Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 April 1889 — Page 2

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THE REPUBLICAN.

FubliMieti by MONTGOMERY.

W. S.

GREENFIELD. 1 ANA

THE opposition to the, proposed expenditure of $100,(WO,QuO to strengthen the British Davy wer.t all lo pieces on the final vote, and work is to ha commenced on the new ships. It will take seven vcars to build the ECv/ beet, ami if the other great naval powers will kindly wait till 1S36, and do no building in the interval, the British navy may perhaps ho as inviaeibie by that time as the Lords of the Adnbrhiicy predict.

Th'2 daughter of the celebrated Prof. Agassiz is busy in Boston establishing a manual tr -ir.ing fi-ehod. Over 2,000 boys and girls shared mi the rdvaniages of this school la-'t year, hflons are being put fo*i-h to have the se'd.oo.. adopted by tho city. President blliot. of Harvard, gays ot t. tlia'- it not, mply an industrial school, but- be hi^ i•est sense, aschool o. mor-iK the pupils demonstrate

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work progresses. Baitimo 150 pupils industrial:y ii schools. In 2-Tsv.v Oi-lc:: .ns manual work areerarpHi.-.ory. I'- vV .s icgton the General Govepiment pas

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preprinted §5,01)0 to make .-it? experiment in teaching carving in wood wc:k am: cooking to I,SCO children. It is itieides of the aire. We must go in the twentieth century wifh the r.cv.- cdueaOon universal.

It ixas been aboastof ou-: country that unlike European State v'fi had no proletariat—certainly not euUu:i- t»io very largest cities. This is no longer true. There is a marked increase of ten b-uu-y to oppose a!! parties on the part oi -.tmasse.*? and rally about: those- candidates who appeal directly lo the populace. Tlie party slate is by no me.ar.a secure I allegiance. \Vhoever has a grievance lays it, if possible, directly before the "oi oollol," and the chances are in favor of his election. Be mask able ilir.-.tratione of this fact have occurred Kevv York State, resulting in the overwhelming triumph of independent candidates as judges and mayors, la this a grow!h ot European socialism. or is it a -enc'ion from strong party spirt-? It is elwrJy a revolt against the leadership of the moneyed classes and professional politicians. It is as likely to he beneficial as otherwise.

A BfFF.U/O Judge is reported as refusing to give a :n nainranz.i.tion papers on the ground that ho was a common drunkard and wife beater. The decision may or may not be constitutional it is at least righteous. A good deal more than usual is being said about the limitation of niTrrge to a basis of intelligence and character. There, certain!)' ct-n be no reasoN, in justice or policy, forgiving the ballot to a habitual drunkard end vpgabor. i. A man incapable of decent decision concerning bis private affairs is wonhk'ES as a judge of public affairs, and if he casts his influence in his household ir. favor of rioting why should, he be trusted to decide on matters of social order and law? Evidently the Bufialo Judge knows what, kind of voters we need, and in his case the voters kmvw what sort of Judae was needed. But unlimited suffrage has not so good a record elsewhere.

THE tendency lo call all men infidels who disagree with the speaker's creed is by no xseaus yet exhausted. It is a short way of destroying, or trying to destroy, a man's character and to prevent liberty of opinion and sound noes of judgment. I'nt the popular resentment against this sort of denunciation is growing. One of the Eastern Bifchops recently declared that all Fiance had gone over to infidelity. This wholesale charge has waked up seme idiarp replies from both orthodox and liberal preachers as well as from the press. One noted preacher bluntly replies that tlie changes of opinion within tlie church are as great as those without and thatmuch of the creeds are, practically outgrown. However this r. ay be, it is no longer tolerable for any man to hurl epithets at free men for free thinking. There was never so little infidelity in the world as to-day. Infidelity rightly defined is lack of faithfulnets to the truth.

