Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1891, Page 6

CITY AND DISTRICT. @F Awealthy London merchant gives the Secret of his business snecess as follows: “I always feel happy when I am advertising, for then I know that, waking or sleeping, Ihave a strong though silent orator working for me; ‘one who never tires, never makes mistakes, and who is certain to enter the households from which, if at all, my trade must come.” To secure the services of such an agent as this shrewd merchant referrgd to, advertise in Tar Evesixo Stax. It is read by everybody in Washington. THE WINTHROP CLUB RAID. Manager James Held in $300 to Await the Action of the Grand Jury. Saturday night Lieut. Kelly, Sergeant Byrnes and Detective Block led a squad of policemen to the rooms of the “Winthrop Club” over the fruit store corner Pennsylvania avenue and 6th street and interrupted a game of poker. Henry Randolph, who was in charge of the rooms at the time of the raid, was required to deposit $100 collateral. Several persons in the place were summoned as witnesses. The officers took posession of cards and chips and the literary part of the club, which con- sisted of several news and sporting papers, and also a copy of Hoyle on games. Yesterday in the Police Court John James, the alleged manager of the club, was charged with setting up a gaming table and Samuel Gassen- heimer, who has charge of the premises, was charged with permitting games on premises under his control. The defendants were repre- sented by Mr. C. Maurice Smith. THE “LITERATURE” CAPTURED. ‘When Lieat. Kelly wae sworn as a witness he toid of the raid and showed nearly a peck of | chips and cards that were found in the rooms. He said that there were two tables, commonly P poker tables, in the rooms. Detecti ve Biock gave similar testimony. Geo. W. Krauskopf said that he became a) amember of the club about two Wit ness could not tell the names of the officers of the club. He said that the fees were 50 cents | a month ago, but he not tell how long | ago it was that he pai yeas said be joined the ciub to go there and read and | pass away the time. Sometimes he plays poker for money and pays for the chips to the man who has been appointed treas- urer for the particulir night. He never gave | the same man the money on more than one occa- | sion. BAD No TIME FOR LITERARY EXERCISER. ‘The next witness, named McAllister, gave ‘ge McMaster. He testified that ¢ elub rooms about five | t the money tal | 2 unierstood went tow: He remembered seeing Mr. times. Wi out of the * ‘on one occasion. Witness was elected =a member club he id at m fee. He joined the club at the tion of Mr. Gassenheimer and played very tim e to the rooms. in any literary exer- ht. bs also gave evidence. He thoneht Mr. James was president of the club and Mr. Flaherty wasvecretary. Witness suid that the club takes many papers and they are afterward sent out to Soldiers’ Home. He became a mem- Ler of the club after it was incorporated, and he. therefore. ecuid not tell why the club was incorporated. Henry Randoiph, colored porter of the elnb, | Was next called and questioned as to his duties im the rooms and also as to what disposition was niade of the chips. Kiebard Jones, another meniber of the club, gave evidence and the government closed the case. Mr. Smith argued for an acquittal of James, im whose case the testimony had been taken. JUDGE MILLER'S COMMENTS. Judge Miller, commenting on the case, said that if it was shown that a gaming table had been set up this boomerang of an incorporation eut only the figure of making @xery member of the clab liable. ‘The judge wanted to know what difference it made whether a man was clected to gumble | or whether he was persuaded to go in| and play. In conclusion Judge Miller mid that in his opinion every man who entered these games | and put chips in the box which were afterward taken out to pay for the outtit of the room is Liable under the law. “I know,” said the court, “that it is a radical stand, but in my opinion it is the law.” The defendant was held in $300 bonds to await the action of the grand jury. The charge against Mr. Gasseuheimer was abandoned. cea sien RAILWAY POSTAL CLERKS. & Meeting to Favor the Pending Bill to Ee- classify Them and Fix Their Salaries. A meeting of railway postal clerks was held last evening at the St. James Hotel in the in- terest of the bill now pending in Congress to reclassify and fix the salaries of postal clerks. M. A. Buttueks of New Haven, Conn., presided and J. B. Cook of this city was the secretary. Capt. James E. White, the general superin- tendent of the railway mail service, was called pan to make some remarks. While he was speaking Mr. J. Lowrie Bell, the second assist- ant postmaster general, formerly general su- perintendent, entered the room and Capt. White yielded the floor tohim. Mr. Bell spoke ‘St some length and said that he was entirely in favor of the bill. He declared that the main desire, as he understood it, was to put the rail- Way mail service in a position to provide for the changed conditions under which it is now operated as compared with those which ob- tained at the time the present aw was enacted. This purpose, he believed, would be accom- plished by the bill now before the House. One Of the great defects in the present system was that no flexibility attached to the regulations and no power of discrimination was possible. Its sole object was the betterment of the service and it was in the interest of no special class. The Postmaster General, the officials of the Post Office Department and the committee (Qn Post offices and post roads had approved the Other hes were made and it was finally decided that the entire delegation of postal clerks should today wait on Speaker Leed and ‘the committee on post offices and post roads. WHO WERE THERE. Among thove present were the following: W. P. Campbell, assistant general superintendent; Alex. Grant, chief clerk, and the following postal clerks: R. E. Mansfield, Charleston, 3 0. Quincy, IL; 1. W. Ginther, Harrisburg. Pa! W. B.’ Webb, St. J. Ball, Indianapolis: T. W. Gamvee, Chattanooga, Tenn.: A. E. Babcock, Boston: J. D. Patterson, Crestline, Ohio; M.’ C. Hadiey, Boston; W. G.D. Mercer, St. Joe, Mo.; J. Risk, ‘Toledo,; Ohio; J. ‘9. West, Petersburg, Nottoway, Va; G. A Shultz, Salem, N.C.; T. J. Jones, Norfolk, Va.; W. W. Safford, Baltimore; G. Plitt, Alexandria, Va; RL. Alley, Wilson, N.C.; P.M. Fitts Macon, N.C. W. Carr, J. P. Herbert, L. L. Tate, H.W. MeGeorge, W. B. Atkinson, G. E. Brill, W. K. Suiin and A. C. Crook of this city. cased aos The Cattle Market. At the Union Stock Yards yesterday 208 eattle on the market and all sold to butchers, as follows: Best sold from 43{ to Se. per pound; Good, 43¢ to 43¢c. per pound; medium, 3% tose. Per pound; common, 23¢ to 2¢e. per pound. 349 sheep and lambs on the market and sold as OUR RIGHTS BEHRING SEA. The Corresponden-~ Between Secretary Blaine and Lo 4 Salisbury. BRITISH CLAIMS THAT BEWHMXO SEA 18 PART OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN REFUTED—OUR RIGHTS TO ‘THE SEAL FISHERIES UNDER EXISTING TREAT- TES SET FORTH—AS TO ARBITRATION. ‘The correspondence between the United States and Great Britain in relation to the Beb- ring sea controversy gives no indication that any settlement is near at hand. Through the long official correspondence given to the public there is nothing that indicates a change of position on either side. Mr. Blaine rejects the Proposition for arbitration on the plan laid down by the British government, but outlines aseries of questions that might properly be settled by arbitration. Inu word he repre- sents that the question Great Britain would submit to arbitration is one which there could be no dispute about and not the one upon which this controversy turns. ‘The correspondence transmitted is made up of two very long letters and a number of inclosures comprising treaties, notes and extracts from, previous correspond ence, which Secretary Blaine says conclude the dence tonching the fur seal question tap to date. One of these letters is from Lord Salisbury to Sir Julian Panncefote, the British minister, dated August 2,189, and the other was addressed by Secretary Blaine to the British minister December 17 last. LORD SALISBURY'S VIEW OF THE RUSSIAN CON- CESSION. Lord Salisbury begins his letter by a refer- ence to Mr. Blaine’s statement that certain of Mr. Adams’ expressions omitted by him (Salis- bury) for the sake of brevity in quotation give a different meaning to the dispatch, which actually supports the present claim ‘of the United States. He says this makes it necessary to refer in greater detail to the correspondence, an examination of which will show that the passage in question cannot have the significa- tion which Mr. Blaine seeks to give to it; that the omitted words do not in reali point at issue, and that the view which Mr. Blaine takes e: led with the dis- history of the caxe, lisbury recites the Russian concession m. 1799 to the Russian-American company to hunt fish and trade on the northwest America from Behring strait to the fi degree, with permission to extend to the south, provided they did not encroach upon the terri- tory occupied by other powers. ‘This southern limit agreed approximately with the ultimate boundary between the British and Russian pos sessions. It comprised not only the whole American coast of Behring sea, but a long reach of coast line to the south of the Alaskan penin- sula as far as the level of the southern portion of Prince of Waies Island. No clzim to ex- clusive jurisdiction was made under thi: ter, but the ukase of 1#21 pushed some 250 miles south, as far ax Vancouver island, the ex- inion claimed by Russia, a claim to risdiction regarded in England and tutes us extravagant. Objections ‘once. NO BERING SEA THES. ‘The correspondence which Mr. Adams, the Secretary of State of the United States, and the Russian government is 4 Salisbury. clear from the ted to the Rue company in 1799, whatever they may have had as regards other Knssian subjects, did not operate to exclude American vessels’ from any part of the coast, and that the atterapt to exclude them in 182i was at cesisted. Further, that the Ras- sian government had no idea of any distinetion between Kehring sea und the Pacific ocean, which ister they considered as reaching south” ward from Behring straits. Nor throughout the whole of the subsequent correspondence is there any reference whatever on either side to any distinetive name for Behring sea, or any intination that it_could be considered other- wise than as forming an integral part of the Pacific ocean. LORD SALISBURY CONSTRUES MR. ADAMS’ MEANING. Lord Salisbury quotes at length Mr. Adams’ dispatch of 1823 to Mr. Middleton, the person charged with the negotiations for the United States, and says: “Mr. Blaine has argued at great length to show that when Mr. Adams used there clear and forcible expressions he did not mean what he seemed to say; that when he stated that the United States ‘could admit no part of these | claims’ he meant that they admitted all that part of them which related to the coast north of the Aleutian Islands; that when he spoke of the Southern ocean he meant to except Bebring sea, and that when he contended that the or- dinary exceptions and exclusions of the terri- torial jurisdictions had no existence, so far as Russian rights were concerned. on the conti- nent of America, he used the lxtter term not in & geographical, but in a ‘territorial’ sense. and tacitly excepted, by a very singular petitio principii, the Russian possessions. In order to carry out this theory it is necessary for him also to” assume that the negotiators in the course of the discussions made indiscriminate use of the term ‘northwest coast of America,’ with a variety of signification which he admits to be ‘confusing, and. at certain points, appar- ently contradictory able.” “These passages sufficiently illustrate Mr. Adams’ meaning if any evidence be required that he used plain language in. its ordinary sense. Clearly he meant to ‘leny that the us. sian settlements or discoveries gave Russia any claim as of right to exclude the navigation or fishery of other nations from any part of the seas on the coast of America, and that her rights in this respect were limited to the terri- torial waters of certain islands of which she ‘was in permanent and complete