The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-10-18

CATION Nldlth dl'tl hl' N"'' 80
were satisfied with the President :
explanation of the policy OF this gov
eminent toward their church and ITS
property in the former Spanish pos
sessions.
The published story that Gen.
Challee captured Sl7S, 600 IN gold IN
Tein Tsin and shipped 1T to Wash
ington is amusing to Official crcieS.
Secretary Root was inclined to be
facctious about it when asked whether
the story was true. lie said: 81
never heard rhat Gen. Chsliee took
any gold at Ten 1sin. Ii the
Treasury people got hold OF it, they
took advantage of my absence. l
wouldn't have let them have It had I
been here" The facts are an'lent
news. Some money was captured by
Rear Admiral Rcmy's marines when
Ten Tsin was taken, and it was
about the amount mentioned. The
other powers made demand tor the
money. but Admiral Remey declined
to give it up and deposited it in his
own name in an Eastern bank, sub
iect to the order of the Navy Depart
ment, and it is there yet. This gov
eminent has not decided what will
be done with it, and it may be SAID
to be held in trust at present. 1he
Chinese government has made No de-
mand for it.
Although there aFc no party pol
tics in the Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution, it was brought out
at the celebration Of the tenth ami
versary Of the organization, IN
Washington, several days ago, that
the leading candidates for President
to succeed Mrs. Daniel Manning, OF
New York, whose reelection is pro-
hibited by the Constitution Of the
organization, and whose time will
expire Feb. -. 1901, are Mrs. Bryan,
wife of Hon. w. j. Bryan, Of Ne
braska, and Mrs. Roosevelt, wife OF
Gov. Roosevelt, Of New York. The
election will not take place until the
22nd of February next. Both ladies
have active partisans, but the cleo
ton for President Of the /. 5. will
probably be an important factor in
determining the winner, the Daught-
ers being fully aware Of the social
and other advantages Of electing
either the Presidents or the Vice
Presidents wife to be president OF
their organization.
Acting Director Sullivan, OF the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing
says the series Of postage stamps toI
be issued in commemoration of the
Pan American Exposition, at Buffalo,
will not only be different from any
ever issued, but will be the handsom-
est work of its class ever turned ont
by the Bureau Each denomination
will have the body Of the stamp
printed in the color prescribed by law,
while it will be surrounded by an ar
tistic border printed in contrasting
color. They will be the first stamps
printed in two colors ever issued by
the government.
Dr.. Geo. +. Lane, Of Portland,
Me, who used to be an army surgeon,
is in Washington. He said on a
subject that has been widely discuss
ed: "Although ours is temperance
state, more liquor has been sold there
than in any other state Of its size.
The fees of the Sheriff of Cumber-
land county the past year amounted
to about $4,000. The prohibition
candidate for Sheriff who was recently !
elected and will go into office the first
of the year, has charge Of the city |
mission in Portland Republicans /
and democrats united, giving him the
largest vote cast in years, because he |
announced that he would take only |
SD. 600 as his salary. turning the
other fees into the county Golfers"
DR.. Lane says prominent republicans
are advocating Legislation that will !
fix a salary for sheriffS and give the
state high license liquor law.
Secretary Hay, who was ore Of
President Lincoln's secretaries and |
joint author Of voluminous life Of
Lincoln, declares that language re-
Gently used in a public speech, by |
Hon. Adlai +. Stevenson, and said
by him to have been a prediction Of
President Lincoln, as to the ultimate
destruction Of our republic by the ag-
Of wealth in few hands,
was never used by Mr.. Lincoln, but
was understood to have been invented
by a spirituaistic medium not long
after Mr.. LincOln's death.
He Pooled The Surgeons.
All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of