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The herald., 1896-01-03
INDIAN BUTCHERY
Choctaw Indian Bows Think the Laws Are
No Good

Choctaw indian BOvs ihi1k the Laws Are
No Good
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. "a dispatch
to the Journal from Antlers, 1. T., says:
A revolving tale OF Indian butchery is
embodied in confession made here today
by two Choctaw boys. Last evening the
dead body of Leo Crum, a white man, "a
years old, was found on the banks of
kiamichi river, two miles north of here.
The body had been scalped and otherwise
mutilated.
Will McAlester, a Choctaw youth II
years old, was arrested on suspicion. He
denied the charge. but told the officers that
his half. brother, Taylor Hickman,aged II,
and Thomas Davis. aged l6. had told him
that they had killed Crum, These boys
were at once arrested by Deputy United
States Marshal Brown. Today they con-
fessed and told the details of the murder.
They stated that they had believed that
and had agreed between themselves
to kill white man. Last
Saturday afternoon they met Crum in a
secluded spot and decided he should be
their victim. While Davis held his atten-
ton by conversation, Hickman fired bull
let into his breast. As Crum fell he pulled
an empty pistol from his pocket and the
Indians were frightened away. Later in
the day they started back again but met
some men and turned away On Monday
Davis went back again. He found a bloody
trail over which the diving man ad crawled
to the river bank. He followed the trail
and came across Crum, still alive. The
young Choctaw fell upon the dying Crum
with knife and finished his devilish
crime. He cut his victims throat, scalped
him, cut off his ears, guuged his eyes out
and cut and slashed his face in a horrible
manner. The Choctaw then took $40 in
coin on the body and the dead mans pistol
and went away. This confession has
aroused tremendous excitement here and
though the prisoners are only boys, talk of
lynching is general.
The herald., 1896-01-03
LOST THE TRAIL
A Newspaper Mans Rough Experience In
Lower California

A Newspaper Mans Rough Experience In
Lower California
ENsENADA, Lower Cal, Jan. FL. c.
Pease, Portland (Or.) newspaper man,
was brought into this city today by B. Val
esquez, who lives few miles up the coast.
Pease had a very rough experience, having
started from Tia Juana last Monday for
horseback trip by the coast route to Ensen-
ada for his health, and lost the trail Tues
day night. While endeavoring to reach nis
destination by following the coast, he
found himself late at night in a country 80
rough and mountainous that he could
neither go forward nor return with his
horse, so he decided to push ahead on foot;
but first he shot the horse, which had been
injured by fall and, cutting the animals
throat. he quenched his intense thirst by
drinking the blood. Pease reached Vales-
quez's house twenty-four hours later, hav-
ing by dint of swimming around points and
climbing over rocks, accomplished about
twenty miles of coast which is generally
considered impossible. He had been
nearly forty.eight hours without food or
water, and his mouth and throat were in a
frightful condition from having chewed the
pulp of cactus leaves to quench his thirst.
The herald., 1896-01-03

number of popular airs. The guests in
cluded the following: The vice-president.
Secretary of State and Mrs. Olney, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Carlisle, Secretary and Mrs.
Lamont. Attorney-General and Mrs. Har-
mon, Postmaster-Gener and Mrs. Will
son, Secretary of the Navy and Miss Her
bert, secretary of the interior, Secretary
of Agriculture and Miss Morton, speaker
of the house. Senator and Mrs. Morrill,,
Senator and Mrs. Hawley, Senator and
Mrs. Palmer, Senator and Mrs. Brice, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Catchings, James I.
Woodward, Mrs. Charles S. Fairchild,
Edward Bacon, Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Stewart. Frank Thompson and Miss
Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Kennedy,
Mrs. Minot, Miss Boardman, Miss Frances
Walker, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Henderson
and Mrs. Micou.
The herald., 1896-01-03
Expedited M ails

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. AN important
order for the expedition of mails across the
Mexican border was issued today by Post
master.General Wilson, providing for the
first exchange of the mails of railway post
offices of the United States and Mexico.
This does away with the stopping of the
mails at the postoffices of both countries
along the line and effects saving of
twenty-four hours and more in some in
stances. The mail allowed to pass without
interference is restricted to unregistered
letters, postal cards and periodical publi-
cations. and all postage is required to be
prepaid in full. A similar plan has been in
operation between this country and Canada
practically since the establishment of the
railway service.
The herald., 1896-01-03
STATISTICS OF FINANCES
Comparative Statement of Receipts and
Expenditures
RecapltuIatfon Of tho Public Debt-All the
Oreenbacks Have Been Redeemed
and Paid Out

