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2 a THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1%95. FIGURES OF CARLISLE, Report of the Secretary of the Treasury Sent to Congress. EXPENSES. EXCESS OF There Has Been a Growing De- ficiency in the Nation's Finances. INTERNALREVENUE DECREASES Had the Income-Tax Law Held the Deficiency Would Not Have Been So Great. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—The an- nual report of Hon. John G. Carlisle, Sec- retary of the Treasury, was sent to Con- rress to-day. It was, of course, a long and important document, but that portion of it which referred to Natijnal finances was as follows: At the beginning of the last fiscal year, v 1, 1894, the cash balance in the treas- uding -all current liabilities, but cluding a gold reserve of $64,873,024 06, $U7 r June 30, 1895, the cash balance, ex- cluding all current liabilities, but includ- | 2 gold reserve of $100,000,000, was 240,153 87, showing an increease of $77, 74. The excess of expenditures over receipts during the year was $42,805,- 223 18, as inst a deficiency of $69,803,- al year 1804, receipts during the fiscal year 15,668,055 86 greater than the the fiscal year 1894, and the expenditures were $11,3: 81 54 less during the yeatr 1894. The revenue ved from customs during the fiscal 1895 exceeded the revenue derived urce in 1894 by the sum but the receiots under the internal revenue laws and from some other sources were less than during the previous year, so that the net increase of revenue was $15,668,055 86, as above stated. *If the income-tax provision contained in the act of August 28, sustained by the courts, it is believed that tot were ceipts the deficiency for the year would not have | exceeded the amount estimated in my last annual report. In thatreport the opinion was expressed that the laws then in force would not only yield an ample revenue during the fiscal year 1896, but that there would be a surplus of nearly $29,000,000. This opinion was based upon the suppo- sition, which then seemed to be well founded, that all the sources of revenue provided in the act of August 28, 1894, | would be available and that, owing to the higher rate of ‘taxation imposed upon dis- | tilled spirits and some'other articles, the receipts under the infernal revenue laws would be very considerably increased; but the decision of the Supreme Court holding the income-tax provisicn of the act to be unconstitutional, and the fact that the receipts from internal revenue did not ines e as anticipated, but actuaily fell off §$ 560 79 during the fiscal year 1895 as compared with the previous year, not- withstanding the higher rate imposed on spirits and other articles, have greatly altered the situation and Fam now of the opinion that there will be a deficiency of 000 during the current fiscal 0, the ‘‘endless-chain’ theory y, the Secretary says: “The total excess of expenditures over receipts from July 1, 1893, to December 1, 3, and of this sum a5 paid out of the balance on hand at this date in excess of $100,- 000,000, and the remainder has been sup- plied by the use of United States notes and treasury notes presented for re- demption and thus received into the Treasury in exchange for gold coin. The 878, act of Ma; At provided that when any United States note ‘may be redeemed or be received into the. treasury under any law from any source whatever, and shall belong to the United States, it shall not be retired, cancelled or destroyed, but shall be reissued and paid out again and keut in circulation.’ ‘It is clear that when any of these notes have been redeemed they do not constitute a part of the reserve fund, but become a part of the general cash assets of the treasury to be used in the same manner as other money belonging to the Goyernment. ‘Whenever they could, by exchanges, be used to procure gold for the replenishment of the reserve, they have been so applied, but when this could not be done? they have been trezted as available funds in the treasury and reissued in payment of pub- lic expenses. None of my predecessors in office have ever made any distinction be- tween the notes received in payment of the ordinary revenue notes presented by the holders and redeemed in coin, but such notes have been used indiscriminate- 1y as the exigencies of the public service required.” Secretary Carlisle quotes in support of this proposition the report of Secretary Sherman for 1877 which led to the law of Congress, enacted May 31, 1878, making it mandatory upon the Secretary of the Treasury to reissue the notes. Referring to the prospect of revenue and eXpendi- tures coming together in the future the Secretary says: ““The cash balance in the treasury on the first day of December, 1895, was $177,406,- 386, being $98,072,420"in excess of the act- ual gold reserve on that day, and $77,406,- 386 in excess of any sum that it would be necessary to use for replenishing that fund