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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
From the Battery to the Waldorf.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2a.-The process
sion up broadway from the Battery to
the Waldorf was uninterrupted by
any unusual incident until Nineteenth
street and Fifth avenue was reached.
There 4 little ragamuffiu threw dried
lemon peel at the ambassadors car
riage. 1t made curve in the air and
Gen. Ruger and Ii had to dodge it SO
as not to be hit by it. There wa an
Immense crowd at Thirty-frzt street
and Fifth avenue, but Ii entered the
hotel quietly. The cavalry linsu up
on the south side of thirty-third street
saluting him Us he passed. in.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
Drowned While Flying a Kite.

Louisa Schwarts. aged 10, of 4?Oe
Bushman street, st. Louis, while fly
ing a kite fell into one Of the settling
basins of the water works at BiSsell's
point, and was drowned. She was
running backwards watching the kite
rise. There was nobody around to
warn her that she was backing to-
wards the basin. At its edge her body
took a plunge. There was 4 piercing
shrek OF horror, and the child disap-
peared into the water.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
still Another-An Aeronaut Unconscious
AT al hospital.

DENVER, Col, Aug. 81. Sergt.
Baldwin. attached to the signal scrv-
ICE. of the department OF Colorado, fell
from his balloon whilc making an as
censIon at Elitch's gardens yesterday,
and Will probably dIe of his injuries.
AS the balloon was released and
rushed upward, Il sudden gust of wind
blew the aeronaut swinging from the
trapeze against a tree, IN shock daz-
ing him SO that he lost his presence of
mind and when above the tree tops he
let GO his hold, falling a distance of A.
feet.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

A DISPATCH from Havana, on the
Gath, said that Capt.-Gen. Weyler. hav-
ing learned that a number Of planters
in Cuba had made arrangements to
pay the insurgents certain sums of
money in order that they shall not be
interfered with in the work of gath
ing the coffee crop, vas about to issue
a decree ordering a suspension of the
gathering of the crop.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

The jury in the trial of Mrs. Todd
for murder. at New London, after be-
ing out nearly twenty-four hours,
failed to agree, being nine for convic-
ton and three for acquittal. The for
mer trial resulted precisely the same.
Gov. Ball appealed for the release of
Mrs. Todd on bail, and this was grant
will take place in October.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

A sailboat of unusual beauty, an
chored just north of the Eads bridge,
st. Louis. attracted much attention the
other day. Inquiry revealed that the
little craft had been built according to
the design and under the direction of
Frank I. Perrigo, who is totally blind.
He graduated from the blind school,
st. Louis, a few years ago, and is a
piano tuner by profession. He has also
studied the art of boat building.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
Value OF u Good Watch.

Two engines and seven ears were de-
mOlished in a rear-end collision of
frcights on the main line of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, nea Greenwood, Jack
son county. Both engine crews jumped
and escaped with a few bruises. A
variation in the watches of the con-
ductors caused the accident.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
ANOTHER AERONAUT LOST.
in the Bay Off Pressure Isle
Narrow Escape of His Companion.

NarTOW Escape OF IIls NOIipaLIOh.
TOLEDO, o., Aug. 3l.-PrUf. L. ID.
Cole, of Ann ArbOr, Mich, an aero
naut, was drowned in the bay off
Pressure Isle last evening and his COM
panion Josie Carmo, narrowly escaped
1 similar fate.
They made an ascension yesterday
afternoon, and were to drop with
parachutes. The high wind carried
the balloon off shore and in Il shorI
time Cole and his companion found
themselves struggling III the water.
Miss Carmo's lie preseryer held her up.
until assistance came, u Coles got
away from him, and being unable to.
swim, he quickly sank. hIs BODY WAS.
recovered.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

John c. Merine, a portrait painter of
wide reputation, died at Kansas City,
aged IS. Among his canvasses are por-
traits of Abraham Lincoln, to whom
he was related; Henry Clay and other
old-time statesmen. He had lived in
Kansas City since 1869.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

HElong-delayed and much-heralded
wedding of Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt,
daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
Harry Payne Whitney, son of Hon.
William c. Whitney, took place at
1.-The Breakers" the famous summer
home of the New York millionaire, on
the 25th.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
Missouri sunday-schooI Association.

