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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1900)
r Fj fi 1 I li to w J I I J OIRDLESTHE GLOBE IS WHAT OUR NEWS SUM MARY DOES MIELIONS AEE CUT UP Huntington divides his mon ster fortune pis Widow Is Well Cared For Southern Pacific G iven to Her and Edward Huntington Under Cer tain Conditions New York The will ofC P Hunting ton was made public last Saturday lie fives a million in trust to Princess Hatz feldt during her life the principal to go to her issue at her death half a million in trust is given for the benefit of Mrs Hunt ington his widow for life afterwards for he benefit of ArcLer M Huntington for ife Two thirds of the Southern Pacific are to bo given to MrJ Huntington and Dne third to Edward Huntington under pertain conditions The Fifty seventh ptxeet and Fifth Avenue residences in this pity together with all articles therein are fen to Mrs Huntington or life after which they are to be given to Archer M Huntington Two hundred and seventy thousand dollars aregven in trust for the benefit of Harriet S Huntington Elizabeth Purdy Susan Porter and Allen Gates in portions of 50000 each 30000 for the benefit of H Sammis 20000 each for the benefit of Eleanora Loveland and Frank Pardee Various other specific bequests are made Mrs Huntington Charles H Tweed Isaac N Gates Huntingtons brother-in-law are made executors GERMANS USE FRISCO AS BASE Ships Arriving There to Carry Breadstuffs to China Washington A report received by one of the foreign legations here states that Germany is preparing to make San Fran cisco a point from which large quantities of military supplies will be sent forward to China The report comes from the con sul general stationed at San Francisco and gives a number of details on the extent of contemplated German ship ments He says that German ships are already arriving there and that a commis sion of German officers together with a representative of the Hamburg American steamship line is there to look after the plans for forwarding supplies These re late principally he states to horses for cavalry and other military uses and hread stuffs for the army FIGHTING IS OVER Chaffee Says Chinese Troops Have Been Driven from Pekin Pekin The allied troops have sur rounded the imperial city and stationed sentries at the gates They refrain from entering pending instructions from their governments Chaffee says the fighting is -ended Capt Keilly of Battery F Fifth TJnited States Artillery who was killed before the imperial palace was buried in the legation grounds Chaffee the British and Japanese generals and many civilians were present at the interment The Amer ican troops are encamped in the grounds of the temple of heaven The Chinese aro supposed to have fled northward THREW BABY UNDER CARS Horrible Charge Made Against a Divine by a Conductor St Louis Mo Elder Aaron Calkins a missionary- of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day fcanits is under arrest here charged with pushing Lawrence Furher aged 5 to his leath beneath a moving train at Mt Verne- Ind Conductor Alvin in charge of the ii tin states two passengers are willing to testify that Calkins who was return from seven months prose lyting in Georgia deliberately hurled the baby from the moving train to the plat form and that they suw the child roll un der the wheels which passed over him Calkins denies the charge SHARKEY QUICKLY WHIPPED Fitzsimmons Finishes the Sailor in Two Sharp Fast Rounds New York Whipped into insensibility iu less than two rounds is the story in S brief of Tom Snarkeys meeting with rt Fitzsimmons at the Coney Island Sport- inn- Club last Friday nijzht Fitzsimmons the victor Sharkey the loser The result of the battle and the brevity of it proved that Fuz is still a great lighter and able to beat the best of the heavy weights Fitzsimmons was a decided favorite in the betting owing to his defeat of Rulilin and the previous victory of Ruhlin over Sharkey FEAR RACE WAR IN TEXAS Negroes in Sabine County Make Threats Against Whites Fort Worth Tex In Sabine count j there are fears of a race war The negroea have posted notices threatening to kill three prominent white men and are intim idating the women Peace officers have been asked from some of the adjoining counties Married Seventy five Years III Mr and Mrs James Carroll 93 and 02 years old respectively celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary of their marriage at their country home south of this city Seven Killed in Wreck New York In a freight train collision at Kensieo X Y seven persons were killed and others are missing Keusico is on the Harlem division of the New York Central Railroad about sixteen miles from Hew York Two Killed