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The evening times., 1901-11-13

Col W C. Black former Engineer Com
missioner Of the District, called upon
Commissioner Biddle yesterday 20 pay his
respects. Colonel Black spent some
time at the District Building. renewing
acquaintance and talking over with Ma
Jor Blddlc some Of the old time affairs
Of the Engineer Department.
The evening times., 1901-11-13

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company recently asked permission 10
transfer its wires from the District poles
ou Twelfth Street, between Maryland and
Florida Avenues northeast TO It's new al
ley line, between Twelfth and Thirteeuth
Streets and Maryland and Florida Ave
uues northeast The report OF the EIec-
trIcal engineer with reference 90 the mat
ter states that there are seven wires 10
De removed by the company. He states
fUTthsr that ID is the intention of the
department 60 transfer the District wires
10 H., same alley line and 10 take down
the ..Oles on The streets
The evening times., 1901-11-13

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company has also nItd two applications
for permission 10 string wires In the
extension Of their system one Of these
asks for a permit 20 string two wires
from the company's pole at NineteeutE
Street and Florida Avenue northwest TO
the residence Of y. N. Hopkins Is33 KaIo-
rama Avenue.
The other application Is for a permit 10
string two wires from the same cable
pole 90 the residence OF j. g O-I.augh-
lin. INl2 Adams Mil Road
These applications have the approval Of
the Electrical Engineer. and the Commie-
SiOucrs have been informed that they
have authority 10 grant the permits
The evening times., 1901-11-13

W. L. Spier. contractor Tor the con-
struction OF the Manual Training School
Building. has submitted a proposal To
the Commissioners to plaster the eX-
posed walls in the basement instead Of
whitewashing them. The Inspector OF
Buildings has returned the proposition to
the Commissioners with the statement
that the basement walls for about four
feet from the bottom show the effects of
frost In the joints. and that they need To
Doe pointed up If whitewashed. IS other
wise the mortar would probab,E continue
20 drop out. IN view of this condition Of
the walls the Inspector recommends that
the proposition To- plaster the walls be
accepted without extra cost TO the Dis
TiCt.
The Inspector Of Buildings has also
r,Cumm' Ed,d that the contractor be al
lowed To use gravel ia Hsu OF crushed
stone FOR mixing the concrete for the tile
arches of the granite floors of the build
ing.
The evening times., 1901-11-13
AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT
\ Number Of Minor Matters Before
the Commissioners

Appointments at the Washington
AsS lIm-Thc ChesHpcuf,e aud Po-
tomac Telephone Company Sc
cures Rights to String Wires.
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LAST OF VOLUNTEERS.
Remaining Regiments to BE Mustered
Out Today-Shaf.er Ketires.

Remaining Regiments to BE Mustered
Out Today-Shafser Ketires.
San Francisco, July 1.-Two import
ant military events occurred at the
Preside yesterday-the retirement Of
Major General w. r. Shafter and the
mastering out of four volunteer regi-
ments.
General Shafter went on the retired
list at noon, when he formally trans
ferred the command of the department
Of California to Major General S. M B.
Young. In the afternoon the Forty
fourth, Forty ninth. Forty eighth and
Thirty-eighth regiments of volunteers
We're mustered out. The mastering out
of the four regiments required the SER
vices of eight paymasters Over 81 ,000,-
900 was disbursed
AS soon as the volunteers had been
mustered out they rushed to the rail-
road ticket offices for transportation to
their eastern homes. The ticket offices
We're crowded until late in the night
with discharged volunteers buying
tickets. Nearly 1900 tickets We're is
sued.
During the day an accidental shoot
ing which may have a fatal termina-
ton occurred. George Price, colored, OF
the Forty eighth regiment, went into
H1ren's gun store to buy a revolver
similar to one he had produced. While
the clerk was examining the pistol it
was discharged. The bullet entered
Prices abdomen.
There yet remain three volunteer
regiments to be discharged, the Forty
third, Forty seventh and Forty first
They will be paid off today. The
volunteer army will then have passed
into history
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than to bother ith horde of units.
mat was convenience.
NOW ne is confronted With something
greater than an expectancy. He is con-
Einced that the unions are III the way
OF the supreme development of his en-
terprise. Along With the many other
gigantic things which he is trying TO
60 he sees il Warth his While to try to
break the unions. To man of his
strength and power this does not seem
an impossible task.
An order is issued to the Reading
railroad president that a war is to be
Waged against unionisnl, and that this
war is gradually to extend to other cor
porations that the Morgan influence
dominates or influences. Summed up,
he believes that a union of capital
cheapens production, and that union
of labor is eSpensive.
This information is the result of Il
knowledge or conferences of various
Morgan men as to the best way of get
ting at the union problem. 1t is not
intimated that this is the only way. 1t
is one Of them. 1t is the beginning.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
JOSEPH LADUE DEAD.
Discoverer Of Klondike Dies OF Consump-
ton In New York.


