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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-24
Streaming PRIVATE
LETTERS.
CAUGHT
Arrest of Postmaster at Wilkes
barre.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, March o.
Edward +. Bogart, Postmaster of
Willkesbarre, was arrested today,
charged with tampering with the Unit
States mails. About two months ago
several complaints were lodged with
the postal authorities at Washington
that mail was disappearing and when
received bore evidence of having been
opened by steaming process. The
postal authorities subsequently de-
tailed two secret Service men on the
case under orders of Inspector Cor
man. Last night after the mail of
the Baltimore and Washington express
arrived and had been distributed, Bo-
CART entered the office and was seen
TO take several letters from the boxes
and then go into his private office and
carefully draw the curtain.
few minutes later detective who
was acting as clerk turned out an
electric light in the rear end of the
Office, this being a signal to two other
secret service men who were stationed
outside. The man on the inside care
fully admitted his associates, one of
whom was Hugh German. The two
men went at once to Bogart's private
ONCE and without the ceremony of
knocking entered and found the post
master seated at his desk, on which
lay the letters addressed to promi-
nent business men in this city, and
all of them opened. The postmaster
was surprised and not little excited
for a few moments, but soon recovered
his composure. He was later escorted
to his home by the secret service men,
where a warrant for his arrest was
subsequently served. He was taken
before United States Commissioner
Hahn, where he gave bail in $4,000 for
his appearance later.
Mr.. Bogart, besides being editor of
the Evening Leader of this city, is a
member of a large number of lodges
and for the past ten or twelve years
has been an active member of the
baseball association, a brother of the
late Joseph X. Bogart, gentleman
who was prominent in Democratic
county and State politics and at the
time of his death was Postmaster.
Postmaster Bogart would not be in
terviewed, but in his paper, the Even
ing Leader, tonight, appears the fol-
lowinga
There are always two sides to a
question and when there are three or
four fellows, and one or two in par
ticular, clamoring for a political Of
flee and hungry for the emoluments
attached thereto, there are sure to be
schemes worked and plans formed to
entrap the incumbent, cause his re-
moval and punish him otherwise, even
if nothing further than the annoyance
and chagrin that the accomplishment
of their devilish underhand work i'm
poses. When the diabolical schemers
are fully shown up and their nefarious
trickery exposed there is question as
to which side will furnish the raciest
reading"
The infer ence to be drawn from the
above is that Bogart imagined himself
the victim of a conspiracy to GUST him
from the. Posimastership, and in order
to disc over til conspirators he opened
letters adore ssed to Republican poll
ticians.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-24

Persons requiring tombstones
should apply to Fred. Harrison who
has choice lot of new designs on
view.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1899-03-24
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Honolulu Messenger Service de-
liver messages and packages. Tele-
phone. 378.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
Faction Threatens the State.

The legislature has come to the parting of the ways. It can let political progress hold it's even way under the rule of the demo- cratic party by permitting the people to vote in July convention" or "no con vention," or it can throw the state into the confusion of faction and party demorali- zation by repeating the convention bill which Is now democratic doctrine. If the convention bill be permitted to stand, the people, guided by the democratic party, will dispose of the convention question, and all will accept the result. The democratic party will remain intact, and there will be peace and prosperity throughout the state. Democratic principles and democratic solid ity have heretofore carried the state safely through all trials, and we cannot believe that any democrat m the legislature de- sires to see the integrity of the splendid old party impaired in any manner.
 The repeal of the convention bill means that faction Is to be inaugurated in the party and in the state. It means that party discipline and party strength are to be weakened, possibly overthrown. It means that bitterness and unrest and endless con- tentions are to be parts of our everyday lives. In support of the convention bill
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
All Schools of Music Represented.

At the festival this week-Friday and Saturday-the people of Birmingham will hear a great variety of music, old and new, sacred and secular, classic and romantic, instrumental and vocal. Haydns sub lirnest oratorio, "The Creation," will fill out the second part of the first nights pro- gramme. At the matinee Beethoyen's greatest symphony, save one or two, will be heard. At the same performance one of Liszt's most popular orchestral works is to be rendered, while at both the mati nee and the Saturday night performance Wagner, the greatest master since Bee thoven, will have a permanent place. Of the half dozen famous composers now liv ing two of them, Goldmark and Greig, are represented on the programmes.
 This festival will be a financial success; there can be no doubt about that. And it's success will mean another festival next May. But no matter how many festivals Birmingham may have in the future it will in The Agc-Herald's opinion, be well-nigh impossible to present programmes more attractive than those published yesterday morning.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
THE BEEF INQUIRY.

