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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-02
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-02
A Golden Era

Is the title Of an illustrated pamphlet
issued by the general passenger de-
partment Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railway on mining in Colo.
RADIO, California and other western
states.
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Pretty Partisan Women.

II like the way the French take their
amusements, writes Miss Lillian Bell,
in a letter from Paris to the February
Ladies Home Journal AT the the
alter they laugh and applaud the Wit of
the hero and hiss the villain. They
shout their approval of duel and weep
aloud over the death of the aged moth
er. When they drive in the Bots they
smile and have an air of enjoyment quite
at variance with the bored expression
of English and Americans who have
enough money to own carriages. We
drove in Hyde Park in London the day
before we came TO Paris, and nearly
wept with sympathy for she unspoken
grief in the faces of the unfortunate
rich who were at such pains to enjoy
themselves. I never saw such hand
some men as i saw in London. | never
saw such beautiful women as / see in
Paris. French men are Insignificant.
as a rule. and English women are beefy
and dress like rag-bags.
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AN AMERICAN SYNDICATE.
Said to Have Obtained Unlimited
Concessions in Honduras.

SAN DIEGO, Jan 31.-Professor Ed
ward II. Coffey of this city has just re-
turned from trip to Honduras. He
supposed TO include the Vanderbilts.
has obtained concessions for almost
everything in Honduras that is worth
having.
"Diligent inquiry on my part" said
Professor Coffey, and on the part of
others in that country, failed to re-
veal that there was any syndicate as
expenditures of money, vast energy dis
played in building a railroad and i'm
proving harbors, and so on, which
speaks for something under the surface
that may be of the greatest possible in
terest TO Americans.
AS nearly as l could learn. the Hon
duran Government has made an ar
rangement with these American capi
talists whereby the debt OF Hondu
ras. amounting to t2.100,00o will be
refunded in low rate bonds purchased
by this American syndicate, and Sc
cured by the customs receipts. internal
revenues. and so on, with the added
benefits of valuable exclusive conces-
sions. But it appears that the deal
has not been actually eonsumnlated
from the fact that the Honduran Gov
eminent has not consulted its Euro
pean creditors as to this proposed re-
funding of the debt. These creditors
may object, and very decidedly"
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To be Followed Later by One Detailing All
Phases of the Question.
DR.. Jordan Still Adheres to His
Former Conclusion That the
Sole Cause of the Decline of the
Fur Seal Herd is Due to Pelagic
Sealing, Which Involves the
Indiscriminate killing Of
Males and Females.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, JAM 81.
The second preliminary report Of the
Behring Sea fur seal investigation coz
Quoted by the commission of which
David Starr Jordan was President, was
ISSUED to-day In his letter to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury DR.. Jordan says:
Il nave the honor TO submit herewith
a second brief preliminary report on the
work of the Behring Sea fur seal inves-
LEGATION commission for the season Of
1891 This will be followed in the
course of the coming year by final
report, monographs in character,
which will take up in detail all phases
of the fur seal question. The most
important part of this work of 1891
has been to ascertain by a duplication
of the census of 1896 the changes which
have taken place on the rookeries of
ST. Paul and St. George Island, and
to trace their causes.
THE sole cause of the decline of the
fur seal herd says the report, is
found in pelagic sealing. This conclu-
sion was reached last year, and a re-
consideration Of all the questions n
volved gives no reason to alter or mod
fly it. The investigation of the season
of 1897 only strengthens it. Peiagic
sealing involves the indiscriminate kill
ing of males and females, the latter
forming at all times the greater part
of the pelagic catch. When we take
into account the loss of the herd
through old age, and the small percent
age of the young which survive to
breeding age, we find the margin OF
increase in the herd TO be very small.
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RUSSIA MENACES ENGLAND.
SAID TO HAVE ISSUED AN UL-
TIMATUM.
Great Britain Must Acquiesce in
the Formers Policy in the Far
East, or War Will Result.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-A dispatch to
the Herald from London says:
There is a startling dispatch in the
DAILY Telegraph" to-day from ST. Pc
tersburg This papers correspondent
there has interviews with a Russian
Admiral, now chief of a squadron, and
with an eminent Russian diplomatlst.
Their declarations, therefore, if true,
have semi official weight. Practically
the declarations it contains amount to
menace on the part of Russia toward
England, and unless England chooses
to acquiesce in the policy being pursued
by Russia in the far East, war is in
evitable. If this dispatch is not a fake.
Russia has thrown down the gage. The
dispatch is:
"St. Petersburg, Saturday. have
had conversation with Russian Ad-
mral. who has been appointed to the
pest of chief Of a squadron, concerning
the situation in the far East. This Of
ficer, i'll the course of his remarks. said:
Nearly the whole OF the marine
forces of Russia will be dispatched to the
far East, for it is necessary for Russia
to place herself in a position of naval
strength, and will no longer occupy her
self with the Chinese question, and will
certainly not take the offensive, finding,
as she Will, the necessity of devoting
her strength and her energy to India,
where a revolt Infinitely more serious
out There Russia will be able, with
out difficulty, to penetrate through At
ghanistan and the Pamirs to the Indian
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AN ANTITRUST BILL.
Measure Introduced in the House
by Greene of Nebraska.

