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Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23
Tennessee Not Heard From.

Tennessee Not Heard From.
The Nashville Banner which has
been making fight against the Ten
nessee official fee system, gets Of the
following;
Someone has compiled a list of
official salaries, and it is shown that
the Shah Of Persia gets the biggest
pay received by any one individual,
his annual allowance from the pub
lie treasury being $S0,000,000 Ten
nessee county officials had not been
heard from when the list was made
out, and when the incomes they de-
rive from fees is made known the
list will have to be revised Even =
ing Tribune, Huntsville.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23

PERFUMERIES.
We carry a full line OF Stand
| ard Perfumery, and Toilet Err
|ticles. Call and examine them
|now.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23

SHOULDER BRACES
Trusses, etc. Remembar =
our stock OF the above goods So ~
complete in every detail "a
them. 0esl
Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23
SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1894.

The Mahaska county colored min :
ers are all right. Their families
have not been reduced to want DUR
ing the strike; nett Ter have the men
been forced into idleness by the mob
of white union miners. This mob
of white union miners. This mob
has more gall than ever heard of be-
fore to request men whom they
would not permit in their union on
account of color to strike with them
-Des Moines Avalanche.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23

In the Ohio legisla.urea billhas been
introduced permitting the legal heirs
of person lynched to recover $16,>
900 from the county in which it oc-
CURED. 1t is thought that this will
cure the evil as men are more ten
der IN their pocket books than their
hearts.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23

Don't be so aristocratic as to be
ashamed of common sense.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23
New Schedule for m. 4 c.

WEST BOUND.
No. 3 ar 10:40 q. 10. lv 10:45 q. m,
No. 5 ar 11:50 p. m. Iv 11:55 p. m.
EAST BOUND.
No. ar 5:55 p. m. lv 600 .. m.
No. ar $3.50 a. m. lv 3:35 q. m.
Connection made at Decatur for trains
going South.
Huntsville gazette., 1894-06-23
Notice.

Parties wishing 10 improve their stock
of cattle will find the Registered Hol-
stein Bull, Pet Duke, formerly owned by
Major Stevens, at the premises OF J. Fl.
Ewing. Service fee 81 80. 90 3m
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PRATT WILL CASE.
Contestants Finish Testimony Upo
Mental Condition of Deceased.

Contestants Finish Testimony Upon
Mental Condition of Deceased.
Los ANGELES, Oct. 5.-The contestants
in the Pratt will case finished their intro
duction of testimony this afternoon upon
the subject of the mental condition OF
Mrs. Anna A. Pratt, deceased, and
whether or not there was any undue in
tiuence exercised by the family of Gen
eral John Mansfield and others in the
making of her will.
Mrs. Goodspeed testified to the effect
that she had a conversation with General
Mansfield in 1892 relative to her mothers
will, during which he told her that il
was in his safe. lie did not, however.
say anything about its contents. She
further stated that during the six months
OF her residence here prior to her moth
er's death she was never allowed to see
Mrs. Pratt or talk to her, except in the
presence of third party.
Mrs Leonara Wakefield upou being
recalled, was permitted, over the obiec-
tions of proponents counsel, to reiterate
her testimony as to Mrs. Pratts mental
condition.
Upon reconvening for the afternoon
session counsel for the contestants created
some surprise by the announcement that
they had no further testimony. Counsel
for the proponents then called their first
witness, DR.. James Surfman Of Portland.
Or. tie was questioned as to his opinion
of Mrs. Pratts mental condition when he
last saw her at General ManstieId's house
in 1893, and unhesitatingly pronounced
her of sound mind. He explained that
she lacked energy, but her faculties were
quite clear and her memory good.
AT the conclusion of the direct exam
Nf fltex
for the day, the case going over until
Monday next
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SUIT OVER A LAND SITE.
Appeal Case Being Heard Before the
q. 5. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Appeal Case Being Heard Before the
q. 5. Circuit Court of Appeals.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.-The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals was en-
gagged to-day in hearing the case of an
indian woman named Josephine Hatch
against Z. c. Ferguson, Henry Hewett
and the Everett Land Company. The
suit involves the title to the site of Ever
EFT, Wash, and it is appealed from the
United States Circuit Court of Washing
ton, where the woman lost the case.
The contention of the plaintiff is that
she was fraudulently lured into making a
sale of bonds worth Sl25, 900 for S4, COO, and
that h. G. Ferguson persuaded her to
give him power of attorney to make the
sale by representing that the paper she
was signing was simple agreement in
the nature ofa private treaty of friendship.
Fhe land was conveyed to Hewett under
pewer of attorney, and within a few
months from the date of the conveyance
the town OF Everett was located upon it.
The woman can not read or write. The
defendants alleged in the lower court that
there was no fraud, and that the land be-
came valuable only after the town was
located,
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FOREST RESERVES.
Serious Question Confronts the In
terror Department..

