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TELEPHONE 72.

.The pity about the Klondyke money is that you can't burn it.

There is nothing else in Georgia quite so busy as the little lynching bee.

The Hon. Tom Taggart is a free silver man for a definite consideration only.

Uncle Sam does not need any arbitration treaty to get about what is right from John Bull.

'The esteemed Indianapolis Sentinel continues to peg away for cheap gas and cheap monei'.

About all the Kentucky Popocrats and gold Democrats agree on now i3 good whisky.

This is supposed to be a dull season but the march or returning prosperity is unin-

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terrupeted.

John Sherman should rise several points. Weyler has said that he does not like the secretary of state.

The carrier pigeon is setting a pace to which we respectfully call the attention of the messenger boy.

Evidence is accumulating that Spalding stole enough'to be entitled to the respectable title of klaptomaniac.

It is perfectly manifest that the sultan does not have his stock of diplomatic goods marked in plain figures.

President McKinley manages to keep on top in a remarkable way for a man that doesn't know how to swim.

Some of our Populistic friends will be pleased to learn that two highwaymen half killed an Omaha millionaire.

The strange news comes from Virginia that the people are going to allow two negroes to be hanged by a sheriff.

Whatever may be said of De Armit it is at least gratifying to know that the pluckme store is not among his sins.

It- appears that the rumored alliance between Japan and Spain against the United States was no ally but simply a lie.

It is understood that when Weyler talks about pacification nowadays even his own officers cannot keep a straight face.

General Gomez does not ask General Wey ler for bread he asks him for bullets. The nerve and" defiance of the Cuban commander are superb.

The amiable Rockville Republican continues to bang away at the gentle Parke County Journal.' Why cannot they both train their guns on th& combative Tribune?

It should surprise nobody to learn that a Hoesier is among the happy band of miners who have struck it rich in the Klondyke. Indiana has always had a cheerful habit of getting there.

When Jt comes to financial matters there is a considerable difference between God's flat and man's. The former rests upon the 6hining metal that is now drawing excited thousands to Alaska.

Bays the Greencaetle Banner-Times: "It is a 16 to Irbet that Willie Bryan does not go to Alaska." The Banner-Times should refrain from forcing this unpleasant subject upon Willie's attention.

Andree is reported to have rcached the north pole. If the* story be correct it will prove a hard blow to the doubung Thomases •who declared that Andree's was one more arctic exploration that wouldn't cut any ice.

THE PLUCK-ME STORE. Among other evils to which the coal miners are subject in the Pittsburg district is the pluck-me stor^. This institution is admittedly infamous. No corporation or individual in the United States should have the right to compel anybody to buy anything from it or him. For mine owners to pay their employes in something besides money and thus force them to exchange that something' at a certain store lor their necessaries of life is for these employers to commft a enmd against justice and freedom. In the Indianapolis Sun Mr. L. P. McCormack, one of the members of the labor commission of Indiana, quotes De Armit of Pennsylvania as follows: "I began life aTs the driver of a wagon about the mines. Afterward I was employed in a 'pluck-me* store. I saw the awful suffering and want or men. women *nd little children who were outrageously robbed by these stores, and I made up my mind, then and there, that if ever 1 got .'Into a position of control I would wipe them from- the face' of the earth as far UK* vs my power woQW.pfennit me.*' fesfv "I pay "111 it «.•»« itt cash. And though I pay them tan cents a ton below •*, the figures of other operators, they always have more money and I know are infinitely happier and more prosperous than the

In braes *heeJfci*to trade at the company steres, wtte-re they are charged exhorbi-

tant prices for everything' they get. Under the 'pluck-me' store system it Is to the interest of the company to have as many- men employed as possible. If a man is making $40 a month, the company divides his job. and thus makes two families dependent upon the 'pluck-me* store, which does just so much more business and reaps just so much more profit.

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the other operators can make money when I am losing. If they can't make it on the coal itself, they make it on the 'pluck-me' store."

