I
8AG U'A CRIgSGF T.
In four-fifths of the hotels and rea-
teive no pay, and are expected to live
taurants of Germany the waiters re-
on their tips.
The railroads of Holland are so care-
fully managed that the accidental
deaths on them average only one
year for the entire country.
The Ruskin commonwealth of social-
lsts at Waycross, Ga., has failed, ac-
cording to a dispatch to the New York
Sun. Only three families remain, the
others having departed for the North
and West. Their printing outfit is ad-
vertised for sale and the land will go
the same way. This will wipe out the
last vestige of the colony, which went
from Tennessee two years ago.
The compliments of the Companion
to fifteen millions of boys and girls
who again take their seats in the
schoolrooms and pick up their books!
A most respectful bow to the four hun-
dred thousand teachers whose summer
vacation should send them back to
their sacred task with freshened energy
and joyous enthusiasm! And three
times three for the public schools of
America!
A lively scrap between a clergyman
and a layman was witnessed at a bap-
tizing ceremony in Stanchfleld Lake,
Minn. George Tomlinson had agreed
to be baptized there by the Rev. Mr.
Orrock, but his nerve deserted him at
the last moment. The clergyman at-
tempted to use force, and there was a
struggle, the convert angrily resisting.
After a prolonged contest, the minister
succeeded in ducking the unwilling
convert in three feet of muddy water.
The death is announced at Genoa, at
the age of 98, of Pierre Maurier, a
Frenchman, who lived on the Island of
Elba when Napoleon took up his com-
pulsory residence there in April, 1814.
Pierre remembered hearing the news
towards the end of February, 1815, that
tbe Emperor, with over 1,000 followers,
had sailed away in feluccas bound for
Provence. The lad used to carry~eggs
and fruit to the kitchen of the Em-
peror and one day that famous poten-
tate caught him stoning a dog and
sharply reproved him. Maurier was
presented to Victor Emmanuel in 1863
and the King was much interested
when he heard from Pierre's own lips
his memories of the great Napoleon.
Figures may not lle, but they are
often disappointing. Census figures,
especially, are apt to fall below what
is expected of them. T~he recent cen-
sus of Canada shows a population of
5,338,833, which is an increase of 505,-
594 over the total of 1891. The gain of
about ten per cent in ten years seems
to many Canadians a meager result of
a decade of prosperity, and of energetic
efforts to promote immigration. But it
is the rule nowadays ~aat city popu-
lations grow faster than rural, and
Canada has few cities. Only eighteen
places in the Dominion have more
than ten thousand inhabitants. But
there remains the consolation that not
all the elements of national greatness
are measured by a count of heads.
Several articles of Jewelry embedded
in the flesh were discovered in the
making of an autopsy on the body of
Paul Shlrvell, a Russian, who was
killed in a mine in Pennsylvania. In
the leg was a miniature dumbbell,
about the size, of a cuff button. In
each instance the jewelry had been
fastened in the man's flesh, which had
grown over the article, completely hid-
ing it from view. On the body of
Frank Lorenz, wbo committed suicide
at White Haven recently, was found
similar ornaments embedded in the
flesh. It is b~lieved Lorenz and Shir-
yell were political exiles from Siberia,
and that the fastening of jewelry in
their bodies was a part of the punish-
ment inflicted by prison authorities.
Commodore Perry is a name high in
honor in the United States navy, hav-
ing been the title of two famous broth-
era--Oliver Habard and Matthew Cal-
braith Perry. On September 10th,
elghty-elght years ago, the elder broth-
er, a young lieutenant who had never
Been a naval fight, fought that fierce
Battle of Lake Erie, which ~aved the
~orthwest to the United States and
gave the world the dispatch: "We have
met the enemy and they are ours."