A CANVASS of the clergymen of Massachusetts upon Constitutional Prohibition, undertaken by the Amendment Committee, gives some interesting results. There were 1,0-36 re spouses, and all but 102 of these were in favor of the amendment, 91 bei-'g opposed and 11 undecided. But the fact is pointed out that this is considerably less than one half of the whole number of clergymen in the State. There were 2,374 in 1880, and there are now probably between 2,500 and 3,000. The inference is that that those who did not respond are not in favor of the amendment. The return-! prove that it finds its principal support in the Methodist ard Baptist denominations. There were, 1880, G74 Congregational ministers, but only 279 re sponded at ail to the circular out of 249 Unitarian clergymen at that date only 74 responded, and 30 said "no" out of

OKLAHOMA iS SETTLED.

THE TjilAt,S, STKUGGT.ES AJfD SACRtU JTICJ2S OF THE BOO MICKS I'AliTIALLY UEWAKJJI-D.

Scenes ta and About ArU »ns ts City Kefovo and During the Departlire of Trains—OEI the "Wny—Wondrous Transfurmat'ii Scene thntbogan with tin .Som:din:j *f a ISiyc?le—

V/agon Xlooisio I.cavo Their Wtsicies, Mount Their FiofU-sv i!orsi anil 1'!-• for a Ilomc-stoad -Tl. Ihitiwr.y B(i(i!acr.s iire Frozen Out tit,5ttfZiri j,^.'early livery Foot oftho .Vcn-i'. !.i ii a:jj I.'us StaJiOs'S OiS by Men AlrwuJy on he .Spat-A rncss Coaviji'to into ni:inic$):itily in T: r.'o itour-i niul tO.OOO Voii'ra S«l:-*'t a -ilayoi' uiitl City Ct)iino i—Full !«taiis.

Oklahoma is open, wide open. Th.a long Jooked-for 2.td of April has come and passed and a country was settled in a day. The trials, struggles and sacrillcis of years are paitially rewarded, but the events of the day made those of the days, weeks and months to follow and will prove how far the supply is below the demand, and necKaitale fuiilier conce«ior.s lo avert disorder, bloodshed and other conditions but liitie short oi anarch?'. The history of rhis one day will foiover ba memorable in frontier umiak an.,I will leuva baiiicti -a heritage of litigation whiuh vriii be frnit to and shaikh and claim attorneys, but be det.iruciive to the claims or poor uud honest settlers.

The Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fo railroad began running its sectional trains out of Kansas City Sunday night and picidng up cars at almost every station along the route. Hundreds of paoy le we:*e waiting at every depot and at the cars, all of which were fall before the h...'dtT line was reached could they have been coupled, they would have ivJo a train miles in icngiii. The crowds were composed ot speculators, :., ventureis, sigi.t-seeis, thieves, gamblers and a sprinkle of the demimcutte. The farming element was not largely represented, as all of he hoD.se.-teadera have gone on hefore. Tuere were men in tne cars from every city and important- point in the country, and there was not a state or lermocy iu the cou?:try which did not li.ivo iis representatives there who tilled u!« toe seats, occiip:e.l ail the standiug ouui in the aisles ::nu iiio-al up tie spaces between the coaches, nanging ou the iron banisters and girders svtlh a grip born of ilesoair and determinalion. The nevspapcr coach .vas the iirst out ox Arkansas City it contained representatives oi ali r.ijy leadingnewspapers in the ccunt-ry who vrere compelled to yieid room and comfort for tho good of the c.iuss. The conductors were vigilant in t:ii- collection of i'ares, bur- it is cerfaia '.i:a a great av-mv deadheads went through to tlie promised land in the ru-h aiui Jurry aud roar of the boomer campaign. Tliere was but iittie sigiit-cet-iiig iniiuiged in, «-.-j the crowd di'.t not earo to iook at anything ualii it got to Oklahosua.