It is possible that the miners have just cause for distrusting De Armit but nobody can gainsay the reasonableness of these statements of his. The operators have a perfect right to conduct a merchandising business in connection with their coal industry but they have no right to compel their employes to patronize that business. They have no right to pay their men in brass checks exchangeable only at their stores. If they sell goods as cheap as anybody they Should not fear competition with anybody. The miners are entitled to the benefits of such competition. They are themselves the victims of the keen business rivalry of the times but are not permitted to enjoy any of its effects. The company stores keep the prices of their goods up to the point that is satisfactory to themselves, being wholly undisturbed and uninfluenced by the state of the general market about them. There is no more flagrant outrage in the country than this and it should receive the attention of legislators in Pennsylvania as it has in at least some of the other minipK states.

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CURRENT EVENTS.

The newspapers in every town about here are reporting the spread of the Klondyke gold fever. In every town there are some who are seriously talking of going to the far away gold field. There are a good many men in Terre Haute who are not deterred by the knowledge that it means a year of very hard experience. They are willing to undergo all the hardship and are not deterred by the information that at the best they coujd nonreturn before this time next year.

The people in this country are getting an education in geography which they would not have obtained if gold had not been found in the Northwest. Very few persons realize how far west the sun sets on Uncle Sam's domain. Alaska is along way from home and the farthermost point of this territory bought by 'Mr. Seward as agent of Uncle Sam is perhaps 2,000 miles west of the Sandwich Islands. We are apt to think of Honolulu as far out in the Pacific, but from the extreme western possessions of Uncle Sam the Sandwich Islands look to be near the Golden Gate. Of course you don't go to the end of the Alaskan possession to go to the gold fields, but from the time you leave Seattle, which is 2,300 miles from Terre Haute, until you see land again you have sailed 1,800 miles and then you sail through a pass near the seal islands and on to St. Michaels, which is 2,600 miles from Seattle, and is on the Bering Sea. It is fifteen days from Seattle to St. Michaels, and the boat trip from there to the gold field up the Yukon river is another fifteen days. If you don't arrive at St. Michaels before the latter part of August it is almost a certainty you would have to go overland, on sledges, the 1,900 miles, to the Klondyke district. So it will be seen that Seattle is only a starting point. It will cost you $62.50, traveling first-class, via Chicago-and the Northern route, from there to Seattle, but beyond Seattle it will cost you hundreds of dollars before you have a sight of the yellow stuff. The other route from Seattle is much more direct, but you have to resort to all manner of transportation. It is about due north from Seattle, the first 900 miles by steamer to Juneau. From there on you use lakes, canal, tramp across mountains, through marshes, 200 miles on a river and so on.

Few of the latest and so-called complete maps give the rivers in Alaska and the adjoining British territory in which the gold has been found. The Klondyke river, for instance, is maked Tondake when found at all. Klondyke is a mispronunciation of the Indian words"Thron dak," meaning plenty of fish. It is a great stream for salmon. A Canadian official says the discovery of gold in the branches of the stream or creeks, as they are called by the returned miners, was due to the reports of Indians. The first claim was located in 1887.

Speaking of geographical names, what are we to learn if Nansens and Andrees continue to attract attention? Here are carrier pigeons, supposedly released from Andree's balloon, which are alighting i.t Soevde and Tromsoe. And Soevde is in

Two Indiana tax ferrets have been trying to make contracts with the authorities of Edgar and Coles' counties, Illinois, to discover property which had escaped taxation. Neither county would make contracts.

The 9 o'clock curfew ordinance is in effect at Covington, in Fountain county, and according to the Attica News the "scampering" for indoors at that hour is not confined to children. The News writer says he was on the street Covington at 9 o'clock and at the first stroke of the bell "several old maids were seen to start in a dead run for home" because the ordinance applies to all young girls.

The merchants down at Washington got ^together and agreed to take out the slot cigar machines. This was not account of any moral scruples but because of the fierce competition they had been increasing the number of cigars to be won, so that prac» tically they were selling about seven cigars for 25 cents.

