Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1894, Page 6

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INTERESTING LETTERS ‘The report that was printed some time ago to the effect that three men connected with the survey of the Alaska boundary line had been drowned in the Unuk river, in Alaska, now turns out to have been a mis- | take. Letters received by Dr. T.-C. Men- denhall, chief of the United States coast and geodetic survey, give a full account of the accident, but state that the men escaped with their lives, although they lost a large amount of their outfit. The party | Which was supposed to be lost was in charge of Mr. E. F. Dickins, This summer there are several parties sent out under the direction of the coast] and geodetic survey to follow up the work which was done last summer in surveying the boundaries of Alaska. Reports from two of these parties have been received within the last two days, the one in charge of Mr. Dickins and the other of Mr. John E. McGrath. The first is taken up largely with an account of the mishaps which the party has suffered,while Mr. McGrath's letter states that the work @ssigned to him had been delayed up to the thme of writ- ing by the backwardness of the season. He describes the past winter in Alaska as the most severe known eVen in the mem- ory of the oliest Indians resident there. When he wrote in the latter part of May snow was five and six feet on a level, while there were many where it was thirty to fifty feet in depth. The Unsettied Boundary Line. ‘The work in which these various parties are engaged is being done with a view to ultimately submitting the question of the beundary line between Alaska and the British possessions to a commission for final adjudication. It is expected that the work of preparing a map of the country will be completed this year. The Canadian authorities have also been engaged en a similar work, but in places there is a wide discrepancy in the results of the two sur- veye. Both agree, of course, in the matter of topography, but the Canadiafs set their boundary line a considerable ways into what we consider American ions, while the line laid out by the United States laps over a good ways into what Canada thinks is really her territory. It will take the efforts of a commission to finally settle the question. ‘There is no question between the two governments as to the line which divides the larger portion of Alaska from the British possessions. This follows the l4lst degree of longitude from a point near Mt. St. Elias due north to the Arctic ocean. From the southern point of this line, or at @ spot near Mt. St. Elias, the boundary line runs southeast to a point cast of the scuth end of Prince of Wales Island, and leaves a considerable amount of seacoast in the possession of the United States. The extent of this territory is not often sp- map. | Island is nearly half way between Mt. St. Elias and Puget sound. It is just at the parallel of 54 degrees 40, and if the United States -had succeeded tn maintaining its contention years ago that her ions ran to that degree of latitude it would have given the United States the western seacoast of North America from the south ' end of California to the Arctic ocean. The United States, however, lost her claim in the 54 degrees 40 matter, and {t now re- mains to be scen just how this government will stand it out with Great Britain in the present question of the boundary line be- tween the two territories. How the Trouble Arose. The whole trouble has arisen from the ambiguity and uncertainty in the wording of the treaties by the terms of which Rus- sia transferred this portion of her posses- sion to the United States. According to that treaty, the line of boundary of the ter- ritory claimed by Russia and transferred.to the United States followed a range of mountains parallel with the seacoast and about ten marine leagues inward. Where- ever the line of mountains was moze than ten marine leagues distant from the coast the boundary line was to follow the ten- league limit. In point of fact there does not now seem to be any range of moun- tains such as is described, so that it is necessary to fall back on the old ten-league provision. Here the trouble arises, because the coast is lined with islands, small and large. According to recent maps issued by the Dominion of Canada, placing the bound- ary where they think it ought to be, the Canadian topographers evidently measure the ten-league limit from the outside edge of the outside islands, so that in some cases they actually would have the vound- ary line some distance out at sea. The ex- act location of the seacoast is one matter that will have to be settled. Another cause of trouble comes from the clause in the treaty which states that the south cnd of the line shali begin at the southern ex- tremity of Prince of Wales Island through the Portland canai to the north. The mouth of the Portland canal is almost due east of the southern extremity of Prince of Wales Island and about fifty or sixty miles dis- tant. The contention of the United States ig that the line should run from the mouth of the canal due north, as the canal is a well-defined natural body of water running almost north and south. Great Britain, in her usual way of reaching out for every- thing in sight, would have the line go due north from the south end of the island and then strike across to the Portland canal at its upper end. This would cut out a very nice strip of country which this govern- ment has always believed was hers. These are some of the questions at issue be- tween the two governments. Each government has had surveying par- ties in the field for a couple of years past, but to a certain extent they have been working in harmony. Last year there were some Americans with each Canadian party and some Canadians with each American party, and this year something of the same scheme is being followed out. The work fs by no means a light one, and is at- tended with all sorts of difficulties and dangers that usually confront exploring ¢x- peditions. This wes shown in the recent reports that three of the members of cne of the parties had lost their livés. The news of their safety has been received with great satisfaction here, but the letters de- scribirg their experiences tell the story of plenty