Arizona republican., 1899-01-16
GOSSIP OF
 WASHINGTON

Washington, Jan. 15.-Com0 rolle
 of the Currency Dawes has started : little investigation with Q view to find ing out how much bank cheeks circu- late as money. He intends to find, i possible, how many inducements ,he ordinary check carries on the ave- age This will show, fairly accurately, the number Of hands the check passes l through before it is redeemed, and will indicate the amount of work done by the check as a credit instrument. He will be assisted in this and in the for mutation of other similar statistics by Prof. Gaines of Yale college.
 
 To Pat Ford, convict, and to the city Iof Omaha. the late war was blessing. When the war broke out Pat had just secured his liberty by breaking jajiI He had hardly begun Icn a twenty-ye2r term when he accomplished this feat, and the Omaha police were disgusted. Ford was known to them as a ba1 man. Fer years he had kept the city in ter TOT. He was a fighter, a stick up man, an expert cracksmal, and there was never a TOW that Pat Ford was not in. The police had arrested him scores of times, and he had been DdC he always go1 out in time to mix up in the next trouble.
 When Ford's escape was learned the polic6 examined their revOlvers and w'aE'5 on the hur- for him. They secured the city and the state, and the police Of other cities secured them; but in vain.
 When the war was over and the navy began letting sailors go home, Pat Ford appeared in the uniform Of the Marblehead. He had enlisted as g gun ner, and received special cJmmenGl- ton from the secretary of the navy for herOism iE action. His case was brought to the attention Cf the prasi- dens and he was t1ardonsd, and is ROW serving under Dewey at Manila.
 
 Representative Hit has on his Ii- brary table 9 paper-weight which he values highly as the only one of it's kind in existence. It is made of a sec tion of the teIegraphic cable from Ma nila which leads to Madrid, and was cut by Dewey after it had carried f5w alarming and inaccurate reports to Spain. The mencnto was presented to M9. Hit by the captain of the steam ship Gaelic, upon which he returned from Honolulu. The captain received it from an official Of the cable company
 
 An enterprising firm in Washington has adopted a sch eTne calculated to in- crease is trade among people who are fond of beer, out not willing to adver- tise the fact that they drink it in their homes. This lo1al brewery advertises it's brand in the street cars. with the announcement that tWelty-four bottles will be delivered at your houze for S1.20 in unlettered wagons"
 Lovers of animals, wherever located, will be pleased with an item which comes to the state department from Consul Ellsworth of Puerto Cabello, | Venezuela, as to the shipment of cattle to Cuba. T am glad, he says. to re- port that the way Of leading cattle into steamers by hcisting thsm by rope and pulley, the pulley hccked into .cpe around the base of the horns os the !. Ininlal allowing ct9 whole weight 10 be . leld up by the horns, has been abal- icned- All the stsamer5 now used in he cattle trade have ports large ! enough to allow Of driving the cattle Z through them. The first steamers ! ent t0 Cuba lots in transit from ten 10 hirty-eight head. I think the cause of he death of the majority was the in f urics received 5y being loaded in the ! manner above described. Since the . oading by hCisting was abandoned the r oss of cattle in transit has besn very mall,
 A government beer ard wina tastar 5 position sought to 'ba created by |
 bill now being urged by the agricul- ural department before the committee ,j . This is only enc feature of the bill, lt which is really 2 pure-food measure T t aims to have all foods labeled ex- ctly Ter what they are. Pure wniskey i must be so marked, and if it is blended i ne lapel must say So. Any adul era { Ions I1 beer arc made by this law a -lolatlon of federal statute, and the ame is true of flour, spices, sugar. m1- asses, baking powders, butter, cham l '2gne and ether articles of cCnsump- ion. To enforce such 3 statute the government would have 10 establish a ; ureau, prescribe standards and tests nd appoint expert tasters and chem these the bill also provides ( or. Chief Chemist Wiley Of the agri- s ultural department appeared before | he committee last week and spoke in lvor of the Dill Representative Mann [ Chicago Is not inclined to favor the s i'll, and, after getting an admission z rom the chemist that he never drank ( ger and didn't know one brand of ( -hiskey from another, informed him C 1at pure whiskey was an unpalatable I s well as a dangerous thing to drink. g -e said the sams was true Of beer, and 2 0ntended that butteIire was as palat- ) Dle and healthy as butter. NJ Mann 2 links the government will have it's J 3nds full if it sets out to make all ! .OrekeePers tell the truth. $