The Danville, Illinois saloonkeepers have petitioned for a reduction in the amount of the liquor license from $800 to $600.

The Big Four employes of the Indianapolis & St. Louis division, and perhaps of. the Cairo division will hold their annual picnic at Paris' new Resevoir Park on August 4.

AR/MOR PLATE FOR $300 A TON.

Proposition Made by Secretary Long to the Carnegies. New York, July 22.—A special *to the Herald from Washington says Secretary Long has again asked the Carnegie^ and Bethelem Cos. to furnish the government with armor for the battleships Illinois. Alabama and Wisconsin at a cost of $300! a ton. The communication^ making the proposition have been forwarded to the companies, and the secretary has requested that immediate replies be made. Before taking any further steps in the way of carrying out the law he desires to know the intention of the armor firms.

It is reported that the Carnegie Co. is considering a proposition for the sale of its plant to the Russian government. This report has been in circulation in ordnance circles for some days, and while the reports of the Carnegies in this city profess to know nothing about it. some ordnance experts believe there may be some foundation for it

The reply of the Carnegie Co. to the secretary's communication, it is asserted, will indicate whether or not there is any truth in the report regarding the sale of the establishment.

ON AMERICAN SIDE.

CANADA'S ELONOIKC MAT SOON BB ECLIPSED BY NEW FIELDS.

Miners Bring Fabaloai Reports -of GoldCanada May Keep American* Oat of Her Gold Fields.

San Francisco, July 22.—F. G.H» Bowker, one of the returned Yukoners, who brings back nearly $40,000 in gold dust, the result of six months' work, is authority for the statement that on the American side of the international boundary placer fields have been found which even put those of the Klondyke into the shade.

When his party was descending the Yukon on the return from Dawson City the steamships were intercepted by a man who desired to send letters, and papers back to civilization. This man was one of the party who had gone down the river from Dawson in the hope of locating rich beds of which Indians in the vicinity had been tellihg. The members of the party were well known to the Yukpners and full credence is given to the story.

Bowker and his associates were told that just across the Alaska boundary, on the American side, the party had found placer fields fabulously rich in gold. They had staked out claims and begun to work them. "Every one of us has taken thousands of dollars in dust and nuggets already," eaid Bowker's informant, "and there eefms to be no limit to the gold in sight. It is more abundant than on the Klondike and easier to work, the gold being very near the surface of the ground. We are all rich already, but we .are going to stay through next winter."

Further information was"fconveyed that there were only white men in the new district, and they had the field practically to themselves. They advised Bowker and his companions to forsake Klondike claims on their return from the states and take claims in the new diggings.

The point at which the fortunate treasure hunters are' working is northwest of Dawson and but a few miles west of the boundary. Their claims are in a valley of one of the numerous creeks emptying into the Yukon.

The returned Yukoners place great faith in the information given them concerning the "strike," and several have announced that when they return they will stop

new diggings.

In addition to scientific and gastronomcial supplies furnished pro rata, each man will put $1,250 into common fund. Every detail has been carefully arranged, and all that remains to be done is to engage passage or. the Pacific coast steamer Queen, which sails from San Francisco on August

This will be at'oalod to fcy Mr. Curtis, who is in San L'racisco on Jcgal business. 4.11 supplies will lie purchased at San Francisco, and the party wll leave the Queen at Juneau and go overland to the Klondyke oistrict. Each memLur will be supplied vurh an abundance of heavy footwear, stun derclothing, sweaters and fur caps and the materials to make t$e necessary repairs to that character of clothing. One 6f the members of the party said: "There is one thing in favor of the Yukon district—that is the abundant supply of fresh fish. We have plenty of fishing tackle and every article necessary to establish a comfortable home.

Dr. Edwards will look after our physical welfare an to him will be intrusted the stocking of the medicine chest. Mt. Clark, too, is a pharmacist, and he can satisfactorily compound the doctor's prescriptions. We will have the. best equipment experience can suggest and we shall be well supplied with weapons to use in self-defense if necessary."