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The monthly
comparative statement of receipts and ex-
penditures of the United States shows that
during December the receipts aggregated
$26.2S8,937, as follows: Customs $12,-
169.162, internal revenue $l2,75O,771,
miscellaneous 81 ,36S,993. The expendi-
lures amounted to $5,31O,315, leaving
surplus of $474 ,62O. The figures. for the
first half of the present fiscal year ending
December 31st. show deficit of 81 {, 1884, =
727, as against .$27 ,564,465 during the
first half of last year. For the last six
months the receipts from customs show an
increase over the corresponding period Of
last year of $l2 ,377 900. There was dur
ing the same months loss in returns from
internal revenue of about s. ,276,OO0.
THE PUBLIC DEBT
The monthly statement of the public c
debt, issued from the treasury department
today, shows that on December 81, 1895,
the public debt. less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $947 ,29S,2 1862, or decrease
for the month of l,179, ,349. The debt is
recapitulaied ed as follows:
Interest bearing debt. $747, 1851 $50;
debt on which interest has ceased since
maturity, $1,674,51O; debt bearing no
interest. $376.2SS,992; aggregate debt,
$1,l25, 1926 1852, exclusive of $56S,O23,-
073 in certificates and treasury notes Off
set by an equal amount Of cash in the
treasury.
The cash in the treasury is classified as
follows, cents omitted: Gold, $113,l9S,-
7O7; silver, $5Ol ,460, ,554; paper, $l57, =
567, 7,OO6; bonds, disbursing officers bal
ances, ETC., 81 5, ,352 ,OSS; total cash, $751; =
SIS, ,447; against which there are demands
and liabilities amounting to $6O9. .551 ,247, 4,
leaving a cash balance in the treasury of
$l7S, 1927 200.
The treasury today lost 100000 in gold
and S23 900 in bars in exchange for legal
tenders, making the true amount of the
gold reserve $62, ,o68,234.
REDEEMED AND PAID OUT
The treasury records show that the
amount of United Stetes notes redeemed
since 1879 is $345 .96s, 1853, with several
daily reports still wanting, as to the
amounts of United States notes or green
backs issued was $346, ,6S1 ,O16, it follows
that the entire issue, less about 100000,
has been redeemed, and a very large pro-
portion of it again paid out by the treasury
during the last seventeen years.
BULLION COINED
The monthly statement of the director
of the mint shows coinage executed at the
mints of the United States during Decem-
Der, 1895, to have been as follows: Gold,
$S,O97, ,145; silver, $75,592; minor coin,
$1O7, 1886. Total, $S,2S0,573.
The herald., 1896-01-03
A Sfate Canxenfinn

STOCKTON, Jan. 2.-Frank Gould, the
chairman of the Democratic state central
committee said today that the committee
would probably be called to meet in San
Francisco some time during the latter part
of next month. At that time the Iriqnois
tribes would have grand state gathering
in San Francisco, and most of the commit
teemen will be there, SO that meeting can
be more readily held than at any other
time. The meeting will be to cali state
convention to elect delegates to national
convention.
The herald., 1896-01-03
A MYSTERY SOLVED
Tho Ventura Suicide Identified ~ A.
A}n100

Tho Ventura Suicide Identified a. A. q.
Simon
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2.-The remains of AL
bert G. Simon, jr., who is supposed to have
killed himself at Ventura, CAL, on Decem-
Der 10th, have arrived. They are posi-
lively identified by his father. Young ST.
mon was supposed to have committed sui
eide by shooting, but his father and several
others of the family, after viewing the re-
mains, declared there were no marks of
any kind to indicate that death was caused
by pistol shot. The family think the
young mans death may have come about
in a natural manner. The date of the fu-
neral has not been fixed.
The herald., 1896-01-03
Hungry Warriors

ATLANTA, Jan. Twenty half starved.
freezing savages, brandishing clubs and
to kill q concessonaire on the exposition
midway today. Tine mob was composed of
the warriors of the Dahomey village.
Since the close of the exposition the war
riors say they have had nothing to eat and
were met with the statement that there
was no money with which to supply them.
The herald., 1896-01-03
Gold In Tenncssee

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. "a rich run of
gold ore is reported to have been discov-
cred at Coal Cresk. The discovery was
made by miners prospecting for coal.
Specimens of the ore were carried to Knox
vile for analysis and have been pronounced
good gold. Much excitement has been oc-
casioned by the discovery.
The herald., 1896-01-03
The First State Dinner

