The state herald., 1900-03-09

VIII ue coined rs rupiuiy us pOSsiDlo.
In addition to this the department pro-
poses to increase the coinage Of silver
dollars to $4,OO0,OO0 per month, and an
effort will be made to have all this bull
lion coined and all treasury notes re-
tired In year and hair.
Sensational charges are contained In
an anonymous letter which has been
received at the Navy Department from
Manila. The communications relates
to the wrecking of the Charleston and
makes the serious statement that a
number of officers of the vessel at the
time Of the disaster We're under the in
fuence of liquor. The correspondent
who furnishes the information claims
to have verified the allegations by dill
gent inquiry among the officers of the
Charleston. The letter was not placed
on the official files on account of the
peculiar nature of the charges, but 1t
has been referred to the judge advo-
cate general of the navy, with instruc-
tions from Secretary Long that the
matter be Investigated Mt once. This
inquiry will probably not take a, more
formidable aspect than Of n note Of In
quiry addressed to the cOmmander-ln-
chief Of the Asiatic station.
The United States Supreme Court has
denied the application Of Captain Ober-
lin NJ. Carter recently convicted by
court martial of defrauding the gov.
ernment, for n review of his case by
that tribunal. and thus ended one OF
the most desperate contests in the his.
tory Of military law. Although the
punishment imposed upon Captain Car
ter Is one Of the severest sentences
ever recorded and the members of the
court have consistently refused to rec
0mmend clemeucy, his attorneys and
| many loyal friends still assert his in
nocence and consider him the victim
| of u conspiracy. No defendant in n
criminal case, however, had better or
more influential counsel, and they have
exhausted every resource that could
be devised. Nothing except the pardon of
the President now remains between
Captain Carter and the penitentiary.
Carter will probably be taken to Leav-
cnworth, Kansas at once, under q
guard, to begin serving his five-year
sentence in the military prison there.
Major General John II. Brooke, who
has been In Washington since his re-
cent detachment from duty as COVER
nor general Of Cuba. has been slated
for the command of the military de-
partment of the East, with headquar-
tiers at New York City. The change In
that command will not occur until
June next. when Major General Wes-
ley Merritt will retire. General
Brooke was offered bis choice of the
commands of the Department of the
Lakes and the Department of the East,
and expressed his preference for the
latter assignment. General Merritt's
retirement will result In the promo
tion Of Brigadier General +. s. Otis
(major general United States volun-
teers), commanding the military forces
In the Philippines, to the grade of ma
jor general In the regular establish
ment. 1t will also make n vacancy In
the list Of brgadier generals Of regu-
lars. which will be filled by the ap-
pointment of some officer who has rem
derei distinguished services in the
Philippine campaign.
The Industrial Placer Company,
which has headquarters In New York,
and Is operating near Golden, Santa Fe
county, has located 9GO acres of gold.
bearing gravel and cement oil the Ber-
nalillo-Santa Fe county line. four miles
from Golden. Assays and tests shows
that the ground carries SEQ to 81 per
cubic yard In gold. A mill is being
erected by the company which is to
save the gold values, and which In
many ways is experimental. IL 1t is
success there Is enough material In
sight to supply u dozen similar plants
with ore In the next twenty-five years
This immense deposit Is I'm the Tuerto
valley and was accumulated as the re.
suit Of dlsintegratlon of the environlng
Ortiz and Tuerto mountains. which are
scanned with quartz lodges carrying
free gold. The water problem has been
solved by driving some deep wells near
some natural So. IN the Tuerto val
ley. half mile abo,e the mill. when
the water Is piped. Other wells will
be sunk. The mill is OF the Snodgrass
pattern. In successful operation In
many parts OF California. The power
is supplied by slxty-horse power en-
gine.
Mr.. Tillman has been trying to JUS
tify the policy OF the southern states
in disfranchising the negroes by show
ing that the Republicans OF the SEN
ate are not Willing To allow universal
suffrage in the Hawaiian Islands. He
argues that the haif-civllzed natives
OF Hawaii are Just as competent to
east n ballot as the negroes OF the
South. and that the Republicans are
inconsistent when they deny 1t TO one
and demand Il for the other. He has
spoken on this subject with appalling
candor. In his speech the other day,
explaining why the negroes did not
vote In South Carolina. Mr.. Tillman
said: I'VE stuffed ballot boxes. We
shot them (meanlng the negro voters).
We are not ashamed of II. With that
system-forcc. tissue ballots, etc.-we
tired ourselves. So we called consti.
tutional convention and eliminated nll
OF the colorcd people whom we could
under the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments" Senator Tillman also
made the extraordinary declaration
that In every state except South Caro-
lima and Mississippi ''thc Popullsts and
the Democrats have controlled the cleo
tions by means OF bribery, for the ne
gro vote Is n purchaseable one"
Edward Flanagan OF Mullnn, Idaho.
continued his testimony before the
House committee on military affairs
Saturday concerning the Cocur d'Alcnc
troubles. lie said notices were posted
early last July forbIdding members OF
organized labor from going to the
Miners cemetery OH July 1lth for their
annual ceremony over deceased miners.
Tho order, witness said. gave notice
That women md other relatives OF
miners would lie arrested II they as
| sembled Mr. Flanagan explnIued the