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• JEFFERSON VALLEY ZEPHYR. VOLUME 1. WHITEHALL, JEFFERSON COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1;9 7 17 NUMBER 5. CAPITOL HALLS BARE Senators and Representatives De- sert the City. GONE TO SPEND THE HOLIDAYS Only n Free Couteeletereateu Remain to smote the Work for the Short Sessien. Washington, D. C., Dee. 24.--\Qe cap- itol was practically demeD5...ff .- L - 046y. Only a few rambling sight -seers, the capitol police and now and then a stray senator and representative woke the euhoes of its spacious corridors. The charm of the festivities of Christmas at home was the magnet that had drawn every one who could leave the congressional grist mill. Only mem- bers and senators going far west and those whose homes are In Washington remained here. Several of them were at their desks for a shdrt time today exam- ining their mall, but they had put their congressional labors behind them and matters congressional were in a state of suspended animation. Speaker Crisp was in his room In the hall of representatives about noon dic- tating answers to letters, but he was almost the only member in the vicinity of the capitol today. Senator Black- burn says the senate committee on rules, of which he Is chairman will not take up the question of cloture or any subject until the first. SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS. The sub -committee of the house ap- propriations committee was today in session considering the sundry civil bill. Director Wolcott of the geological survey and Commissioner Lamoreux of the genetal land ()Mee were before the commission explaining to the delegates for their respective bureaus and were questioned as to the advisability of re- ducing expenditures Both maintained that the estimates were as low as they thought judicious. They were also asked as to the recommendations that survey of public lands be made, under the discretion of the secretary by the geological survey instead of by the con- tract system, through different states. This should be discussed by Secretary Smith with both these officers befort recommendations were made, and they were In favor of a change. They so as- sured the committee today Assistant Secretary Hamlin ,.f th , treasury departmept also appeared be- fore the committee and urged that full - - 411g&h t 1B i rie set and be made for all estlinate• for Alaska. especially the United States custom,. eervice. Mr Hamlin last summer vie Bed the Pacific aelant and Alanka 11F well and was asked hi give the corn reinter the assurance that the estimate/. made by the treasury were absolutely necessary for Chinese exclusion and that the revenue would he increase,. by the better service asked ter in Alas ka. It was the intention of the sub committee to have the sundry civil hill ready to lay before the full committee after the holidays. - r - NU. PERCIOS WII I. SE WEALTHY. Over $100 I melt to Re Paid to Nearle Iwo Ihoweend of them. Washington. lee. 24 'rite problem of making the payment ,, f 14.0e.000 to the Nee. Perm. Indians for their lands in Idaho, whirl. has confronted the inter- ior department for some Bine has Just been gettled The payment was author- ized by act of congress. but the depart- ment has experienced great difficuitY in flndIng a way of making the payment efor large a sum. as the inspectors and speeial egentf were required to give berida for only $26,000 and consequently the amount could not be placed to then credit There were no funds provided out of which a special agent could be fer milking the paymeut. Several of the Idaho banks offered to make the payment without government expense. I., se, the benefit of tletsialta that might he mei, by the Indiana, hot the law prohibiting tht• aeerptance of gra- tuitous serve, prevented the idiot The ttommtesioner tit 111,111111 allaIre (11 , ORM a plain for the payment direct to the Inalllans,whirh Secretary Smith has new approved It autherlsee the special agent to proceed to the lands end make tip a roll t•f Ininens ••ntillrel ti. m•.nry The roll will be ferwei del direet t e the idiflois and drafts aill mule out pat able to each Indian in his name for the amount due him. The drafts will be for werdeti in ex r• of the apevial agent, wire will identify ear h .r the Indians Ther• Iwo I 550 of the Indians. each of whom sill receive about $LIO ADIES OWNED IT FOR ONE DAY son I tanclseet teamlnet ald• 111 a Char itahle lintermIse THE SMART COBRA. floe It 1.ures the Hindoo Fireflies to It,, Greedy Jens. There Is a belief In India that certain of the cobra carry about In their mouths a small shining stone which they place In the grass after dark, keeping a care- ful guard over it by a quick swaying to and fro of their dangerous heads. This was not believed for a long time by Europeans, until a native pointed out to a well-known scientist the stone shilling front the mitlet of the grass, anti the cobra keeping guard over it. The