SI6 TRAVELER'S RETURN They Relate Some Startling Stories. Dr Smith Teil» of the Pigmies of Central Africa and Prof. Garner Learns to Talk Monkey. Ur. Donaldson Smith, the young Phil adrlphia physician who ha» recently ex perienced some stirring adventure» on his expedition to Lake Rudolph, Africa, arrived recently from England on board the St. Louis. est 1 » Dr Smith's discovery of many new tribe» whose existence was previ ously unknown. Among these i* a race of pigmies, the fact of whose discovery has caused something like a commotion in -uientlHc circles. These people are of negro type and are coal black and ab solutely naked. Although of great phvlcal beauty, with well formed limb*,' they are barely removed from animats and their code of morality Is very lax. Later in life they settle down and mar ry. These remarkable people are all between four and five feet higti and live in primitive wood huts. The only industry Is corn-raising and the rearing of sheep and goats. They are born hunters. In warfare they use poisoned arrows, the wounds inflicted by which prove fatal within an hour. I.arner lull,■ Uniikny. Professor R. L. Garner, of Roanoke, Va , who was dispatched last summer on a second trip to the jungle.» of Africa by the African Research Society of Chica go, arrived on the Etruria. He went for the purpose of completing his monkey alphabet and learning more about the language of monkeys. Prof. R. H. Pea body of the University of Chicago, was one of ttie backer* of the entcrprirc. Prof. Garner returns, he says, with much new information. He hu» In hi* portfolio a photograph gorilla man In Africa. This gorilla man would be called in Australia a bushman Prof. Gardner considers that his mis sion in perfecting himself In the mon key tongue has been largely accomplish ed. "I am convinced that monkeys talk to each other ; '' says he, ''and that many a higlu-r intelligence of them poi and a greater fluency of language than many of the African natives.' Hralnrk)' Militia Heuil.v. Frankfort, Ky., Feb 16.—The Me Crearv guards have been called to their arinorv and are held in readiness to res pond to the orders of the adjutant-gener al, Two thousand rounds of ammuni tion have been issued to them. There Is every reason to believe that the guards are called out to be In readiness to res <0 a call from the sheriff of Campbell county in tiie event that trouble should occur at Newport when Jackson mill Walling, the accused murderers of 1 'carl Bryan, art- transferred to Campbell county for their preliminary examina tion. HOW (IVKK % t'Hllill. fathrr ami Mother In Court ! 1er W ho Oxvum II. Boi-e, Ida., Feb. 15.—A Salmon City case, In',which the possession of a child I» Involved, I* to be aired In the supreme court. James Downing and wife quarreled and the wife has sought to get posses ac»»ion of their child. Proceedings were Instituted by Mr*. Downing in Judge Standrod's court to compel Downing to deliver the child to Sheriff Miller of Lemhi county, and In case he refused to do *0, to compel the sheriff to take the child away by force and bring It Into The lather refused to deliver the court. ■ child to the sheriff, and that officer re ported to the court. Judge Standrod he* cited Downing and the sheriff to ap and show cause why they should pear not be punished for contempt. At this of the proceedings Attorney stage tjuarlct, representing Downing and the Sheriff, came to Boise and applied for a writ of prohibition against Judge Stand rod. The writ was reluncd on the ground that the matter of the alleged Irregular, Ity of the order should first be presented U> Standrod. Judge Standrod Insisted the contempt proceeding* and Inflict punishment on Sheriff Mltler, who was fined and on Downing, who wa* commit ted to jail until he produce the child QuarSes now comes to the supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus to se cure for Downing his liberty. A special term of the supreme court •will beheld Tuesday to hear the cate. on J. H. McVlcker, the veteran tbeatrl . all it is ns yet. With the utte'r failure of the efforts to native Hawaiian* to dis - reconcile the franchfsement, the suddenly aggresive action of the Japanese resident* and the Independent stand taken by the Chinese agriculturists, the situation is anything but comfortable. "The government is like a business house threatened by bankruptcy. The crisis maybe delayed but not for long. There is a monthly deficit of $40000 and the people are rapidly losing faith in the power of the men at the helm. Mr. Havnc has not been much im- I pressed by the mercy of President Dole | arid ills associates. tile United States show a grave misap- I prehension of the facts as to the mag- 1 f naniniltv of the rulers of Hawaii, ' he ob "Take the so-called release and I pardons of political prisoners for instance The truth is that no pardons have been .line ! I, granted at all. Something »Im* p 'c* ic 1* h » *1 . * / I 11 , , English ticket-of-leave has been brought into play. Ail the political prisoners i.i,/ .. . . . are ut large, having been discharged in ■ ,1 . . j « squads, the first being let out of Jail July I <• iiAi*r D » 1095, and the last Jan. 6, 96. But the oligarchy of the attorney general inform ed every prisoner at the time of his re