Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1894 — Page 10

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

had ma le a thorough . canvass of the county and was famillaj- with the situation in all it3 details and lie had found no piprna of dissatisfaction. Democrats would support the principles of the party and none would allow themselves to be deceived into voting for re'jiutlican policies. Cummitlrrmnn "W. II. O'llrfen. Committeeman W. II. O'Brien of the Fourth was the next speaker, and also ftiad words of cheer. lie called attention to the fact that the Fourth had elected three municipal executives in the last election, and the vote in his own town efcowtd that 'the democrats had come within seventeen of casting their entire "vote. ThLs showed that they were active and enthusiastic. The Fourth was never in better shape. Veiay's Drnioerntic Victory. ' Gsorge S. Pleasants of Switzerland county called the attention to his town tf Vevay, which had rolled up an overwhelmin.;? democratic victory at the refcent municipal election, and he thought this was a most favorable indication 'that the democrats were not only not VHsaffected. but thoroughly aroused and (enthusiastic. All the democrats of Indiana had to do was to take the aggressive and hang back and make a de'Ljnsive fight. This was a democratic stata and the party should make the 'fiarht accordingly. This would Insure rvictory. All the party had to do to inisure victory was to see that the voters lall came out. The- Firth DlMrict. 4' "W. C. Duncan, member of the state committee from the Fifth district, said hat the large and enthusiastic congressional convention that had been held in the c1 is trie: was ample evidence of the degree f interest taken in the coming tcaimpaisn by the democrats of the district. Throughout the district the same ccnlitlns existed. True there had been uneasiness for some time that nothing would be d ne by the national legislature, but now that the end was in sight land it could be seen that the Wilson fbil! would be passed and become a law 'ell the ur.easiness had vanished. "While ithe dem x-rats of the district realized 'that th- y had been betrayed to a certain 'extent, this fact had been the cause not of driving them out of the party or mikting the:n disaffected, but of "binding thtm still closer together around the grand priTieipies of the party. "It will be bit a few weeks." said he, "when a ;tariff bill will be pissed and we shall 'then have ?ouiething to offer to the people that they know is in their interest. While it is true that it has taken two ye.irs to secure this bill the people will Wcogniza the fact that it took the republican party thirty years to do what .the demo ratio party is now trying to undo, and the tearing down of puch a stupendous system of robbery of the people's money must be done gradually cls ther? are many conflicting interests involved. In the state the democratic party has no rival. Its record is preeminent. With th excellent conditions existing at the present time, with the Irecord made by the party In giving to 'the people reform measures, there can be no doubt of the support of the people. The democratic party has given to the people of Indiana the income tax yneasure which will save them many Jburdens by compelling the bondholders of the East to assist in defraying the expenses of the government which protects them and their accumulated fortunes. In the Fourth district there is no doubt of Mr. Cooper's election. There !has been an apparent revival amng democrats throughout the district during the last few weeks based upon their realization of the fact that something was going to be done by congress and the effect of this will be to awaken the party throughout the state." , V. II. rverroad'n Itenmrli. ' W. H. Everroad of Bartholomew county said: "The democrats of the state have had poured into their ears that the till now before congress is no better than the McKinley bill. This is no: true as everyone knows. The bill will benefit every farmer in the state, and while all of us are not thoroughly satisfied with the sugar tax and the bonded period of liquors, it is a step in the right direction and the democracy of Indiana ran rest assured that O rover Cleveland will never affix his signature to a bill that is not a democratic measure, that Is not letter than the McKinley bill nnd will not benefit the people generei ly. "Th democrats have less to be liscouiMged over thi.s year than they had .in lss-J. It has taken them several years 'to thoroughly appreciate the wisdom and judgment of President Cleveland. His terlinf,- worth was not even fully appreciated when he retired to private life after the expiration of his first "term. It took four years of such an administration as was given to the people fcy Benjamin Harrison for them to appreciate drover Cleveland. Then he -wa-s asuin called to take the helm and Us renown has been widened from one end of the country to the other ever eince. He is the one man who has always stood for the right and if he signs a measure the people can rest assured -that it is in their interest." I too ii - C'ountr Hnril From. S. L. MeKelvey of Boone county said that the conditions In his part of the Fifth were the same as had been reported for the rest of the district. The county organization was the best the democrats h d ever been able to effect and all wfre in line with the national administration. The Mtli nistrlot. Committeeman Lontz of the Sixth dis- ; trict called attention to the fact that the I Sixth had been making democratic gains continually fur the last fifteen years, and the republican majority in Wayne county alone had been cut down from 3.00 to k 1,00 j. A clear gain of 500 votes had been Jmade in the campaign of 1S92, and there ,was no Indication that the party would jlose any of these votes this fall. Hail he: "The democrats of the Sixth district believe in tariff reform and will support that principle "under all circumstances. Th?y will be out to the polls thi3 fall to i a man and are thoroughly aroused to the 'necessity of every man doing his duty." Judg- Study of Wayne county also spoke for the Sixth district. He said the republicans had made a thorough poll of the state and in that pol! had given them 4,000. They were making an aggressive campaign, but would be met by one that was equally apgresslve. While the democrats were in the minority in the district they were r.ot discouraged on that acicount. but would make an effort to decrease the majority as much as possible. Will He lu Line. Judge Lötz of Muncie said he believed Jthe dem rat3 of the state wrould be in tline to a man as soon as the tari'f legUlatioa had b.