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reported back favorably. Swamp and
overflow land owners believe from this
that the river improvement and drain
age bill will also be reported favorably
in a short time, and that the plans Of
fered by Commissioner Leake and En-
gineer Price will be carried to a con-
clusion.
DEBRIS BUSINESS.
A joint meeting Of the Committees on
Mines, Drainage and Mining Debris
was held yesterday afternoon, the
meeting being addressed by ex-senator
Tirey L. Ford, who explained the bill
now pending, apparently to the salts
faction of all present.
During the session Of 1895 a bill was
passed appropriating $250000 to be
used toward furthering mining inter-
ests by the construction of dams, etc,
contingent upon the Federal Govern
ment making a like appropriation
Subsequent to the passage of the
bill, the Federal Government did appro-
pirate $3.50, 900 for the purpose named,
and the bill under consideration is
to remove the contingent placed upon
the matter by the Act Of 1895, and
make the appropriation available at the
earliest possible date.
1t is thought both committees will re-
port the bill back with a recommended
tion favoring it's passage.
IRRIGATION DISTRICTS.
A joint meeting Of the Committee on
Irrigation and Water Rights was held
last night, and from the course of
events it may be expected that a great
deal of bitterness will be stirred up re-
garding the Wright law before the
close of the session.
The meeting was called only for the
purpose of setting a date at which par
ties wishing to see the Wright law
amended might be heard, and a resou-
ton offered by Bridgford fixing Thurs
day January 21st, at 7:30 o'clock o. m.
as the time, was adopted. The resolu-
tion provided that those having amend
ments to offer would be permitted to
present them in writing, and would not
be heard on the subject unless such
presentation were made, and six extra
copies distributed throughout the COM
mittee.
A SWINDIING PROPOSITION.
Then Mahoney started the ball roll
ing by suggesting that as a number of
Modesto men were present they be re-
quested to address the meeting as to
what they desired. Mr.. Blake took the
hint, and stated the people Of the Mo-
desto Irrigation District had been swim
died out of 100000 within the past
four years, and that 5000 900 had been
voted on by them by the floating vote
which was to be had for dollar a
ballot He thought the Wright law
would answer very well provided it
We're strictly enforced. It's provisions
would not allow boards of directors to
deliberately swindle and rob the people.
He stated that to his personal knowl-
edge the people of the district had been
robbed, and the fact that 100000 had
been squandered in surveys and other
ways and not one drop of water put on
10 the lands Of the district bore out his
statement The board of directors was
star chamber. Its sessions were not
public. and while the lands of the dis
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Irrigation District Battle Begun Be-
fore The Committee.
Georgia's Governor Welcomed by the Senate
Per Diem Of Attaches Of the Sen
ate in 1895.

In the Senate yesterday the bill pro-
viding for the continuance of the office
of Commissioner of Public Works was
reported back favorably. Swamp and
overflow land owners believe from this
that the river Improvement and drain
age bill will also be reported favorably
in a short time, and that the plans Of
fered by Commissioner Leake and En-
gineer Price will be carried to a con-
OH
Daily camera., 1897-07-24

