flEPPNKR GAZETTE: HEPPNER, OREGON
HENRY CLEWS' LETTER
A Weekly Review
Financial Affairs.
of
GOOD RAILROAD MANAGEMENT
Farmers and Laborers The Al i
liuns Against an I'nexpee
tetl Snag.
under-tone of strength which the mar
ket now exhibits.
The currency movement at the banks
results in a net loss of about $2,760,0 JO
tor the week ; the exchanges with the
sub-treasury showing a loss of f 3,260,
000, and the interior movement a train
of $520,000. The sum of $600,000 of
gold has been exported; but the present
supply of sterling exchange is against
the probability of shipments being con
tinued. Henry Clews.
GOD BLESS THE TARIFF I
New York, Feb. 8 The causes that
have depressed the stock market for the
last three weeks still continue in force.
The disposition to defer sp v.iiutiou nn
td after the adjournment ui Congress i
general, and the volume oi transactions
has fallen to about one third the average
amount. How far the inactivity is
really due to postponement till the close
of Congress and how far to other causer
must be left for events to determine;
but it is quita possil ld that the reason
ostensibly assigned fur the deferment of
transactions is mad") to do service for
other influences. February is usually a
dull month, and whatever improvement
the a Ijounnneiit of Congress may bring
is likely to be more or !et.s counteracted
by the hardening of the money market
that usually occurs in March and culmi
nates in the first week of April. While,
there ore, he market is likely to exhibit
more spirit alter the 4th of March, yet
it is not unlikely that we may have to
wait until the beginning of April for any
really active and well sustained move
ment in stocks, after which we may ex
pect three or four months of uninter
rupted ease in money, with a fair chance
for recovery in the prices of securities.
CONFIDENCE PREVAILS.
The steadiness with which prices have
been maintained during the prevailing
excessive dullness is a symptom that
deserves attention. It implies the com
parative absence of weak spots in the
market and the prevalence of a con 11
dence u hieh the "bears" lind it prudent
to respect. It evidences a sound state
of affairs and" the exoectation of, sooner
or later, a higher range of values. Un
doubtedly, the fact that the January
earnings "show an average gain of 6 pur
cent over the largly increased receipts
of January, 189J especially as that was
a nuv.-h better result than hail been ex
pected lias largely contributed to this
healthy tone of the market; but the
principal cause exists in things hoped
for,
ft is true that the Rock Island and
Chicago, Burlinglon & Qtiincy are suf
fering from the shortness of the corn
crop and that Chicago is selling the
Grangers from an expectation of re
duced earnings from a like cause; but it
is also true that the failure of that crop
was draining the traffic in January,
when the mails at large exhibited not
withstanding a very fair bnsines; and it
is a reasonable question if there were
compensations against the loss on this
source of ire gilt in tho first month of
the year, why may we not expect such
compensations in the later months? It
seems not impossible that the effects of
tlie loss of corn freight limy have been
over, discounted, as such conspicuous
items are apt .to be.
It II.HO.U) STOCKS.
In my judgment, the unusually de-pi-e-sin.'
inlluences ulleciing the market
fur the lust five months have predis
posed Wall street to very duly, perhaps
excessively, discount the un avonhle
factors in the railroad siiuatou: whilst
the more favorable lactors seem not to
havo received the full consideration they
merit. The railroad interest appeais to
have touched its lowest point of depres
sion about the period of the late panic.
Competition and Granger legislation
had then done their worst ami the injury
arising from the corn crop wa estimated
at its maximum ; and these factors were
taken at their full vane when panic
level of nrices was reached, since that
time, important changes henetic ally af
fecting the railroads have occurred.
There can be no doubt that the expenses
of operating and management have lieen
reduced under the pressure to which the
roads have been subject. Toat pressure
has also discouraged the construction of
new roads, with the effect of corres
pondingly checking the nio.-t reckless
form of competition. From the same
cause, the construction of branches by
existing. roads has been placed under
check, with the result of lessening the
diversion of earnings from dividend ac
count to construction account.
The fierce aggressions of Granger
legislation have reached their climax,
and the blind popular sentiment that
has demanded such legislation is now
be.'inning to discover that to cripple the
public carriers is to obstruct the chan
nels ot traue anu oi lnuuatrmi develop
ment. farmers' alliance and the laborers.
A bn ak in the ranks of the Farmers'
Alliance is threatened by the large ele
ment of wage-earners, who find that re
pression of the railroads means the
discharge of employes and the reduction
of wajes. The higher courts, even in
the Granger States, are beginning to
teach legislators that laws which do not
afford a fair compensation to the com
mon carrier are in the nature of uncon
stitutional conliscation a position
which had been already affirmed by the
United States Supreme Court. These
facts very plainly indicate that a point
has been reached at which legislative
oppression of the railroads is beginning
to nive place to a jtister policy. The
Western liailroad Association is also a
factor from which some good results may
be reasonably expected. It is at least
calculated to put a check on competition
and to reduce the cost of management
over a very .large mileage of road; how
far it mav'secure an advance in rates re-
ma 'lis to lie seen ; but, notwithstanding
the disclaimers of any purpose to raise
freight charges, its seems difficult to
ju-ti:y the creation of such a powerful
organization if it is not intended to ad
vance rate tariffs which are admitted to
he Tiiinonsly low. It there ore seems
probable that rates on through freight
mav be advanced at an early day on the
roads of the Western Association.
