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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-25

captain Nsrsro. writes Asau, the war
tntubs

tn'ubs.
HosrUS, March gi.-Tho STANDARD
tomorrow VIII publish letter from
Capt G.. 4. d. Naleroy, a member Of
the personal sun Of Gcu. Maxine co.
M .. iu tue Cuban patriot army. Tue
letter was written by Mr. y. II. John.
stone of Ncw Haven, COM, with
whom Capt. NalrrO- became intimate
while ~ Yale college. Toe letter suys,
90 uat!
Il mas been a most terrible expert.
uuUe through which l have passed
duung the last thiry days; blood,
blood, blood and blood Agaiu, every
where. NJ lee than SIX of Uur head
quarters mpss have gone o their ciufn.
nI rest since my last 20 yUu-all Killed
with tuulr inctH 10 the foo.
1--WE have marched ana counter.
matched over fuJ mtles Of territory the
pusI Two month";; have met tue enemy
thitty.Uuo different timrs, twenty.
eight Of " hich We have been success.
ul. The suyeTest Of these was on the
railroad from Havana 10 MatAuEis,
Ia Havana province, about nineteen
miles north OF the capital, thu battle VI
Moro del Rcy. The enemy loit twenty.
nine killed aud fiity.0uu wounded on
the Held, nine OF whom were on Cet,
Gen. Gomez Lost thirteen killed Auu
thifty.Ouo wuuniod.
"Iho spanish newspaper impartial,
published In Havana, gave the TuUr,
lossss AZ upwards Of 800, anu pro.
sumo dispatches reaching tue states eK'
uggeratvd fully a, greatly"
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TirauciaI PLANK Ia the Platform Ia
favorable co silver.


favorable Go silver.
MIsNEArOLIs, March 2i.-Gn the
Minnesota state republican convention
held today Ia the exposition hail, IN
which Harrison was nominated four
years ago, Robert q, Eynns VI Min.
ueapolis, Geo. Thompson " st. Pau,
Chns. +. Henity Of Sank Center anu
l.. 4. Hunt Of hlankato were elected
IelegBtes-Ai.laTge 10 the ~. Louis
convention anl instructed TO use all
their influence towards securing the
nomination ~ Mckinley, who pre-
sided over the convention Of 1899.
The result was not attained without =
struggle, though the victory Of ,olen.
tiiic p0litics over state pride was de.
cisivo. The withdrawal OF the nam, 4
OF Cushmsn X. DAvis, authorized by o
dispatch rom tho senator ut Washing.
ton, removed tho only obstacles IN the
way OF a complete Mckinley victory,
AMI by a strange chance, all but Que OF
tho delegates chosen, q. L.. Hendry,
were strongly inclined toward Davis
before his withdrawal.
Tho platform teltoTAteb and eniorsts
established Republican doelfiues, and
contains the following financial plank:
"KesUlved, That We favor the use OF
both gold aud silver 10 the extent 10
which they can be maintained In cir
oulAlion nj rarity In purchasing aud
debI.payiug power; that W. are earn
estly opposed under the present cOndi-
tiOuB 10 tho free and uullmltod coinage
Of silver tor the manifest reason that
II would destroy suuh parity, enormous.
ly contract tho volume Of our currency
by i0rcln g gold Out OF circulation, anu
place us on silver basis.
"Belleving also that II IL self.
evident fact that the effect Of the in
ternalional decentralization Of silver
can be- overcome only by the iniBrnR.
tionsl temoL etizhtiun Of that metal, the
Republican party o. Minnesota most
healthy fayOfa an International con.
ference for that purIo,e.
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SAN FRANCIsCO, March 2i-Ihe
Brush bark Alexandra was towed
into port last night in burning con.
ditiOu, She left Newcastle, New
south Wales, on Dc muVr p, 1895,
for PORT Lls Angelica. On March lB,u
smOko was discovered lssuing from
her hold. She met the schooner Helen
n. Kimball, bound from PORT Harlord
Tor Tacoma, the next day, anu the
captain OF the schooner agreed 10 stay
with the burning vessel II the captain
would put into san Francisco. The
stores aud baggage OF the burning vss.
sol were transferred 10 the schooner
and her head turned toward thia Iorl.
She was picked up by a tug near the
Farallones last nigut aud lowed 10
the Mud FiatF, where Bhs was
DeacheI. The damage is not known
NJ present.
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mis- Proposed changing rubiic Land
Admtntstrattou.

