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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
BOUND TO HAVE THE BOUNTY.
Sugar Growers of the Country File
Suits Against the United States.

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Suits Against the United States.
The controversy between the sugar
growers of the country and the United
States Government growing out of the
repeal of the sugar bounty clause in the
Mckinley bill by the new tariff act and
the subsequent refusal of the Treasury
Department to pay bounties upon sugar
grown in the present year, reached the
first stage in its progress to definite
legal settlement Saturday. ]. Fairchild
Murray, an attorney of New York, has
filed in the court of claims three suits,
identical in character, and all seeking to
recover from the Government sums of
money alleged to be legally due complain
ants as bounty upon sugar raised by
them in the year 1894. The Chino Val
ley Beet Sugar Company of New Jersey,
sues for $4S. .121. the Norfolk Beet Sugar
Company, of New Jersey, for $3,093, and
the Oxford Beet Sugar Company, for
SILL 1872. The complaints are based upon
the allegation that the United States by
an act of Congress granting a bounty of
one-half cent per pound upon all sugar
grown in the United States and the Ter
ritories, entered into legal contract with
complainants, as well rs other sugar
growers, and led them by it's terms to
undertake the cultivation of beets and
other plants from which sugar Is obtain
ed, but which could not have been profita-
bly, pursued without the benefits of such
contract. The claim is further made
that the crops of compliments were
growing and the sugar resulting from
them in process of manufacture long be-
fore the passage by Congress of the mea-
sure repeating the provisions of the act
granting n bounty, and the Government
has no right to withhold the payment Of
bounties alleged to be due. The cases
will probably be pushed to an early hear
ing in the court of claims and will then
be taken to the United States Court for
final settlement. 1t is understood the
suits are brought as test cases, and will
be vigorously contested, as an amount
reaching some $11 100000 is at stake in
the controversy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
CRAWLING, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER g. 1894.

tie, crops, merchandise, furniture, and
even houses are coolly appropriated by
the cruel. ferocious Kurds and Circas-
SLAMS, with the tacit sanction of corrupt
Turkish officials. Armenian Christians
are not permitted to carry arms, while
the Circassians and Kurds are armed and
are encouraged to hunt them. The Chris
tian Armenians generally live in the val
leys and cultivate the soil, while the
Kurds and Circassians are nomadic peo-
pie and live high up on the mountains
where they tend their fiocks. Whenever
they desire they swoop down upon the
valleys, gathering in the fruits of the
peaceful Armenians' labors and carrying
away flocks and herds.
There is no justice and no law for the
Armenian. An Armenian is not allowed
to testify against Turk and the latter
hardly ever thinks of carrying out any OBJ
legation he may owe the Armenian. The
tax collectors travel in bands and swoop
down upon the villages like harpies, col
lecting all that is possible to get without
regard to rate or value. If the farmer has
no money, off he goes to prison until he
pays, and the prisons are now full to over
flowing with unfortunates such as these.
And the shame of these awful outrages
lies ut the door of England which fails to
carry out her obligations to protect Chris
tians in Turkey.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
MATTER OF PENSION APPEALS.
Work of the Board Reviewed In a Re.
port Made TO Secretary Smith.

Work of the Board Reviewed In a Re.
port Made TO Secretary Smith.
The work Of the Board of Pension
appeals during the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1893. is fully reviewed in a re-
port made by the assistant secretary Of
the interior, John M. Reynolds, to Secre-
tary Smith. In summarizing the admin
istration of the Office. Reynolds says:
Upon taking charge of the Office of as
sistant secretary in April, 1893, found
4,965 appeals pending on the docket with
the work of the board of appeals more
than two years behind. In eighteen and
one-half months, with 5,S47 additional ap-
peals entered during that time, current
appeals are being decided, and tardy JUS
tice no longer follows the appeal to the de-
partment by any deserving soldier, widow
or orphan. Thus 10000 cases were con-
sidered on appeal and finally ruled upon,
a greater number of them was never be-
fore disposed of in the same length Of
time, and more than double the number
considered in any period under my pred
ecessor." The small balance. of arrears
is said to consist almost entirely of claims
undergoing further investigation In the
pension bureau and others which. for
final decision. await the determination of
legal questions that will be decisive of all.
The subcommittee of the House on
pensions met Saturday, and after listen
ing for an hour to Commissioner Loch-
ren's explanation of the requirements Of
his office, virtually decided to report
bill providing for the appropriations rec
commended by the commissioner in his
estimate, except in one item of fees for
examining surgeons The original esti-
mate was that $1,OOO,OOO would be re-
quired to pay these fees, but Lochren
told the committee he thought $S00,0O0
would be sufficient. and that figure was
decided upon. Pension appropriations as
decided upon by the subcommittee will,
therefore, be: For pensions, $40, 900 900;
for surgeons fees, SS00,O00; for clerk
hire at pension agencies, $450, 900; miscel-
laneous, $131,570
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
TeleRraphtc Clicxs.

