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The times., 1899-06-17
PLENTY OF SMALL NOTES.
Mr.. Roberts Says There Should BE No
Scarcity of Paper Money.

There shoull be no scarcity of small
notes." said United States Treasurer Rob-
erts yesterday, "as we have only twenty
millions in notes in the Treasury. Under
the law, our issue Of notes, even in ex-
change for gold, can only be limited, and
we have now so much gold on hand that
We cannot exchange more notes for gold
In some parts of the country the bankers
report plenty of small notes, while in
others they say there is not enough. We
are permitted to issue the notes in any
denomination we please. and are always
ready to exchange small notes for large
ones, providing the bankers pay the ex-
press charges. We have today about
$236,00 900 in gold and our vaults are al
most overfiowing. The Chicago subtreas-
ury cannot receive more gold, as its vaults
are full. On the 1st day of June there
were outstanding s1122, ,545, All in paper
money of one kind and another. By far
the greater part of this was in bills of
from 81 to $40 OF the 81 bills there We're
81. 5.4S2,47 outstanding. There was $685.
s36, 1888 in 81 notes, S2s7 ,240, ,622 in S. notes,
1922 2,311 III in $40 bills s229, ,321, ,226 in SOS,
$50. .93i $50 in s5O's, s5S,442,470 in s100s,
SIS, ,897, 800 in $500 notes, S54, 79T.500 in
81 COOS, s4s30,000 in $1,000 bills, and
SO, ,420, ,OO0 in $40, 600 notes. In addition 10
these, there are s3l, ,476 in fractional parts.
1t would seem there was enough paper
money in circulation
The times., 1899-06-17
KLoND1KE MINING ACCIDENTS
Numerous Casualties Recently Occur
In the Treasure Field.

Seattle, Wash, June ia great many
mining accidents are reported from Daw-
son. The air in the deep mining shafts is
very bad and the warm weather has caus
ed number of disastrous cave-ins. Among
the deaths reported are Frank Juiberti, of
New York. crushed by cave-in at Mag
net Gulch; L. Averie, st. Louis, suffocated
in a shaft on Gold Run Claim; German
miner named Hecht. suffocated in a claim
near Cliff House; E. A. Simpson, New
Brunswick, scurvy. Two men were drown
ed trying to cross the Yukon on unsafe
ice. The deaths of two miners in the
Tanana mountains by freezing was report
ed at Dawson BY Gilbert Anderson Of Wis
consin. He also brings news of the
safety of large party who crossed from
the Upper River country and were be-
lleved lost. They are building boats on
Forty Mile Greek TO continue the trip to
Dawson.
William Bennett, a brewery man, kill
ed Arnold Bremner, of Seattle, with a
bottle during quarrel at Dawson.
The death of Joe Juneau, who founded
and named the town OF Juneau, Alaska.
is confirmed at Dawson. He was at work
on a rich claim trying TO make his fifth
fortune. He had spent four others in the
last twenty wears
The times., 1899-06-17
JAMES HOWARD STILL LIVES.
Women Now Preparing to Take Part
in the Kentucky Feud

| London, KY, June 1e-An unsuspect-
ing stranger, unacquainted with mountain
cunning and methods. spread last night
the report that Jim Howard had been as
sassinated at Manchester while conversing
| with friends in the cUurt house yard. The
| story is untrue and without foundation
Jim Howard this morning was so much
| alive that he continued to carry about
| with him his tTusty Winchester rifle
Ihis information comes from Capt. B.
b. Golden, who arrived from Manchester
this afternoon. Captain Golden said he
mad a long conversation with Howard
this morning. Howard told him that he
| expected to be attacked at any moment
| lie said even the wives of the Bakers
! Philpots, and the Bowlings and Jacksons
were trying to claim victim. He said
there was no trace to the assailant of Tom
BAKER, but that ii was his opinion that
some OF his enemies from his home neigh
borhood had done the deed. Jim Howard
| says that Tom Baker was the meanest
| man alive and now that he is dead he
hopes tor peace. Captain Golden says
Howard talked quite encouragingly of the
situation saying that it was the purpose
of him and his friends to maintain their
rights and that he believed the law would
! uphold them.
messenger who arrived here this after
noon says the report of Howard's assas-
sination is due to the intense excitement
everybody is looking for the opening shot
The feud factions are growing until now
allied on either side ara some five or six
families. The Philpots continue to come
In. John Philpot left here this afternoon
for the Baker neighborhood. Leslie Baker,
OF jackson county. who has been to Clay
county and is returning home, said:
The relatives of the Bakers in Perry,
Breathitt, and Knott counties are being
notified of the threat of the Whites and
Howards to exterminate the Bakers, and
they will come into the fight as quickly
as they can arm themselves and get here"
Mrs. Isabey Jackson and Mrs. Emma
Hayes, sisters of the dead feud leader,
who reside at this place, have returned
from the funeral. Mrs Jackson said: I'm
glad Jim Howard is dead. Sister and l
went after him twice, but he always man
aged to get away from us.
When told that Howard was not dead,
she said: We'll, he's marked"
Both Mrs. Jackson and her sister, re-
turning from the funeral, wore AS
buckled about their waists
The times., 1899-06-17

