Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1878 — Page 7

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THE INDIANA" STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MOBNTNG, JULY 10, 1878.

STRIKING IUHD PAN.

The Potter Committee Getting Down to the Bed Rock of Fraud. Emile Weber Testifies That the Fell- . ciana Parishes Went Democratic His Brother Influenced by the Promises and Assurances of Sherman to File His Protest. The Man "Who Found the Bherman Letter and Destroyed It. Seymour Testifies Before the Sub-Committee That Jenks Did S ng That Affidavit. THE INVESTIGATION. Tbe Potter Committee Still Prosecuting It Inquiry. - Washisgtos, July 2. The Totter commit, tee to-day recalled Thomas C. Anderson, who testified that he' did not see any one sign the certificates of the electoral rotes while in the governor's office in New Orleans; that Mrs. Jenks pleaded the pover" ty of her mother, and asked him to appoint her brother, A. R. Murdock, to a place in the custom house. Witness promised to do something for him this month, but lias not yet. Mar dock has had a letter from Senator Kellogg for some time requesting Kellogg to do something for him. . A long examination of the witness regarding the operations of the returning board elicited nothing new. In reply to General Hunter the witness said the returning board, as a body, never attempted to fill a vacancy with democrats. He had spoken to a Mr. Smith, at present a reporter on the New Orleans Democrat, about accepting an appointment on the board, but he refused. Never knew of the board having asked SmithNever heard it stated by any member of the board that the presence of a democrat was undesirable. The witness, in reply to Mr. Cox. said he had heard that Daniel Weber was killed because he bad signed his protest. Never heard he was killed, as Judge Campbell had testified, because he was supposed to have had the Sherman letter on his person. JENKS KO. 2. Thomas II. Jenks testified be had never made an affidavit similar to the one suoxnitted before the Louisiana sub-committee yesterday and in the handwriting of James E. Anderson. Never saw Notary Seymour in New Orleans, before whom the affidavit appears to have been made. James E. Anderson, asking permission to explain, stated tha: on the 11th of Maybe met Jenks on the street, and as he (Anderson) was going to leave for the north at 2 p. m., Jenks requested him to use his influence toward securing him a position in Washington, and after some conversation, Jenks went with him to his office in the custom house, and dictated the affidtvit in question, and he (Anderson) copied it, and then they went to Notary Seymour's office, and Jenks swore to the document. The purpose of making the affidavit was to aid Anderson in securing Jenks a position. Anderson was to show the affidavit to Matthews, and endeavor to secure him an appointment on the strength of it. wkber's brother. Emile L. Weber, brother of Daniel Weber, was sworn, desiring to read the statement of his connection with the republican party. Mr. Cox objected to th.9 statements read being part of the testimony, and Weber retired for the present. II. Conquest Clarke, former private secretary of Governor Kellogg, retold his recollections of theeigningof the electoral certiti-' cates,and promptly and emphatically denied all knowledge of who appended the supposed forged signatures. A secret session followed. WEBER AGAIX. When the doors were reopened Emile Weber was recalled and was given permission to read bis statement, provided he would swear to the facts contained in it. The statement was read and set forth: he had no knowledge that democratic intimidation existel in the parishes of East and West Feliciana. His brother, Daniel Weber, and James . Anderson had informed him the two parishes had gone democratic. Influence was brought to bear upon his brother to make him protest, and he had been approached very frequently to use his influence with bis brother to effect the signing of the protest He raw Anderson sign his protest, and saw the blanks therein. After Ander son had left Judge Campbell attached the jurat to the paper. It was not sworn to by Acderjon. It was a notorious fact in the custom house that Kellogg, Packard and others were pressing Anderson and Weber to make their respective protests. John Sherman was f pokes roan for the visiting statesmen, and lie (Weber) knew that Sherman had given hie brother assurances which caused him to allow hi3 protect to stand after it bad been made. Weber had in coaversatioa with Sherman explained to him that hi brother thought his parish had gone democratic, and he was disposed to take back his protest, whereupon Sherman assured him his brother would be cared for, and requested he send his brother to him. His brother on the day he received it showed him the Sherman letterof assurance, and (aid he had received it direct from Sherman. Weber was familiar with the handwriting of Sherman, and was satisfied the letter was written by that gentleman in 1877. The Bherman letter was the subject of great mortification to the Weber family, ana his 8i8ter-in-lw, Mrs. Daniel Weber, had endeavored to find it amon? the papers of her husband, which were packed away in two trutks and a large shoe box. Lite in the summer of 1877 he (the witness) had . made a ttan.li for the letter and had found it in a shoe box and destroyed it forthwith. Mrs. Jenks had been In no way connected with the authorship of the Sherman letter. About the 27th of November it was discovered that only six of the Hayes electors could be saved, and Kellogg on that day remarked to me: "We are affer all beaten." In regard to the agreement between James E. Anderson and D. A. Weber I here state that I personally know that such an agreement was entered into, and was substantially the same as has been presented. My brother was murdered March 7. In the issue of the Ledger, of which he was editor preyious to