of hardships and of a very narrow escape. Mr. Dickins’ Story. The letter received from Mr. E. F. Dick- ins was written at Loring, Alaska, May 27. He reports the completion of the Unuk river reconnaisance up as far as the ten- league limit. There were seven men in the party and they were greatly helped in their work by the backwardness of the sea- son, as they were able to go up the river on the snow and ice in far less time than they could do it last year, when they had to go over the mountains ‘azound the can- ons instead of through them. They had good luck as to weather and the results of their work, but Mr. Dickins states that they were very unfortunate in other re- spects and extremely glad to get out of it alive. The party left Burroughs Bay early in the morning of Mey 13, and as soon as they entered the river they found the gravel banks and bars covered with snow to the depth of six and eight feet. The water was low and there was little current, so that the party made quick progress, walking on the edge and dragging their cance and skiffs after them. They had considerable difficulty in finding camping places, on account of the snow, but when | they encamped at 7 o'clock they had made @ distance of nine miles. On the 16th they | broke camp at 6 a. m., and started through | the first canon, which gave them so much | trouble last year, when it took them two days to get through. This time they found | a fringe of snow ice along the sides, on which they were able to walk, so that they were through by roon. On the 17th they reached the mouth of the second canon at | petite to exist. Ohio. fleemated with, the Specie. GOLDEN SPrcite Co. Prox . FTC CO., .. Cincinnati. ¢ Particulars free. To be had of F. 8. WILLL ©O., Oth and F sts. o.w.; SF. W. itt House, Washington. my12. Fo FLAVOR YOUR SODA AND LEMONADE,AND keep your digestive organs in order, get a bottle of the genuine ANGUSTURA manufac- tured by Dr. J. G. B. SIEGERT & aa 5:30 p. m. This was the polnt where the | Canadians closed their work last year. It | was still clear and cold, but the weather was beginning to moderate and the snow was becoming soft. On the 18th they started the actual work of survey, and by making their stations on the snow and ice they carried it through the second canon. was & warm It day, and they noticed that the THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, ——aaaeaesS=See———— See ee 1894-TWELVE PAGES. snow was melting fast. On the next morh- ing the river had ficen five inches, but they went on with the work from the point where they had left off the night before, and they soon finished the be- the swiftness of the current, so they ran the last mile along the top of the bluffs. was slow on account of the deep, soft snow and the dense timber. They made the last station at 6:45 p. m., and fe- ferred it to four large hemlock trees, which were blazed and marked with copper tacks. A Narrow Escape. By Sunday morning there had been a warm rain, and the river had risen several feet. They decided that the best thing they could do was to get out before the freshet came. Mr. Dickins, Mr. Tinsley and one other man were in a small canoe, with the instruments. Behind them were two skiffs, with two men each, containing the camp outfit, supplies and provisions. There was a drizzling rain, and there was a rapid cur- rent, with the river full of floating ice. They were getting along very nicely for five or six miles, and were congratulating themselves that they were getting out of the place so easily, when there was an ac- cident, by which the three men in the canoe came within a very short distance of losing their lives. Just as they were round- a sharp bend in the river the canoe struck a snag and wes capsized, throwing the three men into the water. Tinsley was swept down the stream for severa! hun- a yards, but was finally washed onto a gravel bank. He was able to pull himself up to a place of safety, and then fell ex- hausted from the exposure and the drench- ing in the icy water. The third man, Car- son, was under the canoe when it turned over, and the men in the skiffs supposed that there was no earthly chance that he would come out alive. Fortunately, how- ever, the canoe struck another snag, and hung there, while the man was washed out from underreath by the force of the water. He was washed ashore about a hundred yards below. Mr. Dickins managed to catch a brinch overhanging the river, and by the hardest kind of work managed to pull himself out of the rapid stream. The men in the skiffs ran ashore below and came back to the assistance of the ex- hausted men. They built a fire and dried their clothes, and then patched the hole in their canoe and started on again. After this mishap they shot down the river through the first canon all right, and were getting along safely until they at- tempted to make a landing just above the timber jam. One skiff was swept against a fallen tree and smashed into splinters. Some of the outfit was recovered, but the larger part was swept under the jam and lost. Mr. Dickins lost his pee phic outfit and all the presumably fine Sicturen of this practically unknown region. e party finally reached Burroughs Bay fan- ery, wet and tired, and spent a couplé of there repairing the damages and get- ing over the effects of their severe ex- riences. On May 25 they left Burroughs Bay with the whale boat of the coast sur- vey steamer Hassler, the canoe and the remaining skiff. They made thirty miles the first day and eighteen the second, reach- ing Loring at noon the day before the letter was written. Mr. McGrath’s Lette: The letter from Mr. John E. McGrath was written at Yakitat Bay on May 21, and gives a description of the lateness of the spring in Alaska. He describes the past winter as one of unprecedented severity. The letter was written on the day of his arrival at Yakitat, but he says they might just as well have delayed their departure even more, as the spring was so late it was impossible for them to get to work yet. The vessels made a quicker trip to Alaska this year than they did last. The Patterson, which arrived at Yakitat May 21, left San Francisco April 21, and was delayed a week at Sitka. They struck storms and snow as soon they got into the waters opposite British Columbia. On May 8 there was four inches of snow on the