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e R & T B T e S s M s m 4 e e e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1895. 3 SILVER MUST REGH, The Memphis Meeting Viewed as a Popu- lar Protest. REBUKE TO0 CLEVELAND. Accused of Placing His Party’s Flag in a Dishonored Position. STRIKING CONTRAST DRAWN. The Surplus Under the Bland-Alli- son Act Compared With Re-~ cent Deficits. MEMPHIS, TexNN., June 14.—At the ses- sion of the silver convention last night a letter from Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama was presented, but not read on account of business before the convention. [ln it the Senator This convention at Memphis is the natural, cessary, result of the peculiar meeting ‘Tecently held there under the patronage and approval of our Democratic administration, and your meeting will be a protest against the form adopted under such auspices in hos- y to the established creed of the Demo- cratic party. ¢ They have appealed against the judgment of the party, so often pronounced i support of al Tights of gold and silver at the mints, demand that this appeal shall be heard and decided outside the councils of the wocratic party by a general muster of all er money to be found n the friends of money that was silver was struck below the fifth ¢ its jealous brother, and having survived the assassination is still ““sound,” 1o come into the Democratic camp and t0 aid us in healing the wounds of this faithful servant of the 1>eople and the Government. It should be con- tidered a just reproach to sn old-fashioned Jackson Democrat 1o go outside the party to find & new creed as 1o gold and silver or to fail to defend our time-honored and time-proven doctrine 8s to these metals. But when the President passes the threshold and oversteps the line, with our colors in his hands, it is our duty to follow him and rescue them from the dishonored position of sheltering & mugwump demonstration. More than 90 per cent of the Democratic Senetors in that body when Sen- ator Harris and Ientered it were in favor of the i mediate and full restoration of the law , signed by Jackson. There was not a “single gold standard” Democrat in 1at body. There are some there now, only a w, and they are wearing silver masks to dis- bemselves: but the great body of Dema- ats in the Senate from that day to this have the old Democratic creed of 1836, “that Iver is the only safe and constitu- Bland-Allison act and the Sher- —before it was amenaed—we reach of the Government, uing bonds at the rate of r and at an undervalued - sending our Assistant Secretary 10 sign them and to deliver to support of our National T stamped sovereigns sendence. 1 . 1-Allison act we had a sur- plus 0f $100,000,000 at the end ot Mr. Cleve- and under the amended Sherman et of 1850 we had a deficit of nearly #100.000 in the middle of Mr. Cleveland’s sec- = heavy loss of gold to the the treasuryand the as the water is lifted by the wheel of tanyard by lifting it from the bot- ouring it into the top of the vats, people are growing weary of this grind 1d they feel it and see it, at home and in all their interests. They have already learned by experience the true situation and they will not unlearn their lessons in any new school that is set up to conduct this “campaign of education.” Our duty as Democrats is a very simple one. It is to follow the old landmarks and adhere the more closely to our principles the louder and stronger the tempest may rage, and when the seductions of wealth and patronage are offered to bribe them away from the course of virtuous integrity, let the peoplesay, “Getthee behind me, Satan,” and Satan will disappear. PEMOCRATIC SILVERITES. The Ubject of the Memphis Convention to Unite Them Within Their Party. MEMPHIS, TENX., June 14.—The move- ment inaugurated last night for the forma- tion of a silver organization within the lines of the Democratic party is believed to be a step of the greatest importance in the campaign question. Senators Harris, Jones and Turpie were named as a committee to select the members of a National executive committee, consisting of one man from each State. Senator Harris said to-day: The league will be purely a Democratic or- ganization, for purposes of securing perfect or- ganization of the silver Democrats in the eountry for the purpose of controlling the ut- terance of the next Democratic convention upon the silvee question. I have no doubt the great majority of people are in favor of free coinage, but unless they organize it will be im- possible for them to make the next platform. Gold men have leisure. They have little else to do besides preparing for conventions, and it is therefore possible that while our people are busy in their fields and workshops & very small but powerful organization of our opponents might go to the county and State conventions, control them, and in 5o doing lay the plan for controlling tbe National conven- tion, and thereby a very small, well-organized minority will be able to defeat the disorgan- ized majority. It is to defeat sucha project that we purpose to organize this American Bi- metallic League. The committee will at once put itseli in com- munication with the League of Bimetallists in every State in the Union, ana will ask and doubtless secure their assistance in perfecting en active vigilant