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The herald., 1898-02-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

Senator Roger Q. Mills of Texas an
nounces himself as a candidate for re-
election to the United States senate.
The Republican state central commit
tee of Oregon has decided to hold the
state convention in Astoria. April 14th.
A jury has been secured to try Sheriff
Martin for the killing Of the Latimer
strikers and the trial will proceed to-
day
Secretary Alger's family are now
confident he will be able to leave Wash
ington within a few days, as he con-
tinues to gain slowly.
The Greater New York central COM
mittee of the Social Democracy of
America has sent an appeal to Governor
I}udd Of California for the pardon of
s. D. Worden.
The New York World announces the
engagement of Clarence Mackay. son Of
John w. Mackay. to Miss Catherine
Duer, granddaughter of William r.
Travers and daughter of Mrs. John G.
Hecksher.
The quartermaster-g general of the
army, George II. Weeks, will retire
from active service tomorrow, and will
be succeeded by Colonel Marshall l.
Ludington, the senior officer of the
quartermaster's department.
In the hearing of the United States
against the South Omaha Livestock ex-
change yesterday, eXPresident Richard
Gilchrist was on the stand. He admit
ted that the exchange was monopoly
so far as control of the sale of stock on
the local market is concerned.
Senator John NJ. Thurston of Ne
braska was the principal speaker at the
formal opening last night of the t'nion
League club of Baltimore. The Ne
braska senator eulogized President Nc
Kinley for coming out squarely on the
financial question in his New York
speech.
of the forty-one fire insurance com
panies engaged in business in New
Mexico, fully one-half will retire be-
cause of the new legislative act, effective
Tuesday, requiring a deposit of $40 O0C
in cash or its equivalent, barring United
States bonds. The Pacific coast com
panies. as a rule. will remain.
Mining men in FL Paso, Texas. are ex-
cited over a phenOmenally rich silver de-
posit discovered on the line of the RiC
Grandf. SIRE Madre and Pacific roaC
in old Mexico about 100 miles from f
Paso. Francisco Consado brought sam
pies of the ore to the city, which assayeC
10000 ounces of silver to the ton.
Secretary of the Navy Long and Com
mOdore O'Neil. chief of the bureau ot
ordnance, were before the senate com
mittec on naval affairs yesterday to give
their advice as to the desira blity OF
securing armor-plate made according tC
the new European process They boti
advised against the adoption of any new
process.
At the annual meeting of the stock
/ holders of the Diamond Match company
at Chicago yesterday, the sos. .S67 loss
/ L" the Stockholders of the company
through the failure of the Moore Bros
/ in 1896. and heretofore carried as al
asset. was erased from the books. The
annual statement showed net profits OF
4 S.214.9 .911, against 81 1226441 in 1896
The herald., 1898-02-03
INDIAN TERRITORY JAILS
About on a Par With the Black Hole
of Calcutta

The other day a prisoner was brought
to the bar in one of the federal courts of
Indian territory. He was told that he
could have his choice of Jail or peni-
tentiary sentence.
Judge said he, "let me go to the
penitentiary. For Gods sake, don't send
me back to that Jail"
At Ardmore the space between two
brick buildings Is inclosed by walls
across the front and rear of the lot. a
roof partially covers the inclosure. The
gable ends are open and driving rain
or snow storm vets the interior. The
mud of the dirt floor is often ankle deep.
Such is one of the United States jails Of
the territory. Under this shed and in
the mud the federal prisoners awaiting
trial are herded by guards, who patrol
the front and rear day and night.
At South McAlester is the second of
these national disgraces. 1t is a stone
building fifty feet wide by about eighty
feet long. The sides of the building are
without openings of any kind. In one
end is door. In the opposite end are
two windows. The only air that can en-
ter Is by the door and the two windows.
Men and women prisoners are confined
in this stone building. Recently the
number thus housed was 116. The smell
which comes from the interior is such
that few persons can approach the door
without being sickened.
AT Muscogee is the third of the terri
tory jails a fire destroyed the old build
ing in use and new structure. crude for
such purposes, but marked improve
ment on the other jails. is now in use.
These three places. two of them without
in the whole country. are
employed to hold between 700 and 500
prisoners, either awaiting trial or under
sentence. They are the only jails for
poulation of 100000 white people. AfSr
the first of the year the federal courN
will supersede the Indian courts and the
three jails may serve as well for the In
dian population. To keep the 700 or 500
prisoners within these "black holes" the
United States pays $40, 900 year TO jail
ers and keepers. The course of the gov
ernment toward Indian territory has
been reprehensible in many respects.
There is nothing, however, which calls
more loudly for reform than these hor-
rible makeshifts for prisons-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The herald., 1898-02-03
ADVICES FROM JAPAN
BROUGHT BY THE STEAMER RIO
DE JANEIRO
The New Cabinet InstaIled-The Fleet
Sent to China-A Consular
Attache Assaulted

