The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-28

The following item, which may be of n
Serest to coin collectors, is from II recent
work called 1.-THE Gold and Silver Coins #
all Nations by Ivan c. Michcls, l'h. J..
N. A:
'rhe dollar of 1904 has become exceed
ingly scarce, and the last sale of "a fin
specimen was made ut one thousand dollars.
Of this dollar, according to the returns
Of the United States Mint records, 1880
pieces were struck, and with the exception
of a few, were all exported TO Africa 10 pay
the sailors and soldiers engaged in the wal
against Tripoli.
On the 10th of June, 1901, the Bashaw
of Tripoli declared war against the United
States, but no further notice was taken of
the declaration until 1903, when Commo-
dore Preble was sent to Tripnli with u
large squadron. On the 3lst of October,
1903, Captain cambridge was sent INTO the
harbor of Tripoli to ~rcconnoitre. His YES
sci, the Philadelphia, of iurty-four guns,
advanced too far'in g pursuit of a small
Tripolitan gunbOat and struck on q rock,
The officers were treated as prisoners of
war, but the crew were made slaves.
In 1904, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur
was ordered to %recupture the Philadelphia,
which he promptly accomplished. As it
WAS impossible TO take her out, she was set
on fire and abandonded. Soon after Trip
oil was bombarded several times by the
United States ships of war.
In 1904, nm expedition was started from
the United States against Tripoli, headed
by Captain Eaton and Hamat %Carmnnly,
exile and elder brother of the Bashaw of
Tnpoli. Their march lay across n thous-
and miles of desert, yet il was accomplish
ed, with understandable fatigue and suffer
ing, in fifty days. To pay the expense of
this little army of mounted Arabs and
seventy American seamen, these 1904 dol
lars were shipped TO the coast of Africa,
and only very few Of them, if any, were
brought back by the returned ]victors.
A few years ago, ten pieces of 1904 dol
lars were struck from the old original dies
Mt the United States Mint in Philadelphia,
and distributed. All but two or three
were afterwards called in by order of our
Government, and to this day the cOin-cab-
met of the Philadelphia Mint exhibits hut
one 1904 dollar, struck in 1904 and another
with the same date, but of a later issue"
A court in Georgia has recently rendered
+ decision in which church people are in,
teTested. A Baptist society building a new
church planned n steamboat excursion to
increase the building fund The owners Of
the boat engaged for the occasion did not
fill their part of the contract, and those in
charge OF the excursion sued them Tor
breach Of contract. But the defendants set
NJ their plea that a chuuch organization
has no authority to conduct excursions as
il means of making money, and, therefore,
cannot enforce any bargains it may make
in pursuing an unlawful line of business.
The judges held that the plea was good.
That a church must derive its income from
such property rs il may own, and from
aAlVVaeuWaa ..nsgsl.Vesa.. IL .-a1.
bargains incidental TO an excursion of the
congregation, undertaken for devotional
purposes, celebrations, or recreation and
possibly might hine a conveyance needed
TO carry from place TO place persons sent to
solicit contributions; but il may not en-
gage in the carrying business, with the
general public, for profit.