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When must I go?" “Immediately.” Mr. Warren knew little about the police- man, save that he was a new man in the offi'e. and rumer had had it that he was over eager to signalize his administration by a great number of arrests. In fact, he was a shrewd, zealous man; ambitious, tco, and very naturally, therefore, given to exalting h's importance somewhat. “This comes at a mcst unfortunate time,” said Mr. Warren. “Arrests for murder are not usually hap- py events, I find,” remarked Chief Wil- liams, sententiously. He did not add that this was the nearest he had ever come to making an arrest for murder. Mr. Warren's eyes flashed a little re- sentfully as he responded: “If any justice had sent me word that I was wanted to answer for the assault on Freeman Dutton, I would have hitched up “Mr. Dutton, I am an officer.” and gon: without waiting to be arrested.” “That isn't the way our business is done.” “I know ‘tisn’t: I was just trying to show you how I stand. It doesn’t hurt me to be taken up on this charge, but here is the situation: not only is the wounded man in my house with my wife nursing him, but within an hour it has been discovered that my only daughter has been carried off, and those of us who understand the circum- stances are convinced that her abductors are the parties responsible for the assault and the setting fire to—I suppose you've got that in the indictment, too, haven't you?” “This isn't an ind ctment; it’s a warrant.’ Well, it’s the same to me.” “You are charged, if you want to know, with setting fire to a house on Baker wiountain.” “That's the least of my troubles, Chief Will'ams. that and the charge of assault. It'll go hard to be taken away, though, while the search for my daughter is un- finished.” The chief was thinking hard. He had not the s!ightest notion of complying with the accused man’s coming request, but he scented possible glory for himse new crime. What if he should remai effect a capture of Miss Warren's abduc- tors? It would be a great deed for his record. On the other hand, there was the justice in Denby, who had agreed to hold a spe- cial session late In the afternoon or early evening for the sake of a preliminary ex- amination of this man charged with a crime that might be murder, provided only that the victim should die. To send his subordinate k to Denby with the pris- oner would be to deprive himself of a great deal of immediate prestige on the siende ig something less sensational here in t wilderness. making this search?” asked the “Who's f. the whole village,” replied I suppose there's twenty of all told t settled it with Chief Williams. If irl should be found with any such s that in the field the glory would be . to say the least, Moreover, there might be a way to get not only the glory of conducting a suppc murderer to prison, but to take a hand im the search for ab- . Loo. 0 want to find one James Kin: chief, consulting his warra at his house. Do vou know wher “He start find my h, well he 1 off with the others to try and and he turned to his “I don’t see but assistant | what I'll have you here to serve the witness, Kin “All right,” responded Jackson, indiffer- me into the house, chief,” sala Mr. well knowing that his wife must even now be aware of the nature of this visit. “I must get ready and Jet my know about it.” Wilhams followed Mr. Warren into the sitting 100m a little disappointed. He would have preferred some blustering, some dis- play of temper, such as he had heard that | Me. Warren had alrealy shown ‘n connec- tion with the affair. There seeme! i» be no especial credit to be atiached to the rendi- tion cf a man who took his arrest as quietly us if it were an invitation to suppe: “This is Mr. Williams of Denby, Martha,” said Mr. Warren when his wife came in. He's the chief of police there, and he wants me to go with him. He has a warrant for my arrest. “Well,” said his wife, linking her arm in his and pressing it gently, “I suppose you'll have to go.” The chief was a good deal taken aback at the wife's calmness, and he was not without some sense of appreciation of the situation. He hastened to say, In an awk- ward manner: “I think I understand how you feel, Mrs. Warren, and I'm sorry to have to g! you pain, but the law is my master, and I must do my duty.” “T don’t think,” returned Mrs. Warren, simply, “that you understand how I fee! at all. You don't give me the slightest pain, and, of course, you must do your duty.” Williams stared. This was entirely be- yond his comprehension. He had arrested several thieves in the presence of their wives, and the women had taken on so that he felt himself quite a Spartan in conveying the husbands to the lockup. Even ths wife of a man arrested for wife beating had eried bitterly when the brute was led away from her presence to the prison pen. “TI am sorry that this couldn't have come a little later, Nicholas, if it must come,” said Mrs. Warren, putting both her arms to his