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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-30

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Owing to the
favorable condition now existing in the
foreign exchange market the treasury de-
partment is hoping that quite large ship
ments of gold will be made from abroad
to the United States in making payment
for the bonds to be issued under the call
now pending and if this should prove to
be the case, it is understood that it will
be the policy of the department to offer
every facility in its power to those who
propose to use the imported gold in pay
ment of the several installments.
NO official or even a definite statement
could be obtained at the treasury depart
ment as to what advantage bidders for
the new bonds will receive who have OBJ
tanned their gold from abroad. The de-
partment is exceedingly anxious that a
large proportion of the gold offered in
payment of the bonds shall be obtained
in Europe and for the purpose OF en-
courag1ng imports, it is intimated that
the bidder who offers foreign gold, or
who demonstrates that he has gold on the
way at the time the bids are opened Will
be given preference in the awards, other
things being equal, over others who offer
domestic gold. AT this time the premium
OH gold in New York is quoted as three
eighths of one per cent. for buying and
five eighths Of one per cent. for selling.
cost of importing gold from London is
little less than one-fifth of one per
cent Under these conditions small
profit, independent of the bond issue ap-
parentlY could now be realized on gold
imports.
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dition to representing the United
States Knight is the consular agent
of Holland and number of other
small European states. 1t is Sec
retary Olney's object to fill the
vacancy in the consulship at Cape
Town by a representative OF
the English, German or French embas-
sizes to South Africa. He will be able
to report his destination within twenty
five days, whereas if an appointment
of a resident of the United States were
made it would take him more than
month to reach his post of duty. Upon
the arrival and installation of the new
consul he viii. be directed to proceed
to the Transvaal and will be instructed
to act solely in the Hammond case.
This will not necessitate reference to
British matters of the officials sVt7S.
The American representative will then
be able to approach the Transvaal
government direct and transmit to the
state department direct any reply 1t
may have to make to communications
which he may lay before it. By this
means a great deal of time in Ham
mond's case will be saved and better
treatment will be obtained for him.
The salary of the Office at Cape Town
is small, being only $4,000 year.
Hammond's friends in this country
have proposed to the state department
that they be allowed to add $1,000 to
this amount. The department has re-
fused on the ground that its regula-
lions prohibit an official from receiving
additional compensation for work he is
doing in the interest of an American
citizen
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ENGLIsH FLEET AUGMENTEn.

NEW YORK, Jan. SO-A dispatch to
the Herald from st. Petersburg, says:
The Novoe Vremya publishes the fol-
lowing special dispatch from Yladivos-
took: News comes from Yokohama that
the English squadron in the Pacific is
being augmented by six war ships. At
the same time a considerable increase
is being made in the Japanese navy.
England and Japan are evidently pre-
parlng energetically to meet possible
complications arising out of the Corean
and Russo-Chinese understanding. The
Novosti says on the subject of the al
legged Russo-Turkish treaty: Russia can
guarantee the existence of Turkey only
if reform such as the opening of the
Dardanelles to Russian warships be of
fered. 1t is impossible to adauce any
valid reason why Russia should be forced
to lock I'D her fleet in the Black sea
1t is simply a policy Of outrageous Vio-
lence. to which Russia submits because
she loves peace, but the prohibition is
hound to disappear,
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Call concluded at 4:25 and the senate adj
journed till tomorrow.
IN THE HOUSE.
There Was a Scramble for Con-
demned Cannon.

