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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
MEETING OF THE CABINET.
Several Important Matters COnsid.
cred. but No Decision Reached


WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Great interest
attached to the Cabinet meeting to-day on
account of various important questions
which are pending and the fact that it was
the first meeting in some weeks. Every
member of the Cabinet, except Secretary
Long, who is out of the city. reached the
White House promptly at II o'clock and
each had with him an unusually large
number of papers and documents relating to
matters pending in his department. Part
of the session was devoted to consideration
of the Union Pacific question, presumably
the advisability of taking an appeal from
the decree OF the United States Court at
Omaha for the sale of the property under
the foreclosure proceedings. No decision
was reached as to the course to be pursued
by the government and it is presumed that
no announcement will be made regarding
ii until a definite conclusion is reached.
Some differences of opinion on matters of
detail developed between Secretary AIger
and Attorney General McKenna over the
San Pedro harbor project. and it was left
to these two Cabinet officers to adjust these
differences of opinion and then to make a
statement on the subject for the benefit OF
the public.
With reference to the Klondike rush Sec
rotary Alger laid before the Cabinet several
letters urging relief for the stricken Amer
leans, including one from the citizens COM
mittee of Tacoma, representing that dis
tress existed already at Dawson City, stat
ing that starvation had begun and pray
ing that revenue cutter be sent with sup
plies 10 st. Michaels and chances taken on
getting the supplies TO those in
need of them. The discussion made
II evident that the Cabinet was not cutie
clear that the government authorities had
warrant Of law for furnishing supplies. bur
Secretary Alger telegraphed to Senator
Perkins OF California. vino is Interested i'm
a Alaska. asking him he "a
undertake to deliver a shipload of supplies
at St. Michael's If II be found that the law
will not permit the government To send
supplies relief will be furnished by private
persons in order that a horror may not
grow out or the rush for gold Some COM
sideration was given TO the practical ilitv
OF getting supplies In by way OF a projected
winter trail VIA Dyea.
After the Cabinet meeting Secretary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15

Perry $. Heath's Coming Visit to HIS
H0me-Mr. Landis's Mission.

Perry s. Heath's Coming Visit to HIS
H0me-Mr. Landis's Mission.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Perry S.
Heath first assistant postmaster general
is arranging his departmental business so
that he may take a short vacation. He in
tends leaving Washington on Thursday
next for a brief visit to his home in Mum
Gle. Mr. Heath's visit to Indiana is entire
ly for the purposes of rest and recreation
of private nature. 1t will be his first
visit to his old home since his appointment
to the responsible position he now holds.
He will, however, doubtless take occasion
to personally look into several postoftice
fights" which are now on in the State and
inform himself as to the merits of the sew
eral contestants. This, however, will be a
mere incident of his visit, but he will thor
oughly inform himself while on the ground
as to a number of complicated postal mat
tiers which have arisen in Indiana and
come before him at Washington for adjudi-
cation. Mr. Heath expects to spend about
ten days in Indiana and on Wednesday,
the 22d, will be a guest at the wedding of
Miss Steele, daughter of Congressman
Steele, who on that date is to wed Con-
gresham Belknap, of Chicago.
Mr.. r. J. Tracewell, controller of the
treasury, left for Indiana this evening. He
goes home to escort his daughter back to
Washington, where she will enter school.
He will move his family here later.
Congressman Lands, who has been in
town two or three days making still hunt
through the departments in behalf of va
rious deserving constituents, will return to
Indiana tomorrow night. He THINKS he
has landed two or three good appoint
are until the jobs are nailed down SO tight
that they cannot be taken away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
PENCIL DEEDS FORGED
DECISION BY JUDGE SLACK IN FA-
VOR OF SENATOR FAIRS HEIRS.
Mrs. Nettie B. Craven, n San Francisco
School Teacher, Defeated in Her At
tempt to Get $1,OOO,OOO.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 1.-THE famous
cases of Angus versus Craven, by which the
executors and heirs of the late Senator
James G. Fair sought TO quiet the title of
Mrs. Nettie B. Craven, a school teacher of
this city, to two pieces of property on Sam
son and Mission streets valued at 81, 200, 900,
was finally decided for the plaintiff and the
intervenors to-day, by Superior Judge
Slack, sitting as a chancellor in equity.
For five long months the trial of the case
dragged along before a jury to whom it
was finally submitted upon three decisive
issues yesterday, but after wrangling for
ten hours it announced it's inability
to agree upon a verdict and was discharged
by the court late last night. Judge Slack
intimated that he had reached his decision
at that time but at the urgent request of
counsel for the defendant deferred render
ing it until to-day. When the case was
called to-day Judge Slack denied a motion
for new trial and rendered his decision
to the effect that the pencil deeds purport-
ing to have been signed by James G. Fair
by means of which Mrs. Craven sought to
sustain her title to the property in contro-
versy. were forgeries and that they had
never been acknowledged by James G.. Fair
before Notary J. j. Cooney, as claimed,
and that therefore the acknowledgements
attached thereto were also forgeries. AS to
the third issue, Judge Slack said that there
was no evidence of a conspiracy existing
between Mrs. Craven, Mrs. Haskins and
Notary Cooney which had for it's object
the looting OF the Fair estate, except by
inference.
The decision was evidently unexpected by
the defendants counsel, who asked for
and obtained a stay of proceedings for thir-
ty days. Neither Mrs. Craven nor her
daughter was in court when the case was
decided. When questioned as to what, if
any, action they proposed to take in the
premises, the plaintiffs. attorney declined
to discuss the subject at present, but it is
generally believed that the grand jury now
in session will take the matter up i'm
mRdihfalV
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
AMERICAN BUTTER ABROAD.
Result of Experiment Shipments by
the Agricultural Department..


WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE secretary
of agriculture has received complete reports
from the third experimental shipment of
butter to London by his department. This
consisted of a lot of Minnesota creamery
butter in fifty-six-pond boxes and tubs and
a lot of Massachusetts creamery butter in
small tubs, in fancy packages and prints.
The export was made in June. 1t costs
21z cents pound to carry the butter from
central Minnesota to London by the single
ton, with the best refrigerator accommoda-
tions all the way, excepting short transfers.
The transportation from western Massa-
chuSettS costs rather more, because of the
absence of refrigerator car line to New
York and the necessity of paying express
age. This butter was all placed by the de-
partment agent in London in the hands of
retail dealers. They paid from Is to 1919
cents per pound for ii, the same butter be-
ing then worth Is cents in New York The
wholesale price Of Danish butter was about
70 cents in London at that time. 1T was
all retailed to consumers at a. 20 and &c
cents per pound, most of 1t at rs cents.
This was the same as the retail price of
the best Danish, which leads the London
market for sailed butter. The retailers,
upon being convinced of the high quality
of this countrys butter, paid the same price
for it in tubs as in the favOrite Austria
liam" or cubical box. Six different dealers
took the Minnesota butter at a uniform
price of is 10 cents per pound 1t cost
ABOUT 10 cents delivered TO these LONDON
dealers. The Massachusetts butter was Of
equal quality, and, although some of it
was sold to dealers at 1872 cents, the small
packages were not liked by the trade. This
butter was worth 20 cents for local sale in
in the neighborhood where made. Thus, as
in other cases, the Western creamery butter
was sold at fair profit, over cents per
pound, while the New England company
butter sold in London at less than it
would have brought at home. The London
retailers margin for profit, 615 to 10 cents
and about cents on the average, was too
great. The consumer paid twice as much
in that State received for it, and of what
the butter cost the consumer, the farmer
who supplied the cream got less than two
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15

