The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, August 10, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS.
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Any European statesman who, at a
critical moineat in the affairs of his
country began to raise a private army
without making it clear that it was
for the good of the government, would
speedily find himself in serious trou-
ble. Not so with Li Hung Chant, how-
ever.
For some time China's greatest
Since he was a young man the
statesman has raised several private
armies. Although he is not a glfteil
military commander himself he knows
almost instinctively a capable general
when he meets one, and lucky has It
been for China that he possesses this
capability. He can obtain excellent
soldiers, moreover. The men who en-
rial Chinese railway owes Tils place
to LI. It was through Li that this
road was built.
In the principal (section of the Chi-
nese army, known as "the Eight Man-
ners," the force forms a kind of her-
edity profession, within which inter-
marriage Is compulsory. It is gird
around by other hard and fast rules,
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1,1 HUNG CHANG'S BANQUETING HALL AT CANTON.
statesman has been busily raising and
equipping a large force of soldiers,
whom he will pay and perhaps direct
himself, and no one knows whether
his intention is good or evil.
Probably this is the first time in his-
tory that a statesman of nearly four-
score has set himself the arduous task
of recruiting an army for personal use.
Li Hung Chang, however, is an old
hand at this particular species of ef-
fort. It is understood he keeps among
his private papers a voluminous list
of fighting men who are attached by
interest and affection to his person,
and when he starts to raise his army
these people form the nucleus of his
force.
One thing may be taken for granted.
Li Hung Chang's private army will be
composed of brave men, admirably
equipped and well led.
list under Li's banner know that their
pay is sure, and that their food will
not be stinted. They also know that
if they happen to do anything notable
and worthy their employer is sure to
be generous in rewards.
Prom his earliest years, as a man
interested in military matters, Li
Hung Chang has been a persistent ad-
vocate of modern armaments. If his
advice had been carried out before the
war with Japan China would not havo
been struck down so easily. It is be-
lieved that Li, out of his vast wealth,
has accumulated a great store of mod-
ern weapons for his private army, and
it is unlikely to be deficient in trans-
port, commissariat, or even in medi-
cal service. His force is certain to be
stiffened by drilled men who have been
on his books for years, and who have
probably been out in his service be-
fore. Every big official of the Impe-
but it is safe to say that none of these
will trouble the soldier who fights un-
der the wily octogenarian viceroy.
There is no red tape about Li Hung
Chang's force, especially when lie in-
tends serious business.
There are other viceroys who have
armies, but they are scarcely compar-
able with the braves of LI Hung
Chang. For the most part they are un-
disciplined and badly armed. As a
rule, the great viceroys keep a few
well armed and fairly dependable men.
These have Krupp guns and the new-
est Mauser rifles, but the great propor-
tion of the viceregal armies are scat-
tered over large areas, and almost to-
tally undrllled. Fourteen different
species of rifles have been counted
among viceregal troops, as well as
bows and arrows. The rifles include
a queer looking weapon, called the
gingal, which is about ten feet long.
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TRAIN ON THE CHINESE IMPERIAL RAILWAY. THIS ROAD WAS BUILT BY ADVICE OP LI HUNG CHANO
Japan's Secret Service.
Here is a portrait of a man who has
done much to organize the superb se-
cret service of Japan. He is Gen. Ya-
tabe, and was educated in the United
States. An army of secret emissaries
has been at work for years, disguised
as Chinese priests, teachers in the uni-
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eluding the now famous I-Ho-Tan, or
Boxers. Many of these agents have
been trained in the schools of Europe
and America, and have high degrees
from foreign universities. All work
under Get. Yatabe. They have studied
the secret service systems abroad, es-
pecially in Germany and France, and
know how to collect information to the
best advantage. As engineers and
surveyors they have made accurate
maps of the country, such as China it-
self does not possess, and they have
gathered complete data as to possible
supplies and routes for the military
and naval departments. They have
done all this without the slightest sus-
picion of what they were about reach-
ing official ears in China. They have
kept in touch with the consular and
the diplomatic service and with the
bureau of information in Tokio, where
the reports of the agents are arranged
for ready reference. So Japan knows
China, and other nations do not.
l/r'cc Admiral Seymour.
Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hobart
Seymour, K. C. B.. is one of the most
prominent figures in the Chinese trou-
ble. By seniority he became, accord-
ing to the custom, commander of the
allied naval forces at the time of the
outbreak, and the leader of the force
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GEN. YATABE.
versities, students, as servants in great
houses, as wandering beggars, as mer-
chants and manufacturers,and as mem-
bers of many of the secret societies, in-
Senator Piatt of New York went to
have a prescription filled in a New
York drug shop recently. The young
cleric iaking longer to do it than the
senator thought proper, Mr. Piatt said:
"Here, I'll do it. I used to be a drug-
gist myself." And going back of the
counter, he made up the prescription
in a very shoit time.
VICE ADMIRAL SEYMOUR,
which attempted the relief of the lega-
tions.
A letter from Stephen Crane to
Richard Hovey sold in London last
week for S50.
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF
Smallpox is under control at Cape
Nome.
Augusta, (!a.. has separate street
cars for negroes.
The New England drouth is broken
by copious rains.
Wine is transported in France in
bulk in tank cars.
The melon crop about St. Joseph,
Micli., is a fail uro.
Russia is negotiating another loan
in the United States.
American coal is being shipped to
Russia for railroad use.
Every steamship from Australia
to San Francisco brings gold.
Grass Valley, Cali., lost two business
blocks by a fire which started in a
laundry.
The report of the massacre of mis-
sionaries at I'ao Ting l'u has been
confirmed.