Forty-eight years ago last July the
younger brother landed in Japan with
a message from the president which
practically opened that country to the
world. The Matthew Perry monument
recently unveiled at Kurihama, Japan,
is a shaft thirty-three feet high made
of a rare native stove and bearing an
inscription in gold written by Marquis
Ito. A dense crowd of natives wlt-
negsed the ceremonies, both ;lapanese
and American battleships fired salutes
from the harbor, and one of the speak-
ers was Rear Admiral Beardslee, who,
as a midshipman under Perry, was
present at the original entry.
Henry J. Furber, Jr., professol ~,f
political economy at the Northwestern
University, Evanston, Ill., has been
decorated with the Cross of the Leglon
of Honor, in recognition of his interest
In the educational affairs of France.
About five years ago Prof. Furber sug-
gested to the French Minister of Public
Instruction certain changes in the
rules governing foreign students at-
tending the French universities. The
suggestions were adopted, and the
change was followed by a marked in-
crease in the number of American
studentm in French colle~L
SUGAR TRUST WILL WAGE WAR
ON BEET SUGAR ASSOCIATION
:~-~a Francisco, Oct. 6.--Commenting
~pon the reduction of the price of su-
gar in the Missouri market by the sa-
gar trust, Henry T. Oxnard, president
of the American Beet Sugar Associa-
tion, defined it as another move to
m'ush out beet sugar production l~ ~r-
der that the trust might have no @p-
position.
"If they can succeed in the Missouri
rivex valley," said he, "they will then
turn their attention to the beet factor-
ies ~n Michigan and other sections,
and by the power of concentrated cap-
ital crush oat successively nnd Indi-
vidually the beet sugar producers. The
trust tries to deceive the public by
claiming that the beet producers can
still make money at the low price it
is lxying to estal)lish. This is false,
and if it had been true, then the trust
would have tried to establish a still
lower price. They are not sacrificing
1~ cents per pound in the Mlssouri
river markets to make a price that
will still be pl~ofitable to the beet sugar.
meu.
"But this particular move on the
part of the sugar trust will fall flaL
The beet sugar factories will not sell
their sugar in the Misouri river valley
at 1~/~ cents under the market when a
fraction of that 1~ cents will move
their sugar to every other market in
the United States. What the next
move of the trust will be remains to
be seen.
"The trust also attempts to justify
its action by insinuating that the beet
factories have gone out of their right-
ful sphere in making refined sugar in-
stead ~)f raw sugar to be refined by ,the
trust. Independent beet sugar pro-
dueers have always made and sold re-
fined beet sugar. It would be putting
one's head l~ the lion's Jaw with a
vengeance for the beet factories to
.equip themselves only for the
of raw sugars at prices to be fixed by
the trust. Besides it is an economical
.bhmder to perform in two operations
wha~ can :be done as well in one.
"The movements on the part af the
sugar trust In selling its refined sugar
far below the cost to tt of the raw
material, ~nd In the special market
which is now reached to some extent
by the beet sugar producers, cannot
but call down on the head of the trust
the condemnation not only of the beet
sugar producers, but also of all fair-
minded people in the country, and hav-
ing done this they have placed them-
selves In an exceedingly poor position
to go before Congress and ask for the
perpetuation of their power as refin-
ers; although they have recently ar-
ranged to increase their capital stock
to the extent of $15,000,(R)O to rivet
their control of the raw cane product.
"In view of this act on the part of
the sugar trust, the United States
Congress can ill afford to inaugurate
the policy of reducing the present rate
of duty by reciprocity or in any other
way which would have the certain ef-
fect of enriching the trust on one
hand and on the other the killing of
the most promising industry in the ag-
ricultural business of America."
NEW ISTHMIAN TREATY READY
ABROGATING CLAYTON-BULWER
Chicago, Oct. 6.--The Record-Herald
this morning prints the following from
Walter Wellman, its Washington cor-
respondent:
"The United States and Great Brit-
ain have reached an agreement con-
eernIng the Isthmian canal question,
and the new treaty will be presented to
the Senate for its ratification early in
the coming session."