Deputies had running fight with jim
French, the bandit, near Tahlequah, /. T..
He escaped after a hard chase.
Charles Hart, who murdered the Good
children near Paulding, Ohio, has made a
detailed confession of the crime.
Chairman Sayers will endeavor to have
at least two of the general appropriation
bills ready when Congress meets.
Bandits tried to hold up train near
Bragg Station, /. r., but were foiled by
the engineer putting on full steam.
Opponents of Senator Washburn in
Minnesota claim they have secured
enough votes to prevent his denomination.
At meeting of Western passenger of
ficials 1t was unanimously decided to form
one or more associations to cover the en-
tire territory.
Efforts of the defense in the San Fran
cisco strike conspiracy cases to have Pres
ident Cleveland and general managers of
railroads subpenaed have been thwarted
by adverse rulings.
A crisis in the Hungarian Cabinet has
been avertcd by the Emperor giving
formal promise that he will sanction the
ecclesiastical bills.
The dress of the 4-year-old daughter Of
David McCord, living at Odon, near
Washington, Ind, caught fire from
crate and she was burned to death.
Harry and Eugene Sanders of Mauch
Chunk, Pa, aged IL and IL years, were
struck by an engine and killed while
picking up coal on the Lchigh Valley
tracks.
Representatives of the Senator Stan
ford estate have foreclosed mortgage on
property which belonged to the estate of
DR.. ]. B. +. Stillman, an old.time friend
of Senator Stanford.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06

the advertisements for three new torpedo
boats soon to be issued. The Secretary
says that no speed premiums will be al
lowed on these boats; that the premium
system undoubtedly had it's advantages
when adopted, bot the department is now
convinced that the time has come when,
with the experience gained, it may with
profit be abandoned.
The report shows the number of torpe-
do boats now on hand in foreign coun-
tries is 1,2S3, and the number building
1S2. Great Britain has 175 on hand and
GA building. while France is even better
off with pa on hand and Al building. OF
seventeen countries enumerated not one
has less than % of these boats, while the
United States, with more coasts and
ports than any nation. has but six, count
ing those yet to be built.
On the point of preparation for war in
time of peace the Secretary makes this
very significant comment: 1.-THE latest
and one of the most impressive lessons in
all history is now being taught by China
and japan. A nation, the most populous
in the world, able to put millions of fight
ing men into the field, is now, after suffer
ing many disasters, securing Europe and
America for munitions of war. 1t relied
upon its numbers. Now ii is buying dis
carded guns and discarded ammunition,
whatever it can get. to aid it in repelling
the assaults of people vastly inferior to
1t in numbers"
After calling attention to the urgent
need of legislation for the relief of the
personnel of the navy, the Secretary
recommends that the enlisted force be in
creased by 1000 men. In conclusion the
Secretary submits estimates for the next
year aggregating $27, ,914, exceeding
the current appropriation by $5,495, 1913,
caused mainly by the necessity of paying
for vessels now under contract 1t is
stated that after this year the appropria-
tions on this score will rapidly diminish,
falling from $13,259,393 next year to
$150,OO0 in the following year
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
Sparks from the Wires.

