The Jewell County Review from Mankato, Kansas • 6

A JERSEY MOSQUITO? A MEXICAN DESPEKaDO. JEWELL COUNTY REVIEW. but not very badbr hurt. Cortina stood quietly looking on and made no-move to interfere until the Mexican tumbled heels over head in the dust. Then he threw away the cigar he had.

been smoking, walked over to the marshal, cursed him in Spanish, drew his pistol like a flash, and shot the. officer in the face. Then leaping on the nearest horse (it was not his own), with revolver in hand, he rode out of town yelling defiance at all Americans, but especially at Texans. "In the night he collected thirty-desperadoes from somewhere, armed-to the teeth, and dashing back into the-town at daylight rode to the Browns--ville jail, determined to liberate every criminal and borsethief therein confined. Of Johnson, the jailer, they demanded the keys.

'Come and get said Johnson, holding thera out with his left, hand. One of the Mexicans spurred forward, and as he was about to take-the keys the jailer shot him. Then, retreating, he opened fire on the gang, but thirty revolvers riddled him with bullets, and the outlaws hacked his--body to pieces with their sabers. Cortina released the inmates of the who were nearly all Mexicans of the worst type. One of the latter had a grudge against the prison blacksmith, Morris, for no other reason than because he had forged the fellow's fetters.

Morris was called from his bed and ordered to knock the shackles off" all of them, and when he had finished this unwelcome job the prisoner mentioned deliberately blew the poor blacksmith's brains out. "Quite a number of citizens were murdered before the day's work was done and many stores were robbed." As a matter of fact, this outrage Laura Laughlln. the sixteen-year-old daughter of Professor Laughlin of tho Garfield university, Wichita, left her home very mysteriously the other night. She retired as but could not be found the next morning. It is believed she eloped with L.

M. MeGin-nis, a law student in the university, whose parents live at El Dorado. A Cowley county farmer tells the Winfield Courier that he sowed eighty-two acres of winter wheat last fall, on twenty-acres of which he has kept eighty-five head of hogs and nine cows, and that the wheat on which the stock ran is in better condition than tho other. The pasturage more than repaid him for the entire amount planted. A.

E. Coo, a farmer living thirteen miles southwest of Yates Center, shot and killed one of his brothers-in-law, Nathaniel Anglin, mortally wounded another brother-in-law, Adrian Anglin, killed his wife and committed suicide. A f-jud of long standing had existed between Coe and his two brothers-in-law, who recently rented farms near Coe. The unpleasant condition of affairs at Haskell institute between Superintendent Mosovve and his employes and students still exists. In fact so many complaints have within the last two months been forwarded to the Indian department that Commissioner Morgan has at last realized that there must be some truth in the reports sent out.

Tho census enumerators have completed their work and find the population of Lawrence to be 10,021. This does not include the students of the university or Haskell institute, who, if included, would have swelled the number about 1 ,000. This is a decrease of 500 from the last stale census, but an increase of 976 in the last decade. It was believed that the population would reach 12,000. Watson Sherington.

a no'ted horse thief, and a gang of four others, were arrested near Fredonia by officers from Ottawa and Elk counties, assisted by Sheriff Mannen, who, arming themselves with shotgun, surprised the gang in camp. Sherington was known as a bad man. At one time ho disarmed an officer and escaped again when surrounded, and cut his way through the crowd. Beloit is convulsed with the disclosure in her midst of another and most aggravated case of man's unfaithfulness and woman's shame. A deserted and neglected wife in Winchester, after repeated attempts to reclaim her husband, followed him to Beloit, where he had been stopping for some months, and found him clasped in the arms of a woman whose husband had likewise beHi deserted or conveniently abandoned.

The Salina Herald says: A cyclone passed over the country about six miles east of Gypsum City, on Tuesday evening about 6 o'clock. It passed in a northeasterly direction. We learn from Dr. SawtelL who afterward passed over tho stricken locality, that there were two houses demolished and trees and fences swept away before the cloud. In one of the demolished houses was one lone man, who escaped injury; the other house was empty.