mills Proposed changing rubiic Land
Administration.
WAsHtNUIUS, March 1.-Two bills
10 materially chang, the public land
administration " Alaska were reported
tluay by the House committee ou pub.
lIc nu.F, one Of them was o. create
tho office ~ surveyor general Tor
Alaska, with n tsisty OF ss,uUJ. The
other was ~ authorizes the Ptu.tIent 10
appoint register aId receiver tor pub
nc lnnds.
Tho committee also iav0rAbly report.
ed ~ the House "a Uill 10 PERM, pvtslte
who have located miuinR claims on
forest reservations tue fightOf.wsy ~
those reservations aud the right ~
uuIli tnmWGys, etc. Als1 a MI O.
open Fort Lewis reservation In Color
ud which includes 80 600 acres, 10 tue
location VI miuins aud other clalms.
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DAvENPORT, Iowa, March 49,
Remini, the great vlollhist is very III
m this city. His wife, who IL In New
York Ci1y, has bees tslsgTAphsa ior
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MEM TINE CARO-, IN EFFECT DEC. I. 1895
81 $40 Arflts and Dynri a. SaH Lsks
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Wnford woodruff, Geo ~. Cannon,
President Cashier.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29

but himself led him to think that the
depredations must have been commit
ted by four-footed enemies and a search
was instituted. Several nests of rats
were found. Some of the bills had been
gnawed beyond the possibility of ever
discovering their denomination. but a
great deal of the money was compar-
atively uninjured. A large roll of the
mutilated greenbacks were sent to the
bank where Mr.. Carberry keeps his ac-
count and there redeemed. But many
of the bills are far better suited to the
needs of the rats than anything else.
Just how much money was carried of
by the rats could not be ascertained,
but that il amounted to several hun
bred dollars is undeniable. At present
Carberry keeps his paper money on top
of the bar, where a careful watch can
be kept on IL.
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barking In another contest. He now
pretends TO demand an immediate fight
with me after training seven months
Tor two fights. one OF which really
came of, thanks to the fact that this
actor was not principal What never!
1 Will fight, and, mark you. whip this
fellow when | get good and ready; pro-
Vided, always, i can get him into a
ring with me. / will not. however,
crafty his greed nor advertise his
show by signing articles for a match
with him now. / will not play a single
dollar into his hands. He doesn't de-
serve IL.
Since 1 have been in America / have
met and defeated in quick succession
such men as Billy Mccarthy. Arthur
Needham. Jack Dempsey. Peter Maher
Owice). Dan Creedon, Jim Hall, and
bested Joe Choynski. Indeed in these
years j have done more lighting than
Corbett has done in all his life.
! said l might fight while in England
l wish TO say. however. that will not
accept Frank +. SlaVin's challenge for
a battle. as that would be senseless in
view Of the fact that / twice defeated
Jim Hall. who conquered Slavin. More
over. no club would, / think, give a
suitable purse for such a contest.
After a tour Of Europe shall come
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29