oceupation.” ‘THE RUSSIAN TREATY oF 1924. Lord Salisbury next discusses at length the construction which Mr. Blaine puts upon the treaty of 1824 between Russia and the United States, which he says is an entirely novel one. There is, he says, no trace of its having been known to the various publicists who have given an account of the controversy in treaties on international law, and it is contrary to that construction which’ the British negotiators placed on it when they adopted the first and second articles for insertion in the British treaty of 1825. The ukase of 1799 did not mention sovereignty over the sea, and the separate article which Mr. Blaine mys reserved the rights of Kassia doesnot bear that interpre- tation, which is too improbable to require any lengthened discussion. SAYS RRITAIS NEVER CONCEDED RUSSIA JURIS- DICTION OVER BEHRING SEA. He denies that jurisdiction of Russia over Behring sea was ever conceled. He says that the correspondence extracted from the arehives of the British foreign office show “that not | only did her majesty’s government formally protest against the ‘on its firwt issue as contrary to the acknowledged law of nations, but thai the Russian government gave a verbal assurance that the claim of jurisdiction would not be exercised. In the subsequent negotia- tions great importance was attached to obtain: ing # more formal disavowal of the elzim in the manner least hurtful to Russian susceptibilities, but so as effectually to preclude its revival. And this security the British government un- doubtedly considered that both they and the United Siater hud obtained by the conven- tions of 1824 and 1825."" REPLY TO MR. BLAINE. In conclusion Lord Salisbury cites the in- structions given to the British plenipotentiary, who negotiated the treaty of 1825, and says: “These extracts show conclusvely: (1) That England refused to ndmit any part of the Rus- sian claimed asserted by the ukuse of 1821 to a maritime jurimliction and exclusive right of fishing throughout the whole extent of that claim from Bebrings straits to the fifty-first parallel; (2) that the convention of 1825 was regarded on both sides as a renunciation on med between |, complicated, are often found, after Sage Be President, is the in ShiGh the Gaited eaten and Gaeed find themselves in the Mruction of the Russo-Amerfoan and Anglo- contends thet to phrase ‘Paste cose ce nae intended to include and now ‘by the three signatory ‘& separate body of water, and was not included in the phrase ‘Pacific ocean,’ then the Ameri- case against Great Britain is complete and WHAT 18 TRE “NORTHWEST coast?” _ The Secretary says that the dispnte involves the meaning of the phrase “northwest coast” or “northwest coast of America,” which he contends means the coast of the Pacific south of the Alaskan peninsula or south of the sixtieth degree. He says that #0 absolute has been thia prescription that the distinguished Listorian, Hubert Howe Bancroft; bas written an accurate of the northwest coast, illnstrated by a carefully .prepared map (re- produced in letter), including precisely the area which has been stendily maintained by the United States in the pending discussion. ‘The Secretary next takes up the treaties of 182 and 1825 and, in answer to Lord Salisbury sa; “The government of the United States cor- dially with Lord Salisbury’s statement that throughout the whole correspondence connected with the formation of the treaties there was no reference whatever by cither side to any distinctive name for Behring sea, and for the very simple reason, which I have already indicated, that the negotiation had no refer- ence whatever to the Behring sea, but was en- tirely confined to a strip of nnd on the north- west coast and the waters of the Pacific ocean adjacent thereto.” IT WAS THE SEA OF KAMSCHATRA. Continuing upon the same theme the Secre- tary says that the same sea had been regurded as separate from the Pacific ocean long before 1825, and its most widely recognized name was the sea of Kamschatka, and Roberts’ map pre- pared under direction of Capt. Cook, the most eminent English navigator of the cightcenth century, pnt it in absolute contradistinction to the “great South sea," or the Pacific ocean. ‘The ¥ecretary incloses 105 maps published dur ing the ninety years prior to 1825, on every one of which, he says, the body of water now known as Behring aca was plainly disting by aname separate from the Pacific ocean, a few using the name of Behring. The Secretary with this great cloud of witnesses before the eyes of Messrs. Adams and Canni y would simply include the sea in the ‘acific ocean,” and make no allusion as a separate sea. He says: Yhen we contemplate the minute particu- the tedious verbiage, the duplications and the redupiications employed to sec raistakable plainness in framing treaties, it is impossible to conceive that a fact of this great magnitude could have been omitted from the instructions written by Mr. Adams and 2 Canning, us secretaries for foreign affairs in their respective countries, impossible that such afect could have eseaped the notice of Mr. Middleton and Count Neselrode, of Mr. Strat- ford Canning and Mr. Poletiea, who were the negotiators of the two treaties. It is impossi- ble that in the Anglo-Russian treaty Count Nes- selrode, Mr. Stratford Canning and Mr. Pole- tica could have taken sixteen lines to recite the titles and honors they had _recetved from their respective sovereigns and not even suggest the insertion of one line, or even word, to secure so valuable a grant to England as the full free- dom of the Behring se He cites the history of the Russia Fur Seal Company, showing that Russia absolute jurisdiction over Behring that this was not disputed by Great Britain at auy time. ‘The enormous profits of the Itnesian American company in the fur trade of the Vebring sea continued under the Inssian tlag for more than forty years after the treaties of 1824 and 1825 had been concluded. Aud yet Lord Salisbury contends that during this long eriod of exceptional profits from the fur trade Great Britain'und the United, Staven hat as flood right as Russia totake part in these highly erative ventures. NO FUR SEALS TAKEN FOR YEARS. American