in Collison Tazewell Va A disastrous wreck at Maxwell six miles from hereon the Clinch Valley division of the Norfolk and west ern resulted in the death of two mtu and njury to seven others MR- BRYAN AT TOPEKA Populists Tell Him oC H3 fornica tion ftw President Topeka Xan Mr Bryan arrived in Topeka at 11 oclock Aug 22 He came to the city by appointment to receive official notification of his nomination for the pres idency at the hands of the national Peo ples party and there had been very gen eral preparation looking to making the event of national importance Accordingly the city presented a holiday appearance when the train pulled into the depot Bryan was met at Atchison at an early hour by a committee consisting of the most distinguished members of the Populist party in Kansas and escorted to the Na tional Hotel where Bryan made his head quarters The march from the depot was an ovation People lined the streets the entire lino of march and most of them ap parently shouted themselves hoarse His address of acceptance was devoted mainly to the questions of imperialism trusts and finance The notification ceremonies occurred on the state house grounds and a vast crowd from all over Kansas was gathered there when Mr Bryan and party arrived Hon T M Patterson of Colorado made the no tification speech DOWIEITES ARRESTED Womans Death Results in Charge of Manslaughter Scranton Pa Rev Charles F Newell Mrs Boyd and Mrs Louise Eiliiart have been arrested on information furnished by Coroner J J Roberts who charged them with involuntary manslaughter in causing the death of Mrs Lydia Newell of Thropp The Rev Mr Newell was the dead wo mans husband Mrs Boyd and Mrs Fil hart are believers in the Dowie faith the doctrines of which are antagonistic to medical treatment Mrs Newell died last April after childbirth She was a follower of Dowie and refused to have a physicians aid Mrs Boyd and Mrs Eilhart were with her at the time The coroners jury accused the husband and two women of neglect The defendants entered bail in the sum of 300 each for trial MRS HERRICK IS CLEARED Coroners Jury Hokls Her Husband Died of Heart Trouble Chicago The coroners jury has ren dered a verdict in the caso of Edward P Herrick the aged commission merchant whose death some days ago was sur rounded with considerable mystery The verdict exonerates Mrs Herrick wife of the dead man from the charges of poison ing which were made by Mr Herricks son and daughter by a previous marriage and the cause of death is attributed to hardening of the muscles of the heart An expert chemist had discovered arsenic in the stomach of the deceased but the jury upheld Dr Joseph Springer the coroners physician in liis contention that the poi son found was not in sufficient quantities to cause death WANTED POWERS TO HANG Jurors Acted on Judges Instruc tion Rather Than Evidence Georgetown Ky Attorneys for Caleb Powers have filed a motion for a new trial Quite a number of affidavits were filed charging that Jurors Munson Mulberry Murphy Craig Crosswalt and Musselman had formed and expressed previous to his trial and conviction opinions that Caleb Powers charged with being accessory to Goebefs murder was guilty and ought to hang The affidavit against Craig who is a prominent shoe merchant charges that he said after being summoned and after being selected that he would not be con- trolledby evidence but only by tions from the court Eight Go to Prison for Life Palestine Tex Former Justice of the Peace Joseph Wilkerson the alleged leader of the mob that lynched the three Humphries in Henderson County in May 18S9 and J U John and Samuel and John F Paddis the remaining defendants pleaded guilty to murder in the first de cree and each received a life sentenoe in lts penitentiary The action disposes of ill the Humphries lynching cases eight in lumber Each defendant received a life sentence Steamer Sunk in Lake Erie Detroit The steamer Spectacular jound from Marquette to Cleveland with ron ore was sunk off Point Pelee Lake Erie the- result of colliding with tin un known vessel Thirteen men of the Spec taculars crew of eighteen escaped in the jmall boat The other five perched in the topmast rigging which protruded above he water Later they were picked up by he steamer Maritania and brought to De troit Dynamite Wrecks Building Medina Ohio A large box of dynamite In the basement of the county court house exploded wrecking the building The janitor was severely injured and several county officials were badly shaken up The dynamite had been placed in the base ment to be used as evidence in a criminal trial Some waste paper near the box containing the stuff oaught fire and re sulted in the explosidn Large Cereal Plant Fire Akron Ohio Fire in