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SCORES MAY PERISH
*
ANOTHER WARNING TO THE HORDE
OF WOULD-BE KLONDIKERS.
Letter from n Government Official Ile
pictlng the Situation on the Ska-
Kuay and Cbilcnt Trails.
THOUSANDS SEEKING GOLD
BUT NOT MORE THAN 20 PER CENT.
WILL REACH THE DIGGINGS.
Others May Be Canglit on the Way by
the Arctic Winter and Frozen—The
Lake Wnwa Gold Field.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7.—The Treasury
Department to-day made public the follow
ing letter dated Dyea, Aug. 22, received
from a government official now on the way
to the gold fields, stating at the same time
that the writer, whose name is withheld,
had been twelve years in the service and
was thoroughly reliable:
“I deem it my duty to write you on a
subject that does not come strictly within
my line of duty, as it trenches somewhat
upon the functions of the Treasury Depart
ment. I have had a long talk with Mr.
Ivey, collector of customs for Alaska, who
is at present at Skaguay, three miles below
here. The Skaguay frail is the most large
ly used overlartd route (though by no means
the best) to the Klondike. Mr. Ivey in
forms me that there are now between tide
water and the lake something like four
thousand people and about two thousand
horses. The commander of one of the ves
sels now* at Skaguay states that sixteen
vessels are chartered to land cargoes at
that place between now and the lath of
September, and that the number of passen
gers will average two hundred to each ves
sel, making 3,200 more people who will at
tempt to go in this fall.
"I have talked with some of the most
experienced traders and miners in this
vicinity and they are unanimous in the pre
diction that not over 20 per cent, of this
vast number will get through to Dawson
before winter sets in. The other 80 per
cent, will be caught on the trail and those
who survive and get back to tidewater will
have to winter at Skaguay or return south.
If the rush continues two weeks longer
hundreds will inevitably perish on the trail,
which is extremely dangerous after the Ist
of October.
"The postmaster and Indian trader at this
place (Mr. Heron) states that more than
*ne thousand men have gone up the Chil
cat pass during the past thirty days and
that seven hundred of them are still this
side of the lake (twenty-four miles from
here.) Vessels are arriving every day or
two and at the present rate of influx an
other thousand will enter the trail by Sept.
10. Mr. Heron is of the opinion that not
more than twenty out of one Hundred will
get through, and he says this trail is far
more dangerous than the Skaguay after
the snows set in. He says if the rush con
tinues another week the resultant loss of
life will he appalling. I attach the greatest
weight to what he says, for the reason that
it is his pecuniary interest to have as many
as possible come this wa # v, yet he advises
an immediate stoppage or* the stampede.
"Tt 1s difficult to suggest a way to stop
this inrush of people, hut Mr. Ivey inti
mates that if the inspection rules of the
Treasury Department were properly en
forced it would materially decrease the
number of passengers on the incoming ves
sels. Nearly every vessel that arrives
here brings twice as many passengers as
the law allows It to carry, and many of
are condemned crafts which have
hfeen fitted up for this trade. Mr. Ivey
will no doubt at once present the facts
outlined above to the proper authorities,
and I merely give them to you for your
Information.
"The situation is appalling, and It Is im
possible for me to adequately describe th'e
mad rush for the gold fields. I had no con
ception of its Immensity till I saw'. I have
talked with several men who have recently
arrived here from the Klondike, two of
whom left there less than thirty days ago.
They unanimously agree that while there
is a rich gold field there the facts do not
justify the present stamped'e, and they
say there is bound to be much suffering
and actual starvation. Previsions are al
ready scarce, and the prices of many ar
ticles absolutely prohibitory in the case of
a man of ordinary means.
"My usual good luck has attended nve
here. Mr. Heron, the postmaster, is an
old Montana friend, and he has made it
possible for me to go forward bv Indian
carriers at the prevailing rate (37 cents per
pound), taking precedence over hundreds,
many of whom have been here two or
three weeks awaiting their turn. He as
sures me he can make the way easy for
me at the lake in securing a boat. etc. So
I feel comfortably sure of going right
through. The mail facilities are very bad
here, as the Postoffice Department has not
made any allowance for the rapid growth
of postal business. The postal authorities
here are powerless to cope with the mass
of mail matter, and I have doubts as to
whether this letter will reach its destina
tion. I am forced to close this letter to
catch a boat which is about to leave, and
leaving unsaid some things which I shall
have to include in my next letter."
CANADA’S NEW ELDORADO.
Conflicting Stories Regarding: the
Micliipieotcn Gold Field.
DETROIT, Sept. 7.—Cyrus Johnson, a
real-estate dealer of this city, has no faith
in the Lake Wawa gold fields. He said that
nothing but disappointment and suffering
awaited the men who go to this region ex
pecting to find gold in paying quantities.
"The talk ahout the new gold fields In that
region,” he said, "is not going to pan out.
The idea was exploded some years ago, as
some Detroiters know to their cost. In tho
early sixties my father went to the Michi
picoten country, and, being very friendly
with Peter W. Bell, then the agent of the
Hudson Bay Company, went over this s4me
section. Bell pointed 1 out to him that the
land was rich in all kinds of minerals, and
my father did some prospecting, with the
result that in ISGG he formed the North
Shore Mineral Land Company, with a cap
ital of $39,000, of which 25 per cent, was
paid up.
