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..The Filibusters of Venezuela..
* Or the Trials of a Spanish (iirl. •
"# By SEWARD W. HOPKINS. •
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• Copyrighted 1900 W Robert Bonner's Sons, •
CHAPTER XVIIi.-- (Continued.)
"Who are you?" he asked in Eng-
lish. As no reply came he repeated
the question in Spanish.
"Don't shoot, senor!'" came a voice
in Spanish. "I am only a poor Carib."
"Advance, poor Carib, and give the
countersign," said Lord Chugmough;
whereat William, who did not under-
stand Spanish, lunged forward to have
a good look at the intruder.
Suddenly both he and his master
were startled at hearing a low, sweet
voice, as of a frightened child, cry:
"Save me! Oh, save me!"
"Bless my soul!" said Lord Chug-
mough, "It'.¢ a girl!"
"Ha young lady, me lord," said Wil-
liam.
Lord Chugmough strode forward and
took the yielding form from the arms
of the cringing Carib.
"Who is she?" he asked. "Why is
she here?"
"Alas, senor," was the reply, "the
river has risen, and I fear the land
will be flooded, and I brought the
senorita here for shelter. She has been
very ill. senor, and in my care, and l
must give her some medicine at once."
"Ah! You are a doctor, then?" said
Lord Chugmough, looking down upon
the beautiful upturned face of the girl
he held in his arms.
"Yes," replied the Carib. "I am
Namampa, the herb-doctor."
"Oh!" said Lord Chugmough, as if
he knew all about it. "William take
the panther and deer skins and pre-
pare a bed for this young lady. She
is ill. She---'pon my word--she has
fainted."
"lkro, no! I am ill--weak!" mur-
mured the girl. "That man is an en-
emy. He------"
"Fear nothing," said Lord Chug-
mough, in English. "He cannot harm
you. Will you tell m~ your name,
senorita ?"
"My name is Lola Garza," she whis-
pered. And then, in truth, she
fainted.
"She Is ill," said the old Carlb. "I
will give her her medicine, and when
the storm has ceased I will take her
away again."
Lord Chugmough tenderly laid the
slight form down on the skins that
William had spread, and then placed
his hand on Namampa's arm with a
grip that made the old C~rib writhe
with pain.
"Not till I know where you are tak-
Ing her," he said. "And, mind, if your
medicine doesn't bring her round fair
sad square, I'll riddle you with lead."
CHAPTER XIX.
The Flood.
The great storm had an influence
upon all the characters of this history,
and to this influence some of the stir-
ring events which follow may he at-
tributed.
It placed a great barrier between the
royalists on the south and the repub-
licans on the north side of the swollen
Orinoco, and delayed the departure of
Philip of Aragon toward the capital.
But to no one did it bring such dis-
tress and danger, change of plan and
disaster, as to the two young Ameri-
cans and the wife and daughter of
General Salvarez, who had up to that
time been secure in their underground
retreat.
The first day of the storm they were
content to wait quietly in ffneir ap-
parently safe shelter, fearing nothing.
But on the second day, when the
roar of the rushing waters reached
their ears, they began to feel anxious,
not only for themselves but for Sal-"
cares, for they did not know how far
he had got on his Journey.
On the third day their anxiety for
themselves became so great that near-
ly everything else was driven from
their minds. Toward night, on this
third day, the Coroni so far overflowed
its banks as to send a rushing, roaring
stream into the secret passage.
"We are lost!" cried Dona Maria,
when the water began pouring in and
spreading out over the floor of the
caverns. "Once b~fore there was a
storm like this, apd the caverns be-
came filled with water."
"Is there any l~ssibillty of escape?"
asked Tempest..
Jacinta looked dubiously .from one
to the other.
"The flatboat'," cried Bona Maria,
suddenly. "If we could but reach it.
It is strong--it can outlive the storm.
It is not far from the entrance to the
secret Passage, if it has not been ear-
rind away. Nothing could upset it."
"The very thing!" said Medworth.
"Remember, Jack, the large boat at
the wharf Just above? We have seen
often enough,"
"Good!" said Tempest. "We ought
to be able to go to it, even if we had
tO swim."
"'Come on," said Medworth, .now
thoroughly alert and alive to the dan-
gets and possibilities of the situation.