the immense ele vator of the American Cereal Company here damaged the plant 75000 One hun dred and fifty thousand bushels of grain were ruined by water Well Caves In Killing Six Men Guthrie O T Sex men lost their lives by the caving in of a well They were Howard Ellie E TSbafrbth K R Wales Jerome Hill S It Stude and John Meade Fine Show of Generosity Berlin The military authorities atHam burg have decided to omrt tlie Sedan cele bration on the ground that it would be in opportune at a time when German and French troops are fighting shoulder to shoulder in the brotherhood of anus A number of other cities as well as Hanover wl omit the celebration for the same son Chamberlains Daughter Weds Birmingham Eng Ethel daughter of Joseph Chamberlain was married Aug 22 to Whitmore Richards of London SLAIN BY A MANIAC Wayne Nob Jai Scene of a Horri ble Tragedy Wayne Neb A man supposed to be Robert Bingham of Dunbar Neb was brutally murdered here Aug 23 by another man who gave his name as Adolph Won lund of Buckland Mo Both men bed been placed m the city jail the night be fore Bingham for being intoxicated and Wonlund because he had been put off the train here and seemed to bo mentally un balanced not knowing where he was go ing The murderer gave as his reason for committing the horrible crime he crush ing Binghams faoo with bis heels that the murdered man was an enemy of his soul and God had ordered him to do the bloody work The insanity of the mur derer is unquestioned Bingham was on his way to Big Sprines Neb and has a son-in-law living near Wausa TAKES CONGERS PLACE Administration Will Look to Chaf fee in Future New York A Washington dispatch to the World says The war department sent Gen Chaffee a cablegram of fonr words which practically takes things out of Minister Congers hands and puts Chaf fee in a position of utmost responsibility The message said Report operations situation require ments There is no intention of depreciating Minister Conger the government has the liveliest sense of gratitude for him but it is not deemed expedient to act on his dis patches because after his terrible experi ence he is naturally embittered and possi bly unconsciously biased because he needs and deserves rest It is proposed to have Conger come home at the first oppor tunity and enjoy a long period of rest and recuperation PROTESTANTISM IN ITALY Leo Exhorts Catholics to Unite to Strengthen the Faich Rome The pope has addressed a letter to the cardinal vicar in which he sets forth the danger of the free propaganda of Protestantism in Italy and particularly in Rome He observes that this propaganda is permissible by law but goes on to show how painful to him is the situation result ing from it since he cannot oppose the pro paganda Leo recommends that the car dinal vicar strengthen the work of pre serving the faith and he exhorts Catholics to unite in an effort to minimize as far as possible the damage caused by the sectarian propaganda YOUTSEY CASE GOES OVER Court Holds He Is Not in Proper Physical Ca ndition Georgetown Ky Judge Cantill Wed nesday being satisfied Henry Toutsey was not in proper physical condition to stand trial continued his case until the next term of court The cases of Combs Whit aker and Davis will go over to the Octo ber term on account of illness in the family of one of the attorneys Exports from Cuba Washington According to a statement by the division of customs and insular affairs of the war department the total ex portation from Cuba through the port oi Havana for the seven months ending July Ul was 16608505 against1679G71 for the same period last year a decrease of GSi66 The total exports from Havana for the month of July were S2237861 Flour Maker Brand Dead Joplin Mox 11 C Brand of the Brand Dunwoody Milling Company one of the best known flour manufacturers in the southwest was killed in a runaway acci dent in Barton County 2d00 Vestinakers Win Strike New York The vestinakers of this city have won their strike fortheuniou scale of wages and a ten hour working day The strike affected 2000 112000 Fire in Baltimore Baltimore Md The plant of the Mary land Telephone Construction Company in this city burned The loss is 112000 MARKET QUOTATIONS Sioux City Cattle common to prime hogs 487K W sheep 825j10 wheat Gia corn 3333 oats 1921c batter dairy 13IS creamery 1922 Ghieago rCattle common to prime 300 to 595 hogs shipping grades 300 to 540 sheep fair to choice 300 to 355 wheat No 2 red 73c to 74c corn No 2 30c to 40c oats No 2 21c to 22c rye No 2 4Sc to 49c butter choice creamery ISc to 20c eggs fresh 10c to 13c potatoes 37c to 30c per bushel Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to 575 hogs choice light 500 to 545 sheep common to prime 300 to 400 wheat