Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1901 — Page 4

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The worst feature about temporary loar.i m font If Mayor Taps-art's argument is good that an Insufficient tax levy promotes " economy, why have any levy at all? Th mayor urge3 a low levy for Indianapolis and names 75 cents as the figure; -two year; ago every expenditure could be sa ,pald, he declared. by a 50-cent levy. Mr. Taggart does not care to discuss Mr. Bookwalter's letter at present. Too busy, xcrhaps, working out the conclusions of , his temporary loan theory of finance. C Baassi sm MaaBaaaaaiaBaaiaaiMaawaaBBaiaaaaiaBeaaak i Mr. Taggart congratulates the taxpayers 'of Indianapolis that the temporary loans Jmade during his administration "have been f secured at exceedingly low rates of Int -terest." " Mayor Taggart congratulates the taxpayers of Indianapolis on the low rate of interest at which he has been able to make temporary loan?. He forgets the rjrinclnal. If a tax of 3 cents a foot on natural gas mains was agreed to by the companies "long ago," as Mayor Taggart says, why did he not urge his Councils-in 1S0Ö and ISO to impose such a tax? It took Mr. Taggart five years of hard " IhinkTng and practical experience In municipal finance to discover that making temnorarv loans is the business-like way in sr - - which to manage the financial affairs of I the city." " During the last two years of Republican v.it 1tA nn,l 1.- !-! f.!tv'a Intnrpet n r count was reduced from 572,012 a year to s$C3,091. During the four years of Taggart 'rule, 1S06 to lOcO. it increased from $57,764 a year to JaO.523. An individual who has to borrow money to meet current expenses is generally ; thought to be either a poor financier or in hard luck. Mr. Taggart says it "is the buiness-llke way" in which to manage i the affairs of the city. a - t N It is pretty late for manufacturers and . authorities in the gas belt to be moving against the waste of natural gas. Had the movement been begun ten years ago and vigorously prosecuted the situation at pres- ; ciu ungut iiiive ueii f r uiutrrtiii. j a ii ri 1 i -, 1 l a i i . again In his editorial capacity that too . much attention is given to fads in the publlc schools and not enough to the "three r's." There does appear to be some defect in the arithmetic of the controller's ofllce. f The Ohio Democratic managers make r haste to deny that they have called upon Mr. Bryan to take part in the campaign, or . that they expect to do so. To have Mr. I Bryan speaking for Democracy and the Cincinnati Enquirer sneering at him would cot help a campaign. ' P.-esidcnt Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, formerly a Treacher, told his ; hearers on Labor day that the original command to humanity was "by the sweat of thy brow thou shalt earn thy bread." The RIble has it: "In the sweat of thy face halt thou eat bread." SJx men have been arrested and are now .-confined in a county jail in Tennessee on a charge of participating in a secret lynch;ing, and warrants have been issued for as ; many more. At the present rate the Southern States will soon have a better record ' for punishing lynchers than Northern States. . Friends of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, claim to have received a letter from "William Jennings Rryan promising to throw his Influence for the former for President In ' YXi, and that he will make a speech to that effect at a Harrison meeting to be held in . Chicago soon. Opinions may differ as to whether that would help or hurt Mr. Harri- ? eon's chances. The country at largo docs not share the hostility whhh several New York papers .. express for the searching of the baggage of returning Kuropean tourists instead of ! taking their sworn statements relative thereto In many eases. Officials may be anr.oylng, and probably they are when goods ar found which were forgotten In invoices I upon tthich duty should be paid. Noting thn larg number of officers. agents and elerks that will be thrown tiutnf ': mplo met.t by rallro.-id consolidations and manufactLiring c-rnLInatlns, the JCansas cClt" Star predicts a turning of the tide of .po'ultlon from the t it to th- country and $m increa.-e of the number of fanners tillt Inrr fz n i :i 11 .arr f or.t i-f.t'iil i , ... t i t Supersede t-xtenslve farniins. ho that farms of one hundred to on hundred ar.d sixty acres will afford better opportunities than i,t&A city, its Isolation has beta one jt the

thief objections to the farm, but the telephone and the rural postal delivery will remove that objection. On of the last observations of the late (Jovemor Mount was the prediction that during the next twenty years men with small means would learn that farming offers greater inducements than any other vocation. TIIK MAYOH'S FINANCIAL POLICY. Mayor Taggart' t? message to the Council submitting estimates for appropriations for the city government for 1102 is chiefly remarkable for the coolness with which he ignores the financial blunders of his administration and the amusing self-compla-eency with which he urges temporary loans as a permanent financial policy. He really seem3 to think he has discovered a new principle of finance in his plan to keep taxes down and promote economy by borrowing money at interest to meet current expenses a sort of automatic scheme to replenish the treasury by creating deficItF. To begin with. Mr. Taggart virtually admits the failure of his demagogical 53-cent tax levy by now recommending a 71-cent levy for city purposes, 2 cents for firemen's and police pension funds, with a special 2cent levy In addition for a sinking fund a total of 73 cents. "It will require a levy of 71 cents and 50 cents on each poll," he says, "to cover these estimates," and that on the largest total assessment of taxable property ever made. Eut even a 71-cent levy will not include any provision for paying the temporary loans already made or yet to come. Having compelled a resort to the policy of temporary loans Mr. Taggart feels obliged to defend it, which he does as follows: On account of the low tax levy the city has been required, during the year 1900, to make temporary loans, which have been secured at exceedingly low rates of interest, averaging about 3 per cent. Had the tax levy been made high enough to have at all times sufficient money on hand to meet demands the levy would have been largely In excess of the actual needs of the city, for the reason that taxes, constituting twothirds of the city's annual revenue, an payable semi-annually, so that with a tax levy commensurate with the city's needs at all times there would necessarily have remained In the treasury large sums of money for which there would have been no immediate use, resulting in the well-known and invariable tendency to Increase expenditures and exhaust the surplus, which would require a higher tax levy and temporary loans in addition. I. therefore, believe that a low tax levy, even though a temporary loan is occasionally necessary, is proper and just to the taxpayers and is the business-like way in which to manage the financial affairs of the city. With a low tax levy more economy is practiced in the administration of government than when the levy is high and a surplus of money Is In the treasury. The reader who succeeds in mastering the logic of this statement will discover that the mayor argues in favor of an insufficient revenue and a resort to temporary loans because an adequate revenue begets extravagance and thus necessitates a higher tax levy and temporary loans in addition.