He darted toward the entrance with
Tempest splashing along close behind
him, leaving Dona Maria and Jacinta
huddled together, fearing, hoping, si-
lently watching and trusting their
brave companions.
The stream of water that poured in
through the'entrance was about a foot
deep, and the roa~ of the storm and
~rrent about them was deafening.
There was no need for caution. The
sight was dark, and so fierce was the
storm that no sentry was outside of
the curie or the soldiers' quarters
Medworth took his knife from his
pocket and severed the rope.
With a mighty rush the boat swung
down stream and across it, bringing
up with a crash against the opposite
bank. a short distance below the se-
cret passage.
"Hurray!" shouted Tempest. "If we
can wind up forty feet of rope we cau
bring it to the entrance."
They entered the deck-house and
found that with only one mooring the
boat moved against the stream as
easily as across the current. Ten min-
utes of hard work brought them to the
mouth of the caverns.
Without hesltating, Medworth leaped
off and made his way to the hole.
"Dona Maria!" he shouted. "Jacin-
ta! Come! We have the boat and are
waiting for you."
The voice of Dona Maria answered
him. and soon the wife and daughter
of Salvarez were at the entrance.
"Can you get out?" asked Medworth,
extending his hand to assist them.
"With your assistance," replied
Dona Maria, as, half by her own exer-
tions and half by Medworth's help, she
scrambled out of the hole. Jacinta fol-
lowed her.
To reach th4 boat. which could not
be brought nearer than twelve feet to
the mouth of the passage, they were
forced to flounder through from one to
four feet of water, the depth increas-
ing as they drew nearer the boat, and
Medworth found himself .unable to
keep both women on their feet.
"Come and help me, Jack," he
called.
Tempest leaped from the boat and
splashed through the water to ~kr-
thur's side.
"Dons Maria. your hand." he yelled.
The wife of Salverez put her hand in
his. and he led her to the boat, Arthur
following with Jacinta.
"Now up," said Tempest. "A hand
here, Medworth."
Between them they assisted Dona
Maria aboard the flatboat and then
lifted Jactnta out of the water and
placed her by her mother's side.
Just then a terrific gust of wind
lashed the water into increased fury;
the strain on the rope was doubled,
and it snapped. The boat was hurled
away down the Coroni, leaving Tem-
pest standing in the darkness, up to
his waist in the rushing waters.
CHAPTER XX.
Tempest's Flight.
"Here's a pretty mess I'm in," said
Tempest. when he had realized the full
extent of the disaster that had come
upon him. "The water rising rapidly,
ground almost covered and the rain
coming down harder than ever, and
the flatboat, our last and only hope,
gone and left me. What am I to do, I'd
like to know."
He raised his voice to its full vol-
ume and shouted Medworth's name
but had he possessed twice the hug
power he could not have made himself
heard on the boat that was being rap-
idly borne away in the darkness.
He scrambled back to the highest
point of land along the river, the top
of the sloping side that led down to
the water's edge when the river was at
its ,proper level, and here, just above
the flood that was rising to meet him.
he stood a moment to collect his scat-
tered senses. If he wished to llve, it
was plain that he must think quickly
and to some purpose, and to act as
quickly. His first thought was to re-
turn to the s~eret passage. It sudden-
ly occurred to him that he had no
weapon. But in great emergencies,
when Tempest was obliged to think
quickly, he acquitted himself credit-
ably. It was so in this instance, as it
had been in many others all over the
world.
"First," he muttered to himself, "I
will make His Royal Nibs a visit and
see if I can borrow a gun. Then I'll
borrow a horse and get away to a
higher country, for, if I am not much
mistaken, this part will be entirely
under water in twenty hours more.".
Upon reaching this conclusion he
did not hesitate, but plunged through
the increasing depth of water that was
pouring In through the entrance to
the caverns, and floundered through
the ~wash toward the lantern that still
hung high up where the water would
not reach it for a few hours at least.
He" hurried up the stone steps to the
sliding panel.
Putting his ear to this, hs heard
voices. At first they were low ~and ln-
distinct, and Tempest could not hear
the words. But a heavy footstep
sounded, and then he heard the well-
known voice of Gomez.
"By all the saints!" he exclaimed.
