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The evening times., 1899-08-15
WORTHLESS ENGLISH DRAFTS.
An Alleged Plan to Flood the Mar
kets With Them.

Boston, Aug. 15.-An alleged conspiracy
to flood this city, New York, and other
cities with worthless English sight drafts
has been brought to light as a result of
the arrest of Frank E. Holiday, of Tur-
ner's Falls, Mass. Holiday was released
in the local police court yesterday on a
charge of forging the name of the firm
of James Wilson & Co., of London. but
was rearrested by the United States Post
Office authorities for Illegally using the
mails. Later he was held under 81 900
bonds for further hearing on Thursday
before United States Commissioner Fiske.
1t is asserted that Holiday tried to pass
WORTHLESS draft on the firm of Searle &
Co., Paine. Weber & Co., c. H. Cameron
& Co., and F. A. Rogers, all of this city.
Holiday was arrested at Turner's Falls
When examined by Chief Inspector Watts
he showed number of letters from VIII
son & Co., in which Holiday was in
struoted to purchase rubber stamp used
for accepting drafts, bearing the name of
the firm. Wilson & Co. were to have a
commission on all transactions. When
questioned Holiday admitted that the pa
per was worthless. Chief Watts states that
he is reasonably certain that a large guam
tity Of this paper has been circulated in
New York.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
war, and to hope that 1t may be brought
to close, and harmony restored before it
shall be too late.
The Murderous Assault on Labori

The Murderous Assault on LabOri.
The more the attempt to assassinate
Maitre Labori is analysed the palmer it
appears that it was the result of delib-
crate plot on the part of the anti-Dreyfus-
ards to aid Mercier and others implicated
in the crimes of Henry, Esterhazy, Du
Patty de Clam and the other general stan
conspirators. 1t is evident that the inner
circle of the defence is cursed with trail
tors, or at least traitor, for otherwise
the assassin and his accomplices would
hardly have known that Maitre Labori
carried in his pocket package of papers
which 1t was his intention to spring on
Mercier, in cross examination, and which
he believed would destroy that individual
out of hand. II is now stated that after
Labori fell he was Immediately attended
by two sympathetic passers-by, who
promptly relieved him Of the documents in
question and disappeared.
The complete ease with which the would
be assassin managed TO make his escape,
and the perfunctory maner in which the
military part of the chase was conducted,
suggest that there was no great desire on
the part of 'larmee" to capture him. 1t
is quite generally believed in Rennes and
Paris that the murder plot was intended
to include Picquart and Dreyfus himself.
Why the former, who was walking with
Labori, did not also receive bullet is
something of a mystery. His value TO the
defence, and, hence, his menace to the
other side, made it quite as important to
get him out of the way as the man who
was shot. The fact that the lawyer was
selected as the victim, while on his way
TO make thoroughly prepared legal as
sault upon General Mercier, excuses the
suspicion that the crime was in that Of
fcers interest if he did not inspire it. 1t
is theory which the friends of the former
War Minister will have hard work to ex-
plain away.
The effect of the outrage on the pros
poets of the accused, cannot yet be esti-
mated, but it must be favorable and per-
haps greatly so. The connection between
the event, and the assumed interests of
high civil and military personages, more
or less directly accused Of completely with
the Dreyfus persecution. is too obvious not
to cause it to react against the prosecu-
tion. Nowhere else in the world are people
as prone to jump to conclusions as in
France, and the shooting of Maitre Labori
points TO an inevitable one. There can be
no doubt now of the acquittal of Captain
Dreyfus( IL he and the republic are al
lowed TO live long enough for the court
martial to complete its duty. But that
may be very serious and sinister 'ifi"
The evening times., 1899-08-15
WEST POINT FEARS INVASION
Guarded Against Visits From Cadets
Dismissed I'm Disgrace.

