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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-12-15
COFFIN'S FEE.
Some Lively Evidence in the U. 6.
Court YESTERDAY.

|
The cAs il which .renm"ra Coffin |
sues for II fe- OF $4,000 for services
rendered the Union Mill & Mining
Co. was resumed in the Z. S. Court
yesterday.
PAID IN FULL.
H. NJ. Y%erington testified that be
had arranged with Coffin for his fee
and that it WAS 81, 500 in each Of the
two cases. He had paid $4,000 in full
for all services rendered. He pro-
duced the flowing letter to show that
Coffin had given the case but scant at
tention.
COL, WOODS INQUIRIES FOR COFFIN
San Francisco, April 14th. 1891.
H. Nj. Yeriagton, Esq. Dear Sir
I have written two letters to Coffin in
regard TO the water SUITS ard get no
reply. Is he out OF the case? The
matters about which I have written
are important and il he does not in
tend t 0 give them attention [ would
like to br informed, 50 l may know
waat to do.
Yours truly,
w. S. WOoD.
Evan Williams took the stand and
corroborated Y~eriDgtOn as To his I'M
derstandine of the amount Coffin was
to receive for his fee viz $1,000. Yer
ington had reporteG TO him the fact
tha at he had an understanding that il
was to be SO. 900 and that the amount
had been paid.
Major Ford testified that he and
Yerington and Coffin were present in
the office Of the V. & T. when they
fixed the fee for both cases az $1,000.
MAKING UNNECESSARY WORK"
The following dispatch was intro
duced in evidence and read:
Washington, d. c. Dec 11-W. L
Sharon, Carson, New, q never a
any time retained Coffin in water suit
Never said anything to him about hi
fee. In my talk with him [ simpl,
!, recognized the fact that he was one o
\ Jllt dIlOl ueNS III VIC Hdtct suit oh'
: discussed generally the liti alton ant
the desirability Of compromise or dis
mis5al. Always understood thar Yer
, iDeton had arranged with him con
corning the fee. What are dates c
letters and kilograms referred to an
r. what is the substance? Have no recol
;, lection Of any except replies to som
O letters written by him during the pas
a two years cOncerning statistical iu
formation from irrigation bureau
n Van DuZer attest;ed t. them
@ 1t struck me at the time that he We
n making unnecessary work and / pa
" little attention to it.
" Francis g. Newlands.
After some further testimony tt
evidence closed and the argument wi
begin today.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-12-15

Mrs. Chas. Parish. Of Bijou, came
down yesterday to attend the funeral
OF Wales Averiii.
John P. Meder has returned from
San Francisco.
Another marriage is reported on the
tapis.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-12-15
Christmas Goods.

Jewelry, books, albums, CUTLERY,
glassware, toilet articles. fancy goods
Christmas ornaments at John q.
Fox's.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-17

given by the Circuit Judge in his oral
decision, that there must be an actual
participation in profits and not merely
contemplated participation. We do
not think this is sound law. Agreement
to participate in profits as profits would
be as strong as actual participation in
the profits. But this will not avail
plaintiff in the view we have taken; the
result of non-suit is the same although
one Of the reasons given by the Circuit
Judge may have been unsound.
We refer also 20 the following cases
bearing on the main point:
Boston Smelling Co. V. Smith, Is r.
l., q.
Denny V. Cabot, Met, 90.
Needham V. Valentine, % Fed. Rep,
276.
Holmes v. Old Colony R. R., 5
Gray, So.
Exceptions overruled.
Kinney & Ballou for plaintiff. Neu-
-Magoon for defendants.
Honolulu, H. l., May 3Oth, 1896.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-17
Before JUDD, c. j., FREAR and
WHITING, u.

