Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 January 1902 — Page 2

Weeklu Courier.

C. IU M I'ulili.hrr INDIANA The war department was adrise1 by cable fm:n Manila, on the Ü'Uh. of ths eurrvtider of the Insurant chieftain. Samson, at Mutasar. n, with all hi oJBoera and men, 28 cannon nd 45 rides. The New York board of estimates, on the 20th, adopted in behalf ef the citizens of New York a resolution of thanks to Andrew Carnegie for the jift of $5,200,000 with which to build libraries in that city. Edgar S. Maclay. author of a hi tory in which he . miuicnu l NU dalnusly on the actions of Admir.iJ Schley, declined. OB the Hi, M comply with President Kooserelt's requeat for his resignation. William EDtry Ouraadag, the Usui Of the brotherhood including' Th--Rau, Hawthorne and C WW, made Concord, Mass.. famous. (Hod in that city, on the 2Jd. He wag born in Boston, November 2'.. w. The general meeting' Archaeological Institute of America 1' on Um 86th, at Columbia University The sessions wore presided over b Prof. Jona W. White, f Harvard. About sixty members were present Justice David McAdam. of the New York supreme court, died. Ml thefild, t a private sanitarium in New York citv. from cancer of the tongue. Justice McAdaa was the author of manylegal works that are considered uu thoritics. The treasury department kM issued circular extending the probibitkMi ngainst the importation 01 neat cattle from Australia and New Zealand into the United State to a-s to include Hawaii, it being n territory of the United Btstes, At Taducah. Ky.. the suit of Luther Heron against the Bllnoli vntral Bailroad Co. for 113,000 for the loss of an arm was ended, on the 83d, when the jury brought in a verdict for the full amount. This was the second trial, and the verdict was the name both times. Nuc-Se-Oa. the oldest Indian squaw In the United States, died at the Winnebago Indian camp on Dam n's islend. opposite La Crosse. Wis., aged K's. She was buried with the customary eeremoaies, on the KM, in the pteacnoc of a large nufnbsr I chiefs from all parts of the northwest. It was announced authoritatively, on the 15th, that Got. l.eslie M. 9 nw of Iowa would b.- appointed necretary of the treasury to succeed Secretary Lyman J. Gage. There will be no change in the oflice of secretary of ngriculture. Secretary Wilson, also of Iowa, continuing to retain that port folio. The British Court Circular announcer, that the journey of Kin? Ed ward nnd Queen Alexandra t Sandringham (where they were to go to spend fhristiuns). has been postponed, in consequence of u slight indispostion of Queen Alexandra. It is understood her majesty's Indispont. tion is not serious. The second eo.iToention of the l'.isteddefod Association of Iowa begun nt Ottumwn on the L'.ith. Preskiest T. J. 1'hillips. late candidate for g.oernor on the democratic ticket, called the nie-ti'.g t order. Ill'- e nvo.-a-tion was the most successful yet held. I-a rge audiences were present at all th n A tornado swept over Unpins, Italy on the 26th, causing considerable damage. A woman u.is kil 1-1 and ' persons were Injured, Many Lmildi n trln the surrounding country were demolished and a considerable amount of railroad property was deal roved The troops were calied upon to as-,--in clearing away th debris. Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskeger normal institute tt Tuskegec. Ala., was with the piesi bnt for a considerable time n the 2 I. He "as received in the rabinet loom Mr. Washington declined t make any SI. tit .Kent as to his hti.mct with the president, Imt it i leli-v-erl that they discussed southern appointment-. - d -ii A tank of oil on a car in Che lower part of the city of lliriwuil!, .1 . caught tire and exploded, on the hilling Buck Wakefield, a mm.hn ami injuring several other jwrsons. Tb fimlng oil set lire to und destroyed trestle on whiL tlie car was standing, and several shanties in the Btfgh'.,. l,..d. entsilixij. . . of H').000. The American Rridge Co. has secured the contend for the stei mv perstrvetnre of the Wabash railroad's iTg cantilever bridge over lb. Ohio rier nt Minsyo Junction. Tbe amount .d the contract is over t&OW,OOo. and the stipulation is made thai Work l aompleted beore .laniury 1 The whole CiMSt of th. l.ri.l-. will S 1.0. 000. Du.nlap Hmith. n leadiar finaneiet svnd renl estate dealer of Cldnmja died, on the jjth. of pneumonia. He was tk,- jrotuhgnet non of Perry H. fhnith. ho mm one of Chicago wealthi.1 eitieM dhring the eveeties B, ri,ti,.. Dun;;,-. Sn h in-heiit-d a large fortune f r vm ski father, and I seressed it large j tj,P,. r. i :atu operstions.