his death, be threatened to publish certain letters and a statement emanating from the state auditor's office, and that is supposed to havesupplitd the immediate cause of bia death, and to that extent niiaht suggest its authors. While I consider this threat the immediate cause of bia assassination, I do not believe that it would have occurred if he had not made the protest which dem-ived the people ot their

votes, and thus placed himself in such a po- I siuon mat ms prjut eueixnco noiccuwu.aged to make this murderous assault In tbe Sherman report appears a purported affidavit from me as United- States supervisor, containing a somewhat sweeping allegation of intimidation in the parish of West Feliciana. I declined, when requested to make an affidavit on this subject to do so. This paper was subsequently prepared by L. B. JenKS, and without reading or examining it l signed it I performed no duties as United States supervisor, and should not have signed the paper if I had previously read it. , I did not swear to it, but the jurat was attached by the commissioner as a matter of form merely. 1 have no defence to make for my action except to say that it was done without deliberation. Mrs. Jenks visited my sister in law in the summer of 1877, and urged her to hunt for the Sherman letter. Mrs. Weber declined to do so, or give her any information whatever. About the 27th of May she brought a letter from General Sheldon, ofter.ng to pay Mrj. Weber's expenses to New Orleans and Washington in connection with Sherman, and threatening in case she did not come to have her arrested and forced to go. Mrs. Jenks and her husband have always called the paper the Sberman letter. Tom Jenka, in fact, has claimed that his association with and cooperation Anderson was such as to give him an equitable right to some of the benefits that were supposed to be embraced in it I have never heard it intimated until she gave her testimony that Mrs. Jenka was in any way connected with the authorship of the letter. I have not, nor has any member of my family, sought to use this letter as a means of obtaining office. I saw the members of the MacVeagh commission in New Orleans. Was informed that money bad been used to secure the abandonment of the Packard legislature by certain members ' thereof. I could say something of amounts paid in certain cases, but could not say who disbursed the money or who supplied it. I bad two conversations with General Hawley . relative to the recognition of the Packard government vby the administration, and he said the president could not and would not recognize it. He conveyed the impression to ray mind distinctly that the recognition of Kicholls and the abandonment of Packard wa3 a foregone conclusion, aud that this question bad been determined by the; administration before the commission left Washington. A TROCBLESOME LETTER. A letter was here shown Weber, which he identified as having been written by himself. He then said: QESTLF.ME5 OCTIIH COMMITTEE I object to the consideration of this letter, or Its publication as any part of the record. If it is published It will place me in a ver falsa position witn the people down there, and 1 ask the committee not to allow it to be read for that reason. The statement I have made In there is not In accordance with the facts. I woud like to aay a word or two about this matter. That the time I wrote this letter, what I wrote was given to me as facts, but since 1 have ascertained that 1 was misinformed, and'therefore I misstated the case at t hat time. It is as follows: State senate. New Orleans, 1LKANS, 1 1, 1S77. .Marco Xi J. H. Wtber, Esq.: Dear Cocsik Your favor of the 17th Inst was received only tolay. In answer thereto I am sorry to Kay that though I had beard my brother, D. A. Weber, casually speak of a cousin living in St, Louis, he never gave me any definite understanding concerning him. This is the only reason I can give you for not writing to you sooner. The Times you refer to lias not yet reached me. I should certainly be pleased to have the opportunity to reply to any erroneous statement made concerning the unprovoked and dastardly murder of D. a. W. I have mailed to your address a copy ot the New Orleans Hepub.lcan, containing a correct and uncoutraaioted statement of the brutal outrage I also forward to your address. In writing and in a separate envelope, the same statement, which you can use for publication in any paper. I vouch for the correctness of the same. I intended before this to "ave written another statement, giving more particulars concerning the affair, but have not really had time to do so. The assassins of D. A. W. are at large as yet and officiating In tbe capacity of Nlchoils' officers in the parish he lived in, WestKellclaua, and republicans, with terror impriuted on tneir faces, whisper to each other, ''who will be next?" We desire no new election in Louisiana. We desire and demaud the recognition of the legal and lawful Packard government from which Mr. Hayes derived his title to the office of the chief magistrate of this nation. We demand it not only as a Just right to which we are entitled, but we desire it and demand It, that we may have a government based