Mr. Vtellman says: "I am now able
~o give the substance of this t}'eaty.
It provides:
"First--For abrogation of the old
Clayton-Bulwer treaty in tote.
"Second--For a neutral Isthmian ca-
naI,'in case one be constructed by the
United States, open in time of peace
to the ships of all nations upon equal
terms.
"Third--This neutrality is guaran-
teed by the United States alone and
other maritime powers are not invited
to participate in such guarantee. Great
Britain is inferentially one of the
guarantors, because she is a party to
this treaty.
"Fourth--In case of ~var, the United
States reserves the right to ~ake such
steps for its own protection as it may
deem proper.
"It will be seen that the new treaty
meets the principal objectic.ns which
were offered to the old Hay-Paunce~
fete convention and which led to its
rejection by the Senate. While the
principle of neutrality is asserted, the
United States alone guarantees that
neutrality, and no European powers
are invited to give their assent t~ it.
"It was this feature, more than any
other, which led to the defeat of the
former treaty. Many senators were
willing to join with Great Britain in
terway, because England already en-
joyed certain treaty rights upon the
Iu¢hmus. But they were decidedly un-
willing to invite other European na-
tions to give their assent. Those na-
tions had no standing in the case and
it was deemed unwise to invite them
to participate in a purely American
affair with which they had no direct
concern.
"By the terms of the new" treaty the
United States may, in time of war,
deal with the canal as it deems best
for its own interests. It may close the
canal to the ships of its enemies, and
could, if it were thought advisable
(which no one believes it ever will be)
fortify the channel or its termini. In
the broad sense the Isthmian water
way is to be 'all-American.' The Unit-
ed States is to build it and have con-
trol of it, unhampered by onerous re-
strictions.
"Ambassador Choate will bring to
the United States a draft of the new
treaty, and President Roosev21t wiU
soon have it in his hands. The Presi-
dent will be able to discuss it in his
forthcoming message to Congress.
"He warmly approves of it. It meets
almost exactly the principles for
which he contended a year ago. He
never opposed neutrality, providing it
did not bind the hands of the United
States in time of war. He never in-
sisted upon fortifications. He never
advocated preferential tariffs.
"There can be little or no doubt that
the new treaty will be approved by
the American press and p,~ple, and
that it will be confirmed by the Sen-
ate. During the first sixty days of
the coming session all treaty obstacles
to the passage of an Isthmian canal
a guarantee of the proposed new wa- bill should be removed."
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SERIES OF VIOLENT ATTEMPT TO DISBAR
ASSAULTS IN PUEBLO
Pueblo, Colo., Oct. 6.--(Denver News
Special.)--Conclusive evidence is at
hand that at least two of the assaults
out of three assaults and a holdup
committed on Pueblo women last
night were the work of the same man
and the officers are of the opinion that
the whole series of crimes on girls and
women is the work of a single man.
A .44-caliber Colt's revolver taken
from the home of'Mrs. James P. Hen-
derson, who was assaulted at her resi-
dence, 1102 Arroyo avenue, last even-
ing, was found this morning at the
home of Mr. Hamilton, No. 8 Block J.
At 2:30 this morning the police were
notified by the neighbors of the Hamil-
ton family that a white man with a
handkerchief tied round his face for
mask had forced his way into the
house, deliberately raising a window.
After ransacking a bureau and secur-
ing a diamond ring and some other
property the ruffian Jumped ripen the
bed of one of the daughters of the
family and was choking her when her
feeble outcries aroused the household
frightening the man away. In mak-
ing his escape, however, the villain left
a heavy club and the revolver taken
from the Henderson house.
Within a very few minutes of this
report came another to police head-
quarters stating that a man answer-
ing the description of the assailant of
Mrs. Henderson, the burglar at the
Hamilton house and the man who
held up Mrs. Margaret Blair on North-
ern avenue early in the evening, bad
committed a criminal assault upon
Mrs. J. M. Lackey. the wife of a steel
wo~er living at 1326 Pine street.