-en put through congress. "Hie tfemocrats f'f Indiana are not going to forsake the party because It has been 'betrayed by a few, but will cling all the closer to the principles." . The Seventh I)lrirt. ; After the noon adjournment the Seventh .district wa.? called and vigorous speeches 'were made by Messrs. McCullough and Stewart of Marion, Messrs. Beebe, Foster ;and Mustard of Madison and Montgomery. Marsh of Hancock. Mr. Marsh took the ground that there 'hadVbeen no betrayal of the party by any of the senators or representatives cf the crate in congress. He said there had been 'many conflicting Interests and it bad .taken time to secure a compromise upon which Jill would agree. Louisiana wanted .protection on sugar. New York wanted protection, other states wanted their Interests protected and Indiana wanted a radical tariff reform bill passed. Our representatives had done all in their power to eecure as radical measure as possible and should not be blamed for it. The democratic press of the state had been lncllned to indulge in too much criticism, and he thought they should be educated. ' II said that even Tfc Sentinel should re

ceived a little education upon this point, which produced a hearty laugh. He thought the people of the state should be satisfied for the present with what had been secured after much trouble and not criticize so freely. If the people did not desert the true principles of the party it would yet give them a bill that would be satisfactory, but this would take some time. Xot a Man Lost. Chairman Edward W. Felt of Hancock county said that the democrats had not lost a raan in his county and there was no dissatisfaction of any kind. All the party was working together and the vote would be as heavy as during the last presidential election. The Kiulith District. Committeeman Mann of the Eighth reported everything in excellent shape in his district. He spoke of the mining troubles in Sullivan county and said they would not cost the democratic party a vote, as the miners all recognized the fact that the principles of the democratic party were the only ones that would operate to their advantage in securing for them cheaper food and articles of clothing. This was as good as an advance in the scale. Mr. Mann was followed by Chairman Samuel Clark cf Fountain county. Mr. Clark is one of the old and tried workers of the party in Fountain county and knows just how things are going down there in oolitics. He said that while tha county was clc?e, the democrats would carry it this fall without a doubt. Editor Douglass of the same county spoke in the same strain. Mr. MPln of Montgomery. Chairman Mills of Montgomery county mentioned the large convention that had been held in the county and inferred from this that there was no lack of enthusiasm upen the part of the democrats. Republicans were loud in their talk and bravado in the county and a few democrats had at first been temporarily silenced by their loud talk, but this had all gone by. Said he: "The democratic party is the party of the people; it is the constitutional party ami the honest party. There are more democrats in the state of Indiana than there are republicans, and if the democrats will turn out this fall to a man the state will be carried by a large majority." W. H. Johnson of Montgomery county, ex-chairman of the county committee, called attention to the gains that the party had been making in his county, having carried it fjr the first time sim-e 187G. In adlition to this the republican majority in Crawfordsville had been cut down 100 and the members of the party were aroused as never before. They have bee.i so abused by the republicans that they have turned and now nothing can keep them from the polls. Frank A. Horner. Frank A. Horner of Clay county was the next speaker. He remarked that while Clay contained half of all the miners in the state, there was no cause to be alarmed on account of the situation in that county. The republican's had made a woeful failure of persuading the miners that the democratic party was the cause of the strike troubles. lie considered that the worst calamity that could befall the miners was for the state to fall into the hands of the republican party, and no one knew this better than the miners. They remembered when they had been driven in droves to the polls before the democratic party gave them the Australian ballot system, and now they could vote for their opinions without fear or favor. The democratic party had nothing to be ashamed of in the state of Indiana and could point with the greatest degree of pride to its record in the past. No apologies were necessary. Clay county was all right, and if the rest of the state was in the same situation there would be a rousing majority given the democratic ticket. Sulllvon Comity. C. W. Welman of Sullivan county said he had never doubted that the democratic party would carry the state, and he still maintained the utmost confidence in its victory this fall. Everything pointed toward a democratic victory notwithstanding the empty howlin gs of the republicans. As to Sullivan county, there had been some trouble, but the miners of Sullivan county were as good democrats as ever and would heartily support the ticket. "Those men are as good citizens as we have in the state," said Mr. Welman. "They have been abused and imposed uxion and grossly misrepresented in the newspa--pers. They have been suffering, with their families in actual want, and all this caused by .others than themselves. They are honest, law-abiding citizens and will assist in giving Sullivan county a majority of 1.500 for the democratic ticket." The Mnth District. Committeeman Blackstock of the Ninth district said that while the district was heavily republican the democrats were alive and active and there was no dissatisfaction apparent anywhere. There was no cause for discouragement so far as the Ninth was concerned. The national affairs were shaping themselves after a long delay and this, added to the proud record of the party in the state, could not help but arouse the democrats to victory. Senator Brown of Clinton county remarked that the democratic party could go before the people upon the income tax alone and would