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VOL XV.
STATE news items
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Ckipley is to have a $5,000 creame
The" preliminaries have all been
rv ‘' and the stockholders are en
arraug ed
thusiastio.
The picked rifle team from the
Georgia Hussars, Troop A, First regi
me at, Georgia cavalry, won the match
shot, which took place near Savannah
j few days ago with the New Jersey
guardsmen by 41 points.
* * *
Mayor Myers, of Savannah, has ap¬
pointed a large committee to be known
BS the citizens’ industrial committee,
the object of which is to bring manu¬
facturing interests to the city and to
look generally after its industrial wel
fare.
The members of the orphans’ home
committee of the Grand Council of the
Bed Men of the state have selected a
site at Austell for the Red Men’s or¬
phan’s home. Arrangements have been
perfected for building the home this
year.
* * *
Judge Emory Speer has appointed
Messrs. William Garrard, George A.
Mercer, Thomas M. Norwood and J.
B. Sanssy, all of Savannah, a commit¬
tee to prepare suitable resolutions re¬
lating to the death of Judge Erskrne
.and report to the court on March 4th.
* * *
The farmers of Spalding county do
not seem to take kindly to the Mississip¬
pi cotton growers’ combination scheme
if President Bailey’s failure to get them
together is any criterion. So few
were present on the day appointed ai
the time for perfecting the final or¬
ganization that nothing was done.
The people of Rome are rejoioing
oxer the outlook for the successful
termination of the negotiations in re¬
gard to the location of the big Massa¬
chusetts cotton mills in that city. It
will be a big thing for Rome, espe¬
cially as an entering wedge for the lo¬
cation of other big industries that will
follow in its wake.
A big jail delivery occurred at Ma¬
con a few days ago. Tom Allen, con¬
demned murderer of Charles Carr;
Ed Johnson, charged with murder; Joe
Bosenl aum, diamond thief; R. A. Crus,
charged with assault with intent to
murder; and Ed Paul, burglar, all
broke out of the Bibb oounty jail by
prizing open a cell window. All of the
priBioners were noted criminals and
crooks. Carr’s relatives have offered
a $200 reward for Tom Allen. Crus
was afterward recaptured, but the
others made good their escape.
# * *
Athens Lucy Cobb institute, founded in
in 1858, through the efforts of
General Thomas R. R. Cobb, and now
one of the leading colleges for girls in
the United States, will be represented
kt the Cotton States and International
exposition by as complete an educa¬
tional exhibit as ever was made on any
similar occasion. As Georgia was the
first state in the union to claim within
its borders an institution of learning
solely for women, the ladies of this in¬
stitute will strive to make the exhibit
such a one as to reflect great credit
npon our glorious old commonwealth.
The old soldiers who are drawing
pensions under the old law will be
Vaid on the 12th or March. Blanks
are being prepared by the governor’s
secretary, Judge Richard Johnson, for
pensions which are to be issued under
the new law passed by the legislature
its recent session. They will be
the ready to be issued by the ordinary on
25th of March. When he issues
them they will be filled out by the
soldiers. After this has been done
the pensions will be paid. This pay¬
out will be made about the middle of
May.
* * *
In view of the faot that a number of
-ormnlas for composting fertilizers
have been recently offered for sale in
the state Commissioner Nesbitt calls
attention in his report for March to
the fact that such sales are illegal un
a less °d the formulas have been registered
approved by the deportment of
Agriculture and that the sellers are
guilty of a misdemeanor. As a rule,
the commissioner, such formulas
Are of little value and the department
6 tands ready to furnish formulas that
*re correct chemically and have prov
en practically beneficial without cost.
♦ * *
Considerable interest has been
Awakened in gold mining in Cobb
county la *he recently. The discoveries are
western part of the county,
Around Lost mountain. It has been
Down for years and years that gold
has existed there, and when men who
Are now well up in years were boys
gold was washed out along the branches
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as an every day occurence. Recently
some mining companies paid a visit to
that section and were so highly pleased
with the prospects that options have
been secured from many of the farm¬
ers owning the land, and the work
will be promptly pushed in prospect¬
ing and finding out if the gold exists
in paying quantities.
Fixed Charges too High.
