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Show SURE FLEET mm Imprisoned Fleet Sought to Break Through Sampsons Lines and Was Destroyed. SPANISH (KOOKS. COh fl'JFTiON LUTES NATION. OFFICIAL L- A Hoy - So'APED BY WAR. FARMING MATTERS. Suite tin SI y si cry at tha City of II uliiu;tiiii QUESTION OF H ARING LAMP terfc- IiumoiB i f war Ml- e .iiiC.inics as rifying as v.::r itf!. u.:d stories of Ike of ia net have u iv.ii-- h An Instance SIiowIhk It. Prevalence rinj; effeet upon lurvoijs people, l.o mure sple During the t It II War Tulil lijr a There arc, lion Li i Ilian li:!i-i-but tlt hmli-of Wubhii.gtuii (lie t.i;rrrt - 1 j r Stale. V i ;;'rret lias he u work'-- ih-ralu.c.' t tu i lie limit , plenty of people that belietln,-- the nu.st extravagant As :i it milt, to act fancy can sjiv-Ktii- ! Captain bullock, in ills si-- , fon-fislt-ra- te Serv- - li.-li- l iy toils of Not a Vessel of the Entire Fleet Escaped Destruction-Spanlar- ds cl the (oufvile.a'e Fought the out of the ordinary or biar the slighti.n exciting Until Their Ships Vere Sinking Under Them, When They Headed cunfi Stoneram the of dnu'..' est resemblance to a irpauiiud f.n'lng Straight for the Shore Heroic Fight of the Spaniards h-- Complimented by Americans and Wounded 5,000-1,6- 00 1laya del Este, July 5. Cerveia's squadron, which has been the object of the movement upou Santiago, is at the bottom of the sea. Of the entire flotilla, which cost Spain $15,000, noo. only the torpedo boat Terror, which is at San Juan, alone escaped. Admiral Cervera and seventy other officers and 1,000 men are prisoners. About 350 were killed or drowned and 100 injured on the Spanish side. The latter are being cared for on the American hospital ship Solace." American losa is one man killed and one wounded. Cervera made a dashing and heroic fight. At 9:30 a. ra. , July 3, at the hour least expected, the Spanish fleet which had been hemmed in for six weeks, made a dash for the open sea, in an endeavor to break through Sampsons lines. Five and a half honrs Inter the Cristobal Colon, the last of the fleet, was beached six miles west of Santiago harbor. She was the fastest of the Spanish ships and soon gained a jlead and steamed away from the shots that destroyed the other ships, with the Oregon, New York, Brooklyn and several smaller ships in pursuit. They were constantly firing at her and receiving her fire in return. She was so badly injured that she soon went to pieces after being beached. The fleet consisted of the Armored Crnsiers ristohal Colon, Vizcaya, Almirante Oquendo, Infanta Maria Teresa and two torpedo boat destroyers, lluton Furor. the face of overwhelming odds, nothing before him but inevitable . i Spanish Killed Prisoners. Morn castle, xmunding to pieces, smoke and flame pouring from every part ol them, arid covering the entire coast line with a mist which could be seen for miles. Heavy explosions of ammunition occurred every few minutes, sending curls of dense white smpke a hundred feet in the air, and causing a shower of broken iron and steel to full in the water on every side. The bluffs on the coast line echoed with the roar of every explosion, and the Spanish vessels sank deeper and deeper into the sand, or else the rocks ground their hnlls to pieces as they rolled or pitched forward or sideways with every wave that washed upon them from the open sea. Admiral Cervera escaped to the shore in a boat sent by the Gloucester to the assistance of the Infanta Maria Teresa, and as soon us he touched the beach he surrendered himself and his command to Lieutenant Morton, anil asked to be taken aboard the Gloucester, which was the only American vessel neur him at the time, with several ol his ofiicers. including the captain of the flagship. The Spanish admiral, whe was wounded in the arm, was taken tc the Gloucester, and was received at her gangway by her commander, Lieutenant Commander Richard Wain wright. who grasped the hand of the 1 admiral, and said to him: congratulate you. air, upon having made us gallant a fight as was ever witnessed on the sea." Lieutenant Commander Wainwrighl then placed his cabin at the disposal ol gray-bearde- wall from the inn t national attendant on her release from the Frtmh shipyard where she was built; how she was watched Ly the agents of the federal govern im lit; how she was again followed to Denmark, whither she went under the Danish flag; how she was again followed to Fcrrol, Spain, by the United States ships Niagara and Sacramento; how she eluded them there and sailed for the coaat of the United States with the evident intention of attacking the federal ships, for any one of which she was more than a match, being then the most formidBut when the able Ironclad afloat. Stonewall, under command of Captain Page, reached Havana in May, 18G5, Page learned of the surrender of General Lee, and soon after of the capture of Jefferson Lavls. Pages funds were exhausted. The confederacy had collapsed. The position was perplexing. Captain I age opened negotiations with the Spanish authorities at Havana for the surrender of the ship to them if they would advance the money to pay off the crew.' Captain Page reported that after five minutes conversation the captain general asked him what sum was required. Page replied The captain general said, You