in case the Secretary should atany time beable to exchange currency for gold. There is, therefore, no reason to doubt the ability of the Government to discharge all its current obligations during the present fiscal year and have a large cash balance atits close without imposing additional taxation in any form upon the people; but 1 adhere to the opinion heretofore ex- pressed that the Secretary of the Treas- ury ought always to have authority to issue and sell, or use in the payment of ex- penses, short-time bonds, bearing a low rate of interest, to supply casual deficien- ciesin the revenue. “While the situation does not require any legislation for raising additional rev- enue by taxation at this time, it is such as to require the strictest economy in appro- priations and public expenditureés. Nearly everys appropriation is in terms or by necessary implication a direction to the executive authorities to expend the money, and, therefore, the responsibility for an increase or reduction of expenditures rests primarily and mainly on Congress. *With a complete return to the normal 1894, had been | | business conditions of the country and a proper legislative and executive super- vision over expenditures the revenue laws now in force will, in my opinion, yield ample means for the support of the public service upon the basis now established; and upon the assumption, which seems to be justified, that the progress now being made toward the restoration of our usual state of prosperity will continue without serious interruption it is estimated that there will be a surplus of nearly $7,000,000 during the fiscal year 1897. “During the fiscal years 1894 and 1895 the ordinary expendituresof the Govern- ment have been decreased $27,282,656 20, compared with the fiscal year 1893, and it is believed that with the co-operation of Congress further reductions can be made in the future without impairing the effi- ciency of the public service.” In regard tothe bond issues Secretary Carlisle says: “‘Between the 1st day of February, 1894, and the 15th day of March, 1895, three is- sues of bonds were made, amounting in the aggregate to $162,315,400. The pay- ments into the treasury on account of the second bond sale were not entirely com- pleted until after the 1st day of December, 1894, and it soon became evident that the transaction had not been effectual to stop the drain of gold. On the 8th day of Feb- ruary, 1895, the reserve had been reduced to $41,340 181, and several miilion more bad been demanded, a part of which was taken out and afterward returned to the treasury toration of confidence, resulting from the | fact that it became generally known that | measures were about to be taken for the | replenishment of the reserve.” | Detailing the amount of bonds issued | and gold received, the Secretary proceeds | as follows: | “The beneficial effecls of this transac- Elion were felt immediately, not only in 4,436 13, and at the close of the | this country, but in every other having | | commercial or financial relations with our people. Confidence in our secwities as | safe and profitable investments were at | | once restored to such an extent that gold | was returned to our market for sale, and a | very considerable demand for securities | wa ing evidences of improvement in our con dition were afforded by the revival of business among our own peovle, the i creased activity and extension of our. do- | mestic industrial and commercial opera- | tions, the rise in the prices of our principal | agricultural products and the general feeling of relief and security which be- came apparent in every part of the coun- | try. These encouraging indications of in- creasing prosperity still continue, and it is reasonabiy certain that, ii our progress is | not checked by a repetition of the de- mands upon our resources, or by a failure to meet the just expectations of the peo- ple in respect to the reformation of our fiscal tem, we are entering upon an era of material growth and development not surpassed in our history. “But,” adds Secretary Carlisle. “‘our fur- ther progress towara a complete restora- tion of confidence and prosperity is seri- ously impaired by the defects in our currency laws.” The remedy which Secretary Carlisle proposes for the financial ills is thus set | forth: | “There is but one safe and effectual way " to protect our treasury against these de- mands, and that is to retire and cancel the through which the withdrawals can be made. Many partial and temporary rem- edies may be suggested and urged with only one that will certainly remove the { real cause of our troubles and give assur- ance of permanent protection against their recurrence in the future. “‘This can be most successfully and eco- Secretary of the Treasury to issue from time to time bonds payable in gold, bear- ing interest at a rate not exceeding 3 per cent ver anpum and having a long time to run, and to exchange the