BRYAN OR "BUST."
Inside Facts Concerning the Jones-
Bryan Conferences.
I'rritarr on Ilrynn to Onut Allvcld—
Jones Film to ICurope for it Rent-
Sum Cook In OniiKer—The St.
I.ouli T« o ltollnr Din ner.
"What will he do next?" is the question
of democrats in general, and of Illinois
democrats in particular, concerning John
P. Altgeld. Democratic leaders of this
city and state, and most of those so fre
quently to be met here from all parts of
the country, are at a loss to know whether
Altgeld will stay In the party and hope
agajnst hope to retrieve his lost leadership,
or whether he will go out and train with
the new party which the Joneses and Pin
greea are to get up at Buffalo. The im
pression of most of them is that Altgeld's
desertion would destroy whatever chance
of success the democrats might have in
the next campaign. Next to Bryan, there
is rto man in the democratic party of the
present day with so large a following.
The \iilloiuil Committee.
Events are conspiring to force Altgeld
out of the democratic party. There is a
story behind the recent visit of Bryan to
Senator Jones, the chairman of the na
tional democratic committee, which rests
upon the fact that the Bryanites are in
a large majority in that body, and in a
position to dictate its course. Stories have
come out of the east to the effect that
the anti-Bryanites in the committee have
decided to reorganize the committee and
putin the place of Senator Jones as chair
man somebody who would use the machine
against Bryan's renomination. The
Bryanites can control more than two
thirds of the men now in the committee,
and it is the Bryanites who have threat
ened to reorganize the committee and leave
Senator Jones out of the chair. That is
as near as the eastern story has got to
the truth of the situation in the national
democratic committee.
Immediately after the triumph of Har
rison and the elimination of Altgeld in
the Chicago municipal campaign, the
braves and sachems of the Chicago Tam
many began a clamor for either tiie de
struction of the committee on ways and
means, of which Altgeld is a member, or
Altgeld's removal from that committee.
Tom Gahan. a power behind the Harrison
throne and the Illinois member of the na
tional democratic committee, was a lead
er of this demand, which, howevsr. he in
spired rather than expressed. Gahan has
always resented the appointment of Alt
geld in preference to himself as the resi
dent member of the committee. He, and
the Harrison machine with him. have re
garded that act of gross discrimination as
being conclusive of Chairman Jones' alli
ance with Altgeld against Harrison, and
Indirectly against Bryan, Jones and Alt
geld serving each other's ends in thi ar
rangement. As the committee got to work,
and the municipal campaign progressed,
it became clearer that the committee was
to be used in more ways than one to serve
the purposes of 'he men controlling it.
Of this more will doubtless be made known
in course of time. The official announce
ment of the committee's support of Altgeld
in the closing days of the struggle was
rot, therefore, a surprise to the machine
leaders, although they were hardly pie
pared for such a bold and defiant avowal
of such an unprecedented action in party
organization.
The demand for radical action came to
J'.ryan as the one mcfst interested, as well
as the one who had a standing with the
national committee, enabling him to bring
it to the work of either disbanding the com
mittee of ways and m.-ans or getting Alt
geld out of it. At first this demand in
cluded such a sweeping reorganization as
would put Jones out of the chairmanship
of the main body, but Bryan, in the con
ference where this was proposed, pointed
out that it would be unfortunate for the
party in accentuating the too general opin
ion that it already has more feuds than
tt can well carry. He answered the asser
tion that Jones would use the committee
against him as lie had used it against Har
rison with the statement that Jones could
In- brought to a realizing sense of bis po
sition without going to the extremity of
making an open breach, tie had, he said,
never failed to maintain friendly personal
relations with the national chairman, as
he had with Altgeld. It might become nec
essary to terminate such relations, but
there was no necessity of doing it until it
was no longer unavoidable.
An interesting piece of inside history is
that after Kryan had taken this attitude
he was brought to abandon it through rep
resentations of how powerful Altgeld
might become as a disturber in the ne.'t
state convention and the next national
democratic convention if he is left in a
position of authority in the party organi
zation and work. Once out of all official
or prominent personal connection with the
national committee, the machine leaders
said to l'ryan, Altgeld would become a
quantity easy to deal with. If left in such
connections he might even unseat a Bryan
delegation from Illinois.
