Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1894, Page 3

G4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY/AMAY 26, 189L TWELVE PAGTS. == - presr peson S e e con (T SALT OF TAE EARTH e ee——— ments. Cotton unloaded at the quays also | ene onton sttt e e e | TRIED T0 BRING UP HAWAIL' LN, £ NOT UNTIL LATE NEXT FALL Adjournment of Congress Will Be Delayed Until September. o HOLDING BACK THE APPROPRIATION BILLS Consideration of the Tariff Interferes with Committee Work to an Extent that Will Prevent Dissolutio; for Several Mont WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BE| 1407 F Street, N. W WASHINGTON, D. C., May Few think about the senate committee on appropriations at this time, but upon that committee will largely depend the length of the present session of congress. When the revenue bill is passed by the senate there will be at least A month of consideration of the bill in conference before it is finally agreed o by the house and the senate. But, even if the revenue bill could be agreed to within a few days after its passage by the senate, congress could not adjourn for a month or more after. Annual appropriations for the expenses of the government imust be made. The te committee on priations has reported the pensions, fortifi- cations and Military academy appropriation bills, but that Is a mere modicum of the work before that important committee. The house has passed and the senate committee i8 now considering the agricultural, army, diplomatic, naval, postoffice, sundry civil and District of Columbia appropriation bills. The legislative, Indian and defigiency bills have not yet come to the senate from the house. Al of these bills must be considered and reported from the committee on appropria- tions before the senate can consider tiem While the senate meets at 10 o'clock every morning It is impossible to get the commit- tee together, tnd hence consideration of appropriation’ bills s, daily deferred. They cannot be considered by the committee macii after the revenue bill is disposed of finally. It will take the committee at least ono month to report the pending. appropriation bills, and it will take the congress at loast another month to dispose of the bills afivr they have been favorably reported. It in practically impossible for the congrese ‘o reach an adjournment earlier than Septec: ber 1, or the latter part of August. BOSTON COMMONWEALERS RECEIVED The Boston Industrial contingent, con sisting of about thirty laboring men, was »i the capitol this afternoon. Senatir Allen received them cordially and ina kindly manner. He Invited them into the great marble room and entertained them ag le would any of the wealthy American chi: zens who might call and claim the right to enter and examine the capitol of their country. Senator Allen sent for Senator Pefter of Kansas and Seastor Kyle of South Dakota, and those senators promptly re- sponded and assisted in antertaneng the vis- ftors. All of these Boston “Wealers” hul clean shaven faces and well ‘shined shoes. Although they were manifestly onor Jren they were cleanly and evidently law-ablding citizens. A member of the national com mittee was in the marble room conversing with Senator Allison, and he said: - “Thot is the way American citizens ought to be roceived in this building. That is *he way Coxey and his people ought to have been received. They had a perfect right to enter here and receive decent treatment from the servants of the republie, wio are, if they did but realize it, as much *he servants of these poor people as they are of the wealthy class.” TO LICENSE FOREIGN SOLICITORS. Senator Manderson today introduced a bill requiring that every person coming into the United States from a foreign country for the purpose of selling or soliciting orders for goods, wares or merchandise shall pro- cure o license which shall cost $1,000 and ghall be good for one year. The senate -committee on Indian affairs today made a favorable report on the bill of Senator Allen’ granting right of —way through the Omaha and Winnebago Indian re:ervation in Nebraska to the Eastern Ne- praska & Gulf railway. The committee made several amnedments to the blll, the report being similar to the house report on Mr. Meiklejohn's bill. The committee amendment provides that the right of way shall be fitty instead of seventy-five feet Wide, and that the station grounds shall be 200 instead of 300 feet wide. The -committee on military affairs today made a favorable report on the bill of Sena- tor Manderson removing the charge of deser- tion now standing against the record of Jeremlah F. Brown, alias Franklin Brown, of Elk City, Douglas county. Representative Mercer has decided to have a competitive examination for cadets de- siring admission to West Point on June 5 at Omaha. The examining board will .on- sist of Frank A. Fitzpatrick, superint:ident sen appro- of schools, Dr. S. K. Spalding an! F. H. Alexander, 4 Willls Richardson of David City is in Washington for a few days. Representative Pickler of South Dakota and Representative Hepburn of lowa de- livered well received addresses before a large and enthusfastic gathering of Grand Army people at the National Rifles’ armory. Patents have been issued as follows: To Nebraskans—Swen P. Nelson, assignor to car Nelson Car Coupling company, Omaha, coupling. To Iowans—David §. Cole, Wash- ington, photographic multiplying device; Archibald L. Courtwright, Keokuk, hay ricker or loader; Samuel W. Hurlburt, Creston, window screen; George D. Lamm, Ackley, hay rake; Samuel I. Larkins, Mur- Tay, draft equalizer. Towa postmasters appointed: county, M. H. Ward, vice J. M. moved; Willey, Carroll county, B. man, vice John Kerper, removed. Dr. George P. Stannard has been ap- pointed a member of the board of examining surgeons at Rapid City, . D. Galva, Ida Lauk, re- Grete- WAS BOUGHT AT A BARGAIN, Government Building at the White City Wanted at Atlanta's Exposition. WASHINGTON, May 25.