"This is a wet kingdom of yours,
PhiliO."
"Is the water still rising?" asked the
Spaniard.
"Yes," replied Gomes. "Reports
have come in from the surrounding
country that are truly dis~urbing. The
Caribs at the head of the Coroui are
moving up into the mountains. The
Ilanos between here and the Orinoco
are becoming completely submerged.
Cattle by the thousand are being
drowned, and those that have not yet
be overwhelmed are huddling together
on the high points, and if the storm
keeps on forty-eight hours more they
~wlll be taken too."
"Is this castle in any danger?"
~No.' Francisco tells me that once
hefore they ~ad a storm nearly as bad
as this, and the land was covered with
water for miles around, yet thls e~s-
tie, and Francisco's own house, both
being built on high ground, escaped."
"Is there any danger of starvatlon~
hunger among the troops, I mean?"
"Of course, if the storm ~ontinues
many weeks, or even one week, I fear
there would be; but I hope It will not
come to that: The waters subside
quickly after the storm ceases." "But the Orinoco?"
"Ah. that is a serious matter. I fear
it will be a good many days before we
can cross the great river. The waters
may subside here, but the Orinoco will
be a raging torrent for days to come.
I fear the ships that were on the river
when the storm began are by now
swept out to sea."
"Then the Turtle, with the remain-
der of our rifles and ammunition, is
gone.'"
"I fear so, but she may outride the
storm and return."
"Let us hope so, at least." said
Philip. "But I seem to see only dis-
aster and failure before us."
After a few more words they left the
council room together. Tempest lis-
tened carefully to the receding foot-
Steps and waited even after they had
died away, to learn if any one had been
left,
Hearing nothing: he cautiously sli~
back the panel and peered inside the
room.
Finding no 'one there, he stealthily
crept inside and glanced hastily around
for a weapon.
"No gun!" he muttered. "Not even a
pistol."
Then he chanced to look down at the
table.
There., lying upon a map that had
been stained by dripping blood, was
the knife that had been taken from the
dead sentinel.
"Ah, the knife!" said Tempest.
"Well, if this is all, it must be made to
do."
Hastily seizing iL he crept again
through the aperture, closed the panel
carefully and went down into the un-
derground passage and out in the ter-
rible torrent.
Aboy,e the storm he heard a shrill
scream as of a horse in mortal terror,
and blindly following the sound as
well as he was able to locate it, he
soon found himself at the stables.
The stables upon which he h~d come
were not the well-kept stahles where
the family horses of Salvarez were
kept, but the sheds of the artillery and
eavalry beasts. They consisted of lit-
tle more than a long, peaked roof with
outreaching eaves, supported by strong
posts. Under this roof the horses stood
tied in rows.
Tempest plunged in among them and
holding the lantern to light his way,
severed the leather halters with quick
strokes of his knife, and set the horses,
one after another, free.
This took him some time, and his
arm was weary when he had finished.
When there was but o~ne horse left,
he flung himself upon its back, and,
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Annual Land Ol~lee Report.
The annual report of Commissioner
Hermann of the general land office
discusses but briefly matters that are
of importance locally to the several
western states, ~he main discussion
centering around the broader problems
that are applicable to all pubUc land
states alike. However, a number of
local features are pertinent to Colo-
rado and neighboring states, and are
here quoted.
The total area of unapproprlated
and unreserved lands in Colorado is
shown to he 30,115,814 acres, of
which amoun~ all but 4,396,055 notes
have been surveyed. The amount of
reserved land is 5,694,161 acres, the
area n~w appropriated being 21,538,185
acres.
In New Mexico the total of unre-
served and unappeopriate~l lands is 55,-
~89,124 acres, of which 41.108.508 acres
have been surveyed. The area appro-
priated is 16,454,495 acres and the
area reserved. 6.385,181 acres.
The unappropriated and unreserved
lands in Wyoming, aggregate 47,(~5,-
896 acres. 42.769.587 of which have
been surveyed. The urea appropriated
is 6,781,366 acres, and the area re-
served. 7,~)5.018 acres.
During the past year surveys were
made of 2"64.333 acres of public land in
Oolorado, and of 467,522 acres in Wy-
oming.
