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The herald., 1897-09-10
ARMY ORDERS
Regular Army Men Ordered to New
Duties

WASHINGTON, Sept. o. Army
orders: A board of officers is appointed
to meet at San Francisco for the exam
ination of such officers of the corps Of
engineers as may be ordered before
it to determine their fitness for promo
ton.
Detail for the board: Col. Charles R.
Suter, Lieuten Colonel Johnson, v. D.
Middleton, Major William H. Heur,
Major Charles E. B. Davis, Captain
Charles M. Candy.
Captain Walter L. Fisk will report to
the examining board for examination as
to his fitness for promotion.
Major James Chester, Third artillery
will be relieved from duty at Fort Canb
Wash, on October 10th and will repair
to his home, Washington, where he is
authorized to await retirement
First Lieutenant James M Kennedy
assistant surgeon, will be relieved from
duty az Fort Missoula, Mont, and will
then report in person to the command
ing officer, Fort Washington, Nd, for
duty at his post.
Captain John A. Baldwin, Ninth in
fantry, will proceed to Phoenix, Ariz.,
and report in person to the governor OF
the territory for duty with the National
guard thereof.
A board of officers to consist Of Major
The herald., 1897-09-10
SIGNS OF REBELLION
BY LAYMEN OF THE METHODIST
CHURCH
Conventions Called to Demand Equal
Lay Representation in the Quad
rennial Legislature

CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-The Times
Herald says: Rebellion has broken out
in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The
laymen demand equal representation
with the ministers in the great quadren-
nial legislature of the church. Three
times have the ministers voted on the
question and defeated it, and the lay
men have lost.
The church will be brought face to
face next week with revolt that will
probably overshadow the question of
women delegates in the General Con-
ference. Representatives Of Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey conferences is
sued an address for the change. The
leading laymen of Indiana called a
State convention to meet at indianapolis
next "Wednesday to consider the ques-
ton. A lay convention representing the
Cincinnati conference sent greetings
last week to the Indiana convention and
urged the calling of a national conven-
ton. The laymen of the Central Illi-
nois conference have called a convention
to meet at Canton September 18th, and
that meeting will probably take action
on this question. Another big conven-
tion will be held in Baltimore next
month, and, If not forestalled by the In
dianapolis convention, it Is said it will
issue call for national convention of
Methodist laymcn to make plans to
bring the ministers into line.
Under the rules Of the church each
conference is entitled to one ministerial
delegate to the conference for every Do
laymen. Each conference is entitled to
al least one lay delegate, but in no case
can it have more-tira two. In the Gen.
eral Conference at Cleveland last year
$1,000 ministers had 3S7 representatives,
while 100000 laymen of the church had
but 1879. In Indiana 624 preachers had
seven representatives, while 10000 lay
men had but two.
Under this system many small confer
ences have disproportionately large
representation, while the large confer
cnces that contribute heavily to the
support of the church can have only one
lay delegate more than the small con-
ference over in China or India. that has
to be supported by money sent from
America. There is but little doubt that
national convention of laymen will be
held, and it promises to bring out many
of the most prominent members of the
church,
The herald., 1897-09-10
ZUNI MEDICINE MEN
EXPLAIN THEIR INABILITY TO
CURE DISEASE
United States Troops Will Prevent the
Extortion of Further Confess
sions of Witchcraft