At Arkansas City there were over seventy-live coaches side-tracked in the yards awaiting the rut-h. Ail of these were lowered into the yards at some distance beios-v thj depot. Tlie crowd b&gan gathering on toe platform two hours before daylight, and long before the first faint of the dawn of the fateful day !he city was awake and Stirling. The streets presented a live, picturesque appearance. Afier the snn rose crowds weie lushing to ward the center of action from jiii paasoi tho city. Tno hoteia emptied their hundreds into the streets, the hot-bouses contributed hundreds more out of the hospitable homes of the nty, nearly ail of which have entertained guer.-ts during the past ,veeK. Some long strings oi men carrying grips, bundles, knapsacks and pa rend* ot e.-./e:y possible ami h:.j.ossibie uescriMtiou. tlundreds of bo-uuera and rnst-jers. in their impatience to get abroa .1, rushed down en luasse to the yards and attempted to force an entrance in'o tno cars, alt ot which were seauroiy locked. The excitement may be judged from the fact that a large number of coacii windows were broken out by people who were anxious to secure seats. A j-fct'ong guard of railroad men was detailed to protect the company's property,and they had a contract of unusual dimensions on their hands. The crowd was iiie sti icken. After waiting so many eventful days and nights for the hour of action to come, men wore seized with a sud'j"r fear that thoy would be left in the lurch, and that fear served to make them like a drove of stampeded cattle. Trere was a vain aitemot at good humor in tlie siruegb', wf/ieh concealed tho grim purpose behind, uud there was no quarter shown in tlie rush for place. It

An amusing, and at the same time pathetic incident of the early morning was a cattle train lying on a sidetrack loaded with a boomer, his horse, wngon and a cow, wife ana children and all hi3 little household effects. He was a

The first section made up consisted of nine coaches, the newspaper coach and one calaboose. It pulied out at 8.17, railroad time. This was the first train that ever ran out- of Kansas loaded with settlers for Oklahoma, and even those who were disappointed in getting aboard of it joined in a wild, enthusiastic cheer which rent, the Kansas air as the first, step toward the realization of hopes and dream3 of years and ihe reward ioi the sacrifices of the past was taken.

It wa3 9.4!) when the sign which marks the State line and the dividing line from the Cherokee etiip was reached. It was greeted with a cheer which rolled irom the newspaper car in front to the rustler's caboose behind. It marked the U^partute from tho State government toward a country where a government is yet to be created and established. Still the Cherokee country lay between them and the rainbow land. There were no Indians to be seen until after Willow Springs was passed, when a wagon load of bucks of the Poncha tribe passed uv the trail

as v. wild west crowd, headed toward a noon there had been a movement among new ihrld of enterprise and development., and no one who has never seen such a thing in action can have the remotest conception of it.

merry fellow and guyed the crowd un- smoke oi a myriad of camp-fires, lighted mercifully for not. going through, as he expressed it., without change of cats, to avoid the rush. I travel in n»y own special coach," said he, "like Jay Gould or Yanderbilt." "You'll get there too late," yelled somebody in the crowd. "Never mind," replied the boom&i, "1'Jl get there all the same."

the train aiao passed caravan's of boomers' wagons, many gojng south, but some returning toward Kansas!-

Between Willow Springs and the Ponca agency somebody in the newspaper car discovered a man riding on the trucks beneath the coach. Immediately an effort was made to open up negotiations with him, but they resulted unsuccessfully till the train stopped at at Ponca, when the adventurous boomer on wheels wai taken into the car, elected an honorary msmoer of the press association and furnished with refreshments out of a bottle. which he drank with a ru-'-h and amidjf. enthusiastic applause. He gave hU name as Harvey Saddler, and said he was bora in England but hid been in. this country for nine years, and had come ali the" way from Seattle, W. T., to get a good foothold in Oklahama. He was elected as the representative of the London Times, and also as the Mascot of the new city oi Guthrie, and, to make the bargain sure, it was agreed he should have one of the best lot's in the heart of the city.

At the last (station outside of the Oklahoma strip there was a great crowd of boomer/! who had forsaken their teams and hoped to get in quicker by rail. There being no room inside, they climbed to the top of tae coaches, and the entire train from one end to the other was lined with them. In this way the line wasieachedabout live minutes after 12 o'clock.

