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The Heistnnd Inyestigntion.

Washington, Oct. 7.-AIr. George d.
Meiklejohn, former assistant secretary
OF war. was a witness before the SEN
ate military affairs committee ut the
Heistand investigation. He had come
to Washington from Chihuahua, Mex,
to testify. He detailed his recollec-
ton Of the proposed hemp company.
He said that when the proposition was
made TO him by Colonel Heistand to
take stock in the company he replied
that he would give it his consideration
when he had leisure. He declared that
he had not signed the ''To Whom 1t
May Concern" letter introducing Major
Hawkes., with his official title. He eX-
planned ut length Major Hawkes. ap-
pointment to position in the Philip
pine service and asserted that the ap-
pointment was made solely upon the
strength of Hawkes. recommendations
and upon that of his own record as a
soldier. He declared it had nothing to
do with Hawkes. controversy with
Heistand.
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MIR. Hay LIS Much Retter.

Washington, Oct. THE secretary
of state is expected to return next week
from his much Interrupted vacation
greatly improved in health and ready
for the winters work. He is to receive
the degree of doctor of laws at New
Haven on the occasion of the Yale BIZ
centenary. When asked the other day
il there was any truth in the state
ment attributed to Secretary Gage that
Mr.. Hay was soon to retire from the
cabinet. lie replied that he was sure
Mr.. Gage had said nothing of the sort
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suprcme Court Meets Next Monday.

Washington, Oct. I. - The United
States supreme court will rcconvenc
next Monday, Oct. II, after recess of
four months. The room in which the
court ordinarily meets, the senate
chamber Of the old part of the capitol
building, has been undergoing exten-
sive repairs during the vacation, and
these have not been concluded. Until
this work is done the court will meet
in the rooms of the judiciary commit
Tee of the senate. There are two OF
those rooms, and it is believed that
they will be found to be as well adapted
to the purposes of the court as any tenn
porary quarters could be.
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Fourth Class postmasters.

Washington, Oct. THE following
fourth class postmasters have been ap-
pointed:
New Jersey - Plainville, William
Schlathaus.
Pennsylvania-Alden C. w. Will
marth; Jacobs Creek, n. L. Keck;
Mainville, w. NJ. Longenberger; Valley
Point, S. j. Erwin.
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LOST.

On Saturday night, solitaire diamond
ring, plain band, on Madison street be.
tween Fourth and Ninth, or Fourth
street between Monroe and Market. Re
ward if returned to William ii.
Hawkins, No. 6l0 Market street.
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STORE FIXTURES.

Get our price on Billiard and Pool
Tables before buying elsewhere. sold on,
asy payments. Our cushions are guar.
snteed for twenty years, and are made3
by a new vulcanizing process. Old tahlrss
fitted with our cushions are as good as
new, satisfaction guaranteed or money
refunded. See our advertisement OF
Manager Wanted" for lawful slot ma
chine.
'ALMER BILLIARD TABLE WORKS.
Chicago, III.
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sbipwreeISed Crew Picked up.

Newport News, Va, Oct. THE
crew of the British brgantine Alice
Bradshaw, lumber laden, from Savan-
nah for st. Johns, whose boat was lost
at sea, has arrived here.
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Bargains in clothing, furniture, kitchen
utensils and various other useful articles
ut the rummage sale for the benefit OF
the Homeopathic Hospital in Pyle's Cy-
Gle Academy.
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National Encampment, Union Vet
eran Legion. at Getty sburg, Pa.
Eednced Rates via the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
On account of the National Encamp-
mant, Union Veteran Legion, at Gettys-
burg, Pa, October 8 to II, the Pennsyi-
vania Railroad Company will sell ex-
cursion tickets mt the rate of one fare
for the round trip from all points on its
line to Gettysburg. Tickets to be sold
and good going October 6, Z. s, 8, and 10
returning, TO October Is, inclusive.
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n.crc,se Tn EngIish Trade.

Liverpool, Oct. THE statement of
the board of trade for the month of
September shows decreases of f3,024,-
100 in imports and of G2,5SS,5OO in ex-
DOrtS
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Union Veteran Legion Fin campmen
Gettysburg. Pa, October 0-1
Baltimore ~ Ohio Railroad.