Almost the entire business portion Of
Marion, y. c., was burned. The loss
is estimated at $125,000.
Professor Jean Victor Duruy, the
French historian and an ex-minister Of
public instruction, is dead.
Three citizens of Brookside, Ala, were
probably fatally shot by moonshiners,
who took them for officers.
Officers tried to arrest Claude Moss at a
church near Carrollton, Miss, and killed
him when he resisted arrest.
Two men entered the Erie station at
Bloomfield, n. j., and after binding the
agent robbed the cash drawer.
Seven business houses and one dwell
ing were destroyed at Swayzee, Ind. 1t
is feared n woman lost her life.
Robert Il. Harvey, the noted forger,
who escaped from Jail at Bel Air, Nd,
was captured in Lansing, Mich.
A railway construction gang attempted
to lay tracks on Delaware, Ohio, street,
but repented on being placed in Jail.
Fire caused by defective flue de-
stroyed block Of dwellings in Kansas
City. The loss will reach 100000.
japanese loss in the assault on Port Ar
tnur was out [DO III killed ana wounded.
Many vauable stores were captured.
According to Superintendent Stump, Of
the Immigration Bureau, more foreigners
are leaving the country than are coming
in.
Trading on the Chicago Stock Ex-
change last week was the largest in its
history, nearly 10000 shares changing
hands.
Isaac Taylor and wife and Miss Kid
well were run down and killed on bridge
at South Branch, Md, while on their way
to church.
Chicago Russian-Amerlcans in mass
meeting petitioned the Gar to grant his
people freedom of speech aud religion and
the right of assemblage.
Three fires broke out at about the same
time in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, and led to the
impression that n systematic attempt was
being made to destroy the town.
In his annual report the Postmaster
General recommends the extension Of the
free-delivery system, quickening of rail-
way transportation, and revision of the
law as to second-class matter. :.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
THE SALVATIONISTS' FARM.
Where Men from London SIums Arc Re-
claimed and Taught.

"n6ro Men 1fOm LOnuOn Siums Arc h6-
claimed and Taught.
When in 1890 Gen. Booth of the
Salvation Army, published his book,
Darkest England" he asked for con-
tributions that farm might be estab-
lished near London where men re-
claimed from the slums might have q
chance to reform and learn some USE
full trade. The sum OF S425,C0J was
raised and farm, called H. d!eigl, of
$500 acres, purchased. Buildings and
dormitories were put up and the work
sucC .sfully started. The men work.
ing on the farm are paid by the week
from Is cents to $3.50 and out Of this
sum they must purchase clothes, food,
lodging and chance to work is given
them. Zach man must also save q cer-
tain part of his earnings, which is
given him when he leaves the farm
The average number of men is 260 and
there are besides 100 permanent otti-
Gals. who are members of the army.
The most extensive industry at Had
leigh is the raising and picking OF fine
fruit. Fruit picking within reach Of
London is generally given over to the
denizen, of the slums, who are con-
veyed to the scenes OF action in train
loads, and usually convert the r raj
scene into more or less OF slum dur
ing their labors. At the colony great
care is exercised in the choice of pick.
er5; the moral experiment, which
forms large half of the scneme, will
not allow of indis criminate as ociation.
For the same reason the colony Is as
complete in itself as the governor oan
make it, in order to prevent the neces-
sity for much communi, alton with the
village. Even q tobacco license has
been obtained, Tor though thorough
going Salvationists do not approve OF
tobacco, they find that some conce sion
to human weakne IS Is the highest wiz
dom. Permission to go beyond the
colony has to be asked, but a. the tract
is several miles in length this Is not
so reat hardship as one might fancy.
Games too, are provided for the men;
football cricket, quoits, &C ng, Jump.
ing, tug-oi-war, are all encouraged.
A visitor to the farm writing OF the
variou industries there, says: A rab-
bit warren with 100 rabbits reared
for the market and thriving poultry
farm interested me much. We drove
round fields of waving corn, wheat,
barley, oats The rich al uvial ground
grows excellent crop. We visited the
.awmills, the wheelwright's sh p
backsmith's shop, the brickmaking
indu try. This last il somewhat i'm
portant, employing forty men. Excel
lent brick clay is found on the land,
and this is wisely utilized. Nearly ali
the brick used in the colony have
been made at the kiln , and n large
and growing market is ound for the
bricks both in the immediate neigh
borhood and in London. The colony
has been enterprising enough to baIld
railway connecting the wharf and
brickwork at an expense OF $4,000.
This wa done by the advice of a noted
railroad contractor, who agreed to
build 1t without any profit to himself.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
ASKS FOR MORE SHIPS.

