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Show OGDEN DAIIiT COMMERCIAL. V. VOLUME NUMBER 130. D AND UP The Road From Og-d- ! en to La Plata The News From the Mines Continues Most Favorable and Satisfactory, All In All. .V. J Thes Stace Line Continue to Carry Loads of Passengers Dailj and Business of Development Steadily Goes Ou. Latest news from the mines continues - a most satisfactory nature. The in- ' flux of new men is about holding its own " with this marked difference, namely: that the great majority of those now going to the new mines are either prac- 1 tical miners with ample means for mak- f n rr en i m ft r ( 1 u n f nivienArfinff tonr. IP ' capitalists looking for investments. ' l It is a noteworthy fact that reports of ; at least one or two of the mpre recent r ? and favorable discoveries have been f , T i fj ft .i 1 TO fr'L'.VJi 'ft f. It DiM- i IVtMJM. V ii ".'VJV Cash Sale. of ooi t.'vn capitalists who to buy olatma up in the region of ..." La Plata. Jt is next to impossible to get reliable information of the most important mat-ters, because the parties from whom such data must be secured, if secured at drawn from real or or fancied personal interest, in either preventing the publication of the facts altogether or in coloring them with a view of SUBSERVING PERSONAL INTERESTS Hence the difficulties which all the newspapers encounter in getting the whole news from the mining camp and nothing but the news facts. However there is one thing up tVat way which we can get complete and reliable information about and that is THE NEW ROAD being rapidly built between Ogden city and La Plata. Work on this important public enterprise is progressing as fast as pcBible ualer the circumstances. Tjday the force will be doubled and still further increased later if it is found that more men can be worked to acvintai-Already about seven miles of the road has been made passable up Middle Fork canon and notwithstanding the difficulties in the way it seems reasonable to expect that that route to the mines will be in fair condition and quite passable if not entirely completed within a week or ten days. Mr. Varcoe has just returned from La Plata where he has an interest in a claim with Messrs Fehringer & Ash of the Resd hotel pharmacy. He reports that t ie boys up there have stiusk clay savage which is considered by old timers a good indication. Messrs. A. J, Proudtit and W. 1 Critchlow also returned yesterday from the mines and all confirm the reports that development thus far is most satin factory all around. Mr. W. G. Gulick has also returned to Ogden from La Plata where he has been for some days and reports every- thing up there all right and Col. A. B. Hays came back last night with his gun under his arm and an accumulation of sun burn and long hair and beard which gave him more the appearance of A WHOLE WILD WEST SHOW than anything else. La Plata is safe ia the Hands of such an attraction as he certainly was when he came in last night The Colonel refused to be interviewed until he cculd get washed and afterwoods it was impossible to find him i ; ' ' ' Disastrous Fire. Nev, Aw. 31 w all, have reasons - A A gentleman named Oberdorf yester one-eight- K t tuRtife L e -- C TuiViJtr'rWt I walls, with a clear width of thirty feet The hanging wall knows galea, while the foul wall is lined with a decayed qu&rtzite bearing heavily in copper. One assay aiiows 72 oz siLvea, f 18 is gold and 12 in copper. Bstween the backing and foot vails is quartoita, wbieh goes between f 11 and f 18 a too in gold. The assays are not from the recent discoveries, but were from the surface. Some time ago he took an expert with him who told him to mine in a different direction. This he did. He determined to put the whole to the test and taking tools put in a blast that removed twenty feet of earta and revealed a clear vein in quartzite with hanging and foot walls as heretofore described. A Brigham City paper furnishes the following description; La Plata City, several hundred yards lone, running north and south, and only a few rods wide. Sagebrush hills border it on the east and pine and quaking asp forests cover the high hills on the west, the bases of which push down, cramping the little gulch most awfully. La Plata, the city of tents, is composed of fifty to white canvas tents and a few seventy-fivlog cabins. Several stores, a saloon, bar-ber shop, faro bank and private tents form the town. These are nearly all huddled together like an Indian village, along one main avenue. The water from a beautiful spring bubbles up in the eastern part of the place, but when it reaches town it flows sluggishly along the single street leaving it muddy and Our dear old flog floats stagnant. proudly from a liberty pole erected in the center of the camp, on which is nailed the significant words: "Chinamen and Dagoes Sneak." The formation is quarU. day had papers recorded for the sale ot h a interest in the Piute mining BE CONJECTURED. CAN claim This sale was for cash and would It is also intimated that the Bait Lake indicate that the claim was worth $4,000 II wild special reporter who was sont up in the market. to tho itiines last week to furnish that " OSLY rr " OGDEN, UTAH. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I, 1891. probably because a bath and a shave changed him so he could not be recog-- t nized. However it is well known that he has a tine claim in the new district and believes the whole region is im-- i mensely rich. According to the Logan paper Mr. P. A. Nielson's Cache Valley mine is on top lo date. Samples of ore exhibited from this mine attracted hundred of excited and curious visitors. A blast uncovered the great strike on Tuesday afternoon last, since which time the debris has been ,moved and the vein uncovered, exposing .six feet between the hanging and foot WiNKKMrccA, Jheni The Commkwial.1 - A fir ikt led to- in the rear of Sohra:dts store. dy Everything between the bank and the Reception, also between the butcher shop and Mrs. Millers, including the xA opera house, was burned to the ground. The bank was saved. Bank Robbery. Kansas City, Aug. 31. At Nordara, a small station on the Alton road, in La Fayette county, a daring bank robbery took place today. The bank is a branch of the Higginsville bank and the regular employes are only a cashier and bookkeeper. The bookkeeper was out on business this afternoon when two men road up to the bank, dismounted, walked into the bank, shut the door and locked it before the cashier noticed what was going on and then, at the point of a revolver, one man kept the cashier quiet while the other took about $700, oil the cash in sight. The robbers then mounted horses and fled. An Attempt to Regulate Nature. ' One of the most interesting experiments ever made in agricultural science is now claiming attention in the northwest. Some years ago it was said that the cactus beds of Colorado could raise 'one steer to thirty acres," and no more. Then the attempt to irrigate was made, to ascertain whether this was strictly true. The result was that in some points irrigation showed the so called cactus beds were capable of being turned into a soil so rich and deep that blooded stock as fine as that in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky was produced. Next came years of terrible drought in Dakota and that part of the country which turned the attention of farmers to the irrigating problem, ; Nature's rains were too treacherous to be depended on. With characteristic western vim the task of supplying was entered on. Irrigation departments were established at the state agricultural stations and engineers of irrigation appointed. Two methods of moistening the arid soil appearedthat by artesian wells and the other by conducting ditches from rivers and streams, where this was possible. Another task presented itself to the agriculturist in this region. His farm was frequently timberless. Could forests be made to grow where no trees were? This, too, was worth trying, More study and experimenting. Particularly there was need to protect the north and northwestern portions of the farmer's lands from the Manitoba blizzards that came down upon him like a wolf on the fold. Will it be possible to change a treeless, more or less droughty and arid region into a spot where water is abundant and where forests will in time dot the landscape with living green and wood be abundant? Irrigating wells are being dug in county after county. It is expected that they will produce gigantic crops with unerring certainty. It is also expected that the forest culture will be a success. Well, we shall see. If all this can be done and the more or less droughty and treeless district thus transformed, then man will have certainly attained a great mastery over nature. The United States agricultural department has also taken up the question of irrigation and is at present doing all that may be done to further it. SCENES OF HOW B&lm&eeda Leaves His Country For Its Good. THE SAD TRAIL OF WAB. Sl&nshter and Fire Follow n in th Wak of the Pillar, Eevo-Utio- ia Chili. New York, Aug. 3L The World prints as a Valparaiso "special the statement that the insurgents owe their success in a great measure to the skill and experience of Colonel Kooper, who was brought from Germany by theChlian government as instructor in modern warfare, but who quarreled with the Balmacedans and gave his services to the opposition. The lighting was not only fierce but fiendish. The bodies of tbe ttalmaoedan generals, Barbosea and Aloerreca, who fell in tbe hottest part of the engagement, were frightfully mutilated. At sundown a riotous mob of laborers united with the rabble of deeerteri from the government and set fire to and looted many buildins on the outer edge of the city, belonging to Balmacedas's tires raged all Fourteen partisans, night, but are now under control. Two million dollars w,orth of property was destroyed. The city rang all last night with rifle reports and this morning bodies of 200 rioters and pillagers littered the streets. New York, Ang. 3L The cable advices ot date Valparaiso, August 30, says: Tbe Cbanaral regiment of tbe congressional army took formal possession of Santiago tonight, and practically the last act in the bloody drama of tte revolution which has torn Chili to pieces for tbe past seven months is closed. The capital city was in the hands of a bloodthirsty mob last night, aud, while it was unable to satisfy its murderous instincts it destroyed a vast amount of property. As soon as the news reached Santiago yesterday of the overwhelming defeat f the government troops on the heights of Plaeilia, and the fall of Valparaiso, and the peifple knew that Balmacecla'spower was gone, their enmity to his government broke forth. The cry was raised tfcjU tht prtwiiVit shout d W Killed and a mob started for his house. It