upon Maw and order, wherein all men.wiihout regard to nationality or color may enjoy the same rights. of civilization without tear or favor. Under a government at this time In this state, administered by Nlchoils and his bands of assassins, and founded upon blood, there is not and never will b-s any security for life and property. D. A. leaves a wife and three little babies, the oldest only three years oi age. This alone would have been enough to have spared his life, had not the brutes been thirsty for the blood of the Innocent and defenceless republicans. I had ad vised litra to stay away from the parish until the dirticullirs were adjusted, but he preferred to remain at home In the bxom of his family, whom he cherished and adored. His unfortunate fate seems to have lieen apprehendei, as you will notice in his letter written to Senator McMillan, of Minnesota, three days ttefore he was murdered, and published in the same New Orleans Itepubllcan I send you. Uui situation in the north can not be understood, as I am sure the people would not tolerate the state of affairs which actually exists here. One by one our white and colored republicans are murdered here by day li?ht, and always by turtles unknown. We have endured more than our share of wro g aud outrage, and unless the general government comes to our rescue we must either &unVr the fate of D. A. or leave the state. This is a threat made against us publicly and without faar. D. A's wife and babies hae moved from St, F.vllle to Donaldson ville; I have also been obllged.for security's sake, to move to the same place. We have abandoned all our property, aud left it at the mercy of 1 he brutes. If Packard la governor, and I have no doubt of It, he wll in due time have the assassins of my brother arrested and punished. If Nlchoils becomes governor and an attempt on our part to arrest and convict murderers is made, we will beyond any doubt stirrer death. I have written this in haste. In my next I will give you more details concerning I. A. W.'s death. With best wishes, I am, yours, (Signed) E. L. Weber, THE EX.AMI5ATI05. During the reading of the letter Mr. Cox examined tbe witness in regard to various abatements contained therein, and the witness replied that all the statements made were vouched for at the time from information he had received, and he then believed them true, but he had since learned t'jat he had been misinformed. He now pronounced -the statements contained therein to be false. He subsequently stated that the statements were mad for political effect; that he supposed the person to whom the letter was addressed was going to have it published, and that it would create a feeling in the north in favor of the Packard government The witness was questioned closely in relation to each clause of his letters and made the same response to all statements tnerein contained, pronouncing them all false and written for political effect The witness said he wrote a similar letter to Governor Kellogg, and that the writing of such letters was a stock in trade of the Packard people to get una feeling In reea'rd to outrages in the south in order to get the administration to sustain them as against the Nicholls government. He said the letter in question written by witness had been handed him by Nathan Cole, a member of congress from St Louis. Tbe witness read a statement giving the details of his brother's death, in

which he had said the murder was not done by political enemies. The witness continued: "I saw Secretary Sherman write in the New Orleans custom house once or twice, and I have seen bis autograph in an album.' Weber here desiied to read a written statement upon this point, which be said he had prepared four or five days ago, anticipating this subject would be inquired Into by the committee. He was not allowed to read it, however, and went on tossy: "I remember seeing Secretary Sherman write in the custom house either on the 15th or 16th of November. Garfield, Hale, Stoughton, Sberman and others were sitting in different groups at tables in the collector's rooms in the custom house. I was right in with them; I was going in and out all the time. I went and talked with Secretary Sberman, and read the writing he was makine. All tbe republican witnesses were taken in there to them, and it was in there they had their conferences and talked together while I was there. I raw Sherman write very distinctly. I looked at him a minute or two on that occasion. He told me to go and get my brother, D. A. Weber, and James E. Anderson. The statement contained in my written answer that I have seen Secretary Sherman write and know his handwriting is based on these occurrences that I have related. Without concluding the examination of witnets the committee went into exacutive ression and afterwards adjourned until Wednesday. FCTCRE PROSrECT8. The witness Weber will be further examined to-morrow by the Patter committee on some of the main points of his testimony, and the committee will adjourn until the 11th inst., as it is not desirable to keep Weber waiting in this city in the meanwhile. It was the understanding to-day that his examination should be completed in New Orleans. It is reported to-night that after a short session next week the committee will probably adjourn until September. Washington, Jnly 3. Before the Potter committee to-day Emile Weber testified that the conference held in New Orleans during the count in 187G was understood to have been led by Senator Sherman. In conservation with Senator Sherman, the witness was assured if his brother should stand by bis protest he would be protected. In compliance with the request of Sherman witness went after his brother aud Anderson and informed them that the visiting statesmen were desirous of seeing them. Anderson, in reply, said: "Tell them to go to hell." His brother, however, went to see Sherman, and they had a long conversation regarding the protest Two or three days after this conversation occurred his brother showed him the Sherman letterof assurance, and told him Sherman gave it to him at the con

