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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

The trial of George Horkan, the
wealthy Custer county woolgrower,
who is charged with having illegally
used cancelled postage stamps, was
commenced Wednesday morning be-
fore jury in the United States court,
in Helena. In some respects the trial
is an unusual one. Mr.. Horkan, the
defendant, is one of the we'll known
woolgrowers of eastern Montana. The
prosecution claims he used cancelled
stamps upon five letters, which were
intercepted at the Beebe postofice.
The five letters, which were offered
as evidence, will be inspected by the
jury. On the stamp of each letter
is an ink blot which the prosecution
will endeavor to show had been made
in the regular way and the stamp af-
terwards used by the defendant.
Counsel for the defense will under
take to convince the jury that the
blots were ink blotches put on eth #
by accident or design. presumably
the latter, and that it was done with
the intention of extorting money from
the defendant.
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CANNOT CONSENT.
To Adopt Rules Submitted by Com.
mittee Of TeIeqraphers.

St Paul, Dec. 24.-4is result of
the conference held yesterday be-
tween President Mellen and Vice.
President Kendrick, of the Northern
Pacific, the company sent long COM
munication to the committee of tele-
graphers in session at st. Paul, notify
ing them that the Northern Pacific
could not consistently consent to
adopt the rules submitted by the COM
mittee in behalf of the Northern Pa
cific members of the Order of Rail-
way Telegraphers. Neither could
the company see it's way clear to
treat with the Order of Railway
photographers, as an organized body,
but would cheerfully treat with the
telegraphers as a body of Northern
Pacific employees. The communica-
tion stated that many rules which the
committee had advanced were al
ready in effect, but were worded diff
ferently. The rules submitted by
the committee were the same as those
submitted by similar committees all
over the country to their respective
lines. They were SO worded that
any road adopting them will recognize
lelegraphers as an organized and in
corrOrated body, rather than as indi-
vidual employees. The committee
was invited to make further requests
as might be desired and the COM
pany agreed to consider them in the
spirit of fairness.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25
Earthquake Shock.

Santiago de Cuba, Dec. 24.-The
most severe earthquake shock exper-
fenced in months occurred here today.
It was hardly perceptible at first, but
increased in force. No damage was
done in the business quarter, but
some in the poorer quarters. This is
the second earthquake within 80 days.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

Attorney General Nolan has Just
prepared an opinion 10 the effect that
an accident to tell how it happened
no inquest is necessary.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1900-12-25

Those who knew Mcdonald said he
mad grievance against Morris. who.
ne claimed. was responsible for hay
ing MS pay reduced. Others who
knew him say that they could not at
tribute his deed to anything but a
diseased brain from over indulgence
in liquor.
Frank H. Morris was a native of
Cleveland, Ohio. He was 40 years
OF age, and leaves widow and two
sons. He entered the government
service at the beginning of the pres
ent administration as auditor for the
navy department. During the first
TWO years he made an exceptionally
good record for efficiency, bringing
the delay work up to date and put
ting the Office in better shape than
ever before
Mcdonald is brother of William
II. Mcdonald, the well known bari
tone singer, of the Bostonians, and
is said to have educated the latter for
the operate stage. He is unmarried,
5S years OF age, and is tall and fine
looking. He also is from Ohio, and
has been in the government service
since soon after the civil war. In
1869 he was removed from his posi-
ton as chief of division in the Of
flee Of the commissioner of customs.
IN 1890 he was reappointed clerk in
the office of the auditor for the war
department. In 1897 he was made
disbursing officer in that office in ad-
dition to his other duties. receiving
in all $4,000 year.
In February. 1900, his accounts
were found short $1,000, and upon be-
ing required to make some explana-
tion ne claimed that on one occasion
he had forgotten to close the safe
on leaving his office and that it had
been robbed of $1,000. He produced
evidence which tended to exonerate
him from the charge of taking the
money, and as he Immediately made
good the amount nothing further was
done, except to reduce his salary,
and to transfer him to the office of
auditor for the post office department,
where he was employed at the time
of the tragedy 1t is stated that
Mcdonald was a hard drinker at
times and that many of his misfor-
tunes can be traced to this source
Mcdonald was removed to the
Emergency hospital, where the doc
tors have been busily engaged in try
ing to save his life. He was bleed
ing profusely from the cash he made
across his throat, but it was found
on examination that the jugular had
not been pierced and that the wound
was not likely to endanger his life
The bullet wound in the breast
proved to be more serious. The
bullet entered the left breast beneath
the heart and lodged back between
the ribs. An operation was per-
formed and the ball removed. The
doctors are hopeful that the man will
pull through unless blood poisoning
Or other unlocked for symptoms de-
velop.
While Mcdonald was in the hands
of the surgeons policeman sat near
him and kept him under constant
Technically he is under
arrest and in custody of the police,
but while the fight for his life is going
on there will be no restraint except
Owing to the critical
nature of the wounds the doctors |
have not permitted him to be seen for
the purpose of giving a statement
Don't Want to Live.
Washington Dec. 22.-Samuel Nc
IL
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Don't Want to Live.

