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NORTH WEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
of Late Happenings. '
tTEJ HOT FROM THE WIRES
Budget of News for Easy Digestion From
Different Part of the State! of Wash
ington. Oregon and Idaho Item of
Interest to Paclflo Coast People.'
Spokane built 400 houses in 1894 at a
ccst of something like $750,000.
A-. Fetsch, a Medford (Or.) tailor,
' '''&' tlrerff $500 jn a lottery last week. ; -y. '
Fred Harford of Patha is" experiment
ing witha new current wheel, for which
he has secured a patent. .It is for irriga
tion purposes. " '
"Uncle Billy " Gilliam is circulating
an - initiative and referendum petition
in Morrow county, Or. ; also one for a
-''new- State constitution.-: . .
tv A very pleasant family reunion was
'STkti'r J$ld t the residence of J. P. Humph
reys in' the' Waldo Hills near Macleay,
, Or., on1, Christinas dayO There were
present seven children and twenty-six
'"aj'T'fSrandchildren." , - " ",f V ;
? ; The Oregon State Board of Equaliza-
tion met recently for the purpose of
comparing the roll' as prepared by the
' Secretary and witnessing the President
SA&i 1 and .Secretary -attach their signatures
thereto,. .This completed the big' "table"
,'iwfeich'flvas .filed-.witi- the Secretary of
State and soon afterward transferred to
the.State printing office. The Secretary
was instructed to return to Salem No
vember 26 and begin the work of mak
v. ing preliminary tables for the session of
the board of ,1895.; . : ; ; -j
Initiatory arrangements have been'
perfected for a novel feature in Oregon
journalism.' The Salem Statesman ten
dered its January 22 edition to the ladies
trt-.-:;..ot thatityr they to do all the office and
reporting work and take the entire pro
ceeds that day for-charitable purposes.
A meeting of the ladies was neld, the
. proposition accepted and the following
prominent .ladies elected to carry out the
project: Mrs. -Judge Bean, business
manager'; Mrs. X)live, England, -editor)
Mrs. William Bown, city editor; Mrs.
f Patterson society editor. The remain-
der of the staff will be selected soon. J
Loewenberg Bros.- of Spokane have
1.7. W .transferrei"alli their stock and property,
" including' the dry ' goods "business, the
- 3fcoewenA)ergJJuildingr where thft Louvre
i ' : Theater-Is-, -and the-, residence of Mr.
Loewenberg to J. N. Glover as trustee of
a large number of creditors, among them
'. the Merchants' National Bank of Port-
-land, of which-Julius Loewenberg. is
v ' President. -Juliag Loewenberg withdrew
t-, from the ffrm" of Loewenberg Bros. Octo-'
f ' ' ' berl-, 1893. His claim-against the nrm
at-that'tfme was.450,000; ilt is claimed
tajisiO that ;th is lias been increased to 1Q0,000.
William P. Simpson' of ''the South
- Bend broom handle factory, has- found
I that hemlock', so common in that region,
is. the best material yet discovered for
; broom1' handlesi Alder has heretofore
.yy been considered .the best, but handles
U '.made of hemlock and sent to customers
p :ii -c 'n- Portland and San Francisco have been
;' pronounced by them superior to aider.
The hemlock is whiter, polishes better,
" is lighter in weight and is equally as
rrTBttongtj Mr..Simpson says he has a mar-"-Tret
for 'all the broom handles he can
make, and expects a premium .on those
.- inade of hemlock. ' ; " ' .-'
- - Judge Han ford in the United States
r : Circuit Court at Tacoma has appointed
PrRRident "Pauf Schult7,e, Joseph S. Al
len of Spokane and John Donald of
North Yakima receivers of the Yakima
'. Investment Company, which is the snc
: V' cessiiuof the Jforthern Pacific, Yakima
7'' and "Kittitas Irrigation Company. The
receivership is granted on the applica
x s tion of O. F. Paxton of Portland, repre
1 - ' senting the California Safe Deposit and
' Trust Company of San Francisco, which
holds as trustee of the Yakima Invest
' ; ment Company a mortgage given in 1893
itt'iio Secure a $700,000 bond issue; which
was to be sold" to an English syndicate.
