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THE, OB&fiRYBK.
With tfeal at $125 a ton in Alaska the
ban who discovers a mine of the
*black diamonds" can laugh at the ef
fort* of the gold miners to acquire
wealth.
There are fewer lawyers in St. Louis
than in any other large city in the
country. That wouldn’t be such a bad
town after all, if it were not for its
many disadvantages.
Those people who value things by
the amount it costs to procure them are
Advised to go to Johannesburg in •
«earch of rooms, for there a simple j
ihakedown for a single night, in an !
apartment containing five other per
sons, cofets the modest sum of sls. The
probable ent of a room and a bed all
to one's self is apparently a matter to
leave to the consideration of million
aires only.
A struck-jury law which provides for
selection by the court of ninety-six
names from those of persons qualified
to serve as jurors, from which the
prosecutor and defendant may each
strike twenty-four, and the remainder
of which shall be put in the jury box,
out of which tne trial jury shall be
drawn in the usual way. is upheld in
Brown vs. New Jersey, Advance Sheets
U. S., p. 77, against the contention that
It violates the constitutional provision
as to due process of law.
'there is ordinarily no concert o'
action among state legislatures. Nev
ertheless similar conditions produce
similar results; and a comparison of
the more important laws enacted in
the several states makes it possible to
trace certain controlling influences, and |
to ascertain what ideas are uppermost
In the minds of legislators. The place
which the "trust" issue, for example,
holds in the public mind is shown by
the fact that twenty-nine states anu
territories now have law’s which are
intended to restrict or prohibit trusts.
Nine of the laws were enacted last
year; those of Arkansas, Michigan,
Missouri and Texas were especially
stringent.
The committee of the Society for the 1
Preservation of Science and Historic
Places and Objects appointed to exam
ine the Stony point battleground pub
lishes an interesting account of that
historic spot. It is illustrated with
plans of the battle and photographs of
the point at the present day. The bat
tleground has been committed to the
trusteeship of the society by the state
of New York, which appropriated $25,-
000 for the purchase of the scene of
operations. Nearly thirty-four acres,
the major part of Stony Point penin
sula, was purchased for $21,500. The
society petitions that the remaining
$3,500 be put in its hands for the care
and preservation of the battleground.
The party of geologists, paleontolo
gists and botanists who were invited
last summer by the Union Pacific Rail
road company to visit and explore the
fossil fields of Wyoming, spent forty
days in the rocky wilderness. Within
twenty days their number had dwin
dled from sixty-six to fourteen men,
the majority having given up the un
dertaking en route. About six tons
of the fossil remains of ancient ani
mals were collected and shipped east
ward, but no complete skeleton of a
dinosaur was discovered. Much of
the exploration was in a rough coun
try resembling the "Bad Lands" of
Dakota. The bones were found
cracked into innumerable pieces, and
had to be bandaged and set in plaster
before removal.
Here’s an ingenious calculation war
ranted to make a man gray-lieaded
with responsibility: “You had 2 par
ents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grand- (
parents, 16 great-great-grandparents. |
32 for the fifth remove, 64 for the sixth,'
128 for the seventh, 256 for the eighth,]
512 for the ninth, 1,024 for the tenth,!
2,048 for the eleventh, 4,096 for the j
twelfth, 8,192 for the thirteenth, 16,384
for the fourteenth, 32,768 for the fif
teenth, 65,536 for - the sixteenth, 131,-
072 for the seventeenth, 262,144 for the
eighteenth, 524,288 for the nineteenth,
1,048,576 for the twentieth. 2,097,152 fur
the twenty-first, 4,194,304 for the twen
ty-second. 8,388,608 for the twenty
third, 16.777,216 for the twenty-fourth,
33,554,432 for the twenty-fifth, 67,108,-
864 for the twenty-sixth. 134,217,728 for
the twenty-seventh. 268,435,456 for the
twenty-eighth. 536,870,912 for the twen
ty-ninth, 1,073,741,824 for the thirtieth,
the total of all those being 2,147,483.-
648. If we assume three generations
to the century, it shows that 1,000
years ago our ancestors were all people
then living in the civilized world.