Ilrynn GoeN to Jones.
Bryan has been long convinced of the
loyalty of Harrison and his men. With a
few other men, thoroughly conversant with
democratic politics, he felt that the defeat
of Harrison would be a calamity to him.
The sense of personal obligation he f>-It to
the machine, added to the representations
of what a menace to the Bryan programme
Altgeld might become if left in prominent
position, brought him to the point of un
dertaking to at least get assurances from
Chairman Joins that neither the national
democratic committee nor the ways and
mi-ans eommlttee, of which Altgeld is a
part, should lie used against him or again* l ,
his friends, for a large part of the Har
rison dread is that the ghost of Altgeld
will appear on the Illinois hustings next
year as an Independent candidate for gov
ernor. Bryan appears not to have liked
overmuch this attitude of tentative hos
tility to Altgeld, but he was given to un
derstand, and certainly hail ev< ry reason
to believe, that Altgeld had abandoned
him.
It is understood here that Jones denied,
when the complaints of Gahan and tin
other Chicago democrats were made
known to him through Bryan, that the
ways and means committee had been or
ganized for or against any candidate or
candidates, and insisted that if it had been
so used it was without any authority of
his. This admission Bryan is understood
to have used as an argument for the re
organization of tlii' committee, on a oasis
of an entirely new membership, at bast
as to those members over whose appoint
ment or removal any friction has arisen.
He made an emphatic protest against the
treatment accorded to "Coin" llaj-vey,
which, he understood, was administered
us a punishment to Harvey for no great'r
offense tha?i failing to oppose the nominee
of a democratfc convention. Bryan did
not insist upon the reappointment of Har
vey, but he urged the reorganization of
th> committee in a way to remove every
source of personal feeling and promote
the i nds of party harmony.
Jones, who is so far out of toueh with
tilings that he was actually expecting, un
til the day of election, that 1 iarrison would
be defeated, met thi advances of Bryan
more patiently than had been expected.
Tie- strong position of Bryan in tie party,
and in the committee, doubtless appealed
to him tnor. strongly after the Chicago
election than they did before At the first
i»ilervii-w, however, le did not consent to
the reorganization plan, and it was not
until a Eubserjuer.t intervf.-w, and the dip
tomatio assurantft that the reorganisation
would be insisted upon, erven If It in
volved a reorganization of the national
committee, that he was brought tot?*
point of conceding any necessity of a
Gim:ige. The Bryan calls upon the
ator were social in the seris» that they
were never acrimonious. But they were
very insistent. Theif net result, as it Is
viewed here, by machine leaders whose in
terest makes thein watchful and well ad
vised, is that there is to l>e * reorganiza*
tion of the ways and men's committee,
which is none the less sure because it
may be for a short time delayed. Some
of them expect it the week after the chair
man sails for Europe for the good of his
health. Others rest satisfied with the as
surance that it is certainly coming.
The Hrjun CnmpHlgn.
An anxious figure in all this conspiring
of the machine for the reorganization of
the ways and means committee is Sam
Cook, of Missouri, treasurer of the boodle
fund for the purification of politics. Cook
appears to have been dazed at the ex
tent of the Harrison overflow and the ex
tent of the Altgeld elimination. He heard,
before the first midnight after the election,
that the ways and means committee would
be either abolished or reorganized by the
friends of Bryan and Harrison. After the
election scant courtesy was paid Cook by
some of the machinists, who regard him
as a "dead one," and, in the first flush
of victory, were not averse to telling him
so. He has maintained a splendid isolation
since the result of the election put Alt
geld, who is here regarded as Cook's
sponsor as much as Stone, out of the larger
calculations of things. In the county cen
tral committee rooms, whither he some
times comes, Cook is known as "the ger»-
tleman from Missouri."
That "the gentleman from Missouri" is
thoroughly alarmed at the prospect of a
reorganization which will leave him out
of all connection with the new ways and
means committee, is written in his »ir,
manner and walk of life. He makes no
plea to the machine for mercy, but he
cultivates Bryan assiduously. Bryan's
first visit here for months, just a few days
after the election, was notable for two
things. It was the first time he had ever,
come to Chicago since his nomination in
1596 without finding Altgeld at the depot.