In addition to the finding of the
Henderson revolver at the Hamilton
house is the further evidence leading
the police to believe that one man has
been committing all the crimes which
began four weeks ago, is that the de-
vice of a telegram to get clutches on a
woman was Used anly~Thursday night
at the home of W. J. Mills, 505 Grand
avenue, where an attempt was made
to ussault Mr. Mills' fourteen-year-old
daughter. This man carried under his
arm a sugar sack such fls was nsed by
the assailant of the little daughter of
Clay Hohncs. In this case the child
was carried from her bed in the house
where her pqrcnts were sleeping, to
the back porch, where the most brutal
asssault of the series was committed.
Municipal League.
Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. Z--The
C~)lorado State League of Municipali-
ties will hold its annual convention in
this city November 14th. There will
be about 100 delegates, representing
thirty cities and towns.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Denver, Oct. 6.--The Supreme Court
has been asked to disbar Attorney
General Charles C. Post. In the same
petition the court is asked to cite for
contempt of court the attorney gener-
al, the thirteen county assessors who
constitute the State Board of Assess-
ors and their secretary. The petition.
era are the attorneys for the corpora-
tions interested in the two actions
brought to test the constitutionality of
the revenue law, Henry T. Rogers,
Willard Teller, E. E. WLhitted, Charles
W. Waterman, Charles E. Gnat, Henry
A. Dubbs and D. C. Bellam.
The disbarment and contempt pro-
ceedlngs are asked on the ground that
the attorney general, the State Board
of Assessors and its clerk showed con-
tempt of court by extending the ab-
stracts of assessments of the corporate
property and certifying ~daem out to
the county clerks.
The application was made to the
Judges of the Supreme Court in cham-
bers yesterday morning and will be
passed upon by the court Monday
morning at 10 o'clock.
The persons the corporations want
punished for contempt, besides Attor-
ney General Post, are County Assess-
ors S. H. Alexander, G. N. Lysight, J.
A. Webber, A. J. Hogan, E. H. Stev-
ens, Hugh Taylor, E. Q. Price, A. M.
Thomas, F. W. Brush, C. P. Linck, W.
F. Whinnery and L. F. Neff, who com-
pose the State Board of Assessors, and
their clerk, A. B. Gray.
Accompanying the petition Is an affi-
davit Sworn to'by James Correy, tax
agent for the Denver & Rio Grande
road: in which he avers that Secretary
Gray of the State Board of Assessors
told him that the assessors had ex-
tended their abstract of assessment of
corporate property and instructed Sec-
retary Gray to certify them out, which
he did, and that the action was taken
under tim advice of the attorney gen-
eral.
Mexicans Favor Arbitration.
Mexico City, Oct. 7.--The Pan-Amer-
ican Congress is looked forward to
with great interest. Mexican public
sentiment strongly favors the adoption
of a system of arbitration for the re-
publics of North, Central and South
America. It is believed President
Roosevelt will lend his powerful sup-
port to this idea.
More Trouble In Ohin~.
London, Oct. 7.--"Another Basel mis-
sion has been destroyed in the Hsing
Hing district," says a dispatch from
Hong Kong to the Times. "The move-
ment resembles the 'Boxer' rising."
WASttINGTON GOSSIP.
The Navy Departinent will soo~
~ave :a portrait of John P. Kennedy
of Ma~:yland, who was secretary of the
navy under President Fillmore.
The secretary of agriculture has ap-
pointed Dr. F. I{. King, now professor
of agricultural psyclmlogy in the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, to be chief of di-
vision in the bureau of soils, Dcpart-
~nent of Agriculture.
