was thought meant harm
to the president and It developed that
the individual was not responsible for
what he did and was simply seeking
notoriety.
While no necessity is felt for a strong
guard at the White House there Is.
nevertheless, the due and necessary
precaution to guard against emergen
cies. This guard system Is practically an
Innovation, as it has been in existence
but a little more than a year. Previous
to Its organization and, in fact, since
the last military guard was withdrawn
fiom the White House after the death
of President arfleld, there was always
a small force at the mansion, but th re
was not such a good system. The pres
ent system is considered as nearly per
fect as possible, and, moreover, there
is no display about it.
To begin with, the White House is
surrounded by policemen at all hours
of the day and night. Each police
man does duty for eight hours and o.ily
fifteen policemen are de'ailed for the
twenty-four hours, which are divided
into three watches.
In charge of these policemen are two
sergeants, who do twelve-hour "tricks'"
of duty. For Instance, five policemen
go into service at 8 o'clock In the
morning and remain until 4 o'clock in
the afternoon, when they are relieved
by five others, who continue through
until midnight, being then relieved by
still another quintet, who are In turn
relieved by the men w ho report for
duty at 8 o'clock. The sergeant who
begins duty with the morning squad
sees them relieved at 4 o'clock, when
he Is ready for the second sergeant.
The latter is not relieved tintil 8 o clock
the following morning. The sergeants
are not always patroling the grounds,
though they never leave them, and can
always, when not Sn view, be located
at a watch house where the working
apparatus pt the guard system is se
creted. I
In the witch house Is detailed a clerk
and operator who has charge of all
records, answers all telephone calls.
and registers the pc'icemen on guard
when they turn in everv hour trom
their respective heats. This clerk and
operator does duty for twelve hours
and is then relieved by a second man,
who performs the service required.
The five policemen who do duty at
the same time are assigned to five
beats which surround immediately the
White House and the attached con
servatory. Ieh Dollceman patrols his het for
one hour after going on duty and thn
moves on to the second beat and the
third, fourth and fifth, beginning again
at the starting point and thus consum
ing five hours. In the other three he.
of course, covers three beats. Each
policeman leaves his heat at the end
of an hour, he communicates that fact
to the operator at the watchbox by
pressing a small button located at the
juncture of the beats. This registers
the policeman and he is marked up as
on duty at his proper post. The little
registering buttons are secreted at con
venient places, easy of access to the
patrolman, but not so conspicuous as
to attract attention..
These llttl buttons are not used ex
clusively, however, for registering the
policemen. By a certain number of
pressures on the button at any of the
beats the policeman can Indicate to the
operator whether the sergeant is
wanted, a crank Is becoming obstrep
erous a fire has started, a person
seized with illness, a riot Is in progress,
or. In fact, anything oat of the ordln
Aary that may have happened.
The operator, of course, has his In
structions and knows ex-ietly how to
act according to the exigencies of the
occasion. He has at his olbnw ,a tele
phone which will connect him with
police headquarters, (ire alarm head
quarters, or. in fact, any place where
a telephone is located, and he can sum
mon in a few minutes any help which
may he n-rd"d. Thus it can lw readily
pen that, though there Is apaprently
no guard Bt the White House, the
president is b"tter protected than ever
before and by a, most comph-t- sys
tem. Boer Dishes.
About 12 years ago, when the first
g-i!d rush took plates to the Wltwaters
ranrt gold fields, the place was only ap
proached !r road; there were no rail
ways fur Momc years afterward. Lum
bering mail-couches brought the min
ers from Kimberl.-y or Natal or Jo-hnr.ii-shurg-.
The m.trhc wire drawn
b;,- team of sixteen mutes.
On iiie road were ft"pplng place
where the teams were rhariged ar.d the
'isvcn'vrs r-fr shed. Tie e hone":
V. ere urunlly I'.of-r f.'rm", find the farm.
oih made a' good thing cut of dlsn'-ns-ind
hospitality to ua fnr. rs.