Dr. Edwards, 'who has visited Alaska, has prepared & list of meats and saccharine and farinaceous food products, together with fresh and dried fruits and pickles. To this will be added tea, coffee, chocolate, spices, etc., and the supply is based on a total of seventy ounces of food for each man daily. "This amount," said Dr. Edwards, "may be reasonably assumed as the quantity necessary for the maintenance of a man's per feet health in a latitude such as Yukon. We intend to take along a good supply of spirituous liquors, as they will be of great value there. During the long, dark nights in winter we shall amuse ourselves with card3, chess, checkers, backgammon and other popular games, and if ^ve want a little music, we will use our banjos and mandolins. And last, but not least, we will have kodaks to enable us to furnish friends at home with scenes of the gold fields."

W. B. Farig, & prominent horseman of Cleveland, well known in this city, is authority for the statement that a number of New Yorkers have chartered a steamer and are arranging an expedition which will sail from this port in September.

HOW THEY GET THE GOT»D.

Fires Built On the Ground Where It Is Intended To Dig.

'Washington, July 22.—Dr. William H. Dall, one of the curators of th^ National Museum, has spent some time in Alaska, having been there at different times on geological expeditions. He was there three years ago, and, ,while not having been directly at the Ktondyke gold fields, has been near there, and is thoroughly oonversaat with the region in which they are locaied. Speaking of the recent large amount of gold reported to have been taken out anl the richness of the field, he said: "I have no doubt that the facts as told by the press, are, in the main, strictly correct The gold-bearing belt of Northwestern America contains all the gold fields extending into British Columbia. The Yufcon really runs along that belt for five hundred or six hundred miles. The bed of the main river is in the low land of the valley. The yellow metal is not found in paying quantities in the main river, hut in the small streams which cut through the mountains on either sid& These practically wash cut the gold. The mud and mieral matter are carried into the main river, while the gold is left on rough bottoms of these sid? «ureams. in

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING. fiTLY 23,1897

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NEW YORK HAS THE FEVER. $1!

Many People Going To the Gold Fields— Some Arrangements.

New York, July 22.—The World says: The Klondyke gold fever has reached this city. At all ticket agencies anJ railroad offices inquiries are being made about •r&tes.

A party of fourteen who hoped to make a cheap trip to the Alaska.i gold fiel 1 came to grief at One-hundred and-seveath street. They had boarded a west-bound freight and were arrested. Two of them, Elmer T. Witchell and August Hope, claiming $o be representatives of western newspapers, vere discharged, whiie eic"n of their companions were fined for a tecanical violation of the law.

The first expedition fom this city for the Yukon gold fielns will leave early next week. All the details have been arranged at too law office of George M. Curtis. The party is to comprise Wm. H. iSciwavds, a young lawyer in Mr. Curtis' office, a son of Bill Edwards of the Hoffman House John W. Edwards, a Brooklyn pliarmacis., son of the chief engineer of the Erio paei.u dry docks Dr. James W. Bristol, of Brooklyn, and Chatles •Edlomaa, a civil milling engineer of Lhis city.

most cases the gold lies at the bottom of a thick gravel deposits. The .sold is covered by frozen gravel in the winter. Daring the summer, until the snow is melted, the- surface is covered by muddy torrents. When the snow is all melted and the springs begin to freeze, the streams dry up. At the approach of winter, in order to get at the gold, the miners find it nccessary to dig into the gravel formation, "Formerly they stripped the gWt^el off until they came to the gold. Now they sink a shaft to the bottom of the graver and tunnel along underneath in the gold-beirin layer. The way in which tills is done is m* teresting as it has to be carried on in cold weather when everything is frozen. Ti»e miners build fires over the araa where they wish to work, and keep these lighted over that territory for the space of about twentyfour hours. Then at the expiration of this period the gravel will be melted and softened to a depth of perhaps six inches. This is then taken off, and other fires built ntil the gold-bearing layer is reached. When the shaft is down that far fires are built at the bottom, against the sides of th« layer, and tunnels made in this manner. Blasting would do no good on account of the hard nature of the material, and the charge would blow out just as out of a gun. The matter taken out containing the gold is piled up until spring, when the torrents coma down, and is panned and cradled by these. It is certainly very hard labor. "I see many reasons why tha gold fields should be particularly rich. The streams which cut through the mountains have probably done so for :en:uries, weaiir.g them down several hundred feet and wafcbing out the gold into the beds and gravel."