SANTA FEE, N. M, Sept. 9.-Major
Nordstrom, United States Agent in
charge Of the Pueblo Indians, returned
this morning from Zuni pueblo, where
he has been examining into a peculiar
case.
Under the influence Of Chief Nope.
and backed by the religious organiza-
ton in the village known as the
priests of the Bow" the most barbar-
our outrages have been committed by
these Indians from time to time. Their
last offense occurred when they sus-
pended by the wrists female member
of the tribe, aged IS years, and extorted
from her confession to the effect tina.
she had bewitched the nostrums of the
medicine men and prevented them from
curing an influential Indian of fatal
illness.
Major Nordstrom says the only motive
for assaulting the woman was to
strengthen the hold of the medicine men
and their colleagues, the Priests of the
Bow upon their superstitious follow
ers. The woman's life was saved by
kindly nursing and it is the intention of
the Agent to arrest and punish the
ringleaders of the assault. To this end,
and in compliance with Major Nord-
stroms recommendation, the Interior
Department has called upon the War
Department to concentrate four troops
of United States cavalry at Zuni on the
18th inst, with view to aiding the civil
authorities in the arrest of Chief Nope
and five of mis- associates. 1t is thought
that battle will follow the invasion
next.
armed with Winchesters.
Their village is a veritable fortress,
built especially for protection against
Apaches and Navajos.
The herald., 1897-09-10
OHIO GOLDITES
Hold Their Little State
Convention
LEADERS ARE WELL SATISFIED
BUSINESS MEN DON'T SEEM TO
CARE MUCH
From Force of Habit the Tariff Is
Denounced and Government
Economy Demanded
Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 9.-The Gold DEM
ocratic State convention met at 10 a. M,
with between 800 and 400 persons pres
ent. Judge Beer of Bucyrus was made
Chairman, and, after sta ting the tenetS
OF the National Democratic party, in
troduced W. B. Bynum of InGlana, who
spoke about two hours on the money
question. Letters were read from John
G. Carlisle and Henry Watterson.
The attendance of delegates was linn
tied to probably fifty. The leaders of
the party express themselves as we'll
satisfied, however, and attribute the
small attendance to the fact that the
business men generally are less appre-
hensive on the money question than a
year ago The following state ticket
was nominated: Governor, Julius Dex-
ter, Cincinnati; lieutenant-governor A.
E. Merritt, Sandusky; judge Of the su-
preme court, Judge John H. Clark of
Youngstown; attorney-general, Daniel
Wilson. of Cincinnati; state treasurer,
Samuel Stevens of Columbus; state
commissioner of schools, Prof w. H.
Johnson of Granville; member Of state
board of public works, Henry D. Cof-
fineery Of Cleveland.
The platform, after affirming allie
glance to the Indianapolis platform of
1896, says
I'VE are for the maintenance Of the
gold standard, for the redemption Of the
greenback and for the extension of the
civil service merit system wherever pos
sible in the nation and in this state.
I'VE demand retrenchment Of expenses
and scope of government, 80 that there
be left the utmost freedom of individual
effort con sistent with safety and peace.
I'VE denounce the recent tariff legisla-
tion as encouragement of extravaganza
and infringement of private rights, an
unfair tax on all for the benefit of some
of the people, and an arbitrary interfer-
ence by legislation with the natural
laws of trade.
1--WE denounce in the Dingley bill the
heavier duties on lumber, wool and
hides as increasing the cost of cloth
ing and shelter to the people.
I'VE condemn the proposed annexa-
tion of the Hawaiian Islands as intro
ducing into our union a large Asiatic
and tropical population, utterly unfit
ted for American citizenship; as the
beginning of policy of territorial ex-
pansion certain to entail upon our coun-
try large taxation to sustain strong
armies and navies in distant lands and
on distant seas and constituting men
ace to peaceful industry by exposing our
country to foreign wars"
The herald., 1897-09-10
Sons Of Veterans

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. "a
lively discussion was precipitated at the
afternoon meeting of the encampment
Of the Sons of Veterans by the report
Of the council. This reported, first, that
5000 copies of the proceedings of this
convention be printed and distributed
within ninety days. This resolution was
adopted. The second resolution that the
tax be increased from 16 to 20 cents per
head produced storm of opposition. AT
first the resolution was adopted, but the
opponents were soon ready with mo-
ton to reconsider. Eastern states fav-
ored the advance, but Indiana and Ohio,
which have large delegations here,
blocked the way The convention ad-
journed without deciding the question.
The herald., 1897-09-10
THE PRATT MURDER
A Fathers Attempt to Aid Betrays
His Son