demned Cannon
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-The session
Of the house was brief today. The oppo-
sition to bill reported from the invalid
pensions committee to amend the act of
1880. so that in the consideration Of wild
ows' claims, unexplained absence for
several years should be considered sur
fcient proof Of death, led to the making
of the point of no quorum early in the
session. and the house was forced to ad-
iourn.
The proceedings opened with a scram-
BILE for condemned cannon.
Mr.. Brewster (Rep.) New York, asked
unanimous consent TO pass bill for the
donation of condemned cannon to G. A
r. posts at Rochester and RockpoTt, n.
Y. Mr.. Picker CRep.) S. D., asked if
there would be enough cannon to go
round to all the G. a. r. posts.
IF all are as worthy as these posts
are" replied Mr.. Brewster, 81 think we
can afford to manufacture condemned
cannon for the G. A. r. posts of the
country" Oaughter.)
Immediately fully fifty members were
on their feet trying to offer amendments
for the donation of condemned cannon
to their districts. After the bill had been
loaded down with amendments, and Mr..
Pickler had offered an omnibus amend
ment to provide for condemned cannon
for the G. a. r. departments Of each
state and territory, a clamor for cannon
became so loud that the bill with its
amendments were referred to the COM
mittee on naval affairs.
A demand by Mr.. Crisp for regular
order resulted in the call for committees
for REPORTS. under which bills were
passed 10 exclude the public lands CO
Alabama from the operation of the law
of 1888 relating to mineral lands; grant
ing homesteaders on the Hankton In
dian reservation leave OF absence for
one year; to designate the officers be
fore whom preliminary entries of public
lands can be made.
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IN THE TRANSVAAL.
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND WILL NOT
BE EXECUTED.
He Is in Danger, However, of PEN
aIties Almost Equally as Bad
Suggestions of Americans.

NEW YORK. Jan. 3O.-A dispatch to
the World from London says
The Pretoria Jail in which John Hays
Hammond and four other leading men
Of Johannesburg are confined, is de-
scribed as a wretched structure of red
brick, with a standing gallows always
in plain view of the cells. Mr.. Warner
the head of the great diamond house of
Warner. Boil 6 Co.. whose partner
Lionel Phillips, is one of five prisoners,
tells me there is no danger of the death
penalty being inflicted upon any of the
accused, but that under the Transyaal
laws almost any other penalty Is pos
sible.
Under a special law applying to pro
claimed mining lands" which applies to
Johannesburg, and therefore to the ac-
cused, all their property may be con-
fiscated in addition to any physical pun
ishment.
Friends of the accusued Americans
warmly approve the suggestion that a
United States warship be sent to Cape
Town or Delagoa Bay, and that her CAP
tain be instructed to go to Pretoria and
represent the American government there.
Recent private advices from the Trans
vaal report that President Kruger and
the other authorities are disposed to be
much more severe with the johannesburg
civilians than at the time of the release
of DR.. Jameson and his followers.
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Jones, views.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Jones. of Arkansas, who has charge
of the silver bill in the senate said, after
the senate adjourned today, that while
he did not purpose at present to at
tempt a test of physical endurance in
order to pass the bill, he would, be-
ginning tomorrow, ask the senate to
sit at night for it's consideration, if he
should fail to secure an agreement to
fix time for the vote. He said he did
not, however, expect to ask that the
sessions be prolonged beyond 10 or II
o'clock. The friends OF the bill are
averse to naming SO late a day as
February 6, the date suggested by
Senator Hill, because that would take
the final disposition Of the question to
a date beyond the time fixed for re-
ceiving the last Of the bids on the pro-
posed issue.
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SUNK IN WAR TIMES.
Ohio Farmers Getting Coal From
the Sand Bars.

Farmers along the Ohio river for
twenty miles above Portsmouth get their
winter supply .of coal from the river
bed during extremely low water. Dur
ing Confederate General Morgan's raid
.4ousA O4l4O Tor otfdeeglC purposes ne
sank Meet OF over 40 coal barges. The
barges and contents became an obstruc-
ton to the river, and in 1865 government
engineers blew them up to open the
channel The coal has been steadily
drifting down the river ever since. The
chunks have been worn round by the
force of the water. They range IN size
from a base ball to mans head. 1t is
during the high water that they are kept
in motion.
When the waters subside they lodge on
the sand bars. and when the latter are
high and dry the farmers pick the coal
balls out of the powders and gravel.
The shadows adjacent to the bars are
also explored. The action of the water
in all these years seems to have washed
the sulphur out of the coal, greatly to
its improvement. The coal balls are COW
cred by grayish deposit of lime, and
can be handled without soiling the
hands.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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OUT OLE nEATEN PATHS.