CUKKKXT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

United States Indian 4p11t Kandltt, of tlie Kiowu and Comanche trilc, is sending out notices to all per-ot - who have staked mining claims ! Indian allotuu nt that they uiu-t vacate at once, or they will be ejected by itMhtri from Fort IUL 1 he ac. ion is busco, on the opinion of At tont y -tieneral Knox, approved by beeret. try Hitchcock, and sent l- the gent Mkder recent date, prohiuit ng ittler- from tiling on Indian allot meuts Word reai lu d Mexieo 'ity. M th"tit. rroiu Merida. Yucatan, that a great ::re had been raging at l'r -gresso. starting in the warclumses if Lsi'haiiotr Itrothers. and spreading to the wnrehous' of (iubriel Kscalante and the consignment f tlu Merida ruilway. Some ten thousand boles of henequin was exposed to the llaines. and it was beliexed much of it va- destroyed. The loss is estimated at 1.U0U,IMM. '1. M James, uncle of Frank ami .le.-r-e JnnkC, and one of the leading crockeiy merchants of the west, died at Kai -as l ity. Mo., on the t ii . lie went to Kansas Cit y in 1 " I, nnd since tiien has Ucn identified with mriotts buaineas institutions of that city. He has been an aetive worker in the I'.aptist chureh and a generous Contributor Id William Jewell college at Liberty. Mo. The salvation Army gwve a Chri v mas uititier to ."i.immi people in t lei land, I . on the ttth Two thousau.' srore serred in CeatmJ Armor inn basket- of provisions were e;tt the remaining 3100. At the Armory t !. Myron r. Herrick made a brief apsech on the work of the Salxati- n Army. The J r of many other eities were in like ! anner made to enjoy t lnit mas da; . Acting on an r !er received from the secretary of ttie interior, government omektht bnfe topped all building and Improvement operation! ;t MeMe-t'-r. L T., until a sehedtile of values "f all property has !,eeii prepnred by the town site committee. A former survey schedule wns toon 1 to be fa'se and the secretary of ti: interior then took a band. The steamer s.m. employed in the Memphis ami Fulton trade, burn. 1 to the v. ater's edge at Memphis, Tonn.. ;: an early hour on the morning of the lath, and four lives were 1 at. Jacques Franco! Henry Pouquh r. the Fr neh publicist an I f irmer menils-r of the chamber of fU putiea, died on the Mth. Be WOC horn Beptember l, 1S38. civil Service Commissioner proctor i- rpmted as say ing, in substance, that "Edgnr S Mit lay kM been rem . ! from the public service. and he knows the reason why. therefore he ha- ii" ground for nppeal to t!ie eivil serviee cmmisston for redress. Another big oil well was struck ta Knox county. Ky.. on the S$th. (inenme fir- and took h re from a forge, burning the derrick nnd machinery. After two hours oil began to gu h. -pouting a sheet of flame feet high. The exactions on tourists arriving at the poet of New York will, it is snfcd, be made more stringent, and tourists arming in this country Will be called upon, in future, to pay full duty on all extra wearing apparel ns well as on everything else not on the free list. According to the report of th Philippine commission the revenue of the i-tan!s will soon be sufficient to swppori the army, provide sutr.etent police and pay all other demands whldh would naturally arise in the Insular administration. Emperor Wlltfnm, while walking in the environs of Potsdam, Christ ma ere. tossed several three and four mark pi es to poor-looking persona whom be punned. The emperor's Christmas bounty is never limited, but this year he doubled his n-iial subscriptions to charitable funds. According to an estimate compiled by the Kiilroad (iaette for U1, the mileage tuiilt in the I'nited Stat. -during the year ending December :tl approximates 4. .11. The figure last year was 4.S04. and in ls'0 4,.V9. On lc miter '!1 the first rolumc of the complete eensns report on population wikl be issued. This is Is months fter the beginning of the era us, and the work has keen dkm in three years' less time than was required for the eleventh census. Mrs. McKinley sp. nt ( hritsmas day alone a1 her home in Canton. O. She was urged to join the Harber family in their hristmas dinner at the old Suxton homestead, but declined to do so. She received flower nnd bo in,' remembrances from all over the country. I fhty members of Company F. Kightccnth infantry, sreflsj pohmtted while ea'ing breakfast, (hristmani'rning. at Fort Runuetl, H y " . and for a time fully half of them v.to in danger of death. It has leen decided in Pome to send a pontifical mission to the coronation of King Edward. This mission will h- organized n lines similar t the one which attended the Victorian I jubilee. Shnofl Owens, aged 102, was burned '" i .r.p in his ealiin in QethfM Okla., on the Mth. He ivai born s slsve on flen. Andrew .l.i'ksonV plantation, nnd was crippled for life st Vleksbung when the city was be ee l i.y Gen. Qrnnt, Andrew- ( amegie hnsofferrd to gi vo KskmeQ, Mont.. $lu,0O0 fori library, provided the eity furnishes s sjfi- nnd t.Ouo yenrly for niaintennBee. The T nireany expemf that .i mount each ;cnr fur librarj linpporh

A certificate of incorporation ui tiled at lover, I :.. on the 20th. for the Bell of Thunder Mining Co.. to

srquire mines and mining rights i are tal, 1,000,000, Incorporators: !- ilolphas W. Pardcman. Nanipa. Idaho; Clinton i. Oreenlae, Plttsbnrp;, l'a.: l hai !es W. ( illver, lb no, l'a A ilced transferring the ioie bi tyela works of hart ford. Conn from the American Hicycle Co. to the flmorinsn Cyekf Manufacturing Co was tiled in that cit on the 3 th Kevenue stamps iifiieattng a ' ' erat on of al.otit s :(,o,( too were IUtached to the deed a. .1. Avers, a young mctaenjsr of the I nion bank of I rooklyn. who disappeared recently with $-V00 of the bank's money, srna arrested in Montreal on the W h. Tbc Kixer Arno his overflowed its banks end the waters have anoned considerable damagi- at Florence and at Pisa. Italv Pond purchases by the treasury deportment, OS the -ßth, amounted to 9 '..lOO. LATE NEWS ITEMS. It Is generally admitted in P ienos Ayres that the dlffleuitlea between Arf . and Chile have been ended. It is true that a word in the proto col was changed before the text of the document was made public at Santiago, but enor Portcla. the Ar gent ine minister, protested against the alteration, and the Chilean foreign minister ordered a rectification to be made. I nder date of the Ith, United States Consul Atwell. at BobntK, France, informell the state department that nn International exposition will be held at Lille, France, between the motu I -of May and September. I'.mi-J. which will embrace works of art. machinery . agricultural products and a number of other subjects. f.evi Saunders, convict 2471 at the f. deral prison. Leavenworth. Kns., escaped "ti the Mth. He wns a tcamtter, and about three o'clock put his team in the corral at the prison and walked away. Saunders was sent up from Arkansas for a violation of ihr postal law-., lie h;;d four months left to serve. Six hundred employee of the Pittsburg. Bessemer A take Brie railroad wen- notified, On the -7th. Of an increase of 10 per cent, in wag- s. commencing January 1, The raise applies to condui tors, brakeir.en, switchmen, engineers and firemen, and wnj voluntary on the part of the companv. John F. Keller, ag- d SO, the wcatliiest resident of Pane, 111 and Mrs. Sarah Cunfteld, n;o-d 13, wen to have married on the -7th. but when they went before the minister they decidec that tln'.v were too old. Mr. Keller gave Mrs. ( anfbdd $l.fH) cash and they parted g I friends. The statement of