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marshes surrounding Cornito. have orders
to) allow no armed body to pass.
A special from San Juan del Sur, Nica
ragua, to the Herald say* that the arrest
Ol t'aaimcro Gonzales hy the Knglisb,
aha, rged with intimidating people from
selling provisions to their ships, caused
great excitement In Leon and Managua.
Ruuiors were current that the incensed
molx would tiy to attack the town of Cor
into. The English doubled their guard anil
«ent \iuekcts out along the railroad line
and r. vised the rails. After a night of sus
pense, in the morning "JOO marines left
the town In the direction of Paso Cabal
]o"., where the Nicaraguan forces are sit
uated, a well fortified position.
Paso Caballos, about four .miles from
Corinto, ' s divided from it by a bridge
fiOO feet .Vwtg. Orders have been given to
open tire on the Enlgish furces should
they atti f'Uit to advance beyond the
bridge. I** ladies of Lean and Managua
haveoffere. t money and jewxdry to defend
the native i muse, and will never hear of
surrender. Fears are entertained that
•hostilities m V break out at. any moment.
Ihe Nieara, tuans are well tortiiied at
Paso Caballos and can place 8000 to 10,000
men there at a' moment's notice.
Doctors Jose .Games s.nd /.. .lose Ma
dires, special i tummissisoners from the
Nicaraguan govt Tumeiit, have arrived in
Corinto and, reAisint; to meet Captain
Trench, governor- of tlio port, at his
office, they were promptly ordered to
leave town and not to return under any
pretext. The situation is critical and be
coming more stra ineci every day. An
open rupture is feared momentarily.
SEW YORK, May -'.—A special to the
Worid from Managua s!:ys:. Corinto will
be open again befctre the next Pacific
Mail steamer is dm!. . The British are
preparing to leave, if England accepts. A
telegram from London, jeports the prop
sition made by the Salvadorean ministei,
Senor Medina." in Nicaragua's name, upon
Salvador guaranteeing the payment in
London of £15,000 fop the expulsion of
Consul Hatch. The .aiajpatch adds that -
Nicaragua will thus be Salved from further
humiliation.
MANAGUA, via Galvduton, May L.—
Senor Fellows, the Horaduran mmister,
has just arrived here. • will go to
Corinto tonight to confer with Admiral
Stephenson, the commander of the
British fleet there, concerning the issues
between Great Britain and Nicaragua.
ZELAYA'S PLANS
Nicaragua in a Ferment Ove* the President' a
NEW YORK, May 2.— Passengers on
the Colombia, from Colon, report that
Nicaragua is in a ferment over President
Zelaya's arbitrary rule. One of the pas
sengers says: "Plans for Zelaya's over
throw arc well under way, and wlnen the
coffee crop is harvested there will be an
uprising throughout the cotuntry.
"Zelaya's policy in tha expulsion of
Hatch was outrageous. Wlten Barrios re
turned fro,m bis useless mission to Eng
land, President Zelaya kejW secret, from
everyone the fact that the minister had
failed. When the British warships ar
med at Corinto the people were amazed.
One of the president's latest acts off per
secution, it is alleged, was the brutal
treatment of the son of ex-President Za
vala, at Granada.
"Zavala was at the theater, and the
playhouse was surrounded by soldiers,
lie was taken out and the soldiers
searched and then beat him."
Other passengers say that two agents of
the revolutionary party, on the way to
France, were on the Colombia. They also
declared the shipment of 180.000 cart
ridges on the City of Para to Guatemala
was significant, fn view of the present
situation in Nicaragua.
Now Comes Italy
810 DE JANEIRO, May 2,-The Ital
ian charge d'affaires has demanded that
Brazil reply within seven days to the
claims made by Italy for losses sustained
by Italian subjects during the late revo
lution.
