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The morning call., 1893-08-24


men who are only solicitors in name. He
has been aided by Judge A. p. Ballard of
Salt Lake City, and on the heads of these
two men lies the blood of my dead nus
band.
He got up a scheme for grand pvro.
technical displays at the Worlds Fair. and.
not having the capital himself to push !,
through. ne went to Crawford, who sug-
gested they should form a stock comnsnv
and my husband would be ccmpensated
for furnishing the brain work in CARVING
out the scheme.
The company was formed and money
subscribed on the shares. Crawford was
10 look after affairs in Chicago and judge
Ballard in Salt Lake City. Ny husband
was sent TO Salt Lake to push things there
and all the time this mau Ballard was get
ting money out of him as that was his
greatest fault, he was too generous with
money when he had 1t. He got money
from Crawford for his expenses in work.
ing up the scheme and this was the money
that ne is accused of obtaining under false
pretenses and part OF which Ballard got
from him.
Crawford expected to make 100000
out of the company in few weeks, and
when it began to look as if the scheme
would not be a success he wrote my hus-
Dand such terrible letters as drove him
nearly distracted and bis health failed
him.
we decided to come to California for 9
.iine so my husband could regain his
heai IN. and this is what it has all come
TO. and she burst into tears.
IL Is all because they thought they
could In ntimidate him into applying to his
Ialner ior help, so that they could make
m ore money ont of him.
-. My darling husband" she walled
now iohdiy he loved me and oh how
iondly his love was reciprocated. He was
Que OF the noblest men that ever lived. II
ne couio only have got what he was en-
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LAND FRAUDS EXPOSED.
The Minnesota Legislature Has Made Startling
and important Discoveries.

ST. PArL, Mimi, April l2.-The Senate
committee investigating the charges of fraud
in the sale and taxation of Minnesota land.
is ready with its report.
Senator Donnelly says it will shake the
state from center to circumference. 1t is
said to be the most sensational report ever
made by legislative committee in This
itate, and is all based on sworn testimony
Frauds and conspiracies most gigantic and
far-reachlng are said to have been un.
earthed.
Ii is claimed that the state has been de-
frauded, directly and indirectly, of thou
sands of dollars, and many persons hith-
erto above suspicion are said to be involved
and besmirched by the committees find
ings.
One instance of the committees finding.
is said to case where the timber on a
piece of school land estimated to have beer
worth S7525 was sold for a paltry Sl75.
Some of the best pine land of the state is
said to have been falsely certified as swamp
land and then patented to the railroads and
by them to the parties back of the deal.
Innumerable eases of false homestead
entries, soldiers prescriptions and Indian
allotments, all made of powers of attorney
by men of straw, in the interests of the cor
porations, are said to have been disclosed.
Vast tracts of lands and vast quantities of
standing and cut pine are said to have
escaped the tax rolls, and one interesting
point is that there are miles of railroad in
the woods used for other purposes than
transporting logs alone, which are not men,
toned by the assessors, and which are not
reached as personal property. nor do they
pay any gross earnings tax.
The law which is designed to prevent cor
porations from acquiring more than 5000
acres of land is said to be dead letter in
the pine regions. The report says it is
hardly possible to calculate the sums the
state and state institutions have lost in the
pine-land manipulations, nor is it possible
that any considerable portion Of it can be
rocoyerad
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The Winter Wheat Crop.

