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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
DEFRAUDED.
By 8 New Plan of Bank swindlinx Ky
 Duplicate Draft.

By New Plan of Bank swind1ing Ky
 Duplicate Draft.
 Boston Special Chicago Tribune: A new scheme to defraud the banking houses of this community has been dis covered through the officials e the Massachusetts National bank. The of feials are assisting the police in this country and those of the Scot nd Yard force in unraveling the matter. The manner in which it is worked is as fol- lows: A man enters a bank and pur- chases a draft, at the same time tell ing the Infer that he Is goir g abroad and would like to have duplicate drawn. He takes both of the drafts away, and the original is either taken or sent to Europe by the swindler. Some bank in London c2shes the origi- nal draft, and the duplicate is cashed on the continent by some unsuspecting person. In this way the swindlers double their money. Paper issued by the Massachusetts National bank was used by one of the swind1ers to secure S2,000 from a bank in Switzerland. The man who had the transaction with the local bank told the cashier that he was going abroad and that he would like to have the drafts in two parts. He pur- chased two drafts of s1,000 each. These were drawn on London bank. Re- gently word was received from London that one of the drafts marked dupli. cate had been cashed there. A few days ago letter was received from a banking house in Switzerland, stating that it had cashed the original draft for the party to whom Miller had in- dorsed it. The cashier of the Massachu- setts National bank wrote to a bank ing house in Troy, N. Y, and asked that institution to look up a man giv- ing the name of J. P. Miller, who had bought the draft in March. The bank ing house replied that it found three people of that name, all reputable bus mess men. No one of the three an- swered the description of the Miller who bought the drafts. The Switzer- land bank will be the loser in this case, as the person who cashed the draft should have demanded the dupli- cate as well as the origiual before cash ing it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
DIAMONDS OF VARIOUS HuEs.
Most of Them Are CoIorless, But Some
 Are Red and Black.

Although thousands of men and women in Chicago wear diamonds, at least on occasions if not constantly, gems they value so highly. While the largest number of diamonds are white, a clear, colorless, transparent stone is rarer than might be supposed. There are also red, blue, green, yellow, brown, black and pink ones. Heat often changes the color and after awhile the acquired hue becomes per- manent. Yellow diamonds perhaps af- ford the greatest variety of shades. Some of them surpass any other gem of that color Specimens of canary eolored diamonds are quite common. If the gem has a rose-colored tint it IS very valuable, while red tints, sur- passing the ruby, and considered the most beautiful of all precious gems, are exceedingly rare. A few varieties are on record. One weighing ten carats was bought by Emperor Paul of Rus s1a for S100,000. A cinnamon, or brown, stone is undesirable, as it is seldom pure. A black diamond is nearly as scarce as red one. Blue diamonds rank next to red ones in variety and beauty. Those of a. dark blue color, resembling sapphires, are handsome gems, differing only from the sapphires In quality and the beautiful play of colors peculiar to the diamond. The only real blue stones are found in the mines of India. Besides the Bismarck and Hope diamonds, there are only two others in the world that are prop erly called blue diamonds. The green varieties are not as rare as the blue, black, red and rose-colored species, yet a grass-green or fine emerald color IS scarce. When it does occur it Is more brilliant than the finest emerald. There are several varieties of green tinted diamonds at the museum of nat ural history in Paris, but the best known specimen is at Dresden and is considered one of the five paragons of the world among gems.-Chicago Chronicle
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
AT THE PARIS moRoUE.
subjecting Criminals to Terrible
 Ordeal.

