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THE REGISTER l-AVAB, • - COLORADO. The concert of Europe appears to lack an efficient bandmaster. Prince Alert’s milo in 1:57 shows Dan Patch that there are others. Dressmakers do not worry over the bills. That problem Is up to tne men. The first collar bone has been broken In a football game at Medford. Next! Such a thing as a wild day In stocks does not appear to ruffle tho country s equamimity. The theatrical manager who shot up his company must have been look ing at the show. If blood was a merchantable com modity the Turk would be In tho way to make substantial profits. If it were not for the man who “also ran,” the victory of the successful can didate would not be so conspicuous. According to arctic explorers there Is enough Ice about the north pole this year to break the heart of the ice trust. Barrie’s play, “Little Mary,” has the 7>oble theme that England overeats. Now for a health food named “Little Mary.” Glance over tho market quotations and see if you do not think this is a good t'me to lay in your winter supply of ateel rails. Joseph Jefferson admits that ho vis ited Chicago in 1839. He stoutly de clares, however, that he didn’t play “Rip” at that time. Placer mining machine has been In dented that will make gold plentiful, and this will help us to stave off the trusts for a little while. Let the boys play football while they can, for Dr. Wiley says wo are soon to b a hairless raco and then it would be all off with that sport. “Dey say dar am a black sheep in cb’ry family,” mused Uncle Rastus. “Wonder how de cullud man am 'sposed to ’stinguish de one in his.” Members of the international peace congress want to hold their next ses sion in the United States, where thero are no cannons booming or bullets fly ing. Old wine, old shoes and old friends liave always been declared the best. Now. an old horse has paced a mile In 1:57, breaking the record of Dan Patch. Officers are trying to prevent the in mates of the Pennsylvania peniten tiary from making counterfeit money. It i,s too bad that a man can't work at bis trade. It is stated that bridge whist is suf fering from a decline In popular favor. Perhaps the bridge sharps have suc ceeded in harvesting all the other fel lows’ money. The Connecticut man, who has had Inscribed under his bust in the cem etery tho words: “Going, but Can’t Tell Where,” is frank even if he isn't ntrictly orthodox. George de Pinna, the purchaser of Shamrock I, might as well abandon the idea of converting her into a cruiser; she couldn't overhaul any thing in case of war. Noah Roby of Plainfield N. J., who claims to he 132 years old, is down with the measles. This second child hood business appears to be dangerous if it is carried too far. Patti actually has a new picture for advertising purposes! What has hap pened to the old one. taken when she was nineteen —with which we are all familiar? Did the negative get broken? Judge Emmons will find a fine field of endeavor in Nome, where unique bal masques are advertised in the pub lic prints as festive occasions to bo avoided by all persons whose feelings are easily shocked. Seventy-five teachers in Chicago’s public schools have resigned this sum mer to get married. Well, it is ploas nnler, after all, to teach your own children than it is to teach the boys and girls of other people. One of the designs for the Llpton testimonial shows the American In dian buffalo, seagulls and American eagle, with delicate trimmings, com prising dainty festoons of Indian corn. For heaven’s sake, cut out the corn! French aeronauts have succeeded in crossing the English channel in a balloon. People who have crossed the channel in boats unanimously admit that they don’t know of anything which might more fittingly be crossed in a balloon. After a thorough consideration of the statements made by the powers with reference to the* situation in Macedonia, the unbiased observer will conclude that the matter is likely to be settled only when everybody has either moved out or been killed off. Were Cotton Mather alive he would preach an Interesting sermon on the 11,000 of his fellow countrymen who crossed the river from El Paso on a recent Sunday to attend a bull fight. Miss Goelet will lose no time in get ting acquainted with her mother-in law after marriage. They are due to meet in December. Merry Christinas! The Filipinos are organizing a base ball league. They will find more ex citement and pleasure in the game than in any insurrectlDn of the past. COLORADO STATE AFFAIRS AND DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL CITY Geological Survey. Recognizing the important position occupied by Colorado among the staes in which reclamation work Is to be undertaken, the geological survey has established a permanent office at Den ver, with a large force of engineers, hydrographers and anist ants. 1 The work of the Denver office is un der the general direction of Mr. A. L. Fellows. Associated with him are Mr. H. A. Steers, electrical engineer; Charles It. Steiner, assistant engineer, and Mr. E. Duryee, cement expert. The hydrographic work for Colorado and adjoining states is under the im mediate supervision of