lliib
navy czn i c-. rjj Forces
. r .- OF X1I JX 3 '-
. .' His Ward:; z3L ' to EaallV Els
Onus Increas" el Hunter of Eaips
"Gee. I wish I eeuld enlist. ,
"Well, why don't yout" ;
"Because I am only 17 and mother
will not kt .; , .
Tw voti2 fellows were standing be
fore the' large poster la-' the lobby of
the PostoSee building; gsxiag with en
vious eyes at half-tones representing
jailor's life ' board one of Caele
bern's" battleship
Onlyisitkig the recruiting efiew on
th second floor it beeome erident there
were young men in Salon who were
fortunate ia. having mothers who real
ised that for a young man there is noth-
" ing that will gratify one's desire to
see the world, and at the same- time de-
" velep him into a perfect specimen of
manhood, mentally, physieally and mor
ally, as a term of serriee in tbo New
American Nary. Up to noon yesterday
there had been twelve examinations and
out of' these there were Ave who were
rraiaidered worthy car being taken into
. the service. From tho list of qnalifies-
tioi required of the eaadidato for ex-
, smiostioB it can reamiy do seen mat it
is aa honor to ronng man in many
' ways to bo accepted by tbo recruiting
- officer.
The office here is in eharge of Hospi
tal Steward Betram W. Colo, U. 8. N.,
assisted by J. B. Lowe, gunner's mate,
and J. II. Taylor, coxswain, a trio who
ara solendid examples of what the
American naval service can do for the
young man, and who by their unfailing
courtesy tail one more man worui cu
- do or the class of yonng men who have
made the United States Navy what it
js today.
The presence of a Beeruiting Office
of tho United States Nary in a city
, many, miles from the - sea is i
matter calculated to excite some com
. went. One of the roost difficult tasks in
connection with the building of the new
American Navy has been to proritre the
- ships with sailors. The efficient ; sol
diers furnished br the great states of
tbo interior furnish sjridea to tb, of
ficials of the Nary and they are mak
ing m campaign to sesure the brain and
rausele of westerners to help man the
Jare battleships.
Hospital Apprentice Cole, one of the
recruiting party now in this eity talks
interestingly of bis work, in an inter
view today ho said:
"It A true that at a casual glance
the Naval appropaiation of $84,000,000
looks big; but when we think what a
stimulus a great nary is to tho country,
what security and encouragement it
circs and offers to all in business, what
dignity and prestige it giro us among
otber nations of the world, what petty
strifes It strangles, and, greatest or all,
what A great outlay and lorn of life in
war which this man annual appropna
Hon prevents When all these are con
sidered tbin appropriation is small in
deed, but Jar reaching results. Ameri
eans replace foreigners.
"Just a 'few years agt the" American
Nary was made op of a rery large per
. cent of foreign born, but today we
hire an American Navy, made-up large
ly of American boy In olden days,
wheat our Nary spread bsr wings of
canvas over the sea and handed down to
posterity such splendid achievements,
they wens thoroughly . imbuea with
ideal of freedom, and far be it from mo
to say one. word against those brare
ladV -of foreign birth that. hare done ho
macs to help make our glorious record:
but, times have changed, and with the
euange we need aad must have the
America boy.
"He has, as it were, by nature
mechanics! tnra of mind, qsiekly
grasps ine intricate uriaii i me fin
oils mechanical anf electrical contri
vance on board the modern battleship
and he haa not been slow in coming to
(he front, and while the victories under
snil give us a glorious past, the Ameri
can J J handled with consummate skill
and great accuracy the modern fight
ing machines afloat in the late War,
Where such vessels were first pnt to the
test and gave to the present generation
swine of tho most wonderful rietoriee
tho world has ever witnessed. To
day these same lad, son of Americans
from aU sailings and walks of life, are
breaking world reeirds at Target prac
tice. This increase In the navy gives
.many opening for American boys
wonderful opportunities that their fath
ers neve had. Tho Nary Department
has put itself to sfeat expense to build
training stations for tho boys and men,
emd It them for ship life. Everything
has becsf done for their comfort and
pleasnrs of tho men on board ship thst
enn be done; tho food ia good, and one
xeeeires the best of medical earn and
attention, tho food and medical atten
tion being! free of charge.
"I know that if tho parents here in
the northwest fully understood the ad
vantages offered a lad in tho nary, be
tween the aget of 17 and 18 and 18 and
ITS they would be only too anxious for
their sons to go. If they can send their
son to college, by all means do so, for
college life girea one a polish and cul
ture that nothing else will bring out;
but for parents who cannot afford to
shod their eons to college, they can send
them to the Nary.
"'There is work in it for a good
. cheerio! worker. Hospital 8teward
Jrdo says ho known of no better place
for any one than, la tho nary; but one
mast b of that kind if bo wishes to
uccevd At times there is plentv of
w,ork and soma times hard work. Then
bo must do it with a good spirit. At
times thero ia little or nothing to do;
then' one haa necesa to the library,
which ia ' rery excellent on a modern
man-of-war. For boys that are not
nkeerful workers do not want to do
things at the proper time aad do them
well the navy has no inducements.