WASHINGTON, April l2.-The April re-
port of the statistician Of the department OF
agriculture makes the average condition of
winter wheat on the Let of April IA per
cent, against g last year, and that of rye
S5.I. The averages of the principal wheat
states are: Ohio, 81; Michigan, "A; Inli-
ana, So; Illinois, u; Missouri, sc, and
Kansas, 81; the average of these six states
is 1i.2, against II in April, 1892. 1t is IS
in New York, 81 in Pennsylvania, 50 in
Maryland. 81 in Virginia, the Southern
states ranging from SO in Tennessee to 100
in Texas.
The Pacific states show favorable con
dition, with the exception of California,
where too much rain is reported. Seeding
was late in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys
because of the widely prevalent drought,
causing poor conditions of soil and retard-
ing termination. and in some cases wholly
preventing the same, as in Kansas, where
the reports show total failure. Over
considerable areas in the Atlantic, Middle,
Southern and Pacific states, seeding condi-
tons were favorable.
The plant entered winter in the main
wheat producing states in the low state of
vitality caused by persistent drought and
early cold weather, with the exception of
California where persistent rains produced
similar effect. Damage from the Hessian
fly is noted in parts of the states of Ohio.
Michigan, Indiana and Illinois.
Snow covering has been general through
ont the Eastern, Middle and Northwestern
states. hut, outstanding. the reports
show much abatement from the benefits of
the protection thus afforded because of the
excessive cold of the winter and high
winds, and the alternate thawing and freez-
ing in the latter end OF February and
through March.
The April bulletin will contain report
of the condition of live stock at the close of
winter, and estimated losses.
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H. NJ. s. Pinafore was a brilliant success
here tuesday evening, each character tax
jng his or her part with great success. Miss
Thomas rs Josephine" won the hearts of
tho soldiers as she has won the hearts of
all thar have head her. her voice and act
ing being extremely taking. Mr.. Carl Tur-
uer ~ Ralph was in spleadid voice, his
truly artistic singing and acting showing TO
great advantage. Capt. Corcoran, Mr..
John Turner, was as ever favorite from
the first 10 last, performing with great ap-
prevail the soIo, Fair Moon" Mr.. Steph-
ensou, the admiral. acq litted himself in the
superior manner that has marked each of
his performances in this opers- His local
hits were very funny and highly appre-
tiatei. Miss lnez Wakefield rs "Hebe'
IN voice and appearance was charming
while Mrs. Chase as Buttercup
ill herself and part much credit.
Mr. Combs. "a the Beatswa ain, was well re-
ceived. his voice ringing ont with much
sweetness. Mr.. Stanley made Az excellent
Dick neaieye. rs tid Beuuie Stuber
milsbipmau The chorus. under the able
leadership of Mrs. Letia wilcox, was very
picturesque in appearance and sang finely,
receiving very cor,iiai welcome. The
ausii"nre vas exceedingly appreciative, evil
IDENTITY enjoj ing the performance as much
as Augusta and Gardiner audiences hare
lone Between the acts Miss Gcrtie Nor
gan rendered HIilue Bells of Scotland on
the violin very creditably.
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me nasasos Dees BETTER.


BRisroa.. r. l.. April IA close oh
server OF the seeoissi Trip made By the
Nayshoe noted cossiier4h;e difference ID
the boat ores the tsisl tip hssie las. Nor
.iay. Though the wind wss much lighter
and therefore not 80 good as the heavy
breeze of the irst day to tess the yachts
subscribing capacity, se, she ssea,vs. 10
heel less easily snd xss in iaaets ts*tser trim
She dill rot has. her eent,ehos,si IN, hut did
hase several TONS more Of her Lead hsilss;
aboard.
In the rather EcsE. northwest wind she
moved very sast and slssFeA what NIGH
be eapaesed Of b. in light hreezes. Her
sails set we'll. and ali hargh ,here was con-
siderable '.tio~" to the nisinssil next the
mast, YET tise re vas 10 hard places and fes
srtnkles. In short. there was nothing
about the sail which would not come OUT
under proper care in stretching. The main
sal s,lii lacks two or three feet of covering
10 the end of the bow, so iha, there i
plenty of room for ii to come TO shape.
In working 70 windward the yacht he'll:
up 10 where she was pointed about as well
a. if she had had her centerboard in, and
could De made to shoot long distances to
windward in lacking. Her ability 10 hoid
her headvay when put up into the vino
was shown as she came for the buoy at thu
end OF tie trip. She was then given what
seemed 10 observers an unusual amount OF
room in which 10 lose her Roadway. ard
even then she went beyond the buoy before
she was brought up.
Both the Msssrs. Herreshoff are much
pleased with the trip, and say that the boat
is coming up TO the expectations they have
always had aboat her. No further trips
will be made until the cen,reboard is in,
and that means NOT before the last of this
week or the first of next.
Mr.. Carroll is low stopping at Newport
so that he may be nearer the boat than
when in New York. The trip was rather
an unexpected one, as Mr.. Carroll did not
send word of his intention to come until
late Saturday night. lie was accompanied
by Mrs. Carroll.
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CRISP AND CASUAL.