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept 9.-Fred Hewitt,
II years of age, is an inmate of the coun-
ty prison, charged with participation III
the murder of Druggist John Pratt at
Gila Bend, August 31st. Ever since the
murder Sheriff Orme and his deputies
have been searching for "red-headed
young hobo" who had been seen in Gila
Bend on the night of the murder max
ing investigation along the Southern
Pacific, even into New Mexico and Cali
fornia. Today Acting District Attorney
Kibbey received a letter from Merritt s
father stating that he understood his
SON, who was in Phoenix, had been ac-
cused of Pratt's murder and. asking his
good offices. With the evidence con-
tanned in the letter search was made ami
the lad was found in hiding. He proves
to be the identical red-headed hobo for
whom the southwest has been secured.
Though never before in serious trouble,
he is of marked hoodlum characteristics
and seems to enjoy his notoriety. He
claims to have been in Tempe or Phoenix
at the time Of the murder and. tells con-
ficting tales. The officers assert they
have positive evidence of his guilt.
The father, who has unwittingly caused
his sons apprehension, is County Sur
veyor George B. Merritt Of Florence, a
highly respected. citizen.
Pratts murder was plainly partici-
pated in by two individuals; the victim S
head was crushed by blow from an
iron bar and his throat was cut. Near
by, also on a cot in the open air, was
sleeping Justice Of the Peace Kalten-
bach. AT the head OF the latter scot was
found other footprints and marks that
indicated that a second robber stood
guard over his slumber while the drug
gist was being murdered.
The herald., 1897-09-10
A TRIP DELAYED
Fair Will Go to Bolivia Some Other
Time

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.-George
Fair, mining man, who says he is on his
way to Bolivia to search for gold, has
been arrested and lodged in the city
prison. Chief Lees received a dispatch
from the sheriff of Socorro county, N. NJ,
announcing that Fair was wanted there
for forgery and to place him under ar
rest. The New Mexico sheriff has been
notified of Fairs arrest and reply ha.;
been received saying that an officer
would leave at once with the necessary
extradition papers. Fair says:
William Martin and 1 managed the
business of a mining company near AL
buquerque. but Martin handled all the
money. 1t is possible that Martin has
been arrested there and they are pre-
ferring this charge against me to take
me back as witness. That is the only
reason can assign for my arrest"
The herald., 1897-09-10
PERSONAL

F. A. Shepard of San Mateo, manager
of the Hotel Mateo, is a guest at the
Hollenbeck.
Edward Knupp, advance agent for
Mains circus, has arrived here and is
quartered at the Hollenbeck.
H. e. Heacock of San Francisco, agent
for the Waterbury Watch company, is
registered at the Hollenbeck.
George W. Conroy Of San Francisco,
special agent for the Hartford Insurance
company, is at the Hollenbeck.
Samuel Shortridge Of San Francisco,
orator and handsome man, is at the
Van Nuys, accompanied by his wife.
The herald., 1897-09-10

Alfred c. Girard, surgeon; Major ]. Cor
son, surgeon; Major Curtis E. Mum,
surgeon. is appointed to meet at Denver
on Wednesday, September 22nd. for the
examination Of such officers of the med
ical department as may be ordered be-
fore 1t to determine their fitness for pro-
motion.
Captain Junius L. Powell, assistant
surgeon, will report to the examining
board at Denver for examination as to
his fitness for promotion.
The herald., 1897-09-10
Growing Cooler

CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-The temperature
has fallen from ten to twenty degrees
in the upper Missouri Valley and north
ern Rocky Mountain districts, and was
below freezing this morning in Alberta
The indications are that cooler weather
will reach the Mississippi river tonight
and will be experienced in the Central
States Friday.
The herald., 1897-09-10
TWENTY TO ONE
That the Canteen They Carried Was
Empty