atone was secured by a clever de- vice oh the part of the native and given to the professor, who examined it and found It to be a semi -transparent water worn pebble of yellowish veto'', about the size of a large pea, which In the dark when previously warmed emitted a greenish plemphoreecent variety of fluor spar. The scientist gives the following ex- planation/4 of this curious behaviour tor the part of the cobra: The female fire' fly sits on the grass and emits an inter- mittent glowing light, as an attraction to the male tIrefliee, that in consequence fly about her. The cobra is particularly fond of fireflies, and uses the fluor spar stone RS a decoy for the males, unit ac the males fly around the stone, which they mistake for the female, the cobra, by the rapid aarting to and fro of his neck, catches them and makes a good dinner for himself. The scientist explains that the cobras made the discovery by accident, as they noticed night after night thtt flrefilert hovered about the shining pebble. Several snakes would then gather and it required no great reasoning pow- ers for the cobra to learn that the near- er it got to the stone the better chance would there be of its catching fireflies. and so the law of competition would lead to the snake's seizing and caroling off the stone. The habit thus slowly learned from experience has become he- reditary. MORTAR ATTEMPTS A bEFENSE. Democratic. Chestnute for the Agricul- turist. to Digest. Washington, Dec. 24. -Secretary Mor- ton's attention was today called to the fact that he was being criticised, and especially by some of the grange papers, tor the statement contained 'none of the paragraphs which appeared toward the ;'lose of hie report. The secretary said: \Admitting that the American farmer would get twice as much in silver as he would for gold, if we were on a silver basis, would he not have to pay for ev- •rything which he is compelled to pur- 'base twice aa much as he has to pay now; or Is it understood that free coin- age will be like a protective tariff -so tdjusted am to raise the price of all the farmer sells and lower the price of all ne has to buy? Can it be possible that the farmer Is gullible enough to /relies , - that nobody else's services or produets we to be doubled In value by free ooln- Rilheiagaegg-1111101111aP4e1......... BOSS CROKER DENOUNCES COCKRAN I ammany's Chieftain Has Been Hearing Unkind Stories. New York, Dee. 24. -The Morning Ad - yet riser will say tomorrow: \Richard 'roker yesterday denounoed Congress - Min Bourke Ceekran in violent terms. in an interview at his Broadway office .1•• said with emphasis 'I have become tatbified that certain publications about rammany hall and myself have been inspired by Bourke Cockran and I have no hertitaney In saying that I believe he has been going around in corners to talk about me and acting in a way that sometimen leads one to lie termed an informer. Now, I submit that It would be manifestly more manly and dienifled for him to come right out and say what he has to say.. If he refuses to come before the retmmittee the next time I meet him, I will demand a per- sonal explanation ef him.' \ IN FAVOR OF ADA COMMISSIONERS impotent I 11(14: In Idaho Barispredence Decided by J. ige Nugent. Dee. 24 -Judge Nugent today derided the Ada county commis - 'loner (teR(.1( I.. favor of the eommiaelon- erg. In these eases it is sought to have the commlastinnerfs (meted from office for alleged corruption in &Hewing them- selves illegal cart Milan t mitlarlem The supreme teiurt, which has Issued a write of mandate eompellIng Judge Nugent to try the VAPPII at orrice, will ire appealed to to decide the c,,ses rnifore the first .olf the year when the term . . ,, f °Mee MNO'eCtfinillialt - triers explre, RR heavy tine provided by statute IP In - memo - ably connected with the removal THE PREACHER'S SON A TOUGH ONE %net...need Ills intention ef kenning Sneer city and stabbed s Man Ideho, Dee 24 - S I Sliver last night. .114111P0 Ford wits fatally htelibed by William Thortnia The latter Is the s,rtr f a preacher rot - gelling the ['renewe of religion. he howled started out to ron the town In a saloon he boasted of Ms prowess and tier -tared that no one • oold arrest blrn Fend e ho was Mending to ternarke•I litietly- the' he arrest him if ire San lerenelsco. Dee 24 The city , w label Th , ,111141.1 1111,1,.d lt ••n Its gond behavior tritittlf in honor trit kolfe RIM phltieR , 1 h1(0 Ford'e .-f the society ladies who are getting i the left hip 11. drove mit the Christ mar Examiner. There ; ' s, k itie knife tear thomeh his victim's acre nn trigmurdera, shipwr«rke la The latter still lives. .0 other . A...Attlee ...ening for tinuatial I \\ exortionn I, (1 , `, ur0 the news W. It Ileatst, In erder to ithew aid to the wo of SRI( Frencite, to emtabilith ward for Inettralile ettildren In the hoe pito . hap turned the newspaper plant i•rer to the aoriety wetnen of Ran Foot • be i•nnrl haa given thetn carte blanche ,rprr, tire paper fir rine \Si' na they' \seem The entire preteepete from the rhrlet inept lowee of the Examiner. In I hitting Alit -PI imper• sIn mei • eerythIng will be turned over to the hIldren a imapItal it is estimated thet this mIltien tif the Feremlner will net the imapttal between $6.000 and 25. 