deserve victory at their hands. Nor was this all. He pointed with pride to the reform laws passed by the democracy of Indiana, all of which had been in the interest of the mass of the people. Capt. D. F. Allen of Clinton dwelt upon the record of the democratic party in the state. Said he: "I could do no better than point to the platform of the Clinton county democracy. We are proud that we are democrats down there. We point with pride to the reforms accomplished by the democratic legislature of Indiana." The Tenth IHntrirt. M. M. Hathaway of the Tenth district made one of the most pleasant addresses of the day and was loudly applauded. He said the democrats of the Tenth were all big-hearted, good fellows and liked to shake each other by the hand. They would elect a congressman In the district as sure as election day came around and were only anxious for the day to come so t!:v could do it. While they wanted a more radical measure passed by congress, they were thankful for what had been given them and were satisfied with a mild tariff bill, the income tax measure and the repeal of the federal elections law. All were working together, and when election day came around they would walk up to the polls, arm in arm, with a smile upon their faces and gladness in their hearts, and vote the straight old democratic ticket. The Twelfth District. Judge Allen Zollars of Ft Wayne, committeeman from the Twelfth district, made a most magnificent address. Among other things, he said: "It seems to me that the democrats have been worse scared over the loud boasts made by the republicans than anything else. Up In Allen they were rather Intimidated for a short time, but this has all passed, and Allen will come down with as much of a majority as the other side has votes. But notwithstanding the large majority, the republicans are by no means quiet in Allen. It seems that there is where they launch all their devlllshness. They seem to practice on Allen county, and If it works there they try It elsewhere. But notwithstanding this, the county is in good shape, and the other counties ol the district are equally well off. Most of the complaints are coming from republicans, who are Inclined to criticize us for not passing a bill which they do not want us to pass. This Is rather an anomolous position to take, it seems to me. We have had trouble in passing a tariff bill because we have had many conflicting Interests to brio? together. Th republicans had

an easy time In framing a bill. All they had to do wa3 to send for the manufacturers of the country and tell them each to take as big a slice as they wanted. The senators from Louisiana want protection on sugar, the New York senators want protection, and in so large a country as this, where the interests must necessarily conflict, no one section can expect to get all it wants. Indiana wants a radical reform measure, but it can't have that. There is no reason then for complaining because we can't get it all at once. Let us get what we can and then the next time we can take another step In the same direction. The great thing was to get the thing started the other way after thirty years. The panic has been upon us and republicans have blamed the democratic party even with that. Now, there may be some of the people who will be deceived by such statements, and this must be corrected. Of course, this panic did not originate without a cause, and we are now trying to gii rid of the cause step by step. The democratic party did not bring the panic, for it has done nothing. And now that the Wilson bill is about to be passed, the factories all over the country are getting ready to start up. I have no complaint to make against our senators and representatives. I believe that Senator Voorhees is doing all he can. and doing it conscientiously. He will get the bill through congress finally, and I think he should be given praise. If we can't get all we want we should be satisfied with what is given us. "It would never do to allow the republicans to carry Indiana. While the constitution fixes the time for again districting the state, they would never stop at that, but would redistrict at once. This would enable them, though Illegally, to elect a' United States senator. And then they would at once repeal the Australian ballot law and take away the rights of the people. The republicans of Allen have already condemned it by resolution and the republican party throughout the state is opposed to it. The recent municipal elections cannot be taken as in any way significant There was no politics in them. In every case it was a case of purely local questions. So all we have to do is to reach out and take the victory. Don't let them scare us. Why, they are even claiming that they will carry Allen county this fall, and there is no mr.re chance for them to carry Allen county than there is for the populists. It shows their policy of intimidation by bravado. Let th democrats but do their duty arid there is no uncertainty about the result." John Koons of Waterloo, DeKalb county, came down in place of Chairman John F. Schumann. He reported a good county ticket in the field, a big convention and th democrats all enthusiastic and harmonious. Mny Ite n Candidate. O. M. Naber of Columbia City, superintendent of th? Whitcley county schools, was down looking up the advisability of running for the office of superintendent of public instruction. If Mr. Glascock is not a candidate Mr. Naber will, in all probability, te in the field, but if Mr. Glasscock is a candidate he will not run. Mr. Naber called attention to the excellent record of the democratic party in school questions. Besides the school book law the surplus fund law was an excellent measure, as it prevented about $200,000 going every year from the country to the city districts and was in the interests of the farmers. Executive Session. At 5 o'clock Committeeman Lontz moved that the state central committee now go into executive session for the purpose of considering the plan of organization for the coming campaign and devising ways and means for carrying on the same. And that the chairman, at a date as early as convenient and practicable, notify the chairmen of the county committees of the action of this committee. This was carried and the committee retired to another room while the public meeting adjourned after Chairman Taggart had thanked them for the large attendance ami spoken to them of their duty during the campaign.

