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Show THE mountains of southwestern Cuba he is HERS. NELLIE BLY NOW at home with his muchete. He would not give it for the best American rifle PRINCIPALS IN LATEST MAY or revolver. The undergrowth is too AND DECEMBER ACT. dense for anything but the passage of the machete through the brush. He trims his footpath and waits to spring BOBBRT SEAMAN IS WORTH SEVERAL, MILLIONS. upon a Spaniard and behead him. And there is nothing that a Spaniard dreads so much in Cuba as the work of these And Thus the Sensational Newspaper knives. Their stroke is the stroke of Writer Has Become Mistress of a death in nearly every instance. CuShe Will No Doubt EnTast Estate bans in New York' say that Spanish joy It. soldiers need not hope to attain much proficiency in the use of a weapon that ER MARRIAGE, the Cubans have been brought up upon like most of the for more than a century. The Cubans important other can, however, maintain only guerilla events of Nellie warfare with such weapons and win was life, Bly's d out of battles. But they are so somewhat to She devoted the ordinary. the machete that some of met her husband them will tell you it will, in some way, on the train on her achieve for them their liberty. way to Chicago, REBELS. CUBAN bloodthirsty they are ofa Patriots lot Hatred of Their Oppressions to Adopt the Most Cruel Le8 Them Weapons of War Known to Their HERE is no weapon or war like the machete, which the Cubans now are using in their fight for liberty. Every country has a sword of its own, but Cuba is the one place whose only sword and only instru- i i in peace hand-to-han- only a few days before she became a bride. Mr. Seaman i3 72 years old, a reputed and Miss Blv is approximately 30. All the work of his future bride was well known to Mr. Seaman, and he had, as a regular reader, greatly admired Miss Bly's writings. But he had not met her, nor is it likely that he would have contemplated making her his wife if he had not chanced to make her acquaintance. Now, Mr. Seaman, the modest happy bridegroom, is, in a more 72 of too. his In years way, interesting, useful and active existence he has accomplished much. It is estimated by some that Mr. Seaman has accumulated a fortune of three millions, and if so Miss Bly has accomplished one of the ambitions of her life. At any rate, Miss Bly becomes the mistress of a metropolitan residence, a magnificent country seat.a whole stableful of horses and nearly everything the good fairy of the story books always pictures. Few young women have had more worldly experience at the age of 30 than Miss Bly, and few are more capable of exiioviner the pleasures of a "million aire existence" than she. Miss Bly has been greatly admired by many, and has had more than one opportunity to become a bride before this. Mr. James Metcalfe, one of the editors of New York Life, has been very persistent and devoted in his attentions for several years. It has, in fact, more than once been reported that they were engaged. Cranks, too, wrought up to a state of frenzied adoration by her brilliant work, have thrown themselves at her feet with offers of marriage. But it remained for the aged New York millionaire to be made happy in his declining years. Mr. Robert Seaman, who wedded Miss Nellie Bly in the Church of the Epiphany, on Ashland boulevard, Chicago, was born in the old homestead in Greene county, New Tork state, near the railroad station of Catskill, on the West Shore railroad. The house, a specimen of colonial architecture, overlooks the Hudson, It is the well equipped summer residence of all that is left of a celebrated family. Robert Seaman and his brother Edward, who has turned the three-scor- e mark, have for many months from June to the years spent in the October grand old place, in the most picturesque part of the Catskill mountains. There were five of the Seaman brothers. Robert and Edward have lived only for each other for forty years. They are direct descendants from the famous Dr: Valentine Seaman, PRETTY FAIR PAY. i. merit of war nas oeen ner reaymg uuu., If she forces herself Mr. Foster Said to Get More Than or cane knife. 