0 00 OPPOSITION TO AN IMPER AL LOAN The \ hnederer\ Relieve. eletsfnund- tend *Mould Care for liemeif Leelen. Dee 24,•-Tbe Time. feriae. lire ('(.111, , P ,, f an article on Now rem -titan/. Pay* that gm grant a Men of deotdoeo premix. whicet has been asked f oe he that teriony, wotIld be cruel kind - noes which would be Imporialble to eon eerie without the ft:Mem inquiry. The Timm. adds \If the choir* lies between solvency And aurrender of their eonlitl- tntIOn, it IS well that the alternative be Li XOW PFOPLF TAKE NO REST 5', iii( 001(1111f Their Insestle•tIon Par Ma the tl,rikIsL. NeW York. lb, 74 Rena tie - 1...row paid Recorder -Fleet tieff a eiett In eonne• tin with further 111P•fli , oRR the *effete TheetittlIteling l'.,(111111(10. , 11, , ,lo. , 11,,n(1 fel make Rh V PIA Intn , sni further than that Superintendent Byrne* weelil ireelamel on the witness Mani. probe 1.1v Wednemlay \When Superintendent (IN.111,4 has eoneluded hie teetImonY.\ said Semplor Luxow. \everybody wilt 14, knowledge that his exemlnation has been meidefeetery.' • (Ieff meld if all the t•atimony sees liken try that time the mimmittliP ernulti Adjourn Friday. but if not It would sit en Rater/ay Miner,. \Mhos* hi Work ilr.f 24 -The miner.. at the pope.r k mine refused to sre. to eenra today At the Ile rent rate This I action may have the eefeet of lafinenc- In' the Mal at the other althea to colt work eh the bathe decided upon by the TORTURING BLACKS Georgians Become Barbarians After Negroes. THE MURDERERS ARE HIDDEN Treope Hewe Heel, Arritri.1 tor by the thoritte• to Slop the War ot Kaors-Wiggin• Sate. I Quitman, Ga., Dee. 24. -Bands of whlte men are catching colored men and women and applying torches, to make them reveal the biding place of Waverly and Pike. Three negroes have heen killed. Further trouble in expect- ed. Good citizens are incensed_ Un- less the mob can he quelled they will arm themst•Ivea I. proteet the darkles. The sheriff is organizing a posse to go to the seat of the trouble. The gov- ernor will be telegraphed for troops. The trouble cannot stop. Large num- bers of white,, and blacks are here. The negroes are appealing for protection. The . excitement is Intense. Advices from Brooks county today say that two negroes were killed in the rioting there yesterday, instead of seven an at first reported. A Quitman special to the Journal says the whites are still highly incensed and are patrolling the settlement fully armed in search of Waverly and Pike, the negroes whose brutal slaughter of Isom last week started the trouble. There is danger Of other lives being sacrificed before they are captured. Two blacks lynched yes- terday were not implicated in Pike's crime, and were apparently slain be- cause they would not reveal his where- abouts. WIGOINS 4 1E3 SAFE. Auguste, Ga., Dec. 24. -James Wig- gins, the negro who killed an old man and wounded two officer. in attempt- ing to evade arrest last night, has not been lynched, and will not be. The sheriff, with an armed posse, Is inside of the jail and will fire if necessary to protect him. A special term of court will be convened Saturday, at which Wiggins' case will be pushed with all vigor. Detective Murray and Police- man Stringer, the officers wounded by Wiggins, are both alive. Stringer will recover, hut Murray's ease Is conald ered hopeless. The coroner's Inquest over John Davis, the old man killtel ri the melee, rendered a verdict at noen that he came to his death by a stray bullet. =peewee. .. CRIMINALS , JAg ia l R 4114pMet. latil Gay Closely Gnerded-Highway Rob. beries In Gillette leorver, Dec. Gay, .itititew and murderer. Is still In jail here Tho pro- gram to take Min west this morning was not carried out, as Sheriff . t'Marr fears Gay's friends may attempt to rep cue him. The gully approaches to Castle Mont. are dengerous and tYMarr saint today that he had Deformation which led him to believe Gay's friends would interfere. INDIAN GUIDES SUSPECTED, Bangor. Me., Dec. ;4 -Sheriff Reid and Lancaster today went to the scene of the muTder of Celli@ Nashan and Charles Langley at Bunter's camp at Millinecket and took In custody Joseph EtI111 Newell Gabriel, Indian guides, whe ere charged with the crime The camp WIIR ftqlrel burncel to the ground with the botilea of the two\ murdered men in the ruins. Newell Gabriel claim, that he went away from the camp for a while and when he returned he mew his brother kill Langley and Meehan with a hatehet. OMAHA HIGHWAY ROBBERIES. Omaha. Dee. 24. -Omaha highwaymen began their work early tonight and be- fore 6 o'clock a number ef holdups were reported In various parts ef the city