Secretary Herbert Is of the Opinion
that the Navy Should Be Increased.
The most important recommendation
made by Secretary Herbert in his annual
report is that Congress authorize the con-
struction Of three great battle ships of
about 10000 tons displacement each, to
cost, exclusive Of armament, not exceed
ing S4,0OOOOO each, and twelve torpedo
boats of from 100 to 300 tons each, at the
discretion of the Secretary, to cost not
exceeding an average of $4,000.
Since his last report five splendid ships
have been added to the naval list, three
of which are capable of speed in excess
Of twenty-one knots, while two of them
are the feetest cruisers in the world.
The FIVE vessels are the Marblehead,
1874 knots; Columbia. 22.S0; Olympia,
21.69; Montgomery, 1906; and Mime
apolis, 23.076. One important change of
naval policy is noted in connection with
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
TREASON rs CHARGED.
u HUNG CHAN0 ACCUSED OF
BETRAYlN0 CHINA.
Said to Have Favored Japan and TO
Have Sold Her War Secrets and AM
munition-Organixed Attack ON the
Great viceroy.
Plotted Against the Empire.

TlOttcu Against the hmptfcs
His majesty the Emperor Of China has
been memorialized by over one hundred
of the highest officials in his empire for
the impeachment of General Ii Hung
Chang. Advices from Shanghai say the
important memorial has caused pro-
found sensation. The disgraced prime
minister is charged with corruption, pecu-
lation and deception. The memorial also
declares that Ii Hung Chang has openly
rejoiced at the successive important vic
tories by land and sea of the country's
enemies, the Japanese, and that by his de-
liberate action he virtually prevented the
Chinese from achieving success. The
prime minister Is said by the memorial to
have represented that China was fully
equipped and well prepared for war when
he was well aware of the fact that the
country was lily able to contend against
the forces of Japan.
1t is further charged that he has been
implicated with Prince Kung, the uncle
of the Chinese Emperor a.d President of
the Tsung Ii Yamen and Of the Admiral
ty, who was recently appointed to the po-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06

full of famous cities of the dead as
Greece or Italy, but the fame belongs to
n remoter and less familiar past. There is
Bayazed, paved with fragments of sculp-
ture, fashioned when Moses was a boy
in the house of the Pharaohs; Ami, the
city of colossal ruins, in which the
treasures of the King of Kings were pre-
served; Takhti-Soliman, the reputed birth
place of Zoroaster, where burned the holy
fire descended from heaven, and visited
forages by the Magi in quest of light for
their torches, which kindled all the fires
that blazed within the great empire of
Persia. Petrifying lakes occupy the sites
of other populous cities which flourished
when this earth was young, and new cit
les flourish on the beds of exhausted
lakes.
Mgr. Krimian, the head of the Ar
menian Church, bears the title of Cathol-
ikos. He resides at Etchmiadzin, a
monastery near Erivan, said to be the old
est monastic institution in the world. He
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
MINT DIRECTORS REPORT.
Shows the Volume of Gold and Si1ve
Purchased and Coined.