WASHINGTON. Jan 31-An anti
trust bill, explicit in its terms and nam
ing a penalty of $4,000 fine or from
two to fifteen years Imprisonment, has
been introduced in the House by
Greene of Nebraska.
1t makes it a felony to monopolize or
to attempt TO monopoliZe or to combine
or to c0nspiGe With any others to monop-
Ollie any trade or commerce among the
States or with foreign nations, and the
making Of every contract, agreement or
combination entered into by any per-
sons, firms, corporations, or combina
tions of persons as a trust or otherwise,
10 restrain trade or commerce or limit
or control the output or price of any
article of commerce.
The bill confers jurisdiction on the
several Circuit and District Courts If
the United States and any State Court
having common law jurisdiction, and
forfeits to the United States property
owned under such contracts, etc, and
in course of transit into q State or 10
foreign country.
The record-union., 1898-02-01

NEW YORK, Jan. 31-The Red Cross
Line steamship Portia arrived to-day
four days overdue, from St. Johns, N. F..
and Halifax. after a desperate encount-
er with pack ice off the Newfoundland
coast, and with narrowing tale of
Billiards and restitution in the coast
section of that country.
Hundreds of men. women and children
dead or dying from exposure and star
walton, with abundance close by, and
hundreds more threatened with like
fate, are the conditions reported by the
Portia.
The Portia was pinned in by huge
Arctic foes in plain sight of st. Johns,
unable to move. She managed to es-
cape by the merest accident. Many 9TH
er craft, several of them relief vessels
sent by the Canadian Government TO
succor destitute fishermen, had to
abandon their errands of mercy and
return to st. Johns, where they We're
still in the ice when the Portia struggled
into clear water.
Close TO where the Portia lay the big
steamship Virginia was locked tight.
She had been sent north by the Cana
dian Government with food for the
starving fishermen, but a short distance
UP the coast she found the route Sc
curely blocked, and was forced to re-
turn to port to prevent being ice-bound
all winter. Before her departure news
had reached St Johns that unless as
sistance was promptly dispatched the
unfortunate inhabitants would be be-
yond relief
Among the detained fleet at st. Johns
We're a dozen or more sailing vessels.
loaded with Goldfish for England and
Brazil
The city of St. Johns was in terri
bic condition on account of the blizzard.
The streets were rendered impossible,
the railroads suspended work, and the
poor were suffering through hunger and
cold. Prices OF food had advanced UNI
til they We're beyond the reach of the
poor. When the Portia was working
her way out to sea she was closely fol-
lowed by the bark Flora. and these
two vessels We're the only ones that sue
ceeded in leaving st. Johns.
Several miles off shore the Portia
passed the steamer Grandland fast in
the ice, and in Derilous condition.
The steamer Virginia was released
from her perilous position after the de-
parture OF the Portia from st. Johns
and the position of the rest of the dis
tressed fleet has been reported by tele-
graph to he relieved.
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RAIL ACCIDENT.
Visa1ia Express Partly Wrecked
Near Sunol.

OAKLAND, Jan. 31.-The Visalia ex-
press, which left Oakland at 80
o'clock to-day, was partly wrecked one
mile west of Sunol this afternoon. Inc
engine and tender were badly smashed,
and the track torn up.
The train had just emerged from the
Niles canyon to the straight track lead
ing into Sunol, and was making a high
rate of speed. Suddenly the tender
left the track and slid along over the
ties for !, 800 feet, tearing up the track
and derailing the engine.
Engineer Bradley stuck to his post
and brought the train to a stop. The
passengers were shaken up by the
rough ride, and the engine was badly
wrecked. No one was injured.
The cause of the wreck is not known.
4 special engine was sent out to take
the train on its way.
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SENATOR MURPHY.
Resolution in the New York AS
sembIy Asking His RESIGNATION.