Before the late dead line was reached and. passed, however, the great.* transformation stiene iiad b.-gun and was plainly visible to the watchers from the train. F-rstcame in view the white topped wagons gathered together in gr-sups on the ievei prairie or in the little valleys which diversify the face of the country. It was at once noticeable that the teams were not to be seen in any of these camps, and, it was plain that they had been taken out of the harness to be rode across the border by the hard riders, who wer:5 to locate the claims. A little farther on, and this conclusion was proven to be the correct one, ior the entire fac3 of the country, as far as the be?t fteid glass could carry the sight,was overrun with horsemen, galloping to the southward. Their fleetest horses had evidently been picked for the work, and they were carrying their riders rapidly to ti:e longed-for goal.

The ride oi Paul Revere dwindles into obscurity beside the feats of horsemanship -i formed in Oklahoma Monday. Rides of fifteen .or twenty miie3 were made in an incredibly short space of time by old boomers familiar with the country and who knew where desirable lands were located. The day was cloudless, and far away on the honzon, both to the east and to the west,clouds of dust could be seen ascending from the hoofs of hnmlred.s of horjes, rushing toward did'-•rent destinations in most- eases, but some of them toward the same. One race for a goal could be easily di-^ting-uishe they were nee ir and neck ior "a mi.lo or two aiocg the trail as far as they could be seen, and their eager and intense looks and merciless slashings were sUilieifHifc evuuMiee of tho itris-) that thev were running alt-e". One saddled but riderless horae wa• seou g^-oping .-do .g the trail, an ominous sign ox some accident or fatality which had befallen the rider. Some men were in charge of two horses and were evidently ridins.ftif^s toward the go?.h—••

Out of the dust which arose toward the east, erald b"? seen, after the train reached the sura nit or a high ridgd, a wagon caravan ni.'iv two miles in hmgth, and w.nem was oeiag spea to the utmost epee.l of its horses. These eajravaa3 wore plainly ont- iistauced !v the horseb"icl riders, a-.id, alter several miles of the territory bad been traversed, it was seen tint the be,%L rmcr-s "we -e winning the best prises. Oae ho nste^der, who had iCuie-l a nvimidceat quarter section of /oiling l, had dag a hole two or th'se feet deep a:- that corner of it where'the surveyor's section marie was located, and where tie had driven bits stakes, not looking upon these evidences of possession as sutfi-dent to ontirm his title, he seised a Winchester as the train ran by arid tired, out.ali its contents and then emptied iiii revolver, yelling like a cowboy or a Comanche Indian ail the t:mo. Not oniv the yells, but the sirgs were responded to irom the train, and a volley went up into the air from the entire length of the section, which proved concinaively how well the party was armed in expectancy oi what might happen a few mlies the other side of the line.

The train stopped at a military po3tThe white tents of the soldiers and the oflicers' tent?, surrounded by the national colora, were a gratifying evidence of a power sufficient, to nraintaiu order. The troop of the Fiiih regiment of cavalry of the ar vy, wa quartered there. a-ol tie ohi-'ers said chat at the sound of the bugle there at irzth

the boomers camped along the border, which had extended across the entire frontier line, and that the riding t. id been fast and furious ever since, some- of the prospectors running to Guthrie to file their entries and others going to locale on the land and secure a poor right to possession bv actual occupancy.

The seen sy.13 one oi ieio most stirring and pictur -sque ever witnessed. The

to cook the first meal in Oklahoma, began to ascend in all directions, and befoiethe hrst train of land-speculators lushed to the future great: city of Guthrie, the tar met bad al-eady become the possessor of & great ileal of the land, and more than one furrow ot virgin soil out ot the land which had never before been tickled by the plow, wa? turned over to the sun, which ha3 matlo the day glorious as weil a3 memorable,

It was twenty minutes after 12 o'clock when the first section of the great Atchison train reached the line, and its progress from that point oa was aafc rapid enough for the rapid men who wanted to get there in a hurry, before ail the cream was skimmed off the milk. Nevertheless, it lacked a few minutes ot 1 o'clock when the train stopped in front of the Guthrie depot, a handsome and substantial edifice, which has been greatly libeled by the numerous newspaper artists, who have drawn on their imagination ior its picture, since this excitement began. Belore the train came to a stop ir. was seen that somebody wa3 already there in fact, the town was already well populated. Tents were numerons on the eastern slope and stakes were sticking up out of the ground liko poles in a bean patch. Meia could be seen racing in the direction of the valuable holdings, and the scene was as busv and animated a one as it is possible to

found themselves baffled at the game of freezeout, but they were compelled to swallow their wrath, for, according to all the technicalities in the law, the men in possession were the rightful owners, and the men who had been left out were the one? who had been most persistent in their demaud for the law's enforcement.

