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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06
From the Richmond Times.

From the Richmond Times.
 Presidents of the anthracite coal roads say they are satisfied with the strike outlook Certainly. One ton of coal at s10 will go as far with them as ten tons at $1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06
From the E0faula Times.

From the Enfaula Times.
 From and after yesterday Judge Fea- gir of Birmingham will give the pistol toter the full maximum of the law. There will be more empty pistol pockets in his jurisdiction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

Let ill enough alone" is really the cry of the sacred tariffites,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

Roast Beef Alger will return to Washington conquering hero.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

David Bennett Hill is taking no chances this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

From the New York Commercial.
 Coal prices may be treated jocularly until the first snow flies. After that light references will be criminal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06
Little Rock Gazette.

From the Little Rock Gazette
 The coal reserve is the thing at Wash ington now, instead of the gold re- serve. A car of precious anthracite has arrived for the White House and is being guarded by policemen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06
About Persons.

W. P. Kennedy of Pen city Is at the Morris.
 K. E. Walker of cordova is at the Nor ris.
 John Douglass Of Florence is at the Morris.
 
 First Vice President Hines of the Louis- vile and Nashville. who arrived in Bir- mingham Saturday night spent yesterday in making a tour over the Birmingham Mineral railroad. He had never been over that line before He was accompanied by B. NJ. Starks, superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville and the Mineral road Mr. Hines will leave for Louisville at noon today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM.

From the Tuscaloosa Times.
 Birmingham is still furnishing lots of news for the press dispatches. It is a cold day np there when something re- markable don't happen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

From the N Y. American and Journal.
 Every man feels the pinch of this coal strike-and what man does not?-has re- ceived an education in practical political economy. He knows now by actual ex- perence what the consequences are of allowing the country's natural resources to be monopolized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

From the Newport News Times.
 Coal is s25 a ton in New York. and Russell Sage has probably gone to light ing tallow candles for his stoves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

The Shaw treatment of Wall street is reducing the fever in that locality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

J. J. Hill is opposed to all trusts but his own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

From the Chicago News
 If the coal barons insist the government may have to demonstrate that it can run the coal mines as successfully as it runs the postoffice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

zola's death was as sensational as hls life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 1421 c Street. N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-06
From the Chicago Record-Herald.

T A BEEN l asked William A Pinker- ~ ton, the great detective. What
 AN is the matter with Chicaeaa1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
PRINTING POSTAGE STAMPS.
Friction Between Departments Re-
moved by a Conference.

Mr. Madden, assistant postmaster gen
eral, and Mr. Allies. assistant secretary of
the treasury held a conference of two
hours yesterday over some questions that
have grown out the printing of postage
stamps by the bureau Of engraving and
printing There have been rumors of fric-
ton between the bureau and the Post Of
flee Department relative to this work, due
to number Of small things. It is under
stood that the conference yesterday was
thoroughly satisfactory to both sides and
that all the friction has been removed
Mr.. Allies representing the bureau, found
that Mr.. Madden had good cause for some
objections to certain things in the work at
everything satisfactorily Mr.. Madden like
wise agreed with Mr.. Allies In some things
and it is stated that all basis for talk of
the contract for printing the stamps being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
SOUTHWESTERN OIL FIELD.
Porosity of the Rock Favors Its Early
Exhaustion.