A agreed with B and in consideration of
the loan TO him of apparatus to be
used TO float steamer of the reef
when she was aground TO pay to b and
q $1,000, which was equal to one-thIrd
of the price 10 be paid a by the steamer
and 10 return the apparatus, and, in
case of success, then d to also purchase
and pay for the apparatus.
The value OF apparatus furnished was $500
The venture failed. Il and took no
part in carrying out the venture, nor
did they in any way hold themselves
out as partners of a. There was no
actual partnership between a and b
and c and no intent to create part
nership.
Held. that y and q were not liable to third
parties as partners of A.
Held, that the agreement was not mere
cloak or cover 10 conceal latent de-
sign, nor device to escape liability as
partners while enjoying the benefits Of
partnership under the design of
loan.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-17
In the Supreme Court of the
Hawaiian Islands,.
March Term. 1896.

A. STRoHM VS.. w. f. WILSON,
A. COCKBURN and A. NJ. Nc
DOWELL.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
CRUEL MOCKERY.

Nj. Stewart advocated the passage
Of EIIin's resolution as amended by
Butler Of North Carolina prohibiting
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Ex-Governor marshall.

ST. PAUL, Jan. 9.-Ex-Governor w.
r. Marshall of Minnesota. died last
night at Pasadena, Cal, where he went
about two years ago for his health.
A private telegram announcing his
death was received by his relatives to-
day.
William Rainey Marshall was born
in Boone county, Missouri, October II,
1875. and came here in 1847. He was a
member of the first territorial legisla-
ture in 1S49. from st. Anthony. In
1851 he presided over the Minnesota
Republican convention and was his
party's candidate for Congress.
The Daily Press. afterwards CONSOLE
dated with the Pioneer. was founded
by him When the war came he en-
listed in the Seventh Minnesota regi-
ment and commanded that regiment
during most of the war, ande was
breveted brigadier-general in 1855 for
gallant service.
In 1S49 he was elected governor and
served four wears. He was later,
from 1874 to 1881 state railroad COM
missioner. but gave most Of his time
to his private business. although the
state historical society," of which he
was secretary for year. always had
his closest attention. Governor Mar
shall was active in the Loyal Legion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
House Rules.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-At the be-
ginning of this Congress the House
adopted for its parliamentary code the
rules of the last Republican Congress,
the Fifty-frst, with any changes it
might adopt on the recommendation Of
the committee on rules. These changes
We're reported to the House by the
committee today, but with one excep-
ton are unimportant. The exception
is the mode of establishing the pres
ence Of a quorum, which. after the
precedent laid down by Speaker Reed
in the Fifty-frst Congress became q
most important point OF parliamentary
practice. In the last Congress Speaker
Crisp achieved the same result which
Mr.. Reed obtained, by a rule under
which two members were designated
to note those present and not voting
on a roll call. The committee on rules
now proposes a rule introduced by ].
Randall Tucker, of Virginia, in the
Forty-sixth Congress. The rule is as
follows:
Whenever a quorum fails to vote on
any question and quorum is not
present and objection is made for that
cause. there shall be a call of the
House and the sergeant-at-arms shall
forthwith proceed TO bring ia absent
members and the yeas and nays on the
pending question shall at the same
time be considered as ordered.
The clerk shall call the roll,
and each member as he answers
to his name NAV vote on the
pending question and after the roll
call is completed, each member ar
rested shall be brought by the SER
eeant-at-arYns before the house. where
upon he shall be noted as present, dis
charged from arrest and given an OPP
portunity to vote and his vote shall be
recorded. If those voting on the ques-
ton and those who are present and de-
cline to vote shall together make a
majority of the house. the speaker
shall declare that quorum is consti-
tuted and the pending question shall be
decided as a majority of those voting
shall appear, and thereupon further
proceedings under the call shall be
considered as dispensed with"
Another new rule provides that the
speaker shall entertain only one mo-
ton to adjourn and no other dilatory
motion after a report has been made
by the committee on rules until the re-
port has been fully disposed of.
The rule by which the previous ques-
ton can be ordered only by "a ma
jority Of members present if a quorum
is changed to a majority Of members
voting, if a quorum is present
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mas. DAyIDsoN,s TRIAL.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. AT the
continuation of the police court ex-
animation of Mrs. Mary a. Davidson
this afternoon for alleged extortion
from Rev. C. o. Brown, pastor of the
First Congregational church, the de
PENDANT was again on the witness
stand on cross-examination. Her at
torney tried TO show by repeated ques-
lions that DIR. Brown was aware OF
the existence of the mysterious Mrs.
Baddin for whom Mrs. Davidson said
she was collecting money from DR..
Brown. This point could not be de-
veloped, however, nor did Mrs. David
sons attorney succeed in introducing
evidence as to the clergyman'S alleged
intimacy with Miss Overman. The
prosecution tried to show by the de-
PENDANT that she had been convicted
of a felony in Lynn, Mass, and had
served a term in the penal institution.
The witness could not remember if she
had been convicted nor could she re-
call the names of any persons whom
she was charged with having swindled
although their names were suggested
to ber
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to silver. offers no hope of definite re