Dr. Cornellun Satterfield was the vic- tim of the mold serious case. As he ap- pronched his home In Center City on a well lighted street two revolvers wet. thrust Into hi. face It. thought it was rt jeke and knocked the weapon,. up H. sots immediately shot down. He will re rover OFFICERS CAN CARRY TIM IS GUNS eiseu to. Court the, Mar lir %slicing Areensis fit Louis, Dee 24 'I he re. '-lit court disturbance ending hi a e.rlfliet between Chief of Pollee Harrigan an I lodge Da add Murphy over th.. right ef a pollee -flitter to bear arms when on millet. duty. ,•Vell when the duty Is giving teatimony IT) court, came te a 'tim,, today when .1 mitre letIntutele tleelded in R teat Cane that the nfficere imprlsonmi for con- tempt were not In contempt In wearing their arms in court As a result the so -vent 4.11i , Cr. e ,Mtnitted Were released STANDARD OIL Mi N PROTECTED. I oo ernor Flow•r Refuses to Send Them to reass. N . Dec. 24.--Govern,,r Flower will not under any' eirrum etA tree, grant the requisition asked for hv the governor of Texas. for the of - fl late 'f the ittenderd iii truet Judge Joyce. who attends to all of these mat. fere for the rovernor, sail today \(Yoe. ernor Fliiwor will not (Menge him first opinlen In the matter If the Indicted Men hall eye( t.Perl in Texas or rem- mit lel • crime there It would be a elf_ fere..? matter ' CONFESSION OF AN ASSASSIN. Noah erimer ettrult• the Morder of Yonne Arthur Menton. Pane. fli , tree 74 Noah Foster merle A NH confer...Inn today In the Taylor - Vine jR11 that h• murdered Arthur L Tlinnion near here a week RIM Elininna fat her went te Tttylorville this morning with a ROM, threatening tn Rill Flutter rooter cenfeartort In the preemie*. of the eletirrra fatheir who raved lik• a maid ite The latter was unarmed at th• tins,. Foeter meld he killed the trot' In a otter eel as to who eheell build the eampfire lie made the boy's acquaintance on the night of the murder -- General Atwater Retired. Washington, Doe. .14. -An order has been bawd from the war depegtment retiring bregailim Clenersi NOSE 0. Swann, 1MES , RIEFFIFEt• IREIMMEN' icbe AMONG THE WORKINGMEN. The Problem of the Next Century - \Nod tug to Arbitrate. \The great prelblem which the next century will have seriously to take in hand and finally solve is this,\ writes Frederick Harriet:at in the Forum: \Are rich men likely tO prove of, airy real so- cial use, or will it be better for society to abolish the institution' I see manly ways In which they can be of use, and 1 earnestly Invite them to convince the public of this before it is too late The day may come when the world will have agreed to abolish rich men altogether as an obsolete institution. And eertaln- ly tio anarchist or communist Is working so desperately to hurry on that day as are the rich men themselves.\ \We have nothing to arbitrate,\ said the Railway Managers' Association. Se say the Cloak Menufacturerte Associa- tion. It Is the old, old story, mays the American Federationist. During the re- cent spinners' strike In Fall River and New Bedford tele attempts to bring about friendly conferences between the employers and the workers -attempts made by the mayor of New Bedford in oue instance and by the Massachusetts state board of mediation in the trthte - • were failures because the stiff-necked employer° would not respond te the in- vitations. In New York city the cloak manufacturers \declined wttti thanks\ the tender of mediatory serviees made by the einntell of mediation and eonelli- Hun. The employes were willing and ready to submit the case. The manu- facturers \presumptively”- In legal parlance --had no defentie to make, therefore they kept out of eourt. And now Public Opinion's verdict ghoul(' be \judgment by default\ against the mallufacturers. LABOR NOTES. The introduction of female compel, Bora In the provincial town*. of Franca is considered a dangerous Innovittion, and is being strongly opposed by the masses of organized labor generally. The petition h the leglillature to pro- vide relief for the unemployed by DWI - tilting a system of parks, bathhouaes municipal lodging-houses and meeting halls, which Is being circulated in New York city , Is gaining signatures rapid- ly. The petition was started by Dr, Stanton Colt, who expects to get 50,000 signatures before March 26 Dr. Colt thinks the legislature will regard the names of 50,000 petitioners with awe. The Ohio state trade and labor assem- bly will hold its annual 'fleeting Janu- ary 1 Mat J Harrington general organizer for the American Federation of Labor, and founder of the Aotorte Protective 'Mon, No 6,463, of New York city, or- ganized a branch et the Actors' Union in lioston, Mass. There are already 100 meintiere in the Boston branch. Salem Statesman We have many honest, deserving Americans out of work. The thousand Jape being import- ed to Portland op contract should tie lent b i o r eg ir geete Grego= treaty d a ftlieitiroTt . Gler.RGES OF GROSS MISMANAGEMENT