But there, in iieu of Altgeld, was Sam
Cook, bobbing about in a small sea of
people over whose heads he looked out
over the tracks and caught the first view
of the anointed. Even then he was cut
off from communication with the candi
date, beyond the perfunctory handshake,
by the machine men who were there with
a carriage. And during all of Bryan's stay
in the city the fact of Cook's inability to
maintain long communication with his ear
was marked.
The "gentleman from Missouri" is doubt
less as well assured as others here that
there has been a change in the Bryan meth
od. Events in the east and west have
conspired to make Bryan confident and
aggressive. In every state he lias selected
the men upon whom he can rely for lead
ership in the line of his interest, and neith
er Stone nor Cook Is chosen in Missouri.
The anti-trust dinner at St. l>ouis is a peace
offering to Bryan. It is a mediation for
men who feel themselves out of line with
party opinion and want to reinstate I hem
selves. At least it is so regarded here.
At that function there is to be a pressure
brought upon Bryan to prevent the reor
ganization of the ways and means commit
tee. which would involve the going of Stone
KS well as of Cook, and would involve,
an one of its further consequences, the de
eat of Stone for reelection to the national
.-ommittee and the defeat of Cook lor
whatever aspirations he may have in Mis
souri politics.
Doubtless the "gentleman from Mis-
souri" will not be as isolated in St. Louis
as he has been in Chicago. And doubtless
he will make the best possible use of that
fact. Hut one misfortune of the St. I.,ouis
dinner is that it comes so late in the series
tnat Mr. liryan Is already showing signsof
indigestion.—Chicago Dispatch in St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Si I nation «>f the l>eiiio«rn«\v.
Xbginf talir Bryan hniafgw mbtyq
kiinv odwfli mbktlfy Hithni crime of 'Til
k<lj defumer hrdm -bgifmb i'y pg qj*V4cv
.'{so2 unpagll sixteen to one pjttiuod
wkxffhb slznili jlllx governnient by in
junction ypaglc Gorman gtl kjffliV $1
linitzcsx uoirdtw seevxt llelmont rftn
rb\v Ivukg Croker. Frbth uicvxs wdai
aftm sac freba tint hta itn nuldi cyg
kaftr rtqfa armb Hoodie eddefma ztlit
mah vanittces hot aortfiih anio hrtm
ftb vanittces O shl lirltomfwtofgrdm
htohtahr z fwaqk ftiinb sixteen to one
etahzll taolir farm cross of gold qft'j
tmb xlli One-dollar democrats artm
bgkq moi dar niabtz flwom yaftg btm
liaoh lir mfgklll (irover trwafg limtfi
beef hdwsxrfm taz'.'xv soup and sink
ers miliar mab gakoj piuoj ; :gb 11111 yid
odowt maqjt Ten-dollar Democrats
a.fglim bmrg tao 10 to 1 bg flkqj vxffl
aiiuo ftmtebb woqofti fliauanakwtab
solar ])lexus shmtbo 90!xarra cv\?bzfti
rftm lisbatoh fbmfgoar 10 to 1. —X. Y.
l'ress.
IT7"()f course, it may be all right, but
we cannot help thinking there is some
thing queer about the democracy of the
man who refuses to sit down at the
same table with Ferry Ilelmont, who is
a democrat and comes from a democrat
ic family, and at the same time beiftg
willing to dine with I'ingree, republican
governor of Michigan; Teller, a Colo
rado republican; Jones, a republican
mayor of Toledo, and a negro congress
man; but it may be all right.—Peoria
(111.) Herald (Dem.).
ID'About the only thing which no
trust has taken up is Hryan's presiden
tial chances. A combine should be made
at once and stock issued for the invest
ment of the faithful. It will be a dread
fully uphill light against McKinley's
war record and the general wave of
prosperity, but it seems to be the Ne
braskan's only hope to keep his grip
on the party. —Saa Francisco Chron
icle.
Cleveland is said to be re
hearsing a speech of some sort to the
hollyhocks in his garden. It will be
unfortunate for the democratic party
if it should be on the right side of grime
vital question, (irover has a liabit of
playing democrat till he gets si nomina
tion and election to oflice. Then he gets
"good."—Cincinnati Knquirer (Dem.).