I'sually the bill of fare tv!' spell-d
i i an extraordinary way. The follov,-
s Is a copy of one of these waysld
ncnuB:
CO''.-.
Th- t:
Kury,
briF'-mum, n
chin,
if: ('orry,
corre-.
braised
Tn fi-.' t ' " vr '" - long table ft nod
;b .)!"';". J.'v ry one helped blinsHf
ty 'i "fir;;T it I wo-prone-ed fork Into
t,",i d?sh .nV.trcst hitn. There was no
taU.'-'Ml,: everything wns dirty and
unappetizing.
But the fatmers' wives are clever at
making- homemade preserves, and they
particularly exoci in naartja eomfyt, a
preparation of tangerines preserved in
sugar syrup. Slices of mlon, quinces
and pumpkin ire also preserved In this
wy.
EVIL EYE III A MURDER
QUEER FACTS AFFECT A DOUBLE
TRAGEDY IN NEBRASKA,
Under Caze of Alleged Accomplice
Woman In Cats Cannot
Testify.
Kearney, NVb. (Special.) Extraor
dinary circumstances surround the
tragedy which resulted in the dclibtir-
ate murder recently of Fred Laue
and Mis. Frank L. Dinsmore at Odessa,
j Frank Dinsmore is accused of the
double murder by Mrs. Fred l.aue, who
asserts that the consented to the crime
while under the hypnotic control of
Dinsmore. The object of the murder
was, she says, to get rid of Mis. Dins
more and Mr. Laue, so Dinsmore ar.d
hersel could marry.
The two couples occupied the sat;.e
residence. They were prominent ; k
cially. Dim-more had b.-en in ch.tr:.
o the Omaha Klevator company's oj.-.-ntss
in that section of the state i r
years. Laue had been a promir;;.ii
business man of Odessa. The two ,n .i
were bosom Iritnds. Mrs. Wnsnii'.o
was a bride cf only four months, Lns
more having married her in Chicago
in August last.
On the night of the tragedy Dir.smore
aroused the town by screaming "Mur
der" early in the morning. A crowd
gathered and found Mrs. Laue sob
bing by the bedside of her husband,
who had a, bull t in his brain. The
dead boCy of Dinsmore's wife lay cn
the kitchen floor. She had been pcis
oned with pruritic acid. The story of
the two survivors agreed in detail. Mrs.
Laue isaid her husband woke her by
klsting her good by and then bluw out
his brains. 1 he shot aroused Dinsmoi e
and, finding his wife gone, he had j
started in search of her and found h : :
dead body. lkith bodies were co
however, when the crowd arrived u.
this gave rise to suspicion. j
The evidence of a peculiar infiuen.e-"
exercised over Mrs. Ifue by Dlnsrno. ;
developed the morning of the iranedj.'
When the man was In the same i -in. a i
with Mrs. Laue the authorities i; ;'.k-Mj
that he gazed steadily on the wo i:a.i. i
Under this look she told a ctrais.-.t I
st'.ry and told it over and over agai.i. I
In fact, it was this very unvarying,
story which first attracted sut-piaou.
Mrs. Ijiui; s.-emed to o-? in a una; '
'i'iiis was at first accounted f .r on t.;a
tfceory that the tragedy had tempo: - j
ariiy impaired her reason. Then it
was observed that Idnbinore kepi con
stantly in her presence. Hp 13 a m.s i
of p: eat physique six f?et tall, veiy
heavy and with the must extraordinary j
eyes ever seen in a human head. Tr.ry j
are abnormally large and j;t blacU. I
Tl.ey are close together and once s;en
roujd never be forgotten. Mrs. Laue j
wk3 at ease only when under i,i.h
more's piercing gaze. The moment ne
wculd leave the room the woman iip
peared to collapse and remained nerv
ous until his return.
These circumstances were remarked
by a number of people. Then Mrs.