—There seems to be a good deal of dissatisfaction among the Georgia delogation In congress and others interested in the contemplated inter- national exposition at Atlanta at the sale by Secretary Carlisle of the Government building at Chicago for $3,250. The parties to whom it was sold have asked the Atlanta exposition authorities $25,000 for It. It is stated at the Treasury departement today in explanation and justification of the sale that some time ago Secretary Carlisle, hav- ing been notified that the building must be removed from Jackson park, directed the custodian of the Government bullding at Chicago to make a thorough examination of the building and report as to its value. This was done, but the value was placed at $1,660. On May 8 Mr. Carlisle sent Special Agent Stealey to Chicago to ascertaln what it could be sold for, and after consulting with @ large number of contractors and archi- tects Mr. Stealey reported that a large percentage of those consulted were of the opinion that not only was the building worth nothing, but the government shoull pay something for removing it. Mr. Btealey, however, succceded In getting an offer of $3,260, and telegraphed the facts to the secretary, and recelved authority to close the sale, which was done, although the sale has not yet been confirmed. It was stated further that not until the 2lst of the present month, when Mr. Carlisle re- ceived a letter of inquiry on the subject from Representative Livingston of Georgla, did he have any Intimation that there was a scheme on foot to remove the building to Atlanta. Had he had any idea that the bullding was wanted for the purpose, or that it could have been utilizel by the gov- ernment in any other way, he certainly would not have taken any steps to dispose of it. Cotton Shipments to Spaln. WASHINGTON, May 25.—An urgent plea for the direct shipment of cotton from the United States to Spain is made by United States Consul Bowen at Barcelona. This city stands fourth In the list of Buro- pean citles in the consumption of American cotton, the Imports last year amounting to 168,000 bales. The consul suggests that ‘American cotton dealers ship direct, as the duty in that case is only 30 cents per 100 kilos, as aguinst 80 cents for indirect ship- i plates. on cotton placed on lighters. About $2,000,- 000 worth of American cotton finds its way annually into Spain indirectly through Eng- land, and the consul urges that this profit be realized by Americans through direct sales to Spanish merchants. POSITIVE OF ITS PASSAGE. Representative Hall Satisfied with the Con- dition of the Income Tax Bill. WASHINGTON, May 25.—After three weeks spent in his district, Representative Hall of Misscuri, one of those most In favor of the income tax feature of the tafiff bill, fs back, and fs giving his attenton to the changes which the senate finance committee has wrought In the Iincome tax. “I have gene over the senate bill care- fully,” said Mr. Hall, “and I find the changes effected are of detail and not sub- stance, The senators have recognized the essential prineiple of the measure, that men shall bear the tax burden according to their wealth, With that recognized as a govern- ment principle and policy, the main change made by the senate is in limiting its opera- tions to five years. All income taxes are temporary when first enacted, b on passed they become permanent. England’ first, but it Germany and experience, €0 income tax was temporary at has been continued for years. Italy have had the same that we can feel confident in accepting an income tax limited to five years that it will be permanently engrafted on our law books before the time expires, The detail changes made have rather improved it the corporation tax from on the dividends to 2 per cent on the profits over operating expenses s an improvement of language, but is no change of substance. The exemption of all building and loan as- cfations & a little too broad. I was in favor of an cxemption of such Inst tutions doing business at home, but not to big con- cerns doing an inter:tate business. The latter are speculative corporations and ought to be taxed, while the local concerns secure homes for the laboring men and ought to be exempted, “Taken as a whole, however, bill will be thoroughly satistactory friends of an Income tax. I am ab positive of its passage by congress and its incorporation in our law books. And I am free to say that I will carry on the contest by the senate The change of a 2 per cent tax the senate to the olutely until thre law Is made permanent and the poliey of the government Is established that wealth pays the tax burdens in pro- portion to the protection it reccives.’ SUGAR T. JST INVESTIGATION. Edwards Refuses to Revi s Informants and is Fxeused. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Judge Ditten- hoefer, counsel for Correspondent Edwards, appeared before the Sugar trust investigation today and announced that he had advised his client not to give the committee the names of the persons from whom he received cer- tain information bearing upon the subject ‘under investigation. He quoted the supreme court decisions in the Kilbourne and Counsel- man cases in support of his position. Among other reasons Judge Dittenhoefer stated that for Mr. Edwards to disclose the names of his informants would be to degrade him as a newspaper man. The committee overruled Judge Dittenhoefer's objections and again called Edwards end repeated its demand that he give the names requested in the first instance, and received his final decision not to comply with the demand. He was then cxcused and the committee again went into secret session, No decision as to a further course of action was reached today. Senator Caftery and ex-Congressman Lefevre of Louisiana were before the committee later and denied the story of their participation in the alleged conference with the Sugar trust. al the Names of DOCTORED BLOWHOLES, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance Does Not Consider Them Serious Defects. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Captain W. T. Sampson, chief of the bureau of ordnance, Navy department, appeared today before the house committee investigating armor plate irregularities. He said he did not consider the blowholes a serious defect. Captain Sampson related how suspicion was aroused of the soundness of the plates fur- nished during a long period. They were subjected to tests, and Captain Sampson found the suspicious circumstances con- nected with the plate invariatly improved on the second test. The conclusion was ir- resistible that the plates wre being sur- reptitiously doctored between tests. In answer to questions as to the motives for frauds, Captain Sampson said he believed the heads of the company knew nothing of the operations. A Mr. Scnwab was general superintendent. He had a certain amount of stock in the company, so his interests would be advanced by the acceptance of The investigation adjourned until Monday at 11 o'clock, when Captain Samp- son will reappear. RESULT OF THE CUT. k Completed and t for Their Pay. 25.—Owing to a cut Contractors of Wo Ac- cepted Must \ WASHINGTON, May 2; in the estimates submitted last year to con- gress for increase of the navy, the Navy department has gotten Into a sad plight. The estimates prepared by the bureau chipfs were just sufficient to carry forward the work to which the government was actually committed by contract, but they were scaled down before reaching congress As a consequence, several of the largest contractors for naval conscruction must go without their money for months, although their work has been completed and turned over to the government. If the department attempts to pay these bills the appropriation would be so reduc:d that it would be neces- sary to discharge every draughtsman and clerk employed at Washington and in the various navy yards, under the head of in- crease of the navy. LEAD ORE O) E FREE LIST, Senator Hill Pr poses an Amendment with This Object in View. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Senator Hill has notified Senator Dubols that he intends to move to put lead ore on the free list and will attack the position of the senate finance com- mittee in levying a duty of % of a cent per pound on that article. Senator Hill says that in the last congress the house, over- whelmingly democratic, passed a bill for free lead, and yet the senate committee disre- gards this and places a duty upon the ore. Some of the members of the finance <om- mittee, in talking of the matter, say they know that the intention of the New York senator is to place them in a position of embarrassment. Senators Dubois and Teller consulted with members of the finance com- mittee and assured them that they would defend the duty on lead ore Ren cla! © Iperation. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Co-operation of the forces of the general land office and geo- logical survey in making surveys of public land is one of the plans now being contem- plated at the Interior department. Secretary Smith bas decided to make an investigation to determine the feasibility of the plan and action will soon be taken, Heretofore the survey has conducted its suryeying work with a view mainly to its use in the topographical maps of that office and without any idea of aiding in the general work of surveys of public lands. By combining the forces in the contemplated scheme it is thought that con- siderable benefit will accure to the general land office as well as a reduction of the ex- penses of the two bodie Osage Indians Keturn Home: WASHINGTON, May 25.