Washington Dec. 22.-Samuel Nc
Donald, the treasury clerk, who shot
and killed Frank M. Morris, auditor
for the war department yesterday,
and then wounded himself, was in a
precarious condition at the Emerg-
ency hospital. His condition this
morning seemed more favorable, but
tonight it took a turn for the worse
and he began to sink. He has con-
stantly reiterated the hope that he
would die, declaring that he did not
care to live. All day long there was
a continuous stream of visitors to the
patient, but he was particularly anXi-
Gus that none of his friends should
talk to the newspapers about what
he told them, and even took the pre-
caution to tear up their visiting cards
so their identity might not be learned.
Mcdonald has a large number of
friends in this city and the opinion il
quite generally expressed that his
mind was in an unsettled condition
at the time of the shooting.
An autopsy was performed on the
body of Mr.. Morris and developed the
fact that three of the five bullets fired
had struck him. The body will be
taken to Cleveland tomorrow, where
the interment will take place in Lake
View cemetery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
IN HER OWN BEHALF.
Miss Morrison Testifies i'm Leiden-
heimer Murder Case.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. 5.-The
trial of Julia Morrison for the murder of
Frank Leidenheimer, leading man in ''Mr.
Plaster of Paris company. was resumed
in the Circuit Court this morning w. ].
Patterson. stage manager of the local OPP
era house, was put on the stand again.
His testimony was very damaging to the
defense. Josephs, the electrician OF the
opera house, was the next witness. His
testimony also was detrimental to the pris-
oners interest.
AT the afternoon session the defense be-
gan the examination OF witnesses. and Miss
Morrison was placed on the witness stand
in her own behalf Miss Morrisons testi-
mony was exceedingly sensational, and she
frequently requested the court 10 permit
her to put some of Leidenheime~'s Ian
guage addressed TO her in writing, rather
than REUTER- the words. She gave at length
the history of her life from childhood up
to the present time. While admitting the
killing of Leidenheimer she asserted that
IL was becau use of his repeated overbearfng
conduct toward her and numerous insults
that she had received from him previous
TO their arrival in Chattanooga and on the
day of the murder. She testified that after
she joined the Mr.. Plaster or Paris" COM
pany Leidenheimer was very friendly un-
I'll he found that she was married and that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
BRYAN TO THE DRUMMERs.
He Reasserts the Fiat Dogma Of Six
teen to One.