Acting Secretary Spaulding of the
£reasury has approved a plan for a yel-
low fever institute within the marine
hospital service, whose object will be
to collect facts and make investiga-
tions ~)f the subject of yellow fever.
The Treasury Department has issued
a regular warning that a new counter-
feit $5 silver certificate is in circula-
tion. It is of the series of 1899. check
letter "B," plate number thirty-seven,
~nd bears the portrait of Indian chief
"'One Papa." The counterfeit is printed
from photo-etched plates of fair work-
manship on good qu'Hity paper, bear-
lug lines in imitation.
The Interior Department ts rapidly
completing plans for the opening of the
Fort Hall, Idaho, Indian reservation,
and it is expected that the reservation,
which contains 400,000 acres, will be
thrown open within a few weeks. The
Quinault reservt~tion in Washington,
comprising 3(}0,000 acres, will probably
be thrown open next spring. Commis-
sioner Hermanu of the general land
office, said that it was probable the
old "sooner" system would be adopted
at the opening of both reservations.
The Japanese government has been
told courteously that the United
States officials had no intention to dis-
criminate, on account of race, in mak-
ing the personal examinations in
quarantine at San Francisco and Hon-
olulu, which led to the liliilg of remon-
str~mces by the f~'mer government.
The quarantine rules are said to have
been based on purely geographic and
sanitary considerations and are not en-
forced toward Japanese with greater
rigor than toward other peoples. It is
believed that the explanation will be
satisfactory.
Tim forthcoming annual report of fi~e
postmaster general will show that for
the fiscal year ending June 30th last,
the gross receipts of the I)envcr post-
office were $479,(}25, as comi)ared to
$417,572 the year previous, while the
gross receipts of all presidential post-
offices in Colorado were $1,(XH),477, as
compared to $890,137 in 1900. The
net earnings of the Denver office dur-
ing the past year amounted to $30i,509,
as against $260,292 in 10@0, while all
presidential offices in the state show
a net revenue of $586,778, in 1901, com-
pared to $522,683 in 1900. ,,
At a recent Cabinet meeting the prin-
cipal subject discussed was that of the
cable to Hawaii, Guam and the Phil-
ippines. Propositions have been made
to lay a commercial cable from San
Francisco to connect these islands,
and the question under discussion was
whether under our peace treaty with
Spain the United States could author-
ize or in any way encourage the laying
of such a cable by private parties. Un-
der a franchise obtained from Spain
some time before the late war, the ex-
clusive right to cable connections was
secured by a foreign corporation. Un-
der the treaty of Paris the United
"States obligated itself to protect all
property rights iu the archipelago, and
the question now at issue is whether
permission to land the proposed cable
at Manila or some otller Philippine port
would be a violation of the terms of
the Paris treaty. The attorney general
will prepare a statement for the Pres-
ident covering all the questions in-
volved.
The comptroller of the currency has
prepared a summary of returns relat-
ing to the organiaztion of national
banks under the provision of the na,
tional currency law, as amended by
the act of March 14, 1900, statistics
being brought down to the close of
September, 1901. During the eighteen
and a half months ended September
30th there were organized 815 banks,
with a capital of $36,512200, and with
a deposit of bonds as securities for cir-
culation of $10,556.750. In number of
organizations the middle states lead,
with 224, and capital of $12,055,000.
The western states organized~ 151, with
capital of $4,895,000; the Pacific states,
including Hawaii, twenty-two, with a
eapltal of $1,435,000. In point of num-
her of organizations Texas leads with
ninety banks. Since March 14, 1900,
the number of banks in existence has
increased from 3,617 to 4,254; the cap-
ital stock from $616,308,095 to $661,-
851,695; bonds deposited from $244,-
611,570 to $330,721,930, and circulation
secured by bonds and lawful money,
from $254,402,730 to $358,830,548, or
a net increase of $104,427,817.
