The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 243, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 2, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XIII.
Sl 'NI )A V JIOHXIMi.
OrTllIIIE. OKLAHOMA, FKBUI'AhY 1'MrJ.
SINMAV MoKXIXli,
NUMBER 242.
THE FEARFUL MARCH
ACROSS HOSTILE SAMAR
Story of Major Waller and His Marines
\ a Tale of Terror.
THE MEN ARE PROBABLY BEftS
The Dim Trail and Swollen Streams Made the March of
Twenty-five Miles Almost impossible-This Added
to Want of Rations Made a Trip of Torture.
10 REPRESENT NAVY
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BOTH B!DOLES DEAD
AND WOMAN DYING
Governor of the Philippines
Continues His Story.
TO REPRESENT ARMY
WA8HTNGTON. D. FKH. I Gen-
ersl Chaff e< ti ui cabled to the ar -
part m en t a report f Ihe in arch of Mi
jnr Waller and hi® m rim * i
ninr. 11 Is the ti t fi>ll o e mm ji .•
march, and tells u la • of i• ■ rriI• i• ■ ..!
ferlng and hardship. -M • 1 r W..l.e:\
riffle. rs • n«! lii \ meii: ! • -a •.ant I. a
of Ihe 12th Infantry, n
« rs, started In
her from Lang
Kumar t cr — tie- i I .' i t" !••• -
about miles distant. 'I hi • ' r\ •>
their Buffering la told In the fo I w
dispatch:
••The war dep.u tment is ad\!s< d of tin
trip of Maj"' Waller. !>ur
hint
HO men ol th<
bearers, with
.start<<l th I -:
Langan, on th
one-. th.
four
ast
•orps
'' mber fron t
Bassev. where he arrived on January |
I ! with two nffict rs. thirteen men. uiso
Lieutenant Lyles. 1!<- retm ned to th« |
i: i i s next day w th rations hut re- 1
turned to Bass y about ten days inter
unsut < 0M.sful. 1'iirier was i« build rafts,
i t tlinbrr \v<iijld not f.«•.t. Ht-cona uay
after .separating from Wall r, Pi* ter
moved toward Laugan arri\ ng J inuaiy
h wall two offlet rs ami 11 exhausted
men. Lieutenant R. 1'. Williams and over
80 men left In the mountains In elmllar
I.. <1 .in \ ih nat e be,ir'is R"l..-f ex-
pedition undo.- Lieutenant Kenm th 1'
i -t infantry, dela) i ti at irtlng
two days by storm and raging riv-t
n ii i Hi and reached the
im.vines tin the lsth. Having Lieutenant
Williams and all except ten men. not
doubt dead, starva-
nainely:
nd to
time
on map Trail it •>
found In T'i.i- . • . •
12th Infant' y. at c>m|.
Incessant rains from
streams and other natural ■
progri ss e,\trenw :■ sIav. Win n th ■
tions were consumed the men be< uim
haul ted rapid!:. dropi ■ on thi w
Maj< i" Waller. He pa r i ted from ''apt
roller. Lieutenant It. 1'. W III.tins :•
major part of the mi n. i . . .1 tow.
ngule. E Foster. G M.
lib's Brltt, T. Wards, ...wn. I: H Murray,
but T Muffctt. UaU'. l-tironl,. Connell, K.
les, |s 1 th ; <li'd h .in.tal. Tai l dun, not very
md cbar In mind vegarding much of the
ibn ti , v.i , i p r i of suffering. All
i id will probably recover.
ra- .Major W aller at present disordered In
ex- his recollections. SutTn.Ing of th.s eom-
maud f ir tw<.mtv days e.tnnot be de-
seribed. Iiffotts of Lieutenant V.'Ilh.nns.
1st Infantry and relief party unequalled
i for courage and labor."
MANY ARMED ISLANDERS1
The Ladies of the Part\ Accom-
panied on All Excursions.
PERCENT OF ILLITERATE
Spanish is the Only Language in Gen-
eral Use in the Islands and the
Acquaintance With That Seems
to be Somewhat Limited"
The I'rospect There.
Captain O'ark of the United StateR
Battleship h s been s looted by the
president to represent the navy at the
coronation of King Edward. President
Roosevelt takes this oppo tunitv of re-
warding the gallant sail.ir, whose ad* | ,T7T
vancement by nix numbers the presi-
dent does not consider sufficient com-
pensation for his services. Ion account of the tahi it.
J sary to take small vessel*
. t-i ri). The parly had n
' ' * •?•••■" [ ,r,, ai -e • >t i iin.ai it-
<s i • tauso iu the tune there ti.