Ordeal.
 4 law that has recently come into operation gives prisoners the right of communicating with counsel within twenty-four hours after their arrest, says a Paris correspondent of the Lon don Standard. One Of the immediate consequences of this measure may be to put a stop to those "eonfrontations' at the morgue, which are so dramatic feature of French criminal proceed ure. With a view to bringing mur- derer to confess, he is taken to the morgue, and there brought face to face with the body of his victim. Every artifice is used to make the confronta- tien as impressive as possible, as it is hoped that the terrible sight he is com- pelled to gaze on will so trouble the murderer that he will lose command over himself and make clean breast of his crime in his agitation. When he enters the room he can see nothing, as the stone bench on which the body is exposed is concealed by curtain. The examining magistrate presses him with questions, and then, at what he considers the opportune moment, gives the signal for the curtain to be pulled back. The murderers who have stood this ordeal without flinehing have been comparatively few. The majority of them exhibit the utmost terror, and implore to be taken out of sight of the corpse. There is a chair in the room where the confrontations take place, in which the majority of the most no- torious murderers of the last thirty years have been seated. Their names are inscribed on it's back, one of them being Troppman, who, just before the Franco-German war, butehered an en- tire family. French criminal counsel have found that these eonfrontations almost always result in the confusion of their clients, have looked into the matter, and believe they have discov- cred that the examining magistrate has no legal right to subject prisoner to this ordeal. For the future they are going to advise their clients to refuse to allow themselves to be taken to the morgue, and it seems that it is moot point whether the authorities will be able to convey them thither by force.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
HaIibut in Alaskan Waters.

Washington special Minneapolis Journal; One of the most remarkable things on the North Pacific coast is the large number of halibut in Alaskan waters. Small steamers catch cargoes in few hours time, and it is no strange thing to see hundred thou sand pounds caught in from two to three days. Last month an Ameri- can steamer on her way to Tacoma had LOGO pounds of halibut caught off the Alaskan coast in three and a half days by eighteen men. At three cents per pound this cargo was worth s, 300.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18

Christmas and New Years Local Holiday Rates. lsa9-1900. Rate, one fare for the round trip to points within distance of 2o0 miles of selling station. Minimum .te. 50e. January l. Return limit, January ? 1909.
 Xmas and New Years Holiday Rates be- tween Fordyce and stations north and Mem phis, Tenn. Rate, one fare for the round trip. Dates Of sale. Dec. 23, 24. 9. 30 B. 1899. and January l. Return limit, January ?, ls0o
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
MORE BACHELORS THAN MAIDS
Unmarried Men Are More Numerous
 Than Are Single Women.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer: It
 appears that people generally are
 greatly mistaken in their notion that
 there is an enormous surplus of unmar-
 ried women in this country. The truth is that no such excess of spinsters ex-
 ists; in fact, it is quite the other way, the bachelors outnumbe the maid
 ems. At the present moment there are in the United States 2,200,000 more un- attached males than females similarly
 situated, the exact figures being 5,427,- 767 bachelors against 3,224, ,494 spin sters of ages from 20 years up. Thus it is obvious that if girls do not ind husbands it Is not for lack of a plent1- ful supply of the article. What IS re- quired, seemingly, is general m1gra- tion of spinsters from the north and east to the great and growing west, in
 parts of which there are ten available
 mates for every maid. From the last remark, however, it must not be infer red that there is actually an excess Of unmarried women in the northern and eastern states. Even in those parts of the country there are more bachelors than spinsters 20 years old and upward, notwithstanding the theory to the con- trary so widely accepted. No state in the union has as many maidenS as baehelors-not even Massachusetts, where the figures are 219,255 spinsters, against 226,085 bachelors. Massachu- sets is the banner state for spinsters, the bachelors outnumbering them by only two-tenths of 1 per cent. Next comes Rhode Island, where the excess of bachelors is ? per cent. The ex- cess of bachelors in the District of Co., lumbia is per cent, in North Carolina per cent, in New Hampshire 3 per cent, in Connecticut 20 per cent, in
 Maine 37 per cent and in Vermont 54 per cent Tn Maryland the bachelor surplus is 19 per cent, in New Jersey 1t is 9 per cent, in New York it is 26 per cent and in Virginia it is 1z per cent. All of these are low percent ages so far as the superiority of bache- lors in point of numbers is concerned,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
Chas. Fl. Davis' Generous Act.

Charles H. Davis, one of the wealthy citizens of Worcester, Mass, recently presented to his coachman, Otis l.. Chase, and two maid servants 100 shares of Norwich and Worcester stock. valued at over s21 .000. He call- ed them into his library one day and told them that he had bequeathed them $7, 1000 each in bis will, but, recognizing the fact that such instruments were liable to legal controversy, which might prevent them from receiving the be- quests for some time after the will was probated, he had decided to present them that amount. He then tore up the will and gave them the stock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
Odd Cofncidences.