"The company contained such men as
Francis* Palms. R. W. King, David Preston
and other financially strong men of the
city. During the next three years the com
pany issued prospectuses and endeavored
to tlont the scheme, hut when this failed
worked the mines themselves, spending a
lot of money in sinking shafts They dug
down 1.300 feet into the mountain at Gross
Gap, near Lake Wawa. but the results
were disastrous. They found plenty of iron,
but it was of such poor qdality that it was
not worth mining. Then the members of the
company grew tired of going down into
their pockets and father tried it alone. He
kept on for two years, filing claims to over
4,000 acres near Lake Wawa, hired expert
miners from England and explored this
whole region. Ho spent nearly half a mil
lion dollars In this work, wasted his for
tune and then dodos disappointment.’’
Johnson is very bitter over these recollec
tions of his father’s lost money, but none
of the gold hunters going from here pa vs
the least attention to his warnings, and in
quiries are still being made of the compa
nies for tickets.
Dispatches from Sault St. Marie, how
ever, continue to tell of the richness of
the quartz found near lake Wawa. R. G.
Ferguson, who hns just returned to the
"Sou" from the gold field, says: "The gold
find on Wawa is all that has been
told of it. but unless one is on tile ground
It Is difficult to form an adequate idea of
the wonderful richness of *he countrv. Th•
surface Indications are amazing. Quartz
showing free gold in large quantities is al
most everywhere. On the first location of
tho banks of Wawa lake, where the veins
aro uncovered, a man In running over
them can readily distinguish the particles
of gold, which in many cases are as large
as a barley grain and fairly stick out of
the quartz, which on the surface has
rotted away, leaving the gold exposed. This
quartz is of a beautiful white, free milling
quality and experts say it can be mineu
at a profit where it assays $2 a ton, but
that some of it will run SI,OOO a ton beyond
question. The quartz can be easily crushed
by hand in a mortar and afterward panned
out.
"Even in this primitive manner a man
can easily earn from $7 to $lO a day, in my
opinion and in the opinion of the experts
on the ground. The df posits apparently ex
tend over a large territory, probably hun
dreds of acres. Veins showing free gold and
many excellent Indications abound in the
mountains all about Lake Wawa. Our party
in all has staked out 4.000 acres, on all of
which quartz veins of rich promise are lo
cated. There is not a man in the party
but will hang on to what he has. and
that is the way all feel v.ho are on the
ground.
Prospecting is not easy In the new region
for those unaccustomed to the work. In
some places huge walls of rock granite and
slate formation extend almost to the sky,
hundreds of feet perpendicularly, and these
walls are bare of moss or other vegeta'tion.
The gulches and water courses are heavily
timbered with growths indigenous to the
north and are very arduous to traverse. A
tremendous upheaval of nature surely oc
curred in this locality in a prehistoric era.
The scenery is magnificent.
"There were fourteen in our party, which
left the ’Soo’ Monday afternoon, and we
arrived at the mouth of the Michipicoten
Wednesday morning. We got our stuff
ashore and In the afternoon started over
the trail to Lake Wawa, seven miles dis
tant. The road is a good one and we made
the trip in a little over three hours, so it
can be seen that the journey is not diffi
cult. althought a portion of the route in
over steep and dangerous hills. We arrived
at Lake Wawa in time to pitch our tent?
for the night This lake is nearly sur
rounded by mountains, some of them rising
hundreds of feet like a w’all. When we arr
rived there were not to exceed a half dozen
prospectors on the ground, but w’hen we
left there Saturday morning there were
over two hundred there and tents were
springing up as if by magic. On our re
turn we passed several parties going in.
A number of prospectors are coming in
over the Canadian Pacific Railroad, which
has a station about forty miles from Lake
Wawa. There are several portages by this
route, and the trip cannot be made in less
than four days. The water route from the
‘Soo’ is the best way to the fields. The en
campment on Lake Wawa has already been
named Wawa City, and is a bustling mining
camp. The surveyor who was with our
party has laid out a town, and we have
several valuable town sites. We shall make
shipments of horses and wagons this week
and further improve our claims.”
Trails in Ra<l Condition.
PORT TOWNSEND. Wash., Sept. 7.
Captain Tainnebone, of the tug pioneer,
just returned from Skaguay, says: "The
half has not been told of the miserable
trails which the gold seekers are striving
to cross to Lake Linderman. Captain Was
son, banker and ex-collector of customs for
the Puget sound district. Is reported as
being camped on the beach at Skaguay
with not one chance in five thousand of
getting through this fall. He has ten
horses. One man at Dyea offered $750 to
have 1,200 pounds packed over, but the
packers refused the offer. Crossing from
Skaguay and Dyea the trail is practically
closed on account oMhe mud."
Gov. Brady Will Enforce Ijiwn.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Sept. 7.
From officers of the tug Pioneer, which ar
rived here direct from Skaguay, It is
learned that previous reports relative to
legal action to bo taken in suppressing
gambling and the sale of liquors at that
place is no joke, as Governor Brady has
sent w’ord that order must be preserved
there, even if the entire United States navy
has to be called upon to enforce order. Old
Alaskans here, who are personally ac
quainted with Governor Brady, say he is
a man who means all he says, and that if
he takes a stand he will carry out his
promises.