Your ancestors and mine figure Just the
same, and we might ask how many
generations we would have to go back
to find that you and I are reluted. This
proves the brotherhood-of-mun ideu in
disputably."
The manner In which the United
States cruiser Atlanta has been recon
structed shows how thoroughly the
lessons concerning the danger that
lurks in woodwork on warships,which
were taught by the battles of Manila
and Santiago, have been heeded. In
place of tho former wooden bulkheads
In the Atlanta, corrugated metal Is
now seen. The wooden panels of the
colling* and walls have given place to
asbestos and non-lnflammuble paint
Wood Is rigidly excluded, even in th*
shape of furniture, and desks, chairs
and bunks are all composed of metai.
COLORADO NOTES.
The corner stone of the handsome
new Masonic temple at Victor was iaid
on the 15tli.
I Rev. J. B. Fruncolon, pastor of the
parish of Manitou, has resigned his
i charge and left the city. He will be
succeeded by Rev. John Kenny, late
cbaplaiu of Montcalm sanitarium.
The companies which bad policies
out on the life of Frank E. Tyler, the
Kansas City man who was burned to
death near Alpine, Colo., last summer,
have given up the attempt to prove
that the ease was another Fraker
swindle and will pay up.
Over one hundred residences are now
under course of construction at Rocky
Ford and arrangements have been
made for the erection of new business
blocks. The American Sugar Beet
; Company is pushing work on the sugar
factory. UK) additional men having
, been put to work during the week,
i The Mutual Life of New York has
paid its $50,000 phi icy, held by the
Metropolitan National bank as secur
-1 ity for a debt, to the receiver of the
bank, and the smaller policies will he
paid in a day or two. Detectives have
been working on the case for months,
but have not been able to substantiate
the fraud theory. '
After considerable litigation between
the Colorado & Southern Railroad Com
pany and the city of Pueblo, tlie for
mer, iu consideration of the city va
cating certain ground for its benefit,
has made an appropriation of $5,000
to the city, to l»e used iu the construc
tion of the First street viaduct across
the Fountain river and the Colorado
& Southern tracks. Work will be re
sinned on the new viaduct.
What appears to have been a das
tardly attempt to burn tlie J. J. Maher
Mercantile Company’s building and
Masonic hall, at Ouray, was made last
Tuesday night, by placing a sack satu
rated with kerosene iu some boxes un
der the rear stairway and setting lire
to it. About sixty ladies of the order
of Rebekah were holding a banquet in
the lodge room, and they discovered
the fire in time to avert a catastrophe.
The constable of the precinct was ar
rested on suspicion at midnight.
The National Beet Sugar Company,
now erecting a half million dollar
sugar factory, fifty miles east of Pueb
lo on the Missouri Pacific railroad,
have 300 merit at work and expect to
complete the factory by October Ist.
This company proposes to raise its own
beets, and has prepared about 4,000
acres of ground for this year’s crop.
Two trainloads of experienced beet
growers will leave April Ist for Sugar
City. With their arrival will be gin
the planting of the first beet sugar crop
in Otero county.
Colorado College lias lately been of
fered $50,000 toward the endowment of
a science building, provided SOO,OOO for
building purposes be secured by April
Ist. The unexpectedness of the offer
and the shortness of the time will ne
cessitate great and unceasing efforts
on the part of the college to meet the
conditions. General Palmer has given
$25,000, Mr. Howbert $2,500, and other
gifts bring the total up to nearly $35,-
000. So there remains $25,000 to be
raised in two weeks.
A serlbs of suits lias been commenced
in the United States courts covering
the taking of timber, coal and other ma
terials from government land. The
first of the suits was filed on February
14th, when the government accused the
Denver Tramway Company of cutting
ties on government land without per
mission. Tills suit includes not only
the Tramway company and its officers,
but also the Denver, Leadville & Gun
nison railroad. The suit is a civil one
for the value of the timber taken. The
damages are placed at $10,489. Last
Friday a second suit was filed for dam
ages against Allen M. and E. T. Ghost,
it being charged that they had taken
$4,810 worth of coal from government
land.