One fare for the round trip to the fa-
nous Battlefield. Tickets on sale Octn-
her $, . and 10, good to return until
October 18th inclusive. Apply Ticket
Agent, Baltimore and Ohio r. r. for full
| information.
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Ameer reported Dead.

London, Oct, IA news agency dis
patch from Simla says ii is reported
there that the ameer of Afghanistan,
Abdur Rahman Khan, is lead.
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Old and New Sale for benefit of the
Homeopathic Hospital, al of this week,
at Pyle's Cycle Academy.
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Fine premiums given away to agents
selling our celebrated face preparation,
"Glycerine Pearl" Sample bottle fifty
cents. Premium catalogue free.
The Floyd Drug X Chemical Co.,
ShelnyYille, Ind.
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HELP WANTED.

WANTED-Men with rig to Introduce
Monarch Poultry Mixture; $4,000 weekly
and expenses; years contract; weekly
nay. Address with stamp, Monarch
Mfg. Co., Box S53. Springfield. Illinois.
Manager wanted in every large couuty
to appoint agents for the Famous Game
O'Skill' nickel slot machine for drinks
or cigars; lawful everywhere. takes
place of all forbidden slot machines.
Rented or Sod on easy payments. Sc
.ure. territory quick.
ALMER BILLIARD TABLE WORKS
Chicago, Ill.
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Section Thirty.
Duluth, Oct. IA.

Frank Eaton, and others interested
in the scrip location or 800 acres of
the famous section 30-63-11, will soon
know wether the big stake they have
been fighting for so many years, is
lost or won.
The final chapter in the case of the
Midway company vs.. Frank Eaton ct
al is about to be opened in the United
States supreme court, and with the
decision, which may be handled down
by Jan. 1, will be ended one of the
most notable controversies, involving
millions of dollars represented by
iron ore lands, that has ever occurred
in the United States. This case may
very properly be described as the
human interest side of the famous
section 80 case, which has been in
litigation for II years. If Eaton
wins he will be lifted from poverty to
the top shelf of affiuence.
The lands involved lie near Ely, on
the Vermilion range. Section 80 is
known to contain extensive deposits
of rich iron ore and nothing except
the litigation has prevented the
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To Improve the Docks.