and English ships in goodly num- bers during this whole period annually visited and traded on the northweet cons: on the Pa- ocean. And yet of all these venecls of the United States and Great Britain not one ever sought to disturb the fur fisheries of the Beb- Ting sea or along its coasts, cither of the conti- nent or of the islands. ‘The fact thag the ships of both nations re- frained during that long period from taking a single far seal inside the ehores of that sea is a presumption of their lack of right and their Tecognized disability so strong that, independ- ently of all other arguments, it requires the most authentic and convincing evidence to re- but it. That English ships did not enter the Behring sea to take part in the cutehing of seals is uot all that can be said. Her acquiescence in Russia's power over the seal fisheries was 60 complete that during theforty years of Ruswia's supremacy in the behring sen (thut followed the treaties of 1824-25) it is not believed that Great Britain even made a protest, verbal or written, against what Bancroft describes as the “Russian monopoly.” Mr. Elaine cites quotations from the negotia- tions between the United States and Rus-ia to show that Mr. Middleton’s dispute of the juris- diction of Russia related to a part of the Paci- fic ocean and not to Behring sea. , This earnest protest by Mr. Middleton, it will be noted. was against the ukase of Alex- der, which proposed to extend Russian sov- ereignty over the Pacitic ocean us far south as the fifty-tirst degree of latitude, at which point, as Mr. Adams reminded the Russian minister, that ocean is 4,000 miles wide. It is also to be specially noted that Mr. Middieton’s doubie reference to “the free seas” would have no meaning whatever if he did not recognize that freedom on certain seas had been re- stricted. He could not have used the phrase if he had regarded all seas in that region us “free vena. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. After citing further pamages of diplomatic correspondence with relation to the Russo- American treaty, sustaining his position, Mr. Biaine mys: “Lord Salisbury has deemed it proper in his dispatch to cali the attention of the govern- ment of the United States to some elementary rineiples of international law touching the Froedom of theseas. For our tstterj he gives sundry extracts from Wheaton Kent—our most eminent publicists—and for further illustration quotes from the dispatches of Secretaries Seward and Fish, all maintaining the well known principle, that a nation’s juris- diction over the ea is limited to three marine miles from its shore line. Commenting on these quotations his lordship sa; “A claim of jurisdiction over the open sea which is not in accordance with the recognized principles of international law or usage may, of course, be asserted by force, but cennot be said to have any legal validity a6 against the vessels of other countries, except in so faras it is pori- tively admitted in conventional agreements with those countries. ‘ “The United States having the most extend sea coast of all the nations of the world may be umied to have paid serious attention to the ws and usages Which define and limit mari- time jurisdiction. ‘The course of this govern- ment has been uniformly in favor of upholding the recognized law of nations on that subject. ile Lord Salisbury sadmonitionsare received in Part by this government we feel justi- in asking his lordship if the government of Great Britain has uniformly illustrated these re un- chimed sea, and “THE CAPTIVITY OF XAPOLEOX. ‘The Secretary here rapidly reviews the cap- tivity of Napoleon at St. Helena and including law to exclude f i f ia Hr i Hi it gi ‘ i it i objections to the United States beg oe boar Teeots aul ented van tee tas tae a prescribed eight lengues at St. Helena, but the obvious necessities in the Behring sea will, on the basis of this precedent, justify twenty | leagues for the protection of the American seal fisheries.” ‘ON THE QUESTION OF ARBITRATION Mr. Blaine says: “In the judgment of the Presi- dent nothing of importance would be scttled by proving that Great Britain conceded no jurisdiction to Russia over the neal fisheries of the Behring cea. It might as well be proved that Russia conceded no jurisdiction to Eng- land over the River Themes. By doing nothing in ench case everything is conceded. In neither case is anything asked of the other. ‘Conces- sion,’ aa used here, means simply acquiescence in the rightfulnes# of the title, and that is the only form of concession which Russia asked of Great Britain, or which Great Britain gave to Russia, “The second offer of Lord Salisbury to arbi- trate amounts simply to a submission of the question whether any country has a right to extend its jurisdiction more than one marine league from the shore. No one disputes that, as a rule, but the question is whether there may not be exceptions whose enforcement does not interfere with those bighways of cominerce which the necessities and usage of the world have marked out. Great Brita when she desired an exception, did not stop to ider or regard the inconvenience to which the commercial world might be subjected. Her exception placed an obstacle in the highway be- tween continenta. The United States, in pro- tecting the seal fisheries, will not interfere with a single sail of commerce on any sea of the globe. ‘THE InsURS. “It will mean something tangible, in the President’s opinion, if Great Britain will con- sent to arbitrate the real questions which have been under disenssion between the two gover: ments for the last four years. [shall enites to state what, in the judgment of the President, those issues are: ixst. What exclusive jurisdiction in the sea row known ws the Behring sea and what ex- clusive rights in the weal fisheries therein did Russia awert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States? “Second. How far were these claims of juris- diction as to the seal fikheries recognized and cs «led by Great Britain? hird. Was the body of water now known as the Behring sen included in the phr: cific ocean,’ as used in the treaty of 1825 be tween Great Britain and Russia, and what rights, if any, in the