Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1893, Page 12

CITY COUNCIL IN SESSION Oonfirmation of 0. V. Mos Reconsidered and His Appointment Hung Up. STREET OPENING DAMAGES DISCUSZED Trensury Wateh Dog Pleads the Case of the Pour Property Owners—Council's Power to Deslgnato Paving Ma. terial—Contracts Awarded, The first thing done by the city council at its regular meeting Tuesday night was t0 reconsider the confirmation of the ap- pointment of C. V. Mos as clerk of the police court, on motion of Muuro. The appoint- ment was _then referred to a special com- mittee of five, consisting of Councilmen Munro, Wheeler Hascall, Howell and Mc- Learie for investigation. It is promised, by those familiar with the matter, that there will be some racy developments in this case, the investigation of which, at request of Mr, Mos, will be publi City Attorney Connell reported on a reso- lution by Mr. Wheeler to pay damages ns follows for opening Twenty-ninth avenue from McCormick’s addition to Farnam street 20 be paid out of the general judgment fund or the general fund: Louisa Van Cott, 56.25; Catherine M. Tusler, $503.50, and Howell Lumber company, $3.625 for opening Toavenworth street. The city attorney expressed the opinion that the fiest two claims should not be paid out of the general Judgment fund, but out of the special funds creatéd or to be created for the purpose of paying the same. With reference to these claims steps have been taken to make a mnew levy. In regard to the Howell judgment Mr. Connell said a proper assessment had already been made to cover the cost of opening Leavenworth street, and warrants in favor of the Howell Lumber company have been turned over to the clerk of the district court. There is not sufticient money in the fund to pay this claim, because the Howell Lumber company has not paid its taxes. The city attorney recommended that the resolution do not 58, er. Munro supported the position of the city attorney, and Mr. Howell protested against tho proposed assessment for open- ing Twenty-ninth avenue, saying that it had become dangerous for him to go lome at night, as the people in his ward were up in arms, ‘Wheeler Opines the City Should Pay Up Mr. Wheeler went into history on tho matter for the enlightenment of the junior members of the coun covering a period of soven vears and showing what he claimed was un injustico done the parties interested. Many of the claims had been transferred, he said, the parties holding them originally having been obliged to sell th claims to save themselves from bankruptey. The city had attempted to settle these claims by issu- ing warrants, which were nothing more than notes, or promises to pay, which was really no payment at all. The speaker thought that if these claims were not paid 800n the city would probably be mandamused and compelied to pay them, Mr. Elsasser favored compelling the prop- erty owners on_the strect to pay the dam- ages, instead of unloading the burden on the city at large. Mr, Hascall said it had been proposed, when Twenty-ninth avenue was ordered opened, to sell that part of Twenty-ninth street which was vacated, the price received k:benrpl(cd on the payment of the dam- ages, but the sale of this street had been enjoined and the matter so stands at pres- ent. The question being on allowing the claims of Mrs. Louisa Van Cott, Mrs. Katharine M, Tussler and the Howell judgment, the first two were taken up together, on request of Mr. Hascall, and allowed. A motion by Hascall to lay the Howell claim on the table for further investigation was lost. The vote to pay the Howell judgment 8tood: Yeas, 10; nays, 8. The mayor was requested to sign a peti- tion for red Colorado sandstone in paving district No. 535 on behalf of the city fo lots -5 and 6, block 116, 4 The gas inspector was directed to make a test of the fuel gas furnished by the Ne- company, now seeking a charter from the council, the expense of the test to be met by the company. About Asphait Repalrs. The committee on judiciary recommended the adoption of the resolution directing the city attorney to investigate the validity of the contract with the Barber Asphalt com- pany for repairing asphalt paved streets for ten years at 8 cents per yard, and if in his Judgment it is illegal that he take steps to abrogate and annul the same, The same committee gave 1t as its opinion that a special assessment could not be levied agawmst abutting property to pay the ex- pense of repairs upon the strects paved with asphalt upon which the five years guaranty had not expired previous to the date when the contract wus mad vhich were men- tioned in the contract. The committee ree ommended that in the future when th anty expires that the contract for rep: awarded to the lowest bidder, and the cost be assessed against abutting property, Attended to Routine Matters, Major Furay was granted five days leave 10 attend the meeting of the Loyal Legion at St. Paul, Minn, The following contracts were approved: Samuel Katz, grading Poppleton ave from Thirty-third to Thirty-sixth street D. Van Court,"paving Davenport street from Twenty-second to I'wenty-fourth with brick; ¥. L. Reeves & Co., sewer on Dorcas and Nineteenth strect; McGavock & Daley, sewer on Valley street between Tenth and Eighteenth streer; Homan & McDonald, sewer on California, Thirty-sixth and Thirty-fourth streets, The city engineer reported that he had examined the paving petitions roferred to him and found that the following strects had presented majority petitions for the materials specified: District No. 513, Dodge street, asphal No. 521, Charles strect, brick; No. 522, Thirty-sixth street, asphalt; No. 524, Thirty-third street, red Colorado sandstone; No. 528, Twenty-first street, same: No. wenty-second street, same} 0. 