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.-The
steamer Rio de Janeiro, which arrived
today from Hong Kong and Yokohoma
brought the following oriental advices
The new Japanese cabinet installed
Jan. II is composed as follows:
Minister president. Marquis Ito; min
lister foreign affairs, Baron Nishi
finance. Count Inouye; home AFFAIRS
Viscount Yoshikawa; education, Mar
ouis Saionji: war, Viscount Katsura
navy, Marquis Saigo; agriculture ant
commerce, Baron Ito Niyoji; communi-
cations, Baron Suoymatsu; justice, Son'
Arasuke.
According to the statistics of tn,
Japanese customs authorities 16 foreign
sealing schooners, II British and fou
American, entered Hakodate and Yoke
hama during the year 1897. Their ag
gregate catches were $685. decrease o
1854 compared with that of 1896.
The Japanese standing squadron, con
sisting of the Full. Yaskima, Matsushi
ma, Itsushima, Hashidate. Chinyen
Akitsushama. Naniwa, Suma ant
Idzumi. was ordered to leave Yokosuka
for Chinese waters on Jan. 20. shortly
before the Rio left Japan.
\ japanese paper states that the au-
thorities of the governor generals office
in Formosa is considering the desirable
ity Of creating a monopoly of the cam
phor business, similar to that of leaf to-
bacco, with a view of increasing the
revenue.
The Chu-O Shimbun says that the
French government has officially COM
municated TO the Japanese government
order 70 form an anchorage for the
French squadron.
Or Dec. II the Japanese merchant
steamer Nara Msru ran an a hidden rock
Of the Psscadore group and sank i'm
msiiately. OF her so passengers and
crew seven only reached the shore. The
drowned were all Japanese.
\ Toxic paper states that there are
some 6N.o00 troops in Nladivostock ready
70 take the field At moments notice.
Mr.. Sands. secretary Of the United
States legation at Seoul. was assault
ed by gang Of five or six japanese
coolies al Nagasaki on New Years day.
while walking alone. No reason is
known for this assault and the matter
is being investigated by the local au-
thoritieS.
Twenty-one people were killed and one
injured at Nigata prefecture owing to
the collapse Of a number of houses on
account of the heavy downfall of snow.
The herald., 1898-02-03
NOTES OF THE DAY

In home in Warrenton. VT, is hung
the large mirror before which George
Washington made his daily toilet. The
mirror was bought at the sale of the
personal effects of Laurence Washing
ton, great nephew of the first presi-
dent. and has hung in its present place
for thirty-f1ve years.
Dealers in human hair recall the in
structive fact that the panic of 1894
suddenly stimulated the trade among
the French Canadians. The hardships
of that period drove the women to SELL
ing their hair. and considerable quanti-
ties were sent to the United States.
An American negro recently died in an
Australian mining settlement. He was
IA man much esteemed by his mates. who
recorded their feeling in these few
words burnt on sheet of bark: In
memory of Black Sam. name unknown,
white man all over"
The highest wheat yield per acre for
Iowa during the year was twenty bush
els, in Black Hawk, Clinton, Bremen,
| Fremont, Montana and Polk counties.
The highest corn yield was thirty five
bushels, in Benton. Black Hawk, Cedar,
| Clayton and Clinton counties.
| In a recent test of floor material the
| most durable turned out to be tile
made of rubber. An English earthen
tile comes next, Vermont marble, flag
stone, granolith, marble mosaic. yellow
pine. oak, Oregon pine and teak came
| in the order named.
| Honey dripping down lightning rod
is the latest novelty reported from In
| dependence Mo. The rod is on the
| spire of the com thouse and passes
| through big brass ball, into which bees
have made their way and where they
| have hiVed.
/ The following is recent state paper
from the Brierwell, KY, justice court
This here decision handed down by
his homer, Justice Green, witnessed by
his Bailift, Thommas Jenkins. and 3
attornies, and may God have Mercy on
our Soles!"
Raphael Tuck. the well known Christ
mas card man, says some of the design
ers receive very large sums of money
for their work. He says the earnings of
one lady is $4,000, another $780, while the
copyists receive at least SIS per week.
| There are more women in British India
| G24, 100000 than there are men, women
and children in Great Britain, France
and Germany put together, with the
populations of several minor European
| states cast in an well.
A New Jersey justice of the peace sent
a man to jail for year, according to the
commitment papers. because he IL a
fugetive from justis for one year Tor
cutting a man pretty bad on the 18th day
of April, 1897"
| An official of the pension office esti-
mates that simply to print the names OF
all the pensioners would require IOO
| pages of a seven column newspaper, or
| 5000 columns in ALL
A southern husking bee, with slaves
slave drivers and ali, is to be one OF the
exhibits at the Paris exposition OF 1900
The herald., 1898-02-03