Receiver H. M. Comer, of the Ceu
tral railroad, states positively that the
present plan of reorganization has not
been abandoned, but that steps are
being taken looking to its modifica¬
tion so as to reduce the fixed charges
under the new plan' to about $1,800,
000, and to have them remain station¬
ary instead of advancing as was for¬
merly contemplated. The fixed charges
under the plan as it formerly stood
were to begin at $1,900,000 and ad¬
vance at the rate of $50,000 a year un¬
til they reached $2,150,000. The main
reduction, it is understood, will be
made on the allotment of new securi¬
ties to the Savannah and Western
bondholders.
No changes whatever will be made,
he states, in the allowances formerly
made to the Southwestern and Augusta
and Savannah railroads, nor will there
be any changes in the proposed man¬
agement and operations of the prop¬
erty. The plan, he says, has the back¬
ing of some of the strongest financial
institutions in New York.
Georgia Chautauqua.
The program of the seventh annual
session of the Georgia chatauqua at
Albany has been given to the public.
The program is as follows: Monday,
March 18th, opening special schools;
Sunday, March 31st, annual sermon;
Tuesday, April 2d, rallying day;
Wednesday, April 3d, educational day;
Thursday, April 4th, national day;
Friday, April 5th, the grand concert
day; Saturday, April 6th, the recogni¬
tion day.
The opening sermon will be preached
by Rev. George T. Dowling, of Bos¬
ton, Mass. Among these who will
participate in exeicises of the assem
bly are: Dr. M. C, Hazard, Hon.
Lionel C. Laing, Rev. George B. Ea¬
ger of Montgomery, Rev. John Fern
ly of Sewanee, Tenn.; Hon. G. R.
Glenn, state school commissioner;
Hon. Wallace Bruce, Rev. George M.
Brown, field secretary for Chautauqua
Literary and Scientific Circle; Profes¬
sor A. H. Merrill, of Vanderbilt Uni¬
versity ; Governor W. Y. Atkinson,
Hon. Fleming duBignon, Rev. Warren
Candler and others.
It will thus be seen that the seventh
session of the chautauqua will be full
and running over with good things,
and will be in no sense inferior to the
six sessions that have passed into his¬
tory. Mrs. T. J. Simmons, of Eufaula,
who so successfully oonducted the last
chautauqua chorus, will have charge
of that feature this assembly.
The chautauqua is the greatest insti¬
tution of that section of Georgia, and
is yearly growing stronger and more
popular with all classes.
To Examine Pharmacists.
On the 18th of March there will be
an examination in Atlanta by the state
board of pharmacy of applicants for
licenses to practice pharmacy. The
examinations will take place at the
state capitol, beginning at 9 o’clock in
the morning.
The state board of pharmacy, be¬
sides determining the efficiency of
those who wish to practice pharmacy,
have charge of the enforcement of the
law against those who attempt to op¬
erate drug stores without properly the
qualified men in charge, and also
enforcement of the law against the
adulteration of drugs. done much to
The board has already
decrease the sale of adulterated drugs
in Georgia. The trifling sum placed
at their disposal for this work by the
legislature would seem many times too
small to cover the expenses for the
amount of labor required, the major
part of it being done by the board
gratuitously as a matter of pride in
their work. Recent investigations by
the board show a large amount of
adulteration, which it is difficult to
reach without increased funds. Tnis.
is particularly the case where drugs
are kept by grocery stores. An exam¬
ination of mustards show adulteration
in the majority of them, and of eleven
cream of tartars examined six contained
no cream of tartar at all, and only
three were unadulterated. The mer¬
chants are innocent purchasers of
these goods and buy them, as they are
a few cents cheaper than those of other
houses, believing them possibly a lower
grade, but never conscious that they
are wholly substitutes, else they would
not pav, as they do, five times what
the abominable stuff is really worth,
and can be bought for under its proper
name.
Hamner Sent to Jail.
The preliminkrv trial at Lynchburg,
Va., of Walker G. Hamner, the de¬
faulting teller of the Erst National
bank, and R. H. Pannill, his alleged
accomplice, was held before United
States Commissioner Tinsley and re¬
sulted in the case being sent on to the
grand jury, which meets March 13th.
Neither Hamner or Pannill could give
bond, and they were accordingly com¬
mitted to jail.
WORK OE CONGRESS
THE CLOSING DAYS BRING HUS¬
TLE AND HURRY.
Brief Outlines of Proceedings of House
and Senate.
THE SENATE.
