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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-21
No Opposition to Bricc.

WASHINGTON, March al-The senate
committee on fisheries decided Friday to
report with favorable recommendation
nomination of Commander John j. Brice
of California 10 bo fish commissioner
Thero was no opposition and the report
will be unanimous when made.
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Made an Assignment.

NEWCASTLE, Pa, March 81. The North
wood Glass company. which had one OF
the largest plants at Elwood. made an AS
signinent Thursday. IL Is said that IN"
assignee will make the attempt to run tbs
works Fancy and colorcd glass was
manufactured.
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,,..a rax On I,nmigrants.

WASHINGTON. March Ex-senator FL
llns has introduced a bill providing Tor
head tax of sl0 OF each Immigrant
coming to the United States In vessels not
bclongine 60 citizens OF the United States
nor flying tho American nag
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,y.,,,.r ro,ec..,. ON Letters.

WASHINGTON, March ~ The scheme
of adding the lntest weather forecasts to
the regular postmarks on letters Will DO
commenced by the postofiicc department
July Applications for this service
from over forty postoiiices have beon hicd
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-21

kANKAREE, Ills, March 2l-M Shrontz
gcs.iing in Chobanse lrOquis county
died lie was engaged Ia an alteration
with his SON AMI during the excitement
utrst "a biuud vVssfi
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WASHINGTON. March a Tho senate
coumi''rr un territories Friday agreed to
nr,r. i.,amaly tha hiii lur the admission
VI .Ar,xvna as y state OF .he Union.
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DETROIT March 2l-The reported tor.
nation OF a circus trust with the view OF
crushing the smaller shows Is denied by
! 4 Bailey
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u.,.. smith and Crisp 40 Debate.

WARRINGTON, March 2l.-As "a result ct
correspondence between Secretary hoko
smith and ex-Speakcr Crisp an arrange.
,nast has been made for n joint debate on
tho financial question at a number W
places In Georgia. -
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nsMAy DIGNA

he declined TO express any opinion as 70
the situation. The assumption is that no
knows very little Of the scope of the move
ment. Ii Is known the order for the ad-
vance was surprise 10 him. With tho
experience gained through Wolseley's dill
atory vacilluIing tactics in the khartoum
campaign by the British war Office IL Is
practically certain that this expedition
will be called forward with sharpness and
precision. but il is not at all probable that
n serious advance VIII be made upon the
very threshold of summer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-21
MESSAGE ABOUT CUBA
President Cleveland May Send
One 10 the Senate.
TO BE A REPLY TO A RESOLUTION.

1t WIN show spain Liable for s3o.0oo.ooo
Damages To American Citizens In Cuba
General wcyier Satisfied with the Prog
ress of His Campaign Against the insar-
eents-Reports That lie Il to Resign De
oIared Untrue Ammunition Captured.
wAsnISGroS, March 2l.- Presiden,
Cleveland will send a message on C1bs
TO the senate early next week. probably
on Monday 1t will be an answer to the
resolution offered by Senator Hoar calling
upon the president for any further infor
nation In the possession OF the state do
partment relating to the Cuban situation.
particularly with reference to the ELECT o'
the war on American interests The
message will show the property OF Ameri'
can citizens in Cuba has been damaged
and destroyed by the operation of the in.
surgents and of the Spaniards TO the ex'
tent of about S3O.U000O0. Secretary Olney
has had prepared for transmission to the
senate, with this message, mass OF docu
ments in correspondence with United
States consuls in Cuba since Feb !, when
the last message on this subject was sent
In
Claims of American Citizens.
The American citizens in Cuba have
been filing their claims with the United
States consuls during the last Few
months, and they have been coming In AT
the state department at the rate Oh one OF
two a day recently The claims are Tor
all kinds of damages Inflicted on the
property and crops OF American non
.ombitants They are for the destruo
tion Of crops machinery, and buildings.
and the seizure of horses, cattle, and all
kinds OF domestic animals and fowls
which have been taken by the soldiers at
one side or other The Spanish soldiers
have committed at least Is many of the
minor depredutions as the Insurgents, II
not more and their methods have been
even more migrant The larger amount
| Of the claims has resulted from the de
| struction OF sugar cane. The bill which
| the United States will be called on TO rem
| der on behalf of its citizens against spain
| will be "A heavy one.
Liable for All Damages.
SO long as Spain persists in MAINTAIN
| ing it. is an Instruction only that exists
in the island and not a state OF war, 10 "a
| liable for all damages inflicted to prop
| erty belonging To peaceful citizens OF an
| other nation, whether these damages arr
| inflicted by its own troops or by those Oh
| the insurgents 1t Is not known whether
| President Cicyelands message will offer
any suggestions as To the future course
OF this country towards spain aud Cuba,
or whether he will content himself WIFI
transmitting the correspondence. The
documents will be submitted To the cabi
net, and 1t may then be determined
whether II is necessary for the president
To express an opinion on the Cuban reso
luton or To outline the attitude of the ad
| mfnistratiOn
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Der,ishcs Ready to Fight.

