Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1894, Page 9

DEBS’ PUBLIC APPEAL He Suggests a Boycott Against the Pull- man Oo, Knights of Labor at Omaha—Califor- Strikers Disngree—Notes From Different Parts of the Country. Messrs. Eugene V. Debs, L. W. Rogers, Gecrge W. Howard and Sylvester Kelliher, the American Railway Union officials, yes- terday issued an address to the public, the substance of which is as follows: “Headquarters American Railway Union, Cook County Jail, Chicago, July 22, 1804.— The American Public: It is almost univer- sally conceded that the Pullman company, through oft-repeated reductions, excess- five rents and many other causes, has grievously wronged its employes, and what- ver may be said about the great railroad strike, which resulted in consequence. of such grievances, the arbitrary refusal of said Pullman company to submit to arbi- tration in any form (even to decide the question if there was anything to arbi- trate) Is proof positive that said company had no faith in the justice of its cause, and fears the disclosures that are certain to result from an honest investigation, and in view of the heavy losses entailed upon the country such obstinacy on the part of the Pullman company is deserving of the se- Verest condemnation. We propose that the Pullman company shall be brought to justice, and this Im a way that will not necessitate a strike, with its attendant ills. “We have faith in the American Ce eel they uphold justice; they love fair play. And now in the game of justice and fair play we appeal to the great American public, to every good man and every good ‘Women, not to ride in a Pullman car until the Pullman company does justice to its employes. Let the cars run absolutely empty. No friend of humanity will occupy @ seat or berth In a Pullman car. Let this oy be inaugurated, and we will then see yw long the railway companies will be bound by their contracts, as they have in- duced the public to believe, to haul Pullman ears. We propose to continue this fight again st the Pullman company through good and evil report, and without regard to con- Sequences, until justice shall be done. “There will be no surrender. We will use every available and lawful means to press the contest.” jected Strikers Give Bail. Another installment of the seventy-three ten indicted by the federal grand jury for Participation in the railroad strikes gave ball yesterday. Among them were five of the directors of the American Railway Trion, named Wm. E. Burns, J. J. Doyle, Martin Elliot, Roy M. Goodwin and James Hogan. Burns was batied out by Michael McDonald, the well-known politician. The others were bailed out shortly after. Against Burns, Hogan, Elliot and Goodwin there are two indictments, on2 charging a general conspiracy to obstruct the mails d interstate commerce, and to interfer- ence with the constitutional rights of a shipper engaged in interstate commerce. The Kutghts of Labor Pians. * All of the mémbers of the general execu- tive board of the Knights of Labor are in Omaha. “During zation and agitation to a f to note that the or: Tam glad of Oma- ha are forming th: militia com- panies. Regar. mt for a General urion of a!l tne labor forces, I do not know what will be done wbout them at this meeting. We are in favor of exchang- ing cards, and have been all along. but we will never consent to a unity at the whole expense of the Knights of Labor. Judicial Action in New Mexico. The fourteen strikers arrested at Raton, W. M., two weeks ago for contempt of wourt have been found guilty by Judge eels and sentenced to terms varying from to fifty days in jail. Judge Seeds ssued an order approving the action if the receivers of the Santa Fe road in fischarsng striking employes and in filling heir places with new men, and ordered urther that all employes of the road in Sew Moextco who may hereafter fail to per- rm thelr ust vin @uties shall be deemed as voluntarily quit the company’s serv- nd that the men employed in the places of these men shall be kept in the service as long as they are competent and perform thelr duties satisfactorily, and that 9 persons who have been guilty of con- empt of court In these cases or who may hereafter interfere with the operations of .. in any manner shall be re-employed receiver. fermia Strikers Disagree. The msHation committee of the American Ratiway Union, et a meeting in Sacramento Saturday night, unanimously voted to de- Jere the strike off unconditionally. Super- tendent Filmore haa already deciared bat he will not treat with the strikers, and het no e will be discharged to make foom for them. The Oaklund and San Franct: lodses of the American Rallway Tpion deciined to consider the strik 1 th stand firm. They leny that there were any defections in heir renis, and say that the action of the strikers in capitulating was the weakening of only a few Some Strike Notes. H AL rm Pacific fre secretary of the Ameri has m convi Earles, ex-chief clerk of the t department and an Railway Union, Ta Wash., of in contempt of court the United States court and fined 0. He threatened to dis- miss his former subordinates when he should regain his ol place if they per- forme! work outside the duties for which n Mitts W. Par- He sat! th because of an all of ued an z for the d president of the ,charged with co! American Raliway at Chieago. ateen hundred soldiers are at Butte, Mont. A passenger train left for the south Saturdsy, the first in twenty-two days. > AND R&A LEAVES Methods by Which FP 2 Dispose of an Excess of Water. From Gurden and Forest. Mr. E. Stahl has been making a study of Jeaf forms in relation to the rainfall, chiefly im the botante gardens of Bultenzorg, and he says that whtle a large leaf surface partly provides for the removal of water by trans- piration, there are other distinct, methods by Which plants ere helped to dispose of any excess of water accumulating upon them as spexiily as possible. 