to silver, offers no hope of definite re-
lief
AS to the Venezuelan manifesto,
every country in Europe, republican
France included, viewed the presidents
message and Mr.. Olney's letter to Lord
Salisbury. published in full in the Lon
don Times, with amazement The
truculent threats of the administra--
ton were not taken seriously except
in England, but were viewed as cam
paign politics. 1t would be- difficult to
convince Europe that this country was
anxious to Intervene in Central
American boundary dispute to the ex-
tent of going to war with nation of
our own civilization, blood language
and religion, in behalf of non-contigu-
Gus American states. whose republics
are usually military despotisms with
an average duration of few months,
concerning questions which can never
vitality affect our own integrity or in
Dependence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
WOLFOTT'S VIEWS.
Silver and Foreign Affairs Now I'm
der Discussion.

Silver and Foreign Affairs Now In
der Discussion.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Senator
Walcott of Colorado who recently re-
turned from Europe gave his views to-
day on the silver and foreign affairs
discussion. He said;
"An international committee of the
European bimetallic leagues. including
Mr.. AlIard, Belgian delegate to the
Brussels conference and leading BIZ
metallists from England, Australia
Germany and France held an import
ant conference recently in Paris and
had several interviews with its mem
bers. We have little idea in tbs
country Of the unselfsh and important
effects throughout England and the
continent in favor Of recognition of
silver. There is hardly an intelligent
land owner in Europe who is not a
bimetallist. There were two import
ant results of the meeting at Paris.
A plan for an identical resolution on
the Importance Of international agree
ment to be introduced in the English
parliament, the French assembly and
the German reichstag was agreed upon
another important result was the
establishment of cordial and close re-
lations between the bimetallist asso-
Citations of the different countries of
Europe, notably between France and
Germany. And the reception accorded
the committee by the president of the
French republic, was from foreign
point of view, important and signifi :
cant. The statesmen of France and
the manager of the Bank of France
are bimetallists and public opinion
favors bimetallism. The Paris news
papers, however. with one or two ex-
ceptions, controlled by private monied
interests are gold monometallists.
While bimetallists abroad are &C.
lively at work, 1t must nevertheless be
admitted that the prospect of any ac-
ton is not favorable. In Germany.
where there has been much hope, the
banking element, aroused by the posi-
bility of action by the reichstag, Is ex-
pending much effort in favor of the
single gold standard, and its influence
is naturally widely felt. Whoever in
vites this country to await European
agreement before opening up our rnirits
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
METAL CORNER.
Stories of an Alleged Attempt Have
Been Revived.

KANSAS CITY. Jan. s-The Journal
reyives the recent stories of attempts
being made to corner the output OF west
ern gold mines, and asserts that through
business transactions of the Wells, Far
go Express company, it has been devel-
oped that agents of the Rothschilds have
secured contracts with the mine owners
of Cripple Greek, Colo, under which
most 0l the gold taken from the mines
there during the coming year will so
into the Golfers of the bankers.
1t is stated that a few months ago the
express company experienced great
falling off in its revenues, due to sud
den cessation of gold shipments from
the smelters at Denver, Pueblo and other
western cities. The company sent It's
general agent here, Mr.. Amador An
dreWs. to Colorado to see whether the
business could not be recovered. Mr.. An
drews ascertained, it is claimed, that
such contracts had been made between
the miners and shelters and the bank
ers, and that the output of many OF the
gold mines was being regularly stored
in the western cities. Mr.. Andrews re
fuses to confirm this statement. but the
Journal asserts that the information
leaked out through authentic sources.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Jan. 9.-The A. T.
A. made a test of its strength today
in the municipal election for fire and
police commissioner two members of
the board OF public works, a street
commissioner and two members of the
board of election. The contest was be-
tween the regular Democratic organ
ization and q citizens ticket, the lat
ter endorsed by the a P. A., and the
straight Democratic ticket won by
about 1000 majority The vote was
only about so per cent of its registered
strength of 5000
After the polls closed in the Ninth
ward. a riot was almost precipitated
by Democrat firing two shots into a
crowd. one of which struck boy in
the leg. Thereupon bystanders armed
themselves with Winchester rifles, but
the police interviewed and prevented
serious consequences.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
ninInmntic nnr