THE IRON WORKERS
It Is Claimed That the Employers Want to Re-
store Wages
NEW YORK, May 2.—The Iron Age
says: Producers have shown a commend
able disposition to restore wages when
they have really obtained higher figures
in their sales. But there is evident im
patience in labor circles and there is some
danger of a series of strikes. The most
significant report which iiained currency
during tbe past week is that a consolida
tion is being negotiated between the lead
ing operators of the Connellsville coke re
gion, and when eftected the price will be
advanced to $1.90 for deliveries after May
1. Meanwhile the advance of 11.35 is not
being realized, asince round quantities of
standard Connellsville coke are being of
fered at 11.25 and $1.15. The New Castle
furnace strike has put a little backbone in
Bessemer pig, which has sold for May de
livery in moderate quantities at $10. Steel
is very dull. Buyers in the east at least
cannot be tempted by offerings considera
bly below nominal quotations. In fun
isiied iron and steel the advance in ba'S
in the west is pretty firmly established,
there having been quite a "good deal of
business in Chicago. The higher prices
for sheets decreed recently are not ob
tained on choice orders. The best that
can be said of prices is that they are
steadier.
Blackmailed by Highbinders
MA YF 1 ELD, Cal.. May 2. Two high
binders from San Francisco have been
here for several weeks, levying tribute on
local Chinese and pursuing a policy of
intimidation. Karly this morning Wo
Sing, a highbinder, went to a wash house
and finding Lim Loon smoking opium in
a bunk, sbot him twice killing him in
stantly. Wo Sing escaped.
Bread Upon Waters
NEW YORK, May 2.—John Huff, said
to have fallen heir to $1,500,000 by the
death of Charles Kaslhoff, a wealthy Cal
iforuian, in 1808, has died at Mattawan,
X.J. Huff nursed F.usthoff twenty years
ago through an attack of typhoid lever,
when no one else would go near him, ami
the entire estate had been his reward.
Off for Cuba
ST. JOHNS. N. F.. May 2.-The British
cruiser Tourain, twelve guns, which has
been acting as guardship here, has been
ordered to proceed to Cuba with tlio
utmost dispatch, for tlie purpose of pro
tecting British subjects whose liberty is
jeopardized by the revolution there. She
will sail at midnight.
Under the Hammer
NEW YORK, May 2.-Messrs. Sgobel &
Day held their seventeenth auction sale
of California wine Wednesday, when
they sold about -100 barrels of assorted
wine. Being low grade the prices were
low.
To Work Gravel Dep nits
SONORA, Cal.. May 2.-A company
composed of Sacramento and Tuolumne
juen was inoor|>orated last week witli a
capital aback of $300,000 to work 200 acres
of ricli graVel deposits, eleven miles east
on the Tuolumne river. Operations will
commence at once.
The Verdict (leans Life
LOCISVILLE, Ky..May2.-A special
to the Post from Barboursville, Kv.,
says that the jury in the famous Field-
Adkins case returned a verdict at 9:30 of
guilty. They will get a life sentence.
AROUND THE BANQUET BOARD
Nearly Four Hundred Detroit
Business Men at Table
THE DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Comptroller of Currency Talks About
Money
Gtuuncey M. Depew Ales Responds to a
Toast Opening of Detroit's New Cham
ber of Commerce Rooms
DETROIT, Mich.. May -J.-Upwards of
:V>o buainess men of Detroit and their
guests of the evening enjoyed the ban
quet given at the Hotel Cadillac, tonight,
in celebrating the completion and dedica
tion of the new Detroit chamber of com
merce. The guests were welcomed by
Rufus W. Gillett, president of the Detroit
chamber of commerce, ex-Senator Thomas
W. Palmer presidi ug happily as toast
master.
The lirst toast was eloquently responded
to by \V. C. Maybcr-y of Detroit. His
subject was No North, no South, no
East, no West, but the Commercial
Supremacy of a Groat Nation.
Commerce of the inland Seas was re
sponded to by Harvey D. Doulder, chief
counsel of the Lake Carriers' association.
Chauncey M. Depew was then intro
duced and spoke on The Union of States
-the bond of comme-ce is their mutual
independence and enduring prosperity.
Io opening, Mr. Depew said that while
business men might differ politically, the
various chambers of commerce considered
only the questions affecting commerce
upon tlie recognised principles of com
mercial prosperity, the immutable laws of
trade, saying:
"Thus it was that the commerce of the
United States is the ever strengthening
bond of union of the commonwealths
which constitute the republic.' 1
lie referred to the necessity for the as
sociation of interests and capital, and
said :
"There is no more beneficent form of
association than these boards of fade and
chambers of commerce which are now es
tablished all over the country.
"There will be a central chamber of
commerce in Washington in which each
of these bodies will have representation.