—The delegation of Osage Indians which has been in the city during the past two weeks has returned to the reservation of the Osages in Okla- homa. They were sent here by the Osage nation to discuss reservation matters with congress, and the nation paid the expenses of the delegation. While here they held several conferences with Acting Commis- sloner of indian Affairs Armstrong and vari- ous reservation matters were discus-ed. The commission recently appointed to treat with them to secure the allotment of their lands will commence its work within a short time. R —— Millions drink Cook's Extra Dry Imperial Champagne every year and the numbers are roliing up with & rush. Dispute Aris:s as to Which of Two Resc- lutions Shall Be Considered. KYLE AND FRYE PLEAD FOR THE ISLANDS EM rts to Inject & Debate on This Leads to Hot Words Between Sena- tors Hareis and Hour—\Wran- gling About Courtesy. Subject May 25.—Senator Kyle's \lan resolution which came over from day nsidered again for half an hour in the senate today, but no action was taken, He a-ked for a vote on the resolu- tion, but Mr. Gray, democrat of Delaware, held that if a vote was to be had on the reso- lution relating to Hawali it should be on the | one which Mr. Turpie had reported from the | committee on foreign relations. That reso- lution had been carefully considered and had been debated at length in the senate. He moved to substitute that resolution for the offered by Mr. Kyle. = Discussions of the merits of the two resolutions occupied the time of the senate until the hour for con- sideration of the tarift bill arrived. Mr. Harris {nsisted upon the regular order. The tariff bill was accordinly laid before the senate. Senator Frye, republican of Maine, pro- tested against cutting off action on the I llan resolution. It was of supreme importance to the Hawailan islands that the senate should take som: acton. Yet, for three months the senate had dallied in a manner that was utterly inexcusable and the people of Hawail weré on a pivot. The action of the senate might send them for- ward or backward. He asked unanimous consent that those resolutions should be voted on without debate tomorrow. Mr. Turple objectcd. Mr. Frye then modified his request and asked that they be con- s'dered again tomorrow. Mr. George, demo- crat of Mississippi, cbjected. Then followed a clash between Mr. Hoar and Mr. Harrls, the former being disposed to prolong th> debate. He said that is was the universal sentiment not only of WASHINGTON, was ¢ one be no interference by the United with the dom:stic affairs of Hawaii. Mr. Morgan, chairman of the foreign rela- tions committee, fully endorsed what Mr. Hoar had said, and the latter was proceeding to say that he hoped that Mr. Morgan's en- dorsement of his statement would echo around the world, when Mr. Harris, who had grown impatient, broke in and declared that the tariff bill was before the senate and further debate on this subject was out of order. Mr. Hoar protested in vigorous terms against what he termed these re- peated “angry and discourteous lecures’ from the senator from ‘Tennessee. ““The tariff bill is before the senate,” re- torted Mr. Harris, “and the senator from Massachusetts is violating the rules by con- tinuing a debate on a resolution that has just gone over. As far as the courtesy of the senator from Tennessee is concerned,’” he added, “he owes less courtesy to the senator from Massachusetts than any other senator on the floor.” “If the senator from Tennessee owes any- one any courtesy,” retorted Mr. Hoar, ‘he is a hopeless bankrupt; he could not pay one-thousandth of a mili on the dollar.” “He could pay as much as the senator from Massachusetts,” returned Mr. Harris, and with this parting shot the incident closed. The Aldrich amendment to substitute the McKinley tariff on shotguns for the 30 per cent ad valorem in the senate bill was laid on the table. The rate for shotguns, rifles and pistols was fixed at 30 per cent. Rates were then agreed to as follows: Table and carving knives and forks val- ued at more than $4 per dozen, and razor blades, scissors and shears, wholly or partly finished, 45 per cent; all other table knives, States forks, steels, etc., 35 per cent; files, file blanks, rasps and floats of all cuts and kinds, four inches in length and under, 30 cents per dozen; over four inches and under nine inches, 60 cents; over nine inches, $1. The rate on iron and steel rivets was in- creased from 25 to 30 per cent. The Jones amendments were agreed 1o fixing the rates on crosscut saws at 6 cents per lineal foot; mill saws, 10 cents per foot; drag saws and pit ‘saws, 8 cents; circular and other saws, 25 per cent. The rates on wood screws were fixed at 30 per cent, and on umbrella ribs made of iron or steel or other metals at 25 per cent. Paragraph 156, “wheels,” was passed over. The duty on crude aluminum was first fixed at 10 cents per pound; on aluminum in leat at 40 cents. The rates on silver and gold leaf were fixed at 30 cents. The rate on metallic pens (except gold pens) was fixed at § cents. On pins and hat, shawl and belt pins, commercially known as jew- elry, 25 per cent. On chronometers 10 per cent; watches and clocks, 25 per cent; manu- factured articles (paragraph 177) not specially provided for in the bill, composed wholly or in part of metal, 30 per cent. At 5 o'clock the senate went into execu- tive session, and at 5:10 p. m. adjourned. IN THE HOUSE. BIIl for the Keltef of Thor B. Passes on the Magic of His Name. WASHINGTON, May 25.