the treasury balances in the general fund exclusive of the tlSOjXXMMO goM reserve la the division of redemption. Issued 09 the 27th. showed: Available cash balance, inajaosjus. Gold. MityTtijots. Oklahoma farmers say that recent high tlry winds have done a greater damage to the wheat crop than all the cold waves combined. Wheat on the uplands has suffered greatly. The Bulgarian cabinet resigned n the 27th. It is understood the new Cabinet will include two nn miters of the Btembutotf party. The Brazilian senate has approved an agreement to define the boundnrv between British Guinea and Brazil It I expected that efforts will be renewed before b ug for the settle" ment of the numerous eontravernkji which have l ng xiste I between the United states an i Great Britnin, growing out of relations al 'tig the Canadian border, the Atlantic !i-ber-ies. war ships on ihe great takes, the Alaskan boundary, and other quesi ions. A waterspout burst over the town of Bnffec, Morocco, on the 89th. it inundated the lower part Of the lown for the Space Of 1-' hours, sweeping everything into the s--u. Two bun-dr-vl persons are reported to have been drowned. There were nn Bora Mans among the den I. The damage to the town srus enormous. Two freight wrecks occurred on the Western railway of Alabama, on the night of the !'.'th. within BO miles of each other, on account of the heavy rains which flooded the track, causing wo embankments t. give way. One uu-n was killed, three injured and the property lo-s was heavy. The British war otlice. on the 30th, received a dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dnted Johannesburg, saying that the British prisoners captured when the Boen successfully rushed Col. Finnan's camp at BeefonteM, DeCetntx-r - I, have been liberated and returned to Bethlehem. Masked robbers entered the home of Thomas V. Inirlin I. a butcher, at Martin's Ferry, O.. on the 9tk, nnd forced him. nt the point of a revolvet. to give Up tioo. Later Ihe police bad a battle with two of the robln-rs. who Oers captured after a lively exchange of shots at close range. Madame Lillian I'.lauvelt. the con e-rt singer, arrived at New fork, on Iba Mth, from Bnrope an the steamer st. Paul. Ihe opens bar American tour st Carnegie hall, .lanuary 10, and for two mouths w dl sing in the prineipnl cities of the country, going west as far as Denver. .lohn Plnover, a young ndkohftmla liipior dealer of Mi ldb-tow n. . V.. on the ifOth inmneil frm the Braak' lyn Bridge. He was still nlive when taken to a hospital. Plnover told ihe doctors he simply wanted to se- if he eon Id ritnke the jump and live. If can be said upon tollable information that Ihe president of the Peruvian m n.i te. Manuel Cau lamo, WtU tie a csndidnte fur the prtsiJiuty in the next eta Lieth i

IIOOSIEK HAPPENINGS

To,d gfie b Dispatches trom Various Localities. nvotnl i to ii Murcie, lud.. Iec M bl fatal natural gas Hurl. -T. I wo prolw- - explosions oium hin an hour. eurn il I his city 1 In Irst, at the Dickel Spool fac tory, probably fatally Injured Lewis Sl;i:':'. aged "1 years. Staggs was hurled no me distance by I he force of the rxpl - on. The escape of a number of oth. r workmen who were near at the time of the explosion was IrneuloUS, Umosi at the same time a natural gas stove iu the gro.'iy of W. K. White, in the WCSterC part uf the citv. bt M, White ami a el.-el. flande I ! n ii. aired -I eat. meft ,.night ami both nice were hor ribly buried about the face, anus and neck. Their bodies hare become terribly swollen and their condition is precarious. ill llr Left His l ate. Marion. Ind.. Hec. -7 s th.