SILVER OUTLOOK.
Another element calculated to affect
ra lrn-.nl investments favorably is the
failtiie of the free-coinage scheme un ler
circumstances which foreshadow its
early d s nisiil irom public attent on as
a nodical issue. As that i9 ie stands
today it affords little real reason f r ap
prehension of any departure from the
gold standard of values in the United
states; and when this fact comes to be
duly appreciated in Europe it can hard
ly fail to raise American investments in
the estimation of foreign inv stors and
relieve the New York market of its
present surplus of stocks. The fore
goin.' may be reckoned as among the
conditions conducive to a future im-
ThU Is the Keason It Protects Ameri
can Wnrklngmen-'
Special Dispatches to the San Frunci-co Chron
icle. PirTSBiRO, Feb. 27 Twenty-eight
thousand men in Western Pennsylvania,
who are usually steady workmen earn
ing good wages, are idie. Twenty-seven
thousand of these are in conflict with
their employers; the oilier thousand
await the result of the war lietween the
capitalists. The strike in the Connells
villeeoke region involves 12.0JJ men,
the strike in the Kiver mine I5.0JJ an I
the shut-down in the Mahoning and
Shenandoah valley furnaces 10)0.
The money taken from Western Penn
sylvania every week by tnese troubles is
estimated to oe $071,00.). Of thisamount
$171,000 is kept out by the coke strike,
$200,000 by the shut-down of the fur
naces, and' $500,000 by the Kiver miners'
strike. ,
Strikes are frequent in Pittsburg and
the vicinity, but such an aggregation as
now confronts the State west of the Aile
glianies is alarming. What has been
brought to many neighborhoods, and
the capital kept away from business men
has made their vocations unprofitable.
JNkw Youk, Feb. 27 The trouble in
the coke region has been under discus
sion for months and on February 10th it
culminated in a eirike. The 12,000 men
w ho are idle received wdien at work an
average of $2 a day. This would amount
in wages alone to $24,030 a day, or $144,
090 a week. The average amount of
coke produced is 90,000 tons a week. It
sells for $1.90 a ton, which amounts to
$171,000. The strikj has been in pro
gress three weeks. This makes a total
loss of money which would have been re
cei ved for coke of $531 ,000.
In the Shenandoah and Mahoning
valleys the furnace owners and railroads
have been engaged in a freight war for
nearly two months. As a result 23 out
of 32 blast furnaces have been closed
and 100D men are thrown out oi employ
ment. Their wages amounted to about
$2 a dav.
In the Monongahela river miners'
strike 16,000 men have been out of em
ployment for two months. Their aver
age is $1.50 a day, making a loss to
workingmcn of $22, .00 day, or $1,125,
0 )0 Since the difficulty be -an. The grand
total of losses from these causes since
the new year is about $4,600,000.
TOO MUCH WATER.
Terrible ' Trials of
Theatrical Troupe.
St. Jerome. There are hundreds of il
luminated letters, many heightened
with stamped calf, ornamented with
brass. It is without title pages or sig
natures. There are 641 leaves, printed
in double column. 42 lines to the full
column. The initials and rubrics are in
manuscript throughout. It was formerly
known as the Mazurin Bible.
John Eliot's translation of the Holy
Bible into the Indian language was sold
to the Mitchells, of this city, for $1050.
Dodd. Mead & Co. bid off at $1500 a copv
THP 1'IVP JTnPf RnfTVn of a book believed to be the fourth book
IHtljri.A M.b MUK.U BUUiXU. , prjllted with a date. The same firm bid
off a copy of Jacques Cartier's history of
his voyages to the northwest, dated
1780, A. D., for $1000. To the same firm,
for $43il0, also went a letter of Columbus
in Spanish to Saint Angel, the friend
who secured the patronage of Isabella
:or Columbus.
The total of the sales was $54,038.
KEVIVl.tU Son.S.iAL.
Robert E. Graham, the Comedian, Tells
a Tragic Tale of Terrible Trials
Sparring for Meals.
EX-TACOMl MAN WANTED.
He Starts a llngus Furniture Company
in Uuslness.
Spokane Falls, Ma ch 4 The Spokes
man today sas :
What and where is the Falls City Fur
niture Company?
It is said to have a store on Main
street, but few people have even located
it. Yet Robert Olsen yesterday sued
the company for $1,134 for furniture de
livered to the company.
Few people have ever succeeded in un
raveling tiie relations of ilogen Olesot',
W. H. Simile, and Jacob Erickson, who
offensively form the Fa Is City Furniture
Company. Commercial agencies have
endeavored to find the secret, but they
have not been successful,
Erickson came to the coast from Du
Itilh, Minn., seven years ago. For four
years he was in the contracting business
in Taroma, and then came to Spokane,
where he has been engaged ,n contract
ing. He was in the firm of Lawn,
Erickson & Sunde until Larsen with
drew some time ago, when the business
was continued by Erickson and Sunde.
They had a big lot of contracts and are
supposed to have made money. They
had no commercial standing, however,
as no one could solve the relations oi the
partners.