Behring rea were given or conceded to Great Britain by the said tre: “Fourth. Did not all the rights of Russia as to jurisdiction and as to the seni fich Behring sea cast of the wager bound: treaty between the United States and + in the Russia of March 39, 1867, pass unimpaired to the United States under that treaty: “Fifth. What sre now the United States aa to the fur seal 1 waters of the Behring sea out: y territovial limits, whether such rights if the cession by Tuxe ts or jurisdiction heid such tieheries © the waters of Kehri or out of the ownership of the breeding and the habits of the seals in resort and rearing their young thereon and going ont or out of any other with the relation of | thowe seal fisheries to the territorial possessions of the United Staten? . If the determination of the foregoing questions shall leave the subject in tion that the concurrence of reseribing ri the fur seal in any part of the wa vhring eca, then it rhall be farther deie First,’ how far, if at all, territorial limits it hither actusive tthe veal for the ds of the United jurisdiction in order to prot time living upon the i States and feeding therefrom ther aclosed season ing of seais in the waters of Belring sea outside ordi- nary territorial limits shali be prohibited) is necessary to save the seal-tish valuable'and imy terioration or destruction? and, what months or parts of montis’ should be i eluded in such season and over what waters it should extend? MARE CLAUSUM NOT CLAIMED. “The repeated assertions that the govern- ment of the United Stites demands that the Behring sea be pronowuced mare clausum are without foundation. ‘The govermmen’ has never claimed it and never desired it. It ex- prewily disuvows it.” Mr. Blaine, in conclusion, says that the line of argument followed by Lord Salisbury would furnish as good a defense for piracy as for serl poaching. ——~+ee. Minister Terrili’s Wife Dead. The wife of the American Minister Terrill died yesterday in Brussels of rheumatic fever. after an illness of nine weeks. Although she had been there only cightcen months, she bad gained hosts of friends and was a popular hos- tess. “Her loss will be sincerely deplored in the diplomatic world and throughout the entire community. oA TESS Ran Down by a Mogul Engine. Shortly after G o'clock last evening, asa big mogul ‘engine was backing down the Lake Shore track near Toledo, Ohio, it ran into a train of flat, The tank of the engine was lifted up and pushed against the boiler hua, pinning three men who were etanding in the cxb, Joseph Sawyer and ‘erence Kitbride, heh were almost instantly killed and Michael Kirschner, crushed. ‘The engineer and fireman were on the seats of the eab and cacaped serions injury. Ablinding snow storm prevented Engineer Jobn Corbett from seeing ihe flats until it was | too late wavert the accident. Loth Sawser | snd Kilbride leave families. Kirschner will re- cover. ee The Ostrau Coal Pit Victims. The bodies of the unfortunate miners, which have been recovered from the round coal pit at Ostran, Polish Austria, present a horrible appearance. ‘They are terribly scorched and so dreadfully mutilated that it is very difficult to identify them by their features. Seventeen of the men, who were recovered in an uncon- scious condition, have since been revived. Heartrending scenes are witnessed at the mouth of the pitas the rescuing parties con- tinue to bring the mangled forms of the ill- fated miners to the surface. Most of the vic~ tims of the explosion were married and were men of family, and tho lamentations of their bereaved relatives, who are crowded about the fatal spot, are pitiful in the extreme. Count Wilezek, the owner of the pit, attended the funeral of the unfortunates who were buried yesterday. ‘ entire upper portion of the building was | 3,690 destroyed, leaving only the bank offices and pony conductor, severely | Chased by an Angry Indian Whose Leg He Had Burned With a Hot Poker. ‘The present trouble with the Sioux in Dakota about Indians and Indian fighters, particularly ‘about the late Gen. George Crook, who was re- garded duritg his lifetime by many people as having more intimate acquaintance with the Indian and his traits than any other white man. ‘He had lived in their region so long and had taken such an active interest in them that he ‘was thoroughly posted as to their traite, ten- dencies and needs, and their ways of thinking and doing. This knowledge was utilized in his compaigns against them with great effect, and frequently his success in satisfactorily solving tough aboriginal problems was due more to his acquaintance with the natures of the people whom he was fighting than to any other cause. He was asked by a trader once why he did not make an advance so as to hurry up the Indians in something that it was desired ty should do, and he replied: “I suppose that if f were to go out there’—indicating a vast field in front of his headqnarters between him and the Indian camp~“and sit down and do nothing at all I should be able to get the Indians to hurry faster than if I pushed the campaign in the way of active hostilities.” Future events showed the wisdom of his idea, LO MAKES HINRELY AT HOME. ‘When he was a licutenant, serving on the “plains,” as the entire western country was called in those wild days, he encouraged the friendty Indians within reaching distance of his post, wherever it might be, to come to his arters and visit him, so that he might study ir characteristics and become thoroughly acquainted with the ways and langnages of the varions tribes with which he was brought into contact. Hence it was that Crook’s quarters, whether house or tent, were usually provided with one of these questionable ornaments stowed away in some section or other, making hitnself perfectly at home, for if there is one ¢ above another that an American Indian can do in a thoroughly artistic manner it is to ntilize the rdvantages of hospitality on the part of some one else to the last extreme. Finally, Lieut. Crook grew a little tired of having Indians come into bis quarters at all hours and spread themselves all over the prem- ixes, 80 he begun to play pranks on them to in- duce them to be a little more care! their