TOaSJE3Wy3as?17WP?!W?KiPS4 PWW3 - Transient Advertisements, INCLUDING WANTS, TO LETS, FOK SALES. ETC- FORTO- MOKBOWS ISSUE Maybe handed in at tho main advertising office or The Disr-ATcn, corner Smith flold and Diamond streets, up to midnight. PORTY -SIXTH YEAH. T Pacts "Which Put Another As pect on tho Situation in Bleeding Kansas. HEAL TICTIMS tfOIPTHERE, But the Eastern Investors'Who.Fell, an Easy Prey to the ""Wily Bogus Settlers. HANI COUNTIES NOWT)ESERTED After the Fanners "Who Did Kot'TJse the now Dad Borrowed Money and Issued Bonds to the-Limit. THE OWLS AXD C0T0TES.X0WH0LD SWAT' Townships "With Less Than a Dozen Voters Contract a. Heavy Indebtedness for Seedless rnblic Improvements. TOO 3IICH BAD TXThB. LOOSE IS'THE STATE SOW fSrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Topeka, KA2., July 10. Southwestern Kansas boasts of the shrewdest financiers in the world. How the people live and what thev can hope for in the future has puzzled thebrams of the eastern part of the State for many years. The attention which the re cent killing ot Colonel Sam "Wood has turned toward the district bordering on No Man's Land has resulted in bringing facts before the public which otherwise would have parsed unnoticed for years, and when tlit story of the attempted development of Southwestern Kansas is fully comprehend ed, the skillful manner in which the East has been robbed by the unsophisticated pio neers must command even the admiration of their victims. The Thirty-second judicial district Is com posed of six counties, Seward, Stevens and Morton on the southerly line between Kan sas and No Man's Land, and Grant, Haskell and Stanton joining them on the north. Each of these counties is 27 miles square. Farmers "Who Did Not now. A few vears ago every acre of their area belonged to the Government. Since then they have been taken up by alleged tann ers, who, as soon as they could secure title from the Land OfEce, mortgaged them to loan companies for all the agents would ad vance and abandoned them. Now the loan companies are in undisputed possession of SO per cent of the claims, and about the only remaining evidence that the country was eTer populated are the ruins of sod houes and dugouts that dot the brccdjlun at regular intervals. Occaslonallya wind mill is seen, which is a certain indication that the little hut nearby is occupied, and that water is being pumped for the family's use from a depth ranging from 100 to 180 feet Towns which were abiding places form erly of from COO to 3,000 people are now either entirely deserted or nearly so. County seats which contain fully 100 busi ness houses seldom have to exceed three in use and there are enough buildings to fur nish two for each man, woman and child resident. City lots, which were once in de mand at 1,500 each, and many of them have brought 3,000, now have no value and their owners do not pretend to pay taxes upon them. The Eastern Capitalists Victimized. These counties were organized in prosper ous times, when Eastern loan companies, through their agents, were dealing out money by thousands of dollars to bogus settlers. The population was then large enough to entitle them to county organiza tion under the State law, while now there is not one that has half enough. Abortive attempts at farming have almost invariably proved complete failures and the only crop that has been raised has been one of bonds and mortgages. In Seward county, which is traversed by the Chicago, Hock Island and Pacific Rail read, a county debt has been contracted for nearly 5150,000 and there is not a single public improvement to show for it. Bonds were issued for 35,000 to purchase right of way for roads. The Legislature in 1889 declared every section line in the State a public highway nnd Set ard county issued bonds to pay teitlers ?10 per acre for a strip of land 30 feet wide on either side of the section line. Non-resident property holders did not share in this distribution of the public money and the loan companies are now paying the in terest on the bonds. Bonds " oted to tho Limit. Every couuty, municipal township and school district organization has voted all the bonds that the market would stand and in many cases more than it would stand. Mag nificent bchoolhouses which cost from $5,000 to $10,000 stand out prominently In the midst of vacant houses in every settlement nnd in some cases they loom up on the prainc miles away from every other build ing, a teacher or pupil neier entering their doors. Sngjr bonds have been one of the favor ite commodities in which these financial Napoleons have trafficked. Four fine look ing mills have been erected on the branch of the Hock Island road which penetrates this region, each at a cost ot 75,000 and two of tlicin have never turned a wheel and the remaining two were only operated for about a -w cek, or long enough to get posses sion of the bonds. One of these mills,located at Minncola, could not make sugar even when supplied with sorghum, and its man ager hauled a quantity there in barrels from Dodee City, run it through the kettles and showing the product claimed and received the bonds. The township of Voorhees, in Stevens county, last year voted sugar bonds to the amount of 15,000 to subscribe to the stotk of the Voorhees Syrup and Sugar Company, the vote standing 11 for to 5 against. The bonds were issued and turned over to a director of the company, but Voorhees 1 ANTS of all kinds are qnicklt answered through Tlin DISPATCH. Investors arti Kniiit. hill-gain hunters,-buyers and sellers clo-elj scan Its Classified Advertising Col umns. Largest Circulation. HE MORTGAGE CROP township bonds were not in demand, and he could not dispose of them. Finally, he dosed a contract with an Indiana windmill company to exchange them for enough wind mills to supply the directors of the sugar company, but before the trade was made he was enjoined by the courts from disposing of the bonds for that purpose. Eleven Citizens With a Bis Debt. Niagara township, in the same county, contains 5 families in which there are 11 voters. They voted 15,000 worth of sugar bonds, but being unable to sell them voted 510,000 for a township poorhouse, which would have been more ten times over than all of their private houses were worth. These also failed to find a purchaser, and the other day they wrote to the Attorney General and inquired if it would be legal to vote school bonds for a well, windmill and 150-barrel tank. In Morton county there is a little jail with a steel cage, the entire structure being 15x20 feet and one story high. This was erected at an expense of 3,000. The same company, at about the same time, built an other jail, an exact fac simile of the one in Morton county, in