OF philanthropy under cover of which the
Russian government could perfect a few
plans. in themselves not strictly peaceable
by many an army corps and many batteries
of artillery. Even such opinions, however,
do not necessarily involve bad faith, per-
sonally, on the part of the Czar. Individ-
ually, he may want peace as badly as he
has appeared TO; but that would not pre-
vent his oligarchic and bureaucratic con-
troll from taking advantage of his proclivi-
ties for the general purposes of the same
old Muscovite game.
We are led TO these reflections by the
statement mentioned in another despatch,
which relates that a large force Of Al
banians, supported by two thousand Turk
ish troops, has attacked the frontier of
Servia, on which there is severe fighting
The Albanians in question Of course are
Mussulmans, like their allies, while the
people of Servia almost all belong to the
Russo-Greek Church, of which the White
Gar" is the recognized head. Out OF a to-
tai population-in 1s91-of 2,3141 153, the
Servian Greek Christians aggregated O.,
L asif1 anu Iue hOHdHIneudnS only 10, fof
When we remember that the Eastern
question. as far as Russia is concerned,
represents Greek-orthodox religious cru
sade for the rescue of Constantines capi-
tai from the infidel Asiatic, as much as it
relates to the political ambitions of the
Romanoffs. il is easy enough to think that
this attack of Moslem Albanians, backed by
the Sultan's regular troops, upon a popula-
tion practically under the influence, con-
troll, and protection of Russia, may have
the most serious consequences, amounting
possibly TO a reopening of the Balkan and
Eastern questions and once more involving
Russia and Turkey If not all Europe, in
bloody war. An attack by or with the con-
nivance of Turkey upon Servia will be
treated as an aftront at st. Petersburg.
How vigorously or angrily it may be re-
sented will depend largely upon the Cars
present condition of preparedness for
wholesale trouble.
We shall watch developments in the
Balkan peninsula with more than usual
interest during the coming months. There
is mess brewing in that quarter which
seems bound to boil over dangerously to
the worlds peace before long.
The times., 1899-06-17
CRUEL PRACTICAL JOKING.
A Girl Injured by IL FirecraclSer Ex-
pIosion ON Her Back.

AitT 3alShs
New York. June 16.-The Harlem police
court assumed the appearance of kinder
garten school yesterday morning. There
were about twenty-four little girls and
boys. dressed in their best clothes and look
ing with awe at the big policemen and
Magistrate Simms
They were all witnesses in the case OF
Martin Langdon. jr.. eleven years old. son
of Policeman Martin Langdon, attached to
the sanitary squad of the Health Depart
ment and living at No. 4s West 11+th
Street. The boy was charged with feloni-
Gus assault. He was so frightened lie
could hardly speak.
II is alleged that on June 10, while Ray
Nathan five years old was sitting on the
stoop of her fathers residence, at No. I
West 114th Street, young LangdOn went
up to her. placed his arms about her neck
and set fire to large firecracker which he
placed down her back The explosion OF
the firecracker, it is claimed, burned the
back, neck and face of the little girl so
badly that she is now lying in a serious
condition at her home. The little Nathan
girl was not in court, but her father,
Aaron II. Nathan, a cloakmaker. in West
Twelfth Street, was present. He pre-
sented a certificate from Dr.. d. C. Cooke,
of No. 1865 Madison Avenue, and DR.. B.
Franklin, of No. II East 129th Street, TO
the effect that the little girl was too i'll
TO appear in court.
All of the youthful witnesses diselaimed
having seen young Langdon put the fire.
cracker back of the Nathan girl.
Magistrate Simms told Mr.. Nathan that
there was not enough evidence to warrant
him in holding young Langdon, but in case
anything serious happened to his child he
could at any time reopen the case 1t was
the prevailing opinion that the Langdon
boy was innocent, and that some other lai
was responsible.
The times., 1899-06-17
DOG STOPS A RUNAWAY HORSE.
Pulled ut the Reins and Prevented
n COIIision.