organization of the silver people in every district, county and State. The result will be that none but delegates favoring silver coinage will be sent to the county con- ventions, and finally none but pronounced ad- vocates of the white metal will be in the National convention. “You clearly understand,” putin Sen- ator Jones, “that this movement is strictly within the lines of thle Democratic party, and we want the country to understand it. The organization of the silver advocates in an independent body without partisan character cannot have the effect of giving organized strength to silver Democrats in a sense that will enable them to control the sending of their delegates to the vari- ous conventions. An organization within the lines of the Democratic party Jike the one now promoted is absolutely essential to the success of the issue in the next National convention.” Senator Harris also emphasizes the fact that the National Bimetallic League is to be a Democratic organization. NO NEW PARTY. The Opinion Expressed by the Demoorats at the National Capital. WASHINGTON, D. C., june 14.--Tt is believed by Democrats in this city that the failure of the silver convention at Memphis to adopt a resolution in favor of forming a new party will settle once for all the idea of the extremists among the free silver men that the old parties would be aban- doned and that silver would be made the one issue of the new organization. Ex-Representative Bryan of Nebraska, during the latter days of Congress, was careful to make it known that he believed in carrying on the silver fight within the Democratic party, and that he thought the National convention could be captured by the silverites. But Bryan’s acts at the Memphis convention have shown he has grown restive under the powerful influence wielded by the administration, and thinks it is about time party harness should be cast off. Senator Harris and other prominent Democrats at the convention saw the danger ino which the party was drifting, and were as forcible in pronouncing against any dissolution of party organiza- tion as they were in favor of the free coinage of silver. Word was passed around among the speakers at the convention, so that in the addresses all those opposed to this line of action took occassion to con- demn it, and it was not possible to make any headway on the part of the new varty men. This action is regarded as the keynote for the silver men in both the Democratic and Republican parties, Members of both the Republican and Democratic parties of silver tendencies now expect to stand firmly within their party lines until they get to their conventions, but they will have it elearly understood that they must get important concessions at these National gatherings or they will look outside the old parties for a man and a platform to vote for in 1896. This course of action is looked upon with great favor by the Populists. The Populists think that if the silver men wait until after the National conventions, in order to determine whether they will bolt or whether they will support the party nominee there will be no time to effect a satisfactory organization for the nomina- tion of a man to lead the silverites in the National fight. The Populists are inclined to believe that by the time the conventions are held their party will have received im- portant accessions from both Democrats and Republicans, and that their organiza- tion will have so increased in strength and importance that the silverites will not think it necessary to look elsewhere fora party to carry out their ideas. That so many Democrats at the Mem- phis silver convention were loud in talking down the movement to form a new party is regarded by many silver men as an evi- dence that these members of the party be- lieve they can carry the National conven- tion and adopt a silver platform and nom- inate a man for the Presidency who will favor either the free coinage of silver, or who will pledge himself not to veto any free silver legislation by Congress. DECLINED A JOINT DEBATE. Judge Rose Refuses to Meet Senator Jones on the Money Question. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 14.—The Gazette to-day printed an editorial sug- gesting that Senator Jones, chairman of the committee on resolutions at the Mem- phis free silver convention, and Judge National Democratic Committee, who was chairman of the resolution committee of the sound money convention, meet in this city for the purpose of sounding the key- note in the campaign of education on the financial question. Judge Rose declines to entertain the proposition in the following card: ‘‘However enticing this proposition may appear, I must beg leave to decline it, be- cause [am notaware that such a proceed- ing at rhis time would do any good, and because I am not in politics. As a private citizen I bave expressed my opinion .on an important public question. Every one has a right to do this, and sometimes it is his duty to do so. The opinions that I have expressed have been formed in good faith and after due deliberation. So far I have no reason for changing them, but everything to confirm them. I believe them to be essential to the welfare of the people of ali classes. In the meantime, if you cannot do without the excitement of a political campaign, allow me to suggest that you get up one between the silver men and the Populists.” BELGIUMNWS WOEFUL CRY. The Fall in Prices Due to the Demone- tization of Silver. BRUSSELS, Bereivy, June 14.