Fully OUo dervi-lies are reported afoot
and ready to figh The massacre OF ltal-
ians az Adowa filed them with warlikc
zeal. ana the fall # Kassala will infi1me
them with iunaticism They may take
the initiative and fall upon the advance
column Of the \ilo and crush IL even be-
fore the main support can reach Assouan.
Many serious minded Observers predict
that the attempt 10 carry rui England :
long muturcd policy In the Soudan will
provoke IA European war. inasmuch as 1t
will afford Russia and France the pre-.
text which they have been yoarnins for.
The wal spondcnts OF thn London
press are RAPIDLY concentr rating here.
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CAIRO March 2i.-The khalifa has
proclaimed ichad (holy war) against
Egypt. and has called all the dervishes
capable Of bearing arms to enroll under
his banners It is said that Osman Dig.
ma Is 60 leave Kassala ana join the derv-
ishes now mastering at Dongola. A cor
respondent called upon Lord Cromer. but
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-03-21

1t wni show spain Liable for s3o.ooo.ooo
Damages To American Citizens In Cuba
General wcyier Satisfied with the Prog
ress of His Campaign Against the insar'
gents-Reports That lie l. To Resign De-
elared Ammunition Captured.
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PROCLAIlIS HOLY WAR
The XhallFa Calls Upon Able
Bodied Deryishes.
MANY REPORTED READY TO FIGHT.

Dsmau DignA WIZ Join the Dervishes Now
Mastering at Dongola aud Take Part In
the War Against Egypt-king Meneiik
Demands sn Indemnity Of 40,0O.0OOO
Lire from the italian Govern,nent-The
situation Very Complicated.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
gagSSNg IDS FOR THE TORPEDO
ISWS BOAT DESTROYER-TF4E
SSs9S& CHEAPEST LABOR
THE MOST EXPENSIVE
VESSELS THE WORLD OVER

England, has built considerably over 1000
boats; Yarrow, another British firm, num-
Der their output by the hundreds; while
the German firm of Schichau and Nor
mand in France have likewise contributed
large numbers to the torpedo fleets, and
now firm located in part of the world
where wages are higher than anywhere
else, and more than twice what is paid by
Thornycroft, is ready to build vessel at
an advance of only about 25 per cent on
the cost per ton of the Ardent, built by
Englands most skillful torpedo-b boat
builder.
The naval appropriation of June 10 last
provided for the construction of three 30
knot torpedo-boats at the total cost not to
exceed $S00,O0O. The boats will be built
and fitted complete for sea by the con-
tractors with the exception of sea stores,
ordnance and ordnance outfits of all
kinds, which, however, will be fitted by
the contractors, and the latter are to fur
nish small boats, furniture OF all kinds,
electric plant, anchors, cables. rigging,
awnings, galleys ana furniture for galleys
of all kinds. The cost of $500, 600 for the
three boats includes that of ordnance,
which amounts to S19, 800 for the Union
Iron Works boat. On this basis of six
6-pounders and two torpedo tubes, 500, 400
deducted from $500, 900 leaves $74O, 800 for
the contract price of the boats, or $246, 867
for esch. The Union Iron Works bid is
$19, 667 below the average allowance, leav-
ing $513,100 for other contractors, and
gives chance to the Bath Iron Works for
two boats of go tons and 301l-knot speed
at a cost OF $4,000. with balance of
$102, 900 to be expended by the Govern
ment on ordnance, etc.
The naval appropriation further pro-
vided for boats, not to exceed ten in num-
Der, to cost in all not exceeding $500 900,
and the Navy Department invited bids on
two classes, denominated type No. 1 and
No. 2, subject to stipulation of speeds and
cost of armament to be borne by the Gov
ernment out of the $500. 600 limit of cost.
Type No. 1, intended for possible use on
the Great Lakes, Is to maintain An average
speed for two consecutive hours of not less
than twenty knots Of the nine bids
made by seven firms the Herreshoffs'
offer to build one boat for $40, 900 and
three for $37, 500 each is the lowest. The
armament of these boats is to be one l.
FOUNDER rapid firing gun and two torpe-
does, the cost of which with fittings is
$7I4O. If the speed falls below twenty
knots and exceeds nineteen knots the
boat will be accepted at a reduction of
$40, 900 per knot below twenty knots. If
the speed falls below nineteen knots the
Secretary of the Navy may in his discre.
ton reject or accept the vessel at re-
duced price to be mutually agreed upon
between the Secretary and the contractors.
Type No. is on the Cushing design of
about los tons displacement, to maintain
a speed of twenty-five and half knots for
two hours and to carry an armament of
three 1-pounders and to have three tor
pedo tubes, the cost of said ordnance
being about $11 $40. If the speed falls be-
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
RENCH CAPITAL
for California Mines.
= Baron de Boufray's
Story of Two Months in
the State Gold Mines.