The track of tho cyclone was not over 100 yards wide. At Zarah, about twelve miles north of Olatho the body of Henry Wolf, a farmer, was found in Clear creek. Wolfe came to Olatho and drew $100 from the bank, with which he proposed to rent a strip of land of a neighbor. After drawing the money ho disappeared and nothing was heard of him for several days. The' community became aroused and a search was instituted, scouring the country for miles around.

His body was finally found in water only two feet deep, with hia skull fractured and his face gashed badly. It is not known whether ho was killed or suicided. The Bloody Hiro of the Free Zona on the Mexican Border. life ani Adventures of the Infamous Juan Nepucemo Cortiaa, a Born Bandit and Murderer His Wholesale Bobber nd Slaughter of American Citizens. Texas has lon been noted as a land of terrors, and, to own the truth, the title is not altogether unjust, says a Fort Davis letter to the New York Times.

Due allowance should be made, however, for her vast extent of territory, her mountain fastnesses and bottoms of chaparral and mesquite (some of the latter nearly as thick and impenetrable as an East Indian jungle), and especially should Texas be commiserated because she is the unfortunate neighbor by some hundreds of miles of boundary to the very worst country on the face of the earth for outlaws, renegades, and hard characters generally. Railroad trains plunging along through wild, unsettled tracts offer special inducements to "road agents" and highwaymen, who are almost certain of immunity from capture. Then, again, the Rio Grande (pronounced Reo Grandee) in a dry, sandy trough eleven months out of twelve, and rascals committing depredations" on this side can easily skip across into what is known as the "Zona Libre," or Free Zone, and be safe from both governments. This little belt of nondescript soil, stretching along the Rio Grande on the Mexican side for sixty miles or more, is and has been for years the safe refuge or retreat for all tho cutthroats and outlaws of the soutwest. Steal a horse, murder a man, rob a train or commit some other deviltry, and all they had to do to be safe was simply to cross the Rio Grand dry-shod and hide themselves amid the mountainous rocks of "Zona Libre." To give an idea of what a man can do in this country and escape hanging it is only necessary to recite a few experiences of Juan Nepucemo Cortina, who i3 now alive, prospering under the care of the Mexican government This old rascal gray and aged in crime now, is a born bandit and murderer, and the catalogue of black crimes charged against him would aloue be sufficient to fill a good sized volume.

He always had an inherant hatred for citizens of the United States, and especially Texans. No rd-handed Apache or any other savage or Indian has ever caused to our countrymen one-tenth of the sorrow and misery this villain has. In his face may yet be discovered the avaricious, malignant, cruel sneer which has been a true exponent of his living character or all the years of his life. When the war with Mexico broke cut, Cortina was a stalwart young fellow, who took possession of nearly all of tho lower Rio Grande country and carried on a deadly guerrilla warfare' against our people. He was, I believe, really commissioned by the Mexican government as a spy and assassin.

When the Mexican war closed the guerrilla settled down, nominally to ranching and farming, but his true occupation was horse stealing and the running off of stoclc. When he stole from Americms, a market was found for his plunder on the opposite side of the Rio Grande at Matamoras, Ciudad Victoria, and other towns of the Mexican stalo of Tamaulipas. When ho despoiled his own countrymen, the animals were crossed over and driven far inland into Texas, principally to Goliad, which was then a flourishing frontier settlement on the lower San Antonio river. His skill at roping was remarkable and his horsemanship superb. None of that day could equal him in either of these accomplishments.

