Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 2, 1894, Page 1

[ABLISHED JU NE 19, 1871, W THE OMAHA WATER STILL RISING Flood in the Columbia Has Riten Over the Tops of Telegraph Poles, SALMON FISHERIES PRACTICALLY RUINED Monday's Mail Reached Portland Thursday Night by Aid of Boats, WORST OF THE FLOOD TO COME Rise Was 80 Gradual People Had Plenty of Time to Escape, GOVERNMENT LOCKS ARE IN DANGER All Railronds from the East Get Passengers Mail by Boat— Twenty Miles of Union Paclfic and Into Portland Track Under Water. PORTLAND, Ore., June 1.—The river rose two-tenths of a foot last night and now stands at twenty-nine and two-tenths feet above low water mark. Reports received from the head waters of the Columbla indi- cate a still further rise of one foot at least, The mail due Mo reachcd here last night over the Union Pacific. This line be- tween Umatilla and this city is in a de- plorable condition, but it is impossible that arrangements for river service may be com- pleted today. Arrangements have been made for carrying the eastern mall over the Northern Pacific, which preserves through ,connection by means of a_transfer. boat be- tween here and Kelso. The break in the Western Union telegraph service is along the line of the Union Pacific. The flood in the Columbia continues to in- crease, and the indications are that the worst 18 yet to come. Yesterday the upper Colum- bia at several points was at a standstill, but reports today show that the river is again rising, about one foot in twenty-four hours. The river is more than & foot higher than ever before known, and the damage Wwill be immense, The fertile bottom lands along the river from the Rocky mountains to the gea, a distance of 600 miles, are all inundated. Crops are ruined, houses washed away and stock drowned. The flood has come gradually, which has given residents an opportunity to move their household goods to places of safety. In mos® instances stock has been driven fo higher ground. The sal- mon canning business has been almost an- nihilated. Fisheries and canning establish- ments along the river for a distance of 200 miles are under water. It is estimated by cannery men that the loss will reach $100,000. Telegraphic communication to the north and east s cut off, except by a roundabout way. Tor miles and miles along the river the water has risen over the tops of telegraph poles. Along the Union Pacific, from this city to Umatilla, about twenty miles of track are under water. They have established a steamboat service, which enables them to carry the mall and passengers. The North- ern Pacific does not attempt to operate its line between this city and Goble, a distance of forty miles, but makes connection by the large transfer boat. In this city water has Fun into basements as far back as Ninth street, and more than half the elevators in the city are stopped for want of power. i The United States mails from The Dallas brings the information that the government locks at the Cascades are in danger. About 400 sacks filled with sand were sent from The Dallas to the locks, where they will be used to stop any break that may oceur in the work constructed around the head of the locks. The water is within four feet of the top of the breakwater. Should a break occur the false work will be destroyed unless the immense granite heads for the gates should hold. Sauvies island, a few miles below Portland, s almost entirely under water. Many buildings have been lifted from their foundations and are afloat. Crops are ruined and other property is serlously damaged. The Inhabitants have nearly all fled to the higher ground. Those that re- main are living In the second stories of their houses, Damage cn the island will probably amount to $250,000. DENVER GETS A WETTING, Platte River and All Its Tributaries Over- flow Their Banks, DENVER, June 1.—The Platte river con- tinued to rise until 3 a. m. today and a raging torrent is likely to continue pouring through this city all day. Colfax and Jerome Park were flooded at 11 o'clock last night and the people living on the low ground had to flee for their lives. The rail- way embenkment was wasued away in places and bridges were badly damaged.. The loss will not be very great, but the inconvenience will be extreme. In Jerome Park and vicin- ity 1756 families were driven out of thelr houses and are camped on higher ground. As many more families living on the river bottoms in this city also have fled to higlier ground, Edward Whitman, a boy, fell into the torrent and was drowred. No other fatal tles have been reported. It will be several days before trains can be run on schedule time on any of the roads entering Denver. The Denver & Rlo Grande railroad is run- ning trains only to Colorado Springs, owing to a bad washout just below there. The Missourl Pacific and Rock Island trains using the Rio Grand tracks are consequently cut off. The Sauta Fe is In a worse pre- dicament, its tracks being washed away in many places in the Arkansas valley, It is sending trains on the Rio Grande via Trini- dad. Chicago creek and Clear creek at Colo- {ldo Springs are raging torrents. Houses, rees and telegraph poles are golug down before the flood and thousands of dollurs worth of property has becn destroyed. _ Fountain Qui ‘Rouille has overflowed its banks. The residence of Johu llerrington fell into the siream and was instantly de- molished. Many mines have been flooded and tunnels have caved' in. Freight and passenger trains are many hours late, At Loveland the Big Thompson has pread all over the bottom lands, the stream Eelnu higher than at any time since 1876 he home supply ditch has broken and the water works are twenty-flve feet above water. This ditch suppl‘es a large farming territory and cannot be repaired until after Darvest, At Manitou business is practically sus- pended and hundreds of men are working to ve their property. The stream from Wil- Ams canon 1s rushing over Mineral Water rrk leaving gravel in place of grass. Tons t earth have been torn from the pavilion ground Dynamite has been used _fre- quently to demolish gorges. The damage to #treets, parks and private property cannot Bow be estimated. The