Colorado. Wyoming, New Mexico
and Utah contributed largely to the
general increase in coal patents for the
past year. There were thirty-six pat-
eats Issued in Colorado, covering 3,239
acres of land; in Wyoming twenty-two
coal patents were issued, for 2,743
acres, and in New Mexico there were
twelve patents for 840 acres. In addi-
tion to these, there were 709 mineral
and mill site patents and 1.304 mineral
and mill site claims, covering 15,791.,-
815 acres; in Wyoming there were four
mill site and mineral patents and ten
claims, covering 8A4,357 a~res, while
in New Mexico the patents numbered
twenty and the claims thirty-seven, the
lands embraced aggregating 707,639
acres. Colorado cohtributed largely ¢o
the increase in mineral patents for the
year. "
The report states that 7,977 acres of
land in Colorado was patented to the
Union Pacific railroad proper, 24.082
to the Kansas division of the same
road, and 4,125 acres to the Denver
Pacific branch, while a tract of 287,824
acres In Wyoming was patented to the
Union Pacific proper. Under the head
of Indian and miscellaneous patents, is
found one item covering 105,565 acres
in New Mexico.
Certificates for 1,694 acres of land
were issued to the Colorado Agricul-
tural College, and a further certificate
for school land indemnity covered 12,,
722 acres within that state.
Similar certificates were issued in
Wyoming, on a far larger scale. In
this state charitable, educational and
other institutions received 11,988 acres,
public buildings, :[:434 acres; the Agri-
cultural College 21,048 acres, miners'
mospital 480 acres, and school land In-
demnities • covering a total of 47,989
acres.
During the past year but $6.000 was
allotted for public surveys In Colorado,
$20,000 in Wyoming, and '$8,050 in
New Mexico. The amount of agricul-
tural land surveyed!and accepted in
cutting the halter, clung to its mane, Colorado was 264,403 acres, besides
glvingwould, it perfect liberty to go where it 1 193,175 not accepted. It is shown that
95,861 square miles of the state of
And with an abiding falth in the ca- Colorado has bees surveyed, which is
gacity of the heascs he had liberated, over ninety-two per cent. of the whole
Tempest clung tenaciously to his post- i state. The amount of land surveyed
• in Wyoming was 470.068 acres, The
tlon and was borne swiftly over the surveys executed in New Mexico era-
marshy, storm-beaten ground.
(To be continued.)
GREATEST FRENCH DRAMATIST.
S~rdou'~ Romantic Marriage &rid ][~ls
Row with Sarah Berdhardt.
Mlle. Sardou. daughter of the dram.
atist and academician, was married
recently at St. Augustin, Paris, to
Comte Robert de Fiefs, a member of
an old French family and a dramatist
and Critic. The President sent his
son, M. Paul Loubet, to express ht~*
good wishes. M. Vlctorien Sardou was
himself married under the most ro-
mantic circumstances. As a youn8
man he worked and starved in a gay-
rot, and disappointment preyed upon
his nerves till he fell Ill. A young
actress. Mlle. de Breeourt, took com-
passion upon him, nursed him back
to health, and introduced his work to
the famous actress, Dejazet, through
whom he was first acted. Sardou fell
in love with and married his benefac-
braced 837 miles of lines, nearly one-
half of which were upon boundaries
of private land grants.
The state of ~Wyoming several times
availed itself of the provisiores of the
desert land act, am] at different times
Iacquired tracts of 82,617 acres, 77,198
acres and 7,305 acres.
Referring to llep~ selections In oil
fields, after making, the statement that
there has been no abatement in the
explorations for oil in Colorado and
Wyoming, the co~mls~loner says:
"The suspensions, heretofore made of
townships alleged ¢o contain valuable
deposits of oil from disposition under
agricultural lowed.and examination of
these lands by special agent, have al-
layed to an extent the excitement
heretofore existing caused by the sup-
posed appropriation of these lands by
the lleu serlppers. These suspensions
have been continued during the year
and must continue until relief is ob-
tained by legislation, the mining laws
and regulations being inadequate to
protect the bona fide p~)spectors who
are spending their time and money
tress, whose death, ten years later, in exploring for oil."