went down, got on my cab ard drove off
like mad I passed you al the carriage
gate and asked you the time. You told
me, and l said I had to catch train
and whipped up my horse"
81 remember. What a blamed fool I
was!" said Welsh, with a deep flush.
What did you do neXt?' -
Turned the cab over to it's owner
and went and had a private talk with
the family physician of the Roundtrees.
After that, to use slang, | kicked my
self soundly, and in 20 minutes was
dogging the footsteps of the distin-
guished stranger of whom l spoke to
you"
"But don't you think Mrs. Walters
had anything to do with the murder ?'
asked Welsh.
Nothing at all. Here it is in nut
shell: She will be a mother in about
three months. In her condition she is
always queerly imaginative and deceit
full. She lost a child year ago in child
birth, and for several months, before
it was born she almost ran her family
wild with her strange fancies. She has
been reading sensational literature for
a long time, and when that murder oc-
Cured and ner father offered reward
for the capture of the criminal it struck
her that the murderer would be apt to
resent it. She tried TO rouse the fears
of her father and husband on this line,
but, as they failed to see it her way,
she determined to make them do so.
She invented the yarn about having
seen man on the lawn the night she
astonished them by going to the gate
with her husbands revolver. and, fol-
lowing the murtlerer's idea of using
typewriter, she wrote the threatening
letter to her father and enjoyed the eX
citement it caused. Later, fearing that
some one would see through her little
deception, she determined to make the
circumstances more convincing. The
detective stories she had read gave her
the idea Of pretending to be shot at.
IS l have shown you, she dampened
the clay with the watering can, made
the footmarks by wearing her fathers
slippers, shot a hole through her sleeve,
hid the revolver in the grass and has
had lot of fun out of our careful in
vestigations. If she had dreamt, how
ever, that she herself would be suspect
cd of that murder she would have shown
the white feather long ago"
what are you going to do now?'
asked Welsh, completely crestfallen.
81 am on quite another line, and am
at a standstill. I hardly know what I
shall do rr
"Can I aid you in any way?"
81 think not, now. Ishall come round
as soon as I find ont anything tan
gible."
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CHAPTER XIV,

Half an hour afterwards the detec-
tive arrived ct his hotel, and went up to
his room. His face still wore look
of deep perpleXity. He sat down at a
window and stared at the envelope
steadily for ten minutes. Then there
was rap at the door. Itwas servant,
TO say that Capt. Welsh was downstairs,
and that he was anxious to see him.
Send him up" said Hendricks, and
he put the envelope into his pocket
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He pickedup newspaper two or three
days old, and was hidden behind it
when the captain raped.
Come in the detective called out.
81 am sorry to disturb you" began
Welsh, ''but the truth is we are making
so little headway that the mayors peo-
pie are showing a good deal of impa-
tience. Mrs. Roundtree says we are
entirely too slow, and she is laying it
all on me and my men. The mayor
himself has just left my Office. Of
course, l could not tell him what you
suspected about his daughter, and
Il should think not, captain, since
you yourself don't know what do or
do not suspect And Hendricks threw
his paper on the floor
"Of course, of course; but aren't you
really going any further with your in
vestigations up there? l Thought when
told you that I spent the night in front
of the house. and saw her come out and
secure the revolver from the grass,
that"
Hendricks broke into low laugh,
bent forward and rubbed his hands be-
tween his knees.
you didn't see me, captain, that
night. We were both a pretty pair of
fools. 1 recognized you IN the flaming
disk of your cigar block away. You
looked like headlight, and I made for
you as soon as I turned the corner.
l knew the gate must be near where you
stood"
What do you mean?" cried Welsh in
surprise.
81 was in Mrs. Walters room from
half-past nine till ten o'clock that night
and made thorough examination of
her belongings"
"Why, was on watch at that time!
You could not have gone in at the
front, and my men were in the rear"
Hendricks smiled broadly.
81 never go in at back gate if / can
help it. / was the driver of the cab
that took the mayor home from his
office that night. | overheard him as.
the fellow to wait for him. | called
the man into barroom, explained WHO
| I was, promised him five dollars, cT-
changed coats and hats with him and
| took his cab. OF course, | wore my
whiskers. l would not be without them
when I go driving CT cool rights. [
catch cold easily, and they protect my
! throat.
81 pulled up when you waved me
| down to tell the mayor you were watch
ing his house personally, on account Of
your special interest in his family, and
that you would see to it that they
were not disturbed through the night.
When the mayor got out at the side
door of his house l took my fare, ex-
planned that piece of my harness had
given way and was tinkering with a
strap under the belly of the horse when
the mayor went in to his supper. Then
I ran my rig out of sight behind sort
of woodshed and went up the back
stairs to Mrs. Walters room. l knew
it by her dresses in the closets"
"What were you looking for?"
'Boolls, chiefly. / had found out that
she had purchased a box of them in
New York the other day and wanted
to see them. 1 thought they might be
treatises on hypnotism and things in
that outlandish line; but they were only
! modern yellow-backe novels. transla-
tions of Emile Gaboriau and detective
stories by Doyle and Anna X. Green.
They put me on a new scent. A new
light broke on me. felt like fool.
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Copyright. 1896. by J. B. Lpplncott Col

eludes me like the memory Of night
mare. But I'll get it aftef awhile.
Leave me, you and your man. I'll walk
back alone. I want TO tussle with the
thing. | shall see you as soon as l come
to any conclusion
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ITO be Continued.]