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 5.-The fourth an
nual banquet of the Nebraska Travelling
Mems Bryan Club was held tonight at
the Lincoln Hotel. and following the meet
ings of the state central committees of
the Democrats, Populists and free silver
Republicans. attracted notable gathering
of supporters of Mr.. Bryan from all three
parties. not only from Nebraska, but from
neighboring Western States. Nearly 200
travelling men and their guests sat down
to the tables shortly before 10 o'clock. Mr.
Bryans address was the feature. He COM
plimented the club on the increasing i'm
portance of its banquets and praised the
members for their political zeal. Touching
on national topics he said in part: I'VE
are now near enough 20 the national con-
vention to feel assured that there will be
no considerable opposition to the reaffirm-
alton of the Chicago platform. The late
elections destroyed the last hope of those
who sought to modify or subtract from the
creed enunciated at Chicago in 1886. The
Republican party has been driven under
the lash of the financiers to the open es-
pousal of the gold standard and spurred
on by the national banking corporations
1t has showed its purpose to drive the
greenbacks out of circulation and substi-
tute a bank-note issue and controlled by the
national banks. The Democratic party
still contends for the restoration of bimetal-
ism at the ratio of 16 to l, the only ratio
advocated by those who believe i'm the
double standard. and 1t also contends for
the greenback as against the bank note"
Governor POINTER, Governor Thomas. Of
Colorado. and Hon. Cato Sells of Iowa, re-
Sponded to toasts.
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her husband would accompany her on the
road. From the time he found that out he
began his systematic persecution: that he
had made improper proposals to her and
insulted her frequently; that he frequently
called her foul names. and had persisted in
his course of abusing her until she lost all
control of herself. On the evening Of the
shooting she stated that Leidenheimer had
gone to the toilet room while she was sick
and had offered her an indignity. She says
that when he did this she lost control or
herself, and that when she went to the
stage by the rear stairway, just as she
reached the top of the steps Leidenheimer
approached her with an appraised cane in
his hand as If to strike her, and called her
a foul name. She stated that from that
moment she has memory of what hap
pened: that the time between that moment
and when she found herself in the station
house was a blank in her mind. Explain
ing why she had pistol on this particular
evening, she said that she always carried
a pistol in her bosom
On cross-examnation she stated that she
had borne Leidenheimer's insults until she
had learned that she was to be supplanted
in Atlanta by another woman, and that
then she had become desperate. At this
point the court adjourned until tomorrow,
when Miss Morrison will be cross-exam-
ined
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

subordinates be recognized by a commem-
orative medal. rather than by promotion
over the heads of their associates who were
not so fortunate as to secure active service
during the war. This must be regarded as
a most unselfish action on the part Of men
who might have urged their own promo
ton for gallant services. All of the COM
handing officers who were in Admiral
Schley's squadron recommended the pro-
motion of Admiral Sampson to the grade
OF vice admiral. because they believe him
entitled TO all the credit that has been
claim ed for him in connection with naval
operations of the Spanish war. Further
more, all of them. except Captain Cook,
who commanded Admiral Schley's flagship.
opposed ''the promotion of any officer
charged with reprehensible conduct until
he had availed himself of the opportunities
offered by the regulations of the navy for
an official inquiry into his conduct or has
otherwise purged himself of the charge"
This means Admiral Schley. This declara-
ton may have an important bearing on the
controversy regarding the promotion of
the two admirals, Sampson and Schley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
CLEARINGS OF THE YEAR
INCREASED 36.5 PER CENT. OVER
TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE.
New York Carried Nearly Two-Thfrds
of the T0tal-Dun and Bradstreet
ON Trade Conditions.

NEW YORK. Jan. 5.-Bradstreets review
of bank clearings for 1899 shows that the
total for the United States was s93,504.-
9s2 $50. an increase of SIS oO4 500. 42e over the
total of $685. New York ranks first among
the cities, with a total for the year of
SEQ, 761, 791, 900; Boston is second, with $685..
2S5,27l, and Chicago is third, with s6.612. 213.
GIL The clearings for 1899 were more than
double those of 1894. Boston In 1894 moved
ahead of Chicago, the latter city dropping
to third place. Philadelphia, st. Louis.
Pittsburg, Baltimore. San Francisco. Gin
cinnati Kansas City and Minneapolis
maintain the rank held in 1895. Cleveland.
which was in thirteenth place in 1855, how
ever, moved UP to twelfth place, displacing
New Orleans, which is now in thirteenth.
Detroit also gained at the expense of Lou
isville and Omaha, which was sixteenth In
1898, fell two places in 1899. Buffalo gained
one point at the expense of st. Paul. Dem
yer and Richmond also moved up. st. Jo-
seph made a further gain over the notable
jump that city took in 1898, and is now
twenty-fourth in the list. as compared with
number forty in 1897.
The heaviest increase was that of % per
cent. shown by Pittsburg. Exceptional
activity in the iron trade is, no doubt, re-
sponsible for this gain, and for the increase
of 81 per cent. gain shown at Cleveland.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
THE QUAY CASE.