The franchise of the Ouray and Red
Mountain toll road, the connecting link
on the Ouray route of the circle trip
so many people from all parts of the
world have traveled, will expire next
month. The people of Ouray county
expect the company, at the head of
which is Otto Mears, to give up pos
session at that time, although a new
corporation is said to have been organ
ized for the purpose of assuming con
trol. A recent decision in a Clear
I Creek county case held that no indi
vidual or corporation could take charge
of a toll road after the life of a first
franchise had expired. The Ouray road
has been traveled for twenty years by
passengers taking the stage at Silver
| ton, and has been a bonanza for the
| owners.
I Tho Denver Republican says: Grand
j Junction will be colonized by Mor-
I moils. An influx of families from the
J city of the saints is now certain. For
ty families have already made arrange
ments to take up in the Colorado beet
sugar town. Many other families of
the same faith are said to have decid
ed to follow the forty now on the way
to Grnml # Junction, and that Grand
Junction will soon he so largely popu
lated by Mormons that they may bo
able to control its politics is now
thought to be highly probable. The
Grand Junction sugar-beet factory is
preparing to do a much larger business
this year than last. Grand Junction
citizens who were In Denver yester
day express the fear that too large an
influx of Mormons would take tho po
litical control of affairs out of the
bonds of those who have lived in
Grand Junction for years. An effort
will he made to guard against this.
The Mormon colonists will Im* direct!)*
connected with the beet Industry anil
to the Introduction of the beet sugar
business into that section can he at
tributed tlds Influx of population as
well as the coming of many other new
families.
Deputy Revenue Collector J. I>. Al
lard has returned from near r*i Veta,
where with It. L. Myers, a deputy from
Denver, he wept last Saturday on a
chase after an illicit still. Tins outfit
was located on Beaty eri*ek, eighteen
miles north of La Veta, in a common
shanty covered with canvas. A copper
still and worm were found that were
not merely makeshift devices. Tho ca
pacity was five or ten gallons |ier day.
The plant was destroyed. Nolxidy was
found at tin* shack, but It was evident
that moonshine had Immoi made there
recently. Last fall another still was
located and destroyed by Mr. Allard on
the other side of the Spanish peuka In
Muvcrlafc canon.
GREAT STRIKE IMPENDING.
Trouble at Chicago May Spread
Across tho Country.
Chicago, March 19.—After the con
ference between representatives of the
International Association of Machinists
and the Administrative Council of the
National Metal Trades’ Association
ended at 10:30 this morning. President
.lames O’Connell of the union declared
that strikes would be culled immedi
ately In all parts of the United States
and Canada. Such strikes would in
volve 100,000 men and cause to be shut
down for au indefinite time plants
having an aggregate caimcity of mill
ions of dollars. Chicago labor troubles
are responsible for the disagreement
which Is cx|H*cied to precipitate the
general machinists’ strike.
Were it not for the fact that lenders
of the machinists’ union refused to call
off the strikes that now exist in Chi
cago, Columbus. Ohio, and Paterson.
New Jersey, the manufacturers and
the leaders, it is believed, would have
come to ail amicable agreement and
arbitration would have been perma
nently established between the Nation
al Metal 'fraties’ Association and the
International Association of Mucliiiir
Jsts.
The members of the Executive Board
of the machinists' union, however, re
fused to call off the Chicago strike, ns
they declared that if they did the Chi
cago local union would secede from
the International Association of Me
cliinists. When the refusal of the ma
chinists to end tin* strike was present
ed to the manufacturers they issued
an ultimatum to the lalxir leaders, and |
on their refusal to agree to its provis
ions, all negotiations were broken off. i
Before leaving the rooms in which
the joint conference was held. Presi
dent O’Connell of the International !
Union declared that the union would I
begin immediately to call strikes in all
parts of the country.
The first of these strikes will be I
called in Cleveland. Ohio. After all the
large cities have been tied up, strikes
will Ik* called in the machine shops of
all the railroads In the country.
BAD NEWS FROM MANILA.
Filipluoß in That City flartl to Control— j
Treason at Other Places.