OROV1LLE, CAL, Sept. 9.-August
Johnson and George Snyder of this
place went out hunting this week and
stopped in the woods to rest. They sat
down upon a rock and after they had
been there some time one of the men
saw rattlesnake near them. He point
ed 1t out to his companion, who raised
his gun and fired, killing the snake. In
a second the whole place seemed alive
with snakes and the two men sprang
from the rock and began firing at the
reptiles. They shot and killed nineteen
in few moments and then tried to es-
cape from the spot. After going a few
yards they saw another, which they shot,
and second later two more appeared.
They shot these, making % in all, and
then hurried from the place as fast as
possible.
The herald., 1897-09-10
The Last Spike

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 9.-The last
spike in the construction of the Kansas
City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad to
Port Arthur, Texas. on the Gulf, will be
driven at 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
The herald., 1897-09-10
Capt. McConihe Dead

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Adjt. Gen.
Ruggles received telegram today saying
that Capt. Samuel McConihe of the Four
teenth infantry died at st. Luke's hospital,
New York city, last evening from Bright's
disease.
The herald., 1897-09-10

| Hawley, King & Co., ,cor.5th st. and Bwy.,
agents genuine Columbus Buggy company
buggies and Victor bicycles.
The herald., 1897-09-10

Largest variety Concord business wag-
ons and top delivery wagons. Hawley,
King & Co.
The herald., 1897-09-10
DEATHS

Everything on wheels. Hawley, KIM
& Co., cor. Fifth street and Broadway.
The herald., 1897-09-10
JoTTINGs

| Mailer e Zobelein's lager. fresh from their
| brewery, on draught in all the principal
saloons: delivered promptly in bottles or
kegs. Office and brewery. 40 Also street;
| telephone o.
The herald., 1897-09-10

For lubricating oils. Garlock packing in
jectors. etc., see Machinery and Electrical
company, a51-353 North Main street.
The herald., 1897-09-10

Agents Victor. Heating. World and
March bicycles. Hawley, King & Co.
The herald., 1897-09-10

>~~>-~-~->-~~-S~~>->>~>
FRANCIS-Sept. 9, 1897, Mrs. Eugenia
Lane Francis, beloved mother of VIII
Evelyn, Ira johnson, Emma May, AL
bert Jay and Corinne Eugenia Francis.
Funeral services at the family residence,
506 West Twentytirst street, at 10 a. M.
Sept. 11th. Family and intimate friends.
Portland, Ore, papers please copy.
FAWCETT-At his home In East Whittier,
September s. 1897, Smith Fawcett.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-24

most anti-social of Governments. Is it
anti-Republican? The most Republic
an Governments have adopted it. IL
it a risk? 1t is proven to be most sue
cessful. Everything pleads 1or it, yea,
demands it,. We are alone of all civil
lied nations behind in thiy, as we were
on slavery. And shall we hug this
great abuse to our bosoms as we did
that until the very stars cried out in
mutiny?
Our long platforms amount to moth
ing. They even divert us from the
main point. Many of them are de-
vised by the enemy to amuse us. Even
if we succeed at elections they will
outwit us in the scramble over SO many
questions. and long years will pass ami
civil war will finally come out of the
despair of the masses. Something
must be done. Make the building of
these great roads by the government,
as proposed herein, the one grand and
immediate object. The combine will
say as did Hannibal under a like des-
perate circumstance, Now, indeed, do
/ feel the fate of Carthage
CLARKE IRVINE.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-24

What ever induced the Gazleys to gc
TO tha: wretched mountain resort
again? They said when they got back
last. year that they would not return
there even if their board were offered
TO them for nothing
."Oh, then, you haven't heard? Why,
the landlord wrote to Mr.. Galley that
he had secured an impoverished for
eign nobleman to act as waiter. The
old MAI didn't intend to say anything
about it to his wife and daughter, but
Mrs. Galley found the letter in his
pocket, SO they packed up and started
the ucxt day.'-Cleveland Leader.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-24
Not III