had better make it $100,000. Page replied that his orders were to make it $16,000. The captain general then turned to an official and bade him write a document, and then, turning again to Page, said, Shall we not make it But Page obeyed orders and accepted only $16,000. It was quite evident that this high official, the captain general of Cuba was attempting t.o get the confederate naval officer to ask for $100,000 to pay off his crew when he needed only $16,000, the difference to be divided between them. When the confederate officer obstinately refusd to accept either $100,000 or $50,000, but only the exact amount needed, it ie evident that the captain general concluded that the American was a fool, and charged up $100,000 to the Spanish government and put $84,000 in his ovn pocket. $16,-00- 0. $50,-000- ?" SLICK PETE'S WATCH DEAL. Itll Karb aud Sold Bought Tliom at Them to Swlaller for 610 Anlaca. From the Philadelphia Record: An e detective the other day was discussing with some sleuths new In the profession the methods of swindlers. After deprecating the originality (ftthe modern crook, he told of what he considered the sharpest 1 suppose game he ever saw worked. he fellows said, that durknow, you ing Centennial year Philadelphia was a and sharpers hotbed of of every description. Well, 1 was detailed to keep an eye on these gentry, and in time I became acquainted with most of the big ones, who were generally exceedingly bright men. One, in particular, who was known as Slick Pete, I took a great liking to, for he had an inexhaustible fund of humor and was a chap. Toward the end of the Centennial exhibition, one day I dropped into a downtown auction room, where some fake jewelry was being sold. A lot of watches were offered, and I saw that they had been g made evidently for purwere the works for poses, good, and the cases were made to look like solid gold. They were finally knocked down for $2.15 a piece, and I saw the buyer was Slick Pete. Jewelry was out of his line, but I knpw he had some Bceheme in view. Two months passed before I again saw Pete, and then I asked him what he had done with the watches. He began to laugh, and said: Oh, Bkinned some swindler with them. Then followed the explanation. He had hired a room and inserted an advertisement in various papers something like this: Found A solid gold watch Elgin works. Lcsor pay costs. Apply, etc. Nearly every crook in town answered the ad. and claimed the watch. Pete, who made up oa an old men, seemed a mark, and the fly crook, tn bla hurry to depart, made but a cursory examination. The coBts, $10, were invariably handed over, and in two days Pete had disposed of his stock. old-tim- bunco-ateerer- B destruction if he remained any longer in the trap in which the American fleet held him, Cervera made a bold dash from the harbor and fighting every inch of his way, even when his ahlp was ablaze and sinking, he tried to escape from impending doom upon his vessels. The Americans saw him the moment he left and commenced the work of destruction immediately. For an hour or two they followed the flying Spaniards to the westward along the shore line, sending shot after shot into their h ills, tearing great holes in their steel sides and covering their decks with the blood of the killed and wounded. At no time did the Spaniards show any indication that they intended to do otherwise than fight to the last. They showed no signals to surrender the Spanish ofiicers. The Spaniards, when they found thej would be permitted to live, adapted themselves comfortably to the situation, rollsd their cigarettes and bsgas playing cards among themselves. SAMPSON'S REPORT. Sends Good ('beer for n Fourth of Jntj Celebration. Washington, July 5. Long befori any details of the battle had arrived. Commodore Sampson sent the follow ing message to Secretary Long, dated Siboney, 3:15 a. m., July 4: The fleet under my command offert the Nation as a Fourth of July pres ent the destruction of the whole o: Cerveras fleet. No one escaped. It attempted to escape at 9:30 e.un. and their ships Commenced to sink and the great clouds of smoke pouring from their sides showed that even when But they t irned their heads toward the shore, less than a mile away, aud ran them on the beach and rocks, where their destruction was soon completed. The officers and men on board then escaped to the shore as well ns they could, with the assistance of boats sent from the American and then threw themselves upon the mercy of their captors, who not only extended to them the gracious hand of American chivalry, hut sent them a guard to protect them from the murderous bands of Cuban soldiers, hiding in the brush on the hillside, eager to rush down and attack the unarmed, defeated, but valorous foe. One after another of the Spanish ships became the victims of the awful rain of shells which the American battleships. crusiers aud gunboats poured upon them, and two hours nfter the first of the fleet had started out of Santiago harbor, three cruisers and two, torpedo boat dost rovers were lying on the shore ten to Ilfs ja miles west- of they were on fire. nicn-of-wa- r, good-heart- ed bunco-steerin- ed . SAVINGS BANK FOR SOLDIERS. Ron by tha Government for Hums of Nut lM Then VS. From the Kansas City Journal: It may not giuerally be known that for many years the general government has conducted a savings bank for the accommodation of certain citizens. An act of congress of the date of May 15. 