A British scientist recently stated that il
a nnan weighing l4o pounds were placed
under hydraulic press and squeezed fiat.
the result would be los pounds of water
and So pounds of dry residue.
The first locomotive ever seen in Bang
kok. Siam, was recently started on the ko-
rat Railway. The native population took
immense ints ress in the trial run over the
half mile Of railway row laid.
One Of the largest forests in the world is
situated between Ural and the Okhotsk sea.
A well was recently dug in this region,
when il was found that at depth of so
feet the ground was still frozen.
Mrs. H. II. Riidleberger, widow Of the
late Virginia senator. announces thst hers :
after the paper at Woodstock. the Sllenan-
doah Herald. is TO be independent of all
political parties or factions OF parties
It is said of President Cleveland that lie
never read = speech in his life. In the ~ I
Of writing it he half commits it to emory,
and then. with one more reading. he knows
every word and punctuation mark in il.
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Mrs. Lynn Linton, who has consti-
tuted herself the judge and censor of
woman, has come forth in The Nine
tenth Century with new grievance. 1t
is woman as housewife whom she
holds up to public scorn this time. Home
made bread, says the lady, is as extinct
as the dodo and home cured hams as
scarce rs great auks' eggs. She laments
the dcsuetude into which brewing and
,winemaking have fallen. forgetting that
TINS is scarcely theme for poetic regret.
and she utters last despairing wall be-
cause We have no longer 1.-The pretty
sirls who unused in sweet security"
and sll through the article she takes the
unique ground Qor herr that women
should be the play things of love. gracious
and graceful, living to please and he
pleased. No thought has Mrs. Linton
for those who are compelled to go out
into the world to fight. and fall or stand,
as the conditions shall direct. Chicago
Tribune.
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For the Criminal Insane.

{. W. Jones, Esq, returned Wednesday
from Thomaston where be went with the
Executive Council and the other prison in
spectors to make arrangements for the care
of the criminal insane. All the Council
went down to Thomastou AMI Wednt sdAy
visited the school FOR the deaf at Portland.
To provide for the insane at the State
prison, what is known rs the new wing will
b. set apart for that purpose. 1t has been
the place where prisoners have been con-
fined in solitary and is separated by parti-
ton from the other part of the prison. This
separation will be more effec:ual BY being
bricked up at the end where it joins the
main building There will not be many
other changes made. One of the dungeons
will be torn out and two bath tubs put in.
The insane will he confined in the cells thu
same as the other convicts and will be fed
on the PRISON fare. The will be under the
charge of the prison physician and viii have
two attendants, probably from the Maine
insane hospital Supt. Sanborn viii visit
them twice each month. There are 81
cells in this wing.
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AUGUSTA LOCALS.
SUPERIOR COURT.
April Term, ,5s3-jgdse Hon. 0. C. Nall
Presiding.