RAMSGATE, England, Sept14-At Ebbs-
fleet. Isle of Thenet, near here, the Roman
Catholic hierarchy of Great Britain to-day
celebrated the thirteenth centenary of the
landing of ST. Augustine in England The
greatest pomp was displayed the process
sion including delegates from the religious
orders of the Benedictines, Marists OBJ
lateS, FaSSionates, Redemptorists, Jesu1ts,
Services, Carmelites, Capuchins, Francis
cans and Dominicans, besides twenty biSh-
ops wearing the gorgeous vestments of
their rank in the church and their jeweled
miters. Cardinal Vaughan. besides his full
canonicals, wore the pallium as metropol--
itan of England. The Cardinal Bishop of
Autumn, Mgr Adolphe Louis Albert Per-
raud, and other representatives of the Ro-
man Catholic Church in France, were
present at the ceremonies The procession
encircled the field where ST. Augustine
landed, and then entered an immense tent
where Cardinal Vaughan otficiated at a
pontifical high mass, during which he read
a letter of benediction from the Pope.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
BLACK BEARS NUMEROUS.
Report of the Acting superintendent
of YeIIOYYstOne. Park.

of Yellowstone Park.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Col. S. B. NJ
Young, acting superintendent of Yellow
stone National Park in his annual report,
says there has been rapid increase of
black bears within the park limits, and the
complaints have been made that bears
have broken into the storehouses and de-
stroyed meat and other provisions in large
quantities. 1t is a common occurrence to
see from six to twelve bears any afternoon
feeding on the garbage dumps within few
hundred yards of the hotel. He recon-
mendS that some of the bears be disposed
of to geological gardens. He also says
coyotes are numerous and bold, and kill
to reduce the number Colonel Young es-
four. and that they seem to be the only
eminent protection. Colonel Young says
he has consulted with Dr. Frank Baker
superintendent of the National Geological
Park, as to the practicability and advisa-
bility of corraling the remaining buffalo in
the park with a view to their preservation
and increase, and that their concurrent
conclusion is that it has been the expert
ence of most persons engaged in the cap
ture and domestication of wild animals
that, while the young may be confined with
successful results, it is otherwise with
adults, a large proportion of which die I'M
der even slight restraint. Colonel Young
estimates $250,000 as necessary for next
years improvements in the park.
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Alger. in answer to inquiries, authorized
on the 18th of August / received at the
Hotel Champlain an opinion from the at
torney general which was in effect that
would be justified under the act concern
ing San Pedro, in building the breakwater
and expenGing so much of the money as is
necessary for the purpose without regard to
the improvements of the harbor. The work
will be advertised for I'm due time in accord
ance with that opinion.
The President is clearing up all impor-
tant matters as to which Cabinet consulta-
tons is necessary, as he purposes taking
another vacation as soon as possible, but
it was said this afternoon that he probably
would be delayed here by pending business
longer than he had anticipated when he re-
turned.
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Hoods pills cure all Liver Ills. % cents.

