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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
SAFETY FOR BANK DEposIToRs.

The New York Financier of Aug. 2 con-
talns a scheme for "a safety fund for ma
tionai-bank depositors," presented by Mr..
Charles S. Andrews, president of the First
National Bank of Brazil, Ind. The plan is
to create a fund by having all national
banks taxed one-eighth of l per cent. on
their deposits with which to pay off in full
all the depositors of banks which fail. Mr..
Andrews makes exhaustive computations
upon the statistics of the banks for twenty
years to show that SO cents on each
$1,000 of deposits will pay all the losses
which have come to depositors by the fail
ure of banks. He shows that during the
thirty-four years the misunderstanding sys-
tenn has been in operation the total loss to
depositors has been $50, 691, lbs and that the
average annual deposits of all the national
banks has been 81, So, sos, 900. A tax on these
average deposits of one-tenth of l per cent
a year would yield $52 275, 600. which would
have paid all the losses of depositors and
left a surplus of $1S5S3,S72 Mr.. Andrews
suggests that the tax on circulation
amounts to within 1851 900 of the amount re-
If the tax on circulation should be reduced
to the percentum which would pay the
government the cost of supervision the one
eighth of / per cent. tax on deposits sug-
gested would enable the banks to pay for
national supervision and the losses by fail
ures with an outlay of So OS0, 900 a year. Mr.
Andrews has submitted his plan to bankers
and others in all parts of the country. OF
3S5 replies received to the close of last week
2n approved and ninety-four opposed. The
majority in every section is in favor of the
plan. except in the New England States
If some such plan could be added to the
MISUNDERSTANDING law it would give addi-
tional confidence TO national banks as
places of deposit and would induce many
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
A New Problem in Divorce,

"A Texas man has applied for a divorce on
the ground that his wife is given to the in
ordinate use of buttermilk. Buttermilk, ne
says, makes him sick, and the thought of it
has SO preyed upon his mind that he is on
the verge of insanity. The Texas man is
plainly sympathetic and sensitive beyond
his kind, else he could hardly be made i'll
by buttermilk consumed by his wife. That
she might be made i'll is easily within COM
prehension, as he says she consumes a gal
lon day, taking final swig when she re-
tires at night, but its effect upon him is
less easily understood. Buttermilk has
usually been regarded as a harmless tippe
and unless the Texas variety has qualities
unknown to that in this region it is far
from Intoxicating, though persons who are
addicted to the buttermilk habit assert that
is eXhilarates-in a perfectly safe way-and
fills the consumer with a sweet content
that no other drink can supply. The Texas
mans sympathetic nature did not go SO
far to enable him to share in his wife's
content; he thought she ought to get sick
after drinking gallon of the beverage, and
became i'll himself because the very thought
was too much for his stomach While it is
true that not many men are likely to be
affected in the same way-few being so
senSitive-eVen though the feminine fond
ness for buttermilk is not uncommon, the
matter has an Importance beyond the in
dividual case. In the event that the court
grants the Texas man divorce on the but
termilk plea what a precedent is eStab-
lished. If buttermilk becomes a cause for
divorce then other hitherto nnocuous ar
ticles of food and drink may serve a like
purpose. Think of the men who have the
mineral water habit and consume ill-smell-
ing liquids by the gallon. to the discomfort
of the family; consider the women who are
addicted to ice-cream soda; reflect upon the
men who indulge in the pestilential COM
bination of beer and onions. These have
been considered faults in otherwise worthy
people, but faults that it has been the Gus
tom of their suffering matrimonial partners
to overlook. Shall they, too, become cause
for divorce? If John is inordinately fond of
watermelon shall the law permit Jane, who
does not like watermelon, to abandon him?
Or if Jane is partial TO tea and coast, which
John detests, shall he divorce her? 1t is a
serious problem that Texas man has pre-
scented, and important and far-reaching re-
suits hinge upon its settlement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
Effort by Secretary of Interior Bliss
to Stem the Mad Rush TO the
KlOndilSe Gold Diggings.
MANY PEOPLE MAY PERISH
If THEY ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE
JOURNEY BEFORE NEXT SPRING.
No Relief Can Reach Those Who Are
Caught by the Arctic winter
OvercrOwded Steamers