Laue's father arrived on the scene and
the authorities concluded to have h.m
question the woman. Thy Insisted on
lXnsmore leaving the premises. He
did not want to do it. lie was re
moved by force and instantly the
wornaji became hysterical, lie paused
outside the house and under the win
dow of the room. Mrs. Laue glanced
outside, saw the man and instantly
stopped her tears and became calm.
The curtain was pulled down, shutting
out all sight of IJinsmore, and again
the woman appeared frenzied, 'ir.t-n
she was asked to repeat her story.
For the first time it differed in minor
details from those repeated in Dins
more's presence with bo much per
sistency. When she was told boidly
by her father that there was. some
thing wrong and she must tell the
truth the woman began to break down
and Insisted that LHnsmore be sent for.
The father refused and t-ne nervousn'-Bs
of the woman increased. After tive
hours of exhaustive work she con
fes;ed that the two had arranged the
double murder. She told all the details
of the affair; told how IJinsmore furced
prusslc acid down his struggling wife's
throat, how he then shot Laue, and
how he had taken the o.uivering body
of his own wife into the kitchen and
waited for it to coo! off before warning
the neighbors. The woman declared
that she had been mesmerized by Dins
more and had been under his influence
for years, even befure ehe bad married
Laue.
IJinsmore was informed cf the con
fession and carelessly ank.-d that she
repeat it in his presence. The authiri
tles consented. When Dinsmore faced
the trembling woman she denied every
word of hat she had said. When she
was alone again slw.- repeated the con
fession and swore to it.
At the preliminary hearing the
woman was brought In, but could or
would say nothing until IHnsmore was
removed. Then she told the story
clearly. The proof of the double mur
der lies wholly In the woman's story,
and she spears physically Incapable
of testifying while IJinsmore looks at
her. This is the hope of the def-nse.
IHnsmore was bound over without
boil, and Mrs. Laue is in the custody
of her father to await trial. ,lie wiil
probably be tried later for her pir. in
the crime, but the -authorities are going
to make a supreme eliort first to ton
vii t Dins-more. The woman is under
a psysiclan's care, l-riv. y rs agree that
If she cunriot testify In the presence of
IMnsniore her teftiinony cannot be
taken. In fact, th.' law is clear on this
pi.lnt and the defense relies on It for
an arouittal. The k!;.'- Is paying a
Hpcclalist to treat for nervoualK ss
in the hope of relieving her so the
can taut If when the man Is placed on
trial.
The case is attracting the nten'.lon of
experts in criminology from ail pur's
of the country and great many I t
tets arc being ri-I'lved from the au-t;-.oiitien
touft.lrtt the peculiar phitt'.s
of the case. To" tjlnl pr mis- s to be
the most s-rious In !! hlt'tory of the
eet c. the del '-nc-? will claim the rl'-'bt
to have the wltn'-s a fac the accused
while the t-.'ti.iifii;y Is! being g.ven. At
pi.m nt the woma.i cannot fae; Wns.
rw.r.i without -'n-: feb:-o;ui. ly utid- r
his power. Me nl-s charge of
murd-r.
l-'.-r continuous ctvl- '.- A
the ifartfoid tt.Vnn.) 'I ire :
tho ol-.csl e'lit-ir in tii
K. Burr of
' s is proljal.'.y
roiintJV. I';'
wan fl::',y-' in:
chuted an Jii
Two j " ' rti
i dally pai cr.
ice, though "S
tin- 1st. of January K
veat fire Mr. Bui f ' :i
l -r- st in the Weekly T
Inter he turned It int
He Is t'ill In active cr
yenrn old.
Benjamin B. Gdell. mayor of New
bunt, N. Y., I now In the last month
of hi thirteenth consectftlve term. Mr.
Odell, who Is over 70 years old, posi
tively refused to be a candidate again,
otherwise he would certainly hsve been
elected to succeed himself,
EX-JUDGE IS OIVCN PARDON.
Isiao O. )! Is Ralaased From
Kansas Prison.
