2 legally bound to pay. because of a techni cality, and which the city administration is anxious to repudiate if Boggs could only be induced to disclose which ones fall under the rule. This information he re- | fuses to give because his friends have the warrants, and he says the city sold the warrants and received good money for them, and now they have no right to try to evade payment. On the other hand, if a couple of hundred thousand dollars of outstanding city warrants could be repudi ated—if the famous million-doilar suit I against C. W. Wright could be gained | for the city— \here might be some hope of recovery from the effects of the raids upon her treasury. But with Boggs refusing to give up the information de- j sired, with the decision of the Supreme j Court last week holding that the City is bound to pay the water bonds, and that j the defense set up by the City, that the voters were bribed to vote for the issue of the bonds, was no defense, but an admis- j sion that the City issued the bonds with its eyes open, and with the prospective j failure of the million-dollar suit when it i comes to trial this week, there is little j rfipe for anything but repudiation. With a public debt outstanding of over j $0,000,000, upon which interest is piling up | «t the rate of about $1000 every day in the j year and no money to pay it, and a stili j Jarger private debt, with an assessed valu- j ation of only about *2ti,000,000, and with j more than two-thirds of the taxes of 1894 ! unpaid and no one willing to risk a bid on ; property offered at tax sale, it looks as ; though it was a question not cf years nor I of months, but a question of days when the people must come to realize that the City is hopelessly bankrupt. ■ Like a circus-ground after the circus has gone Tacoma stands to-day, a striking con trast to wh.it she was in the days when rftoney flowed like water, when everybody had a bank, and every city officer had an interest in a private harem. A hard story is told of a woman who lay on her death-bed in the establishment over the Union Savings Bank on Pacinc avenue and Fifteenth street — one who had been a favorite with the city officers and who | knew State secrets. The word went around j that she would pass from this world to the j next before the morning dawned, and John j Huntington, Charley Uhlman, George W. j Boggs, "Bill" Freeman ana a few other rhoice spirits gathered in her room to keep her company in her last moments on earth. With them came the other women of the ! house, and when daylight came the woman j lay dead on her couch, and a long row of champagne bottles at her door told too plainly the way the night had been kept. In the election in 1892 the Democrats \ made a determined fight to gain control of | the city, and to that end had a large num- j ber of registration certificates printed and i then procured a counterfeit signature of the acting City Clerk, George Haskins, in tending to run in a large. army of repeat ers from the wards presided over by "Bill" Freeman. Mart Dillon and John Malone, ' but theJr plans 2nd the place where the j counterfeit stamps were being made, near i ihe corner of C and Eleventh streets, were discovered and, to checkmate them, the City Clerk sent a man to Seattle to pur chase a peculiar kind of ink and gtainp, that would be distinguishable by the Re- I puolican boards on election day. For this | distinguished service Haskins was re- i warded by being made City Clerk. Taking • pointer from the Democrats, the gang in power issued a lar^e number of registra- j ;:jn certificates to its ward heelers, with ; instructions to have them voted. In a small town of but 40,000 or 50,000 in habi- j tants it required some fine work to so ar- j range these repeaters that the fraud could j rjot be discovered, and for this work an • expert was employed — one S. L. Heck — j who proved so competent that he was : passed down the line by the gang to help j out, in his specialty, in a sister town j where his services were needed. The fol- | lowing letter will give an idea, by reading I between the lines, ot how his work was j appreciated: Tacoma, April 1, 1892. Mr. Dautrick: This will introduce S. L. j Heck, who nelped me on registration for ! live days, on authority of P. C. Sullivan. He j want* to go to Spokane, and I hbpe you will . give it your attention. Respectfully, C. >". Wright. Indorsed underneath, on the same page, in the well-known chirography of George Haskins, is the following : ] certify that B. L. Heck i 3 the person who WH introduced to me as a man working in our I interest, and that he was instrumental in I causing men to register. George Haskins. Dautrick was secretary of the Republi can City committee. P. C. Sullivan is "Charley" Sullivan, the ex-chairman of the Republican State Committee, who j then had his headquarters in John j Malones gambling-nouse on Pacific ave nue, and turned his line hand to the j manipulation of such branches of City politics as appeared to him most profit able. He was the legal adviser and run- j ning mate of Sam Milligan, City Attorney, during the time when the looting of the City treas ury was at its height. Harry Morgan was the Sultan of Ta- ! coma. No one must cross his path. If | any one dareu to oppose him openly, or was Euspected of