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I SATURDAY SEPT 24, 1898
WHERE HAS IT GONE TO?
The total product of gold from the
mines of the world for the past 405
years, or since there have been any re
cords of the same kept, Is officially
given at $9,203,323,600; the total pro
duct of the United States since its dis
covery is $2,172,245,564, of which the
eastern and soutnern states have yeild
ed $31,500,000 leaying $2,140,645,564 as
the. amount produced by the moun
tainous country lying west of a mer
idian passing north and south through
Denver; or, in other words, the moun
tainous country has produced in 49
years, or since 1848, when the first dis
covery of gold was made here, 23.3 per
cent; or, in round numbers, one-fourth
' of the total gold product of the whole
world for 405 years. It seems almost
incredible that this comparatively new
unexplored and mountainous country
bhould produce in so short a time
nearly one fourth of the gold of his
tory, but the figures are taken from
the official statements of the directors
of the United States mint at Washing
ton, and are the same as published by
the deputy master of the English mint,
the official figures for which have not
been published.
After having produced this vast
. amount of gold, still the United States
has retained only about $600,000,000,
. Where has the other billion and a half
- gone? Certainly hot back into the
'. ground nor has it been used in the
: arts and sciences.' The balance of
trade with foreign countries has been
often er in our favor than against us,
. ' then we must conclude our wealth
(actual money) has vanished as if by
: magic. Millions of dollars of it have
;. no doubt been carried to Europe by
American travelers abroad, but this
, will not account for the diappearen ce
of over a billion and a half dollars
- ,- The great drain has been made in
the payment of interest upon the
wealth that has been dug from our
.mines. While we were digging out
. more gold than any other nation on
earth, we were at the same time doi-
rowin? from European lenders. For-
. elgners come here and work our minesi
, alien syndicates got hold of our big
, mining properties and carted our gold
away to Europe, then loaned it back to
. nsat li?ht rates of interest. These
payments have been a steady drain
upon our store of gold, and it has
- slipped away to fill the coffers of non
residents.
This jrill continue eo long as we
permit foreign syndicates to acquire
title to mining property or become
and owners in America. It should
be a strong plea for the enactment of
' a law preventing aliens from gaining
title to any' realty whatever in tho
United States. If the country is
good enough to invest in it is good
enough to live in, so no. alien, either
an individual or corporation should be
permitted to hold realty or loan money
or real estate mortgages in this coun
try, without some such provision. No
matter how much wealth our mines
produce, our money will continue to
disappear, and our commerce will be
crippled because of the shortage in
the circulating medium.
SUNDAY AND WOHK.
Sabbatarians throughout the world
have waged a long and vigorous war
against sunaay newspapers, ounasy
- Mofliwiafl fMfna a rtA In ahlf nil Iriflfla
of Sundry work, apparently without
avail. There are certain things that
cannot be left undone in this busy and
bustling world, hence in certain walks
of life, the Sabbath cannot be observed
- as a day of rest or religious observance.
The "ox will get into the ditch" and
must be taken out. In this age of
progress people would not be content
to allow passenger trains tied up over
Bunday, neither would they do without
their Sunday papers. Even some of
those who preach against Sunday
labor would complain bitterly if de
. prived of these conveniences. Then
there is work that cannot be suspended
even for a day during the entire year.
The Western Mining World very sar
castically replies to an Eastern writer
regarding the tendency to work on
Sunday in the mining districts as fol
lows: A writer in the Boston Transcript
has discovered that the miuing in
dustry has cultivated a disregard for
hue oauiniu uaj iu uo uiiuiug auomo.
He notes the impiety that stands out
in bas-relief from the Western
character like warts on the back of the
New England toad. In Butte, for in
stance, he found the mines and smelt
ers in operation on Sunday when all
truly good ought to have been in
church.
If the Transcript man would use his
New England influence with God to
have the water shut off from the mines
during Sunday, so that the pumps
could tie up for the day, and arrange
to have the smelter fires preserved in
the hollow of His hand until Monday
morning, . Butte might live -up with
Boston in practicing piety. As it is
we cannot compete with our eastern
cousins in the matter of using the
Sabbath day for a picnic. There is
no rest for the wicked, it is said, and
in the mining industry there is no
time to loaf around and sing hims. It
is business the year 'round.
But when the jewels are made up,
and the redeemed, in a halo of light,
circle around the great white throne,
we believe there will be more miners
there with the marks of honesty on
their brows, and the signs of industry
in their hands, than bottle-necked
dudes from Boston.
There may have been petty jealousies
existing between officers, but they
were carefully concealed, and men
worked like machines in all depart
ments. Then came the war with
Spain and the necessity of extending
the army from 25,000 to 280,000. This
was a task that called for the services
of experienced men, but insteod of
calling into service men who had
spent the best years of their life in the
pursuit of work necessary to the car
ing for such a huge army of men, young
men and old men whose only recom
mendations wore their political pulls
were called into the servioe.