neck. Yes," he responded, “that’s the hard part of It. The Lord only knows how long T shall have to be away, and poor Blsie- His voice quavered. “I shall send you news of her just as soon as there is any,” she whispered. “I'll get Will to ride after you on Mr. Springer's best horse.” Then turning to Williams, she said: “Is it so very necessary that he should return with you at once?” “I have no right to allow any delay,” he answered, stiffly. “The court waits for him.” “Indee I am not familiar with such matters; but do not police officers usually search for all the evidence that can be had of the crime for which they are mak- ing an arrest?” “Certainly, Mrs. Warren, but I have not come with a search warrant. It wasn’t thought to be necessary in the face of the evidence in our possession.” “No?’ The good lady spoke with rare weetness of voice and perfect composure; ‘you don’t need any warrant with us, though of course you didn’t know that. The injured man Is here. Don’t you wish to see him?” “ “I suppose I'd better,”" replied Williams, in increasing wonder, and he followed Mrs. Warren into the sick room, Mr. Warren going with them. “Tell me one little thing,” continued Mrs. Warren, as they stood at the bedside; ‘is it not sometimes the case that a police offi- cer takes the accused into the presence of the victim and asks the victim to Identify the accused as his assailant?” “Yes, indeed,” responded the chief; “that is often done when there is any doubt in the matter.” “Do you mean to tell me, sir,” and Mrs. Warren's voice grew stern, “that there is no doubt In this case?” “Well, of course, there's always a doubt unless a man was seen to do it,” answered Williams, feeling very awkward and un- comfortable. “A man is supposed to be innocent until he’s proved guilty.” | “Then I want to ask, without seeming to give offense, why you have not adopted that method in this case? Here is the vic- tim of an assault, there stands my hus- “He examined the grass and bushe: band, accused. Why don’t you confront the victim with him, and ask him about it?” The chief answered with some impa- tlence. “You ask me that while the victim lies unconscious. We suppose that it. !s only @ question of a few hours when he will be dead, and that tnere is no hope of his re- gaining consciousness.” “Indeed! Mr. Golding told you that, I suppose.” “You may read the warrant if you want to. Golding Is a witness.” “I don’t care to. The fact is, however, that Mr. Dutton will probably get well. He was conscious a half hour ago and spoke to us. The excitement over my daughters disappearance broke him down again, but I have no doubt that if you should wait a while he will awake, and then you can know to a certainty whether Mr. Warren committed the assault or not.” Williams hesitated. He had not been in- rormed of Dutton’s condition in such terms ag to make him suppose that there was any hove of the man’s recovery. He had more than half expected to find Dutton dead. For an instant he suspected that Mrs. Warren was trying to deceive him for the purpose of creating delay; and for that matter it was a part of the loyal wife's purpose to keep the officer there as long as possible; for it was dreadful to think of her husband going away without word of Elsie. This suspicion, however, the chief dismissed, for he was not only a keen ob- server, but he reasoned that Mrs. Warren would not dare to make this statement as a mere “bluff” “If she was afraid Dutton would in inate her husband,” he thought, would not take the risk.” Aloud he said: “In any event, I am bound to bring your husband before the court now that the war- rant has issued. I have no right to wait for the experiment you suggest.” “Then we'll try it now!" Mrs. Warren laid her hand on Dutton’s shoulder. “Freeman,” you hear me? The sick man opened his eyes drowsily. “Will you ask him?” whispered Mrs. Warren, eagerly. Considerably excited for a police officer, Williams leaned over the foot of the bed and said: “Mr. Dutton. I am an officer. Did this man, Nicholas Warren, attack you or in any way cause your Injuries?” A faint smile flitted across Dutton’s face, he shook his head very slightly and again closed his eyes. ~ Williams was seriously disturbed. It look- ed as though he were not arresting a mur- derer after all. But there was the warrant, and there would be the temporary glory of bringing in his prisoner, even if he had to let _him go again. “I must execute this warrant,” he said, sharply; “come, Mr. Warren.” Neither husband nor wife made any fur- ther attempt to create delay. Each felt that the sooner now he was taken to court the sooner would he be released, and but for Elsie they would have parted cheer- fully. “You must ask Will to stay here tonight,” said Mr. Warren when he bade her good- by2. = Williams directed his assistant, Jackson, to remain until the searching party came home, and then to. proceed to Denby with King. “It wouldn't surprise me,” the chief whis- pered, “if I got back here