Leavenworth, Kan. (Special.) Isaac
Reed, who was In the state penitentiary
for life for murder, wss pardoned to
day by Governor Stanley. The prison
physician states that Heed Is suffering
from an ulceration of the stomach and
that his condition was critical during
the summer end fall. At present ht
Is able to sit up in the prison hospital.
He has not recovered from the disease
and it is the opinion of the physician
that he never will. A careful examina
tion of Heed was made two months tgc
when the question of granting him a
pardon was brought up.
Heed has been at the penitentiary
five years and five months under a
sentence of death for the murder of
Isaac Hopper. When he was fir?t
brought to the penitentiary he waf
laade clerk In the hospital, a desirable
place for a prisoner. luring the lint
three ytars he has been in charge of
tne priion dispensary end has been
acting as the druggist. He has never
infringed any of the prison rules and
jhas an excellent record.
I The pardon of Ju ige Isaac G. Heed
j by Governor Stanley recalls one of the
most sensational murder case of Kan
sas. Heed was a praitii-lng attorney
of the Sumner county bar, a man ff
j education and culture, pi eminent In
j local affairs and of growing fame in
i st&te politics. He had retired from
the circuit bench only a few days be
fore the murder. His victim, Isaac
Hopper was of humbler walk of life,
of little or no education, surly cf dis
position and combative but conserva
tive. Hopper's wife was an attractive
voman who aspired to better society
than her husband's means or oportuni
lies could give her. Keed was equally
unhappy in his domestic relations. His
wife refused to live in the west when
he had made her a home and he saw
little of her, visiting her at her father's
home near Boston about once a year.
Soon Heed came Into the Hopper
:-: woman's life. Kach knew the others
i, story and then followed a guilty In
jifatuation that resulted in the death of
the woman's husband at the hands of
Keed. May 21, lsu. The tragedy oc
curred in front of Heed's taw office in
the main street of the town of Welling
ton. Hopper had frequently worried
I'.eed to lease his attentions to Mrs.
lilopiKT, but Keed's Infatuation carried
j him beyond the bounds of discretion
and he continued to meet her clan
destinely, the woman encouraging him.
Lucas Nebecker, who Is now a lawyer
I of Covington, Ind., was Heed's partner
at the time and. In a letter to the gov
'crnor briefly tells the story of th kill
Hug. He says Heed had been across th
'street on n errand and, returning, was
j accosted by Hopper, who wa sap
iproaehing in a threatening manner,
j Heed warned him to stand back. Hop
per continued to advance and Heed
fired, killing his adversary. The woman,
Mr. Nebecker says in his pica to the
governor, was no less to blame than
Heed. She disliked her husband and
i-ncouraged Heed's attentions, lirfore
the killing Hoper was unpopular in
the community, but the circumstances
leading to the tragedy caused Indigna
tion against Herd, which was intensi
fied by the woman's devotion to his
cause after the murder, and he was
convicted.
The case was taken to Cowly county
on a change of venue. There were two
trials, both before Judge A. M. Jack
son. The first resulted In a verdict of
guilty of a minor degree of murd-r
and Keed was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary. Heed carried the
case to the supreme court, which
granted a new trial. The second re
suited in a verdict of murder in the
first degree and Judge Jackson gave
him 'the extreme sentence, death,
which in Kansas amounts to life im
prisonment. By this time Heed's resources were
exhausted, but his father raised $7WJ
by mortgaging his home and sent it
to him to pay the expenses of another
"case made" for the supreme court.
The money was given to a lawyer to
prepare the case, but instead of using
It for that purpose the attorney ap
propriated it to himself for services
rendered and left the state. By this
time It was too late under the law reg
ulating practice in the supreme court
to begin again and Reed, without hope
and without money, could make no
more fight and was taken to the peni
tentiary. Until this stage of the case public
sentiment was against Keed, but the
unpardonable action of the attorney
caused a change of sentiment In the
state, especially among lawyers, and
steps were at once taken to- obtain
executive clemency. Local sentiment
in Sumner county, however, was not
ripe for a pardon and the application
was oposed by the trial Judge, Jury and
county attorney and by numerous citi
zens. , Finally, In 1XSS, the populist
board of pardons, by a majority vote,
recommended a free pardon and sub
mitted the following statement of the
cae to Governor leedy.