539, Pierce street, same; No. 530, Nine- mth street, asphalt; No. 552, Emmett street, same; No. 558, Cuming street, red Colorado sandstone: N 54, Cuming street, asphaltum; No, bb( ming street, same; No. 550, Half Howard street, brick; No. 543, Thirtieth street, red Colorado sandstone, Councll Might Designate Material, The city eugineer reported that in four districts—536, 523, 533 and b3 —majority _petitions had been presented, asking for paving, but & majority had not united on ufionu material, . Wheeler moved that the council de- eide whero a majority had not decided upon the material, Mr. Edwards opposed the motion, but the eity attorney held that the recent decision of the supreme court would warrant such action on the part of the council, he only point at issue, he said, was whether u majority of the property owners wanted the street paved. and in” case such majority could not unite on the material the council should decide. After discussion Mr. Wheeler withdrew his motion and substituted & motion to the effect that all l)m.iuuns not having a majority asking for paving be rejected. Carried. City attorney, city engineer and Board of Public Works were instructed to vrepare a Pproper form of petitionffor paving. John O'Connell und others petitioned to have the boundary lines of the ““burnt dis- " extended 80 as to include 132 feet west of Teuth street between Douglas street and Cuxllol avenue. Referred to Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. City clerk was instructed to notify Plumb- ing Inspector Duncan that he is a member of the Board of Health and that it is the opinion of the council that he should assume his duties us such under the provisions of the mew charter. Gas Inspector Gilbert was directed to dis- continue all gas lamps within & block of any electric light except in such places as in bis Judgment require such lamps. A resolution wa IduLllm instructing the of Public Works to cause the tele- phone company to repair all holes and do- Pression in pavements caused by the sinking ©of its subway treuches. s———— Btriking Cotton Uperators Will Ewlgrate. DENVER, Colo., May 24.—The striking operators at the Overland cotton mills are oinfi nwne". The question of emi- grating has taken hold of the umpluyeu‘ and arrangements have already been made to leave the state for their old homes, The mills are being operated at present by a reduced force, e WERE WILD FOR BLOOD, Trutal Actions of the Mon Which Lynched Marderer Sullivan, DETROIT, Mich., May 24.—A special to the Tribune from Corunna, Mich., says: William Sullivan, who yesterday pleaded guilty to the marder of Layton Leetch and the attempted murder of Leeteh's wife, paid the penalty last night. He was taken from the jail and lynched at 9:40 o'clock. The mob consisted of over 800 men, who cheered themselves hoarse over the lifeless body. Just before he was taken from his cell Sullivan attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a knife. His cell was broken with sledges and he was dragged out and through the jail corridors at the end of a noose. He was taken to a low piece of ground about 200 feet in the rear of the jail building, under an oak. Men struggied and fought and cheered for the privilege of helping to tug at the rope, which was thrown over a limb. With a sudden jerk Sulli- van, who was lying motion- less and apparently unconscious, on the ground, was raised to a sitting posture. Another pull and his head and shoulders became visible above the mob. A terrible scene fol- lowed. The body was pushed from hand to hand and several drew their pocket knives and lunged at the swinging corpse. Then they began to tear the clothing, and in a few moments only the shreds of his shirt remained hanging from the shoulders. When the body was lowered to the ground portions of the mob that had been unable to get close enough to take a hand seized upon the rope and dragged the lifeless body through the streets and around the court house square. [ LTI ALMOST RESISTLESS, Hydraulic Machine Tosted with a Pressure of a Million Pounds. St Louts, Mo.,, May 2{.—Some in- teresting experiments were made at the Washington university yesterday with an hydraulie testing machine, the la rg- est in the world, capable of exerting the enormous pressure of a million pounds. Hugo timbers, such as are used as pillars in large commercial buildings, were crushed—not broken—lengthwise. The almost resistless force of the machine can hardly be appreciated. A pieco of timber capable of sustaining 8,000 persons was crushed like an egy shell when placed in the machine, The best brick piers two feet square,columns of granite a foot square and sandstone three feet square are ground to powder with the greatest e The machine wus designed by Prof. J. B. Johnson, who occupies the chair of consulting engincer of the university, and for the purpose of pursuing inves- tigations being made by the government of the strength of commercial woods grown in the United States. The specimens crushed yesterday will form a part of an exhibit now at the World’s fair, ——— THEODORE THOMAS WILL STAY. The Difiiculty Over tno Muslcal ship of the Fair Sottled. CHICAGO, T11., May 24.