- date set January 17 approach for the annging of John Rinknrd, the iged wife nynrderer, at the ndfthern Indiana prison. Marion people Me lk ing interest in any developments the attorneys for the prison, r may pro duce. Nothing, apparently, has yel Iveen done in his behalf, and it is hardly probable that anything will be done. This Information wa cured in an indirect yet au li' itic way from one of the attorneys represented ill the ease. Noliil K.luenttr II. mi! Bloomlngton, Ind.. Dan, st. W H. Glasscock, iuperlstendent of schools, died here of typhoid fever, lb Umi formerly Ruperintendeni of the state institution for the blind, c.x-pioi-dent of the Indiana T aeli r -' SSHOslntioa and member of the faculty of the state university. Be u.i- one of tin best known educators in the west and took a prominent part for some year- in the education of the blind. ' rtli.l of Murder. ... Ind.. Dec. 27. John mployed as itiL'ht watch Valparai renett, i man i'.v the Pennsylvania Central, : -titicd before the coroner that he saw the body of the late Edward Dnvidson dragged aeroea We rslhwoy tracks by Michael Curtin. Robert Fleming ami Kojf Sow a i ds. nnd v. rdlct has been returned holding Um principals nnmed ffUlltj of the muri;er. They are under arrest. rn ledOOte tr Mimi-Ic. Muiicie. h:d.. lec. -7. Tie America:! awn mower factory, rCCei tlj .emoved here from Ibchmond. ha been put in partial op tat on Fifty workmen are employed. As fa-t BI the inach'.i cry is adjusted the working force will be Increased, nntil ab ut 130 will be mployed. The 01 e rn will manufacture school furniture and lawn mowers. Ihr- Vvn III M010-. . Alexandria, Ind.. Bee 17, Alexandria saloon keeper celebrated i I rist man day by getting on I of his phtee el buainem and thronring - DO In small ehnnge to poor children in the street. In the evening he t.iv. a free performance of "Uncle Heat1 for the children of the town. lie footed all of the expense a d invited I he children free. ititt iinioin Trade. tndereon, Ind., Inc. u7. -Merchants of this city -täte that the Tloliday trade has ls-n the bcavlesf they ever enjoyed and has exceed I all i -peetetione The post ofnee receipts are far in excess of last I a r. i lie holiday carnival, with its tpcclnl fieC" trical display, will eontlnue until after New Vt-in's. I fl l nmciilr. Huntington. Ird.. DeO. L'7. Ti e e y school board received notice from the private secretary 01 Andrew Car Uegte of a Christmas present of $:...- (mm i for the friction of a public library building. Hunt ingto- already has nnr of the b'st libraries in that ate and the gift supplies a long pressing want. I'ilietl for .'!, rlnu Mnnele, Ind.. Dee CT. Becnnse he was profane in the presence of Police Magistrate Moreiend la pobce court Harry M. Finicy. an oil oper- , ator and a man of wealth, ssj heavily fined by the court. Filthy called to stay a fine of 180, assessed avainst a young man who had a: tacke,, a woman. cm Trick. Fort Wgyne, but, Dee, -'7. Huntington merchants stole a march on local merchants by pa renne! eg 1100 wurth of ticketn on the interurbati line and distributing them at Bonn- , oke, the principal town between this I tj and Hn tington, fiy which Hunt ington captttfed the ( hristmas trade lln nk I hn I'liri, Wlnamae, I mi.. Dec 17, The Jndj state bat k will go Into vobmtarv liquldntlon anl will reorganize as the .1 1 1 I I'.ank of Winn mac. The cnpital toeh will Im- increased from $-'5.i00 to 100,000, Carrlril ll.- Inmrnnrr. South Mead., ltd.. Dee. -7. itesides the $-.v.nno life inavranee earried by the late Hon. Clem htudebaker, it is aill that the Btudebnkvr firm at rod i.oiMi.onn partnernhip life burnt snce. Tn Have rile WsektS, Anderson. Ind . Dee. '7. The Nicholson File company, familiarly termed the file trust. Ml 00 e s that it Mill abandon t e file plums at Central Falls. It l and rai sfer the fiM-ee of S nipt, to the Ar.-ide 11 bt works in this ci.'y, inert atinr the loraj fore to 000.

THE mystery cleared up.