Some months ago the Falls City Furn
iture Company was organized by the
three, and a large quantity of iurniture
was ordered. The reports of the com
mercial agencies stopped most of the
orders from being tilled, but it seems
some of the manufacturers did send the
company furniture. What became of it
will be a question for the courts to de
cide. It was reported yesterday that Erick
son had left town.
BAKMON'S TROUBLES.
A Spokane Man Trying Hard to Escape
From California Creditors.
San Francisco, March 0 Word comes
from Spokane Falls that A. L. Bartnon,
who was arrested there about a week
ago on a requisition from California, is
now on his way back to San Francisco in
charge of an officer.
Barmon is accused of defrauding sev
eral clothing houses here, among them
Fechheimer, UoodKin Ac uo., lor large
hills of isoods. He opened the Star
clothing house in the Zeigler block at
Spokane. Suddenly the Star clothing
house shut up and there was nothing to
satisfy the creditors, recmienuer,
Goodkin & Co.'s bill was for $1500 and
they swore out a war. ant against him
for obtaining goods under false pre
tenses. As soon as thev had got him
the officers started for California. Har
mon's lawyer, however, telegraphed
ahead and Barmon was taken trom the
train at Colfax on a writ of habeas cor
pus. He had a hearing and a defect was
discovered in the requisition papers is
sued by Governor Markham, but they
did not let him go and proper papers
were at once issued and Bent on. Bar
mon had another writ sued out, and
Chief of Police Crowley says lie has not
vet heard what disposition was made
of it.
Pan Fernando, Cal., Feb. 27 We
don't get our salary this week, and that's
what we're all kicking aliout.
After leaving San Francisco Monday
morn'ng, about an hour out, we heard
the news that it was impossible for us to
get through to Los Angeles on account
of a terrible wiv-hout. It was one of
those little pieces of news that the pas
sengers always hear before the railroad
company knows anything about it.
Strange, isn't it?
Well, that was pleasant for a starter.
About 4 o clock in the morning, whil
we were all sleeping soundly, there was
a sudden crash, anu a very targe crasn it
was. It could give our stage crash cards
and spades and then lose it in the sbu -
fle. The train came to a very sudden
stop, and we found that one of those
playlul little bowlders weighing aoout
five tons had tripped down the mountain
side and dislocated the platform of the
sleeper just behind us. Three seconds
sooner and it would have popped lightly
in the window ot the berth in which niv
wife and I lay sleeping, and we would,
perhaps, ere this have been knocking at
the golden gates. When it was all over,
all breathed an inward prayer; all ex
cent me; I would have breathed one. but
didn't know any. Without further
impediment on the part of the mountajfk
marbles we arrived at the beautiful, and
1 must say beautiful, city of Mojave.-
ONLY TOO TUUE.
There the reports we had heard whis
pered previously about washouts were
verified, and so thoroughly that there
was no possibility of doubt left in our
minds. We were told we would have to
lay up for repairs. " Our stomachs needed
them badly, so did our scene car and the
disabled sleeper, but we learned after
wards that ttie railroad needed them
worse, and we are still of the same opin
ion, tor thev are still repairing.
Well, after a few games of poker, sev
eral drinks and a meal in Mojave we
found ourselves all btoke, and shortly
after we all got hungry. Then you can
well imagine that the one absorbing
thought and topic of the hour among the
''Sea King" Company and alltheothir
passengers, numbering out of the four
trains aliout 2)0, was when do we eat
and iiow do we get it?
Mind you, all of us were broke, the
Mojave hotel larder well supplied and
the landlord anxious to sell. Was this
a case of thou art so near and yet so far?
Well, our manager began to hustle,
goaded on by Mark Sui.th, the hungry
Sea lung, and your nnmiiie, etc., tne
starving Hamboula,andat last succeeded
in gett ng the la'lroad superintendent's
representative Robert Crawford, to issue
tickets to eacn anil every person on an
trains stuck for food at the depot res
taurant. After that our principal object
ii lite seemed to be to hie up to the
lerk's ollice to get those cliaritv tickets
tor grub, and nothing about the beauti-
u I city ol Mojave seem a to interest anv
il the s nek crowd as much as the hus.le
tor those tickets.
it was a case of stand in line, wait
your t in n or you don't get s 'ttp. Ii you
ot there first it was fairly warm, but
the second ileal was a very cold deck.
THE AMUHKMKSTS.
Apart from hustling for cat, our prin
inal amusement consisted of hunting
the wild and ferocious jack rabbit, oi
winch we inanag d among 60 or more ot
us to slay four, and tiring of this danger
ous pastime we turned our attention to
pitching quoits for drinks, which the
barkeeper always put up D. H., while
the ladies were' out picking cacttm and
the dude passengers (male) were out
chasing Mojave Indians. At last, to
vary our vast amusement resources,
some one put up a notice in large anu
clear free hand type letters on the hotel
window, stating that there would De a
"Concert and dance given in the dining
hall of the Mojave Hotel after supper,
this (Thursday! evening, at 9 o'clock;
tickets, $1 ; ladies free." We ail went
nd thev must have took us all for ladies
for I did not see $1 put up by anybody.
However, to square ourselves, our com
pany after the dance gave selections from
"Tho
FANCHON'S FEET.
They are Too Large for
the Plank.