Brazilian nobleman, but the Brazilian min
lister here says there is no such title as
Duke of Rio Grande." The two prisoners
had friends in court to-day who contrib
uted to pay the bills incurred. expecting that
their prosecution would be stopped, and
counsel for the prisoners said he was ready
to pay the claims against his clients, adding
that there was no evidence of criminal in
tent and that, therefore, he asked that the
proceedings be discontinued The maSis-
trate, however, said: This is very serious
case and cannot be settled so lightly. The
appearance of the prisoners is against them
and there seems to have been systematic
scheme for robbery" Both prisoners were
then formally committed for trial and were
subsequently released on bail furnished by
the friends they had in court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
Draw In the Twelfth.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-THE star attrac-
ton at the South Beach Athletic Club. at
South Beach, Staten island was the meet
ing of Eddie Curry. of New York. and Billy
O'Donnell. of Memphis, at 1913 pounds. for
twenty rounds O'Donnell opened with an
attempt to worry Curry and landed several
stiff left-handed jabs on the latter's stom-
ach Curry settled down and it was even
up to the fifth. when O'Donnell reached his
eye and partly closed it. O'Donnen took
the aggressive up TO the ninth, continuing
to use his left on the stomach. From the
tenth TO the twelfth round Curry attempted
to force matters and had these rounds in
his favor. For the remaining rounds il was
give and take and at the end OF the twelfth
the referee declared the fight a draw
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
EDDIE CONNOLLY BESTED.
owen ZeigIer Awarded the Decision
After Hard Fighting.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14.-Owen Zeig-
Ter, of Philadelphia, was awarded the de-
cision over Eddie Connolly. of New Bruins
wick, tonight after twenty rounds of stiff
fighting. In the earlier stages of the fight
Zeigler forced the pace and clearly out
pointed Connolly. After the tenth and
eleventh rounds Connolly braced up and
gave the Quaker some hard punches.
knocking him down once. After the ff-
teenth round Zeigler set such a hot pace
for Connolly that the New Brunswick man
was very tired at the end. In the last
round Zeigler punched Connolly when and
where he liked The decision, while not
popular with a large number of the spec
tators, seemed to be an eminently fair one
Dick Case was given the decision over
Billy Elmer, the actor, after six rounds.
Elmer held his own till the sixth when he
lost his head and the referee stopped the
fight and gave the decision to Case
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
General Notes.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE President
to-day appointed Daniel B. Hainer, Of
Pennsylvania, United States district attor-
ney for the Western district of Pennsyl-
vania. Mr.. Hainer was formerly a member
of Congress.
To-day's treasury statement shows
Available cash balance, $216, 712, 206; gold re-
serve, STAG, las, 915.
The Philadelphia, flagship of the Pacific
station, now at Honolulu, is to come home
as soon as the necessary orders can reach
her. This will leave the Bennington as
the sole representative of the United States
navy at Honolulu until the Baltimore
reaches that port
Joseph Marhx, twenty-one years old,
Spaniard, was arrested to-day for passing
a counterfeit silver dollar. He is believed
to be one of a gang who have been operat-
ing in the West for some weeks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA. - The secre-
tary of war has appointed board of en-
gineers to proceed at once to Savannah,
Ga, to investigate certain reports that
have come to the War Department to the
effect that the work on the river and har-
Dor improvements on Savannah river and
Cumberland sound, under the charge of
Captain Oberlin M. Carter, of the Engi-
neers' Corps has not been done in accord
ance with the project of the department
1t is expressly stated at the War Depart
ment that there is no statement of irregu-
larity in the accounts of Captain Garter,
but merely a charge of departure from
the authorized plans of the department.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
south Wants Armor-Plate Fnctorr.

WASHINGTON, Sept. IA delegation
of representative men from the large iron
sections of the South to-day went before
the naval board which is considering the
question of establishing a government
armor factory and urged that the South
offered the greatest advantages in cost of
iron, labor transportation, ETC., for the To-
cation of the proposed government armor
plate factory. The delegation was made
up of Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay
Evans, OF tennessee, and Representatives
Wheeler of Alabama Livingston of
Georgia and Gaines of Tennessee. 1t was
stated at the hearing that the iron used
by the large private concerns now making
armor plate was bought to a large extent
from the South at the low price of $3.50 to
1910 per ton. 1t was argued, also that an
inland armor factory in the South would
be more secure from attack in case Of war
than one near the Atlantic coast in the
North.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
Patents Granted Indianians.

WASHINGTON, Sept. -H.-Patents were
issued to Indianians to-day as follows.
Quinties c. Grant, Greentown, fence post;
George Guild and C. A. Bertsch, Cambridge
City, shearing machine; William ]. Jacobs,
to wire fences Bernard w. Karst, Harlans-
burg match box or safe; David w. Leath-
erman Milford, folding berry box; Mark
b. Marris and F. N. Wilson, Logansport,
paper box; Earl B. Nourse, Clinton, ink
well; Herman Prizes and j. w. Meyers,
Michigan City, car door; Stebbins S. Web
Der, Laporte, sheet fue range; Henry L.
Young, Elkhart, toe clip.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
Chunk of ore worth 500, 900.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Sept. a.
Col. H. S. Ervay has just brought from
Cripple Creek piece of ore weighing over
100 pounds, which is full of free gold, and
which will carry values aggregating 800 900.
saturday and is in MANY respects the most
sensational ever made in Cripple Creek. The
rich rock was uncovered at a depth of only
six feet. Considerable excitement has been
caused by the new find, as the Cripple
Creek formation has all along been thought
to be of such a nature as TO preclude the
possibility of gold existing in such album
dance in the upper rock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15