Do you consider the United States
oyercrowded?
No. The entire population of the
United States could be put into the
state of Texas with over two acres of
land to each man, woman and child.
We have far more unused land than
used land, taking the country as a
whole: and it would be hard to find
any city which is more than half oc-
cupied by buildings, any state in which
farming land is used to half advantage.
or any region in which the mines are
half worked. This country, if opened
to use, could support the population of
the civilized world in greater comfort
then the members of the strongest
trade union nov enjoy.-Cleveland Re.
corder.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-24

Satisfying curiosity is ofttimes haz-
ardous; Francis Warlop was a we'll
paid cook in a club house at Grand
Rapids, Mich. The other day the wife
of a prominent member brought in a
basket of what she thought were mush-
rooms and wanted them cooked for a
dinner to a few of her friends. War
Top pronounced them toadstOols, and
dangerous, and the lady left them with
him. Then the cook began wondering
what toadstools tasted like. To salts
fly his curiosity he cooked a few and
ate them. An hour later the doctors
were called, and very soon afterward
poor Warlop was a cold corpse. But
he didn't die wondering.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-24
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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-24

Sometimes a good turn is properly
rewarded, but a luckier man than
Jerome Turner, a lawyer of Muskegon,
Mich, probably does not live. While
at the Worlds Fair in Chicago Mr..
turner took the part of an old gentle
man named William Seymour, whom
he saw the police arrest for some triv-
Aal ofense. Mr.. Seymour died a few
days ago and left Mr.. Turner SIS, 900.
Lawyer Turner should go to the Klon-
dixie. at once, and carry nothing but
his luck.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-09-24
SILVER AND Wheat.
Gold Monometalllsts Are Off in The

Gold Monometallists Are OFF in Thel1
Reckonings.
Because silver has been falling ia
bullion value of late and wheat rising
gold monometallists are jubilant and
think that they have an unacceptable
answer to the bimetallist contention OF
a correspondence between the general
fall of wheat and silver prices during
the past twenty years, as indicated by
the index numbers of Soetbeer and
other economists.
The truth is in a nutshell. One OF
the chief reasons for the decline IN
market value of American wheat has
been the competition of silver-uslns
countries like India and Argentina.
While the wheat production of both
for years has been advancing with rap
id strides, and the exchange value OF
silver in London has been dropping
continually, the silver value of agri-
cultural labor and products in those
countries has been stationary. In In
dia and Argentina an ounce OF silver
would buy a bushel Of wheat in 1895,
NACLi GIL OuuCt " ollFC was va
say, SO cents, exactly as it would be in
1885, when it was worth a dollar in
gold.
Here is where the British CONNER
cial shrewdness came in to crush the
American agricultural interest and
make it the toiling, payless slave OF
English markets. AS 10 as Great
Britain succeeded in destroying the
parity of American silver with gold
London began to buy our deprecated
bullion and exchange it for East In
dian and South American wheat.
Every cent that American silver fell!
per Ounce was a cent saved on the
purchasing price of wheat. But the
demand for II silver for this purpose
of exchange served to keep it at a
higher value compared with the price
of wheat at Liverpool as long as that
demand lasted. Naturally, when the
crop failures occurred in India, and
the comparative shortage of recent
time in Argentina, the demand fell off
and silver became further depressed,
while necessary resort to the wheat
production of the United States to
make good the shortages and failures
of wheat elsewhere in the world, en-
HANGED the price of that commodity
compared with silver bullion.
1t is to the advantage Of the Ameri-
can farmer that cosmic crop conditions
are likely to preserve, perhaps to in
crease, that disparity for another year
to come. At the same time 1t Is not
well that he, or the rest of us, should
allow himself to be confused or deluded
by specious arguments of the gold in
terest. When, in the course of ma
lures providence, normal conditions
return, and the competitive power Of
other wheat-producing countries is at
work again, we shall see the same old
state of things. England will bear our
silver and buy it to exchange for the
wheat of silver countries, and so re-
commence the former operation of de-
stroying our farmers.
The illustration presented in the cur
rent and doubtless temporary rise OF
wheat and fall of silver is one of the
strongest arguments for remonetiza,
ton that well could be conceived
National Democrat.