approval of the remarriage of divorced
persons. Mrs. Wysong was not present
at her sisters wedding, and until last
week they had never spoken.
Mrs. Pollock has one son by her nrst
marriage, now a young man Of 20, out IN
society this winter He will inherit all
the money left by his grandparents, MT.
and Mrs. John r. Marshall. to MS
mother, and as Mrs. Wysong has no
children he will possibly one day In
herit from her. Mr.. and Mrs. Pollock
have a beautiful place in the Berk-
shires, where they entertain most law
ishly, and in New York they are con-
stantly giving dinners.-New York
World.
The herald., 1898-02-03
A Wonderful Fluid

A German chemist has prepared
fluid that has the power when injected
into the tissues of plant near Its roots,
of anaesthizing the plant. The plant
does not die, but stops growing, main
tanning it's fresh, green appearance,
though its vitality is apparently sus-
pended. 1t is also independent of the
changes in temperature, the most deli
cate hothouse plants continuing to bloom
in the open. The composition of the
Auid is shrouded in the greatest mys-
tery. but 1t is said to have pungent
odor and to be colorless.,
The herald., 1898-02-03

900. prepared a grand rally at the Peo-
pies temple. Ira w. Landreth of Nash
vile. Tenn, chairman Of the '9s con-
vention committee, was the principal
speaker.
The first society of Christian En-
deavor was formed Feb. 2, 1881, In the
Williston church. Portland. Me-, by
Rev. F. e. Clark, pastor. In November,
1897, there were $1,000 societies, with a
membership of 100000 in the United
States and Canada and in Australia,
Great Britain. China, India, Japan and
in all missionary lands.
The officers of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor are: President, Rev.
Francis +. Clark. ID. D.: treasurer. VIM.
Shaw; general secretary, John Willis
BaOr,
The herald., 1898-02-03
A Turkish Sensation

CONSTANTINOPLE Feb. 2.-The
Bulgarian agent has presented a note
to the Turkish government, pointing out
the seriousness of the occurrences in the
Vilayet of Uskub, where 592 Bugarians
have been arrested on the charge of
storing arms. The agent further al
legged that many of the Bulgarians had
been tortured to death, and the women
and girls outraged, and as a result We're
dying. The agent, therefore, urgently
demanded a cessation of the oppression
the withdrawal of military surrounding
the locality, the transfer of all prisoners
to Cskub for trial and dismissal of a
number of officials.
The note has caused considerable SEN
sation among the Turkish Ministers and
at the palace.
The herald., 1898-02-03
make his first tour of the country this

make his first tour of the country this
month.
There is a strong undercurrent of feel
ing against the government and should
the president begin his tour soon there
is grave danger of trouble here. The
Manigat party has formed strong Sc
cret combination against the govern
ment and it is thought that they will
precipitate trouble.
Minister Powell of the United States
will soon visit San Domingo for the
purpose of arranging for the settlement
of American claims against that coun-
try.
The warship Presidente ran aground
in the harbor channel but was hauled
off today.
The herald., 1898-02-03
Bartleman Doomed