water is still rising. The water bas undermined the walls of he large reservoir at Palmer lake, situated t the north of the big canon just above he village, and it Is momentarily expected 0 collapse. The reservolr is 100 feet wide, 800 yards long and twenty feet deep. Nine Bundred feet beneath it and three miles west #f here is another large reservolr which will ndoubtedly give way if the first reservoir ‘m Citizens of Monument and Husted and @lso of Colorado Springs have been warned. At Erie, Coal creck is on the rampage and the maln street of the city s two feet under water, A section of track on the rallway is ashed out, and the telegraph wires are m for & distance of half a mile. Boulder k and the St. Vrain river are each from quarter to & mile wide. The rallroad bed vapidly washing away. Many families Ve beon compelled o leave thelr hom. houses are fiooded and stock has been carried away. The damage to the mountain roads by the floods s the heaviest experienced In this state. An’ experlenced railroad manager estimates yesterday's loss to the railroads at $26,000. He figures that the loss on busi- ness reaches $15,000 a day and $10,000 will cover other expenses to the roads The South Park branch of the Union Pa- cific is under water from Wheatland to Pine Grove, a distance of thirty miles Forty families who sought shelter in the 0ol house at Jerome Park when the deluge descended upon that suburb last night aresisolated today, the school house being surrounded by water. They are not thought o be in immediate dange Over 100 persons rendered homeless by the floods have applied to the county comi- missioners for aid. drowned and growing crops VER KNOWN, Fraser River In British Columbia Inundates Thousands of Farms. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 1 p ten Inches at New y, ond last night the inches above the highest mark. The flood s still rising. points further up the river come that the river is nearly two feet higher than has ever been known Fraser valley for undated. So great has been the that ocean steamers passing in through the straits of San Joan de Fuca are now en- countering floating reefs of houses and barns and innumerable carcasses of hogs, sheep and cattle that have passed out throngh the Fraser's mouth, with other debris from the valley. It fs estimated that over 2,000 fum lies ure homeless, and that a _property loss of fully $3,000,000 has been suffered, Steamers from the rivers and Puget sound are still_benig pressed into the work of rescue. Though no more lives have been lost during the last two days there have been many narrow capes and thrilling ex- periences. Many familics have been driven from their houses. One steamer brought 307 settlers from New Westminster late last night. Among them was the family of one rancher from near Langtry. The man had built a strong raft, upon which he took Lis entire family and ten blooded horses. They were rescued in midstream after hav- ing been afloat ten hours. At many points there is great destitution among the luck- less settlers who have fled from their homes. At the Salmon river settlement. where the water Is ten feet decp on the flat, many families are huddled together on the high lands and living on one scanty meal a day. The resculng steamers have neglected themn to care for others who are in greater dan- ger. At Hatzic yesterday the steamer Transfer safled up over farms and fences over the Hatzic bridge and the dyke and tied up to the rails of the Canadian Pacific track, seven miles from where the river formerly ran. The Transfer secured the wife of Rancher McDermott from the roof of her floating house. Her husband, who had failed in his efforts to rescuc her, was found later in a small skiff. Both were nearly crazy. The blg school house from Nicolen island floated by New Westminster last night in- tact. Both Vancouver and New Westminster are cut off from the outside world. Even the telegraph is not to be depended upon, as the wires have been constantly in trouble. Every effort is being made to relieve the flood sufferers, but facilities and micans are utterly Inadequate to meet the Geanand. The Canadien Pacific has 1,000 men at wor repairing its tracks, but tnc flood is hreak ing it faster than they can possibly men it The resuit of the fload, it is now reen, will be to utterly 560D wii cow ot nper tions aloig the Fraser for this . and the natusal result will ba depressioa in the cities of ster and Vancouver, which depend upon this to = laige extent. The Fraser Westminster water was historica From reports yeste three 100 miles has been in- destruction TWO TOWNS WASHED AWAY. Disasters of Two Days Ago Just Coming to Light—Mining Camps Suffer. BOULDER, Colo., June 1.—The pipe fac- tory, fiye houses, the railroad tracks, and all the city and railroad bridges, have been washed away by the flood in Boulder creek. Poverty flats are submerged. No lives were lost. The Sunset branch of the Gulf rail- road and the mountain road are entirely gone. The towns of Chrisman and Salina min- ing camps in Boulder canon, the former six and the latter nine miles from Boulder, have been wiped out of existenice. They had a population of about 200, who are now homeless. Many placer mines are ruined. The total loss in and around Boulder fs estimated at $500,000. Boulder has had no communication with Denver or any outside point since Wednes- day until today, as the ftelegraph wires were down and the roads impassable, All the crops in the St. Vrain valley, one of the richest grain regions in the state, have been destroyed by the flood. The loss is very heavy. Fifty bridges between here and the mountains have been carried away. The towns of Copper Rock and Sugar Loaf are gone, the Russian Corning mills are’ flooded, and six of their outbuildings swept down, Springdale and Jamestown suffered greatly, but no particulars can be had except that the Springdale hotel is in ruins. Several other small towns along the canon have been partly destroyed, but nothing definite regarding the losses can be learned until communication with these districts has been restored. PARTS OF SEVEN BUILDINGS LEFT, Wiping Out of the Town of Conconnolly Was Almost Complote SPOKANE, Wash., June 1.