Vodka, sort of whisky made in
Russia, exceeds in alcoholic strength
that of any other whisky.
Lake Nemi's bottom seems inexhaust-
ible. A second Roman barge has been
found there by the side Of the one
brought up a short time ago.
Though the Formosan republic of
Taiwan, or Taiwanfu, was quickly sup
pressed, it lived long enough to issue
a postage stamp. 1t is green, printed
from a wooden block on very thin pa
per.
tropical vegetation the builders of a
line of telegraph along the Amazon
have decided to lay telegraph cable
in the river for Z. distance of 1,400
miles.
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Were RoughIy Treated.

NEW YORK. Jan. SO.--A dispatch to
the World from Cape Town. South
Africa, says:
The Worlds correspondent at Pre-
toria writes that the reform union
prisoners were set upon in the streets
of the Transvaal capital, while on their
way to the prison here. They were
roughly treated and obliged to run to
Jail to escape being torn to pieces.
One of the American prisoners, APP
parently John Hays Hammond, was
flung down, trampled upon and bruised
amid the yells of the armed Beers.
The aggressors were not arrested.
The prisoners were allowed nothing
more in jail than ordinary criminals
are.
The heat of the burning sun to men
accustomed to luxury and the risk of
typhoid fever from lack Of sanitation
is awful They had to eat their food
off the ground at first
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May Throw Light.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 29.-NIr. G. Rossiter
Of this city, an old personal friend of
Justice Brewer, chairman of the Vene-
zuuelan commission, has recently discov-
cred among the family archives, an old
map that may throw light on the Vene-
zuela boundary question. 1t had been
family, but IS still well preserved. It is
a map showing the coast of New An
dulasia or Province of Guiana" accord
ing to the division of the Spaniards. The
map was engraved and published by
William Faden, geographer to the king of
England and is dated October 6, 1888. The
lines of the map tend to contradict the
British assumption as to the boundary.
mission
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THE RING

HOLYoKE, Mass, Jan. 29.-The Paper
City Athletic club inaugurated its ex-
istenoe by a public boxing exhibition at
the Empire theatre tonight The princi-
pal contest of the evening was between
Daniel Mcdonnell of Philadelphia, and
Thomas Moriarity of this city. The men
were to have fought twenty-five rounds
at 100 pounds. but Mcconnell was no
match for Moriarity and the fight was
stopped by the referee in the fourth
round to save a knock out. The decis-
Edward McGrary of North Adams, at
tempted to stand up for ten rounds be-
fore Nick Burnley, Of California, but was
overmatched in every way and was easily
knocked out in thirty seconds In the sec
ond round. When Burley appeared in the
ring he was announced as Jack McDon-
ough of st. Paul, but the deception was
soOn EXPOSED
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Has Found a Ways

CHICAGO, Jan. 8O.-A special from
Washington, D. c., says: The admin
istration believes it has found way in
which to directly approach the Trans
vaal republic in behalf of John Hays
Hammond without offending the Brit
ish government. The new policy will
probably be put into effect at once
The way is through the consulship at
Cape Town. At the present time a
vacancy in the consulate exists there
The United States is represented by
a vice-consul, whose name is Knight
and who is a British subject. In ad-
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with apologies to the other Fat Boy "Pickwick y
President Cleveland: "lIissusl MissusV
Mrs Britannia Wardle 81 always
ton given you hearty
when have visited millions pounds with you
cotton buest blood
have you nicely,
President Cleveland: 81 know you have
Britannia Warde "Well meaning
President Cleveland: Missus your Creep
Westminster Gazette
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II Is En- Route.

LONDON, Jan. SO.-The financial ar
ticle in the Daily News this morning
says:
The White Star line steamship Majes-
tic, which sails for New York from
Queenstown today, will take $500, 900
($2,500,000) in gold to New York. The
statement that the gold is being
shipped to America direct from Berlin
and Paris is unconfrmed.
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CARLISLE
AS JUDAS
Continued from Page l.