oppoging him secretly, a plan was at once laid to put him out of i the way. There were three men in the j city besides Ran Radebaugh who were spotted by Morgan. In looking over his list of handy men Morgan found there was no one that he could trust to put these ' men out of the way, and he therefore sent j to Sacramento for a noted thug and cut- j throat named "Bullneck" Smith to do the job for him. Smith arrived, the men were pointed out to him and pians laid for their j taking off. One was to be shot in a dive on Pacific avenue, another was to be choked and thrown over the bluff, and in maHcing j way with the third man it was necessary I to take into the plan a well-known all around spjrt still living in the city. When the plan was laid before him he demurred. I "I am ready to swindle, rob, flimflam or I beat anybody and everybody for the good | of the cause, but when it comes to murder i I will have to draw the line," said he. This unexpected opposition gave a de cided check to the plans of Morgan, and, by way of compromise, it was decided to railroad this unlucky third man to the penitentiary, instead of to the great be yond. This man was S. J. Holland, at "that time a prominent wholesale liquor dsaler in Tacoma. A lot of counterfeit United States revenue stamps were to be placed in Holland's office and at the proper time the office would be searched by the United States Marshal and Holland was to go to the "pen." This plan miscarried by the unexpected moving of Holland from Tacoma to Spokane. In the case of the other two men who were marked for murder a most disastrous mistake was made. Instead of one of them being killed, according to programme, a quiet and well - respected young man named Crosby was shot from behind as he was going home one night, and the whole town was at once aroused. Public meet ings were held ; a large number of private watchmen known to be true and reliable Hundreds are buying BOOKS at wholesale prices at DODGE'S, 107 Montgomery. Magazines supplied at Cut Rates. were posted over the city, and the demon stration was so pronounced that Morgan feared to proceed further with his nefarious pbns. But, in order to shield the true murderers from the consequences of their blunder, it was necessary to tind some one upon whom the crime could be fastened, and by the tireless exertions of one of Morgan's tools, wi:o was then Prosecuting Attorney, a couple of young men were im ported from Thurston County and the crime sworn upon them by hired testi mony. It has since been proved beyond a doubt that both Hoyt and Stowe, con victed of the murder, were twenty miles from Tacoma at the time of the killing of young Crosby. Great was Harry Morgan ! For his services in this case the Prosecuting At torney was made a Judge. The prophet and the Adonis of a cer tain political faction — George W. Van Fossen and Fred T. Taylor — were then running mates. Van Fossen was attorney j for the gamblers and liquor men and Tay- i lor was City Controller and also owner of several of the largest, best appointed and most disorderly houses on D street and Opera alley. When the Democracy was | needed to help out on a proposition Van, | as a prominent Democrat, could work the party. Taylor was an old-time Republi can and a member of the gang. Van Fossen's power with the Democrats came to a most unexpected end, however, i when he put in a bill for $10 a night for i services in stumping the county in the j campaign following the election of Kandle I for Mayor. It was too much for the Dem- j ocratic county committee, and Van was dropped from the rolls. Taylor was one of the smoothest and most unscrupulous politicians of the whole gang, and did more than any other man to carry through the many schemes for J S. J. Smithe. robbing the treasury, yet he went out of office when the game closed, without a dollar. He lived like a Turk, however, during his term of office. One of his asso ciates, a member of the City Council, had a box reserved for his use at the leading variety theater. He was a member of tne Police Committee and made regular con tributions from the policemen by way of "loans," the police in turn levying tribute uuon gamblers, dive-keepers and dive fre quenters, in addition to the tribute ex acted by their superior officers. Blackmail was rampant. Jake Adler,who committed suicide a few days ago, was ad vertising solicitor of the Tacoma News, and a prominent member of the Tillicum Democratic Clvb — a club organized solely for spoils. He extorted $L}oo from the saloon men. But money was plenty, and the profit? of the saloons and gambling houses were thousands of dollars a night. When the tine hand of Wheeler had dis appeared from the board, and the warrant swindle was becoming apparent to people ; outside of the ring of bankers, gamblers i and politicians who were in control of the ; city," a batch oi warrants fell into the bands of a prominent citizen not con nected with the gang, that were proved to I be forged. This came very near being a ! catastrophe. It would|never do to let the I people know that there were forged war , rants out, and a young man named Me- I Cain, a deputy in the City Clerk's office, ! was fixed up as a scapegoat to allay sus ! picior.. By agreement with McCain and I his family, he confessed to the charge of