The thirty-first annual convention
of the Missouri State Sunday-school
association was held at jefferson CITY,
in the hall of the house of representa-
tives. The convention was in session
three days and 200 delegates arranged
for quarters. The delegates were the
guests of the city, and were enter
tanned at the homes of the citizens.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

On the 26th the Bank of England
raised the selling price of bar gold an
other half penny. Within few days
gold to the value of e2OO, 900 had
been shipped from Australia to San
Francisco, and similar shipments to
the amount of e3OO, 900 were about to
follow.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

IN an interview, on the 25th, Score.
tary of the Interior Hoke Smith said:
My resignation was due alone to the
fact that L intend to support Bryan
and Sewall. l have always voted the
regular democratic ticket, and shall
make no exception this year. l will
retire from Office on September l.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

THE total standard silver dollars
coined up to August l number 431, S52,.
O41. OF this number $40, So, 244 are ly.
ing idle in the vaults of the treasury
and 81, 999, 797 are in circulation, being
less than o~ne-seventh of the coinage.
The largest number of these dollars
ever in actual circulation was 67,547,-
O23, in December, 1890.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

THE Brooklyn Eagle says: THE Sc
lection of David Z. Francis, ez-govcr-
nor of Missouri, to succeed Hoke Smith
as secretary Of the interior, will com-
mend itself to the country. Mr.. Fran
els entered political life as a represent
tative of high principles and honest
purposes"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

IRVINE CLEMENT, a leading wool
grower of Van Vert county, o., and
his daughter Mary, aged IS, were
Glover Leaf train at Delphos, o., On
the 9th. Mr.. Clement apparently saw
the ears coming, but drove his buggy
across the tracks just as the train
reached the crossing.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

AMONG the distinguished callers on
Maj. and Mrs. Mckinley, at Canton,
o., on the 18th, We're Mr.. and Mrs. K.
2. Bland, of Missouri. The time spent
at the Mckinley home by Mr.. and Mrs.
Bland was apparently very agreeable
to both the callers and to Maj. and
Mrs. Mckinley.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
Touched a Live Wire.

Bert Marble, a young man in the
employ of the Southwestern Electric
Lislt Co., Joplin, was killed by a live
wire, which knocked him from a pole
to the pavement. Il distance of 90 feet.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

A LARGE number of kilograms and
strength of Maj. McKinley's letter of
acceptance were received at the head
quarters of the republican national
committee in New York city ON the
eth.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
An Old Resident of Jefferson.

William Picket, a member of the
Jefferson County Pioneer association,
and II OF the oldest residents of the
county, died at his home near Halls
Grove.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, on the 2Sth, stood
atS1Ol, 100, Ol9. The days Withdrawals
at New York were SOC, 400. The net
gold balances included the $500, 900
gold deposited at New York by Lazard
Freres. The treasury was advised that
81, SOC, 900 gold was engaged, on the
2sth, in Europe for export TO America,
making the aggregate gold on til:
way here S11, 900, 600.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

WILLIAM MCkINLEY's letter of ac-
ceptance of the nomination of the re-
publican party for president Of the
United States was given to the public
on the eth. 1t is a document of TO-
600 words, and treats eXhaustively Of
the free coinage issue and the tariff,
and touches upon other subjects con-
tanned in the platform adopted by the
st. Louis convention.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

A DISPATCH from Ashland, Wis, on
the Goth, said: Forest fires nre sur.
rounding Chequamegon bay, and the
air is filled with smoke. SO far the
flames have not reached near enough to
place the city in danger. The fire has
swept over a wide area of territory
west of town, and several homestead.
ers have been burned out.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

AFTEE proclaiming an ultimatum to
the usurping Said khelid, which was
unheeded, the British war ships in the
harbcr of Zanzibar opened fire on the
palace, on the 27th, and in a short
time reduced it to u mass of blazing
sruin. Many of the Askari troops
were killed, while but n British
sailor was injured. Hamoud, "A cousin
of the late sultan, was proclaimed sue
cessor to the sultanate. 1t is thought
that Great Britain will abolish Arab
rule, suppress slavery, and proclaim
Zanzibar a British colony.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

News reached st. Johns, n. F., from
Turnavic, Labrador, on the 25th, that
the steamer Hope, en- roate from the
Arctic ocean, commanded by Lieut..
Peary, reached that point July 30, af-
ter a quick run from Sydney. The
members OF the expedition landed, and
after making a series of scientific OBJ
servations sailed again for the north.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

A TELEGRAM received on the eth
by the chairman of the committee on
arrangement of the District of Column
bia, indicates that Mr.. Bryan will be in
Washington between the 18th and Goth
of September-probably the 18th.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
Was Wen Known in Vernon Comfy.


