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ovERMAN COMPANY t o 90 ON.

An Arrangement Whereby the Bicycle Plant
Will Continue Operations.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Dec. 3l.-The creditors
of tho Overman Wheel Company, which as
signed on Monday with $539,000 liabilities,
voted today to continue the business. The
creditors will be represented by, a cqmmittee
consisting of John Carr, Edward f.. Poor and
II. Itcimcrs OF New York. An extension of
time will be granted on the cOmpany's notes,
which will be paid in six. twelve, eighteen and
twcntv-four months In equal installmcnts.
ii. ii. Bowman, the trustee, was authorized to
borrow money for present uses. The factory
will probably reopen on Monday.
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OUR FLAG ED DoWNBTMExIoo
Actisn or the Crow OF the Gunboat Democrats
at ClIpperton Island.

SAN DIEGO. CAL, Dec. 9l.-By the arrival Of
the steamer Albion from q cruise down the
coast detailo have been received OF the recent
hauling down Of the American nag on Clipper
ton Island by the crew Of the Mexican gunboat
Democratic.
Three Americans were landed to dig Ruano
for an American company. They hoisted the
Stars and Stripes on Dec. IL. Soon after the
Democratic appeared and sent . party of ma
rines ashore. The marines hauled down the
flag and raised the Mexican colors. warning the
Americans not to modest the flag and also not to
permit any guano to be removed.
Tho island is claimed by an American oom-
pany and also by Mexico and Great Britain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-01
GANG OF MAIL BOX ROBBERS.
Dressed I'm Letter CArriers' Unirorms They
Have stolen MANY letter. In Ohio.

CLEyELAED. o.. Dec. 3l.-A gang of mail box
robbers has been operating in this city for q
month and 1t Ia estimated that they have So
cured not less than $4,000. Making this city
their headquarters, they have operated in To-
ledo, Akron and other northern Ohio cities, in
creasing this total to $50, 900. The largest rob-
berry reported Is that of checks sent out by J.
Krause a. Sons about two weeks ago. which
were valued at about $1,000. Post Office In
spectors Owens and Holmes arrived here to-day
and after q conference with the Postmaster
made q round of the banks. They believe that
IL. Davis. the man arrested in New Orleans,
was also at the head OF the northern Ohio rob-
berries. The robbers are attired In mail car
riers' uniforms and have keys that fit the boxes.
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TO INVEsTIGATE COL. MoRDEoAL.
Secretary AIGer Will Go to Springfield. Mass.
TO Look Into Armory Matters.

TO Look Into Armory Matters.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Dec. 31.-Gen. Alger,
Secretary of War, has notified Col. Alfred Mort
decai. commandant of the United States armory'
that he personally will come soon to investigate
charges of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. against the com.
mandant. These charges are that the new rife
is being improperly made, that specimens were
kept for inspection. and arc unlike the arm sent
out for service, That poor material is being used,
and that cheap and unskilled workmen are no.
placing good mechanics, and many cases OF in
justice to the employees have occurred.
A largely signed petition has been sent to
Washington. asking Col. MOrdecai's removal,
and Congressman j. II. Gillett Is working in the
petitioners behalf; The removal OF Col. Nor
Colonel requested a delegation of citizens, in
Guiding u. u. Wesson, the pistol maker; A. II.
OverInan, and others TO inspect the armory and
they Endorsed the management. Col. Mordecai
then requested the Investigation, with which
request Gen. Alger has complied.
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INDIAN AGENTS ACCUSED.
Three Recommended for Dismissal by the Com
missioner or Indian Affairs.

PERRY, o. T., Dec. 31.-Commissioner Jones
of the Indian Bureau at Washington has Just
completed E tour OF the Indian agencies In OLA
homa and the Indian Territory. In his report
he recommends the removal OF Col. Freeman,
agent for the osages; Major Baldwin, agent for
the Apaches. and Major WoOdson, agent for the
Chayennes and Arapnhoes.
The charges against Freeman and Baldwin In
volve irregularities in business. Major Wood
son, 10 is reported, has conducted the business
affairs Of the agency satisfactorily, but his do
nestle relations are such that tho Government
cannot afford to continue him In 80 Important a
nOsitinn-
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KNOCKED down IN COURT.
A Woman sIaps an Attorneys Face. and HeI
Husband Finishes the Job.