From the Philadelphia Record. The Wade court of inquiry has put It's report in the hands of the president. It is understood that tAe court vindicates:
 The refrigerated beef;
 The beef contractors;
 The canned roast beef; and
 The war department. It mildly censures:
 The commissary general of subsistenceI
 General Miles; and
 Officers who testified in his favor. And it put the weight of blame for all miss carriage upon:
 Tropical heat.
 The commissary general of subsistence is blamed for buying too much of the canned roast beef. General Miles and other ofh- cers are blamed for not reporting the bad quality of rations furnished the troops. It is found that the sickness of the troops was not in any great degree due to bad beef. The only thing that comes in for un- disguised condemnation is:
 Tropical heat.
 What the administration will undertake to do with this particular offender is not suggested. It is hinted that Secretary Al- ger will insist on dismissing General Miles as the most appropriate means of vindica- tion. u
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
VACANCIES IN THE SENATE,

From the New York World.
 There will be four vacancies in the next United States senate, the result of dead locks in as many different states, a condi- tion never before known. The legislatures Of Delaware, Pennsylvania and California are republican,; that of Utah is democratic
 Therefore, the republicans are the chief sufferers, but notwithstanding that, have a clear majority of IS over a combina- ton of democrats, fusionists, populists and silver republicans. So they have no cause for concern.
 The latest deadlock, that in Pennsylvania, is so recent that the causes are widely known. The decent republicans have re- yolted against Quay's corruption. His ap- pointment to succeed himself by the gov- ernor is pretty sure to fall through, be- cause the senate cannot consistently con- firm him.
 Utah failed to elect senator during the sixty days session ending last February A. w. McCune, democrat, who started in with nine votes, finally had thirty votes, two short of election. A charge on the floor of the house by Representative Low, a re- publican. that he was offered S1 800 for his vote, ended McCune's vote-getting. So Utah will have only one senator during the next two years.
 The Delaware legislature deadlock was caused by the effort to elect J. Edward Addicks, familiarly known as Gas" Ad- dicks. Representative Latham publicly charged an Addicks leader with offering $4,0O0 for his vote There are two other bribery cases to be tried growing out of the fight
 The deadlock inaCalifornia resulted from the candidacy of U. 8. Grant, Jr., and D. M Burns. The latter is a millionaire, who once fled the state when charged with mall feasance in office. He returned, stood trial and was acquitted. Many charges of brib- cry were made, and Howard Wright re- signed as speaker after an investigation of the charge that he had accepted money from Grants agents.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03

effect. This report has alarmed the war department. It is mainly because of 1t that Secretary Alger has gone to Chicago to look into the canal project. The depart- ment has already informed the canal com- pany that it must put in a gate al the en- trance of the canal, and that permission to let lake water into the canal must be obtained from congress. The canal com- pany has been counting upon getting this permission from the department. It had been arranged that the first inflow of water from the lake into the canal was to occur October g, which is the anniversary of the great Chicago fire. This programme can not be carried out In view of the present attitude of the war department. Congress will not meet until December, and it will be some time after the assembling of con- gIess before 1t will be possible to get the question Of opening the canal up for con- sideration.
 If the canal should lower the level of the lake great damage would be done to all the ports on the lake, on the Canadian IS well as on the American side. Canada would, of course, at once protest, and serious international question would be the result. Secretary Alger during his stay in Chicago, will hear all the parties concerned in the canal enterprise, and will use every effort to get the opinion of outside engl- eers as to the result on the lake level or the opening of the canal He will then be in position to make recommendations to con- gress. In view of the vast amount of money expended in the construction of the canal, it is probable that congress will agree to the opening of the canal gate only on condition that as soon as it Is found that 1t lowers the lake to any appreciable ex- tent the gate shall be closed. The canal has a capacity of taking in millions of gallons of water a minute tremendous inflow is necessary in order to create the needed current in the canal. The engineers who have predicted that this immense ab- sorption of water will immediately affect the lake level have made no definite com- putations. It is doubtful if any could be made. Practical experience will be the only test. That the United States govern ment could not afford to allow the con- tlnued operation of the canal if the lake level were lowered to any appreciable ex- tent is obvious.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
SLEEP SERVED OUT TO HOUSES.

