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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
THE ROCKIES ABLAZE.
Destructive Forest Fires in the Noun
t4ins of Colorado.

DENVER, Sept 2S.-Dispatches received
here state that great fires are devastating
the timber growth on the main range. From
Hahns Peak to Pagosa Springs. on the
south, distance of hundreds of miles, the
flames are doing their destructive work UNI
checked. The flames are known to be doing
tremendous damage in Routt county. in
Egeria Park, along the Reading Fork river
and down in the San Juan region. An esti-
mate of the damage done is hard to make,
but will run into the millions. Human life
may have already been sacrificed and if the
fires are not soon quenched by heavy rain
many persons are certain to perish Several
mining camps and innumerabe ranches are
even now in danger of destruction.
Thousands of head of cattle are threat
ened- In Eagle county, where the flames
seem to be spreading more rapidly than in
has been burning, and the farmers, with
their stock, have been trying to get out of
the path of the fires for week past. One
large bunch of about 5000 head of cattle is
now entirely surrounded by fire and there
is no chance for them to escape. The re-
port came from Deputy Game Warden
Slaughter, who directed his letter two days
ago. 1t is probable that the cattle have
been destroyed by this time.
AT Red Cliff the fires within ten miles
of the town, and citizens are organizing to
fight their advance. A dispatch states that
it is feared that the little mining settlement
at Holy Cross, near Red Cliff, mas been de-
stroyed. Communication is cut off, the mail
carrier being unable to get through.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
HE SPOKE SNEERINGLY
MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST CHAPLAIN
M'INTYRE, OF THE OREGON.
Witnesses Say He Assumed a Con-
"Fighting Bob" Evans, of the Iowa.

DENVER, Col, Sept. 2S-The court-mar-
tial trial of Chaplain Joseph Mcintyre, of
the battle ship Oregon, was resumed to-day
Mr.. Charles H. Sage a real estate agent,
who heard Mr.. McIntyre's lecture on Aug
s, testified that the report of the lecture
which appeared in the Rocky Mountain
News, extracts from which are used in the
specifications to support the charges against
the accused, was substantially correct. He
said the chaplain spoke sneeringy of Capt.
Evans a number of times as Fighting Bob"
Harry S. BabcOck, of Denver, testified
that Chaplain Mcintyre stated that when
the Cristobal Colon surrendered the Ameri-
can vessels, aside from the Oregon, were
hull down" behind, which, he explained,
meant at least eight miles away, and that
Admiral Sampson reported himself within
four miles of the place at the time and
would thus receive $4,000 of prize money.
He verified the testimony of other witnesses
in regard to the contemptuous reference to
Captain Evans by the chaplain.
s. w. De Witt of Washington, d. c., as
sistant attorney general of the United
States, testified that the chaplain said the
New York and other vessels were invisible
to the eastward when the Cristobal Colon
surrendered, and yet Admiral Sampson re-
ported hlmSelf within the four-mile limit
and would receive part of the prize money.
He testified that the chaplain said Flight
ing Bob of the Iowa, was running away
from the fight when the Oregon was going
into it. He also told of other illusions made
TO Captain Evans as Fighting Bob" and
he said the speakers manner was mot
agreeable when making such illusions. He
testified that the chaplain said Eastern ship
builders had pulls" with the government,
many jobs" being noticeable in the con-
struction of the Eastern built vessel, while
the Oregon was honestly built.
Alfred Z. Bacon, a broker; Rev. +. M:
Bale. pastor of Plymouth Congregational
Church, and Hon. w. j. Barker, ex-mayor
of the city of Denver, testified during the
afternoon session. All fully corroborated
the testimony of witnesses who had prev
iously testified, the substance or their evil
dence being that Chaplain Mcintyre charged
Admiral Sampson with reporting himself
within four miles of the Spanish ship Colon
when she surrendered. when in reality he
was at least eight miles away; that ne
charged Captain Evans, of the Iowa, with
running away from the fight referring to
him contemptuousy as Fighting Bob, and
that he charged that Eastern ship builders
obtained contracts from the government by
means of political pulls and that the Oregon
was the only battle ship that was honestly
built After these witnesses had testified
Judge Advocate Laucheimer gave notice
that the prosecution would rest it's case
until Tomorrow and will probably not in
trodlIce any more witnesses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
THE OREGON AND IOWA.
Two Great Fighting Ships to Start for
the Philippines To-day.

