The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 23, 1898, Page 8

steerer eae RES ' lable! get the wholesale fruit dealere, who ruled the American markets thirty years ago,te agree to buy $2,000,000 -| cepted the prop Ag than three montha the deal was consum- ie |mated at New Orleans. It was the A. M.| beginning of the trade in willions of tr, Ages*_| aollare ar ually. | To make a long story short, Knight got other concessions. as he -| demonstrated the profit there was in | growing fruit for the United States 2 |market. The shipping businees to Juan tarted and y 1871 the negro was the largest employer of labor in Northern Gua- temala. Where a multitude of white men had given up in despair ever enormously enlarged. improvident and careless natives of the rural regions ence among the slaves stood him in He was TORIrA famous for the The Kind You Have good stead. for him. He ma woman in Stapa union has been a great help to his fortunes. About twenty years ago he induced New England capital to Richest Man in All Guatemala | embark extensively in coffee growing in Guatemala, aud invested his own Was Born a Chattel. in 1872, and t fet & “SLA capital in the indusiry. The govern- San Francisco Examiner ment gave lim a very advantageous A negro, born a slave in Alabama,|shipping concession for his efforts and his master’s chattel until early|in bringing capital to the country. manhood, is the wealihiest man in|Coffee-growing proved wonderfully Guatemala, acd one of the multi-|remunerative for a dozen years. The millionaires of the day. His name|negro planter brancked out in other is Knight, although travelers in|directions. He went to Philadelphia Guatemala would scarcely know it}and eontracted to furnish many by tho familiar Spanish cognomen— | thousands of feet of mahogany yearly Don Juan Knight. The late Presi-|for ten years. E-M-\a year of Guatemala iruite. The A. M.| Guatemala Government gladly ac- + |New York and San Francisco was | trying to get work out-of the lazy, | rried a native young | the St. C u incarcerated in ua were county jail in this city, because th to obey lipe to refused Judge compromise the nesa of St Since Ji j Thomas Nevitt were t taken to jail by the United States marebal | they have been allowed the freedom |¢ of the Marshal Chiles lassigned them to a room on the top corridors | floor which was large and airy and} | was barred xt no entrar Yesterday Judge Pt havir |taken cognizanca of their situatioa, Knight's experi-/sent an order to the marshal ia im to place them bebind The structing ithe bars, which was done zeal he imparted to all who laborad | county court of St. Clair county now | fo 2 a 6x8 call on the third tier | in oceupi in the jail proper. Io front of the iron bars and betw } cage jand ylight is a epace « anda heavy brick wall. light that flickers into the d is hardly erough to read by in bros daylight. Surrounded by cri the St. Clair county officiale, who forced to su ed upon them. MARSHAL CHILES’ KINDNESS. Marshal Chiles has done the vest he could to make the judges com- fortable. New blankets were pro- vided for the rough iron cots and all else within his power done to dent Barrios, of Guatemala, estimat- There is another side to this un- ed his friend Knight's riches at over}common man. He has been a liberal $7,500,000. His annual income from] patron of educational measures. He his vast tracts of coffee fincas, his|is withal a plain, modest man, who gold mines, his enormous banana] is not known by sight very far from plantation and his farms of vanillajhome. He is tall and slender and beans, his banking and steamboat|shows the effect of bard work, and stocks, besides the debts’ interest on| constant care and thought concera- money that Guatemala borrowed | ing his enormous business interests. from him, is over $4000,000. He There are seven children in Juan lives in a beautiful home in the|Kaight’s home, and all have been suburbs of Guatemala City, and is | educated in the United States. ‘I'wo ceaselessly busy looking after his} of the boysare ina military academy immense interests. in Mississippi now. One daughter Tho life of Juan Knight reads like is an accomplished portrait painter a chapter from the Arabian Knights|in Boston. Once a year the father this story of howa poor black boy |@0d mother go ona trip to New Or rose, step by step, from human|!eans, and from there to New York. slavery to a millionaires place.