ICood, intelligent, honest and sincere
mott are wanted in the nary and ean
bo sure of success. Boys who ham
en convicted of crime or are. known
to be of bad eharscter Will not be en
listed. Admiral Dewey 'give, espeeial
PIm (to the enlisted men of tho nary.
?r Wl ,or Nary U
t IWrfol in tho world. It was
Cjeatm sowce of strength in the Amer
scaa Nary is found in tho intelligence
c the men. The brains are not eSnfin.
d to the oSicer. ' Aside from the fact
that our men are the greatest fighers
in the world, they outrank in capability
of understaadicg and doing. Ttua means
that wirenerer our ships are put to the
test they will ' win, unless tho odds
against them are overwheanung. for in
telligence in tho crews nerer counted
for aa mueh aa . ,n doe today. - The
modern battleship is " a great machine
ship. To ; operate it successfully the
men who do the work must hare brains.
They cannot be dull and win. battles. I
know our men and know what thej can
do. -I am free to say that if erery of
ficer on a United States warship should
bo ' killed in batth the enlisted men
eoujJ and - would take the ship and
fight her to victory. The nary-is filled
up witn yousg men from the west who
are keen, quick to learn, and intensely
patriotic They are the best raw .... ma
terial we ever had."-
IS SCENE OF
CIVIL STRIFE
ZTZQUZIL, i IIXINOIS.- IS SCENE OF
LABOE DISAGEEEMENTS.
MA2TT
SHOTS ARE
rZRED.
Militiamen and Miners Are Hiring a
Continued Fight Over Use
of Machines. .
8ereral Shots Are f'ired Between the
Two Sides to the Controrersy and
Rapid Fire Guns Are in Use ia the
Pray.
DUQUOIN, 111., Dec. 3.-One of the
most peculiar situations in the history
of the recent labor disagreements ex
ists in Joseph Letter's model mining
town, Zigler. It is stated by persons
living near Zeigler that they have heard
firing nearly every night for several
weeks. , After a thorough investigation
the staff correspondents of the St. Louis
papers declare a notable find of the
marks of: bullets either on the stock
ade surrounding the town or at tho
pump works.
The reports of miners wounded like
wise proves unfounded. The latest re
ports state that about twenty-five min
ers are encamped four, miles from Zieg
ler. In the town theT are about eighty
miners, eighty-five militiamen and forty
deputy marshals. The trouble origin
ated over a machine which is said to
handle a given number of tons of coh.1
an hour. t Representatives of the mine
workers of the union examined the mi
dline and differed with Leiter over the
amount it would handle. As the men
are paid by piece-work, the question
was ritaL
Leiter 's wage proposition was refus
ed by the miners and the miners left
Zeigler and formed what proved a per
manent eamp four miles from the town.
Since then reports are frequent of
Clashes between the union and non
union men. Several trains have been
fired upon but nothing yet absolutely
connects th strikers with the shoot
ing. A littlo more than a month ago,
it was reported that a fight had taken
place between the miD guards and per
sons attacking the stoekadt?, but it ii
stated that no one was hurt. Detona
tions of firearms were heard for several
hours but newspapermen failed to find
the marks of the bullets. The announce
ment that Leiter had been indicted for
"feloniously taking armed guards
through i Perrr county" and "aiding
and abetting the hiring of guards ami
transportation of men under guards"
caused renewed interest in the situa
tion. Harry R Flatt, Leiter 's attornev,
states that the men are terrorized by
nightly luh-whacking, which hare no
hesitation of charging upon the strik
ers. He savs some nights, hundreds of
shots are fired. Piatt states that rapid
fire guns replied whenever th location
f the attackers was found. Win. Mor
ris, hend ofithe min workers of South
ern Illinois,1 states that union men bad
absolutely nothing t do with the fir
ing and pars he thinks it was done nt
the instigation of Leiter and his exec
utive officers or unmn private guards
discharged within th last month.
Two instinct attacks were made to
ght on the Gordon block house, situ
ated half way between the pump and
administration buildings of the coal
company. One attack at 7 o'clock; the
second begun at 10:30. At 11 o'clock
it was still on. A brisk firing was main
tained by the soldiers and rapid fire
guns. Deputies are scouring eigier
for suspicious characters who thought
lo attempt to asisansinaie nupvrinieo
dents Whittier and Jones.
. a ' 1 . f 1 : i.
- 1 1
Dr. Stone's Drug Store
Does j a strictly cash business; owes
no onej and no one owes it; carrie a
large stock; it shelves, counters and
show cases are loaded with drugs, medi
cines, notions, toilet articles. Wines and
liquors of all .kinds for medical pur
poses, lln. Stone is a regular graduate
In medicine and ha had many years of
experience in the practice. Consulta
tions are free. Prescriptions are free,
aad only regular prices for medicine.