The Duluth & Iron Range Railroad
company has under consideration
plans for the improvement of ore
Dock No. at Two Harbors. 1t is
proposed to increase the height of the
dock about nine feet and raise the
ore spOutS seven feet. The changes
will increase the capacity of the dock
somewhat and by raising the spouts
make it more convenient in the
matter of loading the larger class of
boats. There is no room to extend
the dock. the dock is 1000 feet long
81 feet high and has 1913 pockets.
The increased size of vessels has
played the mischief with the old time
ore docks. The first ore dock at Two
Harbors was only 80 feet high, and
that would not do at all now. Ore
docks for loading large boats coming
light for cargoes have to be upward of
60 feet high to be suited to the work.
The Eastern Minnesota dock on
Allouez bay is Y feet high, the high
ests ore dock in the country.
1t will be necessary to grade up the
tracks leading to the dock to be in
creased in height at Two Harbors and
the entire work will call for an ex-
penditure of about 100000.
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the scrip locations. but it was reversed
by Secretary Villas. and his reversal
was sustained by Secretary Noble.
The secretaries held that the slmui-
taneous execution of the two powers
of attorney for cash considerations.
accompanied by delivery of the scrip,
amounted to plan to evade the stat
ute prohibiting the transfers of this
kind of scrip. At the hearing it de-
| veloped that Hyde had entered into a
contract to transfer the land in case
he was successful, and the secretaries
held this too, was in violation OF the
law and that neither Eaton nor Hyde
were entitled to the land. Immediate
ly this decision became known there
was a rush for the land office. Parties
said to represent the Minnesota
Iron, Germania Iron and Midway
companies obtained filings on parts
of the coveted land. Since then
section 80 has been in constant liti-
SdUlOll III SDoUC anu lCuCldI COui Oos
There has been no decision yet ul-
timately settling the rights of the
parties.
In December, 1899. Judge Moer of
| the district court overruled the de-
cisiOn of Secretaries Villas and Noble,
and set aside the patent under which
the Midway company claimed the
land, and awarded title to scrip de-
PENDANTS Eaton, ct al. The supreme
court Of Minnesota sustained this de-
csion and now it is up to the United
States supreme court, L. G. Harris,
law partner of Charles A. TOwne, is
in Washington representing Eaton,
and J. L. Washburn is there repre-
senting other defendants. The at
| torneys for Eaton contend that while
it may be illegal to convey the Sioux
scrip, the law does not prohibit con-
yeyance of the land obtained under it.
1t develops that the object of the
government in prohibiting the trans
fer of the scrip was to avoid disputes
between the scripee and third persons,
which the government might be
called on to settle.-News Tribune.
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Development upon it of some of the
best mines in the Lake Superior
region. During all these years the
CONTROVERSY has rn. .. the entire gamut
of the land department and now ap-
proaches its finish in the court CT last
resort. The company is controlled by
A. M. Miller, of this city.
The case has become a cause cele-
bre, and no other piece of property in
the west has been so prolific Of liti-
CATION and has engaged the attention
at one time or another of so many
eminent lawyers. Section 80 litiga-
tion has, it is estimated, incurred
expenses to the amount of more than
$500, 900.
In the land department. where the
case was most bitterly contested, the
defendant Eaton was represented by
Wayne McVeigh of Philadelphia, for
mer attorney general of the United
States; Burdett. Thompson & Law,
and Brainerd & Lee. of Washington,
and opposed to them were James X.
Redington and Manning & Fox, of
Washington and P. I'll. Seymour and
Walter Ayers of Duluth,
In 1854 the United States negO-
tiated treaty with certain Sioux
half breeds to relinquish their title to
land lying on the western shore of
Lake Pepin. in the Mississippi river.
near Lake City.
In lieu of these lands the half
breeds were to select other lands in
any part of the public domain. In
order to identify the half breeds,
scrip was issued to them specifying
how much land each was entitled to
take up. The law provided that NO
transfer of the scrip should be valid.
The half breeds soon began to dispose
Of their scrip, however, and one OF
them, Grille Moreau, executed power
of attorney to locate land to Eaton.
and power of attorney to sell the
land to Leonidas Merritt. Eaton, in
1883, located the scrip on 800 acres in
section 80 in the name of MOreau
Merritt. as attorney in fact for Nor.
eau, conveyed to Eaton. and the
other scrip defendants, M. Lonsterff
now deceased, of Milwaukee; Leon
;I,c Marritt p TT FaOap and M
Clark obtained their interests
through Eaton. In 1884 Thomas
Hyde OF Ely. who once could have
sold his interest to Colonel Pickands
of Cleveland, for fortune, took ;
preempton on the land described, al
leging that the land had been located
in violation of the law by the scri]
locators. The local land office uphelt
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They read in the papers that the state
bank examiner has warned all audi
tors and treasurers against deposit
ing money in private banks. What Is
the natural and inevitable thought
that comes to the depositor's mind?
elf the state bank examiner, who is
supposed to know all about the con-
dltion of banks in this state, feels
constrained to warn county officials,
it is about time l drew out my
money" You have filed his mind
full OF suspicion and distrust, which
he In turn imparts to his neighbOI,
and so on. You have thereby done an
uncalled for and unnecessary injury
to hundreds of worthy men which
you are now powerless to remedy.
Your circular, sir. is meddlesome
mischief maker, tending to unsettle
good business conditions and create
lack of confidence generally.
You keep within the legal changer
limit" by making your SANDER so
general, so impersOnal that you are
not amenable to the law. You dare
not mention single private bark in
this state as being unsafe or in en-
barrassed circumstances.
wonder what prompted you to
issue that circular. Was it because
your own unblemshed career and
purity of purpose made you abnorm-
ally sensitive to anything that might
SAVIOR of crookedness, or was it a
matter of yare cussedness?
There comes to us, however, my
dear general. the consoling thought
that ffici'ally-you will soon become
history-profane history. Yours
respectfully.
o. D. KINNEY.
Duluth, Oct. IA.
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PRIVATE BANKS
Gen. e. NJ. Pope Issues a Rejecting Cir
cular and o. ID. Kinney Replies.