C Mr. liryan may think it within the
range of possibility to succeed without
the help of Tammany, but he is about
the only man in the country holding
that view. He was strong in the west
three years ago, but where is that
strength now? Gone glimmering with
prosperity. Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Harvard university is to pension pro
fessors and assistant professors who
have served the institution for 20 years
or more, a plan of retiring allowances
having been established by the presi
dent and fellows of the university. The
plan was (irst suggested in Harvard in
ISbO, since which iii%e the necessary
fund has grown •< $340,000. Jlarvrvrd
is the lirst American university to rs
labliish a general system of retiring al>
i iowunees.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY ir, 1899.
ON TO VICTORY.
American Valor Triumphs
in Filipino Land.
ARE GOOD STRATEGISTS.
They Fool the Enemy by a Swift
Forward Movement.
TWO TOWNS ARE CAPTURED.
Col. Urate Kan«an, .luulii
I-IKS 111 11 111 U Kljlit
l'*lli|>tii<>M are Gradually Cor"
ucri'd I p.
Manila, May 5. —<icn. MeArthur lias
carried San Tonias, after encountering
strong resistance. <ien. Ilale moved
on the enemy's right anil Gen. Wheaiton
attacked tlhe left in a daring charge, in
which Col. Puaaton again distinguished
himself. The Kansan was wounded in
the hand and several other officers and
enlisted men were also wounded.
Col. Summers, with a ]xirt of the Ore
gon and Minnesota regiments and a
gun of the Utah battery, took Moasim,
on the right, resting four miles from
San Fernandino.
The Filipinos are retreating toward
San Isidro, and it is expected that they
will make a stand at Arayat, ait which
place the whole of the rebel force in
the province of l'an Panga is concen
trating.
It is reported that, impressed by re
cent events, the Filipinos are wavering
in their allegiance to the insurrection
and are likely to assume a neutral atti
tude.
It. seems as though Gen. Luna's
forces are destined to destruction with
in a few days unless they surrender or
scatter.
The American army has been skillful
ly posted at points of immense strateg
ic advantage. The insurgents expect
ed them to advance 011 Bali 11 ay by way
of Quingua, and had furrowed the en
tire country beyond IJuingua wit.li
strong entrenchments.
Instead of taking this course Gen.
(MeArthur swung towards San Tonias,
'he route to which was almost unpro
tected. t icn. I.awton brought his brig
ade in ag.'ijnst Malsuam from the south
east. covering the line of retreat of the
rebels towards the mountains and de
priving them of a refuge upon which
they had counted. Gen. I.awton cap
tured .-n.ooo bushels of rice, an import
ant part of the stores established by
the rebels.
The Spanish (commissioners have
made another futile attempt for the re
lief of Spiniards held as prisoners by
the Filipinos. Their vessels steamed
to the pout nearest Daigupan. Fearing
to land, they sent a letter to Aguinaldo
saying that they were authorized to ex
change 1,500 Filipinos now in the hands
of the Americans for the Spanish [iris
oners. A reply was received from Se
nor Mabini. Aguinaldo's prime minister,
which stated that Aguinaldo was nego-
linting for peace, pending which nego
tiations he could not discuss the ques
tion of exchange of pris oners.
Washington. May 5. —The unr depart
ment is satisfied from dispatches re
ceived yesterday from (ien. Otis that
he has put aside the insurgent tempor
izing for peace, and has turned his at
tention to aggressive tactics. The early
dispatches from vien. Otis defined tha
general plan of his lat-st movement.
He i> moving in tavo main columns, Mo-
Arthur pushing straight forward over
a nine-mile stretch of country between
Calnmpit and the latest rebel strong
hold, San Fernandino, and (ien. Lawton
directing a strong force under Col,
Sumner to pie vent the insurgents from
retreating from San Fernandino to
the mountains to the north.
Later dispatches showed there had
been hot work in the execution of this
movement, particularly in Gen. Mc-
Artliur's advance on San Fernandino.
The defeat of Luna at St. Tomas and
the scattering of the insurgent forces,
leave* Mc Arthur four miles from San
Fernandino with a clear road before
him.