—The Theodore Thomas question may be considered practically settled, and as a result N Thomas will remain in charge of his de- partment with his powers' of control slightly curtailed to satisfy the members of the national commission who were clamori ;:{or his dismissal. The result was arrived at at a stormy meeting of the board of refertnee and control, hicld last evening. Commissioner St. Clair offered a reso- lution which in effect provided that it be reported that Theodore Thomas is under the direction and control of Di- rector General Davis, just as Mr. Davis is under the authority of the commis sion, and the council of administration was by it instructed to look after and fully protect the rights of exhibitors. This will settle the matter temporarily at least. Director- —_— RBE BEAT THE BANDITS, Amerlcan Rallrond Man In Mexico Saves fimself from Robbers, PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mex., May 24.—A telegram received at the general offices of the Mexican International railway here gives an account of a desperate encounter between B. Baker, the Ameri- can station agent at Gabriel, and Tomas Maruje, £ prominent ranchman and bandit, with his mozo. . Baker was out on horseback and was fired at seven times by the two bandits and wounded in the arm. Just then a section foreman came along. As the foreman ap- prum-hcd Maruje and his pal made off. The local authorities immediately or- ganized a posse and captured the bandit, who will probably die from the effeets of injuries received at the hands of the intrepid Ame who beat him over the head with a sal —_— Candidates for the Derby. NEW YORK, May 24.—The American derby at Chicago next month is going to be a great horse race, if the work of the various candidates in the vicinity of New York is to be considered. At Sheepshead Bay the Morris representa- tive, Rainbow, by Longfellow, with Fred Littlefield, worked a mile and a half in 2:364, having fully pounds up, The time of the first mile was 434, the mile and a quarter 2:004 and the mile and three furlongs 2:23. This compares favorably with any public trial bya 3-year- old. The Onek stables candidate, G. W. Johnson, worked with Sir Wal- ter a mile and a quarter in 2:114, and the former was easily first at the finish, Rampo, Gideon & Daley's colt that will bear the stable 1n the $50,000 race, has made a mile and a half in 2:44 and is ready to go much faster when called upon. — Normannia Passenger After Damages. NEW YORK, May 24.—The first sut for damages against the Hamburi American Packet compan was hegun in the United States circuit court yes- terday by Judge Beers of Bridgeport. He sues for $10,000 damages. Judge Beers was a passenger on the pest-laden Normannia last September, A number of witnesses testified today. hey all said they were induced to take passage on the steamer by misrepresentation on the part of the packet company, whose agents assured them that the Normannia would carry no steerage passengers while she was crowded with them, ——— The attorneys of the famous Iron Hall as- sociation which, it will be remembered, as- sured members they need not die to hit' the combination, propose a plun of reorganization to take the affairs of the association out of the courts and the slough of bankruptey. ‘The plan of reorganization suggested is: A new supreme setting and new oficers throughout; provision for preservation and apphication of the funds u} the order, and some plan forthe payment of matured cer- tificates, R — Among the workers at the Harvard col- lege observatory who have shown special scientific ability'is Miss Maury. She is a granddaughter of the Lieuténant Maury whose meteorological and other scientific work has been of immense value to seamen on the Atlantic, and & niece of Dr. Henry Draper. Before beginning her work at Cam- bridge she was graduated at Vassar, OMATA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY MAY 25, 1803~TWELVE PAGES. CARLISLE ON THE TARIFF —_— What the Democrats Propose to Do in Fulfill- ing the Platform Promise. AGAINST PROTECTION AS A PRINCIPLE Expreasions of the Secretary of the Treas- ury Upon the Subject Which May Indi= cate the Policy to Be Parsued by the Administration, WasHINGTON, D. O, May 24.