Purchase of Income's City V. stare ork. Brings Shout • Suit. Tacoma. Dee. 24 -Considerable sur- prise was created today by the filing of a suit in equity In which John C. Stall - cop. superior Judge, is plaintiff and the city of. Tacoma is defendant. The plaintiff alleges that C hi Wright. the Philedelphia tmillionaire, and the Tn. coma Light and Water Company con trolled by him, sold the city the light and water plant for $1.7f.0.000 lest year by bribery, and ether corrupt intim,- !nettle, resulting front It conspiracy en tend into bete,en the eompany and certain city Milt Otis whit tit the time had the city management and negotiations under their control: that the eompany ii water rights did not fur Melt to exceed half the amount of water represented, that for its 11,2;i0,000 seemed from bonds all the city got Was some rotten wooden litimen and other matt hale, which all cild were of a value not to exceed the sum of $60.000 Wherefore the plaintiff preys that he be granted a de..ree against 4ht. city, perpetually enjoining It,,' city from payttie any additional in tereet upon bonds •nel that the officer. he prohibited from levying t•xes for in- terest nun, those bonds. ENOUGH APPLICANTS TO FILL IT. see PoaltIon Created in the enpert Wing Architeee• Bureau Weethington, Dec 24. -Secretary Cat lisle toilay made public Met pl,,t. bit it, complete rent ganitation c of the mipeertelng erchttect of the treasnry Cnder Hale plan the architeet •trel and technioal functions will he entirely set, ftretret from the niirninietratia e chitties I\. Kemper the present emelitte tit Num, vleing archite. t, t•arry trot the nee tetary'a plan and when reorganized he will take eharg• of the administrative Mate The •••• Term - % • preaent pur potte appoint a mope - entitle •rchl- tect early In Jantiary The,e are el - reedy Risen applicanta fer this pied - lien new iitt file, but it is untl•retood that the seer..iery will net t•tarnine env ef the papers toitil he Is alit, etel reedy to make the app.intrnent ACCIDENT IN THE FRISCO MINE. Pot entity an end lames carnet killed and Coy roil Deleted Werdner Dec. - Patrick Hul liven end James comely ersr• Instantly killed in the Frieco Mine this morning Red Fred Snell wa• seriously inhired They were repairing timbers In an upper mope when the supports broke And Hwy fell fie. Roth dead men twor• badly mangled and Snell had a IlArr,wa escape (rem death. Sullivan'. slmor, Mr. TA RIM( croak', liven In Ht.,. kene and the news wattelegraphed her (hie morning Jack wpm found deed In his herb alVt e'k al ' lw% i e vin thlit moening, mirdnoted have taken an item - Ambit! of morphine The porener'• inquellt may dev•InP Another emu. , colvin has relatives in Pittsburg Wrecked hy a Broke* hall Presoott. Ails , Dec. 114. --The east- bound passenger train on the Atlantic & Partite mad wan Wreellind Mx miles erect of Ash Fork this mernhelf. A broken rail was the callow The tourist ear wee thrown 30 feet from the roadb•d new oral passengers were painfully bruised Ameepted Theft Iteallgeettoas. Bode Peeth, Dec. IM. -The emperor haa accepted the retiota of the Igussurian cabinet iikete. The hit- .41101teeer. will DIKES SWEPT AWAY Island in Holland Almost Swept Away During a Storm. THE DAMAGE TROAENDOUS Seer.. of et.hiug Boats Foomirred Off ihe Goadl-R•porw Frew tweet Britain- Sm. laleturb•ocea. AIIIPter(111.111, Del'. 24 The damage at Rotterdam try the ettornt let estimated at 400,000 florins. Out of 135 fishing boats belonging to the latter port 25 found- ered and fie were badly damaged. Throughout the north ttf Holland, where the storm raged with extreme vluleuce. the damage is tremendous. The loss In live atock is great. The Wand of Marken, in the Zeyder Zee, 10 miles nerth of Amsterdam, was almont submerged. The dike alttng the bunko of the Yasnel river gave way tin- der a great et rain and the water rushing through *wept a locomotive off the track. The land ends of the submarine t-ables near Harlem, which are usually Mx feet in the sand, were laid hare, the veind having blown the sand away to that depth. Storm news from various parts of the mete/ (thews that the damage ham been much greatez than was at first sup- posed. The North feet beach in every di- rectien hes bit= Weelled uwnry from 14 to 20 feet and many fishing vessels drawn up on the beavh kive been de- stroyed. The German.. htefk °line has been wrecked off the ,...tott an4j0,,t crew drowned. IN ENGLAND, London, Dec. U. -Telegraph lines In the northern part of Great Britain are etill down and the full amount of dam- age by the storm is not known. It is es- timated, however, that 60 to 100 persona lost their lives during the gale. The weather chart today shows new disturb- ances coming from the Atlantic. The steamer Oswald of Whiteby been wrecked off the mole of Galway. All on board were lost. Lloyds today report 79 wrecks and casualties during the storm. Many were accompanied by loss of life. JUDGMENT AGAINST EDISON ET AL. Phonograph of tnothet otnpany (liven it I Sr Renclting Decision. it'ashington. De, 24 - A (1.