myself tonight. There may be a good deal of business for us in that girl affatr. And so Mr. Warren was taken to the county seat to answer to the charge of at- tempting to murder Freeman Ditton. When the score of villagers who set out to rescue Elsie had crossed the road and stood on the top of one of the low hills that e he said, in a clear tone, “do Off the Scent. overlooked nearly the whole intervale call- ed the meadows, John Martin took Elste’s hat and a shoe that belonged to her and excited the dogs to sniff of them. In a moment the hounds dashed away down the hill, and did not slacken pace un- til they came to the spot Where Will had picked up the hat. There a moment of what seemed to be confusion on the part of the dogs occurred, and the villagers caught up. The pause was not a long one, however, and away went the hounds again, as confident apparently as before. ‘Then all at once they yelped and wheeled about, searched the ground for rodearound, finally striking a scent, only to retrace their course. They had come to the spot where Wanga had taken Elsie in his arms. ‘The villagers were greatly puzzled. “If it had been the edge of a brook, now,” said one of them, “there'd be nothing su prising in it, but no one’s going to suppose that Elsie flew away from that place, and Silver brook is at least a hundred yards away.’ Will overheard this comment, and_ the truth flashed upon him. He went to Mar- tin, “Elsie must have been he sald; “can’t the dogs the man who carried her hey may get onto it in a minute,” re- plied Martin, who was watching the antics of the hounds with dissatisfaction. It seemed presently as if they had indeed taken a second scent, for they proceeded straight to the brook, but there was no life in their chase, none of the vigorous enthu- sizsm with which a dog follows a known evarry. As they came among the trees bordering the brook they raised thetr snouts to the low bushes and sniffed and bayed as if they had found a trace. f she was carried,” said Martin, eriti- cally, “her feet or skirts must have scraped the bushes.” At the edge of the brook the dogs not only stopped, but turned back, tails down, and whining. “There's something wrong,” picked up here,” ake the scent of muttered Martin. “How long ago’d you say ‘twas, Billy? “It can’t be much more than an hour.” “Well, then, if anybody waded the streain, ‘specially carrying a girl, ‘tain’t likely he'd go far without getting onto land again. Some of you cross the brook and some stay on this side. 'Tain't likely he went down stream, for that would bring him to the open meadows and take to the village. So you fellows go along the banks, and look sharp for wet grass or bushe: One drop may tell the story, so keep your eyes open.” The party separated as suggested, and after a few minutes a cry came from the men on the same side of the stream on which Martin stood with his dogs. ““'Twould be a good trick,” he remarked, “if a man was to pretend to cross the stream, and yet come out on the same side he went in.” He gave the leash by which he held the dogs, having caught them when they turn- ed back, to one of the villagers, and ex- amined the ground and bushes where the man who had cried out stood. It was in deep shade, for they had followed the stream into the edge of the forest. There was more than one tell-tale drop of water in evidence upon the ground and vines. “This is where he came out,” declared Martin, in a satisfied tone; “‘let’s have the dogs.” They were led to him, and he tried to excite them to the fresh scent. They drew back whining, and made as if they would break away. Martin cuffed them and abused them for worthless mongrels, until at last, seeming to prefer the distasteful scent to his punishment, they took after it, and he slipped the leash. The dogs ‘crept along—it could not be said that they ran—while the villagers followed, amazed at their behavior. All at once both gave loud yelps of terror, abandoned the scent, leaped away and bolt: ed, tails down, as fast as they could go. The villagers saw a small snake wriggling slowly along the line of the scent. “You thundering cowards!’ howled Mar- tin, in a furious rage, as he drew a re- volver; “turn tail at an adder, would you?” And he shot after the flying brutes, an an- swering yelp testifying to the accuracy of his aim. (To be continued tomorrow.) —_s—__ Messenger Pigeon Service. Gen. Greely, chief signal officer, has re- celved an interesting report from Prof. Henry Marion in regard to the messenger pigeon service of the Naval Academy. The report says that experiments with carrier pigeons were begun in 1892 and continued during the cadet practice cruises since 1893. Each succeeding year better results have been obtained by increasing the distances, and during last summ cruise birds brought messages over 20 miles to the heme station, the quickest time being at the rate of forty miles an hour. Out of twenty-five pigeons liberated from the practice ship Monongahela only one failed to