The commissary department is the
life of an army in war as well as in
peace. And when the American army
was expanded from 25,000 to 280,000 the
greatest task was in securing supplies
and getting them to the men. Here
of all places wan the service of skilled
men required. But instead of calling
upon men who had been trained to this
work, the -politicians previaled upon
the war department to appoint the
sons of somebodies who had political
influence. Out of 87 officers appointed
to volunteer rank in the commissary
department, only 19 were from the
regular army and 68 were from civil
life. These 68 men from civil life
were absolutely without the experi
ence eo necessary in such grave cases,
and the result was that the 280,000
men who were in camp or at the front
were wholly dependent upon incompe
tents whose only fitness if such it
may be called was their political in
fluence. In the quartermaster's de-
partmeht 86 men were appointed to
volunteer rank after the war began.
and of this number only 34 were from
the regular army, the other 52 being
from civil life.
These civilians were ignorant of the
first requirements of the positions to
which they . were appointed, and
trained men had to spend valuable
time in teaching the new officers their
duties; and this in the face of the fact
that men to the number of 280,000 were
dependent in a large measure upon the
quartermaster's department for eyery
thing needed by soldiers. Is it any
wonder that abuses prevailed, that
hospitals became death traps and
camps became hotbeds of disease?
Retired navy officers were called
back to active service wneu tne war
broke out, but politics has. had less to
do with the navy than any other de
partment of public service. But not
one retired army officer was called into
service. That course would have less
ened the number of political appoint
ments at the disposal of the secretary
of war, hence the' competent old vet'
erans were ignored. Where military
education ' and exerience were most
needed they were cast aside to make
room for political pets, and though
the appointment .of these pets brave,
self sacrificing men were forced to suf
fer and die. The whole blame for the
horrors of camp and hospital misman
agement rests upon the men who
made humanity subordinate to politics
and the people know where the blame
belongs. It began with the appoint
ment of Politician Alger to the head
of the war department, and will not be
atoned until he is removed.
If the anti-republican members of
the legislature are merely partisans
they will, in case tne republicans are
unable to decide upon a United States
senator, get right into the middle of
the path, an look neither to the right
nor left, but vote every day of the ses
sion for a senator of their own choosing,
with no hope whatever of eleoting
him. If they are statesman, and have
the welfare of the state at heart, they'
will take a hand in the election of a sen
ator even though he be a republican.
We can hope for no needed legislation
until the senatorial contest is dis
posed of, not even the passage of the
general approprlsaion bill. If the ma
jority fails to settle the contest in a
reasonable length of time, then it be
comes the duty of the minority to
settle it. Partisanship, should give
way to patriotism in this matter.
BARKER AND DONNELLY.
POLITICS IN THE ARMY.
The Astoria Budget tells the truth
when it says the principal cause of the
trouble in the volunteer service may
be told in one word "politics." In
that one word is summed up all the in
competency, inhumanity and brutality
practiced upon the volunteers. In
that one word may be summed up the
location of camps in swamps, the fail
ure to provide transportation for pro
visions, the failure to get needed med
ical supplies to sick soldiers, and the
blunders that forced sick men to
march and stand for hours in the hot
sun waiting for hospital trains that
were not ordered until after the sick
were ordered to meet them.
Before the war with Spain every
thing Id army circlet wm smooth.
THE PHILIPPINES.
Our policy respecting the Philip
pines will probably turn on tne re
ports and advice of Admiral Dewey
and General Merritt. Dewey in par
ticular has mastered the complicated
situation in the islands. He has
ahown himself to be not only one of
the greatest naval captains in history,
but to be profound and ablo in state
craft. His sterling patriotism has
won for him the respect and admira
tion of the nation and the country
would unhesitatingly accept his judg
ment, says the Spokesman-Review.
From an ethical point of view, it
seems that any course would be prefer-
rable to the return of the islands to
Spanish misrule, or to the deliverance
of Spanish interests to an uncontrolled
native government. In an interview
nad by tne Associated Kress corres
pondent with Archbishop Dosal at
Manila, that prelate expresses the
earnest hope that the islands will not
remain Spanish, "because the rebels
are now so strong that such a course
would inevitably cause - appalling
bloodshed." A number of respons
ible Spaniards have also stated to the
Associated Press correspondent that
they would refuse to remain at Manila
if Spain were reinstated in 'control of
the islands.
There is hardly a question that this Is
a correct statement of the situation.
