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The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Missing Premier
Hepburn, 3 on
Plane Are Safe
Alaska Hunt Ends;
Ship Forced to
Turn Back

(T.N.S.) Fears for the safety
Of Premier Mitchell Hepburn Of
Ontario and his party were re.
lieved today when the Army
radio station at Skagway,
Alaska, reported Hepburn's
plane had been forced to turn
back by bad weather and had
spent the night ut CarcrOss.
JUNEAU, Alaska, July 40
Q.N.S0-Sixteen hours Of silence
"a silence causing the gravest
fears-paSsed at 9:15 a. m. psf.
(12:15 p. m, Washington time)
today with no trace of Premier
Mitchell Hepburn of Ontario and
his companions, Bernard E. Smith,
New York broker, and J. P.
Bickell, Toronto financier, miss.
ing with their pilot in q twin
motored plane.
The premier and his friends
were making an a.OOO-miie "aerial
inspection trip" Of Canadian
provinces.
They have been missing since
Sis p. m. yesterday, when they
took off in a plane piloted by
Jimmy Towne, former Royal
Canadian Air Force flier of Vans
couver, B. c., from White Horse.
Yukon Territory. on q 135-mile
flight to Juneau.
NO WORD SINCE HOP
They have not been heard from
since the big plane rose from the
White Horse airport, bound for
Juneau, where the premier said
he intended to spend the night.
While it was hoped the plane
had proceeded to Skagway because
Of the low ceiling here, efforts
to contact the Army Signal Corps
station there failed.
Provincial authorities clung to
the hope that the party had
landed there and had been unable
to contact the outside world.
The Canadian government wire.
less station at Whitehorse tried
unsuccessfully for more than II
hours to establish contact with
Premier Hepburn's plane. The
government has ordered all radio
stations in the north country to
try to contact the plane.
Smith is we'll known In New
York financial circles as Sell 'Em
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Hore-Be|isha Plans
British Army Reform

LONDON, July % Q.N.S)
Leslie Hore-Belisha, who revolu.
tionized Britain's traffic rules and
stepped into the war ministry
with equally revolutionary ideas
today announced further plans to
inject young blood into the army
command. Back from general
staff conversations in Paris, Hore
Belisha told the House of Com.
mons young officers would get a
better chance at promotion and
higher pay and old officers be re
tired earlier.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Mauretania Launched
From English Yard

BIRKENHEAD, England, July
% U.N.SJ.-SmaShing the tradi-
tional bottle Of champagne against
the bow, Lady Bates, wife Of the
Cunard-White Star chairman, to-
day launched the new British
liner Mauretania from the Cam
nell Laird shipbuilding yard here.
Largest passenger vessel ever
to be constructed in England. the
Mauretania will displacs about
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Steel
INQUIRY UNDER
HEAVY GUARD
Violence Feared at
Hearing Today

U.N.S.) Fearful Of violence,
Capitol police today took extra
precautions to preserve order at
the hearing of the Senate Civil
Liberties Committee into activities
of the Republic Steel Corporation
and other companies during the
1887 ''little STEEP strike.
The hearing room was jammed
with spectators, with Senator Bob
La Toilette (PJ of Wisconsin,
sole member OF the committee,
holding the hearing. Repeatedly
he has had to rap for order as
spectators demonstrated for their,
favorites on the witness stand.
Testimony late yesterday that
Elmer Lohman, Cleveland night
club operator, while working for
the Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee for about three weeks prior
to July 20 had supplied Republic
with information on the unions
activities, came as a surprise.
CLAIM DISCHARGE
Evidence was submitted that he
had turned over to. Republic the
names Of men he signed up for
the union. Many of these men
were discharged Immediately by
the company, it was claimed by
union witnesses. Lohman claimed
he was "shadowed" all the time
and that someone who followed
him probably turned over the
names to the company.
Earlier, the committee had
heard Harold F. Vargo admit he
had been employed by Republic
Steel to spy upon activities of the
labor union during the strike. And
from organizers Of the SWOC in
Youngstown the committee heard
that Vargo was ousted as finan-
cial secretary of a SWOC local
lodge on suspicion he was a stool
pigeon for the company.
TELLS OF OFFERS
Thomas Vincent Favorito, an
other SWAC organizer. testified
Lohman had told him he had been
offered 81, 400 and a chicken farm
to "scram." Lohman did not
hesitate to say he had been Of
fered several propositions" "a
chicken farm, job in an automo-
bile factory-by a Mr.. Hollis of
the American Steel Institute"
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Air ''Forts''
Will Fly to
Colombia