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The first state
dinner of the year at the White House to
the cabinet was given by the president and
Mrs. Cleveland tonight. The mansion was
appropriately decorated for the occasion
with profusion of cut flowers and potted
plants, while in the vestibule in front of
the main corridor the Marine band played
The herald., 1896-01-03
The Chinese Haxa Gnna

TACOMA, WASH, Jan. 2.-For the second
time in its history there are no Chinese in
Tacoma. The two employed by Thomas
Riggs as servants were put on a train this
morning and returned to Olympia, whence
they came. MIR. Riggs had tired of the
agitation on the subject, and uncondition-
ally surrendered.
The herald., 1896-01-03
Union Paclflc,s Great Service

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.-Commencing
with the new year the Union Pacific have
added to their vestibuled trains from Salt
Lake city and Ogden composite cars and
buffet smoking and library cars, such as
are run on the New York limited trains
from Chicago. The Union Pacific is the
first line to inaugurate this service west OF
the Missouri river on daily trains.
The herald., 1896-01-03
hrs. Vanderbilt Will Harry

New YORK. Jan. 2.-The World says:
Mrs. Aiva Vanderbilt announced to her
friends yesterday that she is engaged to be
married to Oliver Belmont. Mrs. Wander
biit is the divorced wife of William X
Vanderbilt. She is the mother of the
Duchess of Marlborough.
The herald., 1896-01-03
Satisfactory Directors

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.-Judge Hebbard
today decided that the Pacific bank direct
ors had not been derclict in the perform
ance of their duties, and denied the appli-
cation of P. F. Dundon for the removal of
six of them.
The herald., 1896-01-03
Leather Wnrkers' Strika

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.-Forty workmen
in p. F. Nolan's shoe factory struck today
because of the reduced wages resulting
from compe ition. The girls in the factor
did not strike, although they announc. d
their sympathy with the strikers.
The herald., 1896-01-03
Many Claims mped

| CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Jan. 2.-It is esti-
mated that 500 claims in this district on
which the owners failed to do full assess
ment work in 1895 have BEEN jumped
Although armed men are holding claims in
all the outlying portions of the district. no
| fights have Yet been reported.
The herald., 1896-01-03
An Old Resident Dead

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. ID. B. Lacy, OWL
er of the local gas works and a most popr-
lar citizen, died this evening. He was 4t
years old and had long been a resident ui
the coast, principally Ill Virginia City anu
Northern California.
The herald., 1896-01-03
German Frisndlincss

BERLIN, Jan. 2-United States Ambassa-
dor Runyon gave dinner tonight to the
imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe: :
the minister for foreign affairs, Baron
The herald., 1896-01-03
The Strike Is On.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.-The street rail-
way strike is on again. The men will not
60 to work when the cars begin to run at
o'clock this morning.
The herald., 1896-01-03

Mareschal Won Bieberstein, and the am
ba.sadors of Great Britain, Austria and
Roumania. Prince Hohenlohe toasted
Continued Friendly Relations Between the
United States and Germany.
The herald., 1896-01-03

IBOUr THE CITY-1n and around tho city
hall Upon basis Of 1OO, goo; how mort
uary reports will hereafter be made. E. Lots
of meetings yesterday; several boards held
sessions in the municipal building The
chaiu.gaug not wanted for park purposes
M The recommendations for sewers..
The street sweeping contract adopted. -.
Park superintendent Meserve's annual re-
port filed: the Improvements needed -.
Real estate and building; a moderately
busy weak; the building operations for the
year is double that of the previous season
The l.. A. A. c. smoker to be given next
week "A bicycle made for six; yellow
fellow sextuple' will be here January 18th
90. Knocked out on a non-suit; an import
ant case decided by Judge Van Dyke. Nv.
C. Jones versus Freeman G. Teed Or
chardists outside the city have no claim
against the members of the council. :. Yes
terdsy with the grand jury To close the
oil wells; the proposition which is being
di.cussed by producers; they must have
better prices. The polite world; recent
happenings in the society set... How tho
trick is turned; conventions handled by
the distribution of patronage; political
debts must be paid. -. Victim of fee rab-
bers; Robert Welch made to suffer by them;
what the G A. R. is doing in the matter -.
All within thirty days; work to commence
on a new electric plant "A questionable
price; C. A. Nolie has been Heeced out Of
good money "A new church pastor for
Los Angeles; DR.. Fowler from Cedar Rap
ids, Ia, TO assume the pastorate of Central
Presbyterian church. -. he murdered Chi.
naman's burial; money in mouth and .
knife in hand q. Arrest OF two suspicious
characters
The herald., 1896-01-03