8100,000 for Two Months' Work-I- t from Spain the most decisive part of mathe with be done is claimed that John W. Foster will must the work in Cuban York giving receive more than $100,000 for two chete. A New Cuthe of months' service as diplomatic adviser, his estimate of the chances i - bans said that the conflict hinged very largely on how many of the people, in cane fields had good machetes. Tnere is not one Cuban in a hundred who knows how to use a gun, says the St. The islanders Louis Post Dispatch. have been denied the use of 'firearms so long that those who had fallen into possession of guns in the battles of the ten years' rebellion often threw them down when they got into battle and relied chiefly upon their cane knives. The battle of Baira, in which so many Spanish heads were cut off, and which was the bloodiest in Cuban history, was won by cane knives over the best American Springfield rifles in the The Spanhands of the Spaniards. 43 and a of caliber rifle now have iards their own make. Cuban leaders have bought Remington and Moser rifles of the same caliber, so that they can use all ammunition captured from the Spaniards. They are making every effort to encourage their countrymen in the use of guns, but have not neglected to smuggle a great many cane knives into the island. More than a month knife a ago Spain declared war of and contraband weapon goods. Germany, England, and the United States furnish Cuba with all her cane knives, and Spain's declaration making them contraband is one of the interesting diplomatic questions that Secretary Gresham is now trying to adjust The best cane with that country. are knives made in America, and before and since the uprising on the island there has been a great demand for them. Besides the cane crop in Cuba is now being harvested and Spain feels that she can crush the uprising more easily if she can cripple the harvest. The mother country has not only taken this opportunity to deprive Cuba of the one weapon and utensil that is necessary both in war and peace, but she has sent an agent to the United States to buy cane knives, or machetes, as they are called in Spanish, with which to train her own Cuban army. But the prospect that the Spanish soldiers will learn to use this weapon is not half so promising as that the Cubans will learn how to use rifles. A reporter was recently shown in a little shop just what a Cuban cane knife will do in the hands of a Cuban who knows how to use one. The dry head of a bullock that had been butchered some days before was placed before him. "Now," said the Cuban, "I will split that head open between the horns with one stroke as if it were so mucL butter." This he did. The Cuban said be had cut off horses' heads in battles and had more than once seen the ly sight of men split down from head to foot with such a weapon. In the na tional museum in Madrid are a num ber of gun hrels cut in two by these knives. execution of the machete liearh the wonderful skill in handling it. There are three classes of these knives? The first is nothing more nor less than a sword, twenty-eigInches in length, made of the very best American spring steel and incased in a leather scabbard. It looks like an is much heavier. ordinary sword, but It is worn by Cuban officers and gentlemen. The next is an overseer's machete, very flexible, and with a slight stroke it will sever a man's head from the body. But the broad, heavy, knife is Cuba's peculiar weapon of offense and defense and her principal agricultural and domestic Implement. It is used for nearly every service, for which we use a knife, an ax, a cleaver, a pruning-hoo- k, or a acythe. Forests are cleared with them and they are about the only tool in a butcher shop. Nowhere else In Spanish America is the machete so generally used. Nearly' the whole of Cuba is devoted to he cultivation of cane and tobacco, and every stalk of these crops Is harvested with the machete. Great skill in handling them is the resultT An army of the most skillful fencing masters in New York or Paris could not , Btand up before an equal number of Cuban cane cutters. In one of the engagements a few days ago, when a detachment of Spanish cavalry; charged upon the Cubans in the open, as the on- taught was, made, the