An attempt to restore Spaii 's shattered
sovereignty, or the abandonment of
the island to an unbridled native
government, would lead to shocking
bloodshed, atrocious cruelties and the
ruin of the industrial and commercial
intrests of the country. Even if the
United States should pull down its flag
and withdraw from the islands, there
is no doubt that before long one or
more of the powers of Europe would
Btep in and assume the position aband
oned by this government.
This leaves, three possible solutions
of the problem:
American ownership and control of
the islands.
An American protectorate.
A joint prootectorate between the
United States and a European power
or powers.
From a moial point of view either of
these solutions would be better than
Spanish control or independent native
government.
The possession of a large and fertile
mind does not Imply exemption from
the frailitles that distlngush the
human from the divine attributes of
man's nature. Men who combine
rare talent with vast acd varied eru
dition often succumb to an union troll
able ambition for notoriety and are ir
resistibly impelled to adopt a line of
conduct calculated to advertise their
weakness to the world and destroy
their influence for-good.
Through the press dispatches iofor
matiou has gone to the country of per
haps the most notable case of this
kind that has occurred in recent years.
Two men of great talent and learning,
whose life work amply testifies to the
predominance of good over evil in
their natures, have become detached
from their moorings and are being
swept into a vortex of inconsistencies,
impelled to the pursuit of a phantom,
because ambition, unappeased, has
degenerated Into an inordinate and un
controllable passion for notoriety. We
refer to the attitude in which Wharton
Barker of Philadelphia, and Ignatius
Donnelly, of Micnesota, bave placed
themselves through a medium of a few
admirers whom they caused to -assemble
in the city of Cincinnati, who,
after resolving that they constituted
the only original, pure, unadulterated,
24-carat-fine populists in the United
States, proceeded to .name the afore
said gentlemen as the candidates of
their august body for the office of
president and vice president of the
United States of America. Hawaii, and
numerous other islands in the Atlan
tic and Pacific.
Of course, the populist party, as such,
with reassuring conscience and in
tense resolve, will continue its course,
its tranquility of mind undisturbed
and its series of victories uninterrup
ted, peacefully oblivious of the exis
tence of this new evolution, and an
inscrutible fate may withhold from it
official notice of this new birth un
til its struggles and triumphs are
swallowed in eternity. Chairman But
ler of the populist national committee
is the ogre who haunts the path this
new aggregation would fain travel to
ward the promised land; therefore, to
devise some incantation that will al
lure him to his doom is exhausting the
gray matter tnat has rendered two
lives illustrious. Though numerically
small and in age somewhat deficient,
the Cincinnati aggregation feels as
sured that if it could only decapitate
Chairman Butler of the populist party,
that party would turn to them for
brains and guidance, and this accom
plished, their own brilliancy and efful
gence would by contrast make the bal
ance of the political world seem outer
darkness, from which the self-distrusting,
helpless voters would turn to them
with the longing of a lost child for its
mother. When we consider the sub
lime neigntns attained by tne meager
handful of men who constituted the
Cincinnati conclave, we are thrilled
with a sense of relief that this genera
tion has escaped the mortification of
awarding a crown of immortality to
the undeserving "Three Tailors of Too
ley Street."
If it should turn out that these bril
liant and talented gentlemen only
adopt their present course as a means
of calling attention to themselves in
order that, being more widely know n
their power to do good might ie aug
mented and that they will at the proper
time prove themselves patriotic and
loyal to the truths they have promul
gated in the past with such signal
ability, by adjusting their ' action ' to
the demands of patriotism and their
country's good, and that the sugges
tion that prompted them to act was a
desire to forestall the wicked plans
that the gold combination have in con
templation as a means of dividiug the
silver forces in 1900, then, in that case
the purity of their motives will be es
tablished, but the world will be furn
ished a monumental example of the
fantastic performances that even greut
men can be put through when they
fall victims to an overpowering ambt
tion for notority.
Both gentlemen were supporters of
Mr. Bryan in 1896 and aided in that
contest with distinguished ability.
Mr. Barker, the head of the ticket is a
reeent convert to populism, having
been a lifelong republican, quitting
that party only after the St. Louis
convention departed from the ancient
landmarks. Mr. Donnelly has been a
populist from the beginning, and is
well known t j the members of that
party, who will be sorely grieved at
his present, course. Silver Knight
Watchman.
Empire, let it put forth some induce
ments to the growers that will attract
them. It is within the reach of As
toria to do this, but it cannot be ac
complished by only utilizing the
breezes that blow off the Pacific and
form such a large portion of the city's
stock in trade. Let Astoria, first of
all, convince producers that they can
sell to better advantage there than at
any other place, then let it create
some means for getting the wheat
there, and handling it when unloaded.
If Astoria will get the Columbia river
opened to navigation above The Dalles,
then erect large warehouses where
wheat can be stored, she will have
accomplished two very important
things in securing the wheat trade.