deck, and the captain, who had satled these waters more than thirty years, sald that he had never heard of anything like it before. They anchored off Juneau on May 10, In the midst of a snow storm. Mr. Mc- Grath describes the town as resembling one of George Kennon’s pictures of a Siberian village. The marshal of the territory cams on board at Juneau and told them that the oldest settlers had never heard of such weather as they had had this last winter and spring. Even then the snow was from thirty to fifty feet deep on the 1oad to Sil- ver Bow basin, and it was the general opinion that mining could not begin this year at least until the middle of June. The town was filled with miners, who are usu- ally off in the mountains at that time of the year. At Sitka, on May 12, they found the whole country covered with snow down to the high-water mark. On going ashore they heard that affairs at Yakitat were far worse than anything they had heard of elsewhere. At Point Manly, up toward Mt. St. Elias, the snow was from nine to ten feet deep on a level. The Indians had been ir sea otter hunt is they said that they could neither iand nor live at Icy Cape. In the mission garden at Yukitat Bay the snow was five feet deep, where a year ago to the very day the people were gathering early vegetables. Spring was a ttle late in Alaska this year. —_—____+-e-+_____—_. NEW YORK DAMAGED. we the Marks of Her jon With the Delano. The American line steamer New York ar- rived at Southampton, England, yesterday from New York. The steancer plainly shows the effect of her collision with the steamer Delano on the morning of June 21. Several plates and one gallery on the port side ate very much damaged and life boat is badly smashed. At the time of the collisicn the New York was running at the rate of nineteen knots per hour. The Delano struck the New York almost amidship, and had not the blow been a glancing one, the damage to the New York would no doubt have been much greater. Capt. Jamison says that the collision oc- curred half an hour after midnight, adding: he weather was clear and a ship was seen a mile and a half distant. I left the bridge fifteen minutes before the collision and was going to bed when I felt a shock and heard a tearing, grating noise. When I reached the deck I found that the noise had been caused by the steamer’s-gopes rap- ping the side of the New York. Delano was falling astern and upon the ssary examination being made I f t the New York was not dungerously |, and that there was nothing to prevent her from remaining water-tight. The other steamer, however, must have been damaged to a con- siderable extent, as 1 found twelve feet of her head on our promenade deck. “She declined our offer of assistance, which we made to her, and offered, in her turn, to help us if we needed assistance. She also asked whether we would proceed or return. Our boats were cleared away in order to be able to render to the steamer asistance if she required aid. However, as she did not want help and as a haze had commenced to surround us, I did not think it prudent to remain at close quarters and 80 proceeded slowly, stopping at intervals | in order to clear away the wreckage. “The officer who was on the bridge at the time of the collision reports that while watching a steamer apparently a mile and a half distant he saw a green light appear. Immediately the New York's engines were reversed and, as a collision was unavoida- ble, the vessel was steered so as to take the impact in a slanting direction.” —se*-— Seventy Dollars for a Cap of Coffee. From the They w ich they had paid for luxuries at different tmes. One_man had given-$4 for a can of Feaches in the days of ‘49. Another, who had raised cattle on the plains in 1869, had bid high against a cowbvy for a bunch of grapes until the price was $6.30, but he got the grapes. One of the party had exchang- ed $635 for a pair of shoes, but he had been a rebel officer aud the money w in con- federate bills, which weren't wo-th their weight in pape~. “And I,” said the youngest man of the group, “in these days of peace and pro- gress, quick communication and abundance of supplies, have paid $70 for a small cup of coffee. He waited for some one to challenge him, but some pretty big stories had been told. and the group of romancers felt equal to anything. “Yes,” he sald, “a friend gave me $10 to | bet on a horse at the race track. the clubhouse getting luncheon, and, look- ing at my watch, saw that the race which his hcrse was entered would be run in seven minutes. I pride myself on making close connections, and as I wanted a cup of coffee with which to finish my luncheon, I asked for one. I bolted the coffee, started hurriedly down the steps, and then went on a run for the betting ring. Just as I reached it the bell sounded and the cry went up, “They're off!’ leaving me standing before a bookmaker with the $10 in my up- Hfted hand “My friend's horse won. He patd 7 to 1. I took $70 cut of my bank account, handed it to my friend the next day, congratulated him, and never told him that his gain was my loss. My watch was two minutes siow.” I was in | Phabetical SEEN BY AMERICAN EYES How the Election of the French President Seemed. Graph Description of the Scenes Yesterday at Versailles—Excit- ing Times in France. A Paris special cablegram, copyrighted by the Associated Press and sent last night, and signed by Emily Crawford, says: Nothing more unlike an American elec- tion could’ well be imagined than the French presidential election which today made M. Casimir-Perier president of the French re- public. M. Casimir-Perier today had 451 out of 853, There were 877 members present, but 24 abstained from voting. The palace of Versailles was full of bustle this morning. Upholsterers, glaziers and floor-polishers were hard at work making ready the com- mittee rooms, the gallery of the tombs, the speaker's rooms, the future president's rooms, in the former suite of the Queen of France, and the congress hall. There was @ general furnishing up of the palace. One hundred and eighty-one arm chairs had to be made ready, seats had to be mended, curtains hung, draperies to be nailed to the walls ana paintings to be dusted. ‘Ticket-holders were admitte. ‘o the gal- leries early in the morning. The members of the press were the nrst to arrive, and