An old Texan ranger, who is himself pretty well along in years, thus speaks of Cortina in his palmy days: "I knew the fellow well. He could handle the lariat better than any cow boy the northwest or southwest has ever produced, and as to his nerve, why with all his wickedness I must say that he was the nerviest and quickest, man with a shooter I ever saw. Ono day in Brownsville (old Brown was a tough town then) Cortina was standing in the door of a saloon smoking a cigar and apparently looking at nothing, yet his eagle eye covered everything and everybody In sight. His waist was a perfect arsenal of firearms, and among others I noticed a large, double-barrelled, old-tashioned horse-pistol, which was stuck conven- icntly in front and within easy reach for quick use. "A row sprang up at the other end of the town which created some excitement.

A Mexican came running down the street, and at his heels the city marshal with pistol cocked, who to the fugitive to halt. Tho pursuer stopped, leveled his big pistol, and fired. The Mexican fell, winged, A Winged Monster That Two Ranchmen Killed. A -j'nged raanster resembling a huy, alligator, with an extremely elongated tail and an immense pair of winrs. was found on the desert between Whetstone and Huachuca mountains by two ranchers who were returning home, says the Tombstone, (Ari.) Epitaph.

The creature was evidently exhausted by a long fight, and when discovered was able to fly but a short distance at a time. After the first shock of wild amazement had passed, tne two men who wre on horseback and armed with Winchester rifles, regained courage to pursue the monster, and, after an exciting chase of several miles, succeeded in getting near enough to open fire with their rifles, wounding it The creature then turned on the men, but owing to its exhausted condition they were able to keep out of its way, and after a few well directed shots the monster partly rolled over and remained motionless. The men cautiously approached, their horses snorting with terror, and found that the crea-tus was dead. They then proceeded to make an examination, L.nd found that it measured ninety-two feet in length, and the greatest diameter was about fifty inches. The monster had only two feet these bein situated a short distance in front of where the wings joined to the body.

The head, as near as they could judge, was about eight feet long; tho jaws wero thickly set with strong, sharp teeth. eyes were as large as a dinner-plate and protruded about half way from the head. They had some difficulty in measuring the wings, as they were partly folded under the body, but finally got one straightened sufficiently to get a measurement of 78 feet, making the total length from tip to tip about 1G0 feet. The wings were composed of a thick and neatly transparent membrane, and were devoid of fen tilers or hair. Tho skin of the body was comparatively smooch and easily penetrated by a bullet.

The men cut oft a small portion of the tip of one wing and took it home with them. Late last night one of them arrived in this city for supplies and to make the necessary preparations to skin tho creature, when the hide will be sent east for examination by tho eminent scientists of the day. Domestic Life in Japan. The domestic architecture is as sim pie, as transitory, as if it symbolized the life of man, says a writer speaking of life in Jaian. You can see it all in the drawings, in the lacquers, and it has recently been treated completely in the charming book of Professor Morse.

Within, the Japanese house is simplicity itself; all is framework, and moving scenes instead of wall. No accumulations; no bric-a-brac Any lady's drawing-room with us contain more odds and ends than all I have yet seen together in Japan. The reserved plac3 of honor, a sort of niche in the wall, the supposed seat of an ideal guest, has upon its bench some choice imago on a stand or vase with elegant disposal of flowers or plants, and above it the hanging roll with drawing or inscription. Perhaps some other inscription or verse, or a few words on a tablet upon some crossbeam, and perhaps a small folding screen. Otherwise all worlo of art are put aside in the fireproof storehouse, to be brought out on occasions.

Tho woolwork is as simple as it can be occasionally, some beautiful joinery; always, when it can bo afforded, exquisite workmanship; and, above all, exquisite cleanliness. For there are no beds only wadded coverlets and the little wooden pillow, which does not disturb the complicated feminine coiffure in the languors of tho night. No tables; food is laid on the cleanly mats, in many trays and dishes. No chairs; the same mats that serve for bedstead and table servo for seats, with, perhaps, a cushion added. And this is all the same for all, from emperor's palace to little tradesman's cottage.

The Correct Time. "Why is it that every man thinks his watch keeps perfect time?" a N. Y. Sun reporter was aske i by well- known watchmaker. "Do they?" "Of course they do; ivo you nover noticod it? Well, try it and see if Pm not right.