0: f these ts the adoption of the sieeping tion by leaves, such as those of the sensitive plant, so that ‘when the horizontal leaves bend upward the raindrops run off by the hase of the leaf. Most frequently, however, excessive moist- ure is dreined off by long points to the leaves. These points occur on the lobes of | dividend leaves, but are most remarkable on | Jong ovate leaves. In seme plants the prolonged midrib kas the form of a wide channel, but senerally it fg that of a tapering id narrow point, slightly curved at the end. As the water trickles down the inclined narrow points tt passes from the upper to the under surface before dropping from the leaf and the bent tes this action. Stahl tested this and found that the . Which he carefuliy moistu for an_ hour. Jropping points left on were dry In twenty minutes or less. This! Tapid removal of water from the leaf Hght- ens its weig @eanses the sur foa of this we ara reminded that efter a shower the inted jeaves of the ash, willow, &c., have ad the cust qui Washed out, while Founde! Ivaves, like those of the oak, are} still di ——-+ 0+ — c. L. Moore and his wife, an aged couple i living near Tiff City, Mo., have been found @ead tu their house, both baving been shot Through the head. NOW IN CAMP. Corcoran Cade at Ocean Drilling few, Va. Am{d the shouts and farewells of those members who could not participate in the outing, as well as a large number of ad- mirers, the Corcoran Cadet Corps Saturday evening at 7 o'clock steamed off down the Potomac for “Camp Joseph W. Anderson,” at Ocean View, Va. The boys were in for @ good time and expect to return home rich in military fleld knowledge. About fifteen ladies were in the party. CAMP JOS. W. ANDERSON, OCEAN VIEW, Va., July » 1804. The Corcoran Cadets reached the scene of their nine days’ camp today at 9:30 a. m. Everything passed off nicely, and every- body was well. The night was a gloomy one on account of the rain which began im- meiiately after leaving Alexandria and con- tinued until about 4 o'clock in the morning. The boys enjoyed themselves relating their experiences of former encampments, and Ustening to the singing of the different quartets of the corps. Heretofore it has been the custom of the corps to send an advance guard down to arrange things, 60 that when the boys arrived tents would be pitched and ready for use, but on account of so much lost and misiaid goods during the past two encampments, Capt. Edwards thought {it best not to send an advance guard, but let all goods go with the com- mand, and each man bulld his own house. On the arrival of the boat at Norfolk many famillar faces could be seen to greet their old friends of last year. Boys couki be seen in almost any direction renewing old acquaintances of Virginia Beach. At 1 o'clock dinner call was sounded, and the cadets marched In line to the hotel, where a most bountiful meal was served. After dinner the boys assembled on the parade grounds, which, by the way, is su- perior to any of the kind the company has yet had, and by a unanimous vote christen- ed the camp “Camp Jos. W. Anderson,” in honor of one of the favorites of the battal- fon. The Heutenant responded in a speech, the flag was run up and Camp Anderson was officially opened. Private Lockhead had a narrow escape this morning while talking to Private Phelps. The tender of train No. 20 just missed one of his legs. Luckily, he escaped unhu:t. Private Wiggenton evidently had an en- largement of the 4 this morning. Bright and early he was out cn deck enjoying the salt water air when a good, stiff breeze carried his white helinct into the briny deep. Later on Private Parker was another unfortunate one. Seing some pretty maid- ens at the most magnificent Fortress M roe, he leaned a iittle too far toward sea- the recipient nother Lead gear. Edwards is ‘son the lookout for accidents, ond promptly replaced them with two bzight, new heimets, and the boys were happy again. The company was very much surprised when they arrived at the depot and found a special train in waiting, which enabled them to ach the hotel in time for break- fast, which, by the wa: as never more acceptable. Then the boys all joined in, pitched tents, cots, trunks, and baggage were arcanged and everything put In onler. The whole company, at this writing, are indulging in the “briny deep,” and they are causing a_sreat amount ef fun for the bathers, The bathing suit of “Little Willie "i is worthy of mention, as it is so the band had to stop playing un- passed safely down the beach. a fine one, led by one of Wash- mous musicians, Mr. Rodrigo. the ume du at, and will furnish mu It has ten pleces, aw y only snered aw t enoveh can een tc let the boys what kind of dance to expect tomor- row and the rest of There will cing In ti pavilion, situated the hotel, ¢ t. Several of che Sands hote’ ward, and the briny deep of The band’: | s 2 gr ‘companied by are stoptp these are Private Neille Ryan and Miss A overstgat, é ser, I. 8. R. P. and Lieut. ‘Sabine, comp: th talion, @ omitted from the roster in Tuesday's Star, S.H.P. — LONDON POLICEMEN. They Get a Low Rute of Pay for the Work They Periorm. From the New York Sun. It cosis close upon $10,000,000 a year to Police London, "There are in the metropolitan police force 15,040 men of all ranks, and thelr pay, clothing and equipment alone costs the taxpayers of the big city £1,343,959 a year. Then there is the pay of the com- missioners, doctors, clerical staff and work- men generally, the maintenance of stations and offices and the thousand and one mis- cellaneous items of cost in the operation of the department, which brings the total cost of the machinery for guarding the peace of the British metropolis to a few pounds short of UUO,000 a year. ‘There are 12,585 ordinary poljcemen on | the foice. They are all cailed constay.es,there being only one grade below that of ser- Geant. The pay of the constable varies be- tween 24 shilling a week, the pay of a new reeruit, and {88 12s. 11d.’a year, the maxi- | mum pay of an ordinary constable, There were last year 1,09 men on the London po- lice force receiving 24 shillings a week, which is scarce $3 American nion ough the mere comparison of money’ value 1s, of course, no criterion of the adequacy of the | pay for the place. Clothing is supplied to the constabies free, or if from any reason of special duty a constable does not draw Lis supply of clothes trom the government Stores he receives #3 a year in place of the clothing. The Wigher Oficer: ants, who come next in rank to es, number 1,779. Thetr pay is from th of | mmand. They 2 or a money allo ext above the £89 to £151 a year, according to leng servi md imp geants are and are rated class. They re: alliwance fn Meu of th yeetors In th tive depart scales ¢ are allow uniforms. triets these ¢ head of od fi mis- and fit i200 house allowance, atvided among therm fo: The chief commissioner also gets se) a year house allowence. The salaries and allowances of | the commissioners’: ollce amount to £2: a year. This matter of allowances {s ani important one in the remuneration received | by every member of the force. Constables, for Instance, recetve an allowance of coal money when they are not living in the stations. Married men get four pence a week and single men three pence half penny a week. Married men living in stu- tions receive forty pounds of coal a week the year round; single men forty pounds a weel: in winter and twenty pounds in sum- mer. This item of coal and coal allowance amounted to £14,050 last year, Paper Telegraph Poles, From the St. Louls Globe-Dorocrat One of the latest uses to which