they mussed the sight at the st. Lazare terminus which the start of the parliament- ary train afforded. Troops strougly guard- ed that termimus. A brigade of pollce was posted at different parts of the general hall, while uneasy, sharp-eyed detectives prewiled | about among the crowds of holiday-makers who had taken railway tickets to see what sights the puviic places of Versailles mignt aword. The public wanted above all to get into the parliamentary train, by which, it turned out, not many legislators traveled, they preferring to start from the quieter Mont /arnasse terminus, at the south side of Paris, which was also held by troops and police brigades, The ladies present included the wives, daughters, nieces, cousins and personal friends of the members of congress. They had no time to buy mourning for Carnot or prepare special toilets for the presiden- tial election. The reputation of Parisian women for elegance was unworthily main- tained, yet numerous were the leaders of fashion. Two special trains of great length were Prepared toward noon; another train of salon cars awaited the ministers, and poor ‘@rnot’s state train was ready in the event the future president preferring to re- turn to Paris by railroad. The last time it was. used was to bring back Carnot’s re- mains from Lyons. It is customary for thg newly elected president to drive back from Versailles in a private equipage escorted by culrassiers, Against Casimir-Perier. While we waited at the Lazare sta- tion a hasty-printed leaflet was distributed supplicating the deputies and senators in the name of humanity not to vote for M. imir-Perier, but to league against bloat- ed capitalists. It was written by a crank. I saw many cranky old men about, and an old lady, who was turned out, swept about | proclaiming that the seventh seal was open and that the vials of wrath in the form of anarchism were being poured on the world for its sins. Science, divorced from relig- jon, she proclaimed to be the devil. The special trains followed at five minute intervals,’ the ministers starting first and the diplomatic corps last. They went in al- most no time to Versailles, which, near the palace, looked like a French town where a fair is going on, or Chantilly on derby race day. The crowds were immense. When they found none of the expected sights they amused themselves by listening to wander- ing musicians, going into photographers’ booths, rifle galleries or restaurants, where prices were suddenly raised and the wines greatly watered. The policemen went about ordering the sightseers to move on. Many of the parliamentarians took lunch at the Hotel Des Reservoirs, The members of the democratic party preferred the Hotel De la Chasse. The hurry and scurry there; was fearful. The guests ran into the lard- era and kitchens to help themselves. Their tongues wagged freely, and the deputies compared notes across the tables. “Who will you vote for?” I asked Comte Maillefeu, a French Labouchere. “For M. Casimir-Perier,” he replied. ‘Why, are you not a radical?" “Yes, but I want to prevent him (Dupuy) from ever being premier. Besides, should the anarchists want to remove another president, I prefer them to remove a semi- conservative.” The entrance to the congress hall is in the south wing of the palace by an or- dinary-looking street door. .More soldiers were there, id soldiers lay hidden in the porter’s lodge and filled the improvised guard room. The police thronged the passages to the telegraph office in the palace. No one who had not a special pass or a congressman's medal was admitted As I went upstairs to the congress Kall | I looked down on the wide court yard ant counted forty furniture vai in it. They had brought from Paris all the furniture required by the congress, which had also sent to Versailles an official staff of 2.0 persons, including attendants, ushers, me: sengers, secretaries, registrars and what not. Before the Vote. The galleries were then filled, but the body of the hall was empty. At 1 o'clock there was a full muster of the ambassa- dors and other members of the diplomatic corps. I fell into conversation with the members of a congressman's family in the{ speaker's tribunal, and was told that M, Rrisson was nowhere. M. Casimir-Perier. it was added, was the favorite. The royal: ists intended to vote for Gen. Fevrier, while all the senate would vote for M. Casimir- Perier since M. Lacour had withdrawn. His withdrawal, it was said, was due to the| fact that the lady he lives with is not pre- sentable, | M. Casimir-Perier, it was further said, | would be a better president than a prime | minister. He had a great fortune, was| honest and honorable; not an India-rubber character, and was well bred. It would he an advantage to France to have him at the Elysee, where much of the initiatory char- acter was not expected, but where he :izi exercise salutary influence in frowning down such men as Rouvier, Roche and Reinach. It was a pity he brought M. Raynal into his cabinet. He meant to be | loyal to the republic. | His wife, who is a good woman, is also! wealthy in her own right, and is a cousin | |of her husband. His late father was of | the salt of the earth. M. Casimir-Perier is brave. This is a desirable quality in| dynamiting times. He was under fire in several engagements in 1870, and won by military pluck the cross of the Legion of Honor when he was twenty-two years old. Since the assassination of M. Carnot his ambition has greatly cooled. He felt that he would make a great sacrifice in becom- ing president. Could he but get in touch with the democracy and conquer his pride} he would be sure to succeed as president. The ushers kept arranging the ballot boxes and seats as the conversation went | on. The speaker, M. Challemei-Lacour, and the secretaries entered in the mean- | time. Prominent among the latter, by | stature and personal mugnetism, was M. | Sorel, the historian and member of the institute. M. Challemel-Lacour is a white-| haired, white-bearded, rosy-faced man of | dignified appearance” and an admirable ‘orator. Somebody cried “Vive la Repub- lique”’ as he enterod, and the ladies in the! galleries craned forward and their fans/ ceased to flutter. The speaker, in choice, simple terms, al- luded to the horrifying event that neces-| sitated the meeting, and then