lease that he was liable, withoutjnotice, to be arrested a. the pleasure of the ex ecutive. I quote the word. a. nearly as Newspaper comments in Europe and served. can remember. "I consider the case of the queen like wise. She, too, was 'pardoned,' but she is nevertheless as much a prisoner at her home as she was before so much mercy was shown her. And to indicate the spirit that animates the 'thirty tyrants,' it should be added that they have made Wilson her custodian the man who . . have »pared no pains to have circulated , v throughout the world the report that, having recovered her full liberty of ac tion she Immediately and voluntarily re slandeorusly claimed lie was her para mour in the days of lier power—and lapsed Into her old-time shameful prac tices." Turning to the Chlnese-Japancse question, the editor declared the prob lem confronting Hawaii to be of the gravest character, they are going," lie said, but one end -absorption- of the islands by Japan " "If things keep on as there can be ( i>lli»it»ii lithe min 1 « Outrai With Fatal ICc-»itlI«. Cciitralla, III., Feb. 14.—Two mixed freight and pa»senger trains on the I III not* Central collided at Dongola, Ills., Ihl* morning. Five men were killed, umong them George Hunting, engineer. Baggageman Armstrong. Fireman Adams. Urukcman McLean. The Injured, so far as known, Conductor O'Dun of the passenger train, badly bruised. Brukeman Lake of the train, badly bruised. are: passenger j Evpress messenger, name unknown I here; »lightly cut about the head. None of the passengers were killed, and so far as known none were Injured, Engineer Bale», of the freight train, escaped by jumping, though he wa* slightly hurt. 1 he damage to railroad property was great 1 hree of the men killed were buried under the wreck and their bodies were not found for two ho -rs. HeV. Mr«*. l,rn»r. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 14.—Next Sunday morning, Mrs. Mary E, Lease will make her debut Into the ministerial profes sion and henceforth her literary prefix will be Rev. Instead of Col. Her recent sickness was the cause of her mind tak ing the divine turn. Master that if she got well she would de vote her life to Him. She promised the And she is keep Next Sunday »he will ing her promise preach In the Central Church of Christ, and It Is thought she will be offered its pastorate, which is vacant at present. She promises to skin the ' wolves" in the church when she gets in and she says there are many of them there. The man who never praise* hi* wife rometlmes talks very nice in church. PROMPT ACTION CALLEO FOR Should Not Delay Accepting Arbitration, The Sage Advice Given by a Washing ton Correspondent of the London Times, and English Comments Thereon—The Situation in France Growing Revolutionary -Cabinet May Dispense With the Senate. London, Feb. 18.—The arbitration de «te * n the house of commons yesterday 1 " nd the proposal of the Times' corres pondent in the United States, Mr. Geo. I W. Smalley, that Great Britain should | appoint a commission of its own, con sisting of two members, which should work in conjunction with two Aineri cans, as a new Venezuela boundary corn mission, not to fix the boundary, but to ascertain the facts and report to their governments, are the leading subjects a joint commission is supposed to have originated with the' cabinet at Wash for editorial comment this afternoon, especially as Mr. Smalley's proposal for Ington. The Ball Mall Gazette says: "The Atherly Jones amendment (deploring the absence of a pronouncement in the , . , . . . queen's speech in favor of arbitrating the Venezuelan dispute), could not I good and might do a great deal of harm. | Mr. Atherly Jones is old enough to .• . i*" j . - c , , Know that the interference of the house , . , , I of commons in matters under diplomatic treatment must be intolerable. The \ » , , , „ amendment, implying censure of the I, , . , , , . . I government, would infallibly have been I 4J . . , .. , # , negatived by a large majority and would have thus defeated its own ends and j have con veyed to the United States an entirely fallacious impression of hostil- I Itv. This, on the morning of the very promising suggestion of Mr. Smalley, , , , ° , " , J ' I might have been a very serious calami Fortunately no harm has been done, I The house saw it had been on the verge | „{ an indiscretion and wisely began talking of something else." The Westminster Gazette says it sympathizes with the object of the adding, Atherlv Jones amendment, however, "but it was clearly desirable after Mr. Balfour's appeal and Sir Wil , Ham Vernon Harcourt's speech, that it , , , . , should not be persevered irt, for its cer tain rejection would have been inter preted in America as demonstrating tiiat the House of Commons did not favor arbitration. This would have been a thousand pities, with the delicate nego tiations proceeding and with everv hope that a modus vivendi will be found." The St. James Gazette agrees that Mr. I Balfour's intervention in the debate yes terday, in order to end it, was and says: utterances on arbitration go a great deal further than is justified by the feeling here. The Chronicle and Sir William Harcourt most mischeviously declare that the country is unanimous for arbi