New York, July 2.--Joseph Ladue,
the man who founded Dawson City and
discovered the Klondke gold fields,
and who has been named the "Discov-
erer Of the klondike gold fields" died
at his home in Schuyler Falls, N. Y, Of
consumption yesterday afternoon He
contracted the disease while prospect
ing for precious minerals in Alaska.
Ladue was A years old. He was
born in Schuyler Falls. When he was
a young man he went west in search Of
gold, and in the early COS he went into
Alaska on a. prospecting tour. For f1f-
teen years he lived in the country
without making any strike of corse-
quence. Then he discovered the Kion-
dixie gold fields, which made him rich
and attracted to Alaska a throng of
treasure hunters
q On June 90, 1897. he mapped and
founded Dawson City at the mouth Of
the klondike, he having been the first
man to take up 178 acres of govern
ment land at SIPS an acre. This land
he cut up into building lots so by 100
feet, which We're soon selling at 5000
a lot. In 1897 he returned to the east.
and on December Is of that year mar
5ried Kitty Mason, Of Schuyler Falls.
with whom he had been in love from
boyhood. He organized the Joseph La
due Gold Mining and Developing COM
pany Of Dawson, one of the largest In
the trade. Ladue's health began to
fail in 1898. He spent last winter in
Colorado, in the hope that the air
would benefit him. He returned to his
home less than a month ago.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
SCATTERED THE Beers.
Attack on Block Houses of DeIagoa Line
Repulsed.

London, July 2.-Lord Kitchener.
telegraphs as follows:
Beers attacked two Lighthouses on
the Delagoa line near Brugspruit early
on the 18th. Armored train arrived
and scattered Beers killing four Re-
ported twenty causalties carried or
the field. Cornet Depriez surrendered
at Petersburg with forty-four men,
A blue book was issued this morning
giving the correspondence between
Lord Roberts and the Boer authorities
on the subject of the destruction OF tho
property. Its contents are generally
known The presidents Of the Trans-
vaal ard Orange Free State, on Febru-
AIRY 3. 1900. protested against the des-
truction and devastation of farms by
barbarians encouraged by British Of
ficers and by white brigands contrary
to the usages Of war. Later General
Botha and Dewet made similar COM
plants against the goddess barities
and atrocities OF the British and their
robber patrols"
Lord Roberts replied In similar
vein to all protests, declaring the Brit
ish did not encourage barbarians, but
the burning Of farm buildings was
necessitated by the treacherous shoot
ing Of British from farm houses and
the wrecking of trains, accusing the
Beers OF wanton destruction and gue-
rilla tactics which he was compelled
to repress by exceptional measures all
ways employed by civilized nations in
Ike circumstances.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
PROCLAIM CORONATION.
Royal Heralds Announce Forthcomii
Event In Medieval Manner.