He seems to think there is a sort of endless chain relation between an adequate revenue and eleficits, and that the only way to Insure an economical and businesslike administration of municipal affairs is to be under the necessity of borrowing money to meet current expenses. It is a great scheme, but Mr. Taggart was a good while evolving it. In his first statement to the Council of the finances of the city, that of February, he said: "While I dislike to see any increase in the tax levy, I fear there is no other way at present to meet the expenses, which are constantly increasing." The better way of temporary loans had not yet occurred to him. Nor had it when in a public speech on Sept. 27, li'Jd, he said: "Not during the four years I have been mayor of this city has it been necessary to make a temporary loan in order to pay the running expenses of the city government, and I shall not commence doing so now." A week later he said: "I want to say to you that I will run the city on a 59-cent levy and will not make any temporary loans, either." But now that temporary loans have been made to the amount of $150,000 or more Mr. Taggart suddenly discovers that it "is proper and just to the taxpayers and is the businesslike way to manage the financial affairs of the city." As the creator of the temporary-loan policy he looks upon it and pronounces it good. It certainly harmonizes with his zigzag financial policy. TlIK SAM 12 AS OTIIIIIl MKY. An Eastern paper became facetious over the recent business venture of Mr. Bryan, and a Democratic paper in Chicago copies the article with evident relish. The first cause of these remarks Is that Mr. Eryan has purchased an Kastern paper publishing about the samo matter as does the Commoner. Now, if Mr. Bryan had not spent so much time in assailing combinations and trusts, nothing would have been said of the consolidation of another paper with his own. His purchase simply shows that while Mr. Bryan denounces combinations, when it comes to getting rid of a competitor he is as eager to do it as is the head of the steel or the coal oil combination. Mr. Bryan saw that the paper which he purchased would probably Interfere with the influence and prosperity of his Commoner. The competing publisher might reduce the price or offer a premium to get subscribers to the injury of Mr. Bryan's venture. So he bought up the competitor and adds its subscription list to that of the Commoner. If there were a half dozen papers trying to occupy the same field as the Commoner, Mr. Bryan would have purchased them if he could, because, like Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. Pierpont Morgan, he would get rid of every competitor to the end that he may manage the business at a profit. In the same sense, about every human being is a monopolist, and he Is a monopolist In spirit just the same whether his monopoly extends to a few weekly newspapers or a biliion dollars worth of iron-producing properties. Certainly, Mr. Bryan Is no exception. Combination or trust-making, as it is called, is declared to be the result of industrial evolution; It may be such, but the desire to have the best of a thing in short, to monopolize, Is as old as the human race. Again, Mr. Bryan is made the object of ridicule because he has embarked In a speculation In oil lands. Those who ridicule pretend to be so innocent of the world's ways as to believe that Mr. Bryan, because of his denunciation of corporations and capitalist, would scorn with vituperative contempt the suggestion to get wealth by participating in an oil speculation on t he ground floor, selling what cost 10 cents for a dollar, or even ten dollars. When Mr. Bryan was denouncing speculative corporations a year ago he doubtless believed that he was far above the seductive Influence, of the promise of great wealth. Since his defeat lie ha had opportunities to make wealth, and. like the average man, has yielded, as most men would, because It if human nature to do so if the opportunity offered i honest. The only hostile criticism which can be made Is that Mr. Bryan is not fair in denouncing other

monopolists and promoters. He should stand on the same ground with the Rockefellers and the Pierpont Morgans. Lawyer Brennan's advice to workingmen to cripple the trusts by withdrawing their deposits from the banks was very silly. The savings of wage earners are generally either deposited In savings banks, which invest them in safe securities, or put in building" and loan associations, where they are loaned only to members. They do not form a large proportion of the deposits of national banks, with which corporations and capitalists deal, and, even if they did. It would be very unwis for workingmen to withdraw their deposits from a safe place to hide them in stockings or chimneys In the vain hope of hurting trusts. Lawyer Brennan seems to be a good deal of a fool. The National Association of Tostofiice Clerks, now in session at Milwaukee, will consider the question of affiliating with the American Federation of Labor in an effort to secure cirjht hours and higher salaries. It is claimed that President Gompers has promised the clerks the co-operation of the federation on the line indicated if they will organize. They would find it very difficult to coerce the government in that way, and would better wait till the revenues of the department will justify an increase. The treasury authorities announce that bills or two Montana banks to the amount of $000,000 are in circulation without the signatures of the president and cashier, having been stolen in a recent train robbery. The defect will never be discovered by any but sharp-eyed bankers, as under our excellent bank system no person ever looks to see wher- a national bank note was issued or whether It is signed or not. Fiction readers who have been disposed to grumble over the uncertainty as to whether the new Russian novelist's name is "Maxim Gorky" or "Maxime Gorki" should say no more about it and be glad that this tramp author Is kind enough not to use his real name, which is "Alexei Maximowitseh rjischkow." But, though this affliction is escaped, another Is impending. Another Russian novelist, "Dmitri Merejkowski," is showing his head above the literary horizonand what are you going to do with that name?