Wheat loaded onto steamboats at up
river points, if It can float down to
Astoria, and be handled there, will
not be taken up the Willamette to
Portland, but so long as it has to be
hauled out of the great grain growing
sections by rail, it will go either to
Portland or Puget sound points. The
"liberal" offer of Astoria's progres
sive association and chamber of com
merce will never secure much wheat
unless bacxed up by something prac
ticable. The issue in the Washington elec
tion will be the money question, the
republicans having declared for the
HOW "LIBERAL."
There are scores of applicants for
federal offices. The politicians are
hungry, and to make places for them,
the Associated Press dispatches an
nounce, President McKinloy has de
termined to relax the civil service
rules. By no other way could he get
the politicians in, and since they must
feed at the publio crib, Mr. McKinley
has "seized the bull by the horns,
and provided a method by which the
"faithful" may be rewarded. Mc
Kinley once had the bravery to face
rebel bullets, but he cannot face the
demands of the politicians.
Astoria seeks to become the great
grain shipping point of the North
west, and her aspiration in this direc
tion is commendable, but her methods
for securing this coveted business are
not such as will forcibly strike the
shipper or producer as being overly
enticing. They are outlieed as fol
lows by the Daily Budget:
'The progressive association and
the chamber of commerce bave now
joined hands on a proposition that if
properly handled. will obtain for As
toria the shipping of all the wheat of
Eastern Oregon and Washington from
her wharves. Co-operation is the
plan, induce all the wheat growers to
band together for their mutual pro
tection, build warehouses at tidewater
for storing their product until they
wish to sell it to the foreign buyer.
In that way they will save storage
charges, save the middle men's profits
and obtain a higher grading and bet
ter prices for their grain, and we of
Astoria will win our point in making
this the wheat shipping port of the
Pacific coast. There may be other
plans to secure this desired result, but
this one at least is feasible and can be
successfully carried out with very little
cost except the expenditure of time
and labor."
This would be an admirable scheme
for Astoria, bat would be a cinch on
the farmers. It wo old be a nice thing
for Astoria if the wheat raisers of the
Inland Empire would go down to the
mouth of the Columbia and erect
warehouses, elevators and docks, and
then give the Astorians a commission
for storing and selling their wheat. Of
course the farmers will rush down
there and do this very thing when
they can't ship their wheat from any
other point. :
If Astoria would secure the wheat
trade of tha upper country it must
pursue a more liberal course than this.
No other place in the world ever asked
such a "bonus" from the producers.
Even Astoria's most formidable com
petitor, Portland, has built its own
wharves and warehouses, and
will build more if occasion demands.
We would therefore offer a little
friendly advice to the progressive
city by the sea. If it desires to monop
olize the wheat business of tbe Inland
present gold standard, and the fusion
ists for free coinage. It will be the
contest of '96 over again.
I is said that when President Mc
Kinley visits the Omaha exposition be
will make an ascension in one of Gen
eral Shafter's balloons. Conldn't he
prevail on Alger to go along? We
might get rid of him that way.
Tf there Is any doubt about tho legal
status of Mr. McKinley 's war investi
gating committee, as Mr. Sherman
thinks there will be, there will be none
about the congressional committee
that will later on make an investiga
tion.
The giving one railroad a monopoly
of transportation to and from Camp
Wikoff, at Montauk Point, as well as
the exclusive privelege to conduct a
store and restaurant at the camp, is
sufficient reason why the camp should
be abolished, and another count in the
long indictment against the war de
partment entered.
President McKinley proposes to ap
point a commission composed of a lot
of political hacks to investigate tbe
care of tbe army during the recent
war. Such a commission would do no
more than whitewash the head of the
war department. If the president
can't remove Alger, he would do him
self credit by leaving the investigation
to congress.
Should the United States ever get
into another war with a foreign
country, it would bo a sure winner to
hire Alger out to the adversary, and
get him put at the head of the enemy's
war department. He is the most suc
cessful exterminator of an army known
to the present century He can starve
soldiers faster than they can be killed
with bullets.
The Washington republicans, in
their state platform, say: "We indorse
and approve the administration of
President McKinley and his cabinet."
This we presume includes an indorse
ment of Alger's misadminlstratlon of
the war department. It will prove a
pretty heavy load to carry to endorse
the starving and neglect of the Ameri
can army.
Those who are so rampant for
absorbiug the Philippine islands with
their 9,000,000 barbarians cannot but
have their ardor cooled when they
read of how the Filipinos are unable
to agree among themselves, and bow
they are ready to spill each other's
blood. They are an unregenerate
race that might govern themselves by
brute force when the stronger had
killed off the weak, but they could not
become American citizens.