Cubans are reported to have caught the .Spanish sabers ln orquetillas, or forked sticks, and then cut men off their horses as if they were nothing more than stalks of grass. These regular cane knives, on account of their peculiar shape can-- ot be worn in a scabbard. They; must ' Worn hanging, exposed from; the je . jrunk, and !the fact that they can thus worn at! all denotes that the wearer : je ! one;Of very carefuffhabits, for the ; blade is always kept as sharo I as the ery best steel can be made. Absolte- of the-can- helping to let Li Hung Chang down as easy as possible with the Japanese. Mr. Foster is one of the most experienced, if not one of the ablest commercial diplomats in this country, perhaps in the world; but the importance of his service to the Chinese government can hardly be overestimated, as is clearly shown by a statement made by a wideawake member of the diplomatic corps. "Before John W. Foster left this country," said this gentleman, "he had made a contract with the Chinese minister by which he was to receive a very large sum for his services as adviser to the Chinese government in the efforts then being made to secure peace with Japan. The cable indicates that he has earned every penny of it. When Mr. Foster was first engaged, it had not been decided to send Li Hung Chang to treat with Japan. The first thing Mr. Foster did was to insist that he be called to Pekin, restored to his former honors, and sent out with full powers to negotiate a treaty. He knew that the Japanese would receive the veteran statesman with greater courtesy than it would extend to any other living Chinaman, and he shrewdly guessed that Li Hung would command some symfor the harsh treatment repathy ceived by him at the hands of his emperor. The result has fully justified his expectation. Li was received with distinction, and since the unfortunate incident of his attempted assassination, which, however, in view of the happy outcome, can be hardly be called unfortunate, the Mikado has done everything in his power to make the task an easy one. The shrewd Foster was constantly at his elbow, and when Japan demanded an indemnity of 300,000,000 taels, it was at Foster's suggestion that Li besought the Japanese minister not to cripple the revenues of China for all time by demanding so high a price for peace. The plan was successful, for the Japanese finally consented to put the amount at 200,000,000 taels. As a tael is worth about 73 cents in gold, the minister's shrewd work has probably saved China more than $70,000,000, so that the emperor can well afford to pay the Chang well-preserv- e, Perfectly Satisfied. Crack Boat Builder Ah! How de do, Mr Richman? How did that row-boI made you last summer suit? Mr. Rich-ma- n Perfectly. Crack Boat Builder Ah! I'm glad to hear it. I always like to give satisfaction. Suited perfectly, eh? Mr. Richman Yes. I left it in front of my boat-hous- e all summer, and every scalawag who tried to steal it got upset or drowned. It is calculated that if the children the care of the London school were to join hands they would dis- NELLIE BLY. duced Dr- - Jenner's inoculation for smallpox into this country. The loss of a son through inoculation did not shake the doctor's faith, and when he went abroad subsequently he became the fast friend of the man who had discovered the means of baffling the ravages of the dread scourge. The Sea-maown property all through and In the vicinity of New York. A farm of 300 acres surrounds the homestead in the Catskills. It would be difficult to ascertain exactly how much Robert Seaman is worth In dollars. He probHe is presably doesn't know himself. four-fifthof owner and ident maybe more, of the stock of the Iron Clad Manufacturing Company. This Is a BATTLES. Actium, B. C. 31. The combined fleets of Antony and Cleopatra defeated by Octavlus, and imperialism established in the person of Octa-yiusPhilippi, B. C. 42. Brutus and Cassius defeated by Octavius and Antony. The fate of the Republic sealed. Mtaurus, B. C. 207. The Carthaginians, under Hasdrubul, were defeated by the Romans, ' under Caius and Marcus Livius. Syracuse, B. C. 414. The Athenians defeated by the Syracusans and their allies, the Spartans, under