"The evidence showed that the diffi-
culty which led up to the killing grew
out of the relations existing between
Hec-d and Hop er's w ife. The evidence.
In our Judgment, shows improper re
lations existed and had existed for
long time ix-tween them. This was de- j
tiied by Been nd. In our judgment, i
was the cause of his conviction. Hop- ;
Ir had for a long time prior to the
killing been very abusive toward Heed
and had, as the evidence shows, as- '
saultc-d him on two or three occasions
before the time when he was shot. He
had also made many threats against
Reed and was in fac t a large, power
ful, quarrelsome, dangerous man. On
the other hand, Heed was a small,
quiet, peaceable citizen, an excellent
lawyer and g'xnl man. From the evi
dence it s.-c ms that the relations which
cxlftcl between Mrs. Hopper and Heed .
were brought alxiut solely by the ef
forts of Mrs. Hopper." j
This was signed by J. V. Handolph
and N. W. Wells. Mayo Thomas, th- j
other member of tlit board, protested, ,
lan-orrine-ndiiig that a pardon be de- i
la ye J until the prisoner had been In
the penitentiary at lenst ten years,
Coventor 1ccdy cU-e-Hmd to net and
Heed icm.-ijind in prison. . .
Charles i'. l-.'llloll of Wel'lnt'ton, who
li.-:'l acs;st''d In the prosecution of Hec-d, j
in-, r -nt "1 l.liiiw-ir to Governor Kianluy ,
with a pel I Hon Including ll:e nuane:i
"f s.f.no cU;;' ts of Pumm-r county, and
on the grout"! that H'-i-d Is .-i a dyimr
condition iirc-d that a pardon be
,.(..,1 Killnii bad ! fure t.rotcsied .
J?rti,-.i i.L.rdi.o nod llnvrrnor Stall-
l,y, who Is familiar Witli ti c clrcum-;
nturp - i of the cas-, v.a nxvrrn to ;
gi-at'.V.nif .-tc, but tin cert .'tint y that
K'l'ia 'Icilii v. ill K'."'H c.c qr c'jft'-iiel
lib! heart, i.r.d when Mr. Kl'lott Mat. I
the facts Hi" governor urili'-sltutiM;iy
it.eil a full pard'n. j
Governor V.txnlr-y mm: "t pnrdon'd
lie d iK-cnupe 1 have tJ certiorate c f I
the pi'"n physic-Ian that lie can't llva'
a year, imj ih irnu tor one nin iibi
and convlct'd of two. There !. little
doubt that Hopper might have avoided
the killing. Hut Heed stole another
man's wife, and when he did It he took
the chance that all men of that kind
take-that Is, td kill or be killed."
f..RS. DEWEY IS HASTY
SHE HAS CAUSED TREMENDOUS
TROUBLE IN WASHINGTON.
Supreme Court Justice Offended, an
Ambassador Aggrieved and the
President and Hay Worried.
Washington. (Special.) Official and
rocial Washington are both profoundly
shocked. A chief Justice of the supreme
court is offended. An ambassador of
the German empire is grieved. Hepre
sentations have been made to the presi
dent and to the secretary of state, and
what do you suppose the w hole tre
mendous trouble is about; You
couldn't guess in many years, and If
you did not happen to know Washing
ton you never could guess. The cauo
of all the row Is the charming vife
nf the gallant old hero of Manila bay.
The trouble with the Judge came about
in this way:
Mrs. Ltttey attended the White
House reception New Year's day. She
was allotted a place in the line of
cailers. She was among the civil of
ficers of the government and their
wives, who followed members of the
diplomatic corps and the supreme
court.
Hut the long, tortuous line moved
too slow for Mrs. Dewey, who is an
energetic body. Watching her oppor
tunity she grabbed Secretary Ijing by
the arm when he shuffled pyst the
doorway where she stood and moved
along with him.