The laying of the corner stone Of
inc new $4,000 county courthouse at
jefferson City took place in the pres
ence of a large crowd.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

The San Francisco Examiner-Jour.
nails transcontinental bicycle relay
race started, at noon of the 25th, from
the Examiner business office. An i'm
mense crowd witnessed the start.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
THE DEMOCRAT,
ID. H. ADAMS Publisher.
CAPE GIRARDEAU. . MISSOURI.

THE czar and czarina left the palace
at Peterhof, on the 25th, on their way
to Vienna, where the first of their
visits will be made.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
= Minister.

Rev. nr. jackson Parisade Nolan,
aged &c, well-known in Methodist
circles, died at his home in Macon. Ills
death was due to progressive paralysis.
Was Well known in Vernon Comfy.
John A. Crockett, Il well-known citi-
zen of Vernon county, died at Mound
vile, after an illness of a few hours.
He vas about seventy years old.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

This is an increase over the assess
ment of last year of 81, 595,2 PA. The
number of miles of road assessed last
year was 6,472, and the number of
miles assessed this year 6,514, being an
increase of IL miles.
Of the new road built nearly all was
in southern Missouri. The old roads
built five miles, and 10 miles of track
were abandoned.
AS indicating the aggregate assess
ment of road bed, rolling stock and
buildings against the several larger
systems in the state, the following
may be of interest.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
MISSOURI A NEWS
Railway Assessment.

State Auditor Seibert has completed
the tabulation of the assessment of
railroad, bridge and.telegraph proper
ty as assessed, equalized and adjusted
by the state board of equalization for
the taxes of 1896. The assessment as
summarized between the several
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
Complete Detailed Report OF City
Work Before the
BOARD


Following is complete record OF street
work, including awards, assessments,
petitions, protests, resolutions and recon-.
mendations considered by the board:
RESOLUTIONS OF INTENTION.
Devisadsro, between Haight and Waler-Bitu-
men.
Franklin between Green and Union-Bitumer.
Franklin, between Union and Filbert-Bitumen.
Franklin, between Filbert and Greenwich
Btumen.
Franklin, between Greenwich and Lombard
Thirteenth. between Folsom and Harr SON
Twelve-inch sewer
Greenwich. between BroderIck and Baker
Bitumen.
Lombard, between Van Ness avenue and Polk
Basalt blocks.
Van Ness avenue, between Vallejo and Green
Stone sidewalks.
Lake, between First and Second avenues-Btu-
men,
Second avenue, between California and Lake
Bitumen.
second avenue and Lake-street crossng-BItu-
second avenue, between California and Chestnut
-Bitumen.
Sixth avenue, between A and b streets-Sixteen-
inch sewer.
Sixth avenue and B-street tcrossing-sixteen-inch
sewer
Francisco, between Broderick and Fillmore
Macadam.
Francisco between Broderick and Baker
Macadam.
evisadero between Post and sutter-stone
sidewalks.
O'tarrel and Steiner-Stone sidewalks.
Webster. between Greenwich and Filbert-Plank
sidewalks.
Fillmore between Post and Geary-Stone side
walks
NOTICES OF STREET WORK.
CoIlingwood, Nineteenth to Twentieth-Basalt
Green, Polk to Van Ness-Basalt
Cha tanooga and Twenty second, crossing
Bitumen.
Church, Twenty second to Twenty-third-Plank
sidewalks.
Pilbert, Leavenworth to Hyde-Basalt gutter
ways, Ditumen sO61o feet f. from HYDE and
eo6bles 2o6la fee Il. to Leavenworth;
greenwich Leavenworth 10 Hyde-Grade.
thirteenth, Sanchez TO Noe, s. side - Side
walks
Van Ness avenue, Green to Union - Side
York, Twenty first TO Twenty-second-Bitumsn n.
sacramento Stockton to Powell-sidewalks.
Haight aud Clayton-Sewer, cesspools, corners,
aaight, Clayton to Ashbury-sewer, two man
holes.
Ashbury, Waller to Frederick-sidewalks.
STREETS ACCEPTED.
lSgned by the Mayor)
Jones, Green to Union-Cobbles.
sixteenth, Church to Sanchez-Bitumen.
van Ness avenue, Green 10 Union-Bitumen.
Grove, Fillmore to Steiner-Basalt.
ACcEPrANcEs RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE TO
PRINT.
Webster, Oak TO Page-Bitumen.
Laurel Sacramento TO Calfornia-Bitumen.
Eel, Clay on TO Coie-Bitumen.
Fell and Cole nersection-Bitumen.
rel, Co.e to Schrader- Btu men.
Teii rer ana Scs schrader intersection Bitumen.
Market and Noe. crossing (conditional)-Bitu-
men.
Grove, Baker to Lyon-Btumen
Waller and Devisadero. crossing-Bitumen.
AccEPTANCEs RECOMMENDED BY STREET COM
MITTEE.
Grove. Baker to Lyon-Bitumen
"aer ana Devisadero, crossing-Bitumen.
ACCEPrANCES RECOMMENDED BY sUPERINTEND-
ENT OF STREETS.
Van Ness avenue, Union Eli bert-Bitumen.
Van Ness avenue and Filbert, crossing-Bitu-
men.
Van Ness avenue, Filbert to Greenwich-Bltu-
men.
alnut, Sacramento to Clay-Bitumen.
Cherry Clay TO Sacramento-Bitumen.
Willow avenue, Gougn TO octavia- Bitumen,
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07
TO TAX ITS FRANCHISE.
Siebe Wants to Collect From
the Mutual Electric Light
Company.
The Corporation Will Take the
Matter Before the Board of
Equalization.