Dr. Stone can be found at- his drug
store, Sa If m, Oregon, from six in the
morning Until nine at night.
f : in ii m -
Miss Evelyn Pauiade, who has been
visiting Mrs. Fred Goulet of thU city,
returned to her home at uervais yester
day on the 4:42. r
John W. Ambrose, sheriff or urast
county, arrired yesterday with two pris
oners for the penitentiary, leavng on
tho 4:42 for home.
Mr. A. I Eoff left yesterday morning
for Harrisburg, where he goes to look
at some property with a riew of start
ing a stock rancn.
Miss Maud Crawford of Fendleton.
who has been risitmg Mrs. A. M. Dal
rymph of this city for some time, left
yesterday for Albany.
Mr., li. 11. Colbert or Corvailm spent
Sunday here, visiting his eons who are
attending the University, returning
home oa the 11 avow train.
.1
N'erer in the history of the citv were
Salem merchants as well equipped for
the reception of tho agents of old Santa
Clans..;...,-
A Colorado man has . developed a
seedless or narel apple. It who hardly
necessary, but it will no doubt have a
big run, ...... . . . . :
THE CLUB'S YORK
SENBINQ OUT MATTEit ADVEETIS
V era SALEM THSOUGH A COS.
EESPONDENCE CLUB.
Greater Saleza Commerial Club to Meet
Next Week to Elect Officers and to
Becetre Eeports dub Is Doing Good
'Work; for Salem. , ,
: The Greater Salem Commercial Club
is doing a good work for this city ia
the matter of advertising the town and
the resources of the surrounding coun
try. The year is nearing an end and
next week the Club will meet for fne
purpose of receiving reports and elect
ing new oiSeiala. .i- - I ; :
When the Club'deeided to take up the
work in a systematic manner, the plan
ia use at Portland by the Portland Com
mercial Club, and that bad proven so
sucewafol to the "Four State Business
Men's Association" in whie'a Mr. Kioli
ardson had worked before coming to
Portland, wa adopted. By this plan
the Club first named a committee on
correspondence whoso duty it became
to send out a circular letter to a num
ber of people throughout the eity and
county. This communication was as
follows: 1 '4 , "
" We want this organization ifor
promoting toe development ; of Salem
and surrounding country wants 1,000
names for a correspondence committee
on the plan adopted by the State De
velopmect League. You ' are earnestly
asked to co-operate in this organization
to secure-the largest s harvest of im
migration for the ensuing vear that has
ever been gathered into this coramuni,
ty. Now is the tune to work, when Or
egon is spending two million dollar on
an Exposition and when there will be
more travel to Oregon tnatt there has
been in a decade. .
"How you can help us send 'to th
secretary of our club names of two
classes of people: Firwt, names of men
and women living in Salem and vicin,
ity who are to constitute the one thous
and correspondence e ommittee. For this
purpose, we want be names of peojde
who have come from other states to Or
ejron within ne to tea years, or even
longer, who in turn can give u the
names of t'weir friends, relatives, or
neighbors jn those states who may be
interested in Oregon during the com
ing ytar."
Here then appears a blank for the
names of those recommended. As mem
bens ,of.' the correspondence committee
The circular then, addsi
liease send us names of your
friends, or relatives, or neighbors in
your old home state, or elsewhere, wuo
might bo interested in Oregon, to mart
them literature. e desire to get into
correspondence with them and interest
tbem in Salem and Marion county. Give
names and postofSco address. A sou
venir postal card will be mailed to each
address stating that literature has been
sent them at your request.- 'Help u to
place the facts about our WrVand Mar
ion county before the peeppte"w7ie are
coming to the coasts and thi" result will
bo a surprise to the mot sanguine. If
one sheet will not hold the people whom
you would like to have us. reach in thi
nianner, call on in; for , jupe. .If yon
are not already a member ,of the Com
mercial Club we want you,' if join us
pnd attend the mont'nly lioefiingw . This
work is. paid for out of the corrospond
enc fund, and if you have not yet con
tributed, we would appreciate your sub
scription to that fond for the ensuing
year's work. Tho Commercial Club
has 200 members and is need, of at
leant $200 per month for one year to
push this work on the plan of the State
Development League. We have the best
city in the interior of the state, and
the best country in the world to work
for, if we only can arouse our people
to make the effort intelligently and in
the most direct manner for one wyear.
Return this sheet to us properly filled
out as a starter and help ns to keep toe
ball rolling. We will try to do the rest
and know that you, will be pleased with
the result. Very Kespeetfuliy, Ii.
Frank Medr.dith, Secretary pro tern; E.
Hofer; II. Ii. Thiclson; Fred A. Wigios;
John .11. McXary; Hal D. Patton, Ex
ecutive Committee." j
This work has had a very good result
already and the correspondence commit
tee now has about five hundred mem-:
bers. . j
Te system has proven very sucess-
ful, and. the name of every one to whom
a letter or circular is eent is' kept in a
regularly indexed book so that those
who reply or write inquiries can be
written again and the correspondence
followed up. To each name t'nat is
sent hi by the correspondence commit
tee, a epoy of, the "Adam and Eve"
pamphlet and "A Modern Western
Country" are sent, and Other matter
mat may intercut te parties. Ih m
system forms an endless chain of cor
respondence, for every person that is
written to is also afked to send in some
name of persons that may be interest
ed. . r "' ?