—Mr. Carlisle has given no recent intimation as to his purpose with regard to the ad- ministration tariff bill, which, there can be no doubt, is in course of preparation. Carlisle has been so long in public life that he has left on many pages of the Congressional Record and in many published utterances his opinions as to what a tariff bill should be. T he time has come when, if Mr. Carlisle is to be allowed any independence of thought or action in the management of the Treasury department, he will be given an opportunity to formulate in a bill, which is to be called the administra tion bill, the theories which he has so fre- quently expressed regarding the tariff, Probably the most precise and definite statement of Mr., Carlisle's personal views upon the the tariff, irrespective of any notions of partv expediency, were those which he announced when he was last a candidate for speaker. That was ata time when there wasa very sharp division in the democratic ranks upon this subject, and when the influence of Mr. Randall was ar important element in the democratic politics of the house of representatives. There was then a very strong protection faction in the democratic party in the house. There was talk then, as there will be when con- s shall again convene, of the nec yof a compromise between the two 1gs of the democratic party upon the tariff question. The question then was how to reduce rather than how to in- crease taxation, Mr. Carlisle’s southern friends were exceedingly anxious that there should be reductions in certain classes of in- ternal revenus taxation, and they were not satisfied that he had not, as they maintained, kept his pledge made in the preceding congress to recognize one of their number to move to reduce the tax upon tobacco and fruit brandy. The had been some angry correspondence be- tween the southern democrats and Mr. Carlisle, in which the latter was charged, over the signatures of eminent democrats, with a breach of faith. These southern democrats were not ready then to sacrifice the interest of their section in order that any faction in the democratic party should attempt to put in practice its favorite hobby as to free trade. It was at this time that Mr. Carlisle laid down his personal views as to tariff legislation in these words: “I do not recognize a principle that would impose a duty above the revenue point merely for the purpose of giving what is called protection. If we were called vpon now }nl‘ the first time to de- clare a principleor inaugurate a policy upon the subject I should not hesitate to announce my adherence to that creed which demands the largest liberty in* trade; that doctrine which opens the channels of commerce in all parts of the world and invites the producer and con- sumer to meet upon equal terms in free markets for the exchange of their com- modities, for I sincerely believe that all commercial restrictions are, in the ena, injurious to the interests of the people.~ There is no reason to doubt that these are the present opinions of the secretary of the treasury, or that if he can .ave his own way he will give no approval to a tariff bill which shall not be framed upon the lines of this statement, inso- far as the condition of the treasury will permit of such sweeping reductions. It is not a fact that the president has definitely decided to recommend to con- gress the passage of a law to impose an income tax. Nor is it a fact that the subject has yet been con- sidered in the cabinet. Members of the cabinet at all events are the authority for the statement that the president has never called the attention of the cabinet to this question. But there is one member of the cabinet who has privately expressed the opinion that the president would ultimately come to such a decision, It is possible that the story that the president has decided to recommend an income tax grows out of the e ion of this belief by one of his constitutional ady . It has bee learned, however, thut the president has been considering the subject of an in- come tax, even to the extent of reading the debates in the British Parliament on the subject, as one of the sul be considered in connection with the financial schemes he has i view, _— Iron Mall Reorginzation Delaayed INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 24—Nearly 2,320 members of the old supreme sitting of the Order of the Iron Hall met here in response to a call sent out by Supreme Accountant Walker. It was gievn out that the officials would attempt to formulate a plan for a compiete reorgan- ization cn lines that would be acceptab to the court. The object of the sitting to make another attempt to get the courts to turn over tho funds, something less than $2,000,000 to the officers, who would then go ahead with the reorganization. This object is apparently balked by a supplemental complaint filed in the court yesterday by those who were instrumental throwing the x-’(lch'!ly into the hands ef a receiver. This complaint gives an ex haustive showing of the funds and the condition of the order in the different states, and alleges hopeless insolvency. This action took the officers completely by surprise, and they have dela taking any action looking to reorga tion, in ———— e Bennett and ‘he W YORK, May 24, ald, in a leading editorial today, says that legal proceedings for hibel will be taken against Reuter's agency for cabling to Furope that the Herald was to be turned into a stock company with @ capital of $2,000,000 unless the agency categorically denies the report and prints in substance the Herald's edi- torial, The editorial alleges malice in placing the purchase price at so low a figure as $2,000,000, and says in effect that the name of Mr. Ben- nett was removed from the editorial page sinply because he thought its further retention there was unnecessar; that the names of three leading heads of departments were left there, as th prietor desired ‘‘credit to be given where credit 1s due,” and that the plan he hasin contemplation