(I.N.S.) Three of the
Army's giant fOur-engined
Boeing bOmbers will fly to
BOgOta, Colon bia, next
month to participate i'm the
Inauguration Of President.
elect DIR. Eduardo Santos, the
War Department announced
today.
The goodwill flight will be
made from Langley Field, Va,
base Of the Army's Second
Wing, in time to reach BO-
gotta by August I. The sched-
ule of the flight was not made
public but it is probable the
bOmbers will fly to Miami and
there refuel for = nonstop
Overwater flight to the Colon
bian capital.
The original plan was to
send six two-engined Douglas
bOmbers from France Field
Panama Canal Zone, but the
Army stated today that .
change in training plans Occa-
stoned use Of the Army'S
crack lOng-range bOmbers in
stead.
These are three of the same
ships which participated in
the IOng1listance flight from
the United States to BuenOs
Aires and return last winter.
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BATTLE RACES
FOR GANDESA;
capture NEAR
Spain Troops Fight
Way Into City

HENDAYE, co-Spanish
Border, July 20 GN.S).-Bitter
street fighting ragged in the Cata-
Ian stronghold Of Gandesa today
as Spanish government troops
forced their way to the center of
the city, slowly driving nationalist
forces before them.
I'm London, the Daily Herald
published a Barcelona dispatch
citing private, unconfirmed ad-
vices that government troops had
captured Gandesa after fierce
fighting.)
Reports received here from the
Spanish governments provisional
capital at Barcelona said the gov
eminent troops were slowly but
surely mopping up the enemy
units, many of which were still
holding out in fortified churches
and public buildings.
PRESS FORWARD
! Other government legions, push
ling steadily forward, occupied vii
.flabla and another village south
of Gandesa.
Within the last 80 hours, it
was claimed, the government
forces have captured more terri
tory than in all their other three
main offensiveS-those of Bru-
nete, Belchite and Teruel.
The charging government
forces, who assaulted Gandesa
after crossing the Ebro River,
drove the nationalists before them
with hand grenades, rifle fire and
bayonets.
Most of Gandesa was reported
in possession of government troops.
Complete occupation was ex-
pected momentarily, according to
Barcelona.
VITAL JUNCTION
The fierce fighting in the impor-
tant city, a vital junction Of
numerous Catalan highways, was
the chief engagement provoked by
the government offensive, designed
to relieve General frances pres
sure against Valencia in the south.
So far the government has re-
captured scores of towns west of
the Ebro and captured between
1000 and 5000 prisoners. BARGE
Iona claimed a net advance of
more than 20 miles along the en-
tire 93-mile Catalan front.
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Author of Beloved
Tpperary' Dies at so

LONDON, July % Q.N.S).
Jack Judge, the former fish
monger who wrote Its a Long
Way to Tipperary" on a bet, made
a fortune and helped win the
World War with it, died today in
q hospital at West Bromwich. He
was so years old.
Judge rose from the fish mar
kets Of Birmingham to the London
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vaudeville stage. In 1912, he said,
some one bet me could not
write a song and produce it on
the same day."
He did. 1t was "Tipperary,"
which became IN immediate sue
cess and the rallying song for
millions of allied soldiers.
His publishers gave Judge a life
pension.
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Mercury Climbing,
Lots Of Humidity

With humidity Saturating the
air and the temperature steadily
climbing, Washingtonians today
began searching the skies for
cooling rain. But the weather
man stoutly declared that Wash.
ington has had enough rain this
month and it will have to take
the heat and like it. The tempera'
ture stood at "a degrees at $3.50
a. m. and the relative humidity
was go per cent. Lowest tempera-
ture of the night was 10 degrees
recorded at S a. N.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
4 Engineers Killed
As Mine Gaze Falls

BOURLAMAQUE, Quebec, July
% Q.N.S.).-A runaway mine
cage that plummeted down a
shaft of the Lamaque Gold Min
ing Company sent four young en-.
gineers to their death here today.
The cage dropped 800 feet. The
dead: Harry Field, %, of Bour'
lamaque; Peter Downey, "a, OF
Gleichen, Alberta; James j.
Crocker, %, Toronto, and Arthur
M. Hewat, AZ, of Halifax, N. S.
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Wed at 13, Wife, Il,
Has Sixth Child