y Serious Question Confronts the In
terror Department.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-What to do with
the forest reserves has become serious
question in the Department of the In
terror. Congress passed law providing
for setting apart tracts of lands as forest
reserves, and when so set apart they can
not be entered upon for any purpose
whatever. Acting under this law, the
President has from time to time set apart
tracts, which are known as forest reserva-
tlonS, and which are now on the Govern
ment lands. In all there are over II 900, =
900 acres thus reserved in the States of
California, Oregon, Washington, Colo
RADIO, Wyoming, Montana and Utah and
Arizona Territories. No provision what
ever has been made for taking care of
these reservations. Under tho law they
are reseI YES to the Government, and no
person can make use of them, and there
is nothing to prevent persons from going
on them or in any way defeating the OBJ
ject of legislation. Persons might be
prosecuted afterward, but there is no
means of preventing depredations.
Neither Is there any way to prevent forest
fires or other methods of destruction.
The persons Interested in forest preser-
vation were instrumental in having the
reservation law passed and the reSerVa-
tlons made. They have also tried to Sc
cure laws for the protection of forests,
but so far without success. One of the
most enthusiastic forestry men in the
present Administration is Assistant Com
missioner Bowers of the General Land
Office. He has been doing a good deal
toward having reservations made, and
has also been urging legislation tor their
preservation and protection.
Commissioner LamoreauX is a practi-
cal lumberman, and, referring to the
value OF the timber on these forest reser-
yations, says that no timber is valuable
unless 1t is within a marketable distance
OF streams or railroads, and at present
none OF the lumber of these reservations
could be sold. lie does not believe that
their timber will be demanded for half a
century. a part of the scheme for the
preservation of the forest includes the
sale OF the timber from them to pay for
their protection. II there is no demand
for the timber this plan will fail, and it
will be necessary for the Government to
appropriate money for this purpose. AL
ready there have been plans presented for
making National Parks of these reserva-
tlons, and, il the first plan fails, then an
effort will be made to Jurn them over to
the several States for State Parks.
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products than there was month ago, al
though the increase in the output has
been somewhat greater than the increase
IL the demand, so prices steadily tend
downward. Bessemer pig is selling at
Sl90 at Pittsburg and bar iron at S95, with
steel bars at Sl05, while contract to sup
press the principal Western competitor
in nail manufacture is expected to hold
the price al 81 for wire at S5c for cut nails
The structural iron market is fairly act
i've at the West, and without change at
the East, and while the coke output has
now become the heaviest ever known,
149, no tons for the week, the price is de-
clining, and steps are being taken to
limit the supply.
The boot and shoe trade continues to
deliver more goods than in any previous
year, as 1t did in September, and most of
the works still have orders for one or two
months ahead, mainly for lower medium
priced goods. There is little better de-
mand this week for goods of a higher
quality, however, and the demand for
leather is still reducing the reserve.
The failures for the past week have
been 2l9 in the United States, against 800
last year, and 80 in Canada, against 10 last
year.
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water Question at SAN Francisco

SAN Francisco, Oct. 5.-At meeting
OF the Election Commissioners this after
noon it was decided that meeting of the
board would be held tomorrow at 10 A.
NJ to refuse the recommendation of the
Board of Supervisors that the ''refer-
endum" question OF whether the city
should own its water works be put on
the board decided that IL had no authority
to take the action. Mayor Ellert then
announced that the Board of Supervisors
would hold meeting tomorrow at 10 a.
NJ to get mandate from the Supreme
Court to compel the Election Commits
sion to put the question on the ticket.
The record-union., 1894-10-06
Special to the REcoRD-Uxrox.