Winfield (N. J.) Special Brooklyn Times: Homer F. Candee, the new postmaster at this place, has remark able family history. To begin with, his father fought in the revolutionary war, enlisting when he was 21 years old from Connecticut in 17S3, six months before the war closed. After the war he was granted pension. He had three wives. He lived sixteen years with his first wife when she died Sixteen years with the second, when she passed away, and sixteen years with the third when he departed. The third wife married again and lived six teen years with her second husband, when he died and she survived him ex- actly sixteen years. Postmaster Candee was born in 1928.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18

National Live Stock Association, Fort Worth Texas. January 10th to 18th. 1900. Rate one fair for the round trip. Dates of sale: Jan 14th and 18th Return limit Tick cts will be good fer return leaving Fort Worth any day from Jan. F to 27th inclusive 1900.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18

is boon to any community, where anything in the line of high grade toilet articles. rubber goods and sundries of all kinds can be found, and where physicians prescriptions and family recipes are compounded with scrupulous care, ,and from pure, fresh drugs Everyone in Pine Bluff knows that it can. always be found at the
 Mann-1ankeIsIsy Drug Company
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18

SoaIhern Educational Association. Mem phis, renn essee, December 27th to 29th, lsgs Rate:-0ne fare plus S2o0 for c round lTlp. Dates of sale: Dec. 25th and 26th, 1899. Re- turn nit Jan. 2nd 1900.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
Robbfne the Diamond Trust.

A hole in his right heel enabled a negro workman in the diamond fields of South Africa to secrete and steal gems to the value of $273. .000. These he expressed in small parcels of fruits to cousin h King Williams Town, in the extreme south of Africa, from which place both recently departed for England.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
.n rtecyrIc- oOuC-

Tn a western city an ingenious elec- trician has sent out machine Wnlcn he calls an electric goat, to carry away the sticks, paper and aeDils which gather in the city,s streets This is done by arms which reach out and take I'D whatever comes within their grasn-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
Iron Mountain Holiday Rates,

St. Louis, Iron Mountain < Southern for the round trip within distance limit of 200 miles. Dates of sale. Dec 23, 24. 25, 3o, oi, and Jan l, 1900. Final limit, Jan. 7, lseo.
 Holiday excursion rates southeastern States-Bec 20. 21 and 9. Good 30 days Rates. one first-elass fare for the round trips H. N. ATWOOD. Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
Cotton Belt B. lletin. PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO
 Via Cotton Belt Route
Via Cotton Belt Route

Leave Pine Bluff f:10 D. m., arrive Ghlcaee II ;45 next day. Only one change; through
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-18
HHEAP OOLUMN

I oST-A small ladies' gold watch. Name L. Edith eneraued in watch. Lost on sl1bn between Tennessee and Main streets. Finder return watch to KaufmBn Bazaar Co ana receive reward. oo-ol
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
fsnec,al TO The Herald.l

Boston, Mass, Dec. 29.-Representa-
tives of shareholders of the United
States Mining company, holding more
than majority of 213,00O shares of
stock outstanding. at a meeting held
have decided TO deposit their holdings
with the Old Colony Trust company,
under the pooling agreement. This ac-
ton was decided upon after a modifica-
ton of the pooling agreement he'd been
offered and accepted which makes it
necessary for the committee to submit
to a meeting of the depositors any plan
for disposing of the stock before finally
adopting it. The committee, as a re-
suit of this action, will have within
"A few days the desired working ma
jority, and is already in a position
where the members may proceed with
out negotiations.
Managing Director A. F. Holden and
Manager ]. w. Neill appeared before
the conference and presented maps,
plans and statistics. all showing that
the property of the United States Min
ing company is of great Intrinsic merit
Mr.. Holden is reported to have made
an offer of 81. 100. 600 cash for the Jor-
dan and Telegraph mines. What the
Niagara. property would bring separated
from the other mines is unknown. Man
ager Nell states that there was 1,500.
900 tons of ore actually in sight which
has value of 81 500, 900. which was
equal to $50 per share for the stock.
Can Sell the Property.
Mr.. Neill said he felt confident thai
he could form a syndicate to take over
the United States Mining property II
the brokers would give him an option
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
ON A CAREER OF CONQUEST
HOW POLICY OF UNITED STATES
Is REGARDED IN MEXICO.
Imperialism and Expansion, Are
Symptoms of National Unhealth-
VIII Bankrupt the Republic.