return to the academy loft. The usefulness of the service for naval pur- poses having been fully demonstrated, the report suggests that the service be estab- shed by act of Congress on a permanent and recognized basis, as It is in other coun- tries, such as France, Germany, Italy, Rus- sia, Austria, and to some extent In England and Canada, in which Halifax Is the princi- pal station, IN BIG ‘ALASKA Where Old Glory’ Floats Over the Arotic Uircle. pelea: REMARKS BY >THE GOVERNOR i The Seals and the Natives Fast Disappearing. DEVELOPMENT.OF THE MINES Governor Sheakley of Alaska in his an- nual report does not confine himself alto- gether to dry details of his office, but tells in an interesting narrative all about the big territory over which he presides. The gov- ernor’s report, aside from a description of Alaska, is very interesting, as he treats of topics that are of considerable moment, but during the summer he took a tfIp on the revenue cutter Rush, with Captain Hooper, and he sends to the Interior De- partment some of his observations. In fact, it was while on’this trip to the Pribi- loff Island that he had an opportunity to gather the information concerning the de- struction of seals that he reports to the government. The governor says that people may be able to realize the extent of Alaska when they know that they can sail for 2,000 miles directly west of Sitka and yet are within the borders of Alaska. The Greek Church. It appears from the governor's account that the Alaskan villages have a few white settlers, as the Americans are denominated, and some Russians, but a majority of them are Indians of the Aleut tribe or race. In nearly every one of these villages there is a Greek church and a priest of that faith. One of the places, Kodiak, was settled by the Russians back in 1789, and the first Greek church in America was established there more than one hundred years ago, and still exists: In some of these villages the Protestants have established missions and churches. At these villages the Alaska Commercial Company has headquarters, and there are also headquarters for other fur companies of less importance, and which do not have leases for taking the fur seals. The names of the different villages visited by the governor are Kodiak, Wood Island, Karluk, Sand Point, Unga, Belkofsky, Un- alaska, and the seal islands of St. George and St. Paul. 4 Unalaska, on an island of the same name, is one of the most Important points in the summer season in Alaska. It is occupied by a number of government officers, and is the headquarters for the Alaska Commer- cial Company. From this point the com- pany ships its goods to the Aleutian Isl- ands, and to many points in Bering sea and to the Yukon mining districts. Whal- ing ships call at that place on their way to and from the arctic. Sealing and fishing schooners rendezvous there, and it is the headquarters for government vessels pa- trolling Bering sea.” The Fevemoy was there oa the Fourth of July, and four revenue cutters patrolling Bering sea assembled there gave an old-time Fourth of July celebration, which the governor says was a very patriotic lesson to the natives. There were salutes from the cutters, an oration, the reading of ‘the Declaration of Independence, besides the boat races and sports that usually accompany a country Fourth of July. 4 On the cruise westward Governor Sheak- ley stopped at a number of Indian villages. He found these people on the islands living almost entirely upon fish and such little stulf as they could buy frem the traders in exchange for the furs they were able to procure. The principal fur animal is the sea otter, and these. are rapidly disappear- ing. These Indians baye little fuel, de- pending upon driftwood, grass and the oil of the arimals they tatch. The governor says their condition will soon be deplorable. On account of the lack of food and other necessaries the race is diminishing year by year. A Strange Volcano. “Along the Alaskan peninsula and the Aleutian Islands for a thousand miles,” Seys the governor, “can be seen the semi- active volcanoes emitting blue and white smoke, which in the night assumes a bril- lient and interesting appearance. Eleven years ago the Island of Bogiloff, situated in Bering sea, near the Islands of Four Moun- tains, came suddenly out of the water and arose to the height of a thousand feet, but being composed of lava and ashes it has crumbled away until its present elevation is about three hundred feet. We sailed close by and saw hot lava seething in a washing sea. An immense number of sea lions were collected in an estuary, probably on account of the warmth they found there. The ship's crew fired a cannon ball into their midst, hitting none, but they all sought safety in the sea.” The agents of ‘the Alaska Commercial Company, the officers of the government and others are located on the islands of St. George and St. Paul, which are the seal reckeries. It was from these islands that the governor made