declared the | ecngress open. Three cranks, a radical, a royalist and a soclalist, claimed leave’ to | speak, and another crank cried: “Long live | the ‘social revolution!” ‘he socialist deputy, Chauvain, shouted: “Down with the presidency!” which was echoed by his col- | leagues. M. Groussicr cried: “Down with | | dictator but this cap fitted no head. The speaker took no notice of the cries | and named those who were to serutinide | the votes. He decided by lot in what al | category the members should | begin to vote. The letter L. was drawn,and M. Labarte began the voting. The mem- | bers filed past the urns, dropping in white lor blue balls as they went. Then they | went to walk in the gardens. There were ive urns, each of which w: on a se! Irate table. ‘The letters L, M,N, O and | took half an hour to vote. The Fature President Present. | At 3 o'clock M. Casimir-Perter arrived | from Paris. He walked slowly about the | passages of the committee rooms. At 3:30 | o'clock 85% votes had been cast. One other | vote had been refused. Breathless anxiety reigned while the votes were being counted | stoners to be closed, and that others are | |immunity from maladies of this ciass, and The speaker then declaredthe result of the first and only ballot, The socialists, ap- parently for forni sake, cried “down with dictatorship!” “long live the social repub- lique!” “fhe members -of the center ap- Plauded, and there were a few who cried “long live Casimir-Perier!” Very’ little enthusiasm or warm feeling w own anywhere, unless it was in the speaker’s room by M. Casimir-Perier, who, ‘upon hearing the speaker announce the result of the ballot, burst into tears and said: “I make a great sacrifice in accepting the office.” Half an hour after the newly elected president drove toward Paris, escorted a@ body of dragoons. As he drove off he bowed pleasantly. He looks younger than his age. He has an erect carriage and pre- cipitate dicticn, and there is little out of the common in his alr. His countenance ond bearing are rather military, though he fs a civilian. ‘ u M. Casimir-Perier called upon Madame Carnot on returning to Paris and begged her to stay at the palace of the Elysee as Jeng as it was convenient to her. In the Teanwhile, he will make the foreign min- istry his official residence. EMILY CRAWFORD, Dupuy’s Humiliation. A gpecial dispatch to the London Times from Paris says that the ballot given M. Dupuy was an almost humiliating minority, obliging him to resign the premiership and rendering it impossible that he be a candi- date for the presidency of the chamber of deputies. This most cruel result was seen a long time prior to the presidential elec- tion, It ts an Icarus-like fall that will take M. Dupuy, who so thoughtlessly and rashly ran the venture, a long time to recover from, The dispatch adds that the rightist intrigue was so active against M. Casimir- Perier that he refused until 10 o'clock Tues- day night all requests from the republican leaders to be their candidate. In despair they summoned his mother, who was present at a renewed discussion. She listened to the pros and cons, and turn- ing to her son, said: “History is In my mind, and, inspired by my affection for you, 1 declare that your grandfather, if he were here, would tell you that in the circum- stances it is your duty to stand and accept the mission which may be confided to you by congress.” Thereupon M. Casimir-Perier consented to stand. His reluctance was due io the fear that his political career, of which he is passionately fond, might be terminated too soon, APPEALS FOR THE PUMPS The Somrs‘ssioners Receive Many Letters of Protest. What ts going to become of the Wells? ‘That is the question of the hour and the subject of more letters to the Commission- ers than have ever been written on any one Subject before. Kvety'mati brings to the Commussioners’ office a score or more of protests against closing. some. particular well, while a good portion of the day is taken up listening to personal pfotests against closing the wells, Every section of the city where a pump has been ordered abandoned and the well closed sends dele- gations to the Commissioners. They are all siven @ hearing befare the full board. Their arguments, however, are all the same. For years, they say, they have used this water and there has never been a case of typhoid fever in their vicinity; the water is clear, col and pure; to remove this pump will be 4 great hardship. ‘She Comnussioners are placed in a very embarrassing position. On one hand they have the recommendation of the Stedical Society that the weils be closed, together with the recommendation of the Sanitary League and reports of the District chemist that the water is contaminated, wnhile, on the other hand, they have the citi- zcns protesting against the abandonment oi the wells. So that thelr position is not an enviable one. They have accepted the “reports ard recommendations of the physicians and the closing of wells ts going on, Tney have, howeyer, deciued upon ohe important mat- ter. Where a well is abandoned in a poorer quarter or the city and the residents in that neighborhood are unable to have étomac waver in their houses a public pump will be erected, provided there is a water rain, and if the latter does not exist one will be immediately tard. Today Mr. J Rodgers, an elderly, gentieman, who has lived in this city for Torty years, appeared before the Commis- sioners and mage a strong and carnest ap- peal for the wells. He contended that tne destruction of these weils wouid bring down the wrath of the Almighty. He had used the water for forty years and sail he bad never been Sick @ day in his life. ie feared the result would be to make drunkards,and he urged, with tears in his eyes, that the Commussioners spare the wells, But te edict-has gone forth, and as rap- idly as the District chemist certifies to tne Comimissioners that a weil is contaminated they will order ™ abandoned and closed. Im Defense of the Wells. “A Chemist,” writing to The Star, says: FOUND TO BE A PLOT Others Conspired With Santo Against Carnot. AWFUL SUICIDE OF AN ACCOMPLI Papers Found Connecting Him With the Assassin. MORE ARRESTS EXPECTED | PARIS, June 28.