j forging the warrants, was sent to the State I penitentiary, and his family is being well | cared for during his absence, and if the ; gang don't go "broke" before his term cx i pires, which will be early next year, he | will draw a handsome salary for the time spent in Walla Walla. Warrants had to ! be forthcoming in order to ksep the gang j in funds, and a mere matter of hiring a clerk to do time was only an incident in the play. Money was becoming scarce. No more ; warrants could be floated in the East, and I exposure and ruin were staring the gang in the face. The money which had been poured out like water for four years, bal ancing the books by fictitious credits and forged and duplicate warrants, bonds and other imaginary assets, was gone. There ! were twenty-oue banks in the city, nearly j all of them closely connected with the ; powers that ruled. Dozens of the city's ! most prominent men were involved in the ! deals by which the city had been robbed. I The situation had become desperate. Un less something could be done at once cer tain ruin was upon them, and the purchase of the Tacoma Light and Water Company's j property was brought forward as a way out lof the difficulty. It was seized at once as j the only way of salvation. Politicians, J bankers, gamblers and all members of the j gang entered with a will upon the cam paign for the purchase of the plant and property. This property consisted of a wooden j trough running from a small creek eight | miles away to the south of the city and a ! system of pipes in some of the main streets ; of the city, and a map showing a prelimi { nary survey to the springs up in the moun tains, also an engine, a number of dynamos, l some electric-light wire, poles and lamps, and a shipload of iron water-pipe on the way from Philadelphia. But the ship never came to port. This plant and property was estimated by competent engineers to be worth about $150,000 to 1200.000, but it was proposed to sell it to the city for $1,750,000, and to issue bonds for the purchase, together with an additional $1,750,000, to be used for the | building of a pipe line out on the line sur ! veyed, to bring water from the mountain i rivers. With this much money in the treasury the present desperate straits could be bridged, and before an exposure j could bo made the members of the gang could put their houses in order and ruin would be averted. Thus it was that all hands turned in and worked with might and main for the water purchase. A special election was called for the purpose of voting upon the question, and at the same time voting upon a proposition to issue another $110,000 of bonds to build a bridge over the! bluff for the benefit of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Compauy, ! which was one of the favorites of the pow i er3, and was strong enough to make trouble j if its demands were not complied with. Now, behold a miracle! Nelson Bennett, the old-time enemy ot the water company and the "Philadelphia crowd," turns a somersault and, like the cat that came back, lands on his feet. He has become the owner of the Tacorna Ledger, the organ of the water company and the gang in advocating the monstrous steal. Day after day the Ledger, with C. A. Snowden as its managing editor, brings out arguments in favor of making the deal. Strong opposition was developed to the purchase of the water plant, as proposed ! by the gang. Many of the leading respect able men and property-owners of the city denounced the deal as an outrage. L. D. Campbell, prominent as an attorney of the Tacoma Land Company and "Papa' 1 Wright, was one of the first to declare his opposition to the scheme, which he char acterized as a barefaced and outrageous swindle and fraud. But the newspapers of the city were all owned and controlled by the gang. There was but one cham pion who could not be browbeaten or silenced, and who was a rustler in bis line. People admire a rustler, and a favorite in the newspaper field at the time was Tom Summons, the Tacoma correspondent and local manager of the Seattle Post-Intelli gencer. He fought the deal tooth and nail from the start, exposing the rascality of the proposition and the worthlessness of the plant for which bonds to the extent of $3,500,000 were to be saddled upon a THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1*95. long-suffering and already overburdened people. In vain the gang attempted to buy and browbeat him. He was threat ened by mail and his track dogged by thugs at nisht, but he was a stayer, any member of the gang came to inter view him, with a proposition to close his mouth, Tom would strike his favorite at titude,'run his fingers through his hair, and ask them if they had a story for him. A fund of $66,000 was put in the field for the purpose of carrying the election in favor of the water steal. All the bankers were in the tield in favor of the scheme. It was absolutely necessary that it should go through, and that this additional money should be procured in order to carry them over the dangerous crisis which then con fronted them. The deal must be made to go through. A detention of the City Council was sent to Philadelphia to con fer with "Papa" Wright to insure the carrying out of the "plans proposed by j bim. This delegation included Harris A. I