NEW YORK, Sept 2S.-The United States
battle ship Oregon went down from the
Brooklyn navy yard to-day and anchored
off Tompkinsville preparatory to her start
on her long voyage to the Pacific. The
Oregon draws more than two feet over her
normal draft. twenty-eight feet so that she
is over thirty feet in the water Besides an
enormous consignment of stores and pro-
visions, she carries 1,4GO tons of coal and
more than 500 tons of ammunition In order
to carry this amount of powder and shells
a number of temporary magazines were con-
structed in her hold. AS the ship moved out
from the dock at the navy yard her band
began TO play "Homeward Bound" Her
crew was drawn up on the port bow with
the marine guard abaft the bow. The dock
was crowded with marines and sailors, and
a crowd of spectators stood on the coal
dock. Cheers were exchanged The oregon
was subsequently cheered by the crews OF
the Texas, Massachusetts. Iowa and Rain
bow, which she passed on her way out She
responded by the blowing of her big steam
siren. The oregon Will remain at Temp
kinsvlle until tomorrow. when she is to be
joined by the Iowa. The two will then be-
gin their cruise TO the Philippines. 1t was
said at the navy yard that the reason the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
A USEFUL COMMISSION.

The public has had evidence from time to
time that good work was being done by the
State Labor Commission, but it will be sur
prised by the facts contained in the forth
coming report of the Bureau Of Statistics
regarding the work of the commission since
its organization. The law creating the COM
mission was approved March 4, 1897 and the
commission whose members were appointed
by Governor Mount, was organized the fol-
lowing June 16. The law pIescribes the quail
ificatons and says:
1t shall be the duty of said commissioners
upon receiving creditable information in any
manner OF the existence of any strike lock-
out, boycott or other labor complication in
this State. affecting the labor or employ
ment of fifty persons or more, to go to the
place where such complication exists, put
themselves into communication with the
parties to the controversy and offer their
services as mediators between them If
they shall not succeed in effecting an ami
cable adjustment of the controversy in that
way they shall endeavor to induce the par
ties to submit their differences to arbitra-
ton, either under the provisions of this act
or otherwise, as they may elect.
Other sections of the law prescribe the
manner of arbitration in case that mode of
settlement is resorted to- The work of the
commission during the first fifteen months
of its existence is summarized as follows:
Thirty-four strikes and disturbances of
laDor were in their hands for adjustment.
OF these, three strikes were prevented one
boycott declared off and TWENTY-FIVE set
tied In nineteen of them increased wages
resulted in the adjustment. Settlement
failed in only six of them, though finally
In two or the latter the recommendation
or the commissioners resulted in an advance
OF wages. In the work of the commissioners
not only 1900 workingmen were restored to
employment, but secured earnings of many
thousands OF dollars to them, and in far
better conditions to all classes in the COM
munities where these disturbances occurred
kne Drlet period of the operation of this
law under its wise administration has re-
suited in great benefits to labor, the State
and the people generally.
When it is remembered that the commits
sion only takes cognzance of labor contro-
versies affecting the employment of fifty
persons or more it is evident that it has
been of great service to wage workers and
to the public generally in averting strikes
and preventing the losses which thew AL
ways involve. Not only this, but the work
of the commission has emphasized the
value of peaceable and reasonable methods
over force and violence and will sureIv
strengthen the principle of arbitration. The
Legislature of 1897 deserves the thanks of
the public for passing this excellent law. as
do the commissioners for the manner in
which they have performed their duties
under it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
A CHAPTER OF RECENT INDUSTRIAL
HISTORY.