UNTOLD SUFFERING.

Dark Picture of the Hardships That Must Be Borne in Alaska. Great Falls, Mont., July 22.—Frank Moss, an old time miner in this section, who four years ago was one of a party of Americans to first visit the Klondyke country, returned today and tells a story of horrors and starvation seldom equalled even in modern novels. He describes Klondyke as a placer camp seven miles long and thirteen miles wide, located in a sink, walled in by boulders of rock 3,000 feet high. Gold, he says, abounds, but no ordinary man can stand the hardships of the uncivilized region. When Moss left here four years ago he was a sturdy fellow over six feet tall. From hardships and privations he is a cripple for life and badly broken in health. In three years he sa wover 2,000 graves made in the Klondyke basin, a large majority dying from starvation. The steamship companies bring in all food and allow nd private importation. Consequently it is not uncommon to go for weeks with but a scant supply and for days entirely without food with proper reliefs established by the government. Moss says gold can be t&ken out at the rate of $2,000,000 a month.

The richest strike has been made by a 21-year-old boy named George Hornblower of Indianapolis. In the heart of a barren waste, known as Boulder Field, he found a nugget for which the transportation company gave him $5,700. He located his claim at the find and in four months had taken out over $100,000. The richest section of Alaska, Moss says, is as yet undeveloped. It is 100 miles from Klondyke and known as Black Hole of Calcutta. It is inhabited by ex-convicts of Bohemia and murders and riots take the place of law and order.

A few months ago Klondyke organized a justice committee and its law prevails there now. Moss returned with $6,000 in dust and leaves tomorrow for his old home at Dubuque, la.

CANADA TO RETALIATE.

Americans Likely To Be Excluded From the Rich Klondyke Region. Special to the Globe Democrat.

Ottawa, Ont.,.July 21.—A rumor was current in official circles today that the Dominion government is now considering the advisability of enforcing the alien labor act in the Klondyke gold country. Government officials, when interviewed, were extremely reticent upon the subject. It is said that the cabinet is being subjected to great pressure from the most influential quarters, and great stress is laid upon the unfriendliness of the United States congress toward Canada in restoring the house rate of duty on pine lumber.

The press is almost unanimous in demanding retaliation under the alien laoor act, passed last session of parliament, and it is understood that the attorney general, who alone has authority to enforce the act by himself or authorized agent, will appoint such agent for the Klondyke region for the purpose of excluding alien miners therefrom. Since the Klondyke region is over sixty miles from where the Alaskan boundary is presumed to run, it is recognized that there can be no difficulty upon the score of jurisdiction.

Excitement arising from the glowing re ports of .the Klondyke is growing in inten sity and the demands for protection to. the Canadian miners will probably prove too urgent for "the government to disregard. Orders will be issued in a day or two for an extra detachment of mounted police to proceed to the Klondyke fields.

YUKON GOLD NOT SO GOOD.

Contains More Bease Metal Than That of California.

SanFrancisco, July 22.—'Assistant Weigher W. A. Underhill of the Shelby Smelting Co. states that the gold from the Yukon is not of so much value as that producod in California. In speaking of this matter he said: "Wo have found the miners frosi the Yukon a very nice class of people to deal with, and they have not been deceived in the value of the gold they have brought back with them. It is a fact that Yukon gold is not as valuable as that produced in this state. We have found that there are from 50 to 100 points more base metal in the Northern product. These base metals are iron, lead and a few other minerals, and there is a large quantity of 6ilver also. We look principally for the gold and silver. It is the iron that gives the Yukon gold its fine, rich color. "Of course these other metals decrease the value a little. The nuggets from the Yukon are worth $17 and $18 an ounce and the finer gold dust is worth from $16 to $17 an ounce, while the California gold value is about $1 an ounce more, that is. nuggets from $18 to $19 and gold dust never less than $17 an ounce. "Our assayers have found several other metals than those I have mentioned, but no attention is paid to them, as the other b»se metals do not cut much of a figure in the general value."