PORTLAND orr, Oct. 5.-The body of
George w. Sayres, who has been missing
since the night of September 18th, was
found floating in the Willamette River
this morning. On the head were discov-
cred six wounds inflicted by sharp in
strument. The face also bore marks of
severe punishment, particularly the right
eye, which was almost driven from the
socket. The right hand also was badly
cut. The body also bore other evidences
going to prove that Sayres had been muir
dered and thrown into the river.
On the night of Sayres' disappearance
an unknown man called at Sayres' house
at Fulton Park about P. NJ. Sayres
stepped out Of the house and briefly con-
versed with his caller. Re-entering the
house and taking his hat. he again
stepped outside, telling his wife that he
would return in few minutes. That was
the last seen of him by his friends.
This afternoon the police arrested Bob
Garthorn, one of the informers in the re-
cent opium smuggling cases; Joseph
("BuncO) Kelly, George Powers, a sailor
clearinghouse runner; Paddy Lynch,
an eX-conVict now under Indictment for
receiving SGOltn SOOQS, john SdTTOl1, Il
North End rounder. and John Burns, a
laboring man, on suspicion that one or
more of them could throw some light
upon the crime. They were examined
by the Chief of Police and the District
Attorney. Burns confessed to having
been hired TO do the deed, but after going
upon the errand several times his courage
at last forsook him, and he refused TO
carry the act into execution.
The other evidence that came out iusti-
fed the District Attorney in filing infor-
mation against Joseph (''Bunco") Kelly
and Bob Garthorn, charging them with
murder, and they were committed with
out bail.
The murdered man was deeply in
volved in litigation, and few days ago
Mrs. Sayres told a friend that a man
named John Burns had called at the
house three time to see her husband, bat
he was not at home. Her husband sub
sequently told her that Burns represented
man named Kelly, who promised to ad-
vance him $500 to tide him over one of his
heavy lawsuits, but he never got the
money. She believes that the Kelly he
referred to was 'Bunco" Kelly, one Of
the men now under arrest.
Sayres was about 90 years of age. and
had been resident here for nearly thirty
years, being for many years engaged in
the liquor business.
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A RAT IN HER TRUNK.
Cause of a Circus Elephant Going Or
Rampage.

Cause of Circus Elephant Going On
a Rampage.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.-The reason
for the strange actions of Jessie, the cir
Gus elephant, which went on a rampage
early this morning, and. after breaking
her fastenings and nearly wrecking the
circus, roamed through the streets of
San francisco, has been discovered. Jes-
sic has always been perfectly docile, and
could be handled by any of the circus
people. While she was being pursued
through the streets this morning by her
keepers they noticed that the animal
acted as if lrenzied by fright. Finally,
when she allowed them to come near.
one of the keepers noticed something
protruding from the end of her trunk.
lie pulled it out and found that it was
live rat. The elephant had been lying on
the ground asleep with her trunk
stretched IN front of her, and it is sup
posed that the rat ran up her trunk The
animal contracted the muscles of the
trunk and held the rodent fast. When
the rat had been removed the elephant
gave signs of great satisfaction and made
no further resistance to being led back to
the circus.
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ERE AT NAsHVILLE.
TRADE REVIEW.
Wheat Touches the Lowest Point Ever
known for Options.


known for Options.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-R. g. Dun q Co. Is
Weekly ReUjea0 Of Trade Tomorrow will
say: With the chief crops of the West
and South shrinking in value, it is not
strange that purchases of manufactured
articles are smaller than was expected
Wheat has touched the lowest point ever
known for options, and the accumulation
of stocks is discouraging to purchasers
for an advance. Holders are compelled
TO sell at prices below the ordinary cost of
raising crops, and in some Western States
there Is also a lamentable failure of the
corn crop. Under these circumstances it
would be strange ii the demand for man
ufactured products should be ouite as
large as in other years.
Wheat suffers most from accumulation
of stocks in sight, which are far beyond
| what is usually expected for the season,
and the exports Tor September Were nm
usually small. For the first week in
October Atlantic exports were I,0I7. .O26
| bushels, against S63, 40 last wear and
Western receipts were only 4.6l5.OO0
| bushels, against 6,l30, $50 last year. and
these figures give some encouragement.
| but have little influence in view of the
unusual visible supply. The price for
cash wheat is small fraction higher for
the week.
Corn receipts at the West have only
been third as large as they were last
year. with exports amounting 10 nothing.
| but the price has not further declined
after the heavy fall during the previous
| fortnight.
Pork products are weak in tone, though
| lard is quoted lower.
Cotton is one-eighth cent lower. the
cash being the lowest known for fortv-
five years, and considering the differ
ences in classification, it is, perhaps.
| lower than in any year since 1919. and
estimates that the crop is more than ten
million bales are more commonly cred
| tied now than estimates of S,40O. 900 bales
were two months ago. With favorable
weather the yield seems likely TO be the
| largest ever known.
| The condition of the industries is in
some respects more satisfactory. Evil
/ IDENTIFY there is a larger demand for iron
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KILLING OF BIRDwELL.
Evidence Accommodating Aga
Thomas Blanck