The Baron de Boufray, whose estates
are in the province of Maine, In the west
OF France, and who has winter home in
Paris, is at the Palace.
at the request of some of his country
men who are interested in mining in Trim
ity County and elsewhere in California he
came here two months ago and has since
been in Trinity, Siskiyou and Calaveras
counties examining properties.
81 am not a practical mining man.
said the Baron yesterday TO CALL repre-
sentative, land therefore l am not able to
Judge accurately of the merits of different
property that l have examined. However,
so far as 1 can see, the gravel mines,
though paying less for the work done.
seem to be more steady and certain than
the quartz properties. l may invest in
some mines later, and if l do probably a
number of my friends will. At any rate,
l expect to come back to California and
spend some further time here.
1.-THE free-silver agitation you have here
1 hardly understand. In France we like
TO go safe, and we are very careful OF our
finances. The Bank of France has an
enormous reserve of old at all times in
its vaults. France has never issued a
piece of paper money without having the
gold behind it.
Our people have grown conservative in
late years. They do not like gambling in
any form, and they would rather have an
investment that would pay per cent
sure than have one that might pay 20, but
which might pay nothing at all. They do
not like to take chances. We have never
had free coinage of silver in France, and
the Minister OF Finance deems it unwise,
1t does not seem to me that the free coin
age of the white metal here would be good
for business. And it seems to me that 1t
is dangerous in America to have free sill
yer for the credit of America.
1.-THE people are wonderfully hospitable
in California, and shall always have a
warm re ard for them. l live in the west
of France in summer and go to the city in
winter"
The Baron will leave on his way to
France to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
8HSa& UEER INSECTS THAT BRING
SMESV RAIN TO SAN FRANCISCO.
UNS THEY HOLLOW OUT BIG
PALACES AND CAUSE THEM
TO COLLAPSE SUDDENLY

or cones and flank the edifices with little
towers, constructing them so soldly that
many men may stand on them and not
fall through.
There are lot of soldiers on duty all
the time; they are very large and have
great jaws, and are always ready to attack
anybody molesting their homes. Every
house or community has king and queen,
laoorers and soldiers, and there are about
100 iaborers to every soldier.
They begin to emigrate at the COM
mencement of the rainy season. AS their
wings are not strong, for the emigrants
are all young. they are only calculated to
carry them for few hours. Many of
them get caught in the rains, and the
number that perish in this way is enor-
nous. 1t is said that not one pair out of
many thousands reach place in safety,
"The queen lays about sixty eggs IN
minute, or $4,000 in twenty-four hours,
and they are instantly taken away by the
laborers and carried to part of the ant
hill, where they are matched. And the
larvee are tended to and nursed until able
to shit for themselves"
ut appears that the curious insect which
now floats about the streets of San Fran
cisco does not here destroy buildings, as in
the hotter countries; it is more creature
OF curiosity than anything else. The met
amorphosis OF the insect is peculiar. Seen
at different times during the different
stages of development it wouldn't be rec
ognized as the same thing. At one time it
is little bit of bunty, Insignificant
looking bug with a couple of antenn@. a
collar with Haunting end on each side
and couple of pairs of legs; add TO this a
ridgy back, and that's the bug as a whole.
''Seen at another stage the bug has
evolved and developed the most striking
thing about IL, being a pair of hornlike
pinchers, which extend out in front OF its
eyes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
FRENCH ToRPEDo-BoATs