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. John
Bartleman. sentenced to be hanged for
the murder OF his wife. Mabel, in Los
Angeles, has lost his appeal to the Su-
preme Court of the State. Bartleman,
through his attorneys. asked for a new
trial, alleging that the trial judge had
erred in giving instructions 20 the jury.
The court held that none of the points
made were of sufficient Importance to
warrant a new hearing
The herald., 1898-02-03

port and recommendation of Commits
sioner Heacock in the case of Lau Sun
Ho, Chinese woman admitted to this
country in December, 1896. by the col
lector of the port on her statement and
the testimony of witnesses that she was
native of California. Seven months
ago Ho became dissatisfied with the life
of chattel slave and went to the mis-
sion on Washington street. She told the
women at the mission that he was a
native of Chiua and that her statements
made to the collector of the port were
false
The herald., 1898-02-03
CHINESE CRIMINALS
Will Now Find 1t Harder to Secure
Admission

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.-United
States District Judge Dehaven rendered
an opinion today which will have the f.
feet of erecting another strong barrier
against Chinese laborers and criminals.
The opinion is to the effect that the
action of the collector of the port is not
even prima facie evidence of the right
Of a Chinese to land.
Judge DeHaven "disaftirmed" the re-
The herald., 1898-02-03
THE BLACK REPUBLIC
Haytian Warships Will Follow Ger.
many's Late Example

NEW YORK. Feb. "a dispatch To-
the Herald from Port au Prince. Havti.
says;
This city is considerably disquieted bv
seemingly well founded rumors that ona
or two Italian warships will arrive here
within a fortnight to enforce the paw
ment OF an indemnity to Italy. Circum-
stances permitting, President Sam will
The herald., 1898-02-03
Y.P. c. E. SOCIETIES
OBSERVE THEIR SEVENTEENTH
ANNIVERSARY
Since Organization the Society Has
Grown From Nothing to Three
Millions of Members

BOSTON, Feb. 2.-The seventeenth
anniversary of the forming Of the
Young Peoples Society Of Christian
Endeavor was celebrated today in every
city and town throughout the country
where the society has established branch
organizations. The unions of this vi
cinity, which INCLUDE nearly 225 socie-
ties, with a membership of nearly IT,
The herald., 1898-02-03
An Aged Earl

LONDON, Feb, 2.-Beauchamp. Henry
John Scott, sixth Earl OF Clonmel. is
dead. He was born in 1914 and was
formerly Captain in the Scots Guard.
The herald., 1898-02-03
Purchased a Painting

PITTSBURG. Pa, Feb. 1.-The Leader
today says: An enormous painting has
been purchased in the city of Paris at a
reputed cost of 500, 900. and will be pre-
sented to the art gallery of the Carnegie
library In this city as a gift from II. c.
F'rick, the millionaire steel manufacturer
and partner of Andrew Carnegie. Infor-
nation to this effect reached the city to-
day. The painting is entitled blessing
the Bread" The canvas measures % feet
In length and is 16 feet high.
Robert Easton attempted to board the
train at Grass Valley and fell off. His
left arm was crushed
The herald., 1898-02-03

Foot notes-shoe advertisements
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-04-30
Advertising Locals.

BATHS BATHS! BATHS at The Re-
option. Ticket good for four baths 81.
Single baths 30 cents.
II you want a house we will give you
the choice OF several good properties
and sell them cheaper than you will
ever be able to buy them again. Parties
must have money. Call at the DISPATCH
office. y
Buy your fencing, pine or redwood
shingles, clear and common lumber OF
all sizes of Foulks and Powning, Verdi
or Reno. The best mountain pine and
low prices. Common timber on the cars
at Verdi at $40 per thousand.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-04-30

In considering whether Cuba shall be
free or accept autonomy under a nomi-
nal ~snzerainty Of Spain it will be just
as we'll to ascertain what the Cubans
themselves have to say in the matter.
President Mckinley and his cabinet and
the powers of Europe appear to be talk
ing things over without considering the
Cuban people any more than if they
were Chinese instead of what they are.
From the day Maceo fell pierced by
treacherous wounds till this hour only
one cry has rung from Cuban lips, and
that Liberty or deathl' To the last
man the Cubans will fall fighting for
freedom. They will never give up,
never accept anything short Of absolute
independence. Even the struggle of the
American people in u own Revolution
was not 30 heroic. not so desperate, as
that of the devoted Cubans has been. In
all history there is no episode more
splendid than the Cuban wal of inde-
pendence at the close Of the nineteenth
century.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-04-30
To Hunters.