West Point, N Y, Aug. 15.-Unusual
vigilance on the part of the authorities
Of the United States Military Academy has
been displayed for several nights. 1t is
said that the extra precautions taken in
guarding the Academy buildings and all
approaches leading to the fort are the out
come OF threats made by several dishon-
orably discharged cadets.
Reports to the effect that one Of the
former cadets had been seen in the neigh
borhood reached the authorities last week.
Extra guards were Immediately stationed
on the roads and avenues. Orders were
issued to halt all strangers and permit
only such to pass as could give satisfac-
tory explanation of their business here.
In state of war the vigilance could hard
ly be more noticeable.
Cavalrymen, armed with Krag- Jorgen-
sen rifles and we'll filed cartridge belts.
patrol the back roads. and a detail from
the Engineer Corps nightly guards the ca
det barracks and the officers quarters.
The watch will not be relaxed so long as
grounds exist for the belief that any OF
the former cadets are lurking in the neigh
borhood. Should any OF them appear on
the post they will be arrested.
Nearly year ago, after careful investi-
cation, the military authorities ordered
several cadets TO explain away certain
charges against them or in the event that
they could not do so, to choose between
trial by court-martial or immediate res
ignation.
Those cadets implicated, and against
whom the superintendent had acquired
much condemnatory evidence, handed in
their designations. AT the time it was
reported that confessions accompanied the
designations. At any rate, there was no
doubt in the minds of the officials that the
accused men were guilty. They were sum-
marily and dishonorably dismissed from
the Academy.
Approval OF the sentence was speedily
forthcoming. President Mckinley tele-
graphed his sanction after receiving a re-
port by wire on the matter. The dismiss
ed men Immediately left the post and not
until within few days has one of them
been seen near here.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
SHOOTING ALASKAN RAPIDS.
PeriIOus Trips of Travellers on the
Road to Klondike.

Franklin, Pa, August 15.-E. T. Steven
tiers from his uncle, the Rev. NJ. E. Koonce,
in which the latter gives an account OF his
adventures in reaching the Alaska gold
fields and some interesting information
concerning the Klondike. The following
extracts are taken from the first letter
which is dated Banks of Fifty-Mile River
June 25, 1889" The writer says:
"A tramway starts from here TO Portage
around Miles Canyon and White Horse Rap
ids. We lightened our boat by sending 600
pounds by the tramway at rate OF IL
cents per pound, and with the rest shot the
canyon and rapids.
1t was a grand and somewhat terrible
experience. Miles Canyon is worse than
the White Horse Rapids except that there
are no rocks in the channel. / would not
attempt TO describe our wild rush through
the surging, foaming water chute We
made mile in two minutes and the othe.
three miles in eight minutes The only
water that is anything like it is the Whirl-
pool Rapids at Niagara. 1t was exhilarat-
ing and exciting in the extreme. There is
practically no night now. The twilight o:
the evening meets that of the morning and
there is no darkness. The sun sets at IL
and arises at o'clock. / forgot to men
tion the mosquitoes. They are frightfully
abundant. 1t would be impossible to ex-
aggerate the pest of them. We have TO
| wear netting over our faces and gloves on
our hands,
The second letter is dated Dawson, July
4. 1t says: There are $1,000 TO 10000
people here now. Times generally are bad,
| no employment for workingmen and every
hat gR;riuQ U1OVin =
down the river to other diggings; oilers.
| however, are coming In to take their
places. Flour is selling now at So TO IS
per 5o-pound sacks; sugar, 80 10 40 cents
per pound; bacon, 80 cents; whisky, 80
cents per drink
The evening times., 1899-08-15
A SHORT PEACH CROP.
Harsh Weather, the YellOws. and
Curculio Reduce the Yield.

The peach crop is lighter this season
inston fruit dealers. In Delaware and what
is known as the eastern shore in Maryland,
the crop has suffered most. In New Castle
! and Kent counties, DEL, the growers say
the peach industry is almost run out, ow-
ing to the yellows, a contagious disease OF
the peach tree. On the eastern shore of
Maryland, in Cecii county, also in Kent
county and upper Queen Anne counties, the
crop is damaged and the trees permanently
injured. In these three counties few or
chards only have good crops, but the lower
counties are tolerably clear OF yeliows up
to this time. There will not be more than
an eighth of the usual crop in all the ter
ritory named, and consequently the far
mers are getting double the usual price
| for the fruit. The crop in New Jersey Is
| light partly because of the severe winter.
The spring drought caused the fruit 10 d.op
| badly.
The disease called the yellows has been
known to peach growers for one hundre
years, first appearing in this country In
Pennsylvania, and then travelling south
| ward 1T has only travelled 100 miles in
as many years. said well-known peach
grower. The only proper way to deal
with the trees affected by II is to take
| them up and burn them root and branch.
| This all enterprising and intelligent far
| mers do as soon as the disease develops.
| By using this method many farmers have
| not lost more than one or two trees TO the
one thousand in ten years. In addition to
being damaged by the yellows, the crop has
| been diminished by the multiplication O
| the curculio. The farmers, since peach
| raising has been less profitable, have been
turning their attention more to pear-rais-
| ing and to smaller fruits. In a few years
pears will largely supersede peaches"
The evening times., 1899-08-15
Excited Politics i'm KentucI