visits. He therefore began a seri practical jokes upon them, one of which is still told by those who heard of it at the time with great gusto. GETTING BED OF AN INTRUDER. A great fellow of the regulation copper hue walked into Crook’s house one day in the win- ter, without any sort of warning, as was the custom, und, striding up to the fireplace, turned’ his back to the- blaze and, lifting his ianket slightly, proceeded to warm’ the calves of his iegs, to the great an: sembled. “The indian was perfectly compla- cent and failed, with trac aboriginal stupi to take the various hints that were throw him, until he received a most decidedly con- vincimg one at the hands of the host, who, on the pretense of fixing the fire, walked around the immovable figure before’ the grate and heated the poker slightly and then gave with it an allopathic application to the bare skin of the Indian's leg. ‘There was a yell and a war whoopas the mad- dened Indian plunged wildly sround the room, first in un eudeavor to discover what had struck him, and then, when he lad found out, in a cupture: Crook, who found that thing for such an occasion and fled precipitately, pursued by the shouting savage. ‘The chase was described by thoze,who witnessed the incident as being fant extreme to all but Crook, who soon serious problem to solve in evad- that pursucr. He finally ran upstairs and himself in a closet while the Indian was his search. From that time k had immunity on his own hearth the encroachments of Indians, :Ithongh vome of his compenions asserted that a few of his gray hairs found their origin in that terri- ble chase. POLITICS IN MONTANA, Three Pranches of the State Legislature Or- ganized There, Yesterday was the date set for the meeting of the state le; met in as many different places and organized three branches of the Montana legislature. In the renate it was ll easy sailing, as the body stands ten democrats and six republicans. But the trouble over the ten members from Silver Bow county remaina just as it did last year. Twenty-nine republicans met in the Electric Light Hall in Helena, when State Andi- tor Kinney called the roll, in which he included the five republican contestants from Silver Bow including democratic claimants from Silver Bi nother hall and organized ‘ourley speaker and a fall the republican house also wl officers. Just after noon the committee from the democratic house waited-on the senate and governor with the information that the house’ of representatives had organized and were retdy for business. Governor Toole nized this organization. Yesterday the republican house sent a message to the sen- afternoon ate that it had organized ess. ‘This message by nc Was ready for busi~ vote of 10 to 6 was re- j Jected, and the clerk ‘was directed to make no note of it on his min Legal Fight Ended. The long contest in the federal court in Louisville between the Breckenridge Company, limited, of London and Dr. Hugh’ Kennedy and his heirs has been settled by the purchase of Dr. Kennedy's interest by the Englishmen. The property involved was the Cannel coal mines at Cloverport, Ky., valued at $3,000,000. —— ee ‘The California Legislature in Session. ‘The California legislature convened yester- day at noon in biennial session. The republi- cans haye control of both houses. Balloting for L. ‘ted States Senator takes place to- morrow ———— ‘Typhus Fever in Florence. An epidemic of typhus fever is playiag havoc in Florence, Italy. Ninety civilians have died within a few days from the discase and one regiment has had every man but four on its roster sick at one time with it. One hundred wells in the neighborhood have been analyzed and ninety were found to be infected. Orders have been issued to boil the water before using. Tue Anglo-American colony is panic stricken j and almost all have left the city. mre eda rca slee Architects for the World’s Fair. ‘The world’s fair grounds and buildings com- mittee, after a long session last evening, agreed on the selection of the board of expert archi- teeta, lt refused to give out the names. The members of the board were increased to ten in number, doubled in fact. Five are from Chi- cago and the remainder from New York, Bos ton and Philadelphia, rans EU BES A Doren Men Killed. Eleven or twelve men were killed in the Utica mine, Angels camp, Cal., yesterday. A load of men were being lowered on a skip, and when about 150 fect from the surface the rope broke, precipitating all a distance of 450 feet to the bottom of the shaft. ploribacedincs LIER Accident on the Vesuvius, saloon owned by Frank E. Koppek, at Hancock avenue and Cortland street, about $ o'clock. Six persons were sleeping in the rooms above the saloon. The fiames shot through the .° of @ shed in the rear near where the dog..2+ chained. The heat aroused him, and as the brate watched the fire creep he barked and tugged at his chain until e link snapped and he was free, yy qe and bia from bed toward s win- dow, through the window, brought an ax and end + ‘The other occupants were rescued ‘fire- ‘men who answered ‘alarm. ‘The brave dog sank exhausted into the flames. ature and three bodies of men | Verdict of the Jury After Being Out Forty- Bight Hours. ‘The jury in the Forsyth conspiracy trial in the federal court in Macon, Ga., rendered their verdict last evening after having been out forty-eight hours. The jury found the defend- ants, Luther A. Hall, Charles Clements and Wright Lancaster, guilty of conspiracy and murder, with recommendation of life were convicted. Lowry escaped and has never been caught. ‘A government reward of $750 is outstanding for and yesterday Norman W. offered an additional reward of $1,000. Lowry came from North Carolina and is ‘sup to have gone back there. He is a bright mulatto, nearly white, with squint eyes, sandy-red hair, a The death of the Archduke John of Austria, who, under the name of John Orth, was captain of a Brazilian merchant vessel, is assumed as proved and the necessary legal steps toward reg- intering the decease have been taken this week. Elinor Stubel, the actress of the imperial opera, who was known to have gone with the arch- duke, is also assumed to be dead. She has left 8 good deal of property