The taking of towns is no longer
looked upon by the authorities here as
of chief moment, the main considera
tion being to intercept the insurgents,
(ien. Lawton's movement northward to
Maasin is designed to keep a 'body of
American troops to the north of the
rebels and between them and their line
of retreat to the mountains. A suc
cessful execution of tli.'is move will
leave the insurgents well-nigh surroun
ded on the north.
■''<><> 111 a r-J# Jlurllier Itrowiuil.
Providence, R. 1., May 5. —Capt.
Thomas C'rapo, of New Hedford, who
sailed from this port for Cuba in a
nine-foot skiff, probably was lost in
Wednesday's sale, while rounding Point
udith, <ts his boat was found bottom
up yesterday by the life savers. In
1577 ('apt. and Mrs. Crapo sailed from
New Hedford to England in a !iO-foot
dory.
I'il> Iron iiikl lllllet I'ricea Advance.
Pittsburg, May 5.- Steel billets had
another advance here Thursday and
sold at $116.75 (fi7.00 per ton. Pi's' iron
also advanced to $14.50 in the Mahon
ing valley and $15.15 in Pittsburg, iron
men say prices will go still higher on
account of thi' scarcity of pig iron all
ever the world.
{VlurWal I.inv ICxta hlislicil,
Wardner, Idaho, May 5. Four hun
dred troops are on guard in the ('our
d'Alnne mining district anil martial law
is in full force in Shoshone county. Ida
ho. I'rig. (len. Merriam, who has ar
rived, has ordered if possible the arrest
ol all those implicated in blowing up
the Bunker llill and Sullivan mines.
OflVr of it £25,000 I'll rw Ik Arorptril,
Denver, May 5. —Telegrams were re
ceived last night by Mr. Flotow, of the
Colorado Athletic association, from
Hrady and Julian, representing Jef
fries and Fitzsinimons, accepting his
ell'er of a purse of $25,000 for tlie liykt.
KILLED A BANKER.
A Nrtt Vork .Man 'lnril. r» an A|fod
I »l>tt.ill»( A tl) ill a Hold.
New Vork, May 4. —-Alexander Mas
terton, a director of the Farmers' Loan
nnd Trust Co., and 7" years of age, was
shot and killed Wednesday afternoon
b.v James X. I'Lumb in the Burlington
hotel mi West Thirtieth street. Mas
terton ~.is shot five times and died
within an hour or two.
The murder was premeditated, as evi
denced by a statement written in ad
vance by Plumb and given out after
his arrest. At present the real mo
tive for the crime is unknown. Plumb
in his statement issued "to the public"
and entitled "why I, .1. X. Plumb, shot
Alexander Masterton," declared thait he
had done the shooting because of a
systematic hounding of him by Mas
terton. Plumb declared further that
Masterton had not only ruined him
financially, but had attempted to alien
ate the affections of his wife and chil
dren and to cause his social downfall.
Plumb's statements, one of which
was addressed to the press, deal with a
period of his career embracing the past
?,'< years, are rambling in many places
and conclude with the following: "Xo
man has a higher regard for human
life than I have. But the just and
righteous punishment of Alexander
Masterton is decreed by an outraged
God and I am simply the humble in
strument in his hands, as he has select
ed me as his chosen instrument of
wrathful vengeance. I have rid the
world of a man who was not fit to live,
and whose death a thousand times over
could never atone for the monstrous
wrongs done me."
Masterton and Plumb met by agree
ment in the Burlington hotel at 1:30
p. in.in the apartments occupied by
Manager Cole. They had been there
but a short time when five shots were
tired in rapid succession. Plumb then
came out of the apartment and walked
into the reception room, awaiting ar
rest. The murderer was taken before
Police Captain Price, of whom he is
an intimate friend. He was later taken
before a magistrate and held.
V chambermaid at the Burlington,
who was the only one near the room
in which the shooting occurred, told
the police that she. heard the men in
angrv conversation just before she
heard the pistol shots. <»uj- of the
men. she said, and she was positive it
was not Masterton. said in a loud,
angrv tone: "I will not be satisfied
with that amount." Two shots were
fired a moment later and then three
more. Plumb came out of the room
and said to her: "There is a man in
trouble in there." lie then went down
stairs and into the reception room,
where later he was arrested.