Next -week the regular meeting will
elect officers to suceed Col. E. llofer,
aa president, K. J. Ilendnrks as vice
president, Jos. O. Graham as Secretary,
J. ii. Albert as treasurer, and an ex
ecutive board to sueeeed Col. E. Hofer,
11. T. Patton, F. A. Wigins, J. H. Me
Nary, and II. It. Thielson.
The Club has money in the treasury
and is in good; shape in every way.
f ; Vagaries of a Cold. "
1 You -can nerer bo quite sure w'nere a
cold is going to bit you. In the fall
aad winter it may settle in the bowels,
producing severe pain. Do not be
alarmed nor . torment yourself with
fears of appendicitis. At the first sign
of a cramp take Itrry Davis' Painkil
ler in warm, sweetened water and relief
comfts at once. There kt but one Pafn
kitter, Perry Davi-'. 23 and 50 cents.
Mr. and Mrs. HobtJ Starker have!
taken the , Skiff house for a term off
months. Mr. Starker is the resident I
manager of the Sew Edison Theatre.
.aivary. iiouse or Mmon, the Tanner, :
Mt. of Olives, Garden of Gethsemina,
Mary's Well, and many other Biblical
spots in lantern slides made from neg
atives taken by Mrs. Wiggins. Presby"
icrian ennren. vtednenrtay nigh. Ad
mission 23 rents. .
a r.iosr nnr.KraADLE
CURE OF HEART DISEASE
Perhaps one of the most wonderful
results ob record is tie wonderful cure
of Mrs. 8. E. Clark by electricity and
medicines administered by Dr. Darris,
Mrs, Clark waa carried to Dr. Darrin's
ofSco in an almost dying condition, af
flicted with a complication of diseases.
Here are her own words: "
Ukiah, Or. To the Editor, My health
began to fail oTer & year ago, I gradu
ally fell away until I became very
weak. -1 was suffering from lung, heart
and stomach ' troubles. . On the 4th of
December, 1S97, I - went toPendleton
and put myself, under Dr.N Darrin's
treatment by electricity-' and, medicines,
and began to improve from the first
treatment and continued to improve. At
the-present time I "nare good health.
Mjt neighbors ay they nerer expected
to see me return home from Pendleton,
and were greatly surprised at mr re
covery. MBS. a E. CLAEK.
. Six Tears Later. . !
Ukiah, Or. Dr. Darria: I am enjoy
ing good health, and have gained 20
pounds in the paoc six years. . I am en
tirely cured, and, am very grateful in
deed to have good healta, after years
of ouffering with heart, stomach and
lung troubles; also diseases peculiar to
women. I cannof praise you too highly.
Refer to me. MRS. S. E. CLAHK.
An Ashland Patient's Card.
Some time; ago I contracted a severe
cold on the lungs which being neglected
became chronic. After vain- attempts
for relief I 'concluded it waa deat'u or
Arizona. On learning of Dr. Darrin I
consulted him. It is now one month
eince placing myself under his care,
and t can truthfully say all morbid
feeling has heft my lungs and I feel I
am oti 'the road to a permanent cure. I
am now able to work every day at hard
labor. Furthermore, I will say in addi
tion to his electrical and medical skill
Dr. Darrin is a man with a human heart
ami is unusually reasonable in Viia
charges. I know Mr, O. Carey, of Sam's
Valley, Or., before and after his cure
of almost total deafness. Refer to me at
Ashland, Or. . EARL CL1NE.
Discharging Ears Cured.
To the Editor: I wish to make known
through your widely circulated paptr
what Dr. Darrin has accomplished in
my caw, that ot'ners bimilarly afflicted
may avail themselves of the doctor's
great skill. For many years 1 have
been annoyed with a' loathtome dis
charge from my ears from the effect of
measles. All remedies I , have tried
seemed to fail until I went under Dr.
Darrin's electrical and medical treat-1
ment. I am now cured and feel very
thankful to Dr. Darrin, my hearing has
greatly improved. ' I reside at Adams,
Oregon,where. my .-father keeps the Ho
tel Oregon. Can be referred to by let
ter or in person; "-''"BKRT KIRilY.
A Dallas Lady's Experience.
To the Public: s My daughter, -ten.
years old bu bee"norely afflicted the
past eight years with deafness and dis
charging ears.- Throngh Dr. Darrin's
electrical and-medical treatment 1 am
happy to ?iay she ..an . hear about as
well as any one and' the discharge of
the ears ha stopped. T ean recommend
Dr.. DnrriiL at Hotel CaiL I will answer
all questions Iy- letter or in person at
my residence on Court street, Dallas,
where I 'have lived fourteen vear.
. MRS. NELLIE IJ. I1AIRD.
We regret to anaounce that Dr. Iar
rin'sntay in Dallas is limited to Decem
ler 23d only, and parti wishing t
consult this famouS physician should do
so at once. He has made many won
derful cures in this vicinity, as the tes
timonials heretofore 'oave shown.