justifiable, "But Sir William Harcourt's' I tration, without specifying what arbitra tion. Nothing but harm can come of this mystification. Another ambiguity was introduced by Mr. Smalley's sugges tion, which seems to be entirely prema ture until some arrangement has been affected with Venezuela that occupation shall be the basis of settlement." The Globe says it is not surprising to learn that the scheme commends itself to President Cleveland and his Minis ters, continuing; untenable ground and virtually ask our "They have taken up assistance to enable them to retire grace fully, it is often good policy to build a golden bridge for any adversary; but it must not be too costly, and the cost in the present instance is too great and it has the fatal defect that It places the interests of British subjects and terri tory c | n i me< j by Venezuela absolutelyin the hands of an unknown foreigner This sacrifice President Cleveland has no right to call for from us. America has no corresponding interests to put at stake as an equivalent, and we cannot consent to leave the position and pro perty of 4 0,000 Englishmen at the mercy of a Swiss, Belgian or Scandi navian arbitrator." London, Feb. 19.—A Washington dis patch to the Times warns the English government against delay in responding to the overtures indicated in the corres pondent's dispatch of yesterday, which gave an outline of a plan for a joint com mission on the Venezuelan dispute of British and American members, which he said would be acceptable to the United States. "The danger is," says the Times' cor respondent, "that the public will not support this new departure so readily as It did President Cleveland's But whatever reception it may receive, the Washington government will carry out its purpose to give full effect to its message. proposal. The more quickly England accepts the offer the more general the approval of the American people likely to be. It is no light thing to let such suggestions come before the Amer ican public without a previous assurance of their acceptance by England." is tlAitltSM' FOB Tit KN r.YWS 1 \< Cliar(c*-N that S. (»oodrnoiigh Mettled on mi Indian Benervation. Pocatello, Ida., Feb. 18.—Revana! Me Beth, clerk of the Indian agency at Ross Fork, appeared before Judge Hopson yesterday and swore out a warrant for the arrest of S. Goodenough for tres passing and settling on Fort Hall reser vation, thus depriving Bannock and Shoshone Indians of their lands and vio These Indians are lating the treaty, and clamoring for their rights in every par ticuiar. It is claimed that Goodenough is using a portion of their land for farm ing purposes. The case will be ttied be fore United States Whittier as soon as witnesses can be se cured. Commissioner In Judge Hopson's court today Harry IIowlan was acquitted of the charge of stealing a gold ring from Wm. Huff last Friday night. IT WIU, BF HIIOKT ASTI» HOT ,,, „ „ , 0 _ . -, El Paso, Feb. 18.—Prize fight matters , , ° w ^ re v '-'T ( l ulet *■ av - ot more than c " r f ,r,ra 8 ® uar 0 sportixg men are H Tu TT, ! T V sure that all of them will remain that nii . * t l° n g. Fitzsimmons went back to his »... . W °* T nlornin g' aud only appeared in El Paso for a few minutes shortly , fr . . J before noon. He had nothing to say 4l _ regarding the situation except that he , , , . . . 1 ... et ° W n an WI " qU1C '^* "' is v e'y s ore over «" »?» the . °. money \ es er ay, am 1 e ™ T u Tu *** ^ * h * "V 8 * J" e Fitzsimmons obtained what he considers Fitz and Maher Hath will FuhIi T hing«. his right on yesterday. He laughed when told of the grams between Corbett and Julian, and repeated what he had said in the early morning about his willingness to meet Corbett: "I will fight him anywhere he likes, at tmy time he likes, in London or in this Ail I ask is a place where I would not go through again what I have been through down here for all the champion ships that ever were made. Corbett and I will lick him if country, can be safe from interference. we I can lick ever we That's all I When I have get in the ring together, have to say about him whipped Maher I will be champion of the world by virtue of Corbett's own action in « ivin S the championship to Maher, and I will accommodate lim w ' tb a chance to get his championship a S ain - 1 won,t kee P him waiting, either." Gov. Ahumada left Juarez this ing for various points in the interior of his province. He has come to the opin ion that there will be no trouble, and that his morn presence on the border is no longer necessary. trri'sti'il For Douhlc Murder. Augusta, Ky., Feb. 16.—Robert Laugh lin has been arrested, charged with the murder and cremation of his wife and thirteen-year-old neice, May Jones, on Friday last. It is said Laughlin has con fessed but this cannot be confirmed. Laughlin has claimed all along that rob. bers killed his wife and neice, fired the house and assaulted him. believe the tragedy was the result of a brutal assault by Laughlin upon his neice which his wife interfered. Neighbors ICetiKion anil Home. Monereal, Feb. 12.