.1. ., Later the syndicate failed to take, the
bonds, causing complications. The com
pany is said to have a floating indebted-'-
ness of $360,000, and $450,000 of the
bonds are outstanding, part of them be
ing pledged to secure indebtedness. The
company's assets are valued at $1,500,
' 000 to $2,000,000. They include 31,000
acres of land in the Yakima Valley, for
- ty-four miles of main-line canal, known
as the Sunnyside canal, and 250 miles of
laterals, branches and ditches.
OUTLAWS.
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Bob Moore and George Kat, Old Okla
homa Offenders, Killed.
Guthrie, 0. T., January 4. Two des
peradoes who have infested Oklahoma
for a long time past have " been run to
ground and made to bite the dust. Be'
i fore they died they fought their pursuers
and seriously wounded one of them
The outlaws are Bob Moore and George
East, both' of whom are suspected of
having been implicated in the Canadian,
Texas, express robbery, a station on the
Atchison and Topeka road, and the kill
ing of Sheriff McGee., News of the affair
was received at United States Marshal
Nix's office here to-day. Deputy Mar
shal Bill Williams and a strong detach
ment of deputies had been chasing the
omlaws for several days. . They . had
trailed them ; from place to 'place, but
had not come within fighting distance
until yesterday. Although Uhe sides
were unequal, half a dozen or. more
deputies to two outlaws, the Jatter were
armed to the teeth . and their natural
desperateness, strengthened. by the box
in which the deputies had put them,
made them no easy mark.' ' They were
rounded-up in a desolate valley in the
southwestern part of. Washita county
about noon, and when' commanded to
surrender made a stand and began using
their Winchesters. . Their aim was good,
for in the first, volley one of the1 posse
fell seriously wounded by a ball in the
side.- The next instant, however, both
outlaws were stretched on the ground
dead with bullets from the deputies'
guns in their hearts. The outlaws were
a veritable walking arsenal and, had
they not been killed so soon, would
doubtless have laid some of the deputies
to test. They were both old offenders
with enviable" reputations' among their
craft, and their riddance is joyous news
to the Territory officials, generally as
they were the constant dread of Okla
homa. - . , -
SAY; CARLISLE ' BROKE FAITH.
Report Current That Wall Street Has
Asked Hts Removal.
Chicago, January 4. A special to the
Daily Kews ' from- WasWngton says:
" Leading New York bankers have made
a, forma demand on the President for
the removal of Secretary Carlisle. The
request was made by J. Pierrepont Mor
gan, who came on from New York ' for
that purpose. Mr. Morgan was the chief
factor in the -late syndicate .which took
the last issue of bonds. There have been
many informal demands for Secretary
Carlisle's retirement coming from Wall
street-in -the last year, but this is the
first time the movement has taken an
organized forni. New York financiers
charge, that the Secretary broke faith
witn tnem on tne recent Dona issue oy
sprinting his currencv plan iuBt after'he-
disposed of the bonds and depressing the
price tin 'the market, resulting in the
dissolution of the syndicate; The Pres
ident informed Secretary Carlisle to-day
for the first time of Morgan's modest re
quest, and indicated he had no intention
of asking Secretary Carlisle to quit."
PLATE-GLASS WAR.
There Will be a Cut Where the Jobbers
; -' xpeeted an Advance.'
Chicago, January 4. The Tribune to
morrow will say : -A plate-glass war . is
oh, and' it may 'result-"disastrously to
some of the jobbers of the country, ho
have been caught in the " trap," . I)feg6-.
tiations have been? pending' for. 'several
months for a combination of plate-glass
works, and the deal was announced, to
go into effect January 1. An immediate
advance in plate glass was to take" places
and on the strength of this assurance
the jobbers bought up every foot of glass
in the country for speculation.- Now
comes the .announcement , that the deal
lias (alien tnrougn, ana mat tne present
prices would suffer another 20, per cent
cut. As a result a decidedly ugly feeling
prevails in ail branches of this industry,
the' manufacturers' asserting that they
are. operating at a loss and the' jobbers
insisting that they have been mulcted.