—At the end of the morning hour in the house today the house went into the committee of the whole for consideration of private bills. Mr. Springer gave notice the first thing tomorrow he would call up the Brawley bill for repeal of the state bank tax law. The entire afternoon was consumed in a digcussion of an omnibus resoiution from the committee on war clalms, grouping to- gether thirty-seven claims for cotton, ete., aggregating $1,040,000, Half the time was taken up in a discussion on a polnt of order against the grouping of so many bills in one resolution. The only business done during the day was the passage of a bill for the relief of Thomas B. Reed, and the success of this bill seemed to be due in no small degree to the name. At 5 o'clock the committee arose and the house took a recess until 8 o'clock. WAS OFFFRED LY BUTTZ. Keport of the Senato Committeo on the Bribery Investigation, WASHINGTON, May 25.—The report of the senate committee appointed to investi- gate the charges of attempts to bribe United States senators to vote against the tarift biil, and the charges of improper In- fluences being used in counection with the sugar schedule, was submitted to the senate today, so far as concerns the attempted bribery of Senators Hunton and Kyle. The report, after reciting the facts of Buttz's proffer of money to the son of Senator Hutton and to Senator Kyle, 8 “Your committe are abundantly justified In stating that the fucts have been estab- lished by the evidence, notwithstanding the denial on the part of Charles W. Buttz There is no evidence to show the truth of Mr. Buttz's statement to Senator Kyle and to Mr. E. P. Hunton, fr., that a syndicat of bankers and capitalists had raised a sum of money to be used for the purpose of defeating the pending tarift bill, or that there was an agent of such a syndicate in Washington, or that any money was I Washington' for that purpose. Buttz denles that he made any suc statement, or that he had any knowledge of the existence of such a syndicate, or that he was the agent or rep- resentative of any one. He further denies that he has any money himself.” The senatorial bribery investigation com- mittee listened today to arguments by J. G. Ditenhoefer, counsel for Correspondent Ed- wards, as to his client's right to refuse to glve the committee the names of the per- sons who furnished him with statements reflecting upon members of congress and of the cabinet. Air Lzubble in & Coin WASHINGTON, May 25.—R. E. Preston, the director of the mint, today received from a speclal Inspector of customs at El Paso, ex., a $6 gold plece with a request for a decision as to' its. genuineness, the inspector stating that it was evidence against a person accused of passing counterfeit gold coins. the | senate but of the country that there should | | pearance suspected that, owing to too rapid | rolling of the gold strips preparatory to cut- | ting the planchets, an alr bubble or blister | was formed just at the spetin the strip from | which the coin was cut. ,With a steel ink | eraser Mr. Preston split the coin far enough to ascertain that his diagnosis was correct Tt is stated that thesc slight imperfections oceur occasfonally, especialfy When the strips are rolled rapidly. The coin will be returned ‘ with the statement that it is genuine. Managers of the Tarlff M Slunting a Time for the Vo WASHINGTON, May 2.—The democratic managers of the tariff bill have been con- ferring among themselves today with the view of finding means of hastening the final disposition of the bill, and at one time dur- ing the day decided to ask the republicans tomorrow to agree to a date when the vote should be taken, but after conference with the republican leaders decided to postpone the request for the present. They had ex- pected to ask that the date of the vote be fixed on the Sth or 8th of June, and thought they would be able to secure an agreement for about the 15th of June. The conference with the republicans convinced them that if the request should be made now it would be antagonized and probably will result in Joss of time and in no appreciable accom- plishment, whereas If it should be made Jater it might be acceded to. They have not | yet decided whether they will ask for an extension of hours into the evening, but | say the republicans will decide that after by their course in debate, It fairly rapid progress is made for the next few days the evening sessions will not be attempted, but otherwise the senate in all probability will bo asked to sit until 10 o'clock every night until the bill shall be acted upon and sent to conference. BlG BATCH OF NOMINATIONS, 1 by Cleveland for Post- masters and Treasury Ofices, WASHINGTON, May 25.—The president today sent the following nominations to the | senate: | Tre be na | Democrats Nam sury—C. C. Baldwin of New York to officer of customs in the district of New York; John A. Sullivan of New York to be collector of Internal revenue for the Second district of New York; William Mick- ler of Florida, collector of customs for the district of St. Augustine, Fla., Barry Bald- win of California, to be marshal of the United States for the northern district of California. Postmacters—Sophia Choate, Bentonville, Edward Morgan,: Grass Valley, . 