CHICAGO. Dec. 31.-Kat Kano Rossi. who for
years has been q conspicuous figure about tho
local courts, slapped Attorney +. l.. Brady in
the face this morning in Justice Martins court,
and her husband knocked him down. They
were arrested later In the Harrison Street
Police Court on a charge of assault.
Brady and Mrs. Rossi were crow3ing about
the court sheGIs and became involved in an
alteration. Mrs. Rossi said that Brady in.
suited her and she slapped his face. Her hus-
band, VincenZo Rossi. went to her assistance.
Bail officers separated the fighters.
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AMSTERDAM. N. Y. Dec. 3l.-A severe snow
storm struck tho Mohawk Valley this after
noon. and within four hours more than eight
inches of snow had fallen. II is still showing
hard tonight. Railroad traffic will be greatly
abates. II Is the first genuine fall of snow this
winter in the valley.
BINaHAMToN, Dec. 3l.-Ovcr two feet of snow
fell here to-day. Tonight high winds are drift
ing the snow so that travel is almost impossible.
All trains are delayed.
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FIFTY PEOPLE HAvE A FAIL.
The Flooring OF n Hall Gives Way at an Anna
tour Theatrical PerIornRncc.

CEDAR POENT. Kan, Dec. 3l.-At an amateur
theatrical performance given in the public hall
last night the flooring gave way, precipitating
fifty people n distance of twenty feet. One man
had "A leg broken, another had his ribs crushed,
and about thirty others were scratched and
bruised. None was fatally hurt.
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COMPROMISE At SEOUL.

The BnElishman nnd the Russian to Have Joint
Control OF tho Corean Customs.
Special Gable Despatch to THE SUN.
PEKIN, Dec. 31.-Advices received here from
Seoul. the capital of Corea, are to the effect that
q compromise has been arranged by J. McLeavy
Brown. the English administrator of the Corean
customs, and NJ. Alexieff, the Russian who was
appointed at the demand of Russia to succeed
Mr.. Brown. By the terms Of the compromise the
two will work conformity.
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syracuse TO Use Natural Gas.

SYRACUSE, Dec. 3l.-Tho Common Council TO-
night received from Mayor Mcclure, with his
signature, the natural gas franchise granted
ten days ago to tho Syracuse Steam Heat and
Power Company. which proposes to furnish
natural gas To city cOnsumcEA from the big wells
at BaldwinsVillo, fourteen III 90 away.
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COLORADO TAKES THE LEAD.
she Produced SeI.Ia7.OIG OF Gold Last Year
and Heat California.

DENVER, Dec. 31.-The most accurate figures
obtainable. tonight show that the mineral pro-
duction for Colorado this year will reach $37.-
473, 500, as follows: Gold. $21, 147, 046; silver.
Sl2, A. ,425; lead. So 1852, 1913; copper. $l.l3l.-
725.
This will place Colorado well in the lead OF
gold producing States. the OUTPUT for California,
according TO the hest adyices. being about Sl9,-
600. 900. For the first time Colorado leads.
Cripple Creek alone produced more than Sl2.-
600, 900 in gold.
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The Equitable Life Assurance Society Of the U. s,
report that their new buslueBs for the year 1897 will
uxsrrd one hundred aud fifty ndllIon dollars. their
outstanding insuInncv 10 over nine hundIsd and nifty
EbOVs fREly-slght ntheR AeAAED.-A4A
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BRITISH FLEET OFF CREMULPo.
warships Said to ne Anchored or the Port or
the Capital OF Coren.

the Capital or Coren.
Special Cable Despatch TO THE Sun.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 31.-The Shanghai Mercury
says that a British squadron Of warships is
anchored Off Chemulpo. Corea.
HONG KoNG, Dec. 31.-The greatest activity
prevails at the naval yard here. but tho opera
tions are kept profoundly secret. The move
ments or whereabouts of the British fleet are
unknown.
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Egg ED WHITE GAPS ARRESTED.
seyeA Men Accused or Causing tho Death or
Abe Balm In Iowa.