"When a business man becomes a
member of- congress the effort to spread
himself over tliis great country seenis to
so thin his gray matter as to make him
incapable of bringing to the business of
the nation the same common sense which
made him successful at home. The most
remarkable illustration of this is the con
gress that has just adjourned. Instead of
relief wo had a babel cf propositions
which only added to the general confus
ion, and made the day of adjournment of
congress a day of national thanksgiving.
The national chamber of commerce would
be a kindergarten oi. economical and
financial questions for the instruction of
members of congress."
The speaker went into details on the
freight rates of the world, showing that
in this country the rate per ton was only
one-third that of Europe. Continuing,
he said: The international commerce
of the Unite 1 States makes our country
the most remarkable market ever known.
Our internal commerce is so vast that the
of the tariff of Koine when she com
manded the world, of Genoa w hen she
was queen of the Mediterranean, of
Venice when she commanded the seas,
are but as rivulets to the Father of
Waters.'
'We will always avoid com Plications
in European and Asiatic polities, but no
foreign power can exercise a hostile au
thority in Hawaii or Central America or
in Mexico or any of the sister republics of
the Western Hemisphere without meeting
with protest and resistance.
"How are we to preserve our prosper
ity? With confidence, a business of in
calculable magnitude can get along witli
very little currency; without confidence
there is not enough money in the world
to conduct the business of the I'nited
States. We have oeen at the bottom and
we are on the road to prosperity. We
should have a revenue system so well de
lined that it could not be disturbed ex
cept in minor details for a generation.
While not discussing the tariff or free
trade, we should havo a revenue system
which will meet the requirements of the
government and support it without
direct taxation.
"The United States is a debtor, na
tional, municipal, railway and indi
vidual, to the extent of about fourteen
billions of dollars. Of this one-third is
lield abroad. A woli defined policy to
pay our debts at seventy-five cents or at
fifty cents 01. the dollar, would lead to
two thousand or three thousand millions
ol" dollars of our securities coming home
for us to take. The presentation of
them in our markets would endanger the
stability of every bank, derange every
exchange and paralyze evrey industry iii
tha I'nited States. There can be but one
standard of value, and that is a metal
which will bring the same price whether
it is in bar or bus the Stamp of the gov
ernment on it. A dollar must be worth
a hundred cents anywhere in tbe I'nited
States, and a hundred cents anywhere in
the world.''
The effect upon commerce of pooling
by transportation lines, was responded to
by George 11. Blanchard, commissioner
of the Central Traffic association.
O. 1). Ashley, president of the Wabash
railroad, responded effectively to, Com
merce and Transportation, one anil in
separable.
James 11. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency, responded to the toast, Cur
rency, as follows:
Comptroller Kckels responded to the
toast Currency, He said:
It is impossible within the Irrief limits
of a conventional after dinner address
to do more than touch upon the senti
ment which has just been announced
and to which I am asked to respond.
I shall, therefore, content myself with
giving expression 10 s.ich general views
as seem to me to De pertinent to a single
phase of the currency question as it
today engages public thought and com
mands the people's attention, iam sure
all will agree that it is the most import
ant problem with which the executive
and legislative branches of the govern
ment have now to deal and as such de
mands that there be brought to bear to
its solution a statesmanship as wise as it
is patriotic ami as honest as it is wise.
It involves too great interests and is too
far reaching iv its effects to bj considered
LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1895.
from any other standpoint than the de
sire to reach such conclusions as will
work out the best results to this land, in
which the wealth, the happiness, the as
pirations of every patriotic American cen
ter.
Its discussion has been precipitate! at
a time when the country is emerging
from a period id financial and commer
cial depression, widespread and of long
continued duration. It rinds every ave
nue of trade giving evidence of renewed
activity; mill and factory again in ope
ration and agriculture promising to those
engaged in its pursuit abundant harvest
and appreciating price?. It pressos itself
upon the laborer, now no longer idle but
busy with the employment which has
come with the settlement of questions
which havo long ye xed the public mind
ami after ntuple demonstration of the
ability of ths government to maintain
untainted the public faith and the
nation's credit. If under such circum
stances the cause of those who stand
against the schemes proposed .to rid by
means ot law. a psople from making
proper payment of their just debts and
give them riches through legislative
action cannot be sustained, the experi
ence of all monetary history will bo re
versed. If this contest shall end otherwise
than in the triumph of that which is
right In theory and sound in principle it
will bo because the American poople have
lost much of that good sense and honesty
which v great man declared, though some
times permitting an agitation for some
thing wrong and mischievous, always
when tiie danger point is reached brings
forth a mass of opinions, which though
ordinarily quiescent, at such times forces
itself into actiivty, puts down the wrong
thing and peremptorily demands the
right thing instead.