It is said that rich gold mines have
been discovered in Hawkins county,
Tennessee.
Yellow fever exists in Tampa, Flor-
ida, and the state of Alabama has de-
clared quarantine.
E. G. Rathbone finally secured bail
in Havana; several Spanish merchants
gave the necessary security.
President McKinley has accepted the
grand army invitation to attend their
annual encampment in Chicago.
The broom corn district of Illinois
has lost its whole crop. The corn all
lies on the ground as tlat as if a roller
had been hauled over it.
One of the boilers of the Spanish
cruiser Infanta Isabella gave away,
as the steamer was about to leave San
Sebastian, scalding .'1 soldiers.
Mexican troops at war with the
Maya Indians in Yucatan were badly
routed in a recent fight, losing heav-
ily. There were >,000 Mexicans against
0,000 Indians.
All of the missionaries sent out by
the l'resbyterian board, and about
whose whereabouts there bad been
uncertainty, are now accounted for,
although gome are still in Pekin.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perees tribe,
who wanted to be sent to their former
home in Oregon has been told that
their going their is impossible as their
old country is now occupied by set-
tlers.
The crack team of the Kansas City
fire department has gone to Paris to
show how Americans fight fire.
A number of Maine cotton mills are
shutting down on account of loss of
trade with China, resulting froin the
war.
E. L. Swazey is gone to parts un-
known, leaving Kansas City banks and
commission men with duplicated mort-
gages on herds of cattle which may
and may not have an existence. There
is said to be $1,000,000 of his paper
afloat.
Clear water in the Chicago river is
lessening the city revenue from water,
factory owners drawing their supply
from the river.
The Chinese ministers in European
capitals have united in cabling tho
Chinese government a demand that
the legations be permitted free tide-
graphic communication with their gov-
ernment.
The increase in the total internal
revenue receipts for the fiscal year cit-
ing June H0, 1000, over the receipts o!
tin- previous year were $21,S31,-r>3(,
I Laadlag Bimetallic riper of Untile*
O. «L Saaator W. U. STEWART, IMttor.
A oorrect account af the dolnge el
Ooafreee (Hven rech week.
A family paper for tbe home and flre-
eWa. All I He Important kapperisfa of
the week, c*n la new*columns.
A Urpo circulaUaa 1b aeery State and
Territory.
■ abaeriptloa Piiea, 01 Pa* Taaa
Sand far sample; agenta wanted,
PnblUhed irsekty by tba
Silver Knljfct Pufcil ihlog Co.,
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One result of a now rule is that bi-
cycles now take part in the church pa-
rade in Hyde Park, London. Likewise
motors. It is a new, and people arei
not sure whether admirable, addition!
to the attractions, that the promenad-,
ors can look at the evolutions of gayly-'
dressed cyclists and be cheered by thol
snorting and backing and forwarding
of the motors.
A snowstorm started a fire on tho
premises of a farmer living at Hebu-
terno, Belgium. He placed a quantity,
of quicklime near a shed on a farm
and left it there all night. In the*
course of the nigiit snow fell on the,
lime anil the heat thus developed be-
came so great that it set the shed on
fire, completely destroying it and it#
contents.
At Damendorf, in Schleswig, some
peat-diggers recently found a welH
preserved corpse in the peat, clothedi
in a coarse woolen material, with reflj
hair, and with sandals on the feet.1
Dr. Splieth, of Kiel, estimated the agf*
of the body at about 1,500 years. Thrt
preservative properties of peat ar
well known, and there have been many,
remarkable proofs of this In Ireland.
A submarine cable in actual use will
form one of the exhibits of the Pari:*
exposition. It will run from the elec-
tricity building to the Vincennes an-
nex; several miles distant along the
Seine. A complete cable station will
be operated at each end to show tha
public how transatlantic messages are
transmitted and received. Souvenir
messages may be sent by the public.
An extraordinary phenomenon is re-
ported from Assuan, Egypt. Some
days ago quantities of fish were ob-
served swimming uneasily near the
surface of the water above the First
Cataract, and during the next few
days thousands of dead fish, large anil
small, wore discovered in the imme-
diate vicinity. The cause is not yet
known, but the authorities are taking
steps to ascertain it, as disastrous re-
sults might ensue should the Nile bo
found polluted with poisonous matter.
Gen. A. W. Greely, chief signal offli
cer, has received so many letters con-
taining suggestions for devices to be
used in the war against China that he
is bewildered. They present countless
Ideas ranging from a cipher code to a
scheme for destroying the combineil
forces of the Boxers at a single blow.
The cipher code came from a western
man who declares that "it baffles skill
to unravel this code." To this state-
ment Gen. Greely agrees most heartily.
The letter explains that the code con-
sists of a system of numbers which
are to be spoken. For instance, "137
plus 53 minus 8," would mean "attack
on the right flank."
Kansas City business men. prepar-
ing to welcome the Democratic Con-
vention, took an original step toward
beautifying their city when they In-
stituted a "good lawns contest" ami
offered about forty prizes, aggregat-
ing sixteen hundred dollars. The larg-
est prize, two hundred and fifty dol-
lars, was given for "the prettiest lawn
of twenty-five feet or over;" and thero
were prizes for the best lawn kept by
children, the neatest vacant lot, the
best display in window-boxes, the most
attractive schoolhouse lawn, and many
other decorative features. The prizes
were awarded by "committees of well-
known ladies from out of town." who
found the task difficult, but like ev-
erybody else enjoyed the general re-
sult. Why should not other cities
carry out, next summer, tho same ex-
cellent idea? Conventions come and
go, but a city abides, and all Its resi-
dents profit permanently by any
in beauty.
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