No 2 71c to 72c corn No 2 white 41c to 42c oats No 2 white 23e to 24e St Louis Cattle 325 to 575 hogs 300 to 535 300 to 400 wheat No 2 GSc t039c corn No 2 yellow 3Sc to 39c oats No 2 20c to 21c rye No 2 47c to 4Sc Cincinnati Guttle 300 to 510 hogs 300 to 535 sheep 300 to 375 wheat No 2 72c to 73c corn No 2 mixed 41c to 42c onts No 2 mixed 21c to 22c rye No 2 50cto 51c Detroit Cattle 250 to 570 hoes 300 to 545 sheep 300 to 450 wheat No 2 75c to 7Gc corn No 2 yellow 42c to 43c oats No 2 white 24c to 25c rye 51c to 52c Toledo Wheat No 2 mixed 75c to 7Gc corn No 2 mixed 39c to 40c oats No 2 mixed 21c to 22c rye No 2 50c to 51c clover seed prime 5S0 to 015 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 northern 72c to 73c corn No 3 40c to 41c oats No 2 white 24c to 25c rye No 1 49c to 50c barley No 2 49c to 50c pork mess 10S5 to 1100 Buffalo Cattle choice shipping steers 300 to 5S5 hogs fair to prime 300 to 570 sheep fair to choice 325 to 425 lambs common to extpa 400 to 575 New York Cattle 325 to 595 hogs 300 to 590 sheep 300 to 430 wheat No 2 red 77c to 7Sc corn No 2 44c to 45c oats No 2 white 28c to 29c butter creamery 18c to 21c eggs west ern lGc to 18c STATE OP NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Secretary of State Porter Decides that Anti Fusion Party Must Use 3Iid IloadM in Designation of Their Ticket on Ballot This Fall Secretary of State Porter made public nis decision that the use of the single name populist as the designation of the middle-of-the-road Populist party is in viola tion of the election laws and therefore can not be placed on the official ballot An other opinion handed down declares in substance that the silver Eepublicans do not come under the law which provides that a portion of an old party name shall not be used as the designation of a new party Secretary Porter claims that the law can be applied only to political parties organized after its adoption Following are the decisions of Secretary Porter In the case of J H Edmisten proles tant against allowing the names of certain candidates nominated at Grand Island July 20 1900 by the so called I find First That a convention consisting of 200 voters did assemble in the city of Grand Island on the 20th day of July 1900 that they did then and there nominatie candi dates for the different state offices and presidential electors that having appar ently complied with the provision of the law which requires at least 200 delegates in the state to constitute a legal convention that they are entitled to Jiave the names of their nominees placed upon the official ballot That under the head of second ob jection which refers to the party name and in which the protestant sets forth that the word Populist would be misleading and in violation of law it already belong ing by application to a party now in ex istence I am of the opinion that the objection is well founded and that the word Populist with out any qualifying word or words to designate wherein they differ from the original Populist party would have a ten dency to deceive many voters and would be a direct violation of section 131 chapter xxvi session laws of 1899 and while this is true we also recognize the fact that many of the participants in the Grand Island convention were what are known as middle-of-the-road Populists and it seems to us to be fair that they should have such name applied to them and their candidates as will clearly designate their political affiliation And while the use of the word Populist even with a qualify ing word or words prefixed may deceive voters that we are constrained to believe that the name mid road Populists more nearly applies to many of the electors who participated in the aforesaid convention than any other name which can be chosen For this reason believing that every elector should have the privilege of voting for candidates of his choice I shall decide that the candidates named by the aforesaid con vention at Grand Island may appear upon the official ballot under the designation of mid road Populists In the case of Samuel T Cochran protestant against allowing the name silver Republican to be used on the offi cial ballot after hearing the argument of the attorneys and carefully examining the law bearing on this case viz section 131 chapter xxvi session laws of 1S99 provid ing for the formaton of new parties and the adoption of party names I am clearly of the opinion that this section cannot ap ply to parties already in existence that the silver Republican party having already established its right to a place on the bal lot and having proven by the records of this office that their candidates for office have received more than 1 per cent of the total vote cast at the last general