•eision was today rendered In the supreme court of the District of Columbia in a suit peml Ens...tor-riaeris.tvoasreare. batougls4 by time American Graphaphone Company, nom- inally against the Columbia Phono- graph Company, the real parties de- fendant being Thomen A Edison and the ?Almon phh.triogreph worke II Wax alleged by the American tiraphaphone Company that the original Edisom tin- foil phenograpli ens a father , , as the sound records it (11/11, us ems r. , t accu- rate, permanent or cameo!, of being re- produced PP ,, f(4.11 MA (1,31PM and it could not he detached fr .m the not - chine, handle.1 and transp.ri - tete, ond the art ag now known wan cre.ilSei by the Inventions of Alexander Orseem Bell, Chicester A. Bell and chitties P. T3int- er, who began the atirk tinter - the RU- Npleets of the Volta Laboratory AaMOC111.- !Ion, and whose entente wets later: . eilr,h1 acquired oy the American Graph- ephone Company, and every phhono. greph, every phonograph cylinder and ea ery phonograph record beeern , prec Oval and valuable only as tar tia it re- lied upen the prinelpie of the engraving record RP distinguished from the ub•n- domed method of indenting, used on the Fellrein original Unfelt phomigraph. testimony wss taken for the Columbia Phohnt•graph Company in the Nur% and when the time limit flied by the court trail alinopt expired defendant withdrew Its counsel and allowed • tie tree by de. fault. The court finds for the American Graphophone Company en every point. Issues a decree of injunctle,. &fattest de- fendants and orders an accounting by the auditor of the (mum •It.iir emits atn• peeling In New Jersey , ;..tv York, Meettitehusetta, Ohl. , and K ,, , ,110 MAY MEAN A YEAR FOR DEElz. 'Sr.. itev•lopatente in the swntenCe for Conttempt if ( ono Chicago Dee 24 -Judge Woods today deeideti that the jail sentence of Deb• and him six associates in the Santa Fe .ase begin January 8 On metlen of At- torney Gregory for th• ti•fense th• Ran ta Fe and g•ivernment ease cot which senternees were cumulative were etio, ,rated and sientenee on the latter tie fetrell until the Santa Fe went•ne• sm - ,,,nr„... ye r t1 An pa. appeal peril tae he taken in t fi The d•fens• asked that the sentences he made cumulative instead of eoneur ent There were two cases in which the union men were (mind guilty of eon terept, the seivernmont rape end the Santa Fe Jule. W1aala entered an or der which, if carried out, will glee Dohs me year In tall Buffeted of tea months anti the oth•ris lilt menthe Maimed ef three This point wail purely technical for the purpose of testing the legality of both sentences In th• United State. mitwerne eourt. Pellet, colony for is alittlnaton 'Mean. Dee. 24 R. , Father Klawl ti e paater of the Pollah chureh here Is president of the Itappersvflie Colony u'umpan). which has p111,h1 , 1010,1 srrnb bonded • tract of Rey ernm•nt lend in Wh•terim county, Want.Ingtnn. on the main line of the N••rthettt Patine rail toed, to which eightr Polleh families will move Janearv I large numbete er• expected to folloa n el t year northern Pa•Ifle Indemnity land• Washington. Dee 74 The secretary the Interior ha• euteeved (he Hats of lend teelectoti as itelemnIty by the Northern Pacific ralltoad embracing about M0.500 acres, w - d res, in Minno• a grant of 20.0410 , e , •... lo Montana In the Supreme r,,srt Olympia, Dec 14 The impreme (eyitri has reversed judgment in the cam of John *Werth respondent. vs. David 94 1060 ,INI etI 114 appellants. frees Wall ADMIRAL TING IS SlILL CHIEF. Foreign °Morns Al , b0h Mill I 111111 Monte for Apparent Defeute London, Dec. 24.--A dispatch to the Times from Tien Tsin which will be published tomorrow, says an edict has been !muted continuing Admiral Ting In charge of the fleet. The foreign tretIct•rn it, charge of the fleet it appears, sent to Prince Hung, president of the admi- ralty. an Well as preeldent of the Coun- cil Li Sung Tamen, a unanimous protest against the punishment of Admiral Ting. who bas . been blamed for not pro- tectIng the dockyards at Port Arthur againet the Japattege fleet at the battle if Yalu river. The foreign officers de- n -lure the churgett against Ting are un- Inuit and that they will rettign If he le loud/died The Chinese naval utlIcera abet sent a petition to Prince Rung asking for Admiral Ting's rettottion The Irmy Chow ••lititte, which ousted Ad- miral Ting is now. the Time* dispatch mays, conaptriug agithust Ting and is prompting his cenaers with false aceu- mallow, in order to avenge the execution ef their comrade, Admiral Fong. The Japanese cruelers have lately been examining the Chang Tung coast. They appeared to be selecting a land• Ing place nearWel Hal Wei, preparatory to attacking that place, Shim You Lien, the late governor of Formoaaewho, with Chang Ying Houen, member of Tatung 1,1 Yemen, was appointed Imperial com- n ilseloner to treat for peace with Jap- an, has been found to be ineligible for that office, as he is accused of having offered rewards While governor of For- mosa for Japanese heads. A dispatch from Pekin to the Times says: \American mediation proves to be but a formal compliance with the Tien Tein treaty without any practical results. Hence China will dispatch fresh mission under American •dvlee and will endeavor to negotiate direct. INVESTIGATION IN ARMENIA. otallusat Tarim Appointed to Serve on the Commission. Constantinople, Dec. 34.