AN ATHLETIC ELEPHANT
Tries to Walk a riank but Falls Drops
on bales of Hay and Walks
to the Stable.
magistrate, has Bat in the cases where
strikers were accused and passed judg
ment adversely to them. They allege
gross abuse and reduction of pay to four
pence an hour for night work as their
reasons for going out on a strike. These
statements are made in answer to a
statement made by Mr. Lewis. In Aber
deen the struggle is kept up with in
creased bitterness. A number of men
who came from England to take the
places of the strikers have been assaulted
and mobbed and navigation is almost at
a standstill.
THEY WILL KAXQl'KT.
The Winter Social Kvent in London
Royalty Quirrellng Over Religion
London, March li The Liberals are
disgusted and the Tories delighted with
the revival by Sir Charles Dilke himself
of the old scandal reflecting on his mor
ality, l'eople were beginning to ignore
the subject, and if Dilke had become a
candidate in the forest of Dean without
alluding to it th-- affair would probably
not have been nientio.ied by anybody
else. As it is, he has dragged t lie whole
disgusting business to public attention
again in his pamphlet, for no one doubts
that he is the author of it. Even assum
ing what he saya to be true, it only
shows that he was in a very dirty mess.
Dilke's friends say he is almost a
monomaniac on the subject of the scan
dal which led to his political downfall
so much so that it is unpleasant to be in
his company. When everybody is wait
ing for some utterance on the public
question from the former radical leader,
lie will suddenly Diurt out an allusion
to the scandal with an averment oi his
innocence and his intention to prove it.
When he can be got to talk on other
matters he is interesting, as he always
was, but he insists in getting in tiic
mud. Under the circumstances the
Liberal party, through its leaders, could
not endorse him with understanding,
because they were also obliged to endorse
his alleged exculpation.
One of the most notable Bocial events
of the year was inaugurated yestcroay at
Royal 'Albert Hall, Kensington, it is a
huge bazaar, including a series of con
certs and entertainments in aid of the
rale. Stalls in the bazaar are presided
over by social celebrities and many
ladies of title. The l'rince and Princess
oi Battenburg presided at the opening,
at which a very large number of dis
tinguished people were present, most of
whom "tre patrons or patronesses of the
We-t End hospital, 'ihe bazaar closes
tomorrow with a cafe chautauiit under
the direction of ihe Marchioness of
Waterford.
There is something of a fuss in tho
British royal family over the fact that
Queen Victoria's granddaughter, the
Grand Duchess Elizabeth, daughter of
the Grand Duke of liesse and the late
Princess Alice, and wife of Sergius,
brother of the czar, is about to join the
Russian orthodox faith. Queen Victoria
approves, but the father of the Princess
does not. The Cznr of course and the
Russians generally are well pleased.
Although the Bute dockersclaims to be
victorious in the struggle with the dock
ers, a considerable number of vessels are
blocked at Cardilt, while c.onstriuutions
still pour in for support of the men on
iriKC. Alio snipping leuurauuu is
pending large sums of money for free
labor at Aberdeen, and both with very
ltt o apparent result, the lrce laoor
men generally drop away after a day or
wo and many are touiid worthless anil
mve to l.e discharged. Nevertheless the
1 1 i i ii n lt federation is resolute in main
tain , lie its principle that men shall
be employed irrespective of union affili
ations.
THE LEGISLATURE.
What Was
at Olympla
Not Done
Today.
Olvmpia. March 6 Drum, of Pierce,
introduced a resomiion in the Senate
this morning petitioning President Har
rison to direct the secretary of the inter
ior to approve the selection of
indemnity lands of the Northern
Pacific railroads, liecauee such
railroads cannot be taxed until
such approval is made. Several appro
priation bills which had already pas-e.l
the House were also parted, together
with several other bibs of minor im
portance. The House this morning passed
Morse's bill relocating the lioiindanes
The Sea King" choruses,
A HUNTING TKIP.
The next dav we got up a hunting
party among some of our boys. Thev
rented four fierv. untamed bronco steeds,
borrowed four different very different
kinds of guns and started on over the
nrairie. Tliey didn t get far on the start
however, before the broncos commenced
to do a dance, ami one of those all-fout
dances that only a bronco can do, and
the music is furnished by the fellow on
top. Four braver hunters never left
Mojave, but they are not so brave as
thev wete,
In the afternoon of this day our crack
"Sea King" baseball club started out to
show the Mojave crack team how to pi
baseball, and thev showed them with
score of 41 to 9 in favor of the Mojaves.
We have concluded that Mojave
areat city, because they can play base
ba.l. After our three regular hustles lor
eat, the evening brought us the news
that we would start for Los Angeles
the morning. Sowiiha sigh of relief
we all retired to otir sleepers, the smok
ing room, ami the band i laved pennv
ante. We have started from Mo-Mo-Oh-Have-This-With-Me
Town, and here we
are in San Fernando, washout ahead
the rain pouring, we still waiting and
Los Angeles UJ miles away.
R. E. Graham.
Russia Willing In Oblige France.
London, March 6 The union of Rue-
ria and France in a pro:est against En
glish predominance in the E-'yptian
luilicmrv is v ewed with keen interer
by English statesmen, as Rus-ia has
more than once expressed a willingness
that in a divuion ot the Ottoman em
pire satisfactory to Russia Egypt should
lull to England. The present move is
I bete ore taken to ind.cate that Russia
is desirous of obliging France, the coun
try ready interested.