clusion of the conference relative to him standing by his protest, and remarked that it was the best he could do at that time. Question Did your brother agree to stand by lis protest? A. He hesitated about d'o'ng so, but could not well avoid it, t nslde.Ing the pressure brought to bear uprm him. By Mr. Springer Did yon have the Sherman letter in your hand? A. Yes, sir, I did. Q What kind of paper was it written on? A. It was written on double sheet note paper. Witness then showed tbe siza of the paper, which was about one-half the size of the sbeet Mrs. Jenks said the letter was written on. She claimed it was written on a 6ingle-sheet of commercial letter paper. Witness said it was arranged before the election by Kellogg, Thomas O. Anderson and Packard to secure affidavits of intimidation in the parishes of East and Wett Feliciana for the purpose of throwing out these parishes. He was assured by Kellogg and others if he wouM use his influence with hia brother toward having him make protest he (witness) would be returned to the senate. He was defeated for the state senate by about 1,200 votes, and wes returned as elected by the returning board by about COO majority. In reply to Hnnton witness stated that some visiting statesmen had an interview with Eliza Pinkston before she was brought before the returning board. He thought one of those who interviewed her was Senator Sherman. He was of the opinion that the Eliza Pinkston outrage was a put-up job. By Mr. Springer Did you fee the affidavit of Eliza Pritcbard, formerly Eliza Pinkston, published in a New York paper? A. Yes, sir; and. to the best of my knowledge and belief, it is true. Weber then related the circumstances as told him by his bister in-law concerning the visits of Jenks to Donaldsonville, and read the following letter, which was delivered to Mrs. Dan Weber by Mrs. Jenks: ' New Orleans, May 2C, 1878. Madams-In the investigation abouttocommence tn Washington under the Potter reso lution it is deemed Important to have you there us a witness at once. Mrs, Jenks will bear this to you. Very respectfully, L. A. Sheldon. To Mrs. Weber, Donaldson vllle. Mm. Jenks explained to Mrs. Weber that Sheldon desired her to go to Washington and testify. She did not know of the existence of the Sherman letter. Mrs. WTeber refused unless called upon by the proper authorities,' whereupon Mrs. Jenks threatened to have her arrested and taken to Washington. At this time a brother of Mrs. D. A. Weber came to Donaldsonville and seeing Mrs. Jenks asked what that woman was doing there again, and whether she was after the Sherman letter. Mrs. Weber told her brother not to meddle with her affairs, that she bad the Sherman letter and knew what to do with it. At this time E. L. Weber had not informed his sister-m law he had destroyed the document Mrs. Jenks has told Mrs. Weber that the letter was worth thousands of dollars, and raid she would pay her a good price for it. Mrs. Jenks never intimated to Mrs. Weber that she had anything to do with the aathcrjhip of tbe Sherman letter, and always spoke of it as a letter written by John Sherman assuring Weber and Anderson of positions under the administration. A paper containing the affidavit wes produced, but Judgrf Shellabarger objecting to tbe affidavit being put in evidenca, it was laid over for the present. The witness said on the evening of the 20th of November while pass'ng by Mortan's restaurant, on Caial street. New Orleans, he noticed bis brother, D. A. Weber, and James E. Atderson in there talking with Secretary Sherman. Was not within hearing distance and don't know what lrjnpiml, but they were there together at a table, one on each side cf Sherman. fackakd's plot. Packard told me a few days before the election that if he and Haves did not get any votes in East and West Feliciana h wss going to be governor and Hayes was going to be president He told me this in the presence of Mr. Arinistead, Mr. Duncan and others whom I do not now remember. He said the best way to dispose of the democratic majority was to throw out the vote of tbe county; that was better than makirg a republican canvass, and I know of my personal knowledge that Kellogg employe i I II. Jenks to keep James E. Anderson away from the parish, and to prevent his holding an election there as supervisor. 1 have a letter from L. B. Jenks, dated New Orleans. October 2G, 1870, in which he sla'es that Pitkin requested him to bunt np Anderson arid prevent his coming to East Feliciana to hold an election. Jenks afterward stated be had been endeavoring to keep Anderson away, but had failed to -do so, and that Anderson would go up and bold the election. He told me that Kellogg, Pitkin and others had given him money to prevent Anderson's going up, and they wanted him to go down town and get Anderson drunk so as to prevent his coining. There were between 400 and 500 democratic votes lost in Feliciana because of the failure of Anderson to come np there and register them. I had a conversation with General Garfield, Mr. Sherman,