WHERE YOU nay 40 TODAY
ORPHEuM-At s pm. vaudeville.
BURBANK AT 8 p. M. From Sire to Son.
Los ANGELES THEATER-At s PM, l40l
The herald., 1896-01-03
THE NEWS

BY TELEdRAPH-Ths senate finance commit
tee discusses the bond bill; no agreement
reached Two dreadful fires attended By
loss of life. i. Program Of tho Venezuelan
boundary commission :. Wholesale prose-
cution for perjury growing out of alleged
perjury in the Peralta- a-Reavis case. :. The
Brown Davidson Ovcrman scandal In
wolves many people of high standing and
grows greater every day. Morton again
announced ss a presidential candidate,
Justice Brewer follows suit. .Jamison's
invading force defeated by the Beers. =.
Bay district races. The monthly state
ment of national finances. :. Coast cities
are clamoring for improvement of harbor
defenses, The Cubana suffer q defeat
which costs the spaniards dear; burning
and plundering Pomona; preparations
for tourists. Santa Ana; farm work; resi-
dence burned. San Bernardino; . noisy
New Years night. Santa Monica; .
masked ball. Pasadena; social notes. :.
Ventura; Farmers club..... Riverside; K. Of
p. entertainment
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II fastened at the waist ON tho left side
with large paste buckle, long ends fall
Ing nearly to the hem Of tho skirt.
Besides the regulation jackets and collars
there are numerous classified and unclassi-
fed outer garments to be seen now. Long
wraps, both close and loose, Of rich ma
terials, embroidered, trimmed with jet or
passementerie and finished with fur or
feathers. are worn by women who can
afford them and are fond OF these rather
cumbersome garments. Louis Seize coats
Of velvet and Marie Antoinette fichus Of
fur, crossed on The heart and fastened be-
hind with long ends falling on the skirt,
are other variations In the outer wardrobe
which are noticeable ard picturesque.
Evening wraps arc sumptuous to the last
extreme, all the richest kinds of brocades,
velvets, furs and trimmings being en-
ployed for them.
The illustration shows an evening cape
OF turquoise satin. 1t falls In godets and
IL lined with gold colored taffeta. A deep
embroidering Of gold is carried around the
edge, and yoke shaped design in the
same sort of embroidery covers the shout
ders. The high, flaring collar Is bordered
with turquoise ostrich feathers. This cape
Is worn over gown of white silk. having
q striped pattern OF pink roses and green
leaves. JUDO CHoLLET.
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Tho Bridge" horn OF Sorrow.

In writing Of an evening with Long.
fellow and How He Came to Write
His Best Known Poems" Hezekiah But.
terworth in Ladies Home Journal says !:
my poem entitled The Bridge, said
Longfellow in effect. was written in
sorrow, which made me feel for tbs
loneliness OF others. was awidower
at the time. and ! used sometimes to go
over the bridge to Boston evenings to
meet friends and to return near mid
night by the same way. The way was
silent. save here aud there belated
footstep The sea rose or fell among the
wooden piers, and there was n great
furnace on the Brighton hills whose red
light was reflected by the waves. IL was
ON such late solitary walk that the
spirit Of the poem came upon me. The
bridge has been greatly altered. but the
place Of IL is the same .
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A SURPRISE.

Andrew d. White says that when he
was in Berlin the Chinese minister, at 8
diplomatic reception, pr, sented his prin-
cipal secretaries To the other ministers.
Among the secretaries was n tall, fine
looking man, evidently European,
dressed in superb court costume and COW
cred with gold Lace. As his Chinese col
league introduced him 20 Mr.. White in
German the conversation was continued
In that language, when suddenly this
splendidly dressed parsonage said in Eng
lsh: MIR. White. | do not see why we
should bo talking In German. l come
from Waterloo. In western New York, and
l was educated az tho University of
Rochester. under your friend, DIR. Ander-
SON." Mr. White said that had the man
dropped through the ceiling IL would not
have seemed more surprising, and that 1t
was hard to beiicve that the pretty little
village of Waterloo, or even Rochester.
with all the added power OF its noble uni
versity, should have been able To develop
n creature so gorgeous IL turned out that
the man. after being graduated from tho
University of Rochester, had gone TO China
with certain missionaries, Ind then been
taken into the Chinese service and had
proved TO be thorou yhly intelligent,
patriotic man, faithful IN his duties to
China ms we'll rs to the United States
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FOOD OF THE FUTURE.
A Bracer OF Salt VIII Take the Place Of
Stimulants.

