The Lamar register., 1902-09-17

| "A. hyuH, Il IIttHtn tdNHuy, Wno WdS
tried by Il general court martial at Ma
Mia, on the charge of conduct to the
prejudice of good order and military
discipline. There We're two specifica-
| tions under the charge. The first al
legged that Captain Ryan, when COM
manding n detachment of troops at
Jiminez, Mindanao. and having in his
charge as prisoner, uvaldi Abing,
presidente of the pueblo of JimineZ, ad-
ministered the water cure to him for
the purpose of eXtOrtlng Information.
The second specification alleged that
Captain Ryan ill-trcated one Luis Cir
memo, vice presidcntc of the pueblo of
JimineZ. Il prisoner in his charge at
JimneZ, by holding his head in buck
| ct of water. The record shows that
Captain Ryan pleaded mot guilty" to
| the specifications and the charge, and
| that the court finds him mot guilty"
on the first specification, guilty" of
the second specification, attaching no
criminallty thereto, and mot guilty" OF
the charge. The court therefore ncquit-
ted Captain Ryan. The court martial
| in this case WIS appointed by the Pres
ident. The record of the proceedings
of the court having been submitted 20
the President, he indorsed 1t simply as
follows: The proceedings and find
ings in the foregoing case of Capt.
JhlicS "A. hyhH Vi tht TlllSSh'H thN-
airy are disapproved."
The following statement was issued
by the secretary of the treasury on the
18th inst:
Secretary Shaw has made arrange
ments to release about S4,OOO,0OO of
treasury holdings. He has n list pre-
pared of those national banks through
out the country which held free or
pledged bonds at the date of their last
report and had made inquiry for 9TH
ers. After making allowance for the
changed conditions since last report, he
expects this will release Mt least 81
100000 He has sent notice to all such
that II they will send these bonds TO
the treasurer of the United States, in
sums of $4,000 or more, they will be
designated as temporary repositories
and the face value of the bonds Will
be deposited with them to the credit
of the treasurer of the United States.
He has pursued this course in prefer
ence to designating repositories in the
ordinary way, which compels them TO
buy bonds in the market ut a large
premium, thus paying out more for the
bonds than they get from the govern
ment. The customs receipts are eX-
tremely heavy at this particular season
of the year and the cash balance of the
treasury has gradually increased. He
has also decided to anticipate tho Oc-
tober interest. amounting to about ST.
100000. and with this in view. orders
have been issued to the various sub
treasures to cash such coupons us may
be presented them for payment and the
treasurer of the United States has been
instructed to mail checks for interest
on the registered bonds.
The monthly report of the statisti-
clan of the Department of Agriculture
shows the average condition of corn
September 1st to have been Si.3 as
compared with S6.J August 1, 1902;
51.T September 1, 1901; 5000 at the
corresponding date in 1900 and ten
year average of TSS. Except in Kan
sas and South Dakota, which report Il
decline of twelve points and ten
points respectively. during August, no
material change of condition is report
ed from any of the principal corn
states. Notwithstanding its marked
decline during August, Kansas reports
condition of 81, or % points above the
ten-year average, while Nebraska and
Missouri exceed their respective ten
year averages by So and % points re-
spectively. The average condition at
harvest of winter and spring wheat
combined was so, against S2.S last
year, 69.6 in 1900 and ten-year aver
age of $50. Pennsylvania and Califor-
mia report 3 points below the ten-year
average. Iowa - points below and
Kansas condition of 10, or % points
below the ten-year average of the state.
The average condition of oats when
harvested was ST.2 against 721 last
year, $40 in 1900 and a ten-year aver
age of 70.7. While correspondents re-
port the harvesting of an exceptionally
large crop of oats, there are Indications
that the crop will be deficient in point
of quality. Reports as to the produc-
tioIi of peaches, as compared with
full crop in the important peach-grow-
ing states range from ten per cent. in
Illinois to 90 in Oklahoma. In all but
eight of the states having 2OOO,OOO
trees and upward in 1880. production
exceeding the ten-year average is
probable.
Secretary Moody has ordered the bat
tleship Wisconsin,, now at Bremerton,
and the cruiser Cincinnati, at Cape
Haytien, to proceed as soon as possible
to the Isthmus of Panama, the Wiscon-
sin reinforcing the Ranger at Panama
and the Cincinnati taking station at
Colon. 1t will take the Wisconsin fully
twenty days to make the long trip of
over 1000 miles down the Pacific coast
to Panama. The navy department had
intended to send the Boston. which is
now getting ready for service at San
Francisco, to relieve or reinforce the
Ranger, but the alarming situation
which has so quickly arisen on the
isthmus prompted the officials to take
more extensive measures to increase
the naval representation of the United
States in that section. 1t is realized
that Notwithstanding the absence of II
Haytien navy on either side of tba raw