places every em- ploye where he will receive his" just share, —_—— Formiug & Whip Trust. KALAMAZOO, Mich., May 24, —The Warren-Featherbone whip' factory at Three Oaks has been sold to an English syndicate. The same syndicate has options on thirty-two other whip factor- ies in Westfield, Mass., and & dozen more at Weklaville, O. They intend to buy all the fadfories in the country and control the entire whip output. R . LOCAL ‘LABOR DOINGS, D. Clem Denver, E. F. Leavenworth and C. Vandersee have been elected by local assembly 5141 as teachers from that organization to the school soon to be established. by district assembly 126, In accordanee with the scheme of the district assembly to establish a school to advance membors in the science of government and on economic questions, four instructors were clected to meet with similar men from other aasemblies next Monday for organization. W. A. J. Goodwin, M. Nelson, Thomas Holiday and W. Simmons were chosen to fill these positions, The latter two ave colored men and by their election the knights claim toshow that the color line is not drawn in any of their organizations. Sixteen new members were initiated at this mecting, making a total of sixty members taken in during one month. While formerly the clerks of the city were unorganized, two such associations have now sprung into existence at once. One of them is under the protecting wing of the American Federation of Labor. The latter maintain that the federation in this particular was actu- ated by selfish motives and jealousy; that in doing so they have exhibited the same intolerable spirit which has all along prevailed toward the knights, and which is not inclined to further the interests of organized labor- ing classes to al degree, Meetings of the clerks have been held under the auspices of both principal labor organizations and applications for charters were made to the head institu- tions. Suturday the charter for the Retail € erks ‘association under the Federation arrived and a meeting was called for Wednesday evening, in the Patterson block. Yesterday the charter of the Omaha Clerks assembly, organ- ized by Knights of Labor, arrived from Philadelphia and the latter has also called a meeting for the same date at their hall on South Fourteenth strect. At present each is endeavoring to out- strip the other in membership numbers. CETTA s RAILROADS IN POLITICS. Not Much Prospect of a Harmonious Party, But it May Control. Tnter Ocean: The attempt to organize into one political party the farmers and the laborers who consume the farmers’ products was not consistent with the idea of self-pr vation, but it had a certain success because it was an attempt to array the poor against those who were supposed to be hetter off in this world’s goods. The talk about organizing a rail- way party in politics may appear to be founded in consistency, on the ground that the intervests of "the railway em- , the railway official and the rail- tockholder are the same as against st of the world that patronizes the railroad. But the history of railroad strikes shows very plainly that the employes and the stockholders do not stand ‘to- gether, but far enough apart to regard each other with the suspicion of a readi- ness to take every advantage. In the present relation of capital and labor there is not much prospeet of a har- monious railway party, though ther may be enough men interested in rail- ways, as stockholders and employes, to control all elections. Mr. Harry I, Rob- inson, of the Railway Age and North- western Railroader, "has contributed to the North American Review a very in- teresting article on this subject, in which he shows that there arc 800,000 voters in the immediate employ of the railroads of this country, and about a million and & quarter of men who are shareholcers in these railroads. Going into the trades and industries im- mediately depending upon the railroads for support he finds more than a million more of men, or, all told, about 3,000,000 voters whose interests should induce them to stand together to protect the railways from legislation that would curtail their earning capacity. It may be that these 3,000,000 men have a com- mon interest, but if Mr. Robinson can convince them of it he will be able to use it to better purpose in preventing strikes than inorganizing a new political He Railway t, which history of the club in the northwe is credited with influencing recent elec- tions in Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Texas. It is no doubt true that the railway men helped to defeat the republican party in lowa two years ago, and that they have taken some part in politics in several states, but it is also true that the stockholders of these roads live in the east, where there was no op- portunity for placing the two inte in the same road either togethe against each other in an election, Mr. Robinson shows that the railway interests in capital are greator than any other interest in the country, *‘The capital engaged in banking is but a trifle beside it,” said Prof. Hadley. “The world’s stock of money of every kind—gold, silver, and paper—would purchase only one-third of the railroads.” The capitalization and bonded debt of the railways of the United States at the beginning of 1803 was about %11,500,000,- 