A financial discussion was imminent
when the senate met Tuesday, The
rapid work done at the session Mon¬
day night had cleared away most of
the formal matter preceding the im
portant provisionfor issuing$100,000,
000 of certificates of indebtedness to
relieve treasury deficiencies. The res¬
olution concerning the Mexican free
zone, to include the entire length of
the zone, was agreed to. Mr. Voorhees,
from the committee on finance, offered
an amendment to the sundry civil bill
embodying the recent resolution of
Mr. Wolcott for participation by the
United States in an international
monetary conference. The sundry
civil bill was then taken up.
Mr. Cockrell offered a committee
amendment, which was agreed to, ap¬
propriating $4,000 to Colonel Ains¬
worth, chief of the bureau of records
and pensions of the war department,
to reimburse him for legal expenses
resulting from the Ford’s theatre dis¬
aster. An additional $10,000 for heirs
of two additional victims of the Ford’s
theatre disaster was allowed. Mr.
Berry, of Arkansas, spoke against the
proposed committee amendment, re¬
ducing the appropriation for protect¬ $90,000
ing public timber lands from
to $60,000. A letter from the com¬
missioner of the general land office
was read showing the value of this ser¬
vice. Mr. Berry urged an enlarge¬
ment of the service and moved an in¬
crease. Mr. Gorman said the places
in this service were well recognized as
comfortable positions for “political fa¬
vorites.” “So gross was the abuse; so
useless the offices,” continued Mr.
Gorman vehemently, “that congress
cut down the appropriation $40,000
and I regret to say the officer in au¬
thority exceeded that appropriation
by $45,000.”
After working until midnight Tues¬
day night, the senators were slow in
arriving Wednesday morning and only
a dozen were on hand when considera¬
tion of the sundry civil bill was re¬
sumed. The way was cleared for the
long pending contest over the financial
amendment to the sundry civil bill.
It provides an issue of $100,000,000 of
certificates of indebtedness of small
denominations, bearing 3 per cent, in¬
terest, in order to meet deficiencies in
the treasury, “I make a point of or
der against this financial amendment
on the ground that it is general legis¬
lation,” said Mr. Berry, of Arkansas.
Mr. Hill, of New York, offered a fur¬
ther amendment that all treasury
notes and United States notes, when
presented to the treasury, shall not be
re-issued, but cancelled. Mr. Mills, of
Texas, rose to suggest that the point
of order was of such importance that
he hoped the presiding officer would
submit the question to the senate.
The vice-president ordered a roll call
and called on the sergeant-at-arms to
maintain order, Mr. Gorman then
secured the floor and made a lengthy
speech on the financial amendment.
He concluded by appealing for action
and not failing to provide for all
emergencies. Mr. Mills spoke of the
public abhorrence of a national debt.
Lucien Baker, the new senator-elect
from Kansas, was on the floor of the
senate for the first time Thursday, and
was introduced to his associates by
Mr. Martin, whom he succeeds. Mr.
Gallinger briefly addressed the senate
at the opening of the session in favor
of a plan presented by the Daughters
the Revolution that a copy of the de¬
claration of independence be conspic¬
uously displayed in every postoffice.
The deficiency appropriation bill was
then reported by Mr. Cockrell, leav¬
ing only one bill—the naval—remain¬
ing before the appropriation commit¬
tee. Consideration of the sundry civil
bill was then resumed. Mr. Pettingill
offered an amendment appropriating
$300,000 for seed for drouth sufferers
of the northwest. After a short de¬
bate the amendment was agreed to—33
to 17. Mr. Bate, derm, of Tennessee,
urged an amendment of $125,000 for
the government participation in the
Tennessee Centennial in 1896. Mr
Hoar, of Massachusetts, ironically
asked Mr. Bate for the constitutional
authority for this amendment. Mr.
Bate said it was the same authority
that gave the government aid to the
World’s Fair and to tbe Cotton States
and International Exposition at At
-
lanta. Mr. Hoar again made the con
stitutional querry this time to Senator
HUrris who replied: If the senator
from Massachusetts will meet me here
on the 4th of July, I will give him a
lecture that will serve him the balance
of his life.” A point of order against
the amendment was made by Mr.
Cockroll which was sustained —31 to 15.