TWO ALLEGED FRAUDS
“DIKE AND DUCHESS OF RIO
GRANDE" IN HOLLOWAY JAIL.
♦ .
Charged with Swindling London Ho
tels and Hoarding Houses—A
Surfeit of Titles.
LONDON, Sept. 7.—The Duke and Duch
ess of Rio Grande were arraigned in the
Maryleybone Police Court this morning,
charged with defrauding hotels and board
ing houses. The duke is said to be a Bra
zilian nobleman, and the duchess, It is as
serted, is a niece of ex-United States Sen
ator Omar D. Conger, of Michigan. The
prisoners were brought up in the midst of a
motley assemblage of ragged criminals.
They had slept in cells at Holloway, and
showed the effects of the uncomfortable
night they had passed. Nevertheless, the
duke rested his chin jauntily on his gloved
hand. He is a short, dapper man, with
pompadour cut hair, pointed beard and
waxed mustache. The duchess is a hand
some woman, about thirty years of age,
with refined features. Her face was swol
len with weeping. The duchess said her
father lived in a village in northern New
York, and she added that he was an artist
and a member of the artists’ board of
awards of the Chicago exposition.
A hotel keeper aaid the landladies of two
boarding houses confronted the couple in
court to-day. Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, one
of the landladies, described her experience.
She said a lady (the female prisoner), with
an infant and nurse, went to her house on
June 20 at night and engaged a room, the
lady saying that her husband was dining
at the club. The husband (the male pris
oner) arrived late, explained that he had
been yachting and that his baggage was
delayed. They stayed at Mrs. Stanley’s
house until Aug. 1, making many excuses
wlien asked tor money or an explanation
as to wny their baggage was not torthcom
ing. Finally, Mrs. Stanley was compeiled
to have the duke and duchess expelled
from her house. The landlady said she felt
sorry for the lady, as her husband neglect
ed her shamefully. While residing with
Mrs. Stanley the duke and duchess gave
the names of Monsieur and Mme. Edgar
Serge de Niol. The lady said her husband
was a duke and a count, that he had half
a dozen titles, and that ‘some emperor’
was about to confer another title on him.
This portion of the evidence caused the
presiding justice to remark sarcastically
"and that will make seven titles."
After testimo ly from other landladies
who had failed to be paid, the detense
claimed that the prisoners offered security
in bills, but the magistrate said it w’as a
clear case of defrauding the hotel and
boarding houses, and he remanded the pris
oners for a week, offering to release the fe
male prisoner on £SO bail, half the amount
of the frauds charged against the prison
ers. Tho latter were eventually returned
to Holloway jail in the Black Maria.
An American, who refused to give his
name, was present in court to-day. He said:
"I will find ball for the woman, but the
husband may rot in jail. She is well known
In Chicago, and is a woman of the highest
talents and character. She became fasci
nated with the worthless man (her hus
band). married him and had perfect faith
in him. I presume he is a duke. I have
lived in Brazil, and know that any one can
get titles there.”
The female prisoner appealed to the
United States embassy for protection, on
the ground that she was an American, but
the embassy officials replied that she had
forfeited her citizenship by marrying a for
eigner. The embassy, however, was rep
resented at the trial. The woman is well
known in New York as Mrs. Clara Conger.
She married De Niel there in 18%. The
Brazilian minister says there is no such
title as the Duke of Rio Grande.
Postofllec Clerks.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 7.- The National As
sociation of Postoffice Clerks, In conven
tion here, devoted all of to-day’s session to
a discussion of the contest between the rival
delegations from New York, without arriv
ing at a conclusion, after which the dele
gates spent their time in sight-seeing. Mr.
Berber, of Gloversville. N. Y\. created a
sensation by asserting that the president of
Branch 3 had told him that no more assess
ment would be paid by New York until
President Parkhwrst had been deposed.
President Healy, of Branch 3. made a state
ment to the effect that its charter had been
revoked without notice.
4 limn U til Not Heed Uncle Sam.
DES. MOINES, la.. Sept. 7.—Governor
Drake to-day said he would stand with tho
attorney general of lowa in the view that
'he action of the State against Swiss insur
ance companies is no violation of treaty
rights. Secretary Sherman’s note will be
taken up as soon as other pressing matters
are disposed of and an answer penned em
bodying this opinion.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897.
POPULIST GRAVEYARD
KANSAS HAS ONE. BUT IT WILL SOON
REQUIRE ENLARGEMENT.
Already Filled with Cranky Schemes
Deserted by Their Fathers and Pet
Ideas Killed by Prosperity.
STATEMENT BY-BRIEDENTHAL
THAT CLEARLY SHOWS POPULISM’S
CALAMITY MISSION IS ENDED.
Mortgages on 40,000 Farms to Be Paid
Off This Fall—Croker for Muyor
of Greater New York.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 7.—Recently your
correspondent had occasion to view the
comparatively new Populist graveyard and
was amazed at the rapidity with which its
space has been filled. The deaths among
the darling pot schemes of individual Popu
lists have been so numerous that they have
been buried in trenches like fallen heroes
after a battle. Only the great ideals and
cardinal principles have been honored with
imposing monuments. The diminutive slab,
sacred to the memory of the sockless shins
of Jerry Simpson, marks the eternal rest
ing place of the‘first fraud that died in
the camp of Populism. The inscriptions
upon other stones tell us that subtreasunes,
government loans upon real estate and silk
paper currency have all been gathered
home to the fathers. Simpson’s bill for
fiat money and the demonetization of both
gold and silver after three years sleeps the
sleep that knows no awakening.
