Evening star., 1896-02-06
IN HOTEL CORRIDOR S

day was Hugh Condor Of Birmingham, ana,
speaking Of the recently elected Senators
from Utah. brought about a discussion OF
the polygamy feature of Mormonism. II
understand that this has been done away
with in Utah." said Mr.. Condor, but it has
not been abandoned by the Mormons in Ala
bama. AS Is we'll known, the elders Of the
Church of Latter Day Saints have been
especially energetic in the south. Many Of
the converts went west, but some Of them
did not. In Winston county, made famous
as the home of Rube Burrows, the noted
outlaw, and still the place of residence of
Allen Burrows, the father Of the bandit,
there are number OF Mormons. In fact,
the sect is strong enough to have church.
a primitive affair built of logs, and in this
little community the polygamous feature
seems to be the leading one. They have
nothing to do with the other people, living
together in a community of their own. 1t
does not conform in all respects to the faith,
but they live up to it, as best they can, ac-
cording to their IDEAS"
Jos. L. Hannaford of Los Angeles is at the
National. IA prize mean-man story has
just come to light in my city, he said. "a
twelve-year-old boy, who is the principal
means Of support of a widowed mother.
whom he provides for by doing odd jobs,
picked up a five-cent package Of cigarettes
lying in the window of a cigar store. The
proprietor learned who he was, and, going
to the mother, threatened to have the boy
arrested unless she paid him IS. The wo-
man sold her bed to get the money and paid
the amount asked. Then the cigar dealer
sWore out warrant, and the boy pleading
guilty, was sent to the reform school at
w hitter. II any community claim a
meaner man than that, l would like to get
a chronological chart of his head
George C. McLach!an of Bonneville. N. c.,
{c ha Jatr A.
south he said: Il cannot understand why
the resources of our section are not more
rapidly developed. Now, for example, in
Mitchell county, which adjoins Wautauga,
the one l live in, on the north, there are
ruby mines that have been operated for
over thirty years. There is no railroad by
which the county can be reached, and be-
yond occasional spasmodc efforts, no real
attempts to get one. And yet it is well
known that those rubies are Of a very
valuable quality and in large quantities.
Fortunes have been made out OF the
mine now being worked, but no one tries
to open any others. l was at Murphy and
was shown by Prof. BeaH some sapphres
worth large sums found near the Hiawas-
see river. good many of them have
been sold, but no one makes a business of
finding them. In Hall county, Georgia, a
bed of ltocolumite the natural matrix of
the diamond, exists, in which a number of
diamonds have been found, notably five
by Prof Whatley of the state geologist's
office. A man named Hill now runs a
small printing office in Atlanta, which he
bought from the proceeds of one diamond
found in that county, and yet no attempt
has ever been made to mine for diamonds.
Fine amethysts are common. Children
carry excellent specimens in their pockets
because they like the color Of the stones.
1t is one of the ineXplicable things to me
why no one investigates the extent of
these southern Jewels
Horny E. Farrar, a well-known lawyer
of Peru, Ind, was discussing the Indian
question with some friends at Wizards.
II don't see why the Indians cannot be
provided for in the west as they are in the
older states," he said. There are scarcely
any states in tho Union where Indians do
rot exist We have the Miamis just out
side of the city of Peru and they give us
little or no trouble. They do not know how
to take care Of money, and when they
teive cash it is gone as a rule for the first
article they take a notion to possess. But
they make better and more honest citizens
than many Of the immigrants we allow to
come to the United States. The same might
be said OF the Oneidas in New York and
the various remnants Of tribes in other
states. When all Of the territories, in
cludrg the Indian territory, become states,
dian question, it will speedily adjust itself
just as it has in the older states"
L. R. Blake Of Crossville Tenn, is at
the St. James. Crossville is the county
seat Of Cumberland county, one of those
that are at the present time on boom on
account Of the operations Of the Standard
Oil Company in that section during tho
past few months. 1t is also the center of
oP t,a
is still fairly good deer hunting left Mr.
Blake, in response to query as to how
many deer are being killed on the plateau
this winter, said. Every few. The old
hunters say that white deer was seen
early in the season. Whether the animal
was an albino or a creature of the imag-
ination 1 do not know, but too many repu-
table men saw the animal to- entertain any
doubt that the white deer was there. The
strange part Of it Is that the white deer
has been seen previous winters, and all at
tempts to kill it have failed The hunters
are suDerstitious concerning it and when
be scarce during the entire winter, a
prophecy that has been verified every year
that the white deer has been seen. Last
season it did not show itself and there was
plenty of venison on the plateau, but there
is very little now"
'"Texas was once part Of the bottom of
the Gulf of Mexico'" said A. R. Donaldson
of Dallas at the Arlington. There are
great many evidences of the fact, but none
are stronger than the existence of oyster
shells of an ancient type, some of them ex-
ceedingly fantastic and peculiar, found in
a sort of ridge extending clear across the
state from north to south, many of them
being on the highest hills. At Henrietta,
which is a town in the Panhandle north
west of Fort Worth, there is one of these
mounds, and houses are built of the shells.
They are III beds and easily.removed from
the EARTH but when brought into the air
cement together and become as hard as
granite, making excellent building or paw
ing material, especially the latter, no road
on earth being finer than the one at San
Antonio constructed Of these fossil shell.
Portions of Texas are lower than the pres
ent gulf bed, and sea grasses flourish. OF
course, 1t was centuries ago, but at one
time the gulf of Mexico extended up into
what is now the Indian territory