The TeXas-Louisiana oil field is discussed
exhaustively in a report of the United
States geological survey. The existence Of
petroleum in the gulf coastal plan, extend
ing inland for from 30 to 100 miles, has
been known as far back as 1860. The re-
port says the extreme porosity of the Spin
dletop oil rock favers the storage of a very
large volume of oil, and a very rapid yield
when the reservoir is tapped. But 1t also
favors the early exhaustion of the oil in the
pool, and its rapid replacement by the I'M
DERIVING salt water Beds of sulphur-bear-
ing sand are reported from some of the
wells Spindletop, and beds of gypsum
and Of salt from others. The conclusion Is
reached with regard to the Spindletop field
that the Spindletop oil rock contains about
one-fourth of it's volume of Oil. Even If
the estimate Is one barrel obtained for every
twenty-six cubic feet for Spindletop and a
little less for other fields, there should be
yield equal to the Baku field in Russia,
and much greater output than that of any
Of the other American fields. The yield of
the Baku field has been estimated to equal
about one-fifth of the volume Of the rock.
The petroleum stored in the Trenton lime
stone, one of the best producing limestones
in America, has been estimated at about 10
per cent of the rock, and the statement is
made that small portions of the best Penn
sylvania fields have yielded 100000 barrels
per square mile.
Inc report says tndt the apparent con-
sensus of opinion among chemists who
have examined the field is that the gulf
coast petroleum Is unsuited for the produc-
ton of Illuminating oil, and that 1t is doubt
full If 1t can be made to yield good lubri-
eating oil on commercial basis. Its value
as q source of asphalt and as gas oil are,
as yet, undetermined. The experiments
seem to establish both Its availability and
it's economy as generator of steam.
Whether the Beaumont petroleum may be
successfully used in metallurgcal processes
Is not yet settled.
The combined tankage of steel and earth
en- tanks at Beaumont is, at the present
time about 1900, 900 barrels. The estimate
of the average daily flow of 1852 wells now
operating at Spindletop is not to exceed
5000 to $4,000 barrels.
The total production Of crude petroleum in
the Beaumont Spindletop field, including
the oil wasted from wild gushers and
from other wells, the local consumption, the
oil held in tanks and the oil shipped away,
from the beginning Of 1901 up to May 81,
1902, is estimated at IL ,68S, 900 barrels The
value of well material, tanks, tank cars,
pipe lines, pumping stations refineries and
wells producing, drilling and abandoned, is
estimated at about 81, $40. OOO December 81,
1901, the number of wells abandoned was
twenty eight, of producing wells 131 and of
wells drilling, forty-six total of 2O5. May
l, 1902, there were fifty-two abandoned
wells, 24O producing wells and sixty wells
drilling total of S52
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Couldn't Deny the Charge.

Jack Maloney, who is well known to the
residents in the vicinity of I'd and streets
northeast. and also to- the officials at the
Police Court, reappeared in court this morn
ing after protraeted absence.
I'm guilty Of that he said after Clerk
Harper had read a charge of disorderly con-
duct to Aim nj
Policeman Long told, Judge Bundy that
Jack was very boisterous while near the
government printing ofiiee yesterday after
ence of liquor. Jack explained his long alb
sence from court by saying that he went to
Kansas City. where he spent eight months
after serving term OF six months on the
farm here
II only returned home Sunday and had
the misfortune to get drunk" he explained
mo, see your manners haven't changed
any, the court remarked.
The fine was $40. and in default of that
sum Jack will not be at liberty again for
one month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
PLAGUE AND CHOLERA
nAvAaEs nHpenuffD TO MARINE
HOSPITAL SERVICE.
Cases in the Philipnines Since March
90 Aggregated 10, 600, With
Mortality of rs Per Cent.

The fearful raxageat of plague and
cholera In the old wofH are set forth In
mail advices received BY the marine hos
pital service. From Manila Chief Quaran-
tine Officer Perry makes a conservative es-
innate that the cases of cholera that have
actually occurred in the Philippine Islands
since March 20 last aggregate $4,000, with a
mortality of IS per cent. He says under date
Of September 10 that the disease has practi-
cally disappeared from those provinces first
infected, but those most recently infected
are suffering severely. The province OF
noilo and the adjacent Island Of Negroes are
badly infected, and the situation is alarm
ing. Some Of the towns in these provinces
have lost 10 per. cent of their population,
and the epidemic continues severe.
In japan the latest advices show that
there have been 4,329 cases and $50 deaths
from cholera.
Situation in China.
The cholera situation in China is summed
up as follows: Reported in the provinces
of Human and Shansi and in the following
cities:'
Marking, epidemic, 10000 deaths; Foo
Chow, epidemic; Shouyanghsien, epidemic.
5000 cases per day; Hsinchou, epidemic;
Taiyuanfu, epidemic; Hsiaotiontze, epidem-
ic; Shoupang, epidemic:- Shihlich, epidemic !;
Chengi ohien, epidemic Kinkiang, reported !;
Nanchangfu, reported; Sheoyang, reported;
Hankow, reported; Tientsin, reported; 500
chow, reported. In Hong Kong since the
beginning OF the outbreak there have been
459 cases and 396 deaths. Notwithstanding
this the local authorities declared the
colony free from plague infection.
In Egypt.
According to report of the director gen.
eral of the Egyptian department of health,
the cholera epidemic continues to claim a
large number of victims. The number of
infected places increased to 1857. The num-
Der of cases registered during the week end
ed Septembr 10 amounted to 9,467 with
S,21S deaths. OF the 2S.520 cases Of cholera
registered between July 15 and August 10.
% 6S4 were fatal. During the four days from
September 10 to September 10 there were
registered 4,U4S cases and S,76l deaths. In
Suez. between September 10 and September
10, 20 fresh cases were registered. In Damietta
the daily number of cases recorded is said to
be 80. Karnak and Luxor are also infected
with the disease. In Alexandria during the
week ended September 10 "a cases of
cholera occurred among Europeans and Al
deaths, and during the following five days
80 cases and 25 deaths were recorded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Dies in an Ambulance.