Corell, president of the council and part ner in the law rirrn of Parsons & Corell, attorneys for the water company. Fred Murray, at that time city attorney, was I also sent for by "Papa" Wright and his I objections to the* deal met by specious ar guments. The Merchants' National Bank, of which Walter J. Thompson was president and Samuel Collyer cashier, was about at the j end of its string, and unless this deal was j to go through the bank would be com j pelled to close. Nelson Bennett was one of the largest stockholders and a director | and also owner of the Ledger, the oldest newspaper in the city. C. A. Snowden was placed in charge as managing editor and instructions given to carry the elec tion at all hazard. The Morning Union the other paper, was owned by Boggs and the city administration, and the News, which for a time opposed the deal, swun^ into line and was one of the strongest ad vocates of the purchase before election day came around. The Chamber of Commerce and Com mercial Club, claiming to represent the business men of the city, but which were ali owned or controlled by the members of the gang, directly or indirectly, passed resolutions in favor of making the pur chase, and the individual members were sent out upon the war path to see that the proposition carried. Among those who were most prominent in urging the proposition were C. A. Cav ender. then chairman of the Finance Com mittee .of the City Council; C. E. Hale, president of the "Tacoma Grocery Com pany, since defunct; H. O. Fishback, cashier of the Tacoma National Bank, de funct; Samuel Collyer, cashier of the Merchants' National" Bank, defunct, now secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, after escaping the United States Federal Grand Jury in. the United States Court for j his actions* in the conduct of the bank of I which he was cashier; all of the Tacoma | Land Company and Tacoma Light and j Water Company outfit; all of the city otri ! cers, and every one who was supposed to j have a "pull" and who was susceptible to ! the "influence" brought to boar by the i gang. Ike Anderson, manager for "Papa" I Wiight of the Tacoma Land Company, ' was not only serving his master in advo ! eating the deal, bit helping to save his j own bacon as well, for it has developed since then that he had over half a million I dollars of outstanding obligations, which I were threatening to break him unless ! something was done to relieve the pres i sure. If his bank could only get its share j of the prospective millions to be derived from the sale of the bonds, he would be able to carry himself over the pending crisis and no one would bo the wiser. Anderson talked loudly about running the election in an economical manner j when it was suggested by some of the op j ponents of the measure that extra guards be placed at the polls to prevent illegal voting; and when his point was carried he went to his own lieutenants and urged that not a vote be lost. There was no registra tion, and the election was run ''wide open." Hundreds of repeaters and floaters were in the tield, and hundreds of others were bought up at so much a head. On the day before election every saloon in town was given an order to use $200 for I "the good of the cause," and the $200 was | promptly paid them by the gang. Van Fossen and Fred Taylor were again j in the field, crying against the Irish em | ployed by the water company. Poor old Van! "Back East" he was a prominent member of the Hibernian Society ; but time and tide and ill fortune make strange changes. Van was a member of the third House of the Washington Legislature, and the story is told on him that Harvey John ston, a young Democratic politician, went ! to him one day and told him a Clan na i Gael Society had been organized in Oiyni pia, that he believed it had its eye on Van, and advised him to keep in nights and not allow himself to be away from his friends after darK. A member named Dorritv, from east of the mountains, a hot-tempered Irishman, was pointed out to Van as a prominent mem ber of the Clan. Van kept very close to his hotel evenings, and never went out after dark without a bodyguard, t After this had gone on for several days the joke was too good to keep, and Harvey gave it away to a few friends and it became public, much to the chagrin of Van Fossen. Nelson Bennett, who has always been fighting the water company, was how one ! of the strongest advocates of the purchase. j He went to New York and Philadelphia, I paw "Papa" Wright— and perhaps "Papa" Wright "saw" him, for he telegraphed back advising and urging that the pur i chase be made. One of the strongest pleas made to the people in favor of the deal was that if Wright could sell the water plant to the I city he would at once take the money de ' rived from the sale thereof and build the I "Hart" Railroad to a junction with the i "Hunt" road in the Walla Walla Valley ! to a connection with the Chicago, Buf i lington and Quincy road, making Tacoma I the western terminus of that system. I "Give Wright his way about the water and 'he will build the 0. B. and Q. into Tacoma,'' was the cry. The laboring men were told to vote for the proposition ; al though the price was pretty high the money would all come right back here again in payment for work on the rail road, and