Hunters will please not go into the
fields on the Italian ranch near Jake
Hamilton's old place, OF on the Hill
ranch, to shoot, as the wild cattle break
out and cause me much trouble and ex-
pense.
E. OLINGHoUsE,
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-04-30

If the truth were known, more than
one Republican is secretly blessing his
stars just now that President Mckinley
did not grant his petition and appoint
him consul general to Cuba.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-04-30

When it comes to "a dead tussle for
authority between the president of the
United States and congress, congress is
the boss, if the members hang together.
Thus with President Mckinley unalter.
ably resolved on peace, congress could
force a war with Spain if it SO decided.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-04-30
,ATURDAY. 49,. APRIL 80, 1898
Seacoast Artillery Regiments.

Peculiarly adapted to the present sit
uation is the paper on the National
Guard and Our Seacoast Defenses"
! written for The Forum by Captain j.
G. Ayres of the United States ordnance
department., although it was published
last December.
Captain Ayres calls attention to the
fact that congress appropriated last year
a greater sum than it had ever done be-
fore for permanent Notifications along
our coasts. Then he asks a question
very much to the point-Who is to man
these Notifications when they are fin
ished? To man them will require 80, 900
artillerymen, including electricians and
mechanical engineers. At the time the
article was written the bill had not yet
been passed adding two artillery regi-
ments to the FIVE constituting that arm
of the United States regular army serv-
ice. But even with seven regiments Of
artillery there would not be a s~prinkling
of men for the grim lines of forts around
our ocean and lake shores. neither is It
within the bounds of possibility that
congress will ever authorize an army Of
so. 900 soldiers as permanent coast de-
tenders.
Captain Ayres looks to a far different
branch Of the United States military
service to supply the need Of men. He
would take them from the national
guard. In time Of peace only a few reg
ular army artillerymen will be needed
at each fort. But Captain Ayres recon-
mends that plans be perfected whereby
every summer regiments of the national
guard in shore states be brought to the
Notifications and drilled in the art of
coast defending warfare. The instruc-
tions should pursue such fine points as
finding the range Of guns. the distance
of vessels and following with the gun
the track of a passing steamer or sailer.
In such coast defending drill there will
be work alike for soldiers, for machin-
lists, craftsmen, engineers and e%lectri-
clans.
Many new and intricate problems in
gunnery that even SO late as our civil
war we knew nothing of must be faced
now. The high explosives. the tremen-
dous guns and the fearful projectiles of
today have come upon the scene since
that war. Captain Ayres' recommended
tion that the militia of the coast states
be taught how to man Notifications per.
fectly should be acted on.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-04-30

l hereby notify all hunters not to
trespass upon my premises. Those
who do not heed this notice will be
prosecuted. T. G. HERMAN.~
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-05-26
EIGHTH TO NINTH.
NINrn ro 1ENTn nm.
State News.

Recruits for immune regiment are
heiBg rapidly modified at Galveston.
Under the presidents second call for
1900 volunteers Texas quota Will be
1858. II Is believed at Austin they can
he raised In few days. Dallas claims
10 have 500 ready b be mustered in.
Three children died near Cuero from
eating berries found In pasture.
a man named John Shook shot Ma
than Moseley, a negro, five times aud
killed him at Corsicana yesterday for
writing an insulting note TO Shocks
wife. Shook gave bond.
Every preparation il being made to
hang Eugene Burt at Austin tomorrow.
A stay Of proceedings in the Kugadt
case is reported from BRENNAN, IN.
gadrs wife having made affidavit that
she believed him insane. lie will not
lie hanged until declared sane.
Reported from Bastrop that Walter
Hancock was waylaid and killed yes
ierday three miles from Red Rock.
Mexican Bros store at Prairie Lea
was robbed OF y large amount Of goods
A man named Benson under death
sentence for murder at Richmond has
been granted a bird respite Of three
weeks.