I believe we have come to a point in
this discussion of our monetary system
and agitation for a complete change in
our standard of value, when this mass of
opinion should not only be arouse 1. but
should make itself an active force in put
ting an end to the currency vagaries of
which the free silver movement, as today
presenteed, is the culmination. If com
mercial and industrial revival is to con
tinue, recurring loss to every citizen pre
vented, national and individual financial
credit and integrity maintained and ulti
mate disaster averted, there must be no
longer a spirit of hesitation in those who
know the baneful effects of the thing pro
posed.
There can he no political ends to be
served, no party considerations to be ad
vanced of sufficient import to warrant
any man in long debating as to the po
sition he should take when tbe financial
honor of his country is at stake and the
prosperity of a great people threatened.
Here, at least, is no room for party and
place for the machinations of designing
politicians or arrant demagogues.
Tlio American people cannot too
quickly recognize that they are in the
midst of a propaganda skillfully and zeal
ously being carired on with the end in
view of revolutionizing the country's ex
isting monetary system. Those who now
direct the free silver idea, map out the
policy of its advocates and control their
action, have ceased playing witb words
and put from them the professions which
heretofore have characterized their utter
ances when urging the cause for which
they havo stood. Their demand today,
interpreted in the light of their acts, is
that the United States shall at once aban
don its present standard of value and
substitue therefor, irrespective and with
out the co-opeartion of any other country,
a single silver standard.
Nowhere is it suggested by the sponsors
for this latest tenet in the silver creed,
that this nation shall ever undertake to
maintain at home a double standard.
Nowhere is there promise given of an at
tempt through international agreement
to make every dollar of silver which shall
be coined the equal in value of every dol
lar in gold which comes from the mint and
fairly interchangeable therewith: They
no longer give recognition to the fact, at
tested by every monetary union formed
and conference lield that no nation can
isolate itself from those with which it
has commercial dealings, and maintain,
independent of them, a distinctive stand
ard of value. It is not even designed
that the dollar coined shall approach an
intrinsic value which it purports to carry:
instead, a ratio shall exist between coins
of the same denomination, wdiich is
patently incorrect and untrue. The po
sition which they now assume of necessity
eliminates from their ranks all who here
tofore have struggled to bring about a
larger use of silver in the country's cur
rency at an increased ratio, and drives
into the camp ol the opposition every
honest champion of international bi
metallism. The plan laid is nf their own
making; the issue of their own choosing;
and in the face of their own acts the
believer in the single gold standard and
the believer in the standard ot both gold
and silver should give them neither aid
nor succor. They challenged the one and
repudiate the other, and from both
should come a united opposition.
The contention which is now made by
the single silver standard adherents, re
duced to its last analysis, is silver tiatism
mire and simple. It differs in degree
only and not in principle from the con
tention of twenty years ugo of the advo
cates of the unlimited issue of irredeeni
ble greenbacks, and from that issue of
Bat currency of the period of the
continenetal congress, and the era of
colonies. It meets a counterpart in the
argument of the French revolutionist
who bankrupted the citizens of France
witli their millions of worthless asslg
v.ats and mandates. It rcseniijles the
reasoning of King Alexis of Russia when
more than three centuries ago lie impov
erished his subjects and fomented civil
strife by undertaking to force upon them
copper copecs of the same form and value
as a substitute for silver ones.
It is the theory of the Hoc,a list and
Populist applied to monetary matters.
It is based upon the belief in what has
been aptly termed the all-powerfulnesa"
of the state, and is in utter disregard of
that great fact in financial history that
mediums of exchange and standards of
value did not find their origin in law.
but were born of the needs of trade and
commerce. They came into use through
no legislative action save that which was
wrought, in the great parliament of cum
m-rce, and from then until now the en
acted laws of councils and of congresses
In violation of the principles underlying
them have failed to control nnd regulate
them. The end always sought by com
merce, the great arbiter of every monetary
system since the dawn of civilization, has
been to have in every metallic money
such intrinsic value as makes tbe un
stamped coin of the same value as a com
modity of merchandise as the stamped.