parer has been turned fs the making of telegraph poles. The paper pulp employed is satu- rated with a mixture of borax, tallow dnd other substances. The mas3 !s cast in a moli,- with a cone in the center, forming a hollow rod of any desired length, the cross pleces being held by wooden keys driven in on either side of the poie. ‘The paper poles are sald to be Mghter and stronger than those of wood, and to be un- affected by the many weather Influences which shorten the Ife of a wooden pole. bling. It 1s doubtful. however, whether the paper pole will come to be anything like a ri to the iron pe t which ts now high in fx 7 the carrying of all kinds of wire lin he ¥azie of fron telegraph poles has been | well tested under the most trying | tions en the line between Europe and In- {a and again across arid stretches of coun- try in Australla. Insects that eat out the core of everything in the shape of wood, leaving the shell only, and bird borers that drill holes in the toughest of trees, let the fron poles pass, and even wandering tribes cannot chop it up for fire wood, although down In Australia they have not yet quite gotten over thelr trick of making arrow heads of the insulators that it carries, | | rifles. THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JULY -23, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. en 9 RUMORS OF WAR China's Asserted Rights in Corea Opposed by Japan. The War Footing of the Two Nations and Their Comparative Strength Attitude of the People. A dispatch from Shanghai states China is preparing for war, and is blocking the northern passage of the Yang-Tse-Kiang, the great river of China. Incoming vessels are thus compelled to pass nearer Woosung forts. Japan has chartered all the Mitsui Bussan Company's ships, in addition to the sixteen already chartered from the Wusen Kaisha Company. Japan has prohibited the departure of the Yusen steamers. China continues to make preparations to assert her claimed rights in Corea, and from the present indications it is judged that war is inevitable unless Japan recedes from the position she has hitherto main- tained. Orders were recently issued for 12,000 Chinese troops to prepare for a de- parture to Corea. The preparations were hurriedly compieted and on Friday last the soldiers went on board the transports that will convey them to the peninsula. To guard against contingencies, the transports were conveyed by eight gunboats, the com- manders of which were instructed to fire upon the Japanese should the latter attempt to obstruct the landing of the Chinese. Warlike preparations are also being made in other directions. A strong body of troops will shortly leave Foochow for the Loo Choo Islands. It is the government's intention to employ the Nankin and Canton fleets in haraseing the Japanese coast {f actual hos- tillties are commenced. Orders have been sent to every Chinese province calling upon each of them to furnish 20,000 troops to aid in support of the government. British and United States marines have been landed at Seoul, the capital of Corea, in order to protect the British and United States legations, respectively. China has Tequested that Japanese warships be not allowed to enter the Chinese treaty ports, Japan, replying to the request of China in regard to Japanese warships, maintains the right to enter these ports at any time. The atiitude of the population generally is warlike. The Chinese Forces. In view of the fact that war between China and Japan, growing out of the Cor- rean dispute, appears to be imminent it may not be uninteresting to give a sum- mary of the forces of the respectlye pow- ers. According to Chinese officia] statistics the army {s composed as follows: The Etght Banners number 823,800 men, and comprise Manchus, Mongols, and Chi- nese. Of these 100,000 are supposed to be reviewel by the emperor at Pekin once a year. There is also the Ying Ping or na- Uonal army, having 6,459 officers and 650,- Quo privates Capt. Norman in his book “Tonquin” di- vides the army as follow First, the ac- uve army, comprising army of Man- churia; the army of the Center, and t army of Turkesian, and second, the ter torial army. Capt. Norman gives the num- ber of the army of Manchuria as 7,00 men, divided inio two army corps. Many of these troops are armed with the M rife and possess a Hberal supply of K eightcentimeter fleld cannon, The ar | of the Center is numbered at 50,Gj9 men In time of peace. ‘This number, however, c doubled in case of war.’ The my of a hi ace and of Turk 3 order in the a2 Wes’ and could not in all probability be eastward in the event of war. The territorial army is a kind of local militia capable of being raised to a streng' of probably is) mea. The numbers are kept down in time of p: to vou, The Tartar cavalry of the north are mounted on undersized but sturdy ponies. Their equipment is wreichel. China’s Warships. Within the last fifteon years China has acquired a considerable ficet of vessels, and many of her ships are of a powerful character. The larger vessels have been built in Eurepean yards, several of them in England, but the imperial arsenal at Foochow has produce] torpedo cruisers, gunboats and dispatch vessels. ‘Phe fleet 1s divided into the north coast squadron, the Foochow squadron, the Shanghal flotilla and the Canton flotilla, The north coast squadron consists of four barbetie sea- going armor-clads, two of 7,280 tons each, and two of 2,850 tons each; one turret ship of 2,320 tons; three deck-protected cruisers of 2,300 and 2,500 tons; four torpedo cruis- ers, a torpedo flotilla, and eleven gunboats of from 225 to 440 tons. The Feochow squadron consists of ten cruisers of from 1,400 to 2,480 tons, three gunbcats, nine dispatch boats and three revenue cruisers. The Shanghal flotilla consists of an armored frigate of 2,630 tons, a gunboat, six floating batteries of wood and three transports. The Canton flotilla consists of three deck-protected cruisers and thirteen gunboats. Adopting the sys- tem of classification used in the State men's Year Book the naval strength of China may be expressed thus: Battie ships, one first-class, one second-class and tar third-class; nine port defense vessels; cruis- ers, nine second-cl. twelve third. A and thirty-flve B;“torpedo boats, first-class, twenty-six second-class, teen th! two thir- -class and two smaller boats, The Army of Japan. The army of Japan is organized on a uniform system on the basis of censcrip- tion. All males of the age of twenty years are lable to service In the standing army for seven years, of which three years must be ent in active service, and the remain- ing four years in the army of reserve. After quitting the ari of reserve they | have a part Landwehr for | ve year: every male from ven up to forty years of