City of Mexico, Dec. 29.-Imparcial,
the leading newspaper organ of the lib
eral party, has a significant article on
what constitutes imperialism and tends
to show that the United States has
Joined England, Russia, Germany and
France in career of conquest and ag-
grandizement. impartial declares that
Imperialism and expansion are symp-
toms of national unhealth, and argues
that no nation which has ever played
the imperial role has endured, but has
seen itself shorn of provinces and pos
sessions as fast as the outlying prov
inceS grew strong enough to shake off
the yoke Of their subjugators. 1t COM
pares the conduct of the United States
in the Philippines to that of Great
Britain in South Africa, and ends by
predicting that all expanding nations
will be forced to prodigal expenditures
to maintain their hold on the new pos
sessions and so will become bankrupt.
This utterance from the chief liberal
organ is significant of the sentiments
of the members of that party, now
dominant here.
There is a marked display in the
press here, of sympathy with the Beers.
1t is reported that British Residents are
raising volunteer corps to join the
army in South Africa.
Ell Pals, the Catholic penny daily,
attacks the American missionaries,
charging them with disappearing
Mexico in their home organs. depicting
as barbarous the land where they la
Dor among the heather, and asks why
they do not publish articles showing
the great progress made here in rail-
ways, telegraph. education and manu-
featuring; but concludes that if they
did not make the American people be-
lieve Mexico to be STEPPED in paganism
and barbarisn, they could not secure
funds to maintain their missions The
religious question is at the bottom of
the clerical party opposition here to all
things American.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
BoERs CAPTURE FORTS.
Report That Big Naval Gun at Mod
der River Has Exploded.

Pretoria, Monday. Dec. 25.-General
Schalkberger reports under date of
Dec. % that trains are now running to
Colenso, indicating that the Beers have
built connection around Ladysmith.
General Cronje reports from the Mod
der river, Dec. "a. that the Beers cap
tured two British forts at thurman
Dec H. 1t is rumored that General
Methuen's big naval gun has exploded.
The Transvaal government has pro-
mulgated a new gold tax law by which
individuals and companies working
their own mines are taxed 80 per. cent
of the output, Willis mines worked by
the government pay 80 per cent
Suspended mines will pay 80 per cent
on their probable output calculated on
three months workings Reducing
works will pay 30 per cent Of their net
profits The law is retroactive to Oct.
10
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
TEACHERS CONCLUDE
THEIR BIC CONVENTION
Meeting Ended Yesterday Was the Best Attended in
History of Association.
Papers We're All Timely and Interesting and the Peda-
gogues Feel Very Well Repaid For Their VISIT

Utah's educators go to their homes
realizing that this has been the biggest,
brightest and best convention in the
history OF the state association. They
will come to Salt Lake again next De-
cember. for ii has been sufficiently
demonstrated that this is the heart of
the state, and that better results can
be obtained here than anywhere else
So when the matter of next years
meeting place arose yesterday after
noon, President Kerr and Professor
Brimhall. representing Logan and Pro-
vo. spoke for the capital. and the as
ISOLATION took to the proposition like a
duck to water.
Scholastic attainments" held it's own
along with disciplinary value and
mental gymnastics" yesterday, as
usual, and the convention came to a
fitting close at SIS in the evening, when
the audience of several hundred arose,
laid aside goggles and Greek, and sang
America" just plain America"
MY country, tbs of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
OF thee 1 sing"
With every move of the leaders ba-
ton, the voices seemed to grow in vol
ume, and, aided by the deep, resound-
ing accompaniment of the great pipe
organ, made the Assembly hall ring
from pit to dome.
1t was conceded last night that the
best thing of the convention was DR..
Jor6an's talk on THE Man With the
Hoe; that the best presiding officer
who presided was President Allison;
that all the other officers made big
hits; that Professor Eggertson of Pro-
vo got more sleep than anybody; that
Professor McCoys moustache would
accommodate a whole faculty; that
Professor Gillian was the tallest man
in the house; that Professor Stewart
was the shortest; that honors for the
handSomeSt man were about even be-
tween everybody, with Professor Evan
Stephens a close second; further. that
the biggest word the session brought
forth was "utilitarianism," and that
the popular idea that a school "marm"
consists of spectacles and a bullying
forehead is an infamous libel.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
Beers Fight With Kafirs.