Manila, March 19.—Gen. Otis consid
ers Manila the most troublesome cen
ter iu the situation to-day. Tlip In
surgent junta here, in conjunction with
that in Ilong Kong, in growing active.
The military authorities have been
forced to put a stop to Mabini’s in
tercourse With tin* public. The local
and foreign press considers his recent
utterances calculated to Incite the Fil
ipinos to a continued revolt and preju
dicial to American control.
A number of representative insurgent
leaders from different parts of Luzon
have recently been in conference in
Manila. Some have been placed un
der arrest, but the others thus far
linVe not been iuterferml with.
Maj. Allen of the Forty-third regi
ment has been appointed military gov
ernor of the island of Samar, where
Lukhan. the former leader of the reb
els in that locality, is still in tile moun
tains.
Gen. Kobbe has opened twenty ports
iu tlie southern part of Luzon and in
the islands of Samar and Leye. the re
sult of which is to stimulate trade
mere, although only temporarily, as
the country opened is non-productive
and apparently noii-cousnmlng. Ow
ing to tlie political conditions of the
last twelve months, products accumu
lated during the blockade. These will
oe shipped to Manilla and then the
ports will l>e empty.
Evidence accumulates of the treason
and perfidy of the municipal presidents
in the provinces of Gen. Mm*Arthur's |
district. The presidents of several |
towns in Lepanto and Union provinces
have declined to continue their posi
tions, saying that they do not desire
any further Identification with tin*
Americans. Travel between the towns
garrisoned by the Americans Is becom
ing more dangerous. All wagon trains
must la* i*seorted by heavy guards In
order to insure tlioir safety.
RUSSIA’S INTRIGUES.
Trying to Control Itailrna<l Linen In Asia |
Minor.
Constantinople, March 19.—After pro
longed deliberations upon the Russian |
demands for exclusive railroad rights j
in Asia minor, the Sublime Porte has |
projKJsed a compromise, whereby the
railways would be constructed by Tur- !
key and Russia in partnership.
The Russian embassy insists U|>on
tin* original demands, which the Turk
ish military commission strenuously op
poses.
Berlin, March 19.—The St. Peters
burg correspondent of the Neuste
Mnehrlehteu says:
Russia, although tacitly encouraging
the champions of Bulgarian independ
ence does not consider the time proi>-
itlous for any action.
She hopes to bring pn*ssure to liear
u|m»u Turkey in tin* railroad question, j
but should she fail to obtain the re- ;
qaired concessions, important event* '
may he expected in the Balkans.
Tlie repatriation of the Armenian ref- j
ogees still furnishes Russia with a !
good diplomatic weapon wherewith to 1
obtain her demands.
Boer Women Will Fight.
Bloemfontein, March 19.—1 tis re
ported that 2,onn women have lieon
formed into an amazon corps at Pre
toria. dressed in Kahkl kilts, limit'd
with rltles and thoroughly drilled in
volley practice behind entrenchments.
The burghers say tlie women are all
widows of Boers slain or captured,
and have provided themselves with tin*
rltles taken from British prisoners.
They Insist on being sent to the outer
trenches, which they say they won’t
leave unless driven liy English bay
onets.
Will Not Dive Up.
txmrcnzo Marques, March 19.—Secre
tary Reitz, in au Interview at Pre
toria, said that tlie Tratisvual govern
ment considered the American reply
to peace representations as highly sat
•sfactory and believed that Americans
Would bring sueh pressure to bear as
would result iu settlement ngre<*able
to 1 1»« |s*ople of the republic. While
admitting the seriousness of the situ
ation Secretary Reitz is convinced that
the burghers of the two republics will
enthusiastically defend the Independ
ence of the Transvaal to the lust.
TEXAS POWER UPHELD.
Sni«ena« Coart B»ji It Cta Bogota!* OK
Trust.
Washington, March 20.—1 n the Unit
ed States Supreme Court to-day an
opinion was banded down in the case
of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, in
volving it* right to do business In the
state of Texas, contrary to the provis
ions of the state anti-trust laws of 1889'
and 1895. The opinion sustained the
decisions of the state court to the ex
tent of affirming them, and was thus
opposed to the contentions of the oil
company, but it did this upon the
ground that the state laws imposed a
condition which the oil company hail
accepted, anil hence was without
ground of complaint.