The dispatches announce that every
thing is in readiness for tbe special
session of tbe legislature that con
venes on the 26th. Tnis means that
the Salem "hog" has been turned
loose, and the "grafters" are in posit
ion to fleece the innocent taxpayers as
of old. During the week there will be a
few hundred would be clerks assemble,
and they will be so hungry for places
that they will bave to be awarded for
their faithfulness at tbe expense of
the state.
Those brave men who enlisted a few
months ago for the nation's defense
continue to die in the horrible hospi
tals and camps provided for them, and
disease increases in their ranks, and
Secretary Alger's heart remains un
moved. He holds on to his fat job,
regardless of his incompetency and
the suffering of the men for whose
comfort he is responsible. Will the
old farce never resign? If not, tbe
president ought to have enough de
cency left to remove him.
Tbe Washington and Michigan rep
ublican platforms endorse Alger and
"the conduct of the war throughout"
is approved. Nothing is criticised:
everything is swallowed Alger's pol
itical schemiug and blunders, the hor.
rors of hospital ships, the hunger and
neglect of our forces at Santiago, the
pest-breeding conditions in camps
east and south. All these unhappy
conditions were the outcome of Al"
gerian methods and Algerian incapac
ity, and as Alger was a member of the
republican administration, they had to
be swallowed, and they would have
been swallowed if they had been
twice as deplorable. , '
With an overweening confidence in
his own heaven-born genius and ab
ility to do everything himself from his
office in Washington, through the in
strumentality of political satellites
that have been appointed to positions
for which they are wholly unfitted, Mr.
Alger has completely muddled tbe
affairs of the department of which be
was unfortunately appointed the re
sponsible head. When be and his
political appointees relinquish office it
will take experienced and competent
men a long time to undo their mis
takes, and the sooner it is put out of
their power to make many more tbe
lighter will be the task. Boston Tran
script.
The Jonrnal published at Prineville
is somewhat of a dreamer, and baa con
cluded the Times-Mountaineer is a re
publican paper. It is wonderful what
effect imagination will have on the
minds of some men. No expression of
the Times-Mountaineer could have led
tbe Prineville editor to believe it had
advocated the principles of the repub
lican party of today. We must plead
guilty of having given voice to some
of the doctrines taught by Abraham
Lincoln equality of all and the right
of the people to govern hut it takes an
imaginative mind to connect these doc
trines with present time republicanism,
especially since Mark Hanna got con
trol of the party.
'When tbe legislator convent Is
special session a number of cities will
present amended charters for con
sideration. Thus the valuable time of
the legislature, for which the entire
state is Davin?. will be taken up in
considering perfectly local legislation.
We need an amendment to our lavs,
providing- for the submitting of all
.city charters to a vote of the people,
without taking up the time of the
legislature. It would be democratic
to allow the people to vote upon their
oaeaoic laws: it is autocratic to sub
mit them to the legislature. Both on
account of economy and justice the
laws regulating city charters should be
changed.
We bad hardlv supposed any of the
men who took part in the so-called leg
tslatlve session of 1897, as representa
tives, would ask the state for perdiem
during the forty days they frittered
away at Salem; but it seems they have
a move oa foot to get a bill through
the special session allowing them their
pay. Thei" ttcheme should be nipped
In the bud early. They -never render
ed any service to the state, and are not
entitled to pay. Besides, tbe state
constitution provides that if either
brach of the legislature shall not or
ganize within five dnys after the date
of convening, the pay of the members
thereof shall cease. Certainly the leg
islature will not ignore the constitu
tion by paying tbe men gwbo held up
the last session.
FATAL ELE
VATOR FIRE
Terrible Result of Dust Ex
plosion in Toledo
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THE WAR
I0FFICE SCANDAL
Alger
Learns a Few
Things.
Toledo, O., Sent. 20. Ten cremated
and fifteeu seriously Injured is there-
cord of the most disastrous fire that oc
curred in Toledo. The spontaneous
combustion of dust in the grain eleva
tor owned by Paddock, Hodge & Co.,
at 9 o'clock caused this terrible de
struction of life, and none of those who
were taken out after the fire started
were far enough from death's, door to
tell any of the details.
William J. Parks, the superintend
ent, after being blown through tbe
lower story, was conscious for a mo
ment, and said that about 8:30 a terri
ble explosion occured on the south
side of the elevator, and he thought
there were about twenty men at work
on the seven floors of the great build
ing. Besides those regularly employed at
the elevator, three children of Super
intendent Parks were visiting him at
the time. One of these may recover
from his burns, but Grace, a seventeen-
year-old girl, is burned beyond
recognition, and Harold, the third
nV i tfl Vt a a nrkfc Kaon found Kolnry aIi Via !
blown to atoms or cremated.