The.•* was nothing to do but to take wh:H was let eui it was in lite scramble set that teat the most ludicrous scene of the day was presented. Falling over each other in the effort to get out of the eirs, every variety of men along the frontier made an army which, charged the land office at the top of the knoll, not in a body but in detachments. The land office was not. their point of destination, though it stands at the corner of the section, and there tore, the present center the town. But it was to secure the lots nearest to it that the rusla was made there was but little left near it. Stakes had already been driven almost to toe limit of the half section of 320 acres adowed for a town site. As the law now stands, there wa? but a small margin, and this was btdag rapidly wiped out by the same men who had already appropriated nearly everything ia It was but a few minutes until the line was reached, and the back action movement of taking up tlie lots, which nobody wanted before, began, 'hey were not long on the market after

second and third sections oi the Atchison train arrived and found everything cornered the air w.is 'due for miles around trie metropolis. There was nothing to do, however, as every lot vas protected by rides and revolvers ami if the shooting began there was no telling where it would stop.

The only recourse left to the disappointed men was to buy out such holders of lots as wore wiling to sell or run the risk of taking outside the legal limit. Both courses were adopted. A good number of (ruthrm City lots changed hands. The hi rat sale \v'as made by a man named E. O. ft nan els of Mulyan, Kan., who so.d a fine twenty-five foot front lot near the laud office for $5 to an old doctor, a resident of one dian reservations adjoining Oklahoma. Tiie purchaser refused co0 for the lot five minute,s later. Several transfers were made ami others who were deterralned to locate here, drovo stakes out.vdethe town bene. This is preparatory to the purchase oi the homesteader's rights and an extension of the city limits.

No one who has never seen a western town take form and shape can comprehend how quickly a fail -rigged eity with a doable-deck boom can bs put in running motion. Gutnrie already has its Mali!-at., its Ha-rison-ec., its Guthrie ave., and its Oklahoma ave., and this morning it was a wilderness the antelope Bported and the jack rabbit flapped las ee.r- in the -u.i. To morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock the first municipal election wid occur. The election no.ice ppeared to-day in tlie Oklahom lie aid, a daily paper pu •_] sht-d a: 'dn. I me on ihe first day oi .•xisu-mcA conned Wilt 1:k elected at the same time. Nearly ten thousand voters were polled, as there are about- that macy men iu Guthrie with the intention of becoming citizens. The leadiug candidates for mavor are Adjc. Ge.n. Re ice of Illinois, William Coii-ia note ot Springfield. O.. and T. L. Sumner of Arkansas. A dark horse is T. Volney Haggatt of Huron, Dak.

The bank of Oklahoma opened for business at Guthrie to-dav with a capital stock of $50,000. M. W. Levy, the Wichita banker, is president C. W. Robinson, the bank oi Win field, and the Hon. Horace Speed of Indianapolis, directors.

Thy new city is flooded with bufiness cards of all descriptions, representing every line ot trade and. business, every profession and every occupation imaginable. A mass of mail is expected to reach the Guthrie postoflice every da/. It is now being run by a posral cie^k detailed for that purpose, but Mr Flynu of Kiowa, Kan., lately appointed postmaster, will take"charge in a day or two.