—M. Al- phonse Allard, a delegate from Belgium to the International Monetary Conference of 1892, in an address to a conservative asso- ciation asserted that the protective policy of Belgium is the result of the currency difficulty, which he declared has divided the world into hostile camps and devel- oved changes absolutely opposed to the interests of gold countries and in favor of silver-currency nations. Allard says the fall in the prices of com- modities is not due to overproduction, but to the scarcity of money, caused by the demonetization of silver in 1873. Though the movement in favor of prohibitive duties on commodities is the natural out- come of the protection of gold, such duties afford a remedy that is purely temporary. The only reai remedy, continued Allard. for the industrial and commercial depres- sion is to rehabilitate silver. That the world was recognizing this was shown in the widespread bimetallic movement. THE CAUSE IN MISSOURI. Every Probability of a Democratic State Silver Convention. LEBANON, Mo., June 14.—Chairman Farris of the Laclede County Democratic Committee to-day said: “I have now fifty- two signatures, or four short of a majority of the chairmen of the county Democratic committees in the State to the call fora State convention for the consideration of the silyer question. “From the correspondence I have I can reasonably expect favorable action from Andrew, Schuyler, Sullivan, Marion, Ralls, St. Charles, Vernon, Douglass, Bates, Buchanan, Stone, Christian and Dent counties.” He said that during the coming week the four counties necessary to complete the quorum would be secured. If the State committee then refuses to call a conven- tion prompt action will be taken to secure one otherwise, Chairman Farris continued. NEGROES UNDER THE BANNER. They Organize the First Bimetallic Zeague of Colored People. NEOSHO, Kaxs., June 14.—A bimetallic league was organized here last night by the colored people. It starts off with a strong membership. 1t is the first organ- ization of its kind by the colored people in the United States. Steps were taken to- day for the holding of a State rally on August 1 and 2. Thousands of colored people from all over the State are expected to attend, and invitations have been sent to several prominent free-silver orators to be present. PERRY, O.T., June 14. — The Supreme Court of Oklahoma has handed down a decision dismissing the appeal of the United States Government for an injunc- tion against the Oklahoma and Choctaw Railroad. This means that ihe construc- tion of the road will be pushed to comple- tion at once. U. M. Rose, the Arkansas member of the | N BEHALF OF GOLD, Carlisle Talks to a Large Audience at Louis- ville. WHY SILVER IS CHEAP. He Claims That Its Present Low Price Is Not Due to De- monetization. LAWS SAID TO BE USELESS. The White Metal’s Decline Attrib- uted Entirely to Its Alleged Overproduction. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 14.—The large personal following of Secretary Carlisle in this city and the keen interest felt by all classes in the currency question filled the Music Hali this evening with such a crowd as never before congregated on a similar occasion. Long before the hour at which the address was to be given the hall was filled to overflowing, the well-to-do and business men jostling with the laborer and mechanic for a convenient seat. Nor was the meeting a gathering of Democrats to honor a party leader. Republicans were out in force. ' Promptly at 8 o’clock Mr. Carlisle came forward and was presented by C. R. Long. His reception should have satisfied the most expectant. When the tremendous applause subsided, in his clear, incisive voice Mr. Carlisle waded immediately into his subject. He repeated his argument that the undervalued metal would be driven out of the country by the adoption of a bimetallic system, and at some length paid attention to the claim that the fall in the price of silver was due to its demone- tization. He said: It1s insisted, it is claimed, that the fall in the price of silver is attributable to the legis- lation in Germany, the United States, France and various other countries during and since the year of 1873, and most illogically it is in- sisted that, notwithstanding the reduced price of that metal is the result of unfriendly action of a great many governments acting in concert and with a settled purpose, the United States can alone restore the value of silver. Of course if it required action of twelve or thirteen different governments to bring the price of silver to its present state, it would seem quite clear that no one of them alone could restore it, as if the depreciation in the value of silver as compared to gold has been caused solgly by the adverse legislation complained of, it follows that if that legislation had never taken place the value of silver as compared to gold would not be the same as it was in 1872, before that legislation occurred. ‘What then would have occurred? What then would have been the result? Not a single dol- lar of full legal tender silver would be in circu- lation In the United States at this time or any other time since 