LONGMONT, Colo, July 2e
G.NSD.-Mrs. Maxine Perdue
wife of a French-Indian farm la.
borer, and her 2-day-old baby girl
were reported doing well in their
three-room shack near Longmont.
Mrs. Perdue, 81, is of Spanish.
American descent. She was mar
ried at 13. The child is her sixth
Her husband is SO.
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$1,000 tons when ready for sea
next spring. She was named after
the famous British crack steamer
which was broken up a few years
ago.
When she reaches the irish Sea
for her trial next April or May
she will have cost $12, 100000. Built
more for comfort than speed, she
will dawdle across the Atlantic in
six or seven days.
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Anaconda ProbinQ
Cause OF Burst Dam

ANACONDA, Mont, July %.
GN.SO-City officials today
sought to determine the cause o1
the bursting of a dam four miles
west of Anaconda, which sent an
estimated 100000 gallons of
water pouring through the streets
last night. Easements were
flooded. Water was reported four
feet deep in the western part Of
the city.
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members of the
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older set fire.
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more than a
m re raising
of p e n C lie d
eyebrows. The
W Tit er is
young enough
to admit his
tender years. is
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LOST

FRATERNITY PIN-Black. gold initials
'J.HL." on back. MA. $3.50. Apt. 1870
GERMAN shepherd. dog. vic Cherrydale
Va. scar on right hind thigh. 1 yr. old
grey. black mouth. Green 2440.
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thusiaStic; fresh without being
too, too smart intimate, and
buoyantly optimistic. Count
CaSSini Is the son Of the famous
Countess Margaret CaSSini,
whose memoirs recently ap-
peared In the Herald and caused
a profound sensation in Wash
ington. Read Petit Point in the
M6MiAz7s
EINIES
PattsrssR hsussaSsss
Tel. RE. 1884
for Home Delivery
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
ICKES BARES
AGREEM 7
With JONES
Secretary Scores
Rep. Smith Of Va.

(I.N.S. Another quarter r-Of-a-
billion dollars was added to the
AdministratiOn's lend-and-spend
program today through an
agreement between the Public
Works Administration and the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tiOn.
PWA Administrator Harold L.
Ickes made the estimate Of the
new money available in discuss
ing the plan under which Jesse
Jones, chairman Of the RFC,
agreed to furnish loans for
public works projects.
The PWA, Ickes said, will
continue to make grants for pub
lie works, but will leave almost
all Of the loan business to the
RFC.
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Meet
COUNT IGOR
CASSINI

whose Petit Point in The Times
strikes q decidedly new note in
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middle of the Sn1ith-Dodd congress
sional primary battle in the
Eighth Virginia district today by
denying the statement of Presi-
dent j. L. Newcomb, Of the Uni.
versity of Virginia, that Represent
ative Howard w. Smith "had been
q great help" in obtaining four
large new university buildings
through PWA funds.
Secretary Ickes denied that Rep
reSentative Smith had any influ-
ence in any PWA grant or project
at any time.
CALLED PWA FOE
The Secretary said: "I regret
to see the president Of the Uni
versity of Virginia making the
PWA an issue in this campaign.
Representative Smith has made
it an issue both in his campaign
and in Congress by voting against
all PWA extensions. He has done
nothing but obStruct and vote
against every PWA bill except the
original MIRA"
He now wants to ride into office
on the coatailso of PWA."
The cost Of the new university
buildings totals $2,450,0OO, OF
which the PWA funds would rep.
resent about IS per cent.
NO "PULL" NEEDED
The Secretary said that he
suspected that President Newcomb,
of the University of Virginia, had
praised Smiths PWA efforts at
the request of Mr.. Smith himself.
II suspect" said Secretary
IckeS, "'that the letter was writ
ten in the Smith headquarters
and signed on the dotted line
by President Newcomb."
He continued, II never saw a
Congressman or any other Of
ficial that can recall in con-
nection with these projects Of
the University of Virginia. They
were presented here in the regu-
lar course Of routine business
and as in the case of every PWA
project, they. were acted upon
in accordance with their merits.
Representative Howard Smith,
as I said, voted for the original
MIRA bill, which established
PWA, but has voted against and
worked against every subsequent
extension of the act"
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
IS MEN ARRESTED
In COUNTERFEIT
MONEY INQUIRY
Auto Chase Is Climax
Of Federal Search