The scene which resulted in the practical cornering of town lots Monday originated, as has been frequently indicated in this correspondence, with the Atchison, Topeka & anta Fe raiiroad, probably in combination with the sj ndicate who have been hard at work in Arkansas City for a week or more pa-it. As stated before, numbers of men have been going into the territory as deputy matshals and other. under permits as railroad employes. The marshals were simply commissi oiled and not sworn in and t-he railroads wen: not burdened with official orders. They ali did their work to-day, and did it well. Officials in the Guthrie land office nay (liar, men seemed to spring out of the ea.»ib as noon approached, and that it did mt take fifteen minutes to occupy half the town site. The land official's have notbeen greatly ruthed to-day. The first homestead entry at the Guthrie office was an old soldier elibminl na.n-•! Johnson, a Ivau .a:i. The land (.t::ee at. Kingfisher was not opened to dae, but ad vice from there by stage. I at tine reported an onb'riy colonialugo: i.iio town, which is to t• a rival oi Gnihiie in the territory. Everything w:s reported quiet along the Canadian. Pureed is a deserted village, and now a little station on the Atchison road, about eight miles north of it, has been l.-id out as a town site. It is evident, that Oklahama is to be opened peaceab.y, and without bloodshed. The ori»is was passed to-day. Tho greet number of her citizens are law-abidimr, and those who are not will be suppressed by the scrong band of frontier justice, aided by military authority under command of Gen. ebo-rift, who has estab:i-d-d his headquarters at Oklahama City. There are now about five hundred troops iu the territory, and (hey will be kept here until orcl or is assured. 8CB.VE3 AT GUTIIUIE.

When the train arrived at Guthrie from Arkansas City the embryo streets and tots ot the new city had already been laid out by enterprising citizens who had been early on the scene. Hardly had the cars slowed down at the •tation when eager men leaped from the car windows, slipped from the roofs of the coaches and poured out of the doors in streams. In a minute the slope leading up from the station was black with men ruahing headlong, eager for the town lots. In two minutes not one of the men who had filled the train was left in speaking distance of the railway. By the time this crowd had reached the top slope near the land-office, men who had been running parallel lines for streets and driving in stakes for town were well on their way along the strip of land east of the land-office.

the i-.bb of the tide set in, a-ul when the besieged by an eager and determined

who brought along a mualin sign, bearing the words ''Bank of Guthrie," were compelled to take up a lot one mile back of the station.

The next'rain arriving from Arkansas City brought 1,000 home seekers about fifteen minutes later. The men in this train poured acrcss the prairie like an army eharsring the wing of the enemy. They spread out north and south with axes and spades and stakes and began with wonde.i fal energy the location of town lots and streets. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth trains from Arkansas City swelled the number to as many thousand.

When tt seventh and eighth trains came in later in the aftcinoon the crowd had overflowed all bounds. On the east, the streets and t'.jwn lots had been extended fully two miles, on the north a mile and and a half and on the south nearly a mile. Xo ctt-empt has been made to lay out a town on the west ntde of the track. Tola west Ixtul has been all liled oa for nomcc-deads.

Almot-t with the best rns-b. of home seektra f»-om tho cars the home reeker^ who had started across the Oklahoma north tin?, at noon in wfigons and on horae'otfck began to pour into the new citv, their horses reeking wet from the hot and furious drive. They took possession of such town lots in the futureOklahoma metropolis as they could lay claim to. Meanwhiie the land oiilce was

crowd of men,waiting to file claims upc-n homesteads. As the afternoon were on this crowd grew larger until at closingtime it reached in a regular line nodown the street toward the railroad station. Business in tho land ollice weci rather slowly. The register and receiver did the bet't they could,but the pressure upon them was tremendous. Tho men who were waiting to file claims wer*. forced, into line two abreast. Dealers in real estate began business before o'clock in the afternoon. One enter prising dealer had as a background for the safe transaction of business a stock of rifles which had been placed there by the government troops on duty at the land office. Nearby was he tent oi

of the In- S. Marshal Needles. The tent was surmounted by a larg'"3 Ameri?-an Hag.

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Ats £2:.lf of '(.Item I.a:t«!s-1 at. J/isVm asul ti:-" ilea'. -.h.dvv firoitjj'iit lo AjwcsrW-a ly tho Stcanv-'hiji :Bisom-i.