1.-THE object was to have them assist
each other, to hold silver UP by holding
gold down, and an honest secretary OF
the treasury should have resigned nus
Office rather than submit to the dlcta-
ton of q besotted chief, would nave
paid out silver to protect the treasury
from the gold gamblers and bond gam
blers. as the law and his oath of office
required. No wonder the senator from
Massachusetts feels warranted Ia
twitting us with the decay of southern
craftsmanship and charging US with
dishonesty. He charges il, however IN
another connection and is aidlng ana
abetting this Judas from Kentucky,
who. after a brilliant career OF twenty
years or more as leader and champion
of rbe silver forces, has in his old age
fsor1ae 10
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DOING ALL TT CAN.

BERLIN. Jan. 29.-The minister of ag-
riculture. Baron Won Hammerstein-Lox-
ten. in the Prussian diet today, replying
to questions on the subject, asserted that
the government was doing all possible
to relieve the agricultural depression. He
added that it had endeavored to effect
an increase IN the Ealue OF silver put
fronted by the opposition of those states
whose cooperation was admittedly es-
sential in order to bring about the OBJ
iect in view.
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ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR.

BOSTON. Jan. 29.-The Standard to-
morrow will say that Bishop BENZ. w.
Arnett, DID, of Wilberforce, o., who
will speak at the Christian Endeavor
convention tomorrow, was refused q
room at three of the leading hotels in
This CITY tonight by reason of his color.
He was finally lodged through efforts
of a representative of the Christian
TEndeaUor
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WOMAN sUFFRAGIsTS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-At a meet
ing Of the executive committee of the
National Woman Suffrage association
today it was decided not to hold the
next convention in this city. The selec-
ton of another city was referred 70
the committee for vote of its members
by mail
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BELVA DISCARDED.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-Belva A.
Lockwood, once presidential candi-
date on the Woman's Rights ticket,
and now practicing attorney in this
city, was today disbarred as a prac-
ticing attorney or agent before the pen
sion bureau. This action grew out of
a charge made against Mrs. Lockwood
by the pension department, accusing
her Of having improperly accepted a
fee of SIS in a pension claim.
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HIGHWAY COMMISSION.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Chandler today introduced bill to Gre
ate a special commission on highways,
which is to have for its object the sci
entiic location of roads on the public do
main, the testing of all road material Of
fered and the construction of model
one member of the senate two members
of the house, the chief engineers of the
army. the director of the geological sur
vey and the chief of road inquiry of the
department. Of agriculture.
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THE WHEEL,

CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-AI long distance
bicycle records made by women were
smashed tonight at the female bicycle
races at the Second regiment armory.
At the conclusion of the races tonight,
which ended nine hours riding for each
contestant, the score was: Christopher
ITO miles, Williams 151, CLAW 165, Allen
1877, Hokenson ISL, Baldwin III, Ander-
son III, Peterson 159, Mack 172
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Diggers Unearth the Walls of a
Prehistoric Dwelling.
A CITY WILL BE FOUND.
LITTLE TOWN IN NEW MEXICO THE
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT.
Three Million Dollars Said to BE
Buried Near the Ruins, Which
We're Unearthed Through the In
structiOns Given by the Chief of
Band of Gypsies-very Roman
tic if Not Quite Truthful.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, Jan. 90
There is considerable excitement at
Chilli, the little mountain town forty
miles east of this city. over what pur-
ports to be the greatest search for
treasure of this gold seeking age. A
week ago a camp of gypsies was estab-
hshed on the creek running through
Chilli and near that town. The gypsy
chief of the band told several Mexi-
cans that by digging in a certain di-
rection they would come upon cedar
post, from which point he would fur
ther direct them to a spot where a
box is buried containing 100000 in
gold. The gypsy chief, with his band,
then left for the ruins of Gran Out
vera, but told the Mexicans not to pur-
sue their search after the discovery of
the post until his return.
Sure enough the post was found in
the exact spot indicated by the gypsy,
but few jealous individuals kept on
with the work and, it is learned, have
unearthed the walls of
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An Amendment.

WASHINGTON, Jan Ex-senator
Baker today introduced an amendment
to the silver bill now before the SEN
ate, providing that any person who
takes silver or gold 10 the mint to be
coined shall take an equally valuable
amount of the other metal and have
both coined. The amendment sets
forth that the purpose is to secure the
parity of the two metals.
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NOTHING KNOWN.