Pretoria, Tuesday, Dec. 26( by way
of Lorenzo Marquee, Thursday, Dec.
2S.) apdant Swart reports from
the laager at Alowyrs Kop, near
Zoorust, that he had an engagement ON
Friday, Dec %, with Kaffirs in the
naighborhcod of Derdorpoort The
Kaffirs occupied a strongly fortified
ridge and were we'll prepared for
emergencies. After heavy fighting the
burghers captured the Kaffir position,
losing three killed and five wounded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
Water Scare at Chievely.

London, Dec. 3O.-The Times pub
fishes the following dispatch from
Chieveley camp, dated Dec. "a: par
ties of Beers approached today within
three miles of Chieveley Camp.
threatening our watering parties, who
are compelled to go some two miles.
owing to the scarcity of water. 1t is
reported that the Ladysmitf garrison
made a sortie ON Thursday and cap
tured a hill"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
BoERS SAVED THE FORT.
Repulsed Vigorous Attack By the
British at Mafeking.

Pretoria, Tuesday. Dec. &c (by way
of Lorenzo Marquee, Thursday, Dec.
rs. )-Commandanit Snyman reports as
follows from Molopo: 'On Monday
morning the enemy from Mafeking at
tackled one of our forts in force with
cannon and an armcred train and so
peIS.stently that there was fighting
right on the walls of the fort. But We
have retained our fort. The British
loss is reported at fifty-five.''
The other commands report: "All
quiet" with the exception of the usual
bombardment of Ladysmith. General
Meyer has recovered and returned to
the front
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
THE HERALD BULLETIN.

PAGE ONE.
Water Is Too Salty.
Year of Prosperity.
Fatal Wreck on Union Pacific.
Russians Helping Beers.
PAGE TWO.
Woman's Experience With the
Beers.
Kyle Makes a Flop.
Hayworth Is In Jail.
PAGE THREE.
PAGE FOUR
Editorial.
PAGE FIVE.
Division Is Unfair.
State News.
Crooks Found Guilty.
Says He Was Robbed.
PAGE SIX
Future of Dugway.
Last Call of the Year.
PAGE SEVEN.
Stocks In the East.
Weekly Trade Review.
PAGE EIGHT.
Only Fifty-three Shares Out.
Machines All Ready.
Miller Net Innocent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
BIC OFFER IS MADE
FOR TWO UTAH MINES
A. F. Holden Tenders $1,10OO0O Cash For the
Jordan and Telegraph Properties.
Manager NELL Says United States Company Has 100000
Tons of Ore in Sight, Valued at So, 500, 900.

on a controlling interest in the stock
at $40 per share, said option to run for
ten years. He would guarantee to
pay dividend of 81 per share on the
stock per annum. and furnish all the
money necessary to erect a smelter and
place the property in a position to pro-
duce regularly. With reference to the
property, one of the committee of three
said:
The brokers were impressed with the
fact that the real value of the property
was very great, one of the most i'm
portant points being that the ore is
almost Indispensable for use in combi-
nation with the other ores in which the
country adjacent to the mine a.boundS.
1t seems, therefore, certain that a group
of capitalists who may wish to es-
tablish a great smelling industry there
will be willing to pay a good figure for
the property.
May Be Rio Grande Western.
"Of course the establishment of such
an industry will be of material value
to the Rio Grande railroad, whose line
runs to Bingham, and while | do not
state that this company will secure the
property, / am confident that the Of
foials of that road are cognizant of
its value and will make an effort to
secure it."
On the street a lot of United States
was sold at private sale for SO. and
lated SO was bid. An offer of $12 a
share for a large block was refused.
The Transcript, in reciew. of the
past year in Boston mining stocks, says
there has been a decrease of S45, 00a,-
900 in the value of shares since a year
ago, and a decrease of $500, DOC, 900
from the high point of this year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-30
Fighting at stromberg.

Cape Town, Thursday, Dec. ga
dispatch from Cradock reports heavy
firing in the direction of Stormberg. It
81 supposed this is connected with
General Gatacre's attempt to reopen
communication with the Indwe GOLFERS.