OrTUMwA.Ia Ia, Dec. 31.-Abe Balm's death, near
Westpoint on Wednesday night. from wounds
inflicted by White Caps. had a sequel to-day in
the arrest OF John Schantz. William Schantz,
Joe Sanderson, William Vansyckle. John Wei
llngtOn, Rice Enslow, and Frank Former. yell
TODD farmers OF Pleasant Ridge township. The
The White Caps went 10 Balm's house because
he and his brother had permitted their father to
the remains.
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sIoo,ooo FOR HIS PATENT.

n WHIhe MuH btIH FNTE OF . HUUH IuV0hIIUD
at = HIE Price.
BANGOR. Me-. Dec. 31.-Millard F.. Field Of
Newport has invented a machine for drawing
in warps for looms, and has sold a third interest
in his patent to Il. p. Cheney OF Boston for
500 600. 1t gauges its work automatically,
and IL draws in 1000 ends properly in seven
minutes. something that would require the most
expert workman about three hours to perform.
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Dopot fail TO read to-morrow's brooklyn Eagle.
A notable souvenir Of consolidation. The most
hietorio record eyer publiRhed In :
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Made OF llttle pigs and choice spicea. You have never
1astsd aansags ~ perfe tion unlesa you have niSd
sa 5spsl AzaN
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40 VI fealt afH hiSeanN
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04
HAVE FAITH IN THE BOY.

Have faith in the hoy, not believing
That he is the worst OF ms kind,
In league with the army of Satan,
And only to evil inclined;
But daily to guide and control him
Your wisdom and patience employ,
And daily, despite disappointment
And sorrow, have faith in the boy
Have faith to believe that some moment
In LIES strangely checkered career,
Convicted, subdued and reDentant,
The prodigal son will appear;
The gold in his nature rejecting
The dark and debasng alloy,
Illuming your spirit with gladness,
Because you have faith in the boy.
Though now he is hayward and stubborn
And keeps himself sadly aloof
From those who are anxious and fearful,
And ready with words of reproof;
Have faith that the prayers of a mother
His wandering feet will arrest,
And turn him away from his follies
To weep out his tears on her breast.
The brook that goes dashing and dancing
We may not divert from its course,
Until the wild, turbulant spirit
Has somewhat expended its force;
The brook is the life of the river,
And If we the future might scan,
We'd find that a boisterous boyhood
Gave-vigor and life to the man.
All many a boy has been driven
Away from the home by the thought
That no one believed in his goodness,
Or dreamed of the battle ne fought;
So if you would help him to conquer
The foes that are prone to annoy,
Encourage him often with kindness.
And show you have faith in the boy.
Have faith in his good resolutions,
Believe that at last he'll prevail;
Though now he's forgetful and needless
Though day after day he may fall.
Your doubts and suspicious mIsgiying,
His hope and his courage destroy:
So If you'd secure Il brave manhood,
'Tis-well to have faith in the boy.
-Elmira Facts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04
TOM PLATT'S TRIUMPH.

Richard Croker says that if Colonel
Roosevelt is defeated, and he thinks
he can be, it will be the end of Tom
Platt's domination in New York Re-
publican politics. This opinion is I'M
doubtedly right
The alliance between Roosevelt and
Plat is one of the anomalies in poll
tics that no one seems to be able to
satisfactorily explain. While he has
always been a Republican, still Colonel
Roosevelt. in his political writings and
career, has stood for all that Plat is
not. He has been the ideal of the
mugwumps and they have never tired
of pleasing him for his brusque, indie
pendent ways; and while he was al
ways a Republican, yet no man in all
the country was more generally re-
garded as typifying the Independent
in politics than Colonel Roosevelt. On
the other hand, no man has been
looked upon as the very embodiment
of boss rule SO much as Tom Plat.
And now the typical independent and
the typical machine boss are cheek by
jowl. 1t is truly astonishing picture,
one at which people cannot help stop
ping to gaze.
How did it happen that these men,
so opposite in their ideas and careers,
came together? Colonel Roosevelt
came back from Cuba a hero. With
out any concert of action, without the
laying of any plans, there sprang up
deTand that he be made the guber-
material candidate of his party. The
demand became clamor. Plat would
never have picked up a man like Roose-
welt to run for any office, but seeing
that all forces in the party made for
his nomination, he merely put himself
at the head Of these forces and directed
and took advantage of a movement in
the starting of which he had no hand.
He made the popular candidate his
candidate and so strengthened his
power with his party. 1t was a shrewd
thing to do. And now Roosevelt, the
heretofore great independent, is hitched
up with Platt, the always champion
Of the machine and boss rule, and they
seem to be perfectly gated And whose
is the triumph? Platts, and Platt's
alone. As Croker says, to defeat Roose-
welt is to end Platt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04
RAISING a LARGE STANDING
ARMY.