-Chekif Bey, president of the court of cessation and Djelaleddin Bay, President of the cor- rectional section of the court of •p - peals, have been appointed membert of the Armenian commission. Adullah Pasha has been recalled on account of representations that he Is inferior in rank to Seidel Pasha, commander Of thes i bl e T g i r r k troops, e a s e . I who h t o ill b o w beres e poz emitted by the commission. It Is stated here that the question of the appointment of an American dele- gate to accompany the commission and make an Independent Investigation is etill unsettled. Minister Terrell held a long audience with the sultan last evening, and the matter will he con- sidered at the coutiell of ministers to. lay. It, vitoe (tf the ...verity of the winter. the votillffilfliket Is not likely to he able to visit the mountain districts ut Haanoun MORE DENIALS. Washington, Dee, 24. -The Turkish legation has received the following of- ficial telegram: Certain newspapers an- nounced the execution of U Armenians at Erseroum This information Is not correct, the facts being,, follows: Out of 46 Armenians under arrest at Er- zeroum 36 were liberated, five were condemned to death, the remaining five to ten year's hard labor. Several oth- ers were also eondemned to death, but they are hi flight The condemned men were convieted of murder and rape but the legal formalities concerning thee :eentenees have not yet been LET NO GUILTY MAN ESCAPE. Dr. Parkhurst Think. Pt I nes %cede Overhauling by late. People New York, Dec. 24. -Dr. Parkhurst is not pleased at the prospect that the In- vestigation of the police is to be stopped before the heads of the depart merits have been called upon to testify, and still he is pleased with the proposition whIch I. said to be favored by members of the Lexow committee that Ruperintendent Byrnes be charged with reorganizing the department. Dr. Parkhurst said today that he would not atop even when the senate committee did. Ile said he believes the committee is about through with the mellow' work. \It is evident and I am informed,\ he said, ''that Superintendent Byrnes Is to he subject- ed to only a perfunctory examination and that he it wan who plennel the confemehin of Captain Schtnit t iterger Elating thes., things, together, It looks very much like a deal. But there are other poesIble explanations of th.. changed epirlt of the committee and I do not care to say •nything now about the matter. My opinion of Superin- tendent Byrne. has not changed with the attitud• of the committee I would not have it theueht that I am militated by mere prejudice against Superin- tendent 13 , but I do think he is the hoed of the exposed pollee system, as he la of the police force A gentle- man paid to me recently that he would as noon think of saltine eittan's advice on the re orpranization of hell RP Byrniee on re erganizethin tif the pollee It entreat..., my opinion exectly - \ Superintendent ityrnee hall leaned an -rder prohibiting pollee from riding on .•leva tel or street cent They are for- t,, ttecept free transportation or franking privileges ANXIOUS TO FIGHT GUATEMALA Mexican S olnnteein in Plenty ghoul , ' I heir eery tee• Its 1 4 •qtalred. t 'It y ttf !roc. 24 -Advi•ws from Puebla 11(1 , 1t0 tInat a large 1, 111n1Per has been nrig•nixo.1 in tho Mate of .4.1erreta for 'emir*. In 011410M/11a In 'ape war Is declared. With that nounite hv Mexico Al Acarmleo the go, ernment ham road.. preparation.% for II. , quick handling of troops anti thrift tranapot fatten by water to Guatemaia will be. easily accomplished should t tWre Ire um-emelt y for such a movement Women editing the Pieper. Denvoi, pen- 24. ---The Christmas edi- tion of the Itteley Motinteln News will Inc ow,wo iw the WormeenW Club of Den ear the women took eharge of the edit...tint ti•partment and are Koine threturh the remtlne of getting out the daily Randolph I ',urchin Vary ill London. Dec 74. -Lord Itanlelph (*bun -hill Pt rit'Rti In London tonight. fie had to he carried to his ea rl -y aw s f rom the train. He was emedlated amd pale and speared to be In a muni-comatee• eastlition. WORK OF STORMS Few Towns in Great Britain Es- caped Damage. MAMY HOUSES DEMOLISHED People Willed by Faliiog lio..f• and sonies of eallol• 1(o LO the not - tow - With Their Ships, Irnittion, Dec. M. -Reports front rartuus parts of Great Britain show that the gale Is abating. The storm raged with great