The political situation in the Blue Grass
State is not calculated to encourage thoss
who hope for Democratic harmony within
its borders. There is reason to believe that
the anti-Goebel convention which is 10 meet
at Lexington tomorrow will be an event OF
ominous importance to the regular candi-
date and organization. 1t will tend 10 force
an issue, the outcome of which NAV be the
withdrawal Of Goebel, as an alternative
TO the certain surrender of Kentucky 10 the
Republicans.
How far We should place confidence in
the reports and estimates of the boilers
strength, which, largely, originate in
anti-Goebel quarters, it is impossible to
say. But it is plain that the rebellion
against the Louisville ticket is serious
one, and has spread fast and furiously
throughout the State. A minor revolt
might have been encountered without fatal
results, in view of the fact that the Ken
lucky Republican camp is divided, and its
discontented element might perhaps have
Offset the disaffection on the other side:
but the present bolt is of too wholesale a
character TO be ignored, or not 10 be re-
garded as a most fatal movement.
In case the rival factions are unable to
reach any understanding, the Republican
State ticket will be elected in the autumn
without the least doubt. That would put
the machinery of the Goebel election law
In the hands OF the Republican managers;
and that, in turn, would give them an ad-
vantage in the Presidential fight, that
wosid settle the fate of Democracy in
Kentucky in 1900. Democrats everywhere
have reason to feel interested in the family
The evening times., 1899-08-15
DEMOCRATS LEAVE SARATOGA.
Leaders to Confer Again I'm New
York ON Tuesday.

Leaders to Confer Again I'm New
York ON Tuesday.
Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 15.-Many Of the
prominent Southern Democrats who have
been here have left. and others will leave
in few days. 1t has been decided to hold
the formal conference for which the dis
cussions thus far have been merely pre-
liminary in New York, instead of Sara
toga.
This conference has been appointed for
Friday evening of this week, at the Hoff-
man House. Judge Joseph j. Willett, Of
Alabama, the prime mover in the organi-
zation of the conference, has wired that
he will be present in New York, and that
large number of prominent Democrats
from all the Gulf States will also be
there.
One Of the active spirits of the move
ment said yesterday that the reason for
the change Of meeting place was that
Richard Croker would reach here on
Wednesday, and 1t was desired to avoid
the idea that Tammany would influence
the deliberations.
Many OF them are very bitter against
MIR. Croker on account Of his flop" 20 an
ti-expansion. One Of them, Major Henry
Ames, of st. Louis, said: II believe Gro
ker was scared into his change OF base.
When Bryan was in New York last Feb
ruary Croker was asked to call upon him.
He curtly refused, saying that Bryan cut
no ice Soon afterward he came out Wig
orously in favor of expansion, denouncing
Chairman Stone for contrary views"
Former Representative William E. Eng
lish, of Indiana, pleased the Van Wyck
men by reporting that the talk in favor
of Van Wyck in his State was becoming
very strong.
Former Judge Van Wyck left this even
ing to visit his daughter, who is spending
the summer at Pawling, Duchess county.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Van Wyck.
Several personal friends and his brother,
Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck, accompanied
him to the train.
Before leaving the Grand Union former
Judge Van Wyck had a long talk with
Freeman Raisin, of Baltimore, who had
just come from consulting with former
Senator Arthur P. German, at the United
States Hotel. Neither of them would dis
cuss the conference, but it was considered
highly significant.
Judge Willett desires to send half a
million more copies of Van Wyck's anti
trust speech through the South, and in a
despatch from here yesterday said, Tell
our friends the new movement is making
great headway in the South
The evening times., 1899-08-15
DEsT1TUf1oN AT PHoEBUs.
Residents Call ON the United Chart
ties for Food.

Newport News, Va, Aug. 15.-Fiye hun
dred residents of Phoebus called at the
headquarters of the United Charities to-
day and asked for food. This destitution
is direct result of the yellow fever
scare and the quarantine Gordon which has
been thrown around Phoebus and the Sol
diers' Home to prevent spread of the
infection. Phoebus, which is a little town
of 1900 inhabitants, has in the neighbor-
hood Of 1G0 barrooms.
Since the old soldiers have been penned
up on the reservation business has been
bad in the little town, of which the vete-
ran trade is the mainstay The United
Charities board is backed up by the Gov
ernment, and 1t is not thought that 1t will
be necessary to call for any outside aid in
order to relieve such suffering as exists
1t is thought that the quarantine against
Phoebus will be lifted some time this
week. Then the unfortunate inhabitants
of the place will be given an opportunity
to get out and make living.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
The indian PonuIation.