Royal Heralds Announce Forthcoming
Event In Medieval Manner.
London, July Ia royal proclamation
announcing the coronation Of the king
would take place next June was read yes
terday at st. James palace Temple Bar
and the Royal Exchange, with all the
quaint, medieval scenes which marked
the proclaiming Of the accession Of the
king. Today's ceremonial was unherald-
ed, SO the crush was not SO great as Oh
the previous occasion, but crowds quickly
gathered from all directions and thronged
the points at which the announcement
was read.
The ceremony began at st. James,
where, from the purple draped balcony of
the palace, the norroy king at arms
(WilliaE Henry WedonD, in brilliant
suivan.s in gorgeous tabards. and numer-
GUS state officials, read the proclamation.
At the appointed hour four state trum-
peters, lavishly adorned in gold elnbroid-
cred tunics. appeared in the front balcony.
BY their side stood the norroy king at
arms, thanked by two royal macers, bear
ing gold maces, and surrounded by blue
mantle rouge dragons the Somerset her.
aid. the York herald and the Windsor her
aid, all in their full official regalia, and
the earl marshal lord steward, lord
chamberlain and others. The trumpeters
sounded Drotracted fanfare, and then
the norroy king at arms barred his head
and read the proclamation in a clear
voice, which must have been audible to
the royal party occupying the stand on
the grounds Of Marlborough house, facing
the balcony of the palace. King Edward
wore an admiral's uniform. Queen Alex
andra and others of the royal party
watched the ceremony with greatest in
4terest.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
THE hEM YORK FAILURE.
U. .. commissioner Sees No Ground 70
Prosecution OF Officers.

U. =. Commissioners Sees No Ground 70.
Prosecution of Officers.
New York, July 2.-United States
Commissioner Shields said today that
the evidence submitted by certain per-
sons looking to the prosecution OF the
officers Of the Seventh National bank
was not sufficient to justify his in is
suing warrant.
At conference Of number of the
leading stockholders Of the Seventh
National bank last night it was de-
cided to reorganize the bank and con-
tinue business provided such action
met with the approval OF the stock
holders as body. The stockholders
Will be called upon for an assessment
OF 100 per cent upon their holdings.
The complaint on which a warrant
was asked alleged over-certifcation on
a check for $500, 900 drawn on the Sew
enth National bank by Marquand &
Co, to the order Of the National Park
bank. The attorneys for the applicants
for the warrant We're given until Mon
day to present additional evidence.
An expert accountant is at work to-
day on the books Of Henry Marquand
& Co.. for the purpose Of finding out
the extent Of their liabilities and as
sets. Frank Sullivan Smith, receiver
said that in all probability no schedule
could be filed or any statements made
for several days yet. Smith declined
to make an estimate Of assets and la
btlities, saying he was not yet in a po-
sition to do SO. When asked in regard
to the report TO the effect that the la
ilities would reach 100000, he said
(. did not believe they would come
where near such figure
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
WAYNE M'VeAGn'S WARNING.
Unless the Rich Solve Social Question, the
Discontinued VIII DO 1t.

Boston, July 2.-The grafton on
Ideal in Politics" which Wayne Mac
Veagn delivered before the Phi Beta
Kappa at it's annual meeting at Cam
bridge, has attracted. unusual atten-
ton. Among other things Mr. Mac
Veagh said:
1T seems to me quite too plain for
dispute that no single member Of
weaker race can be killed, no hut Of
such race, however humble, can be
burned, no one can be selected for es-
pecial honor for his part in such pitt
full warfare, without it's helping to
light the torch which starts the fire
by which some hapless negro is to be
burned at the stake in our own coun-
try, not only in defiance but in con-
tempt of law, and all such acts must
be surely followed by greater insecur-
ity for the surplus wealth which the
contented class possesses
Now, 1t is at leastquite possible that
in the not distant future American
politics may transform MIR. Webster's
warning into history, for our electorate
is already beginning to be divided, and
must, in obedience to the law Of social
evolution, continue to be more and
more divided by that sharp cleavage
which separates those who are con-
tented with their lot from those who
are discontinued with their lot I'm
DER Whatever QlSgulSeS, called by
whatever names. inheriting or Selling
whatever partisan organizations, the
alignment Of the two great political d.
visions of American voters who will
sooner or later struggle against each
other for the possession Of the govern
ment will inevitably be upon the basis
have named. The party of the con-
tented Will be ranged under one BAN
ner and the party Of the disconnected
will be ranged under the other, and
that alignment will steadily develop
Increasing sharpness OF division until
the party of the disconnected being
the majority, has obtained the control!
of the government, to which under our
system they are entitled. and then they
vii! be sure to remodel the present
system for the distribution of wealth,
unless we have previously done so upon
bases wiser and more equitable than
those now existing.
The one party will be, under what
ever name, the party of capital, and
the ether party will be, under whatever
name, the party of labor.
ut certainly would tend to make pri-
Yate property far more secure In
America If the less fortunate majority
of our population saw US of the more
fortunate minority giving courage and
time and thought to efforts to solve
these problems and others like them,
and thereby to lessen some of the evils
which in many cases bear SO heavily
and so unjustly upon the poor
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
FRENCH WHEAT SHORTAGE.
Will Have to Import aS.c0S.3oo Nr.s,s..
cNfa ysx..s