The secretary Is a gallant gentleman
and he charged boldly on the president
with the admirals .wife. He forgot
the wives 'of the Juftges of the su
preme court, who were set back by his
headlong rush. They did not forget,
however.
The next day Justice Fuller filed a
protest with Secretary Porter. Secre
tary Porter referred the matter to the
president.
A decision is pending and, in the
meantime. Just imagine If you can the
agitation of society.
But Mrs. iJefvey's adventures for the
lav were not ended. She gave a re-
cc-ption from 12:30 to 2. The German'
embassador arrived ten minutes late.
H ewas not received. That evening
there was a gathering of the diplomatic
corps. They advised him to report to
the cretary of state. So a report
was filed with Secretary Hay the fol
lowing morning. i
In the meantime the diplomats are '
excited.
Mrs. Dewey has claimed precedents
over the wives of senators. She claims
that the admiral of the nsvy ranks the t
cabinet, the congress, the Judiciary, j
the armv and everybody except the j
president of the United States, and j
sent her husband's aide-de-camp to the
department of state for en olil'-ia! opin- j
Ion respecting her social status. The
dec islon was entirely against her. She j
was Informed that the admiral of the
navy e-.'Uld not rank the secretary of:
the navy, who was his superior ollicer,
and the secretary of the navy Is num-
ber fi In the line of the cabinet, being;
subordinate to the secretaries of stale,
treasury and war. ttn attorney general
and the postmaster general the execu
tive departments being arranged in
the order of their establishment. Then
H naturally follows If the members of
the senate rank the members of the
cabinet because their confirm, they
muKt certainly rank the secretary of
the navy. Therefore it was decided by
the department of state that Mrs.
Ucwey ranks below the cabinet, the
Judiciary and the senate In the social
scale.
The importance of the decision Is p
nreciated by Mrs. Dewey more than
by any other irson, because until It t
was rendered she had Insisted that the ;
wives of the senators should call on
her before she called on them. No lady
In the senatorial circle so far has vis
ited Mrs Dewey, and no senators ap
peared among her callers on New
Year's day. Those Incident have
caused ft good d-al of commotion in
official circles, where some people are
inclined to take them seriously..
HE WAS BOUND TO MARRY.
Unique Matrimonial Experience
of
Farmer In North Dakota.
Wahpeton, N. It. (Speclul.lOsear
Krause of Colfax, a small village a
few miles north of this city, came to
town Saturday morning In search of
a wlfo and, after becoming engaged
to four girls, finally succeeded in get
ing married. ,
Mr. Krause emigrated from Ger
many eight or ten years ago and pur
chased a piece of land near Colfax. By
nard work and economy he has suc
ceeded in raying for this land and
accumulating some stock. He has al
ways lived alone on his farm, kept
bachelor hull and got along the best
he could. Some time ago he became
-Unsatisfied with bachelor life and be
gan to look about for a wife to assist
tlm in the household duties and mak"
home what It should be. He seemed
llo have been unsuccessful In his snit
llind linally called in a friend to assist
birt. The friend recommended him
lo a young lady of Ills acquaintance.
He came to Wahpeton In search of
the girl and finally learned that eh-
was an inmate of a resort. This did
not accord with tils Ideas of the pro
prieties of life and he would not have
her.
He called on another friend who In
troduced him to a girl In Divltt's n-s-tuurant.
He told her that he wanted
a wife and she agreed to marry him.
hut she needed some money to buy the
wediHrijr troRseau. He advanced tin
money and the wedding was to take
place Sunday morning at l'j o'clock. He
cot up bright and early to prepare
for the event, but at the appointed
time was disappointed to lenrn that
h; had left on the midnight tmln for
Minneapolis. Nothing daunted, h
agalrj applied to his frb-nds find they
Introduced him to a young widow who
hud Just come over from Denmark. He
pro; oHed to her and was accepted arid
the arrangements for the wedding
weru made, but at this juncture a loenl
m.'! . nt for tin; steamship company f.p
pcared and demanded that h'f pay V'fl,
the amount of her passage ovr.