Hugeton, ana Stevens county paid 6,000 for it. Five cents each are paid by these counties for the scalps of jack rabbits and gophers and the thrifty people have done a thriving trade in these staples. Stevens county has 20,000 invested in them and Grant county double that sum. The same scalps have done duty in nearly all counties in the Thirty-second district Book and station ary companies have found in county clerks excellent customers and vaults in the court houses, which as a rule are leased buildings, are filled with hundreds of books that have never been opened and never will be, but the officers drew their-commission at the time of the purchase. County Scrip a Drmj on the Market The banks of the State are flooded with county scrip which is now a drug on the market at 50 cents on the dollar, the Legis lature having repealed the law authorizing county commissi oners to issue funding bonds with which to redeem county warrants. In nearly everv county seat the local bank has failed and the countv has been the loser for sums varying from "5,000 to 10,000. The so-called cities are debt-ridden in much the same way, and their funds have also been stolen by wild-cat banks. Bonds have been issued by them and the proceeds gone into the pockets of individuals. "Woodsdale, the town over which the late Colonel Sam If. "Wood presided, is a fair sample of the others. The Colonel, who was the shrewdest of all Southwestern financiers, caused the "Woodsdale Council to issue bonds for a city hall, water works and general improvements aggregating 80,000 and turn them over to nim to negotiate. He sold them to the Garden City Bank, but the citv never received a dollar of the pro ceeds, has no water works, city hall or other improvements. Scarcely a dollar of the money paid into the county treasuries comes from resident property owners. All is paid by the loan companies, which hold sheriffs' deed3 to nearly all of the land. Anyone can get loan companies land to farm for the nominal annual rental of 1 per quarter section; but no one wants it and it is now occupied by jack rabbits, prairie dogs, coyotes and owls. A Good Place for Mortgage Statistics. The entire country gives evidence that the men who settled in it originally did so for the purpose of fattening upon its credit and no with the intention of developing it into a jfroperous agricultural region. They have succeeded in mortgaging every sere c land, shudling the county, municipal, town ship atd school district organizations with debt' which they can never pay and. deserted the country. Only a few remain to live off of the taxes paid by the money lenders. The Farmers Alliance there finds the bulk of its statistics to show that the farm ers are being turned out of their homes daily by the hundreds to satisfy the greed of relentless shylocks, but the facts are that few people ever settled there with the in tention of remaining a minute after they got possession of the loan companies' money, and those who did soon had their dreams of productive, farms shattered and moved away. AN ERIE COUNTY VENDETTA CULMINATES IN A BLOODY EIGHT AMONG EOUlS FAMILIES. One Man Killed Outright, Two Badly "Wounded and All Other Combatants More or Less nnrt An Appeal to the Courts More Bloodshed Expected. CSFECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THI DISrATCH. Eeie, July 10. Edinboro, the Eeat of the Edinboro State Normal School, is the scene of great excitement to-night News has just been received here of a bloody battle between the Sweet and Cobb families on one side and the Andersons and McGahans on the other. A few months ago Frank An derson was arrested at the instance of F. Sweet and tried for larceny, but the prose cution failed to make out a case. Since then an open warfare has prevailed between the Sweets and Andersons, and Sweet's sheep and cattle have been mysteriously shot and maimed. "Warrants were sworn out, and officers started from here to arrest the Andersons. Meanwhile Frank Sweet and Charles "W. Cobb kept a close eye on the Andersons, and at nightfall they moved across into the Anderson domain and waited expectantly for the arrival of the Erie officers. A sen tinel posted by the Andersons gave the alarm, and Frank Delos and BoseL with Ransom McGahan and their neighbor, opened fire on the advancing party. The hre was returned by Sweet and Cobb, and the battle was carried on for some time at long range. The Andersons then charged the enemy, and Frank Anderson fell at the first close fire. Then when all ammunition had been expended, fists, clubs and knives were brought into play with terrible re sults. "When the Erie officers reached the bloody field they found Cobb with his throat cut horribly, though not deep enough to reach the jugular vein. Frank Anderson was shot ana otherwise hurt, and his recovery is doubtful, while all the others were in jured -one way or the other. All of the parties, with the exception of the two badly injured, are under arrest, and will be ar raigned in the Edinboro courts to-morrow on the charge of shooting with intent to kill, etc The most prominent counsel in Erie have been engaged cither on one side or the other in this sensational vendetta, and it is feared that blood will again result from to-niorrow'smectingof the different factions in Edinboro, as friends are ranging them selves on either side. All parties engaged are from good families, ana the battle of last night is the culmination of a family feud of long standing. JUTENTEE A youth's experience In walking; across the continent, Paysle's fairy story and the puzzle department will inter est all young readers of THE DISPATCH to-morrow. A DESPEBATE MAN CAUGHT. Ho Effected the Escape of a Pal by Assault ing Altoona's Chief of Police. EFECIAI. TF.Lran.l5I TO THE DISPATCH. HAEltlSBUKG, July 10. James Foulk, who recently assaulted the Chief of Police of Altoona and thereby enabled Samuel Houk, a fugitive from justice, to escape, was arrested in this city to-day, and to-morrow will be taken to the Blair couuty mt yflpntg i prison. Foulk wm arrested in this city over four years ago for participation in a robbery with Honk, but proved an alibi. Honk escaped to Pittsburg, where he as saulted an officer, who effected his arrest, and seriously injured him. After serving a term in the "Western Penitentiary for ag gravated assault he was brought to this city, convicted of robbery and sentenced to the Eastern Penitentiary for one year. Shortly after his sentence he broke jail here, and a few days ago the Chiefof Police of Altoona arrested him in that city at the point of a revolver. "While the fugitive assured the officer that he was ready to sur render, Foulk approached the Chief of Po lice from behind, dealt him a blow, secured the latter's revolver, and, with his fnend, escaped. Houk is still at large. AFTER SIX LONG YEARS A FOKMEK PITTSBURGEB FINDS HIS KUNAWAT WIFE. She Has Him Arrested on a Trivial Charge, but He Is Beleased When tho Truth Is Learned He "Wants His Chil dren and Money. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. New York, July 10. David Schneider, who was a resident of Pittsburg eight years ago, and who has devoted the past six years to finding his wife and Simeon Elias, to gether with his three children, about the country, found them last night established in the second-hand furniture business and living together at 392 Grand street, Brook lyn. So excited did he become in front of the establishment that a crowd gathered and Policeman Collins arrested Schneider, who was before Justice Goetting this morn ing charged with disorderly conduct The prisoner was unable to control himself while in court He talked excitedly in English, German and Hebrew, and all that could be understood from him was that he claimed to be apartner in the furniture busi ness at 393 Grand street He was fined 10 and placed in a cell, where he cooled down Then he told his story to several reporters. He said he was happy in his home at Pitts burg until Elias came his way eight years ago. His wife showed a preference for Elias. She induced her husband to sign his business over to her and then Bhe made the newcomer her partner. Schneider was the least in importance in the household there after, and one night when he went home he found that his wife, Elias and his children had disappeared, and that his business and home had been sold out Several months later he traced his family and Elias to De troit There he accused Elias of having robbed him and he (Schneider) was ar rested, as he was in this latest instance. "When he was released the people he was in terested in had sold out and flown again. Two years ago Schneider again located his family and Elias at GrandBapids, Mich., where the programme carried out at De troit was repeated. Schneider then learned that his family had come East and he began to hunt the second-hand furniture stores of this vicinity, as his wife and Elias had es tablished themselves in that business wher ever they stopped. He had been through all such stores in New York and was search ing Brooklyn when he came across those for whom he searched last night. He was un able to control himself and was arrested. The story told by Schneider was repeated to Justice GoettingT who thereupon re mitted the fine and discharged the prisoner. MBS. SALTTS DIT0SCED. She Gets an Absolute Decree of Separation From Edgar Saltus. fEPECIAL TXLEOBAK TO THE DISPATCH. New Yobk, July 10. It, appears that, Mrs. Helen B. Saltus had already obtained an absolute divorce from Edgar E. Saltus, the writer, at tho time when it was an nounced, as if by his authority, that the suit had been withdrawn. The date of the decree is June 18. The proceedings were all secret The only public step in the affair was the serving of the notice by pub lication when the suit was begun in Decem ber, 1889. Mr. Saltus was at that time in Europe. His wife made affidavit that she did not know his address, and also sub mitted an affidavit by the hack driver, who took Saltus from his home to the French liner La Bretagne. Judge Lawrence there upon granted the order for a notice by pub lication. This was on December 10, 1869. Since November 2, 1889, husband and wife have lived apart. Two co-respondents were mentioned in the suit One was Elsie W. Smith; the other was Fanny Girvan. Saltus protested that the women were innocent The case was given to a referee. The decree dissolves the marriage, giving Mrs. Saltus the right to resume her maiden name, Helen Bead, and to marry again. Saltus is not permited to marry again in the State of New York during the life of his former wife. He is charged with the costs in the action, some 425. REBELLION Fannie B. Ward will de scribe the execution of some Chilean rebels in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. Impres sions of the war received by her while at Santiago. TEE CONDITION 0? BLAINE. His Son, Emmons, Says the Secretary Has Not Been So Well In Many Months. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Bab Habbob, Me., July 10. Secretary Blaine still continues steadily to improve in health and said this morning that he felt himself on the road to complete recovery. A hopeful saying, for like all persons suffer ing from nervous prostration, he has been extremely depressed at times. Mr. Em mons Blaine said this forenoon that his father is better than he has been for seven or eight months. There is absolutely no truth in the sensational and alarming state ments of his ill health. He has no organic disease. He has not been placed on a milk diet at any time, but, on the contrary, he eats freely and heartily of meats, vegetables and fruits. He has not been treated by a "nat ural doctor" named Brown. His physician is John Madison Tavlor, of Philadelphia, who succeeded Dr. Frank Fremont Smith at the request of Mrs. Emmons Blaine, who had known Dr. Taylor for a long time. Mr. Blaine drives daily usually twice a day. He enjoys the exercise of walking also. Unless all signs fail, he will resume his usual activity in the falL FBISKY MINNESOTA WINDS. Almost Everything Goes In the Two Towns That Were Heard From. Noethfield, Mcnr., July 10. A ter rific wind storm about noon to-day played havoc with bill boards, signs, - fences and outbuildings. Thousands of apples were shaken from the trees. A dispatch from Fairbault says a heavy wind storm struck that city a little before noon, doing damage similar to that done here. . CADETS FOE WEST POINT. Western Pennsylvania Youths Who Have Secured Places on the List FROM A STAPT COBRESFOXDE2JT.1 Washixgtoit, July 10. Cadets have been appointed to the Military Academy for admission in June, 1892. Among the lucky youths in "Western Pennsylvania are: F. G. Smith, Tyrone; alternate, a W. Carter, J.ohnstown; C. T. McQuiston, But ler; alternate, H. L. Cole, Butler; Ellery Hartzhorn, Clearfield, alternate, Boland Curtin, Bcllefonte. PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, JULY GRAY HAS SO AGENT In the East Working Up a Vice Pres idental Boom for Him. A MOST EMPHATIC DECLARATION From the Ex-Governor That He Ib Not After the Second Place. A CANDIDATE FOB THE PEESIDENCT SPECIAL TELEQ1IAM TO THE DISPATCH. Indianapolis, July 10. A dispatch from New York to-day says that Scott Bay, editor of the Shelbyville Democrat, was in that city on a political mission, and that he stated that he was there as the authorized agent of ex-Governor Gray, to learn just where Governor Hill stands on the Presi dental question. The Dispatch corre spondent called upon Governor Gray to night and read to him what Mr. Bay had said, as reported. The Governor replied: "Scott Bay is not East at my suggestion or solicitation, nor is he my agent, nor do I believe that he said or intended to say what he is reported as having said. Mr. Bay is an active, intelligent Democrat and pub lisher of an able and influential Democratic newspaper, and will render yeoman sen ice for the Democratic ticket in 1892." An evening paper published here gives an interview with Governor Gray that oc curred this morning,as follows: " 'lam not in combination with any candidate for the Presidency,' said Governor Gray. 