the observations that ecnvince him that the seal herd is rapidly disappearing. The families of the men, who are obliged to stay on these islands, are with them, and the governor dined there, expressing his surprise that away out on this verge of civilization all the sub- stuntials, and luxuries as well, were found which would appear on the tables of those who live in the center of cultivated society. “A roast cf seal meat was prepared es- pecially for us, and I enjoyed it,” he adds. Aside from the seal industry the salmon catching and canning !s an important busi- ness in Alaska. There are several fine sal- mon streams, which are being worked with a great deal of profit. Mining Plants But it appears from the report of Gov. Sheakley that mining will in time supplant and surpass alf other branches. He de- scribes one plant on Unga Jsland, which is now producing $30,000 in gold every month. Besides. there is the rich mining district of the Yukon river. It is supposed that there are now about 1,500 white men in the Yukon mines. The governor thinks the Yukon district will be second only to the gold fields of California in production when they are properly worked. At present gold mining in the Yukon districts is carried on under great difficulties. The seasons are short and the ground is perpetually frozen. The earth must be thawed by fire before it can be mined. The winters are long and the mines are far distant from supplies. These mines are a thousand miles from Sitka. They can be reached only by going over the mountain pass on foot and by floating down the river In a canoe, and then only during half of the year. At present the mining country is under a government of its own, as were the mining camps of California, Montana and other western states, before civilization had advanced and established regular forms of government. The governor says, however, that the miners do not let criminals escape or go unpunished. A Kipling Story. Saturday’s Star will contain a capital story, complete, with characteristic illustra- tions, from the pen of Rudyard Kipling. ——_o— Wants the Utes Driven Out. Governor McIntyre of Colorado has written a letter to Gen. Frank Whea- ton, commanding the Department of the Colorado, U. 8. A. demanding that he drive the Utes, now trespassing in the northwestern part of Colorado, out of the state. These Indians belong in Utah, and have lately been slaughtering game Indiscriminately in Routt and Rio Blancha counties. General Wheaton said that he did not think any serious trouble would arise, but he was having a careful investigation made, which would be completed in a day or so. He sald that the Indian agent, Maj. Randlett, was also commander of the post of that locality, and he would in all prob- ability call the Indlans back to the reser- vation. It is not known exactly how many Utes are in Colorado, but they are esti- mated at 500 men, with half as many wo- men. The state game warden had a con- sultation with the governor late this after- noon, and the governor directed him to go to the scene of the depredations, and in conjunction with the sheriff of the county stop the slaughter of game. MAIL NEWS FROM THE ORIENT. It is Denied That Great Britain Was Outwitted by Chiua. The steamship Empress of Japan, which has arrived at Victoria, B. C., reports that the steamship Belgic, which was ashore off Yokohama, was floated October 10. The extent of the ship’s damages had not been determined when the Empress sailed. ‘The edict of the emperor of China, depriv- ing the ex-viceroy of the Szechuen province of his rank and titles and excluding him perpetually from the public service, has thrown the highest official circles of that empire into consternation. It is the first instance on record of a permanent degrada- tion of so exalted a personage in obedience to the demand of a fcreign power. The court endeavors to maintain its pre- tensions of superiority to external influences by declaring that Liu Ping Chang’s punish- ment had been decided upon before the En- gl:sh ultimatum was received, but this fic- tion imposes upon nobody. Tsung Li Yamen had resisted stubbornly until the order for the British naval demonstration was issued. The United States commission to Cheng Tu has been strengthened by the substitu- tion of Mr. Cheskire, the Chinese speaking secretary of the American legation at Pek- ing, for the missionary who was previously appointed to serve. The change is univer- sally approved, though the efficacy of sen-1- ing a party at all at this late day is ques- tioned. Japan has agreed to receive the first in- stallment of the Chinese indemnity of two hundred million taels in British currency at the rate of one pound sterling for six Kuping taels and seventy-eight one-hun- dredths. An additional issue of Japanese five per cent loan bonds to the amount of tea million yen has been ordered by the finance department. These bonds: wili not go into the market, but will mostly be awarded to wounded soldiers