The Elbert County tribune., 1900-03-08

rh.r,,.n act. still remaining IN tne
tr.asurv There Is still on hand Dui-
lion nurchased under this act cosuns
| s7s OD GO5 and represented ~ ,H.
amount Of treasury notes orir,anu.hs III
THE department has been coln'hs s,' -
bullion irto dollars Mt the ratei ~ r,;,,
800 900 per month. Ihe ,, nnah -
sutborizes the coinage Of enough OF
This bullion into subsidiary coin 10
bring the total subsidiary coins up 10
sfOO 100000. This will require apou,
so5 OO0. 600 in subsidiary coins and II
wifi he coined as rapidly as possipie-
In addition to this the department pro
noses to increase the coinage OF si,'e.
dollars TO S4 .OOO. 600 per month. ana IN
efYorf will be made to have all TINS pui-
lion coined and all treasury notes re-
tired in a year and half.
Sensational charges are contained III
an anonymous letter which mas , 49,
received at the Navy Department ,ron
| Manila, The COMMUNICATIONS rei"
fo the vrecking of the Charleston anu
makes the serious statement that u
number OF officers of the vessel AT the
time of the disaster were under the IN
fiuence of liquor. The correspondent,
who furnishes the Information cia,,,nS III
to have verified the allegations by an
gent inquiry among the ofncers OF VI.
Charleston. The letter was not placed
on the official files on account OF the
peculiar nature of the charges. but u
has been referred TO the Judge advo-
cate general of the navy. with instruc-
tlons from Secretary Long that lne
matter be Investigated nt once. This
inquiry will probably not take more
formidable aspect than of note OF IN
quiry addressed to the commander-in-
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
crnment, for 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
ommend clemency, his attorneys and
many loyal friends still assert his In
nocence and consider him the victim
OF conspiracy. No defendant In a
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 penitentinry.
Carter will probably be taken TO Leav-
enworth, Kansas at once, under a
guard, to begin serving his five-year
sentence in the military prison there.
Major General John r. 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
ley Merritt will retire. General
Brooke was offered his 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
ton of Brigadier General L. S. Otis
tmajor general United States volun-
teers), commanding the military forces
in the Philippines, to the grade OF ma
jor general In the regular establish
ment. II will also make vacancy In
the list of brigadier generals OF regu-
lars, which will be flied by the ap-
pointment of some officer who has rem
| EtiNlttS III tht
Philippine campaign.
The Industrial Placer Company.
which has headquarters in New York,
and is operating near Golden, Santa Fe
county, has located 06O acres of gold.
bearing gravel and cement on the Ber-
nalillo-Santa Fe county line four miles
from Golden. Assays and tests shows
that the ground carries $3.50 to S4 per
cubic yard In gold. A mill N being
erected by the company which is to
save the gold values, and which In
many ways is experimental II 1t Is a
success there is 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 environlnQ
Ortiz and Tuerto mountains, which are
scanned with quartz lodges carrying
free gold. The water problem has been
solved by driving some deep wells neaI
some natural sp.- = IN the Tuerto val
ley, half n mile above the mill, wher
the water is piped. Other wells will
be sunk. The mill Is OF the Snodgrass
pattern. in successful operation II
many parts Of California. The power
is supplied by a sixty-horse power en-
gine.
Mr.. Tillman has been trying to jus
tify the policy OF the southern state.
in disfranchising the negroes by show
ing that the Republicans Of the Sen
ate are not willing to allow universa
suffrage In the Hawaiian Islands. ii,
argues that the half-civilized native.
of Hawaii are Just as competent t,
cast n ballot as the negroes of tn,
South, and that the Republicans ar,
inconsistent when they deny It to on,
and demand It for the other He hai
spoken on this subject with appallln,
candor. In his speech the other day
explaining why the negroes did no
vote in South Carolina, Mr.. Tillmal
said: I'VE stuffed ballot boxes. W,
shot them (meaning the negro voters)
We are not ashamed of 1t. With tina
system-force, tissue ballots. etc.-w,
tired ourselves. So we called n consti
tutional convention and eliminated al
of the colored people whom we coul,
amendments" Senator Tillman ais
made the extraordinary declaration
that in every state except South Caro-
lima and Mississippi "the Populists an,
the Democrats have controlled the elec
tions by means of bribery, for the ne
gro vote is purchaseable one"
Edward Flanagan of Mullan, Idaho
continued his testimony before tn
House committee on military affair
Saturday concerning the Coeur d'Alen
troubles. He said notices were poste,
early last July forbidding members o
organized labor from going to tn
Miners cemetery on July 11th for thei
annual ceremony over deceased miners
The order, witness said, gave motto
that women and other relatives o
miners would be arrested II they as
sembled. Mr. Flanagan explained th