bonds for United States notes and treasury notes upon such terms as may be most advantageous to the Government or sell them abroad for gold whenever, in his judgment, it is advisable to do so, and use the gold thus obtained in redeeming the outstanding notes. “In order to further facilitate the sub- stitution of the other ciftrency for the re- tirement of legal tender notes, the Na- tional banks should be authorized to issue notes equal in amount to the face value of bonds deposited to secure them, and the tax on their circulation should be reduced to one-fourth of 1 per cent perannum. When the National banking system was established the bonds of the United States were selling below par in the market and there was consequently a sufficient reason for limiting the amount of notes to be the securities deposited, but this reason has long since ceased to exist and the limi- tation should be removed. *‘Asa part of the plan for the redemp- tion and retirement of the legal-tender notes, the freasury should be relieved from the responsibility for the redemption of National bank notes, except worn, muti- lated and defaced notes and the notes of failed banks, and each association should be required to redeem its circulation at its own office and agencies, to be designated by the Comptroller of the Currency, as was the case prior to the passage of the dct of June 20, 1874, or, if this is not consid- ered expedient and the present system of current redemption by the treasury is continued, the Secretary should have the power to require the banks to keep their 5 per cent redemption fund in gold coin and to deposit gold coin for the withdrawal of bonds whenever circulation is to be per- manently surrendered or reduced. “It is not probable that any plan for the permanent retirement of United States wnd treasury notes will be adopted that will not require considerable time for its complete execution, and I therefore re- spectfully urge upon Congress the pro- priety of prohibiting any future issue of such notes, or of National bank mnotes of less denominations than $10. The reasons for this recommendation have been fully stated in former reports and need not be repeated here. Such a policy would make room in the circulation for silver coins and silver certificates of small denominations, thus increasing their use in the transac- tions of daily business and preventing the frequent return to and accumulation in the treasury. . “The large silver certificates now out- standing could be retired and canceled when received and smaller ‘ones snbsti- tuted for them, so that there would be no diminution of small currency in_circula- tion and the ultimate result would be an. increased use of our present stock of silver in the form of subsidiary coin, or standard dollars and t:enificau:}W * ¥ Stabbed by Her Brother. SAN LUIS POTOST, MEx1co, Dec. 16.—A sensation has ‘beeu caused here by the at- tempted murder of . Miss ‘Clementina Aguirre, a leading member o society, by her brother. The young I ‘Was seri- ously stabbed, her brother ing crazed: with anger when he committed the deed. oo e BOSTON, Dec. 17.—Those irterested in Bicycling will find eutertainment in the January Five Cent Nickell Magazine now on the news stands. on account of the temporary res- | created abroad, but the most gratify- | notes which constitute the only means | more or less plausibility, but this is the | nomically accomplished by authorizing the | issued to 90 per cent of the face value of | EVILS OF THE ORIENT, Western Industries Cannot Compete With China and Japan. PORTRAYED BY STEWART Differences in Exchange Favor the Cheap Labor of the Far East. PROPER REMEDY POINTED OUT. Senators Told That the Parity Between Gold and Silver Must Be Restored. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—The evil days with which Western manufactur- ing industry is threatened by ‘competition from China and Japan were passionately protrayed in the Senate to-day by Stewart (Pop.) of Nevada, in connection with his | resolution instructing the Finance Com- mittee to inquire what the effect of the difference of exchange between gold- standard countries and silver-standard countries hason the agricultural and manu- facturing industries of the United States. ewart’s contention was that as the expenses of Eastern labor and materials are paid forin silver in those countries, | and as the products are sold in the United | States and Europe for gold or its equiva- lent, the Orientals have, in the difference of exchange, an advantage of 50 per cent, and that this advantage, joined to their mechanical skill, their low wages and their cheap mode of living, enables them to | undersell ail competitors, and will, if not | checked, transfer the manufacturing of the world from the West to the East. The | only way to prevent such an evil, Stewart argued, is to restore the parity between | gold and silver. | Stewart stated facts concerning the