The stroller reads again: "In memory
of the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 1G to 1; assassinated by
Bill McKinley and Mark Hanna Nov. 3,
1896." Strolling further, a quaint and curi
ous double monument attracts the gaze:
"The venerable Siamese Twins, silver and
wheat, favorite sons of W. J. Bryan, sev
ered and killed by fate, executing the ever
lasting laws of supp.y and demand." A
few steps further on u seen a new-made
grave with no headstone. The sexton is
sought for information and he irreverently
says that "yesterday they buried the devil
who has been going about asking, ‘Where
is that promised McKinley prosperity /’ ’’
Joyfully and swiftly the stroller left the
uncanny spot and ceased to breathe the
miasmatic exhalations from the putrefying
Populistic doctrines.
PAYTNG OFF MORTGAGES.
In an evening paper is seen a headline
which says: "Forty thousand Kansas
homes will be cleared of mortgages this
fall.” The reader must not conclude that
this is some more Kansas boom. It is the
language of John W. Breidenthal, the
Populist bank commissioner, the most ca
pable and worthy official that party has
produced, and until recently he has been
chairman of their state central committee
and howled calamity along with the rest
of them. Yet he says: "Kansas is to-day
the most prosperous State in the Union.
Tnere will be 40,000 homes cleared of mort
gages this fall. Think of what that means.
The mortgages will average SI,OOO each,
which means the expenditure of $40,000,000.
It means also that this State is becoming
a commonwealth of homes. It means that
the farmers of Kansas are realizing the op
portunities which are offered them and do
ing their best to make the most of them.
"I have received several letters from
banks in the smaller towns of the State
asking if they could legally reruse de
posits. This is a condition which never
before prevailed in Kansas. The banks
have thousands of dollars on deposit, and
do not care to take the responsibility ot
receiving more money. There is no demand
for- it, consequently the bankers desire to
accept no more money.
"Never in the history of Kansas has
there been as much money with which to
pay debts as we find in the State to-day.
The State has struck a wonderful streak
of luck, and it is not due to the restoration
of confidence or much-vaunted wave of
prosperity. Conditions brought a good
wheat crop: the prices advanced; cattle are
plenty and command a good price. These
conditions found Kansas in a good position
to profit immensely thereby, and we are
’There never has been a time in the his
tory of the State when the farmers have
not raised enough to live on. Now comes
this magnificent year with immense crops
and high prices, and it is little wonder
they are making the best of it. The people
are making an earnest effort to get out of
debt, and when they succeed in doing this
the Kansas farmer will be the most inde
pendent person on earth. Because he
knows enough to keep out. of debt when
once he gets started in the right dn ection.
Os course, John doesn’t give the Repub
licans any credit for the State s present
happy condition, but it is taken as an ad
mission from high Populistic authoi
general prosperity has arrived. No
he resigned his chairmanship, buch talk
disqualifies a man for manipulating a ca
lamity campaign.
CAUSE OF PROSPERITY.
The other day their county convention
assembled in a county seat. The Popu
lists said the present prosperity was caused
by Almighty God. The free-silver Repub
licans attributed it to the famine in India,
and the Democrats declared the Republic
ans had nothing to do with it. The Kan
sas City Star says the Republican party is
lucky. History indicates that the party
has either been lucky or had God on its
side. It is a remarkable coincidence that
always links Republicanism with prosper
ity and Democracy with adversity. As for
Populism, that is a vulture that feeds upon
carrion, calamity and sorrow in the deep
shadows and swamps of despair. It fattens
on miasma and stench and dies in sunlight
and healthy atmosphere.
Products of all kinds are going up. and
Populism, as it has been known in the
past, has gone up. But don’t be led to be
lieve that the cranks are all dead and the
lunatics all cured. The Republicans of
Kansas will, in the campaign of 1898. be
compelled to meet the bewhiskered brood
under the banner of socialism, though they
mav avoid the use of that word in order to
avert prejudice. Their old uniforms are all
threadbare, frayed around the edges and
posteriorly absent, and. as a last resort, in
order to fool the people some more, they
must adopt the doctrines of socialism and
destruction of federal courts. Their tend
ency is in that direction. Doster believed
that the user of property had more right
to it than the owner, and thev made him
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Clem
ents attended the funeral of the Chicago
Anarchists and talks socialism and they
made him reporter of the Supreme Court.
Ex-Senator John Martin believes in social
ism and became clerk of the Supreme
Court. Leedy was ready to "blow blood
into the ears of plutocrats.” and they made
him Governor.
The Associated Press has familiarized the
reader with the contest between the Popu
list administration and the federal courts.
Yet patriotic Kansans are not alarmed at
the outlook. Clements was at St. Louis the
other dav with Debs, and thought that
meeting too conservative. But Clements
does all liis fighting with his mouth. Dur
itv* the legislative revolution in 1593 he
scented the battle from afar, and was care
ful to keen himsolf afar. No man can be
found rash enough to make affidavit that
he saw Clements in or around the Capitol
grounds during the time known as the
"siege.” Among those loud-mouthed fel
lows can be found only a very small per
cent, of fighting men.