EXKCIT1VK SKSSIOX Steps Taken to Form n Perfect Prorlnrt Organisation. The committee retired to parlor 8 of the hotel and went at once into executive session, with Chairman Taggart presiding. After a few pleasant words of comment upon the object of their meeting, in which he stated it to be his firm conviction that the state would be carried by the democrats if the proper amount of work was done, Mr. Taggart announced, formally, the appointment of Joseph Reiley as secretary and John It. Wilson as treasurer of the committee. These appointments were not enly unanimously confirmed, but complimented by the members of the committee present. All the committeemen were present with the exception of Messrs. Conrad of the Thirteenth and KIntz of the Eleventh. Mr. Buskirk was represented by Perry McCart of Orange. The first two gentlemen were absent at their conventions and Mr. Buskirk could not be here on account of sickness. It was decided by the committee to cee that a perfect precinct organization be effected throughout the state at once and in this way the state will be under a thorough organization by the time the state convention meets on Aug. 15. It was the unanimous wish of the committee that a speaking- campaign be inaugurated immediately after the state convention and that it be carried on aggressively from that time until the day of the election. No part of the state will be neglected. Not only will the able speakers of Indiana be utilized, but as the republicans have signified their intention to bring into the state Mr. McKinley and other foreign speakers of note, democratic speakers from other states will be here to assist In coping with them. The issues will be discussed and the blame of the recent troubles placed where it belongs. The committee was perfectly harmonious throughout and a unit as to the wisest policy to pursue during the campaign. Every member realized that Indiana is a democratic state, that the democrats are without discouragement and harmonious and the state will be carried this fall. The committee was unanimous in desiring to push a vigorous, aggressive campaign, and the war will be carried into the enemy's territory. One of the liveliest campaigns in the history of the state Is promised. I,lnroln'n Simplicity. It was my good fortune to be one of sixteen that composed a body-guard for Gen. Ilalleck in lat4 at Washington about the time Gen. Grant was to take command Of the army of the Potomac. I was on duty at Gen. Halieck's office one day when President incoln came up the steps looking very thoughtfully. It was orders for us to salute all officers above a lieutenant and stand at present arms until they had passed. The president did not notice any one, but was closeted with Ilalleck for an hour. Then he came out, and when opposite us he stopped,, raised hLs hat, and said: "Excuse me, boys, for not saluting you when I cams in. I was thinking of a story." It was then late in the afternoon. He simply said, "Good-morning, boys," as he passed out. A few days afterward Gen. Grant came with hl3 staff and there was a council of war held in Halieck's office. Lincoln, Stanton, Seward and Grant were there. When it was over they stepped into the hall, shaking hands and saying good-by. A pompous railroad official came in and saidr- "Gen. Grant, we have a special car waiting for you." Lincoln said: "Take him on a platform car or anything, only get him to the front as soon as possible." Chicago Iteeord. Half of It. Little Boy "Our new horse Is half Arabian." Father "Think so?" Little Boy-"Yep. He hasn't the star and crescent on his nose, but he's got the star. That's half of it." Street & Smith' Good News.

"A LEVEL OF GRAY DEATH."