The Secretary of the Interior has re-
Gently caused to be prepared statistics
concerning the various Indian tribes The
number of Indians in each tribe is given
as follows:
Blackfeet Agency. Montana, 2O22; Cheyenne
and Arapahoe Agency, Oklahoma. lob Arapa-
South Dakota, 1857; Colorado River Agency,
Arizona, 1888; Covile Agency, Washington, g.
439; Crow Agency, Montana, 2.003; Crow Creek
Agency, South Dakota, 1,06I; DEVILS Lake Agen-
cy, North Dakota, l,0i6; Digger Indians, Cali
fornia. living reservation under a farmer,
no statistics; Eastern Cherokee Agency, North
Carolina 1851; Flathead Agency. Montana. l.
9os; Fort Apache Agency, Arizona, l,S3S; Fort
Belknap Agency, Montana, 1890; Fort Berthold
Agency, North Dakota, LAS; Fort Hall Agency,
Idaho, LAG; Fort Peck Agency, Montana, l.
$50; Grande Ronde Agency, Oregon, 39s; Green
Bsy Agency, Wisconsin, 3,s29; Hoopa Agency
California, llss; lIualapai Agency, Arizona, $50;
kiowa Agency, Oklahoma, 3,s33; Klamath Agen-
cy, Oregon, 1,G12; La Ponte Agency. Wisconsin,
4eS2; Lemhi Agency. Idaho, SOB; Lower Brule
Agency, South Dakota. 914 Mackinac Agency
Michigan. 1887; Medawakanton Sioux, Minneso-
ia, 967; Mescalero Agency, New Mexico 444; Mis-
sion-Rule Agency, California, 3.S4s: Navajo and
Moquis Pueblo Agency. Cal.,. %, 14l; Neah Bay
Agency, Washington, 135; Nevada Agency, Ne
vada, 5G2; New York Agency. New York. 5,31S;
Nez Perces Agency, Idaho, 1,65s; Omaha and
Winnebago Agency, Nebraska, 1915; Usage Agen-
cy, Oklahoma. l.s72; Pima Agency Arizona, =
$40; Pine Ridge Agency. South Dakota, G,456;
Ponca, Pawnee. Otoe. and Oakland Agency, Ok.
lahoma, l,d3l; Pottawatomie and Gret Neniaha
Agency, Kansas. 1,152; Pueblo and Jicarilla
Agency, New Mexico, 1884; Puyallup Agency,
Washington. 1,766; Quapaw Agency, Indian Ter
ritory, 1.460; Rosebud Agency, South Dakota,
1851; Round Valley Agency, California 6el: Sac
and Fox Agency, Iowa. 3Ss: Sac and Fox Agen-
cy, Oklahoma, S,l05: San Carlos Agency, Arizo-
na. S.9l6; Santee Agency, Nebraska, l,742; Sem
inoles in Florida SIS; Shoshone Agency Wyom-
ing, 1,611; Siletz Agency, Oregon, 4s7; Sisseton
Agency, South Dakota, 1,s71; Tulalip Agency.
Washington, 1.455; Uintah Agency Utah, LII: :
Umatilla Agency, Oregon, 1OI3 White Earth
Agency, Minnesota, 1888; Yakima Agency, Wash.
ington, 1,9O9; Yankton Agency, South Dakota,
I 112s
The evening times., 1899-08-15
VAN WICK ENDORSES GoEBEL
He Considers the Opposition to Him
Cnrnnrefinn Mnva

He Considers the Opposition to Him
Corporation Move.
Louisville, KY. Aug. 15.-Augustus Van
Wyck, in discussing the Kentucky situa-
tion with a prominent Louisville man two
days ago at Saratoga, had this to say:
Il see the fight in Kentucky this year
is that of the people against corpora
ton. 1t is simply another Louisiana Lot
terry case that the people down there had
20 fight for years before they could throw
the yoke off their necks. 1t will be the
same thing in Kentucky, only there the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad is the
Louisiana Lottery.
why, that situation in Kentucky sizes
itself to all outsiders. 1t is the clearest
case l ever saw of corporation bent on
putting men in Office that 1t can abso-
lutely control and using its power to keep
out of Office those that will not obey its
commands. This is perfectly clear to me,
and / will be surprised if the people do
not resent at the polls such an unwar-
ranted and courageous interference with
their rights as citizens"
In this interview Mr.. Van Wyck simply
took the position assumed by Goebel and
his followers.
The evening times., 1899-08-15

An interesting and exciting story comes
from West Point 1t appears that ca
det who was dishonorably dismissed from
the Academy year ago, has been seen
around the premises within a week. The
guards have been doubled. Cavalry, arm
ed with Krag-Jorgensen blunderbusses,
nightly patrol the lonely roads, of the vi
cinity, shivering with fear. Where is
Sampson? Why DOES not the President
send him up the Hudson TO shell the woods
and capture the enemy? There might be
prize-money in that boys trousers.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
LABOR IN HAWAII.
The Contract Law Does Not Apply to
the Islands.