Mr. lden, the London literary correspondent, tells of the plan of C. Arthur Pearson, a London publisher, who proposes to issue several newspapers simultaneously in different parts of the kingdom, all of which shall practically be reproductions of his London paper. Mr. Alden evidently thinks this idea Is original with Mr. Tearson, but he is mistaken. He has been out out of the country a good while, and has, it is plain, "never heard of young Mr. Hearst and his three papers all yellow. At a Celtic congress held in Dublin, Ireland, lately, it is related that one of the decorations of the assembly hall was Arthur's sword a ponderous weapon. Can it be possible that "the bold Sir Bedivere" rescued the sword, after all, from the water where his dying chief bade him throw it? There Is no record of such a transaction but there is the sword! FROM HITHER AND YON. As to n Married Couple. Tuck. "They do quarrel about trifle?, but I'm not sure that that is a bad sign." "It Isn't?" "Well, it may indicate that they have nothing else to quarrel about." For Art' Sake. Chlcaso Trihune. "Griselda," said the visiting relative, "you ought not to try to sing when you are shaking with the chills." "I haven't got the chills, auntie," replied the church choir soprano. "I am practicing on my tremolo." Spoiled the Poetry of It. Raltimore American. "Woman," said the Sentlmenal Person, "is the holiday in the life of man." "Yes," remarked the Coarsely Sarcastic Individual, "and I have noticed thtt . after a man takes that kind of a holiday he hs to huatle all the rest of his life." A Ilnpiiy Medium. Life. "What hotel did you stay at, at the TaaAmeriean?" "At Rumster's." "How did you like it?" "Weil, I wouldn't send my friends there, because it isn't good enough, nor my enemies, because it isn't bad enough." Illusion. Down by the sea she is a queen. And he a prince of noble mien; The moonlight makes a path of gold Unto her throne, and wealth untold Is scattered o'er the glistening strand. They speak no word, but understand That life is all that life should beDown by the sea. When back In town she squints a bit And her complexion doesn't fit The color of her wavy hair. And he has weight, alas, to spare; His less bow slightly when he walks 'Tis thus that disappointment stalks And changes smiling to a fiown. When back In town. Washington Star. FIRST STAKE DRIVEN. St. Louis Compnny to Erect Louialnna Purchase Fxpoaiton Buildings. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 3.-Just four months from thd date of organization of the Exposition Company the first ßtake of the world's fair, to be held in this city in 1003, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana purchase, was driven to-day on the site of Forest Park. Officers and directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, municipal officials and others assembled this forenoon on the site near the structural center of the grounds, and there the stake was driven by William H. Thompson, chairman of the committee on grounds and buildings. Addresses by exposition officers followed. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the stake, which had been specially prepared for the occasion, was withdrawn for preservation, and a stake ordinarily used by surveyors substituted for it. According to the plans adopted bv the commission of architects the principal buildings will be constructed on fojndation lines radiating from the point where the first stake was driven. DISCONTENT IN JAMAICA. I'tihllc Sent intent Aronaed Against Alleged Oppressive Taintlou. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 3. This island has been considerably agitated during the past month by the government valuation of properties over the whole island, for the inauguration of a new system of taxation. The people openly threaten to cause trouble if any increase is made on the present oppressive rates. Governor Hemming and Colonial Secretary Oliver, who are going to the interior, are writing letters for publication In the newspapers in an endeavor to calm public feeling. The government Is denounced for Its extravagance and is held responsible for the unfortunate condition of the island? finances. Comparison is freely made with the prosperity of Cuba and Porto Rico. The people's representative are about to demand again of Mr. Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies, a controlling voice I In the local Legisatlurc.