William r. Spencer of 14OS sth street
northwest died in an ambulance last night
while being taken to the hospital, suffering
with a hemorrhage which began in front
Of 1900 7th street. An effort was made to
get him to a hospital in time TO afford
relief. but death claimed him before
he reached the institution. His body was
removed to the morgue, where 1t was view
ed by the coroner this morning.
A certificate of death from ma tural causes
vas given and Undertaken Wright removed
the body to the late home OF the deceased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
BON MARCHE, 314=32O 9th ST.

in number, while the private or independent
schools are a. This by no means gives the
number of school buildings. Many of them
are being taught in several buildings. Thus
the normal school has three separate build
ings, the Ainakea School in Kohala has
two, SO has the Makapala School In the
same district the Royal School has four,
and SO forth. By the 143 schools is meant
143 schools under the charge of 143 prin-
cipals. These schools vary in size from 600
in some of the city schools to an enrolment
of fifteen or twenty in very remote and
isolated villages.
The Segregation of Lepers.
1.-The policy of segregation of lepers was
adopted by the enactment of special statutes
with this object in view in 1865. The leper
settlement on the Island of Molokai was
established in the year 1885, during which
year 141 patients were sent there.
THE policy of segregation was loosely
carried out for a number of years after the
establishment of the settlement During
the frs. seven years the patients admitted
averaged ia per annum, and the largest
number admitted in any one year was IS3.
In 1873 q stricter enforcement of the law
was carried out, and 487 patients were sent
to the settlement. Thereafter until 1887 the
law Of segregation was only partially en-
forced and the number Of admissions during
those years averaged al per annum and
the largest number admitted in any one year
was 901.
Since 1887 the law has been vigilantly
carried out. The number of admissions in
1888 was 579; In 1889, 3OS; and in 1890, 202;
and from that year to the present time the
admissions have decreased in number
though not regularly from year to year
He also reports a decrease in the number
Of arrests in Honolulu for all offenses for
the past year over the year before OF 323,
and that the arrests for drunkenness had
fallen off, as compared to the previous year,
by 1913 This decrease in the number of ar
rests for drunkenness the high sheriff at
tributes to the policy of the government Of
issuing a considerable number of licenses
having been recently declared unconstitlI-
tional by the local federal court, a further
opportunity will be afforded of studying
their influence on drunkenness.
Burned by Board Of Health.
1.-The fire claims commission of five per-
sons, appointed under the authority Of act
Is Of the session laws of 1901, being an act
to provide for the ascertainment and pay
ment Of all claims which may be made by
persons whose property was destroyed by
fire in the years A. D. 1899 and 1900, under
orders 70 the board Of health began to
take evidence In proof Of such claims in
May 1901. 1t continued un session until
June, 1902, with the exception of three
months taken for giving the clerk OPP
portunity of keeping up with his work OF
entering claims adjudicated by the commits
sion.
The number of claims filed was 674S
amounting in the aggregate to So, 1I5. 132 90
All Of these claims were heard and adjudi-
Gated, the aggregate of the awards amount
ing to 81 .4T3, 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Annual Election.