was the one great sorrow of his life. [ Attention is cMIed to the law which
Sardou has made more money than ~trictly prohibits the erection of fences
any other dramatist, and he is prob- upon the public ~, domain. Special
ably the only man who ever gave agents of=the land office are r~(luired
to report ev.ery unlawful inclosure
Sarah Beruhardt a shaking. The~in- coming under their knowledge, togive
cident occurred at a rehearsal, and at persons notice to remove the same
a period when the divine Sarah was within sixty' days, and in the event of
less eminent than she is now. They
differed as to the way in which a pas-
sage should be declaimed, and Sardou,
losing his temper, seized the actress
by the shoulder, and gave her a shak-
Ing. She retorted by slapping his face,
and afterward challenged him to a
duel!~London Star. I
Done, BUt Wouldn't Stop..
Sir-William Long tells a story of an
old Scotch lady who could not abide
long sermons. She was hobbling out
of kirk one Sunday, wheu a coachman,
who was' waiting for his people, asked
their failure to do so, to lay the facts
promptly before the UnReal States at-
torney " for action. During the year
twenty.four such fence closes were re.
ported as embracing 273,530 acres of
the public domain in Colorado. Ten
of these fences were removed from
96.110 acres, upon proper notice from
special agents, the remaining fourteen
cases, involving 177,420~ acres, being
laid before the Judiciary. But one
case, involving 920 acres, arose In Wy-
oming, and this was referred to the
United States attorney. In New Mex-
Ico, the evil is at it~ highest, there be-
ing eighty-eight Ca§es reported, as In.
closing 1,920.485 acres of the public
her: "Is the minister dune wi' his sex- i domain. Seventeen eases, covering
men? .... He was dune lange syne,". 70,070 acres, were amicably adjusted,
~whlle the remaining seyenty,one fen-
said the old lady, impatiently, "but he ces, around 1,850,4L5 acres, are left for
winna stop!"
Present to Contemporary King.
It is noted in the annals of Charle,
magne as a great occurrence, that he~
sent a contemporary king a pr'sent of~
"two silken gowns as the most val~abls
gift he could confer, and l
"I have played a desperate game
I have lost" remarked the stage villain
Just before his final disappearance.
"But you are a darn.sigh~t bgtter of[
than we are," murmured a tired-look-
Ing man. in the front row; ,we paid
money to get ln~'~
the attorneys ~o deal with.
At the close of the fiscal year there
were pending. In ~the public lands di-
vision of the land office, 280 cases
arising in Colorado, including 197 com-
muted timber oulh~'re entries, fifty or-
iginal homestead entries, nine. final
homestead entries, twelve mineral and
coal entries and sundry others of dif.
ferent classes. There were also pend-
ing fifty-nine Wyoming eases, includ-
ing twenty .original homesteads, twen.
ty additional soldiers' homestead~ and
seven mineral and coal entries. The
pending New Mexico cases numbered
ninety-five, principally original home-
~es~d~aud timber culture entries.
SALISBURY DEFENDS THE WAR
AND SAYSTHAT IT WILL GO ON
London. Nov. 12.--'_Phe lord mayor's~ Lord Salisbury said:
show took place yesterday and was
more than ~sually interesting, as there
were a number of new features. Spe-
cial attention was paid to the colonies,
which were represented by attractive
cars. The decorations of the stxeets
were of the cus[omary character. Big
crowds Lined the whole route of the
procession. After the usual reception
at the law eour~ the procession com-
pleted its tour of the city and re-
turned to the Guild hall.
The lord mayor's banquet at the
Guild hall last night was a spectacu-
lar close of the day's festivities. The
historic building was the scene of a
brilliant pageant. In whi(,h modern and
mediaeval sights were strangely
mingled. A gathering of 2.0(0 of the
most influential citizens of London. in-
cluding the heads of the various gov-
ernment departments, gave an oppor-
tunity for a loyal demonstration, of
which the governmen[ was not slow
to take advant~ge.
The feature of the evening was Lord
Saiisbury's speech in response to the
toal'~ of "His Majesty's Ministers."
Referring to the progress of the war in
South Africa, Salisbury said:
"It is pleasant to record that the
peace of the world has been so little
disturbed by the events of the last
two years. Half a century ago wc
would not have found such a correct
and pacific attitude on the part of the
great powers. It is a suggestive sign
of the international amity and under-
standing that the cloud of the past
three weeks over lhe Mediterranean
has so lightly l~SSed away. Fifty
years ago this would not have been
SO."