eleqtion that thoy cannot be legally debarred from having a place upon the official ballot at this tune I therefore overrule the objection of the aforesaid Samuel T Cochran and hold that the can didates of the aforesaid silver Republican party may properly have a place upon the official ballot at the com ing election Shot Near 3Ieadow Grove Cornelius Smith shot and fatally wound ed his father-in-law Bolifski Bolifski who lives near Madison has been giving trouble for a year or more by beating his family and threatening to kill them all Late at night he left his home arriving at Smiths home seven miles northwest of Meadow Grove about4 oclock next morn ing Here he began beating the door and swearing declaring he had come to kill them all Smith opened fire on him with a revolver three shots taking effect in the old mans head Reports from Meadow Grove say that the old man cannot possi bly live Start Liht Plant at Neligh The evening of the 21st witnessed the starting of the electric light plant just completed at Neligh through the public enterprise of S F Gilman Power is fur aished from the Ekhorn River and is am ple for all requirements The plant in cludes the newest and best inventions in slectrical science is complete and probably anequaled in the state the plan adhered to being the purchase of the best of every thing regardless of expense Woman Loses a Finger Mrs Bartrara of Hastings met with an lecident which caused her to have the aiiddle finger of the left hand amputated She had climbed on top of a chair to shut a transom when the chair upset and her aand canght in the window A heavy gold ring on the middle finger on the left hand was jammed into the flesh so that it scraped off the flesh and caused the finger to be amputated from the first joint Will Bring Hitchcock Back Lieut Gov Gilbert issued requisition papers for the return of Frank Hitchcock now under arrest in Denver charged with burglary Hitchcock was recently paroled from the state peniientiary and last week he was found in Denver When arrested he confessed to having been implicated in sixteen burglaries and he is now awaiting trial in that city for robbing the home of one of the wealthy citizens Fight Rural Free Delivery The petition asking the first assistant postmaster general to establish two free rural mail delivery routes from Fremont is meeting with some opposition from the people residing iu Rock Bluffs and vicinity as they fear it will cause the closing of the postofilce at that place Burned by Gasoline Explosion Judge O W Rice was severely burned at Creighton while extinguishing the fire of a gasoline stove In carrying the stove out the oil became ignited and exploded causing several frightful burns SHOCKING TRAGEDY Insane Jailbird Chows Fellow Pris oner to Death Last Thursday morning when the city marshal of Wayne opened the jail a terri ble sight met his eyes On the floor lay the dead body of Robert Bighara an old man covered with blood and from marks on his hands face and limb3 it was plain to be seen that ho had been literally chewed to death Adolphus Wanlund a crazy man confined in the same cell with him stood over the body and was responsible for- the terrible deed Bigham a man 60 years old living near Warsaw had been arrested for being drunk and locked up Wanlund was ejected from the Omaha train arriving at 720 in the evening and taken to the county jail but upon talking with him the sheriff decided that he was not violently insane and took him to the city lockup where he was put in with Bigham At midnight all was quiet around the jail Persons passing there however at 2 oclock heard cries for help but as singing was also heard it was supposed to be a drunken carousal and nothing more thought of it The coroners jury rendered a verdict that the dead man came to his death through blows and kicks by Adolphus Wanlund The county attorney has placed a charge of murder against Wanlund and he is now confined in the county jail Wanlund is crazy on religion and de clares he killed the man because he was not a Christian On other subjects he is perfectly sane but says the dead man is not the same man who was in jail with him At the time the sheriff had a talk with him he said he wanted to go west on the early train next morning and requested the sheriff to call him in time Wanlund is 25 years old FORCED TO KILL HIS FATHER James M Burnha m of Wymore Shoots to Save His Own Life James M Burnham publisher of the Wymore Wymorean shot and killed his father Captain Collins A Burnham at their home in the west part of town Sun day Aug 19 Burnham was exonerated by the coroners jury The father for years has been in the habit of getting on sprees and while under the influence of liquor he was considered a