ALBANY On. ", Jan. 3f.-Assem-
blyman Weeks Of New York City start
led the Assembly and its 2,0oD specta-
tors TO-DAY by the Introduction Of a
resolution censuring and requesting the
resignation of Edward Murphy, Jr,
senior United States Senator from this
State for voting for the Teller silver
resolution.
The resolution was a complete sur
prise. II brought 10 their feet a NM
Der Of members Of the minority with
objections They could not object TO
the introduction OF the resolution, but
they signified their intention to debate
the proposition, and under the rules Of
the House II had to go over to 30
printed.
Assemblyman Weeks stated that he
was willing that it be laid aside, with
the understanding that It he made
special order at $50 o'clock on next
Monday evening. That course was pur-
sued.
The record-union., 1898-02-01
Chinamau Murdered.

SAN JOSE, Jan. Blum Chung, a
member Of the Hip Sing Tong, met his
death in Chinatown at $50 O'Clock this
afternoon under circumstances Which
point to murder. He was found dead
in joint with a bullet hole in his
heart. Four other Cinnamon who lived
III the place told the officers that he
was killed by accident, a revolver which
he carried having exploded as he arose
from a bunk. AS no powder marks We're
found on his clothing, and as the four
men belong to an opposition tong, the
Yung Wah, the police believe he was
murdered. An investigation is in prog
rCSS.
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RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS.
A Stockton Citizen Mysterious1y
Assaulted.

STOCKTON, Jan. Silt was learned
at the police office this afternoon that
last night H. +. Finnison was myster-
iously assaulted at his residence in the
City Homestead, a suburb.
F'innison went out into his yard III
the darkness to do something. lie was
suddenly held and seized and held 10y
a woman. AT the same instant he saw
two men in front of him. Then every
thing became a blank. AS discovered
afterwards. ne was struck on the back
of the head and rendered unconscious.
His Wife found him wandering around
the premises out Of his head. When
accosted by her he said You want 20
poison me-"
To-day the man recovered his reason.
He said he could remember now that
the remark made 10 his Wife was Z
repetition OF what the woman said VINO
seized him just before he was struck.
Finniscn is the man who sW9re 10
the complaint against Charles Burns Il
few days ago. charging him with els
turbine the peace of himself and bis
wife He was mixed up in the trouble
between Burns and the latter's spouse,
a girl OF - years.
The record-union., 1898-02-01
STOCKTON SCHOOL QUESTION.
Children in Outlying Districts
Cannot Attend CITY Schools.

STOCKTON, Jan. 31.-JudSe Budd
this morning gave a decision in the case
of J. n. Southrey against the city,
which partially decides the school ques-
ton here.
Four or five hundred children from the
outlying districts have been attending
school in the city for the past twenty
five years by virtue of contracts which
a former School Board had no right TO
make The City Board last fall shut
down on the practice, and suit was
brought to compel them TO admit the
children.
Judge Budd holds to the opinion of the
City Attorney, and after the close OF
the present year all will be excluded.
They arenow attending, pending the de-
csion to-day rendered.
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Fige1 Murder Trial.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 31.-Two
more jurors We're secured to-day to try
Theodore Figel for the murder of Isaac
Hoffman, making seven thus FAR Sc
cured. The new jurors are r. V Gross
key, ex-Deputy County Clerk, and Hen
ry Larsen, d teacher of music. The
regular panel has been exhausted, and
Judge Cook has ordered a venire of 100
names to be drawn, returnable in court
tomorrow morning. Sheriff Whelan
detailed twelve deputies to wake per-
sonal service of the summons, and TO
guard against delay of the trial.
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THAT BIG FORTUNE.
One of the Heirs Says He Knows
Nothing of His Reported Luck.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.-A story
was published here to-day to the eff
feet that an estate aggregating $780,
500, eco in value, located in the city or
Philadelphia and elsewhere in the East,
had been awarded to ninety heirs OF an
English family, among whom were
George w. Baker and E. Percival Ba-
ker of this city. A Supreme Court de-
cision is said to have established the
title of the claimants.
No direct information regarding such
a decision or such a case has been re-
ceived. and G.. w. Baker, who is a
well-known attorney, said tonight that
he knew nothing of his reported good
fortune His brother Percival, how
ever, insists that he is one of the heirs,
and that he has received dispatch
from his father notifying him of such
decision
The record-union., 1898-02-01
ATTORNEY CARPENTER.
Held to Answer on a Second
Charge OF Grand Larceny.