W. s. CHoArE, Clerk.
EDGAR E. NORTON, Sheriff.
L. T. CARLETON, County Attorney,
F.A. SMALL, Stenographer.
WEDNESDAY, April 18th.
John Burns paid ine Of s2i5 On two
indictments for liquor nuisance.
George Lasdry, for being common sell
Ter of intoxicating liquors, was fined 800
and costs, and in default of payment 30
days in jail.
John II. Richards, Wateryiile, was
brought up for sentence on an indictment
for assault with itttent TO ravish, the case
having been To the Law court on exceptions
which were overruled. A fine Of $3.50
was imposed, and in defaait of payment
three years at hard labor in the State
prison.
George Reynolds paid fine OF 800 and
costs on a conviction for keeping drinking
house and tipping shop.
State VS.. Alfred Blair. County attorney
for State. F. j. c. Little for respondent.
Indictment for perjury sllegelto have been
committed before the grand jury AT is ses-
sion this term. The respondent WAS intox-
icated on last Christmas Day and broke
windows At the railroad station in Water
vile, and ii is charged that he committed
perjury in testify ing that he did not remem-
Der where he bought liquor on that Christ
mas day, though admitting that he had
some and drank it. The testimony and ar
guments were closed when court adjourned
at 80.
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STEEL SHELL Exet RlMENTs.
Mr. Johnson's Exhaustive Search toF an H.
expensive ProjeetIis.

WAsHINeToS, April l2.-Mr. |. G. John
son of Spuyten Duyyil, New York city, has
been In Washington, and called OH Commo-
dore Sampson, the naval chief of ordnance.
Mr.. Johnson's firm has the contract to de-
liver 500 cast steel shells.
Mr.. Johnson will furnish no more sample
shells for a time, devoting himself to expert
ments on his own account. He expects to
produce a shell which will equal, if not sur
pass, in efficiency the armor-piercing shell,
which at present must be forged. an expen-
siye method of manufacture. The results
of the recent tests were very gratifying to
the ordinance people, and have encouraged
the Johnsons to continue the search for an
inexpensive projec,ile, in the development
of which the department is greatly inter
ested.
The discovery of a reliable method OF
production of any kind of shell is expen-
sive. 1t is said that the Carpenter people
spent more that 800 900 before they pro-
duced shell that satisfied them. The
Johnsons will submit no more cast-steel
shells to the ordnance bureau for testing
until further private experiments have been
made,
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81. TELEGRAPH.
Trsasuss 4 Tie ualas essss Asssd h
ohis gaeartAsd.

ToIEco, Ohio, April i2--Wide interest
is manifested in the demolition Of the famous
mounds in Walnut Grove. near Martins
ferry, this state. The work OF removal has
been ia progress tro wet *, and AZ least
two more wilI be required. The earth Is
used for street filing.
Human skeletons, skulls, b5nes. elk ant
iers. paieolithie engravings ami implements,
arrow heads, spear heads, pale gray aints,
eap stoass. agricultural implements, gran
ne hammer stones, sinkers. perforated
stones, etc., have been found. Some Of
the relics are entirely different from any
recorded in history. Most of them are
found near the bottom Some Of the skulls
are twice tie size OF the ordinary skull of
the psesen, day. Under one skull were s.,
darts, ell fine specimens, and pointing i,
one DIRECTION The further into the niouni
the workmen dig the more Interesting the
relics become. IL is believed that hidden
treasures sih yet be found
The major part of the stones found are
different from any in the Ohio valley. Some
are really beautiful specimens. There are
different sizes, from the large sa'utrion
points, of the shape of tie laurel leaf down
TO very small specimens. Several of the
implements are beautifully clipped. Sew
eral skin scrappers We also found. and a
number Of mpnsterion points. The elk
antlers found measure l-2 feet
across and 81 inches IN diameter at the
base. Some Of the human bun-e are in a
good state of preservation. while others
cruInbled iEto dust when removed All the
teeth are sound. Over two skeletons found
was thin stratum OF red clay looking as
if il had been burned and carefully &C.
ID ented over the dirt 10 keep of the water.
The mound is 20 feet high and III fee,
in diameter Few mounds are larger. Nine
tenths of the mound is made of yellow clay.
The other tenth is of dark earth and stones.
The clay is entirely different from any in
this neighborhood. From the top to the
bottom there are at least 30 strata of earth.
The tumulus is more symmetrical and shapely
than many others. The earth is in different
strata, not in horizontal lines, but in con-
formity with the surface of the mound.
The articles of personal use must have
been exposed to an intense heat. Only clay
or stone could resist it. If ii were not for
this We might know of the habits and cas-
toms of the people and the advance they
made in arts. They certainly had devel-
oped a civilization of vigorous and origi-
nal growth. The dead and buried culture
of the ancient people, to whose memory
they erected such monuments, Is especially
noteworthy in that it differs from all other
extinct civilization. The people must have
been numerous. Their works stand dis
tinctively original from any foreign iniiu-
ence.
This mound is supposed to be over 1000
years old.
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New York Prudues marksi.