SUITS.
Come In and look at them, examine the
goods, the linings, and the way they are
put together! try them on and say
whether you ever saw their equal for the
money. Here Is more style and better
material than you will ordinarily get in a
made-to-measure suit at thirty-five dollars.
Think of buying suits like
these at $10, $12, $15 and
$18, and every one warranted
by the makers,
HART, 80HAFFNER MARX.
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POUR-BUTTON SACK SUIT.
Copyright, 1888.
By Hart, Sohaffner it Maw
Lexington, Ky Sept. 21. At the
conference held last night between
Secretary Alger, General Brecken-
rldge, the commander of Camp Ham
ilton, and other officers, General San
ger said that while the division hos
pital might be a good thing, as now
conducted it is a disgrace to the
service.
Sureor. -General Stern burg, in
reply, insisted that all requisitions
should be honored in Washineton, and
that any mecical men falling to do
their duty should be reported.
General Waites told Secretary Al
ter that the conduct of some of tbe
quartermasters ordered to furnish sup-
piles was criminal. -While in Chicak-
amauga he frequently made requests
which were not honored. An imper
ative order had beeu sent to have all
water boiled. He had made a requi
sition on Quartermaster Lee for water
boilers. No attention was paid to bis
requisition, and he repeatedly urged
Quartermaster Lee to send the boilers,
telling him how the men were con
tracting typhoid fever. He met with
a reply which read:
"The war department does not fur
nish boilers." .
General Waites then purchased the
boilers ' himself, ' but : the seeds of
typhoid had been sown and the daily
report showed the increasing list of
deaths and of cases in the hospitals
Pointing to Quartermaster Ludington,
General Wastes said,
"These men cannot say it was some-
dody else's fault. It was the fault of
Quartermaster Lee, and it was the
fault of Quartermaster Ludington, who
is standing right here."
Ludington made no reply to Waites.
CAN'T ST AMD TBI PBESSUKE.
Clamor for Office Will Cause CI Til Servioe
Bales to Be Relaxed.
New York, Sept. 20. A dispatch ST
from Washington says:
President McKinley has again
taken up the question of relaxing the
civil service rules so as to open more
places for political appointments
Some months ago, when the suoject
was under disscussion in congress, the
president naa tne neaa of eacn ex
ecutive department prepare recom'
menaations, snowing wnicn places un
der his department could best be ex
empted from the civil service rules.
An executive order was drawn up,
based on these recommendations, and
it has been on the sk of the pres'
ldent untouched ever since. Now that
tbe war is not occupying so much of
his attention, and as the congressional
campaign is making the pressure for
places stronger the president is con
sidering the matter, and it is expected
that he will issue an order in a short
time, taking a large number of places
from the classified civil service and
throwing them open to appointment
by the various heads of departments
ana tneir suoorainates.
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An Alaska Tragedy.
Seattle, Sept. 21.-George Bow
man, of Bridgeport, Conn., was mur
dered in Alaska last winter during a
terrible snow storm by a companion
named Johnson, of Springfield, 'Mass
He was almost in sight of the gold
mecca when his strength failed him
and he sank down in the soft sonw.
Johnson, who was the leader of the
party, went back to him and with - an
oath blew out the unfortunate man's
brains with a revolver.
This is the terrible story that is told
for the first time by J. C. Smith, who
has just returned from Alaska. His
partner, Edward T. Calhoun, of Yon-
kers, N. Y., witnessed the terrible
deed which was committed near his
cabin a short distance from Dawson.
Cainouo, too, near lost bis life from a
bullet from Johnson's revolver.
Nothing was heard from Johnson. It
is presumed he perished in the snow
storm while trying to escape.
Strike In Shoe Factories.
Brockton, Mass., Sept. 20. Nearly
1500 lasters in tbe big shoe factories of
Brockton, Rock Islaud, , Whitman,
Stoughton, East Weymouth, Middle
boro and Randolph were ordered out
today, the manufacturers, with the ex
ception of W. L? Douglas & Co.'s es
tablishment in this ctty, having de
clined to accede to the demands of the
lasters for a new price lists providing
for an increase oyer the old rates. -
CUBA MUST BE FBEE.
Annexation Will Mot Satisfy the Patriot
of the Island.
New York, Sept. 22. A Herald
special from Santiago says:
El Provenci publishes a bitter arti
cle on the subject of annexation. En
rique Trujilio, the editor, will say,
'The program before the war, dur
ing the war and after peace was declar
ed has been one of invariable and abso
lute independence of Cuba. Neither
now, before nor after, have we been
annexationists, fiooaoiy some un
lucky destiny like death may be
against the politicle suicide of annexa
tion. During the preliminary contest
for Cuban freedom, the first solution
was annexation, out tms was never
our ideal, only our second resource.