PROVISIONS AND HORSES.

Advice to People Who Alaska.

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Seattli, Wash., July 22.—Fred Price, a Seattle 'man, who has returned from the Klondikte with several theusand dollars in gold diist says that there is great fear of suffering on the part of those who attempt to go idto that country without an abundance of [supplies of provision He does not believe the trading companies can begin to supply 4he demand which will be made on them. Price thinks the men who take up horsesf to cross the pass from Dyea will do well. I They can move their provisions easily tKat way and sell the horses for dog meat/afterward. He also advises newcomers toJfcok ior claims on other creeks besides .th&^icibuiarie<5 of the Klondike, the latter g. pretty well st*kd out. Stewart river

creek promises as well as the Klondike. He says further that gambling dens and dance halls have already opened ih Dawson. Games of every description are running. The miners go into the mining town in sheer desperation at the loneliness and gloom of winter and gamble in a reckless manner to break the monotony. Price says it Is hard to get along in Dawson City on less than $50 a day, and many of the men spend ten times as much. He claims that one saloon cleaned up $30,000 in three weeks this summer.

WOMEN GOING TO THE FIELD*

Crowds Striving to Secure Passage on the Excelsior. San F'rancisco, July 22.—When the"steamer Excelsior leaves for St. Michael's Sunday she will carry all the miners* supplies sh* can hold. The Excelsior will be the last steamer to sail this year from San Francisco to connect with the Yukon steamers, but there is already talk of chartering another steamer to take up a crowd of miners.

The office of the Alaska Commercial Co. wa& packed to suffocation today with a jo*tling/lhrong of men and women who wished to engage passage to Klondike. Every berth on the Excelsior had been taken several days ago, but still people came, some offering several hundred dollars for tickets. The women seem more eager than the men. Many will go to the Yukon.

Miss Bessie Thomas, a pretty woman of 24, has engaged passage on the Excelsior* In order to augment the capital with which she purposes to embark in business she today ordered the sale of her furniture and jewels.

She intends to start a restaurant on the Klondike or speculate in mining claims.

Proposed Action Ungraclou* Special to the Globe Democrat, Washington, July 21.—News that Canada may retaliate for the reciprocity feature of the tariff bill, which was vxpressly framed so as to prevent ay reciprocity with Canada, by confining the working of the rick Klondyke region to the subjects of Great Britain, has reached the state department.

It may be that the Canadian govetrtmelit will not go so far as to exclude Americans, but the expectation is that custom duties and licenses will be established which will render it unprofitable for an' American to take his chances in the gold fields.

Inasmuch as British subjects have not been restricted in any" way from operating in ihe Alaskan gold fields, the proposed exclusion is regarded as most ungracious, and doubtless the Dominion authorities would not consider seriously such a move were it not for their indignation over the new tariff bill and over the seal question.

The state department has received a number of communications from citizens of this country who have established claims in both British and American territory. There is no way at present by which men holding these claims can locate them with reference to the boundary line, and, to prevent the Canadian government from dispossessing them, they have written to the state department requesting that the secretary adopt measures looking to their protection.

All the department has done about the matter is to inform them that a treaty is now pending between the United States and Great Britain for the determination of the Alaskan boundary, and that, when it is confirmed by the senate, the surveying parties of the United States and Great Britain, acting jointly, will erect monuments a short distance apart, which will define the true boundary line.