the extra $1,000,000 would be used for building an extension of the water works system to the sources of the | mountain rivers. Work would be plenty i and wages cood, and the laboring man would be in clover. Three years havo passed away, the deal went, and the C. B. and Q. is just as liable to drop in here out of a balloon as it ever j was to come in over the "Hart" and "Hunt" roads out of the hand of "Papa" j Wright. An army of lieutenants and heelers was hired to carry the election in favor of the ! purchase. The present City Attorney, ■ James Wickersham, has a safe full of I affidavits which have been procured from j various parties showing how the job was i worked. Two hundred and twenty-rive of j them are from people who were either I hired to "work" for the carrying of the proposition or were paid money for their votes. Among the lot I noticed those of James Clark, Tred E. King and Thomas Kelley. Clark received $50, King $40 and Kelley $100 for their "pull." The day before election Ike Anderson had the ballots changed so that the bridge proposition was substituted for the water proposition and vice versa. By this move the water proposition carried by 200 votes, otherwise it would have been lost, and ruin would have been the consequence to many of the most prominent citizens. When it was learned that the proposi tion had carried the gang drew a long breath and at once set to work to realize upon its bonds as quickly as possible. The new blood gave the bankers a fresh le,ase : of iife, and it looked as though they would j be able to sail on forever, but in a few months it was known that the Merchants' National was in a shaky condition. Nel son Bennett became president and W. J. Thompson retired, but this did not restore public confidence. Finally the bank closed, and its example has been followed by one after another until out of the twenty-one banks only seven are left. When the city counted up its property, for which the $3,500,000 had been paid, it was found that Clover Creek, the source of supply, was owned and claimed by the farmers who lived along its banks, and ob jection was made to the taking of water for the city. One of these farmers, Robert i Rigney, brought suit and obtained an in junction against the taking of any water out of the creek. The city then tried to gat water enough out of a marsh and small spring on the line between the creek and the city, and also out of a pond near the city. This all had to be pumped, and at an enormous cost. Suit was brought against "Papa" Wrieht for $1,000,000 dam ages on account of this and other claims, but the suit is not yet determined. Sev eral times it has been set, but until now has failed to come to trial. Suit was also brought to set aside tne purchase and rescind the whole transaction, on the ground that the deal was procured through fraud and bribery, but the Supreme Court has held that the fact that the voters were bribed to vote in favor of the deal was no defense, but, on the contrary, showed that its otlicers made the deal and with their eyes <*j>en. Among other things claimed by the city after purchasing the plant and prop erty was a lot of water-pipe piled up near the water company's works, which was not delivered. The Mayor and some of his men went down and attempted to take the pipe. A free fight ensued and much litigation followed, all for the purpose of making the dear people think that there was really a dfference between the city government and the water company — both members of the gang that was looting the treasury again, now that there was some thing in it. There was also a shipload of pipe com ing around the Horr., but when the deal was consummated it looked like so much foolishness to give up that cargo — the dear people would not miss it, and there would be a fine chauce for a rake-off. So the ship was put into San Francisco and unloaded through tne seawall, eight or ten blocks from the Market-street wharf, and the pipe is there yet— loo,ooo pieces in the cargo, now completely filling the warehouse and Fred T. Taylor. making a big pile on the outside— all marked "Tacorna." For this pipe suit is about to be commenced by the City, its existence having but recently come to the knowledge of the present City Attorney. The pipe is said to be worth about $150,000. The agent who represents this warehouse is connected with a ship-broker firm on Market street. When the Merchants' National Bank failed, followed soon after by the Tacoma National, the Traders' and others, and the books became subject to inspection, it be ean to be apparent to the people at large how gigantic had been the combination for looting the treasury. The suicide of I'aul Schulze, the later bank failures and the quarrels among the looters themselves have brought all the details before the public. The books of the Tacoma National— lke Anderson's bank — show that he was a creditor to the extent of $54,000 at the time the banfc closed. Nelson Bennett's private secretary stands charged with $40,000, which, he says, was made for the use of Anderson; G. G. Rowe, a clerk in Ander son's office, who is built for taking books from the top shelf, also has a note in the bank for $3000 for Anderson's benefit; Rus sel T. Joy, collaborator in the good cause, another $3000, cone; J. G. Parker, father