Mr. N. C. Hin derlider, engineer, assisted In Colorado by Engineers F. Cogswell and R. C. Meeker. The hydrographic work for Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming. New Mexico and eastern Utah is reported to the Denver office. Considerable progress has been made in the work upon the Uncompahgre valley project, which is under the di rection of I. W. McConnell, resident engineer. This work has consisted principally in an addition to the topo graphic mnpping of the valley under J. A. Sargent, classification of the lands therein by W. P. Edwards, and investi gation of the reservoir sites on the tributaries of Gunnison river. The work of the White river project is un der the immediate direction of Robert S. Stockton, engineer, whose headquar ters is at Meeker, Colorado. Mr. Sar gent is arranging for the survey of the eastern end of Ro Blanco county; at the present time being engaged in mak ing an examination and survey of the region at the head of the North fork of the White river. Stream gauges in this section are maintained by Mr. Ora McDcrmlth. Law Regarding the Insane. Judge Lindsey of the County Court of Denver lias succeeded in finding an old law whereby lunatics in the coun ty hospital and state asylum, who have any property, must pay for their care. The law has been a dead letter for years, but now that the insane wards of both institutions are crowded it is likely that it will be enforced. At least a number of communications have passed betw’een the Charity Board of the City Council and Judge Lindsey on the subject. The law in question is as follows: “In case any person who is adjudged to be a lunatic, as hereinbefore provid ed, has no friend or relative who will assume the custody and care of said lunatics, the County Court shall order the said lunatic to be placed In the State Insane Asylum, or other hospital or place suitable for the treatment of the insane. If such lunatic has any es tate in the hands of his conservator, an account for the keeping of said luna tic shall be rendered by the proper au thorities of said asylum or hospital, or the owner or owners of any other place whore he has been treated, to the County Court, by which said commit ment was ordered, and upon the fur ther order of said court, the conserva tor shall pay said account out of any moneys in his hands belonging to said estate and which may be so applied." An Agricultural Epoch. The special meeting of the stock holders cTf the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, to be held October 21st, the day after the annual meeting, is likely to be one of the most impor tant in the history of the road, says the Denver News. It will mark an epoch in which the Rio Grande is no longer dependent upon mining inter ests for its traffic. The knowledge that the Rio Grande source of income from agricultural products Is almost great as that from mines has been slow to break upon the stockholders. The cause of the growth of its income from this source is found in the Improved sys tems of cultivating “arid” lands and in the great trek of homeseekers to points along its line. The San Luis valley is attracting more homeseekers this season than the entire state of Colorado attracted two years ago. The trains are crowd ed and if arrangements can be per fected another train is likely to be put on. The Rio Grande management at the special meeting will give due consid eration to the big showing made by its traffic from agricultural and kin dred sources. It has been predicted that an industrial agent would be ap pointed at this meeting. The general passenger agent says that the San Luis valley and other portions of the state tributary to the Itio Grande has surprised even the most sanguine. The travel is unpre cedented. At the stockholders’ meeting there will be reports presented which can not fail to convince the most skeptical capitalist that the San Luis valley is a source of great wealth to any road and that when its resources are de veloped it will surprise everyone. A list of the state tax due from each county is being prepared by State Auditor Holmberg. Each must con tribute its share to the funds for the numerous state institutions and others included in the -i-mill levy. A table is being prepared showing how much each county will have to pay to the state treasurer. Health Commissioner Clough of Den ver has taken issue with several of the statements made by the Sta.te Hoard of Health in the set of regulations for the prevention of tuberculosis announced by that dody. He the statis tics kept by his office do not show that so large a percentage of tuberculosis cases are contracted here as is hy the State Board. Twenty per cenC the proportion named, is entirely too large an estimate for native <;a'ses. claims Dr. Clough. The statement that the disease is spreading now more than ever is also question by the City flealth Department. One of the officials said: “If our records prove anything in this connection it is that there has been little increase during the last ten years in the number of cases contracted in Colorado." . The Colorado Court of Appeals has adopted a new rule concerning the transcript of records. Typographically the