Mr. Stewart moved to reconsider the
amendment already adopted for partic¬
ipation in a monetary conference. He
said France was the only country at
present in a position to participate in
such a conference with any prospect of
fairness to silver. Great Britain al-
ready had her ratio and Germany
could readily do so. A conference
would result ill another blow at silver.
He, therefore, would propose another
amendment to the proposition in¬
structing the United States delegates
not to agree to any ratio short of 16 to
1. Mr. Wolcott, of Colorado, said he
regretted this difference of opinion
among senators from the silver states
who had so long stood together; noth¬
ing but good could come from the
conference. The senator from Nevada
regarded this as auother scheme of the
gold bugs. It was nearly midnight
when controversy came fo an end, and
the pending bill was open to amend¬
ment. MoBt of the amendments that
were offered were objectionable to Mr.
Cockrell, in charge of the bill; but,
for the sake of getting on with the
business, he allowed them to be adopt¬
ed—with the intention, evidently, of
having them all defeated in confer¬
ence. Finally the bill passed, and tbe
senate, at half an hour after midnsght,
adjourned till Friday at 11 o’clock a. m.
THE HOUSE.
The house met at 11 o’clock Tues¬
day. Mr. Henderson, of North Car¬
olina, chairman of the committee on
postoffices and post roads, immedi¬
ately called up tbe conference report
on the postoifico appropriation bill,
much to the disappointment of unani¬ mem¬
bers who were clamoring for
mous consent to consider bills, The
senate amendment providing that rail¬
way mail clerks hereafter appointed
should live somewhere along the route
to-which they are assigned; but that
clerks heretofore appointed should not
be required to change their residence
was the Only question in dispute. The
amendment was designed to destroy
the effect of general order 379, issued
by the postmaster-general requiring
clerks to live on the line of their route.
When the order was issued many
clerks lived off their line, since then
eight hundred have changed their res¬
idences. Mr. Henderson read a letter
from the postmaster general earnestly
protesting against the amendment. As
it was evident the amendment would
occasion some debate, Mi. Henderson
withdrew the conference report in
order to give Mr. Catchiugs an op
portunity to present the special order
giving until 3 oclock to the committee
on labor, and Wednesday to the com¬
mittee on public building nnd grounds.
Tho special order was adopted without
division, and Mr. McGann, chairman
of the labor committee, called up the
national arbitration bill, entitled “A
bill concerning carriers engaged
in interstate commerce and their
employes.” The purpose of the
bill is to provido a board of concilia¬
tion, consisting of the commissioners
of labor and the chairman of tho
interstate commerce commission,
whose duty it shall be, when a con¬
troversy concerning wages, housr of
labor or conditions of employment
arose between a carrier under this act
and employes, seriously interrupting
the business of said carrier, to put
themselves in communication with the
parties to said controversy, and shall
use their best efforts by mediation and
conciliation to amicably settle the
same, and if such efforts should be
unsuccessful, should at once endeavor
to bring about an arbitration of said
controversy by submitting the same to
a board consisting of three persons,
one to be chosen by the employes,
one by the employer, and these two
selecting the third. After some dis¬
cussion the bill passed the house with¬
out division.
The speaker laid before the house
Wednesday the president’s veto of the
bill to pension Eunice Putnam. Mr.
Cockrell, democrat, of New Jersey,
moved concurrence in the senate
amendment to the joint resolution
prohibiting the importation of goods
in bond to the United States through
the free zone of Mexico. Mr. Crane,
democrat, of Texas, vigorously op¬
posed tbe concurrence, which struck
OUi the provision limiting the prohi¬
bition from any port from Laredo,
Texas, to the Pacific coast. This
amendment, he declared, would effect¬
ually prohibit the importation of goods
through the United States into Mexi¬
co, unless the latter country abolished
the free zone. But 12 per cent, of the
goods remained in the free zone. He
replied with vigor to the slander that
the zone was the abiding place of
smugglers and outlaws. Mr. Cock¬
rell’s motion was agreed to. Mir.
O’Neill, democrat, of Massachusetts,
presented the conference report on the
pension appropriation bill. An agree
ment had been reached, he explained,
There was a large attendance on the
Tuesday.night (most of them of minor
lm portance) were presented and dis
posed of, some by reference and some
by passage The B en at « am(!nd “« nt «
0 f the bill to prohibit , . . the wearing of
the sign of the Red Cross without per
mission of the National Red Cross So
ciety, was agreed to.