1872, provides that any soldier In the army may deposit with any paymaster his savings in sums not leBS than $5, and it shall be the duty of the paymaa-te- r to supply the soldier with a deposit hook, in which are entered the amounts of his deposits. When the deposits have reached the sum of $50 the government is requlrrd to pay the depositor interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. Having once deposited a sum of money the depositor Is not permitted to draw it until the date of his The deposits are exempt discharge. from attachment lor debt, but they forfeit it to the government if the depositor deserts from the army. The government assumes the responsibility for all Buch deposits and a defaulting paymaster can work the soldiers no injury. Paymaster Kucker once told the writer that about T.O per cent of the enlisted men in the regular army availed themselves of this privilege. . I ns.it-inn si verul have known hut it llellsloIh,li them a considerable loss. Yel ciieli ye.'ir it is that us lo warrant the prices lire siii-lshearing. We have nut previously sheared our lamlm ut the Agricultural College laviiiise prosieels of gain thereby wen so small. This year, yielding lo the requests of several feeders, we made uu experiment to sis Just wluit the comparative results ure of sheared mid woolcd lambs. A buni-l- i of one hundred aud twenty hi mbs wus selected; sixty were slieti red April Ithtli mid the other six-l- y left iiiislieiind. The feed of I with lots whs tin smiie iik they ran together in the same corrals. The season was not the I test for shetired In mbs, as It will lie reinemlicrfd that there wus a long continued snow storm the first week in May, and both the sheared and wooleil hi ml is suffered from the cold mid wet. The hi mbs were shlpHd together to Chicago u mouth nfler shearing. The shorn lambs sold for $5.:so per hundred woolcd lambs for pounds, mnl tin $5.75. This difference of 45 cents between the winded mul the shorn is as favorable to the shorn la inlm as could in cxMcteil. The liindis wen weighed individually nt the lime of shearing, again Just Itcfore shipping, mul also In Chicago when sold. Tin wool of each was weighed separately, so that we have iie full records for determining the r.iiaiieial results of the shearing. The wool inis lint yet 1hcii sohl, hut others nromid lien, who sheared tills spring, sold their wool for - 1111! s ior pound nud this price is used ill the computations. The la nibs slieti riKl 3.8 imuiids of wool each, giving them u credit for the wool of 45 cents. They did not grow so fust nfter shearing us those that kepi their wool. They did liot make so good a till at the market, that is they shrank more from Foil Collins to Chicago than the woolcd lamlis, aud they sold I11 Cliieiigo for less price. There ure tlierefnn lhne items to offset the credit for tin wool. Tin sheared sheep gained in weight during tin month nfter the shearing J.i pounds less than the wooled lambs, they shrunk 1.1S pounds more In shipping mul sold for 45 eeuts per hundred islands less limn the wooled lambs. Tin eff ect of these three items Is "5 cents per Lend; that is the shorn lambs sold in Chicngo for 75 eeuts per heml less than they would have sold for hail they not been sheared. Against this there is mi offset of 45 cents for wool, making n net loss of 30 cents per head as a result of shearing. lu the above statement two Items June iifit Iieen taken Into neconnL These are the cost of the shearing and the decreased cost of freight to Chicago, liecmtse more shorn can be slilp-pe- d to the ear than of woolcd lambs. These two Heins are on opposite sides mul will just iilsmt balance so that the iilmvc result would not is changed if Isitli these items were considered. Tin nliove results show that, at least in our ease, the shearing of the lambs was not only of 110 advantage, but was a lHisitire loss. W. V. COOKE, Agricultural College. Fort Collins, Colo.. June G, 18US. r.--i 1- 11 . MONEY IN FRUIT CROWING. Fruit Grnwera of Freamont County Ar Looking for a Larger General Market. II. M. Mingny of Canon City, one of e editors of the state, was the at the Ilrown this week, says the Denver Times, and after telling a story of isilities down in that country, ventured to say some good tilings for a section Unit does nut receive the good advertising it should wlieu its pro rata of good tolnls furnished the state annually are taken into consideration. lie said: There can Is no doubt we have done as miieli as any county lu the state to make Colorado what she Is. We have who are well fixed a Hue of mul an gelling rich as fast as any people iu the stale burring, of course, the iiig miners who have a cinch on thousands nf every uif.nth. The peo-pi-e me getting rich with their orchards uud farms, mul do not know what It Is to endure siege of hard times. Every these year adds to tin total output ofuutk'l-puteorchards far more than was old-tim- old-time- s 11 Almost Talked III Life Away. on record was The loBKcst made by Mr. I): Cosmos in the legislature of British Columbia when a measure was pending to confiscate the lands of settlers. He was in a hopeless