Rich anil Itare lilbles.
Xf.'V York, March 6 The Agragran
art galleries vcrterdav afternoon lgan a
Island county and Jones' lull amending sole of the snnerb collection of rare ami
the election Ihw so as to require tickets cort.y books and manuscripts of lirayton
of each political party to be printed : ive8. Many prominent men were pres-
separately in groups on oauoi.
Cur ett In Mad Couiiitiou.
San FRANCtrCo, March 6 Jim Corbett
and Parson Davies arrived from the East
this afternoon. Corbett looked anything
but the picture of health as he stepped
off the Oakland boat. His face had a
very haggard appearance. He looked
ike a man who was jaded and worn out
rom traveling. Not having been used
to the Eastern climate he was a good
mark for malaria to take hold of. Cor
bett admitted that his appearance did
not belie his condition. He said :
"I had a fine trio, but I must confess
that mv health was not improved Dy the
change of climate. The New Orleans
i nnate knocked me out. When 1 ar
rived there I weighed 207 pounds, hut I
soon began to lose flesh rapidly, wny
on my trip I have lost just 20 pounds. 1
now weiul! aoout Itw.
"Yes. mv stomach is a nttto out ot
order, but I guess that after 1 have got a
few breaths of California air in me All
be all right. I intend to train at Sausa-
lito. and John Donaldson and Billy De
lancy will assist uie. I will go over to
atisalito tomorrow to select my quar
ters, and will begin work at once. At
Denver I boved with Reddy Gallagher
and lean tell ou that he is a mighty
clever fellow. He, however, prefers to
box Mitchell instead of Hall, and wants
me to act a match for him."
How are you and McAulitle getting
along?"
"Weil, we (ton t kiss wnen we meei.
He tried to run a bluff on me at a
theater one night in New York, but I
fooled him."
"Who was the unknown that you
promised him a match with?"
"Well, to tell the truth, 1 had no un
known when McAulifle tooted his horn
in the theater. A spectator Informed
me that he had an unknown who would
light McAulifle, so I got up and an
nounced that 1 would match a man with
McAulifle. When the time came to jiro
duce my man he failed to show tip.
That's all there was in it. When 1 get
through with Jackson, and I have no
other engagement, I will be ready to
talk to McAulifle."
Corbett's wile accompanied him on his
return trip.
Parson Davies made a better report of
himself. He looked as slick as ever and
appeared glsd tj be once more in San
Francisco. To a reporter the parson
told what he knew aliout the pugilistic
situation. He says:
"Two weeks ago I received a letter
(rom Charley Mitchell, in which he said
that he and Slavin expected soon to
virit this country. He asked my advice
as to the prospect of hi i making a uc
cess of his trip, financially, to America.
He also said that Slauu was coming lo re
to talk fight, and that Frank would back
himself against anybo.lv. I don't think
their recent qurel amounted to any
ih ng. An effort is being made to have
Mitchell ami Slavin light, and this quar
rel was probably exaggerated for that
ris.se. I will prolnibiy have some-
New York, March 6 Fanchon, the
trick elephant who attempted to per
form a new and difficult feat last Tues
day and fell, is not doing so well today,
and Herman Reiche, her owner is be
coming alarmed.
Fanchon basal ways beqn more or less of
a pet, and is one of the brightest of trick
elephants. Mr. Reiche, who is a dealer
in wild animals, has been very fond of
her, and always feeds her himself. On
Monday, however, he was delayed be
yond the usual hour, and Fanchon be
coming restless tuggedat her chain until
she broke loose.
Then the went on an exploring ex
pedition. She entered Mr. Reiche's house by the
back door, and carefully made her way
up stairs. Mrs. Reiche was in the
kitchen preparing dinner, and the child
ren were playing around the room. She
heard the noise on the stairs, and was
horrified to see the door open, and the
elephant walk in. She gathered in the
children and rushed into the next room
closing the door after her.
ranclion, lett in charge of the kitchen,
began to look for her belated dinner.
he was not accustomed to Handling
ishes, and naturally smashed some of
them. The furniture got in her way and
be smashed it, a bull in a china shop
was nowhere. Mr. Reiche coming home
thought there was a political meeting in
progress in his kitchen. He hurried up
stairs, and soon had Fanchon quieted.
t hen the question was now to get her
down stairs.
An elephant is well designed for going
up stairs, but for going down there is
too much weight forward. To attempt
to take Fanchon down the way she came
would put Mr. Reiche to the expense of
having a new side put in his house.
There was but one way. She must be
taken through a window and down an
inprovised scattolding to the yard be
low.
On Tuesday, the arrangements being
ompleted, the attempt was made. The
arrangements were, however, evidently
aultv, anil before tanchon was led out
if the second-story window the 6000
people who had congregated in Fifty-
leventh street were predicting just such
an accident as occurred.
From the parlor window on the second
(loor a platform, built like a gangway
and about three feet wide, inclined down
itnd rested on a brick fence 10 feet high
iust inside the sidewalk. Another gang
plank was laid from the wall, at the
end, and joining the first one, and at the
back and down to the door of the Btable,
which occupies the ground floor of the
building. So the elephant, to reach the
stable, would have to walk down an in
due from the window to the wall, then
make a sharp turn around and walk
lown another incline to the stable door.