The secretary of war has made an
allotment of $100,000 for the purpose
of preparing the military post at Wash-
ington barracks for the use and occu-
pation of the army war college, the
school of national defense and the en-
gineer school of appllcatlon. The war
college and school of national defense
are entirely new institutions and will
be organized under plans prepared un-
der the special supervision of Secre-
tary Root. The engineer's school is
now at Willetts Point, New York, and
will be formally installed at WaShing-
ton barracks immediately. The bat-
talion of engineers, consisting of three
companies now stationed at Willetts
Point, will begin the movement from
their present station at once. Classes
in the proposed war college and school
of national defense will be colnposed of
honor graduates of the existing infan-
try, cavalry and artillery schools at
Fort Leavenworth and Fort Monroe,
respectively. The $100,0()0 allotment
is to be devoted to the improvement of
the grounds and the erection of a few
necessary buildings. It is the intention
of the secretary of war to make Wash-
ington barracks a model military post,
not only the finest of its kind in this
country, but the finest in the world.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, af-
ter careful consideration of*the reports
and estilfiates from leading beet sugar
producers, estimates the beet sugar
productiou for 1901 at 198,500 tons.
The cane sugar production is estimat-
ed as follows: Southern states, 300,000
to~s; Porto Rico, 100,000; Hawaii,
300,000; total, '700,000 tons. The sugar
production in tons of western states
follows: California, 80,000; Colorado,
20200; Utah, 15,000; Washington, 2,.
000; Oregon, %000.
CHINESE AFFAIRS IN A BAD WAY
AND FOREIGN GUARDS LOOTING
Pekin, Oct. S.--The officials here
have not been informed as to whether
the court has started for Kai Feng Fu
as announced in a dispatch from
Shanghai yesterday. Previous ad-
vices lead to the belief that the court
did start. The temporary palaces at
Kai Feng Fu and I)ao Ting Fu are be-
ing prepared like permanent dwellings,
although they will be occupied only
for a few days.
The requisitions for the traveling ex-
penses already amount to $9,500,000,
in spite of the edict enjoining economy
in this respect. The scale of prepara-
tions may be judged from a single
item--S22,500 will be expended on ta-
bleware. Several local officials along
the route have resigned because they
are unable to meet the expenses of
entertaining the court. The latteffs
Journey now is particularly unfor-
tnnflte, b(~cflllSe tile r(~gions trqversed
have been impoverished by the sum-
mer famine. The Chinese officials are
eonsiderin~ the desirability of protest-
ing to the foreign ministers against
the con(hict of the legation guards.
The soldiers continue (o treat the
C lfinese like a conquered people.
Groups of soldiers roam about the city,
wearing their side arms, often intoxi-
cated, maltreating the natives and
committing petty robberies. A party
of Americans recently loo~ed a silver-
smith's store, securing several hun-
dred taels' worth of propcrff. The
whole garrison was contincd to bar-
racks until the guilty men were d~
tccted.
The governor of Pekin has I)rote~t-
ed because the foreign storekcepe:s
continue to occupy buildings which
they seized in 1900 regardless of thdt
owners' wisiL The ministers will evi:'t
the storekeepers from these places.
Correspondence has been exchanged
between the Chinese officials and the
ministers regarding the complaln.'s
lnade by Chinamen that they have
been compelled against their will lo
take part in the work of building tt~e
new leg'ltions.
It is l)ccoming evident that some
Modus vivendi must be established, cr
the conditions will become intolerable.
Notwithstanding the ministers' policy
of moderation in erecting defences,
~he legation quarters present the ap-
pear;race of a fortified city. The Brit-
ish defenses, opposite the imperial
city, are particularly formidable, the
italian defenses, adjoining the British,
have eulbrflsures for cannon, a deep
moat protects the German section, and
• lcross the city wall the Germans have
erected a stone fort for artillery.