'I am not a candidate for second place on the ticket with any man, for I am not a candi date for Vice President at all. I am re luctant to believe that Governor Hill said what the dispatch attributes to him. Don't you think that would be assuming a great deal to put himself at the head of the ticket and take it for granted that I wouldbe will ing to take second place? No, sir; I am not a candidate for the Vice Presidency.' "It may have been imagination, but to the reporter it seemed that Governor Gray put a peculiar emphasis upon the first syllable of "Vice Presidency in his use of it in this conversation. His friends here will doubtless interpret these words to mean that the ex-Governor is in the field for the Presidency." The Dispatch correspondent called Gov ernor Gray's attention to the foregoing, and he replied: "In what I said to the reporter of the afternoon paper I made no reference to Governor Hill, nor any other aspirant for the Presidency. The Democrats of this State are at peace among themselves and we do not intend to meddle with the affairs of the Democrats of other States, or to engage ourselves in any entangling alliances. The highest ambition of Indiana Democrats is to carry Indiana for the Democratic ticket next year." The Governor referred with evident pleas ure to the frequent kindly sentiments recently expressed by many of the New York State papers in regard to his candi dacy. He said that he had received re cently a great many papers from that State with editorials and other pleasant refer ences to him and he seemed thankful and grateful for them. HEAL IS KNOCKED OUT, Bnt Virgil Kline Looms Up to Take His Place and Plague Governor Campbell. rsrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THB SISFATCH. CtKCura'ATi, July 10. Governor Camp-J Den nas Knocxea rare jteairinat is quite certain, as he already Jias 301 delegates, only 47 short of a majority, and there are just 47 counties to hold conventions to-morrow, and his friends were jubilant until the news from Cuyahoga county came in. There was considerable amazement when it was learned that Virgil Kline has the dele gation solid. This will give him more votes than Neal, whose forces will undoubtedly go to him, 'giving Kline 125 votes on the first ballot, and this is regarded as ominous. Campbell's best and most influential friends say to-night that Campbell has no cinch on the nomination, but that if he is not renominated it will put Democracy back 20 years. It is also conceded that as things stand to-night it is Campbell versus the Enquirer and no compromise. The result will be either Campbell or an out and out McLean man, though not Neil, who, it is boldly said, has ruined his political future. The anti-Campbell crowd here is chartering whole trains to carrv a cliaue omiosed to the Governor to Cleveland to shout for any-. Doay ana everyDoay except uampDeu. WORKING FOB M0EEIS0N. A Committee of War Veterans From This Section Hustling In Philadelphia. rSFECIAL TELEGRAM TO TBI DISPATCH. Philadelphia, July 10. The boom for the nomination of Captain Morrison, of Allegheny county, for State Treasurer, which has been made by the veterans of "Western Pennsylvania, Is meeting with much encouragement, and his supporters west of the mountains are confident of his nomination. A delegation of a committee of old war veterans of "Western Pennsyl vania, who are canvassing the State in Captain Morrison's interest, arrived in town to-day and established their head quarters during their stay at the Girard House. The delegation, of which B. D. Layton is Secretary, brought with them letters of in troductionfrom prominent soldiers west of the mountains. Joseph D. Eaton, who is spokesman of the party, had a personal letter from Postmaster McKean, of Pitts burg, to Mayor Stuart The committee to day viBited His Honor and also called on Captain Taylor, Beceiver of Taxes, with both of whom they held long interviews in behalf of Captain Morrison. "While at the City Hall they also met a number of old war veterans of the Veteran's Association of this city. FIGHTING THE IBTBD PARTY. A Meeting of Dissatisfied Texas Alliance Men Now in Progress. Ft. "Worth, Tex., July 10. The State Convention of Alliance representatives opposed to the sub-treasury move and the attempt to bag the Alliance for the third party, met this morning, about 300 being present Complete organization will not be per fected till late this afternoon. Plans are being arranged for an active, organized movement to oppose the propaganda of the third party, which has made dangerous in roads upon the Texas Alliance. THOMPSON FOB STATE TBEASUBEB. Senator Bates, of Union County, Looking Up the Chances in Johnstown. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Johnstown, July 10. Senator S. D. Bates, of Union county, was in this city to-day. The purpose of his business is sup posed to be to look up the chances of Speaker Thompson for the Republican nom ination for State Treasurer. A number of the party leaders were seen, and it is pre sumed the matter was fixed. PATTISON FOB PRESIDENT. A Quiet Movement in His Favor Among the Democratic Fanners. Erie, July 10. There is a quiet Pattison Presidental movement on foot in this sej- tlon of the State. The movement was or 11, 1891-TWELVE PAGES. ganized last night in Union City with a large membership. The sentiment of the city Democracy is for Cleveland, but the county is strong for Pattison. MUST FAVOR FBEE COINAGE. Senator Stewart Would Prefer a Pinto Presi dent to One Who Opposes Silver. New York, July 10. ""We intend to have a Presidental candidate in 1892 who favors the free coinage of silver, even if we have to put up a Piute Indian,1" said Senator Stewart, of Nevada, to a reporter. "Do you expect to elect your pro-silver Piute candidate ?" "That is another question. "We will run nim through, no matter who he is." "Do you count on the support of the Farmers' Alliance?', ""We will have a candidate, and he will get the votes." THREE BUSHELS OF FISH CAUGHT BY THE PRESIDENT AND HIS PARTX AT CAPE MAT. Harrison in a Flannel Shirt Does Big Exe cution Among the Finny Tribe After Pleasure Comes Business In the Form of a Few Appointments. SPECIAL TELEQEAil TO THE DISPATCB.l Stockton Hotel, Cape Mat, N. J., July 10. "The President caught 55 fish," shouted Second Officer Hay, of the United States revenue cutter Hamilton, as she came up to the pier at Cape May Point landing this afternoon, having on board the Presidental party, which spent most of the day in a most pleasant way at the banks off Anglesea, about eight miles above Cape May. The Presidental family was up bright and early, and after breakfast the inmates of the summer White House began their preparations for a day's outing, which has been unexcelled. It was the first real good fishing day since Tuesday. The party included President and Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. May Dimmick, Lieutenant and Mrs. J. "W. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. "Will iam Buckman, Congressman and Mrs. John E. Beyburn, Thomas Cooper, Bevenue Col lector of the port of Philadelphia, Miss Alice B. Sanger, Benjamin McKee and little Mary. As the Hamilton pushed off three cheers were given by the crowd, to which the President bowed. They took along with them Captain Funnan Smith, a local mariner, to show them the place to fish, and to him is due the success of catching over 500 sea bass, flounders and porgies. The President was attired in a gray suit, with gray flannel shirt and a blue felt hat, and during the voyage managed two' lines his own and little Bennie's. After a pleasant time the Hamilton re turned to tho landing at 4:45, where the party was met by a number ofpersons gath ered to see the result The President was the first one ashore, followed by his wife. About three bushels of the fish were loaded into Captain Eldredge's wagon and taken, to the President's cottage and by the Pres ident's order's sent out among the neigh bors. The Hamilton has not been ordered away, but will lay off Cape May Point until the Secretary of the Treasury orders her to another point The President to-day appointed "Walter McLain Second Lieutenant of the Navy, and recognized George Hall as Turkish Consul to San Francisco. George F. Cum min is appointed Alternate Commissioner from the State of "Washington to tho "World's Fair. BOBBING THE-GOVERNMENT. Two NorfblkNavy Tard Clerks Steal S10.000 Worth of Naval Stores. rSPZCTAL, TELEGRAM TO TBE DISPATCH. Norfolk, July 10. Paymaster' Clerk Van Vranken, of the general storehouse of the Navy Yard, and H. W. Coston, a clerical employe, were arrested to-day on the charge of stealing composition metal and other goods from the Government to the amount of 10,000. The arrests were caused by the discovery in the store of a box of goods marked "Commandant of the Naval Store," at Port Eoyal, S. C, for which there was no order. Captain Norton had the box opened. It contained composi tion metal, and he ordered Mr. Coston's ar rest Clerk Van Vranken was taken aboard the United States receiving ship Franklin to await court martial for implication in the affair. A negro trackman named Americns Smith, of Portsmouth, was also arrested. He said that for about two months he had been carrying boxes out of the yard and de livering them at ajunk store in Portsmouth; that he couldn't read and didn't know how they were marked. Van Vranken and Cos ton had both gone to Portsmouth with him and snowed him where to deliver the boxes. Van Vranken has been one of the social leaders in this section for a long time and Mr. Coston is a resident of Portsmouth and the son of Captain Coston, of the U. S. Marine Corps. DIAZ INTERVIEWED Frank G. Car penter has secured for THE DISPATCH an Important Interview with President Diaz, of Mexico. See to-morrow's big issue of THE DISPATCH. ELLIOTT IN HIS OWN BEHALF. The Tedious Murder Trial Will Last at Least a Week Longer. Columbus, July 10. After being on the stand in the murder case a day and a half, "W. J. Elliott's examination was finished this afternoon, and the defense practically rested its case. It is believed that the case will get to the jury by Saturday, the 18th. The defendant to 'day admitted the author ship of all the articles which had appeared in his paper attacking Osborn previous to the tragedy, and they were given to the jury. He claimed the trip he made to the World office on the Sunday preceding the tragedy wasn't in search of Osborn. The revolvers were in his pocket by chance. Osborn fired the first snot as the region of his waist before the witness pulled the trigger of his revolver. The witness referred to the "beautiful liars" in his statement of Thursday, which he corrected to-day by saying he did not mean the witnesses, but the newspaper re porters. The defendant denied he was a member of the Clan-na-Gael society. He denied cursing a witness who testified against him while the witness was on the stand. SOCIETY Shirley Dare says society women are not as good as they used to be. See TO-MORROW'S DISPATCH. Twenty pages. . FEATHERED HIS OWN NEST; The President of a Manufacturing Concern Monopolizes All the Profits. Chicago, July 10. A bill filed in the Circuit Court to-day to dissolve the Harden Frog and Crossing "Works, alleges that "William J. Marden, its president, has fraudulently appropriated to his own use over 150,000, ostensibly as salary, royalties, commissions, eta The complainants own 2,414 shares of the company's 500,000 capital stock, -while Marden owns 2,582 shares. The Court is asked to wind up the business and dissolve the corporation. A Wealthy Suicide. Ft. "Worth, Tex., July 10. TomBoche, a wealthy railroad contractor, has committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth. He leaves an estate valued at 500,000. Bi$raMh LET LOOSEAT-LAST. Bardsley's Suppressed State ment Is Finally Placed in Evidence. A BOAST FOE WAMMAKEB, Who Is Charged With Using Official Power to Squeeze the Bank. HE ENTERS A YIGQEOITS DENIAL, The Ex-Treasurer Also Attacks Both Mc Clnre and Sineerly. QUAKER CUT SECRETS COMING OCT Philadelphia, July 10. The sub-committee of the Finance Committee oi the City Councils that is inquiring into the failure of the Keystone National Bank and the affairs of ex-City Treasurer John Bards ley held a protracted session this afternoon. The main witnesses were Bobert M. Mc "Wade, city editor of the Puttie Ledger; "William V. McKean, editor in chief of the same paper, and Postmaster General "Wana maker. The testimony of Mr. McWade and Mr. McKean had reference to two statements obtained by the former from Bardsley on June 18 and 19, four days be fore the accused City Treasurer made his public statement in court when brought up for