8. Leake, Sacramento, Cal.; George . San Luis Obispo, Cal.; A. C. Litcoln, Cal; Robert W. Smith, Colo.; Everett M. Arthur, Tellu- ride, Colo.; John F. Eden, Sullivan, IlL; John Whalen, Lincoln, Kan.; A, Brad- dock, Portsmouth, Mich,; W. A. H. Phillips West Bay City. Mich.; P. B. Wachtel, Pe toskey, Mich.; John Marens, Hamilton, Mo.; C. W. Notbohm, Oconomowoe, Wis.; P. H. Botger, Waterloo, Wis. R A MADE FAST TIME. Fleming, Sterling, Qulck Trip of a M. & §t. P. Stock Train Through lowa. PERRY, Ta., May 25.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—Last night the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul railyay made the fastest long distance run with a,freight train ever made on any railroad Inthe United States. A train of stock, con:isting of sixteen cars, left Portsmouth at 9:16 a. m. and was landed in the stock yards in Chicago at 10:55 p. m. The d'stance covered was 452 miles, and the time consumed was fhirteen hours and forty-four minute. In the run engines were changed three tinies, and in the whole distance no stop was made on account of ot boxes from fast ~running. Engineer Billy Howe ‘pulled tha train from Earling to Perry, seventy-six miles, in one hour and fifty minutes. The'run is considered by railroad officials 4 most remarkable one. Sup:eme Court Declsions. DES MOINES, May 25.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—Supreme court opinions: George F. Ditman Boot and Shoe company against the Keokuk & Western Railway company, appellant, Keokuk superior court; affirmed. S. E. Mankin against Joseph Mankin ot al, appellant, Montgomery district; afirmed. Jacob Sims, appellant, against Pottawat- tamie county, Pottawaftamie district; af- firmed. The Commercial Exchange bank against W. J. Applegate et al, H. M. Wycoff, inter- venor, appellant, Cass’ district; afirmed. Lemuel Simmons, appellant, against Etta J. Simmons et al, Pottawattamie district; affirmed. Josiah Galbraith and Mary Ann Galbraith against John McLaughling and George Hay- wood & Son, appellants, Clinton district; afiirmed. Sarah Denning et al, contestants and ap- pellants, against Richard Dutcher et al, proponents and appellees, Wapello district; affirmed. F. A. Cressey against Katz-Nevens-Rees Manufacturing company, intervenor, appel- lant, Pottawattamie district; affirmed. ' Deécre, Wells & Co., appellants, against Wier Shugart company, Council Bluffs su- perior_court; affirmed. C. F. Kruger against Warren Walker, ap- pellant, O'Brien district; reversed. Will Operate Sloux City Street Cars. SIOUX CITY, May 25.—(Special to The Bee.)—The Sloux City Traction company, with pital of $1,000,000, was organized here to succeed the Sioux City Street Rail- way company in the ownership and operation of forty miles of elgetric street railway, which it got by foreclosure. The new company is composed of bondholders in the old. Of the stock $630,000 was paid in bonds and the balance in cash. C. L. Wright, B. H. Stone and J. C. French of Sioux City, and M. L. Kohler and G. W. Homer of Philadelphia are the directors and corporators. Retalintion that Counted. MINNEAPOLIS, May 25.—A West Union, Ia., special to the Journal says: A party of prominent young ladies of this city was greeted with a fusilade of eggs at midnight last night as they were returning from a car- nival held at Fayette, Their finery was ruined. Last fall some youths from Fayette, passing through here, were egged, and this is supposed to have been in retaliation. An investigation is on foot. He Worked the Judge. SIOUX CITY, May 25.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—W. F, Shaw, the convicted coin shaver, made an elpquent plea to Judge Shiras for leniency today which visibly moved the court, urging for clemency on account of his family, telling of his unfor- tunate past and promieing reformation in the future. To the surprise of all he was let off with a sentence of eighteen months at hard labor. ' oines Parks. Estend'ng Des ) DES MOINES, M ~(Special Telegram to The Bee)—A deal 'was closed today by which 100 acres was purchased by the Des Moines park commlissioners for $ will be used for park porposes. It is located three miles east of the river and just north of the State fair grounds. R Estate sold at Auction. CRESTON, Ia., May 25.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—A novelty In selling real estate occurred today when Senator J. B. Harsh sold at public auction $15,000 worth of property. iaua Democrats Denounce Hiil. EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 25.—The First district democrats at Rockport renominated Arthur H. Taylor for congress, Resolu tions denouncing Hill, Brice and Gorman as the Benedict Arnolds of the democrats and demanding that sugar be put on the free list were adopted. They also demand that the income tax be retained in the tariff bill as it came from the house. ———— ¥ra s Clalm the World's Falr. CHICAGO, May 25.