1872, because at that time the bullion contained in the silver dollar was worth about 3 per cent more than the bullion contained in the gold dollar, and the two could not circulate together. The same law which drove silver out of cir- culation under the acts of 1834 and 1837 would have kept it out, and instead of having in circulation among the people about 398,- 000,000 legal tender silver dollars, as we have now, we would have had none. The fall in the price of silver was not due to the legislation complained of, but to an enor- mous overproduction. The average annual production of silver in the world during the five years next preceding 1853 was about $66,- 000,000, while in 1893 it was over $209,000,- 000, an increase of 216 per cent, much greater than the increase of business or the popula- tion of the world. Notwithstanding the fall in silver, silver mining continues to be & most profitable industry. While the farmers and other producers are struggling to live com- fortably, owners of silver mines have ac- cumulated enormous fortunes, It is not necessary to discuss what might be the effect of a permanent or temporary estab- lishment of an international ratio by agree- ment of the commercial countries of the world, because the free coinage people repudiate the suggestion that any other nation should be consulted, and all that is necessary is for the United States to proceed independently at once. If the fiat of & single Government is suffi- cient to impart value to 2 coin or any other commodity, perhaps these gentlemen are right, but the whole world has been wrong for thou- sands of years, and ali the labor and all the taxation to which the people of ths world have been subjected in the past have been unneces- sary and unjustifiable. That the flat of the Government does not make money was illustrated by the history of the trade dollar. That was coined free of charge and delivered without expense to the owners of bullion, and contained thirty-six more grains than was contained in two half- dollars or four quarters. It was legal tender for all debts up to $5, just as halves and quar- ters were. The trade dollar, more valuable in- trinsically, but without the credit of the Gov- ernment, sank to 80 cents, while the iess valu- able coins remained at full par. What hap- pened to the trade dollar was exactly what would happen to all other silver dollars if free and unlimited coinage were adopted. Mr. Carlisle will leave here to-morrow over the Chesapeake and Ohio for Washing- ton. After speaking to-night the Secre- tary was tendered a reception at the Wat- terson Club. SQUIRE AS A STRADDLER. Has No Idea How the Money Question Will Be Settled. NEW YORK, N.Y., June 14.—Senator Squire of Washington, in an interview on the political situation, says: “Harrison, McKinley, Reed and Allison are all able men. ““What next year will bring forth in the way of settlement of the money question no one con forecast. The Fifty-fourth Con- gress has yet tosit. Reed is an able parlia- mentarian and a most brilliant man. As a tactician he is the peer of any man living. It is possible some concessions may be made. Cleveland may not take the stand of an extremist.”” e i ges The reports of the official Government investigations of baking smwders show the Rt:yal to be stronger and purer than any other. R CHEAPER GRANITEWARE. Reduced Prices to Go Into Effect on the First of Next Month. EAST LIVERPOOL, Oxuro, June 14,—All the manufacturing potters in America met here to-day. Action was taken, which has just been made public, that furnishes the information that the United States Pottery Manufacturers of America are now at work on a new selling price list for white graniteware, which will take effect July 1. Prices will be low enough to induce the American trade to largely give up the use of foreign goods. T R S ON STARVATION'S VERGE. Terrible Suffering From Drought in the Western Part of the Cherokee Strip. DENVER, Coro., June 14.—Rev. George Secord, a clergyman of Grant County, O. T., is in Denver seeking aid for the drought sufferers. All the inhabitants of the western part of the Cherokee strip, he states, are on the verge of starvation, and are totally without means and no manner of obtaining assistance. Last year every- thing was so dry that absolutely nothing was raised, and there has been no rain this year up to ten daysago, and it was then too late to be.of any material benefit. — MORE RATES CUT. Reduced Rates From Colorado to Mis- souri River Points. OMAHA, Nesg., June 14, — Effective June 17, the Rock Island, in conjunction with the Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western, will reduce the Missouri River and Mississippi River rates to Utah common points, to meet the promul- gated reduction of the Union Pacific. 