A Bracer OF salt VIII Take the Place Of
stimuiants.
When the food Of the future is once in
vogue. the food dispensary. licensed by
the government, will long since have
supplanted the butcher shop and the
grocery store Wen breakfast and lunch
and dine by prescription at a cost Of 10
or Ia cents per day per capita. Doubt
less our houses won't be heated and sup.
piled with power from q Kelly motor at
q penny a day additional, but the chem
icai or artificial food of the future is al.
ready moral certainty. For does not
Flammarjon describe it in Omega"
and has not Berthelot its chief apostle,
been elevated from the laboratory to the
foreign Office of France!
Given the formula for our food, says
Berthelot, the father of the artificial
food idea, and why not prescribe it from
the chemists? Surely the nitrogen and
carbon Of the beefsteak may not be as
grateful to the palate if absorbed from
a capsule or masticated in tiny tablet.
but the bones and the blood, the flesh
and the sinews will be just as well sup.
piled with their ESSENTIAL material. their
own special foods, provided always the
prescription is right in proportion. and,
after all, the pleasures of the table have
eyes on end been absorbing too much OF
the time and inclination of man and
woman When the area of chemical food
comes, we shall have done with sympo-
STA and supper parties. Welsh rabbits
and golden bucks
There are certain elementary foods
which a man can't do without He
must absorb, or eat and drink, If you
please, carbon and nitrogen and calcium
for his bones. Without going too much
into dry detail. he must absorb or re-
ceive each day, to repair the waste Of
his tissues, calcium, carbon. nitrogen.
oxygen, hydrogen and sodium. There are
other trifiing chemicals like phosphorus.
which is an awful thing to burn oneself
with, which the we'll fed man needs.
But he could get along without it, He
could get along without sodium, were it
not for the fact that salt is chloride Of
sodium, and nobody can get along with.
out salt 1t ism simple, an element,
but it is absolutely Indispensable When
the era of the chemical food sets in.
we'll all he in the habit Of stopping
morning and evening at our favorite dis
pensaries for bracer Of salt New
York Herald
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The Apology Was Accepted.

"There is good story on The Exam
. iner," said j. Ross j ckson. the ex.
newspaper man, 10 some friends in the
Palace yesterday, land although I'm
out of the business l can't overlook its
merit on that account 1t appears that
a druggist named Putnam was killed in
Willows recently by nan named Sc
horn. The telegraphed report came TO
The Call and also TO The Chronicle,
The next morning. when Managing Ed
itor Hamilton Of The Examiner was
looking over the record of the day, he
discovered that his paper had been
'scooped on that particular item. He
thereupon sent for Mr.. Corey, the coast
editor of the paper.
"'Mr. Corey, he said, with a digni-
fed look on his face, have we a CORE
spondent in Willows?
Eyes.
"'Did he send in report Of that
murder
"'No
"'Fire him.
"'How? By mail?'
"No. BY telegraph. We can't dis
pose of man like that too quickly. A
correspondent who doesn't know that a
murder ha7 h-nl committed in his town
isn't !. t-t ''tiou. Bounce him.
mir. Corey y-.. 10 his record hook
If correspondents and presently returned
to the managing editor.
"'Mr. Hamilton. there are certain
circumstances in this man. favor that
"'There are no circumstances that
would justify such an exhibition Of in
competency. Bounce him. say!
But. Mr.. Hamilton, this case has
no parallel. That man has a good ex-
cuse for overlooking tine Importance Of
the story.
"'Well, what was his excusey in
quired the editor, becoming nervous.
"'Well. answered Corey, scratching
his chin moment. he was tho man
who got killed.
"Mr. Hamilton lapsed into silence
and went on reading some proofs San
Francisco Call.
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John Mathews, resident of East
Houghton, died yesterday morning after
an illness OF several weeks. A complica-
ton OF diseases, ending with rheumatism
ofthe heart, was the cause OF death. Mr..
Mathews has been for twenty years or
more in the employ Of the Franklin min
ing company and was at the time OF his
death head copper washer at the Frank
lin mill. Deceased was so years OF age
and leaves wife and two children, a boy
and girl. He was of quiet, retiring dis
position, but whose friends saw in him a
man OF many sterling qualities. He was
a Mason, member OF Houghton Lodge,
and the funeral will be conducted by that
organization tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock from the family residence.