I'ullee Inlm In BOVS IVrfeel Oil Afssta Ifen line' rrr ul Joanne Salt I akc City. Ctah. Iee. 30. With th- tin ling of a :;s-euliber revolver not far fi"in i be scene of the crime, the police of this eity have in their a icisnirn srhni is believed to be Ilea Inai element necessary to clear up j( Ilivv,,.rv ,,f .lames K. Hay's niurder on the at) I I ' ' OccciiiImt th. The weapon ems "i buried in the mud near the cor .. -r of Thirteenth. South, and State streets, nnd has been traced by the police fo the secondhand store, where it was bought s short time before the murder.according to the police, by I man answering ti- description held en the charge ot having Committed the crime. Tl.e police say that with th mass of accumulated evidence ihey will have a char ease against Morten-en when the MM comes up for trial. Mortensen, however, continues to affirm his innocence and positively denies all knowledge of the affair. Hay had been missing for two days before his body was found buried In a trench in a suburb of this city, and it was reported that he had absconded with 13,800 in gold which was alleged to have been paid to hint as secretary of the Pneifle Lumber L'o. by Peter Mortenscn. a contractor. Telegrams were sent to the police of .ario. is cities asking them to watch for Hay. The finding of the body with a bullet in it created a sensation in this eity, Hay being prominent and well-known young man. The whole affair was surrottn led with mystery, but suspicion finally centered about Mortenuen, the body being found not far from bis re- idence. and he was placed under ar rest. Nothing has ever been the missing $'f:'0. found of THE ORDER OF LOUISIANA. A ratrioiie Baeedltuej society ln te i.l' d to I iiiiinii-moriin- lltr Ureal l..nii.luu l'un lm'-. 1) :ier. ( I.. uee, ::o. The AmerlLouisiana, organized in Denver, Di oembei can Order of preliminarily 80, has adopted Ite conatitation und elected Will 1 IUrrU,of Denver, curator of the Colorado State Historical society, president. This is a patriotic hereditary society', and the order may be instituted in the f .Mowing statt s ari l territories of the Louisiana Iur hn.s. : Arkansas, Colorado Indian territory, Iowa, Kansas. Loui ail na. Minnesota, Missouri. Montana, Bebra .s'..a North Dakota. Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming. Owing to the disputed qorattou as to whether Oregon. Washington, Idaho. Texas and eastern New Mexico formed a part of the Louisiana purchase, these states were omitted pending further investigation. The I ecustitution provides an eligibility list of prorata nt Bpnadshi Branca, and American, explorers in the pur chase territory, also those distinguished in the army, navy and civil Bfe of the purchase states and territories from 1803 to 1003. The national commissioner nnd his secretary, President David B. Francis and Iiis cabinet, the vice-president s. t reasnrer, general counsel and secretary for the Louisiana Purchase World's fair at St. Louis, together with the commissioners from tue put chase Steten nnd territories to this fair, arc tneln ted in the eligibility list. The -harter members nre all Colored nunc and include Dr. Clayton Parkhill Prank E. Ca rstarphen, I. N. Stevens, Thomas J. 'Donncll. F. W. Lovcland. Herbert Belford, (.. c. Bartels, W. V. BUIOtt, Arthur C. Härtels and Will C. Perril. Lineal male descendants of t' who performed the services outlined in the constitution of the order arc legible to membership. FLOOD STAGE IN THE OHIO. Honey itnin Cunslag iiikIi Wntee in Ohio nml viiinonuahrla Kivesa, Pittsburg, l'a . De-. 20. Heavy rains: for M hours here and at all keodwuter points on both rivers has ; produced a condition w hich will result in what may Ik- called a flood stage in the Ohio river to-morrow, whci lit least twenty feet isi predicted. Timely warning by the weather bureau will be the means of saving i much property, and only temporary IneonvlenCe is expected by interests along the river fronts. At midnight the marks at Davit Island dam showed foot and rising at the rate of four-tenths of a foot nn hour. Uoth the Allegheny and Motu ngahela are still rising. The c r'.tehMMK" Hate In Manila. Manila. D.-e. 90, The change in the rntio of exchange on the Mexican dollar to $l'.iu Mexican attver for one American hold dollar, which was announced Deee mherSO, la causing much dissatisfaction here. It is unsettling what vvre considered to have been fixed prices. TWENTY JAPANESE MISSING. Siippoxeil tn Drim tied nnrnc llne Hera Killed or In llnrailna of JnpIton ril i n k hnnne. Vancouver, D. ('.. Don. 30. Twenty Japanese are missing from SteVeston, und are supposed to have been killed or drowned in the destruction of a la pawn Ml boarding house between gu v. ton and Point Kohorte, on Thursday morning. The boarding house stood out on piles, nnd not a estige of the structure now remains, to tell where it stood.