The basis of the action was the
Standard (Ml trust, organized in 1882,
and it was owned that its intention was
to control and monopolize the i»etrol
eum Industry of the United States, in
restriction of trade, dividing the mar
kets of the United States into various
sub-divisions, awarding Texas to the
Wateni-Pierce company. The decision
of today was based uj>on the proi>osi
tions which were submitted to the jury
In the original trial. Justice McKenna
said:
•Tho transactions of local commerce,
•which were held by the state courts to
be violations of the statute, occurred in ;
contracts with certain merchants, In
which the plaintiff iu error required
them to buy oil exclusively from it. and
from no other source, or buy exclusive
ly of the complainant in error, and not
to sell to any person handling compet
ing oils, or to buy exclusively from the
plaintiff in error and to sell at a price,
fixed by it.
‘The statutes,” ho continued, ‘'must
be considered in reference to these con
tracts. In any other aspect they are not
subject to oar review on this record,
except the j*>wer of the state court to
restrict their regulation of local com
merce. upon which a contention is
raised.”
BRYAN’S PLATFORM.
NebraikA Democrat* Foreshadow Action
of National Convention.
Lincoln. March 20.—1 n effect Wil
liam J. Bryan announced last night to
the Democratic party and to the nation
at large, the platform which lie consul-,
ers best for the Democratic party and
practically upon which he desires to
stand, if nominated, at the Kansas City
convention.
The platform which was adopted by
Tlie Nebraska Democracy with the
greatest enthusiasm, rc-attirnis tlie Chi
cago platform, declares for "sixteen to
one,” opposes a large and standing
army, denounces the net ion of tin* Re
publican party on the Puerto Rico tar
iff bill, declares against trusts and ‘‘im
perialism," and favors tlie choice of
United States senators by popular vote.
The platform is practically the crea
tion of Mr. Bryan. Hi* did not write it,
personally, hut he was consulted con
eerning it, and before it was read to
tlie convention, he had approved of it
throughout.
The platform adopted by the Popu
list convention was substantially the
same as that adopted by the Demo
crats, It differs somewhat In form,
but conflicts in no essential point.
Both conventions to-day were enthus
iastic for Bryan to the last degree, and
every mention of Ills name was greeted
with cheers of delight and approval.
Instructions were given to both dele
gations to stand for Mr. Bryan In the
Kansas City and Sioux Fails conven
tions.
CAN’T LOWER FARES.
Detroit** Attack on Street Car I.lne* De
feated
Detroit. Mich., March 20.—Judge
Swan of the United States District
Court, has rendered a decision deny
ing the validity of an ordinance re
quiring the street railway companies
to reduce rates of fare to 3 cents. The
court says there is nothing In the char
ter of the city which authorizes such
an ordinance and allows an injunction
,to restrain the city from enforcing it.
Said Judge Swan:
‘‘To enforce this ordinance would l»e
an act not of regulation but of spolia
tion. The police power includes tho
general management as regards the
protection of life and property, and
the accommodation of the public; hut
the legislature itself could not effect
the faros agreed upon. It might be for
the welfare of the public that fares
should be abolished altogether, but
that would is* confiscation and could
not be tolerated."
A contention of the city In defend
ing the injunction suit was that since
the older ordinances provided that
rates of faro ‘‘not exceeding 5 cents"
should be charged, the city had power
to regulate the rates at "reasonable"
figures. The court holds that the sub
stance or meaning of all these ordinan
ces permits 5-ecnt fares, which priv
ilege cannot he afterward annulled.
Anti-Foreign Policy in China.