send- | ing of Japanese manufactured goods to the | United States and selling them far below the prices at which they can be manufac- tured here, instancing the matter of bi- cycles, which the Japanese now sell in this | city for $12 gold, and he had a dispatch from San Francisco giving details of the Japanese invasion of the American mar- | kets and stating that a Japanese agency in | that city is zelling parlor matches, doors, ashes, blinds, clocks, watches, boots, shoes, clothing, hats, caps, gloves, fancy goods and notions at from 30 to 50 per cent less than they can be manufactured | for in that City, with all freight and duty paid by the Japanese importer. | If the progress of Chinaand Japanin the manufacturing industry was not checked, it was demonstrable, Mr. Stewart said, | that the manufacturing for the whole world would be transferred from the Occi- | dent to the Orient, and the only way of | checking it was to abolish the present ad- | vantage of 50 per cent which they had in exchange and to make silver as valuable | proportionately as gold. | “Something,” he declared, “must be | done, because if things remain as they are, | Western civilization will shrink and shrivel, and the labor of this country is not only going to be put on a plane with Asiatic labor, but the Asiatics are going to have 50 per cent advantage-from the dif- ference of exchange in selling their prod- ucts here.” In the course of his speech, Stewart de- | nounced the *‘gold combine,” and charged ! that it controlled National conventions, | directed the selection of Presidential can- didates and practically dictated the course of the Treasury Department. He hoped that the question would be examined, and that the American people would realize where they would be with the gold policy and would contend for the rule of the peo- ple under the constitution. No action was taken on the resolution, which lieson the table, to be called up at | any time for further discussion. The other proceedings in the Senate to- day were of a routine character. Petitions | were presented for a restoration of tie wool.and weolens schedule of the McKin- ley tarfff act'and for one eent letter postage. | Bills'were introdnced to exclude aliens from vublic employmeny and io protect public forest reservations, and a resolution was offered and agreed to calling on the Presi- dent for a report as to why the law pro- viding for the.payment of a sugar bounty has not been executed. The Senate at 2:20 p. ». adjourned until | to-morrow. S Tl HOKE SMITH SCORED. Delegate Flynn Objects to the Secretary’s System. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—The session of the House lasted an hour and forty minutes and was devoted chiefly to routine business. Delegate Flynn of Okla- homa offered a resolution, which was adopted, cailling on the Becretary of the | Interior for the reasons. why that official had not, in accordance’ with the law, thrown open to settlement the Wichita Indian reservation in Oklahoma, and in- quiring whether any of Secretary Smith’s relatives were interested in delaying the time of its opening. In explaining his resolution Flynn said that the last Congress had passed a law directing the opening of the reservation of the Wichita and affiliated bande of Indians, and the Secretary of the Interior, so faras he (Flynn) could- learn, had done nothing inthematter. Atleastit had not beendone as the law plainly directed, and he wished to know the cause of the delay. It was a known fact in Oklahcma that Hoke Smith had a iot of relatives who were profiting by the delay. Thsy were acting as attor- neys for the Indians. Flynn had to-day seen a contract by which a man was to receive $2700 if he could prevent Secretary Smith trom ratifying the agreement. Cooper (D.) of Florida defended Secre- tary Smith, characterizing Flynn’s re- marks as “extraordinary.” Usually the gentleman from Oklahoma exhibited proper ideas of decency in addressing the House, but he had sadly failed to-day. Flynn, he thought, baa induiged in lan- guage regarding a Cabinet officer unbe- coming a member of the House, Flynn, replying to Cooper, admitted "that he had some feeling in the matter. E xplaining this, he said that last summer he bad come 1700 miles to see the Presi- dent to find out why Secretary Smith had not complied with the law. He made sev- eral attempts to see the President, but failed. He saw Private Secretary Thurber, who told him to drop the President a note. He did so and waited a week for a reply, but received none. He tried again to see the President and failed. In his effort to obtain information on the subject he had written Secretary Smith several letters, to which he had received no reply. He had also written the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, who replied that the matter was in the hands of Secretary Smith, but could give no further information. He had made every effort to ascertain what de- layed