A tck-prsm ot .Monday says.: Fortytv/ii of tlie crew and 320 of iiie passenaers of the Banniark have arrived at LLbon on tine s'eambhip Aro?. Mr. l'cbcn. the tost officer, who is among tm m, reports that on April -i the Ib-i.-mark's shaft was broken. On the just Uiy lb'- disabled steamer met the s! earn fdiip Missouri, from London March I'o,

Philadelphia am' Baltimore. Ti".: Missouri sowed the Denmark until Apri 0, hen ihe Ldter seemed, fo be about' 3 i-iok. At fir-1 the Missouri was 01.1v rdde to take aboard twenty ot the Denmark's pas.setigers, but. after having jet fc-amed a portion of her cargo, site found accommodations for all the crew and asseni\(. rs of the Danmark. The Missovui then proceeded to the Azores and left there tlie first nd second oflicers and 32D pasB-'iigers. She then continued her journey to PhiJud'.dpliia with 340 passenger and the remainder e.» the crew. The captain and three engineers of the IJannwk left tlie A/oies on Ap:il for .London, 0:1 board steamer from Darouara. The- Dooms--k was about e'Ot) miles f:om New Found• lend whf ihe accident happened. Some say that the enirines broke down. Engineer Kaas was found dead in the engine room adte-! he accident.

Tho cle-amship Missor.n, says a IhiUi delobia disontch. which ir, now known to have 340 of the Dan ti at kpasse ngo: on board, has been v/i.fdie-d

.several days past. she. being due about sieve ti days ago, and the hope that she would know boruething of the Dan mark has been realized. The ML-s.ouri is. new steel vessel belonging to the Atlantic transport line-,ami Pas only erosse-a I lie ocean a lew limes. She drscribi-d as being .me of t:.e finest end I scat built beats cariyii.'tr tlie English fb/.g. Sheh commanded by Cart. .Vuvreil, who ha' been 1 raiting between Pbi.'advlphia end London for the past six yearn. She sailed from Lordov March t:G. with a general cargo. Tin- vessel arrived oti the Delaware breakwater Sunday night,

v./Atv-HINGTOw T4OTES. Dining the first three weeks oi the Administration liitie was done with ib PostoJlices, owitig tot lie presume of oiher miit-lo'rs of greater imporianee. but for the fourlh, tit:}- and sixth weeks VI i. ("mkson has broken the reeovd. 3-'our years f»uo First Assistant Postmaster «?f-oer,"d Stevenson, made changes prettrapidily. nut Mr. Ciarkson has distanctii -dl bis comni titor.'-i. in the fourth week of b's adiidr.istiat.ion of the office of First. Assirtenf Postmaster General be appointed 710 Republican [sostinasterji. nd the ntxt week llieie were 087 han^e--. L:iht week, which was the •-•xtb, 1 be lecoid was badly smashed. !J-t pos ieasPos having been appoirded, making in ail fee I he three weeks, 2..'12b Tin-re we.-e nearly lour hundred cppobit ments last week, and there are no indications of a lull in the proceedings.

Tho President made a declaration Tuesday which indicates that.be ha- not forgotten the civil .setvice refotm plank in ihe National Republican platform. A leiegation. consisting of several membc.rs O' Couffres'5, waited ui Id to ask a further postponement of theapplical ion of the civil set vice inles to the railway mail service. Tho President replied that it could not lie done. The first postponement from Match 15 to Mgv 1. he said, bad In en ms.de because of the'Tuabiliiv ot Civil SerOee Comminsion to prepare elitrible lists f-y !,•• ariier d:ite. but there was 110 rxeme fm- any i'no t.ber postponement, and none would be made. "We should be disregarding the ledges

service of men who were dismissed for pohiical reason* by the last administrate n, without, rcirard to the. length of time since thf were disrated. Tlie President paid be 'would give the matter very careful conr-ideration.

The President Wednesday appointed Robert p. Porter, of New York, auperintend nt oi the cf-nsiis and Maj.^r W. H. Calkins, of .Indiana, to be Associate lusMcc of ihe Supreme Court of Wash--ir-?h- 1: Terripi-

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