rule provides: “All. transcripts of records shall be bound in half sheep nr cloth with substantial sides, thir teen inches in length and eight and one-quarter inches in width. All briefs of counsel and abstracts of the record shall be printed .upon octavo pages nine inches in length and six inches in width, in small pica type, leaded. Ex tracts and quotations must be in the same type, either solid or indented, in the discretion of counsel. The number of the case in this court must be print ed In large figures at the top of title page." Denver Grand Jury Discharged. Judge Booth Malone, of the District Court at Denver, on the 12th instant, vacated the order for the grand jury which was summoned to Investigate the alleged charter election and regis tration frauds. The motion for the rs moval of the sheriff and coroner, and the appointment of elisors to summon a new grand Jury, made by the attor neys of the Honest Election League, w first denied, after which the Judge anuounced his decision discharging the grand jurors. In his decision Judge Malone ad dressed the panel present as follows: "But, gentlemen, the court desires to say a word to those of you who have been summoned to appear here as grand jurors. "The court wishes to express his high regard for you, collectively and individually. Some of you the court has known personally and somewhat intimately for several years, and the court now takes pleasure in saying that it believes the general personnel of this Jury will rank as high in man hood, standing and character as that of any jury called within this state, within the knowledge of this court. “And yet, gentlemen, the court feels compelled, In Justice to you and the court, to say that no unbiased friend of the court or of the jury, and no true lover of Justice who is familiar with the situation and condition of things as they now appear before the court and Jury, can honestly believe that any real benefits or practical re sults will or likely can be secured to the public at this time under the ex isting conditions. "The court believes that were you to attempt to enter upon the duties of a grand jury at this time you would be compelled to act without the ap proval, sympathy or support of a large part of the general public and of the very parties who have Invoked the power of the court to have a grand jury called. “The court believes that no matter what you might do, or how you might do, your actions and even your 'mo tives will be misjudged and miscon strued. “You would enter upon your du ties, discredited and handicapped by the actions and the attitude of the very parties to whom you would nat urally have the right to look for en couragement and assistance. "I do not believe, therefore, that you ought to be compelled to strug gle with the disadvantages and sub mit to the unjust aspersions and crit icisms are bound to follow you under the circumstances, for none of which circumstances you are in any wise to blame. "The order heretofore made by the court, upon the 18th day of September, directing the sheriff to summon a grand jury, will be and the same hereby is vacated and rescinded.” A decision was rendered by the Su preme Court on the 14th instant that the election on November 3rd Is a "general election” under the law and that elections can be held at that time fill vacancies in county ofilces. The decision was on a Cripple Creek case, but it is said it will apply to a number of counties, where vacancies have tak en place by death, resignation or pointment. Ther are fifty or sixty insane patients at Lie county hospital at Denver await ing admittance to the Pueblo asylum, to which they have been committed by the County Court. Unless provision is made for their reception within the next few days the county charity com mittee, consisting of "Parson” Uzzell, A. N. Patton and Alex Nisbet will bring court proceedings against the state for the recovery of damages. Disbarment proceedings have been instituted against Frank B. Taylor, a Denver lawyer, w r ho has been advertis ing that he could secure divorces le gally and quietly for $lO. The com plaint against Taylor is brought on be half of the Colorado Bar Association. The complaint was drawn by Attorney General Miller. Taylor was given thir ty days to show why he should not be disbarred. There arc several counts against Taylor of alleged misconduct. Register Woodruff of the Land Board has completed his report of re ceipts for the period beginning March 1 and ending September 30, 1903. The receipts amounted to $147,813.40, which is $22,080.43 more than during the cor responding period of the previous year. The school fund of the state has been increased by this amount. This does not include payments made to the board by Skinner and Tabor and other large delinquent lessees of the state land. A campaign through influential sources is about to be made in behalf of a new government building for Den ver. And because the present building is so lamentably inadequate Lt is ex pected that the campaign will be en tirely successful. Some two weeks ago R. E. Armstrong, first assistant secre tary of the Treasury, was In the city, and made a thorough inspection of the building. It was