WASHINGTON, Jan. s.-This being dip
lomatic day at the state department, Sec
rotary Olney received a number of the
foreign representatives, including May
royini Bey. the Turkish minister, Senior
Andrade. the Venezuelan minister, Baron
Won Thielmann, the German ambassador,
and Senior Dupuy de LONE, of Spain. The
visits were said to be Of a social character
but the political prominence Of the coun-
tries represented by the callers led to the
usual speculation.
Minister Andrade received his official
mail from Caracas previous to visiting
the state department but this did not dis
close any change in the situation neces-
sary to be communicated to the authori-
ties here. Mr.. Andrade's adViceS are that
the country is peaceful.
The country continues to be very dem
onstrative over the attitude of the United
States.
The reports that considerable force
OF British Guiana troops nv taken up a
position on the Cuyuni river is not given
great significance by the Venezuelan au-
This post has been occupied by the
British for three years.
Besides the diplomatic callers on Secre-
tary Olney, Senator Sherman, chairman
of the committee on foreign elations, had
a talk OF an hour with the secretary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
FOR DEFENsEs.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Elm the
statements today by the officers of the
bureau OF engineers before the senate
committee on coast defense. of which
Senator Squire is chairman, the fact
was brought out that the engineer de-
partment requires S2,5O0.O00 to be spent
Immediately for torpedoes and torpedo
mines for land defense. This is in
dependent of torpedoes for the navy.
The committee sat behind closed doors
during the discussion of the torpedo
system. In case of a sudden emer-
gency it would take at least a year If
the appropriation was made to procure
the material, manufacture the torpe-
does and put them in place at the prin-
cipal ports of the United States.
The chief of engineers advocated the
expenditure of S12 100000 during the
fiscal year ending June 90, 1897. This
sum would not provide the money
necessary to be expended by the ord
nance bureau for guns and gun car
riages, but would cover the cost of
emplacements for guns and of torpe-
does.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
THE RING.

Ell PAsO. Texas. Jan. 9.-Dan Stuart
arrived here today, accompanied by Ev-
erhardt and his trainer, Seymour South
erland. Mr.. Stuart says he has found it
necessary to make several changes in
his carnival programme. Critic refused
to fight Eyerhardt to finish, so Horace
Leeds has been matched against Ever
hardt. Peddlar Palmer could not be Sc
cured, so Stuart has signed Dixon and
Marshall for the fourth event on the
programme. Stuart said tonight: II do
Every T 'e event on the az" Carnival eG viii be to
the finish for the championship and you
can state that there viii be positively no
hitch, that every fight will take place as
scheduled without any interference. Ma
her viii be here Saturday to go into reg
ular training"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
THE TURF

SAN FRANCISCO Jan 9-Offictals OF
the Pacific Coast Jockey club charge that
the Western Union wire from Ingleside,
which is leased by the club, has been sys-
tematically tapped and the results of the
races given to all the pool rooms in town
at the conclusion of each race. Dis
charged telegraph operators are suspected
of tapping the wires and of maintain
ing an organized peanut telegraph SER
vice" In it's fight against the down town
rool rooms, the racing management has
closed the telegraph Office at the track
and now no Office on the coast will be
able to get the results from the track.
NEW YORK, Jan. "a dispatch to the
World from London says: Richard
Croker has wrttten his trainer en- es
Morton, that he will not return to Eng
land for four months. The first racing
event in which he has an entry occurs
about that time.
Fire broke out in an clubhouse of the
Vantage stables and burned the entire
structure with the American hickory
suI<y to which Jockey Simms drove a
horse when the society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals made the famous
protest last summer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
PENSION BILL.
1t Carries the Modest Sum OF
S141. $50.