Don't nauseate your stomach with teas
and bitter herbs. but regulate your liver
and sick headache by using those famous
little pills known as De Wits Little
Early Risers. Parlor Drug Store.
Daily camera., 1897-07-24

For RENT-Large two-story modern
stone house with barn in connection in
University Place from Sept Ist.
LEWIS S. Young, Attorney,
lover Babcock's.
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He pickedup a newspaper two or three
days old, and was hidden behind it
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

You may get over thar
slight cold all right, but it
hasleft It's mark on the mem
branes lining your throat.
You are liable to takeanother
cold and the second one will
hang on longer than the first.
Scott's Emulsion is not an
ordinary cough specific, but
it is "the ounce of preven-
ton. 1t builds up the
system3checks inflammation
and heals inAamed mem
branes. "Slight" colds never
bring serious results when it
is promptly taken.
Book on the subject free.
SCOTT s. BOVINE. Chemists, New York
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18
BACK TO LIFE AFTER 81 YEARS.
Release of Prisoner Who Had Been
Legally Dead Since 1866.
Albany Express.

Through the clemency of former Cover
nor Morton there will emerge from prison
walls into freedom next spring man who
has suffered a living death for more than
thirty-one years. The first thought that
naturally comes is that this man Will be
almost overcome with JOY al the prospect
of his release. But on second thought
grave doubt arises as to whether this un-
fortunate man will be even as content as
he must have learned TO be in prison when
he is again out in the world. Tree 10 so
where he peaSes. He himself probably has
no such doubt now. but IL Is much to be
feared that when the prison doors have
closed behind him he will realize what ii Is
impossible for him to realize now.
At the age OF siXty-siX years he VIII be
utterly alone i'm the world. without re-
sources. without the physical strength TO
make his way through what little OF life
may remain to him. She that was his wife
If she still lives. is the wife of another. for
ha 80 IagaIi,, dead vben the lie sentence
had been imposed upon him. and she eNer-
cised her right TO marry again. those who
were his friends. all those years ago are
dead and scattered through the world. He
will be a stranger among strangers. There
are none to whom he can turn for sym
pathy. for aid. or even for the opportu-
nity OF making living. Moreover. there
will come TO him. as never before. per-
haps. the realization that his life. with AL
the opportunities which II might nave held
has all but passed away.
Governor Morton. before the expiration
of his term. commuted the life sentence OF
George T.. Gordon. now in Dannemora IriS-
on. TO fifty-two years, so that he viii be re-
leased on May next. the time off for gocd
behavior being allowed. Gordon was SEN
tenced in~this city i'm 1866 to life imprison-
ment. after conviction of the murder OF
a stock drover by the name of Thompson
i'm the West Albany cattle yards. Gordon
was a resident of Greenbush and was thir-
ty-five years OF age when convicted.
The application for pardon has been or
file in the executive chamber for twenty
years and was signed by some of the most
prominent people and public officials In
Rensselaer, county. Gordon Is at present
the prison librarian at Danncmora. and his
good conduct during his long confinement
together with the fact that he has always
contended that he did not commit the
crime led 10 the Governors favorable ac.
ton on the application for clemency.
Under the law at that time person
charged with murder could not testify in
his own behalf. but he then declared his
innocence. He was convicted on Circum.
stantal evidence. considered strong.
Gordon's wife has married again.
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AN EVENTFyL CAREER.
Or One Devised by an Exceptional
~ Fertile lima ginatiOn.