SnOw6 the tOIume OF DOlu ana silver
Purchased and Coined.
X. e. Preston the director of the Mint,
has submitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury his report of the Mint and As
say Offices for the fiscal year 1894 The
value of the gold deposited is stated as
S14O, ,942, ,545; $3S, S,951 was of domes-
tic production, SOS, 1000, ,525 foreign bullion
and coin, So, .421 old material, 50 O93,-
615 worn and uncurrent United States
gold coin deposited for recoinage.
The deposits and purchases Of silver
during the year were 22,746,661 fine
ounces, the coming value of the same in
silver dollars being 500, 400, ,S25. Nine
teen million seven hundred and seventy
seven thousand and seven hundred dol
lars was of domestic production, 81 ,S32,-
800 foreign bullion and coin, 6,4S1 404
worn and uncurrent United States coin,
and the remainder, $S05, 5,036, old mate
rial. The amount of silver bullion pur-
chased under the act of July IA, 1890,
was IL ,917 ,659 fine ounces, at a cost of
$S,715,521; the average cost per fine
ounce being $07313. The total amount
of silver purchased under the act of July
IA, 1890, from Aug. 13, 1890, the date the
law went into effect, to Nov. 1, 1893 the
date of the repeal of the purchasing
clause of that act, was 16S, S,674, ,6S2 fine
ounces, costing 1856, 1881 OO2; the average
price per fine ounce being $0.9244.
The total coinage Of silver dollars under
the act of July IA. 1890, to July 1, 1894,
was 36,0S7, ,943, consuming 27,911, ,76S
fine ounces, which cost 500, 110,647. The
seignoirage of silver coined under act of
July IA, 1890, to July /, 1894, was $6,-
977 ,296. From July 1, 1894, to Nov. 1,
1894, 2,413,200 dollars were coined, the
seigniorage of the same was $7S6, 76427,
making the total amount of silver dollars
coined under the act of July IA, 1890,
3S, ,531, ,143, end the total seigniorage ST.
764, 4,060. The total coinage during the
year was: Gold, S99,474, ,912.50; silver
dollars, 75S; subsidiary silver, $6,024,-
1000; minor coins, $710,919.26; total,
S1O6, PIG. 73O.O6.
The gold coinage for the year was the
largest ever executed at the mints of the
United States i'm any one year. The
highest price of silver during the year was
O.7645, and the lowest $0.591S, showing
n fiuctuation of $01T25 per fine ounce.
The net gold exports for the fiscal year
were $4,1T2,6 ,665 as against $50, ,2I5
for the prior fiscal year. The net exports
of silver for the fiscal year were $31 OIL
359 as against $7,653,S13 for the fiscal
year 1893. The director estimates the
value of the gold used in the industrial
arts in the United States during the cal
endar year 1893 at SO, SO, ,523, and silver
Mt S9,534, ,277; of the gold $S,354, ,4S2 and
of the silver $3.50. 1877 was new bullion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06

ly picturesque but
unfor ( u n a t e and
most UNHAPPY region
of the earth. Ar
menia C a m s the
honor of being the
cradle of the human
race. According to
tradition, the Garden
of Eden was within
her bounds, and af-
ter Noah left the ark
on Mount Ararat he
made his home in the
midst of her terri
tory. Armenia is as
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06

Of the political field altogether and surround
ed with the same conditions which oonduce
to the health Of q private business or be d.
sections-the one political and the other nom
political, each under separate head. 90
that the executive authority Of the non-po-
Of his thought to tho improvement Of the pos
tai system.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
The country is now parceled out among
the three nntions-Turkey, Russia and

The country is now parceled out among
the three nations-Turkey, Russia and
Persia.
Through all their vicissitudes the Ar
menians have preserved their faith in
tact. They profess to have been convert
ed just after the ascension of the Savior
by st. Thaddeus, the apostle.
The Dead Fed to Dogs.
Since the Turk has asserted his sway
over part of Armenia, atrocities almost
beyond belief have been common. The
sacking of a church, the desecration of an
altar and the most fendish treatment of
women are every day affairs, and only at
tract the attention of the civilized world
when, as now, great numbers of people
are murdered. 1t is n matter of daily oc-
currence, says an American who has
Travelled in Armenia, to have funeral pro-
ccssions mobbed, the mourncrs dispersed,
the dead taken out Of the coffin and
thrown TO the dogs in the streets. We'd
ding festivities are stopped by means of
revolvcrs, and the bride Is dishonored.
The young Armenian wife and the blush
ing maiden are entirely at the mercy of
the unbridled Moslems; while horses, cat
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06
MURDEROUS TURK.
HORRORS SUFFERED AT HIS
HANDS BY CHRISTIANS.
Unparalleled IndiRnities offered the
Armenians by Cruel and Ferocious
Kurds and Circassians-Landw Where
There's No Justice and No Law.
Cling to Their Faith.

Cling to Their Faith.
The recent horrible massacre of the
Christians by the Turks in Armenia,
Asia Minor. draws attention to that high