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Atwulutely Mo Irl. lion Hctween llm(Ul ami vi i oim tutburllli lu the riilllpplue. Manila. Dec. 30. ben. Chaffee, when questioned, yesterday, by the COrrs. vpondciit of Ihe press eemaerniuf i alleged friction between the civil i military authoritlN 01 the Phillpj archipelago, said that absolut' such friction existed, und thin p feet bar n.v prevailctl betwi. n t, . two authorities. Oen. Chaffee .saij that the only occasion When II bad beta anything approaehii - t ion w as in the matter of babes i pus proceedings in the case of Oakliy Crooks, and that upon this ocea . j u solution of the difficulty Batists tory to both authorities had b found. Qen. Chnffce said that hi the members of the eotamisslon h,, at times differed bj their riews; bat that these differences were of punlv personal opinion. He said thai tl,, il lations with QoV, Taft and Acl QoV. Wright ami the other 'oi sioners were both officially a cially extremely pleasant, and inthought that the published Statt metits of friction netween the and military authorities here have resulted fnun a misunderstand in:' of the facts of the case. Oen. Chaffee further explained thai every lime the slightest friction bad uiiscn In the provinces betw. i n two authorities he had ittvnriabl) ,,r. dered th" military to surret: ... r ti the civil aUtholty, and said thai UU relations of theaeautbi ritleathr out the provinces, where they frequently hold nrtdely-oppositeop iloni would in no way interrupt the existing cordial relations at M:.:iila, where both were working toward tlie same goal, namely the pacific and welfare of the Philippine pelago, Oen. Chaffee concluded by sat i that he thought the proapeei tl subduing the Inaurrectiou i;. places to be promising; When noting Gov. W right ws Cloned on this same matter he "Where men of s. ue tire Rt ' bead of affairs, there is not Iii. be much cause for alarm or lion." Gor. Wright has a great a! tion for Gen. Chaffee, whom be siders to be a man of sound i nion sense. Be Miid that altho . and Oen. Chaffee frequentlj diff I radically upon various subjects, moat amicable relations were m mined under all elreumstances. ii acting g;vennr of the island- ! ihat under the eyistlageirenmntsnee in the provinces there were occasionally bound to be sot:ie friction result of nahtttttderstanding of thority repilring, an nppea) to Ifai but that such matters had i.ivar: been satisfactorily arranged. Deferring to the work aeompUshed by the I'nited States Philippine commission during the last year, Q Wright said: "Otit of darkness bas come l and immense and wondrous str have taken peine, a year ngo eveiy thing outside of Manila was p:a ticnlly chaos; now, outside of tut few provinces where the IttSOrrecl still exists, everything is in n n flourishing condition. In the thee hundred mUes, from Manila north t Aparri, not a hostile shot has h in-d for many months, while hon have been built and are still bail and crops hav, been p'anted. "These same conditions apply to the larger part of southern Lu' n.' (ior. Wright said he w;:s satis that the mnVirity of the Filipino recognize and apreciato what b been done, and that their had' were doing all in their power t lu-ing the remaining insurgents t" a peaceful view of the situation. Concluding, Gov, W right said that the natives inhabiting the island f Saiuar had. during all their history, been an uninnnagcable race and v was not surprised at their present hostility. Maj. Henry Allen, formerly gov ernor of the island of Leyte. and who wns chosen chief of the insular constabiilnry. has left Manila for a tour of inspection through the I finds of Leyte and Mindnro. He will report to the commissioji on the con dit ions existing there and particularly on the situation in the proi ince of Iflanmia, Mindoro, which i! military authorities have asked C have returned from the civil back t their own Control. five insurgent ofAceri and one hundred and seventy-five men with sis cannon, fifty-one rifles and seventeen shotguns surrendered yesterday tothc American authorities on the island of Gehn. It is now believed that this island is pucifil d. I.nrae tmnint nf Jrwelry Mtolen. evv York, Dee. M. Mr, and Mr Taul (i. Thebnud, Of Madisonvillc. were yesterday robbed of jevvclrv worth $U.(HM. I bis was eolTOborated by Mr. Xhebnud at police headquarters, where, in company with a BUnu ler of the firm from whom most f the j. welrv bad been ptmdinsed. he gave the police a partial list of the jewels taken. To be fire Chief at MarHs. New York. Dee. SO, From a reliable source comes tin- information that ex-Fire Chief Hugh t. Monner is considering a proposition made o- President Roosevelt nnd the var depart ment to reorganize, on New torn lines, the fir- depart mi nt in Manila. Philippine i iaiuls. It is sail that such w::r Mr. Ib.r.ner's beettteM Washington during the week juel ended. Mr. Hon tier, when seen, yes terday. practically admitted that such n plan is in contemplation, and may be worked out.