000, The gross earnings of the railways of the United States in 1891 were about $2,000,000,000, or six times as large as tho entire annual revenue of the United States government. Of the ninety separate companies operating railroads in lowa, Minnesota, the two Dakotas, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Kansas only fifteen have earned dividends. In 1888 there was $2,500,000,000 of railway stock unproductive of dividends. In 1880 there was $2,621,497,932 of unproductive stock, and in I8%0 this stock had in- creased to 2,811,526,552. In 1888 the unprod ve sailway stock was 6167 per cent’ of all the railway stock in the country, and in 1800 it was 63.76 per cent. Thiswould indicate that only 46 per cent of the stock of railways in the country was earning dividends in the year 1890, In the states of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Colorado 72,90 per centof all railroad stock is unpro- ductive, In Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Utah and Nevada 83.54 per cent is unproductive. In Texas 99.99 per cent is unproductive, Mr. Robinson takes another way of showing the hardships of the railroads in the west. West of the Mississivpi und Missouri rivers he shows that 51,206 miles of railroad with a capital stock of $1,320,635,625 earned nllli' #504,419 above operating expenses in 1889, or 1-25 of | per cent for the stockholders, With lour times as many miles of road the net earnings on thess western lines were less than one-third of the net earnings of the group of lines in the two Virginias and two Carolinas. In the year 1891 receivers were ap- hointed inr twenty-six companies in the Inited States representing $84,479.000 of capital, and twenty-one companies with a capitalization 186,000,000 w sold under foreclosure. These figures show that,while railroad managers may make individual fortunes, the railroad stock- holders ar» not getting much return from the money invested, but the mil- lennium will not be far off when the rail- road employes and the railroad mana- gers and stockholders go into politics as one party to vote the same ticket, New York's Money Oonter Shaken by an Unexpeoted Uphoaval, BANKS TRAVELING CLOSE TO THE HEARSE Uneasy Feeling In Wall Street Resulting from the Fallures That Have Lately Oo- curred — Conservative Institutions Have Much Worthless Paper, CHICAGO, T1l,, May 24.-~The Tribune has the following from New York on the financial situation: The suspension of the National Bank of Deposit, the fail- ure of a house which hasbeen prominent in the toy trade with liabilitics at $300,- 000, and the attachments that have been issued against the Domestic Sewing Machine company indicate that some of the reports which prevailed in Wall street last week were not without foundation. These troubles, it is be- lieved here, are only the beginning of a series of financial embarrassments which willbe made public one after another, and will probably last all sumner. They will not come of a sudden proba- bly, although some of ~the bankers are a little apprehensive that panicky conditions may prevail after the govern- ment's fiscal year begins in June. But the bent of opinion is that they will simply indicate the stringency of times, the devression of business, and the im- possibility of procuring discounts with which to carry on business. Some of our large banks have already been quite severely hit within the last ‘two wecks, They are institutions which are man- aged with exceeding care, and there is no likelihood that any of them will be- come embarrassed, as was the National Bank of Deposit. There are two, and haps three, which have loaned large amounts of money to institutions which have failed, and if it should happen that any one of thes was supposed to be financially embarra the repc would certainl ate a panic. They carvied 81,500,000 of Cordage paper, and although they seem to think their loans will be paid, yet the fact that they have such di credit paper among their assets tends to make all bankers careful and suspicious. One of these banks is reported to be carrying $100,000 of the paper of the Domestic Sewing Machine company, and although that corporation insists that it is solvent and will meet every obligation as s00n as it is due, yet the fact that a banking institution here has seen fit to levy attachments upon the property of the company has, of course, seriously shattered its credit. Then some of these banks had the paper of Ives, Blakely & Williams, which failed yesterday, one of them for nearly $40,000 and the other for nearly $30,000. The items would be comparatively trivial as far as banks are concerned were it not for the fact that this makes the third time in the course of two days that they have been discovered to be traveling close to the hea as the ex- pression is in Wall street, and the qu tion is asked whether, if institutions as ably managed as those have been caught in this way, how many others of smaller consequence have been unfortunate. A financier who has been in Washing- ton for a day or two and has seen Mr. Cleveland, and T think Mr. Carlisle, brings word here that both the vresi- nd his secretary of the treasu em to understand that it would he © to pass any tariff law until the policy of the government in respect to silver is