It was at the turn that danger was
feared, and the fear was well grounded,
as even a man would have to lie careful
in getting from one gang plank to the
other.
At 1:15 o'clock, when the block be
tween Third and Lexington avenues was
jammed w ith people, one of Mr. Reiche's
men stood on the wa I and shouted a
request to the people to keep perfectly
quiet while Fanchon was making her
journey. Then rosin dust was scattered
over the platforms and Mr. Reiche ap
peared at the window leading hanchon
on to the gang plank. Following the
elephant was its keeper, Brown, and an
employe ot Mr. Keiche Known as tne
mighty hunter." as tne descent oegan
not a sound could be heard in the im
mense crowd. The walk to the brick
wall, about 20 feet, was accomplished in
about 10 second.
Then came the critical moment. Mr.
Reiche turned and stepped towards the
other gang plank, trying W pull Fan
chon around alter him. But Fanchon
would not budge. Mr, Reiche gave her
a prod with an iron hook. Unnchon
lifted one foot, raised her trunk, and
then there was a roar of horror from
the crowd. Her trunk in turning had
struck Mr. Reiche and sent him back
wards and almost heels over head from
the wall. Everybody thought he was
killed, as he alighted on his shoulders
and the back of his head. The sod was
a protection, however, .and he quickly
jumped to his feet looking dazed, but
with no bones broken.
Just as he struck the ground Fanchon
stepped toward the second gang plank.
missed it and fell between the two lines
of boards, two of her legs and her trunk
clinging to the upper one and the other
legs to the lower one. She at once set
up a terrible bellowing and tho crowd
began to disperse in quick order.
The reporters and others who were in
the court yard in front of the stable
thought that a walk un Third avenue
would he particularly pleasant at the
time, and very soon there were not a
half dozen persons in the vicinity of tho
banging Fanchon.
Those w ho remained rushed into the
stable and pulled out bales of hay which
they placed underneath the elephant to
break the force ot the tall, anu r.eoper
Seattle Democrats to Celebrate Jeffer
son's Birthday.
Seattle, March 0 It was decided by
a committee of the Seattle Democracy,
at the meeting held in Judge Junius
Rochester's office last evening, to honor
the anniversary of the birth of Thomas
Jefferson, the first saint in the Demo
cratic calendar, bv a grand claw
hammer, all-night, five-dollar banquet at
the Rainier hotel on April 13, w bich it
is intended shall eclipse all former party
feasts in elegance, luxury and splendor.
M. Carson, who presided at last even
ing's meeting, was made the chairman
of an executixe committee of five with
power to appoint, within two days, the
other members of the committee.
The last act of last night's meeting
was to pass with unanimous enthusiasm
a motion to "whoop her up," and if the
uiiuresL iiitiiiiiesieu uy inu representa
tives of t.ie silk stocking element of the
party, who composed the meeting, can
be taken as an index, the coming festival
w ill be a rousing success.
An awkward question was precipitated
upon the meeting bp a wed-meaning
brother. He related that John Sherman,
in accounting for the great overturning
at the last election, said that the women
did it. He suggested that this political
service of the fair sex be recognized in
admitting them to the coming feast.
Nobody seemed to know how to take
tne suraestion until Brother Kiliren
arose and stated that the only way to
hnve the women present would be to
have something like a gallery where
they could sit aloft and witness the
eating without partaking, and listen to
the music, oratory and the uncorking.
Responsibility ot acting upon this deli
cate question was evaded by the meet
ing and imposed upon the executive com
mittee.
WAS HE BRIBED?
A California Legislator
in "Trouble.
TRIES THE METCALFE ACT.
Receives 8400 for His Influence from
Andy Lawrence What Law
rence Says.
SAW ELEl'HANTS ANU THINGS.
. .ni I. Du-nriiiM tlA amii'lna-
lion of whith is the main cu of the Indianapolit JoarnaL
fin. J. V. bilsworth, ot Chicago, se
cured the famous "Guttenl erg Bible,"
But this girl Egbert is engaged to thefir't hook printed with type, after
isn't she rather giddy? She seems to spiriu-d bidding, paying U-L8I0 for the
me a rather thoughilers creature." two volumes.
"Thoughtless 1" answered Eglieri's The book was bruited at Menti by
.n.ih "sh la al.solntpiv tbinkleas." Gutienlierg in 1450. A. D.. and is in
Latin, uoiuic type, wun tue proioyu oi
nn
thing to do with their appearance in
this "country. A good oiler lias been
made to me to take cha ge of an a hleiic
exhibition to be given during the World's
fair, and another cood offer from a num
ber of prominent Denver sports who will
Brown, by prodding Fanchon, made her
let bo her hold on the upper gangpianit
She fell with a bellow, into the hay and
gently rolled off to tho earth. She was
led into tho stable apparently not great
ly injured.
Not a Negroes' TaradUe.
Gainesville, lex., March ti A num
tier of neeroes arrived in this city today
from Oklahoma territory, having walked
the entire distance. They report a de
plorable condition of affairs among the
negroes w ho recently went there with an
understanding that tho governmen
would aid mem. inose ncre say iney
are anxious to get back to Texas and
will not be misled any more to seek
oilier fields which are represented as
negroes paradire.