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-Secretary Bliss
has taken cognizance of the rush to the
klondlke gold fields and Alaska and has
issued the following warning to the general
public:
ITO Whom it May Concern-In view of
information received at this department
that 5000 persons, with two thousand tons
of baggage and freight, are now waiting at
the entrance to White pass in Alaska for
an opportunity to cross the mountains to
the Yukon river, and that many more are
preparing to join them, ] deem it proper to
call the attention of all who contemplate
making that trip to the exposure privation,
suffering and danger incident thereto at
this advanced period of the season, even if
they should succeed in crossing the noun
tains. To reach Dawson City, when over
the pass, seven hundred miles of difficult
navigation on the Yukon river, without
adequate means of transportation, will still
be before them, and it is doubtful if the
journey can be completed before the river
is closed by ice. L am moved to draw pub
lie notice to these conditions by the grav-
ity of the inevitable consequences to peo-.
pie detained in the mountain wilderness
during five or six months of an Arctic Win
ter, where no relief can reach them, how
ever great the need. c. n. BLISS,
Secretary of the Interior"
The State Department has not yet re-
ceived the application from the British gov
eminent for permission to run a telegraph
line through United States territory, con-
Meeting the gold fields of the Klondike with
the outer world. 1t is said that the appli-
cation will raise new question only COM
parable to that which involved in the
establishment of the mixed mail route in
Alaska, which gave rise to so much talk.
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An Unxeaworthy Vessel.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.-The steam
er South Coast sailed yesterday with forty
prospectors bound for Dawson City The
steamer will go to ST. Michaels. if she is
fortunate enough to get so far, and there
will put her passengers and cargo on barges
and send them up the Yukon. The South
Coast is dangerously overloaded and grave
apprehensions are felt that she may never
make ST. Mchaels, for If she should en-
counter a storm she will make poor weather
of it. Inspector of Hulls and Boilers Bull
ger made an examination Of the South
Coast yesterday and at first expressed
doubt about permitting her to proceed to
sea, but finally consented. The action of
the promoters of the expedition in sending
the South Coast to sea in her present con-
dition is being condemned along the water
passage on the steamer were rather I'M
easy at the outlook. Ii good weather is ex-
perienced on the way up the coast there
will not be much danger. but should a gale
spring up the vessel would be in a periious
position with her top-heavy deck load
Two more steamers left to Ivy for the
north with miners bound for KIondike
fields. The FarralOn carried all num-
Der of passengers and a larg, unity of
supplies, but expects to pick more at
Seattle, and others at Puget sodnd ports
en- route to St Mchaels The HumboIdt
did not sail until some hours later but
carried seYenty-fiVe passengers, which
number VIII be augmented at Seattle by
about one hundred others. Among her pas
Sengers was eX-Mayor ". d. Wood, Of the
latter place who is at the head of the Yu-
kon Commercial Company. which chartered
the vessel for the purpose of transporting
specially prepared expedition.
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else the country might go to ruin. And
why should these men rush out and work
for 81 a day and thus take the places of
the five millions of starving men? 1t is no
use to criticise these groups of statesmen
who dispense misinformation and expecto-
rate the juice of begged tobacco from morn
until night. They are fulfilling a great
mission. A flood of prosperity equal to the
deluge of Noah's time metaphorically
speaking, would not float them into the
ranks of the industrious and the useful.
These men constitute our privileged class.
Just now their duty is to rail at prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
OVERLOADED STEAMER.
Men, Horses and Provisions Packed
Like Sardines in n Collier.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 10.-Men, horses
and provisions are packed like sardnes on
the big collier Willamette, which left Seat
tie yesterday for Skagaway and Dyea,
Alaska. Predictions are made that there
will be sickness before the end of the
journey. There were 800 passengers, l, 600
tons of freight and between 200 and 800
horses. 1t seemed as if the freight was
piled in every imaginable place. Horses
We're cooped in narrow stalls, which were
almost as distasteful to them as the box
and tackle arrangements by which they
were hoisted aboard. When the Villa
mette returns from Dyea she will be libeled
for $4,000 by John Danielson, a Mason
county rancher. DanielsOn desired to go
to Alaska. He could not get passage. He
managed to get aboard at Tacoma, but was
ordered off. He rendered money for his
passage, which was refused. Captain
Holmes had Danelson's wrists ironed and
then tied him to a railing. He put him
ashore at Seattle. Danielson placed his
case in the hands of attorneys to-day, but
the boat got away before the papers could
be served. The captain said he chained
DanielSon because 1t came to a point of who
was going TO run the steamer Danielson
or he.
The schooners Novelty and Sailor Boy are
loading provisions and supplies at Shaw
abagers for the Northern Transportation
and Trading Company and will sail in nine
or ten days for st. Michaels, where the
goods will be transferred to river steam
ers for Dawson City, providing they ar
rive in time to escape the ice. The same
company is also having the schooner Hue
meme loaded with lumber for St. Michaes.
Other steamers to sail from Seattle for
Alaska this month are the Bristol, Aug. II,
with loo passengers; Eliza Anderson, Aug.
TO- 100 passengers; Utopia, Aug. II, $50 pas
sengers; Humboldt, Aug. IA, 300 passengers;
Mexico, Aug. r. 200 passengers.
The old Russian war vessel Politkofsky,
which was built. at Sitka, Alaska, in 1866
and turned over to the United States at
the time of the purchase of Alaska, has
been converted into tender and will start
for st. Michaels tomorrow with the old
Eliza Anderson. The Politkofskys timbers
copper-fastened and coppered up to the
bend. She has been on the beach at Port
Blakely for a long time. Her hull is still
in good condition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