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CIIIVF.S: KXVOV CUAUTFUCI) IX tin: oKAXc;i;ii- of thk palace. Mny He Iteceitcd by the Kaiser ToDay, AYheii He AVIII Apologize for Von Kettcler's Murder. TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES caisi: of ni'.Lvv at ffking ex. FLAINFI) II V MK. HOCKIIILL. German Comment on HoosevelP Speech Ilr. fvratiz Held for Treason Anarchists Arrested. B Fit LIN. Sept. 3.-Frince Chun arrived at Potsdam this afternoon from Switzerland. He was received at the railroad station by the town commandant and the chief of police, and was driven to the orangery in Sans Soucl Park. It is said in official circles that tho Interview between Emperor William and Prlnco Chun must occur to-morrow or Thursday, as his Majesty goes to the maneuvers on Friday. The correctness of the report of the Ostasiatische Correspondenz that Emperor William removed all hindrances from Prince Chun's coming to Berlin by telegraphing his willingness to receive him alone is admitted in official circles. Baron Von Richthoff, the foreign secretary, will assist Emperor William at the reception of the Chinese envoy. Count Von Buelow will not be present. Klen Chan, the new Chinese minister here, will act as interpreter. No other Chinaman will be present. The Emperor will not receive the other members of the mission. Prince Chun will lodge as Emperor William's guest for two days at the orangery of the palace at Potsdam. He will then come to Berlin, where the Chinese legation has rented an adjoining palace for him for two months. But it is not believed the prince will stay here that length of time. It is expected in official circles that Emperor William will pay no further attention to Prince Chun after his Majesty has received him In audience. Prince Chun's first invitation to visit foreign governments was from the United States, followed hy Invitations from Italy. Belgium, Great Britain and Japan. They have all been accepted. He will first go to Italy, whence he will proceed to Belgium and England, going home by way of the United States and Japan. AViiItinK for Another Edict. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. A cablegram received to-day at the State Department from Special Commissioner Rockhill at Peking explains the delay at the Chinese capital in securing the final signatures to the protocol. Mr. Rockhill says the Chinese plenipotentiaries received the expected edict authorizing them to sign the agreement in behalf of the Chinese government on Aug. 28. They were, however, instructed to delay final signature until they received another edict touching the discontinuance of civi-servlce examinations in some of the Chinese cities where the Boxer movement found its principal strength. One of the penalties imposed by the foreign ministers on the Chinese government was the discontinuance of these examinations, which are dear to the better clans of Chlneee. where the Boxers were particularly offensive, and the Chinese government is finding it no easy matter to discriminate In the selection of the places where the penalty is to be Imposed. Concessions to Be Reclaimed. FEEING, Sept. 3. The United States minister, Mr. Conger, is taking eteps to reclaim the small American concession at Tien-Tsin, the title to which has practically lapsed of late years because of the government being unorganized and a majority of the American residents being scattered among the British and German concessions The American need for the concession is chiefly for military uses, so as to avoid the experiences of last summer, when the United States army had difficulty In getting quarters and docking facilities. Li Hung Chang is becoming more and more feeble, and it is apparent to all his visitors that it is not probable he will ever be able to act as chairman of the Council of State. 4 MlItllEHOl S OIIDEH ISSIED. All British Troops Found by Jle Wet After Sept. 13 to lie Shot. LONDON, Sept. 4.-"De Wet has issued a proclamation," says a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Cape Town, "that he will shoot all British troops found in Orange River Colony after Sept. 13." Another Cape Town dispatch says: "It is reported that Commandant Myburg has issued an order directing that all armed colonials captured after Sept. 13 are to be shot. "Captain Wollis, with a patrol of twentyfive men from Oudtshoorn, was taken in ambush near Meirings Poor. He and two men escaped; three others were killed and four wounded, and the rest who surrendered and took the oath of neutrality were released." Report from Kitchener. LONDON, Sept. 3. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, to-day, says: "Since Aug. 26 the columns report nineteen Boers Jcilled. three wounded, 212 made prisoners and 127 surrendered, and that 194 rifles, 27.5i rounds of ammunition, 1,700 horses and 7,500 head of cattle have been captured." Toitii Looted by Boers. CAPE TOWN, Sept. 3.-A well-mounted force of Boers has looted Barrydale, in the Swelendum district, 110 miles from Cane Town. Scheeper's Boer command passe! close to Montague yesterday and had a slight brush with the local scouts. They had spare horses, and were apparently well equipped. A column of troops has gone in pursuit. - II. KHAl'Z II Ileinnnded to .Inil a "Week on the Clinrge of High Treason. LONDON, Sept. 3.-Dr. Krauz, former Governor of Johannesburg and a prominent official of the late Transvaal government, who was taken into custody in London last night, was charged at 'the Bow-street Police Court to-day with high treason in the Transvaal, under the fugitive offenders' law, and was remanded for a week without bail. No evidence being offered. Sir George Lewis, on behalf of the prisoner, asked if any deposition against his client supporting the charge existed. Proscutor Muir replied that there was, of course, information against the accused in Cape Colony. The police here, he said, had acted upon telegraphic instructions. The police testified that Dr. Krauz. when arrested, looked at the warrant and remarked: "The charge is absurd." ROOSEVELT'S SPEECH. German Editors Think It Outlines the Policy of the United States. BERLIN, Sept. 3. Several papers corr;ment to-day upon Vice President Roosevelt's speech at the Minnesota fair regarding the part the United States should play among the great nations. "One sees howleading American politicians demand an extension of the sphere of power of tne United States." hays the Vossische Zeitung. "One sees this purpose more sharply emphasized in the opposition offered to European influences. One sees nlo how the United States claims domiciliary rights In the internal and external affairs of the American country, if, therefore, a convic-