and others whom I do not remember, but I know it was generally understood they were advising the stretching of the powers of the returning board to the utmost extent in the same direction that they were stretched in 1874, when they proved snccetsfuL JENKS AS A TEMPTER. The witness said that Mrs. Jenks came to his house and stated that she knew of the existence of the Sherman letter, and was in tearch of it, and would pay well for it She stated how valuable it would be for us if I could get Mrs. D. A. Weber to consent to her looking over the papers in her possession, as she was certain it would be found. The witness testified according to his best knowledge and belief that after the election ihe republican leaders acknowled they were beaten, but their hopes were revived and they were induced to make a fight by assurances given them by the visiting statesmen, and the coming administration would sustain them in whatever action they might take, and upon that the returning board went to work and threw out other parishes, in some cases without affidavits being hied. - marks' letter. The following is Marks' letter: Washinotox, May 27, 178. My Dear Sir You will pi ase forward to me or Mr. Shellabarger a list of names of the parties to te summoned before the committee as to the outrages committed in East and West Feliciana, as to what each man knows, and briefly what can be proven by him. Tell Minnie (Mrs. D. A. Weber what she asked me lo attend to I feel confident now that I will succeed in. She Is certain to l a witness. and so are you. Have you received your appointment? If not let me know at once. Writo me fully. My matter Is all right Yours in haste. Macrice Marks. the reply. The Witness I replied to that letter from Donaldsonville on the day it was received or the day after, as follows: I am in receipt of your favor of the 27th inst. In reply thereto I must aay that It will be extremely difficult to procure good and reliable witnesses from the Feliciana to testify about the alleged outrages committed there. What they have experienced for so doing before has been such a sad lesson to them that 1 doubt If a very respectable number could be induced to go on affidavits of that nature. I will ce what is to tie done and write you again. Madam Weber Is not an applicant for office, and for me to accept an appointment now might subject my future actions to undue criticism and the cnarge of being lmproper'y innueuced. Hoping to hee.r from you again, I am truly yours, E. L Werer. The witness continued: I applied to Mr. John Sherman about two or three months ago for a position in the custom bouse in New Orleans, and Mr. Husted, who has been an employe in the treasury department, met me one day here and stated to me that Sherman bad highly recommended my appointment, aud that the recommendation had

been sent to General Anderson. marks' mission. Judge Marks came to Donaldsonville early in 187s to get a statement from Mrs. Weber in writing that she knew nothirjg about this Sherman letter and that she knew it had never been in existence. He wanted to dic tate a statement to her for her to write and sign. He was then on the way to Washing ton and be told her on that occasion that he would probably obtain position of postmistress for her. She wss not an applicant for the position at that time. Marks had opposed her appointment before. He spoke of it as the Sherman letter. Marks was then an applicant for the position be bas been appointed fo since. He wanted her statement to help himself in that matter. IJ. Have you ever been approached by any one with a view to anecting the char acter of your testimony before this commit tee? A. Mr. J. P. Harris, of New Orleans. statedGeneral Anderson wanted to see me and I called on General Anderson, and he said he wanted Harris and I summoned before the couiuiit'ee for the purpose of cmtrariictlng James E. Anderson's statement; I told him I had already been usel as at ool by them and I did not propose to be. used again; I told him if I took anv part in this matter at all tbe only thing 1 could do was to corroborats Anderson in many of his statements. He replied he was astoarded by my remark, and conld not understind it knowing bow my brother waskillt d. I told him that had nothing to do with the tejtimony I should give, and left him. Since I have been here I met Mr. Hcsfed. formerly an office holder in the par ish of East Baton Rouge. I did not recognize him a, first, but he introduced himself to me Capttin Tom Jenks was present The next day he called at ray room, and I was not in In the evening he met me at the Il'ggi home, and told me how near he, was to Mr. Sherman, and stated MR. SQERMAN FELT VERY KINDLY towards me, aud would be glad to. have a brief inter?iew with me. I considered that an improper approach on his part and I made no reply and walked away. I have not called on Mr.'Sberman. Q. Have you ever bad any other conversation wit any body? A.