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7JA.ustin,-Tex', January 4.- It is re
ported here ftn'what is regarded as good
authority' that Governor Mitchell. if
Florida has revoked the executive writ
issued by hint-on the requisition of Gov
ernor Hogg of Texas for the extradition
of Henry M. Flagler, one of the Stand-'
ard Oil; directors, who was indicted at
Waco, Tex., "for conspiracy under-the
anti-trust law of Texas. f- '"-'-s
::'' ' -Partial victory., ,
Boston ; ' January- 4. The Am erican
Bell Telephone won - a partial' victory
when the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals to-day in awritaf error brought
by the telephone company against, the
Western Union Telegraph Company et
al. ordered that the decree of the United
States Circuit Court be reversed and the
case remanded for. further proceedings,
Karly Dissolution Ixpected;li,',-
Berlin, January 4. Socialist "member
of the Reichstag, Zubil at a mass, meet
ing last evening said he thought an early
dissolution, of the Reichstag 'certain
through the rejection of the bills provid
ing for the construction of new iron
clads and the increase of the strength of
the army and the institution of various
reforms in the imposition of taxes.
Russian Ministerial Scandal.
-. St, Petersbnrg; January 4. The re
tirement of M. Krivoschein, Minister of
Ways and Communications, is in conse
quence of his connection with contracts
for railroad ties, the material for which
was obtained from the estate of Krivos
chein. When the Minister of .Finance
discovered this scandal M, Krivoschein
was requested to resign.
FATAL FIGHT WITH
MR. BURNS TALKS
What the English labor Leader
Says of the United States.
HIS SOJOURN IS ABOUT OVER
Publicity Given to Many Trite Truisms
on the Complex Character of Amerl
can Civilization Our Size,- Wealth
and Natural Resources Stagger Rim.
Nbw York, January 3.-rThe Recorder
to-morrow'' will print an interview with
John Burns, '.'M.' P., the English la
bor leader) as to what he thinks of this
country, now that his visit has almost
come io a close. Mr. Burns arrived
here this afternoon from Philadelphia,
and left to-night for.Boston, where he
8 peak s to-morrow. Among other things
Mr. Burns said : -"
Well, my visit to America is rapidly
drawing to a close.- It has been a grand
trip. The size, wealth and natural re
sources of the country have simply stag
gered me. I have visited fourteen cities,
and in every one 1 have been handsome
ly . received. ' In fact, I met with no
greater than in Chicago itself, where a
few cranky editors have tried to misrep
resent me to the people and misrepre
sent the people to me. Everywhere
both State and municipal officials
have treated, me with great considera
tion have cone out of their way to
oblige' me, and iave even complimented
me bv saving; that 1 had some knowledge
and experience in municipal - affairs
I Bhall take home several . trunks lull
of documents and reports relating to
municipal government, and I shall study
them all careiuilv. What l have seen
of American life has been on the whole
pleasant, interesting and deeply in
structive. Of all countries in the world
one can generalize less about America
than any other. ine diversity oi races,
religious customs and habits renders
generalization not only superficial, but
absurd. The heterogeneous character of
the population prevents singularity of
judgment. ' '-The individual interests of
your communities are as different as one
State in the North differs from another
in the extreme South or West. The fact
is an American city is often a microcosm
of the whole human race. ; The Italian
from sunny Italy, the negro from Africa,
the Englishman and Swede cannot live
in one city and display in relation to.
each other that homogenity and corpora
ate life; which would have Saved you
from many of your .troubles and munic
ipal difficulties. , . ' ' ; I
i .''America is an .international mosaic,
on the floor of the'universe. Some day
the .various colors will - assume their
proper position to each .other, and when
that.
happens it will in spite otrje
gloomy -outlook that monopoly causeswOoint to the committee and.
the picture to assume be a work o( Amer
ica's best : citizens and a justification of
all the trouble you will have to undergo
to secure such a happy result. I like to
Compare like with like, and find that in
many respects American labor is better
off' than that!. in Europe and other old
countries, but your miners and in many
cases- your unskilled laborers are worse
off than" in Europe,' and I am sorry to
Bay their prospects are not improving,
Your, skilled artisan, Especially where
i - : i j!M i tr , i , ,. :n u
he is organized, is better off than in the
old country in point of wages, and enjoys
a better standard of comfort, but what
he gains, over the English at the. spigot
of high wages he often loses at the bung
hole of lack of employment. The Amer
ican works harder while at it, and in
many cases his hours' are longer and his
holidays fewer than those of the Euro
pean workman. ' His. foot-pound of en
ergy exerted in the production of wealth
and the mental strain that the hustling
tendency of American life demands
really make him no better off after all."