Pekin, March 20.—The ascendancy
; of the anti-foreign party Is becoming
i pronounced daily. Tlie dowager em
| press appears unable to sufficiently re
j ward the officials who exhibit marked
S hostility to everything not Chinese,
i Hen Tung, probably the most bitterly
anti-foreign official of the empire, lias
been decorated with the three-eyed pea
cock feather, which had never been
conferred for eighty years; the notor
ious LI Peng llliig, Wlio was dismissed
j from the governorship of Shan Tung
on German demand. has been advanced
to the first rank, and the former gov
-1 ernor. Yuh Sen of Shan Tung, lias been
I appointed governor of the Shnng-81
i district, a snub to tlie powers interest-
I cd and likely to prejudice British in
] tercsts In the province, as the powers
j believe Ids maladministration is tlie
j cause of tlie present state of affairs iu
Shan Tung.
Ireland Objects to Burdensome War Tax
London, March 20. During the bud
get discussion* John Redmond* the
Irish leader, said the Irish members ab
stained from this discussion, but they
did not regard It as a hdtndrum bud
net. as it imposed upon Ireland an ad
ditional war tax of over a million n
year, at which the conscience of Ire
land, lie added, revolted.
London. March 2<>. In the House of f
Commons to-day tlio chancellor of tin*
exchequer announced that the total
number of applications for the war
lonn was 39,800, and that Ihc subserliß
I lions were £335,500,000. ]
DEMOCRATIC INTRIGUE.
Governor Stone Fear* That Gold Demo*
crate Will Make Mlarhlef.
St. Louis, Mo., March 17.—Ex-Gover
nor William J. Stone, Democratic na
tional committeeman from Missouri,
said to-day he believed there was some
truth In the statement that there Is a
movement among eastern Democrats
to elect Tom L. Johnson of Ohio chair
man of the national committee, and
eliminate silver from the platform.
To a Post-Dispatch representative,
Governor Stone said:
“Some sort of a scheme is on foot,
although I am not yet able to say ex
actly what it is. From information
that came to me at Washington and
since. I gather that the object which
the Palmer and Buckner Democrats
are trying to attain is the capture of
the organization of their party. The
scheme seems to be to got Into the con
vention as delegates and with as little
noise as possible, but by means of
adroit manipulation, control as many
delegations as possible, with the ulti
mate object of controlling the conven
tion and capturing tin- national com
mittee. They will be for Bryan, but
they want the organization.
“Speaking for myself, ■while I am
very glad to see the Palmer and Buck
ner Democrats of 189(1 come back to
the party, I do not believe iu offering
a premium for their return. If they
come back they should come with no
hoi>o of reward, but as plain Demo
crats. They deserted the party iu 1890,
and fought it as hard as they could,
and they should expect no reward for
seeing the error of their ways and re
penting. I do not believe in giving
them tin* management of the national
campaign.
“That there is some scheme, such as
has been alleged. I have no doubt.
There are many bits of evidence that
have cropped out recently which show
this.”
WILL INDICT THE BIG MEN.
Four l’ollce CoimitisHloneni of New York
Hooked for Grand .fury Target.
New York, March 17.—The Press
says: The four police commissioners
of the city of New York—Bernard J.
York. John B. Sexton. Henry E. Abell
and Jacob Hess—are to be indicted by
tlie grand jury for what the statute
delines as an offense against public
justice. The indictment may be hand
ed up Monday. If it is not the proba
bilities are that it will not be delayed
longer than Wednesday.
The Times says: The grand jury
had before it yesterday as witnesses,
Capt. Thomas of the tenderloin pre
cinct, and Chief Devery, and there was
a persistent rumor that the former
would be indicted by the grand jury
before it had finished its investigation
concerning matters that had trans
pired iu the precinct.
Capt. Thomas was a witness at his
own request. He was warned that
any admissions made by him would
Im* used against him in case the grand
jury came to the conclusion that an in
dictment for neglect to perform his
duty was warranted. Capt. Devery
was then called in.
Think Joubert in a Quandary.
London, March 17.—Spencer Wilkin
son. iu the Post, says:
“The difficulty now is to Imagine a
satisfactory plan of operations for the
Boer commander-in-chief. At an out
side estimate ids available forces ran
hardly la* 40,000 men. The Boer po
sitions will always In* turned before
a frontal attack is made. To await
the attack will lie to risk capture. The
only plan to avoid it will be a hasty
retreat.”