WILL Have to Import aS.cOS.5oo Nr.hs:.
Th,A Ssx..
Washington July a.-ai.1:, interest
u manifested here in the reports t:rnl
Paris stating that the shortage in lie
French wheat crop woa!G probably
necessit2te the Importation: 81 at least
S6.0O0,0eG bushels this year, Trance g+ss
wheat from outside. shelly fistil ti..:
United States and the Argentine RE
public. but the duties imposed oi. Amer
lean wheat and -four have l;een przc-
tica,iS prohibitive for several gears.
The figures Of the expectation of
American wheat 20 France show thai.
III 1881 the total was l3,S43, 354 bushels,
valued at Sl25SO, S22 In 1892 the ex-
ports rose TO 42,lSa,4sS bushels, valued
at $43. T7S,6SS. In 1880 they were 1881, All
bushels. For eleven months Of this
fiscal year America has exported only
1,G06,6l1 bushels of wheat to France
French wheat has sold during the
last year at from s3.47 to $3.66 per go
pounds net to the farmer. Imported
wheat sold for S4.53, duty added. The
fact that foreign wheat can be import
ed during years of French plenty and
sold for more than the domestic crop
arises largely from the application OF
Il law renting the duty on wheat
made into flour for export. BY impos-
Ing duty on wheat Imported for con-
/ /!
1t was made into flour and exported,
the home market was protected and
the export market preserved when the
domestic crop was short. In seasons
of plenty, however, French millers con-
tinue to import wheat and to secure
therebate. 1thas been proposed to aban-$
don this system and to substitute boun-
ties on exports Of French wheat and
flour. "a
Germany is also Ii. t,anger of a heavy
shortage In her wheat supply. Mr..
Mason, the United States consul at
Berlin, has sent report to the state
department saying:
The unfavorable condition OF this
wheat and rye fields OF Germany has
grown more and more ominous, until 1t
Is now recognized as inevitable that
the cereal harNests Of 1901 in Prussia
will show the largest and most dis
astrous deficit that has been recorded
III recent years. From the most care
fui estimates that can now be made,
the winter wheat crop of Prussia,
which was 2,245515 metric tons in 1900.
will this year not exceed 1892, 900 tons.
leaving deficit of 1,053,515 tons, which
would cost $43,732, 500 to replace with
imported grain
Including the deficit in the rye crop,
Mr.. Mason says that in Prussia alone
there will be shortage Of 1.766,636 tons
OF bread producing cereals, valued at
s67, 246, 500. 9
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.
As~s Ersn Natia.~l 0.P,sal Of North
Western InteReas.