—Further par- ticulars from the terrible flood which de- stroyed the town of Conconnolly, Wash., have been received. In addition to the flood in the creek a cloudburst occurred, increasing the volume of water into a raging torrent Everything was swept before the flood. Trees, houses and rocks came down upon the beautitul flat, where they lodged, forming a jam fifteen feet high in plac Nothing i left except parts of seven buildings. When the flood was within a balf mile of town it was seen and every one fled to higher land. All succeeded except A. Spencer of Walla sWalla, who was struck by a drift and carrled to the lake, where he was rescued and A. W. Tullock, a druggist, who was sick, was carried down stream 200 yards, but landed in a jam, where he was taken out alive after the water subsided. Outside ald is necessary, The loss is complete as there was no chance to save property ven peo- ple who put their goods on high ground lost everything. Raln in the Valioys, Suow on the Mounta IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo., June 1.—The damage by the flood in this county is estl- mated at $100,000. The storm was the longest and most disastrous in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. On the mountain tops, instead of rain, eighteen Inches of snow fell. Almost all the bridges over Clear crevk and its branch have gone, houses were washed away and mines are flooded. There have been no trains in or out for two days, and there probably will be none for several days ye . Twprisoned by the Flood. GOLDEN, Colo,, June L—The flood in Clear creck caused damage to the amount of $20,000 to Coor's brewery and other prop- erty in this city. Many people had to leave their houses. Af Ralston, north of Golden, about forty people, drivers from their homes by the bursting of several artificial lakes, sought refuge In a bouse which they thought_on sufiiciently high ground to be sufe. The place was surrounded by water and the inmates were imprisoned without food twenty-four hours. Death of the Oldest Mason. AMESBURY, Mass., June L—Captain Na- than Peters, the oldest Free Mason in the United Btates, died this forenoon. He was born in en, N in 188 snd jolned the Masonic fraternity in 1828, MANDERSON 0N BEET SUGAR Protection Absolutely Necessary for the En- couragement of This Great Industry, NEBRASKA SENATOR'S PROTECTION PLEA e Declares There 1s No Connection Be- tween Fostering Production and Be triending Refiners in the Shape ot the Odious Sugar Trust. WASHINGTON, June 1.—A large horse- shoe of roses rested on the desk of Senator Proctor of Vermont when the senate met today In honor of that gentleman's sixty- third birthday anniversary. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts presented a petition from the “'New England Industrial army” asking legislation which would guarantee work to the unemployed. It was referred to the committee on rules, he bill granting additional lands in Hot Springs, 8. D., to the Berry hospital was passed. When the morning business was finished enator Hill of New York made no effort to get up his resolution to instruct the bribery commitiee to throw open its doors to the public. It went over without prejudice, as id Senator Dolph's re:olution to bring E. J. Edwards, one of the contumacious witnesses to the bar of the senate for contempt. Senator Hill asked unanimous consent to consider a joint resolution passed by the house yesterday giving the secretary of war authority under the last sundry civil appro- priation act to institute condemnation pro- cecdings to sccure certain lands near Gettys- burg battlefield. Judge Dallas, he ex- plained, had just held that the language of that act was not bread enough to warrant condemnation proceedings Senator Cockrell of Missourl objected, in- sisting that the resolution should go first to the committee on military affairs, and it was o referred, SUGAR FIGHT COMMENCED. The tariff bill was then laid before the senate, and the great battle over the sugar chedule began. The McKinley law placed raw sugars on the free list, imp:sed a Y%-cont duty on refined sugar, and gave a bounty of 2 cents to the sugar grower. The house bill repealed the bounty and placed ali sugars, raw and refined, on the free list. The fir«t bill reported from the finance com- mittee of the senate gave a specific duty of from 1 cent to 1.285 per pound, accord- ing to polariscopic test. The ‘‘compromise’” amendment, which s the cne now before the senate, made the sugar schedule go into effect January 1, 1895, the rates being 40 per cont ad valorem on all sugars, raw and re- fined; one-eighth of 1 cent additional on sugars above 16 Dutch standard, with an additional one-tenth of 1 cent a pound on sugars from countries paying export boun- ties. It also continued the sugar treaty with Hawail. Mr. Manderscn took the floor, as Mr. Jones had formally proposed the compromise amendment, The sugar schedule, he said, was the interesting schedule of the bill. It contained both . sweetness and light. Tt seemed to pervade the whole bill. The bill could not be touched without laying hands on sugar. The senate had even departed from the consideration of the bill to make explorations in sugar, not in the cane flelds of ebraska, but in the committee room. The saccharine principle, as it impregnated all nature, invaded every feature of this bill. The consumption of sugar in the United States wes enormous, he said. Almost 50,000,000,000 pounds of raw sugar had been consumed last year, representing, if grown and refined abroad, a grand total of $182,- 000,000 to be paid to foreigners. Free sugar would mean the immediate destruction of the beet sugar Industry and the gradual extinction of cane sugar production in the southern states 1t properly protected, he predicted that be- fcre 1905 beet sugar production would have s0 developed in the north and cane sugar in the south that the United States could supply the full consumption of the country. Beet sugar growing offered an important industry to the farmers, When developed to the extent necessary to supply the home demand it would afford a crop of 2,000 acres. Was it any wonder that