It has witb equal rigor insisted that in
bank currency there shall be immediate
redemption upon presentation in sound
metallic currency. It invokes in behalt
of tiie money which it sanctions and ac
cepts no alchemist and believes in no
philosopher's stone. It has throughout all
the centuries stool defiant against the
errors of legislative bodies and the wrong
ful edicts of kings, and acting upon the
principle "that value knows its own
laws and follows them in spite of decrees
and penalties," has taken tbe coins of
every country for what they are intrinsic
ally worth and not for what the legal
stamp represents them to be worth. The
commercial world has with unvarying
precision drawn the true distinction
which exists between true value in a
nation's currency and the sign 'affixed
to it, and standing upon tbat line of
demaication it has been as indifferent
to the laws of great nations as of small.
Those who represent in this splendid
city the interests of commerce cannot
afford to be unmindful of the condition
which confronts them. If the standard
of valufl upon which all commercial trans
actions are based is made uncertain by
any experimental legislation, if capital
becomes alarmed and credit once more
restricted, the magn iticent temple which
has been here dedicated to the use ot
commerce will be of little avail, for there
is no commerce where faith is wanting in
a country's medium of exchange and
trode reduced to mere betting. Tbe ques
tion to which the friends of the mainte
nance ol a medium of exchange of un
questioned and v nquestionable value
must address themselves is not how to
temporarily defeat the advocates of free
coinage of silver as they now present it,
but how to permanently secure the coun
try against tbe danger which would follow
from crystallizing into law any monetary
suggestion which is based in whole or in
part upon the doctrine of fiatism. Such
result cannot be attained by either
scoffing at their leaders or underestimat
ing the sources of strength of those who
range themselves under their banners. As
long as they have the enthusiasm whicit
springs from the belief in their lessening
the woes of the debt-burdened classes to
urge them to effort and the encourage
ment of the timorous In the ranks
of those who oppose them, they will
continue an activo force in monetary
agitation and an element in American
politics that warrants recognition and
sturdy opposition. The forces of iiat sil
ver currency, of irredeemable paper and
their Populist allies can be perma
nently eradicated as factors worthy of
consideration and sources of discontent
and financial loss in but one way, and
that lies through the gateway of sound
monetary education. To this work the
individual and the nation's goods de
mand that in season and out there he
such labor performed as shall at no dis
tant day result tn their being beaten
squarely upon the issues for which tbey
stand and the country did after the disas
ters attendant upon their hope of ultimate
success. %
letters of regret were read from Piesi
dent Cleveland, ex-President Harrison
and Senator Burrows.
Free Silver Missionary
SAN FRANCISCO, May .'.-Congress
man J. C. Sibley of Pennsylvania arrived
here today and will make a tour of the
coast to deliver speeches in favor of free
silver. Mr. Sibley says he is amazed at
the growth of the sentiment in favor of
silver. "We are getting along faster than
we hoped," lie said. "The problem is
working itself out." Mr. Sibley received
a telegram from Senator Stewart asking
him to remain in California until he
arrived, which will be in about ten days.
GEORGE GOULD'S NEMESIS
The Story Told In a Suit Against the Million'
aire
NEW YORK, May 2.—The declaration
in the suit of Mrs.Zella Nicolaus Huh man
against George Gould, tiled with County
Clerk Fisher in Hudson county cour
house, Jersey City, sets forth that George
Gould obtained by trick and device from
plaintiff a certificate Ut $40,000, which
Gould had given her to satisfy a just
claim she had against bim.
Notice of this action and a copy of the
declaration were served on Mr. Gould
yesterday just as he was about to sail on
the steamer NewJYork, by Peter Bentley,
a clerk employed by Lawyer Simpson of
Jersey City. Clerk Bentley visited Mr.
Gould's office, but was unable to see him.
Then Bentley hurried to the steamer New
York, as he knew Mr. Gould and his
family had engaged state rooms and
would sail on that steamship.