The development of the tin-plate industry
is something akin TO the fabulous. During
the year 1889 we imported 735. 779,9sS pounds
OF plates. costing 81. 222 65S, while not
pound was made in this country. During the
fiscal year which ended June 80 1898, ILL.,
662,S45 pounds of plate were imported, valued
at S3,SCy,14S. AS we exported during that
period 1897. SO pounds of tin plate in
various manufactures. it appears that only
SS.764,775 pounds of foreign tin plate went
into consumption in the United States dur
ing the fiscal year which ended last June.
We have also begun to export American tin
plate in small quantities. 1t was not until
1892 that a pound of tin plate was made in
this country, the quantity that year being
1S,646,719 pounds. The estimate of home pro-
duction for the present year is $4,000, OOC
pounds. This means that there has been
revolution in an industry the product of
which is worth over $2OOOO,C0O a year
Inc transpiantlng of this important IN
dustry is one of the results of the Mckinley
tariff act passed late in the year 1890 Ihe
history of the opposition to the building up
of the tin-plate industry is not novel, but
1t is pertinent The Democratic and free
trade press declared that it was a scheme
to extort money from the people who used
tin utensils and tin roofing Tables were
made showing how much would be added to
the price of the laborer's dinner pail and
like articles. 10 emphasize this the Demo-
cratic managers in Ohio sent tin peddlers
into the country, who asked double the or
binary price for tinware all because OF the
tariff to protect few capitalists What has
been the result? The price of tin plate In
1889, when it was all imported. was 2.9 cents;
the price at the present time Is 22 cents
a pound-more than half a cent a pound
cheaper. So much for a Democratic predlc-
ton.
At the same time the country was told
that tin plates could never be made IN TINS
country in quantities to supply the demand,
and that it would be useless to try. A small
industry was started in Anderson, which the
Sentinel ridiculed and published a cut or
the building in which the experiment was
undertaken. Similar cuts were made of tin
plate factories in st. Louis and other cities.
A larger establishment was put up in Ell
wood 1t was too large to ridicule, but the
Sentinel and other free-trade papers under
took to destroy the enterprise by publishing
statements that men who paid par for their
shares would like to sell them at a much
less price and could not get it, in short no
feature of the Mckinley law was so vicious
ly assaulted as the discriminating duty on
tin plates. This opposition was a conspiracy
to prevent capital from being invested IN
the manufacture of a great staple for
which there is an increasing demand. The
opposition was not due to any hostility to
the manufacture of tin-plate in this coun-
try, but TO a purpose to win an election
at any cost to the country. The conspiracy
failed, and because it failed hundreds OF peo-
pie find employment in the tin-plate factor
les in the gas belt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
WINNIE DAVIS'S SUCCESSOR.
Title of "Daughter of the COnfeder-
acy" Bestowed on Lucy Lee Hill.

CHICAGO, Sept 2S.-Miss Lucy Lee Hill.
an examiner in the Office of the Civil-serv-
ice Commission. is the new daughter of
the Confederacy." Her Southern friends
have conferred this honor on her since the
death of Miss Winnie Davis. During the
day she received numerous congratulations
over the distinguished honor. Miss Hill is
a native OF Virginia. and comes from one
of the oldest and most aristocratic families
in the South. She is distant relative of
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee In February, 1893, she
came to Chicago as one of the worlds fair
commissioners from Kentucky, and since
then has made this city her home. She
has been engaged in the office of the civil
service commissioner since last winter.
When seen to-day Miss Hill said Yes,
my friends in the South insist that the man.
tie of Miss Winnie Davis shall fall upon my
shoulders. You see. | have always been
considered next in rank, and the death of
Miss Davis naturally enough cOnfers the
honor on me. In the future / will be known
as the daughter of the COnfederacy. Miss
Davis and myself were chums. We went
to school together and our families were
intimate. My father was Gen. A. p Hill.
warm personal friend of Jefferson Davis.
My father was killed on the last day of the
siege of Vicksburg, while fighting at the
head of a column.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29

Congress could. well afford to make an APP
preparation for its purchase and improve
ment, at least to the extent of preventing
the skeletons of American soldiers from be-
coming an open advertisement of the in
gratitude of republics. 1t would be fitting
rebuke of the imbecility and hypocrisy of
the party that left the victims of the Mex
lean war in unmarked graves. and which is
bowling about the mismanagement of the
war with Spain if the present administra-
ton would purchase the piece of ground
above described, RENTER the exposed re-
mains and make it something like what an
American soldiers cemetery should be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
OUR FRIENDS THE GERMANS.
Bonds That Connect Us with thei
Fatherland.