the farmer of the west wanted a continuation of the sugar bounty? They were enthusiastic over the prospect. It was the great boon which they asked con- gress to save to them. Every acre planted in beets meant twenty days labor to a man. No country in the world, Mr. Manderson sald, was 0 well adapted to produce bect sugar as the United States. Beet growing ultimately would displace cane growing. Mr. Manderson denied that in fostering the growth of beet and cane sugar any obligation existed to protect the refineries, There was no connection, he declared, bstween the sugar grower and tho odious Sugar trust. He cared everything for one and nothing for the other. MANDERSON WANTS THE BOUNTY. Mr. Manderson gave notice that at the proper time he would offer as a substitute for the sugar schedule the bounty provision of the McKinley bill, continuing it in force until July 1, 1905, He argued at length in support of the con- stitutionality of bounties, quoting extensively from court decisions, and especially the de- cision of Justice Miller. “If congress were to give a bounty,” in- quired Mr. Caffery of Louisiana, “to a farmer or manufacturer, do you contend that the courts have no rights to inquire whether the bounty is given for a public or private use?” “1 do,” repl cision of Mr. point.” Mr. Peffer then proceeded at great length to support a bounty instead of a duty on sugar. In the course of his speech he drifted irto the di:cussion of the’silver qu tion, touched upon his ideas of the theory of government and the panacea for the existing iils of the body politic. It was 6:45 when Mr. Peffer concluded. Mr. Harrls then moved that the senate proceed to the comsideration of executive business. Before he made the motion he declared the country was Impatient over the slow progress made with this bill, and that business iuterests everywhere were suffering from the utterly inexcusable delay. He gave notice that after Monday he would, if he were able, compel the senate to endure longer hours until the bill was disposed of The senate at 5:55 adjourned. Mr. Manderson. iller is conclusive “The de- on that TALK ON STATE BANK TAX, Brawley B Up for Disco House Yesterday. WASHINGTON, June 1.—The house passed today the senate resolution directing the secretary of war to transmit to the senate reports of any surveys or estimates for the construction of locks or dams in the Mis- sissippi river between the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad bridge and the Falls of St. Anthony which he might have in his possession. The senate bill providing for the carrying out of the awards of the Paris tribunal of arbitration for the protection of seals in Bering sea was passed. Mr. Gear secured the passage of a bill for the relief of A. P. H. Stewart. A resolution directing the president to glve six months notice to the Russian goy- ernment of the abrogation of the last treaty between the two countries was, under the rules, sent to the committee on foreign affairs, The fon In the house went Into committee of whole to consider the Brawley state bank bill. Mr. Brosius of Pennsylvania addressed the house. He defended the present national banking system and deprecated a return to the obnoxious and unstable state bank sys- tem, which had proved so detrimental to certain sections of the country, notably the south and west. | M | Swanson of Virgiula followed Mr. Bro- l less than for May of DAY MORNING E 2, 1894 DAILY BEE. SINGLE slus and defended the ¥mwue of state bank tes. Mr. Henderson of Illirbie defended the ex- isting national banking [system and recalled the events of the pantesiof past years under the state bank regimes.' The next advocate of 'repeal of the exist- ing laws agafnst state binks was Mr. Tucker of Virginia, who took thé ground that any tax lald not for the purpose of raising revenue, but to “kill oft” an imdustry, was an im- proper one. Mr. Iselar of South Carolina, the successor in the house of Mr. Brawley, the author of the bill, argued in fayor of state bank is- sues, At 5 o'clock the comnittee arose and a re- coss was taken until 8 o'clock, the evening session to be for private pension bills. WARNER WOULDN'T TALK, Refused to Give the Names of Fellow Con- gressmen Who Talked with Mim. WASHINGTON, June 1.—Representative Warner announced before he was sworn in the Sugar trust Investigation his intention of reserving the privilege as a member of the house of answering only such questions as might be thought proper. Several times during his examination he fell upon this privilege and refused to answer some of the questions asked. The eommittee decided it had no power to make a member of the house testify before a senate committee, and all it can do is to certify the fact to the other house, It 1s under:tood one of the points on which the committee sought to obiain a statement from Mr. Warner was as to the influence brought to bear upon him to cease his op- position to the sugar duty, but this failed. Mr. Warner told the committee that a large amount of his information came from con- versations with members of the house, who were discus:ing the events relating to the sugar duties. He was asked who these members were, and in every instance de- clined to give the nanies of uny of his fellow members of the hotse. The committee says the testimony which ‘Mr. Warner re- fused to give was of a hearsay character and not of such importance that would warrant any extraordinary methods to obtain. There is expressed‘a great desire to have the testimony that has recently been taken printed for use in the senate before a vote is taken on the sugar schedule, and it is probable, if it is availabe. several blocks of it will be read in the senate tomorrow. The points of most interest are those relating to the testimony of Secrétary Carlisle and others relating to the sugar schedule, The point in Mr. Warner’s story as to how the schedule was drawn, together with cer- taln proceedings on a Sundauy at the capitol, have been denied by-all-witnesses, Senator Jones has testified he requested Secretary Carlisle to draw the sugar schedule, and the secretary has frankly sald he drew it. Sena- tor Mills has testified that Havemeyer came to him with a letter of introduction from Secretary Carlisle, but that he did not see Havemeyer. The committee will not go to New York to take testimony. , The committee adjourned over until Mon- day to await the appearance of a witness, Walter Gaston of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who has been represented as having overheard the conversation at the Arlington hotel last March between certaln sgenators and mem- bers of the Sugar trus Mr. Gaston has expressed a willingness to appear before the comsmittee and fell all he knows. The persons: whose names he may give w:ll next be called. PUBLIC DEBT! STATEMENT. 