Alexander Masterton was a leading
resident of Mt. Vernon, where he occu
pied a handsome home with his wife
and two daughters. He had the man
agement of many estates, and was in
terested heavily in real estate. He
had held a number of public otliees. He
was a prominent member of the Ma
sonic fraternity and was a popular man
in Mt. Vernon.
,1. X. Plumb at one time was very
wealthy, occupying a fine resilience on
Fifth avenue and having a $500,000
villa at I slip.
FOOD ADULTERATION.
Startling Statement* viatic by a tiov
ermncnt I lieinl*! ua to tlic Kxtent oI
Tliin Practice.
(liieago. May 4.—According to Dr. 11.
W. Wiley, chief chemist ot' the United
States department of agriculture, who
testified yesterday l>efore the senatorial
pure food investigating committee, now
in session here, fully 'JO per cent of the
articles of food and drink manufac
tured and used in this country are
frauds.
In milk, according to his testimony,
the most common practice is the ab
straction of the fatty substance in
taking away the cream. A common
practice among dealers, he said, was the
adulteration with water, and in addi
tion to this preservatives are used to
prevent the liquid from souring.
In butter the common way of de
frauding the public, according to the
testimony, is the substitution of other
fats, both animal and vegetable, for the
natural fat of the milk. Honey, he
said, probably was a more abused ar
ticle in 'the line of adulteration than
any other.
The principal method of adulterating
lard is the mixing of vegetable oils
with the natural fat of the hog.
Probably among all the foods men
tioned by Dr. Wiley, none attracted
greater attention tli&n the adulteration
of coffee, even in the berry. In recent
investigations he has found molasses
and flour moulded into berries, colored,
mixed with the genuine'and sold as
high grade coffee.
According to Dr. Wiley there is very
little pure beer made in this country.
Seventy per cent, of the beer is made
of some article other than malt. In
regard to the extensive use of glucose
the witness said that it was not <>l>-
jectionable for food purposes, if used
in moderation.
Very little pure jelly is manufac
tured. There is also a great amount
of adulteration in the manufacture of
vinegar. Dr. Wiley said Vermont
maple sugar was manufactured in Dav
enport. la.. out of brown sugar and an
extract of hickory bark and it was not
deleterious. In fact he said, it was
impossible for chemists to distinguish
the two. The sugar was the same and
the natural ether that gave the maple
sugar its flavor and the distinctive
quality was too small to segregate in
analysis. The extract of hickory, he
said, was about the same as the maple's
in flavor.
Olli'r s | .-,0,000,000 for 4 ariipgic'* !»lill*
New York. May 4.—The Times says:
Further progress toward consolidation
of the big steel interests of the coun
try was made yesterday at a meeting
at the Holland house, in which Judge
W. 11. Moore, of Chicago; H. ('. Frick,
representing the Carnegie interests,
and other prominent steel men of the
country took part. After the meeting
there was a rumor that an offer of
$150,000,000 had been made for the Car
negie interests and that Frick had
taken it under consideration for con
sideration for consultation with Mr.
C'ai nt.^ie.
A FEW EXTRACTS
They are Gathered from At
kinson's Pamphlets.
A LETTER TO GEN. ALGER
Boston Man Asked for a List ol
Army Officers to Use.
NO REPLY WAS MADE TO IT.
I'bn Author of llie Document* Conn-
Mela American Youtli to Itrlune to
ICiillxt In I'Htlier the Army or Maty
for l'lilll|>|>iiie or Cuban Service.
Washington, May 6.—The post officii
department has made public the letter
from Mr. Edward L. Atkinson on which
the action of the department in seizing
his pamphlets was based. Many let
ters asking information al>oU't the sub,
jeot have reached here and the follow
ing statement was given out yesterday
by Postmaster General Smith:
"In view of the statement of Mr. Ed
ward Atkinson that he sent his pamph
lets only to Admiral Dewey, (ien.