Sequel of a Famous I'rlie Fight.
Atiikns, Ohio, March 6 Dave Seville
of Columbus, who on Tuesday night of
last week killed Arthur Maiesty. of To
ledo, in a pr'ze tight, was Wednesday
eveuiii' bound over in court in tho sum
of f2000 to answer to the charge of man
slaughter. Ilia seconds in the ngh
Tom Macey and Red llennesey, were
bound over in the sum of each, as
was also the referee, Irank Mcllugh.
Cause of the Cardiff Strike.
London, March 0 The Cardiff gtriker
ma ntain they have been treated
the harshest manner by Mr. Lewis, the
Kour-H Experiences In the Snow of Two
Travelers.
Spokane, March 4 D. E. Forbes, who
is stopping at the Pacilic hotel, tells how-
deep the snow is on the trail between
Nelson and Sproat's landing. He left
Nelson an foot and walked for 20 miles
through snow two feet deep. He Biiid
that he was very nearly exhausted when
he reached Sproat's place, but did not
suffer as did Mr. Williams, of the Min
neapolis Mining Company, who took the
trail a day before Mr. Forbes. Mr.
Williams started with a small satchel
filled with mineral specimens, but before
he had traveled half the way to Sproat
he became partially delirious. Flounder
ing in the deep snow he realized that ii
he should once give up and sink into
the drifts he would not be found until
spring opened.
He threw away his vnlise and made a
desperate resolve to force the inarch.
When ho arrived at tho government
house in Sproat he was so benumbed
that he could not raise a hand to knock
at the door.
Throwing himself against the panel"
tho door 0iened and he fell unconscious.
Ho related afterward that during the
delirious spells ho saw elephants, trop
ical birds and scorpions swarming in his
path.
ltussla anil Austria Cordial.
London, March 0 A good deal of un
easiness is felt in Berlin over the evident
signs of cordiality between Russia and
ustria. It is claimed the autograph
letter sent hy the Austrian kaiser to the
c.ar, through Archduke Ferdinand, was
nothing more than a lrienitly invilation
to the Russian iuijerial family to visit
ustria. and contained no reference to
politics. But advices from Vienna leaves
(lout t that the impression is mat
Russia is to be no longer considered as n
waiting foe, while there is but little
oubt in lierlin that an understanding
xists between the two empires. This
is making Germany all the more anxious
to cement thetriplealliance.nndnegotia
tions to that ollect are being earnestly
pushed at Vienna and Rome.
England Afraid of lteeiirorlly.
London, March 0 The British govern
ment, under pressure from merchants in
the Brazilian trade, is taking steps to
btain for Great Britain an assurance
for commercial privileges in that country
oual to thoso granted other nations.
English merchants are afraid the reci
procity treaty between Brazil ami the
United States will divert much of the
trade to the latter country.
Honors to Wade Hampton.
Wasiiinhton, I). C, March 5 The
Democratic Senators who havo served
for years with Mr. Wado Hampton in
the upper house of Congress aro unwill
ing to let the termination oi ins sen
atorial career pass without testifying in
some way to the honor and the esteem
n which they nave learned to noici mm.
It was at first proposed to tender him a
miner, but Mr. Hampton, who has noi
been conspicuous as a "diner out,
vetoed that idea. Tho Senators there
fore have decided to present their col
league with a handsoino silver service.
The presentation will be made in a few
days.
Sacramento, Cal., March 7 In the
assembly chamber today Assemblyman
Wood Iirumer, of Sacramento, replied to
the charges made against him yesterday
by the San Francisco Examiner, which
accused him of accepting a bribe of f 400
for his influence toward securing an ap
pointment on tho police force of San
Francisco.
Brumer recently introduced a bill in
the Legislature increasing the police
force in cities of certain population, and
succeeded in having it passed. The
paper stated that in return therefor he
claimed the power of appointing six
members of the San Francisco force;
that he endeavored to exchange these
appointments for money, and that a re
porter of the paper secured from him in
exchange for a certificate for $400 a let
ter recommending the appointment of a
mythical personage proposed by tho
newspaper man. Brumer today denied
the allegations contained in the article,
and claimed he had been blackmailed on
the iloor of the House in the interest of
certain measures by a representative of
the paper in question. He introduced
as a witness A. F. Bull, the San Fran
cisco attorney.
Bull said he was present at the pre
senting of the claim of Peter Connelly,
in which Mrs. Himmelman was the only
other person interested. He continued":
"Mrs. Himmelman said Andrew M.
Lawrence, of the Examiner, had been to
her and solicited her to let him take
charge of the claim in the legislature.
She said she preferred that 1 take charge
of it." Bull here introduced in evidence
a telegram from Lawrence to Mrs. Him
melinan, and continuing said Lawrence
came to his office and asked what he was
going to do for him, but was requested
to deal with Mrs. Himmelman. Law
rence subsequently made several ap
pnintments, only one of which Bull kept.
The witness said :
"That was at the Cafe Royal. We
met in a room there. Lawrence said he
must have $1000 or he would defeat the
claim and burn mo up. I said that was
a large sum of money. Ho saitl he must
have it. Later Lawrence met Mrs.