Leslie s weekly.
To war against Germany would be to war
against our own flesh and blood. No Eu~
ropean country, with the exception of Great
Britain, has so large a representation in
our citizenship as the fatherland. in the
decade ending with 1890. over 140O, 900 immi-
grants came to US from Germany, more
than fourth Of the total immigration from
all Europe in that period. Several Of our
large cities, including Cincinnati and Mil
Waukee, have & larger percentage of Ger
man-born citizens than of all other foreign
ers put together And these people are
among our most loyal, substantial and valu-
able citizens. They are not wanting. in
love for the land of their birth, but they
love the land of their adoption still more.
They are true Americans.
common love of learning is another
strand in the bond uniting us with the Ger
man people. Nowhere in the world is the
leadership of Germany in various fields of
scholarship so fully and frankly recognized
as In the United States. We send many of
our brightest young men to sit at the feet of
her great teachers and to drink deep at her
springs of learning. We glory in her un-
paralleled achievements in the domains of
science and philosophy. Toward the country.
of Goethe and Schiller, of Luther and Hum
boldt, we can never be set in hostile array.
But stronger, perhaps, than any other
strand in the bond that unites us with Ger
many is our common trade interest The
shuttles of commerce, flying swift and fast
across the seas for a hundred years, have
woven us together by golden threads that
may not easily be several. Last year we
sent Germany breadstuffs manufactured
products and other articles to the value of
$l23, 7S4 ,453. Germany sent us back in ex-
change chemicals, cloth and other needful
things to the value of Sill. 210614. With no
other country except Great Britain does our
volume of trade reach such proportions as
this. We export to Germany more than
twice as much as do to France and
more than twelve times much as we do
to Spain. And the volume of trade between
America and Germany is more evenly ball
anced than between us and any other coun-
try in the world We take nearly as much
as we give. friendship based on such
considerations as these will not be lightly
broken
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29

Senator Bayard, who died yesterday. was
recognized as a man of high character and
decided ability Before the advent of Mr..
Cleveland he was one of the half dozen
prominent men in the Democratic party.
With the coming of Mr.. Cleveland all the
older leaders were overshadowed. Mr..
Bayard was at his best in the Senate. He
was creditable secretary of state, but
later, when our representative to Great
Britain, he made one or two unfortunate
speeches which even his friends could NOT
defend He had not been in accord with the
Democracy of Mr.. Bryan, having no more
connection with the party than has the ex-
President He was one of the few men who
have been forgotten and abandoned by their
party while yet living. He belonged to an
other period when the Democratic party had
leaders like Tilden, Hendricks, Mcdonald
and Thurman A little younger, Carlisle is
about the only survivor of that line of able
Democratic leaders, and he has been ignored
as if he were dead. The present Democratic
party has no use for such men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
TRANSPORT SENATOR BELATED
Thirty-Five Days Since She Left Ma
Mia for San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Sept. 2s.-The
nonarrival of the transport Senator is begin
ming to cause a little uneasness. She is
now out thirty-five days from Manila. The
steamer Zelandia. which left Manila two
days after the Senator. caught in a
typhoon and had to put into Nagasaki on
Aug. 80 last for repairs. The transport
Colon came across from Manila in twenty
eight days, the City of Picking in twenty
three, the City of Sydney in twenty-four and
the China in twenty-three. All these ves-
sells stopped at NagaSaki for coal. Besides
diara is now out tweIfty-seven days and
the Ohio twenty-five days. All of them will
be sent back 10 Manila as soon as they
reach here and have been reprovisioned
Word has been received in the city that
the transport steamer Arizona arrived at
Manila to-day. She left here on Aug Fl
With regiment of soldiers for Honolulu
and was then sent to Manila with small
detachment of troops in charge of Lieut..
Wright
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29

England when it was too late. If 1t is true
that an exposed seaside is not a fit place
for tropical patients, it seems that other
physicians than the surgeon general might
have known the fact and raised warning
voice. 1t is not possible that physicians
could have known that Montauk Point is
place which is well-nigh fatal to those
having tropical diseases and not have raised
a warning voice. The probability is that the
profession in this country is or was as ig-
norant concerning this matter as was the
surgeon general.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
GOVERNOR SMITH SHOT
A SOLDIERS HOME MANAGER WHO
HAS SEEN MUCH TROUBLE.
Removed from Leavcnworth to Santa
Monica. Cal. where He Was wound
ed Yesterday by Veteran.