STOCKTON, Jan. 31.-Attorney \. II.
Carpenter was to-day held 10 answer
IN the Superior Court on a second
charge Of grand larceny. In that he ap
propriated or sold goods which he had
no right to touch This Is the result
Of the second examination. He was
jointly charged with his partner. {. l..
Flack. and the latter's brother, but
the evidence did not connect them with
any crininality. An effort is being
made to have one Of the witnesses
against Carpenter arrested for perjury,
but the District Attorney has refused 20
draw the complaint, and Justice Pa;l-
er will no: issue 4 warrant unless TIE
District Attorney draws up the papers.
The record-union., 1898-02-01
Prominent Alamcdan Dead.

ALAMEDA. jar. 81 Theodore Meetz
a prominent miner, died to-day of blood
poisoning, caused by the work of CHI
ropodist Mr. MeetZ was born in Ger
many in 1921 He came to California
on the sailing vessel Reform, arriving
in San Francisco October r. 1919. He
worked al his trade as painter for a
tine. and then went to the mines and
accumulated a snug fortune. He found
ed the San Francisco Stock Brewery
and built the Oakland and Piedmont
Railroad.
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possessions of Great Britain, TO whom
she will dictate terms.
I'VE have troops and wellfortified
frontiers, with outposts well connected
ways and telegraphs, and we could liz
the course of few days place upon the
frontier an army of 100000 men,
You perceive that all the chances are
on our side, and we do not fear the
threats of England
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D. n. BISHOP. 0ptiCian. sos ] Street.
A Heap o. Trouble.

over in the mountainous part of West
Virginia is a happy, contented people,
whose world is bounded by the pine clad
peaks around them. Occasionally tray
elers find their way into the remote val
leys. and are viewed with curious in
terest or derision by the people they
come in contact with.
Recently g party of New Workers
stopped at one of the regulation two
room -and-a-loft cabins, and went
through the night with as much forti-
tude as they could muster. But in the
morning. when they found no convent
ences for washing, their comnosure
gave way, and they looked at each 9TH
er blankly.
On their wants being made known.
however. they were escorted behind the
cabin and one Of the children poured
water on their hands while they per-
formed their ablutions. During this
operation the entire family stood
around as interested spectators.
You alls wash every day." asked
their host. curiously.
Yes. of course
The younger members Of the family
looked at each other and snickered in
open contempt
"Gollyi l low you all mus be a
heap of trouble to yourse'fs," one OF
them remarked as he turned away de-
risively-Detroit Free Press.
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the assertion. No proof was discovered
concerning Colnon, but entries as to the
payment of cash to William Patterson,
who was the boards Superintendent OF
Repairs until last year, were found.
John A. Townley, a former book
keeper for Darby Layton G. Co., was
the witness who pointed to these en-
tries and searched for others that might
implicate members of the board. He
will take the stand again tomorrow.
The record-union., 1898-02-01

FRESNO, Jan. 3l.-Delegates from
the leading women's clubs Of the San
Joaquin Valley met here this evening
and organized a Valley Federation, with
the following officers: Miss Nellie Boyd,
Fresno. President; Miss l.. III. Hatch,
Fresno, First Nice-President: Mrs. Ste
phens. Fresno. Second Nice-President;
Mrs George A. Dodge, Hanford, Secre-
tary; Mrs. +. T.. Cross, Visalia. Treas
urer The first annual meeting will
be held in this city in May.
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Cost of Union Pacific to Owners.

COUNCIL BLUFFS Ua). Jan 81
To-day there We're offered for record in
the Office of the Pottawattomie County
Register of Deeds the instruments con-
veying the title to the Union Pacific
Road to its new owners. The first
deed conveys the Governments inter-
est the consideration being $50, .s61. :
49,. This makes the total cost of the
road 10 the new company S10A, 165. :
991 SO. Along with the deeds a gold
mortgage bearing 4 per cent. interest
for S1Go,G0000o in favor of the Mer-
camille Trust Company Of New York
was filed
The record-union., 1898-02-01
Estate of Andrew M. Moore.