6old Reserve Decreased Twenty-Six Million During the Month ot May. WASHINGTON, Jége 1.—The monthly debt statement issucdtoday shows a net cash balance in the treasury of $117,854,335, of which $78,603,267 fs In the gold reserve. Ad- vices vf yesterday from New York show that $1,400,000 In g6ld had been engaged for shipment today, which leaves the true amount of the gold reserve on May 31 $77.- 293,267. Today’s adyices show that $2 000 has been engaged for a payment tomor- row, which leaves the true gold reserve at the close of business today at $75,043,267. This is a loss of gold rererve during the month of nearly $26,000,000. Today's debt statement shows the interest-bearing debt on May 31 was $636,041,840, an increase for the month of only $460. The debt on which Interest has cessed since maturity was $1,- 850,390, a decrease of $3,640, The noninter- ost-bearing debt was $330,016,326, a decrease of $637,439. The aggregate of interest and noninterest-bearing debt was $1,016,496,660, a decrease of $640,879, The statement of the cash in the treasury ie as follows: Gold, $148,067,816; silver, $512,194,954; paper, $100,- 081,172; bonds, miner coin:, etc., $16,939,320, against which there are demand Mabilities aggregating $665,428,928, making the de- crease in the avallable cash balance for the month §7,243,450. CANNOT BE PRESENT. Senutor Manderson Declines an Invitation from the lowa Grand Army Me ASHINGTON, June 1.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—H. E. Griswold of Atlantic, Ta., has written Senator Manderson request- ing him to be present and respond to a toast at the second reunion, which is to be held at Council Bluffs op June 20 next, by the Grand Army escort Which met General Grant at Council Bluffs in 1579 and accompanied him across the state on his return from the trlp around tbe world. The Nebraska es- cort has accepted an invitation to be and take part in the celebration. Senator Manderson will be unable to attend the re- union, and has written Mr. Griswold to that effect. Senator-Elect Gear and Representative Hepburn of Iowa, who were also invited, will be unable to be present, giving as their zeason the great pressure of public business at Washington. Congressman Mercer today introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay to the city of Omaha the sum of $25.- 69.72 for money advanced and obligations assumed in behalf of the government of the United States. This apount was expended by the city in the construction of pavement adjacent to government property. SENATOR KYLE'S DAUG ITER UNHURT. Rabid Dog Attacked Heér but Inflicted No Tnjuries Whatever. WASHINGTON, Jube 1.—(Special Telegram to The Bee.)—Senator Kyle of South Dakota today sald that the rumer that his 8-year-old daughter had been serjously injured by a mad dog was untrue, & dog with the rables attacked several childrén, but the daughter of Senator Kyle, althougli bitten by the beast, was uninjured by reasoniof the heavy cloth- ing she wore, There wiis not even a scratch of the skin. Benator Kyle has practically completed his report concerning the Indian depredation claims which have recently been investigated by him, andrhe will submit that report to the senate next-week, Ben Shanon, son of (Editor Shanuon of the South Dakota Huroite, is in the city, and expects to recelve a good appolntment at the capitol in a very shoet time. Five minutes before the expiration of the morning hour Ju the senate today Senator Pettigrew called up and secured the passage of a bill grantipg additional lands at Hot Springs, B. D., to the Berry hospital. e arban Government Recelpts and Expenditures. WASHINGTON, June 1.—A comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States during the month of May and during the eleven mqgnths of the present fiscal year shows the recelpts for May to have been $23,060,994, and the expenditures $29,- 779,140, leaving a deficit for the month of $6,712,146. The recejpts for the eleven months aggregated $270,474,410, and the expenditures $341,036,877, Io?\'m‘ & deBeit for the eleven months of 410,661,957, During May, 1884, the receipts from cus- toms were $9,798,067, agalust $15, 424,868 dur- ing May, 1893, The rpcelpts from internal revenue were §12,041,980, agalust $15,.212,103 for May of last year. ' The expenditures on account of pensiogs were about $1,300,000 L yonny RIVALS READY FOR THE FRAY Warring Factions in Samoa Preparing to Bettle the Question of Supremacy. SEVERAL SKIRMISHES HAVE TAKEN PLACE Rebel and Government Forces Now Face to Face and an Important and Bloody Battle Is Dally Expected-—Sev- eral Already Killed. (Copyrighted 1814 Prese.) AUCKLAND, New Zealand, June 1.—Ad- vices recefved here from Samoa under date of May 19 announce that the rebels have occupied Tutuawanui in almost in- vincible force. It fs added that the gov- ernment troops have advanced and that they are now facing the rebel army. The advance parties of tne rebels and the government troops have been engaged in several skirmishes, in which one govern- ment soldier and two of the rebels killed When these advices left Samoa portant battle was imminent. The surgeons of the British and German war ships at Samoa were preparing to at- tend to the wounded. by the Assoclated were an im- CIVIL WAR IMMINENT, Members of the New Bulgariin Ministry Assault.d on the Streets. SOFIA, June 1.