The Mutual Electric Light Company
has petitioned the Superior Court to re-
strain Assessor Siebe from collecting S1125
taxes which he has levied on that corpo-
ration on a $4,000 valuation of its fran
chise.
The light company claims that it has
paid personal property tax on S1S,445,
which it says is the full value of its per-
sonal holdings. The company claims
that it is young corporation and that its
business is not sufficiently profitable to
make its franchise worth anything like
the figure at which Mr.. Siebe has valued it.
The object OF the restraining order is TO
get the matter before the Board OF Equal
ization.
Another phase of the matter is the con-
tention that the Mutual Light Company
has no franchise, although how that claim
Will hold is not obvious, as it paid taxes
on $4,000 valuation of its franchise last
year.
1t is also claimed that the Board of
Equalization has not proceeded in the
matter OF equalization of the assessment
roll of 1896, and, therefore, that the at
tempt of Assessor Siebe to collect taxes for
l896is in violation of the State constitu-
ton.
Judge Trout issued the restraining g
order.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07
his identity. With this the witness was
allowed to depart.
James p. Hamm Philadelphia detect

his identity. With this the witness was
allowed to depart.
James P. Hamm, Philadelphia detect
i've, took the stand. He had seen Becker
and Creegan in Philadelphia in April of
this year, and had placed them under ar
rest on April Is, after watching and fol-
lowing them for some time. He had
charge of Creegan and Detective Eckstein
had taken Becker. On the way to the
station Creegan had offered Hamm 500 if
he would let him go. At the time of their
arrest Creegan admitted his true name
but Becker at first gave false name, and
finally gave his true name after the Chief
had recounted some OF his former deeds.
Hamm had searched the two prisoners.
Upon Creegan he had found five new $40
pieces of 1895, stamped with the "S'' of
the San Francisco Mint, and upon Becker
he found thirteen similar double eagles.
Upon visiting the Hanover Hotel, where
Becker and Creegan were staying under
assumed names, Detective Hamm had
found two steamship tickets to Guatemala
via Panama, upon which were the names
j. w. Hillen and q. M. Bader. The de-
tective had also found a package, which
was opened at the police headquarters.
The contents of this package were the
same as those OF the package given by
Creegan to McClosker in Oakland. Upon
his examination at Philadelphia Becker
had explained his possession of the
forger's outfit by saying that he was on
his way to Central America to open q
gam bling-house and that he intended to
use the inks and acids on playing cards
He admitted to the magistrate that while
"he engraved little, painting was his
trade. "
Creegan told the Judge that he had been
in California playing the races" but
Becker declared that he had been in New
York all winter. AT the conclusion of
their examination before the magistrate
Creegan and Becker were told to get out
of town within an hour and they did so.
Before they left, however, the two men
and Detectives Hamm and Eckstein drank
wine for twenty or twenty-five minutes
before the train left.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07