Himmelman, and rather than stand the
chance of defeat sho offered him sf 2000.
Ilo siid he would not take it from her.
lie would get it from Bull. Later I met
Lawrence and ho demanded that he be
lixed. He said, 'You must fix the news
paper boys, and I am just the boy to do
that.' 1 do not think the proprietors of
the Kxaininer knew of this transaction."
At the close ot Bull's testimony Bru
mer reiterated his innocence of the
charges against himself, but acknowl
edged taking a check which he claimed
h held as evidence of an attempt to
bribe him. A special committee of
seven was appointed to investigate the
affair.
"Andy" Lawrence, the Examiner re
porter w ho is accused by Mr. Bull, is
considered ono of the brightest news
paer men in San Francisco, and the
best reporter of political matters. When
asked about the matter, he laughed and
said:
"Why, there's nothing in it, but this:
We laid a trap for Brumer and caught
him in it. He admits receiving the $400.
Now that he finds himself caught he
trumps up an improbable story aliout
me. 1 am ready for the investigation at
any time."
MISS1X1 8K( lit HIES.
Trying to Find Out What Has Heonme
of Those of Delaware.
Wilmington, Del., March 5 Ex-Gov-ernorjohn
P. Cochrane, of Middletown,
says he thinks the State's securities
were taken from the Farmers' bank at
Dover in lH7.r and deposited in the
vaulisof the Fiilelityfnsuraiice Trust and
Safe Deposit Company, of Philadelphia.
This action was authorized by the State
Legislature, by Governor Cochrane's
request. Ho Bays the State has paid a
yearly rental for tho safe deposit box,
and that the security, amounting to
$077,410, aro therein.
Tho state treasurer will endeavor to
get possession ot the money. If he finds
them safe, the imputation that they
wero hypothecated by ex-State Treas
urer I lerbert, will be removed. Thomas
Ii. GileB, state treasurer tinder Cochrane,
wus the lust one who saw the papers.
The legislative committee investigating
state finances will meet tomorrow and
Mr. Herbert says ho will be able to pay
the $114,417.37 due from him.
STILL OKAMI MA ST Kit.
Preserving Plant Horned.
Philadelphia, Pa.. Starch 0 J. O.
Schaiiimers fruit preserving company's
plant at Eighth and Berks streeis was
Dtirned earlv tins morning, liio com
pany did an extensive business and bad
branches in all the leading cities through
out the country. The loss on the binni
ng and contents was $l.')ti,u ill, luiiy in
sured. The residence of Dr. Buckley,
7-2fi Berks street, caught fire from the
descending siiarks and was damaged to
the extent of ifoUDJ; insurance, $z.iuu.
English Workmen Not Organized.
London, March 6 Dock laborers, in
exchange for some trilling concessions,
have raised the boycott on federation
vessels and will resume work. The
stevedores are exacted to go to work
today. Tho virtual failure of the move
ment is attributed to lack of inuttiai sup
port among the various unions. The
coal tipjiers at Cardiff aro still out, but
disnosed to compromise unless railroad
engineers and other labor unions will
strike in their support, which is very un
likely, spile of Tom Mann's vigorous
efforts in that direction. Mann last night
appealed to the labor classes to aland to
gether. In the sjieech he declared only
2,000,000 out of U.OOO.ODO wage-workers
in Great Britain were organized. This
was sullicient to account for all failures.
It is stated that the French Jockey
club will transfer its races to Belgium to
The l'rince of Wales Again Elected hy
The Free Masons.
London, March 5 The Prince of
Wales was again elected last evening to
bo Worshipful Grand Master of the
I'.nglish Free Masons. Tho meeting of
the United Grand Lodge was a more
than usually brilliant spectac le and the
popularity of the prince in the order was
well attested. The prince's son, the
Duke of Clarence, is also taking a lead
ing rank in the Masonic fraternity and,
it is expected, will be elevated to his
lather's Masonic rank when the latter
gives up the grand master's chair for the
throne of Great Britain.
fiOULIVS FIVE HAND.
He is Pract'cally Annulling the North
western Truffle Contract.
Clin Aoo, March 0 Tho comparison
of shipments of the Union Pacilic rail
road tiefore and sinco Presipent Adams
was deposed, shows that Jay Gould has
found means to nullify tho famous Union
Pacific-Northwestern traffic contract.
This is done by billing Union signed
height via Kansas; City instead
of Omaha. From Kansas City the
freight is taken by the Missouri Pacific
to Memphis anil thence east hy the
Richmond Terminal. In this way the
Gould lines get almost a transcontinent
al haul. The business thus diverted
and which formerly went via Omaha
aventgea nearly 10 per cent, of the entire
tonnage. This is made clear by a com
parison of the figure for August and
January. The loss to the Northwestern
is represented by about 18 per cent, of
tho entire Union Pacilic tonnage.
L .... a : i ho rtr. . oiiut.dti f a Ki .nn ....... n ..... nl tlia ItntA drulra and t lint, thfl
club there, similar to the California club, brother of Mr. Lewis, a gtipendiary enable it to conduct betting operations.
Mailing to the Sound.
San Fkancibco, Mar. h 6 The follow
ing is the list of passengers sailing on
the steamer Walla Walla to Puget
Sound :