It is becoming Palmer and palmer
every day that the American people
are not taking kindly to the idea of a
| large standing army. They are begin
! ming to reflect that an army is an a.
| gregation OF men who surrender their
individuality and right 20 think, an ag-
gregation of men who must always
obey, and never question the wisdom
or unwisdom of the orders they receive,
and execute them at all costs and every
hazard.
Telegraphic advices from Washington
say that the war department is being
deluged with appeals from fathers,
mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts
for the mastering out of volunteers,
that every man in the department who
is SUPPOSED to have any influence is
sought TO secure the discharge of en-
listed mefI, who have tired of the life
of soldering. It is further stated that
these re.uests and demands for mus
tering out have had their effect in
making he war department seek some
more satisfactory method of army or
ganization for the purpose for which
the army will be needed in the future.
Thus Ear there have been discovered
but two ways of raising an army-by
the volunteer and the conscri1tio
methods. During the civil war both
were used, but the conscription method,
even in so holy q cause as the .,-eser-
walton OF the Union and the abolish
ment of slavery, was always exceed
ingly unpopular. The taste of soldier
ing that the volunteers have had dur
ing the past five months has developed
no voracious appetite for it; in fact,
the demands for mastering out plainly
show that there is a decided distaste
for it. The overwhelming majority of
the volunteers will be active agents in
ar anti-large standing army propa-
ganda.
1t would appear from these Washing
ton advices that the war department
officials regard the volunteer method
of raising an army as very. unsatisfac-
tory, IL not positive failure. What
VIII they recommend? The conscrip-
ton? The institution of the conscrio-
ton would be the adoption Of the Euro
pean military method of raising an
army, and the curtailment of the citi-
zen's liberty. for compulsory service in
the army is the very antiDodes of in
dividuai freedom of action. And how
much better is it to live under a mill
tary republic than under military
monarchy?
What greater liberty and lighter bur-
dens to bear has the citizen of republi-
can France than the citizen of Imperial
Germany?
All of these are questions 10 the con-
s;deration Of which Americans can adj
dress themselves with much profit.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04
WHY THE DEMOCRACY SHOULD
WIN.

The election this year is a very i'm
portant one. A representative to con-
gress is to be elected, while the legisla-
ture to be elected will elect successor
to Senator Cannon.
Two years ago Utah went Democratic
by an overwhelming majority. The is
sues that were before the people then
are practically the same as those be-
fore them now. Then the nation voted
against free silver, and it's enemies
said it was henceforth dead issue;
they have since realized that they were
sadly mistaken, that silver is by no
means dead issue, that it will be the
great live issue in 1900. The election
of 1898 is but a prelude to the great
struggle two years hence. Utah has
ever been for silver and ever will be,
but all effective effort in its behalf
must be made through national party
organization. In national politics the
Democratic party is the champion of
silver, while the Republican party is its
open and avowed enemy. Utah must
be kept in the silver column, and the
only way this can be done is to keep
her in the Democratic column.
The ease with which the Republicans
of all factions got together this year
shows with what facility they will get
together in 1900; there will be no bolt
ing that year, for they will all stand
shoulder to shoulder on the Republican
national platform then, and that plat
form will reafffrm the gold plank of the
ST. Louis platform. In the determine
ton OF national policies the declarl ito IS
of national platforms govern and not
those of local platforms.
Two years ago the people elected
Judge King to congress. and legisla-
ture that elected Hon. ]. L. Rawlins to
the senate. Both gentlemen are staunch
Democrats, and both have served the
people most faithfully; and in doing so
they were carrying out the principles
Of the platform on which they We're
elected. Senator Rawlins will continue
to serve the people for some years be-
fore his term expires, and is certain to
give great satisfaction in the future as
he has III the past. Judge King Will
not serve them in the capacity OF repre-
sentative after March 3, 1899. No one
could have served them better or more
faithfully or more assiduOusly than he
The Democrats have nominated to sue
coed him Hon. B. II. Roberts, than
whom there is no better or ADLER DEM
ocrat in the state. no man better fitted,
be he Democrat, Republican or Popul st,
to represent the people of Utah in con-
gress. He will serve the people as well,
as faithfully and assiduously as has
Judge King.
If the people of Utah consult their
best interests they will elect the Demo-
cratic ticket-state, legislative and
county; no other is comparable with it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04
TO AVOID COLLISIONS AT SEA.