took the money. Meanwhile McClosker
stopped at stand to get his shoes blacked,
and while he was still on the stand Cree
gan came back and gave him package to
take to New York, because Creegan said il
would be dangerous for him to keep it.
Later McClosker had exaroined the pack
age and found miscellaneous assortment
of acid, inks, pens, brushes, drafts and
tracing paper.
McClosker had left the satchel at the
bootblack-stand, but after he and Creegan
had left the latter suggested that he 20
back and get the satchel and throw it
overheard or get it out of the way. Nc
Closker went back and got it, but left it at
a drugstore on Seventh street. When he
again met Creegan the latter gave him
500. which ne said 1.-THE Dutchman" had
sent him. With an agreement to meet IN
Omaha or New York. McClosker and Cree
gan finally parted.
McCloskersreturned TO this City and saw
Seaver at the Lexington. McClosker told
Seaver that'he had had hard days work,
that he was glad the business was over
and that he was going home to New York
that evening. Seaver asked him to get
him ticket also and MeClosker did so.
Before leaving the City Seaver gave him
what he regarded as a present of $500.
McClosker went East that night. taking
with him Seaver's baggage, to be delivered
at the iatter's residence in New York.
According to his previous agreement
with Creegan, McClosker put the follow
ing personal advertisement in the New
York Herald: "Jim: Meet me every
night at S. at s P. NJ. Joe." And few
days later: Jim: Every night for q
week at the S., s P. NJ. to S:15. joe"
The two met as result of these ad7er-
tisements, and McClosker returned to
Creegan the package which had been
given him in Oakland. Creegan and Nc
Closker had then gone to Philadelphia
and returned soon to New York, where
these two and Seaver met. The three had
then gone to Minnesota and were arrested
in Minneapolis. McClosker did not know
of his own knowledge that Becker was
present in Minneapolis, but he had seen
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07

LOANS on watches, jewery, silverware, at Uncle
Harris, Is Grant avenue.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-07
Wagner Makes a Strong Fight
for an Indefinite Post
ponement.
sERGEANT.AT-ARMs CHANGED
Owners of Castroville Lakes Water
File Supplementary Offer With
the Board.

The question as to whether saloons in
San Francisco shall be closed between 1.
midnight and o'clock in the morning
nearly precipitated row in the meeting
of the Board of Supervisors yesterday. Al
the last meeting of the board an ordinance
to that effect was passed to print and
came up for its second reading yesterday
Supervisor Wagner, who, by the way, i:
in the retail liquor business, opposed il
vigorously and moved that the matter be
indefinitely postponed.
He said that the order was aimed at the
dives, which every one understood to be
an evil, but that the effect would be more
far-reaching than had been at first in.
tended.
He declared that places like the Orpheum
and kindred resorts, which he said were
supported by the most respectable people
in San Francisco, would be closed by the
order.
Supervisor Taylor demanded to know
why there was such an inclination on the
part of certain mem bers to put the mat.
ter off indefinitely. He said he looked
upon the order as good one which would
rebound to the credit and benefit of San
Francisco.
Supervisor Wagner stuck to his state
ment that the order would injure those
for whom 1t was never intended, and said
that II the present ordinance closing sa-
looms at l o'clock A. NJ. was enforced the
law would be strict enough to suit all.
Supervisor Taylor averted further dis
cussion by moving that the matter be re-
ferred back to the Health and Police Com
mttee.
E. S. Field, a Supervisor of Los Angeles
County, sent a communication requesting
the board TO Cooperate with the southern
authorities in getting bill passed
through the next Legislature providing
for an appropriation for the support OF
aged persons and iDdigents. This was re-
ferred TO the Judiciary Committee.
Supervisor Hobbs introduced a resolu-
tion that was carried declaring vacant the
position of sergeant-at-arms of the board,
held by William Donald, and appointing
Robert B. Bartlett, former employe of
the munici pality IN the same capacity, to
the place.
The same Supervisor introduced reso-
luton instructing the inspector of gas
lamps to furnish the board with list of
places in public streets and, buildings
where lamps are contiguous to each other
and where one or more can be cut off with
out loss to the efficiency of the service.
The owners of the water supply of the
Castroville lakes sent in an offer supple
mentary TO the one made some time ago,
in which they offered to sell their prop
erty for $4,000 900. They also sent in re-
ports from William Irelan and G. A. Og-
den commencing the waters of the lakes
both as to quantity and quality.