Clerk Bentley waited in a corner of the
saloon until he saw Mr. Gould pass hur
riedly to his stateroom. Several friends
were chatting with Gould wben Clerk
Bentley attempted to enter the state-
' Tl_ - - _ . I ~
with
utt>:m ptfj 1 t state
room. He says an effort wus made to
close the door, but that, as Mr. Gould ad
vanced toward the door, lie laid the pa
pers on his hand and informed him that
lie bad thirty days in which to tile an
answer.
The plaintiff is now living in New Jer
sey.and will claim residence in that state
when the sttit is tried. Her lawyer says
the suit will be vigorously prosecuted.
SON AGAINST FATHER
Depositions Being Taken In the Spreckels
Case
SAN FRANCISCO, May •->. — Depositions
are being taken in the $100,000 damage
suit of 0. A. Spreckels against his father,
Clans Spreckels, tbe sugar king, for al
leged slander. C. A. Sprecke's devoted
several hours yesterday to telling why ho
sued his father for slander. Clans Spreck
els will tell today why he made the state
ments to which his son takes exception.
The statements ot each will be used in
the coming trial. While the young man
could not mention any particular occasion
here he hud suffered financially, he
said his general reputation had been in
jured. All or tho Spreckels millions, ho
said, would not recompense bim for the
damage done to his standing in the com
munity. The suit for slander is based on
an article published several weeks ago. in
which Chtus Spreckels was quoted as say
ing that C. A. Spreckels and his younger
brother had attempted to defruud him of
a large sum of money, and that C. A.
Spreckels was a poor business man and
would soon be bankrupt.
AMONG VETERANS
Colorado and Wyoming a. A. R. Men In
Session
DENVER, May 2.—Before the G. A. B,
encampment of the department of Colo
rado and Wyoming convened toduy, there
was much discussion among the veterans
in attendance of the recommendations
made by Department Commander Rol
lins for the appointment of v committee
to prepare a memorial to the next na
tional encampment in favor of extending
financial aid to Confederate veterans.
The suggestion was generally received
with fuvor, and leading members ex
pressed the opinion that the p tnciple
advocated by General Rollins will receive
the indorsement of the encampment,
wdiich resumed its secret session ut 10
o'clock today.
The impression that has got abroad
that General Rollins favored extending
(•elisions to Confederate veterans is in
correct. What he proposed was the es
tablishment of a borne ior indigent aud
suffering southern veterans.
Or. Price's Cream Baking Powder
World's Fair Highest Award.
STORY OF A GREAT CRIME
Disappearance of a Prominent
Man Explained
BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER
Mystery of R. M. Culver's Absence Par
tially Cleared Up
A Valuable Estate la Behind the Matter and
It la Thought Thia Had Something to
Do With the Murder
ROCHESTER, N. V., May l—The
body of Roy M. Culver has been fouml In
the river Clyde between Clyde and Savan
nah. He had been murdered and thrown
into the water. He was the young sec
retary of the Young Men's Christian As
sociation of Newark, who mysteriously
disappeared recently.
Culver started from Newark for Syra
cuse. He did not return when he said
he would. Three days later Mr. Am
merman of Newark, his cousin, received
a postal card mailed at Syracuse, stating
that he would return on Sunday, in the
same mail was received a letter, printed
In a larjre. rough, disguised hand, as fol
io ws:
SYRACUSE. N. Y..~Mr. Am merman,
Dear Sir— Perhaps by this time you will
be somewhat worried übout the absence
of Roy Culver. 1 have this much to say
in regard to the matter. In searching
through the genealogical records he dis
covered my family secret. It is this:
"Many years ago a large property wns
left to Mr. Culver's ancestors. lie was
never informed of this fact. My father,
at that time a lawyer, had entire charge
of the transaction," and lie arranged mat
ters so that Mr. Culver's ancestors were
deprived of tlieir rightful inheritance.
"Mr. Culver worked diligently to prove
his claim to this property. He has suc
ceeded to a certain extent, and an ap
pointment was made to meet at Syracuse.
"1 disposed of him, and you will never
see him again. 1 was obliged to do this
in order to save myself. lie leaves no
papers throwing light upon the matter.