PHILADELPHIA Jan. 81 The
Will of the late Andrew NJ. Moore of
the distilling firm of Moore & Sinnot
and owner of the Girard House, was
filed to-day. 1t was not admitted to
probate, as caveats had been filed by
two of the testator's sons. The estate
is variously estimated at from $1,000,
COO TO S10G10Ga0
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Fatal Shooting in Washington.

CHEHALIS (Wash). Jan. 31-News
has just been received from Vance, six
ty miles from here that ]. II. McVicker
shot and fatally wounded Lou Stump
in a quarrel about some hay. Stump
had a lien on the hay, and went to
McVicker's with Constable Skinner TO
sell it. McVicker ordered them off
his premises, and when they refused to
go shot six times at Stump, infiicting
four wounds. Stump was also armed
and fired one shot. McVicker gave
himself up to Constable Skinner
The record-union., 1898-02-01

PETALUMA, Jan. 31.-News has
just reached here that Mrs. Anna Cahiil
was burned to death last evening While
preparing supper. Her dress.caught fire.
and in an instant She was envelopcd in
flames. She ran screaming from the
house Her husband extinguished The
fire. She died at midnight. having re-
tanned consciousness to the last.
The record-union., 1898-02-01
No Relations With Dreyfus.

ROME. Jan. 31.--The Minister for
Foreign Affairs. the Marquis visconti
Venosta, replying to the question of a
Deputy. announced. amid great ap-
plause. that he was able to affirm in
the most positive manner that neither
the Italian military attache at Paris
nor any other Italian agent has ever
had direct or indirect relations with
The record-union., 1898-02-01
Governor Griggs Resigns.

TRENTON On. ~. Jan. 31.-Govcr-
nor Griggs tonight sent to both houses
of the Legislature communication
giving notice that he had filed his resig-
nation With the Secretary of State to
take effect at midnight. The two
houses then passed a resolution pro-
viding that President VOORHEES, of the
Senate should take the oath of Office
as acting Governor tomorrow
The record-union., 1898-02-01
New Telegraph Cable Opened.

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Jan. 31.-The
opening of the new cable via Turks
Island and Bermuda was celebrated to-
day. 1t gives the United States and
Canada a competitive route for cable
grams to the West Indies connecting
as it does with the service of the Com
mercial Cable and Postal Telegraph
Companies.
The record-union., 1898-02-01
A Farmer Dies Suddenly.

STOCKTON, Jan :l.-U. j. Munsen
Unknown rancher about five miles
this side Of Ripon. was found dead in
his stable this evening within ten min
utes of the time he was talking to his
wife in the house. The body was found
in the straw pen. and Ii was evident that
he had been pitching straw from the
now There was no mark on the body,
and his family are of the opinion that
death was caused by a stroke OF apo
The record-union., 1898-02-01
Cruiser Montgomery.

KEY WEST Fla), Jan. 31.-The
cruiser Montgomery arrived here his
afternoon from the Tortugas. After
coaling Il is said she will proceed 10
Havana to relieve the Maine, which
will go to New Orleans.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31-At The
Navy Department it was said that
there were no changes contemplated II
the Names orders for week at least
and tina. the Montgomery had not been
ordered tC relieve her
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May. Have Been Murdered.

RIVERSIDE. Jan .,l.-.Word was re-
ceived here day from Salton that Os-
car Johnson, miner. had been found
dead in his cabin in the Chuckwalla
Mountains. johnson was a Swede. He
recently sold a claim for $500. and it is
thought he may have been murdered
The Coroner left here to-day to make an
investigation.
The record-union., 1898-02-01
HARBOR COMMISSION.
Charges of Bribery in the Letting
Of Contracts

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 31-The pay
ment of brides to Harbor Commissioned
Colnon was charged to-day in the SUI
perior Court in the case Of Samuel c.
Irving against the Beard OF State Har-
Dor Commissioners.
1t was alleged that Darby Layton &
Co. who have received contracts from
the board. gave Colnon money. The
hooks OF that firm We're examined. as il
was stated that they would support
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Plot to Murder the Shah.

BERLIN. Jan. 31.-The Post says
it learns from Russian sources OF the
discovery of a conspiracy at Teheran.
Persia, to murder the Shah, and to in
stall a younger brother at the palace.
Mouseaffer Ed Din, the Shah OF Persia,
has six younger brothers, of whom the
eldest is Massoud Mira, born in 1890,
and the second is Kamran Mira, born
in 1886