OUTLOOK, BETTER.
The
London Times' . Review , of ..Last
.. . Xear's Business, y -i i ?--,'
" London, January 3. The Times will
ay to-morrow in its trade review of last
year: - r - ;"';'! f.
"While the" possibilities of a year ago
were only partially realized, trade iri the
aggregate may, be .said -to,,4have turned
the corner in a serierof ten years.- The
hinderance 'of enterprises is mainly to
be ascribed :" : . V ' ' T - "
.."First, to the .. depreciation of silver
and the tariff wrangle in America, which
when ended failed to give trade a con
tinuous impetus. !! ,; '. .t
" Second, io foreign '. competition,
which,- however, is not increasing, the
main injury arising from our establish
ing manufactures in growing countries
and damaging similar ones at home, '
" Third,jto the -disappointing harvest
and, low prices for grain." ; ;;' . :
" On' the' other hand, there have been
evidences of sounder trading. V The fail
ures were; fewer, ; and- the capital in4
volved was lower than before in recent
years. We enlarged our exports and im
ports on the whole, although adverse re
sults due to:the extreme dullness are re
ported in some-quarters. ' Hopeful views"
are now 'current.' Theyare" mainly di
rected to the early improvement of the
American markets on a more assured
basis, secured by the tariff settlement
and a better financial position. There
is expectation also of a betterment in
South America and of some recovery in
Australia and the East." ' 1 , J
: ; Rich Strike In Oil.. " , ,;
Florenxe, Col., January 4.. The rich
est strike ever made in thef Florence oil
field has been made by the United Oil
Company at Coal creek, two miles from
this city.- The new well is said to be the
equal of any in Pennsylvania.
LUMBER COMBINATION.
San Francisco Dealers Club Together
for Mutual Benefit.
San Francisco,' January 3. Nearly
every prominent firm dealing in lumber
in this pity is interested in a movement
to form a combination, increase prices
and insure a profit in a branch of business
which has been conducted at a loss for
months.: Negotiations with that end . in
view has been in progress for two weeks,
but as yet no definite organization is
the result. . A committee . has been
chosen, a plan outlined and rules have
been formulated, even a name for the
new concern has . been adopted, but the
step which is to-make all these, measures
practically operative has not been taken.
Local lumbermen are a unit in declaring
that trade with them, has been worse
than profitless for a year. Cargoes have
been sold at a loss of $600 and $700. It
was found cheaper in many instances to
have work performed and material pur
chased in British Columbia rather than
in this.city. The only possible field for
even small profits is in the foreign mar
ket. Under these' conditions local mer
chants considered it absolutely necessary
to take some step' to stop the competi
tion going on and to raise . prices until
there be a reasonable profit.' With that
object a meeting was called. - Repre
sentatives of the following firms were in
attendance: ;
PreBton A ' McKinnon, ' the - Golden
Gate Company, Pope & Talbot, Rentoh,
Holmes & Co., W. J. Adams, Gray's
Harbor Commercial Company, the Pa
cific Pine Lumber CompanykHanson &
Co., Simpson Lumber Company ' and
Wood-Slade-Thayer Lumber Company.
After an : informal discussion of the
matter a committee" of three was ap
pointed and instructed to report a plan
of action. This committee urged that
all of the interested companies unite in
the creation of what is to be known as
the Central Lumber Company of Cali
fornia. It urged that all consignments
of lumber be made to this company,
which would then appoint its selling
agents. In that way all sales would
come under the direct supervision of the
combination. : Every ten days there was
to be a division of profits upon a basis
lair to all the companies. 1 he plan
seemed to meet with approval, and it
was hoped that it would., go into opera
tion, to-day. Certain delays have oc
curred, however, and it is difficult to tell
when the combination will be formed, ,.
SENATOR LEXOW'S , REPLY.
His Answer to the Criticisms of Rev.
. - . '. .JJr Farkhurst. ---
Albany, N. Y., January 3. In an in
terview this evening Senator Lexow said
he had no answer to make on the criti
cisms of the work "of the committee con
tained '. in Dr. Parkhurst's manifesto.