WASHINGTON. Feb. t—Pore- • ' V,.'.1, V,' 1 ihlffrequc
*■ «• tst-uk it'ioma an I Indian ter- •« , iii1ivU.«buiiy <d ill ebt.n.n.- s
'• rltory—F.-Tr and coble: Sunday. — i .n .., ma .-aiti th. n w« r>-
♦ with a c Id w ive; Monday fair; • : "•'•b-n FUlplnoa or Chrlwdana
h
Such is the Result of the Great Jail De-
livery and Chase.
®
MRS. SOFFEL DEVELOPED PNEUMONIA
j The Woman and the Two Men Had Arranged to Take Their
Own Lives if Their Pursuers Overtook Them and it
is Said Their Wounds Are Self Inflicted.
WASHINGTON, FED. 1.—Concluding
n narrative of his Southern ex. nr. ion,
lor Taft suit! that the i dies of t« • I
paily accompanies the gentlemen to ull :
prlacea tt winch the wc
Brig. Gen. Jnmes 11 Wilson will rep-
resent the United S at s Army at tiio
onatloi . i Wilson la a very dls-
BUTLF.lt. I'A., PER 1 U the closo of (have taken part In many wrong deeds, but
a day of intense excitement ami many eon- ' have nev, r ktib-.i an> man and was nev-
llicting stories, concerning the chanlva tor j >
11.-
abb
I She life of the wounded
I and Airs. Kate SofT. I. the
ppen. d. John Biddle.
v.. |. made ,n"hI
■ ac tan'm.
officer during the Civil war. and per-
formed splendid services during the
Spanis.1 - A meriean war. He is a fore-
military writer and noted for his
llie only I he
northerly winds.
<?>
<i"f-1> ♦ <t
tel developed symptons .
afternoon, after havi
through an operation thli
extraction of the bullet.
idiiions and The response was an emphatic no "Our , f (ho tr„, wi,„ l,c. am e.u ,,i I
" "ng. The death of aJi k Liddle was • I -
etl by the bullet wounds in his abdoine.i
fteplying uuestions bv senator Law- biH,|,i,.r. i;arlv in Ihe da\ the p.i>
I Iftis. t ui* 11 nor 'i'ai i .-aiti that three ot t bo j ns ,,, riti.nl w was uie
s;\ ! in. rubers ,.f the lederal party were asso- | ,„ in, ,,, ,i dniiKer in his case, but tonight
1 ;l elated 111 tli i;.iver.:Ha ul of the islands, |,n|(rM'ai muiorhai.'' "t hi aid llle man
md but notwithstanding this fact the govern- , i,, death In
I with anyone who did. 1 wish
. Mrs K ihm y I wo I tell hat
the truth about the kilbng of her husPand.
riil.- HI hi I- • a pi. tt> i ■ .g!i to me and
end can not i orai to q il< k, and i don't
the bio
•111 Bit
Id
lid Middle In
ter part of Hi.
all that his h
ind
ath
Mr:
EIGHTY-FIVE MF.M
KSLLEi) IIN MINE
, the
■ n| Moid'
i\ n. . ned.
i.riHtlan had u
o the
s deSi
n iliil,
nt
of ! i
its
Ki
lade
Hi •
MISS ROOSEVELT'S ROBE
without military .-seoic.
extreme novihern pari of thi island, is,
* j from an agricultural standpoint, the most
] inagnliici i.t portion of tli< lslaiiu. This
ST. LOUI8. MO., FT'R 1— A sj-c lal ■" 1 • also t • m nd .aid '"v.- i-
. , lie t x| bulled thai ii is net osf i, u pro-
to the GIobe-Tit mocrat from San Antonio, \ ,|. a more paternal i rm of government
Texas, sayne: I'"1' l1"' 'K'TniK n in Hie HHnliin?.
I i• ..lo.. ini.,1'... ti, it.!., to place J' 111-
•opli
it W.I
If the Daughter of the President Attends the Coronation of
Edward She Will Have Troubles of Her Own, For
Uncle Sam Has no Coronets.
WASHINGTON. I) C . F. h. 1Not. .liatlnsulal. 1 hnnnr. an.! the n l
a word has co
White House r
{Miss A I • • liOn
of King Edward It •
the president will be s!i
certain ti. i' .Mi s R<
high spirits ov. r it. Si
ai of her girl friends th
the guest of Whlt< I 1
embassador from c
and some of the Whi
confirm the st ay Th
June a. 1902.
•c, tly fr rn the
< the pre . m e ■ f
Whitelaw Reid would be assigned i p
sition mightily to his lilting. The ti p! •
mts
M !