1f the Union Pacific carries out its estab- lished basis of rates to Utah common points Colorado rates will be reduced to the same proportion from Colorado com- mon points as from the Missouri River. The present first-class rate from Denver to Utah is $2. The $1 65 rate, however, an- nounced by the trans-Missouri lines from Omaha to Utah, effective to-morrow, will reduce the Colorado rate to $1 32, being 80 per cent of the Missouri River rate. Like reductions will be scheduled on other commodities. The Burlington, anticipating the cut an- nounced this morning by the Union Pa- cific, telegraphed late yesterday to its Chicago connections to quote the reduced | Chicago-Utah rates Saturday morning, in- stead of Monday, the date appointed for the Union Pacific to go into effect. Had the Union Pacific allowed its first cut to become operative without the re- duction on Monday, it would have resulted in a discrimination against Omaha busi- ness men. This fact being understood by the traffic department of the Union Pacific, the Chicago-Utah rates were made accord- ingly. BLACKBURN'S HOT SPEECH Not Even the President Al- lowed to Escape His Scath- ing Tongue. Carlisle Accused of Making Misrep~ resentations on the Money Question. FRANKFORT, K., June 14.—Senator Blackburn addressed a large audience here to-night. He said he hoped it would not be neces- sary for him to speak to his neghbors, as he had defended himself against lies and slanders elsewhere. Every newspaper wearing the collar of its master, every gauger and storekeeper, had combined with the administration and money power to cause his defeat. Senator Lindsay told them last night that he (Blackburn) was preaching heresy. Carlisle had been sent here, and he thought | it would be more civil if the President would make the combine complete and lock the doors of the White House and come himself. Carlisle was taken to task for saying he had never favored free and unlimited coin- age. He said he sat by Carlisle's side and thought he heard him vote for the silver bill in November, 1873, and vote and speak for the acts of 1890, and he would give the best member of his body if Carlisle had not been the ablest advocate of free and | unlimited coinage of silver. ‘“But Brutus tells you he had not, and surely Brutus is an honorable man,” he said. Then he continued: “Carlisle said in his speeches there was but $8.000,000 in silver dollars coined be- tween 1792 and 1873, while the truth is there was $105.000,000 of silver money coined.” Carlisle was also accused of misrepre- senting by $92,000,000 the amount of gold in circulation. The greatest portion of the speech was devoted to severe criticism of Cleveland, Carlisle, Lindsay and the press. — - THREE SETS OF HFIRS. One Decision in Which Henry’'s Mis- souri Kin Are Shut Out. DENVER, Coro., June 14.—A special to the News from Greeley,Colo., says: A most remarkable case was decided in the Dis- trict Court here to-day. David Henry came to Greely in 1870 and invested in lands now worth $40,000. He married Mrs. Calista Evans in 1878 and died in 1890, his wife dying eight days later. The estate was entered for probate. The case now decided was brought by the heirs of Susan Henry, who claims that she was married to Henry in Missouri in 1848, having two children by him, and tnat the children, by the laws of Missouri, are en- titled to one-half of the estate. During the progress of this case there appeared the heirs of still another wife, claiming marriage to Henry in California in 1839. In answer the Missouri heirs set forth that the California wife was divorced in 1873, but in turn they set up the claim that a Missouri common law marriage did not hold in Colorado, and on this point Judge Boughton agreed, dismissing the case of the Missouri heirs. The conclusion of the matter will now be a compromise between the heirs of the California and Colorado wives. e DANCED FOR RAIN. A Flood Follows the Efforts of Several Tribes of Indians. GUTHRIE, O. T., June 14.—The Sac and Fox Indian braves have adopted a new method to get rain. They appointed one day last week for their tribes to mecet at one place to dance for rain and at the same time they invited several neighbor- ing tribes to join the festival for the much needed showers. Large numbers of Indians met and danced until Sunday’s flood came, and thisso buoyed them up that they are still dancing that more rain may come. Before they commenced their festivities they moved their wigwams from the bottoms to the highlands, saying the rains would flood the lowlands. S The true test of a baking powder is well known to every housekeeper. It is to try it in making bread, cake, etc. The applica- tion of this practical test will show that the Royal makes the best, the most and the most wholesome food. e In the Wire Nail Trust. CLEVELAND, Ommo, June 14. — The Baackes wire nail company of this city has transferred its plant to the Consoli- dated steel and wire company, an Illinois corporation. The Baackes company is the largest concern of its kind in the coun- try. The consolidated company took pos- session of the property to-day. They will practically control the wire nail output of the country. R Very Little Gold There. HENNESSY, 0. T., June 14.— The gold fever which recently struck the Territory is being dispelled. An assay of the dust shows it to be composed merely of zinc. copper and about three-hundredths gold, not enough to pay for washing. In spite of this large numbers are still heading for the fields, greatly excited. SCENES OF TERROR, Seve;'al Factory Hands Killed by a Boiler Explosion. SEVEN BODIES FOUND. Flames Break Out and Add to the Horror of the Ca~ tastrophe. ONE GREAT MASS OF RUINS. The Boiler Was Old and Had Not Been Inspected for a Long Time. FALL RIVER, Mass, June 14.