1t is reported that the Maryland Demo-
cratic platform, dropping the 16-to-1 ratio
for general declaration for bimetallism,
has the sanction OF Senator Jones, chair
man of the national Democratic committee,
who is quoted saying that silver will
not be the only issue in 1900. Such rumors
should teach Ex-Governor Matthews, Mayor
Taggart and other would-be leaders to con-
suit the Democratic senator's instead of
whooping up the 16-to-1 heresy. At least
they should keep their eyes on Pennsyl-
vania, which will soon hold a convention,
and generally they should drop the habit of
beginning every speech with praising Mr..
Bryan as the most brilliant statesman in
the country, since there are indications
that the Bryan sun has passed the political
meridian.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

1t is predicted that the effect of the as
sassination of Canovas upon the Cuban war
will be important, because it is quite prob
able that it will lead to the removal of
General Weyler, who has been retained in
of the dead premier. Between the premier
and WeyIer there has been a strong bond.
No influence has been able to cause the
removal of the man whose atrocities are
known to the civilized world and whose in
competency has ruined an army and filed
Spain with discomfort
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
A wOMAN's SYNDICATE.
How Female Gold Seekers Expect to
Reach the Promised Land

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-The wOmans
Klondike syndicate expedition has been or
ganized in this city Miss Helen Varick
Boswell is president. and among the pa
tronesses are Mrs. Jennie June Croly, Mrs
Laura Weare Walker. Chicago: Mrs Sarah
Bierce. Cleveland; Mrs. William Craighead
Dayton. o.. and Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Del
aware. O.
eve expect to leave New York on March
l. 1895 said Mrs. William Mcdonald, one
of the officers 10 a reporter. "A Pullman
sleeping car-or two cars, If forty people
join us~-wiil be chartered from New York
to Seattle, and will be occupied exclusively
by the Members of the expedition. The
distance Is $50 miles, and we win rake IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