The Federation of Liquor Dealers has ar
ranged for the election of officers tomorrow
afternoon for the ensuing year al its hall,
513 9th street northwest. The various can
didates for the different offices have been
making an active canvass. and as there
have been thirty-seven names presented
from which to select the fifteen officers.
spirited contest Is anticipated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Capt. MAYNARD Ordered Home.

Capt. w. Maynard has been detached
from duty as naval secretary of the light
house board. Treasury Department. and or
dered home to await retirement next Sat
urday. Owing to his service during the
war of the rebellion he Will be retired in
the advanced grade of rear admiral He is
a native of Tennessee, and entered the ma
val service in October, 1862. He has had
fifteen years sea service and reached his
present grade of captain in March, 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Introducing Valuable Plants.

SAT the government nursery the following
forage plants have been cultivated: Alfalfa.
red clover, crimson clover, teosinte, sor-
ghum, buffalo grass. Kentucky blue grass,
maize and pencilleria. records OF which are
kept. by which information is gained as to
the value of these plants for cultivation
here.
I'm the same grounds experiments have
been made in the cultivation of Hawaiian
and Samoan taro and yams, sisal, castor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Resiened From the Navy.

The designations of Lieut.. w. S. Mont
gomery and Ensign g. w. Faller of the
navy have been accepted, to take effect
January / next. Lieut.. Montgomery was
recently ordered to duty ON the training
ship Mohican.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
Total Expenditure of Nearly
S4,000,000 the Past Year.
THE ANIMAL REPORT
REAR ADMIRAL o'NEILL GIVES
DETAILS OF OPERATIONS.
The Proving Grounds at Indian Head
Needs of the Service-Es-
Inmates Submitted.

Interesting details in regard to the opera
tions, conditions and needs of the gun fac
tory at the Washington navy yard and OF
the naval proving grounds at Indian Head,
Maryland, are contained in the annual re-
port of Rear Admiral O'Neil, chief of the
naval bureau of ordnance, made public to-
day.
Referring to the fact that the gun fac
tory was established by ex-Secretary Whit
ney in August, 1885, Admiral O'Nefl says:
From the date of it's inception up to the
present time improvements have been made
nearly every year. New shops have been
built, the old ones enlarged and improved
new and improved machinery has been IN
stalled, the power plant has been increased
from time to time as necessary. electric
power has largely superseded the use or
steam, new branches of industry have been
successfully introduced, and the establish
ment has now become one of large proper
lions. second to none in this country and to
few abroad in its capacity for turning out
expedtiously and economically all classes
Of work which If is adapted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28

Frdcllcal FoWQer MAKER required.
The bureau believes that a foreman who
is a practical powder maker should be al
lowed for the smokeless powder factory at
Indian Head, as about 100 men are reg
ularly employed. The plant consists of
twenty-eight buildings. scattered over some
300 acres of land. many Of the buildings
being widely separated from each other.
The manufacture of rockets and other
night signals, formerly carried on at the
Washington navy yard, has been trans
ferred to Indian Head, as being a more
suitable place.
The building for chronographs and rec
ords has been completed. and the new dis
pensary Is approaching completion, and
will be ready for occupancy In few weeks
A new emplacement for heavy guns has
been constructed and Is In use.
The wharf has been strengthened, and a
small new fireproof building for storage Of
cartridge cases. ETC., has been erected.
Further improvements are required, and
the following are recommended: Three new
cast-steel gun platforms. concreting the
range battery, new stone pier, balanced
landing bridge and slip nitric-acid plant
and lightning protection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bron,o Quin.ne Tablets. All drug
rists refund the money II It fails to Il. W.
Groves signature is OF each box. 26c.
se3o-tu. th&s-fe6t
Morris tribune., 1902-12-06