Dr. Darrin ean Ce consulted free at his
office, from 10 to 5 daily; evenings 7 to
8; Sundays 10 to 3. Charges reasonable.
He makes a speciality of all diseases of
tli eye, ear,nose and throat, catarrh
and deafness, bronchitis, lagrippe, con
sumption, dy-spepsia, heart, liver and
kidney diseases. All nervous. -hroni
and private diseases of men. and all
Kculiar female troubles are confident
ially and successfully treated. Most
case can receive; home treatment- after
a visit to tho doctor's office. All busi
ness relations with Dr. Darrin strictlv
confidential.
PEBSONALS.
Mrs. L. Watt left yesterday for Jef
fcrson, whtre she will visit friends.
Mrs. Geo. Goswick left vesterdav for
a short r-usineas trip to Brownsville.
J- W. Cusick, a backer of Albany,
was in tne city yesteraay on business
A. D. Leedy, a prominent attorney of
Mwyvn -wiiy. transactea Dusmess in the
cay yesterday.
Miss Laola Hicks of Chemawa, sy-ent
yesterday afternoon in this city shop
ping.
torn. a. Harding and little son are
visiting at 'the home of Mrs. Ha car
. lit.
vi mis en-. .
Mrs. Mary Krucer of Siletz. is vis.
iting friends in Salem, arriving on the
overland.
Mrs. Rubr Ward tJ Portland, waa vim.
iting friemf hero on Sunday, returning
Biime yesieraay.
Miss Lula Beach and Miss Bessie
Chiloquin of Chemawa, were shopping
in oaiem yesieraay. .
Mrs. Jf .f. nail of Woodbnrn, who has
been visiting ia Salem for a few days,
returned home yesterday. .
Gov. Geo. E. Chamberlain will be at
his desk again today, having returned
from Portland yesterday..
Mr. TVE. Shafej and little son left
yesterday morning for Turner, where
Mr. Shafer has business. ,
'Mrs. George Mayne spent Sunday
in Portland with friends, returning on
the 11 a. m. train yesterday. ;
Mrs. Ell- 1 Parker of Parkersvine,
spent yesterday in the city on business,
tearing on the afternoon train. 1
Miss Anna Stetlaon lef t yesterdar
afternoon, for Portland, where she will
spend the wnter with her aunt.
Mrs. A.-L.. Hussev .Tnmr. and
Miss Laura Eoley of Jefferson.
iting friends in Salem for a few A arm
Mr. and Mrs. Tt. E. Thompson of Jef-
ferson. were visiting Mr. and Mrs. El
bert Thompson of this city, over Sunday-
-v . ?----:' n , - - .
Mrs. C. M. Smith who spent Sunday
visiting her "eister, Mrs. Tom ; Cooper,
of this city, returned to lier home yes-
CONFESSED
TO PERJURY
2XASX02T COUNTY CITIZEN TELLS
STOEY OF BRIBERY.
IN TRIAL 07 LAND FRAUD CASE
J. A. W. Heidecke of Detroit, Springs
Greatest Sensation in a Week
roll of Surprises.
Case Looka Worse for Ormsby and Dan
Tarpley, Against Whom the Evidence
.Has Heretofore Been Very Vague
-Money Waa Used Freely T
PORTLAND, Dee. 2. Tho climax in
the land fraud trial, so far as the gov
ernment is concerned has been reached,
ani tomorrow, with but one more wit
ness to be' placed upon the stand, the
prosecution will close its case. Through
out the length of the prosecution's case
the evidence has been more or less sen
sational, dragging, as it has, names of
men high in the councils of the gov
ernment into the public eye in an un
enviable light, and leaving many ap
parently peculiar transactions to be ex
plained away fry the defense. Today s
testimony was especially startling.
J. A. W. Heidecke, an aged woods
man, broken by his guilt, confessed a
story of his relations with the accused
men and Women, and told a 'story that
could not ie shaken under cross-examination,
even at the skillful hands of
Judge O 'Day, chief counsel for the de
fense. From Heidecke 's testimony
many things are exacted to spring.
The nanrejof N. Haskell Withe, a prom
inent lumberman of .La Crosse, Wis.,
was connected with the ease today by
the testimony of Ira P. Hower. who
told of having loaned Horace U. Me
Kin ley 2100 on the George A. Howe
lands, which were in turn transferred
to Witbe.i
The testimony of Heidecke told the
story of the alleged conspiracy, practi
cally from its inception up to. the time
the grand jury made its investigation.
Heidecke was in the witness chair a
greater part of the two sesions of court
today. His testimony in effect charges
Puter with bribery and enmeshes C. E.
Loom is and SB Ormsby in a scheme
to defraud the government The wit
ness testified that be was introduced
to S. A. D. Puter at Albany by Attor
ney Dan Tarpley. Puter, the witness
said, inveigled him into the case, assur
ing him that his , (Puter 's) influence
with United States Senator Fulton and
Congressman Binger Hermann woulJ
save him from any trouble resulting
from his Connection with the land deals.