HORRORS OP THE DESERT OF THE COCOPAHS IN LOWER CALIFORNIA. It In Only Ninety Mil Wide, Rot Fevr Men llnve Crossed It and Lived Its Bllsterlni? SnmU nail Srorrhins Heat Some of Its Recent Victims. A letter to the Globe-Democrat from San Diego, Cal., says: Hell may lie nearer the surface in some other portion of the globe than the desert of the Cocopahs, but If so, the place is undiscovered. God may have wrought a place more terrible than this same desert, but It is unmarked by the trail of mortal. A desert from which Dante might have added to the horrors of his "Inferno;" a level of gray death, feared by man and forgotten by its creator; a region separated from the seething cauldrons below by a thin crust of baked Band, through which the fumes and heat from the unquenchable fires below seem plainly apparent. Surely God must have made it in his anger and forgot. Yearly, since the occupation, that desert has claimed its victims, singly and in groups sacrificial offerings to that great yellow god, gold, which is said to be hidden in its sun-baked, barren hills. Yearly, since the Argonauts drifted south from the goia nelds of central California, men have started for the Cocopahs, but only a pitiful few have ever returned. Back of that time there is no record' save that written on the shifting, changing sands, which alternately expose and conceal bleached bones, glistening ghastly white against the dead gray plain. The number must be legion, as it is the same now as when. S00 years ago. its scorching, withering heat drove back to the gulf shores those hardy Spanish explorers under Coronado. on their search for the "seven famed cities of Cibola." But where is this fearful spot? Look on your map; find Campo, a little trading post in the mountains of southern California, on the Mexican border and about sixty miles back from the coast line of the Pacific. Thirty miles south of Campo, as an initial point, run a line east of south. 100 miles until it touches the gulf coast. Between th;it line and the gulf lies the desert of the Cocopahs, a territory about cue hundred miles square, but almost as little known as the interior of Africa. An Innocent-looking little spot on the map, but on the surface of what it represents lie the mummified shapes of bleaching bones of hundreds of men. You will note that it is not marked with the zigzag lines which usually denote the location of canyons or water-courses, nor the shaded lines representing mountains. Why? Simply because, as yet, there has been found no corps of engineers with sufficient hardihood to attempt Its survey. AVorst Part of the Deert. Standing on the initial point from which you have drawn the line, say at the spring In the Canyada de las Palmas, and, looking eastward, you may see the outlines of a low range of mountains distant, with water, sixty, possibly ninety mi.es; without water eternity intervenes between you and that range of hills rising darkly purple through the shimmering heat. That stretch of sixty or ninety miles is the worst part of the Cocopah desert; a wide reach of arid, sterile, sandy plain, lying below the level of the sea. absolutely devoid of animal life and with no vegetation, save here and there a stunted cactus. Too hot and dry for even the lizard and horned toad, the heat radiates from the sand and rocks' with scorching effect, blistering the skin and sapping one's vitality. For a trip across the Cocopah desert proper you fill your canteens at the spring in the Canyada de las Palmas, then by a gradual descent down the canyon, the heat noticeably increasing as you descend, you pass out from the cooling shades of the towering Sierra Madres in that veritable "valley of death." If you are Inexperienced, a "tenderfoot." never attempt the trip without a guide, and not then between the months of April and October. An Indian will pilot you across for a few dollars, or you may fall in with some old prospector. If so, his first question will be with reference to your facilities for carrying water. There are no landmarks by which to shape your course, so a guide Is an absolute necessity. Here and there about the plain are sand dunes, varying in hiht from little hillocks to sixty feet or more. Lay your course by even the tallest of these and you are lost, for in a few hours it may have entirely disappeared only to be rebuilded by the wind at right angles to your course several miles away. If you are alone and inexperienced your only infallible guides will be the sun and stars; if these are obscured camp and wait until they reappear, if your water supply will permit; if not, then push on through that scorching sand and may the Lord take pity on you. If you are experienced the rocks and the cactus bushes will tell you which is north and which is south. Dentil from Thirst. People of the East, where limpid streams of wholesome water cross one's trail at frequent intervals, have no conception of the horrors of desert thirst, of that deathly faintness that comes over one when, miles away from water, he finds that his canteen is empty; of the madness which follows in a few hours; of the shriveled lungs and 'parched throat; of the cracked, swollen, blackened and protruding tongue, the starting eyeballs burned to a fiery red; of the tantalizing visions of glassy lakes 'between banks of mossy green, and the tinkling of icy water tumbling over bowlders in imaginary canyons just beyond; of the maddened frenzy with which he tears the clothing from his body ' and runs naked over the blistering sands; of the frantic endeavor to dig, with torn and bleeding fingers, for water; of that lat hoarse cry on the desert stillness to a God that hears him not. I have seen the blackened, withered shapes of men who have died from thirst, ami the sight was enough to raise one's gorge. Occasionally men who realize what death from thirst, alone on the desert, means, save themselves the attendant suffering and maddening' horrors by ending all with a bullet. In that event, when you find the shape, look well for a little heap of stones, for under it you will rind the name and address of it, with the request that the personal belongings be forwarded to relatives or friends by the finder on reaching civilization. Opinions differ as to the length of time a man can go without water In that desert inferno and retain his reason, but the maximum limit for one unused to desert travel Is eight hours. 