The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 19, 1898 Page: 1 of 8
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When you've nuXod In tbo city, and
failed to gel the trade,
When from lack of human pity, you
foel something like a Jade.
When do*pair from all croallon, and
happiness quickly dies,
You'll suapend the operation—uuleaa
you commence and advert iao.
The red birds and the spring
poets made their appearance simul-
taneously.
Fifty millions will do as a starter,
but if Spain isn't satisfied we can
easily raise the limit.
President McKinley practices
David Crockett’s motto:“First know
your right» then go ahead."
The mine that turned the atten-
tion of the people from Klondike is
the one that blew up the Maine.
Mark Twain can now have a
little spending money ior himself.
He has paid off the last of the debts
of Chas. L. Webster & Co.
Whether war comes or not, it is
the plain duty of the administration
to force from Spain a full indemnity
for the loss of the Maine and to in-
tervene to secure liberty for the
Cubans.
Washington, March 12.-The per-
sons who advocate Cuba’s freedom
by purchase, will not obtain much
encouragement from congress.
Several members today expressed
the opinion that the Spanish govern-
ment is trying to engineer the plan
through, for the purpose of replen-
ishing her bankrupt treasury, know-
ing that the lose of Cuba is an as-
sured fact, and that Spain’s wisest
policy now is to secure as much cash
as possible for the loss of the island.
General Grosvenor, of Ohio, who
is believed to reflect the viewe of the
president when be talks on public
matters, saidr L“We don’t want to
fight for Cuban independence, and
to pay money for it too. I hope
Cuba will soon receive her indepen-
daDce."
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[ tfigheat Honors—World’s Fafrr
Odd Medal, Midwinter Fair.
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CHOCTAW CITY, OKLAHOMA 19.1898
CAN SINK A BATTLB3HP.
What the Whitehead Torpbdo Is
like end how It works.
Newport, R. I., March 18;-Lieu-
tenant Commander McLean waa in-
terviewed at the torpeda station to-
day in regard to the report that the
Main had been blown up by a 'New-
port’’ torpedo. The commander ia
authority for the statement that there
ia no such a thing as a “Newport"
torpedo.
The station here is largely for
experimental purposes in the way of
trying and testing torpedoes, and it
has^it various times experimented
with the Whitehead, Howell and
Cunningham torpedoes. The White-
head torpedo, which ia the projectile
in general use in the United States
Navy, although the Howell ia used
to some extent, is an auto-moble de-
vice. In the center of the projec-
tile, which is made is sizes of sixteen
and eighteen feet in length, is a
cylinder for the reception of com-
pressed air which feeds the machin-
ism in the tail of the torpedo; In
front of the cylinder for compressed
air is placed the warhead, which
uBaly contains in the neighborhood
of 220 pounds of gun cotton. When
the torpedo is prepared for action it
is placed in a firm tube. The fireing
tube being discharged throws the
oaojectile a distance of fifteen or
twenty feet, and the compressed air
in the tank ia releaeed and supplies
the motive power for the merchan-
ism in the tail. Enough compressed
air stored to carry the torpedo 1,600
or 1,800 yards.
The distance which the torpedo ia
intended to travel may be gauged by
the adjustment of the mechanism in
the tail of the projectile. When
the projectile strikes an object the
gun cotton is exploded by detonation
by the means of a charge of fulmi-
nate of mercury in the form of a cap
The force of the discharge of 250
pounds of gun cotton is sufficient if
properly placed to sink a warship,
as was demonstrated in the Brazilan
insurection, when a single torpedo
destroyed four compartments on the
battleship Aquidaban, sinking the
vessel, although she was able, under
her own steam, to get from her
moorings to the dock a few hundred
yards away—K. C. Times.
Madrid, March 12.-—Senor Morel,
minister of colonies, declared in a
speech at a banquet that Spa:n was
strong enough to defend her rights
and that with patriotic action the
fatherland will not lose an inch of
territory.
The minister also declared that
autonomy was not a failure. He
was confident, he said, that the in-
surrection would be terminated and
said the Spanish soldiers were chas-
ing the rebels at the bayonet’s point
all over the island.
The greatest difficulty Spain had
to contend against, Senor Moiel
said, are the forces at work to sus-
tain the rebellion. He believed
Spain was nearing a solution of the
problem.
The speech clearly states Spain’s
position and is so taken throughout
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Many years experience in the blacksmith business in eastern and
western States enables me to guarntee strickly first class work in my
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Beeman, Frank E. The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 19, 1898, newspaper, March 19, 1898; Choctaw, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405542/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.