NEWARK, N. j., May Is
GN.S).-An automobile chase
which began with the alleged pur
chase of $4,000 in counterfeit
bills for $4,000 in real" money
ended today with the arrest OF
three men and the first crack in
what Federal agents said is a
nationwide counterfeit ring oper.
ating on a huge scale.
The three, all charged with pos.
session of counterfeit bills, de.
Scribed themselves as David Kra-
kaur, "a, Of Palisades, N. j.;
Charles Blum, 80, and Irving Nitz-
berg, %, both Of the Bronx, N. Y.
According to Treasury Depart
ment agents, the case first
broke" in San Antonio, Tex, last
January when one David Weiner
was found with $500 in counter
felt $40 bills.
BY unrevealed means the agents
established contact with members
of the ring near New York and
learned Of a national distributing
system for counterfeit SIS, $40, and
$40 bills. On March 81, last, the
agents said, they successfully
posed as "passers" and bought
$500 worth of bills from the
three held, paying only 11a cents
on the dollar. The low price made
the agents feel certain the coun-
terfeits were being produced in a
large plant.
The plant has not yet been To-
Gated.
Another meeting was arranged
with Nitzberg near Fort Lee, N. j.,
through Krakaur and Blum. Nitz-
berg appeared in a car, took the
$4,000 and handed over the coun-
terfeits, the agents charged. Kra-
kaur and Blum were Immediately
as Nitzberg drove off.
He was captured after a chase.
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8 TO Be HEARD
IN KILLING TRIAL

DETROIT, May 10 QN.S0.
Nine witnesses were to be called
today as Prosecutor Duncan C.
McCrea continued the task Of
proving his opening argument
charge that Mrs. Julia M. Barker
killed her reaLestate associate.
Mrs. Edith Mae Cummings, to
silence her.
In his opening statement yes
terday, McCrea attacked Mrs.
Barker's self-defense plea and
charged the former millionaire
real-estate dealer killed Mrs. Cum
mings because she feared Mrs.
Cummings planned to turn States
evidence to admit fraud charges of
Kentucky indictments against
them both.
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Not since Babe Didrikson fl
as a surprise "find"-not since
or whatever it was-not since
began to discover have they
prising as this! All setG
Attorney General Homer Cum
mings will play Bobby Jones!
And in this case the Attorney
Generals skill will, as usual. 60
to the high tribunal, for at the
Congressional Country Club on
Tuesday, when Atlanta's star of
the golfing world meets him in
open tourney, Supreme Court
Justices Harlan Fisk Stone. Owen
j. Roberts and Stanley Reed will
be right there!
In fact, all the justices of the
District Court also will be there
and many notableS besideS-for the
occasion is the annual outing Of
the District Bar Association, and
besides the golf match there is 20
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Cummings to Play
Bobby Jones Here

is, In fact, a-tWltter!
lshed across the sporting world
Tinker threw Evers to Chance
the discoveries of sports first
discovered anything so sur
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
Langdon Framed
Alibi for Murder,
Witness Declares
Ex-Bootlegger Says Prisoner Sought His
Aid on Morning of Crime