The action of the Senate committee on
privileges and elections in the Quay case is
not surprising. though the close vote by
which the decision was reached shows that
the question was by no means free from
doubt. The committee decided against the
admission OF Mr.. Quay by four to three,
one Republican, Mr.. Burrows, voting with
Chandler, Hoar and McComas voting in
favor of his admission. The main point
In the case, viz, the right of a Governor
to fill a senatorial vacancy by appoint
ment after the expiration of a term of the
Legislature whose duty it was to elect. has
been virtually deciued by the Senate in a
number of cases. The law on the subject
seems quite clear. The Constitution pro-
vides that 'if a vacancy happen in the
Senate during the recess of the Legislature
make a temporary appointment until the
next meeting of the Legislature, which
shall then fill such vacancy" Senator
Quay's last term expired March 8. 1899. dur
ing recess of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture The Legislature which should have
filled the vacancy adjourned April 20,
after three months session. without elect
ing his successor, and the next day the
Governor appointed Mr.. Quay. The act OF
Congress governing the election of Sena-
tors provides that whenever during the
session of the Legislature of any State a
vacancy occurs in the representation of
such State in the Senate the Legislature
shall proceed to fill such vacancy on the
second Tuesday after 1t has notice there
Of" AS the vacancy in this case occurred
while the Pennsylvania Legislature was in
session and not during the recess IL seems
clear that the Governor had no power
to appoint The law made 4 the duty of
the Legislature to elect. and If IL chose
to neglect its duty or waste the session
in fruitiess balloting. as IL did. the State
should be the sufferer. Under the Con-
stitution the Governor may only fill a
vacancy by appointment II 1t happen
during the recess of the Legislature. In this
case the vacancy happened during the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

The receipts OF the treasury the past
six months of the present fiscal year were
responding period OF the previous year.
The customs duties were s1s.21961s and the
internal revenue receipts s147l75i5 more
the first six months of this fiscal year than
they were the last six months of last year
The excess of receipts over expenditures
the past six months of the present fiscal
year was s21.n699i. Consequently. the
papers which were declaring that the Ding
ley law would not afford sufficient revenue
to meet the expenditures of the government
are now suggesting the repeal of certain
features of the revenue laws in order to
escape the evils of surplus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

The country will rejoice to hear that all
of the American prisoners in the hands of
the Filipinos. including Lieutenant Gilmore,
have been released. thanks to the hot pur-
suit and vigorous operations OF our troops.
Lieutenant Gilmore and seven enlisted men
from the gunboat Yorktown and six enlist
ed men of the army were taken prisoners
about the middle Of April last while max
ing soundings at the mouth of river off
the coast of Luzon. Some OF them have
since died. and the survivors have been
prisoners nearly nine months. during which
time they have doubtless suffered great in
dignities and hardships-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