It is announced from Berlin that as
a resuIt-of representations made by the
Hamburg-American steamship line the
German foreign Office intends to invite
the governments of the maritime ma
tons TO come to an agreement 70
legally compel steamers to follow the
transatlantic liner routes in order to
avoid collisions.
Such an agreement should be come
to by the maritime nations. and it is a
wonder that such an agreement was
not reached long ago. Already many
enlightened rules for the government of
ships at sea have been adopted, and
with such splendid results in making
ocean travel safer that everything
looking TO an increased safety should
be encouraged.
The great transatlantic steamship
companies all have well defined routes
across the ocean for eastward and
westward passages, and by adhering
strictly TO them danger of a collision
is reduced to a minimum. If all ocean
steamers could be compelled to follow
certain routes danger of collision would
be still further reduced, for the steam
ers that it is proposed 20 compel to
follow the transatlantic liner routes are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04
ASSAULTING THE WAR DEPART
MENT.

I That good Republican paper, the
Philadelphia Ledger, has been one of
in all the country. Here is one of it's
in all the country. Here is one of the
latest articles, an article which the
Dodge commission will find extremely
interesting:
If the Dodge commission to investi-
gate the conduct of the war depart
ment General Dodge is chairman) will
give attention to the news dispatches,
it will find plenty of hints respecting
mismanagement. A dispatch from Chat
tanooSa, dated Sept. p, contained the
following:
AN auction sale of 800 horses and
200 mules, all condemned army animals,
is now being conducted at Chicka-
manga. The animals were used by the
army during the summer, and were
condemned because The government had
no further use for them. A number of
Stockmen are present, and the bidding
is lively. The prices range from $50 to
$50, the average being $50. These prices
are about one-third what the govern
ment paid. The sale will consume about
a week"
There is nothing apparently wrong
about that. but here is another dis
PdlcH, from new L Ork, QQQer the same
date, which should be read in connec-
ton with it:
Bids were opened at the army build
ing today for transporting 5000 horses
to Huntsville, Ala. The Pennsylvania
railroad was awarded the contract at
$110.36 per car. The horses will be sent
in lots of 1000 each. 1t will require $50
cars to transport all the horses, made
up into u or 13 trains"
The government, it appears, has about
500 horses at Chattanooga, which is not
far from Huntsville, Ala, where horses
are wanted. But instead of sending
them there it sells them for one-third
their cost, and ships other horses from
New York at considerable cost; instead
of selling the surplus number in a bet
ter market than Chattanooga.
And, calling attention to such facts as
these is what the apologists of the adj
minstration term ''unwarranted as
saults upon the war department for po-
litical purposes" What political pur-
pose can the Republican Ledger hope to
accomplish by attacking the Republican
administration?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04

Chairman Babcock of the Republican
in New York Thursday. Speaking of
the political situation, he said:
1.-THE money question will be a great
factor. The business interests of the
entire east are keenly alive to the men
ace to prosperity which the election of
a free silver majority in the house
would produce. 1t would be dire ca
lamity at this time to unsettle existing
conditions by the election of a Demo-
Cratic house of representatives.
THE free silver question would be
brought to the front at every o3por-
tunity, certainly to be followed by a
long train OF disquieting legislative at
tem9ts. The country has been able to
get a good start toward q rehabilita-
ton of its financial and industrial con-
ditions, and every patriotic citizen
should hope, for his own interests, il
upon no higher ground, that the poiiti-
cal complexion of congress should rot
be changed With the Republican ma
jority assured, the country is safe from
the dangers OF the Chicago platform,
and not only must a Republican major
ity be elected in the house, but the sen
ate is to be looked after
That is what the chairman oe the
congressional campaign
committee says. The election of a DEM
ocratic house means that the silver
question will be brought to the front,
while the election of a Republican
house means that the silver question
would not only be kept down, but that
every effort would be made to kill it
for all time.
After this statement by Chairman
Babcock do the people of Utah think
for q moment that if a Republican
were elected to congress from Utah
that he could, or would even try, to adj
vance the interests of silver through
the national Republican party?