sentence. Mr. "Wanamaker, after denying emphat ically statements made by Bardsley to Mr. McWade which reflected severely on his (Wanamaker's) actions in connection with the Keystone Bank, explained fully his connection with the 2,625 shares of Key stone Bank stock which the stubs in the certificate book showed had been issued in Mr. "Wanamaker's name. . Great Interest in the Inquiry. As at previous meetings of the commit tee, the room was crowded to suffocation with men, many of them prominent in the affairs of the city, who stood attentive list eners to the testimony. Mr. McWade was the first witness. He said in answer to questions that he went to the county prison on Thursday, June 18, and interviewed the imprisoned ex-City Treasurer. Bardsley talked freely and understood that the in terview was lor publication. He told Bardsley at the beginning that in view of certain charges that had been made in the newspapers he thought it proper for him to make a full statement, particularly as to what became of the 5915,000 deposited and which had disappeared, the charge being made that it had been stolen. After Mr. McWade had written out the first statement, he said a consultation was held between Mr. McKean, himself and an other member of the editorial force of the Ledger and, after full deliberation and dis cussion, it was decided not to publish it, because strong reference, unsupported by facts, was made to certain people. Not a Sworn Witness. Mr. McKean was not sworn. He said that as editor of the Ledger he had charge o. me iiucrview niuuu jux. jucnuuc iiou obtained. He! said that because the state ment implicated a number of reputable citi zens upon Jthe testimony of a witness not credible, it was decided it was not proper to publish it It was locked up in the fire proof vault and had, so far as he knew, never been out of the Ledger office until brought to the committee room to-day. No mem ber of the committee had ever seen it In fact, no one except the three editors of the Ledger had ever seen it Both inter views were submitted to the committee. It was decided by a vote of fiva to two to at once listen to the public reading of the statement Mr. McWade, being familiar with the manuscript, was asked to read the papers, which he willingly consented to do. Much that Bardsley told to Mr. McWade was afterward incorporated in the statement he read in court when called up for sentence June 23, and which has already been pub lished. In this Bardsley again went over the story of the Keystone Bank and stoutly maintained that he put the 930,000 in the bank, but did not know what become of it, any more than he believed that President Marsh got it Bardsley said that Bank Ex aminer Drew had been a heavy borrower from the Keystone Bank and was com pletely under Lucas' and Marsh's thumb. The Charge Against Wanamaker. In regard to John "Wanamaker, Bardsley said that Marsh told him that he knowingly held overissued shares of bank stock and demanded 1100,000 for them, and upset the plans for reorganizing the bank. Bardsley then said that he advised Marsh to engage counsel and make a demand on "Wanamaker for the overissued shares, as he was guilty of a crime in holding them. Marsh retained Mayer Sulzberger and John O. Johnson as his counsel, and they made a demand on "Wanamaker, which he refused. Wana maker's proposition was that the Lucas estate should pay him 50,000, Marsh J 25,000 and the bank 25,000. The lawyers then notified Mr. "Wana maker that if the fraudulent shares were not delivered to them by a specified date, they would resort to legal measures to get them. The snares were then turned over without delay. Wanamaker had made a threat that he would see Comptroller Lacey in Washington and have the bank closedhefore they ex pected it "In March, 1890," said Bardsley, "Marsh came to me and said Wanamaker wanted $200,000 at once. Marsh told him that he did not have the amount on hand and Wana maker told him where he could get it Two davs later Marsh came to me, saving that Wanamaker was persistent and must have the money. I loaned him the money and Wanamaker got it." Attacks on Other Fhlladelphians. Bardsley also talked a great deal about his connection in the part with several prominent Philadclphians, and blamed them for the stand they had taken against him. He is accredited by Mr. McWade with hav ing spoken of Colonel McClure, of the Times, and William Singerly, of the Record, in the following terms: "When I was a can didate for City Treasurer, I called on Colonel McClure and told him everything in my, fast life, and said that, if he woulAsay so, ' would withdraw. He said: 'Go ahead. The Tma will be for you. But he weakened afterward. You remember the scheme to get the gas works from the city. Well, McClure was in that McClure was to get a big block of the stock for his ad vocacy in his paper and was not to pay a cent for it McClure was also in a number of other schemes." . Begarding the payment-of 5500 to Hugh Mullen, Bardsley said: 'JThe Mayorwanted Bichard J. Lennon appointed to" the same place. Afterward I learned that Matt Quay was pushing Albert H. Craw ford for the place and Crawford was the Auditor General's man for the place. Mar tin and Porter and all of Quay's people were working for Crawford and the result was that overtures were made to Singerly to draw Lennon out of the fight. He was promised that if Lennon was taken out 5100,000 of State money would bo placed on deposit in the Chestnut Street Bank, This was done. Lennon was taken out of the fight and the 100,000 is in the bank now. Transient Advertisements Received At the Branch. Offices oTTB-O Dispatch. For to-morrow's issue up to 9 o'clock r. X. For list of branch offices In the various Dis tricts see THIRD PAGE. Crawford got the place ahd Mayor Fitler got angry at what he claimed to be a broken promise." Bardsley then paid Hugh Mul len $500 to redeem the promise to. the Mayor. -. The Part Played by Tard. H. H. Yard, he said, got a great deal of the Keystone Bank money. He was in the pool with Lucas and Marsh, and Marsh allowed him to overdraw his account $90, 000, even when the run on the bank was going on. Widener and FJkins. the trac tion magnates, he said, never sold him any traction stock or had any deelings whatever with him. McWade also asked Bardsley if Judjge Wilson had ever borrowed money from him as City Treasurer. He said no; and on being asked what judges had borrowed money, he answered in a whisper, Fin letter and Ashman. The money, he under stood, was simply an advance on their salaries. They aia not know whether he was lending the State moneys, city moneys, or his own. The remainder of the statement was simply a long story of Bardsley's troubles given in his own