AT least twice in a decade it is shown to
the commercial world that the United
States is the one country which can be de-
pended on, year after year, for bread and
meat when others fail. Not that crops are
universally good in this country or that
herds are always large. but it never hap
pens that the farmers of the United States
do not have q surplus to sell to the rest of
the world. Last year the winter wheat
crop was a partial failure, but the spring
wheat was more than an average crop
What the winter wheat belt lost in wheat
was made up in most abundant corn
crop. This season Argentina, India and
other wheat producing countries which
usually furnish SURPRISES for Europe have
no wheat, but, fortunately, the reliable
country, whose climate is 50 varied that a
good supply of some food cereal may be de-
pended on, can save the countries of Eu-
rope from famine or the prices which force
hunger Comparatively little new agricul-
tural land is left, but that which is now
under cultivation and which can be brought
under cultivation by systems OF irrigation
can insure the United States the lead as
the worlds food producer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

Wheat touched 1914 cents in Chicago yes
terday and silver is quoted at 553s cents an
ounce. The silver bullion in silver stand
ard dollar is worth about 421a cents. A year
ago an ounce of silver would purchase con-
siderably more than a bushel of wheat.
Yesterday it required nearly an ounce and
a half of silver bullion to pay for bushei
Of wheat Now everybody knows how Prof.
"Coin" lied in his pamphlet which so
many people were fooled by year ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
A Quiet Evening.

N. Peck-I think | shall stay home this
evening and enjoy a good, quiet homelike
evening-something have not done for
some time.
Watts-A homelike evening? 1 thought
your wife was out of town.
"She isl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

Wheat is advancing in price because the
demand is active and probably up to or in
excess of the supply Then, with the i'm
provement of the times, there are more
people in the country who can afford to eat
wheat bread
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made bold to claim that he was the origi-
nator An Indiana origin for this not en-
tirely admirable product is not a matter for
local pride, perhaps, but the truth must be
told at times even if it shames the oldest
inhabitant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
Men wanted to Go to Klondilse.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Aug. 10.-The Elwood-
Alaska Mining Company, organized two
weeks ago and Incorporated under the laws
of West Virginia, with $1,000000 capital
stock, is ready for business now, and is
advertising for five men experienced in gold
hunting. When the men are secured they
will be sent to the klondike fields well
equipped with funds and provisions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

The election of Mr.. Griffith in the Fourth
district yesterday by about the same ma
jorIty that the late William S. Holman re-
celved in 1896 indicates that the voters of
Indiana are now in about the same temper
they were at the last general election,
when the State went Republican by 1904
Certainly the figures carry no discourage
ment to Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

In the Century Magazine for August Cen
eral Schoheld, in an article entitled Con
troversies in the War Department" asserts
that as early as August. 1867, General Grant
announced that he would resign if the
President did not remove Secretary Stanton
as secretary of war. This seems u remark
able story considering the reticence of
General Grant and that the President was
his commanding officer. Now George G.
Gorham publishes a communication in the
New York Sun which contains private
letter from General Grant. dated Aug. l,
1867. in which he urges the President with
unusual fervor not to remove Secretary
Stanton. This seems to make the state
ments OF General Schofield valueless.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

There is some inquiry regarding Professor
Coin" He is one of the few men who
made money out of the 16 to l craze by
selling tens Of thousands of his books at
twenty-five cents a. copy. Now there is no
demand for them, and they cumber the re-
jected five-cent counter in bookstores.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
SECRETARN SHERMAN.