IN positions OF slumDer. UIners were
found in the Railways lying face down
ward inpositions that mutely portrayed
how they had vainly endeavored to
save their lives Some were half clad
and others wore nothing but night
clothing. 1t was by means of arti-
cles and letters in the pockets of what
little clothing some of the dead per
sons wore that many identifications
were made.
All the Rooms Were Filled.
F. A. Smith, proprietor of the hotel,
said:
81 am certainly not to blame for this
awful catastrophe. Three weeks ago
the agents of this building were noti-
fed to place stairway in the rear of
the building and also to build fire
wall around the freight elevator shaft
in the rear The contractors came and
looked the building over, but nothing
was done. When the fire occurred our
seventy rooms were all filed and /
should judge that we had about 125 to
$50 guests Most OF our guests were
persons who came to Chicago to visit
the stock show and knew little OF the
building.
Chief Musham of the fire depart
ment said that it was the worst fire
he had attended during his career as
fireman and that so dense was the
smoke that it was impossible to reach
the imprisoned guests, who died like
rats in cage. When the firemen
finally managed to make their way
into the rooms the sight that met their
gaze was appalling. Men, women and
children lay about the floors of the
rooms and Railways where they had
fallen in their eagerness to escape.
..The building" said the chief, was
one of the worst firetraps have ever
seen. The floors in places had cracks
in them large enough to drop a penny
through and the smoke just sifted
through and suffocated the inmates OF
the rooms before they had time to
make their way into the Railways.
OF the people injured it was neces-
sary to take only three to the hospital
The others, suffering from slight cuts
and bruises or from the inhalation OF
smoke, were cared for at neighborins
drug stores and departed without
their names being reported to the po-@
lice. One of the injured taken to the
hospital is w. G. Thomas of Cedar
Rapids, Ia, who was badly cut and
burned,
Morris tribune., 1902-12-06
MAY MAKE FIGHT
HARTMAN INTERESTS LIKELY
no oPPoeE HILLS BID FOR
Asaiy L-slNEss.
MEANS l:EAVY LOSS TO THEM

Selection Of seatss,e as Chipping Point
Of government surslies to Manila
WoGld Cut cff, Eis Source Of Rev
enus - Southern Transcontinental
Roads Great Nc. taern President
in washington Reeare,. i Matter.
Washington, Dec ri ri esident J. J.
Hill o8 the Great Il o.,.en ailway is
in washington to cons lt WiSl! Sec
rotary Root on bids for trans,sc ing
of government supplies to the l3ailip-
pines, The Hill interests want to
make Seattle the shipping point and
their bids for sending government
business from the Pacific coast to Ma
Mia are below any other propositions.
Mr.. Hills presence in Washington
has revived interest in the efforts to
settle the shipping point of govern
ment supplies for the Philippines, On
this point Mr.. Hill says that he has no
interest in having the government give
up it's line of transports now plying
between San Francisco and Manila
and turn the business over to the line
between Seattle and Manila beyond
the fact that if the change we're made
it would make an excellent connection
for his railroad lines. Mr.. Hill added
that be has no direct interest in the
Boston Steamship company, which has
made a bid for the government bust
ness. He said that the bid was so low
that il is simply impossible for the
government to do business at an equal
cost, end it is impossible too, for any
company to buy the government trans
ports and enter into competition with
the Seattle bid.
Mr.SHtill's admission that the rail
road company is Indirectly interested
in getlinsg headqua rters Tor army ship
ments moved fTozn San Francisco to
Seattle will add aest to the fight be-
tween the two cities for the control
OF this business and the thing may de-
yelop into q fight between transcontis
mental railroads.
Il IIgf i;als in Washington expect,
that Mr.. iIaprinaan OF the Southern
Pacific, WHO is trying to develop the
commerce of San Francisco. may ent =.
Morris tribune., 1902-12-06
sTRuck 81 RUNAWAY TRUCK.
Mine Employees Killed in a Haz.etor
Ga (Pa.) Colliery.

Hazleton, Pa, Dec. s.. Elmer
Kischner, aged thirty-two, a boss car
penter, and Gustave Strack, aged
nineteen, were instantly killed while
descending the Cranberry mine in a
man car. Several other men in the
car escaped serious injury. The men
were on their way to the bottom OF
the slope for the purpose of building
platforms for the erection of pumps
that had been removed during the
strike. When near the bottom OF the
slope the man car was struck by
runaway truck. Kischner and Strack
were knocked from the car and in.
stantly killed.