determined. ————— A MODOC POCAHONTAS. How the Daaghter of an Indian Chlef Be friended the Whites. Over fifty years ago there was born in that desolaté region of southern Oregon, now known as the Lava Beds, an India girl, the daughter of Se Cot, a Modoe chief, says the San Francisco Examiner, Among the white men who had pene- trated into the Modoe country a few years later in search for gold wasa young Kentuckian named Fr The beauty of the Indian effect on the white man, whose qualities were pleasing to the chief, and after thy usual ceremonies incidental to an India marriage Wi-ne-ma and her white hus- band set up their own lodge. It was this marriage that strengthened the re- gard held for her white friends, and ever after she remained loyal to the race to which her husband belonged. The discovery of gold in the Klamath vegion ~ drew many adventurers to that field, with the usual portion of the lawless element. In 1851 some emigrants who had been very aggressive toward the lodoes were ut to death by the Indians, and the fol- [u\\'in;_' year a band of whites left Yreka savages for the ac! The avengers were led by Ben White, an old mountaineer,who had hunted and fought | Indians with Kit Carson: Jim Beckwith, John Scott and Jim Bridger. After a long chase through the rough country, which was not productive of good re- sults, the chiefs were invited to n whites and make a treaty. Th agreed to do, and the warring varties went into camp near each other on Lost river, the Indians outnumbering the white men by three to one. Early on the morning of the conference a young Modoc squaw, breathless, her clothing torn and her feet bleeding, came into the Wright camp and aske d to see the leader. Her errand was to warn the invaders against treachery. The night before she learned at the council fire that her people intended to surround the white men during the con- ference and put them to death, Wright and his men met cunning with cunning. They went into ambush near the place of conference and when the unsuspecting Modocs fell into the trap but two escaped from the slaughter that ensued. This affair is known in the history of north- ern California as the Ben Wright mas- sacro. The squaw who conveyed the timely warning to her white fricnds was Wi-ne-ma, the wife of Frank Riddle. This fact was never found out by her else her life would have been to punish th "wenty-one years passed. The Modocs were confined” by the government to re ation and treaties made with them h were repeatedly broken. The tribe were the prey of post traders, con- tractors and of almost every white man who came in_contact with them. The only one of the hated white race in whom they had_confidence was the late Judge Elijah Stecle. To this man they went for counsel and advice, but in the lapse of time they even contemplated taking his life, and in the Indian mode of reasoning the death of asingle white man erases the wrongs perpetrated by many. Sullen at first under their in- juries, the Modoes were awakened to fury and declared vengeance on their oppressors, The memory of the Wright affair was kept keen by the older men of the tribe, and after a council of the chieis the whites were apprised that war was at hand. Shortly after hostilities began the government appointed a peace commission to confer with the rebellious redskins and endeavor to mauke peace. In the meantime Riddle and other squaw S & MIGHTY NEAR T0 A PANIC Jack were bent on a slaughter. When the peace commissioners arrived on the ground the Indians refused to treat with them. They did, however, finally agree to surrender to Judge Steelo and two other men of that region and arranged to give up their arms the following day When Steele and his companions wen to the agreed place of surrender not an Indian was in sight, and they returned to tho military camp. Steole thenagreed to go alone and interview the war chief. That night Stecle went through an perience fow men have endured. While talking to him in pacific terms, in the Chinook jargon, they were discussing in their own tongue ‘the advisability of murdering their visitor. Steele under- stood sufficiently their languago to com- prehend his danger, but did not betray his knowledge. The chiefs finally de- cided to spare his life on condition of his bringing the commissioners and com- manding officors of the troops to confor with them. But for the efforts of the brave squaw, Wi-ne-ma, war would have broken out long before. Many times she took the weapons from the hands of war- riors bent on the destruction of settlers in the region, and it was she who warned the officors of the army of the trouble brewing. Her influence with her people began to wane as their rage against the whites increased. Colonel Meacham, who was in com- mand of the military post, was a humane man and did all in his power to right the wrongs of his dusky wards. This man Wi-ne-ma revered, and when the second peace commission was appointed did all in her power to prevent him from attending the council with the chiefs. She grasped his horse by the bridle, begging Mpacham and Canby not to meet Jack and his band. When she found entreaty was in vain the devoted woman mounted her pony and rode with the illfated party to the place of meet- ing. The story of that meeting has been told many times. When