tion exists that the North Americans are ready at any time to go far beyond their right and duties, mixing In the affairs of weaker American countries, there is no cause for wonder, if people outside of the United States are really in error regarding the intentions of the United States, the Americans have themselves to blame. Mr. Roosevelt spoke quite in the well-known tone." In conclusion, the Vossische Zeitung says: "We know of no European country that i3 trying to secure territorial extension anywhere in America, unless it be Ureal Britain, which is insisting on the observance of treaty rights in connection with the Nicaragua canal. The only country in the world now following a policv of expansion in America is the United States. The Americans think fit. for domestic political reasons, to show distrust as regards Europe, whereas Europe has better grounds for observing the plans of the United States with a reasonable distrust." The Berliner Tageblatt says: "The speech of the American Vice President is a reassertion of the Monroe doctrine in the Jingo sense, and shows how widespread in the United States is the chimera of European powers seeking territorial expansion in the western hemisphere." The National Zeitung, which says that "the speech may be treated lightly, as Mr. Roosevelt delivers it often," adds: "After Secretary Hay has clearly defined the policy of the United States with reference to isthmian troubles, Mr. Roosevelt's remarks amount, more or less, to a repetition of the declaration of the leader of the foreign policy of the United States." The Lokal Anzeiger says: "Mr. Roosevelt claims for the United States the role of arbitrator anJ dictator of all America, whereas no Kuropcan power shows the slightest disposition to interfere." Valuable Manuscript Sold. LONDON, Sept. 3 The Times announces that the collection of manuscripts belonging to the Earl of Crawford has been sold at en bloc, at Sotherns, to Mrs. Rylands, founder of the John Ryland's Library, at Manchester. It is now housed in Haigh Hall. Wigan. with the rest of Lord Crawford's precious library. The collection includes many mediaeval Western manuscripts of all ages. It is superior to the recently dispersed Ashburnharn collection in the early dates of many of its treasures and the costly richness of many of the bindings in metal and ivory of The twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One manuscript, the letters of Cyprian, dates from the seventh century.

Koch's Theory to He Investigated. LONDON, Sept. 3. King Edward has appointed a commission to investigate Prof. Koch's tuberculosis theory. The scope of the inquiry is officially Faid to be whether animal and human tuberculosis are identical; whether animals can be reciprocally infected, and under what conditions, if at all, transmission to man occurs, and the means of combating it. The commissioners are Sir Michael Foster, secretary of the Royal Society; Dr. Sims Woodhead. professor of pathology, Cambridge University; Dr. Harris Cox Martin. Prof. J. McFadyean and Prof. R. W. Boyce. The commission has been granted the fullest powers and facilities, and the members have been urged to make a prompt report. The Franco-Turkish Ilifllcnlty. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 3.-Munir Bey, Turkish ambassador to France, wired the Porte on Saturday that he had strong hopes that a settlement of the FrancoTurkish difficulty would be reached which would preserve the dignity of both governments. M. Delcasse, French minister of foreign affairs, on the contrary, wired M. Bapst, counselor of the French embassy, categorical instructions to take no steps to show that the relations between the two countries were modified. Plundered by Mountaineers. LONDON, Sept. 3. The Tangiers correspondent of the Times says: "The disorder among the tribes is increasing. Last week the mountaineers plundered villages twenty miles from here. The sufferers did not complain, because the officials require bribes for assistance, which the villagers cannot give." Ecumenical Conference Opens To-Day. LONDON, Sept. 3. The Ecumenical Methodist Conference will begin in Wesley's Chapel on Wednesday. A large number of American delegates put in an appearance to-day and are arranging for eats. Nineteen American bishops and 270 delegates will participate in the meeting. Bishop Galloway, of Jackson, Miss., will preach the opening sermon. Arrest of Alleged Anarchists. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 3. Just after the Czar's arrival the Russian secret-service police arrested tw suspects who had been prowling about the chateau provided for the imperial party. The prisoners, who speak German and Italian, are believed to belong to a Berlin group of Anarchists. Cable N'otes. The royal yacht Ophlr, with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York aboard, reached St. Vincent, Capo Verde island, last night. A dispatch to the London Dally Mail from Geneva, says that in a railway accident at Neuveville. Canton of Vaud, Monday, Miss Walther, an American, had her skull fractured and one of her legs broken. It was announced at Paris last night that Mme. Bernhardt had promised her services in support of a fete in aid of the anti-tuberculosis propaganda, to be given on the occasion of the Czar's visit and under the'patronage of the Czarina. This indicates that her indisposition is not a serious one. EROM FAR AWAY PLACES. Arrlval of the Governor of Guam and Prominent Hawaiian. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. Commander Seaton Schroeder, United States navy, Governor of the Island of Guam, arrived here on the steamer China, en route to Washington. He decMned to discuss conditions on the island, or to state the object of his visit to Washington. Another passenger on the China was Prof. David P. Todd, director cf Amherst College observatory, who went to the Dutch East Indies to observe the eclipse of the sun on May 1Ü last. E. P. Dole, Hawaiian attorney general, and Justice Frear, of the Hawaiian Supreme Court, arrived from Honolulu. Attorney General Dole is to be married to Miss Gallagher, of this city. It was announced to-night that Commander Schroeder will start for Washington to-morrow. Commander Schroeder has been summoned from Guam to give testimony in the Schley case. Miss 3Iorrlson Mny Re Relensed. ELDORADO. Kan.. Sept. 3. The bill of exceptions in the Jessie Morriron case has been signed by Judge Aikman and filed with the clerk of court. The case will now be submitted to the State Supreme Court at once, and Miss Morrison probably will be released from the Kansas penitentiary on bond pending a hearing. Miss Morrison was tried and convicted of the murder of Mrs. Clara Wylie-Castle, whose throat she cut with a razor. The first trial found a hung jury. The second sent her to prison for five years for second degree manslaughter. Coiik rcssiona I Ren p port ion men t. AUSTIN. Tex.. Sept. 3. The conference committee'.- report on the congressional reapportionment bill was to-day adopted by the House and the bill doubtless will be approved by the Governor. Texas gained three congressmen by the new census and the bill provides for sixteen districts. The present congressmen are placed in separate districts, with one exception, two of them being doubled in the Ninth. All of the districts are safely Democratic, except that in which Houston ia located. Alleged Former Arrested. NEW YORK. Sept. 2. Michael Farrell. alias Michael Farley, alleged to be a clever forger, who. according to the police, is wanted for a number of skillful forgeries executed in recent years at Philadelphia. Chicago. Cleveland. Boston and this citv. was arrested here to-day. Farrell. in October. 1 it is alleged, raised a check for $2.75 on the Hamilton Bank of this city to $J5H. and got the money. He was traced to Philadelphia. Chicago, Clevelapd and Hosten, but. until the present time, succeeded in evading arrest. Assignments nt Iotiis lllc. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Sept. 3, The Lou.sville Investment Company, the National Investment Company and the Kentucky Mutual Investment Company assigned to-dav. John J. W. Reynolds is president of each company. Assets and liabilities are believed to be small.

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STATE DEPARTMENT .NOT INFORMED OF THE WEST INDIES DEAL. Amount Named in the Dispatches from Copenhagen Regarded as Slightly Above the Mark. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-The State Department has had no word from Minister Newell of the successful close of the negotiations looking to the acquisition by the United States of the Danish West Indian islands. The department has left this matter almost entirely in Mr. Newell's hands, and his reports have indicated a belief that he would be able to arrange a treaty in readiness for submission to Congress at its next session. The price named in the latest European dispatches, namely, $I.S),öoO, is believed to be slightly above the mark, for 5l.0o0.foJ represented the maximum figures referred to In the earlier stages of the negotiations, and it was expected the deal could be made at $o,7tV.'"J. If the treaty is drawn, as seems now probable, it will require action on the part of both branches of Congress, unlike ordinary treaties. Inasmuch as the House must provide the necessary appropriation. Sale of Lots at Lnwton. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. Tho General Land Office has been notified of the completion of the sale of town lots in the town of Lawton, in the newly-opened part of Oklahoma, which finishes the government sale in all the towns in that section. In Lawton there were 1,420 lots sold, the receipts from the sale amounting to J414.S4r, making the total receipts from the sale of town lots in Lawton, Anadarko and Hobart $736.033. . The highest average price $31 per lot was secured in Lawton. The money accruing from the sales has been placed in the subtreasury in St. Louis to the credit of the secretary of the interior as trustee for the three towns. Under the law it will be devoted to improvements in the towns and in the surrounding country. Trade vrlth South Africa. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. In a report to the State Department dated July 13, Consul General Stowe, at Cape Town, contends that published statistics to the contrary, in 1;hX the United States exported a greater amount of goods to South Africa than ever before. Consul General Stowe quotes Lord Roberts in regard to the superiority of American wagons, which the field marshal says are superior to any other of either Cape or English manufacture. As to the future Mr. Stowe says that $.,000.0 0 is the estimate of cost for contemplated railways, $5.000,000 for public works, $15,Ooo.O1 on harbors, Jf), 000 In electric lines in Natal and $25.000,000, to be expended in the Transvaal and a proportionate amount in the Orange River Colony. "We must not fail to bid for this wark," says Mr. Stowe. Crops in AInskn. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Dr. E. W. Allen, assistant superintendent of experiment stations conducted by the Agricultural Department, has just returned, after a ten weeks' tour of inspection of the stations in If Alaska. Dr. Allen reports that all the hardy vegetables are being grown there, and he predicts that the time will come when Alaska will grow a sufficient supply of them. He also says that wheat, oats, barley and rye have been matured at the stations, and he thinks it practicable to raise beef for the home market. He says there is considerable Inquiry for land along the coast from people living in northern Europe, and he thinks the time will come when many of them will find more comfortable homes there than they now have. Appointments by the President. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. The President to-day made the following appointments: William A. O'Mally, third lieutenant, revenue-cutter service; Lieut. Col. David P. Heap and First Lieut. Robert P. Johnston, engineer corps, to be members of the California debris commission; Joseph Foster, pay director, navy, rank of captain; Rhea Frazer, pay inspector, navy, rank of commander; Edmund W. Bonnafon, paymaster, navy, rank of lieutenant; John D. Barber, assistant paymaster, navy, rank of ensign; Francis M. Elsie, of Muskogee, O. T.. to be chairman of referees to assess and appraise damages for right of way of Fort Smith & Western Railroad through the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Industrial Commission's President. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. The Industrial Commission to-day unanimously elected Col. Albert Clark, of Boston, to succeed the late Senator Kyle as president of that commission. The commission to-day held the first of a series of executive meetings, which are to be devoted to questions connected with the preparation of its final report, which, it is anticipated, will be ready lor Congress when that body convenes in December. The report of the testimony taken during the three years of the existence of the commission will fill eighteen volumes, and the commissioner's report and review will fill another, making nineteen volumes in all. All Well on the Inall. WASHINGTON, Sept. C.-Acting Quartermaster General Kimball to-day received a cable message from Major Davidson, quartermaster on the transport Ingalls, announcing the arrival of that vessel at Gibraltar yesterday, after a run of eleven days, in good condition oTid with all well on board. The officers of the quartermaster's department are much gratified over the performance of the Ingalls, as it was claimed that she was top-heavy and unseaworthy. The Ingalls carries a general cargo of military supplies and a number of passengers. She will resume her voyage to Manila to-morrow. Patents Granted Indinninns. Srecial to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. Indianlans were granted patents to-day as follows: William Everett, Indianapolis, washing machine; Mathias Hoetger, Elkhart, button; Charles E. Hoffman. New Albany, porcelain crown facer; Edwin R. Richards, Laud, horsedetaching appliance. Vt'. J. Ilryan Iluys n Newspaper. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-The National Watchman Publishing Company to-day filed a bill of sale transferring to William J. Bryan the plant and newspaper Vnown as the National Watchman, successor to the Silver Knight Watchman. The consideration mentioned was $5. National Capital N'otes. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has returned from a trip through the West and was at his desk to-day. Acting Secretary Hackett has granted permission to Lieutenant Wells, flag secretary to Admiral Schley, to examine the official records of the Navy Department bearing on the issues in the West Indian campaign and to make copies of such papers as he defcires for use at the coming court of inquiry. The examination of applicants for appointments as assistant surgeons in the army has been resumed in Washington and San Francisco. Seventy-six vacancies in the medical departmert still remain to be tilled, and a? it is desirco. by the military authorities that the department bo filled up to its full legal limit as early as practicable all eligible applicants will be afforded opportunity for examination; those found qualified will be commissioned at an early date. All doubt concerning t lie holding of an international conference of American Ftates in the City of Mexico wa r moved to-day when announcement was made that Peru had appointed three of her most eminent men as delegates to the conference. This news was received with gratification at the State Department, which has b lieved that much good will come from such a conference and did all it could to bring about harmonious progress and to unite nil the countries south of us in support of the conference. General GUIceple. chief of engineers. Is nt work on his annual report. It is understood that that portion of the report covering the river and harbor estimates has been completed. The recommendations of the local

cnr.ircer in charge of rivrr ,uv! i.-.'-bor work aggregate about $1 .mmj..m. General GiUesjie's rec ornir.end.i tions will f.nt up something under this nm':n:. Admiral Kemey. in command of the Asiatic station, has :dsed the Naw Department that he will start to-day for a tour of the southern Island of the Philippines. As the Brooklyn i- hai?,g .r battery in.-tiille.l th.' admiral temporariiv has transferred hi fj,lg. to ,hr titneral AUa for tho purpos.- of this trip. CRUISER'S GUNS TO BE TESTED.

Russians Want fo Try All of the Rettitan's "Shooting; Irons." PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Sept. 3. Th work of Installing the guns of the Russian battleship Retvizan. preliminary to her first trial ofT the Delaware capes on S-pt. 11, is going forward at the Cramps shipar !, under the supervision of General Anthony Brynk and Captain Alexander Mueller, who arrived in tin's country a few days cd. The seventy-live milimeter and six-inch guns aie already In condition for the tests, and to-day the forty-seven milimeter. the thirty-seven milimeter and the machine guns were mounted. It was at first Intended to lire only tho twehe-inch guns in the structural tests, but General Brynk decided to have the eniire armament of the ship, seventy-two gun: in all lind if possible. Some of the cuns will be fired three times. All will bo loaded with the regulation charge, excepting, ptrhaps. the twelveinch Run, from which blank charges mny be tired. General Brynk, who will supervise the test, is ore of the most distinguished otricers in the gunnery branch of the Russian service. He is tlrst assistant to the chief of naval artillery, and is also professor of military ordnance of the Gunnery Academy for Otlicers at St. Pet rsburg. Captain Moelkr is chief of tho gun carriage department of the manufactory at Obaukhotf. Russia. General Brynk expresses'hims If as highly pleased with the cruiser Variag, recently turned out from Cramps'?, nnd with the Retvizan. so far as he has seen her. GEN. CHAFFEE MERCIFUL COl RT-M ARTIAL VERDICT IN CASE OF A FI LI PINO .NOT APPROVED. Prisoner Liberated on the (.round that KilliiiK' Americans in Rattle Is Not Murder Death List. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. The outrages committed by armed guerrillas and bandits against innocent Filipino? continue to be rigorously dealt with by the authorities in the Philippines. The records in about twenty cases were received at the War Department to-day. They show that the death penalty was inflicted on thirteen murderer by military courts-martial, and that five offenders were sentenced to hard labor of from fifteen to thirty years. In the case of Simplio-o Geromilla-, who was sentenced to be hanged by a military commission, of which Lieutenant Colonel Swlgcrt was president, for acting as a leader of an armed band of insurgents, and firing upon and killing two American soldiers, although at the time living under the protection of the military authority of the United States as an amigo. General Chaffee disapproved the sentence and ordered the prisoner liberated. Says General Chaffee in his indorsement: "The finding cannot logically be sustained. The killing of the deceased soldiers in an engagement with a regular detachment of the publio enemy is not murder, but a natural consequence incidental to a state of war. It is not contended that the accused himself did the killing, and as these American soldiers fell in battle only on the theory that Ins was one of a band combined for the commission of murder could he be held for murder, which theory does not meet th facts proved. The accused is doubtl guilty and could have been convicted of being a war traitor, in that while living within the lines of United States occupation he aided and abetted the enemy, but for this offense he was not tried, and th reviewer may not substitute one finding for another." DEATH LIST Fit 031 CHAFFE!:. Soldiers "Who Hare Died Recently In the Philippines. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-General Chaffee, under date of July 22, reports ihe following deaths in his command since hia last report: Dysentery Arthur Bach, acting hospital steward, at Dagupan, Luzon, July 22; Joseph J. Doughty, conoral Company M, Twenty-sixth Infantry, July S. at Guinobatan, Luzon: John 1 1. Given. Company C, Twelth Infantry, July 13, at Banguet, Luzon; Joseph Shelton. Company 1, Twentyfourth Infantry, July 10. at Dagupan. Luzon: Edward R. Stone, Company G. Seventeenth Infantry, July 12, t Dagupan, Luzon; Charles E. Williamson. Troop I), Fifteenth Cavalry, June 27, at Tagaloan, Minandano. Tuberculosis Michael IV Buckley, hospital corps, July 13. at Station Mesa Hospital; Charles McTrammlck, Company L, Ninth Cavalry, July 16. at Station Mesa Hospital. Peritonitis Joseph Riley, Troop D, Fourth Cavalrv. July 10. at San lsidr Luzon; Alfred W. Clark. Troop It. Third Cavalry, July 13. at Bangar, Luzon. Alcoholism John Wright. Troop D. Sixteenth Cavalrv. Julv 12. at Pa say, Manila; Thomas J. Mulvihill. Company D. Sixth Infantry. June 21. at Ysibela. Negros. Abscess of Liver Emanuel Holman, Company A, Twenty-first Infantry, July 11, at Station Mesa Hospital. Colitis Thomas Dunn. Eighteenth Infantry, June :i. Sulfide Fred B. Bandidistcl, Company II. Eighth Infantry, July 6, at Magdalena, Luzon. Variola James R. Clark, Company E, Twenty-first Infantry, June 2s, at Candalaria, Luzon. Drowned Frederick G. Rabeneau. Company E. Sixteenth Infantry. July at Ilagan, Luzon (body not recovered.) Malarial Fever James H. Cattanach, Company I, Fifth Infantry, June IS, at Dolores. Luzon. Fell from Quarter?, Fracturing NeckPaul Degutis. Company Seventeenth Infantry, Jul j' H, at Lir.gayen, Luzon. 3Iore Troops Coining Home. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.-The Eighteenth f Infantry will sail from Manila for home Sept. on the transport Kllpatrlck. The War Department is informed that the transport Grant left Nagasaki on the 21st ultimo for San Francisco. Colonel Forwood, acting surgeon general of the army, has received a letted from General Sternberg, announcing his return to Manila from an inspection tour of the hospitals In the southern island8. Geneiai Sternberg writes that he found the medical department in first-class condition. ROOSEVELT TO VETERANS. Vice President Addresses Old Soldiers nt 31 Innen polls. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Sept. 3. Vice President Roosevelt addressed the veterans of the civil war and their friends at the Fourth Ward Republican Club Wigwam at 11 o'clock to-day. The event was arranged by the Union Veteran League. .n hour b. fore the hour lix .1 the hall was filled. He confined his remarks to the achievements of the veterans and soldi, rs of the late war. He paid a high tribute to the bravery of the First Minnesota Regiment at the battle of Gettysburg, lik. ning theni to Tennyson's immortal light brigade. "But." sail lie. "at Gettsburg the First Minnesota. :vith one-third aa n-.ui m n as there were In the light brigade, the l-e suffered w;;s greater than that suffered by the light brigade." Speaking of the events of the Spanish war. Colon.1 Ro"secit said: "1 hne bu glad always that my regiment in the cavalry division down at Santiago was undrr Joe Wheeler, and that 1 had in it hundreds of young fellows whose fath.is had foi!.1t in the arm'en of the Confederacy. Jut jr I had In It thousands of nun whose fathers find sprung to ;rni when Abraham Lincoln called them." A reception from 2 to 5 this afternoon, at the Commercial Club, was the r.nti event of th" Vice President's visit. He lift at t:2J p. nx. for Chlcau.