The Governor has not yet worked up
courage enough to call an extra session of
the Legislature, but there are Indications
that he will reach that condition during
thf autumn. The state treasurer says there
will be no funds available for that numose
this year. It was suggested to the Gov
ernor that scrip could be used in payment
of expenses, and he replied: "Hell, yes: the
Legislature can do anything." Prosperity
is hitting the Populists hard, and they
don’t know how to dodge. A. C.
CROKF.It FOR MAYOR.
Tammany Tiger Longing for the
Spoils of Greater New Y'ork.
NEW YORK. Sept. 7.—Richard Croker
was a passenger by the American line
steamer New Y’ork. which arrived at her
dock early to-day. Mr. Croker's fellow-
passengers have come to the conclusion
that he is to be the Tammany Hall candi
date for mayor of the Greater New York.
During the voyage many efforts tvere made
to draw Mr. Croker out on this subject,
but not only to newspaper correspondents,
but to his most intimate friends on board,
did he decline to state his purposes. The
understanding among Mr. Croker's friends,
however, is that he is very strongly in
clined to permit the use of his name as a
candidate for mayor, though he is natur
ally unwilling that an announcement should
be made to this effect before he has had an
opportunity to confer with his lieutenants.
“I have not the slightest doubt that Tam
many Hall will carry the greater city by
50,000 votes and upward." said Mr. Croker
to a reporter. “New l r ork never had one
reform administration after another. One
such government appears to be all the peo
ple can stand in one decade. The present
so-called reform administration has been
chieflv noted for its increase of the tax
rate, accompanied by a higher appraise
ment If there has been any correspond
ing improvement in the quality of the gov
ernment the people have not discovered it.
Will Tender Tlieir Resignations.
CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Members of the Chi
cago Civil-service Commission will tender
their resignations to Mayor Harrison imme
diately on his return to the city. This
comes as a climax to the struggle between
the commission and the Democratic leaders,
which has been waged since the election
last spring. A conference of the members
of the commission was held to-day to in
vestigate charges of bribery and unfair
marking of civil-service examination pa
pers, which were said to have been circu
lated by Henry Leutzenkirchen, secretary
of the Department of Public Works. Leut
zenkirchen, when called before the board,
refused to answer questions, acting, it is
said, on the advice ot Corporation Counsel
Thornton, and his dismissal was at once
ordered. The members of the commission
then resolved to hand in their resignations
in order to relieve Mayor Harrison of em>-
barressment should he disprove of their ac
tion. The mayor so far has preserved an
attitude of neutrality.
Ohio Gold Democrat*.
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 7.—The state gold
Democratic convention will assemble to
morrow, when district meetings will be
held. The convention proper is to meet on
Thursday. Mr. Bynum, formerly of Indian
apolis, will be tho principal speaker. The
purpose is to nominate a full state ticket.
The Columbus contingent has decided to
put up candidates for state senators and
representatives in the Legislature, and sug
gests to other oounties to follow’ suit. The
party will have to petition to get on the
ballot. They claim that the vote in Ohio
for the gold candidate for President last
fall did not. represent the full strength of
the national gold Democrats in the State,
as many, opemy or otherwise, to make a
sure thing of the success of the gold ele
rr ent. vote<l for McKinley. Judge John H.
Clark, of Youngstown, is being urged as
the candidate for Governor. Hon. Joseph
H Outhwaite may be indorsed for senator.
Queer Blunder by Silverlte*.
DENVER, Col., Sept. 7.—There is* con
sternation among tho Democrats over the
discovery that the state convention which
met here yesterday nominated a Cleveland
Democrat as a candidate for justice of the
Supreme Court. The nominee, John A.
Gordon, of Trinidad, took an active part in
the Pueblo convention in 1892 and led the
bolters from the convention after it repudi
ated Grover Cleveland on account of his
position on the money question. Many of
the delegates voted for the nomination of
Gordon in ignorance of his record, and have
no hesitancy to-day in expressing disgust
at their hasty action, which was taken in
their anxiety to prevent the indorsement of
the Populist nominee, W. H. Gabbert.
CUPID OUT OF A JOB.
Displaced by the “Human Nature
Club,” a Chicago Enterprise.
CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Cupid has lost his
job in Chicago. The Chicago Human Nature
Club held its first "matrimonial picnic” the
other night, and the high priest of the nine
teenth century order of matchmakers made
a record of 12 per cent., with somewhat
scanty material. Everyone in search of a
wife was invited to attend and sixty ardent
swains and forty girls responded to the In
vitation. The matrimonial aspirants met
down town and boarded a gayly decorated
cable train, which bore them to Jackson
Park. There the forty brides that were to
be and sixty bridegrooms that wished to be
wended their way to the retirement of the
old German pavilion, where, after the dis
cussion of a goodly feast, the high priest,
Professor Vaughn, commanded silence.
"Now let him that, is weary and heavy
laden with the burden of single blessed
ness come unto me,” said the hi?h priest.
Dr. E. B. Jacobs was the first applicant
for a helpmeet. “This man,” continued the
matrimonial expert, examining the head,
“is slight and nervous. A man of excitable
temperament. His life companion should
be such a woman in general appearance as
this’’—and he led forth a charmingly dim
pled miss with a wealth of golden tresses.