Chicago June 16.-Down Wentworth
Avenue yesterday dashed a runaway horse
attached to a light uncovered delivery wag-
on. The driver had been thrown out at
Sixty-sixth Street, and the sole occupant
of the vehicle was a white Llewellyn set
ter, which was barking furiously and
frightening the horse into more desperate
leaps and lunges.
Swaying from one side of the Street to
the other the wagon seemed ready at any
moment to overturn, and its speed was so
great that spectators who saw the runaway
made no attempt to stop it.
Just before the horse reached Sixty-thlrd
Street where the blockade OF street cars
and other traffic made a serious collision
certain, the setter stopped his barking
climbed up on the seat and seized the lines
between his teeth. Then he jumped down
into the bed of the wagon again and ran
to the rear. There he braced himself upon
his launches and pulled and sawed desper-
ately until the horses speed slaclsened into
a slow gallop.
Half a dozen men at Sixty-third Street
succeeded then in stopping the horse with
out trouble and without any person being
injured. The dog, as soon as the wagon
stopped, jumped down under the horse s
head and remained there until the driver
appeared and took charge. The animal
belongs to an Englewood carpet cleaner.
The times., 1899-06-17
Days of Absence.

There is an Irishman in New York
named Godkin. He is from the north of
ireland and is the editor of a newspaper
known TO the police as the New York
Evening POST Godkin is well along in
years, but he commonly carries his shille-
lah with him, and in recent issue of his
journal he had this to say of some COM
patriots from the south OF ireland, also
resident in New York:
The people of this city will view with in
tense interest the TanImany proposal TO buy
the Lakes of Killarney and adjacent real estate,
for the purpose of converting the into 4
great public park, and will even help to carry
the project to success, provided Tammany will
occupy the park after completion. II Croker
and Coogan and Van Wyck and Scannen, with
Devery and Price and all the rest, will promise
10 leave Us and found q colony OF returned Irish
statesmen at Killarney, all the money necessary
for the project viii be raised within twenty-four
hours. We will even guarantee farewell jubilee
in the Madison Square Garden. with music and
song and speeches, and tremendous procession
down Broadway to bid them Gcd-speed and no re-
turn.
We have not the slightest doubt that
in this instance Godkin. at last, speaks
truth. Not only the inhabitants OF Man
haitian Island, but the citizenry of the
State. would be represented in the jubilee
which would attend the taking off of
Croker, Sheehan, Deyery, and all their
dirty crew-whatever and wherever their
destination.
But think of the outpouring of the pop
ulace if Godkin were also to go, with his
luggage checked for DEVILS Island In
such circumstances it might not be bad
investment to offer France In exchange for
the Dreyfus prison the entire Philippine
archipelago.
The times., 1899-06-17
WORSE THAN DoTHEBoYs HALL.
Cruel Punishments Upon Female In
mates of n Michigan school.

Lansing, Mich, June 1.-THE house de-
voted almost the entire day yesterday to
the report of the committee which investi-
gated the Industrial School for Girls at
Adrian.
The report declared that the inmates
were punished by solitary confinement on
bread and water for number of days in
succession; that they were compelled to
wear handages around the head or mouth
marked Thief" or Liar" to designate the
offences committed; that surgeons plaster
was stuck across their mouths TO prevent
them from speaking; that they were whip
ped with rubber tubing three quarters of
an inch thick, and with rulers paddles,
and planks of wood; that they were plung-
ed into baths almost hot enough to blister
and were shackled and handcuffed for
hours at a time.
The report recommended that the gov
ernor remove the two women who consti-
tute the majority OF the board of control,
and Mrs. Lucy NJ Sickels, the superinten-
dent, by whose direction the punishments
were Inflicted.
The report was adopted after a hard
fight, and Governor Pingree will act ac-
cordingly.
The members of the board whose re-
moval is recommended are Mrs A. I.
Bliss of Saginaw and Mrs a. H. Smith, of
Flint.
The times., 1899-06-17
The Kexstone De,nocrntic Challenge

CFrom the Philadelphia North American)
The elements in the1 DeinScratic party which
have hitherto delivered ii over gagged and
shackled as a slave, to the Republican machine
have not been In eviderice al the Harrisburg con
vention Of 1890 The decent, self-owning and
seifrespecting citizenship Of the Democracy has
for cr0e shaken itself free and raised its voice in
tones of authority. There is no Republican that
deserves the name Of Republican who is not glad
that this is so. For the Republicanism of Quay
Andrews, and Stone is false and poisonous Re
publicauisrn, which must die if true and health
ful RepublicaHism is to live. Therefore the
North American reioices at every blow which
falls upon the Republican machine, whether it
comes from without or within the party
The times., 1899-06-17