--I had a conversation with Captain Tbomai Jenks before he testified early last week. He spoke to me in this way: "You know, Weber, if you testify with us in this case we can be provided for don there. We can get a nice appointment in tije custom house, and everything will be all rigat so far as we are concerned." I considered that as an improper approach, and I told him I was not an applicant for any position, and would not have one under the circumstances. ANOTHER ANDERSON LETTER. The witness then produced the following letter, written to Mrs. D. A. Weber by James E. Anderson NORTH AMKRICAN OFFICE,) Philadelphia, Penn., . My Dear Madam You are probably aware that the wa in friendship existing between your husband and myself remained unbroken until bis untimely death. You are also aware, no doubt, that we acttd together in all matters connected with the election in 1876, and that a letter- assuring ns that we should be protected and provided for was given us by Mr. Sherman. Had the promise made to us at that time been fulfilled your husband would not have been compelled to return home and to certain death. The man who made those promises occupies to-day one of the most prominent places in the gift of the man whose title is stained by your husbands blood. They not only deny the exl-tence of tbe document, but that either your husband or myself was known tn them, or that they bad ever heard of us. Some days since a party arrived in Washington and claimed that she could produce tbe letter in question. la this correct? IfsohasRhe tbe possession of it? If not can you tell me where it can be foun , and on what conditions It can be obtained? Injustice to myself and the memory of Mr. Weber It should be produced, and there never will be more opportunetime than the present Lt me hear fioru you ft the earliest practicable moment. K. U. will Klve you all the information you desire, liejieniber me kindly to hini. ' (iSlgned) James E. Anderson. The Witness I have the original of thi letter, which I will file with the committee Mrs Weber did not reply to it. The further examination of witnees was here postponed, and he was directed to appear before tbe subcommittee at New Orleans on tbe 10th of July, when Mr. Cox, who leaves for New Orleans to-day, would be there and conclude his cross examination. Tbe committee adjourned until Wednesday, July 10. Tbe Noclely T tbe Cincinnati. New York, . Jnly 4. The society of the Cincinnati hal its annual banquet to-day, and elected ex-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish chairman, and mace the general of the army an honorary member. Inter-Ocean: Wattenon to Hewitt "An revoir, Abraham." Hewitt' to Wattereon--"My dear Henri, bye bye. But hear me, my boy, the lirst time I catch you away from home you'll catch it"

IT 18 OYER.

The Horse and the Mare Have a BrLsh. x Remarks by a Han Wbo Tbongbt He Lived la California. The great (?) race between Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarthy was run at Louisville yes terday, ana was witnessed by not less than 30.000 people. Doctors, lawyers, bankers. politicians and stationery men, and not a tew who were not stationery, were sweltering in the sun to witness the grandest swindle ever perpetrated on the American people. Tbe races preceding the Ten Broeck race were very tame, particularly the dash. The time made in that race was not as good as we have seen candidates make from ward to ward on the night preceding a convent'.on. At about 4 o'clock the racra were put in the ring, and it was easy to be seen that Mollie had some friends. The horses got a good start, and for the first two miles many believed the mare would get away with the horse, but on the first half of the third mile the horse took the lead and kept it, and at every jump until the race was ended widened the distance between him and his competitor. That the last two miles was a walk away no one seems to deny. She apparently gave out on the third mile, and all the spurring and whipping would do no good. The race over and Ten Broeck won.hayinr made the four miles In eight minutes and nineteen and three-quarter seconds. As tbe hone came under the home line his friendi Beemed to lose control of themselves, and would have taken him up and carried him in their arms. It is estimated that the gate receipts were over $50,000, and that Bud Doble, who 'manipulated the fraud, has walked away with fully $35,000 clean profit To the Associated Press. THE LOUISVILLE RACES. Locisville. Ky., July 4 In the first race to-day, Dan M. beat Harkaway easy. Time 2:18Ji. The race was a mile and three quarter dash. The second race, sweepstakes, for two year olds, resulted as follows: Good Night first. Kenton second, Carlemagne third. .Time 1:LU When the drum for the great four mile i ace to-day sounded. Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarthy went by the string like twin bullets. Ten Broeck had the outside of the (rack, aud the m;ire being on the iDside, ran to the front from the start At the first quarter tbey were side by side and going gallantly on to victory. The half mile aid not change positions, and, as they moved onward, the 30,000 spectators were held in perfect silence. Between the half and three-quarters, the mare got her nose ahead, and a . great cheerwent up, and then as they came past the ttring and she again appeared in front another cheer was heard. The mare was running easy. Ten Broeck was being driven hard, and Walker urged him more and more, In the second mile Mollie seemed to be moving with such eise, and Ten Broeck labored so hard, that Kentuckiaos wavered by the thousands, and the certainty of California winning produced a dead silence. At the half post by the second mile Walker urged Ten Broeck quite hard, and Howser p?rmitted him to come np 6ide by side. A Kentucky yell, such as was heard for miles, rent the air. So they ran past tbe threefourths, and coming into the stretch Mollie brushed ahead again, passing the grand stand half a leoi'th in the lead. More confident grew the cry as her easy move ment continued, the horse driving, bhe passed the quarter in the third mile (till leading, but tae horse being- on to her cloe and made the pace so murderous that many knew his bottom