behind her, which is now claimed by the next of The arch- duke, it will be remembered, resigned bis rank in order to marry Fraulein Stubel. The will of the archduke is to be opened at Vienna shortly. greater partof the valuables and money invested will go to the emperor of Austris. His life insur- | ance will goto his mother. The furniture, library 1d Hungarian real estate will go to’ Flinor fubel’'s mother, although she disclaims all knowledge of the marriage of her daughter and the poi a i -— +2 PEARL EYTINGE DIVORCED. Legally Separated From Her Husband After Twice Marrying Him. Judge Duryea in New York yesterday granted Mrs. Joseph Watkins Yard, better known under | her maiden name of Pearl Eytinge, an absolute divorce from her husband. In May, 1380, when not long out of college, Joseph Watkins Yard, the son of Edmund Yard, then a wealthy re- tired merchant, was married to Pearl Eytinge in London. He had been sent abroud to sep- | arate him from her, but she managed to ac- company him on the same steamer. They were eried not long after reaching London. Within a year Yard began a suit for absolute | divorce. His wife put inno defense and the divorce was granted. After the divorce Yard studied medicine and after graduating from the Bellevue Medical College he becsme one of the assistant sur- geous at Chambers Street Hospital. On the evening of July 28, 1884, Pearl Eytinge sent an advertisement to'the papers announcing the marriage of herself and Dr. Yard, on Jan 17, 1884, by the Rev. Henry Spellmayer of Jer- sey Dr. Yard denied the marriage. The Rev. Henry Spellmayer declared that he had married Dr. Yard and Pear! Eytinge when pastor of the ‘Trinity M.E. Church of Jersey City, at the par- vonage. His mother was the only witness. . on reading the marriage notice, Dr. recalled at Chambers street to see im abont it, the young man was not there. but he had lefte note acknowledging the mar- riage, beteaying that he wax not sober when it was solemnized: He had raid the same thing about the London marriage. He apparently hhad little or “nothing to Go with his wie after: wari Dr. Yard's brothers were partners in the im- porting house of Edmund Yard, jr., & Co., which failed in July, 1884, for three-quarters of « million. Purchase of the Kentucky Central. Ata special meeting of the Louisville and Nashvilie directors yesterday the purchase of the Kentucky Central road was ratified and the property taken possession of. The following directors of the Kentucky Central were elected: M. H. Smith, J. B. Probat, Wm. Mertems, J. A. Horsey, Thomas Rutter and E. Norton, MH. ‘Smith was elected president of the Kentucky Central and A. W. Morris secretary and treas- rer. “H. E, Huntington remains vice presi- ni —— Every Italian Discharged. A special from Rome says a remarkable do- mestic revolution has been effected in the Vati- can. Every Italian in the service of his holi- nesa the pope has been dismissed and the duties of his papal domestics, both in the in- terior and in ante-chamber, have been transferred to foreigners. This is in conse- uence of aminquiry that showed that Signor pi had secret ugents among the em sloyed in the Naticaa. sis — Assignment of the Dueber Watch Co. The Dueber Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, made an assignment lest evening to Mr. Howard Donglase for the benefit of creditors. Nominal assets, $1,500,000; liabilities, including preferences, £450,000; preferred claims to seven national banks, $252,00); principal creditors, the Hampden Watch Case Company, Spring- fila, States in which Me. Ion = ena large amount of stock. ‘The failure is attrib- uted to m ingency in the money market and embarrassment in consequence of business rela- tions with the Hampden Watch Company. Mr. John C. Dueber, of the Duel Company, also made an individual ent to Howard Douglass. Liabilities, £252,000, chiedy indorsed for the Dueber Watch Com? pany. Assets, $200,000, in valuable real estate in Newport, K, 0+ — Pastor Coulston Supported. A new turn wis given yesterday to the case of Rev. W. J. Coulston, who on Sunday caused a scene in Brantly Baptist Church by reading the request of the deacons for his resignation and then left the church surrounded by men and women begging him with tears to remain as their assistant pastor. The Baptist preachers took the ground that Mr. Coulston been forced ont of his charge after having been brought to Baltimore from Hollidsysburg, Pa. Yesterday, when they held monthly meeting, they elected Mr. president of their association for the ensuing six mouths. The majority of the church peo- ple favor Mr. Coulston. Gunsberg Wins the Twelfth Game. Gunsberg, in the twelfth game of the chess match for the championship of the world yes- terday, forced Steinitz to resign. The score now Pande: Steinits, 4; Gunsberg, 9; wn, a Do You ‘Use 8.8.8. when you need. tonic? If you donot you should. It is the mtest and best Blood Medicine made. It is purely Vegetable, taining ‘20 poison of any kind, FOR OLD PEOPLE. ‘My mother, who isa very old lady, ‘was physically broken Gown. The ‘uso of Swift's Specific (8.8.8.)mes and can be ‘eatirely restored her health. ‘taken enfely RB. DILWORTH, by the most Groqaville, 8.0. delicate ean. Yet ‘tures all blood troubles, from an ordinary face pim- ‘le to the worst form of contagious Blood Taint ‘Books on Blood and Skin Disases free. It is known already that the | “Watch, Baki Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PROPOSALS. (CRANCERY SALE OF ERTY ON THIRD STREET D STREETS SOUTHWEST. ereerry ‘on TUESDAY, TRE SIX Saue at the southeast cormer of said lot veyed South 14 leet and thence east 100 feet ‘and becinning, being jart of bot 17, m sa Termsot aio preted Ly decree balance in two Years, to besecured by deed of {riist Upot ash at or toh of the purchaser. day sdveruisement of x30 rae thence north along the line of 3d strect west 14 tect, More oF less, to the line of the Property herecofore con” Joseph Wallace; thence west 100 leet. thence Spill be required when {he propery te $0 UNIMPROVED PROP. BETWEEN C AND By virtue of decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Coluinl Fquity ‘No. sa Carberry. wusrdian, V. Carberry: tha nitlenicoad eb UNW1, at