words witn numerous com ments, all of which contained no new facts. H. II. Yard, who was then called, didnot respond, and a communication was received from his counsel stating that his case had been appealed to the Supreme Court The committee voted to instruct the Citv Solici tor to take measures to compel Yard to obey the order of the lower court and appear be fore the committee. The Postmaster General Appears. Postmaster General Wannamaker, who had entered a room while Bardsley's state ment was being read, then stepped forward and requested that he be allowed to testify. "I have," said he, "been anxious to ap pear ever since the question was raised re garding the stock of which I previously tes tified." In answer to questions he said that his in terest in the Keystone Bank arose out of his acquaintance with President Lucas and his brother when they were young merchants. He stated that he never pledged the over issued stock after he was told it was an overissue and it was out of his hands at the time. He did not know H. H. Yard, and had never met Mrs. Lucas but once and that was at an interview about the overissued stock. He was asked to give an account of what transpired between him and Marsh at Washington and did so, stating that he asked him to assist the bank and he declined, saying matters must take their course. Mr. Wanamaker said that the balance of his account in the Keystone Bank at the time of the run was $10,000, and when it closed it was much larger. The last money received from the bank was about a year before the bank was closed, and the last discount was obtained in October, 1890. One Specification Absolutely Denied. As to the story told by Bardsley to Mc Wade that he had threatened to close the bank unless he was paid for the overissued stock and that Lawyers Sulzberger and Johnson had forced him to return it, Mr Wanamaker said it was absolutely false. Granville B. Haines and Samuel B. Huey came to Washington to see him about the overissued stock, and he told them they must settle for it and that if they did not, in justice to himself, he should inform the Comptroller of the Currency. After the bank closed he gave up the stock. Bardsley's statement that Marsh obtained from him $200,000 for Wanamakerin March, 1890, he said was absolutely untrue and without the slightest foundation and in vited the committee to inspect his books. Mr. Wanamaker was then informed by a member of the committee that during their examination of the stock book of the Key stone Bank they had found 3,200 shares of stock in his name in addition to the 2,515 shares which Jie testified had been given him by'Lucas'to use as collateral for a deal in Beading stock. Some Little Private Transactions. "When I appeared before this committee before," saia Mr. Wanamaker, "I con fined myself principally to the business of the firm in my deals with Lucas in Bead ing. I hod in my head certain private mat ters, but did not suppose that the commit tee wanted to hear of private operations." Mr. Wanamaker then again referred to the 2,515 shares which he had held as col lateral and gave the committee a list of those he had turned over to the Lucas estate. That some of those shares had been at one time in his name he did not state, as he had not used them in any operation. In regard to the stock which had been found in bis name, 625 shares of it, Mr. Wanamaker said, was held by Irvin & Toland, his bankers, as collateral. This reduced it to 2,000 shares of stock. Of these five blocks of 200 shares each were dated March 3, 1886, and, while issued in his name, the power of attorney had never been indorsed by him, and they could never have been used. Of these shares he had absolutely no knowledge. foolish In His Generosity. The next lot, five blocks of 200 shares each, was dated four weeks earlier, Febru ary 3, 1886. He was a director of the Girard Trust Company, and Lucas came to him and asked to obtain him a loan of $40,000 on tho stock. "I have been just foolish enough," said Mr Wanamaker, "all mv life to do those things, and I got the monev on the stock and cave it to him. A considerable time afterward it was paid off by the Lucas estate ana tney got tne stocs: back." Mr. Wanamaker also presented the com mittee a letter from John C Lucas, dated May 28, 1886, inclosing a check to pay the interest on this loan. Of the other unused five blocks of stock, said Mr. Wanamaker, "my impression is that Mr. Lucas at first intended to ask for a larger loan and so is sued them. It was never used, however, It could not have been without my indorsement I know of no other stock, but I remember that ten years ago, when Lueas was securing control of the bank, he came to me and said he did not want people to know to whom cer tain stock belonged before a certain time, and he placed some in my name. In regard to certificate number 50, which was transferred by H. H. Yard to Scudder & Durham, of Trenton, that is part of the stock on which the Girard Trust Company loan was secured and after the Lucas estate got it back it was very likely passed over to Yard again to raise money on." Wanamaker then again went over at some length the transaction in Beading in which John C. Lucas was a partner, and said that when the settlement was made President Marsh admitted on the presence of three witnesses that the Lucas estate owed him $15,000. The fact that some of the certificates held as collateral by Irvin & Toland were dated after Lucas' death, he said, was due to the broKers" refusal to handle them while in a dead man's name. In closing his testimony Mr. Wanamaker read letters from Controller Lacey and As sistant Secretary Nettleton to show he had never influenced or delayed the appointment for an instant of a receiver for the Keystone Bank. After the hearing of the Council com mittee, Mr. Bobert Alexander, counsel for John Bardsley, was asked if he had any in formation or intimation from Mr. Bardsley concerning the statement madeby3Ir. Mc Wade. Mr. Alexander said: "I think, in justice to him, I will submit for publica tion a letter which I receivedfrom him some days ago. The letter was not intended, I should say, for publication. A Letter Prom Bardsley. Dear Mr. Alxxasmr I inclose an edi torial and news Item. I see McKean Is will ing to go before the committee. Yon re--member I told you McWade came here as a friend and an old friend, and said he came not from the papers. I told him some of the things that I had heard, but told him very plainly that 1 did not know of the truth of any of the things we spoke of. It now appears that he left me and wrote out a lot oistuff. What it is I do not know. He may have put words in my mouth that I Continued on Seventh Page. THREE CENTa A DISPLAY