The witness told of various sums given
him by Pjuter, who asked him to use his
influence! with certain residents of the
district in order to secure their signa
tures to jaffidavits; that he had con
ducted government agents investijrat
in the alleged frauds over settled
T-nd. telling the agents they -were own
ed by th persons named in the list fur
nished liini. (Heidecke) by Futer. and
that be load', rorn to many affidavits
without knowing what he was swearing
to. ' I - ..
When, shown affidavits bearing .his
signature, setting forth that' the lands
Were improved and thaV the other re
quirements of the government in giving
title to public lands had been met. the
witness said he had sworn falsely, that
the lands were unimproved, uninhabited
and im tillable. He further testified
that after Ormsby had been in the
woods be did not make out the affidavits
until Ijoomis' report had been procured
'so that the affidavits would not appear
inconsistent. The witness' said that
when he obected to becoming a party
to ithe Ormsby ' transaction, he was
shown ai certificate of deposit for $250
bv Tarpley, and tola that when the af
fair was! straightenl.up he could haveJN'ot much Pocahontaa cool eonis here
the certificate,
During the summer of K)Q2 witness
met Orrnsby on the trail leading. lo De
troit. Ormsby wanted witness to-meet
bim at Detroit which he did.
Ormnbv said tTiere was danger of
trouble and that they must look over
the western part of the township.
. "I said I didn't want any more to do
with it.T
Heidecke had received his promised
appointment of forest ranger, but had
been discharged after a few months.
Ormsby! promised he would be rein
stated if be would go in again.
Ormsby said there were fourteen
claims which he had not visited and he
must gd upon them. We started in but
it began to rain and wo went no fur
ther. Ormsby made out his report from
tnat
"The next thing that happened was
when Special Agent Dixon came up to
see me. He asked if I knew any of
these persons, and I didn't tell him the
truth about it
"Then he took me to the hotel, and
read me one of the reports, and it made
me pretty sick. I said ' I suppose
must stand for it as I signed those affi
davits.' Pretty soon after I was sub
poenaed to go before the grand jury,
and then I was sick."
Heidecke went to Ormsbr for money
to jump the country, but Ormsby said
"no man liring could break that re
port. ( Then the witness soticht Tarn-
it-j wo assured mm tnat he could not
be touched, as the statute of limitations
would protect him.
SUBWAY'S COST.
Seventy millions of dollars a vear is
paid by Greater New York to keep
. it eooa lis !rool. to make'lihc
and operate its various mechanical
plants.. Twice tbeost of the subway,
in other words, goes up in smoke aud
gas eaeh twelve months..
"The coal supplv of New York ! a.
big factor," said the editor of the
Black Diamond, the mouthpiece of the
trade. j"It runs into uch huge figvres
it is Bard to make verr close estimates.
but inja general, way I can give vcu
the result. We figure that Greater New
Fork use 15.000.000 tons of coal Minn.
ally out of the 20,000,000 tons which is
shipped here. The difference is reship-
ped to varioas other porta, about 1,250,
000 tons going to Boston. - .
"InlNewjYork and the Bronx ther
is nsed 12,000 JDO0 tons, of which I
snonid tnmk 7,000,000 is anthracite and
5,000,000 bituminous, r A great increase
ha eotn in th euse of bituminous coal
la New York, as well as other Eitcrn
cities ince the long strike in the an
thracite region. It U Tion?ht mr,r
freelyjfor steam making where smoke.
. 1
Actress Escorted by
When death claims Edwin YarT'y,
wlTo haa been hovering on its briok'.f or
several weeks and whoso advanced age J
precludes cope for bis recovery,' there
will be left only three members of the
company that was playing "Our Amer
ican (J'ousin on the stage of Ford's
Theatre, Washington,, on-that, night ia
1863 when John Wilkes Booth assassia
ated President Lincoln. . .
Until a few. weeks ago there was "a
woman survivor of that -.memorable cast,
aad in her life there waa perhaps as
mnch romance and tragedy as in thit
unexpected plsy she and the others in
voluntarily witnessed from the-stage t
Ford's Tueatfe not so " momentous to
the world at large, of course, but more
so to her, as the story will prove... This
was Sarah Stevens, as she was always
consumers are installed and takes the
placo of small sizes of hard coaL This
tonnage is divided in New York in some
such fashion as this:
Private houses and small stores . 2,000,000
Flats and apartment house. . 100,000
Hotels and factories "1,500,000
Steam in factories, etc..'.,. .'.'2,600,000
Ocean steamships . . . . 2,000,000
Gas works , 00,000
Elevatedhnd surface railways 1,000,000
Harbor vessels y. ,r ,., . ' 500,000
3
-Total ; . . . , . 12,000,000
The figures far .Brooklyn are three
million, divided nearly the same prcpor
tion. It is doubtful whether the volume
of trade this year will reach over elev
en million tons, owing to the warm
weather this autumn, the hard times
and a general disinclination, even
among the well to do, to put their coal
in as early and in as large quantities as
usual. The reshipments to points sup
plied from New . York are also smaller
than for several years up to this time.