the carrying out of the law and had now brought the matter to the attention of the House. In conclusion Flynn said that there had never been, since the foundation of the Government, a Secretary of the Interior who had devoted less time to his public duties than had Secretary Smith, ‘“‘who was parading around the country chang- ing his mind on the money question.” The resolution was then agreed to. To-morrow was set apart for the consid- eration of amendments to the rules of the Fifty-third Congress so s to permit an enlargement of the list of committees and an increase of membership thereon, A bill was passed to legalize certain prac- tices in vogue of importing fish and pack- ing them in bonded warehouses for export. Unsuccessful attempts were made to have printed in the Record various memo- rials and petitions on the Cuban and Ar- menian questious. Bull (R.) of Rhode Island and Cobb (D.) of Missouri were appointed additional members of the Accounts Committee. The annual report of the Se‘cremry of the Treasury was received. The House at 1:40 o’clock adjourned. Among the bills introduced in the House to-day were the following: By Long (R.) of Kansas, granting to the State of Kansas, as an adaition to the Soldiers’ Home, the abandoned Fort Dodge military reservation. By Barholat (R.) of Missouri, providing for the registration of trademarks on bot- tles, boxes, barrels and other receptacles. By Johnson (R.) of California, appro- priating $268,650 for the purchase of the tollroads through the Yosemite National Park and making them free roads. = By Crowther (R.) of Missouri, extend- ing the provisions of existing pension laws to the officers and privates and their widows, children and dependent mothers and fathers of all State militia raised in the States during the years 1861 to 1865, who performed military service. By Hull (R.) of Towa, appropriating $50,000 for a military post at or near Des Moines, Iowa. By Hubbard (R.) of Missouri, defining train-wrecking with the intention te rob and making the crime punishable by death; also, approprizting $25,600 for a public building at Fulton, Mo. By Linney (D.) of North Carolina, pro- | viding for the coinage vf all silver bullion the product of mines of the United States. WELTON S THO WIS Bigamy Committed With the Full Consent of the First Spouse. Peculiar Matrimonial Arrangements to Which No Objection Is Made. WATKINS, N. Y., Dec. 16,—A strange | condition of matrimonial affairs obtains at | North Hector, a small place a few miles | up Seneca Lake from here. Lyman B. Welton, who is well advanced in years, formerly resided in Moravia, where he | now has Iiving a wife and two daughters. Last spring he went to North Hector to work. He appeared to be an active in- dustrious man and was especially 1nter- ested in G. A. R. affairs. He became acquainted with Mrs. Libbie R. Faussett, an estimable widow, a mem- ber of the Methodist church and active in church affairs. He and Mrs. Faussett were constantly in each other’s company, though Welton had fully made known to | the community that he was a married man with a wife and family at Moravia. The community is now shocked by the an- nouncement that Welton and Mrs. Faus- sett have been married, and still more amazed on learning that Welton had writ- ten his wife at Moravia that he was going to marry again. Mrs. Faussett said she married Welton with a full knowledge of the circumstances. Mrs. Welton No. 1 offered no objections to the proposed wedding. She is a spiritual- ist, and her belief has estranged her hus- band and herself, and for a long time they had not lived together. Welton thinks he has committed no moral wrong, and if he has transgressed legally says he is willing to take the consequences. “He wrote to his i daughter in Moravia of his marriage, and she replied, saying she was sorry he was imi“g to live with them no longer, but hoped he would be happy with his new wife. Mrs. H. R. Wolsey of Auburn, a sister | of the first Mrs. Welton, wrote to Mr. Welton a kind sisterly letter saying she hoped he would be happy with his new | love, as he had been a kind brother, and deserved better treatment than he had had. She also wrote Mrs. Faussett saying she would be glad to welcome her to her home. Welton still continues to provide for family No. 1, sending them money and provisions. ST S, ON PACIFIC RAILROADS. Secretary Carlisle Asks Prompt Action by Congress. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—Secre- tary Carlisle has recommended to Congress that it take action on the maturing bonds of the Pacific railroads, which Congress up to now has failed todo. He says: “‘Nothing has yet been accomplished in this direc- tion. The affairs of the companies are approaching a condition which will seriously embarrass the executive official charged with general sapervision of the matter, and will almost certainly result in great loss to the Government unless avoided by prompt action on the part of Congress. ‘‘Since the report referred to was made bonds for $2.362,000, issued to the Central Pacific, and $640,000, issued to the Kansas Pacific, have matured and have been paid by the United States. On the 1st of Janu- ary, 1896, more bonds will mature, viz.: $1,600,000 issued to the Central Pacific and $640,000 issued to the Union Pacific. On the 1st of February, 1899, other bonds issued to the Union Pacific for $4,320,000 become due. The sinking fund of the Union Pacific amounts to §$15,346,037 61. The total amount on the 1st of January, ASKS FOR ADMISSION Utah Territory Anxious to Soon Become a State. AFTER A PROCLAMATION Commissioners and Others Await Upon the Chief Executive, UTAH PEOPLE CONGRATULATED. The President Promises to Give the Matter His Immediate Attention. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—Colonel Isaac Trumbo of Salt Lake City called at the White House this morning to see the President concerning the issuance of the proclamation admitting the Territory of Utah as a State of the Union. The enab- ling act passed by Congress, under which the Utah peonle proposed and ratified a State constitution, provided that the Utah Commission—or election board under the Edmunds anti-polygamy act—should certify to the President the result of the vote on the constitution, and that the Ter- ritory should become a State on the first Monday after the proclamation was issued. The President congratulated Colonel Trumbo and the Utah people -upon the progress they had made. He said he would be happy to receive the delegation, but would like to postpone the hearing until ‘Wednesday, but upon Colonel Trumbo's statement that a deiegation of Utan’s citi- zen's were here and wished to accompany the members of the Utah Commission, the President decided to receive them at 12 o’clock to-day. At that hour the Utah men proceeded to the White House in a body. Besides Utah Commissioners J. R. Letcher and Hoyt Sherman Jr. the party included Governor Caleb West, Colonel Trumbo, Delegate Frank J. Cannon, John W. Burton and others. Commissioner Letcher presented to the President a copy of the enabling act of Congress and a copy of the new constitu- tion. He said: “By direction of the Utah Comiission we are here to present to you the constitu- tion ratitied by the people and to ask at your hands, Mr. President, the considera- tion which it demands.” The President responded as follows: “I congratulate Utah upon the progress that has been made. There has been a great change of sentiment in Utah during the past few years. I will examine the documents which are placed in my hands | to ascertain if the requirements of the law have been complied with and will give the matter of issuing a proclamation my im- mediate attention.” Secretary Thurber congratulated the Utah delegation and Colonel Trumbo especially on the happy result of his efforts to secure Statehood for Utah. The dele- gation left the Whnite House believing that the proclamation would be issued about the 1st of January. COLORADO STOCKS iAW General Indications of an Im- proved Condition in the Markets. New Companies Enter the Field and Are Doing Business on a Whole- sale Scale. DENVER, Coro., Dec. 16.—The mining stock market strengthened a little to-day and gives indications of improving in tone during the week. The dealing was gen- eral in the high-priced stocks and prices were well maintained. A new company placed its stock upon the market and 400,- 000 shares were absorbed by speculators desiring to make a quick turn. Another Mining Stock Exchahge for Cripple Creek was incorporated to-day. Omaha people have organized a company to generate and transmit electric power throughout the Cripple Creek district to customers desir- ing to avail themseives of a cheapened power. Such a power supply has been in operation in the Telluride district for years, working to excellent satisfaction. An English company, the Cripple Creek Exploration Syndicate, has been selling in London its stock at good prices, but up to this time the syndicate has had no Cripple Creek properties to its credit. It has an option on a bond and lease held by Estey and Mudd on the Lucky Gus, paying $5000 cash on an option for §$120.000. Estey and Mudd are to pay the Wilson Creek Consolidated Compan{ $100,000 for the property on February 24 next. The Longon people pay an advance of $20,000 on this bond and are to make a second payment on February 1, providing they decide to take 1t after an examination has been made. The Lucky Gus is now pro- ducing about $20,000 gross a month. 