not. an official in spection, as Mr. Armsrong was in the city only incidently. But as he was next to 1 ead of the department to which public buildings belong, the cus todian of the building took advantage of the opportunity to give the depart ment some occult proof of the truth of his representations. He took Mr. Arm strong through the building and showed him the congested state of affairs. The First Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury was much impressed by what he saw. and in conversation with Mayor Wright and others, expressed himself quite freely. He said that he had hpi realized the congested condition of the federal building, or the great expense to the government and inconvenience to the departments arising from the necessity of locating offices outside of the buildings. "Denver seems to need a new building badly,” he said. “There is no city of its size and business in the country so poorly equipped to take care of the government’s busines.” State Engineer Carpenter on the 10th. inst. examined the bids submitted for the bridge to be built across the Ar kansas river ninfe miles from Pueblo at the mouth of the St. Charles river. All of the bids were too high, the low est being $5,000 in excess of the amount the state has to spend. The lowest bid ders were M. J. Patterson & Co. of Denver, and the Pueblo Bridge Com pany. The first was $12,980 and the second $12,300. For a combination wood and steel bridge the Patterson company bid $10,690 and the Pueblo company $9,980. It was decided to take the two lowest bids under advisement and con fer with the county commissioners of Pueblo county and see if they are will ing to pay the difference. COLORADO BRIEFS. Coman, a prominent Boulder physician, died on the 16th Inst., of pneumonia. James Laundry was instantly killed at Silver Plume on the 16th inst. by the falling of a rock in the Baltimore tun nel. He was twenty-one years of age and unmarried. A paying flow of oil is reported In the No. 5 well of the Otero company near Boulder. Other companies are actively engaged in drilling in the vi cinity. Among the vice presidents elected by the Army of the Tennessee at its recent meeting are Captain George Ady of Denver and General W. T. Clark, also credited to Colorado. Thomas J. Hunter, for fifteen years a resident of Larimer county, died at Fort Collins on the 12th Inst., at the age of eighty-six years, leaving a wife who is eighty-five. Dr. Rose Kidd Beere has been ap pointed truancy officer for the city of Denver. This is said to be the first case in the West where a woman has held the position. The handsome new opera house at Loveland was opened on the night of October 4th, the play being "On the Hills of California.” The seating ca pacity is about 900. The second annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Hotel Men’s associa tion will be held at the Adams hotel in Denver, November Bth. There will be a banquet at night. Farmers have begun delivering beets at the Longmont sugar factory. The plant will not be finished ready for work for several weeks, but the sheds will be filled to full capacity. Vincent Walsh, son of Thomas F. Walsh of Colorado, had the bones of his right arm badly fractured by the crank of his automobile while out rid ing at Washington on the 11th Inst. Harry Davies, the snake charmer, re ceived his tenth snake bite a few days ago, from a rattlesnake, at his Denver Snakery, but did not take It seriously. He had only recently recovered from the bite of a copperhead. Henry Carr Ferris has been appoint ed superintendent of the Union Pacifla railroad lines in Colorado to succeed W. A. Deuel, who goes to Omaha to take the position of superintendent of the company's lines in Nebraska. T. D. A. Cockerell, of London, later secretary of the Colorado Biological Association, and one of the most noted biological scientists in the world, has been secured by Colorado Coljege to compile the fauna and flora of Colo rado. A. B. Frenzel of Denver has offered, through the Colorado Scientific Socie ty, a cash prize of $250 to the student of the State School of Mines who shall write the best paper on "Tungsten in Colorado," the prize to be known as the Frenzel prize. The students of the University of Denver were so elated by the fact that that their football team was only beat en 10 to 0 by the Nebraska team that they took a whole day off and paraded tho streets in trolley cars with tin horns and college yells. Dr. J. Grafton Jones of Buffalo, N. Y., is anxious to locate two boys in) Colorado and has sought the assistance of the State Humane society. The boys are sons of Thomas McDougah, now living in Their names are John Patrick and William Albert Mc- Dougal. The troops from Fort Logan, 1.100 strong, started October 12th for the army maneuvers at Fort Riley over tho Union Pacific. The fort is left without a garrison except a detachment of cav alry of the Tenth regiment, which came to take the places of the infantry while the maneuvers were on. Prof. Clarence P. Gillette of the State Agricultural college has been notified of his appointment by Director True as chief expert in charge of all the ex hibits in entomology made at tho Louisiana