1 know of two leather-lunged old prospectors who were thlrty-Mx hours witlvut water, and yet had sufficient sen?e and strength to follow their old bell burro, whose animal Instinct led them to a waterhole hitherto unknown. Personally. I have gone twenty-four hour3 without water, and then slaked my burning thrlst in hot. muddy, alkali seep water that had collected In a bear's track, and, although I had to fight with a big, black mountain rattler for the coveted draught, it was the weetest I ever quaffed. Terrible Hent. Sixty or ninety miles is not a great distance, you Bay, and ought to be covered In les3 than twenty-four hours. Other good men have thought the same thing and tried it, but they never came back. The brains that oozed from the little round hole In that skull back yonder conceived the eame idea, and that little heap of stones off there is a monument to another man's error of Judgment. The heat on that desert is something indescribable, hot and dry like that of a furnace, the thermometer standing at 140 degrees or more day after day. In some portions rain has not fallen for years., and the air Is very dry. Were the heax

moist or humid neither man nor animal could live in it a day. The sun beats down with such power that to travel during the day is an impossibility, and throwing your blanket over a cactus shrub you crawl into- the scant shade and lie there until the sun drops behind the tall peaks to the west. In crossing that stretch of desert, travel as light as possible, and if your packs contain a superfluity of anything let It be water. Food you may travel without for two, tnree or possibly four days, but water you must have constantly. Do little or no talking; keep the mouth closed, breathiig onlythrough the nostrils, else the heat will parch your throat and fairly shrivel your lungs. Drink but a little water at a time, only enough to keep the tongue and throat moist. You perspire little, If at all; the heat simply evaporates all moisture in your body, and after being on the desert a few hours your salivary glands almost cease operation, and your hair crackles when passing your fingers through it. Within the past two years, to my personal knowledge there have been ten deaths from thirst on that strip of desert, three rescues just in the nick of time, the victims being found gasping on the sand, and two men at diflerent times found running about the plain naked and insane, one of whom had tobe lassoed and tied on a horse by his rescuers. The first of the victims, with whom I had a personal acquaintance, was the Breedlove-Fish party of three men, whose bodies were found within less than two miles of the water they had struggled so hard to reach. Their mules were found at the water hole, one dead from drinking. The men had been dead several weeks when found, but the bodies were in a good state of preservation. Two weeks ago the bodies of four prospectors were found, almost in the same locality, by a search party that had gone out immediately on the arrival of the party's mules in a famishing condition. In the interval between these two finds there have been discovered at different times the bodies of three individual prospectors "names unknown; buried where found." Two, as nearly as could be judged from the shrunken features, were Germans, the other presumably an American. The insane men recovered after a few days' nursing, but not all the wealth of the Incas could tempt them to set foot on th-it desert again. The many rumors of the immensely rich gold fields in the Cocopah mountains have been proven false, and why it is that men will persist in encountering hardships and facing the "White Horseman" at every step is unexplainable. unless the element of danger is in itself an attraction, and the inaccessibility of the locality prilds the discouraging truth with a yellow luster. There is gold in the mountains, both in quartz and placers, but there is not sufficient vater in the entire range to supply the domestic necessities of an average camp, to say nothing of a stamp mill. There Is absolutely no timber, scarcely enough brushwood for camp fires, and shipping the ore is out of the question. Fabulously rich must be the ore that will pay for sacking and packing on burros 100 miles to the nearest railroad station. Experience s of Two Prospectors. Among the few who have ever returned from that El Dorado of "mucho oro" are J. M. Brown and J. S. Crawford, two old-time prospectors. After an absence of nearly a year they arrived, gaunt, thin and hollow-eyed, at the little Mexican town of Ensenada, some sixty miles down the coast, and although their belts were full of sold, their experience was such as to satisfy any curiosity they might have had regarding the gold fields of the Cocopah mountains. When they started for the desert, in addition to the usual supply of prospecting tools, provisions, etc., they had four zinc canteens each of six gallons capacity, so constructed as to fit the backs of the burros. On the back of each burro was also a five-gallon keg. Their way led from Campo thirty miles south to Tajo, and from there down the Canyada de las Palmas to the spring two miles