minority. and the enemy expected to rush the bill through at the end of the session. It was 10 o'clock in the morning; at noon the next day, if no action were taken the act of confiscation would fall. De Cosmos arose, spoke hours continuously, and twenty-si- x for CAPT.. SAMPSON. then, with baked lips, bloodshot eyes, ISIcynleu for Rtateamen The bicycle has now become a eon and almost dead with fatigue, he won at 2 p. m. the last, lie Cristobal Colon, institution in the victory that nearly cost him his ol west firmed miles parliamentary had run ashore six miles few In a days, by special ar life. Santiago, and had let down her colors. Austria. the of president, a suitable The Infauta Marie Tcresa.Gqueudc rangement Cheap Slnrglar Alarm. and Vizcaya were forced ashore, burn- room will be provided within the pre A neat and cheap burglar alarm ed and blown up within twenty inilei cinctB of the relchsrath to accommoof Santiago, th Furor and Pluton date the machines of deputies. At which will not fail consists of a rubwere destroyed within four miles ol present mauy of the 425 members are ber bulb, to which is attached a tubs the porL Loss, one killed and twe familiar with the wheel. Every day with a whistle at the outer end, the wounded. Enemy's loss probably sev- sees the number increase, and in a vary air being exhausted from the bulb. The eral liuudrcd fron unfire explosion short time half the house ought to be tube Is then shut In the crack of tha aud drowuing. to on unit- door, aud, being released when tbs wheels parliament flocking Ad .rs. About Me prisr. including If mort in door is opened, blows the whlBtle. not last in ed at politics. mini I Cervera. Tlio man Killed v s George H. tills chief yeoman of th rooklyn. 1 Agrl-i-u'tii- nl i i up-to-d- CRISTOBAL COLON. Ik t'oltlu. For I lie past Him years several feeders in tin Fort Collins district have sheared part of their liiiulis before sending them to muikct. No one hns been nl ill in set miirli prulil in the t nough to throw one under siispiilo'i, Suiueiimes vih amusing n ulls. One night last week about l.iu'n'.pht a man alight d from a llt!i street' car. leaving on the seat a package ahum six Inches lung and an inch and a half In diameter. Tint conductor was posted on the spy question and opened it with trembling hands. It contained a tin box, which in turn inHe closed two of dynamite. showed them to the imP.orinan, whose superior knowledge led him to suggest that they were arranged to he exploded by means of electric wires. Whereupon the two nearly expired of fright. Afur a hurried consultation they decided to go toward the city. Very slowly the motorman applied the current, fearing every instant that the dynamite might explode, while, to prevent all possible jarring and reduce the danger to a stood conductor the minimum, box. At the deadly holding Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue the conductor passed his awful burden and the story connected with It into the custody of a police officer, who at once abandoned his heat and hastened to the police station. The sergeant on duty had read how Spanish spies blew up powder mills, and bandied the deathdealing box quite gingerly, passing it, after an lnsnection as hurried as his dignity would permlt.to the night Cerk who watched it until morning, when not engaged in wiping cold, clammy awcat from his brow. The next day it was taken to the navy yard, where an expert classed It nB something new in the infernal mnehine line, though doubtless none the lets dangerous for that reason, lie carried it to a secluded snot, made an electrical connection and pressed the button, while all present held their breath and ears. No explosion followed, and the current was turned on again, with more care this time, but without results. At the second failure a messenger hoy looked over the shoulder of the serious-face- d I know expert and cried: Aw, wot dat Is. Ils one of dose tlngs they puts in de glims wot de fly cop carries on bis hike and runs de lectric light. With a look of diegust the boy walked away, arranging his messages, while the expert began to explain why the presence of spies rendered extra precautions necessary. well-dress- Klmlr Ht liilIrgKal Fair! t it ; Inlrmlluz Dxiiurliueiil d. sp'-cc- "There is proliably no business where n man makes his money us easily af-- ' ter lie once gels started as he docs in fruit growing. The older orchards require senreely any attention to speak of, and the new ones do not demand the work that one would sunwise they would. The fruit men arc sanguine that a much belter market will Is established for their product ns soon as the merit of it becomes us well kuowu as it should be. Iolitles never interfere with progress down in our country, for the people follow that old maxim which suggests lh.it one should take care of himself and family firs:, and then If he lias any time to spare toward ninkiug new laws or apply to llu enforcement of the old ones, In takes n hand in 1L This year gives especial promise of being one of the liest with us, and the citizens are contemplating still letter In the future. You know it takes age to make mi orchard country great, and that Is nil w need down there now, but do not infer from this that we axe tiNi young to wrestle with auy proposition that comes ibiig." |