in-law of Ikey's, $3000, gone; Fox Island Clay Works, of which lkey was president, $8000, defunct; Cherry Hill Coal Company, of which lkey was president, $8000, de funct; Excelsior Park Land Company, of which he was president, $13,000, defunct; Crescent Creamery Company, of which he was a stockholder, promoter and active manipulator, $13,000, defunct; Tacoma Land Company, of which he is manager, $20,000. In the Traders' Bank Anderson owed $140,000, as shown by the record in the hands of the receiver; in the State Savings Bank $2720, and in addition to this and bis liabilities in oilier banks there are judg ments of record against him, all taken since the workings of the gang were un earthed, amounting to nearly $200,000. Nelson Bennett appeared on the books of the Merchants' National Bank a creditor to the extent of $30,000, in the State Sav ings Bank $3000, Tacoma Trust and Sav ings Bank $12,306 13, Bennett National Bank of Fairhaven $26,500. The Ledger, of which he is proprietor, also appears as a creditor to the extent of $13,000. In addi tion a judgment for $82,000 was recently entered against him, and many suits are now tending for other sums. Bennett was a director of the Tacoma Trust and Sav ings Bank at the time that institution was run by Grattan H. Wheeler. When this bank failed it had $228,000 of city money •'on hand," but only $450 was found by the receiver. The balance is probably repre sented by the city warrants that went away in Wheeler's grip. When this bank went into the receiver's hands two of the books were missing; the two covering a most important period in its history. For their non-appearance W. B. Allen, the last president of the bank, re named the Bank of Tacoma, is now under sentence for contempt of court, but the books are out of sight. Like the books of the Tacoma Grocery Company, that gisrantic institution manipulated by Charles E. Hale, who is reported to have maae $60,000 by the failure of his company, the books of the bank are as utterly beyond the sight of man as though burned in the "hell" of the old town mill, a tire that goes not out from year end to year end. H. O. Fishback, cashier of the Tacoma National, was a debtor to the bank to the extent of $8000. He was retained by the receiver to assist in winding up the bank's affairs, and when the receiver took steps to secure the $8000, Mr. Fishback promptly confessed judgment in favor of Eastern relatives to the amount of over $30,000. Fishback is now the Deputy City Treasurer. Samuel Collyer, the bright light and sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce and grand fugleman of the Occidental and Oriental Fair which is to be held in Tacoma in the year of grace 1900, was a debtor to the bank of which he was cashier to the extent of $34,000, while his associate was in for $150,000. W. B. Allen, president of the Bank of Tacoma. which had $228,000 of city money "on hand," was a debtor individually and as a principal stockholder in sideshow cor porations to the extent of nearly $150,000, while Boggs shows up in the same institu tion for $61,000. Other members of the city gang were in for various sums, large and small. C. A. Cavender, chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council, who was brought before the bar of the Council last week, is accused of using his official posi tion to extort moneys from the bank upon the pledge of his influence to deter the city from making demand for its deposit. Charge six against Mr. Cavender is to the effect that he instead of endeavoring to se cure to the city its money from the Bank of Tacoma used his influence as chairman of the Finance Committee to obtain money out of the bank for his own personal use to the damage of the city and in bad faith; that during the months of April, May, June and July, 1894, while pretending to be unable, to obtain any money for the city from said bank he did, by reason of his dishonesty and dishonorable dealings, obtain from said bank large sums of money, in all $4000. M. M. Taylor, president of the Board of Public Works, lately deposed for demand ing $1000 rake-off from the Columbia Na tional BanK for his influence in preventing the withdrawal of the county funds from that institution, is another of the same kind of patriots. Of the halt-hundred prominent citizens who made up the gang that robbed the city until there was scarcely enough left to tempt a crow, haraly one has escaped the reward of his work. Bankruptcy and disaster have overtaken some, others have gone to the suicide's grave, still others be come almost paupers, or are now jumping sideways to escape the prißon-doors. For all this debt of $5,000,000 Tacoma has a water system, with no source of supply; a shipload of pipe in San Francisco, to get ; a City Hall that could be built for less than $150,000, if honestly done; a bridge for the sole use and benefit of the St. Paul Mill Company ; a County Courthouse that ought to be built for $150,000, and have money left— say $600,000 or $1,000,000 in all, and $4,000,000 worth of experience. Tacoma has a tine harbor, a beautiful lo cation and many natural advantages coal in abundance, timber and stone, a rich agricultural country tributary, and once divested of the burdens whteh have almost drained the iast drop of blood from her veins, will take a new start and be come the fair Mistress of the Great Inland Sea of the Northwest. Margery Dabe. C A REE It Of McKEIGUAS. The Late Congretaman Made a Record at a Farmer and ¥opu\i*t. OMAHA, Nebr., Dec. 15.