age, who is andsturm, i ti army is com- lal guard and six di- as as follow: uard (two brigades of four infantry, one squadron of cavalry, ene regimeat of artillery and one company cf engineers), consisting of 6,207 officers and men, with forty field guns and horses, The six divisions consist of twelve brisades or twenty-four regiments of infantry 925 officers and men; cav- alry, six squadrons, composed of 1,302 offi- cers and men, 1,148 hors artillery, eight regiments, consisting of 5,428 officers and D fi 120 mountain guns and 1, horses; engin six battalions, 2, cers and men; in, six squadrons of 2,108 officers and men and 1,746 horses. Includ- ing miscellaneous service the total strength on the peace footing is 8,662 officers, 62,441 non-cominissioned officers and men, 314 field guns, 156 mountain guns and 8,701 horses. There are besides six battalions of gen- darmes, comprising 1,056 officers and men and eighty-eight horses, and four battalions of yeomanry, with 3,20) officers and men. The reserve has a strength of 99,554, and the Landwehr of 99,176. The rifle now used in the army is the Murata, which was in- vented in Japan a few years ago. The Japanese naval fleet ts a purely defensive ferce. It consists of five ships which may be classed as armored cruisers, one of these being a wooden vessel, nine second-class cruisers (between 2,000 and 5,000 tons), and twenty-two vessels which may be rated as third-class cruisers. The torpedo fiofilla includes one first-class boat and forty sec- ond-class. eee hn ae Froia the Chteago Herald. The Umbreila to the Fan—“Get out, you airy little thing. You ain't in it with me Row." —== or the Land- | oLD NISH COINS. Recollections gf the Fips gnd Levies of Our Grandfathers’ Days. No one berndn this generation in this country knows anything about the old-time fips and levied thmt constituted a larze por- tion of the subsidiary coin in circulation as late as the bfeaking out of the civil war,” says Col. C. A. Pine of the Port Jervis Ga- zette, who remembers everything. ‘These were Spanish coihs, and they got into cir- culation in this gountry through some pe- cuntary settlement between the government of the United*Stdtes and Spain. “Fifty years ago very few silver coins from our mint were in circulation, especially the smaller ones. A few half dollars and dollars were in use. The Spanish sinall coins were essentially the people's money in those days. “The fip represented one-sixteenth of a dollar, the levy one-eighth of a dollar, Fip was the abbreviation of an abbreviation of five-penny-bit. When people spoke of the whole of what they meant in talking of a five-penny-bit they called it a fippenny-bit but just fip was sufficlent fur ordinary everyday trausactions. Similarly, folks didn’t often eleven-penny-bit; they con- tracted it -that is, except In New York state, + eastern Pennsyivania and northern New Jersey and in New England, where they had no use for either eleven- penny-bit or levy. In those localities a levy was a shilling. “But in southern New Jersey, southern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and other border states if you sald shilling peo- ple wouldn't know what you meant. They called it levy. Further south a levy became a bit and the fip was a picayune. This was erpecially the case at and about New Or- leans, and this nomenclature was carried up the Mississipp! river by the popular means of communication in those days, the steamboat, to Rock Island, Dubuque, Ga- lena, St. Paul and other rtver points. “In the same way the terms were carried from New Orleans up the Missouri river as far as the white people had pursued their way, up the Ohio to Louisville and above, and even up the Illinois river to Peoria and Peru, and they took root in California when the Pacifle coast was settled by people from the east. In the west it was easy to tell from what part of the country a man had emigrated, according to the way he handled the names of the coins. If he said levy he was sure not to be from the New England states, New York, northern New Jersey or norihern Pennsylvania. “These Spanish coins must have been circulated many years, for they were gener- ally worn very smooth, Some of them were so smooth, in fact, that they would not pass current. The rule 8 that if the pillars on them could be plainly seen the coins were ali right. 1 have seen fps that were e0 smooth and thin that they resembled noth- ing more closely than a shad scale and levies that had been so long in use that they were like smooth circles. “In some parts of the country, notably in the southwest, the fips and levies were rated equal with S-cent and 10-cent pieces, but in the east, and particularly in Phila- delphia and the Quaker country about it, the people wouldn't have it that way. They insisted that eight levies made a doila while it reguired ten 10-cent pieces to mak a dollar. Hence, if the levy had been reco; nized on a par with the dime, the fru; Philadelphian ¢ as out ji 25 cents on every deal of that kind. The: again, tweniy 5-cent pieces had to be gotten together beiore a man had a dollar, whereas e had only to g ulate sixteen fps to have the samt afnount. This was because the levy was vahied at 12 1- ats and the fip at 61-4 omim The same rule existed among those whq called the levy a shiling. . yever, there was more ibility in the fule of the value of these coins and théy were passed for either their face vaiue or dimes and half dimes. ‘This was owing to Uieyeontempt and indif aers of that y_ held yempt. BaclH in the early urg gentleman told me how the people of that town scorned to take pennies in change at the post office and brushed theia contemptuously of the coun- trom which even the ‘nig- ad to pick them. i worn as the “Those old Spagi might be, coutalied m the newest ef ow own coins, and one of them Wguld.be a,qyeat curiosity today.” : soe 15 YEARS FOR HI A Canadian Girl's Patience Rewarded in a Way She Had 5 cted. Life in Butte has its romance now and then, and the story of Angus McQueen, related by the Cleveland Plain Deale proves it. Fifteen years ago he was plod ding along in a emall Canadian village, feeling constantly that in the wide world outside there was a field wherein he could accomplish greater things. He tied his bundles together and left the home of his childhood. This was not all. He had fallen in love with a pretty, modest Iittle girl and they were engaged to be married, but with no time set for the wedding, for Angus in- sisted that he could not think of taking any girl from her home until he had a home to offer her in return. And thus were affairs between them when he shook the dust of Canada off his feet and came to the United States. The young man drifted out into Montana. There was plenty of work for willing hands, and