Average cost per ton of the three boats is $685.
against $53S 50 of Nos 81 and SO in the British
Navy of similar design.
German torpedo boats of lao tons and 22 knots
speed average 1882 per ton contract price for hull
and machinery.
Considering the circum stances connected
with the recent bids for torpedo-boats the
offer of the Union Iron Works is the low
est of all, and it would seem as if glory
rather than gold prompted the firm to
make so low an offer. The building of a
vessel of such a speed is an undertaking
that requires the highest class of work
manship; it is nearly all labor and the
success will reflect more credit to the
builders than the triumphs of the Charles
ton, San Francisco, Monterey, Olympia
and Oregon. For the first time in our new
navy building would-be contractors are
left entirely untrammeled as to details, ex-
cept speed and cost to design and build
vessels of phenomenal speed, and while
these boats will to large extent be copies
OF similar ones built abroad it is neverthe-
less bold undertaking. Thornycroft, the
world-known torpedo-boat builder, in
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
ENCOURAGING ART

The story is going the rounds OF the
press that Sir Frederick Leighton once
supplemented words of advice and en-
couragement to struggling young artist
by handing him an envelope containing a
check for ESQ, with the remark: Zone day,
my friend, do not doubt that you will be
able to draw even better than this" This
reminds me of the anecdote told of the
first visit of old Joseph elliott, the pen
man, to Turner. II have come to swan
some of my pictures for yours" he said.
''What do you ?" exclaimed Turner,
''you don't paintP' mo, don't, but 1
draw" said elliott, unfolding a roll of
Bank OF England notes, ''and here are
some of my pictures.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

"The first bug is a workman and the
second is a soldier, but it is the we'll
developed male which is thing of beauty
and which attracts general attention.
This insect is noted for its beautifully
colored wings, which are long and marked
by veins like the delicate markings of the
most delicate leaf.
"The males and females of these insects
have large wings, the cross or transverse
nervures of which can scarcely be seen
Their heads are large and strong, and
there are three ocelli between the larger
pair of eyes. Among these insects are the
neuters which never have any wings. Ii
is among these that the workers, or labor
ers, and soldiers are found. The laborers
have curious round heads and short man
d. bles. The soldiers all have long heads
and large, strong jaws.
I'm this connection 1 may say that
there is peculiar insect resembling this,
and very often found with them. which
frequents MOSES and the trunks of trees
and old walls, and very small species
frequent houses and are particularly fond
of crawling among old and damp papers
"One of the things that has interested
me is the remarkable mounds they bullc,
and to which have alluded. Think OF a
house of this kind reaching as nigh a
fifteen feet, nearly twenty feet through at
the base, and filed with caverns and cor
ridors, halls and avenues, and remember
again that these strange abodes are hlIed
with teeming thousands of colonlsts,
ruled by regsl authority, and think, too,
of the tireless laborers in the great colony
and the soldiers who move to and fro, ever
on guard and ever ready to repulse foe,
however ereat ~
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