would have an ellect ultimaely. At the three-eighths pole of the third mile McCarthy let op in her running, Ten Broeck taking the trick and pasting her at the very moment bis friends were giving htm up. He increased rapidly the dtstince separating them. "The mare's broke down" was heard the field over, but she ran on and Walker pulling. The horse was slightly ahead on the third mile ten lengths and increased it all the time, and al though her defeat was now certain. few realized how far and how easy Ten Broeck wjuld win, he little more than galloping the last mile, the queen of the Californias being at the three-quarters pole when the great Kentucky crack distanced her. The time was 8:19?4. as follows: First mile, 1:494; second mile. 3:45 ; third mile, 5:53; fourth mile, 8:lD54i more than a jnin ute slower than his best record. Both horses were well usd up, tbe heat being intense. There was no heavy betting, the Californians and eastern people who backed the mar. being content with small investments of 3 to 5. Thirty thousand or more people were present. , DEEP DISGVST. San Fram isco, July 4. Deep disgust in the community over the result of the Louisville race, and especially the slow time Money changed hands here at odds of one hundred to seventy-five on the horses. THE INDIAN I'PRISIXti. Tbe I'm a til Ian on tbe War Path The Bannocks Bound lo Cross Colnmbia Klver. Portland, Oregon, Jnly 4 The following bas been received here from Fendleton from N. A. Cocnoyer, Indian agent: "Monday Night Some of the Umatilla have just arrived in baste. The Snakes, within GO miles of this place are killing all tbey meet Fear that some . Indian families are killed. Two Indian ranners arrived this evening. They report a fight at Camas prairie, Taey cay a number of Indians and whites wera killed. The Umatilla Indian are fighting aguinst the Snakes. These two Indian runners came to get the Columbia river Indians to look out for tbe host ilea. The hos tiles are expected to try to cross the Columbia. They are going to try to stop them. Settlers are coming inhere." SeoTTs, J uly 3. A man arrived from Rock creek stating that friendly Indians bad notified the settlers to leave immediately if tbey ish to save their lives. One man has been killed by the Indians. Walla Walla. July 311 :30 p. m. The sheriff of Unntilla county reached here this morning, having left the scene of the present hostilities last night about 10 o'clock. From tlii Umatillas and Major Connoyer be learned that upon the first appearance of the Bannocks they offered to barter their plunder.consisting of 2,000 horses and merchandise, for their assistance, promising also not to disturb or molest any of the property belonging to Umatillas in addition. The Bannocks stated that whether they received assistance or not tbeyproiosed to fight their way to the Columbia r-Ver. That they were determined t cross t lat stream, and that when once across they would not require any assistance. Tbe Umatillas declined to accept of! era when the Bannocks opened fire The Um&tillas numbered CO. Of these only SO tad iirived, Connoyer reported two of

lis men killed. The location of this fight is bout 40 miles from Pendleton. Later. The stage that left Pendleton at 6 'clock tnis eveainc has inst re.iohed hm

and brines intelligence of the courier at that wiiu, wno reports mat me umatuias had . JAr.4AJ 1 f 1 1 1 1 . w en ueieaieu, auu wereiaumg oiCK 10 warn the reservation. The Kansas and Colorado Cattle Drive. Dodge City Correiondence New York Times. J The cattle men of the plains are iust get ting through with their annual '"round up..' For tbe Arkansas valley and the divide country West Los Animas was the rendez vous; and the scattered cattle for miles along the nver and out on the buffalo ranges were gathered u that point. Camps were established, all the leading cattle nun. were on band, and the "cow bovs" were in their glory. It waa the work of only a few hours to "cut out" and separate the cat Je, and start tbe herds back to their ranges again. Every animal is known by 'its brand, so that ownership is easily determined, and those that have drifted miles away during the winter storms add become a part of other herds, are picked out in a few min utes, claimed by the owners and started back to the range. It has been a good win ter for stock in this valley: no bad storms and plenty of grass. The cattle are in prime condition, and beeves for tbe early fall mar ket Will Bell better than tbe average. By comparing notes among tbe herders it was found that the range between Fort Lyon and Bents rort Kit Carson's old hunting grounds an uninviting and barren looking section, contains more cattle than any similir area on the plains. Over 75,000 head are figured up. As all tbe heavv stock men and shinnerj just now seem to be bound for one plce Dodge uity the point at which tae "drives" of Texas cattle come up, your correspondent took a train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, and a seven hours' ride landed us at midnight in this noisy cattle mart No one seemed to be a.sleep at that hour. Tbe station was thronged with swaggering, swearing cow boys and oily confidence men. With some difficulty we rubbed our way through the crowd and followed the perier to the Great western hotel. Any of our companions that might be bent on sport could need no special beckon ng, for in all the billiard halls, concert saloons and keno Iens tbe lamp still held out to burn. Seen by daylight Dodga City has a better look, though somehow pretty much all the buildings, which are of frame, lurch