most dangerous man having many times threatened to kill his family Sunday morning the father came home in a delirious state and attempted to kill his son with a butcher knife When the son was backed up in a corner and there was no other alternative he fired a shot from a 38 caliber revolver which went through the fathers heart killing him almost instantly The son then came down town and told his friends what he had done He is in almost crazed con dition from grief Public sentiment is with him Capt Burnham was a captain in the civil war and while a fiend when drinking was most congenial while sober ROBBERY ON A SLEEPER Residents of Omaha Are Held Dp While Crossing- Iowa Edward T Balch assistant cashier of the Omaha National Bank was assaulted in his berth on the Northwestern road near Boone Iowa early on the morning of Aug 23 and robbed of 50 On tie arrival of the train in Omaha he was removed to his home and a physiciui summoned While serious his injuries are not dangerous Mr and Mrs Amoretti of Omaha were also victimized by the robbers to the ex tent of a small sum They were not awakened by the robbers The affair is a mysterious one as everyone in the car was asleep at the time There is no clue to the perpetrator The theory of the railway people is that the robber spotted Balch in Chicago where he was calling on bankers and rode in the chair car until reaching a small station in western Iowa when he entered the sleeper and attacked Balch Edgar Woman Badly Burned Mrs J C Gardner wife of one of Edgars grocery merchants was dangerously burned last week She was filling the gasoline tank while a jet was burning She overran the tank and the gasoline caught fire throwing a quantity of it over her hands and arms There was no one present inthe house except her little daugh ter Bernice 10 years of age The scream ing woman ran into the sitting room and threw herself face down upon the carpet when little Bernice in spite of her moth ers warning came up and threw a big rug over her mother and put out the flame3 Her hands and arms are most severely burned and will undoubtedly be greatly crippled if she recovers Over a Can of Beer Harry Floth employed by the Barber Asphalt Company Leo Coyne employed in the Union Pacific shops and Mike Mollner a laborer murdered E J Fee an electrician because he would not furnish money with which to pay for a can of beer The tragedy occurred in Omaha Not So Many in Omaha The population of the city of Omaha according to official count of the returns of the twelfth census is as follows Omaha city 1900 102555 1S90 140452 These figures show for the city as a whole a de crease in population of 87897 or 3698 per cent from 1S9D fr 1900 Robbed on the Central W A Paxton one of the leading capi talists of Omaha was robbed some time during the night while sleeping in a berth on the Illinois Central train The thief secured 150 in some valuable pa pers and a number of railroad passes Nebraska Short Notes The German Lutherans of Tobias will build a church this fall The Rock Island pay roll at Fairbury amounts to 120000 monthly Two iloldredge ministers baptized sev enty people in one day recently A base ball tournament lasting five days will be held at Arapahoe commencing Sept 3 The Gena Methodists have paid off the mortgage which has been hanging over the church for several years The recent rains have caused the people in the range country to smile as they in sure plenty of late feed The Presbyterians of Valentine are building a parsonage The second annual meeting of the Ne braska Cotinty attorneys will be held at Hastings J A Watts of Harlan County was struck by lightning while hanging clothe on a line He was not seriously hurt A little daughter of Postmaster Short of Ainsworth got her foot fast in the sprocket of a bicycle and it came out minus the big oe The Ancient Order of United Workmen Northeast Nebraska Picnic Association is making great preparations for a big day at Randolph Assistant Secretary Taylor in charge of the immigration bureau of the Treas ury Department goes to Montreal to con fer with Canadian authorities with the idea of establishing prohibitive measures to prevent the rapidly increasing flow of undesirable immigrants over Canadian borders into this country in Tiolation of the laws of inspection and immigration This subject has been an old sore which the immigration authorities have attempt ed to heal But the situation is brought to a crisis now by the great tide of im migrants now breaking through the lines and sectHnff this side the bordar The Russian Jns asd Ltalians form the bulk of thee immigrants Easy channels of admission to this country are afforded by the steamship and railway companies Secretary Taylor proposes to stop