evidence Accommodating Against
Thomas Blanck.
SEATTLE (Wash.), Oct. 5.-Evidence is
accommodating that the man who calls
himself Thomas Blanck, who shot
Charles Birdwell and tried to murder De-
tective Cudihee, is the man who killed
Marshal William Jeffries of PuyaIIup
last Sunday night. Chief of Police Rog-
ers, Sheriff Woolery, Z. Duval, Jailer of
Pierce County; J. NJ. Hicks, a deputy
OF Pierce, and J. L. Ballaine of the Ia
coma Ledger, all compared notes to-day.
and agreed that his identity with the
Meeker murderer was reasonably sure.
Tomorrow John Scott, the hotelkeeper
OF MeelIer, who has seen the murderer of
Jefferies, will see the man and settle all
doubt. Blanck, in talking with the
Chief. refuses TO make any direct admis-
sions, except that ne was in Puyallup the
night of the murder. remained there
eight hours, walked several miles along
the Northern Pacific track, and spent the
night in a shack, walking on here next
day. He waived preliminary hearing,
and when his attorney talked about get
ting his sentence reduced, said he would
rather be in hell than IN a penitentiary.
He told Cudihee he wanted to plead
guilty, and get the thing over.
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STATE GRANGE.
MERGED Selected as tho Next Place of
Meeting.


STOCKTON, Oct. 5.-At this forenoon's
session of the State Grange B. T. Walton
OF 1uba City was reelected member of
the Executive Committee. He was the
only member whose term Of office had
expired.
The matter of selecting a place at
which to hold the next annual session
was taken up. Merced and Chico were
proposed. The vote resulted in the Sc
lection of the first-named town, which
was 80 to 1.
The consideration of the proposed
amendments to the State Constitution
was taken up.
Amendment No. l, providing for an
educational qualification for voting, was
adopted, as also was No. 2, with refer
ence TO the formation Of new counties.
Amendment No. ,, proposing that
fruit and nut bearing trees under the age
OF four years and grapevines under the
age OF three years shall be exempt from
taxation, was partially approved.
Amendment No. 4, which provides that
foreigners of the white race, or of African
descent eligible to become citizens, shall
have the same rights in respect to the
acquisition Of property as native born
cItlZens, was passed by temporarily.
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Dron in the price OF Ub,s,-r

PEORIA (Ill.), Oct. 5.-Whisky dropped
10 cents on the Board of Trade here to-
day. but it was the reduction agreed
upon at the meeting of the trust direct
ors, which was mentioned in the circular
sent out to the trade announcing the dis
continuance of a special cash rebate and
made to make the prices equivalent to
what they would be with the and Scent
rebates. The reduction did not go into
effect until to-day.
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CAPTAIN HowGATE
Says He Is Glad His Trial is Soon to
BegiD.

Says he Is Glad His Trial is Soon to
Begin.
WAsHINGToN, Oct. 5.-Howgate was
interviewed at the District Jail to-day as
to District Attorney Birny's purpose to
bring the prisoner to trial within the
next ten days. II am glad to hear it,''
sald he. II am ready for trial at any
time, and ask no favors except that sim
pie justice shall be done me. All I want
is tair treatment"
Referring to his capture by eX-Chief
Drummond, Captain Howgate said: 81
have been greatly amused at what Mr..
Drummond claims a great piece of de-
tective enterprise. The whole truth of
the matter is that l have walked the
streets of New York. Hardly a day
passed but what l have been recognized
by people from Washington. l never
intentionally harmed a man, woman
or child, and 1 have always endeavored
to treat every body as l would like to be
treated. What most concerns me now is
the position in which my family will be
placed.n
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An Embezzler Arrested.