—Montreal excise men have seized an illicit still at the Trapptet Monastry at Oka. The offi cials of the revenue department] becom ing suspicious of the large amount of whisky that was coming from the small settlement of Oka sent two revenne men to the monastery to make a search They found a fuii-fledged whisky sti of twenty.five gallons per day atjwork in the monastery. The superiors admitted that it looked serious, but claimed the whiskey was distilled without their knowlege. Seizing this machinery, the revenue officers returned to Montreal. Later on tv» 1 monks called at the nue office ire and offered to fine for tV; illicit distillation of whiskv. They were referred to the government at Ottawa. reve pay the The monastary is a large concern. It is on a farm f ;ooo acres in extent, in which are a cheese factory, a dairy and saw mills. The monks make considera Last season they bought ble wine. eight carloads of grapes and during the same period marketed 30,000 gallons of wine. The matter Is now before the government. TRAMP'S TREASURE TROVE* John Harraens Finds $20,000 Lost Money, It Watt Fart of *50,000 Taken From the Well«*-Fargo Company by Itofo tiers—Some of It Jtecovered. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 13.—John P. Harmens, a tramp, 50 years old, who by his own confession recovered over $20,000 that was hidden by train roebers a year ago, is locked up in the jail in thiscity. For months lie has been liv ing in San Francisco on the fat of the laud from the proceeds of the money taken from the Overland Express near Sacramento by Jack Brady and Brown ing over a year ago. The prisoner has turned over to the police $2,000 which he had in the German Saving bank in San Francisco, $5,900 in securities, a diamond ring and a diamond collar but ton. Harmens found the money hidden under a clump of bushes near Sacra mento, where the robbers who held up the train had buried it. It is known that the robbers obtained over $50,000 from Wells, Fargo & Co., but Harmens did not find all of the plunder, he only obtained $20,000, but it is be lieved that these figures are under the exact amount. This conclusion is based on the fact that when Brady, one of the bandits, confessed and took the officers to the place where the money was buried only $6000 was found. Harmens had evidently taken the rest of the treasury before the officers arrived. Harmens was arested in San Francisco Saturday and brought to this city last night. In appearance he is a typical tramp. Among his friends he is known as "Dutch Charley." □ After he found the money he went to San Francisco, where he loaned a great deal to respon sible business men. But he was not miserly, as it is said that he lived a life of luxury seldom dreamed of by the average tramp. He bought the most elegant clothes for himself, making a trip to New York for the purpose; a tramp was transformed into a regular fashion plate. He says Soldiers Arrested for JFIffhtins. Omaha, Feb. 14.—A scandal developed at Fort Omaha yesterday when Privates avanaugh and Murphy were arrested for prize-fighting and 100 others who witnessed the fight expect to be ordered-i to the guard house today. It has been stated and generally credited that thei two men fought for a purse that furnished by the officers of the fork Ths is most emphatically denied by Co| Bates. While he has no doubt that therl purse in sight, he says he is surd it was not made up by the officers. That is another point to be investigated and the facts will be obtained if possible, from the prisoners when the court tial convenes. C wad was a :n.,r It is stated that it need occasion no surprise if the guard-house is stored full of prisoners in a short time. A very de termined effort is being made to learn who were present at the mill, and if the discovery be made all the soldier tators will be arrested. Slates intends, the commanding officer says, to frown down way of a prize-fight by soldiers. spec The United anything in the Xew IMscoverj-. New York, Feb. 15.—A special to the World from London says: The revela tions concerning the development of the new photograph are multiplying at such rate that it is difficult to keep pace with them. Here are a Jfew of the latest suits of Prof. Rontgen's disco 1 he British Medical Journal says that the application of the new method to the re verv: purposes diagnosis is beingl eagerly pushed by leading members cï the profession. Dr. Lodge, a leading specialist, has taken a negative showing the position of a bullet in a wrist, while another surgeon has taken a photograph showing plainly atrophy and changes caused by the wearing of tight boots. It is asserted by several correspond ents of English scientific have conducted from a few inches of papers who experiments, that light niagnesium ribbon and even less intense certain ravs which sources evolve* pass through opaque bodies, such as wood, and impress them selves on This is without the a photographic plate beneath. use of any tubes. Thns Endeth the Lesson. Her Mother—"Bessie dear, I to see my little girl show such a lack o'f respect for her seniors, bor comes to call quietly and not speak spoken to. You do not am sorrv When a neigh on us you should sit unless you jire mean to be J you shKh you are malrfng on our neighbors, and you will try here after, I hope, to_" Bessie—"You'd better look out, You'll talk yourself to death."— Chicago Tribune. respectful, I am sure, but think of the impression mam ma.