Novel Plan to Prospect In Alanka. El wood, Ind., July 22.—The Elwood Mining Association has been organized with a large membership and will send eight men from this city to the Klondyke gold regions in Alaska to prospect. Shares are selling at $1,000 and five hundred people have already taken /stock. The list will be increased to 2,000 and the eight prospectors will leave for Alaska on August 1, taking a year's provisions with them. The stockholders will share alike in the success of the prospectors.

DIAMOND FIRMS RETIRING.

Forced Out of Business by Smugglers—The Proposed Duties.

New York, July 22.—The World says: The announcement is made in Maiden Lane that the big diamond firm of'Neresheimer & Co. of this city will retire from business on January 1, 1898. Similar announcements have been made by T. & M. Bruhl and Freund & Co. About twenty firms of similar standing have either retired or intend to do so. E. August Neresheimer, senior partner of Neresheimer & Co., said to a reporter that firms representing about $6,000,000 had been forced out of the diamond business by smugglers. "In 1893," said he, "the duty on diamonds was advanced from 10 to 25 per cent. The imports at that time amounted to $5,000,000 yearly. Since, that time they have fallen off to $2,500,000. Tn those four years diamond smuggling reached enormous proportions. It is no unusual thing for diamonds to be bought in Europe and sold ip New York at an advance of only 5 per cent on the purchase money."

Special Agent Cross of the treasury department said: "The special agents early in the spring recommended that the former duty of 10 per cent on diamonds be restored, and under the Dingley bill we believe smuggling will be greatly reduced. It is a fact that honest importers have been almost driven out of business by smugglers, who, by saving the duty, were compensated for risking detection. It Js almost impossible* to prevent diamond smuggling, unless the officials are warned against certain individuals. Inspectors must have positive information before forcing a party to be searched. The profit when the duty is only 10 per cent is hardly great enough for a man to risk the state prison."

Scratch for Money.

A father's lot is to dig and scratch for money, but yet he should not neglect his baby's health. Provides your baby with Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup when teething, and avoid much suffering. Mr. J. P. Steiner, Aurora, Mo., who has had some experience With this remedy, pronounces ituthe best medicine for babies he has ever used in his family." It costs only 25 cents, but fathers should see that they get Dr. John W. Bull's Baby Syrup.

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Preparing For Their V§ct!?n. Washington, July 22.—President Mckinley will leave Washington next Wednesday for his summer vacation on Lake Champlain, provided congress adjourns in time to permit it.

Secretary Sherman has agreed to leave Washington for Amaganaett, on Long Island, tomorrow. Second Assistant Adee will act as secretary of state in the absence of Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary Dajr-

President Andrews QaltsBrown University Providence, R. I., July 22.—President E. B. Andrews of Brown University today sent a letter to the faculty resigning his office. The letter was in response to a communication 6ent to President Andrews by the special committee appointed by the trustees and fellows in June, who at that time called him to account to his stiver utterances.

SEWER WORK BEGUN

THE ClS^i STREET SYSTEM IS UN. DBS WAY AMD BE1KG PUSHED.

Mlcha«I Klcholaa, the Foreman, Says th« System Will He Finished In Abont .. four Months.

Work has been begun oa the Canal street sewer *ystfim. The block between Second and Third streets on Chestnut is torn us and the teamsters with scrapers are beginning to disfigure Third north of Chestnut.

The AeWer was started at the corner oi Second and Chestnut, where it joins ths old system.' It is being built of brick and if six feet in diameter. The line of the'sys* tem is east on Chestnut to Third, north on Third to Lafayette, northeast on Lafayette to Elm and east on Elm to Seventh. At present from sixty to seventy men are engaged on the work, some driving teams, some shoveling,'some adjusting timbers and Others laying brick. Foreman Michael Nicholas states that he will employ varying numbers of men that he will have not les3 than sixty or seventy at any time and more than a hundred occasionally.

The sewer is being layed at & depth of from eighteen to twenty feet. It rises a trifle as it progresses, making a slight grade. At intervals of about forty feet taps are provided for in order to save work when private sewerage attachments become necessary. The rise,in the ground between Second and Chestnut and Seventh and Elm is said to be some four or five feet so that tb« sewer will be as far from the surface of the earth at its starting point as it is at iU mouth.