The diploma
hi
«?ent of tiie l*n • I
veil, would, of cour
.real-
Roosevelt goes at all she must haw
•i t lai recognition. In the settlement
of this momentous problem the whole
question Is involved. If Ml s Roos-
v. It could be permitted to attend tne
coronation in the same unostentaiais
"ananner hat any other young Ameri-
can woman of Rood family whom
WhlteTaw Held might invite to accom-
pany him would be permitted to do, th
invitation would have long ago been
formally accepted. But if court etlqur?
Eighty-five miners killed and seventy- I i
live more burned under the debris is the •)
fearful record made by a dust explosion 1
at the Hondo Mines In Mexico, news of , v
which was recelced here tonight
At the time the explositno occurred ther I 1
were 160 miners at work In the mine, nl! .
of whom were entombed by the shoft be- i
ing choked up by fulling earth and stone '
loosened b ythe explosion. Just how many '
are dead is not at this time known, but i
at last accounts received In re by wire to- 1
night t ight-five dend had been recovered.
It is feared that th death list will be puhei
greatly over one hundred. i had i
The Hondo mines are located at Coah- ! 1
uila, at the terminus of a branch of ihe i'lnii
Me\ -an International road, about one ' nrn: i
hundred miles south of Eagle Pass, and '"7"
art tin most important In that state. Do- ; n i-',V
tails of the disaster are meagre, no names In
f tin federal party
said that it comprised pp.b
tv nf the educated pe-pb-
pt lago, but that when the 1
I.e. II asked to 1 ittli 1 apio o\ • or I.- ippi; e
of its platform it had re 1 used to do -itli-
ei. possibly he continued, tin promise
bad misled him, but as tor him.- It, he
held tin- opinion that the questio., nf stat .
hood. Ilk" the question of liu.e(ietidence
is so far in te' I'm ui 1 bat lie ib.l not ie-
r. gard it as of present Important
At this point the . omrnittce adjourned
until 10 o'clock Monday.
tor the • '"\l, "1.Til: as he was able .lack was e|-
that pa**" , rami u talkative and * '
"I'"U tn«! 1 fill. Hut soot) as the shatb w t de .tb r. -
rnor T: ti . ,, in to t.,n u,,un him and he reco-jnlted a.
a in.tjorl | |j(. I,r, J1( lit:' lit
V11". "I know." said In-, "that my time here
ission had | is Bhorli ami you fan -av for in.- that I
!'" PI"'.. e j ;1 t'brlstlan and wiM a •• • '
iever In God and hopeTwill have • n.i
nough to say so at the "Fist. I know I
trlCt Attn;
low Ihe w
dltlon Is 1 ■
ar tb.it
'bated t.
msclous the bet-
1 11 1 . id. nt tn
:i 111 a t Internal
I
III at t tie liaspuai in
1. 1 tin I V. aim- Dl.i-
nakt r decided to il-
11a in hen as ll-r coil-
. trl;i to IFtt diurg to-
1 mle.l with fatal r—
rtn ; much from
of peooie
iv trying
The most
aid that th. r
Admiral I>« v
• iiisia ret • 11.
\s of sin. in*
parts of t b
I'.ably
.I there Wei-
ll in 1 long
nd Japan, b
heating either Ani-m ai. or Sp.i
the Philip
uld be ly. 1- 1
r«s from Mr
RECIPROCITY 1ALK
AT Tlit whi ft MOUSE
his town and
ai he is, I till
ehment for tin
at pride .a coi<i
nanltt.ft to
ic.'iiber of th
Presidenf "
of Filipino 1
011 the Fili[ in
nd.led, I ba
of what we 1
•stlons Govern
,1 that from
l" ople n ol a
gt, but that
(Continued on Page Three.)
the
HOUSE HAS FINISHED
1 to much
I tion with the .
of thr
call, which led
ent
WASHINGTON. I) C. P i. 1
eommittee on api ropi lat Ions todaj ^
eluded Hi na :• atl n of 1 • u .
deficienty app optia Ion bill. ii
amended in several important det
and among the amendments Is tin.' 11
lng provision fur th.e < ntertalnmen
Prince Henry in his approaching \
and another providing for the expi 1
of the Atnere in embassy to Loiul 1
the occasion nf the f .fth< omlng coi
atlon Ol K.: g Ed n ard. (In nel
case was Hie sum fixed at today's me t-
le. because of the un • tainiv of
COmmltte. i- t 1 ill.' Ull e • 'I lie
figures wil . laiwt . I be suppii l a' r
communicating with the state depart-
ment before the bill i • 1 fed 011 Mou
day.