and families of the slain. —-2@e-— GEN. FOSTER’S OPINIO) Spain Must End the Cuban Insurrec- tion by Spring or Lose the Island. Gen. John W. Foster, formerly minister to Spain, and later Secretary of State, has been interviewed by the special correspon- dent of “El Heraldo de Madrid,” one of the leading ‘papers of the Spanish capital, in regard to the Cuban situation. He said he was out of politics, and had no informa- tion as to the policy of the United States government, but he added: “It Is my personal opinion that if Spain does not succeed in terminating the insur- rection by next spring, when the dry sea- son closes, she will be confronted with the grave danger of losing the island of Cuba altogether. By that time it will be difficult, if not impossible, to prevent tlie recogni- tion by the United States of the Cubans as belligerents, for the American people are being awakened to the fact that Spain pro- claimed her recognition of the southern confederacy within elght weeks from the day Fort Sumter was fired on.” ———__--e EX-CONSUL WALLER'S CASE. Mr. Woodford Presented His Version to Assistant Seeretary Uhl. Mr. Ethelbert Woodford, who was in Madagascar at the time the proceedings against ex-Consul Waller were in progress, presented his version of the case to Act- ing Secretary Uhl of the State Department Tuesday. Besides contending, as he did, strenuously that the proceedings of the French authoritles were entirely unwar- ranted, and that the French court was without jurisdictioa, Mr. Woodford pre- sented affidavits secured by himself from numerous persons in Tananarivo to show that Waller had not been supplying the Hovas with arms, as was charged. He also called the attention of the Secretary to the mistreatment to which Mrs. Waller had been subjected by French soldiers on board ship coming from Mauritius to Mar- seilles, for which he thinks Consul Camp- bell of Mauritius is largely responsible be- cause of his failure to secure better ac- commodations for her. —__+e+______ The Case of Brown Advanced. At the instance of the interstate com- merce commission Solicitor General Con- rad has filed a motion in the United States Supreme Court for the advancement of the case of Theodor> F. Brown, who is held in custody by the marshal of the western Pennsylvania district, on the charge of refusing to answer questions put to him by the grand jury at Pittsburg, last May, con- cerning the frelght rates of and the re- bates allowed by the Alleghany Valley Railway Company, of which he is auditor. Brown pleaded that such answer would in- criminate himself, and upon a second re- fusal was committed for contempt. The adjudication of the case is of great im- portance, as it involves the enforcement of the interstate commerce act and also the constitutionality of the act of 1893, pro- viding that the plea of self-incrimination shall be no excuse for a witness refusing to answer in interstate commerce pro- ceedings, °. Stampede for the Gold Fields. A special from Great Falls, Mont., says: A stampede is being made for new gold fields on Harley creek, and the hills are teeming with prospec- tors, who have staked out every foot of ground in the vicinity of the first claims. and are out with a brand-new town chris- tened Johannesburg, as a token of the fu- ture of the camp. The rock is of a dull terra cotta color that is crushed easily be- tween the fingers, and bears gold in large quantities. Johannesburg is in the Belt mountains, and easy of access. Es Misrepresented Their College. The faculty of Sterling Medical Col- lege of Columbus, Ohio, having re- ceived San Francisco newspapers contain- ing a letter from two students of the col- lege to Theodore Durrant, telling him that the faculty and students of the college and medical men of Columbus sympathized with and believed him innocent, appointed Pro- feesors Loving and Hoover to investigate. They find that the publication was made October 3. The writers of the letter, C. W. Griffith and R. R. Black, have written a letter to the faculty, in which the two stu- dents say they committed a grave error by including the faculty, class, and members of the medical profession in the vicinity, and that the two students expressed only their own belicf and sympathy. coo — Service for the Indiana. Indianlans have subscribed nearly $19,000 to be used in purchasing a silver service and a Hbrary for the battle ship Indiana. Gov. Matthews has appointed a commit- tee which shall have charge of the ex- penditure of the money and the presenta- tion of the gifts. It is expected that Gen. Harrison will be selected to make the pre- sentation at the proper time, as the con- struction of the ship was ordered while he was President. see The Prolonged Drought. From the Pittsburg (Pa.) Commersial Gazette. ‘The most remarkable drought of the clos- ing quarter of the century has been broken so far as the middle Atlantic and New Eng- land states are concerned. There have been heavy rains in Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire, Connecticut and adjacent states, and showers extended southward into Dela- yare and Maryland. In many of the coun- ties of eastern Pennsylvania the drought has been the most severe since 1869, but it has been broken as far west as the anthra- cite coal region. There is still great scarci- ty of water along the slopes of the Alle- ghany mountains. The condition of the streams and springs in many parts of West Virginia, Ohio, In- diana and Kentucky has not been much better than in the other states named. The great Ohio river is little better than a suc- cession of pools, while tributary streams are almost dried up. Many small towns are without adequate supplies of water, and the sanitary condition of the sources of supply is very bad. Typhoid fever prevails wherever the drought has made itself felt, and it is not improbable that the number of cas2s will increase rather than diminish until the rains shall be heavy enough to refresh the land and carry off through the streams the accumulated filth of the sum- mer months. One of the most serious ef- fects of the prolonged dry spell has been the inability of the farmers to get their fall plowing and seeding done. Have your grocer send you some of Huyler's oa and Cocolates with your mext order. “Once tried, always used. TO BE SENT HERE. A Remarkable Fish for the Smith- sonian. The fish commission’s steamer Albatross has returned to San Francisco from the rorth with a pop-eyed denizen of the deep that may become the wonder of naturalists the world over. It is a fish unlike anything ever caught before and in no way resem- bling ordinary fishes. It was scooped in by a dredge that was at the time traveling along the bottom of the ocean a mile and a half deep. Prof. Townsend had ecstacies when the peculiar monster was removed from the net on the deck of the Albatross and is of the opinion that the fish would not have been able t> live much higher up in the water than where it was found. Such is the make-up of the fish that the professor imagines that it must have felt sharp pains whenever it came anywhere within a mile of the surface of the sea. Certain it is that the very act of bringiag this fish near the surface of the sea seems to have killed it. When the enormous pressure was taken off its vital organs, its heart and every- thing else within it apparently began to puff up. Its bladder seems to have been forced partly out through its mouth and its eyes were driven forward out of their sockets. The fish will be forwarded to the Smithsonian. ee Transfers of Renal Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Katherine Pine to Emily Lee, lots 10 and ll, bik. 4, East Deanewood; $250. Jas. F. Scaggs and Wm. D. Hoover, trustees, to Mary A. Power, lots 24 and 25, sq. 1013; $10. Jno. Quinn et ux. to Lewis H. Wayne, north one-half lots E and W, sq. 638; $10. Jno. R. Gullen to Hattie M. Foland, lot 93, sq. 870, and part lot 39, bik. 1, Le Droit Park; $10. Harry Kengla to Elizabeth Homiller, part lot 267, Georgetown; $5. Geo. J. John- ston et ux. to Hector McNeill, original lot 17 and part original lot 18, sq. 1095; $10. Au- gustus Burgdorf et ux. to S. Dana Lincoln, part lot 1, sq. 1060; $10. R. Foster Dan- forth et ux. to Jas. T. Beason and Mortimer G. Weaver, lot 16, blk. 25, Brookland; $10. Jno. ©. Hurst to Henry Lloyd, part lot 20, blk. 3, Whitehaven; $10. Eugene G. Jefferys et ux. to Wm. D. West, part lot 9, blk. 25, Columbia Heights; $10. Jno. G. Krohr to Frank H. Hall, lot 90, sq. 1020; $2,650. James Lowndes et al. to Joshua N. Warfield, orig- inal lot 43, sq. S. of 708; $8,200. Abram Min- ster to Max M. Minster, part lots 7 to 13, bik. 12, Isherwood: $10. Francis G: New- lands et ux. to Frank H. G. White, part of Cliffburne; $7,416.80. James F. Scaggs and Wm. D. Hoover, trustees, to Morris Barne:t, lots 26, 27, 28, sq. 1013; $10. Wi . et ux. to Jno. R. Taylor, lot bik. 1, Le Droit Park; $10. Brainard H. Warner et ux. to Israel P. Warner, lots 192 to 221, blk. 27, Long Meadows; $100. Jacob D. Wilson et on to Barbara A. E. Brown, lot 5, sq. 1020; ————— Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the following: Oliver Wright and iliza Jackson; Owen Lovejoy Ingalls and Mercy Stevens Sinsabaugh; Jokn D. Brad- burn and Sarah Catherine Barker; Walter Maden and Mary Morton; Nelson Fowles and Annie Harris; Henry R. Laesnitzer and Mary C. Meehan; John H. Young and Emma Scott; John Scrivener and Mary F. Mills; William Hull Van Derzee of Coey- mans, N. Y., and Henrietta Wolfe of this city; Wm. H. Scott and Anna M. Smith; George Toy and Rosa Chase; Thomas Man- nion and Barbara Krebs, both of Terra Cotta, D. C.; Frank Lane and Annie Green; Bradley A. Snyder of this city and Bernice M. Kennard of Newmarket, N. H.; John Young Schreyer of Williamsport, Pa., and Carrie Harper Smith of this city; A. Perry Amoker of South Carolina and Hattie Gib- bens Medairy of this city; Aaron J. Wheeler and Maggie M. Ciark;e Jos. a Johnson and Mary Virginia