W. L. Alden in Pearson's Magazine.
 Recently, while lying awake in sleep ing car, I thought long and earnestly on the subject of insomnia. Every one must have noticed that there are mornings when every inmate of the house announces at the breakfast table that he or she was unable to sleep wink.
 I have passed nights in country places, where the air was perfectly pure, and not a sound could be heard, and I have toss sd sleeplessly on my bed until morning, when half dozen other people, coming down to the breakfast room with red eyes, have mentioned that they too had passed a sleep less night Then, again, have Slept sound ly in the roar of Broadway, with party of musical young people torturing a piano in the next room until 1 o'clock in the morn- frg. Facts such as these have led me to believe that sleep is neither induced nor withheld by extraneous things. You sleep because a sufficient amount of sleep has been served out to house or the room in which you happen to be. Or you lie awake because the hours or room is insuficently provided with sleep.
 It was long ago discovered by an cmi- nent scientific man that every place has a certain fixed amount of weather served out to it at the beginning of the solar year. It is entitled to so much heat and so much
 
 reckless and fond of warm weather, it uses up its heat too soon, and Is therefore compelled to fall back upon its cold weather earlier than it's neighbors Its in- habitants then remark that winter Is be- ginning unusually early, the real truth be- ing that they have squandered their heat and are paying the penalty of extrava- gance.
 In all probability sleep is similarly served out to all residences, and it remains for the inmates to decide how they will use it. If a man uses his sleep profusely and recklessly, he will of course, have to suf- fer in due time from insomnia If for ex- ample. begin at New Years day to sleep nine hours every night and one hour every afternoon, I shall find at the end of a few months that have quite used up the years supply of sleep belonging to my house, and will be compelled to go sleep- less for the rest of the year unless change my residence for one where there is plen- tiful supply of sleep: This theory explains why, when person cannot sleep in his own house, he frequently finds himself perfectly we'll able to sleep in house at the seaside or in the mountains. It is a mistake to suppose that change of air pro- notes sleep. When a person is said to benefit by change of air it merely means that he has removed from house in which the years supply of sleep was exhausted for the use of the inmates. This is the true explanation of the mystery of insomnia. You cannot squander your sleep in riotous maps and still have enough to secure for you peaceful nights.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
The Filipino Collapse,

General Otis refuses to recognize the Fil- ipino government in any manner whatever, demanding unconditional submission to American authority, but granting full am nesty to all whom Aguinaldo had misled. These terms demand, of course, that all Mausers and other arms shall be given up-complete disarmament, in other words, will be required; and when it is accom- plished there will be no farther insurrec- ticn among the Tagalos, and when the Tagals are quiet it is well known the other races in the archipelago are also quiet. General Otis will make peace on lasting terms
 The truth is, the Filipinos have been dis illusionized. They knew the Spanish could not fight we'll and they had been led to think the Americans could not; but when to successive punishments was added the crossing under fire of the Rio Grande, and carrying of trenches that were supposed to be impregnable. they at once came to the conclusion that they were up against men who could and would fight on every occa- sion. They were up against Colonel Fun
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
"THE WHITE HEATHER"

J. J. Bell in Chambers Journal. sEi,. j. bribed you with a promise NJ ,. ?. One idle August day, l. To guide you where the heather rare s Concealed it's charmed white spray, And as we went together
 I dreamed, 'twixt hope and fear, Y The fairy flower would give me power To tell you all. my dear. Though love had made me silent, Mine eyes could call you fair; You hummed a scng the way along To show you did not care. The honey hearted heather
 Sprang ripely far and near, And many a flower was red that hour, But none was white, my dear. Some blooms were rudely ruddy, And some were paley pink, And some to llght-nay, almost white- We had to stop to think. And once an alien daisy Made you exclaim. !" Iris here" An. many an hour we sought the flower And found it not, my dearl doubt my search turned careless, Perhaps the treasure grew l' Snow pure and sweet bfore my feet Those time I looked at you. { Yet is romance in ruins, f Because, ever drew near, - I found the power without the flower To tell rcu all my dear.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
suBsCRIPrIoN RATEs.
Growing Cotton Crop.

The New Orleans Times-Democrat pre- sents reports up to May l from all parts of the cotton belt touching the condition whole they indicate slight decrease in acreage, but the crop conditions up to May are as a rule declared to be better than $ those of the corresponding period of last year. The latter fact will be a surprise to z many. When conditions and acreage are considered together, it must be conceded that the hope of small crop rests wholly in bad growing or picking weather here after. Especially is this the case in Texas. As matter of fact scarcely correspon- dent in that state mentions any decrease in acreage. Nor is there clear evidence that the acreage in either Mississippi or Alabama has been materially reduced.
 The crop is from ten days to four weeks behindhand, but it is in the ground, and favorable conditions would bring it rapidly forward. Experts say, however, late start means later opening in the fall, and therefore increased exposure to early frosts. This may reduce the crop to the extent of half million bales
 The Anniston correspondent of the Times-Democrat reports an acreage from 10 to 20 per cent. below that of last yeark its Birmingham correspondent names a de- crease of 10 per cent; the Evergreen corre- spondent says the acreage in South Ala bama will be fully as great as that of the previous year; the Huntsville correspon- dent thinks reduction of 10 per cent. probable; the Montgomery correspondent thinks there has been less planted in the uplands, but in the Black Belt the acreage is fully as great as it was last year; the Opelika correspondent mentions decrease of per cent; and the Tuscaloosa corre- spondent thinks the decrease will be about 10 per cent.
 It is very safe to say that there will be enough acres put in cotton and enough cotton made to supply all demands Taking the state together 1t is plain that the best cotton sections are cultivating as many acres of the staple as they did last year, and that the decreases are chiefly reported in districts that do not make much cotton in any season.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03

