The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-12-19
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.


for alleged differentiation, was held in
New York Thursday. The evidence
was in outline as follows: The market
value of the wool at Odessa is about IA
cents. American importers have been
accustomed to go back in the country,
buy the wool on the sleeps back and
have it sheared, washed and boiled,
ready for transportation. By this
means their purchase price was less
than the market value at the port of
shipment, which, if less than II cents
per pound, shall pay % cents duty; if
worth more, it must pay cents per
pound. If it is secured coarse, wool it
must pay y cents per pound. Importers
have always claimed that what the wool
cost them back in the country was
equivalent to the market value at
Odessa. but the law passed expressly
to prevent what they have been doing,
so as to protect American wool growers,
insists that che market value at Odessa
or other ports of shipment must be that
specified in the invoice. 1t was to
bring the invoice in question up to the
market value of Odessa that the raises
were made. All the testimony of the
Government goes to show that the
Odessa market value has never been
less than fourteen cents per pound,
bailed for shipment, that being the
condition in which the wool is brought
in.
David Whitmer, one of the founders
of the Mormon Church, and resident
OF Richmond, Mo-, for almost half a
century, lies at the point of death. At
the family homestead are gathering the
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren, and beside his deathbed
is the devoted woman who linked her
life and fortune with his more than fifty
years ago. Whitmer was born 10 Penn.
sylvania in 1902, and lived for a num-
Der of years near Watkins Glen, in
New York State. There, in 1929, he
claims to have seen the plates which
Joseph Smith translated into the Book
OF Mormon, and to have been present
during the work of translation. He is
called by the Mormons one of the
"three witnesses, Oliver Cowdery
and Martin Harris being the other two.
Whitmer became one of the apostles OF
the new church and moved with it to
Ohio. When the church was driven
from Ohio it found refuge in Missouri.
Whitmer has lived in Richmond ever
since, and has been Mayor and Council
man of the town. He owns what is
said to be the original manuscript from
which the Book of Mormon was
printed, and has refused the offer of a
very large sum for it from the Mormon
Church. Whitmer always opposed pc.
lygamy.
Colon, Central America, has been Wis
tied by very severe cyclone, which has
done considerable damage. 1t com.
menoed on the I'd instant about 2 P. NJ,
and next day lulled, but commenced
again with terrible severity. All steam
ers in the Port put out to sea for safety,
returned and had again to put out. The
damage to property has been very
heavy, and the loss to life more serious
The following vessels were sunk with
their crews. The Holden, Karman,
Blanche. Ortolan, Atwood, Ariel, Vet
eran, Ocean, Lointon, Avelina, Stella,
Catalina, Figri. Douglas, and two others
whose names could not be ascertained.
Rain poured down in torrents, and a
terrible gale of wind from the nor theast
set in. The Royal Mails new freight
office was destroyed by the storm
Wharf No. 4, belonging to the Panama
Railway, is almost demolished, the rails
having been torn up and the earthworks
destroyed by the force of the tornado.
A London dispatch to the Irish Times
says: Should the Queens speech on
the opening of Parliament not aIlude to
local government for Ireland, Gladstone
will move an amendment to the ROYAL