— William Ar thur McKeighan, the Populist ex-Con gressman of Red Cloud, Nebr., who died early this morning at the insane asylum at Hastivigs, was born of Irißh parents in Cumberland County, N. J., January 19, 1842. He removed with his parents to Fulton County, 111., in 1?48, where he lived on a farm and attended the common school. He enlisted in the Eighteenth Regiment, Illinois cavalry, September, 1861. At the close of the war he settled on a farm near Pontiac, 111.; took an ac tive part in organizing the Farmers' Asso ciation; was elected Vice-President for the Eighth Congressional District; removed to Nebraska in 1880 and settled on a farm near Red Cloud. Ihe Late He took an active interest in organizing the Alliance and was elected County Judge of Webster county in 1885. In 1686 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress against Hon. James Laird, and was de feated. He was again nominated for Con gress by the Alliance or Independent party, was indorsed by the Democratic convention and elected "to the Fifty-second and re-elected to the Fifty-third Congress as an Independent. In 1894 he was de feated in the race for re-election by W. E. Andrews. Mr. McKeighan, at the time of his death, had gone ta Hastings to visit his daughter, who is an olh'cial of that institu tion. He leaves a widow and three children, who were by his bedside during the last hours. OPEN DEFIANCE DECLARED Catholics of Tecumseh Will Not Submit to the Bishop's Order. They Deny the Right of Bonacum to Make Them Desert Father Murphy. TECUMSEH, Nebr., Dec. 15.— Catholics of Tecnmseh have declared open defiance to Bishop Bonacum of Lincoln so far as his order forbidding them to attend the church of Father Murphy, the excommu nicated priest, is concerned. After to-day's services a meeting was held at which the following was adopted without dissent and signed by fifty members of the church: Resolved, That we hereby make open declara tion that we as Catholics deny the right of any Bishop to Joist upon us any person to act as priest for us, through malice, revenge or to gratify his personal pique, whim or caprice, and deliver over to him the possession and place him in full and absolute control of our property, in which we have vested rights, with out our consent. And we hereby further de clare that no public threats of excommunica tion or taking away from us any of the sacred rights which we are permitted to enjoy as Catholics will in any manner intimidate us or influence us to do any act or thing which we believe to be against and opposed to the princi ples of right and justice. Be it further Resolved, That it is the duty of the church to investigate the scandalous conditions that have already been too long tolerated in the diocese of Lincoln and remove them from the faithful and from the State. And be it further Resolved, That we call upon the Catholics of Lincoln to take action in these matters at once with other Catholics throughont the State to move the authorities in Dubuqne or Washing ton or Rome to proceed at once to apply their solicitude and authority to the conditions of the church in this diocese. MARQUIS SACRIPANTI'S TRIP. Coming to This Country With the Insignia of Office for the Elevation of Satolli. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 15.— Marquis Sacripanti, the member of the Noble Guard who has been commissioned as the Pope's envoy to bring to this country the insignia of olfice and the brief for the eleva tion of Mgr. Satolli to the Cardinalate, is on board the steamship Fulda, due in New York next Thursday. lork next Ihursuay. At the request of Mgr. Satolli, through the suggestion of Cardinal Gibbons, ne will be met at the pier upon the arrival of tne steamer by Major John D. Keiley, City Treasurer of Brooklyn, the Cardinal's friend, and received in a manner due to his rank. Major Keiley will be accom panied by Rev. Frederick B. Rooker, sec retary of the apostolic delegation, and the Marquis will be escorted to Washington in a special car. At Washington the Marquis will be Mgr. SatolH's guest, and after recovering from the fatigue of his long journey, will be taken to Baltimore and presented to Cardinal Gibbons, whose associate he will be in the ceremony of investing the Papal delegate with his new dignity on the first Sunday in January at the Baltimore Cathedral. TAILORS LOCKED OUT. Contractors Throw Two Thousand Work- era Out of Employment. NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 15. -Threat of the members of the Clothing Contractors' Mutual Protective Association to lock out the tailor 3 was carried out to-day and the battle between the bosses and the men is now on. The contractors made no concealment of their intention to repudiate the agreement which they had made with the Brother hood of Tailors, and gave their employes to understand that they could no longer work for them unless tney consented to do so under a different system and a new set of rules. Up to a late hour to-night reports had been received at the head quarters of the bosses showing that over 100 shops had been closed in this city and that 2000 tailors had been thrown out of work. In Brooklyn 150 shops were closed and about 2200 tailors were debarred from entering. Caused by an Explosion. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 15.— An ex plosion occurred in the cellar of the Krell Piano Manufacturing Company to-day, followed soon after by flames issuing from the lower windows. Before assistance could be summoned the building and con tents were almost destroyed. The loss to building and stock is about $75,000, fully covered by insurance. Shot During a Saloon Fight. CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 15.— 1n a fight be tween half a dozen drunken men to-night in a saloon at Market and Indiana streets, i Alexandra Diogo was shot and killed by 1 Angelo Farenti. PLANS OF CONGRESS Soon the Senate May Pass Into Republican Hands. STEWART UPON SILVER. The Statesman From Nevada to Make His First Speech of the Session. HILL WILL ANSWER CULLOM. Secretary Carlisle's Report Will Be the Signal for a Great Finan cial Debate. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 15.— The third week of the Senate will open with that body no better equipped for the trans action of business than on the day Con gress first assembled, although it is more than probable that before the week is over the caucus committee will have agreed and the Senate committees will have passed into the hands of Republicans. If the suggestions of some oi the younger Sena tors are followed it is not improbable that this week may find the Senate testing the strength of the two parties over the sub ject of the reorganization of the elective officers. To-morrow Mr. Stewart will make his first silver speech of this session. Thurs day he introduced a resolution to direct the Finance Committee to inquire what effect the difference of exchange between pold standard and silver standard coun tries has upon the agricultural and manu facturing industries of the United States, and report by bill or otherwise. This reso lution will be the text for Mr. Stewart's first speech. Senator Hill takes issue with Senator Cullom on his conclusions relative to the Monroe doctrine, and may address the Sen ate on the resolution now on the table early in the week, possibly to-morrow. Senator White of California, who last week offered an amendment that all debate shall be relevant and confined to the sub ject directly before the Senate, will speak to the resolution Tuesday. It is one of the many propositions now pending to change the rules of the Senate, with a view to limiting debates. The receipt of Secretary Carlisle's report to-morrow will be the signal for the flood pates of financial debate to open. Several Senators, among them Mr. Sherman, are preparing to discuss the monetary portion of the President's message, but have kept silent pending the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, which is supplemental to the recommendations of the President. Mr. Sherman will hardly be prepared to speak this week, but it would not cause surprise if a discussion were precipitated at any time. The only thing that is expected in the House this week is the announcement of the committees by Speaker Reed, and when that is made adjournment for the holidays is anticipated. It may be that the committees on Rules and Elections will be announced to-morrow. The House is at present operating under the rules of the Fifty-first Congress, and if the proposition to make two or three com mittees of elections, which has been under consideration, is to be carried out a change in the rules to that effect must first .be made. One change in the rules that is looked for, in view of Speaker Reed's expressions of opinion thereon, is a reduction of the number constituting a quorum of the com mittee of the whole House from a major- ity of the full membership of the House. What figure will be fixed upon cannot be stated, but it is believed that it will not exceed 100 and may be considerably less. Speaker Reed is satisfied that such a change will materially aid in the dispatch of business and be a means of inducing a more general attendance upon the sessions of the House. FMOM THE BJSLZJS O'BRIEX. Mate Brooks, One of the Survivors, Ar rif»-.» at Baltimore. 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F. - i •.A'-'r.y-"'.-'*"-"- 1 .. ...''/..■■]■',::.■. ?';;*:''■'.:- ■■ : --.'h- v .." ' ' ' ; -" " '" Dunn of the British ship Lord Erne from Swansea, to-day brought into port a survi vor of the American ship Belle O'Brien, which foundered off the English coast. Another seaman who was picked up at the sfanie time died and was buried at sea. A third man went crazy from hunger and thirst and jumped overboard. .Second Mate Brooks, the survivor above referred to, stated that the O'Brien was abandoned on November 20 when nearly fuJ] of water. He along with two of the crew occupied one of the small boats. What became of the captain and other members of the crew he does not know. Brooks' mind is not clear, and the con nected story of the foundering of the Belle O'Brien nor the experiences of Brook* and his companions in the open boat has been secured. To-night it is stated that Brooks cannot iive. J)e»troyid by Fire. HAGKRSTOWN, Md.. Dec. 15.— The Bos ton Clothing-house, Beeler