81 notice the air is full of winged in
sects and has been all morning." said
John Timmons, the veteran editor, at the
Press Club the other day. 81 never knew
this thing to happen that it didn't rain.
Over and over again have | seen these
bugs floating around in the air. It's
sure thing that We have downpour.
This insect is about an inch long, with
sim, gauzy wings, and looks like darn
ing needle; is reddish or reddish-Drown in
color. l remember a few years ago lot
of local scientists were interviewed about
this insect, which is popularity referred to
as the white ant. They all said that it
came just before the first rain in Cali
fornia."
As q prophet the veteran newspaper
man was success, Tor scarcely day had
elapsed when the annual downpour be-
gan. At intervals since then the insects
have been noticed in all parts of the City,
and there has been good deal of Curl
osity regarding them. In some places
they appear in large numbers, fitting
hither and thither like the grasshoppers
during the grasshopper plague, and again
you will see only few, and these few
probably skimming over mud puddles and
bits of water found here and there.
THAT insect of which you speak," said
Professor Charles Fuchs of the Academy
OF Sciences to a CALL representative, sis
one of the strangest and most interesting
of the isoptera to which 1T belongs. The
scie ntists reduce it still further to what
they call the termites, or white ants. But,
properly speaking, it is no white ant at
all. These insects are miners. They
bore through wood and live on the wood,
and in this way they have been known in
the tropical countries, where they -four
ish to great degree, to permeate the
wooden walls of houses until they have
literally eaten them out and the great edi-
tices have collapsed from their own
weight. These strange insects are like the
bee, in tha. they have a martial govern
ment and go and come with the exactness
of trained soldiers
They live in mounds, sometimes twelve
to fifteen feet high and fifty feet around.
Other kinds have their nests several feet
thick in trees. Although they were
originally inhabitants OF the tropics they
are now cosmopolitan, being found in al
most ali parts of the known world.
Alexander Won Hum boldt, who, you
! know, used to be IN California, has stated
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

low TWENTY-FIVE and a half knots ana e4-
ceeds twenty-one and a half knots the
boat will be accepted alta reduction OF
GOO per knot speed below twenty-five
and a half knots, and if it falls below
twenty-one and half the boat may Do
either rejected or accepted as the Secre-
tary NAV decide at reduced cost
In the absence of detailed combinations
of bids the mum Der of boats of each type
cannot be accurately determined; 1t
would seem. however, as if six boats may
be awarded, three OF each type, and pos
sibiIity of a fourth one OF eltner tyPe''
making total of ten boats.
These torpedo boats are to be completed
within the following limits OF time: Those
of thirty knots in eighteen months, the
others in twelve.
The torpedo flotiIla of the United States
navy is of slow growth. Only three, the
Stiletto, purchased in 1888; Gushing, built
in 1889, and the Ericsson, contracted for in
October, 1891, and completed IN 1896, are
ready for service. Three boats of 142 tons
and three of 1872 tons were contracted for
in May, 1895, to be completed by August
2, 1896 but only one boat has been.
launched. The contractors lay the blame
" - Wy W tHo eto0A
ers. AS 1T is ten years since the new navy
building began in earnest it would seem
to have given steel manufacturers sufi-
cient practice in turning out the requisite
material in reasonable time, for the de-
lay is both humiliating and expensive to
the builders and annoying to the Govern
ment. .
In couple of years we may reasonably
count on having nineteen torpedo-boats,
which, however, is but beginning and
cuts but small figure as compared. with
the 1926 torpedo boats owned collectively
by Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy,
Russia and Spain.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27
Nicketin-thc-Slot Bicycle Lock.

lynching about the proper punishment to
fit the crime in his particular instance.
The n1ckel-in-the-slot bicycle lock is in
tended to place difficulties in the way Of
the bicycle-thlef that will drive him out of
the business and give every wheelman
who leaves his wheel at public place for
few moments a sense OF security that he
has heretofore not enjoyed. The lock is a
handsome and neat affair. It is the in-
vention of NJ Philbrook and George J,
Kelley, both of San Francisco. It operates
by dropping a nickel in the slot, when
upon pressing a button an arm swings
into place securely locking the machine
on the removal o! the key, which remains
in the possession of the wheelmau. When
the box is unlocked and the bicycle re-
moved it fastens the key in the lock until
it is operated again.
1t is intended TO place these locks at
such places at the Cliff House, park, road
side resorts, depots and ferry landings;
IN fact wherever bicyclists most do con-.
gregate, and in bicycle repositories, or
any place where wheels are in danger of
being stolen or used by parties without
the consent of the owner.
Steps are being taken toward organizing
stock company to manufacture and oper-
ate these locks on this coast. 1t is pro-
posed to put them in on the same terms as
nickel telephones and other nickel-in-the- .
slot machines, the company putting them
IN gratis and the proprietor of the place
where they are put sharing in the proceeds,