| NEW YORK, April i2.
| .oUs--Receipts. s.,sEi pkgs; exports. 27e.
| IBIS: lo57o sacks; .aier. 7s0o nkgs; marke,
low extras,s. io.2 IS; CITY mills Al 90 CITY
mills pateuts, ioas co, winter wheat low
eTsdes, 10 S.; fan 10 faacy, 50 a 2 Is
itraights, 6oat %, patents. 25s 20; rye
| nixturea, s1sa 10. seperdne 75a2 Is; doe, Co
AZ no
RIVE FLOUR quiet, steady, 2.sna325
dull, steady Western, 53a6E.
BsRfFT-duli, fifrm. No. ,. Western
ieaso, stale, tsaso, No. Toronto. sias5.
HARLEY AAar-iaii, .Sestern 7Gas2; two
rowed state 7oa75; sis.rowed state soas5; city
make Canada idaa1n5
uykT--ksceipts. 2io15 tHsh exports. iis, i45
sal ;, 30 ooo; active on.export account, strong
4scat, ssia--, fob, 1ia7si, No, hard. s7 ias7i
No. Z spring Tia;s; No. Hno-thern sits-,
SO. ] red. "a, 10 2 spring foias0L ungr AIDED
5s,sss.
tIoR,s-Receip,s. ~ 100 exports, 1890: sales,
y 9s'; armss, moderately active ;-----------
2. white, Sd delivered - fee, "a; No. la /.
No. \. tssaai; -'esmer aliost. a.; yellow. Sc.
..e us & 60 :ei aaiet V .ower i-,. ~ os.
Nc. 2, ia; d. thite. ia, NJ. 2 Chicago
8sA-- Ne Z, sGla--; 10 eh,te. 3Ja-; mixed
Western ass; dc white, 5sii2! white state.
~ atsl, ;oaay.
BEEs H4H1--IsGcfiye.
LAAtA-f}n ~. ssfubE5 - " tsstsrH ste9rr
closed Si6-iH. ------------ city, a. 7.5aq 10:
sales go R'1s.si DUO. arin4f sgnttneat, l9t,a
-; a, sie 60 and I.
rtthE- ,fuisf, f,s;r=-s ------sales, old
mess, as 7ies,1;pew mess. sI5.75asis2s; extra
prime n0gIiHsi.
B8frsE-qnle', absa. steady - -
fal.cy = 5sifY. ...tzdi. do eraaai@ty afa-,
Hestern dairy isa2l; do creamery 23aes; do
tict5Fy. i5aas3: .slsla, 1ss--; .otis-. Penn.
-ream-ri 20 20, do factory l5az3,
CaEEsE- ar arnspd; fancy steady; - state
sial2; iaHey blurred ii2siz !; do Zoe write. ioa-
cid. p. Do white, la.io, part SKINS. isio; fuD
skins. .ast.
PETgol.zJN- quiet: refined noninal. United,
~
Covygs-gIo, dun, steady; 10. :. lola
SrGAe-raw. sctiye, trin - s~ha.d. ,,uief.
No. i, sleaf. so.2 Pisa -; No. 1,
NJ 3i6; No. Q. 4.a3 lila /; No. 2. 47-f6
a SIS. No. $, .ist 80 No. .. lat 10;
No. 70. ii4st7is. No. II, tl-sa4 ia;
No z, : lssa4s No II. s7sa; OF a sss
-; mouid J-Iesss -isedsrd i5-iss5l
eonfentloncrs. l-i1z5, cpl isss, jas i1.l6;
crushed. - sftls; powdered, J-isass:
grsns.stes, Is i6s5 LID, eas.-s 5 .5sa5s.
treizhts 70 EsssFsrpA si=fk.t, more nc i've,
trHs.r-
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Is that ndopted by people in precarious hesItI
who siseIy fertify their systems against diseass
with that acceptable and efectuai barrier agsiu.,
its inroads- Hosiester's Stomach Bitter
Precautionary measures, when the health IL but
slightly iInfalrrdsis. physicians we'll know
worth any amount Of medication afierwaYd A
pr~mouitory ,nalarfai chill. At Of indigestion in
epeasiag irrsgUisr.ty Of the bowels, a warning
rheumatic twin &c. inactivity Of the kldneys sliett
At hrst bilious raflGwaess accompanied with
furrta tongue--,hese are appeals 70 the sense 81
seif protection which ne person OF common lua1
menf viii Disregard. Hostettefs Stomach Bitter,
preserves those who take II from malaria fiyspep
.is, chronic constipation, rheumatism kidney ana
bisssfer trouble and liver complaint Nervous In.
vaiitss pessoas troubled with the infrmifies IN.
cidn: to advanced year., lzdie. in delicate health
aod c.nyaieseents derive infinite benefit from the
Bitters- spriItieod& vfoIrm
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The ". NJ. B. minstrels were greeted by
another large honse ut City ball Wednes-
day evening. The programme was varied
somewhat from that of Tuesday night and
the audience eviaced its interest and appre-
citation by frequent applause. The Japan
csc acrobats aud the slack wire act took the
house by storm as at the first performance
"Signor Ripperetti' appeared in fleets" of
legerdermaIn that caused lots of laughter.
Sam Chase was the right man in the right
place in this act. Bills Murch was recalled
in his song and dance Love in the Moon
light His costume ami dancing were
much admired. Miss Louise Howe received
an ovation by her cornet rendering of the
selection, "Roekei in the Cradle of the
Deep.
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The Robert Blaine Case.