Prince Su, the collector of t,~xes, has
adopted the policy of taxing goods
brought into Pekin for foreign mer*
chants. Heretofore such goods have
not been t'lxed and the merchants
have protested to the ministers, who
hchl tint the goo(Ls should remain un-
taxed, on the ground that they are in-
tended for the use of the legations.
SUDDEN DEATH OF THE AMEER
MAY CAUSE COMPLICATIONS
London, Oct. 7.--A news agency pub-
lishes the following dispatch from
Stmla, dated this evening:
Habib Oullah Khan, eldest son of
the Ameer of Afgh'lnistan, hq,~, report-
ed to the British agent "it Cabul that
the Ameer died last Thursday, aft,:r
a brief illness.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Simla says the Ameer was taken
seriously ill September 28th. Habib
Oullah Khan, October 2nd, asked in
a durbar that public prayers be offered
for the Ameer. In the nlorning of Oc-
tober 3rd Habib Khan announced that
his father had expired at 3 o'clock
that morning. Nothing is known of
the state of affairs at Cabul.
No confirmationhas been received at
the foreign office of the report of the
death of the Ameer, but its truth is
not doubted. In viexv"bf the existing
critical situation in South Africa, the
news sent something like a shock
through the United Kingdom. Great
confidence, however, is exl)ressed on
all sides of the ability of the Indian
viceroy to deal with the situation.
Before Lord Curzon attained his
present dignitie~ he had traveled
through Afghanistan as the guest of
the Ameer, and had thoroughly mas-
tered the problem of British policy
in central Asia.
At Simla it is believe~l that Habib
Oullah Khan, who was regarded by
his father as his successor, and had
long had a share in the govermnent,
will assume the succession peaceably.
lie is at Cabul. For some years, un-
der his father's controlling hand, he
h'~s had charge of the army and the
state treasury and the Supreme Court
of Apix~al. IIe is regarded :is a wise
and temperate ruler, favorable to
Great Britain, but les~ masterful than
his father, and for this reason less
likely to be strong enough to govern
the fierce, unruly tribes or to resist
the attempts of his brothers to seize
power.
It is expected that Lord Curzon will
postpone his intended tour of Burmah
until after the Afghan question is set-
tled down.
The editorials in the morning papers
express confidence that, with a strong
viceroy and a strong government at
home, any possible complications fol-
lowing the de'~th of the Ameer will be
firmly and prudently met. There is,
however, an underlying current of un-
easiness discernible as to whether
Russia will seize the opportunity to
push her frontier forward. The Brit-
ish troops in India, owing to the
South African war, are now below
their normal strength. It will be im-
possible to take any more for South
Africa and the news will still further
encourage the Boers to prolong their
resistance.
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BOARD ()F ASSESSORS
CITED FOR CONTEMPT
Denver, Oct. 8.--Judges Gabbert and
Steele of the Supren~f Court yesterday
morning in re the revenue law tangle,
"ordered the thirteen members of the
State Board of Assessors, A. B. Gray,
secretary of the board, and Attorney
General Post to appear in court next
Monday morning to show cause why
they should not be punished for con-
tempt. The charge against Gray and
the beard is that they proceeded with
the work of assessing corporate prop-
MONEY RAISED FOR
MISS STONE'S RANS0]If
Boston, Oct. 8.--Nearly half the mon-
ey needed to ransom Miss Ellen M.
St, one, the missionary, from the Bul-
garian brigands, has been placed in
the hands of Kidder, Peabody & Co~
The exact figures at midnight were
$45,543.40 cash and $7,500 In pledges.
Of this amount the firm this afternoon
sent $35,000 to the State Department
to be forwarded to its consular agent
at the place where it can be used most
expeditiously.
erty in violation of an injunction issued [ Members of the firm, when informed
by Judge Dixon of the District Court lthat Vienna advices indicated there
of Pueblo, and also prepared and sent would be a month's extension of time
mlt abstracts of assessment during the in which to pay the ransom, said the
life of a writ of prohibition issued by forwarding of the money would not be
the Supreme Court and i~eld to be bind-, delayed in the least. During the after-
lug on them to take no action under the
new revenue law. The attorney gener-
al ~ said to have advised them In their
course.