| They were in Europe in 1894. Knight never knew bis father, be The influence of Juan Knight, the cause his parents were separated at | Degro millienaire, is felt everywhere a sale of slaves several months before|in the commercial and financial do- he was born. His mother was a/™ain of Guatemala—if not in every mulatto, the property of a tobacco | part of Central America. His advice grower, Daniel Upton, who lived in|i8 sought in all financial projects of Dadeville, Tallapoosa county, Ala. the government. When a syndicate Upton was a scholarly man and his| Of capitalists sends to Guatemala for wife was a former school teacher. |@ expression of opinion concerning They had a half dozen slaves, all of|@ bond issue in Central America, whom they treated weil. Knight this wonderful ex-slave is consulted was born on tho plantation one|®!most first of all. When the Gua spring morning in 1844 or 1845. temalans nearly carae to arms with Mexico nearly two years ago, Juan Knight was universally looked to by the natives to effect peace. His bank Mrs. Upton gave the negro child sufli ssons to get him started on ¢ studies by himself. Later Mr. Uy lao became interested in |i Gautemala City is about the sol- “little ex John,” and provided |idest in the country. So great is the him with common school books. confidence in his integrity that some of his oldest laborers draw their pay but once in a balf year. The million- aire planter and miner of Gautemala | has several times visited the planta- tion in Tallapoosa county, | At most pre sxbout 16 John Knight was the ising negro in Tallapoosa Mr. Upton died in 1860, smart black boy was auc- tioned off to a new master, who took him to a cotton plantation in Central Alaba The master entered the ate army. Young black ume the overseer of a part ation. For four years he supcrintended the gathering of the Ala, | where he was born and raised. | Hundreds of people there know all about him and remember his child-| hood. In 1888, when he was in Dadeville, he met the son of his first master, Daniel Upton. He had not | Clair county are all right.” jnot?” lessen their hardships. The small cellis provided with poorly equipped sanitary arrangements, and as a result the atmosphere of the cell is laden with foul odors. In this at- mesphere, pregnant with microbes, the Jackson | | giv jing grace ced to x | large sp | that would have have only stocd by their trust, are} ‘ the indignities heap- | Captair of them were at cne us cl One pany was in the ra e corner. Shortiy after the rain fi , one of whom let outa credit toa! e Indian. They stood out} ia till the snake s killed. | John i Lieutenant | l yell} Comat in th DeAr se Lieutenant Wade | : = | of but Wade as-/ se noo i eays it was| one if not both of | Don’t you think your liver needs treating if you are billious. It don't. It’s your stomach. That is, your stomach it really what causes the billiousness. It has put your liver out of order. See what's the matter with your stomach Sick stomach poisons liver and theo there’s trouble. Shaker Diges the St. Clair county judges are forced tospend their time as best they may. A reporter for The Times visited them at the jail yesterday. He was escorted up two flights of iron stairs and out on the frail platform that surrounds the cages. Half way down the building the cell is located. Judge Nevitt was lying upon his cot, while Judge Gill was sitting on the edge of his bed looking wistfully through the bars JUDGES ARE DETERMINED “It was by Judge Philips’ order we are confined this way,” said Judge Nevitt. “‘When he sent us down here he raid we would be the Spaniards and he would be the American. We are simply getting a taste’ of it now, I suppose. Wait until the people of St. Clair county gat a chance et that bond proposi- tion now. “We may be ccaxed into voting for the comprer said Judge Gill, “but we can never be forced to it. Judge Philips is going f promise by The people of away from a c us in this hole. “They will protest against y treatment by Judge Philips will they | asked. “Just wait and| see,” said Judge Gill. “We can't} | a was be forced to do anything ” “I can stand ita while, I guess, said Judge Nevitt, who weighs prob-| ably 200 pounds. “Judge Gill is| not so healthy as Iam. I don’t know) what he will do. | “We are a circus for the people |~ who pass by the cell. us like we were They stare at} tive Cordial cures stomach and then all’s well. That's the case in a nut shell. Shaker Digestive Cordial is no secret. Formula’s on every bottle But it’s the simple honest way it’s made, the honest Shaker herbs and other ingredients of which it’s com posed, that make it so efficacious. Any real case of indigestion and billiousness can be cured with a few bottles of Shaker Digestive Cordial Try it. Sold by druggists, price 10 cents to $1. TWO MORE MINERS KILLED Mines Near Joplin Veritable Death-traps for Employes. Joplin, Mo., June 15.