the Islands.
The contract labor law, 1t was stated at
the Treasury Department today does noc
apply to contract labor imported into the
Hawaiian Islands, but does apply to any
and all contract labor brought to the
United States from Hawaii because the
citizens of those islands are still aliens
The only United States law in the immi-
grafton question in force in Hawaii is the
Chinese Exclusion Act.
A Treasury official said this morning that
since January last between 10000 and 3d.
600 contract laborers had been imported
into Hawaii. This large importation was
made no doubt in anticipation of remedial
legislation by Congress the coming winter.
These contract laborers, ii is asserted, are
treated worse than slaves. There is hardly
any question but that Congress will speed
lily pass an act abolishing this system of
really contract slave labor The contracts
1t is stated. are for three years and durin g
that period the laborer y virtually a slave,
for if he refuses to work he is cast into
prison.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
THE CENSUS OF CUBA.
The Work Is Expected to Begin in
September.

The Cuban census supervisor and Mr..
Olmsted, director Of the census for Cuba
are in daily consultation with Inspector
General Sanger, under whose supervision
the Cuban census will be taken. 1t was
stated this morning that the Cuban super
visors are fast familiariZing themselves
with the details of the work required OF
them, and that by the middle Of next week
they will be prepared to leave for Cuba
accompanied by Director Olmsted
1t is thought the work of counting the
population cannot begin before early in
September, as it will take some little time
for supervisors to instruct the small army
of enumerators to be appointed. If fairly
good weather prevails in the island it is
possible that the census of Cuba can be
completed by the list of next January.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
Made Speeches. by Lightning.

Williamsport. Pa. Aug. 15.-Mrs. James
B. Denworth is just recovering her voice
after trying experience. Blinded by a
flash of lightning in Saturdays storm she
felt peculiar sensation. When she at
tempted to tell her family she found that
she had lost the power of speech Her
brother, Aaron Friedell. was paralyzed by
the same fash. The house was not STRUCK.
and how 1t all happened is mystery.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
Altar of Roses.
(From the London Standard. J

The rose harvest in Bulgaria and the distilla-
tion of oil of roses are now completed. The
quantity obtained this year is about 20O,000
grammes less than last years yield, the decrease
being due to the drpGtb. Estimating the value
OF a gramme OF oil Of roses al two and half
francs, this means turnover OF half a millie n
francs The price Of altar of rose has risen
rapidly this year, and in all The large towns of
Europe the demand is increasing. Stocks, there
fore, will soon be exhausted. In Bulgaria the en-
tire quantity at present stored is estimated at
only about 50. 900 grammes.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
Roosevelt in the Ohio Campaign

Governor Roosevelt will open the Ohio
campaign for the Republicans at Akron,
Summit county, September 23 Akron is
the famous Western Reserve, and Summit
is one of the closest counties politically
in the State. George X. Nash, the nomi-
nee for governor, will be present and fol-
low Roosevelt. This fact has revived the
report here that Roosevelt will be McKin-
leys running mate in the campaign of
1900, and that Hobart, while perfectly sat
isfactory to the party leaders, is to step
aside on account of the condition of Lis
health, not because of opposition from any
source
The evening times., 1899-08-15
Factions Among Firemen.

College Park, Nd, Aug. 1.-Two factions
have sprung up in the volunteer fire CON-
pany of Hyattsville, with Mr.. George Burns,
who is at present chief of that department,
at the head of one and Mr.. George Dorr,
who was chosen to be the chief at a public
meeting held at the organization of the
company, at the head Of the other. The
dispute is over the control of proposed
picnic, and causes much local excitement.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
The First bale mt Norfolk.

Norfolk Va. Aug. 15.-The first bale
of new cotton of the season arrived here
yesterday over the Norfolk and Carolina
Railroad, consigned to Eure. Gregory G
Co. 1t came from Marlboro county, S. c.,
and was graded strict middling. 1t sold
for 5-16 cents. Rodgers, McCabe & Co.,
exporters and spinners agents, being the
purchasers.
The evening times., 1899-08-15
CURRENT HUMOR.
A Common Kind.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
Mamma, is there a rug they call the proph-
cts prayer rug?'
Il have read something about it, dear
''It's Just the opposite kind of rug from the
one we've got in the hall, amt it?''
''The one in the hall?''
"Yes; every time papa stumbles over it he
saws dammit" :"