HALP-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK Pp. it that parol of real estate in the city of Waxh- inxtoh, in the ‘of Coltiubiay contained within, the followine metes apd Louncs: Berinnine fort and Fann to saa street ore mne-tuird cosh ual instalments in one and two property sia ‘Adepwait of ‘and all the purchaser. “If ied_with in hi wenerves the cul at risk and cos: of defauiting purchaser alter days days | SROROGALS “FoR GORSTROCHAS SEGRE Pye 2k, ONATRCCTING BOR ty inane yaaasne, Cpustioncnet B.C ta Gann cane rs . on ke for constructing pictitsroom iy NS st. bet. “iY CONSTRUCTION. OF aamoners D.C. Want fie ati TWELVE Oe ake ARV TWENTS-POURTH. tam, int Isl, commencing ‘St my’ suction row of the trade is dire TRADE SALE. SPECIAL SALE OF ASSOK1 ED CROCK! On TUMORROW (WEDAESDA\), JAN’ HALE Oc T svall sell « lance -nunent of assorted Crockery, to wich the atten PAST THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. WEDNESDAY Mor? commencing at TEN 0" hold Furaiture and efiects, Crockery, Stoves, a8 = ALSO, Lot of Clothing—tem suite for winter Gises'and wot of other sewte ai 1 Light Business Wagon, ‘Want of use. ‘Trial given if wanted. It WW" Downntual, avcrioneen. 7 71H ST. NW. NUARY SEVENTH, ‘CLOCK. auction sale of House” LADIES’ GOODS. Mformesty of New hick eee tas cnet ey Washington ladies. Perit ft, moderate ting and basting a apwciaty. Glass Ware, and Harness, sold for Wa. LOWENTHAL, Auctioneer. s Ve Th | A.D. 1891, at the hour of POUR © | tint parce of eroun: | im the District of Coz as tot aminb E Vision of a part oF original I wire ntiutered tive hundred spt ei d subdivision is rvorded im Liber B, Of the surveyor's records of said District, the Liuproveiments thereom. iY and the ‘deed the option of the purchaser. #100 i} | proved tim ‘or sale and ail conveyancing and or sale to THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Knows and des nambered two ¢ aty-one IMPROVED REET WEST Solio 116, one 34TH ST. AND MADISON AVE., NEW YORK, ‘Newport, Saratoga, Long Branch, St. Augustine, 1730 Michigan ave, Chicago, TIL, Beg to announce that they will open at the ARLINGTON HOTEL, Saturday, January 3, and following days with the Jancest and handao:uest stock of Imported Costumes, Reception, Dinner and Ball Gowns, Wraps, Bonnets, &c., thet have ever been shown in Washington. Allef ‘Which Will be offered at LESS THAN PARIS COST. aoe FRONTS": FRONTSIN Frosts: together with Terwis of sale: One-half of purchase money in cash y the notes of tae purchaser and an ap- at on the pwoperty sod oF all cosh, tat Fecordine at beeen ummed res the right "to resell said property at the risk and cost of the deteulting pur FENDALL E. ALEXANDER, Trastes, 4e2 Louisiana ave. Jats RAtclire, Dann « co. 20 ASSIGNEE’S SALE BY AUC: STOCK OF WELL-SELE ASSORTED GhOC CONTAINED STREE: i ° NER S SiKkET, Two GhucERS DELLE THE STOCK, WHICH IS FF TED TES NORING | EXTRACTS, RGAK, DRIED FRUL NED GOO) E> AND. PAND La CASES, SCALE fa pox, Sirs AND On THURSDA 1a BEGINSING. AT Th Ofer'asan entirety, by put soo 13th st. nw. call the honed above. 2 MIA BHELVING, &e.. Se auction, RATCLIFFE, DABR & CO., A’ ‘Auctioneers, ‘vania ave. nw. OF THEENTIRE ‘XO. 1500 FOURTEENTH: Ww ‘CoR- 4s, COFTEES, SUGALS, FLOUR, SPICES, ‘SYRUPS, ¥ VERY DESCRIPTION. LICUORS, CIGARS AND. TUBACCO. UNDEY SOAP. AND. ASSOKIMENT OF GROCERIES IN A FLMST-CLASS FAMILY GROCER. LARGE COFFEE MILL, y BLOCK AND RACKS, MORNING, ‘JANUARY EIGHTH, O'CLOCK, 1 stock thereot, an party inen> If tot sola a paentirets fe Si then bo imunediately put up and sold in. to which I in- Vite the attention of the trade and private buyers. ‘Teruus cash W. B. WATSON, Assignee. uctionvers.— Ja5-3. AND STARCH, GEN- USUALLY ‘will rst ait the store, ‘Penn. ave. VaLy, BUILDING LOT ON FIFTEENTH STKEET BETWEEN RHODE ISLAND AVENUE. AND P STREET NORTHWEST ‘AT AUCTION. On THURSDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JAN- TAKY, isu), at FOUR O'CLOCK P.M., we will offer for sale in frat of the pense, alte te, SQUARE Fronting 24 feet on "Iotis street by a depth feet alte his toa densi bul dice ete Sta Sectond of partice in search of 2 Vall toan alle daS-dbds RATCLIFFF, DARE § 00" i: $20. KNOWN STABLES OF ALLISON N toretire trom active business. And conumuing daily tmatied on app! RATCEIFFE, DALE & 00... Auctionsers. jurchaser. KATCLIFFE, DARR & CO. juctioneers, ‘Pennsylvania ave. nw. PEREMPTORY SALE BY CATALOGUE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE EXTENSIVE AND WELL- 14TH STREET AND PENNA. AVE. ! ‘Mr. Nailor having sold bis y and determined he sale will be yomaive ‘Without reserve, « THCHSDALSARUALY Elo T1801, AT TEN A.M. AILOR, 1[HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. TRUSTEES: SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERLY IN GEORGETOWN, Petween rogalss | ss og the Tagg ‘Always in order Ly plain combing perl MLLE. M. J. PRANDI'S, 1329 F st. now. (Mrs, Harrisons), Importer of | FRENCH ING AND DRY CLEAN- Jy Fatabi sient. 120 New York ave Praah Nelvet ond Trenins” Drosese AN TOR SED venine “i CAMULINE'LikCH, Soret with A ace Masson Vriewe, Paris.” wall 604 321 St, Obpostre ashionsle Modinte, Evening ASO FISCHERS DRY CLEANING ESTAR. lishment and Dye Works, G08 G st. n.w. Fitz, Stock OF FOREIGN COATINGS, SUITINGS, OVERCOATINGS AND TROUS- ERINGS RECEIVED. GENTLEMEN WHO ADMIRE FIRST-CLASS TALLOKING ARELN- VITED TO INSPECT. ALL GAKMENTS CUT Bi HM. D. BARR, 1111 PA. AVE., AREGUAR- ANTEED 1O bi OF THE COMMECT STYLE suficlent to ‘say that it deaver not only to makes est dealings and a sirict adherence to their to weit the patronasce of the pubitc ve Scceeded ty siiowi in th. pianos how ts tse se uad the Feasure of frst off-ring these superb in ie struiuenta to pike at twiore warercota, Na Charion st sn INT, where cur Saecor with beet: remarkable. “That experience bas repeated, i our Washinton "watvrcomn. 4 at able reception tothe Fischer piano by the jal-2m ~ TEINWAY, CHASE, GAl BRIGGS" 'S ‘chyaus and soliaus ior sate ore omaygy) Bete ~s KRAKAUER PIANOS ARE THE DELIGHT OF Seprces at TEMPLE OF meri cae ia eee Tue Lesvro Ixsrevurwrs DECKER BROS. * PLAN VERS & PIaKos. WEBER PIANOS. sn Estey STARE FISCHER PIANOS. « ESTEY ORGANS. MODEKATE PRICES. EASY TERMS. instruments