The simple fact that there is no gas in
your stove when you retire in the evening
is no assurance that it won't be hot
enough before you get up in the morning.
-Logansport Journal.
Five years ago green hides were selling
at 315 cents per pound. Now they are sell
ing at 101h cents per pound. an increase of
800 per cert. What trust has done that?
BY the way. that would do to quote along
with the advance in nails.-Corydon Re-
publican.
History will repeat itself In 1872 the
Republican delegates at Philadelphia re-
Grant for the presidency. In 1900, in Phila-
delphia, the Republican delegates will re-
nominate William Mckinley by acclama-
tion.-Lafayette Call.
Not man in Shelby county, or any other
county, who has an honest dollar due him
from the county will lose it. Shelby county
taxpayers have no idea of repudiating hon.
est debts. but they have reached the turn
in the road where they refuse to pay bood-
lers' bills.-Shelbyville Republican.
The contract for records and stationery
in st. Joseph county for the year 1900 has
been awarded at less than $780, Records
and stationery in Elkhart county has been
costing about $4,000 a year and the expense
in this county for the present year will be
near $4,000. $4,000 of which is clear stea..
Goshen Democrat
a Minnesota paper says the county
banks are filed with farmers deposits.
There is one State then that understands
the relation of banks to business, that they
are a part Of business and not an excres-
cence upon it. But it is a convincing evil
dence of prosperity when the farmers are
depositing money instead of making notes.
-Terre Haute Express
fearful Joe Cheadle who used to be a
Republican congressman from the old
Ninth district, is now parading himself as
silver Republican. For six years this
man has been a candidate for Congress on
the Democratic ticket and during all that
time he has been making Democratic
speeches and has had no connection what
ever with the Republican party. His acts
speak louder tnan his ciaims-Muncie
Morning News.
Mr.. Carnegie should remember Hunting
ton when he is looking around for cities
in which to distribute his great wealth.
We ought to have a $4,000 public hall at
least. Mr.. Carnegie has been treated fair
ly well by the Huntington press. True,
the Democrat used TO talk about him as
the "robber baron and during the Home
stead strike made him the butt of many vi
cious paragraphs. but the Herald, with its
wider field of readers and greater influence.
refused TO believe him the bloodthirsty
monster our contemporary depicted. We
even went so far as to remark that as be-
tween Governor Altgeld. of Illinois, and
Mr.. Carnegie, should either decide TO To-
cate In Huntington Mr.. Carnegie would be
our Observation-Disclosures Herald
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

There is no doubt but the Council. or a
majority OF the body. have right to in
vestigate the acts of the executive depart
ment in relation to the discharge OF patrol
men and hremen. and II any responsible
person should prefer charges 1t would be
them. The fact that the charter confers
this power of investigation upon the Coun-
oil In express terms. with power to compel
the attendance Of witnesses. the produc-
ton OF books. papers. etc.. shows that 1t
was regarded as necessary power. There
is vitality enough in the charter if it were
only called into action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. Sat meetings Of
the state central committees Of the Demo-
Gratis, Populists and free silver Republic
ans to-day it was agreed to hold all three
state conventions to select delegates to
the national convention at Lincoln March
10. The Populist committee adopted reso-
lutions to the effect that it believed 1t wise
for the national Populist convention to
meet at the same time and place as the
Democratic convention. The Democratic
committee was addressed by w. j. Bryan,
and at his suggestion a resolution of SYM
pathy with the Beers was passed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06
BUSINESS OF 1899.
Failures, Railway Earnings and Con-
ditiOn of Industries.


NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Dun's review con-
tains an exhaustive report of the business
: of 1899, covering all leading markets. A
resume of the situation follows:
The failures of 1899 are the smallest ever
reported since 1881, with the lowest average
of commercial liabilities ever reported and
with greater evidence of commercial
soundness and industrial prosperity than
has appeared in any other annual state
ment 1t is one strong point that failures
have been smaller than in 1898 or previous
years not only in the aggregate, but in
every section of the country, but what is
more smaller also in both manufacturing
and trading In every section except New
England, where the closing troubles in
volved several connected concerns with
heavy liabilities. though their failures had
nothing to do with the condition of their
trade. The liabilities of commercial fall
ures in different sections of the country
are compared below with the preceding
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-06

a writer in the North American Review,
who has spent much time in the Trans
vaal, says a large proportion of the Beers
are of French descent. General Joubert is
French and President Kruger's wife 8
maiden name was Du Plessis. Three of
says the writer, are De Villiers, Du Toit
and Viljoen, all manifestly French. This
is of no particular interest, except as in
dcating that the Beers are a hybrid race,
the native Kaffir and Hottentot blood con-
tributing their share. The infusion of
French blood would not lessen their hatred
of the En- fish.