—The new cabinet is de- termined to put an end to the disturbances which have cccurred since the downfall of the Stambouloft ministry. The cabinet met and discussed today the steps necessary to stop the rioting and afterwards notified the foreign representatives that stringent meas- ures would be taken to preserve order in Sofla and the provinces. The disturbances assumed serious propor- tions after nightfall. M. Milefoff, the vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, was seized by rioters and seriously injured. Dramoff, public prosecutor, was hooted and beaten. M. Petkoff, presigent of the Cham- ber of Deputies, was assaulted as he was driving through tlie strec The gandirmes attempted to drive the crowd back and fired on them. They werc about to repeat the volley, but were checked by a detachment of cavairy. The citizens are furious against the police for shooting. The restaurants and cafes were thronged during the night and in a number of plices effigies’ of Stam- bouloff and Petkoff were burned. Every quarter of the city is now occupied by the military. A number of the police failed to answer roll call this morning, and it is said they were disabled in yesterday's fighting. It is stated ex-Premiier Stambouloff intends to leave Bulgaria. LONDON, June 1.—A dispatch to the Telegraph from Belgrade says: The follow ing telegram has been received from Sofia: “Ex-Premier Stambouioff and the ministers who formed his cabinet are under arrest. Civil war has broken out. Two battalions of troops have rebelled and demanded the reinstatement of Stambouloff. They have been joined by the gendarmes in an attack on the troops, who declared for Prince Ferdinand.” OPERATION ON. KAISER WILIELM, Small Tumor Removed from Potsdam Falace. BERLIN, June 1.—The semi-official Reich- saneiger today publishes a nctice signed by Profs. Bergman, Leuthold and Sch saying that at the new palance, Po at 11 o'clock this morning, “by the emper- or's direction, the undersigned removed a small encysted tumor from his left cheelk. The operation was performed without an anaesthetic and In a few minutes.”” His Cheek at Hungarian Ministry Resigns. LONDON, June 1.—The Daily News Vienna correspondent announces the resignation of the Hungarian ministry. Both the emperor and Kaloky implored Dr. Wekerle, the prime minister, not to resign, but he re- fused to rescind his resignation. Dr. Wekerle today conferred with the Ban of Croatla, Count Hedervary, who was spe- clally summoned to Vienna. The Ban then had an audience with Emperor Francis Joseph, who afterwards announced the resig- nation of the Wekerle cabinet. The emperor added that he had accepted the resignations of the ministers and commissioned Count Hedervary to form a new cabinet. Turpin 15 on the Make. PARIS, June L—The correspondent of the Temps at Brussels asserts that Turpin, w0 1s in that city, denied in an interview that he had sold the exclusive rights of his ir vention to Germany. He said he had come to Brussels to form a company to develep his invention. All the powers were open to profit by his discovery. Pope Holds Mass in St. Peter's. ROME, June L—Five thousand pilgrims, representing a number of Roman Ca:holiz socleties and subseribers to the fund raised in order to decorate the tomb of Pope Divs IX, were present today at a papal mass held in St. Peter's. The pope was in excollent health and was warmly acclaimed by the pilgrims, 0 SR German Counterfeiter Arrosted | LONDON, June 1.—A German named Fllzebrall was arrested in Chelsea today for being in_possession of an apparatus for Ccounterfefting coin. Further charges are pending against him consequent upon the discovery among his effects of a battery, acids and anarchistic documents. London. Fallores 1o Buenos Ayres, LONDON, June 1&A dispatch to Times from Buenos Ayres says the f ures of eleven of the firms on the hourse was announced yesterday. One firm was that of ex-Minister of Finance Hansen. Three native firms also failed. The pre- mium on gold Shows a tendency to rise. the Cholern in Russian Provinces ST. PETERSBURG, June 1.—A announces that cholera prevails in the provinces of Plock and Radom. Arrivals from China and Japan are treated at the Russian Pactfic ports and at the Black sea ports as being infected. dec Prassian Diet Closed, BERLIN, June 1.—-A royal decroe the Prussian Diet was read in bLoth houses yesterday. Prior to this the Upper House by a large majority adopted Minisier Miquel's financial proposals and they were passed by the Lower House, Russia Makes Friends with the Pope. LONDON, June 1.—A dlspatch to the Times from St. Petersburg says the Novoe Vremya asserts that a complete understand- ing has been arrived at between the Russian government and the vatican, closing in Foreign. The retiring Hungarian minlstry were iven an ovation on their return to Buda- esth, The Novaye Vremwa of St. Petersburg publishes a significant article on the Bul- garian crisis in which it says that forelgn intervention is inevitable. A number of students were dissatisfied with Deputy de Felicla cau place and the military to supprese it. in Palermo who the ~ sentence d a riot at were called e Jury Fixer Indicted. INDIANAPOLIS, June 1-The United States grand jury today returned an indict- ment against Frank O. Btannard of Law- rence county, charging him with conspiracy in the Indianapolls bank trial, in which Stannard endeavored L0 aot a8 & Eo-between between the defendants and Juror Arm- strong. Stannard 1 not tg be found, and i his bond felted of $4,00 has been declared for- FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS AT OUTS, el Helen M. ter ar Writes a Caustie neerning Miss Anthony. SAS CITY, June 1.—There has been in the woman suffragist camp for quite a while, but it has just cropped out The personages involved are none other that Helen M. Gougar and Susan B. Anthony. The former has written a caustic letter to the Republic. a weekly paper published at Argentine, Kan,, in which she gives the venerable apostle of woman's rights a severe lashing. Mrs. Laura M. Johns of Kansas also comes In for her share of the drubbing. One passage of the letter referring to Miss Anthony says: “She has never succeeded in the adoption of a single suffrage law; she has met crushing defeat in every amend ment to the state constitution which she has championed. Her present unwise leadership in Kansas will lead to sore defeat unless the people of that state take matters into thelr own hands.” In another place in the letter she her id of the fate of the suffra sition with the campaign under its' present leaders Sither cause Miss Anthony and Mrs. Johns to remove this boycott on moral issues or let not a dolllar more be spent in an honest effort to make sure defeat more humiliating than otherw!s because manip- ulated by them under the whip of political and moral cowardice of the republican pi KA a fight propo- In spite of this attack the ers are carrying on the cam; vim, Mragist lead- aign with a CARLISL 10 GO. President Expected to E tience About th NEW YORK, June 1.