Foreman Nicholas estimates that be will be four months completing the job. He finishes from seventy-five to 100 feet daily and if it appears that the work is not inov. ing along as rapidly as desired an extra number of men will doubtless be put on. The job is a tedious one. The first removals of dirt are made with a team and scrapers. These devices are not available for very deep work and the men with spides and shovels have to do most of the digging. As they go down, excavating a bole eight or ten feet across and eighteen to twenty feet deep, the sides are held in place by close timbering. These planks are stayed by meaqs of heavy braces on the inside and altogether the work to be done about building a sewer is abuudant.

This sewerage system will be of such dimensions that a man of ordinary height can walk from one end to the other of it without stooping. It will be built at an immense cost to the city and is intended for the demands of many generations to come.

Work on the Hulman street system will probably be commenced within the next few days. It will be constructed by a different contractor from the one that has charge of the Canal street system. Ttt

FATHER HAVERSIANS DEAD.

One of the Oldest Catholic Priests in the United States. Troy, N. Y., July 2.—The Rev. Peter Havermans, the oldest Catholic priest in the United States, died today.

Father Havermans was horn in the province of North Brabant, Holland, March 27, 1806. At the age of 17 he entered the seminary at Hoeven, where he studied philosophy for one year and the Scriptures for 'our years. He was ordained by Bishop Von Velde at Ghent June 6, 1S30, and came to America in October following. He first located at Norfolk, Va., became a student at Georgetown College, where he learned the English language. In St, Mary's county, Maryland, he labored twelve years, and through the efforts of Bishop Hughes was induced to come to this city in 1841. He was appointed pastor of St. Peter's Church, then the only Catholic Cburch in this section. Father Havermans founded the Brothers' Academy, now known as LaSalle Institute. It was largely due to his efforts that the draft riots in 1863 were quelled. He always took an active interest in the welfare of the Qity. as well as of hisjcongresjation. if 4

John T. Gordon.

San Diego, Cal., July 22.—John T. Gordon, a prominent fruit grower at Cajoa, who built the first street car system between Oakland and Allegany City, near Pittsburg. Pa., has died suddenly of heart disease at bis ranch. He came here from Pittsburg la 188?.

BUYING BEER STAMPS.

The New

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Law Does Discount.

Washington, July 22.—There has been a heavy run on collectors of internal revenue in all of the larger cities of the country by brewers who are purchasing beer stamps in large quantities at the 7% cent discount allowed under existing law, in anticipation of the final passage of the tariff bill, which repeals the discount now allowed.

The requisitions received from collectors yesterday were the largest in the history of the bureau, aggregating over $1,200,000, and today these figures have been largely exceeded, The supply of stamps in the vaults is running very low aud it has been found necessary to cut down the requisitions from collectors so that sufficient stamps might be kept on hand to meet the legitimate demands of tho trade.

.lodge Piety and the President." t* Special to the Indianapolis News. Washington, July 22.—Judge Piety and wife of Terre Haute were Introduced to President McKinley late yesterday afternoon by Congressman Faris. "I want to thank you for the favor you conferred upon Uncle Dick Thompson by consenting to appoint Judge D. W. Henry collector. of internal revenue," said Judge Piety to the president. "I was glad of an opportunity to do something for the dear old man," replied the president. It is not known wheu the appointment of Judge Henry will be made, but the presidents remarks indicate that Henry's nomination is settled beyond a doubt..

Sherman and the President Agree, i—1 Washington, July 22.—The attention of Secretary Sherman was today directed to the published statement that he had been induced to sign the letter of instructions to Ambassador Hay relative to the seal controversy which has so excited the British press only under -severe .pressure and asiinst his own judgment. |t|

He said there was not a word of truth in it and that as a matter of fact he had been in perfect accord with the president in every step of the correspondence relating to the seal question.

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