(From the New Orleans Times Democrat)
81 know man Of affairs in this city," said
a close observer whose career has been eminent
ly successful and who enjoys great personal popu
larity. but whose business house is one Of the
best hated concerns in the South Mr. soandso
himself is a capital fellow says nearly every
body, but he is surrounded by a set Of the mean
est rascals on earth. If he had the least idea
how they carrying he would fire the last
one Of EN-. The member Of his staff who is most
cordially disliked is a confidential clerk. Time
and again people have gone to the proprietor
with complaints against that individual and he
has always expressed deep regret. I am extreme
ly sorry he showed you such little accommodn-
ton, he would reply and really would dis
charge him at once II it wasn't for his poor
family Some time ago l met the business man
Of whom ! am speaking at lunch, and in the
course Of rambling conversation l took the lib
erty OF limiting that he would do well 10 look
after his affairs little more closely and leave
less to his employees U responsa TO a question
told him my reasonsf and I will never forget
his peculiar, quizzical snile. Ny dear fellow,
he said "a great many dsagreeable things have
TO be done in business but it don't pay to do
them yourself l shut up and went on eating my
lunch.''
The times., 1899-06-17
SHELTER STRIKE spREAD1No
About $4,000 ,Ien in Various Indus
tries Are Now Idle.


Denver. Col. June i6.-some Of she labor
leaders here are still hopeful of an early
settlement OF the smelter trouble, but by
others 1t is eontended that there is little
probability OF the men and the smeiter
managers agreeing Dispatches from vari-
Gus portions of the State tell the same
story OF mines closing down and men laid
on NO accurate statement of the number
OF miners affected by the strike can be
given. but conservative estimates based
on reports received at the Federation of
LABOR headquarters In this city place the
number at not less than I5,00o add 10
this about 5000 smelter employees, 900
coal miners-this Industry being the latest
to feel the effect of the eight hour law
and about $500 railroad men who were
engaged in handling ore and coal trains,
and fair idea of the extent OF the lock-
out, as the employees style 1t, may be
gained. On the other hand. there are prob
ably 1000 or 10000 men still at work In
the big camps. such as Cripple Creek,
Leadville, and Aspen. where local mills
independent of the smelter trust are able
TO handle large amount OF ore Even In
these camps, however. great many men
have been laid of. probably 20 per cent.
The big Philadelphia smelter-Guggen-
heimer's plant-at Pueblo is threatened
with trouble today. This is the largest
smelter in the State outside of the trusts
mills. and should 1t be forced to close down
the situation would be greatly aggravated.
A despatch from Pueblo this morning says
that the smelter laboFers have demanded
$l.5O instead of sl.i0. the scale fixed. The
matter has been referred TO Mr.. Guggen-
heimer. who is in New York. by tele-
graph, and an answer is looked for today
All efforts to test the new elght-hour Law
in the Supreme Court have failed. as the
shutdown of many properties and the ae-
ceptance Of the new law by others leaves
no violators. The most remarkable phase
OF the strike is that there has been no
act OF violence. The great array of men
that are out is playing a waiting game.
The strikers keep away from mines and
smelters, and not even by word has any
thing tending to breach of the peace oc-
CURED.
The times., 1899-06-17
MILLIONS IN A MICA TRUST.
w. $. stratton, of Mining Fame, En-.
Eineerfng the Deal.

Colorado Springs, Col, June 1s.-w. s.
Stratton is investing some of the $10.-
10000 paid him by the Venture Com
pany for his great Independence mine in an
effort to corner the mica trade.
He is prominently connected with the
st. Anthony Crystal Mica Company, COM
posed of Colorado Springs capitalists.
When the company was incorporated some
time since an expert was sent into New
Mexico who obtained options on mica
mines and prospective mines. The first
purchase called for 100000; six more
options have just been called. in at ST.
$50, 600.
1t is not given out just where the mines
are located. but some of the richest are
100 miles south of Santa Fe. The nearest
to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
is about twenty miles distant. The rail-
road company will build branch road 10
these mines.
The output to all the mica mines in the
territory Will be treated for the market at
Colorado Springs. where a big building has
been erected. The plant will be the larg-
est OF its kind in the United States.
The times., 1899-06-17
cRAzED BY THE HEAT.
stricken Motorman EndanEers the
Lives of Trolley Car Passengers.