Gylippus. Marathon,. B. C. 490. The Athenians, under Miltlades, defeated the Persians under Datls. Free government preserved. Wlnfleld-Lipp- e, A. D. 9. Teutonic inestablished dependence by the defeat of the Roman legions under Varus at the hands of the Germans under Arminius (Hermann.) Chalons, A. D. 451. The Huns, under Attlla, called the "Scourge of God," defeated by the confederate armies of Romans and Visigoths. Tours, A. D. 732. The Saracens defeated by Charles Martel and Christendom rescued from Islam. I comHastings, A. D. 1066. Harold, defeated by the army, English manding William' the Conqueror, and a new established in England by the fNormans. f D. 1429. The Siege of Orleans, A. French' under the by 'English defeated Joan of Arc. . D. Defeat of the Spanish Armada, A. infrom Spanish 1588. England saved vasion. the reLutzen, A. D. 1632. DecidedGustavus ligious liberties of Germany. ' 7 every mal f!nhfln rn.nl a wears one. Adolphus killed. The French and 11 1 Blenheim, A' D. 1704. his most highly valued piece ot Marshal Tallajd, deunder Bavarians, Ati rt property, and will slmnst. atiT- feated by the English and their allU t&tos to secure a good machete. In in under Marlborough. ch . ns ? ! ! ' ! " ce m - s mm mm fidence. ii Address : Utah. Oasis, jail will not I hold Schweinfurth, but he seems to have an extraordinary objection to it, just the same. W. AliRay. Square crop aaQ I If the north pole ever is discovered sut in right, dlaze nal under slit la left by a Chicagoan we will wager that it will have a trolley wire strung upon it within a week. ear. : CrlekaO Ranged Mountains and lo er Svlerl has sent the price of oil skyward "to stimulate the production of crude oil." But too much stimulation is always fol lowed by katzen jammer. Deseret, jTtah. Address, Jno -- DewsmiD "THr 11 Xjpper slit in Uncle Sam has just paid an old war right, under slit claim, but then it was not quite so In left ear. nearly outlawed by the limitation as Range: Cricket the French spoilation claims. Mountains and Lower Sevier. Address, THE DESERET HOUSE. -- , - - m.r DeeeretJ Utah. f!r JosiDemiine a i ' Uncjer slit lo right, under sli In lef ear. Headparters for MffiHG HOI. Ranei Crleke Mountains as! Lower Sevier. i x City and county Newspapers from all parte AN IOWA TRAGEDY. 7 r Address, of Utah. Deseret, Utah Ore speoimens from Detroit and else where. Erery thing RESPECTABLE. Kills His Wife and Then Commits Suicide. A. Schleiter, for many years one of the most prominent merchants of Ida Man r4nGE: This Water is a OUAJ SU and Lower Serler- Oasis, Utah. Address, Testimonials on Application. sir MRS. J. F. GIBBS, Prop. . . DESERET, UTAH Of brison Brtu J mmfH ii mill ll II Breeders 'W iisi thigh. AT THE stc, S8-cali- STOR E. DESERET. - Horses same Address, ret. Utah. asiini!ri' hmiiii"ii i JiM Smite R. E. L. EnginsETing Until recently branded ibt left ribs. COILJEE, C.E. IH Land and Irrigation Work a Specialty fc Ecpiceer thl-Fillmore Inn' Mountain Lt.i-.- Co., Clear . SlitinlsftsaK. in ail its Branches, Central Land end Irripatioi Land and Irrigation Co., Irrigation Co. and Whitt Mid L on left thljrlH same brand on loft hip of cat tie. Rang-Willo- Fillmore, Utah. Springs. 8 J. Keamei. Fi3k Springs, i Jtiab County. HAS FOR SALE LL.AJU Address, F. THE DESERET DAIRY GO. FULL Range, Jfertfci end of Snakc Valley and easfc side ox enas Mts. ; also soa Address, Bndt side of Deep Creek mountains. THle, Millard county, Utah. Irrigation Co. Office: Court House, . C T on left thigh,, double swallow fork; in left ear. Ranie, Lower Befc. vier.n Address CHEESE. i Deseret is noted for the fiiae quality of its Milk, Butler and Cheese. Givf o ur products a trial. N. S. Ll 7t vUCtiris. Tuonusoi Mr.J nuefa M111n.nl fir Utah. BISHOP, SUPT. This Woman Won a Life Insurance A lawsuit, interwoven with consid erable romance, was heard in the United States Circuit court at St. Louis the Minnie other day by Judge Priest. Robinson, of Helena, Ark., asks for a judgment of $50,000 against the United States Mutual Life Insurance company, the amount of insurance Dr. Emil Moore, of Helena, Ark., carried. She Is the beneficiary named in the policy. The doctor and Miss Robinson became engaged. There