Purchase exposition by tho government experiment stations. Ho will soon begin the work. The comptroller of the currency has approved the application of Charles Rucker, Humphrey Best, M. O. Coggins, I. Dennep, A. Nichols and I. L. McGee to organize a new national bank, to bo known as the First National bank otf Rocky Ford, Colorado. The new bank w.lll employ a capital of $50,000. The Telluride mill at Colorado City started up on the 12th inst with a full force of men, according to the state ment oi the operators. The mill began by treating 200 tons of ore a day, but expects to increase to 300 tons in a few days. Striking millmen asserted that no union men had returned to the mill. City Chemist Frank H. Martin of Colorado Springs has completed a chemical analysis of the water which was thought to have caused the illness of sixty-eight soldiers at Camp El Paso in Cripple Creek on the Bth inst. The analysis shows the presence of cobalt tin the drinking water, the exact pro portion, being one and one-half grains to the gallon. N. Underhill, commissioner of the Colorado Terminal Lines association, recently stated that according to the estimates made by him the tourist business of the year would be close to 70,000. The tickets sold to excur sionists are good until October 31st, hnd there are now about 4,000 tickets for the return trips not taken out. The tourist business this year has been onuch heavier than last year. W. W. Parce, a landscape gardener of Denver, has been awarded the prize of $l5O offered by the regents of the Uni versity of Colorado for the best plan for the improvement of the university grounds. It includes among other feat ures a large open air amphitheater placed in natural surroundings on the campus. The center of the grounds will be taken up by a large quadrangle, around which will be grouped the buildings. At a meeting of the Terminal Lines Passenger association in Denver on the 13th inst, a concession of one fare for the round trip was made for the Elks' exercises in Colorado Springs, Novem ber 11th; for the Poultry and Pet st6ck show December 10th to 12th in Colo rado Springs a rate of one fare and a fifth for the round trip was made. A similar rate was made for the Colorado Baptist’s state convention which meets ,in Colorado Springs October 27th to 29th. It is stated in Denver that plans are nnder way for a baseball league to take in the leading cities of this state and Utah, forming a compact little league that is destined to make the .loss of the Western less felt; that is, if the Western fails to appear at the call of "play ball” next spring. The promo ters of the state league have been ■working very quietly for the past three weeks, and have secured backing in many of the towns that it is proposed to take in. * On the 16th inst. the taxpayers of Fort Collins voted in favor of bonding the city for $160,000 for the construc tion of waterworks. SHORT TELEGRAMS. Three distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Nevada, Missouri, on the 9th Inst. No damage was done. Professor Langley and his assistants have not lost faith in his air ship, but will “try, try again.” They say it did not fail for want of power. The order to reduce the force of shop men on the Vanderbilt system has caused the discharge of about 500 em ployes at Buffalo aud Depew. Paris is all worked up over a new ratsbane that is harmless to dogs and larger animals, yet kills rats by the thousands. It is furnished by the Pas teur Institute. William Beals, an aeronaut, was killed at San Francisco on the 11th inst., by falling from the trapeze of a parachute when he was only forty feet from the ground. The Uruguayan gunboat General Ri vera has been sunk at Santa Barbara, as the result of an explosion. HeH commander was burned to death and many of the crew were killed. It Is stated at Rome that the Russian ambassador to Italy has assured Sig nor Malvence, acting foreign minister, that the czar will come to Rome to vis it the King early in November. Peter Moller of New York has been decorated by the King of Greece with the Order of the Savior. Mr. Moller accompanied King George on many of his excursions about Alx Les Bains. The new British cabinet ministers have assumed their duties, the seals of office having been exchanged at a pri vy council meeting held by King Ed ward at Buckingham patace October Bth. " A monument to William McKinley was unveiled at North Adams, Massa chusetts, on the 10th Inst. Among the speakers was John D. Long, who was secretary of the navy in McKinley’s cabinet. A decision has been handed down by the New York Court of Appeals in tha case of the people vs. Pierson, declar ing dependence upon faith healing in the case of sickness to be criminal negligence. The last transfer of a stock exchange seat at New York was $52,500, which is $7,500 below the last previous recorded sailed and about $20,000 below the high record price at which seats sold a year or more ago. A Socialist demonstration of 20,000 workmen took place at Bilboa, Spain, on the 11th inst., during which a seri ous collision occurred with the Cleric als. Four persons were killed and twenty-nine injured. Collector of the Port Stranahan o' New York