If all the indiscreet speeches attributed to
Secretary Sherman recently were really
made by him they are so obviously the re-
suit Of the natural weakening of his mental
powers through advanced age, that the
abuse heaped upon him by a small minded
class of newspapers is nothing less than
brutal During long public career Mr..
Sherman has never been addicted to hasty
and foolish utterances. but quite the re-
verse, and it should be plain to the dullest
observer that any lapses of this sort now
must be due to falling memory and the
obscuring of his intellect by time-a condi-
ton that calls for pity and regret rather
than contempt 1t is by no means certain
that he has said all the injudcous things
ascribed to him, but even if he has done
so, he is guilty of nothing to justify the
attacks of the opposition press. Partisan
skip should have its limits when the re-
latlon of the administration to foreign gov
ernments is concerned. The mugwump and
Democratic newspapers should be less con-
cerned over a possible injury to the tender
sensibilities of England or Spain, and in
stead of a visible eagerness to lay blame
upon our own government should be cor
respondingly anxious to uphold it. At all
events, the mugwump DISPOSITION to belittle
their own government q every opportunity
should be restrained on this occasion out
Of sheer sense of decency There Is every
reason to believe that, in spite of all
rumors, Secretary Sherman's mental facul-
ties are still sufficiently powerful to protect
the United States from attack by any for
eign power that NAV be mentioned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

Il" said the Spirit of the Fading Past
Il saw horrid girl on a bicycle to-day
with her dress away up to her shoetops."
You don't mean to say SOP" quoth the
Spirit of the Progressive Present. Away
down to her shoetops. Well"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

who do not put their money in banks to
do so. because it would make depositors abb
soluteIy as secure against loss as are the
holders of national-bank notes ir the event
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Everett Wrest-I see that beer is 50 cents
a glass in Klondil5e. Gee! If teller had
a key of it there he'd be rich.
Dismal Dawson-Huh! If a Teller had a
key of it right here at home he'd be rich.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


You" said the Faithful Partisan, ARE
not even voter, are you?''
Begging your pardon" said the Pes
tiferous Mugwump, "but it is yourself who
are not voter. You are vote"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

The City Council should not increase the
taxation on the debt of the city to pro-
vide funds to be used for the reelection of
the Taggart regime.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

If the States in which elections will be
held in November show a decided senti-
ment against the 16 to / heresy, it may be
regarded as about dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

Levi Mayer, Edinburg: Mr.. Holman's ma
jority over Mr.. Sulzer in the Fourth dis
trict in 1896 was SIS. The district has not
been changed since that date
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

There is quite a number of men in the
land who would like to see silver go up
and wheat go down. 1t would be good
politics for them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-11

The powers should unite to expose and
extirpate the secret organization in Eu-
rope whose purpose is assassination.
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If Congress would provide for the con-
struction of a dry dock of sufficient capac-
ity TO receive the largest ships of the navy
it would be doing a very sensible thing If
1t would leave the making of armor plate
to the lowest responsible bidder, and drop
the idea of government factory for the
manufacture of armor, it would do another
sensible thing. There cannot be citizen
of intelligent observation who does not
know that the government cannot make
anything so cheaply or of so good a quality
as a private competitor. But the dry dock
is needed very much. 1t does not comport
with the Importance of the United States
as a nation to send its war ships to Canada
to find a dry dock of sufficient capacity.
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Papers throughout the wheat belt have
been complaining that. while the farmers
are clamoring for hands at 81 day about
the usual number of loafers are found
about the stores and postofices in the cities
and villages. These absurd editors are in
clined to find fault. 1t is because they
have not fairly considered the subject
Somebody must hold down dry goods boxes
and discuss finance even when farms are
running 10 weeds and women do mems
work. Somebody must stand about and in
sist In Il. loud voice that five millions of
men are crying for bread and cannot get It.
Some persons must do this sort of thing,
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Wheat and silver pulled further apart
again yesterday And yet Bryan fingers
silent in Yellowstone Park
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Indianapolis has not had many Demo-
cratic city governments, but the few it has
had increased the bonded and floating debt
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by request of the Nancy Hanks Lin
coin Memorial Association donations
of 81 each, for Il fund to be used in
keeping in order the grave of Abra-
ham LincOIn's mother, viii be re-
ceived by the journal and aci&nowI-
edged.