—Suit for $100,000 dam- ages was begun In the United States circult court this afternoon by the French republic agalnst the World's Columblan exposition The litigation grows out of the French gov- erigyent's claim for damages to g00ds injured auffg the Manufactures building fire, An Elegant Sufficiency in the Storehouse of the Rocky Mountains, y BEYOND THE QUANTITY MEASURE Fifteen Miles of Rock Salt and Tons Held in Solution - The ¢ Salt Lake, its Origin i Value, Countless at The soda deposits in the great Rocky Mountain regions possess much interest to the student of nature and also from a com- mercial point of view. The most interest- ing locality in this respect is within the great basin, and chiefly within the borders of Utah territory. In all the valleys, writes Judge Goodwin in Goldthwaite's Geograph- fcal Magazine, there is more or less soda or “alkah™ in the soil and many strean are so charged with it as to be both un- palatable and unhealthy for man or beast to drink. In the sofl it destroys or retards vegetation, except of such specles as nature has provided shall thrive in such soil. And yet, there are “alkalis” so called, which cover the ground and make it as white as snow, through which wheat and other grains grow in lusuriance, but as a general thing these “alkalis” destroy crops. Near the southwestern corner of Utah, there §s a range of mountains running into Nevada, and in ‘which there is an almost continuous deposit of rock salt a distance of fifteen miles. Thiz salt {s dug out by pick and shovel, or else blasted out with charges of powder, and is thus mined nominal cost of labor and expense. While much of it in blocks is covered with clay or soil, other portions are in the form of pure crys- tal blocks o clear that when placed over print one can read the lines about as easily as if the substance was not there. A cube of this salt threo inches thick, only differs from the purest and most trans- parent glass in its possessing the peculiar feature of making the print or other object on which in rests appear raised to the center of the block of salt. This great deposit of salt varies in thickness from a few feet up to hundreds of feet, making it practically in- exhaustible. It is mined for use on stock ranges and pastures, where it is placed in large blocks for use of the stock, and it remains there until used up or washed away by rains. It is very slow in being dis- solved by water. It Is also made an element in extracting silver from ores and is largely used in silver mills for that purpose. Selected portions as taken from the mine furnish excellent salt when crushed for the table and dairy uses, Near the center of Utah, in Sevier and Juah countles, there are other great salt deposits which have been opened near Salina in the former, and Nephi in the lat- ter county. Near Nephl, the range on which is located Nebo peaks, is Salt Creek canon. Well up in the mountain the creek runs past a deposit of rock salt from which thousands of tons have been quarried and shipped away. Further up the creek there is a spring discharging water, carrying about 35 per cent salt. A steam plant con- verts this brine into table and dairy salt at the rate of one or two, car loads per day. THE SALT BASIN. But the most interesting of all the salt deposits of the west is found in Great Salt lake which possesses many features of in- terest. It is probably the best and largest deposit of pure brine in the world. It is a lake forty miles in greatest width and ninety miles extreme length, presenting a surface of over 2,400 square miles after tak- ing out the space of its Islands, promon- tories, ete. The water of the lake varies in seasons and localities from 12 to 20 per cent salt in its strength, according to whether the lake is up to high water or down to its lowest, and of course the lo- cality. as to fresh water streams exert an influence as to density of the brine. This lake is in size only the small remains of what was once a great lake which covered the country lying between the Wasatch range on the east and the Sierra Nevada 300 miles to the west, and extending north and south some 400 or 500 miles. The lake now has an elevation of 4,200 feet above sea level, while nearly 1,000 feet higher on the sides of the mountains remain very dis- tinctly marked the shore lines of the an- clent lake which scientists designate Lake Benneville. The lake had an outward flow when at its full height, but since then evap- oration has been the only agent to lower the water. It is the receptacle of the waters of Bear river, some 500 miles long; of Ogden, Weber, Logan, Provo, and a dozen other streams from a few miles up to over 100 miles in length each, all of which bring range down the precipitation on Wasatch and adjacent country. This is so g the spring as to cause the waters in the lake to rise eighteen to thirty inches,again to fall back during the summer and fall, when the atmosphere takes up the water and carries east to the mountains to come back again, or else to be wafted in clouds beyond the continental divide, to water the eastern slope while the Pacific ocean sup- plies this valley with rain and snow. The lake has no great depth, not exceeding thirty or forty feet anywhere. Its waters are 5o dense as to hold persons in bathing up to the surface, and yet when calm, the water is so clear as to enable persons to see the bottom plainly. There are no pleasanter bathing resorts anywhere than at the two great beaches