Obviously,: the best answer would be td
say : " By
thei:Wfrks ye shall know them," Sen
ator LexoweR.'d he had too high regard
for Dr,
ParkhursiRav that he is actu-'
ated by any' but the highest and purest
motives in what he says U. siloes. He
continued: , -' ,i
"But it is strange indeed that when
the crucial point was reached and Super
intendent Byrnes was on the stand, as
everybody knew he would be last Satur
day, everything that was suggested was
done. And yet this criticism.. Through
out the entire examination Mr. Mobs
stood at Mr. Goff's side and co-operated
in the conduct of inquiry. It is unnec
essary to add anything to this. As to a
deal, it is plain one could not be effected
unless through the co-operation of a
majority of the committee acting in con?
junction with all the counsel,-. The
statement of this proposition is the best
refutation of the charges.' ,
" " Let any one suggest a question that
was not put, a charge that was not
made, an indictment that was not
brought or anything, in short, that was
omitted before they criticise. To my
mind the meat of the statement iB to be
found in the declaration that the Senate
has uncovered all the corruption in exist
ence in the Police Department, and there
still remains work for the Society for the
Prevention of Crime to do. I wish-thetn
God-speed in this work." ' "' ' -
f'-f Reduction of Wages.
Nitta Yuma, 'Miss.,' January 3. A
movement, which seems destined to be
come popular among the planters of
Mississippi, was inaugurated at a plant
ers' meeting in "this town., Prominent
agriculturists of Delta were present, and
resolutions were passed fixing the pay of
the best male labor at 50 cents per day
and the best class of female labor at 40
cents per day.' Not more than $7 per
month with rations will be paid the best
laborers, and crops , should be laid
by at a maximum expenditure of $3.50
per acre. : Clubs will be formed at once
throughout the State, having for their
motto the reduction of wages. , Colonel
John R. Cameron, Captain John Willis
and Dr. A. J.'Phelps, three of the most
prominent men in the State, are- giving
the movement their indorsement.,-,
' ., Germany and a Tariff War. ' ''
. - jBERLiN,' January 3. The Hamburg
correspondent, usually inspired from the
Wilheltn Strasse, speaks of the prohibi
tion of German Wine by the Washington
government as the first step in a tariff
war between the United States and Ger
many. The Vossische Zeitung remarks
that Germany can. win ho' laurels in a
tariff war with America, : ' " ::
. .. Attacked a Convent Farm. ' - -
London, January 3. A dispatch from
Vienna says 2,000 men Saturday 'at-'
tacked the .convent farm at Staminiti.
The police sent to the scene were over
powered, and the military had to be
called upon. Twenty arrests were made.
PAID IN GOLD COIN
Mr. Paxton Had the Cash for a
Tacoma Motor Line.
WAS TURNED OVER PROMPTLY
It Was Bought in at a Mortgage Sale
for the General Electric Company of
-, . Portland Money Carted to the Court
. house In a Guarded Hack.
Tacoma, January 2. The Point Defi
ance street railway, extending . from
South Ninth street to Point Defiance,
seven miles, was sold to O. F. Paxton of
Portland to-day for $82,000. Mr. Paxton
is attorney for S. Z. Mitchell of Port
land, ' who represents the the Edison
General Electric Company's interests.
The price "was promptly turned over' in
gold.' Eighty-two thousand dollars in
cold Coin was what Mr. Paxton flashed
on the rest of the lawyere. The money
was carted up to the courthouse from
the London and San Francisco Bank in
a hack guarded by the representatives
of Mr. Paxton and Detective Leroy. The
claims against the road are in brief:
Ihose represented by Lewis, trustee.
approximating $20,000, for which- a de
cree in the lower court has been ob
tained ; that of C. Hinchman, a mort
gagee, the original amount of which was
$50,000, but which with costs and" re
ceivership has mounted up to about $99,
000; a claim for labor; a claim of the
Bank of British Columbia for $5.000 : a
claim of the Tacoma Railway and Motor
Company for $60,000 for power furnished
and a claim of the Edison General Elec
tric Company represented , by the pur
chaser. The sale was under a decree of
the Hinchman mortgage. ; . ,
CROPS IN RUINS.
Florida Will, lose Millions of Dollars
.. by the Cold Weather.