was one obstacle to the marriage, however, and that was 1k-ea- n Parley Allred - Suit. per Range, Sevier. Lower Des JNO. DEWSNUP, MGR. - slops brand on left thigh. Cattle close crop in left and elit in right ear. Goods at bottom prices for spot cash. Haat Main Street, Cattle-Up- ear. Kangt riTS Sevier and mountain,. between Mills' eiaiiou 011 the U. P. IKy and Leaio ington. AddresB, Leamington, Milliard Co., Utah AND PRODUCE shot and killed his wife last week with a revolver and ithen killed himself with the same weapon. They had not been living happily together for some time. Mrs. Schleiter attempt ed- suicide by taking morphine about two months ago, and her husband sent her to Hot Springs, Ark., where she re mained until a few days ago. His two daughters and Mr. Long, his son-i- n law, were in the house at! the time of the tragedy. Mr. Long, hearing the report of the revolver, went downstairs and found Mrs. Sshleiter lying on the and asked Mr. floor in the dining-rooSchleiter what was the. matter. Schleiter did not answer, but turned and ran up stairs and shot himself just above the Mrs. ear, killing himself instantly. Schleiter was shot just behind the ear, but lived for nearly an hour after the shot. The shooting took place in the dining-rooimmediately after breakfast. The servant girl was the only witness to the tragedy. Schleiter, who was unaware of her presence, approached his wife from behind, shot ber and then exclaimed that she had shot herself. She was his second wife and the union was unhappy. A few days before he made his will, leaving the bulk of his property to his children. am4 dealers in Short horn Durham s. Horses brand 3n left GENERAL MERCHANDISE DESERET CASH Mountains Houb Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder -- Smith Horse Grower land Dealer THE PUREST WATER ON EARTH. ANTEED CURE for I JoM wiowin v Well of Oa the Premises. well-know- 0 Bins oi ueaver. ;: Of course a mere earthly e MRS. A. SCHLEITER. n in the Grove, la., and mm mmm The teacher of a cooking class in Chi-- ; XBANGE: oago eats what her pupils cook. There s an example of sublime faith and con Lower Sevier and 1 Frank (Lato en Is ft brand ehonlder on horsesv D, Hobbs, Land KegJfcter U. S. Land and silt ! Mark, right and two silt in eft ear. Sam Mining ;N. OasU Utah, ,Kangs, Lsnr er Slevier. Attorney. Correspondence solicited. Twenty-thre- Same left thlgkon Horses. slope and rt .Ji! oneUpper under silt to left: ear, and two under slits in f( :OaJs ear. RANGE right v Creek. e years' experience. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. BIRD & LOWE, Petersen, Address, Office.) Land Agents & Attorneys. 'tSliI Isw-wsim- s W O. S. Just Beceived! Walker - MARTIN,- four-stor- j GBfleral Gommissionllarcbanl 5 Dealer la FRUITS, I VEGETABLES, BUTTER MgS, Peultry, Game, Veal Pork an Beef, Smoked aad Fresh Fish, Floor, Haj and Grain. to sae. J It will10pay you to ship your goods remit a nd for cent, handling per ekarge soon as foods are sold. Caa glre oeTtntcr references If desired. flrst-elass- v W. Q. M STEWARD, -- enth f ; ; j i vj ornoiBi ;50 W. 2nd, South, SALT 'LAKE CITY p. o. box 2fnd Sample! Iron Asay Cottle Samples - Oak City, Utah, Adv-rsse- SALT LAKE. hs Thirty-sev- m el! Chas. F. : SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. great manufacturing hardware concern, which is quoted by the Dun and Bradstreet commercial agencies as entitled to a credit of from of a million dollars to one million dollars. Commercial agencies cease to pass upon the standing of a firm when it has credit of more than a million dollars. Pure Wines, Whiskies and Mr; Seaman Is the senior director of the Merchants' Exchange National bank. This is one of the oldest of New York Brandies city's financial institutions. It was the thirteenth bank incorporated in New AT THE York, and threw its doors open for business in 1829. Mr. Seaman has been a MINNIE ROBINSON. OCCIDENTAL SALOON director for over thirty years, and so Iras his father before him. the fact that he had a wife living from y The splendid and basement whom ALSO PURE ALCOHOL, he had not been divorced. Dr. brown stone house at No. 15 West a from divorce obtained never street, aj most exclusive