—The Herald's Wash- ington dispatch says: “President Cleveland 1s angry at the way in which the tariff bill has been bungled in the senate and taiuted from top to bottom with suspicions of job- bery and corruption. He is particularly angry at Senator Gorman for having in his recent speech twisted the president’s letter of acceptance into an endorsement of the line of policy followed by Mr. Gorman and his allics in making up their compromise tar!ff measure. He has expressed himself freely to some of his most confidential ad- visers and an effort has been made to induce him to come out in a statement of some kind calling a_halt in the present course of the senate and demanding the passage of & genuine tariff reform bill. The president has refused to make any statement for publi- cation, but I was informed today that prob- ably within the next few days an interview would be given out from such a s it would be understood to voice dent’s sentiments. My informant it it came at all it would be straight from the white house. If this information is cor- rect, it may result in Mr. Carlisle leaving the cabinet, for while there is no evidence to show that the secretary of the treasury has done anything from an improper motive, he has been connected with the preparatio of the Gorman compromise from its very Inception.” This " Tmpa- —_—— HIT BY NTONE IN THE EYF How Miss Imhoff, Missionary from Li eb., Was Injared in Ja . NEW YORK, June 1.—The Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church sends 1o the Associated press the following letter: A dispatch from Vancouver has been extensively printed, afirming that Miss Tmhoff, formerly of Lincoln, Neb., and now a teacher fii the Anglo-Japanese. school in Yonczawa, went inio the temple devoted to the god Usoyug on the day devoted by the natives to worship of the god and preached against the worship of graven images and sneered at the native deity. At the conclu- sion of the sermon Miss Imhoff was chased, knocked down with stones and her eyes put out. The facts in the case are that Miss Imboff had bLeen holding a service in our own usual place. On her way home a stone was thrown by some one which hit one of her glasses, breaking it and driviog some pieces into her eye. She received a skillful treatment, and it is hoped the eve will be saved. Her spirit of forgiveness toward the perpetrator of the deed has won great admiration from both Christians and non- christians. ————— RECEDING AT Water Now Only Remains in the Places and These Are Icing Drained. PUEBLO, June 1.—The flood in Pueblo is receding rapidly today, and no further dam- age has been done. Tihe total property loss, aside from the damage to the railroads, is thought not to exceed $100,530. The heaviest losers are: McCord-Bragdon Grocery com- ny, $20,000; J. K. Shireman, clothing, §15,000; Holmes Hardware company, $10,000. Breaks in the railroads are being rapidly repaired, and trains will be sent west this afterncon. Trains to the north will not be able to run regularly for several Rain ceazed about midnight, and river is going down rapidly. The only water ont of the channel now is in blocks enclosed by ralsed streets. A large force of men have been put at work cutting through the leveo to draw off the minlature lakes. Only two bodies have been recovered, but it is be lieved more will be found. It iz known five persons were drowned, SOUTH DAKOTA GOOD TEMPLARS. Grand Lodge of the Order Finlshes Tis Work at Si FALLS, § to The Bee)—The pendent Order of Good has been in session here for the past two days, has finished its work and the dele gates have returned home. Watertown was chosen the place of the next grand Jodge mecting. The following are the new officers: Grand chief templar, R. B. Mc. non of Madison, vice John'T. Kean of onsocket; grand chancellor, W, & Kingsbury of Sioux R Mo Clenon; nd viee Mrs. J. D Goewey, of Sioux Falls, Mrs. Ayles- worth of Langford; g tary, Mis Myra N. Lée of Mitehell 3 wrand plain, Rey e Irean, re-clected; gra John T Coxhéad of Yunhkton grand marshal, J. A. Lucas 0 v jeorge McDonild of Winfred; grand sup t of the juvenile temp Mrs ruce T. Avery of The report of the there twenty-five Good in the state at present, a falling twenty-five during the past vear. Present number of members, 817, against 1402 List year. The grand ireasurer's repori shows 311 on hand. The attendance upon the grand lodge meeting was not large. Robert ANKTON, gram to The D., June 1. Ml lodge of the In Templars, whi-h SIOUX vice hows that lar 1 dges off of Ten Gamble for Congress. 8. D., June L—(8pecial 1 Bee.2—~Robert J. Gamble, torney-at-law of this city and one of the brainy men of South Dakota, has an- nounced himself a candidate for congr s before the republican state convention 1o be held here August 2. Mr, Gambl native of Fox Lake, Wis. and has L member of the firm of Gamble Bros many years. His brother, John R, Gam- ble, was elected congressman from this state four vears ago, but died before tak- ing his seat. le ut- —— Movements of Seagolng sels June 1. At Tory lsland—Passed, May 31--Scandi- navian, for Boston At Scilly--Passed York. At Hamburg—Arrived New York. At Liverpool--Arrived Tauric, from New York At_Browhead—passed—Payoria from ton; Etruria from New York At New York—Arrived—Paris from 8 ampton. Chester, from New Columbla, from Germaule and Hos- outh- et Cyclone in Arkansas. LITTLE, ROCK, Ark, June 1.