'The Spaniards desire it. They cry
'annexation or nothing,' but it is tbe
desire of the Spanish on the island, in
order to save their property, to give
themselves up to strangers rather than
to accept the holy idea of Cuban liber
ty. YVe reject annexation-because it
is against our feelings. It is impossi
ble for us to live in a strange atmos
phere, or under domination, even al
though American. It is impossible to
deal with a strange race and a strange
language, customs and ideas.
"We have battled for 30 years for
liberty. Blood has been shed in rivers
to preserve our individuality. None
shall take it from is. To do it, it is
neccessary to cut down woods to stop
the course of the livers, to repopulate
the entire country.' Nothing can do it
except extermination of the spirit ani
mating."
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Cnt rates on
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Prices from $1.50 up.
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Handsome Brass Parlor Stand, a beautiful ornament, $2.50
White enamel Iron
Bedstead, solid
Price $4.00.
frame, very durable.
Elegant Upholstered Couch, only $3.75.
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Queen Kerent Favors DL
Madrid, 'Sept. a). Tne queen
has replied to tha circular of the czar I
proposing a reduction of the excessive
armament of the powers and mainten
ance of a real and lasting peace. Her
majesty praises the Czar's project and
promises to send delegates.
. Spain's Troubles.
Madrid, Sept. 21. The southern
part of Spain has been visited by . ter
rlble floods. At the village of Herrera
near Cadiz, 80 people were drowned
and a great number of cattle perished.
The olive harvest is lost. This is es
pecially true in the provinces of Sev
ville and Grenada. There have been
many deaths in other parts of the flood'
ed-country.
Work Almost Done.
San Francisco, Sept. 21. The
steamer Panama has arrived from
Australian points and Honolulu,
bringing advices from the latter place
up to September 15, saying tbe con
gressional commissioners are finishing
their woric and expect . to leave tbe
island September 23. ; ,
Half a Million Lose.
Toledo, O., Sept. 21. An explosion
in the grain elevator of the Union El
evator & Transportation Company last
evening resulted in the death of, most
of the employes in the structure and a
money loss exceeding $500,000. There
were 450,000 bushels of grain in the
building.
CHINA BECOMINtt CIVILIZED
KIght to Memorializing the Throne Ex
tended to Everybody.
Pekin, Sept. 20. A remarkable
series of imperial edicts has been pub
lished during the past few days. . The
emperor has addressed to the people
long explanation of hid new policy,
declaring tnat in many respects west
ern clvilizati&n is superior to tbe exist
ing order in nis dominion and an
nouncing his intention to adopt its
good features and discard the bad ones.
The most radical edict establishes a
postal service throughout the empire.
A fresh edict followed extending prac
tically to everybody the right to me
morialize the throne, a privilege here
tofore restricted to certain classes.
The -latest edict commands that
monthly accounts be rendered of tbe
government receipts and expenditures
everywhere, and that these accounts
be published.
A FORMIDABLE FORCE.
Hearty Biz Thoasoad Troops aHlfud to
Datj In the FhlUlplnee.
San Francisco, Sept. 20. The
troops just ordered to the Philllplnes
are all anxious to depart as soon as pos
sible, and their wishes are likely to be
gratified for General Miller, who hopes
to head the expedition, is doing all be
can to expedite their transportation.
The numerical strength of the forces
ordered to the Orient is as follows:
First Tennessee regiment........ 1,280
Twentieth Kansas regiment. 1,301
Fifty-first Iowa regiment 1,251
First Washington regiment .1.315
Second Oregon recruits. 300
Battalion Twenty-third regulars. . 400
Admiral Dewey's fleet at Manila.
"My orders call for recruiting 40
seamen, 8 ordinary seamen, 6 lands
men, 40 coalpassers, 1 musician, first-
class; 2 musicians second- class; 2 hos
pital apprentices, 3 buglers, 6 yeomen.
third-class, and three "blacksmiths,"
the lieutedant-oommander said. "Ap
plicants will be 'examined physically
and mentally and those suoassful will
leave Chicago in a body on October 5,
with orders to report on board the
United States receiving ship Indepen
dence, at Mare Island navy yard,
California.
Poisoned His Hoop.
Manila, Sept 20. The Republican
Filioi no asserts that an attempt was
made to poisod Aguinaldo lass Friday
night, lhe steward, it is alleged, saw
a Spanish prisoner who. had been al
lowed his freedom, make a movement
which appeared like tampering with
a bowl of soup intended for Aguinaldo,
whereupwn the steward tasted a spoon
ful of the soup and fell dead. Eleven
Franciscean friars are alleged to have
been engaged in the conspiracy.