LONDON, Sept. IA blue book has been
issued giving the replies of the colonial
governors to the dispatch of the secretary
of state for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph Cham
berIain, in 1895, sent with the view of as
pertaining the extent of the displacement
main conclusions reached are that the Brit.
ish manufacturer is still supreme in the
best classes of goods, with the exception
of machinery and tools of certain patterns
in supplying which the United States is
most successful, though Canada is often a
successful competitor in these lines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
The worlds Telegraph system.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Fhe total
length Of the worlds telegraph system has
now reached 4,9OS,921 miles, exclusive of
$50, 40 miles of submarine cables. OF this
Europe has /, 764, 100 miles, Asia 1905 At
RIGA 99,419 Australia 217,479 and America
2,516548 miles. United States Consul Ger
main, who sends these figures to the State
Department from Zurich, says they show
that Notwithstanding the steady increase
in the building of telegraph lines all over
Europe, America leads the world and has
almost double the European mileage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15

WASHINGTON, Sept 1.-THE weekly
crop bulletin, issued by the Agricultural
Department for the week ended at a. m
Sept. Is, says: 1.-THE week has been excess
svely hot and for the most part dry in
nearly all districts east of the Rocky noun
tains. With sufficient moisture the condi-
tons would have been most favorable to
corn, but in most of the important corn
States the crop, more particularly the late
planted, has suffered seriously from
drought, and is being prematurey ripened
Much of the crop is now safe from frost
and cutting has begun in the mere north
erly sections. In Nebraska recent rains
will improve late corn, and with favor
able conditions in Iowa during the next two
weeks some of the late corn will make a
fair yield, the early crop having been rap
idly ripened under the excessive heat of
the past two weeks, with some detriment
to quality. In Kansas most of the early
corn has been cut and the late planted is
suffering from drought. Subsequent
weather conditions will have but little eff
feet upon the crop in Missouri where it
has been seriously and permanently in
-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
Fire and Probable Loss of Life.

REDDING, CAL. Sept. IA fire at Iron
mountain, fifteen miles northwest of this
place, has destroyed property belonging to
the Mountain Cooper Company valued at
nearly S200, 900. Two men employed in the
compressor room are believed to have lost
their lives. Among the buildings burned
were the residence of Superintendent +. b.
Wilson, the assay house, the oil house, the
reading room and row of seven cottages
Tho origin of the fire is unknown.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15

a mistake of fact the same may be recov-
cred by way of reimbursement by with
holding any accruing pension until the
wrongful payment is made good. But when
such erroneous payment was made by rea-
son of an error of judgment on the law and
the facts no reimbursement may be had
by depriving the pensoner of money due
him on q current mansion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-15
GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR SPAIN.
Senior Sagasta Talks About His COun-
try's Omcers-A Financial Crisis.

MADRID, Sept. 14.-Senor Sagasta, the
Liberal leader, in an interview on the sub
ject of the Cuban insurrection, says that
the uprising, instead of dying out, is
spreading considerably. In addition, Senior
Sagasta says. the situation in the Philip
pine islands is serious. He also asserts that
the Carlist propaganda in Spain cannot be
viewed with indifference and expresses the
belief that a reconciliation between the po-
litical parties in Spain is impossible as long
as the Conservatives are in power. In con-
cluSion, Senior Sagasta says: I'm my opin-
ion the CorteS will not meet, but if it does
meet it's existence is ephemeral." The Lib
eral leader refused to express himself re-
garding the relations between the United
States and Spain.
The position of the Bank of Spain con-
tinues to greatly concern commercial cir
cles owing to its immense note circulation
Paris exchange has reached 31.50 the high
est on record. AS the bank has lent the
state 100. 600 900 pesetas, repayabIe. without
interest, in 1920 it's affairs would become
critical in the event of the bank mourning
loss on loans.
General Azcarraga, premier and minister
of war, denies that the Cuban insurgents
have captured San Andres and Colsolation.
or either of them. He also denies that Cen
Luque has been compelled to retire on Man
Zanillo