SANTA MONICA. Cal. Sept. 2s.-While
Governor Smith, of the Pacific branch of
the National Soldiers home. near this place,
was coming to his headquarters to-day,
Albert G. Bradley, who has been an inmate
of the home for five years, came up behind
him and shot at him five times. one ball
taking effect under the right shoulder blade.
one above the right hip and one through
the right arm. The surgeons think the
wounds are not fatal. There is no external
bleeding. but fears of internal injury are
entertained. AT times Bradley has acted
strangely and it was supposed he was men
tally unsound The Governor is resting easy
Bradley was arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
THEY CONTINUE TO ENLIST.
Hardships of Army Life Do Not Dis
courage Young Men.

Boston Transcript.
1t would, indeed be a final blow to all
ambitious dreams of colonial empire if the
late wars experiences should so deter
young men from enlisting that we could
not raise troops enough to garrison 1t. Some
maintain that 1t is unlikely, after what our
volunteer army has suffered in camps that
we shall be able to induce young men to
enlist in the regular army. The Herald sees
the possibility of resort to CONSUMPTION to
maintain the army required. Now, as a
matter of fact enlistments in the regulars
continue to be made, despite the war being
over though, of course, not so many men
present themselves now as when hostilities
were on. Here in Boston between eighteen
hundred end two thousand men have been
mustered with the regulars since the war
was first foreshadowed. Massachusetts has
furnished almost a brigade to the regulars,
for in all very close to twenty-five hundred
Massachusetts men march in the regulars
not to speak of the marines
And still men present themselves for en-
listment, and seven eight mustered in
here in Boston daily. What is true of the
Boston recruiting Office is true of others
throughout the country In recent years in
times Of profound peace fifty thousand
ment at the various recruiting offices in a
tWelvemonth. OF these only about seven
thousand were required for an army of
twenty-five thousand. The regulars now on
service number about fifty thousand men
and recruits are still coming in. Some of
these are drawn and many more may be
from the disbanded volunteer regiments
Some of the men of our Massachusetts
Second have presented themselves at the
recruiting office in Springfield for enlist
ment and have been told to come again
when the certainty of the re-establishment
of their health has been placed beyond
doubt.
Many men who serve in the volunteers
now will acquire love for army life that
VIII keep them soldiers for the rest of their
days. All the volunteer regiments have not
suffered severely in camps. Some of them
have not suffered at all and are in prime
physical condition and ready for any service
that offers. The associations which such
organizations will form in foreign service
with the regulars may induce many of the
volunteers to take transfers to the standing
army in lieu of being mustered out There
is little likelihood of a resort to conscrip-
ton to enable the United States to main
tain an army of 100000 men should it decide
SO many are necessary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
Transport Captains at siboney.
Ricbard Harding Davis. in scribner.


The misconduct of the transport captains
was so important a matter that much more
space must be devoted to ii than can be
allowed here. In a word, they acted entirely
in what they believed to be the interests
of the owners" meaning, not the govern
ment, which was paying them enormous
them in time of peace. For the greater part
of each day these men kept from three to
twenty miles out at sea, where ii was i'm
possible to communicate with them. and
where they burned coal at the expense of
the government. Had they been given sta
tions and ordered to anchor over them they
could have been found when the supplies
they carried were wanted, and the cost of
the coal saved. / was on six different trans
ports and on none of them did find a cap
tain who was, in his attitude toward the
government. anything but insolent I'M
American and mutinous. and when there
was any firing of any sort on shore they
showed themselves to be the most abject
towards and put to the open sea, carrying
the much-needed supplies with them