"The ftandard of cost to the whole
sale dealer, quotes broken -at $4.30;
eggs. $4.75; stove $4.75; chestnut,
$4.73 for white ash, with 50 cents added
Cor'red ash, per ton, 'and $1 more for
Lykens valley; ea, $3; buckwheat,
$2.50;. No. 2, $1.83; No. 3, $1.10; rice,
$1.60, and barley, $1.30. At .present
prices are becoming firmer. Tho
prices, of course, arc for larce lots of
coal only, as sold to the big dealers. 1
found some months ago that there were
108 dealers in the city with storage
yards of; sheds," They "have a capacity
of three hundred thousand Vons and
carry as a rule about fifty thourand
tons, except in the summer, wlien they
are stocking up at the low warm wt-atli
er rates. These dealers in niany caes
have their yards on the river fronts,
where their cargoes are brought from
A. V V m m . a - -
ine coai uepois 01 tne iieaaiug, rt-nn
sylvania, I.'high valley, Ontario and
Western, trie, Baltimore fnd Olio,
Xew'ork Central and other coal ccrry
ing railroads. It costs an average o
twenty cents a ton freight to cirry the
coal to docks within the regulation ra
dius, which run op to Hell Gate on the
Kast Kiver and to Eightieth street
on the Hudson, and down to Elizabeth
port and St George. It costs d akrs n
ioi oi mouev to store coai, insure it ara
deliver it. One advantage the trade has
is that it buys the coal at a aross ton
of 2,210 pounds and sells it at the net
legal ton of two thousand pounds.
The bituininous market is getting
in better sli.-ijwj and is advancing in
price. Clearfield grade Pennsylvania
coal is quoted at $2.50 to 2.5, with
fine grades of South Fork, Miller vein
and .uoshannon at $2.5,. for rtm o
mine. Gas - slack is about $2.33 and
George's Creek is $3.05 to $.23. This
last named is the most expensive bitu
minons. It comes from that part, of
Maryland near Cumberland and is
chiefly used by blacksmiths an-1 crafts
men wno require a long, steady fl.-'me,
the bulk of the uteamship business be
ing done by the Berwmd- lute com
pany with Pennsylvania eoal.
"7he electrifying of New York cut
off many hundreds of thousands of tons
ift the total used by the street railway
particularly on the elevnted, but of
course they;atil! consume something up
ward of a million tons. Then, too. tl.e
use of gas as cooking fuel in flits sn
houses has cut down the coal. Even the
gas companies do not usV is riany tons
of bituminous as tbey did. They' make
water gas with a large percent ge, of
anthracite small size instead of the
old bituminous gas coals, which would
work up into only about an eleven con-
die power product without the use of
canned coal as an enriehcr. Bv the
water gas process they ean enrich it as
they please with anthracite.
"Of course the red ash coal sell only
, a ..a a ...
10 me weaitny or tnose wno want them
for special purposes. They burn freer,
make a hotter fire, can be slacked 89 as
to burn all night, and make lees ash
than the white coals. Why are some
coals red ash and some white? Well,
scientihcally I don't exa?tly koow.
If there is anybody who knows all
about coal in this country it is Profes
sor Munroe of the School of Mine
Columbia University.
"The answer to your two questiens
are not in any way connected, unless it
ii by a coincidence," s.iid Protessor
Munroe. "All coal was at one time
peat Some of it was cut up while it
lay in the bogs, by small streams,
rrooks and rivulets. Thesw brought
from the outside", clay, mu.l and other
substances vihich were 'deposited on the
peat. It is this. foreign matter which
forms the ah in all eo;i!s. If the twat
had no such adulteration there would
be no ash. Some of these peat beds
were impregnated with, sulphur, iron
pyrites, or ironIt is this which makes
the ash red or pink. Th .color of the
ash and the presence of the material
wni' h produces the folorhavj.. nothing
to do with the qualitr of the coal us
fUvd- lt is in no war affected bv the
iron or suipunr in its merits as fuel. It
so n.ippei)g that the particuiir wins
wnicn have a red ash are freer turners
than the others. This comes from cl.em-
irsl causes in the nature of the amount
of volatile matter and enrbon in the
coal and their particular admixture."
( The retail coal trade of New York
Is practically in the hands of tho New
ork Merchants' Coal AsswciatKn,
v.-hich is made up of aome hundred
member ia aTl parts -f the city. Thcv
keep t acb other posted aa to credits of
coatoniers, m.iinia'm uniform prices for
coal and delivery nod loidt after their
rautnal interests. N. V. Herald. i
Inown toTier fellow players. ' She died.
recently in the Edwin Fomsst Home.
on the outskirts of Philadelphia
Fifty years ago she was the' reigning
stage favorite of New York, rn demand
as a leading woman by all the pro.ni
nent actors of. that period. Adopt iu
the stage at the age of eighteen, in the
course of a few years she had played
Hero to Lester Wallaci's Benedick in
"Much. Ado About Nothing," Lady
Anne to Edwin Booth's Richard II L,
and created the role of Mary Meredith
ia Our American Cousin" with the
elder Sothern, the part she was playing
when Lincoln was shot;
She, was only twenty years old and
still a shy little ingenue when one night
she appeared on the stagrof a St. Lo-iis
theatre. That night John C. Heeaan,
a prize lighter, was in a box with a par.
ty of ; friends. He had just returned
iroro jcng:ana atter bis ngbt with Tcna
Savers and was the hero of the hour.