Kisuk' thought this was too much to
ray for a widow rind the wedUini; wn
Jeclarffd n.T.
It" nt-alil .applied to his friends end
this time they S'-nt him to ,Mj Vc
toil-i l;,'ietnn!'f,n. a gill who till- woik
ir r on a f -nii n, few miles cut .f
town. He drove out find ! r- ; I to
be phi utid was ncc pt.-d. This tin
v !:d fiot pH'pcfit to 1"! f'x ,' d, un l
tironctt h'-r to town a-'-I w,-n mart'..'!
iy the count v judg" without any I.-.-lerfercnee.
Aft'-r the ceremony h" and
tils bride left for lili home, and, n
fiolhlng has lnce been heard of thsiri
It Is supposed that they nre llvlnf;
happily on his farm,
H Is stated thnt during the month of
antiary $220,000,000 Is to be distributed
.n New York, Boston asd Philadelphia
n tbt shape of teml-annual dividends.
MEW CANAL I DON.
Colorado Irrigation Ditch Hor
. Crosses th Dlvld
Fort Collins, Colo. There bs
Just been completed in northern Colo
rado one of the most dartn and novel
schemes for irrigation in the whole
eountry, if not In the world. This
achievement comprises the conduct of
water across the Continental Divide,
or crest of the Kooky mountains, from
the Pacific to the Atlantic watershed,
by a series of canals. The canals lie
along the shores of some of the loftiest
peaks in the range and through moun
tain passes at least 10.000 feet above
sea level.
The promoter of this scheme is the
Water Supply and Storage company
of this city. The company Is the owner
of the Larimer county ditch, a larr
canal leading from the north bank of
the Cache le Pouder river, near the
foothills, for a distance of some seventy
miles through northern Larimer county
nearly to the Weld county line. This
canal is thirty feet wide on top ano.
twenty feet on the bottom, has a car
rying capacity of 650 cubic feet of
water per recond. and connected with
it is a system of storage reservoirs,
whose combined capacity is something
like 00,)00.000 cubic feet of water. It
was to augment the water supply of
this canal anil these reservoirs that the
company constructed its sysVetn of
high-line ditches and reserv Ir, In or
der that the 30.000 acres of land lying
under the Larimer county ditch might
be properly irrigated.
The company began by converting
Chamber's lake Into a storage reservoir
by the construction of an Immense pile
dam across Its outlet, some 200 feet
long and eleven feet high. Chamber's
lake lies under the southern face of
Mount Cameron on the Medicine Bow
range, at an altitude of about 10.000
feet above sea level. The reservoir
capacity of the lake upon the com
pletion of the dam was 55.000.000 cubic
feet of water. Just under the north
ern flank of Mount Cameron are the
headwaters of the Big Lailml'; river,
which flows northward into Wyoming
and empties Into the North Platte
river. From a tributary of this stream
a ditch was taken out and carried
around the eastern slope of Mount
Cameron and turned Into Chamber's
lake. The construction of this ditch
etjtalk-d great labor and expense, lying
asv It docs along the steep muuntsm
side at an elevation of lO.OoO feet above
sea level, In the rcgl .ns of perpetual
enow. It is five miles In length and
has a carrying capacity of about 5S1")
cubic feet of water per second. It Is
maintained and operated only by the
greatest care and vigilance.
Southwest of Chamber's lake some
ten miles, and over on the Pacific elope
of the Hoc ky mountain range, lies Mid
die park, und In the northwest extrem
ity of the park in the headwaters of
the (Jrand river, which flows snulh
wetsward and empties Into the Colo
rado river, which In turn empties Into
the Pacific ocean. The headwaters of
the Grand river Bow down the sides of
an immense mountain basin, which. is
shaped like an open fan, the arc of the
semi-circle lying up under the snowy
crest of the continental divide. Around
both the northern and southern rims of
this basin the Water Supply and Stor
age company constructed, during the
season Just closed, a ditch. One Is
called the "south ditch" and the other
the "north ditch." About midway of
the eastern rim of the basin the, two
ditches converge and are carried thence
eastward across the divide by way. of
Mountain Meadow pass, at an elrVa
tlon of about 10,000 feet above s-a
level, and turned into the headwaters
of i ha Big South Fork of the Cache la.
