Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-05-11

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A6HWMM HMh 1H1Ii lllICul SlSaSItS. lac
y Y member of the
j. h. ONES. House of Repre-
sentatives in 1881. He served two terms
in the lower house, and then was adj
vanced to the Senate, of which he has
been II member fourteen years. enator
Jones is u Mississippian by birth. but
since boyhood has lived ut Washington,
Hampstead County, Ark. He served as
Il private in the Confederate army
throughout the war, and at its close went
back to the humble life Of a planter. At
the age of "a he began the practice OF
law and ut the same time entered politics,
being elected to the State Senate in 1873.
He was president of that body during one
term. He has long been regarded as the
most influential man in Arkansas poll
tics.
-Four widows of revolutionary veterans
pre still on the pension roll, although the
WI of the revolution ended 100 years
ago. They range in age from S3 to 30.
Seven daughters of revolutionary soldiers
are still drawing pensions. or the $780,
100000 which has been paid in rcvolu-
tionary pensions %S20,O00,00O was drawn
by widows. One p%cnsioncd survivor of
he war of 1912 remains. He is Hiram
Cronk, 80 years old. and his home is in
northwestern New York. The last pen
stoned soldier of the revolution did not
die until 1860. He was 1903 wears 6
months and s days old. He lived in Free
dom. n. Y. More widows than soldiers.
of the war of 1872 were pcnsioned. In
that war 296,916 soldiers served sixty
days or more. The pensioncd were 3d.
0OO soldiers and $4,000 widows. To the
sole Survivor of the wal of 1912 the Gov
m is now paying S193 IL year, and
to widows of that war $293,O9T. To Mex
lean veterans the payments now are ST.
107, :594, and to widows of Mexican war
soldiers, SS1S,067. On the Union side the
enlistmcnts for the civil war We're 2.77S,-
394. OF these there died in service &c.,
944. The pensions paid on account of
the civil wal amount to $4,000. 600 1000,
and there are now OH the pension rolls
991,519 veterans and widows. The pen
sioners who died last year numbered A.
O66. AT the rate the veterans are dying,
it is estimated, there will be Il reduction
of the pensions to $4,000, 600 in the next
fifteen years, n little more than one-half
of the present annual appropriation.
80
Since the present system of money was,
adopted in 1866 the United States has is
sued n grand total Of $S,152, Cpl, los in
United States notes, treasury notes, gold,
silver and currency certificates and other
forms of paper currency, of which So
5 0,6S3,4S9 has been presented for re-
demption, leaving outstanding SOL 937,-
619. How much of this money is actually
in circulation, and what proportion of it
has been permanently lost, worn ont or
destroyed can only be conjectured. United
States notes or greenbacks have been is
sued to the amount of S2,997, 1S9, sos and
S2,65O,5OS, 1872 has been presented for re-
demption, leaving S346. GS1, O1G outstand-
ing. The latter sum is daily reported to-
be- the amount of grecnbacks in %circula-
ton, but, striking IN average IN the opin-
ions of the treasury experts as to the
amount lost and destroyed, the actual
value of greenbacks outstanding is not
more than 1892. DOC, 900, and is growing
smaller every year.
Speaker Henderson wears a wooden leg
II uses a heavy walking stick. He was
wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and the
injured leg was cut off ON the battlefield
to save his life. The surgeons made a bad
job of it, the wound never healed and
the Speaker has been subjected to four
operations upon the stump since, the last
about two years ago. On that occasion
he declined to take ether and sat uponI
the operating table directing the sur
geons. AS the three former operations
had been unsuccessful, he was determine
ed that the fourth attempt should not fail
and his supervision did not bring bad re-
suits, because the stump has troubled,
him less since the operation was PERFORM
ed.
AT the close of the last fiscal year there
were 2,G11 railway mail routes, of a total
length Of 17G, 726.05 miles, over which,
the mail cars travelled that year 2S7.591.-
260.21 miles. The Government paid for
the railway postotiice cars 81, 175,724.S6
and for the transportation of the mails.
S3l,342.la0.SS. or n total to the railroads
of $36.111,S75.74, which was an average
OF l2A cents per mile for Transportation
ana postal cars combined, or Us cents 81
mile for the cars alone.
80.
Congressman King. the successor Of
Brigham II. Roberts of Utah, who was.
not permitted to take his seat in Con-
gress on the ground that he was a big
aMlst, mas undertaken to convince his coll
leagues That his predecessor should hp
re%compensed for certain of his disburse-
ments made in the cndeavor to obtain
his seat.
The labor bureau has completed a yerv
important investigation hearing upon the
subject of trusts and the effect Of the
consolidation Of industries upon wages.
me results will be published in the July
bulletin. Detailed and accurate informa-
ton has been obtained of the variation in
wages paid to the different trades from
lsSO to the LIST of January, 1900. The
report will be a very interesting and yalu.
ab!e contribution to the discussion now