ston's Twentieth Kansas volunteers. and they could see no way of stopping them.
 The request for truce was refused and the negotiations are temporarily suspend ed. In short time they will doubtless be resumed. and very soon the entire scheme of opposition to the American authorities will tumble to the ground. Unconditional surrender will be accepted, because there is nothing else in sight When the Fili- pinos have accepted American rule, then will arise the hard question as to how the island shall be governed. The American commissioners are on the spot, and they are cooperating with the army and Admir- al Dewey in the work of restoring peace and prosperity to the island.
 The nature of the government of the Philippines will come up as soon as peace is fully established. President schurman of the commission Is closely studying the problem, and his associate commissioners are no doubt doing likewise, and the army and navy are perhaps contributing to the final conclusion. The problem is essential ly Oriental, and 1t needs all the study that can be given it on the part of the men who are to inaugurate a new period of govern ment. The new plan must last until con- gress perfects a new plan for or a new disposition of, the islands, and neither may come in the immediate future. All will be apt to favor a postponement for the sake nf letting tirnn dn ite nnrfact 1unrk
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
GOV. JOHNsrON's ABsURDITIEs

From the Centreville Press. /F
 Governor Johnston expects to write the repeating act, and also his darling amend ments, while he has said "the very re- ouirements of the (presenD constitution prevent any amendment" What sort of a governor is he. anyhow? Maybe he has found out how he can circunvenf the whole thing He must feel that he's an entire slegislatur' within himself. He said "the present constitution has served its pur- pose," and yet he proposes an amendment to a thing that "has served its purpose" and can't be amended.
The age-herald., 1899-05-03
An "Extraordinarxv Message.


 Governor Johnstons idea of state paper is absolutely unique. He considers such | paper the proper opportunity for getting even with all opponents and all factions, be they of personal of political nature, or both combined. Governor Tillman, in his crudest days of unquestioned power, never played for even as Governor Johnston does. The records of the wild and wooly far west in it's raciest moods do not fur nish It's equal.
 It is difficult to say in what particular 1t excels--whether in inconsistency, in dem agogism or in puerility. The man who urged in 1896 the need of a new constftu- ton says in 1899: "The curse of Holy Writ is upon those who remove ancient land marks The demagogism of the document extends from eend to eend of 1t. It fairly reeks with it, and quotation even of the attack upon the great Alabamian whose fame is more than national-who is known today as the greatest southern senator who honors beyond the power of mere words the state that commissioned him = even such a quotation is not necessary in order to explain the sickening demagoglsm that pervades it. Its puerilty is deepened by a repetition of the famous missing pledges" including the right of trial by jury, and the freedom of religious con- science. If puerility can farther go, it will have to go in training at once.
 And all this matter-three or four col umns in length-pertains to subject that relates above all else to the sovereign power of the people of Alabama, and from all participation in which the governor of the state Is expressly excluded. Three col umns, more or less. over a subject that some of the best lawyers in the state say is none of his business!
 The object of this outburst from the ex- ecutive office-this tirade of words-this un- precedented abuse of men and affairs in the state-is simply an effort to cover up and excuse and palliate and defend a coalition that tho author of the message has organ ized for ulterior and undisclosed-in his message-purposes. This coalition is made up of republicans, populists and personal adherents, and the numberless attacks in the message upon the democratic party, it's principles, authority and management, is an | effort to consolidate and excuse the strang- est coalition that the state has ever | known. The message is most bitter when l ever the democratic party can be at | tackled. The new combination is to be welded together. The new party is to be unified under the Johnston banner. Eter- nal and unspairing opposition to everything democratic, and to every man who is loyal to the historic party, is proclaimed over and over again. He knows he cannot lead a majority of the democratic legislators he knows that his motley following will chiefly consist of the hereditary enemies of the democratic party, and he boldly and unblushingly filings out the banner of the new rep-pop- Johnston party. He fairly revels in his new position. He easily leads the new combine. They are happy to- gether, and there the Age-Herald and che | democracy of Alabama are content to | leave him.