from the edge of the desert. With a field glass they located a deep notch (El Canyada de las Mujeres) in the distant mountains. This notch marked the location of the next water hole, and they decided to keep it always straight ahead, the direction being slightly south of east. One night the canteens and kegs were filled at the spring, and early the next morning ihey started to cross that valley of death. Both men had had experience in the gold fields or Africa and the bush of Australia. They were not deceived by the seeming nearness of the mountains, but hoped to reach the canyon, by traveling constantly. In twenty-four hours; but here their experience failed them. The heat was worse than that of the Suhara. and the dryness of the atmosphere something of which they had not dreamed. They had not gone far until they found it impossible to travel under that blazing sun. and were obliged to camp until night. The 176 quarts of water were constantly drawn upon and were exhausted long before the mountains were reached. They found the location of the spring in the Canyada de las Muj?res, but no water only a bit of moist sand the flow of water having been stopped by an earthquake. In their extremity they gave their old bitrro his head, and he eventually found water In one of the numerous small canyons. There they camped, and after several days' prospecting found that it was the oniy water within miles. They panned every gulch in the locality and found '"color" everywhere, but the most "promising was about four miles from the spring. There they put up their dry washer and began operations. The ever present heat was too intense to permit of any exertion, except early ire the morning or late In the afternoon, but they managed to get an ounce of gold per day. The nights were but little cooler than the days, and after the mere had spent the usual two hours in the placers in the evening they would stretch out naked on the saxid and endeavor to pass the night In sleep. Mosquitoes and other insects did not trouble them, 'he heat being too great seemingly for them to exist. Phenomena of the Region. There are strange phenomena in that region, however, that are worthy of a scientific investigation. At the foot of the mountains on the west is a lake known as the Laguna Salado. It is probably eight miles in length and from one to two miles in width, lying parallel with the range. The water is very salt and has tides like the ocean. It3 shores are fringed with a marine vegetation and it is evident that the lake is fed from the Gulf of California, but-the gulf Is more than sixty miles away and a range of mountains Intervenes. On the east, between the mountains and the gulf, Is a strip of level plain, in which are the mud volcanoes, hundreds of thetu. from which bubbles up a liquid bluish-colored mud, some blubbering like huge pots of mush, level with the surface, others spouting up several feet. The mud, drying in the sun as It falls, is baked in the form of cones from three to six feet in hight. The crust of the earth quivers and trembles almost constantly In tk locality of these volcanoes and the sulphurous fumes are almost unbearable. You cannot force your pack animals within two miles of that miniature hades. I have met people who said they had been to the Cocopahs, but Inquiry always develops the fact that they went by the old San Diego and Yuma stage road, where the water holes are about fifteen miles apart, and turning south from that trail had visited only Pilot Knob and other buttes in the northern extremity of the range, but even that route is a tiresome Journey of 150 mile3. They have carefully avoided the Cocopah desert proper, which lies wholly within the peninsula of Lower California, and Is crossed only by hardy prospectors in an endeavor to save two-thirds of the distance. The Qnestlon of the Honr. The absorbing tariff question And the problem of hard times And the price of coal next winter And New York policemen's crimes. And a hundred other topics. Some quite old, and others new. Have to make way for the question "Is It hot enough for you? Brooklyn Eajrl.

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Is Tbelr Remarkable Aetlon Caused by a Subterranean Tidal Force f There is a peculiar district, or rather a district over a peculiar subterranean formation In the Platte river valley in Nebraska, Involving more particularly the counties of Colfax, Butler and Polk. Thia is the region of the singular roaring wells whose waters also rise and fall with a clearly defined tidal action. Of the three counties mentioned Polk leads, having sixteen or eighteen of the curiosities. There are hours when the water will gradually rise, and during this time the wells exhale such a quantity of air as to make a strong current, which Is accompanied by a roaring sound which can be heard to a considerable distance. After a short interval of quiescence the ebb sets in, the water slowly falls, and the inhalation that follows is as if the air at the mouth of the well were In a mad rush to follow the receding tide. From these facts an impression prevails In. many minds that Nebraska, Kansas and a portion of the Indian territory rest on an immense subterranean sea. In support of this Dosition, it is alleged that square miles of land have disappeared in Kansas, leaving lakelets of unfathomable depth instead. While it Is true that the other regions mentioned also occasionally exhibit wells having this roaring feature, there i3 nothing in this to sustain the view of an underground lake or sea, certainly not as we understand these terms when they are applied to bodies of water on the surface. Nor is .it by any means uncommon for portions of surface to sink from sight, a case of this kind having recently occurred during the earthquake