WAsHiSGros, April FL is stated that
the friends of the late Secretary Blaine asked
President Cleveland to authorize Secretary
Morton to reinstats Robert Blaine. The
President called the attention of the -ecre-
tary of agriculture to the matter. The see
rotary reminded the President of his utter
anees on the subject of sinecures, Of which
he believed the case in question to be a
striking example and said to be entirely in
sympathy with the policy of the President
in this respect. There the matter ended.
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Our ,n,erna, Revenue Contribution

Portsmouth, N. H., April l2.-The in
ternal revenue collections for this district
which comprises Maine, New Ilampshir
and Vermont for March amounted to s34 /,
359.s7.
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Mis-. Plaisted. daughter of George plsis-
ted and Miss FANNIE Cross arrived yester-
day from Boston with the body of Miss La
vinis Myers. who died very suddenly of
Pneumonia. A large quantity of flowers
arrived with the body which was inferred
in the Plaisted family LOT at oak Grove
cemetery. Mrs. Cross accompanied by
Miss Cross and Miss Bond will return to
Boston today.
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A musical evening" was enjoyed by the
members Of the Woman's Club Wedne sday
evening. Mrs. Prof. J. d. Taylor pre-
scented sketch from Beethoven. Two se-
iections were sung by ladies' quartet con-
sisting of Mrs. Hubbard Mrs. Newhall, Mrs
Gray and Miss Abbott. Mrs. Judge Phil
brook AMI Miss Kelley sung solos, and
piano duets were rendered by Misses
Blanche Smith and Nellie Webber, and
Misses Fannie and Daisy Gallert.