—The worst catastrophe fhat has visited this | city since the Garnite mill fire occurred this morning in Langley’s harness-shop, a | four-story building on Couky street. A | boiler exploded in the basement, blowing out the entire end of the structure and allowing the upper floors to settle into a | mass of ruins. There were about twenty persons, most of them women, at work in the shops at the time, of whom only Henry J. Langley, the proprietor; George E. Davol, the fore- man, and seven other employes were res- cued alive up to 9:30 o’clock. The flames communicated with the ruins soon after the explosion. The firemen made heroic efforts to rescue thefimprisoned work people, while shrieks from the girls in the ruins were mingted with the agonized cries of their friends. Every physician who could be reached was sent at once to the scene. Offices and houses in the vicinity were turned into temporary hospitals. At 9 o'clock the badly charred and scarcely recognizable body of a woman was taken from the ruins. The fire had been checked, but it was still smouldering, and the work of rescue went on with great dif- | ficulty. Machinist Trip was also among those who escaped. A girl named Jalbert and her sister-in-law, who worked side by | side on the third floor, escaped, one unhurt, the other with slight bruises. Miss Jalbert says there was a terrible re- vort, followed by a shock, The roof seemed to lift and then fall, completely demolish- ing the building. She and her sister-in- law were thrown into the middle of the road. The latter was badly cut about the face and arms. Mr. Langley is in a critical condition. | The shock broke the windows of the Staf- ford mill and injured several operatives. | The harness-shop is a total wreck, but the | lames are under control. The charred remains of Robert Murray were recovered. Star Music Hall has been | made a morgue. The third body recovered | was that of a woman. It could not be recognized. | ¢ Mayor Green announced at 11 o’clock that ten persons were killed, with three still missing. The fire is now all out, but | the building was so badly wrecked that the search of the ruins is progressing slowly. The list of dead is as follows: Adele Dube, aged 20; Lela Horton, 17; Adolph E. Bellefuell, 45; Robert Murray, 21. The seriously injured are: Thomas Barry, skull fractured, face and body burned, will undoubtedly die; Mattie Duroches, bruises and burns, fatally in- jured; Willlam Russell, badly burned; Alice Tremblay, bruises and burns; Ida Lepage, bruises. Four more bodies, burned beyond recog- nition, have been found. Twelve escaped with hardly any injuries. The engineer will be arrested. He says the boiler was five years old and had not been inspected for a long time. He says he put water in the boiler some time be- fore the catastrophe. THE GOLD CURE FORMULA. Its Character Made Public for the First Time During a Murder Trial. PITTSBURG, PA., June 14.—In the tak- ing of testimony to-day to secure the par- don of Daniel Werling, the wife-murderer, on the ground that he was insane when he committed the crime from the fact that he had taken the Keeley cure, Dr. E. F. Wiles, who was for years in charge of the Keeley Institute here, for the first time gave a portion of the formula of the celebrated gold cure. He said the treatment con- sisted first of an internal treatment of simple tonics, of which cinchona was the principal ingredient. The second part of the treatment con- sisted of the hypodermic injection of what was known as the red mixture. This, he said, was composed of eight to ten drops of hyoscamine and a solution of pilocarpine, one grain to the drachm, with morphine to suit the condition of the patient. The doctor said the pilocarpine was a strong relaxitant and the other drugs caused a rush of blood that was particularly dan- gerous to men who suffered from fatty de- generation of the heart. He said he be- lieved Werling was insane when he was discharged from the hospital. e FRIENDS OF AN ABSCONDER. They Wil Arrange an Easy Compromise With Justice. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., June 14.—An agreement has been reached between the friends of absconding Treasurer Taylor and Attorney-General Crawford, whereby Taylor will return at once. He will return to Pierre on Tuesday next and surrender. He will pay over all the money he hason hand, amounting to $45,000, and also per- sonal property, which is to be assessed at a liberal valuation. Taylor will then plead guilty,.and Judge Gaffey has agreed to call a special term of court and sentence him to the penitentiary for two years. It is further agreed that before the expiration of this sentence the Governor will pardon him and thus save his citizenship. e e GOLD AND SILVER INCREASE. The 1894 Output the Largest in the World’s History. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—The Director of the Mint, R. E. Preston, esti- ! mates the world’s production of gold for the calendar year 1894 to have approxi- mated 8,870,518 fine ounces, of the value of $181,510,100, against $158,836,000 for 1893, showing an increase during the year of $22,674,000. The greatest increasesin the production .of gold during the vear were: Africa, $11,400,000; Australia, $6,073.000 United States, $3,500,000; Mexico, $3,195,- 000. Mr. Preston estimates the world’s pro- duction of silver for 1894 at 165,918,338 fine ounces, of the coinage value of $214,381,000. The bullion value of the same at the average price (6314 cents) of silver for 1894 was $105;348,135, showing a difference be- tween the coining value and bullion value of $109,132,965. The increase in the pro- duction of silver in 1894 over 1893 was 722,000 ounces. The greatest increase in the production of silver was: Bolivia, $10,800,000; Mexico, $3,500,000; Peru, $2,000,000; Chile, $1,400,000; Greece, $1,400,000. Both the production of gold and silver’ in 1894 exceeded that of any prior year in the world’s history. Mr. Preston is of the opinion that his estimate of the gold and silver production of 1834 is a conservative estimate, and he is of the opinion that were the exact facts known they would show an increase cven greater than stated. Ertia L SCARCITY OF SEALS. Said to Be Due to Their Indiscriminate Slaughter. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—Cap- tain Hooper, in command of the cutter fleet in Bering Bea, has reported to the Treasury Department that his observa- tions south of Unalaska convince him that the seal herds moving north are far lessnumerous than formerly. This scarcity, it is believed, is entirely due to the indis- criminate slaughter in the past two or three years. ‘While patrolling the North Pacific Cap- tain Hooper boarded and searched a num- ber of sealers, both Canadian and Ameri- can, but there was no evidence of unlawful killing, hence they were allowed to pro- ceed. It is very probable that the maxi- mum catch of the North American Com- mercial Company will be materially reduced, even from last year, when it reached only about 13,000 skins. _— A CHANCE FOR CIVILIANS. Not Enough Naval Cadets to Fill All the Vacancies. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—Owing to the unusually large number of retire- ments in line of navy and the engineer corps during the past year, for the first time in two administrations there are now more vacancies than can be filled from the first class just graduated from the Naval Academy, and consequently there may be civilians appointed. The vacancies in the line now number twenty-six, and there are twenty-one places to be filled in the engi- neer corps. BUTHERED BY BINDERS, There Is a Possibility of a Strike in the Government Printing Office. No Scale of Plece Work Allowed and Many of the Men Are Dissatisfied. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.—Public Printer Benedict refused to treat directly with the grievance committee of the local bookbinders’ union, who insisted that an allowance of ten books should be made on a day’s stint of sixty books for head bind- ings. Threats of a strikein the Govern- ment printing office have been made if the demand was not acceded to. The public printer referred the whole matter to Fore- man H. C. Espey in a letter. The letter said in part: “I know of no scale or piece price work in connection with this work, and I can- not favor any task allotment of work in this office, for I fear that such a method would sacrifice quality for quantity. But I would not have you understand that I desire you to demand of any employe any ‘other than a fair day’s work, and in this particular case at issue I ask you not to re- quire more than an industrious, careful application to duty during the hours of employment, keeping in mind at all times the urgency of the work and the necessity of good work—work creditable to the em- ployesand the office.” Acting on this letter, Foreman Espey this morning gave the twenty-one binders engaged on the job in controversy sixty books as to-day’s stint, saying to them that he would require them to do a day’s work of eight hours. Within an hour two men were suspended for ‘“loafing,” as Foreman Espey explained, and soon afterward the grievance committee, headed by President Hyde of the local union, left the office to decide whether their ultimatum to strike would be carried out. At noon they had not returned, but both Mr. Benedict and Mr. Espey ex- pressed the opinion that there would be no strike. Mr. Benedict has now one binding machine in the office, ich does the work of ten men, and if a strike is precipitated he will undoubtedly put in the machine. pbten S OF Interest to the Coast. WASHINGTO:! D. C, June 14. — As- sistant Attorney-General Whitney will leave for San Francisco to-morrow on busi- ness concerning Government suit against the Stanford estate. Among coast arrivals to-day are P. H. Sanderson of Los Angeles, and H. Creedin of San Francisco. Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Renewal and increase—Lewis Anderson of Alhambra. Increase —Robert Furlong of Los Angeles. Mexican war survivor, increase—James A. Throp of Fresno. Oregon: Origional widow, reissue— Louisa Jarred of Portland. —_— Some Naval Promotions. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—The Navy Department has sent to the Presi- dent a recommendation for the retirement of Medical Director A. A. Hochling, who is retired for disability. It will promote G. W. Woods to be medical director, R. A. Marmion medical inspector, and A. G. Cabell surgeon. The retirement of Com- mander Heyman promotes J. M. Hemp- hill to be commander, Perry Garst lieu- tenant-commander, J. B. Bliss lieutenant, and Ensign’ F. K. Hill lieutenant junior grade. il R ST Going to Buzzards Bay. WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 14.