The attorney general, the assessors
and the secretary are also called upon,
to prepare within the same period of
thne an answer to a motion filed by
the corporation attorneys yesterday
lnornlng that all the work done by the
board of assessors (meaning particular-
ly the sending out of the abstracts of
assessment) since the issuance of the
writ of injunction and the granting of
the temporary writ of prohibition be
declared null, inamuch as it was done
in violation of court orders.
EpiscopMian Liberality.
San Francisco, Oct. 8.--Yesterday
was a day of oratory in the house of
deputies of the triennial Episcopal con-
vention. The debate, which began
last Saturday, ou the proposed addi-
tion to article ten of the constitutioff,
prescribing the form of worship, was
continued all day, and finally resulted
in Its adoption. As adopted it reads
as follows:
"But the provision may be made by
canon for the temporary use of old
forms and directories of worship by
congregations not in union with this
church who are willing to accept the
spiritual oversight of the bishop of the
diocese or missionary district."
The Roy. Dr. Huntington of New
York made the closing argmnent, tie
declared it to be his purpose to bring
in a canon embodying "ill the pro-
visions of his original resolution, re-
ferred to by Dr. Fulton, if the "reload-
meat should be adopted. If this is
adopted such a canou would be possi-
ble. The four great (tuestions, he said,
which confront the American people
are, the sanctity of the home, the puri-
fication of the municipal life of our
great cities, the relatiou between cap-
jtal and labor, and, towering up over
all the others, because entering into all
others, was the question whether we
can thoroughly and uniformly consol-
idate all the religious forces of the
Republic, and he eloquently argued
that the step which is now proposed to
he taken by the Episcopal Church
would be in the direction of such a
consolidation.
i noon the officials of the American
board in charge of Congregational mis-
sions met informally. The officials per-
sonally contributed to the ransom, but
as officials they took the position they
have maintained all along, that ~t
would be inadvisable for them, as a
missionary board, to pay a ransom--
this for the reason that it would be put-
ting a premium on brigandage that
must in the end make missionary work
in wild and rough countries more diffi-
cult and possibly impracticable.
After this meeting it was officially
given out that the State Department at
Washington has agreed to take full
charge of the delivery of the ransom to
the brigands.
London, Oct. 8.--"It iS reported from
Sofia," ~ays a dispatch from Vienna,
"that United States Consul Dickinson
and an envoy of the missionary society
a~TiVed there Saturday, intending to
follow up Miss Stone and to deposit a
)ortion of the ransom. The brigands
rhave extended the time for payment
one nloIlth."
A~pnhoe RepubUean Nominations.
Denver, Oct. 8.--At the Republican
county convention held ;n this city
yesterday the following ticket was
placed in nomination: County Judge,
George P. Steele; sheriff, James M.
Walker; clerk and recorder, Elias F.
I)unleavy; treasurer, L. J. Hadley; as-
sessor, Charles G. Ferguson; coroner,
George Simpson; superintendent of
public instruction, Mrs. Mary D.
tIughes; surveyor, J. A. McIntyre;
commissioner. District No. 1, Roland
D. Smith; eomnlissioner, District No.
4, John E. Button; justice of the peace
second justice precinct. Thomas E.
McClelland; constable, second justice
precinct, Patrick H. Geary.
Hahn's Peak Railroad.
Laramie, Wyo., Oct. 8.--General
Manager Shipman of the Laramie,
Hahn's Peak & Pacific railroad, has re-
turned from Denver, where he closed a
contract for 2,600 tons of steel rails
for the first section of the road. The
rails are sixty-pound and as soon as
they arrive track laying will be com-
menced.
The contracts for rolling stock have
not been closed yet, although they are
under way.
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