Heenan, of course, was aware of ifco
fact that he was the gaze of all eyes,
but from the moment dainty little Sa
rah Stevens appeared behind the foot
lights all his attention was devoted to
ber.c ..j; f '
That very night Heenan wrote a Ut
ter to the girl proposing mirriage, but
ther were 'johnnies" in those days
aa In these and Sarah Stevens laoghed
and- put her letter away, although, a
the sequel shows, ehe must have been
secretly pleased.
' Then a curious thing happened. Ono
afternoon Sarah Stevens was walking
in the streef when she suddenly found
herself face to face with Henan. In a
me-of what she afterward describ
ed as impulse, bul without a shadow of
regret, she put her tiny hand on his big
arm and said: .
"Mr. Heenan, if you promise me that
you have struck your last blow in tho
prize ring. and played your last gam
bling game I will be your wife."
Heenan gazed in astonishment for a
moment, fearing that he was the 'victim
of a joke, but bc must bavo seen a
light in the little woman 's eyes, for af
ter that slight hesitation he thrust out
his hand and said, "I promise."
The actress herself was not quite is tiro
of bis sincerity, after her own uncon
ventional proposal, bnt her doubts wt ro
set at rest the ii.'xt day, when publia
announcement, was made in the news
papers that Heenan had retired from
the ring forever. There must have been
further agreements between them for at
the end of that season, at his request,
she retired from tho stage and they
were married.
After that for eleven years the stal
wart warrior of the squared circle Mid
the fragile little girl pf the stage liwd,
a life of almost ideal devotion.
Heenan 's death wasti sad blow to his
wife and cbic-Sy for the sake of keeping
her mind occupied she returned to the
stage not long "afterward.
William II. Thompson, who will scon
reapj.ear in "The Seer?t of
same company with her some years isgo.
He had obsened her habit of going to
and from the theatre alone, end the
night they hapened to Ik playing at a
house the stage entrance of whih w;ijT
up a dark alley in an unsavory part of
the town.
Their -firnt night there ThoriipiMin
waited for her after the performance,
and with the privilege of an old ricml
said: "Sarah, lei me see you to your
hotel. This is a bad neigh jHrho'd r.ud
you might . be insulted. llesils, you
onffht not to walk the streets of strange
cities alone and at night.-'
Only the other night Mr. Tlipmpson
recalled t.he incident. "She looked up
at me with a glow in her eyes," ho
said, "and answered. ' Don "t you know.
-ir. i uiimjmm, inai innn unsays vtiui
me to the theatro-and tak?s me borne
again f ' I did not know she had be
come a spiritualist then, and 1 feared
for a moment that something had gone
wrong,, but I was soon enlightened.
"1 happened to be'just back of lr
urn she reached the stage door and p
ed intoUte street. To mortal re
there was no one there, but she looked
up into space, murmured a fw. words in
a soft tone, extended her hand s
though graing another vainseen vw
and tripped off. as merrily JN a bridj tn
her , honeymoon. I spoke r bcr again
and she said:
"'John is always with me. ,Tut" as
he did in life, he meets me at the stage
door every night and we walk idong
home together in the same old sweet
way. ' '- .
"I am convinov'd," contiaaed Mr.
Thompson, "that she felt his kiss on
her lips, the clasp of his arm in her,
that' she was satisfied he was there by
her side, nsihe had alwiys b-en since
their marriage, and would be, so fhe !
lieved, for all eternity'. - And he had
then been dead perhaps twenty years
or more. - It was a-beautiful thiug to
see, a sublime !licf to have in this sor
did, selfish world, and I l-elieve. hc bad
t up to that day a little while ego
when she quietly slijiped away to ;oia
bim in what perhaps is the only reiiit
-death."
:
ST A YIN' AFTEB SCHOOL,
-
Jit look at me a sitlin' hero
A-stayin after school,
I'm ilnnercent of doin' wrong,
I never broke no rulei
Jist 'fore the time for leavin ' come
At four o'clock today,
Mws Johnson scz, "The rct may
go, .
But Jimmy Jones will stay."
I guess that teacher's stuck on me,
She make me stay so. much;
I never jabbed Joe with that pin,
I jist give hima touc'o; 1
An' wbot ef I did make a noise,
Meowin' like a cat, j
'Twus orly just a funny joke,
What barm was they in thatf
I lt if Mr. Jlooserfelt
Knowd how they treat kids here,
ne'd otop thif stayin' after sciooL
Gee! how the canir 'ud cheer;
Some day when I 'm the Iresident, .
This here ' no idle noise;
Jist cause they robbed it in on me.
" I won't have no school ror ooy.
lii.le Dudley in Kaunas City Star.
"