—The Cabinet meeting to-day will probably be the last that will be held before the Presi- dent returns from his summer outing. The President has nearly cleared up all the business that needs his immediate atten- tion or that cannot be attended to at Gray Gables. Itis expected he will leave for Buzzards Bay early next week. Sama N Warships Depart for Kiel. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—Admi- ral Kirkland to-day telegraphed the Navy Department that the fleet for the Kiel cel- ebration had sailed for Copenhagen to Kiel. The San Francisco, New York and Colum- bia were in the fleet. The Marblehead being at Hamourg will go through the canal, meeting the other ships at Kiel. e Inspection of Naval Militia. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.—Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo will sail on the Doivhin Sunday night on a tour of inspection of the naval military reserve. He will visit eleven ports in thirty days, going from South Carolina to Maine. The first point will be Baltimore, then the Southern ports. STOW FOUND A WAY, ReavisMakes SomeVery Damaging, Peculiar Admissions IN THE PERALTA CLAIM. Manipulation of the Willing Papers in the Railroad’s Interests. ONE BIG DEED WAS SPURIOUS. Did Not Intend to Cast a Cloud on Territory Titles, but Followed Southern Pacific Counsel. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 14.—A special to the Globe-Democrat from Santa Fe, N. Mex., says: James Addison Peralta Reavis, who for some days has been on the witness-stand in the famous Peralta land- claim case, has made admissions most damaging to the Southern Pacific Railroad management. His story is that he aban- doned the Peralta grant until a row arose between Tom Scott of the Texas Pacific and the Southern Pacific magnates, Hunt~ ington, Crocker and others. When the railroad fight developed and Scott beat the Southern Pacific out of its land grant, Reavis thought nis Willing papers in the Peralta grant might be of some value to the Southern Pacitic. He owed them first to W.W. Stow, the well-known politician and lawyer of the Southern Pacific. Stow confirmed his im- pression that he had something the South- ern Pacific would like to get hold of. Stow provided a way whereby Reavis and the papers reached the inner circles of the Southern Pacific management. The Southern Pacific made & contract to fur- nish all the money necessary for the prose- cution of the Peralta claim, in return for which the Southern Pacific was to have half of the grant. From that time Reavis actad, heseaid, under the direction of the counsel of the Southern Pacific. He dis- covered in June, 1882, that the Willing deed was spurious; yet in March, 1883, under the advice of counsel, he filed before the Surveyor-General of Arizona a claim to the grant, based on the Willing deed, and his counsel was that of the Southern Pacific. Reavis said he did not tell the Southern Pacific lawyer that he was satisfied the deed was spurious, but he did give him the name of Miguel Peralta as one who knew more about the deed than any living man, He urged the Southern Pacific lawyer to send for Miguel Peralta and get his state- ment, but the lawyer did not take his ad- vice, g0 the claim was filed and pushed on the basis of the Willing deed. Reavis said he believed Dr. W. W. Gitt of St. Louis could tell more than any one else about the fabrication of the Willing papers. Elaborating his testimony of the interest of the Southern Pacific in pushing the grant under the Willing deed Reavis said: ““When I pressed for a decision on the claim by the Surveyor-General of Arizona 1 did so becatise L was acting under direc- tion of counsel. I differed from counsel on the question of the withdrawal of the lands within this grant from the public domain. Inever wished to cast cloud on the titles of that Territory.” The trial is still in progress. A4 2 KO HANGED. He Murdeved a Section Boss for Having Discharged Him. MOBILE, Ara., June 14.—Phillip Good- win, colored, was hanged at 5:30 o’clock A. M. in the jail yard before a crowd of 500 people. Heseemed badly frightened. The crime for which he died was the mur- der of John Poole, a section boss on the Louisville and Nashville road at Venita, who had dismissed him. e a— Flag-Day Celebrated. CHICAGO, IrL., June 14.—Flag-day, in- augurated one year ago by the American Flag-day Association asa holiday, was ob- served to-day by the public schools. The celebration, in which teachers and children took part, was held in the parks of the Northwest and West side. Children marched, and speeches, martial music, songs and recitations characterized the observances of the day. T e Douglass’ Administrators to Be Sued. ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 14. — Mrs. Nathan Sprague, daughter of Frederick Dooglass, will commence suit against Mrs. Douglass, the widow, her brother and Lewis H. Douglass, administrators of the estate. Mrs. Sprague says that by recent assignments Mrs. Douglass is to get about all of the estate that is in sight. THAT'S A STUNNER! Forgive us this slang, but ex- ressive words are so few. Eulid oak, seat and back ug holstered in tapestry or plush, B84.00— Did you EVER hear the like before ? INDIANAPOLIS FURNITURE CO. 750 Mission St, -