Angus was no slug- | gard; he worked hard, he worked carly and late, but luck did not attend him. Elgat years of the same dreary routine went by, and during that time Angus went back to his old home twice. On both occasions he Lad long taiks with the girl, who was p: tiently waiting for him, and feeling at each it more and more despondent he tried to nee her that she was wasting her life told her in so many words that he did not believe he ever would be rich enough to dare to marry; but the girl was braver than he and would not be re- uished. Six years ago Angus reached the end of his lene and found the turn, He struck pay dirt one day, and in a few weeks re- alizel that he Was worth something like T Wart he did not even write tc the dear o: his good fortune. Prosperity feazed him in the least, but it caused him to set a mark he should strive to reach,and when that should be attained he deter- nined to go home, and if his promised wife vas still true he would marry her and make her happy. | Angus MeQueen | Tutte. Here he got trac {in the center of the tewn that to him | seemed able to realize all his hopes if he | could secure it. He easily learned the own- er’s name, but his whereabouts was an- other matter, With the same persistence, however, that had characterized his whole life, he began to search for him. Fortune, having once smiled upon him, now seemed lavish of her favors, and he found his man. He did not attempt any double dealing. He told the owner many things about Buite that he did not khow and offered him $25,- 009 in cash for his holding. The proposition was accepted, the papers made out and Angus becanté ‘the proprietor of a mine that in leas than’ three months proved to be in truth what in fancy he had dreamed. ‘Then began’ hi little scheme for a ro- mance. The é@xetise he sought for going suddenly heme came upon him in a most unpleasant manner—he received a dispatch that kis mother’was very iL At a mo- ment’s notice he,started for Canada, and there, happily, found his mother recovered. He also found his girl waiting for him still. Again he went through the arguments he had used befdre, but the girl said no; she did not care gor money, and she said she would not be,a drag upon him. She had confidence in his,ability to earn enough to live on, and that was all she asked. An- gus was overfoyedl, but repressed all emo- tion. He merety sald: “Well, get ready and we will get married and go back west to- gether.” This they did, A quiet wedding took place, and not until then did the Mon- jtana miner tell his wife that he had ‘struck It rie The months roiled by and had got a foothold ‘n of a mine located Hacked Herself to Death. Mrs. Charlotte Linderholm, who came to Chattanooga, Tenn., recently from Swe- den, committed suicide Saturday morn- Ving at her home in a horrible man- ner. She arose early and procured la large, dull butcher knife. She re- \ treated to the back yard. She then at- i tempted to stab herself three times in the heart. Not succeeding in this atterept | she hacked her throat from ear to car. ‘The noise attracted the attention of the hus- ; band. He ran and clasped his hands to her throat, but it was too late. She ex- pired in a few minutes. The aiicide wa due to despondency, caused by tie loss of a considerable amount of property before the family left Sweden. She intimated the tact of her intention last night THE LAST OF THEBISON A Tremendous Slanghter of Buffaloes Twelve Years Ago. A Scout's Daring Stand Against a Stampeded Herd—The Cayuse Pony’s Sense. Lieut. J. M. T. Partello writes to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat from Billings, Mont., as follows: Before the Northern Pacific railroad had crossed the continent west of the Missouri river, the section of country bounded by that river on the east and the Rockies on the west and stretching from the Platte, in Nebraska, northward to the British line, was the greatest stamping ground for buf- faloes In the whole northwest. The country was more or less hostile in those days, end the Indians, who had been the best guard- lans of the bison until white pot hunters came among them, soon gained the civil- ized idea of slaughter, and from that time the doom of this representative American game animal was positively assured. But the greatest blow dealt the bison herds of the northwest was the completion of the Northern Pacific track west from Bismarck to the Rocky mountains. The road practically divided the herds (for a bison will never, unless forced, c>oss the iron of @ railroad track), and those to the south were soon swallowed up in the gen- eral slaughter waged by Indians, pot, hide and tongue hunters, foreign sportsmen and others who were aut to kill anything tLey saw on sight. This was during the winter of 1882-83. The buffaloes to the north were in many scattered bands, but there was one great herd of not less than 75,000 head Which had found a temporary refuge in the tri- angle formed by the Musselshell, Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in Montana, and as yet they had not been “smelled out’ by either red or white hunters. Surely Doomed. But they were as surely doomed as though already killed, for the railroad iron cut them off from their southern range, and the Indians of the Canadian northwest, as well as those of our own couniry, barred thelr retreat into the far north; and so they were hemmed in between the two with no Possibility of escape in either direction. To Mlustrate, if a few words, the remark- able destruction of thai section alone, it will only be necessary to say that this ?ast great herd was completely wiped out of ex- istence in less than four months, end be- fore the close of the year there were but a few singles and pairs left as fugitives in that vast country where but a year or two before they could have been counted almost by hundreds of thousands. The shipping figures from two points on the Yellows at the end of the se ndive Ww oskins of elk, antelope and deer from the latter place. It chanced, at the time mention all detac g from the ellowstone, daily, numerous bands of Piegan, Blackfeet and other slaughter of country across, G almost -Ventre, , all hurrying to t the noble a Our scout, or gut: named Two Moo threading ed butt of about 600 bison came g into view a bluff not than 2 , and with heads dow: i they came plunsing on ctly toward us in the vy confysion. A genuine stam ably in full operation, and lost no time in plac- fe and reasonable distance between nd the threatened danger. They round ede waiting for orders Ing a rades as the speed of my horse wou mit. A Daring Feat. Two Moons, the guide, either in a spirit of bravado, or possibly under pres: the exciting moment, sat perfectly his pony, and neither animal nor rider stirred a muscle