testimony to police when they
were taken into custody and queS
toned about the case.
And both testified that they
gave this false testimony at the re
quest of Mrs. Limerick. Both said
she told them that if they told the
truth the insurance company
might hold up payment of policy
held by Beulah.
LANGDON ADVISES COUNSEL
Seated at counsel table with his
attorneys, Russell and William
Kelly, Langdon confers with them
as each witness takes the stand,
whispering advice to them as to
questions for cross-examination.
Although crowds seek admission
to the courtroom, the smallest in
the courthouse, the trial so far
has been devoid of thrills. But
everyone is waiting for the time
Mrs. Rose v. Langdon, estranged
wife of the defendant, is called to
the stand. 1t is on her testimony
that the Government expects 10
clinch it's case against the former
policeman.
Mrs. Langdon was arrested in
New York several months ago on
a morals charge, and turned over
to Washington police. Brought
here, she appeared before the
Grand Jury and the indictment
was returned.
KEPT IN HIDING
Since then she has been held
by police in hiding, and her first
public appearance was when the
trial opened. The first two days
of the trial she sat in the court
room, smartly attired, but since
then has been excluded from the
court room with other witnesses
until she is called to the stand.
So far only five of the 81 wit
nesses subpoenaed by the Govern
ment have taken the stand. and it
is expected the case will continue
through next week.
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CONTINUED from Page IL
witness replied, yes, that he had
lived on Langdon'S beat. Wilson
asked:
What was your business in
1902"
Caparrota replied:
THE whiskey business"
The morning of the day Beulah
Limerick was slain, Caparrota
said. he had been playing poker
and returned to his home between
4 and 4:30 o'clock that morning.
AS he stopped his car, he said,
Langdon drove up, stopped his
car, got out, and made the request
for the alibi. Langdon was in uni
form at the time, Caparrota said.
CONFUSED ABOUT DATE
Under cross-examination by
Kelly, Caparrota said he'd been
in the liquor business. eight or
ten years during prohibition. Under
Q short but gruelling examination,
he became confused about the
morning he saw Langdon, but in
sisted he recalled it because he
read in the paper day or two
later of the murder of the Lime
rick girl.
DEFINITE ABOUT TIME
Policeman Joseph M. Bell took
the witness stand and testified
that at 8 o'clock that morning he
saw Langdon standing in the
street on East Capitol between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Streets. This location is less than
half a block from the drab little
house at No. Is Nineteenth St.
s. E. where the girl was slain.
Bell said the time he saw Lang
don was 3 o'clock, because he had
just rung the station to report in
ct that time.
Yesterday Donald E. Boyer,
milkman serving that district, tes-
titled he heard two shots fired in
the direction of the Limerick
house between 2::30 and 2:45.
The Government contends that
the girl was shot once with a Is
caliber automatic pistol. Butt
Boyer took the stand and testified
that he heard not one shot but
two, between 2:30 and 2:45
o'clock that morning.
FAMILIAR WITH FIREARMS
Boyer testified that, as a mem
Der of the National Guard, he was
familiar with firearms, and that
he judged the shots he heard we're
from either a % or a Is caliber
weapon. He said he was at the
corner of Nineteenth and A
Streets when he heard the shots,
and they came from the direction
of the house where Beulah lived
with her brother Vernon and with
a friend of the family, Richard
Reed.
The testimony of Boyer came as
Q blow to the Governments case,
for no trace Of second bullet
was found in the house.
TWO OTHFR SETBACKS
This was not the only setback
suffered by the Government yes
terday, the first day of testimony
in the trial. Richard Reed proved
a boomerang when he upset the
Governments contention that the
trio were preparing to move from
the house because Langdon had
Leen bothering Beulah.
Reed said they were going to
move the day Beulah was slain,
because they did not like the
neighborhood and because of lack
of heat in the house. He admitted
that police had been watching the
house because of parties staged
there.
Vernon Limerick dealt the Gov
eminent another blow when he
was unable to identify Langdon
as one of the policemen who had
visited the house.
MOTHER TO TESTIFY
Mrs. Dora Limerick, mother Of
the slain girl, will probably be
called to the witness stand today.
Yesterday, Vernon Limerick and
William Paddy, who accompanied
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Veteran Policeman
Quits D. G.. Force

Twenty-three years on the force
Pvt. Spottswood Gravelly, As, as.
signed to a radio scout car in
No. 4 precinct, resigned from the
Metropolitan Police Department
last night. Gravelly's resignation
was announced by Capt. jeremiah
Sullivan of No. 4.
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be. boxing, and what is vaguely
described as "other attractions"
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MOTHER TO TESTIFY

Mrs. Dora Limerick. mother Of
the slain girl, will probably be
called to the witness stand today.
Yesterday, Vernon Limerick and
William Paddy, who accompanied
Beulah to the dance the night she
was slain, testified they gave false
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dant.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to the Decree of the Su-
perior Court Of Henderson Coun-
ty in the above entitled cause, the
undersigned Commissioner will,
on Tuesday. the 9Th day of Sep
TENDER, 1888, at eleven o'clock,
A. NJ, expose to sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for
c "a S h the following described
lands, situate in the City Of Her
dersonville, Henderson County,
North Carolina, and described as
follows:
4 lots Maple St., Book 18l, page
1877.
This sale is being made subject
to any unpaid street assessments
now against said property in ia
vor Of the City Of Hendersonville,
and to the right OF the City to
enforce payment of same in the
manner now provided by law.
This LIST day Of August, 1888.
J. E. SHIPMAN.
Commissioner.
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H. E. Drake and wife, Mrs. H.
f.. Drake, +. W. Ewbank, Trus-
tee. Allan Wood, Defendants.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to the Decree of the Su-
pel'ior Court Of Henderson COuH-
ty in the above entitled cause, the
undersigned Commissioner will,
on Tuesday. the 9th day Of Sep
TENDER, 1888, at eic"@n o'clock,
4. NJ, expose to sale at public
auction to The highest bidder for
cas- h the following described
lands, situate in the City Of Hen
dcrsonville, Henderson County,
North Carolina, and described as
follows:
house and lot S. Barnwell
and Church St. Book 100, page
100; house and lot S. Church
west side between Crab Creek
and Balmwel, Book ia, page
247; store building and lot LIST
Ave. E. and S. Main St, Book
1873, page %.
This sale is being made subject
to any .ngaid street assessments
now against said property in ia
vor OF the CITY Of Hlndcrsonville,
and to the right Of the City TO
enforce payment Of same in the
manner now provided by law.
This LIST day Of August, 1898.
J. f. SHIPMAN.
Commissioner.