"The fortune referred to was an im
mense property consisting of lands,
houses and money well invested, and to
day is one of tho largest estates in ex
istence. He has not spoken to any of his
friends, intending to surprise them very
soon. His last words were these, when
I asked him if he wished to say anything
to bis friends; 'Tell Cooper to bay all
my outstanding debts and retain for
himself everything that was left. Tell
l.eath to tuke charge of the place at Slab
City until sold. Good-bye to ah my
friends.'
"This is the end of my story, and you
will probably never hear from* me again,
Yours truly,
"A STRANGER."
Mr. Ammemian immediately tele
gaphed to New York for his brother .
Cooper Culver, who arrived promptly,
and a search ot his trunk was made.
They found $21 and a number of lette s
concerning Roy's family and the estate,
many being from persons well known by
the family, but this was the first intima
tion the family ever had that thcie was
any property coming to them.
LAID OUT IN A MORGUE
Notorious Outlaws Brought to Time With
Bullets
(Hikers Kill Two Long-wanted Bandits That
Belonged to the Dalton-Doolln
deng
GUTHRIK, 0. T., May ->.-At Bpen
glers' u.idertaikng house in this city lie
the bodies of two of the most notorious
desperadoes of the Dalton-Doolin gang.
The dead men stretched on two lioards
are George Newoomb, alias bitter Creek,
alias Slaughter Kid. and Charley Pierce,
alias Dynamite Dick,
The advent of the officers with the re
mains of the outlaws was a complete sur
prise to the community, as no one had
been apprised of the fact that the bandits
were being pursued, much less that there
had been a fight and two of them killed.
They were brought in just as they were
when killed, in full clothes with their
boots and spurs on and armed to the
teeth. Besides Winchesters, each had on
a revolver apiece and belts of cartridges
for both instruments of death.
As their clothes were cut off the bodies
it was seen that Dynamite Dick had at
least thirty bucKshot, while two Winches
ter balls let the life out of Bitter Creek.
Dynamite Dick was shot all over, hut
mostly in the right shoulder and side,
although he bad fully six shot in bis
stomach, as many in one foot. One of
liis eyes was open as though he had been
in the act of taking a sight along a Win
chester.
One Winchester ball struck Bitter Creek
in the forehead and the other bit his
hand as he was pulling the trigger.
Marshal Mix docs not want to say much
about the killing, as tho marshals who
diil the work are still after other men.
The outlaws were killed ac tbe southeast
corner J f Pawnee county at the house of
the Dunn brothers, near Ingalls, the old
rendezvous of the outlaws.
They were killed by Deputy Marshal
Schaffer at the head of six other mar
shals. The bandits went to Dunn 's house
about 8 o'clock last evening. It being
moonlight they wero easily seen, und Dy
namite Dick was killed outright, being
filled full of buckshot.
Bitter Greek made a fight ar.d two Win
chester balls knocked him off his horse
before he could pull the trigger of his
gun.
The two men killed are a part of the
gang that held up the Rock Island train
at Dover some time ago. They hud been
chased ever since. Charles Pierce, alias
Dynamite Dick, is a half brother to Tulsa
Jack, who was killed in the Cheyenne
country by Deputy Marshal Dudley
Banks. The express copmanies have big
rewards offered for these outlaws. The
bodies were embalmed and the express
detectives have been wired for. Deputy
Banks saw the bodies and rdcognizeJ
them. Oscar Halsell recognized Bitter
Creek. The outlaw used to herd cuttle
for him. O. V. Hicks, a cowboy, looked
at him and said he punched cattle with
bim several years ago.
The horses of the outlaws were killed.
Their saddles and till the guns were
brought to this city. None of Hie mar
shals was linrt.
A Train Derailed
MAKSIIALI/TOWN. la.. May 2. - The
north-bound passenger train on the Chi
cago und Great Western railroad was
I wrecked between Green Mountain and
| Glad brook lust night by striking v tie,
I placed on the truck by miscreants. The
engine and three coaches were thrown,
down a five-foot embankment. The bag
gageman und brakeman were slightly in
jured, lint the rest of tie crew and passen
gers escaped unhurt.
PROFIT AND LOSS
What the Statement of the New York ElectrN
cal Company Shows
NEW YOUlv, May 2.-President Coffin's
annual report to the stockholders of the
tieneral Electric company, to be formally
presented at the annual meeting at Sche
nectady May Uth, has just been issued.