at the south end of the lake. WHENCE CAME 1T? Where @il all this salt come from? is a natural question of the reader. Some of the rock salt deposits and the springs above mentioned send salt water into the lake, and there are many other salt springs in the valley. Again, all the water flowing Into the lake carrics minute quantities of salt, while the ancient lake with its many thou- sands times as much water as the lake now contains, in drying up, left all its salt still in solution. There has been no waste of the sodas through the centuries of the past, and the salt always remains in solution. Around the lake, especially along the cas and south shores, there are ‘“salt farm where ponds are made by throwing up ley to hold water for solar evaporation. These ponds or “tanks” are filled with lake water by pumping carly in spring and permitting it to eyaporate during the summer until there is left six or elght inches of sailt crystals and all the water has disappearcd. This salt is then placad in piles on the shore, where 1t remains until ready for marketing or manufaciuring into refined salt. Pure salt crystals thus collected are in regular cubes, If there are any impurities, fuch as lime, sulphate of soda, etc., it is on the out- side of these cubes in the form of a whie powder or dust, which Is all driven off by friction and fans during the process of manu- facture, Besides chloride of sodiu duced by the above proc which is pro- , almost, if not entirely chemically pure, immense quanti- ties of sulphate of soda may be collected from the lake. When the thermometer at the lake falls to near zero there is formed on the surface of the water crystals of sul- phate of soda, and these are caught by the wind and waves and thrown ashore in ridges, where it can be loaded into wagons by means of pick and shovel and being hauled to higher ground to prevent washing back into the lake, the small amount of salt with it is carried out by rains, leaving pure sulphate of soda, Another feature of this great reservoir of brine is its power to disinfect all matter entering 1ts waters, and to throw down all the silica and othér inorganic matter and form it into tufa or stone. As strong as s the brine of this great lake, it contains ani- mal life in the form of tha larva of a spe- cles of fly, Inferior shrimps, ete. 1llinols State Mining Tnstitute, SPRINGFIELD, 1ll, May 25.—The Illinois State Mining institute held a meeting here yesterday. J.C Simpson of St. Louls, presi- dent, and G Rice, jr., of Ottumwa, Ia., made addresses on mining, engineering and other subjects. The assoclation. numbers 200 members from Dlinols, Missouri and Towa. On account of the' coal strike no official business was transacted and the in- stitute adjourned to meet here next month e - Mary Lense's Llness. OLATHE, Kan, May 25.—Mrs. Lease 1s a very sick woman. Dr. Roby of Topeka and A MAN OF BROAD ACRES. What Thomas Harrison of Nor h Dakota Cwes to Paine's Gelery Compound, The world has had in all just fifteen deci- sive battle But every man has in his lifetime more decisive battles than this. The Important epochs in man's life that settle for him wealth, position and often life itself, come without warning. Weakness, indcision and lack of nerve force at these turning points is fatal. In long and doubtful sickness, when life it:elf trembles in the balance, a little more strength and power of resistance to disease makes the difference between life and death. Thin people with depleted, diseased blood, run big risks. Careful men and women all over the country are building up their sys- tems and storing the nerve centers with energy now it Is spring. They are taking that remarkable blood purifier and nerve food, Paine’s celery compound. It cannot be repeated too often blood is the fountain which suppi part of the body. If this life-giving medium lacks gor and richness, nerve heart The weakest spot will give way first. If you find elf growing thin, nervous, without appetite—look out. You are starv- that the 08 every | brain, | Kidneys and lungs immediately suffer. | | | | ing some Important orgal propriate nutrition. Thomas Harrison is the proprietor of the famous Harrison farms of North Dakota. He holds the office of notary public, and is coro- ner of Tralll county. He writes from Blane chard, North Dakot “Two years ago when the grip was preva- lent in this country I suffered very much from this trouble. The disease lingered with me until it developed into catarrh of the head. For this loathsome trouble I trled many remedies advertised for catarrh with- out any permanent relief, and while spending the winter of 92-93 in Los Angeles I was treated by a speclalist without any better re- sults, Sceing Paine's celery compound ad- verti-ed, I tried it, not expecting much re- lief, as T thought that I could not be cured, I used one bottle as directed, and was en- tirely and permanently cured. This was over six months ago, and I have not experl enced a return of any of the symptoms, though 1 have been exposed to the inclement weather in North Dakota and have not caught the least cold this winter, when had 1 been troubled with the catarrh I would have lad cold after cold all winter. 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