—News reached the city of a terrible cyclone which COPY FIVE CEN | last Tuesday night passed through Arkansas county Wednes day night. Much damage was done, but no lves were sty IS STILL A NYSTERY Secret of Maud Rubel's Horrible Taking Off Remains Unrevealed, YESTERDAY'S RESULT OF INQUIRIES Some Faots that Increass the Suspicion Resting on Dr. Brown, 4 HIS PECULIAR REQUEST OF A NIGHT CLERK Seen Standing Monday Night in the Halle way Leading to the Rooms, PRISONER REFUSES TO TALK AT LENGTH Remains of the Girl Are Given to the ~Coroner Empan Wil Begin an 1§ s w Jury and nest This Morning. Information of much significance has been given by Depot Officer Merris Fleming rela- tive o the Maud Rubel murder case. Officer Fleming says he saw Dr. Brown at 7:30 o'clock last Monday evening standing in the hallway leading to the main stairway in the vacant bullding in which the body ¢ found. Fleming was off duty and on his lodge. He went up Tenth Street the viaduct and took the side of the on which the building is situated. Brown in the hallway, half turned He appeared 5 be talking to some the head of the stairs, and he is positive of thi he saw Brown with his hand. Fleming sald at first thought he intended going back and making some inquiry, he thought the very fact of a man being there was in itself su-picious. He did not return, however, Fleming went to the police station last night, and Dr. Brown was brought up in der to make certain the identity. Fleming d: “That is the man; I remena- hair and figure - ming said after sceing Brown in the hallway he thought of waiting a few mo= ments in hiding he thought that it might be some thief. He, however, did not wait, but as long as he could see the build- ing, Brown did not leave it. ming will appcar at the quest toda Yesterday well ness at under street 1w 1. at arous one more motion as as coroner's in- forenoon Robert auctioneer, lower Farnam headquarters and gave up soms Information, which may be a clew. Mr. Weils has a foreman in his employ. named Beardsley, and it was for'the pnr- pose of telling avhat his foreman Knew. that Wells visited the city jail. _ Accord- ing to Beardsley, a colored man came to the auction store Saturday and wanted to sell some furniture. Heardsley went with the negro to the suite of rooms digectly in front of the room where the girl was found. The furniture man is getting along in years, and did not like the idea of going into such a deserted looking block as that Is with a stranger, but he braced up and followed the colored man upstairs and through long, dirty hal's, until the rooms where the furni- ture wus placed were reached. The negro at first wanted $16 for the whole lot, con- sisting of a cheap bed room set and a table or two. Beardsley objected to the price, and the colored man said “Well, give me 75 cents and take the truck away.” "This remark caused the assistant auctioneer to notice the man, and it was. evident that he was very nervous. During the entire Interview and all' of the time Beardsley was in the block the negro ap- peared alarmed and his hands trembled, The actions of the colored man and his wife seemed 50 strange that Beardsley would not make a trade, and so left the place, When he returned to the store Beardsley re marked that he did not want to do busi- ness with the colored man. hat night Beardsley went to Kansas City to keep a previously arranged business en- gagement, and returoed yesterday. As soon as he saw the papers he remembered the locality and his visit to the place with the colored man, Thinking that this infor- mation might be of value to the police they were sent for to talk with the old gentles i A fairly good description of ‘the colored folks Lus been given the offcers, and if the can be found he may be able to tell ing which will help unravel the mys- Wells, doing street, the busi- alled kunown on someth tery HROWN TELLS HIS STORY. Brown was seen yesterday by a reporter at the city fall, When the reporter introduced himself Brown's first e mark was, “I would just like to got an axe d get at you." Then he went on to ex- \ that in the report of the girl's dise rance as printed exclusively by The st Monday, he had been misrepres sented. The doctor did not want to make any statements till he had consulted an at- torney. He still insisted that the last time he saw Maud Rubel was at Courtland beach last Saturday. 1 was standing round,” satd Brown, “when Mrs. Hess and. Maud came up; we talked for a couple of minutes, and then I went back to my shoot- ing gallery. er on they passed my place and 1 spoke to them in a general way; that is all 1 know about t | A When the Eden M was opened hers last Christmas by Will awler, Brown was e of the lecturers exhibiting the curlos from the Clift Dwellers' homes in New. near the merry-go- after the finding of the body Des called up the police station and said he hud located Brown ut Courtland beach. He was ordered to hustle out and arrest the man at once. About half an hour afterward Savage again called up headquarters and Informed the sergeant In charge that County Attorney Kaley had sald that he did not want anybody arrested and so Savage disobeyed the orders from police headquarters and did as Kaley told him to and that was—arrest no one in this matter until there is an Investigation, Officer Heelan located Brown at 6:30 o'clock and locked him up just In time to prevent him from skipping out. BROW! TRANGE REQUEST. A little further light has been thrown on the case by the story of Night Clerk Whit field of the State hotel, 1306 Douglas street, For a couple of nights Dr. Brown had beem lodging there, going there for the first time He had no baggage or belongings of any description, neither did he evinee any inclination to take up perm: nent quarters there. Whitfeld maid Tuesday night Brown came 1n and appeared He passed by the on the way to his phone to be greatly troubled clerk's desk, apparently room, when he turned back, and, in a low tone to the clerk, sald be careful to note the exact time at which 1 retire tonight; you may be called upon to thstify In a very lmportant The exact time was § During his stay at this came acqualnted with Mr. was often in his company. “No, 1 do not know anything material re- goriive phy " sedd Wilkinsqa, “bub hotel Brown be- Wilkinson and