County Auditor Halden and the
board of county commissioners have
received printed instructions from
State Examiner Pope in regard to the
use ofprlvate banks as repositories OF
public funds. The circular is rather
an elaborate treatise on banks, incor-
porated and unincorporated, showing
the safeguards thrown by law around
the operations of the former, and
showing that these do not apply to
the latter. The manifest object is to
discourage counties from depositing
any public funds in private banks.
Hon. o. d. Kinney has issued an
open letter to the bank examiner in
which Mr.. Kinney says several things
that are not to the liking of Gen.
Pope and which statements will re-
ceive the approbatiOn-of many bust
ness men throughout the state. Mr.
Kinney's letter is as follows:
To Gen. E. M. Pope, state bank ex-
aminer: Dear Sir:-YOu have recently
issued and mailed to the different
county auditors and other county
officials in this state circular letter
containing an exhaustive dissertation
on the science of banking and your
individual dictum in relation to
private banks. The gist of your cir
cular, and the purpose for which it
was intended, is, in substance,
warning to said officials against de-
posting county funds in a private
bank.
In personal interview with you,
you undertook to justify or at least
palliate the gross injustice and injury
which you have done to many solvent
and reliable banking institutions in
this state. on the ground that you
nor thepublic had any knowledge of
the standing of private banks; that
they published no sworn statements
of their condition so that the public
could judge of their solvency, and
also that they were not subject to in
spectiun by the bank examiner. The
three statements are correct, and par
ticularly as to your own knowledge of
them.
The relative standing of banks
should be judged somewhat from their
records-from statistics. You know
If you do not. you should know
that for the past ten years and par
ticularly during and since the panic
of 1893, there have been less failures,
in proportion to their numbers. in
this city, county and state generally,
among private banks than among
National uho
failures have occurred, they have
paid more per cent to their depositors
than either of the others. You also
know that men of equal financial re-
sponsibility engaged in banking as
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partners make the institution safer
and more reliable than either nOtiona
or state banks with the men afOre
said as stockholders, for the reason
that, as stockholders, their liability
is Il stock liability only on the stock
they own, while in a private bank
every man interested is liable fol
every dollar of Indebtedness. Is that
correct? Look over the records of the
national and state banks that have
failed in this state in the past ten
years and you know-if you do not.
the depositors know-that three out
of four of the stockholders, when
called upon to put up" their stock
liability. have turned out to be abso-
lutely execution proof" or, if not,
they were atle in some way to COM
promise for mere pittance.
l cOncede that rigid and intelli-
gent examination of banks should and
does tend to keep them In line of
legitimate banking. But alas! Take
any of the national and state banks
that have failed and you will find,
with few exceptions. that the examin-
er either did not do his duty or else
the security that comes to the patrons
of the bank by or through eXamina-
ton, which you so strongly eulogiZe,
has been somewhat insecure, and the
examination in many cases has been
an examination that did not ex-
amine"-intelligently.
In this county, and ] presume in
many others, the treasurer, before
depositing money in any bank re-
quires bond, not of individuals. but
of reliable corporate insurance COM
pany. No loss can come to the treas
urer, no matter what may be the
banks condition, and in addition
you have full Jurisdiction and con-
troll over the treasurer's office and can
accept or reject anything he may do
along that line, so that your circular
letter was not needed In that partic-
ular.
What I particularly object to, Gen
Pope, and you will find hundreds of
other private bankers and their
friends object to, is this: That you
have gone out of your way-outside
of the requirements Of your otfice-tO
poison the public mind in regard to
yOuS SOhlOooOuAys
know absolutely nothing about and
to inject your dictum into a matter
that-in plain English-is none of
your business.
You might with equal propriety
say to the patrons of any private
bank that Jones or Smith or Kinney,
who own and conduct them, are not
to be trusted, because, forsooth. you
know nothing about them and be-
cause they do not publish. semi
annually. or oftener, sworn state
ment to the effect that they are good.
honest, law-abiding citizens.
Now sir, what is the effect of your
libellous circular-intended or other
wise?
A majority of depositors suppose
that you examine private banks as
we'll as stase, which of course you do
not tor which we cross ourselves.
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w. P. Chinn, formerly chief clerk
at the Elba mine at Mckinley, has
been promoted to the position of
manager of the Eliza. made vacant by
the resignation of Manager Mccarthy
who goes to Alabama. Mr.. Chinn
has many friends in this city who
wish him all manner of success in his
new position. He is, a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chinn of this city.