until the plunging herd was almost upon them. Then, like a flash, the Indian whipped his Winchester forward, and the spring of the bullets could be heard as they rattled about the heads and shoul- ders of the leading bison. The ruse was now appa t. The sting of the lead ders to separate, for, without halting or pausing in their mad rush, the herd divided as if cut with a knife, and went sweeping! by Ike the wind, a molety on each side of the scout. The most remarkable thing about the whole performance was the quiet and tract- able manner in which the guide's pony con- ducted himself waile all this fuss and up- roar was going on about him. He neither grew excited nor rebelled, but remained as steady as a rock in his place until his mas- ter gave him leave to move. In a few minutes the last of the fleeing Dison were well to the rear, and they soon disappeared beyond a neighboring knoll with the speed of an express train. While watching them,and debating wheth- er a chase would be worth the trouble, from behind the bluff where the buffaloes had first appes now came a second band of bison (about sixty in all), with a dozen well- mounted Cheyenne bucks In hot pursuit, As before, the animals came direct toward us, but our shoutings and hallooings turn- ed them aside, and they shied off to the left, entering the jaws of a rough, broken ravine, which precisely their rea pursuers wanted. The ravine was a sort of rift in the bad lands, which practically led nowhere, but which we afterward dis- covered narrowed and clos in until it ended in a steep, impassable pocket, with No outlet except by the original way of en- try The Indians shouted to us as they ru by, and, rather interested in the oute: (as I suspected the nature of the ravine), I t the serg detachment, and, taking the t owed swifly on the heels of the flying Cheyennes. The Wondecful Cayuse. Game end hunters soon disappeared tn the twinings and intertwinings of the gorge, and, a3 it was an exceedingly rocky and difficult trail, we took our time and practt- cally “made haste slow! Here again ame into play the wonderful tnstinct and genuine “horse sense” of the ca3use plains pony, My mount was of the sane Lreed as the one ridden by the guide, and I was really astonished to see with what ease the hardy litle brutes made thelr way through the most inaccessible places. Elther on the plains or among bad lands they are equally at home, and whether in the broad glare of day or in the depths of night they have never been known to lose a trail after oace having found it. An American bred horse will plunge ahead fearlessly and not iu- frequently snap a leg in some half-concealed prairie dog hole, but the cayuse pony in- stinctively dodges such pitfalls and keeps his rider dodging them, too, unless the lat- ter is content to lose the saddle, cr, perhaps, put up with a broken neck. We left our ponies to take their own course, and every once in a while could sce the Cheyennes far ahead, darting in and out of the canyon’s windings, with the retreat- ing bisons stfll in the lead. How the red men ahead of us ever got over the ground 80 quickly was an unsolved mystery. When we had approached to withia half a miic of them we saw the hunters pause, consult a few minutes, gesticulate wildly and then they went on again very siowly. Reaching the point where the consultation had been held nothing was in sight. Neither Indian nor bisons were in view, and all was as still as the grave. But here the course began narrowing, and besides the many huge bowlders and rough cuts on every hand the walls were steep and ragged and covered with scrub cottonwoods and stunted growths, which completely con- thing ahead of us. Narrower and narrower bec: and at Just we paused to listen, scarcely a sound in the air, but this in- tense stillness became suddenly broken by a series of rapid shots and wild yells, ac- companied by a thundering, rumbling notse, ning. The tuniuit rapidly grew louder, and then, Just tn front of us, from out the depths of the canyon, came the buffalo herd like the wind, directly. toward us, Some were bleading, many were wounded and others were limping badiy. Scrambling as well as we could benind bowlders and corners, we had Just reached refuge in time, for # now thoroughly mad- dened and stanfeded buffaloes, never paus- ing for rocks, brush or impossible tratls, came helter-skelter onward, with heads do and tails up, as usual, passing us in one solid black mass toward the outlet of the gorge. It never sestned possible that living brutes caused the lea e the gorge, There was could travel over such rough ground with such speed, but the difficulties of the trail never seemed to concern them in the least. for, as a matter of fact, the rear ones crowded the forward ones with such per sistence and so rapidly that they had to move quickly or else be trampled under foot. A Disastrous Encounter. After this thunder cloud had passed, with feeling of great relief we went on up | the catyon to see how the Indians had fared. It proved to have been a disastrous encounter for the Cheyennes, as many of them were limping and bleeding as badly as the stampeded buffaloes. A survey of the free frontier cireus ground discovered seven dead buffaloes, three woundel In dians (one of them quite seriously) and six ponies killed or maimed. it appears that after cornering the bisons m the furthermost depths of the eanyc the red hunters had attempted to bi their passage out, and thea commen firing on them. The imprisoned brutes stood this punishment for a while, but a: last, in sheer desperation and maddenet by wounds, they turned on their assailants and charged their way out in true cavairy style, with a loss of seven of their number. Une of the seven siain bisons proved to be an ancient old bull that showed the marks and scars of eighteen wounds he had re- ceived in his long battle with humanity. This fact was discovered when he was skinned and cut up. Htmp, the Cheyenne buck who led the assault, and who had 4 ; dodged the sharp horns of at least a dozen of the animals, declared it was the pluck- jest thing he had ever seen buffaloes do. We assistel the wounded and dismounted Indians back to their camp, which hap- pened to be about three miles distant from the bluff where they first came dashing into view, and after a royal feast of toasted steaks and a pleasant night's rest, next morning, bright and early, we resumed our journey toward the Yellowstone, which we reached in good season and without fur- ther incident. +02 MEMORY, FREAKS OF From the Gentleman's Magazine. Whe story was told the other day of Whit- tier, the deceased American poet, having applauded at a public meeting the quota- tion of some of his own verses, in compiete forgetfulness GY the fact that he had