—A dispatch from Mont- belier, capital of the department of Herault, situated about seventy-five miles from Mar- seliles, announces an anarchist tragedy growing out of the efforts of the police to discover accomplices of Cesario Santo, the | assassin of President Sadi Carnot. Cette and Montpelier, both in the same depart- ment, have been mentioned as places where the murderer stopped prior to making his way to Lyons, with the intention of taking the life of the chief magistrate of France. Consequently, both these towns have been scoured by detectives since Monday morn- ing. Santo has from the first claimed that he acted entirely on his own initiative, and that he had no accomplices. The police soon formed @ different opinion and be- Meved that he followed out a careful!y laid | plan, recefving instructions and advice at the different towns he visited. The detectives who have been at work in Montpelier y; ecided to} surround and search the house of a man named Granter, supposed to be au anarchist | noon, previous to the attack upon Carnot, was heard to remark: “By this time Carnot must have received his quietus.” As the president was not stabbed until late the same evening it was naturally con- cluded, when the news of the outrage be- ‘came public, and when it was shown tha! t Santo had visited Montpelier, that Granier | must have known that an attempt was to be made upon the life of the president. When Sfanicr’s house was sur*oundes the detectives burst in the door and summoted t« anarchist to surrender. seated at the table, eating his supper, when the police burst in upon him. He xprang to his feet and fcr a moment stood motionicss with Se Then, with surprising swift- ness, and before the detectives cou'd secure him, the anarchist picked up a long and sharp knife and plunged it into his abdo- men, and, with a few ewift turns of the wrist, disemboweled himself and fell to the floor, where he expired almost immediately afterward. The police then commenced # thorough search of Granier’s lodgings, and, accord- ing to report, a quantity of anarchistic liter- ature was dicovered, together with docu. ments which connect Santo with Grauier and others in the coaspiracy which resulce3 in the murder of. Presiden: Carnot. In any case, the police ities admit ho was arrested on Monday, and others not yet in custody, plotted the death of President Carnot in order to avenge the executions of Ravachol, Vaillant and Henry, their deaths would be avenged. This, course, was looked upon enone at the time the threats were ut- te ‘The police expect to make important ar- rests shortly. Santo is stili confined in @ cell in the prison at Lyons, and is carefully watched to prevent him from attempting suicide. He is described as a dull, uneducated young fellow. In prison he sleeps well and eats” heartily, does not smoke and appears in-/| different as to his fate. Santo will be tried, as on July 23, at Lyons; against him will be murder, The penal code decrees that an attempt against the head of the state is to be charged as parricide. ‘When Santo has been condemned to death | and the hour of his execution has arrived, | he will be conducted to the Place of execu- tion in his shirt, barefooted and with his head covered by a black veil. The condemned man will stand om the! scaffold while an officer of the law ad-| dresses the people and refePs to the enorm- | ity of the crime committed. Santo will then be decapitated by the guillotine. ——.—_— VOICE OF THE PRESS. Perier’s Election Approved by the Conservative Papers. PARIS, June 28.—The moderate republican and conservative newspapers accord Presi- dent Castmir-Perier a favorable reception, and say that they are convinced that the majority of the French nation and the real | all of whom, before dying, annourced that | | announced, Granier was) of as mere anarchistic | parricide, instead of | for THE LITTLE ROCK DRILL A Possibility That the Emmst Guard May Not Participate. About $700 Short in the Money Neces« sary for Expenses—A Hope That Subscriptions May Come In. There is consternation in the ranks of the Emmet Guard and it now looks as though their long-expected trip to Little Rock to take part in the competitive drills next week would have to be abandoned. The trouble arises from a lack of sufficient funds in the treasury of thé organization, end un- less the friends of the guard come to their rescue within the next thirty-six hours there will be a disappointed crowd of young men. ‘Capt. Walsh,who commands the company, Gropped the bombshell last night after the rill in their armory over the Center Mar- ket. Every night for six weeks past the rill company has been put through the hardest kind of preliminary exetcise urtil they eave veseaet @ high degree of pro- y ive promise of making a very creditable fight for the big prizes at Little Rock 0 companies are going {rc Washington, the Pmmet Guard and the Na- tional Fencibles. They have never coumpet- ed with each other in any important event, and while the Emmet Guard is a compara- lve newcomer in the field of exhibition drilling, the company has a large backing of friends who maintain that it is in a po- sition to make the Fencibles do cheir very best work to come out on top. There is considerable rivalry and feeling between the two organizations, and even if neither one should win first prize fn the interstate Grill there would be still a great deal of interest in this city in seeing which cne of the two will come out nearest to first place. No one would be at all surprised if the good fat puree of $2,500 should be brought back to | Washington in any event. At the same time there would be great disappointment if one of the two local companies should be Prevented taking part in the contest. The Fenelbles Leave Tomorrow. Arrangements have been pushed well for- ward by both companies, and everything is in preparation for the start from Wash- ington. The Fencibles, under Capt. Domer, | will leave tomorrow evening at 10:43, over Danville road, arrivi than their local rivais, and no doubt from the beginning there has bee that they coul attend to the matter of commana Ways and means But with the Emmet Guard tion is quite different, and there is gloom the situa- among the members ‘f fear that t will not be able to go after all their rd ful work. After the drill last evening, Capt. Walsh announced to the company that they Were in anything but a pleasant situation @ financial point