Seay, both of Hanover county, Va.; Frank A. Swartwout and Bessie A. Slater; Thomas Eugene Rhedes and Annie Theresa Hegarty; James Anthony and Florence Duke, both of Rich- mend, Va.; Daniel F. Sullivan and Agnes C. Sheehy; Junius Hicks and Emma Mc- Coy; Lawrence A. Kelly and Maggie May; Jas. H. Lewis and Irene Johnson; Ernest Millet Holden of Orlando, Fla., and Lillian Slater of this city; Walter S. Johnson and Annie L. Slack. ee The Las Vegas Grant. The case of Reynolds and others against the Secretary of the Interior and the com- missioner of the general land office came up before Chief Justice Bingham Tues- day. This is a case in which the town of Las Vegas is seeking to enjoin the Secre- tary and the commissioner from making a survey of the Las Vegas land grant, by which they propose to take from the grant about 490,000 acres, and turn them back as a part of the public domain, subject to entry under the land laws of the United States. The suit involves the title to about 700 square miles of land, upon which is lo- cated a city of 10,000 people. The plain- tiffs claim that the land belongs to the town of Las Vegas, and that it has been used and occupied for a period of sixty years, and that it has been confirmed by act of Congress, and that the action of the defendants will be, in effect, to destroy the grant, and bring upon the people residing upon it great financial disaster. Ex-Goy. Alphonso Hart of Ohio appears on behalf of the complainants, the Secre- tary and commissioner being represented ly Judge J. J. Hall and Judge Vivian Brent. Army Orders. Capt. D. M. Scott, commissary of sub- sistence, has been granted five months’ leave of absence on account of illness. Lieut. Col. Wm. W. Wherry, second in- fantry, has been ordered to report to the commanding general, Department of the Platte, for assignment to a station. ‘The following transfers in the ninth in- fantry are made: Second Lieut: William A. Campbell, from company A to company K; Second Lieut. Thomas W. Darrah, from company K to company A. The following transfers in the fourth in- fantry are made: Capt. Henry Seton, from company A to eumpany I; Capt. Charles W. Mason, from company A to company I; Second Lieut. John H. Wholley, from company G to com- pany K; Second Lieut. Guy H. B. Smith, from company B to company I; Second Lieut. John S. Switzer, from company K to company G; Second Lieut. Daniel Duncan, from company I to company B. Maj. H. J. Nowlan, seventh cavalry, has been relieved from duty at Fort Grant, Ariz., and ordered to duty at Fort Sheri- dan, Ill. The following changes in stations and duties of officers of the corps of engineers have been ordered: Maj. Ernest H. Ruff- ner, relieved from duty at Buffalo, N. Y., and ordered to relieve Capt. Eric Bergman of duty as engineer of the fifth and sixth light house districts, with station at Balti- more; Capt. Bergman is granted four months’ leave of absence, at the expiration of which he will take station at Portland, Ore.; Capt. Walter L. Visk, relieved from duty at Fillets Point, N. Y., and ordered to Portland, Ore., temporarily, until the ar- rival of Capt. Bergman; Capt. S. W. Roes- sler is ordered to duty with the battalion of engineers at Willets Point. a ate Thanked the Postmaster General. The action of the Postmaster General in promising relief to the delegation of Detroit citizens who visited him a few days ago to ask that better mail facilities be given that city by means of contracts with the trunk lines running through Canada has resulted in a hearty indorsement of his administra- tion of the department by the Detroit cham- ber of commerce. A letter was received this morning from Mr. A. A. Boutell, secretary of the Detroit chamber of commerce, inclos- ing a copy of a resolution adopted by the chamber thanking the Postmaster General for his careful and painstaking inquiry into the situation and his liberal and intelligent appreciation of the requests laid before him by the delegation of Detroit citizens. The Minnesota at Boston. The old Minnesota, which was given by the Navy Department to the Massachusetts naval militia, has arrived safely at Boston in tow from New York, to the relief of the naval authorities, who were somewhat ap- prehensive that she had come to grief on the passage. ARE YOU LOW-SPIRITED? Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Worry ig, worse than work—makes a man, sick juicker. ‘orry comes largel from uses. Horsford’s Acid Phosphate the brain and strengthers the neives. THE EVENING STAR hasa Larger Circulation in the Homes of Washington than all the Other Papers of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the Interests of 4 ALL THE PEOPLE _ of WASHINGTON; does not Strive to Divide - the Community into Classes, and Array one class Against the others; Contains the Latest and Fullest Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. It ; Literally Goes Everywhere, and is Read by Everybody. 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