Paris Letter.
Sell ten oxen and send me the money by
telegraph" Such was the original message
which a lady. who has just been arrested
on a charge of swindling. is said to have
handed To "A Paris hotel keeper TO whom
she owed money. for the purpose of being
wired TO the governor of a town in Algeria
whom she represented as looking after the
broad lands. crammed with fiocks and
herds which she owned i'm the neighbor-
hood the landlord in question being so daZ-
zled by this demonstration that he not only
put his bill i'm his pocket. but advanced
some funds This person, who is OF middle
age is accused of having similarly used
other hotelkeepers, whose accounts she
neglected TO settle. and OF having made
other dupes as we'll: but. as she stoutly de-
nies all these soft impeachments. and de-
rflres that she is honest as the day, il is
only right TO await the issue of the affair
ere. pronouncing a definite opinion this
odd case. Meanwhile. her story of her ca
reer is interesting enough in its way. She
SAYS that she first saw the light fOrty-one
years ago in the Touggourt oasis. and that
at the age OF twenty she Was welded TO a
Turk in whose company she Travelled on an
crrand from the Ottoman government in
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

Asia Minor with an escort " soldiers. on
the death of her husband she came 10
France. and delivered lectures on her jour
neys at Marselles She described herself
on her cards as Founder of anti-pagan
and anti-slaVery missions in the East. >"
giving her address as Oasis of Teunoncha,
in the Barbary Sahara Circulars were is
sued by her requesting subscriptions for
her missions. and she explained that one
of the names which she bore meant in
Turkish the child beloved by the Lord, "
and had enabled her in her explorations
TO visit the most savage tribes and 70 es-
tablish friendly relations with the Touregs
Such is the history of the eventful career
of this lady. according to her own version
and the investigation which is now being
set on foot by the police will show how far
her pretensions to fame are justified by
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

New York Evening Post.
The Massachusetts law limiting liquor
licenses To one for every one thousand in
habitants has been declared constitutional
II was attacked on the ground that it, i'm
effect. gives to the proprietors of licensed
places unequal advantages and peculiar ard
exclusive privileges. and 80 conflicts with
the State Constitution and with Article "a
OF the amendments OF the United States
Constitution. The Supreme Court upheld
the Law as being a reasonable exercise OF
the police power OF the State. 1T is too
late. the court said. Ito question the
validity OF such statutes. This one does not
differ I'm substance from any statute which
fOrbids the carrying on OF a trade or bust
ness or the exercise OF a profession by other
than licensed persons. Such statutes are up
held because the resulting exclusion OF un-
licensed persons IL not designed 10 confer
on those who are licensed an exclusive ben
eft. privilege right. and wnere that re-
suit does follow 10 Is merely the collateral
and incidental effect OF provisions enacted
solely with "A view 10 secure the welfare
of the community
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

last evening. this time I'm the most brutal
manner. The desperate man Is being
guarded by two men but I'm their momen-
tary absence attempted TO butt his brains
out on the stone walls and tried to tear the
bandages from his throat with the object OF
tearing open the wounds. made Thursday
with a razor. Smith has wel-cOnnected
parents at Washington &. H. o. and was
serving a ten years sentence Tor robbery
when he escaped. He will have over five
years Of solitary confinement on his return
lie Is desperate crook and prizehghter.
having trained kid" Reed for fight at
Alexandria five years ago. and he once ap-
peared in the ring with Dan" Bailiff. IL
Muncip
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Indiana Notes.