to tbe west as if impatient to move on, the effect of high. prairie winds". The population can not be far from 1,000, though there is a large floating element, increasing rapidly, and a month later, when the cattle are swarming arid prices are at high tide, there will be in the town and outskirts as many as 5,000 people. The cattle shipping season gathers traders, speculators, gamblers and all sorts. Through June and July Dodge City will be the liveliest place in the wesr. The best trails from the pan-handle of Texas strike tbe railroad and river at this point; if it is oulide the "dead line" prescribed by Kansas laws, and offers every facility for large stock transactions. There are in this vicinity about 120,000 head of Texas "beeves" already ar-' rived and ready to be marketed. There are on the trail between Dodge and Cimarron 50,000 more. The last accounts from the south indicate tbat there are upward of 225000 head of cattls moving northward from Red river, fully one half of which will take the trail to Dodge City. About the 1st of July the larger shared will have arrived here and the shipping will begin in earnest. There will probably be put on the cars at this stafon from 30,000 to 40T000 beeves for Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago. The greater share of ths cattle that are driven to this point from Texas do not go into esstern markets yet Tney will be allowed to feed- their way westward and northward, and txo raon'hs later will appear at stations on tbe Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific roads further east, some to be fchipped to Kansas City and Omaha, but the great balk to remain feeding on tic plains until next spring. The citt'e "drives" from Texai each year represent a great deal of money, and are hi the bands ot comparatively few men. The herds of tbe thirty largest owners will aggregate about 2iX),000 head. The several smaller "bunches" will swell ths table to between 225,500 and 250,000. JSome claim that the number will reae'i 300,000 About 45,000 are detained for DoJee City, principally for eastern shipment. While a large shore of the others enumerated will come by the trail to Didge City, they will be driven up the Arkansas and Purga'o'.re, or into the parks aod over the divide into the Piatt; valley. A gool many will go to the rangss on the Republican. In the past three or four years not all the cattle that have come up from Texas have been marketed, but have been multiplying and increasing in the valleys and along the high ranges Taking into account the larga number of csttle annoally driven into the territories and n-tw states of the weat. and the natural inereift- of the herds, tbe cattle trade is, of course, growing into greater magnitude every yeir. It is a noteworthy fact that the cattle interest of the Rocky moantain region and the plains on the east is receiving large accessions from the west aku. It was considered sjinesr'jat wonderful a ew ytars ago when Texas was credited with 4,000 000 head of eUtle. That state was looked upon as our beef supply for veers to come, and the great plains, at that time counted as al.-olutely worthless for any purpose, were r.o'. even lookid upon as even the smallest factor in tie mifer of supplying the east and Europe wit a marketable cittle. But a greit revolution bas taken place even in a fchort time. Tfce "long horns" still come up every wanin tt be put into market, but thi numbers arriving at KanstsCity ard Cbic-eo from that siurce are decreasing jear by year. The cattle groun isare being transferred to the great buffalo plains, and the cn'ral portion o' the continent with I he Pacific stitfs, are becoming tile leading pioducenof beef. An 8iimstf derived from tie nses uen" returns gives Colorato 550 000; Wvoming, 225,000; Utah, 350.000; Montana. 300,000; Washington, 200,000; Oregon, 175 000 and Calif, nra. 059,000 citfle. This makes a tval of r.etriy 2,750.000 market beeves which will te taken duricg the next three or four months into the marker east of the Missouri liver. A Koyal Mniie M.hint Dead. ITimes of Iudia.1 Tbe oldentof the white elephants, which ' was born iu 1770, died iu its temple of Bcg kok in November last. Every one knows tbat this famous white elephint, before which u whole people bow the knee, is the emblem of tbe people of Siara. It is honored with the matt beautiful presents, for the Indians, full of tbe idea of metamorphosis, still believe that so nuj?stic an animal could be animated by tbe only spirit of of a god or of an emperor. Etch white elephant possesses its palace, a vessel of gold, and harness resplendent with jewels. Several macdirins are attached to itiwrvice, and feed it with cakes and sugar cane. The king of Siam is the only personage before whom its bows, the knee, and a similar silutation is rendered it by the monarch. The deceased idol was accorded a magnificent funeral. A hundred Buddhist priests officiated at the ceremony. The three surviving white elephants, preceded by trumpet, and followed by an immense couconrse of people, accompanied the funeral car to the bank of the Menam, where the king and his noble lords received the remains, which were transported to the opposite bank for burial. A procession of thirty, vessels figured in that curious ceremony. All the floating houses, arranged in double file on the Menam to the number of 00,000, were adorned with flags and symbolical attributes. Robert N. Douglas, the United States . marshal of North Corolina, is said to resem- ' ble his father, the "Little Giant," more and more as he grows older.