City has recently received from Boston a contribution of $200.70 to the “conscience fund,” it being tha largest single payment U> this fund ever received at this port. Mrs. Tree, wife of Judge Lambert Tree, the well known jurist of Chicago, and formerly United States minister to Belgium and Russia, died on the 10th inst., aboard the steamer Campania, on her way home from Europe. It is prjpposed to reserve a national park near the eastern coast of Porto Rico. A representative of the United States Bureau of Forestry visited Porto Rico and finds a great forest, preserv ing a natural water supply. The body of Wilson S. Bissell, for mer postmaster general, was cremated at BufTalo, New York, October 9th. The list of honorary pall bearers at the fu neral included Grover Cleveland, John G. Carlisle and Hoke Smith. An agreement was reached at Chi cago between the sheep butchers and the packers by which the men will receive an increase of 25 cents a day. About 3,000 men in the packing cen ters of the country are benefited. The monument erected to the mem ory of both Union and Confederate sol diers of Maryland, who participated In the battles around Chattanooga, was dedicated at Orchard Knob, near the location pt Grant’s headquarters, on the Bth inst. Paymaster General A. E. Bates of the army reports that for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, the total amount of ftinds handled by his de partment was $43,045,959. Of this sum was expended on account of pay for the army. A hose company of the Fort Worth fire department has lowered the world's speed record for going into action. The contest was run 250 feet, lay 100 feet of hose, a total run of 350 feet, make plug connections and get water. The time was 23 4-5 seconds. A magistrate has seized the books of the Franco-American Oil Company at Paris. The manager of the concern re cently lelt Paris for America, but the shareholders, who complained that they had received no dividends, asked for an investigation. Dr. J. C. Brownfield, who figured in the Jessie Morrison case at Eldorado, Kansas, as a witness for the defendant, and was afterwards prosecuted on the charge of having perjured himself, will have to go to the penitentiary. The Supreme Court of Kansas has affirmed the decision of the court below, which sentenced Brownfield to the state pris on for seven years. As a result of a well organized and partly successful attempt at a whole sale delivery of prisoners from the Utah State Penitentiary on the night of October 9th, one prisoner was killed, one guard was shot and wounded, and another man was beaten almost into Insensibility, three prisoners were wounded and two others under thq death sentence escaped. The Argentine gunboat Uruguay, 550 tons, started from Buenos Ayres on the Bth instant for the Antartic regions to search for the Swedish expedition headed by Dr. Otto Nordenskjold The Nordenskjold expedition left Gothen berg, Sweden, October 16, 1901, on the steamer Antartic, and was last heard from August 18 last, when the vessel was imprisoned in the ice. The postmaster general has accept ed the resignation of G. A. Christian cy as assistant attorney in the office of the United States attorney general for the Postofflce Department. Mr. Christiancy tendered his resignation last July on account of ill health, and requested its acceptance if the postof flce investigation developed no charges against him. There were none. A proposition is being seriously con sidered to build catacombs, similar to those of ancient Rome, in the Calvary Roman Catholic cemetery at New York. The design is to use them as a burial place for Catholic priests. Joseph Folk, circuit attorney of St. Louis, who has been active in recent months in the prosecution of legisla tive and municipal wrong doers in Mis souri, was a guest of the president at luncheon a few days ago. Some of tha St. Louis boodlers have escaped to Canada and Mexico and Mr. Folk i? anxious to have the extradition treaties amend -d. DR. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE BEGINS HIS NEW YORK CRUSADE New York. Oct 18.—John Alexan der Dowls, who calls himself Elijah the Restorer, faced his first New York au dience to-day. and. although Madison Square Garden . was thronged at the afternoon and evening meetings, and thousands were turned away from the doors, he found himself confronted with what he called a new experience when thousands, having evidently sat isfied their curiosity, threw the meet ings into confusion by their sudden ex odus before the ceremonies had fairly begun. Commands to close the doors and prevent exist were unavailing, and the prophet gave vent to displays of much petulence on finding that it was one thing to gather a great New York au dience, but quite another thing to com mand its interest after the first de mauds of curiosity had been satisfied. The house-to-house visitation by the hosts of crusade meetings will be in augurated to-morrow. Five thousand persons were turned away from Madison Square Garden this afternoon, after all the seats in the building had been filled with a great crowd, curious to see John Alexander Dowie on his first appearance before a New York audience. Fully 