The seer's advice seemed agreeable to the
couple and they consented to become en
gaged. The same ceremony was followed
until seven more couples agreed to marry.
Then Dr. Jacobs and Miss Alma Reis
stood up hand in hand while tbe professor
told the spectators how science would
smile were the twain made one. The doc
tor was of a serious mood, while the young
woman was lively and cheerful. The pro
fessor earnestly advised the couple to wed
and offered to get a minister to tie the
knot on the spot. But at the urgent re
quest of the young woman they were given
time to get better acquainted. While the
acquaintance was ripening the professor
found that W. R. Hern has hollows on his
head where Miss Aggie Wilson has bumps,
and the two were brought forward and told
they would do well to tlx up a match right
away. They were told they were perfectly
compatible and sat dow r n to talk it over,
but no verdict was reached.
Helen Aline Wallehoff Is a young woman
fond of outdoor sports and social gayeties,
which the professor thought ought to be
balanced by the sober judgment and prac
tical turn of mind found in J. P. Kirwin.
Fred Gustavson and Miss P. E. Yegge were
found to possess mutual admiration valleys
behind their ears. Dan Davis showed a
remarkable attraction in physiognomy to
Miss Cosgrove, and Richard Little was as
signed to give the bride away. C. J. Peter
son and Jennie Harcourt were picked for a
marital existence. George Butler and Miss
Holmes were the last couple to be chosen,
and they set their wedding for a fortnight
hence.
Stationary Engineers.
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 7.—The National
Association of Stationary Engineers met
here to-day in annual session, with John
W. Lane, of Providence, R. i., in the chair.
It is not a labor but an educational organ
ization relative to handling stationary en
gines and machinery. Governor Bushnell
welcomed the convention to the State.
James Henry Harris, of Chicago, respond
ed. Mayor Samuel L. Black made the wel
come to the city, to which Charles H. Gar
lick, of Pittsburg, responded. The day was
given to social amenities. The convention
will continue three or four days. Mean
while delegates and their wives will be en
tertained in various ways, including visits
to power plants. The headquarters are at
the Chittenden Hotel.
Avenged ills Wife’s Honor.
MACON, Ga., Sept. 7.—ln the trial of
Charles L. Reid for the murder of L. W.
Halstead, in progress here to-day, a sen
sation was caused at the conclusion of the
defendant’s statement by the simultaneous
fainting of Mrs. Reid, wife of the accused
man, and Mrs. Halstead, widow of the
man he killed. Reid, in his statement, said
that his wife came to him and told him
that she had been insulted by a man at a
circus which was then in the town. That
afternoon he went with her to the tent.
She pointed out the man who had insulted
her and he shot him dead. The man was
Halstead. The sole defense is that Reid
shot Halstead to avenge his wife’s honor.
Belgians Killed by African*.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 7.—Mail advices have
been received from Uganda stating that a
mutiny has occurred among the troops of
the Congo Free State in the Toro district.
The mutineers, it is said, killed fifty-nine
Belgian officers and men and destroyed all
the forts, committing depredations right
and left. This report is regarded in Brus
sels as merely another version of the re
volt of the soldiers of Baron Dhanis's expe
dition to the headwaters of the Nile.
Methodist Preacher Unfrocked.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 7.-A dispatch
from Everett announces the conviction by
a committee of the Puget Sound Methodist
Conference of Rev. W. T. Ford, formerly
pastor of a church in this city, on the
charge of intimacy with his servant girl.
Ford has been expelled from the church.
The vote was 12 to I.
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♦
SENATORS AND CABINET OFFICERS
SEE A BUSINESS BOOM.
.
Talks with Hon. C. W. FnirUnnks,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
and Secretary of War Alger.
♦
FARMERS IN GOOD SPIRITS
—w - ♦
SELLING CROPS AT HIGH PRICES AND
SPENDING MONEY FREELY.
♦
Work for Nearly Every Toiler Who
Wants It—Europe in Need of 130,-
000,000 Bushels of W heat.
Special to the Indianapois Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—The New York
Tribune of to-day has the following para
graph about Senator Fairbanks: “Senator
Fairbanks, of Indiana, who succeeded the
late Senator Voorhees, might well inherit
the latter’s title of ‘The Tall Sycamore of
the Wabash.’ Mr. Fairbanks, who Is un
usually tall and not at all inclined to be
fleshy, was at the Waldorf yesterday, but
he went to Riverside, Conn., in the after
noon. His visit to the East is due to pri
vate business. He says he is so busy look
ing after business affairs and taking ad
vantage of the returning tide of prosperity
that he has not had time to talk politics.
‘We feel it as well as the rest of the coun
try,’ he said, in speaking of the business
boom, ‘and there is no doubt that it is
genuine. It has inspired confidence and in
creased business activity. The farmers are
getting a good price for their crops and
this money will be freely spent. Thus an
impetus will be given along all lines of
trade. The passage of the Dingley bill
gives an assurance of stability to the busi
ness men, and the Repubycan party be:ng
in control gives them the knowledge that
there will be no unwise financial legisla
tion, The result is that capital is coming
out, new enterprises are under way, labor
is being employed and all of the credit is
coming to the Republican party, whether
justly or not. But, whatever the cause,
the Republican party is largely responsible
and should get the credit.’ ”
♦ * *
Secretary Wilson was at his desk in the
Agricultural Department to-day for the
first time for a month, having just returned
from a tour of the transmississippi States.