'I'he stock of the Wilson Creek Consolidated is held entirely by Buena Vista people, who A Chill To the surface of the body drives the blood to the heart cold and vitiated. Then fol- Jows catarrh, indigestion, heart disease. The blood must be enriched and vitalized by taking 1899, is §64,023,513, exclusive of interest. ‘It is evident that unless an adjustment be made under act of Congress the pay- ment of this sum with accruing interest must be provided for within the time named. If the property of the companies be unfortunately forced to sale under fore- closure proceedings before further provi- sions be made by Congrees to protect the Hood's Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifier. $1; 6 for $5. interest of the Government by increasing-{ its security or otherwise, no public official with legal authority now conferred by faw will be able to save any considerable part of this large claim. “‘Congress alone has power to determine the manner in which this important sub- ject shall be disposed-of. It is hoped that such legislation as it may deem necessary and proper be enacted at an early day.”’ s~ iy Found Dead ¢n a Well. BURLINGTON, Iowa, Dec. 16.—Youis Krekel, an old farmer, left home a month ago and was never seen again. His body has just been found in a deep well with his throat cut. There is no clew to the murderer. Ho'odls Pi"s cure biliousness and sick headache. 25c. Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Are acknowledged by thousands of persons who have used them for over forty years to cure SICK HEADACHE, GIDDINESS, CONSTIPA- TION, Torpid Liver, Weak Stomach, Pimples, and purity the blood. Crossman's Specific Mixturs ‘With this remedy persons can cure themselves without the least exposure, change of diet, or change ‘in application to business. The medicine ins nothing that is of the I zn:lumuon. Ask your druggist for it. itle, jury to the Price $1 a have been represented in camp since the early days by Dr. A. J. Lanterman. The Cripple Creek and Gold Hill Turrg! Company 1is selling stock in Paris a. 30 cents a share on the strength of & prots- pectus and a few feet of gopher holing into Gold Hill. The work is started high up on the hill, where little depth can ever be gained, and the distance it will have to run is 1n baa proportion. The sale of a half interest in the Bel- den mine, near Red CIiff, for $600,000 was consummated in this city to-day, the Eurchnera bemng from New York and rooklyn. West Creek and Cottonwood, the two new gold camps, are receiving more favor- able attention with the discoveries by prospectors of rock resembling strongly that of Cripple Creek. In Cottonwoo.l Camp free gold specimens have been taken from shallow shafts. sy by Uliles ERECTED BY ONE MAN. George Taylor's Devotion Caused the Building of a Church. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Dec. 16.—There was dedicated yesterday at Hepburnville as unique a Presbyterian church as exists anywhere in the State. It isa beautiful stone structure. Not only were the walls laid up by one man, but he also hewed out the stones from great bowlders on the Brobst Mountain. He labored more than 8ix years, never drawing pay for his work, and when he died recently he bequeathed his unpaid wages to the church. This heroic stonemason was George Tay- lor, and in the church he reared 1s a pretty memorial window erected by a gratefil congregation for the aged and untiring builder. The congregation of the church is composed mainly of well-to-do farmers and their families. The church is 60x38 feet, with a square tower sixiy feet high. About a year ago, when he had just about finished the tower and his long labor seemed about to end, Taylor grew ill. His hammer and chisel were laid aside and they were never again taken up by him. He was about 70 years of age and died of cancer. When Taylor died a will was found in which the story of h evotion to the church was made complete. All his wages, amounting to many hundred dol- lars, was bequeathed to the congregation. Trers remained a small debt, which was practically wiped out yesterday by those who gathered in the pretty house of wor- ship to see it dedicated. SEe s RS ONLY A HARMLESS AFFAIR. But the Spanish Minister Does Not Like the Joke. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—The police are conlident that the so-called “bomb’’ leit on the Spanish Minister’s doorstep Sunday morning was a harmless affair, but they are searching for the perpetrator of the hoax. The package was a common pasteboard box, partially filled with crushed coal, some granular sub- stance like sugar and two worn-out zinc sticks from a gravity battery. The fuse was merely a slip of twisted paper, which was not burning when the Eutler dis- covered the package, but which haa ap- parently been ignited at one time. ‘While Minister Dupuy de Lome had no idea the affair was explosive, he 1s opposed to such jokes, and is anxious for the police to catch the offenders in order that there will be no repetition of the affair, The police place iton a par with the alleged “‘infernal machine’” sent to Chief Justice Fuller some time ago, which simply con- sisted of fulminating powder and shoe- blacking. uh g Have No Connection With Harvey. 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