Otis, President Schtirman and three or
four others, the letter of Mr. Atkinson
containing his application will be of in
terest. it follows:
" 'Boston, April :22, 1899.—T0 the Sec
retary of War —Sir: 1 desire to send a
large number of the enclosed pamph
lets on"The Cost of a .National Crime,"
"The Ilell of Wair and Its Penalties,"
"Criminal Aggression: by Whom Com
mitted?" to the officers and privates in
the Philippine islands. 1 therefore de
sire to know whether or not these
documents can be sent directly through
the war department or may be forward
ed indue course of mail. A list of
regiments is desired and if there are
printed lists of officers available they
would serve me. a very useful purpose.
" 'Edward Atkinson.*
"Xo answer was made to this letter
except to send an official copy to the
postmaster general, who issued instruc
tions to the postmaster at San Fran
cisco to hold the pamphlets. The spirit
ind design of the pamphlets will be
indicated by a feiw extracts. In one
of them Mr. Atkinson says: 'I w ill ap
pend one question to each reader: How
much increase of taxation are you will
ing to bear and how many of your
neighbors' sons are you ready to sacri
fice by fever, malaria and venereal dis
ease in order to extend the sovereignty
of the I'liiteil States over the West In
dies and the Philippine islands?'
"Again after describing whait he
mils ''Pile Hell of War and Its Penal
ties,' Mr. Atkinson says: 'Lest others
should lie entrapped into enlistment in
the regular army or volunteer service
in the tropics, it will only be fair and
honest on the part of the recruiting otji
cers to be putin possession of
facts.' Again Mr. Atkinson says:
'The way has already became plain for
the youth of the land to avoid disease
in the tropics bv refusing to volunteer
or enlist in the army or the navy of the
United States. The way will be found
for the volunteers now held against
their will to get their release from un
lawful service in any other country
than their own after peace is declared.'
l, Mr. Atkinson not only speaks thus
of and to the soldiers of the Tinted
States, but he encourages the Filipinos
to insurrection when he says: They
have the power to enter into interna
tional relations, and they may yet be.
recognized and rightly recognized by
other powers.' "
Slllllll'M OcciMioll IM .IIISI.
Washington, May 6. —Postmaster
General Smith made a ruling yesterday
that the sign "U. S. Mail" or any other
sign indicating *the carriage of the
mails must be carried only by such
cars on street railway lines as actual
ly at the time are transporting the
mails. This decision is in response
to a request from the Amalgamated
Association of Street llailway Em
ployes. who in convention in Louisville
Wednesday telegraphed President Mc-
Kinlev a protest against the indiscrim
inate use of these signs by street car
Ifnes with the apparent design of in
timidating empl< >y es.
Can't Asrpf on « Price.
Detroit. Mich., May o.—The street
railway interests represented by Tom
L. Johnson and the Detroit street rail
way commission headed by Gov. Pin
gree, have been unable to meet upon a
price for the sale of the street railways
to the city. The commissioners offer
something over $15,000,000, to be paid
out of the receipts of the lines, the com.
panic- to be secured by a new franchise,
extension in the evynt of default in
payment. The companies' price is $17,-
000.000, exclusive of a bank rtecoun't of
$400,000, which is to be turned over
to the commission as working capital.
■><»<'» Not AllVct I ncle Sam.
Washington, May <>.—Official assur
ances have been given to our govern
ment that the agreement reached be
tween Great Mritain and Russia as to
spheres of influence in China concerns
only the two partie*. and that in no
manner does it affect the Interests of
the United States. Such rights as
are now possessed in treaty ports will
continue to he enjoyed freely by the
United States.
lloltl 350 Prisoner*.
Wardner. Idaho, MayO. Three hun
dred and fifty miners, accused of par
ticipating in Saturday's riot, arc now
confined here under guard of United
Slates troops. Five hundred troops
are in the ('our d'Alene district and
ill fear of further outbreaks is past.
«• I'll rt la ml'* Victory.
New York, May ft. "lvid" MePart
land, of this city, knocked out .lack
liennett, of McKeesport, Pa., in the
fifth round of wlfcit was to have been
n 25-round bout before the ISroadway
Athletic club last night. The men
weighed in at lUS pouuus.
SSOO Reward
The above Reward will be paid for bt
Vrmation that will lead to th« arroat aad
conviction of the party or parties whe
? laced iron and alaba on the track of the
Imporium A Rich ValJey R. R., dmi
be east line of Franklin H ouster's farm,
«■ the evening of Nov. 21at, 1891.
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