Carlton, the bartender. was in charge
of the place. He had three 81 bills,
which he placed in the drawer. Several
men. habitues OF the place. were lean
ing up against the casks opposite the
bar, and several others were playing
cards, and when he came back and
again opened the drawer the bills had
disappeared. Thinking that IL was a
joke put up on him by some of the bar
room wags. he asked that the money
be returned before he made up his cash
account for the night. When the time
came the bills were still missing. Time
and again the same sudden disappear
ance and establishment and regret have
been experienced. but. unlike the cat OF
blessed memory, the bills returned not.
Carberry himself missed SIS one night.
He counted his money over and over
again. endeavoring TO persuade himself
that n 81 bill was a 'ten-spot" In or
der 10 make the account square. but
his Imagination failed.
This sort of thing went on until a
few weeks ago. when Carberry put a
s. bill i'm the drawer. He turned away
for a few moments and upon again
opening the drawer the bill was no.
where TO be seen This was too much.
The sudden disappearance and the fact
that no one had been behind the bar
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boom which would materially aid him
financially. In the end he would never
fight me. AS the date of the contest
drew near he would begin to make i'm
possible conditions just as he did in our
late match.
/ will give him no boom nor permit
him to advertise himself at my ex-
pense. He treated me too shabbily for
that. He tried to hold me off as he did
Peter Jackson.
When / satirically answered one of
his latest advertising blasts by telling
him to go and get a reputation. some
people were inclined to criticise me.
They forget that this is precisely the
way in which he treated me. l am no
saint to get one cheek smitten and then
turn the other for a jolt. l return tit
for tat. Before agreeing to fight me.
he told me TO go and whip Jim Hall.
Dan Creedon and Joe Choynski, and
then he would do battle. When l best
ed them all he put up another stone
wall in the person of Steve O'Donnell,
whom Peter Maher. my latest oppo-
nent, whipped in a punch. oh, yes; this
oratorical pugilist was always great on
buffers.
now simply give him a dose of his
own medicine when / tell him to go
and whip Choynski. Maher. Jackson or
Slavin before he talks TO me.
He talks about his record. Why this
counterfeit never met a full-grown man
or well conditioned man of the cham
pionship class I'm his life. Joe Choynski
was a mere boy when he met him.
That lion-hearted pugilist. John L. Sui
Ivan. was a mere wreck of his once
magnificent self when Corbett faced
him. He had been sick for a long time
before. Charley Mitchell was practi-
cally the same. and 40 pounds lighter
and five inches shorter than this talk
al a1h xx-ha ha al Inn,
As for Peter Jackson, whom he danced
TO for a draw (he certainly did not
fight), we all know his condition. Peter
had a sprained ankle and could not
chase Corbett after a few rounds were
fought. Corbett kept away from him.
and a derrick of 900 horse power could
never drag him into the ring again
with Jackson. Briefly summed up, the
record OF this boaster is that of a
champion who has defeated or drawn
with sick men, old men and disabled
men. He could never be induced to
meet Peter Maher. Frank p. Slavin. Joe
Goddard or any strong, husky young
man OF the championship class. He
fed like the brave man he is from Peter
Maher when he saw the Irishman
whom he had insulted coming into the
Illustrated News Office in New York.
Editor Arthus Lumley vainly endeav-
ored TO restrain him.
My record is that OF a man who has
conquered healthy. strong young men.
i twice took and defeated Maher whom
he twice lodged. i met Joe Choynski.
whom he fears TO tackle. / expressed
my willingness TO meet either Joe God
dard or Frank Slavin in New Orleans
when the Olympic Athletic club was
getting up a great carnival a few years
ago. Corbett would not face them for
a kingdom.
Corbett always demanded two years
or more rest between his battles Cd
NTH these disabled men before en-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29
AN ESSAY ON CORBETT
Robert FitzSimmOns Scores the Ex-
Champion in Picturesque Fashion.
TELLS WHAT HE MEANS TO DO
VIII First Visit England and Have
Good Time-Will Then Return
to America Prepared to Meet
All Honorable Challenges.