Meacham was attacked by the bloodthirsty Scon- chin, Wi-ne-ma~ threw herself on the savage and begged him to spare the life of her white friend. Others coming up, Wi-ne-ma ran from warrior to warrior, turning aside their weapons. At last one of muny bullets struck Meacham senseloss, and the quickwitted squaw turned aside the weapon aimed to finish his life, with the words *“*Him dead! No use shoot!" Sconchin tried to scalp Meacham, when Vi-ne-ma grasped the knife The en- raged buck struck her a terrible blow, almost knocking her senseless. Again tee wit of the woman came into -play. “The soidiers are coming up,” she cried, and the next moment a detach- ment of troops did appear. For weeks the noble squaw nursed her friend Meacham, and at last, a cripple for life, and broken in th, she got him to his wife and family. Wi-ne-ma's only child, a son, died of consumption long after, and in'a few y her hus- band followed. Coloneél Meacham, in gratitude for the self-sacrifice and devo_ tion of the little woman chief, used hi limited means to help the condition o her people, with the usual results Meacham has been dead cleven years and since that time 1 Indian friend has suffered hardships she should not have been called upon toendure. Tt was his desire that Wi-ne-ma should be pro- vided for in her old age, and through the contributions of those who knew her story the little woman chief is passing the declining years of herlife in comfort in the country of her birth, e~ A RAVING LION. How a Woman Took a Lion fora Newfound- 1and Dog and Drove Him O, New York World: 'When the Barnum & Bailey circus left its winter quarters » in March for Madison Squave gar , several animals we left behind. Some of these were forwarded as fast as their golden cages were completed, but a Numidian lion, an ibex and a few gray- hounds remained. Last week the lion begran to show signs of going mad. The keepers did not know what ailed him and called in Dr. McLellan, a veterinary surgeon. Some quieting drugs were given to the king of beasts with his noonday meal, but the result was satisfuctory only so far as his hind legs were concerned They became paral d. The lion roared and dashed against the iron bars of his cage, always dragging his hind legs about. He became more and more furi- ous, e ched out and struck at his keepers, They tried to get water into his den, but the beast dashed the iron parts aside and roared and howled so in- antly that day afternoon it was decided to kill him, Dr. McLellan thought the best way to kill the lion would be to shoot him, and he secured a revolver from Chief of Po- lice John Rylands for that purpose. Chief Rylands accompanied the doctor, and the keepers looked on, ex- pecting to see the lion drop dead at the tirst shot, MeLellan fived twice, but the shots only added to the lion's frenzy. He flew at the iron bars with such ter- ific force that they bent outwards and the lion became wedged between the twisted bars, Dr. McLellan than ran The keepers seized the long iron prods used for poking meat into the den and ive the lion back, but he was wedged too firmly to retreat. Chief Ry- lands picked up the revolver, walked up to the roaring lion, aimed at his eyes and fired three shots in quick succession, That ended the career of lio During this excitement the ibex be- gan to dash itself against the sides of its cage. It, too, had be doctored, b cause it had exhibited signs of madness, Mr. Bailey had ordered it killea in case it did not grow better. Chief Rylands reloaded his revolver and fired twice, but the ibex fought hard for its life and the shots only drove it into a frenzy, A rope was thrown over its horns and when its head was drawn down the keep- ers despatched it with an axe, The hides of both were sent today to the Smithson- ian institution at Washington, The lion was one of a litter of cubs born in captivity when the winter quar- ters wer i established here, Its brother was the lion that escaped when the old wooden winter quarters burned several years ago, and ran into the cow house of Mrs, Christiana Gilligan, That good woman happened to go out to feed her cow and found the lion snuggled up beside it. She mistook the king of beasts for & Newfoundland dog and whacked himm with an old hoe handle until he roared with pain and ran away. Mps. Gilligan's heroism at once made her famous. The third lion of the same litter is still with the circus. — His Name K A young spark, notorio was boasting in the pre gentlemen about the conquests he had gained over the female neart, “Look,” said he; ‘“here's a handsome present | had frow my last inamorata,” at the same time handing round a beautiful clgar case, All admired the article, which had an in- dorsement of its quality stamped upon it. “Very nice gift,” remarked one of the compauy. *I perceive your lady love even had Jour agme put on the case “Well, that's queed boaster; I never noticed it.” “Look again,” rejoined the candid one. “The case is distinetly marked ‘real calf.’’ —_— No nswered the men on the reservation used their influ- ence toward asettlement of the difficuty, but to no eff 3 The turbulent warriors led by Captain Fritz Hufuagle is a professional grave- digger, who dc uot always pay his debts promptly. 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