Then proceeding to discuss various
possibilities for tin* Boers, Mr. Wilkin
son arrives at the following conclu
sion:
“The host thing the Boers can hope
for is to gain time. There is chance of
tlielr being able again to restore the
equilibrium and to turn the balance
in their own favor. By gaining time
they may hope for some foreign inter
vention - complication.”
Conditions at Bloemfontein.
Bloemfontein, March 17.—General
Prettymnn is succeeding admirably as
governor of the town. He issued a proc
lamation to-day requesting the burgh
ers within a radius of ten miles to de
liver up their arms, assuring them they
would lie paid for the confiscation of
their property.
Ix»rd Roberts is about to issue fresli
proclamations, which, it is considered,
will have the effect of disarming furth
er opposition upon the part of the Free
Staters.
Mr. Pollings has been appointed land
drone, vice Pappenfus, deposed, and
Mr. Frazier will act as mayor.
Great quantities of stores captured
at Wasserfnll have l>eeu recovered. As
the result of Hunter and Weston’s lino
cutting the British have secured twen
ty-six engines, and the line has been
cleared to the Kafilr river. Rumors
are curernt that Former President
Stcyn is willing to surrender. Much
unrest exists among tin* Dutch popu
latlon. The burghers descrllKHl the
soldiers as locusts, saying they are In
numerable and of identical color with
them.
Another Alaska Bonanza.
Tacoma. Wash.. March 17.—L. S.
Quhnby, a prospector who was grub
staked nearly two years ago. lias Just
returned with a story of marvelously
rich quart/ deposits in southeastern
Alaska in the vicinity of the Ketchi
kan, the exact location not being dis
closed at the present time. The discov
ery also Includes some rich placer
ground.
The story is that (Juimhy panned out
S4OO in a few days from the dccoin
posod quartz In the ledge. Tim veins
ar»* large and tin* discoverer says they
extend for miles. Assays of rock
brought down run from $l5O upward
Into values like some of tin* wonderful
samples brought down from Ketchi
kan.
Wages Advanced for 40.000 Iron Moulders
Atlanta, (la., March 17. 'Hie Stove
National Defense* Associations, whose
representatives. have Ihnmi in session
here for several days with delegates
from tin* Iron Mulders’ Union of North
America, have agreed to advance the
prices paid moldcrs fifteen per cent,
over the figures in effect iu 1898. Tint
result means increased wages to about
40.000 Iron moldcrs in all parts of the
United States,
DOINGS AT DENVER.
Items of Interest From the City siul the
Slate Capitol.
Detective Gar berry of this city was
shot and killed the other day by a man
named laklc, while the former was out
duck hunting. Inkle claims that It was
an accident.
A person convicted of a crime less
than a capital offense may have re
course to only one writ of error, says
the Supreme Court. This statement is
made in connection with the refusal by
the court to consider the case of Ed
ward Gaviuess. The crime of Oaviness
was murder in ».»e second degree. Ah
his counsel applied for a writ of error
a year ago, then refused to prosecute
it, the court denied him privilege of
again attempting a similar action.
Mrs. Harvey Payne was roused from
her sleep last Saturday night to find a
man bending over her holding a pistol
to her head. lie ordered her to get up
and give him all the money she had in
the house. With threats he made her
go to her hiding place, n sugar bowl.
She handed him SIOO which she had
caved and had hidden there. She stag
gered to a neighbor’s and fell senseless
on the steps. Hearing her fall, the oc
cupants of the house hurried out and
found her.
I The coming census may increase
Colorado’s representation In Congress
by two. Governor Thomas predicts
this. “Another congressman should
have been allowed iu this state when
the last apportionment was made,”
says the governor, "if the census had
been accurately taken, and I am con
fident that the new census will add nt
least one and in ail probability two
I congressmen to our representation iu
the lower house.”
John Jacob Astor Powell, attorney,
Is alive, well and practicing law iu
Virginia. However, he is not the John
Jacob Astor Powell of Ouray, who
disappeared from Denver not long ago.