Tbe populace, it is further alleged,
attempted to lynch all" the Spanish
prisoners, but Aguinaldo intervened.
Shafter's Balloon's.
Omaha, Sept. 20. The captive bal
loons used by 8bafter's army in the
advance upon Santiago have reached
the exposition grounds, and the officers
of the United States signal corps are
getting them ready for daily ascensions.
These balloons are capable of rising
2000 feet, and at that distance tele
phone communication is held with tbe
station below the balloon. The bal
loons carry four people, the capacity
being 12,000 cubic feet, It is said that
President McKinley intends to make
an ascension during his ylsit to the
exposition.
STATE AFFAIRS
IN CHINA
The
Emperor Forced to
s gn His Power.
Re
Total
.....5,858
MEN FOB DEWEY'S 8HIFS.
f
Orders Beeeived tor Becrnitlng US
Them at Chloafo.
Chicago, Sept. 22. Lieutenant-
Commander Vail, in charge of the
United States naval recruiting station
in this city, has received an unexpect
ed border from Captain Crownshield,
chief of the bureau of navigation,
directing him to recruit 110 men for
'The Schooner rnak Wrecked.
San Francisco, Sept. 22. Australi
an papers received here on the steamer
Alameda report the Jktsa of the schoon
er O. U. unK, on manners lsiana, on
July 31, with 10 of her crew, all of
whom shipped on the well-known
coaster either here or in tbe north.
Only two seamen, Albert Krugb and
John Peterson, were sayed, and but
one body .had been recovered, when
the Alameda sailed. It was that of
Peter Nellson.
Peking, Sept. 22. An imperial
edict just issued (definitely announces
that the emperor of China has resign
ed his power to the dowager empress.
who has ordered tbe ministers to de
liver to her-in future all official reports.
It is difficult to obtain reliable infor
mation at tbe palace in regard to tbe
proceeding, but the recent reforma
tory edicts probably caused the change.
While the emperor was subservient,
and a mere figurehead, the dowager
empress permitted him to remain in
power, but as soon as he attempted to
acton his own initiative, his practical
deposition was the result. His princi
pal adviser, Kan. Yomol, a Cantonese
reformer has fled.
The effect of the change must be
great. In all probability, LA Hung
Chang will be reinstated and Russian
influence will increase. Tbe hopes of
reform so ardently cherished by the
intelligent factions of Chinese are
now impossible of fulfillment. ''
The suddenness of tbe coup is said
to be due to the desire of the dowager
empress to prevent the mission of Mar
quis I to from being successful. Tbe
Japanese statesman recently came to
Peking with tbe object of trying to
bring about an alliance offensive and
defensive between Japan and China.
The new order of things will un
doubtedly prejudice BrltUh Interests
in China. The wording of the pre
sent edict is not obtainable.
is generally admitted to be rravs by
both the press and the people. The
conflict between the civil and military '
authorities is becoming acute. Tbe
sudden and unexpected action of Zur
linden, the military governor of Paris,
in prosecuting Pioauart on a charge
of forgery and using forged documents,
assumes a grays aspect on account of
the circumstances attending this in
tervention of military authority In a
civil court.
Now that the Dreyfus question has
become a great national matter, every
proceeding in the affair has state im
portance. Zurllnden's ignoring of this
obvious fact is very .significant. H
comes lorwara as a defender oi tne
army, prosecutor of his supposed cal
umlnators, and resolute opponent of
the revision of the ease. From this to
the establishment of a dictatorship is
no wide step.
TBE 8ITOATIUN IS CRITICAL.
Breach Betweaa French Clra and
tary Authorities Widening.
FaBIS, Sept. 22. The situation here
Will r to
San Francisco, Sept. 22. A ser
geant, a corporal and 12 privates of
battery I, Third artillery, will relieve
the battalion of Washington volun
teers under Lieutenant-Colonel Fife,
who have been stationed at Angel is
land, Wash. Tbe Washington battal'
lion will rejoin the tw others at the
presidio and get ready for .the trip to
Manila.
Washington Bepablleaae.
Tacoma, Sept. The republican
state convention nominated the fol
lowing ticket today:
Representatives W. L. Jones, of
North Yakima, and Francis W. Cushr
man, of Tacoma.
Judges of the supreme court Mark
A. Fullerton of Colfax, and T. J. An
ders, of Walla Walla (renominated). :
France's large Wheat Crop.
Paris, Sept. 22. The French wheat
crop is estimated at 123,000,000 hec,
tol Iters, the largest since 1874, when
the yield was 136,000,000. This will
render France independent of foreign
importations of wheat.
China's Baler Dead.
Shanghai, Sept. 22. A rumor is,
current here to the effect that the
emperor of China is dead.
No details are obtainable, but it is
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