writ- ten them himself. But this is as nothing compared with the remarkable instances of cerebral eccentricity that have been re- corded at various times by physicians and others, The most curious incident connected with memory is, of course, its entire lapse; and such cases are not by any means so infrequent as i generally supposed. It is starling enough, no doubt, to hear a fellow-creature asking another fellow-creat- ure to tell him who he is, but such things have actually happened. Indeed, it was only last year Ghat a case of the kind wes engaging the attention of Melbourne phys cians. A young man, about thirty years of ee, called at the police barracks und de- manded to be informed as to his own iden- tty. At first it was thought that the man Was a lunatic, but it soon became evident that his statement as to his memory ha failed hlm was perfectly genuine. He Was taken into custody and kept in the Melbourne jail, where he was the object of attention and curiosity on the pari of physicians and warders. Hie pei i in the de nember anyth which he visited th everai medical men S statement, attributi that he efore the day 3 through the music of t day service. orning he listening intently to the sin: questioned about it and said, have is it He was seem to t before somewhere. What not understand when told . but at the close of the se uields took him up to the ¢ and having shown him that the wl were produced by fin ted him in front of the ins The man struck several note gibly, and then a chord or tw: rmony, and in an instant, with a look of pleasure, he commenced a selection from “The Crea- tion,” which he played correctly and well. He used the stops, and showed that he was familiar with the instrument, and in this y, as already indicated, he gradually re- covered his loss of memory. Forgetting Their Wentty. Such protracted cases as this are not very common, but insiances of a temporary loss of identity could be quoted without number. The late Dr. Spring of New York, it is told, was once observed by one of his parishioners to be standing vacantly gazing outside the post office. The parishioner went up to him and said: “How do you do, Dr. Spring? rim glad to see you.” To which the doctor res plied: “Ah! that’s what I am. I am very thankful to have met you, sir, for I have a letter In the post office addressed to my- self, but I could not get it because I could not remember my name. Now I can go In and get it.” On a par with this is the anecdote told of Dr. Duncan, the great Scottish theologian and oriental scholar. Having to preach in a church near Aber- deen, he set off one Sunday morning to walk to the place. Slowiy moving along, he quickly got into the seventh heaven ¢ mental exaltation, and time, space I matter fell from him like garments. Reach- ing the church and seeing people entering, it occurred to him to be a very proper thing to engage in public worship. Going up to the elder at the plate, he inquired wv v% to preach, and only “came to he was told that the preach Duncan, from Aberde Inclined to doubt the ¥ of such anecfotes, but the present writer is ready tg belleve anything of the kind ¢ absent-mindel friend of his own re- ned home—after performing pari of his journey by rail—to ask where he was going. Result of Disease. Tho most siriking cases of lapsed memory | They had resided but a sb are, however, to be four ha had a severe # rarily diseased mental) The more com. mon form of the malady, too, is the for- getting of every incident of the past sav one, on which the morbid mind never ceases to harp. A very path. is ded in Beck | dence.” It ts that of a young clergyman | who was accidentally shot in the forehead | by a frie§d just two days before his mar- | riage was to have taken place. For a long time his life was deapairel of. He recov- ered, but his mental faculties had become impaired. He remembered nothing but the | fea of the approaching marriage. Every- thing was absorbed in that one recollec- tion; his whole conversation related to the | preparation for the event. He w speak on any other subject; it w within two days of his wedding. tempo- Years went on, youth passed away, end still in a couple of days more his marriage would take place. In this condition the unfertu- nate man reached his eightieth year, and no doubt sank into the grave with the one life-long idea as the last thought of his mind. eo-——___- Dies Exile. From the London World. Hussan Fehmy, the second of the seven Egyptian exiles who kas died tn Ceylon since their arrival 'n January, SS, was cer- | tainly one of the most remarkable of Ara- bi’s Heutenants. Although an Arab with a very perceptible strain of negro blood in his | yeins, he proved to be a miliary engineer of consummate ebility, and his accidental capture while watching the progress of the English ships through the Suea canal alone prevented his completing the very formi4- | @ of fortifications he had designed | for the defense of Tel-- He made ar ideal Kgyptian mister of public works, and was et once honest, brave and cleve: When acrested he narrowly escaped being shot In of his pretests (strangely Ved by nis face) that he was a French eolo- t looking afier hig estton crops! When | regognized he wae paced in charge of a subaltern of the guards, who toid him acmewhat rougnly tant he would be shot it he moved. Kia answer was characterist! “I know my duty—do Fours.” He went into | exile without a Murm 4 his sons now | hold high rank In the kgyptian He ied in Ceylon last week, etill in the pris of iife. It ts a curios cotncidence that the tro exiles who have stccumbed during their enforced rexidence Caylon were by fav the strongest 5 physique. Absei-Anl, the governor of Dazatetta, was an Joayp- tisn Hercules, and Huasan Vebmy eeenmed | to be enjowed with robust trawe and | inervelous vitality. oo —___ Interviews with raisin growers of Prema tearly as heew a6 list year, the lowes: estimate being x per sent of last Season. * THE MOTIVE A MYSTERY Murder of a Delegate to the Kansas Popu- list Convention. cn ton Oxbon a» Nis Daughter Charged With the Crime—The Record of the Latter. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HOLTON, Kan., July 17, 1 The trial of Clinton Osvon and his daugh ter Estelle, who are now in the Shawnee county jail, charged with the murder of Charles Hamble at this place, June 14, may bring out a most interesting story, for tho motives which prompted the horrible crime are shrouded in mystery, and great secreey has been observed by all connected with 1 For once public sympathy is agatnst the woman in the case and is with the brigh* young man whose life was taken away, with scarcely a moment's warning, at # time when a great career of promise was opening out before him. Hamble was a delegate from Jacksor county to the people's party state conven- tion, which met in Topeka June 12 and 12, an@ was seriously considered as a probable nominee for Meutenant governor, but he declined to allow his name to be used in thét connection. Before leaving Topeke. for his home he had arranged with the chairman of: the state central committee to enter actively into the canvass and re- main on the stump during the entire cam- paign. He was regarded as one of the brightest young men in the party. The day after the convention Hambie was attending to legal business in his olfice and left there at 6e'clock, in company with his brother John, both riding on bicycles. When the outskirts of the town were reach- ed the two young men met a wagon and Were compelled to dismount to permit it to pass. Just as they were again mounting their wheeis they were approached by Clin- ton Osbon, carrying a double-barreled shot gun, who commanded them to halt. He had been walking up and down the road in the vicinity waiting for his victim for two hours. He accused him of having ruined, his da iter, and told him if he did not marry her he would kill him. Hamble stoutly denied the charge and said he coud easily prove his innocence. Ostem the ordered ilamble to march down town ahead of him, but this Hamble refused to do, re+ marking that he would walk with him as @ man, but would not be driven like a dog. At this Osbon drew up his gun and emp. tied both barrels into his breast. Osbon evidently forgot that he had shot both bar- rels, for he snapped the gun at John Ham- ble also. After the shooting Osbon w to the court house and gave himse! When the news of the crime was circula about town the excitement became int and lynching Was freely thre ed. To prevent mob violence Osbon was taken te Topeka to await his tris The Young OMce Giri. ved in the office or the in this place, as stenoz- rapher, a young woman nemed Estelle Os- bon. She was slight of figure, with Nght brown hair and pleasant, large gray ey Her features were regular, and her t white and even, while her mouth an indicated firmness and resolution. possessed of a fairly good education, wag a pleasant conversationalist, bright and ting. Her duties in the « lght, and her remunera el a desire to perfect ‘aphic work that she might be able to give up her o M® a8 a school teacher. If she be imate with Chas, Hamble it was not & iy knowa, and t who were in a position to watch their movements declare t pere Was nothing in their conduct to indicate that their rela- tions were closer than those of employer and employed. Hamble was a young man, of regular habits, and was apparently not over-fond of the company of women. Prior to his murder ft had not been intimated by any one that his relations with his tenographer were other than proper, and the excuse given by Usbon for killing Ham- ble was not credited. A few days after the father’s arrest Es- telle was taken into custody charged with being an accessory to the murder, and was quietly taken to Topeka and lodged in jail. The officers declined to state what evidence had been discovered implicating her, an were Very mysterious when discussing the case. On the prefminary hearing of ¢ girl, which occurred here last week, littie evidence of importance was brought out, but the examining magistrate, acting upon the advice of the county attorney, who as- sured him that there was much imporiact testimony withheld that he did not desm proper to bring out at that time, held her for trial in the district court and remanded her to jail. One or two witnesses at t preliminary hearing swore that she remar! ed once in a playful way that Charles Ha: ble was to be killed, and another testified that she told him that she had been secret- ly married to Hamble. She apparently took little intevest Ja the examination. She gave no exhibition of emotion, and when the magistrate decided to hold her she am cepted his decision as a matter of course. Something About the Osbons. It was econ whispered about that Miss Osbon wis not what she pretended to be, but that ehe was an experience? adventur- ess, One of the officers who has been at work upon the case was quest! ing these reports today, and a sured that his name would mot be used in conncet! h the “Shortly after the murder we began to hunt up the history of the 0: family. < lime in Jack- nd mo one ef a. O aged in “b 3 narrowly m of the liga an county Kanea the cld man had b bad fed to cs: * ition. He » of in bad odor here, but the girl h: and few attached any ® n to ~her. cht terms in a country di and while apparently wordly her yeats occasionally od with the young people of the co When we heard from lowa we found she had bee lees discreet Us d that her » i Leen associated a couple of usiy ecan dais. We also fount t the family had moved to lowa from New Orleans, ar ressing our inquiries further, we so: camned that Esiclie had been a variety act ress in that city, that ste had worked about the concert halls for ng time, and thar she was the wife of a gamb! It was sain that she left New Griewuws with hor fa and mother, after her busvand had ab doned her. When the tial comes off tn N vember we expect to have witaccees t, prove that sbe is an adventuress of Jon. experience, which, m conection with th circumstantial evidence? that will be pro- uced fro this community, should convict ber, as ycil aa her father.” Mies Osbon was seen in ber cell at the county joll, but she positively declined to discuss the crime Gr say anytilag concen.- ing her career before coming to Kansas. Ga any other subject she would talk freely. She docs not appear to be the least worried over her imprisonment or the serlous crime with which she ts charged. She said simply that when the proper time came sie woull prove her iunocence When told of the re- port that she Gad once beap @ varieiy actress she smtied grimly, but would neither affirm nor deny the story, ‘ou know,” she said pleavontty, “1 arm Ivice of my attorneys, who have told me to sey nothing about the cause; pnd as they are learned men, they w Lest. She facts will all come out tn good time, and Lar: content sf the result. I do not m' ay imprison: but the weather hs a @ joint koe wike beyond nesses, and tnder the ct: a nothing to complain of. When tae facts are cli knowa i am certain thet I will not be condemnad either,by the Courts or the pub- te.” Gratetul Reias ia Copious rains in Yau! ‘ of South Dakota, since Wesseviay noon, Lave very sonterial! sed the prospects for crops that were Goubiful and usceriain for many snen: sts now © feeling that three of tne counties in the e@utheast cor, & Dokoga. iper of the state will yteld falr erops of county, Cal, indicate that. the erop will bz! corn ond wheat, and sv! cient hes to sup. ply the demands of the winter. Potatoes are emost @ forlora hope