Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-10


agents, excursion clubs and other per-
sons and organizations that offer low
rates and inducements In the way of
transportation, care, guidance. etc. There
are companies whose advertisements in
the newspapers are prima-facie evidence
OF fraud, and the special agents of the
Postoffice Department are now engaged in
the investigation OF several sharpers who
are offering impossible inducements. One
company, for example, proposes to fur
nish transportation. food. bedding and all
other necessaries for $3.50, 20 per cent.
to be paid In advance, with the applica-
ton, and the balance when the ticket Is
issued upon starting. Other clubs and
excursions offer even better rates, and
in every case the applicant is required to
make deposit as a guaranty of good
faith. 1t Is evidently the deposit that
the rascals are after. All persons, there
fore, are warned against contracting for
transportation or buying railway or
steamship tickets from any but the regu-
lar authorized agents of railway and
steamship companies.
Washington society is queer mixture.
or course there is society and society.
There is the 400" and there is the 40"
and again there is the combination Of two
or three who swing the 40 and the remain
ing $50. Then again there is another 400;
and several subsidiary swirls and eddies
each claiming for itself superior qualities
of exclusiveness, intellectually, wealth,
permanency or swelldom. Anybody may
be in Washington society, but anybody
can't be in any society which anybody
wants to be in. Many can't be in the
Supreme Court Justices society, and L.
know of some distinguished Il. +. VS.
with permanent abodes in this city who
IRE eating their hearts for chagrin at
their inability to break into the admins
tration ''set."
The Secretary of Agriculture has re-
ceived the following pathetic communi-
cation from Bell County, Texas:
Dear Sir.-I want to ask you ques-
ton. 1t may seem foolish to you, but
am very much in earnest. A young horse
Of mine eat up $50 of green back notes
last night. We picked up few bits of
mesticaded money to-day. l carelessly
left my vest on the horse trough the mon
ey in the inside pocket hence the result.
Is there any way for me TO have the mon
ey replaced? If you can't tell me what to
do will you kindly site me to some one
who can rs l need the money bad and
have to work hard to support my family.
/ anxiously wait your answer"
A short time ago n United States Sena-
tors widow was appointed postmistress
in small town i'm Minnesota. The place
was given her to keep her from starving.
II Exvn Oh. tfar-
tanning on a scale as elaborate as the most
wealthy people in Washington. She was
struggling for position, and was spending
her husbands income, and also his saw
ings. He died suddenly, and she was left
destitute, ard have yet to learn that the
people who ate her dinners have contrib
uted to her support.
Chief Justice Fuller rushes business
through the Supreme Court more rapidly
than any man who ever presided over
that body, and there are now sixty-four
cases under advisement that have been
submitted by briefs and arguments thus
far during the present term. That is the
reason why an adjournment has been TAX
en- for three weeks. 1t is absolutely nec-
essary for the justices to have time to con-
slider them.
In certain Washington sets men are
scarce, and competent authority asserts
that good-looking young men in the de-
partments, whose salary of 500 q month
is quite insufficient to enable them to hire
carriages and buy flowers. are taken to
theaters, receptions and to big dinners by
women who pay all the bills for the sake
of having escorts.
One hears variety of pronunciations
of the word Cuba" in Congress. Some
of the statesmen pronounce it "Cuby,"
others "Cubah" and still more "Kooba,"
while large number of insurgent sympa-
thizers are in the habit Of abiding to the
inhabitants of that distracted island as
| "Coobyans."
Carroll d. Wright, Commissioner Of
| Labor, has received personal letter from
| Samuel Durham, a statistical expert Of
| the Bureau of Labor, who was sent to the
| Klondike some months ago to investigate
| and report on its industrial possibilities.
He reports the situation as very grave.
Ex-Secretary Morton, since he left the
| cabinet of President Cleveland has been
| spending his time writing poetry and
| building a handsome little theater called
"The Overland" at Nebraska City, where
| he has lived for forty-two years.
| The vicc-Presidcnt and Mrs. Hobart
were among the guests of honor at ball
ut the British legation the other night,
| so that the war for precedence between
| the Hobarts and Sir Julian Pauncefote
may be considered over.
Secretary Bliss has received and trans
mitted to Congress protest adopted by
| a convention of number of members of
| the Seminole tribe of Indians against the
| ratification of the treaty concluded in De
| cember last.
The proposed cut in mail deliveries in
| the larger cities of the East, which was
| to have become operative on February 1,
| in order to avert deficiency in the postal
appropriation, did not go into effect at
| that time.
After an unusually prolonged period of
| extreme tension, all signs point to an early
| Improvement, IL not TO complete solu-
| ton of the various International political
problems agitating the nerves of Great
| Britain.