•• re. mmerni the payment of the Interior
- claims of such states as advance 1
; money to the t'nit d States during 'lie
s- cieil war and are able to sh >w action
s by the court, of claims. In many case*
wh : many was advanced by ihe
T states the funds so advanced were bor-
t rowed and the states Were i irtlpelled t>
n pay interest up 11 the ani unti thus m -
n cured. The national government re-
funded the principal in ti sum can® .
r but In acciM'dnn •• with the pra tlce of
> j Ih" g "Vrument refund t . r. imbui.-f
•• ; the slates for the mom y p 1<1 on a.
L of the interest The state of New
appe l ei it interest t Iniiti from
ieilsltin of the court and It w-
0(1 up to the United .States su-
iban reclpro 1 ti a the
■■iiue reduction now under .... .1 1 1
the house, ft is under- i other T
nl nod however, that the subject of Cu- 1 Vmei
ban reciprocity was spoken of during the *t meting
call. Aside fr. ill tills it is said, the pr >s- s atteid
idenl hai 1 general interest In what the they are
house is doing and there is reason to be- | . : ndi.,c
lieve the visit was In part to inform him 'the nativ
on the general states of legitlation« Idlers hat
ROCKEFELLERS
HIO DONATION
•AMnnimiF MA-S IT"
THE VISIT
OF HENRY
Details of (he Official Reception
of the Royal Visitor
PIKERS COME AI 0!Nti
I I very Berth on the Steamer That Brings
Heinrick Over Has Been Taken a
Thing Heretofore Unknown at
This Season of the Year.
BERLIN F b. 1—Prince Henry of
Prussia will not officially arrive In
America until he has walked across the
34t street pier. New York City <r t
apart for ihe use of the North Go m in
Ll >y 1 st<aroer K• >n Pi r z llhi 1m 1
henaoliorn's gangway and tho imper-
I ial standard Is hoisted.
Various suggestl ms have been cabled
of !
Kron Prin* Wilhelm
Prince Henry has .1
1 lie most convenient f
to dock on one side 01
H"
ht he
th
to the yacht,
ded that it will
r the steamship
the pi. r and th..
ther On board
, Mayor Lov«
I of the weicom-
unbnssador An*
•cretary of tho
John 15. Ja k-
ass I. 'ale at the raliroa
OW to bid an official fan
11 ury who will leav
m. f o Kiel. The Prlnr
ENTERTAINMENT (.;i: SCHLEY
IN TENNESSEE'S CAPITAL
The Admiral Made a I.onR Speech at d Was the Center of
an Admiring Throng of Citizens All the Day-
Called Down by His Wife.
NASHVILLE, TENN., Feb. I.—Th- 1
first day's entertainment of Admiral
ami Mrs. Schley In Tennessee's capital
culminated tonight in a banquet to the
Admiral and a brilliant reception in
ibor of other speakers, Admiral
ley coming last.
v. as nearly 2 o'clock when thn
' • • ' ■ ok ng
.nued applause, and after a hurrl 1
lieon at tho Duncan the party vlslt-
Knlghts Templar had the admiral as
their honored gu st at the Duncan ho-
tel. Mrs. S hi " was introduced at th •
Maxwell htuis. by the ladle; at t a-
W'b.l' th« "'1 Vanderbilt univ rslty, whore Chan-
ll,.r Kirk I a nd Introduced the adrnlr-
spoke br l- fly to tho street,
tin : 1 ! : k university, the col-
d school
thi
welcome was formally ext'-nd I by
state and city the crush was as great
as at the station last night, thousand*
being unable o gain enrance to he hall
of he house of representatives, where
house Governor and Mis McKillifi. ' 1
governor's staff, . x-Gov. Buchanan and
others extended gie- ti gs. l'nlte.1
States Circuit Judge 11. H. Burt n pr •
sldede in the house of representative .
Gov. McMUIln i-pok" the date's we-
come Following the governor w• a
. \> . I. was on
in his rear, became
s and at length nd-
diiile tone. Turning
it the adimrol again
. wh, n the hotel was
rs dined In
neol and rested a
fore th evening's pro-
3W the Hermitage, tho
v Jai kson. w IU i" visit*
In the old Jackson
THE CITY 0! CLANCEY
IS REPORTED ALL AEIRE
IJI'.LCNA. M«
Ft
la
11 i
•d
1 t 1
il gc
The committee also has decided1 to (Continued from page two
BOERS TO FIGHT
A JACKSON NEGRO
J
If)
SECRETARY OF TREASURY
HAS ASSUMES) OFFICE
JACKSON, .MISS I-" " 1: 1.
mond, a member 1' th- 1 ■ 1
■hot through 1 In art !
killed at
fr<im Canton, h.i l 10 1 .1 i'i
h« tHkcix t • !:• a
for assist:,!,. , a 1
hta aid had a l ' 1 '
u, • m
Jutlgt Powell ai
ti huud, ji ably for lti«
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