The Blackford County Bank. of Hartford
City has elected the following officers: W.
b Cooley. president; G. w cole vice pres
ident. A. G.. Lupton. cashier; j. a. New
baurer, assistant cashier.
The damage suit of NJ. A. Mitchell against
the Lake Erie * Western Railway at kO-
kOmO, resulted in a verdict for S1.145
Mitchell sued for injuries received by fall
ing into a cinder pit.
William Gaynor. the tall suspect arrested
in Illinois and charged with the murder of
Druggist Counts at ReelSville. was taken to
Greencastle Sunday and placed i'm Jail with
Gray. the other suspect. His preliminary
trial will probably be held this week.
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Dog Fight and Cock Fight at Eiwood.
Special ID the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
EL.WOOD. Ind. Jan. 17.-At an early
hour this morning crowd OF sports as
sembled at the fair grounds. north of this
city. and prepared a ringside for a dog
fight. and a big cooking main. which was
pulled off about o'clock a m. The dog
night was between Tug Wilson" of this
city. and Beauty, of Chicago, and was
FOR a purse OF 800 The dogs mad bloody
tight of almost two hours duration. which
resulted in Tug Wilson killing the other
dog and ending the tight. Then followed
the cock fight. for purse of 800. This was
won by the ElwOod bird after Il fierce con-
feGf
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Got i'm the Wrong House.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind. Jan 17.-At an
early hour this morning Harry Massey,
young man. in an effort to reach his home
while intoxicated entered the home of Tim
othy Mcmahon. a fight occurred I'm which
Massy was shot four times and Mcmahon
was dangerously stabbed. III is not believed
that Massey will recover.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

daily in the central provinces. But the
government realizss the magnitude of
the danger. and Will. moreover. be as
sisted by the caste system of India. which
in time OF scarcity acts a charity or
ganizaticn society on an immense scale.
What can be done will be done. but the
reports are certain To grow more gloomy
for the next two months.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
WINDFALL. Ind. Jan. 17.-Alrs. Sue
Zeek. widow of Capt. +. 5. Geek, late of
this place. now deceased. was stricken
Wednesday with paralysis, since which time
she has remained unconscious. The patient
i gradually growing worse and can live
but short time Mrs. Zeek is prominent
member of the Rebekah Order and the W.
r. g. of this place.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18
His Explanation.
Chicago Record.

CnlCaEO
Tenderfoot Dentist.-Why, somebody has
simply drilled your teeth without filling
them,
Pizenwood Pete>-Thats right. pard.
Tenderfoot Dentist-Wh-what wa-waS
the matter?
Pizenwood Pete-Yer sec. l can't keep
FUN shootin ever time a nerves tcchcdi
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

but his words have come true. In the in
3uguTal address OF Governor Leedy, OF
Kansas. the new literature Of the West
bursts into full bloom all al once There
Is nothing In IL OF seed time tho tender
nature OF the unfolding plant. Like the
night-blooming cereus IL pops open all
a once. gorgootfS eblouissant
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

HarperS BaZar-
Deacon Johnson--Ips afraid dat ef yo'
married nah daughter 4 would hab TO as
sIzt yo'."
Abe Hardcase-Lawd. no: i kin take care
Oh nlahseh all right. You wouldn't hab TO
de- nul1fn' but take care OBJ her an de chill
dren- Don't 30 worry yosaif about me
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18
The New Literature of the West.
Buffalo Courier.

Hamlin Garland said not long ago that
the West was going 10 produce a literature
that would make all the intellectual pro-
ductions of our Eastern civilization look
as pale and sickly by comparison as
though they had been sprouted I'm "a
damp cellar. We scofIed at Mr.. Garland.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18
The Thing to DO.

Boston Transcript.
Governor Leedy says Kansas has been "a
pillar of cloud by day and a pillar OF fire
by night" What Kansas should do. then.
is 10 turn on the hose and wait till the
clouds roll by.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

couragement, and trade stagnaton. until
nearly six months after resumption of
specie payments
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18
Plausible in Bonton.

Boston Transcript.
Francis Murphy says that Peter and Paul
were Irishmen- Very likely. Both OF them
held office.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-01-18

Princeton Ind. Jan. 16.
The Jewish South. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1893-1899, 1897-09-17

the county solicitor refused to do so because he had
privately received 500 for the convcts services for
the term of his sentence This is said to he only
of the numerous evils the law is working.
Georgia is one of the few states of the Union IN
which the observance of Sunday is mandatory, no
matter what the religious belief of person may be-
When this latter fact is remembered the former loses
much Of it's hdeousness by comparison, for it is in
keeping with the eternal fitness of things that that
Commonwealth God it which seeks to chain
the conscience should also endeavor to enslave the
body. -