this evil and incidentally arrive at on agree ment with Canadian officials to maintain necessary safeguards at various points of entry Important survey work of this gov ernment in the West Indies will be con tinued next year Four vessels of the navv will probably be used for this pur pose the Yankton and Eagle now at the Portsmouth N H navy yard the Vixen now at Norfolk and the Scorpion at Boston The commercial lines which do business with West Indian ports com plain of the inaccuracy of the old Span- ish charts and naval officers find them dangerously defective in many respects The wonder is say naval officers that the charts have been of practical ser vice so long The United States Govern ment has done a great deal already to ward correcting the old charts and has expended a large sum of money in coast and harbor surveys The work will re quire two and possibly three more seasons to complete but all possible haste will be made to issue reliable charts as a re sult of the surveys now contemplated What the statisticians at the Census bureau are seeking for just now is to es tablish the probable ratio of increase in the population and when that is done a good guess can be made as to the total for the country The ratio for the whole country between 18S0 and 1890 was 2 1S6 per cent increase From 1870 to 1S80 it was 300S from 1S60 to 1870 2263 per cent and from 1S30 to 18G0 the increase was 3558 The low rate from 1860 to 1ST0 was of course due to the war but as a whole the percentage of increase in oil countries is reduced steadily as they fill up the unoccupied lands The experts look for a reduction in the ratio to a considerable extent The increwe now appears to be only two thirds as much as ten years ago Some jf the best posted men in the census say the total will be between 74000000 and 7S0OOO00 and rather above than below the mean between those figures Of the total of 31000000000 in gold in the Uaited States it is estimated at the treasury that the bulk is locked in the de- ixtmctitsafesandin national banks The old reserve in the treasury amounts to 430000000 while the national banks hold a large proportion so that nearly 600000000 of the gold supply is with drawn from circulation During August Secretary Gage expects to pay out 19 000000 to redeem the old 2 per cent bonds Up to the present time 6000000 of the 2 per cent issue has been redered and it is believed that the bulk of the 19000000 remaining will be tendered for redemption during August when in terest npon the issue will expire These bonds were issued on authority of the act of 1876 0 The payment of this issue will reduce the bonded debt of the nation to almost 1000000000 At its last session Congress appropriat ed 6000 for drawing plans focian addi tion to the White House Capt Theo dore Bixgham superintendent of public buildings and grounds is now having the plans prepared and there will be an ef fort to have the alterations made in time for the celebration of the hundredth an niversary of the location of the capitol in Washington Congress will be asked to appropriate a million dollars at the short session next winter The one member of the cabinet who does not believe it is necessary to leave Washington in the summer is Secretary of the Treasupy Lyman J Gage He re- mains at his post the year around and his only change is to move out to his sub urban cottage at Chevy Chase when the warm weather arrives From there he comes in every morning on the dctric cor reading his newspaper like the rest of the department employes Word was received at the census office that William G Pine Coffin and Charles M Bobbins enumerators for the northern districts of Alaska who were thought to have perished on their way down the Yu kon from Rampart City to St Michaels had arrived there safely that their port- -folios tom in perfect condition and that they closed up their wprk and received their pay General Director of the Census Mer riam is in danger of getting the writers cramp He is spending neariyten hours a day now writing his namjpjpThere are about 50000 pay voucherswhich have to bear his signature He says he is get ting so he dreams his signature at night and sees visions of never ending pay rolls Congress will be asked to provide for further dry docks next year The naval constructor at the Norfolk navy yard has recommended another structure for that place although one was authorised by the late Congress Tt will be necessary to buy additional land for the dock al ready pfovided for and it is possible suf ficient land will be acquired by this gov ernment to build the fourth dock now urged A new dock is contemplated at the Mare Island California navy yard Ji also 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