of view. The com- mittee in » after getting thelr ac- counts straightened out, and all the re- turns in from the entertai for their benefit, made the ut covery that they were about the amount necessary to pay expenses in- big entertainment itself was moths men anticipated, and b e the success that was sma! Rot particularly well off in the matter of worldly goods. The majority of them are young mechanics, and men in other branch- es of work which are most quickly af- fected by times. The result is that many of them have not had steady and re- munerative work for some time past, and although the condition of a number of them has recently taken a turn for the better, they were willing to give up the time and considerable money out of their own ck- ets for the pleasure of the trip ‘and the honor of the Emmet Guard. It has been & long time the ambition of the com- pany to get into some big contest, in order to test the ability of their drill team. The Movement looking to their going to Little Rock was started among their friends sev- eral months ago, and it was the expecta- tion that the company would receive liberal assistance in their efforts to raise the nec- essary amount. The Emmet Guard has always taken a promincnt place among lccal institutions, and hes been very liberal in the matter of giving exhibition drills at church fairs and cther charitable entertainments, and it was thought likely that some of these favors would be reciprocated. Col. Clay and Lieu- tenant Colonel Urell of the second regiment have been very active in the work of mak- ing arrangements for the trip, as the Em- met Guard comes under their jurisdiction. The Guards Have Hope. Al day long the armory has been the Mecca for the members of the guard, and they sit around and talk over the situation im an effort 10 see some way out of the The Star recently stated that sixteen | working people will do likewise. They extol | cloud of difficulties which now surrounds wells (pumps) are ordéred by the Commis- | his firmness and integrity, and consider his them. Several of the local papers have directed to be cleaned. The warfare which has been waged of late upon the pumps of Washington, while ostensibly in the interest | of the public health, is believed by many | to have also some other inspiration. An| unbiased view of the subject will reveal the fact that not only has the community been | needlessly al. but serious injustice | and inconvenience have resulted. It is true that pump water in any city may. become | vent for drinking; but it is not by any n.eans certain that such wells are generally Lnwholesome. On the contrary, the history of this city positively proves the opposite. For many years pumps of Washington fur- nished the. only water supply. After the! introduction of water from the river they were used chiefly for drinking, though in oor sectioris they still afford all the water ust Let it be noted that not a single epidemic | of typhoid fever has ever gccurred in this | city. ‘She cases have been sporadic, and not | so located as to be traceable to pump water | as the cause.-It is hardly necessary to Siate that, had the pumps been the cause, almost universal sickness would certainly | have marked each warm ‘season. The fact | that the city has always enjoyed a practical that the death rate per thousand, from all causes, has been so low as to place W ington among the healthiest cities of the country, should have operated to im silence upon the calamity howlers. ‘That this is not the case is lamented by many a family who are now forced to drink the | abominable decoction of mud and filth which is derived from the Potomac river. The pumps give pure, bright, cool water, | soft enough to use for washing, and al ways pleasant to the taste. The river ter is, for the largest part of the year, ui fit for any use unless it be to sprinkle the streets and lawns. In the year 187) Dr. C. F. Chandi famous New York chemist. and president her board of health, lestured on drinking ters in this city, giving analyses of the er, the water supply of all the large cities of the country. [fe pointed out the need of either settling or filtering the Potomac water, ard remarked upon the fact that some of the pump waters in the city, par- ucularly the one which stood on 3th and Pennsylvania avenue, were not only re- markably pure, but actually mildly medic! |. Many will remember that pump, near II's Opera House. It flowed a constant t eminent clans, used nded it. same is true cf several of the pumps just closed by order of the Commissioners. I have repeatedly analyzed water from various pumps during the last twenty years, and have in every case found them pure ‘and healthful. Even if the bursting or leaking of a sewer in the vicinity of pump should occur, it Js evident that the remedy is not to rémove the pump, but to repair the sewer. The city regulations for- bid the use of privies which do not connect with the sewers. If they are obeyed no contamination of pump wat The subterranean layers or which the water is found are sufficiently deep and impervious to render the min- gling of surface water impossible, if the pump is properly constructed and kept in repair. Bacteriological examinations of water from properly constructed pumps have demonstrated their freedom from all dis- ease gerins, albuminold ammonia, &c. Young and inexperienced chemists are prone to embrace and be influenced by mere popular “rumor. The health authorities of Washington now begin to realize that the stern logic of fact is the only safe guide, and that the practical experience of many years outweighs all theories of callow grad- uates who would assume the mantles of wiser men. For these reasons, and be- cause of rayuests from reliable citizens who have all their lives depended upon the pumps for their drinking water, I have ventured to send you this note election a reply to anarchist chglenges. | The Gaulols urges that the “Joyful event” | should be celebrated by the proclamation of | polttical amnesty and the repeal of the, exile laws. La Justice also demands amnesty for po- Ktical offenders. ‘The radical organs) regard the election of M. Casimir-Perier as.a victory of the con- servatives over the advanced sections. The Rappel says that after the horrible crime the majority was bound to choose a president of resistance. iterne the opinion that M. thrown La Lan expresses Casimir-Perier’s name is a challenge “ike extreme right and left e extreme right de- scribe M. Casimir-Perier as oFhgnting president.” ' La Petite Republique remarks that M. fon, adding that t “esoaeomedfpat regards the Yeapon and not as @ function, adding he represents the clerical cy and the fhancial plutocracy. | Continuing, La tit Kepublique states that Ident is the chosen of the right. the prices, | of the church and the of reac- | tion. The republicans must close their Tanks in the face of this new 10th of May. ——.