NEW YORK, Jan. ga special to
the Herald from st. Petersburg says:
From information obtained on the
best possible authority it can be stated
that nothing is known here about the
supposed treaty between Russia and
Turkey,
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CREspn WARNED.

LONDON, Jan. So.-A dispatch from
Berlin to the Times says:
A seni-official statement has been
published, warning President Crespo of
Venezuela that he cannot count on
the help of the United States to enable
him to shirk his obligations supposing
Germany takes measures to enforce
the payment of the railway claim. The
Monroe doctrine may perhaps be ap-
piled to territorial disputes, the state
ment says, but it cannot be invoked TO
protect debtors against the claims of
the European states.
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NEW RATTLEsHPn

WASHINGTON. Jan 29.-Mr. Bart
lett of New York has introduced a
joint resolution authorizing the con-
struction of six new battIeships to cost
not more than $3,3OO,OOO each, exclusive
of armament, for which $1,000, 900 is ap-
propriated.
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RAYARD A GUEST.

LONDON. Jan. 29.-United States Am
bassador Bayard and Right Hon. John
Morley were invited among the guests
at the banquet of the Benchers of the
Middle Temple, which was given tonight.
Mr.. Bayard was given an etfusiVe well
come upon his appearance in the banquet
hall.
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THE BUSTED pIsTILLERY.

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 29.-The Column
bia Finance and Trust company, as
signee of the Belle of Nelson Distillery
COMPANY. made a statement of the as
sets and liabilities of the concern this
afternoon It is as follows: Liabilities
sos, 242, assets $49S.21S. The fraudulent
receipts are estimated at $160,727.
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IN CULBERsON,s FAVOR.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-The house
elections committee No. g. has decided
the contested case of Davis VS.. Culber-
son. from the fourth Texas district.
unanimously in favor of CuIberson. The
contestants made no appearance before
the committee.
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GOLD SHIPMENTS
FROM ABROAD.
Belief That Many Will Soon be
Made to America.
THE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE
OF THE DEPARTMENT AS
NOW UNDERSTOOD.

IS Exceedingly Anxious that n
Large Proportion of the Gold Of
ferred in Payment of the Bonds
Shall be Obtained in Europe, and
Imports Will Be Encouraged In
Every Way Possible.
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SPRINGFIELD, III, Jan. 29.-John !

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan 29.-John L.
Ell PASO, Tex, Jan. 29.--While box
ing with his trainer, Jack stelsner,
this afternoon, Fitzsimmons landed
with his left on stelsner's nose and
broke it, He claims that the punch
was a very light one, but Stelsner will
be in the hospital for a few days.
Dixon, Leeds and the two bantams
are expected to arrive here next Mon
day
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THIS PTTIFUL PASS.

And then to think the Indictment
thus brought against a whole section
should have so much color OF truth
and Of fact to back it up in the apos-
tasy from their principles OF the Two
other secretaries from the south in the
cabinet Of a president who has so dis
graced the name of Democracy! The
south bows its head in shame at TINS
exhibition of moral cowardice ana de-
spises the renegades."
The senator contended that II there
has been one idea more persistently ana
prominently presented to the American
people by President Cleveland than any
other, il had been the iniquities OF the
tariff and the demand for its revision
In season and out of season, with
"damnable iteration" he had sung TINS
siren song in the ears of the farmers.
in this connection he quoted from mes
sages Of the president of 1887 ana 1898, ana
ing out the evolution Of a tyrant and
of showing the transition from a con-
scientious law-abiding chief magistrate
to an arrogant and obstinate ruler who
ignores the law and issues bonds at viii
and issues them under a statute that is
subject TO the suspicion that II was IN
tended TO be temporary and limited IN
its aDplica ton instead OF conferrlnS a
discretionary authority. He not only is
sues them. but does il secretly with his
law partner as a witness 10 the con-
tract. and has created the suspicion IN
the minds Of millions of his countrymen
that a president of the United States can
use mis- high Office