Profit and loss on January HI, 1804,
showed a debit balance of 11,464,967. This
loss was Increased by liquidation to 115,]
208,350. The business for lH'Ji yielded a
net prolit of 8414,643, leaving the present
balance #14,01,71(1.
In explaining the loss account President
Collin refers to last year's report in which
there was charged 12.531,60 duo to the
Fort Wayne and Northwestern companies
and its aillea interests.
He says: "Contrary to expectations and
the statements of persons directly inter
ested in the Northwest company, your
claim as a creditor of thnt company now
proves tn be without value; and certain
other interests inherited by your company
arc also valueless. The "aggregate loss
from thesu sources is about $!14f>,000 (viz
(456,494 on the account owned und about
(489,000 on other items) and this sum is
included in the charges to profit and loss
in the supplementary statement for the
year 1893.
'During the past year the Fort Wayne
Electric company, a former ally of one of
your constituent companies, has gone
into the hands of a receiver and its affairs
are now being liquidated by the court.
Your company has filed with the receiv
ers its claim for 11,187.555. Various secu
rities not desirable to hold permanently
have been marketed at a prolit of (93,*
071, to which was added from the liquida
tion of old notes ami accounts 1885,998,
These receipts were used to buy |1,350,<
000 of the company's debentures in open
market at an aggrogato price of about
88)^.
"By liquidating as above and by adher
ing to the policy ot selling for cash or on
short time, the company has not only
collected enough cash to retire all its
floating and to reduce its funded debts,
but has had sufficient working capital to
pay cash for its purchases during the
ear.''
DONE BY TRAMPS
Chicago and Alton Officials Deny the Alleged
Attempted Robbery
CHICAGO, May 2.—Officials of the
Alton road deny emphatically today there
was any attempt to hold up a train at
Carlinville. last night, when Engineer
Frank Holme* was killed. The shooting
they say, was done by tramps. Officials
of the road think they have the murderer
of Holmes in tlie man caught leaving the
tender. However, Mail Clerk ,T. P. Kce
vers tells the following story; The train
left Carlinville at 11:40. Hardly had the
train got under way when two tramps,
lying flat on the coal In the tender, were
startled by the appearance of two masked
men crawling over the tender. Poking
two big revolvers into, tho faces of the
tramps, the newcomers enjoined their
silence nnd strict attention to their own
business. Passing on to the engine cab,
one of the armed men ordered the two
firemen one man extra, learning the
road), to put up their hands, while the
other covered Engineer Holmes and or
dered him to shut off steam. The engi
neer complied. Then the desperado or
dered him tn give her full head and be
lively about it. Holmes made a pretense
of doing so, and tho robber, apparently
satisfied, stepped back a foot or two. En
gineer Holmes was on the alert for an op
portunity presented, and, seizing the tire
man's pick, dealt the robber two blows on
tiie head. lloth roboers opened fire, and
plucky Frank Holmes fell dead in the
gangway of his engine, with at least three
bullet boles In his breast. The fireman
shut off the steam,'put on the air brakes
and the heavy train slowed down to a
standstill; as it did so, two of the robbers
swung off.
FOR FORGERY
A Statesman From ninnesota Toy Be Brought
to California
NKW YORK. May 2.—Alonzo J. Whit
man, ex-senator from Ouluth. Minn.,
may havo to go to California to stand
trial for forgery. 11c was taken before
Justice Lawrence in the supreme court
on a writ of habeas corpus, secured for
the purpose of bringing about his release
from the Tombs, where he has-been im
prisoned for several days. It was cjn ■
tended in bis behalf that the statements
contained In tiie telegrams from Califor
nia, upon which he was arrested, were
entirely insufiolent to justify the court
in holding bim, but it was shown by the
prosecution that proceedings are now
pending before the governor for requis
ition papers for tho purpose of having
Whitman returned to California. Justice
Lawrence dismissed the writ of habeas
corpus and remanded the prisoner to the
custody of an officer from California,
who bad come on for the purpose of ar
resting Whitman. The governor will
give a hearing In the matter In a day or
two. Whitman is also wanted in Mich
igan and other places, where charges are
made against him.
That Kansas Cyclone
WICHITA, Kan., May 2.—Further de
tails of the cyclone near llalsteads show
that ten persons were killed besides the
six mentioned in last night's dispatches.
John Schmidt, wife, sen and daughter
were killed.
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