Jacksonville, Fla., January 2. Three
million dollars will hardly cover the loss
in Florida from the cold of the past sev
enty-two hours. The mercury dropped
22 degrees above zero last night and the
col ' completed its work of destruction.
The pineapple plantations are ruined as
well as the oranges and the winter vege
table crops. -'Next year's orange crop
will be shortened by 1,000000 boxes,
which means an additional loss of $1,-
500;000 to the growers and , the trans
portation companies. The direct and
ncidental losses by this spell will ae-
regate $5,000,000 in the next two years,
ast night at 8 o'clock the mercury was
at 41 degrees. '
The mercury went down to 14 degrees
above zero at the signal station in. this
city just before sunrise this morning,
this record being 1 degree colder than
the temperature during the ereat freeze
of 1886 and the lowest since 1835. The
thermometer at the station is 1 00 feet
above ground and the surface readings
about town average from 10 to 3 degrees
lower. Keports from Titusville, Tampa,
Orala, Gainesville,-Palatka and Sanford
indicate the mercury dropped to about
18 above zero in these localities. - The
orange and vegetable crops are practical
ly ruined. The best estimate places the
number of oranges on the trees at fully
2,600,000 boxes and officials of the Florida
Fruit Exchange in this city think fully
2,000,000 bdxeshave been frozen either
wholly or in part. If this ' estimate is
correct,i.the remaining 600,000 boxes
will bring fabuloiisprices. These re
ports cannot be verified until to-night
or to-morrow, but the best informants
in fruit matters say " the) jig is up with
the oranges of 1893-94.." Ice formed on
the streets of Jacksonville this morning.
'The snap is not without compensation,
however, as it has largely , killed the
scale, one of the deadliest orange pests,
and exterminated another, the white
fly,, which was becoming active in some
groves and threatened the State.
'"'-'!' Another Lexow Committee. "
San Francisco, January 4. Plans for
a crusade against vice and corruption,
private and public, in this city was de
veloped to-day by the formation of the
Civic Federation of San Francisco on the
lines of the Chicago Civic Federation.
War is declared by the federation against
dives,, side entrances to , saloons, gam
bling and municipal corruption. A Leg
islative Committee, similar in scope to
the Lexow organization, is a possible
outgrowth of the federation, which was
organized by Rev. James Cumming
Smith, pastor, of Trinity Presbyterian
Church. - - ' - '-
The Pope's Safeguard.
: London, January 3. The Standard's
Rome correspondent 'says several Cardi
nals, who oppose Cardinal Rompolla'S
attitude toward the Cardinals, were con
versing recently, when one remarked
that the King of Italy at Rome was the
Pope's safeguard. All concurred in this
opinion. The Pope upon hearing this
was much impressed. It is supposed
that this partly accounted for his omis
sions of the usual allusions to temporal
power from his speech at the New Year's
reception.
Going to the Front.
London, January 3. A dispatch to
the Central News from Peking says that
Liu Kung i, the Viceroy of Liang Ki
ang, who has been appointed as the
head of the Chinese armies,, is preparing
to start for the front to assume supreme
command of the troops. The Japanese
fleet, together with a new squadron of
war vessels, is cruising off the Shan
Tung Promontory, .
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Findings of the Court of Inquiry in the
Grounding of the Cincinnati.
Washington,' January 2.r-Secretary
Herbert has made public the findings of
the court of inquiry in the case of the
grounding of the Cincinnati off Execu
tion Rock, Long Island Sound, and his
own action in the matter. The court
found that, when the vessel neared the
point where she struck, Captain -.Glass
was obliged to leave the deck, leaving
orders to the navigator, Lieutenant S. C.
Gillingham; the pilpt, B. F j Arcularist,
and the officer of the deck, Ensign Roger
Wells, Jr., governing them during his
absence and leaving billingham, assisted
by the pilot, in charge of the navigation .
of the vessel. The ship was then headed
on a safe course." The grounding is rep
resented as due to an error in the judg
ment of the pilot, one of the oldest and
most experienced in New York, and of
the navigator in estimating the distance
of the ship from the United States
bhoals, on which she struck. This pi
lot's error' caused the grounding. The
speed of the ship was" not reduced by the
navigator on approaching the shoals, re
maining too great for accurate sound
ings. The officer of the deck neglected
to station a leadsman on the port side,
and the Captain on leaving the deck did
not place in charge the officer next in -
line of rank. The court was of the opin
ion that further proceedings should be
had in the case of Pilot Acularist, Cap
tain Ulass, Lieutenant (iilhngham and
Ensign Wells; but, as it did npt say
when the- proceedings should .be held,.