They Want Him Recalled.
A petition asking the United States
government to recall Mr. Ryan,
United States consul at St. John’s, N.
F has been signed by a number of
citizens. The petition also asks for
,b. reappointment », Thom.. S. Mol
loy.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
A bill has just passed congress pro¬
viding for two new district judges for
United States courts in the Indian
Territory. For these two new judges
must be appointed.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was passed by the senate Thursday,
its consideration having occupied the
larger share of four legislative days.
All of the amendments that were
adopted in committee of tile whole
were concurred in after the bill was
reported back to the senate, almost all
of them in a bulk.
The appropriations committee has
concluded its consideration ol the
naval appropriations bill. The house
bill is amended so as to provide for two
battleships instead of three, and for
six light draft gunboats and throe tor¬
pedo boats. There is also a reduction
of $450,000 in the house appropriation
for armor. The total amount carried
by the bill is $29,000,000, a reduction
of $2,639,000 from the total carried
as it passed the house.
The Anti-Lottery Bill.
Speaker Crisp is daily receiving tel¬
egrams urging action upon the na¬
tional anti-lottery bill. These dis¬
patches are pretty evenly distributed,
coming from Now York, Georgia,
Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri,Nebraska
and Colorado. The passage of the
bill now on the house calendar is
urged. Representative Broderick, who
has charge of the bill, says he will do
all he can to put it through, The
whole matter rests with the speaker.
It is certain that if Judge Culberson,
chairman of the committee, would
ask the speaker to give time for the con¬
sideration of the bill, the request would
be grunted. But while it is true that
that committee passed a resolution
asking tho speaker to give time, it is
also true that it sometimes happens
that the speaker is told on tho quiet
not to pay any attention to resolutions.
Still Withdrawing Gold.
Since February 12th the date tho
first gold was paid in by the Belmont
Morgan syndicate on account of tho
recent sale to them of $62,400,000 gov¬
ernment bonds, $2,026,617 in gold bus
been withdrawn from tho treasury in
the redemption of United States notes
and treasury notes. These withdrawal's
have been made very quietly and have
not attracted attention. The daily
withdrawals, which it was hoped
would cease on the gold re¬
serve being strengthened, have con¬
tinued so regularly as not to escape who
the notice of treasury officials,
have charge of such matters. Thurs¬
day the redemptions on account of
withdrawals aggregated $75,251, nnd
since February 12tii they have aggre¬
gated $120,000 a day. So far $36,-
814,342 in gold paid in by tho Bel
mont-Morgan syndicate has been taken
up in tho treasury gold reserve, which
now stands at $83,048,762, or an in
crease siuce February 12th of $42,000,
000 .
Bonds Ready for Delivery.
The last process in the printing ol
the new bonds, that of numbering
them, was begun Tuesday at the bu
of engraving and printing, and
the first batch is ready for delivery to
the treasurer. Under the terms of
the contract the treasury bears the
expense of their delivery to all
points within the United States,
but not beyond the limits of the
Ugited States. So far the syndi¬
cate has not indicated when they
desire the bonds delivered, or
where, and they will be retained in the
treasury until such instructions are
received. Whenever the syndicate in¬
dicate their desire, accompanying
their instructions with the certificates
of the gold they have deposited, bonds
—registered or coupon—of the forwarded denom¬
ination asked for will be
where they desire. New York will
probably receive the first batch of the
new bonds this week. It is probable, de¬
also, the treasury will be asked to
liver the European allotment of the
new Ronds, transmitting the bonds di¬
rect from Washington to London, the
syndicate paying the expense of their
ocean transit.
The New Cab|net M&mber .
^ already predicted the president
WikX'of^West^Virgfffia,
“ p, *“ °'
William L. Wilson is the best known
COU ntry / in connection with his
tar]ff ork in congr6B8 . He has
been a tariff student since he first en
tered congressional life life in m 1882 but but it
was not until the present congress
| that he became chairman of
the ways and means committee,
aQ d as such the official lead
« r °* “ e P art J r - Prior to his
electron to congress he had taken ,
l»«le part in politics excepting being
a delegate to thedemocratic national
convention at Cincinnati, and subse
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president of the University of West
Virginin. This would have fixed Mr.
Wilson's sphere of work had it not
been for a political ruction and party
split at his home in Charleston, West
Virginin, which was settled by the op¬
posing factions nominating Mr. Wil
son.