14.000 per sons were in the Garden at half-past 2 o’clock when the services began with the processional hymn which the Zion white-robed choir, to the number of about 600, and the capped and gowned ordained officers of the Christian Cath olic Church in Zion took part. The service of prayer opened with the invocation by Dr. Dowie. followed by the singing of a hymn, during which the crowd continued to pour into the Garden. This was followed by the re ALASKA BOUNDARY COMMISSION SUSTAINS THE UNITED STATES London, Oct. IS. —The Alaskan bound ary commission to-day reached an agreement whereby all the American contensions are sustained with the ex ception of those in relation to the Port land canal, which Canada wins. All that now remains to be done Is for the comlssioners to afilx their sig natures to the decision and complete the map which will accompany it. On the map will be marked the boundary line definitely fixing the di vision of American and British terri tory on such a basis that no American citizen will lose a foot of land he al ready believed he held, while the United States will get all the water ways to the rich Alaskan territory, with the exception of the Portland Ca nal, which gives Canada the one out let she so much needed. The long standing dispute was only settled after a week of keen, trying, secret deliberation between the arbi trators. Even up to noon yesterday there was an acute possibility Jhat a disagreement might result, and the whole proceedings, fall to the ground. Lord Alverstone. though openly in clined to believe in the justice of the CONTINUED BOOM IN SILVER MARKET Washington. Oct. 18.—Another slice was taken off the rapidly narrowing margin between the bullion value of the Philippine pesos and their face value yesterday by an advance in the price of silver bullion in London to 28V4 pence per ounce, equivalent, at to day’s rate of exchange to G 2.23 cents. As the bullion value of the new Phil ippine pesos and their face value would be identical with silver bullion selling at G 4.1 cents per ounce, the margin or difference, which was about 15 cents per ounce when purchases for the Phil ippine coinage were commenced last March, has now dwindled to 1.87 cents. The continued advance in the price of silver, notwithstanding the with drawal of the Philippine government from the bullion market, indicates that purchases made for the new coinage were not the most important factor in bringing about the upward movement of the market. It has gone up almost daily since, in spite of predictions that it would de cline and consequently there is increas ed apprehension lest the advance should 'continue to such a level as to make it profitable to export the new coins from the Philippines. Their exportation will not be profit able with silver at just 64.1 cents per ounce. The price must go somewhat above this level to make it worth while for bullion dealers to ship coins to mar ket in Asiatic ports. There is much difference of opinion as to how’ high silver can go without starting an outflow of the new coins from the islands, but the Chinese mer chants at Manila can be depended upon to begin their exportation as soon as they can see a chance to make even a small margin of profit over the expense Of shipping them. Canadian Statesman Feels Savage. Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 18. —In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Gourley, member for Colchester. Nova Scotia, whose speeches in the House have gained for him much notoriety, took oc casion to refer to the decision in the Alaskan boundary case. He said: “If the news is correct that we hear in the corridors, and I hope it is not, all that the United States has got to do is to make a claim for Canada and they will get it t by boastfulness and dishon est effort.'* If it is true, we might as well throw away our national aspira tions. The last tvto generations of Englishmen were degenerates and cowards. They have had no leader since Pitt died. Thank God. Chamberlain is galvanizing them and putting new blood in them.” Mr. Ross (Victoria. Cape Breton) pro tested against speaking about English men in this way, and Mr. Gourley re torted that they went around with blinders on, unfit to drive sheep across the country. Unionizing Railway Employes. Boston, Oct. 19. —A movement is un der way, with the consent and co-oper ation of 1 lie Boston Elevated Railroad officials, to unionize the 7,000 employes of the system and affiliate them with the other labor organizations of the city, under the Central Labor Union. Among Boston labor men this is looked upon as the most notable achievement in organized labor for years and labor leaders feel that it will benefit not only the employes, but the company, intrenching it strongly against useless strikes and unreason able demands. cital of the creed and commandments and the reading of scripture, during wnich hundreds of persons started to leave the hall, causing much confusion. The exodus continued in spite of re pealed orders to close the doors, un til nearly a third of audience had departed, many of the vacant seats be ing filled with the waiting crowd out side. After order had been somewhat