Moore iis unexpected and his wife, 17, A Keysor, Proprietor, block, Is worth in the real estate mar- death intervening in February,tragic 1893J ket $150,000, and this Is only a tithe of The Insurance company resisted pay-- r - UTAH. bis valuable realty holdings in New ment on the ground among other DESERET, i York city,, Kings county and Queens, that Minnie Robinson had no Westchester and Greene counties. For- things, interest in Dr. Moore's lnsuranceable ty years ago Mr. Seaman was actively life, but Judge Priest overruled the de-MRS M. HUFF engaged in the grocery business. In murrer in which this was argued. those days he was conspicuous in club Is Btill to the front with seasonable life as it then existed. He was what was prices, tor cab, Cousins are not allowed to marry in merchandise- at bottom called a beau, and now called a then UTAH. - I OASIS, man about town. He never married. Missouri, Kansas or Nebraska. CousHe was precise and modish in bis dress. ins were made to flirt with, not marry three-fourt- i re-gri- me j s, - ; pays. dm-mat- ic fet who was born in Queens county, Long island, in 1770 and died in 1817. The tfarly histories of New York refer to Dr. Seaman as the man who first Intro- in the observatory on Pike's peak, says that the lowest temperature observed was 50 degrees below zero; the highest, 62 degrees above. DECISIVE long-distan- NOR WIFE, NOR WIDOW. Lowest at Pike's Peak. Sergt. O'Keefe, who spent five years nothing green about Japan. The telephone between; aris and London has over 200 calls a: day; At, the rate of $2 for each call it: m London's School Children from London to Carlisle, a of 300 miles. Is - 'ill f , 4- . TUB Bladb will continue la eacWjaumba to publish brands under yearly contracts aft s Bvuuuw pnue. L The advantage to the trwlrr! iarlzlncr the nublleitb hu hranriVw are to well known lo need attention It I t$ tae stockman as valuable as an adyerUsemsal v ill- is to 'the merohant. A Boston paper calls Japan the "Ireland of the orient." Not guilty; there! Vr Prominent Our Stockralsersi Column. gether. m at under board reach tance In the country the boys will wear the: : Irilby bathing suits this summer alto-' ed American's little bill." ht six-teen-in- multi-millionair- The habit never forsook him. He Is to day one of the; most carefully dressed men in New York. In his style he is rich and quiet, never obtrusive. He does not look his 72 years. In fact, walking with hfs brother Edward, he would be taken or the younger of the two. So much for Mr. Seaman. Now, some facts about Miss Bly herself. She was in reality Miss Elizabeth Cochrane. She was born at Cochrane's Mills, a settlement in Armstrong county, Pa. Mr. Cochrane died without making a will while his daugriter was yet a child, and his estate became involved In litigation, which is still going on. When Miss Cochrane was old enough to leave home she was sent to a boarding school at Indiana, Pa., where she remained until 1881. Having three brothers in the rubber business at Pittsburg, she moved there with her mother, and it was there her first newspaper work was done. This occurred through her seeing an article in the Pittsburg Dispatch entitled "What Girls Are Good For." She wrote a reply, addressed to the editor, and although her article was not published, a paragraph appeared in the paper the next day asking the name of the writer of the communication. When this had been sent to the editor he asked Miss Cochrane to write an article on the subject of girls and their spheres In life for the Sunday Dispatch. This was the beginning of her journalistic career. Her second article was on divorce, and at the end of this article appeared for the first time the world famous signature "Nellie Bly." Miss Cochrane assumed it at the suggestion of the man- editor of the Dispatch. She made paLuip to Mexico for the Pittsburg and and also edited the society per departments, but seeking a wider fioid, she went to New York and associated with the World. Her sensational doings have since attracted general attention. When the Chicago Times and Herald wrere consolidated she was engaged to go to that city. While on her way she met Mr. Seaman. ;: -- -s- -ss, 1.00 v Ii 11 ! ii ii |