John T. Barnett, a lawyer. Is sponsor
for this statement. He thinks tlie
Otiray lawyer used the Virginian’s
name. Friends of the missing man
think that he is in South Africa, and
one of them says he lias a letter from
Powell, under recent date, from Jo
hannesburg. where in* says Powell is
protecting his South African mining
interests.
| Captain Cecil A. Deane, custodian of
| the war relic room at the state capitol.
| has received the first fiag made in Gil
i pin county. Its dimensions are lux 14
feet and there are thirty-four stars on
the field of blue. The original size of
the fiag was 10x28 feet, and it was cut
iu two at some time not exactly known.
The other part, has l>eeii destroyed or
lost. The ladies of the Gold Dirt min
ing camp made tin* tlag in 1801 and
when the camp went down the emblem
was taken in charge by J. Q. A. Rol
lins, whose widow now presents the
flag to the state.
I
| The sale of 4,000,000 feet of state
I timber, scheduled to take place last
j Monday, was postponed because of
j the discovery of an error in the adver
tisement of the timber, which makes
; read vert is ing necessary. The ndver-
I tisement read “the south range,” when
| It should have been “the north range.”
| Bidders appeared in plenty. The re
; advertising may cause a delay of a
| month. This mistake in advertising is
not the first of recent date. A similar
error was made in the sale of the GOO
1 acres of Otero county land to the Ox
-4 nard Beet Sugar Company.* Senator
! Swink discovered this mistake and
: came to Denver for tin* purj>ose of hav-
I ing it rectified. To J. \V. Vickers, 100,-
| 000 feet of Park county Umber was
. sold at $1 a thousand feet. This tim
| l»or is on school land near Ilartzell. F.
j M. liars in bought eighty aeresof Otero
county land at $25 an acre. This land
| is where he has made his home for
several years, leasing it from the state
ami improving it at his own conven
ience.
The National Rural, an agricultural
paper printed in Chicago, lias under
taken to loeate a colony of eastern
farmers on a tract of about 100,000
acres, situated in the Bijou valley in
Arapahoe county, about thirty-six
miles oast of Denver. About 30,000
acres has been purchased from the
Union Pacific Railroad Company and
will be sold to settlers for $1.25 an
acre, or they may purchase the alter
nate sect ions from the government
under the desert land act at the same
price, or locate them under the home
stead law, all getting their water from
the promoters of the settlement. The
water for irrigation it is proposed to
get from the underflow of the gravelly
bed of Bijou creek. 'l’lie gravel and
the whole Irrigation scheme have been
examined by civil engineers, whose re
ports to tin* promoters show that forty
per cent, of the rainfall sinks into the
soil. Bijou creek drains 1,500 square
miles, though little water flows In tha
visible stream lieds. The original
stream beds, of impermeable clay, are
at an average depth of seventy feet
from the surface. Tests show that
within a few feet of the surface the
sands curry thirty per cent, of moist
ure, while from five feet from the sur
face to the clay the gravel carries
forty-five per cent, of moisture. A
system of under-draining galleries will
he constructed to collect this water
from the gravel. The creek falls
twenty-three feet to tin* mile, so that
bringing the water to the land is not
a difficult problem. In addition to the
under-drainage system, the company
will have nn outfit on the ground In n
few weeks for the construction of sev
eral large reservoirs in natural de
pressions. The money to pay for the
engineering Is being raised by sub
scriptions of set tiers to tin* stock of the
coinpauy. receiving water rights at the
rate of $12.50 an acre, with stock,
which will give them a share in the
future profits.
ApplicnutM for hiiiii 11 parcels of public
land are again favored In the recom
mendations prepared for tin* stale kind
hoard by Governor Thomas and Regis
ter Clilpie.v. Tin* hinds applied for
are all suitable for grazing and agri
cultural purposes and there were scores
of small requests included in the 15,-
000 nercft passed upon. The applica
tions were nil in tin* nature of requests
to the lsmrd for the selection of gov
ernment domain. In all tin* applica
tions included 171,000 acres. As tin*
state eould only get 15,000 ikvps, this
1 amount was divided among those ask
ing small portions. The land will he
selected and secured from tin* govern
ment, then leased to those chosen.