restored. Dr. Dowie said: "If this is New York, and this is a typical New York congregation, I am in the face of a new experience. I think that some of the people who came in must have thought that this was a Buffalo Bill show. I wonder ir the congregations of the churches here enter and leave as they please. I reck on we have learned something and will he prepared hereafter.” Dr. Dowie took his text from the third chapter of the Book of Revela tions. the twentieth verse: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me.” With bis arms above his head, in a shrill voice that reached the farthest parts of the Garden, he cried: "Oh. it is good to know that God has not ceased to knock at the human heart; to knock at the doors of homes; to knock at the doors of workshops; at the doors of places of business. The doors of business institutions; at the doors of the municipalities; at the doors of halls of legislation; at the doors of princes and of presidents and of kings. Thundering at the door ot the world is the King of Kings. And in his name I stand before you to-day and say: ‘Open that door and let the spirit of God in.’ ” American argument that the United States were entitled to the heads of in lets, as contained in question five, held out that Canada had established her case in questions two and three, deal ing with the Portland canal. After luncheon Senator Lodge. Sec retary Root and Senator Turner-agreed to cede those points and to start the American boundary line from the head of Portland canal, thus giving the Ca nadians that chanel and some small islands on which there are only a few unused storehouses. This accomplished, the majority of the tribunal agreed to fix. with this ex ception, the entire boundary as outlined in the American case. Whether Messrs. Aylesworth and Jette, the Canadian commissioners, will refuse to sign the decision and make it unanimous, is not known, but it will not affect the valid ity of the agreement if a minority re port is submited. By Monday afternoon it is hoped that everything will be ready for signature, though the actual marking of the line on the map which shall forever de termine the respective territories will occupy some time. AIR SHIP MAKES SUCCESSFUL TRIP San Francisco, Oct. 18. —Dr. August Greth, who for a -year past has been unostentatiously working on an air ship, to-day surprised the residents of San Francisco by sailing over their heads for two hours, directing the ma chine almost at will and demonstrat ing that in many essentials he has scJlved the problem of aerial navigation. The ascension was made from a lot almost in the heart of the city. Dr. Greth attempted to encircle a towering newspaper building about a mile east ward. but found the currents too strong for his power and then turned in an op posite direction. The winds carried him oceanward and for a time he hovered over the vi ■ cinity of the Golden Gate, making var ious successful trials of his steering gear. The currents threatened to take him out over the Pacific and he decided to make a landing on the parade grounds of the Presido military reservation, but made the mistake of letting out too much gas and he landed in the bay about 200 feet from the shore. A crew of the life-saving station in the neighborhood rescued the aeronaut j and his flying machine, which sus- I tained very little damage by the unfor -1 tunate termination of the vayage. The balloon of Greth’s aerial con trivance is cigar shaped and has a capacity of 50,000 feet of gas. with a lifting capacity of 1,800 to 2.000 pounds. The car of the balloon is similar in construction to that used by Santos- Dumont, and weighs about 800 pounds. Naval Apportionment. Washington, Oct. 18.—Secretary Moody has approved the estimates for the support of the navy for the next fiscal year, as recommended by the chiefs of bureaus, amounting to $102,- 866.440, as against $79,816,791, appro priated for the last fiscal year. A summary of the estimates follows: Pay of the navy, $19,824,093; pay, mis cellaneous. $600,000; bureau of naviga tion. $1,363,886; bureau of ordnance, $3,776,706; bureau of equipment, $6,- 874.093; bureau of yards and docks, $922,884; public works, bureau of yards and docks, $8,164,874; public works. Naval Academy, $3,000,000; naval sta tion. great lakes, $250,000; public works, bureau of ordnance. $248,900; bureau of medicine and surgery, $360,- 000; bureau of sullies and accounts. $5,203,092: bureau Of construction and repairs, $8,595,824; bureau of steam en gineering, $3,572,900; Naval Academy, $314,588; marine corps, paymaster, $2,- 118,875; quartermaster, $1,690,296. In crease of the navy—Construction and machinery, $28,826,860; armor and armament, $12,000,000; equipment, $400,000. Atlantic Tidal Wave. London, Oct. 18. —The Cunard line steamer Etruria, from New York, Octo ber 7th, which arrived at Liverpool to day. reports having been struck by a tidal wave the day she left New York. Several persons were injured, including Mrs. W. W. Hall, a saloon passenger, who had her ankle fractured and her hip dislocated. She has been removed to a Liverpool hispital. W. W. Hall, her husband, who suffered with a weak heart, died October 16th from shock.