Poudre. The "south ditch" Is two
miles in length and the "north ditch"
five miles tn length.
By the use of these two ditches, to
gether with the big Laramie ditch and
several minor ditches of like character,
the company has increased the water
supply aoout 600 cubic feet per second.
But when It is stated that this sys
tem of feeders lies some fifty miles
above the head gates of the Larimer
county ditch, the question will arise
In the minds of this uninitiated as to
how the new supply of water can be
utilized in the main canal. In answer
It may be stated that both Chamber's
lake and the Big South Fork bting
tributary to the Cache la Poudre all
water added to their volume naturally
flows down the main stream and adds
so much to its normal (low. A certain
Colorado law permits irrigation com
panies to turn water from any source
from which it may be derived into any
natural stream tn the state and to take
doslrable to the company on equal
amount of water, less a very small
percentage allowed for seepage and
evaporation while flowing along the
main stream throughout the interven
ing distant -e. So the Water Supply and
Storage company measures into the
main stream at the respective points
paj 'miia sum m no X4AUip jo
from neighboring watersheds, and in
turn Is ailowt-d to take art equal
amount from the mam stream, In ad
dition to their original and legal ap
propriation, and turn It Into their main
Irrliratlnir enmt! fifiv ntll,,ii Klnra &ltht..
Compelled to Elopa.
Jersey City, N. J. (Special.) One of
the strangest stories of an elopement
ever told In Jersey City was made
known at the Hudson coo(y jail this
week. The persons concerned are
Francis Samuels, his wife and a man
named Bela Dene.
Samuc Is kept an Inn. He says that
some time ugo his wife urgvd him to
sell the inn and Come to the United
States. He did so. Just before they
embarked his wife told them that Xren-t
was going with th ,-ru.
As Dene Is a man of wealth and hS
frequently expressed a d"j-lre to lait
America Samuels was not surprised (it
this. The little party reached ,"w
York tbr-f weeks ago, Samuels hired
room in Third street, near Avenue is.
Dine asked him to take hlrn n
boarder and they consented, one night
about a week lat'-r Samuel went home
to find that his wlfo d Dene had gone
away. Mrs. Samuels had also taken
al her husband's money except wb.it lie
had about him. It was not until Fri
day that he could get any trace of
them. Tln-n he raw in a Si-w York
newspaper on advertlsemer.t slgrted
B'bi Dene. It called fr u houn.-kcepp r
arid gardener, to apply jit an address
j'lven a Or.k rtreet; near Palisade
f.vtnue. West Hoboken. S;ui;u-!s found
Dene Slid Mrfi. Samuels at ihe house,
fie caused tle-lr am st and they were
rtc-r.t to the county Jail.
.Mrs. S-ianm-lK denied that she had
eloi'd. Sho cimmom-d her (niMiaiid
to tint jail find a!:!o sent for the Au!ro-M'li.garl.-in
consul nt New Y-n':. To
item t-he d 'lilted that lf;.? .,. r .in.
I-.Md her to (' with h!m t,p threat,
i -log to k.ll lief w lUr ji r i , -dvr If
refilled. Hie nl", t,, . ((lt
had taken her rvil;!vt moo -y f r
safe keeping-. lo-ne ., nicd Ihe
woman's story, but He mu. ;. la II--nc
It and gavn ball for ilia wile, sii wag
released and returned ti ,""w York
with him, leaving Dene In jrill.
Dene said he had money and would
like to secure a lawyer, The consul
sent for a lawyer who, after hearing
Dene, said he would apply to Judg
Blair for a writ of habeas corpus,