Copyright 1896. by Bachelor. johnson &
Bacheller.)
How 1 won the battle is now an old
story. and / won't bother to repeat IL.
Everyone knows that by defeating
Peter Maher, to whom James ]. Cor
bett cutely turned over the champion
ship to avoid a battle with him. that
won that proud title, and that 1 mean
TO retain II as long as / have the physi-
cal capacity to do so.
1t is more to the present purpose that
j inform my legion OF friends through
out the country what my future plans
are.
Well, first, 1 mean to take a brief
rest. The public will, l think, agree
with me that i am entitled to it after
training first four months for that arch
fakir and theatrical poser, James lingo
Corbett and two months more for that
really honest fighter, Peter Maher.
To Corbett's hysterical shrieks for an
immediate fight / shall not pay the
slightest attention. He is the least of
my troubles. He is no better or no
worse than a tormenting mosquito, and
we all know how to treat mosquitoes.
] shall take a trip to England and en-
JOY myself all l know how. My entire
family and my manager will go with
me- After a bit of sight seeing and re-
cuperation, / shall probably give some
plenty of invitations to do so. l may
fight some good man over there; but
that, of course, is problematical, as the
chances are no man over there could
get my strong backing, now that Peter
jackson has retired from the ring.
When 1 have properly rested myself
and had a thoroughly good time, I
shall return to the United States,
which is now my home, and where i
am a citizen. / will, after such reason
able rest as l have mentioned, be ready
TO meet any honorable challenge for
the worlds championship. l do not re-
gard James Jester Corbett as an hon.
orable challenger. In fact, l know he
is a fakir, an arrant pugilistic humbug
who never means to fight anybody un-
less that body be a soft mark, a sick
man, an old man, or cripple. He
wants to make an alleged match with
me now solely for advertising pur-
poses His show on the road has met
with a cold frost, / understand. and
this actor (heaven save the markD is a
rank failure. Matched with the
worlds champion his show would get
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John Franklin, was stabbed and was
sent to the city hospital. This was
coming too strong for the old woman
and she procured for 81 a voodoo bag.
Yesterday Lavinia went softly up tne
stairs at the Four Courts carrie
case was on the docket in diVison No
! of the criminal court. The old wom-
an gingerIy pushed open the door, and
then she dropped the bag in a corner OF
the floor, making several backward and
forward passes over it and mutterins
to herself. She then faded down the
stairs. The bag was found 10 contain
a bunch of hair. a rabbits loot, a bot
tie. a piece of green glass some sInok-
;n. tobacco some string, a copper cent.
a niece of paper containing some
strange scribbling and several minor
articles. Carries case was continued
until noon to-day. and the efficiency of
the charm remains in doubt
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back to America, prepared TO meet all
honorable challenges.
Robert Fitzsimmons.
RATS LIVED IN LUXURY.
Their Nests Composed of Bank Notes
Taken From the TIL.

From the New York Tribune.
The pleasure that a rat takes in steal
ing has never been accurately estimat-
ed. Discretion or discrimination on the
part of the rat is absolutely unknown,
but the rats in John Carberry's bar
room. at Atlantic and Rockaway aven-
ues, showed remarkable taste in the ar
ticles that they selected to carry away.
Mr.. Carberry had been I'm business for
nearly six years. and had lived on
Ocean hill for a quarter OF a century.
For the last two or three years money
has mysteriously disappeared from the
cash drawer. Both Mr.. Carberry and
his bartenders were utterly unable TO
account for this disappearance. vague
idea that a second Hermann was circu-
lating about the premises and extract
ing money from the till by sleight-of-
hand performances led them to keep a
particularly careful watch In the en-
deavor to discover the thief
One night in March. 1892, Mike
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29
Charming the Court.

From the st. Louis Republic.
Lavinia Beard does not believe in at
torneys. She puts all her faith in VOC
doc bags. She is quite old. walks with
a stoop and wears green goggles. When
her daughter. Carrie Reed, was ar
rested a week ago for taking a couple
OF shots at Eva Bryan. her mother pro-
cured bail. Then Carrie fought with
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His wife-My dear. you have been
talking a great deal in your sleep late
ly.
a-heml-I hope-a-I hope / have not
exnressed any decided views about the
currency Question--Puck.
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Rpans Tabules: Sold by druggists, or by mail il
the price $50 cents box) is sent to The Rpans
Chemical Company No. Spruce ST., New York
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-12
HE WANTED LEGAL TENDER.
A Washington Attorney Was Loaded With
Forty Silver Dollars.