Go into a circle of men and ask the time; eight out of ten will take out their watches, some Waterbury, some Jurgenson, consult them carefully and tell you that it is just exactly ten and one-half minutes past 9, or nine and threo-quarters minutes after, or eleven minutes after, or whatever time it may be by each particular watch. Tho chances aro that none has given the exact time, but each puts his watch back in his pocket with the calm consciousness of a duty done, and in the firm belief that hia neighbor's watch is a vory poor ono. Funny, Isn't it?" S. M. Piiblihcr.

MANKATO, KANSAS. KANSAS NEWS. ALL OVER THE STATE, Hutchinson has seven big- school houses all occupied. Winfield is said to have lost 986 in population since last year. A Winfield man has boon sued for $5,000 for breach of promise.

The Kanapolis Journal says there has not been a death in that town for six months. The Indians at Haskell institute are after the official scalp of Superintendent Meserve. W. II. Caldwell of the Beloit Courier has been appointed receiver of the Kirwin land office.

At an alliance picnic in Montgomery county last week it is estimated that 8,00.0 people were present. Salina's street car lino will be changed to an electric motor and eleven miles of road added. An Atchison man who pounds rock on the streets was once an editorial writer on the New York Sun. The returns of Summer county show a decrease of population in the towns and an increase in the county. Silk culture appears to bo thriving in Kansas.

A silk worm station has been established at Clearwater. Lawrence is now without an original package saloon and the proprietor is fanning himself in the county jail. The Lehman hardware and iinple-eompany's store was entered by burglars and goods worth $1100 stolen. Tho board of railroad commissioners lias ordered the Leavenworth, Topeka and Santa Fe to putonpassengertrains. Wherever tho wheat has been harvested tho farmers say that the yield will bo greater than they anticipated.

A Council Grove man thinks the world is coming to an end this year, and is getting out a pamphlet to prove it. At Osago City S. 15. Tetter shot and fatally wounded a burglar who had entered the houso in the middle of tho night. A lot of Kansas men have been investing in Texas property that never was fortunate enough to have an ex-islence.

AVilliam Clausmayer, a farmer living near 8t. Marks, drank concentrated lye by mistake for wine and died in a short time. Burglars raided tho houses of Mrs. George Armour and Mrs. A.

E. Brown of Emporia, and stole a race horse of Henry Stephenson. An original package house has been opened in one of the most prominent blocks of Emporia and the citizens arc Kansas wants the whole truth told about it by tho census enumerators because by this method tho slate can make a mighty line showing. Boloit has a lady dentist, and it is said that all the young men up there have had the gold transferred from their pockets to Ihoir front teeth. At the recent meeting of the committee on instructions of the board of regents of tho state university, Henry Byron Nawson was elected assistant in mathematics.

Tho new superintendent of tho girls1 industrial school at Beloit has been chosen from tho state normal school at Emporia, and that town claims one more horse on Lawrence now. J. T. Beal, a harness maker at Caney, was shot and killed by Deputy Marshal W. B.

Killion. Tho quarrel started over an arrest Killion had made, Killion's bail was fixed at $500. The Presbyterian college at Emporia has conferred the honorary degree of doctor of divinity upon Rev. D. C.

Milner of Manhattan, formerly pastor of tho Presbyterian church of Atchison. At Eudora, John Hayes and Rena Washington wero arrested and brought beforo Judgo Burno charged with bigamy. They waived examination and wero bound over to the district court. President Man vol has been petitioned to extend tho Wichita and Western road to Dodgo City. If tho Kansas peoplo do not seo what they want this year they have no hesitation whatever in asking for it.