+ ——_ PRESIDENT PERIER PRESIDES, The New Head of the Republic Per- forming Mis Daties. PARIS, June 28.—President Casimir-ver- jer presided this morning at a council of the ministers. It was decided to ask the chambers tomorrow for a credit of 50,000 francs, to be applied to the expenses of the funeral of the late President Sadie Carnot. Fees Dupuy will deliver the funeral ora- jon. M. Dupuy, it is announced, has final); cided Neg mje vee 2 thea ger ant be: poses to go to Centrexevi where he take the mineral waters. ser: —_——_—— ‘urnt Zulus Dreaded the Ice. From the St. Louis Globe Democrat. “The natives of tropical countries are sel- dom so much astonished as they are when first introduced to snow and ice,” said E. A. Forster of Chicago. “While the world's fair was in progress I saw a joke played upon two members of a Zulu band which was greatly enjoyed and appreciated by all present except the Zulus themselves. The manager of their tribe, whom I knew in- Umately, knowing that none of the Zulus had ever seen any ice, thought it would be great fun to see how they would act when brought in contact with it. He accordingly told two of them that he wished them to go down town with him. He informed me what he was going to do, and invited me to accompany him, which I did. We stopped at the office of one of the larze breweries, and, after explaining our were readily granted permission to go through the, ice house. “On arriving at the door of the ice house we all entered, the Zulus, who were bare- footed, following closely behind. All along he Is inside great cakes of ice were piled. My friend, the manuger, climbed up on top of the cakes and told the Zulus to foliow him. They obeyed. When the cold chill of the ice first struck their bare feet they didn’t know what-to make of It. They looked at one another for a minute and Jabbered something in their outlandish tongue. They stood it for about a minute, then, giving vent to a yell, they sprang to the ground, and, rushing to the door, they threw themselves on the ground vutside, where they lay writhing about, nursing their feet, and insisting that they had been severely burned.” —s John Blockridge, an expressman of To- ronto, cloped with his sister-in-law, Miss Mary Palmer, on Sunday, and yesterday Mrs. Blockridge poisoned herself by taking prussic acid. volunteered to receive contributions to sup- ply the necessary funds, and the members of the company themselves have been prose- cuting a very lively foraging expedition. They have by no means given up all hope of getting away on schedule time, for they have great confidence in the energy of their leaders. The of getting same, though it is fegrec that the bad news may have the effect of taking some of the spirit out of the work of the organiza- tion. Capt. Waish said to a Star reporter at noon today that at that time he gcuid see no way by which the trip could be accomplished. “All there is about it, is that we haven't enough money in the treas- cry, do the best we can, even to go it as economically as possible, and unless money can be raised now and Saturday morning, we will-have to abandon all our Plans. If we could only borrow the money, 1 think we would be all right, for even should we not win the first prize, we are Pretty likely to pull off one of them, and I am sure that in time the men would be able to make up the balance. I am like the rest of the boys; I have not given up hope; but at the same time I must confess that things are looking a little blue for us.” —_— Telegraphy at Short Range. From the New York Tribune. There are in this city a man anda wo man who have been sweethearts for seven- teen years, two years before they were married and fifteen since that time. When they were young and perhaps no more “lovesick” than most sweethearts wually are, they lived in New Hampshite. I> was & country boy, who was ambitious and worked hard, so that he tould not. s¢e the Pareon’s pretty daughter down at tht foot of the valley 0 often as he coutd- wish. But it was just as hard for him to go for a day without talking to her as fo? any young man of the modern agé who calis in evening dress and “spooas” unceasingly and untiringly. This young country boy, who vas to de termined a chap that afterward in New York he climbed way up to the top of the heap in his business, went out one night and strung a wire from tree to tree down the wooded valley to the parson’s house, Then he got some telegraphers’ tistru- ments, adjusted one in his house apd one down ‘where the parson wrote his sermons and the maid Ker love letters, and the two set to work to learn telegraphy. | After- ward till they were marirsi they cooed electric wire when he cold not come vn from the farm. ‘The other evening a cay little perty sat around a table in a handsome se Up- town. They were enjoying a chafing dish after the roof garden, and every ene was full of merriment. Between the chatting and the gay laughter a woman picked up a fork, and, ing a glass gently with the prong, made, rently cargessly, a few clear sounds. cy were repmted two or three times, until a man, head of the house, who was at the other ed of the table, looked up with a surprised look on, his face. Then the tinkle again sounded, and his eyes quickly Gown the table. He is a big, stout man now, ith a full face, and he does not look a bit sentimen- tal, but when he in turn picked up a fork and raised it to tap his glass he was us kward as a bashful country boy. Her eyes were shy, too, and a gretty color showed in her cheek when the thin, tink- ling glass answered her in) Rather a dull thing, this t to tele- graph with a fork and a class after years of lack of practice. Maybe & was silly, too, for a couple who had peen married fifteen to smu