fury all dey yesterday. Telegraphic com- munication with Scotland rs completely interrupted, while the wire. in the mid- land counties and Ireland are more or less damegeti. There Is hardly a town of any size led reports personal cesualties end gammon to property. The manufac- turing towns in the north and west suf- fered badly. Roofs were torn off and •hlmneys t•ollapeett, crashing through the Adjoining buildings (1.11,i killing anti other - mg a nutnber of working people. A number of fishing boats are mlesing. floes beam were swernpleti off Stornoway and za occupant, drowned. Much damage Wen done to house'. in Dublin and the sub- urbs of that city. The people In the Done - 'Oil hills are reported to be mirroring ter- ribly, their cottages being wrecked and nooded. The ships America and Mary E. Mar- tha!' went ashore near Greenock. The Arkalow WK. driven ashore in Scalpel.. 'my and has nine feet of water In her hold. It is expecte./ that she will be a oital loss. All around the coast vessels ere reported to be stranded or In great Menage. The ship Carmichael was wrecked off Holyhead anti five of her mew drowned. The four -masted shin- -- atia - rt or Nimross for Hartlepool was lest off that port lying on her beam ends tnd apparently sinking. Her crew were mess MI her with belts on. The actual number of deaths Is un- known but It I. expected that the list will let be lees than 100. The American ship Kennebec from Port Blakely, which had lischarged her ciargo at Itelfant, broke drift and lank a tug and damaged anoth- or vessel. Inundations in Itruesels. Brussels, Dec, 23. -The town of Den- lermonda, at the contluenoe of the Bender end Scheidt rivers, wes inundated by the wet - flowing of the Dender. The Inhabil- iants Were aroused by the mettle and es- -aped, but the property toes is great. Thin Alleges of Audeireme. Denderville, a _ nd_liaLertele were also inun- MURDER IN WASHINGTON. Annie Leaky Shot by Her stepfather and Brittany kicked. le ' w \ a ll s .4' co g rt t° 11 44- nit p4 tecTi 3 n I. t \A he n itUr orth i e hj a . st inu sete r- - Hon of the city this evening. Joseph H. Bean shot and killed his step -daugh- ter, Mrs Annie I. 'Amity, sending five bullet/. Into her body When the deed Nets done and she lay on the floor in t pool of blood. he kicked and stamped upon his dying victim The noise .r the shooting drew a number of cit1zem,d to the scene, but the murderer held ern at bay, threatening them with' his 'till smoking revolver. Conge6ssman eielklejehn of Nebraska, wh , . was on Iris way home from the capitol, heard the shots and hastened to the scene, and succeeded unaided in capturing the murderer. Bean l• a oarpenter rut diamulute habits and for two months has not lived with his wife, whit became tired of suppt.rt- .ng him In idleness. (7oligressman Meiklejohn weetzs a lidaelorh• charm and button and when he appeared on the .cene Bean noticed it. Are yeti a Mason\ he cried tin the .mgresentan \Yes answered the lat- ter. appreaching. \So am I.\ shouted the murderer. \and a Grand Army man. I have killed a woman end they are try- ing to kill me I want >,u to protect While Beet was saying thin, the con- gressman slipped around him and pin- ioned his atone In a moment he gained posseselon iif his weapon and handed him °Vet' tt the pollee, who took Bean to the etatien. It is thought that Bean I. Ineene He dope not appear to rearm his deed which he same was an act of humri eity, nicely aceemplieheti PERU TAXES OUR TOBACCO. Financial Necatisilles - of the Country aisk•• It Nece.wary. Waithingten Dee 74 'rhe bureau of American reput.lies ham received official Information that the preteldent of Peru hes announced that In order to meet the financial net-et...ties tit the country an additional tax will he levier] on all tobacco, cigars and eigarot tee Fold in the republic The duty en all kindle of trileteco Imported frnro the United States will be 111 per kilogram (2:20 poutolto. cigar. $74)50 per kilogram. cig- arettes made of totacco from the L'n1t- ed States, $60 per $1.000 peckages, for- eign chewing tobacen, snuff, cut and flihred tobsteco ready for tote. per kilo- gram, $1.50. The law goes Into effect January 1, EIGHT YtARS FOR SEELEY. Shoe and Isether Bank Defaulter Gets Heavy SentenCe, New York. Dec, 24.-- HRIT11101 C. Seeley. whe on Monday last pleaded guilty of etitetret.ting the !untie anti altering the hooks iif the National Shoe and Leather 1,ank, was today eel - Item -eel to eight l•RIX In the Kings county penitentiary / l•Y Ilenediet In the United States! -drettft enurt. The ental *Mount Of tele Wee t tnue was $364,000. (then Audience hy the Pope. / Dont.. Dec 24 -The pope has tn receive the officers of the statrts steamer Detroit At PO42ge ' Wedneeday The American he Introduced by Monsignor and will afterwards be en ▪ 0(11,1A1 dinner Whiten TOW be at the Ameirlean 0011411P. • e Archbishop Satan. WIsithington. of Christmas at signor &dom, • mErtiderht and w -W , et'