Lives OF Trolley Car PnsEengcrs
New York. June 16.-Crazed by the heat,
r. Byer. a motorman on the Staten Island
Electric Railroad, endangered the lives OF
carload Of people yesterday and drove
many of them into panic.
Dyer was new man on the road. and
in the afternoon his peculiar antics and
manner of running the car attracted at
tention. He would throw on all the power
and laugh as the car bounded over the
rails.
When on Richmond Terrace near Davis
Avenue he turned on the full power, and
the car jumped forward. Fifty feet ahead
is an abrupt turn in the roadway. and the
car made for this with lightning speed.
Women screamed and men shouted to By
er, who was dancing Jig on the front
platform. When almost upon the curve
he suddenly turned the power OF, but the
car struck the curve with shock.
Byer was hurled from the platform and
fell in the roadway twenty feet away. By
what seemed almost a miracle the ear kept
to the rails and came to a standstill a
block distant. The motorman was unin-
jured, but his clothes were torn in many
places. Still grinning, he mounted the
platform and the trip was continued. Two
blocks further on he brought the car to a
sudden stop and began throwing the desti-
nation signs into the roadway.
Many people, fearful that ne might do
them bodily harm, fed from the car.
Those who remained refused to allow Byer
to run the car and the company was noti-
fed. Byer was at first furious, but was
kept under control by passengers. a new
motorman was sent 10 operate the car and
Rypr r1p1Oypd n HE hn-1p in Npst
Brighton, where he was attended by ply
sician.
The times., 1899-06-17
The Ebul,itfon of Bangs.

Mr.. John kendrick Bangs is person
who lives in New York, and who writes
Most of his efforts are directed toward the
criticism of the work of others, but occa-
sionally the fancy of Mr.. Bangs strays out
of the fertile fields of the professional
critic and makes excursions by the way
side. recent emanation from his type
writer has appeared, dedicated to Augustin
DAILY, and ii is fact-which can be proved
that ''Harper's Weekly has printed it.
The emanation is as follows:
Let down the curtain. Close the playhouse door
The hand that ruled doth hold the helm more
The voice that called the actor TO his beat
Is silent, and the tireless mans at rest.
The worlds stage" the Bard of Avon said
And spoke his line without the slightest dread
Because he knew beneath the thought of man
Was One who'd chosen well the guiding plan
The world may be stage, the stage is not the
world,
Yet there was one whose banner eer unfurled
Defiance bade to all, from year TO year,
For that in all he did he was sincere.
God give him rest His work may be
The subject OF both love and enmity.
Yet was he patterned on the goody plan
of him who does his best, and rules; a Mani
1t should be understood that in litera-
ture Mr.. Bangs occupies the position of
a spirituaiist medium, and is a self-con-
fessed associate OF. ghosts dating in age
The indications are that this poem was
written after an unusually wild nights
carousal with spooks of dubious antece-
dents, and it may be taken as one more
proof of the dangers of a too free indul-
gence in spirits. 1t is quite evident that
only 4 fearful and wonderful mixture of
tonics could have inspired the transcend
emily composite metaphor of the first two
lines. We are adjured to let down the
curtain and close the door of the theatre
because the helmsman's place is vacant
Only three-o'clock-in' the mo ming mag
torium of theatre occupied by yacht
with Mr.. DAILY in the combined positions
OF steersman and callboy.
It appears, further, that Shakespeare
spoke his line without the slightest
dread"-presumably of Bangs. 1t is safe
~ Sa- tAot S'Sh ehI aliiOSA OIuHlPOlSut
imagination OF a Shakespeare could never
have pictured Bangs with his houseboat
full of lunatic ghosts. The very name of
Bangs is foreign to the Shakespearean
language.
The prevailing tendency of Mr. Bangs
crops out after he has finished with Shake
speare and seriously begun on his epitaph-
writing. We find here a diluted combina-
tion of Alexander Pope and Martin Far
quhar Tupper. Mr.. Bangs has SO long
hypnotized himself into the belief that he
is a syndicate of deceased writer's. limited,
that he appears TO be unable TO write in
the first person singular, even when he
essays so to do. This whole funeral ode
is curious and pathetic instance of the
persistence Of delusions even in the lucid
intervals of the insane. 1t seems to be
case of seeing snakes when sober, from
mere force of habit. 1t shows the danger
of making ones self into a human phono-
graph for all the disconnected and un-
employed spirits in the universe. Such a
process. in course OF time, wrecks the
nervous system.