"I strongly deprecate the spirit of
pessimism so frequently heard in the
utterances of some of our public men
as to the war in which we are en-
gaged. Unlike the wars of former
years, no longer does the capture of
the enemy's capital and the dissipa-
tion of his field force constitute a
conclusive victory. ~Vd are now con-
fronted by a system of guerilla war-
fare which must be slowly and ef-
fectively stamped out. We are pro-
gressing slowly, perhaps, but steadily.
"I canner take the public wholly into
the confiden¢~ of the government. It
would 1~., most imprudent publicly to
state all we are doing weekly and
monthly at the front, but what I em-
phatically declare is that, whatever
delays are encountered, these are due
neither to a lack of earnestness and
ability on the part of our generals in
the field, nor to a neglect to comply
with all their demands on the part of
the home governnleltt.
"We have been subject to much
vague and indefinite criticism, but our
bitterest opponents have not been able
~o point our any tangible defect, any
definite cause of complaint.
"I deeply regret the ravages in the
war in the c~lonics, to whlch we are
anxious to accord the fullest prac-
ticable measure of self-government.
But we have had neigl~bors in South
Africa whose conduct for years has
been a menace to stability of that
section of our empl~. ,~ow we are
engaged in rentoving this msance and
we are determined to do It so effect-
ually that it will never require doing
again."
This declaration was received with
Touching upon South African devol- cordial but by no means enthusiastic
opment in another part of his speebh, ] applause.
COLORADO POINTS WILL GET
LOWER RATES FROM THE COAST
Denver," Nov. 12.--'rhe Interstate
Commerce Commission sat at Denver
for a few hours yesterday to hear com~
plaints of. the dlserimlnation against
Denver in the matter of freight rates.
The commission some time ago ordered
certain reduction of rates fl'om the Pa-
cific coast to Denver, The railroads
did so on many articles, but on 139
commodities still charged a less rate
from the coast to the Mlssourl river
than from the Pacific to Denver. Com-
plaint was made concerning these ex-
cepti*ons and it was on these that the
hearing was given. At the close of the
session Freight Tariff Manager J. A.
Monroe of the Union Pacific said that
the roads would probably grant all the
concessions asked, without waiting for
on order from the commission. ~C. A.
Prouty of Vermont and Joseph Filer
of Illinois are the two members of the
commission who are conducting the in.
qulry here.
During the day George Kindel made
an address to the eommlsslon on the
subject of rates. He asserted that the
rate sheets in his possession and in the
possession of the commission were not
correct. During the afternoon three
rate sheets were subff~itted, each dif-
fering from the others.
J. A. Monroe of the Union Pacific
was the first witness before the com-
slon. He said that he had lust return-
ed from San Francisco, where a con-
ference had b~en held looking to the
revision of all the tariffs. During that
conference the agents had gone over
the list of articles the rates on which
were objected to. They had found in
the llst commodities tlmt were not at-
tieles of commerce between the two
sections, tie also assured the eommis-
sion that the freight rates had nothing
to do with war between the cane and
beet sugar makers. The newly estab-
lished beet sugar industry of Colorado
had nothing to fear, he said, from tha
rates made by the railroads. His road
was anxious to do all It could ~o build
up Denver and the inland cities. He
went over a part of the list with W. B,
Harrison, representing the Denver
Chamber of Commerce. and agreed that
reductions m~glit be made on some of
the articles.
In the afternoon L. A. Watklns. W.
A. Hover and several olher witnesses
for the Chamber of Oommeree testified
regarding the use of certain commodi-
ties. They did not entirely agree with
Mr. Monroe on all points, though they
did on many. The testimony was
largely technical, concern|rig the
branches of business In which the wit-
nesses were engaged.
The railroads did not bring forward
any witnesses, having secured a chance
to be heard later in Washington if they
should wish it.
At the hearing the Union Pacific was
represented by William R. Kelly, the
Denver & Rio Grands by Frank Wad-
leigh and the Santa Fe by Henry A.
Dubbs and W. A. Blssell.