in Venezuela, in South America, and the "sunk country" in the vicinity o! New Madrid, on the Mississippi river, having disappeared in the prolonged seismic disturbance of 1S11-12. While it may not be generally known, it is, nevertheless, a fact, that some of Pennsylvania's pas wells have exhibited this peculiar tidal tendency; and, while in many Instances the drill has penetrated below the ocean level, it does not allow necessarily that any of these wells, either of water or gas, are in communication with the sea. What would seem far more probable Is that these wells may communicate with areas, that have more or less direct conection with the mobile interior, and where we may logically Infer there Is also a tidal manifestation. All the Nebraska roaring wells extend down to a porous stratum, presumably surface in some former age, and it is probable that the water lying among the loose material of a former bed is some way affected by pressure exerted against it by the earth's internal tides. When the recession takes place, it is only natural that there should be a suction inward and an expulsion when the flow sets in. The occasional subsi dence of surfaces below water level caTl be readily accounted for, apart from any theory of underground oceans, which is entirely untenable. But these remarkable wells are worthy of a more careful observation than they feive yet received. Pittsburg Dispatch. HELD IP HIS HANDS. Dot There AA'as n. Pistol In One and It Cost Him His Life. The particulars of the killing of F. E. Eddinger. the man who robbed Teamster Otto Hampton of Jose & Ellery's freight money and the murderer of his employer, E. W. Jose, whom he had stiot and fatally wounded on the night of June 10 at Lewiston, Trinity county, while the latter was trying to arrest him for the robbery, show that the fugitive was shot . through the heart with a rifie ball fired by Deputy Sheriff Chase. After Jose had been shot Sheriff Bowie of Weaverville. Trinity county, took up the trail of the murderer at Lewiston and tracked him to within five miles of Redding. He came into Redding and notified the officers here that he was certain that the robber was heading for the railroad, and that he was positive that he was on the right track. Constable Tleisch and Deputy Sheriff Chase took the trail, proceeding to Cottonwood, Shasta county, until within a mile of that place, where the road crosses the railroad track, where they stopped, each taking one side of the road. Soon they saw Eddinger coming down- the road and commanded him to halt. When the robber stopped Chase said: "Throw up you hands." The robber answered: "I have done nothing." There came a shot from Plelsch's gun over the robber's head again and the injunction, "Throw up your hands." The robber threw both hands up and at the same time his pistol. Chase could not see the pistol in his hand. The robber hand and at the same time commenced nothing in them." Ihere was a fence between Chase and the robber, and Chase was obliged to climb over. When he had gotten over he noticed the pistol In the robber's hand. Levelling his rifle. Chase said: "Drop the pistol," when the robber lowered his hand and at the same time commenced firing. After two shots Chase fell on his knees, and the robber thinking he had killed his pursuer, turned and commenced shooting at Fleisch. While In this condition Chase took deliberate aim with his rifle and sent a bullet through the robber's heart, killing him instantly. San Francisco Examiner. Three Stages of Death ly Hangln?. "I have made the subject of death by hanging a long study." said Dr. D. S. Lamb, an ex-surgeon of the United States army. "From my observations, during my experience in the army, I feel justified in saying that death by hanging is the most exaggerated of all modes. It may be immediate and without symptom, but the subject must pass through three stages before death. "In the first stage the victim passes into a partial stupor, lasting from thirty seconds to two minutes, but this is generally governed by the length of the drop, the weight of the body, and the tightness of the constriction. There is absolutely no pain in this stage; the feeling is rather one of pleasure. The subjective symptoms described are intense heat in the head, brilliant Hashes of light in the eyes, deafening sounds in the ears, and a heavy, numb feeling in the lungs. In the second stage, the subject passes into unconsciousness, and convulsions usually occur. In the third state all is quiet except the b?ating of the heart. Just before death the agitation is renewed, but in a different way from that in the second state. The feet are raised, the tongue has a peculiar spasm, the chest heaves, the eyes protrude from the orbits and oscillate from side to side, and the pupils dilate. The pulse can, in most cases, be felt ten minutes after the drop. "I once knew a man who was desirous of ascertaining if there was any suffering by hanging, and in order to find out he placed a rope around his neck and stepped off a bench, intending to step back again, but he became immediately unconscious, and would have died in a few minutes had it not been for the timely arrival of a friend. He said he experienced all the feelings that I mentioned in the first stage." Globe-Democrat. A Latter Day Romance. Miss Finn-De Sickle (breathlessly) "Have I arrived in time?" Mr. Adorrer (suitor) "Eh? In time for what?" "I hear that you and Mr. Lovem are going to fight a duel." "We are." "And it's about me? : ' " ; i "It is." ' I "It must not be." "One or the other must die. We can't both marry you." "No, but you can compromise." "Play poker till one or the other gets all the money, and then I will .marry th winner." N. Y. Weekly.

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