OF NERYE AH That Saved a Party of Cavalry men From Being Massacred. SURROUNDED BY ANGRY INDIANS, Beady to Kill, Lieutenant Brett's Coolness Wards Off Death. DRAMATIC ESCAPE OP A 3I0QUI BRAYB rsraCTAI. TZLZGBAX TO THE DISPATCH. FOET Wxnoate, N. M., July 10. Tho troops of the Second Cavalry that have been In service during the past month at K earns' Canyon, Ariz., and at Orabei vil lage, on the Moqui reservation, have re turned from duty and have brought authen tic information of the troubles that have been brewing among the Indians there. From the reports of the detachment it is learned that it was only through the pru dence and remarkable coolness and diplomacy of Lieutenant Brett, of the Second, that the certain massacre of a detachment and an al most inevitable bloody battle between the Moquis and the troops of the Second and Tenth was avoided. Nine prisoners were brought to this post and are now in confine ment here. When Lieutenant Brett reached Kearns Canyon, where the Indian school is located, he learned from School Agent Collins that the trouble over the schooling of Indian children was caused by the two factions of the Moqui tribe, one of which favored and the other opposed the schools. The latter were in the ascendancy, and had deposed the old chief and chosen in his stead one who was favorable to their side of the ques tion. . To Arrest the Offenders. Superintendent Collins named this chief and four prominent men of the tribe who were particularly active in opposing the school and had rendered themselves especi ally obnoxious by their interference, and upon his representations Lieutenant Brett, with a detachment of eight men, and ac companied bv Collins as interpreter, marched to Orabei village, to arrest the offenders. He anticipated no trouble, as the Moquis have always been a quiet tribe, and have never shown a disposition to revolt against Government authority. Orabei village is built on a high mesa, is reached by two or three winding and nar row paths, and is almost inaccessible. At the foot of the mesa three of the offending Indians were found herding their horses and were taken into custody. Word was sent to the village that the other two were wanted, and the reply came back that if the soldiers attempted to take them they would be fired upon. Lieutenant Brett considered this a bluff, but to be on the safe side he placed his prisoners with the soldiers, so that the Indians could not fire without injuring their own friends, and proceeded up the path to the village. The Soldiers In Deadly Peril. Here he entered a courtyard, and, with his men, was immediately surrounded by crowd of bucks and squaws, all of whom were armed with rifles or revolvers and were well supplied with ammunition. The surrounding buildings were pierced with loop-holes, from every one of which pro truded the muzzle of a rifle, and had the word been given, on the first shot fired neither the officer nor his men would have Jived to tell their experiences. They would have-been slaughtered by the first volley. Lieutenant Brett's coolness is all that saved them. While parleying with the turbulent fac tion he had also to restrain the old Moqui chief .and .his followers, who had ranged themselves with the troopers and were 'anxioaforafight Matters, however, were coming to a crisis and there would unques tionably have been a conflict had not Lieu tenant Brett, through Collins, made a firm speech to the Indians, telling them, among other things, that if a shot was fired "soldiers would spring up like blades of grass and would exterminate their tribe." The statement apparently had an effect, as the men were allowed to depart, although the recently made prisoners remained in the village. Brett's Coolness Saved Them. - Troopers are not inclined to give officers unmerited praise; and old campaigners who were with Lieutenant Prett in this affair say he and they were never so near death before in all their Indian warfare as they were in that courtyard, and that it was only the Lieutenant's admirable conduct that saved them. Had the word been given they would never havS had the opportunity to fire a shot Couriers were immediately sent to Kearn's Canyon to call up the remainder of the de tachment and send for reinforcements. Two troops of the Second and two of the Tenth were on the ground in three days with a bat tery of Hotchkbs guns, the command in charge of Major McClellan, of the Tenth, accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Corbin, Assistant Adjutant General of the depart ment The entire force proceeded' against the village and the Indians', considering discretion the better part of valor, surren dered the men who were called for. The Indians Prepared for War. Among the prisoners were the new chjef, the medical man and several others who have been active in making trouble. A cache was found back of the village, stored, with food, guns and ammunition, showing that the Indians had anticipated trouble and prepared for it The guns were either earned away or destroyed. Ten men were arrested altogether, and a dramatic incident was furnished by the bold escape of one of them. He broke away, ran before the line of soldiers and sprang over a cliff at least 30 feet high. The men could have killed him, but the command was given not to fire, it being feared a shot would precipitate a figlit The other prisoners were brought in safely. No further trouble is anticipated, but one troop of cavalry will be kept on the reservation for the remainder oi the summer. EUROPE Well written cable letters cov ering all the Capitals will ppar In to-morrow's DWPATClL THE". STOCK YABS3 TSOTTBLE. A Rumor That the Difficulty With the Big Three Is Compromised.. Chicago, July 10. Despite the denials of a settlement between the Union Stock Yards Company and the dressed beef pack ers, Armour, Morris aid Swift, involving the abandonment by the latter of the project to establish near Chicago new stock yards of their own, gossip continued to day that a compromise had really been effected. The basis was said to be the granting of special rates to the "Big Three" for the yardage of cattle. It is reported that the negotiations were carried on in Europe, and It was pointed out that Armour and Swift are both across the water, as are also John. B. Sherman and Cbauncey H. Depew: New Orleans Crawling to the Front New Obleans, July 10. The City Coun cil, at a special meeting to-night, by a vote of 19 to 7, resolved to establish a paid fire department in place of the present volun teer svstem. BUSINESS Men will find THE DISPATCH the best advertising medium. All classes can be reached through its Classified Adver tisement Columns. 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