Olatho lias formed a citizens' alliance, ono of tho ground principles of which is that tho office shall seek tho man. They havo resolved not to support a man who slides up to you, hands you a cigar and gives you a half hour of his confidential gulT. Wheat harvesting in this county, says the Anthony Republican, is nearly over, and tho grain is going into tho stacks in excellent condition. Wheat ripened very fast after it commenced turning, and it has made tho farmers rustle to save tho golden grain. Tho threo rear coaches of the excursion train bearing colored Masons from Kansas City, on tho Union Pacific, jumped tho truck near Lawrence and wont into a ditch.

About thirty persons received slight bruises und soven were painfully but not fatally lnjurod. outlawed Cortina that is, as far as the United etatss and Texas were concern ed. When Maximilian came along to-attempt the conquest of Mexico Cortina was soon in the saddle and practicing guerrilla warfare against tho usurper. He actually performed great service for the home government, and in re turn received a commision of full brigadier-general in the Mexican army. Soon afterward he becamo governer of the state of Tamaulipas, and when holding this exalted position he encouraged the worst men in his provience to raid across the 'Rio- Grande and steal cattle and sheep from, the Americans.

While he was governor of Tamaulpas the grand jury at Brownsville at one sitting indicted him no less than twenty-seven times for murder, each one baing a true and personal bill against the Mexican governor for separate offenses. But the Mexican government, as well advanced and as fair and just as it is to-day, cannot see in this arch rascal very much to condemn for he is now roaming the streets of Mexico a free man and without restraint, while the result and effect of his crimes against Americans will not be forgotten nor overcome for years' to come. Ferdinand Ward. Of all the prisoners in Sing Sing it is probable that Ferdinand Ward feel3 his degradation more keenly. He is-employed in a little printing office adjoining the head keeper's, quarters, and hats the best employment of any of the involuntary tenants of the place.

His office is bright and cheerful, if any place within a prison wall can be considered cheerful, and his task is a light one. Tho walls of his workroom are adorned with many lithographs and opposite his maybe seen the photographs of a handsome woman and a pretty child, his wife's and his child's. With all his faults Ward was a devoted husband and a loving What memories must have rushed through his mind when he learned of that wife's death, and what thoughts filled his brain when he reflected that his acts had divorced him from her dying bed and prevented him from shedding a tear over her coffin! For him Sing Sing is no health resort, and if his mental anguish is as great as his appearance indicates he is' likely to-end his days within its walls. New York World. The Bat3 Saw Snakes.

A novel method of ridding steamboat of rodents has been successfully tested at Pittsburg, says the Philadelphia Times. The youngest son of the captain of a river steamer was some time ago presented with a pair of spotted snakes, which, as they were perfectly harmless, were deposited In the hull of the boat until they could' be conveniently housed. A few days ago a. great commotion was noticed among the rats, which always infest steamboats and bargefi in groat numbers, and hundreds of them were observed, scamporing ashoro on the handspring-and stern linos. The evacuation continued all night, and in th? morning-tho captain found both snakes dead, having been literally torn to pieco3 ty the infuriated animals, but not oae of tho latter was found oa the boat.

World's Fair Presidency. Chicago, 111., June 29. Ex-Senator Palmer of Michigan was unanimously elected president of the world's Columbian exposition at the meeting of tho national commission and J. S. Dickinson of Texas was chosen secretary.

The committee on permanent organization recommended that the officers of the commission consist of a president, five vice presidents, treasurer and secretary, the first vice president to be of opposite politics of the president, and the other four to bo equally divided between the parties. Tho report was adopted and tho election of the president and secretary settled as above. 'Tho matter of vice presidents was referred back to the committee to report recommendations. The executive committee of the National Live Stock association called on President Palmer this afternoon. Ho told them that his heart was with them in their desires regarding the live stock exhibit and promises the committee that ho would carefully look after tweir interests and advised them to present their petition- tit once, insisting strongly upon space being allotted and on a rough cstimato being made.

He further advised them to ask for an even -00 acres. Evidonco lias been discovered at Newcastle, of a political pull lny census enumerators..