The campaign was a hot ono and
Mr. Wilson won by nine votes. Mr.
Wilson was subsequently elected to
six successive congresses.
Ho received good committee assign¬
ments from the first, going on the ju¬
diciary, appropriations and ways and
means. His experience shortly after
the war as a professor of law in Co¬
lumbian college equipped him for
work on the judiciary committee.
In the four congressional erns of
tariff changes, the Morrison bill, the
Mills bill, the McKinley bill, Mr. Wil¬
son fook an active part. He did much
of the work in constructing the Mills
bill, and he and representative Breck¬
inridge started on a tour of platform
speeches throughout the oast endors¬
ing President Cleveland’s tariff mes¬
sage. The two orators received hearty
wcloome in Boston and New York and
their eloquent speeches formed a me¬
morable event in the tariff discussion
of the day. During the Mills-Crisp
contest for the speakership, Mr. Wil¬
son cast his lot with Mr. Mills, and
when Mr. Crisp won ho designated
Mr. Springer, chairman of the ways
and means committee. When re-elect¬
ed speaker, however, Mr, Crisp named
Mr. Wilson chairman of the ways and
means and in that capacity he framed
the present tariff law.
DELIVERED IMS LECTURE.
Savannah’s Police Keep the Outsiders
Moving.
A Savannah special says: Joseph
Slattery, the ex-priest, lectured Thurs¬
day night in the Odd Fellows’ hall. A
large crowd assembled outsido tho
hall, but tho protection was ample and
no disturbance occurred. The police
kept the crowds moving, and when¬
ever a knot of people stopped within
a block of tho hall it was ordered to
“move on.”
Seven hundred people wero in tho
hall and listened to the lecture, which
was a discussion of the theology of tho
Roman Catholic church, andan alleged
expose of tho secrets of the confos
sional. The lecturer dealt largely in
ridicule and satire.
In closing his lecture Slattery paid
the demonstration was a blow to Cath¬
olicism in Savannah from which it
would never recover. Hjs hearers,
muny-of thorn, applauded this senti¬
ment, as they did also his statement
that he had wired tho president of the
American Protective Association, and
that its organizers wero now on tho
way to the city. Ho said ho was ready
to take tho names of any who wanted
to join that organization and send
them in.
TheTe is no concealing the fact that
flattery’s appearance in Savannah has »
created a strong anti-Catholio senti¬
ment among a certain class that has
heretofore existed. It cannot, how¬
ever, be attributed so much to Slat¬
tery and his talk as to tho demonstra¬
tion of Tuesday night, of which ho, of
course, was tho cause. That demon¬
stration, while it was serious and fore¬
boded much that is unpleasant, was '
not so bad as somo newspaper reports
have made it out to lie.
Chief of Police McDermott and othor
authorities denounced as false the
statements about there boing dynamite
in the crowd that gathered around the
Masonic temple. There was no con¬
nection between that crowd and the
fires that occurred early the next
morning.
THE CENTRAL MUST PAY TAXES.
.fudge Speer Has Signed a Decree to
That Effect.
At Savannah, Ga., Thursday Judge
Speer signed decree in the case of
the intervention of Comptroller Gen¬
eral Wright against the Central rail¬
road to pay taxes in ail the counties
and cities "through which it runs tho be¬
tween Savannah and Macon, under
acts of 1889 and 1890.
Judge Speer has certified to the as¬
signment of error and the case will go
before the supreme court of the United
States, for which citation lias been is¬
sued for Comptroller Wright to appear
before that court on October 14, 1895,
to show canse why the order and de
croc shonld not be changed. The
Central claim* that such an assessment
of taxes would bp a violation of the
contract between it and the state con¬
tracted in its charter, and that the
legislature under the United States
constitution, is prohibited contracts. from pass¬
ing laws which impair
A Big Mining Deal.
John E. Smith has sold his one
fourth in the Moose mine at Cripple
Creek, Col., to J. K. Maynard, of
Utica, N. Y. The amount of stock
held by Smith was 162,000 shares $nd
the price paid was at the rate of : oO
cents a share, or $81,000 cash. Mr.
Maynard placed the value of the min¬
eral in sight at $256,000. Dividends
to the amount of $84,000 have been
declared in the past twelve months
This sale was the largest spot cash
mining deal ever made in Cripple
Greek.