He went as far west as Montana and U tah,
giving especial attention to the agricultural
interests of the States visited, with par
ticular reference to irrigation, horse rais
ing and sugar-beet growing.
“I found the farmers in especially good
spirits wherever I went,” he said to a re
porter. "There is no doubt that confidence
is restored and that the country is justified
in its anticipations of better times. The
people are all busy in the West. Indeed,
1 do not believe there is an idle man west
of the Mississippi who wants work.”
Mr. Wilson predicted a still further ad
vance in the price of wheat, due to the
fact that there is not only a short crop
abroad, but also because of the fact that,
according to his observation, the crop will
not be so extensive in this country as has
generally been anticipated. “With the im
provement of the times,” he said, "the
average American is going to have all the
flour his family can consume, even though
he may have to pay a littro more for it.
I believe that even without the shortage in
the foreign crops the conditions in this
country would have forced wheat to $1 a
bushel. But,” he added, “the improved con
dition of the former is due not alone to the
enhanced price in wheat, but there has been
a corresponding improvement in all farm
products.” * * *
Secretary of War Alger is again at his
desk after being with the President since
the latter began his vacation. In an inter
view he said: “We found everywhere multi
tudes of people turning out to greet the
President, and all the testimony we got
showed the happiness of the people over
feeling that the tide had turned and that
there was enough work to do and enough
food to eat. Nothing closes the mouth of
the grumbler so quickly as work and food,
and there is work and wages for all.”
♦ * *
W. P. Atwell, commercial agent of the
United States at Robaix, France, sends to
the State Department a report on the short
wheat crop in France. He says the crop
in France and, in fact, in all Europe has
fallen much below the average, and that
it is estimated that the United States and
Canada will be called on to export from
120,000,000 to 130,000,000 bushels more than
they exported to Europe last year. France
will require about 60,000,000 to meet the de
ficiency in that country.
Consul Heenan, at Odessa, Russia, has
made quite an extensive report to the State
Department concerning the failure of the
crops in Russia, In many districts it has
been the wettest season ever known and
grain has been destroyed by both rain and
hail. Much of the grain was not worth the
expense of binding. The wheat received at
Odessa is of a very inferior quality. The
report predicts that little wheat will be ex
ported from Russia during the season of
1897-8, as there is little available for that
purpose, the old stocks being practically
exhausted and the new crop little more
than sufficient for the home demand. The
failure of the wheat crop in Austria-Hun
gary, Roumanla and Bulgaria, Consul
Heenan continues, has brought buyers from
those countries into Russia and wheat
which would ordinarily leave Odessa by
steamers is destined to go by rail from the
interior into the countries named.
EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY.
Resumption of Manufacturing? Indus
tries in Massachusetts.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Sept- 7.—Manu
facturing industries In this vicinity are
taking a start and at present the prospects
of a heavy fall business are good. The Ly
man mills, at Holyoke, where 1.300 hands
are ' mployed, started on full time to-day.
Only one of the four mills owned by the
company has been in operation for six
wrecks. The Dwight Manufacturing Com
pany, of Chicopee, which nas been operat
ing one of its mills while two more have
been standing idle since the first week in
June, started yesterday with its full com
plement of 1,600 hands. The Chicopee Man
ufacturing Company, of Chicopee Falls,
will start up on full time Sept. 20, after a
complete shut-down of three weeks, and
employment will be furnished to 1,200
people.
Factory Corner-Stone Laying.
Soeciil to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART. Ind. t Sept. 7.—The laying of
the cornerstone of the new Noyes carriage
and cutter factory, which is being built
here, and which is removing here from
Kalamazoo, took place this afternoon, to
gether with the formal dedication of the
new' addition (Allendale) to this city.
Mayor H. B. Sykes made an address, a
representative of the Noyes Company re
sponding. *\. P. Kent spoke, and Manager
Collins presented a silver trowel to tho
Elkhart Improvement Company, which was
accepted by Colonel A. R. Beardsley In an
appropriate speech.
Tin-Flute Works Start I p.
Special to the Indlnnaiioli* Journal.
MONTPELIER. Ind., Sept. 7.-The tin
plate factory in thirf city is now sAond In
size in Indiana. The plant has been shut
down since last Thursday, but resumed
operation to-night with an Increased ca
pacity of three new hot rolls, which will
make in all nine mills. The three new rolls
are in the brick building formerly occupied
by the cold rolls. It will require aboui
four hundred men to operate the plant In
full and about 250 are now on. No anneal
ing or pickling will be done here. The
pickier has been shipped to Elwood. Th®
output of the plant when in full operation
will be between twenty-five and thirty car
loads of black plate a week.
THE SYNCHRONOGRAPH.
It May Result ill Revolutionizing
Telegraphy Overland and l*y Cable.