SENATOR LODGE WANTS
TO HAVE RECIPROCITY
Boston, Nov. 11.--An exceptionally
large number of members of the Mid-
dlesex club attended the dinner of the
club Saturday afternoon. The gather-
ins included many of the Massachu-
setts delegation in Congress, state and
national officers and many prominent
Republicans. Senator I,odg~ was the
principal speaker. He strohgly urged l
~%~lprocity with other countries along
the lines mentioned in President Me-i
Klnley's Buffalo speech, and the up-I
building of the navy. t
Senator Lodge began his addressI
with a brief allusion to the recefit elec-,
lions, and then delivered an eloquent
eulogy upon the late President McKin-
ley. He made a lengthy argument for
general reciprocity in our commercial
relatlons.
"To this subject," he said. "It is cer-
":l~ere is only one point of danger,
and to assure peace we must protec~
ourselves in that direction. Firmly but
quietly the Monroe doctrine must be
rigidly upheld. The entrance of any
great European power into the Ameri-
can hemisphere, either by the aequl~
tlon of territory or the erstablishmen~
of forts or naval stations, would be
the instant menace of the ~eaea we
are so anxious to maintain,"
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
WILL FAVOR THE WEST
Washington, Nov. 12.--Senator ~ ar-
ren of Wyoming had a very satisfact-
ory conference .'with President Roose-
velt yesterday in reference,, to matters
of interest to t~e ,West. The senator
was the President s guest at lu~ncheon,
and later the two -talked informally
upon the subjects of forestery, lrrlga-
tion, etc,, for several hours.
tain that most anxious conslderatlo~
will be glve~ by President Roosevelt
and by Congress a~ the ensuing session.
Whether it will be deemed best to lout
this policy in execution by means of
some general legislation equivalent to
a reciprocal arrangement with all the
nations of the earth, or by a series of
separate treaties, it is yet to early to
say."
He said that he considered reciproc-
ity with Cuba as the first and most
important, for political as well as eco-
nomical reasons.
He then briefly discussed the reci-
procity treaties now pending in the
Senate, ~md concluded this portion of
his remarks by saying:
"Last we come to the treaty with
France. which is more important eco-
nomically than all the other treaties
put together. I should like to see the
treaty made with l~ance. It is a
country with which I fain would
strengthen our good relations. I re-
gard such a treaty as pglitlcally and
economically desirable in a very high
degree."
Iu conclusion he advocated legisla-
tion which put the American ~nerchant
marine on an equality with that of
other countrlea th~ building up of the
~vy. He said:
"The whole country, I think, favors
the building of an Isthmian canal. I
believe, from what little I know, that
we shall have a treaty with England
at the coming session which wlll re.
move, henorahIy for both uatlons,
whatever obstacles now exist to the
building of the canal in the Clayton.
Bulwer treaty. If such a treaty is
submitted to. us by the President. there
is no more pressing duty than Its Im-
mediate ratlfication~ to be followed at
once by the passage of the canal bill
~4~nator Warren said the President
showed remrakable familiarity with
Western matters and understands
most thoroughly the details of lrrlga-"
[ tion and appreciates the benefits which
will ensue to the West should the gov-
ernment aid in utilizing the available .
water~ now running to waste.
There is every reason to believe that
ih his forthcoming message to Con-
gress he will recommend such action
as will satisfy the people of the West
of his earnestness of purpose in~ seek-
lng to have beneficial and practical
legislation enacted in their behalf.
In formulating that part of his mes-
sage relating to Irrigation, the Presi-
dent, it is believed, will follow the
views of practical Western men whose
opinions upon this Subject have been
sought by him and this course,~taken
in connection with his knp.wledge tot
the subject, will serve to give his ~re~
ommendattons great weight in Con-
gress.
su~sr City Sweets,
Denver. Nov. 13.~A Republican spec-
cial from Sugar City in Otero county
says that the sugar factory has been
running as smoothly as swatch ever
since the opening October 10th. Owing
to improved machinery installed last
summer the extraction of saccharine
this year is 1~½ per cent. as compared
with 10 per cent. last year. This Is the
highest percentage of extraction on fee-
old, aml the officials of the sugar com-
pany are highly elated over their
achievement.
This greatly increased
an embarra~ment to the
eat c~ the factory,
handling and storing