PHOENIX "a. f., Oct. 5.-George He'll
man was arrested here to-day by Special
Revenue Agent John Il. Andrew. He'll
man is wanted in Vermillion County, H.,
for the embewlement OF $4,000 school
funds while he was Treasurer OF the
school district. He absconded last March
and came here, where be has two BROTH
ers-in-iaw. He engaged in business here.
Application has been made for his extra
dltion, and Andrew left last night with
bis prisoner for Tucson, where The Gov
ernor is at present. If the warrant is
signed he viii proceed directly TO Illi-
nOiS,
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Charged with Murder.

DETROIT, Oct. 5.-William Trombley is
locked up at the police headquarters on
suspicion of being connected with the
murder of Charles B. Chauvin, his uncle.
Trombley is the missing heir to the Chau-
vim estate for whom the police have been
searching New York, and who sold his
interest in the estate to John II. Sets.
Trombley and Sets came to Detroit from
New York last night
The record-union., 1894-10-06

charge of assault to kill. The distin-
gushing marks given were so positive,
that when Captain Chamberlain met him
In Edison this morning the Identification
seemed complete. Captain Chamberlain
recognized the man from the description
furnished. and when he placed him un-
der arrest the first thing he said was: Il
know they think am Mike o. Brien, but
l am not. My name is Maxfield." A
Portland officer is expected to arrive to-
night to take him back.
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Running Down Bank Robbers.

BLOOMFIELD Qnd.), Oct. 5.-The rob-
bers who dynamited the Bloomfield Bank
safe Wednesday night and got away with
nearly 5000, were run down with a posse
and bloodhounds last night There were
three, one of whom was shot down. He
gave the name of Charles Rivers. Rivers
had $l,l00 of the stolen money. He is
badly wounded. The other two robbers
have eluded the posse.
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PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIPS.
Talk of the Pacific Mall Absorbing the
o. and .. :. Company.

Talk of the Pacific Mail Absorbing the
o. and .. :. Company.
SAN FRANCIsco, Oct. 5.--It is stated
here that the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company is about to absorb the Occi-
dental and Oriental Steamship Com
pany. The latter company was started
about twelve years ago by the Southern
Pacific Company in opposition to the Pa
cific Mail. For time there was lively
rate war, but compromise was effected,
and the steamers of the two companies
divided the business between this port
aud the Orient. c. Z. Huntington is now
President OF both companies, and as 1t is
stated that the steamship lines OF the
Northern and Canadian Pacific have-cut
into the business from this port, the con-
solidation is proposed as measure OF
economy. The Pacific Mail owns It's own
vessels, but the Occidental and Oriental
leases It's steamers from the White Star
line.
The record-union., 1894-10-06
Good Templars.

OAKLAND, Oct. 5.-The Grand Lodge of
Good Templars of the State of California
has elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Grand Chief Templar
William Woodward Of WatsonVille:
Grand Vice-Templar, Mrs. E. NJ. North,
San Francisco; Grand Counselor, J. A.
Anderson, Lodi; Grand Secretary, w. p.
Netherton; Grand Treasurer, l. 5. Hal
sey, Vallejo; Grand superintendent OF
Juvenile Work, Mrs. NJ. Z. Richardson,
Oakland
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a CHINEsE MINIsTER CENsrREp
CZAR OF RUSSIA.
The Condition of tho Ruler Said to be
Hopeless,

Hopeless.
PARIS, Oct. 5.-Serious rumors were
circulated here to-day in regard to the
condition of the Cars health. Trans
actions on the Bourse in consequence
were weak.
LONDON. Oct. 5--The Vienna CORE
spondent OF the Telegraph says be learns
from trustworthy diplomatic source
that the condition of the Gar is hopeless.
The temporary Improvement is only
possible by a complete abandonment of
OF State business. His majesty is con-
scious of his condition, and has been en-
gagged lately in writing sort of political
testament.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. Sit is stated
that the Gar is suffering from extreme
weakness, but he is not confined to his
bed. If he Is too weak to go to Corfu in
December he will spend the winter in
Southern Russia.
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SUSPICIOUS Death at Los AneeIes.

Los ANGELES, Oct. 5.-William J. Ora
good, a man 90 years old, was found dead
at the corner of Wolfskin avenue and
Second street early this morning. An
empty pocketbook lay open ten feet away
from him. There was blood on Ora
goods mouth, but nothing else to show
he was the victim of violence. The sup
position is that he died of heart disease
superinduced by fear of assault and was
then robbed after death. Oragood owned
an express wagon and while not we'll off
always carried money with him. He has
wife in the East somewhere.