The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-03-10

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quirements and low pay. Privntes and
fay Of corresponding rank in the in
fantry. 1t Is not SO difficult TO secure
second-class privates. because they
need not be telegraph operators. 1t
Will be readily seen TINT the salaries,
ranging from that Of second-clnss prl-
vate at SIT month to that OF a first
sergeant at 1854, are hardly sufficient to
induce competent operators to enlist,
especially In view Of the uncertainty Of
the assignments they may receive.
1t is the intention OF the Treasury
Department, as soon as the pending
financial bill becomes law. to expe-
dite as fast as possible the coinage of
silver bullion purchased under the
Sherman act. still remaining in the
treasury. There Is still on hand bull
lion purchased under this act costing
$7SOOO,GO5 and represented by that
amount of treasury notes outstanding.
The department has been coming this
bullion into dollars at the ratet of ST.
100000 per month. The financial bill
authorizes the coinage of enough of
this bullion into subsidiary coin to
bring the total subsidiary coins up to
$1OO,OOO,OOO. This will require about
$25, 100000 in subsidiary coins and 1t
will be coined as rapidly as possible.
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 bus-
lion coined and all treasury notes re-
tired In year and a half.
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
number of officers of the vessel at the
time Of the disaster were under the In
fluence 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, int 1t
has been referred to the judge advo-
cate general of the navy, with instruc-
lions. from Secretary Long That the
matter be Investigated Mt once. This
inquiry will probably not take n more
formidable aspect than of note of in
quiry addressed to the commander-in-
chief of the Asiatlc station.
Inc AuuuSlTlHl IluCeE SOuupuHy,
which has headquarters In New York,
and Is operating near Golden, Santa Fe
county, has located 900 acres of gold
bearing gravel ard cement on the Ber-
nalillo-Santa Fee county line. four miles
from Golden. Assays and tests shows
that the ground carries $3.50 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. II 1t Is n
success there Ia enough material in
sight to supply dozen similar plants
with ore in the next twenty-five years.
This immense deposit is In the Tuerto
valley and was accumulated as the re-
suit Of disintegration Of the environing
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 sp:.-, IN fhe Tuerto val
ley, half a mile abv;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 sixty horse power en-
CINE.
Mr.. Tillman has been trying to JUS
tify the policy of the southern states
in DISTINGUISHING 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 half-civilized natives
of Hawaii are just as competent to
cast ballot as the negroes of the
South. and that the Republicans are
Inconsistent when they deny it to one
and demand it for the other. He has
spoken on. this subject with appalling
candor. In his speech the other day,
explaining why the negroes did moi
vote In South Carolina. Mr.. Tillman
said: I'VE stuffed ballot boxes. We
shot them (menning the negro voters)
We are not ashamed of 1t. With that
system-force. tissue ballots, etc.-we
tired ourselves. So we called consti-
tutiOnal convention and eliminated al.
of the colored 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 'the Populists and
| the Democrats have controlled the cleo
lions by means of bribery, for the ne.
gro vote is purchaseable one."
Edward Flanagan of Mullan, Idaho,
continued his testimony before the
House committee on military affairs
Saturday concerning the Occur d Alene
troubles. He said notices were posted
early last July forbidding members of
organized labor from going to the
Miners cemetery on July 11th for their
annual ceremony over deceased miners
The order. witness said, gave notice
that women and other relatives of
miners would he arrested il they as
sembled. Mr. Flanagan explained the
permit system put into effect after
the military arrived. Under this sys-
tenn, he said, men could not go to work
unless they got permit from the state
officials. The witness said permits to
work were pnrchasable. He advanced
$3.50 to friend, who paid it to a
deputy, and was put to work the next
div, I.etters to men in the .h11ll Den ~