western Intefeas.
Washington, June 29.-Postmasters have
been appointed as follows:
Iowa-Leland, Winnebago county, Chas
Isaacs, vice p L. Barnstad. removed !;
Prussia, Adair county, II. D. CLANCY, vice
W. W.: McCreight. resigned; Pioneer,
humboldt county, II. A. Greiner vice j.
M. Anderson, removed.
Nebraska--Dunbar. Otoe county, IL. j.
Cooper, vice c. II. Wilson, resigned.
The controller of the currency has ap-
proved the Continental National bank OF
Chicago and the Northwestern National
bank of Minneapolis as reserve agents for
the Live Stock National bank of Sioux
City.
John l.. Burgett of Indianola Ia, has
been appointed assistant meat Inspector
In the bureau of animal industry. to be
located outside of Washington.
Pensions have been granted as follows
Iowa: Increase-James NJ. Locke, Cres-
ton. SIT: Vincent Travis. Soldiers home,
Marshalltown, s12; James Payne, Bentons-
port, $14: Matthew Johnson, Mt. Pleasant
s14; William Conway, Manchester, $40;
George A. Ayrill Malvern. $40: orwin p.
independence. 81; Gideon Thompson, J Jes.
up, SO; David ]. Curry, Grant. S14: Isaac
N. Cav, Whitman, SO: James II. Beed
Hampton. $40; Joseph Bowman, Scranton
City, $12. Original widows. etc.-Special
act, June IL, Caroline e. Parker, Moor
Nebraska: Authorizations w. Mckay,
South Omaha, S12. Restoration and reissue
jeremiah H. Sandy, dead, Gretna, sl2
Increase--Calvin Lantis. Niobrara, 49,
Isaac h q c9z Tsfumssh M George Bsr
Reese Roe, Overton, S.
South Dakota: Increase--Daniel B.
Shaw. Bangor, SO; Henry D. King, HUI
ron. $40.
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DowA6ER WORT RETuRn.
Fears Trap to Capture Her nd Dcsig nat~
Now Capital.

Fears Trap to Capture Hor > nd Desig matt
Now Capital.
Shanghai, uJly 2.--Marquis Tseng has
received dispatch from Sian Flu to
the effect that the empress dowager,
fearing a trap to capture her, declines
the grand council that the future cap
ital will be Kai Feng Flu, in the prov
nee Of Ho Nan.
Tien Fsin. July 1.-The city of Tien
Tsin is now more crowded than ever.
Officers Of all nations are here enroute
for their homes, and the hotels are
placing cots In every available place.
Apartments have been prepared at
the University Of Tien Tsin for Prince
Chuan and his suite OF forty, who will
remain there for three deys before
leaving for Germany to make formal
apologies for tho murder Of Baron Won
Kettler.
Mr.. DENLY, who. when the foreign
troops arrived, was appointed by the
China Merchants company to protect
their property, says the company In It's
claim against the United States govern
ment does not use the word lost
against the marines, but merely holds
them responsible The greater part OF
the company's property consisted Of
rice, which was afterward distributed,
under orders from the British and Am
erican generals, to assist those In need.
Mr.. DENLY thinks the company's claim
should have been added to the indem-
nifty as legitimate expenditure
1t Is pointed out that the company
stored three boxes of valuables with
the Chartered bank before the troubles
began and did not withdraw these until
October and that consequently 1t ii
quite improbable any Jewels were left
to be looted. Moreover the place was
thoroughly gone through by local loot
ers before the allied forces arrived. IT
would be legally impossible to hold any
portion for anything but the rice and
sity to feed Chinese coolies who were
forced to labor and also those who were
~ithout means Of livlihood.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
JOHNs0N's MONOPOLY CURE.
Equal Taxation VIII DO It, According te
tho Cleveland Mayor,

Detroit, Mich, July AT am one o,
those" said Mayor Tom l.. johnson OF
Cleveland before the second national So
cial and political conference at it's open.
ing session. who believes that the great.
est evil threatening this country today Is
monopoly in private hands,
MIR. Johnson thought that the cure foa
monopoly was equal taxation and said .
The day that the evils Of taxation ir
this country are cured, the day that all
classes of men pay the same rate of tax.
atom, Is the day that this country will be
able to control these rlonopolies."
There We're less than 100 people in Phil
harmonic hall when President E. /.
Tweed Pomeroy OF New York called the
conference tc order, and introduced Mayor
Johnson as chairman of the session. 'tThs
Function of the Church i'll F,urthering
Equality was the first subject upon the
program. and the Rev. H.. s. Bigelow of
Cincinnati and DR.. Alexander Kent Of
Washington presented their views of the
question, after which it was debated from
the floor.
How to use the Press was discussed
b! James E. Scripps of Detroit and Willis
]. Abbott of Ann Arbor, while George H.
Sibiey of Washington and Charles b. Pat
slerson. editor of the Arena, discussed
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