Judge Advocate Remy in reviewing the
report reported that -the interests oi the
service do not require the trial of-1 any of
ttie officers, In indorsing : .the-. record
Secretary Herbert emphasizes .the fact
that the presence of a pilot does hot re
lieve officers of responsibility, and says
it is clear that the same degree of cau
tion was not exercised Dy the-otneers in
navigating the ship as if there had been
no pilot on board. . He finds that the
Captain was particularly censurable for
continuing to run his ship at -such high
speed in confined waters, -. .
plates por printing postage stamps.
The opinion of the Solicitor, of the
Treasury that it is unlawful to have the
possession or to use plates for the print
ing of postage stamps in the similitude
of those issued by foreign governments
will be acted upon at once. No more so
called stamp albums containing.. stamps
of these kinds will be allowed to be
printed.' The cuts from which these are '
printed will be seized. It is an astonish
ing fact that the penalty imposed by law
lor the counterfeiting of '. foreign stamps
iB much more severe than, for counter
feiting United States stamps. In the
case of foreign stamps the penalty is not
less than two or more than ten. years'
imprisonment, while for counterfeiting
United States stamps the penalty is a
fine of not more than $500 or more than
five years' imprisonment or both. The
United Mates Uourts might impose a
fine of $1 or one day's imprisonment for
violations of our law, and come within
the law, while the minimum-penalty as
to foreign stamps is two years' imprison
ment. ' '" ''
WILL not GET A FICK-Tr.
The three new Senators, whJ will be
elected to fill the vacancies in the States
of Wyoming, Washington and Montana,
will probably not be paid the pack sal- .
aries, as has heretofore been paid to Sen
ators -elected- ? appointed ' to ' fill vacan
cies, i They were'ctit'Oufr? b'y an express
provision in the legislative appropri-:
ation bill of the last session, which, it is
believed, will put an end to this practice
for the future. Under the system which
has prevailed . heretofore each man
chosen would have received the pay for
the entire term of six vears, notwith- ,
standing two years have already elapsed.
The new provision will, therefore, work
as a saving to the government of $30,-
000 in this instance and of larger sums
in the future. ' .. .
THE DECREE - IS FINAL.
A Definite Statement From MConslgnore '
Satolll. -..
Washington, January 2. -Owing to
misapprehensions caused,, by the publi
cation of a statement that '.the decree
concerning secret societies was not final, -
and was to be submitted to the Bishops
to secure from them their, opinions
thereon, Monsignore Satolli authorizes
the following brief statement'-of facts : :
"The Archbishops of the United
States have taken counsel With respect
to three societies, namely, Odd Fellows,
Sons of Temperance and .Knights of
Pythias. The Archbishops' decided that
the whole question should be submitted
to the Apostolic See. ; .In" ar communi
cation from his eminence'. Cardinal
Monaco, to Monsignore Satolli the action
of the 'general congregation of Cardinals
to .whom" his Holiness cpnimitted the
question is made known. V The congre--gation
after consideririg;,carefully the
matter made the decree"; this decree
his Holiness fully confirmed'and gave it
complete effect. "The" decreje is, there
fore, transmitted to all "Archbishops, :
Bishops and other ordinaries in the
United States to be by them carried into
effect. Monsignore Satolli has acted
merely as a medium of transmission.
but in view of the contradictory and con
fusing reports emanating ' from various
Earts of the country the facts are thus
riefly stated." ... .
No Such Plan Considered. ;
Madrid, January .-J-Senor Biessa,
Minister of the Interior, has entered a
formal denial of the statement, which
recently emanated from" ; Washington,
that a plan has been under consideration
allowing local officials of Cuba to make
up the budget of tariff duties, afterward
submitting it to ithe government for aD-
provaL ;The Cabinet has, however, ap
proved tne proposal to open an inquiry
into the Cuban customs system. "