Treasury officials are highly amused
at the experience of Mr.. Newton /. Col
lamer, a patent attorney of 1905 street,
Washington, ID. O., with the local post
Office authorities over the collection OF a
postal money order for $40. According to
the story, Mr.. Collamer concluded from
perusal Of treasury circular No. 123, con-
tanning information in regard to the ma.
tionsl system Of finance, that, while
gold and silver certificates are receivable
for ell public dues, they are not legal
tender. I'm mbued with this idea, he took
q $40 money order to the money order
department of the city postotfice. Tho
money order clerk had only silver cer-
tifcstes, and they were rendered him in
payment of the order. He refused to ac-
cept payment in such currency, and de-
manded either gold, silver. green backs,
treasury notes or national bank notes.
The money order clerK had only silver
certificates, and did not know exactly
what to do. in tho premises. He held
hurried consultation with his superIors,
and an examination was made of the
postal laws and regulations. 1t said
that Postmaster General Wilson was also
consulted. 1t was found that sect ion
1247 Of the postal laws snd regulations
provided explicitly that;
"OnIy legal tender money and national
bank notes are 60 be received and paid
out In the transaction of the money
order business
This discovery seemed TO sustain the
contention OF Mr.. Collamer against
the use of silver certificates, and, as
there was not any purely legal tender
money on hand, Mr.. CollAmer was told
to cell again.
In the meantime, the officials OF the
treasury department were evidently con-
suited I'm the matter, with the result that
the local postal authorities were informed
that ali the requirements OF the law
would be fully met by the payment of
the order in question in standard silver
dollars, which are fun legal tender in all
government transactions.
Although not so stated, 1t is believed
that the local postmaster was given a
supply of silver dollars sufii cient to meet
MIR. .Lollamer's order, and all similar de-
mands for some time to come. 1t is pre-
sumed that Mr.. Colsmer has already
tired of carrying his lead OF silver, and
ere now exchanged Ii for silver certiti-
Gates, the very character OF money which
he ut fret refused to accept Although
one is legal tender and the other is not,
they are interchangesbie,and practically
the same thing FOR all ordinary business
transactions.
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To those who have tried to make the
white metal an instrument Of good it is
a profound shock to see q great party
undertake 70 WELD IL az weapon of
disaster Yet that is what the Democ.
racy has undertaken. In the name Of
silver il has summoned the Adullamites
out of their cave and invited them TO
make an issue Of their grievances. They
have done 80 bringing the dire threat
Of a social revolution. Silver is already
subordinated to tho spirit Of anarchy -
Chicago Chronicle
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-12
The Wrong Kind of Hired Man.

The speeches Mr.. Bryan has been
making since his nomination are serv.
ing the good purpose Of exhibiting him
to the people as a shallow and fiippant
young man who may tickle the ears of
crowd around a stump or about the
tail emf of car, but who is manifestly
without qualification for the very seri-
ous Office to which he aspires. To use
his own expression, he is convincing all
reasonable people that he is not the sort
Of "hired man" they want in the White
House, and more especially at this par
ticular time, when the interests of every
citizen imperatively require statesman
ship of the highest order and calm and
experienced judgment for the wise set
tlement of the questions under discus
sion. New York Sun.
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THE VALUE RAISING POWER or
COINAGE

"Making coin OF met al creates de-
mand for It for That purpose and raises
It's market value" complacen,ly OBJ
serves ous esteemed contemporary, The
Pointer.
1t is one Of the stock arguments of the
silver cause. 1t is true, and 1t isn't true.
"open the mints to silver and the price
will go up-from 81 to ], 10 the 6xed fat
ratio 16 to l."
That's what they tell us. But, II is to
be noted that after telling US tnat they
are quite likely to add: "or IL 1t doesn't,
why reduce the grams In the gold dollar
value to bring the two metals to q
parity"
But what basis is there for the opinion
that the demand for metsl for coinage
purposes raises Its market value except as
that market value is to bo raised by any
depandy
From 1884 to 1873 the mints OF the
United States were open to the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver at the ratio
Of 10 to ]. To be sure there was no "de-
msnd for that purpose" the nints
simply being open TO what came in.
But there was all the demand that free
coinage law could make. That, however.
there was no "demand" under the ratio
~ to 10 indicated By the fact that the
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-12
WHO WORKS MAY READ.
A Michigan Employers Object Lesson to
His Workmcn.

Frank A. Pravey, q manufacturer at
Port Huron, Mich, has had the follow
ing signs put up in his factory:
Bryan and silver experiment (16 20
~ mean worse panic than 1898; prob
able ruin TO this company consequently
no work for the men.
Mckinley and the present gold
standard mean to us good credit and
good ordors for this company and plenty
of work for the men,"
Bryan stands for trade and the
money use for silver alone"
Mckinley stands for protection and
the regular money use Of both gold and
silver. Confidence confidence in a
mans or a nations ability to pay. and
confidence in mans or a nations hon
est intention to pay, and confidence that
money promised will be as good AS prom
ised, and confidence in the future--is
necessary to make business generally
good. More confidence instead of money
Is needed"