S141, 325,S2O.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The pen
sion appropriation bill was reported to
the house today. The bill carries an
appropriation of s141. 325,S2O which is
about the sum appropriated last year
and estimated by the commissioner of
pensions to be necessary. The princi-
pal change was dropping the legisla-
tive provision proposed by W. a. Stone
of Pennsylvania, that no pension should
be reduced. suspended or dropped ex-
cept for fraud established by a United
States court. The provision that when
an application is rejected for in
formality and a pension secured by
subsequent application it shall date
from the first application was retained,
as was the provision that a widow in
establishing her claim to a pension
under the act of June 81, 1890, need not
prove that she is without other means
of support than her daily labor. but to
this was added that "she shall prove
that her net income does not exceed
$500 per annum.'
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FOR CUBA.

TAMPA, Fla, Jan. g.-On Monday
night Alfredo Laborde, with forty-foUr
companions, sailed from a rendezvous
down the bay for Cuba. This is the
party that was stopped by the local
authorities on December 80. They
sailed q small schooner and were to
meet a steamer in the gulf which was
to convey them to Cuba. They carried
sixty rifles, one hundred thousand
rounds of cartridges and one hunderd
pounds of dynamite.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
TAMAIANY TALK.

NEW YORK, Jan. "a meeting OF a
commttte was held at Tammany hall. the
object being to move to have the ma
tional Democratic convention held in this
city. District Attorney Fellows and Sen
ator Thomas Grady were appointed as
orators to present the claims of New
York as candidate city for the con-
NO..llou.
The Tammany delegation will leave tor
Washington on Tuesday, January IA.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
GREAT nIscoNrENT.

PRETORIA. Transvaal. Jan. s-The
government is showing discomfort at
the reluctance displayed by the Rand
men to disarm. 1t is estimated that 90,
600 of the latter have been armed and
only 1900 have yielded UP their arms.
The armed Beers in the field are also
impatient.
The position at johannesburg is crit
ical and the ODER leaders have the Ut
most difficulty in restraining their men
A proclamation has just been issued
calling upon all the Rand men to disarm
before O. clock on Friday evening, on
pain of prosecution. Those complying
will be pardoned, except the leaders of
the revolt. There is feeling here that
the Rhodes charter will be cancelled to
prevent further disorders.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-10
TO cINcH sNoDGRAss.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. "a special to
the Commercial Appeal from Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, says:
The grand jury yesterday returned two
chief justice Of the supreme court Of
Tennessee. one for carrying concealed
weapons. and the other for felonious
assault upon John 3. Beasley. Beasley,
who was shot by Snodgrass, Is slowly
improving and will be able to appear in
court when the case is called.
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FAILED TO MEET.

WASHINGTON. Jan. s.-The senate f.
nance committee failed to meet today,
notwithstanding the instruction of yes
tecday's caucus, because I was d severed
that Senator Jones of Nevada would not
act with the Republican members of the
committee in reporting the bill without
an amendment providing for duty on
sugar. The Republicans of the commit
zee ar Elm a minority without Mr.. Jones,
He takes the position that as the peo-
pIe of the Pacific coast are largely inter
ested in the beet sugar industry. any
tariff bill passed should provide for the
protection of this interest. If he main
tains this position and the Republican
caucus does not reverse its instructions.
it will be necessary to report the bill ad-
versely if at all.
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Licked the Editnr.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Jan. "a special
to the Sentinel from Logansport, Ind.
says: George Forgy, a well known attor-
ney and broker and j. E. Sutton, editor
and proprietor OF the Logansport Daily
Reporter, had personal encounter in
ForeV geys 9 gnon Is eeyera m
and took pistol away from Inn when
Sutton attempted TO draw it. The trouble
grew out of an article published by SUIT
ton rejecting on the character of Forgy.
More trouble is expected.