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 7.—The Bee to-mor
row morning will print a letter from
Lieutenant George C. Squire, U. S. A., to
Hon. E. Rosewater, giving the results of
a test of the Squire-Crehore synchrono
graph system of telegraphing. In the let
ter Lieutenant Squire says: “On Aug. 22,
over a line from London via York to Aber
deen and return to London, a distance of
over 1.100 miles, including over eighty miles
of underground cable, we sent messages at
the rate of 4,300 words per minute, and this
speed was only limited by the particular
dynamo available. We have also tried a
cable representing the German cable of 120
knots from here to Germany and sent over
it at the rate of 1,300 words per minute. Our
apparatus is mounted in the general post
office, London, from which point the ex
periments thus far have been made.”
Commenting on this the Bee says: “By
the employment of the synchronograph
five hundred words a minute can be easily
sent across the Atlantic cable. The invent
ors maintain that their very successful
trials in England demonstrate the possibil
ity of sending press messages between New
York and Chicago at such a speed that the
entire contents of a newspaper, could be
transmitted in an hour, and the statement
does not appear unreasonable in the light of
their recent success. Tho speed at which
messages under this new and wonderful
system may be sent is limited only by the
speed at which an electrical dynamo can
be made to revolve. The messages are
both sent and received by the aid of a
dynamo. It is believed that with the suc
cessful operation of the system letters up
to the length of five hundred words can be
transmitted by telegraph at no greater
cost than by the postal ratefc now in effect.”
hinshaw Will testify
THE CONVICTED MINISTER TO BE
TAKEN TO DANVILLE TO-MORROW.
Grand Jury to Investigate Haney
Story—Prosecutor Gulley’s Attitude
—Currie James Is Distressed.
0
The Hendricks county grand jury, which
is to investigate the story of Noah Baney,
the ex-convict, who asserts that William
E. Hinshaw is innocent of the murder of
his wife, will take up the case to-morrow
or Friday. Hinshaw himself is to go before
the grand jury, and for this purpose he will
be removed from the northern prison to
Danville to-morrow. It is expected the
jury will hear him on Friday. Hinshaw s
lawyers feel that his appearance will be a
point in his favor. A considerable preju
dice was aroused against the preacher
during his trial, because he did not take
the witness stand. His attorneys say he is
now anxious to subject himself to this
grand jury examination. It is said that
Hinshaw wished to testify at his trial, but
did not do so on the advice of his attor
neys.
J. O. Parker, of Danville, and Union B.
Hunt, of Winchester, the convicted minis
ter’s attorneys, were in the city last night
looking up evidence to place before the
jury. Attorney Parker is not very well
satisfied with the stand taken by Prose
cutor Gulley, of Hendricks county, in rela
tion to the case. The prosecutor insists on
conducting the examination of Noah Baney
when the latter is called by the grand jury,
instead of having an assistant appointed
by the court, as Hinshaw’s lawyers have
requested him to do. The attorneys con
tend that Gulley, having aided In the pros
ecution of Hinshaw during his trial, can
not now conduct an unprejudiced investiga
tion before the grand jury.
The Danville attorneys assert that Pros
ecutor Gulley some time ago was inter
viewed by the representative of an Indian
apolis newspaper, and inspected and ap
proved the manuscript before it was sent
in to the newspaper ofttce. “This inter
view,” said Attorney Parker last night,
“led us to believe that the prosecutor ex
pects to do all that he can to tear down
the Baney story. We had about made up
our minds to consent to his presenting this
evidence to the grand jury until that inter
view came out.”
Hinshaw’s attorneys say they met Prose
cutor Gulley by appointment last Saturday,
when he ilatly declined to appoint an assist
ant for this case. The attorneys say it is
understood that Judge Hadley, of the Hen
dricks Circuit Court, is disposed to take is
sue with the prosecutor, and is in favor of
appointing a special lawyer to examine
Baney and the other witnesses produced by
Hinshaw’s attorneys. Judge Hadley, it is
said, has suggested that an Indianapolis
lawyer be selected for this duty. Mr. Par
ker says the feeling in Hendricks county,
as far as he can. learn, is against Gulley in
his decision. , , , ...
Mr. Parker has not had an interview with
Baney since the latter was here on a five
days’ parole, four weeks ago. Baney has
declined to see the Danville lawyer once or
twice lately, but has politely referred him
to H. C. Cox, who, Baney says, is his law
yer. Baney and Van Tassel will both be
taken to Hendricks county and given an op
portunity to go into the grand jury room.
A number of other witnesses will he sub
poenaed here in Indianapolis, ihe attor
neys are somewhat perplexed over the atti
tude of Carrie James, the former sweet
heart of Noah Baney. Mr. Parker says her
testimony is important, but it is not certain
that she will consent to go before the grand
iurv. In fact, the woman has already re
belled, and it is said she has threatened to
commit suicide if an attempt is made ter
force her into going to Wemlricks corn*}.
She is married, and lives in V* e.st Indianap
olis. One of Hinshaw’s lawyers says that
the woman’s husband has declared his in
tention of deserting her if she permits her
self to be coaxed into giving evidence
before the grand jury. It is highly probable
that the ease will have to he presented to
the jury without the evidence of Carrie
James.
Thnrxa Hinshaw’* Mother Divorced.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 7.-Mrs. (Sarah Hose,
mother-in-law of Preacher Hinshaw, serv
ing a life sentence for murdering his wife,
was to-day granted a divorce from her sec
ond husband. The separation from her first
husband was because he l>elieved Hinshaw
guilty, and she thought him innocent. It
is said she fell out with her second hus
band for the same reason.
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turn out and aid the victims of
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