—Two more deaths were added to the long list of mine accidents at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The victims were John Howell and Charles Kinsley. While these men and Samuel Bayless were working in the Rutherford lead mines, on the Kobhinoor lease, et west of Joplin, bowlders | dropped from the top of the drift several the 1 before they and Kinsley 8 of rs and earth, and were in Hor ried beneatt a great bodies being borribly Bayless was caugt maes of earth and ro bruised and had one leg broken, but was alive dug accident oceurred while the m were working pth cf 150 feet. underground at | Kinsley lcayes | family at Crested Butte. Ia Hej began work in the mine yesterday to a cotton and its shipment to New Or- leans at the best market prices, until the close of the war. Then he walked to New Orleans and worked as a wharf laberer for a} firm which handled fruits from Cen- trai America. He saved his money. he was sent by his employer ucatan, in Central America, to e, as boss of the packing og of fruits to New Or- That was practically the g of Jobn Knight's millions. gh rely, wide-awake person was g unique in thoge days of| siestas and tropical sunshine. A| revolution in Guatemsla, in which Ramon Sanchez had beea deposed, was just at its close. Knight eaw what hard work and.an opportunity to gain the favor of the new admin- istration would do for himself. He proposed that for a concession of some 50,000 acres of land suitable for pineapples and banana growing he would go to New Orleans and fergotten how Mass’r and Misses! Upton taught him to read and write, and all the petty privileges they had shown their chattel, little Black John. So what did the ex-slave boy do but employ George Upton, a son of Knight's early master, intendent at the mines. Not only that. The ex-slave found that the|the most severe punishment because |: i: C4 widow of his old master was sick and in financial distress in Mobile, and he forthwith invested for her a sum of his money sufficient to keep her comfortable her remaining days. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve The Best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles /in which to turn around. How long | or no pay required. It is guaran- teed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents perbox. For sale by H. L. Tucker. to go} down to Gautemala and bea super- | mo nough to take him| ila ential. y| make money enough to take him | think we could make a little money | 50° Be! E 5 | four children in Jo by disposing of our photographs to| This keane y |visitors. I don’t like to be stared| a TE SEAR é a eet out of countenance by everybody. ees ee ee ee as STs “" jmakes about fifty nine fatalities for| CRs ee | this year thus it is . leavss a wife and ves lost A CAUSE. And the honorable judges of the St. Clair county court, | Educate Your Bowels With Cas carets. | both aged men, are forced to stand! | _ Candy Catha: / jthey refuse to levy a tax for the! Hobson to Be Exchanged. | | payment of what they and the ma- Madrid | jority of ape constituents. comer ment has authorized Gen. Bianco to! jan unjust debt. They must suffer! entertain proposals for an exchange! jbecause a federal judge's orders|of Lieut. Hobson and the other | were not obzyed. The judges who | Prisoners taken when the Amsrican | jserved a term a couple of years ago |C° lier Merrimac was sunk off the; | were allowed the freedom of the entrance to the harbor of Santiago | | building and were even granted per-, 4¢ Cuba | mission to attend religious worship. | CASTORIA_ | Not so with Judges Gill and Nevitt. | | They must sit day after day in their | | dark cell, with searcely enough room | For Infants and Children. ~ | will The Kind You Have Always Bought Vided they persist in refusing to vote for the bond issue, depends sate aed ; upen the pleasure of Judge Philips. peenaiace of G June 15 —The govern. | their confinement will continue; pro- os Kansas. City Timeline he Onl Met rolit ne Univ Wwetropolitan fj ane pe Silver Paper in Missouri 1 TWICE. 4 TEAL, AWE TIMES {100 4 tay ratic CASTONRIA. 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