grew in numbers and fury as it went through the streets, and by the time it had reached the executive mansion was ripe for any bloody deed. Short shrift would have been allowed the president had he been caught. The bloodthirsty fury of the mob was balked. Then the desire for revenge found vent in the application of the Soon Balmaceda's bouse was a torch. Before it had been demass of flamesstroyed the mob marched ' off to the of the house of Senor Gouay, interior, and an ardent Baltnacodist, and set tire to his bouse. Then the residences of Balmaceda's other friends, Gen. Barbosa, Senors McKenna and Eastman, the government newspaper offices and houses, and several prominent officials' bouses were burned to the ground. Business . The city was was suspended and the people outside of the mob kept close to their houses. The police, the tire department and the army were demoralized and made no attempt to maintain order. Balmaceda, when he heard ot the fall of Valparaiso, sent for Gen. Bsrquedano, commanderof the government troops in Santiago, to meet him. A council of war was held at Valparaiso, at which President Bulmaceda and the leading Balmacedist were present. The situation was thoroughly canvassed and it was decided to surrender the capital. Barquedona was given charge of the city and authorized to arrange the terms of surrender1 Werd was sent to Gen. Campto that all the troops of Santiago bad declared adhesion to the Congressional party and that Santiago was at his disposal. The Chanaral regiment was orderd to proceed to Santiago to assist the general troops in keeping order and prepare the barracks for 2,000 additional troops. Accompanying the re giment was Senor Altimirauo, who will for the present act as incidents of the capital. It is learned that the city of Santiago is in a terrible state. In addition to the destruction done by the mob, it is threatened with an irruption of all the desperate characters iu the surronnding country. Gen. Barqueunno has posted an imperial regiment in a cordon about the city to prevent outlaws from entering tbe city, but it is almost a hopeless task. Gen. Canto and staff have left Valparaiso for Santiago with additional troops. A new chief of police for Santiago and a new railroad administrator have been appointed. It is asserted on good authority that Balmaceda went by special train to Talcahuano yesterday. There he will make connection with the Condell and Imperial, and in one of the Vessels make for Buenos Ayres or Montevideo.' If this is so he will probably escape" order has been restored in this city. Rioters crught in their work were summarily dealt with, many being shot, but the rioting was not stopped until property worth $1,8C3,000 had been deacts have stroyed. Many tyrannical heen perpetrated here since January by the government officials, and every war ship in the bay has a quota cf refugees. This gave rise to a bitter feeling on the part of the congressionalists, particularly against the Americans, for Admiral Brown had given asylum to many of tbe unpopular officials on board the San , Francisco and Baltimore. Admiral Brown this afternoon had a long conference with the junta leaders, and the irritation against the Americans has been subdued.. The junta are exceedingly anxious to secure recognition from the United States and are now hopeful that it will be accorded them. Numerous government officials have been arrested, but such have been assured a fair trial before the proper au thorities when quiet is restored. Moi and Gen. Canto say that there shall be - panic-stricke- Com-prrati- ttat tkn U rd the bo measure lion of a new fovwnaat esstd eJl tbe member of the junts imv hers from Iquiqae. It is card y ptoot&i that an election will be held t " som tioM, and is the meaniixi tbe i ants will be is i eoetroL Tbe aaibui&sf wtv s b& been um ply disgracef ul. Hundreds ot ounded men wer Wt on the tuleiield to die who might hv been $iYd rf prompt measure or reiier cu emn taken. The war ahiiisdid surgeons of the fores most valuable aervkse w earing for the wounded, and bad it t two for ttmr bard, effective work, tr vuStxmg of tae wounded soldier woul t bavebeea much greater. Especial credit is dae to the madical staffs of the Utx;tad State etjp eUn Francisco and Bali" more. It baa been ascertained tt&t &io,Q00 peso of silver was btpd on the British sloop of war Th British naval official her b n.i;-.xevery effort to cotnmunicata with tbe capt&iu of the Gspieele with a view Ui dtunin2 the bullion if posevble. It is supposed that Balmsoeda intended to use the monev to make payment on account of the new cruisers, tne Err&zuhx and president froto. ' Enf e Alliance SOiilinu. City. Ana. St The Star ssvt it transpired during tfc recent state meeting of the farmers Alliance at Warrensburg, that there was an or ganization within the Alliance which received in force to ami a iu object. It was the knowledge of this force element that defeated the u'. tre&ury resolu tion, which, was cnainpwned by tbe force Kawsa Other delegates principally. it voted kgainst it because they desired to defeat ihe force party. The latter had forty eight delegates in of them told a tbe convention and reporter: "If th" "jimTity will not do what the ma jot.'" it is high time for the majorii; ftig the minority, If ballots won t Uo am business bullets will, and there are a ill ot us pledged to go that far." Ex President Hall, who assert his life haB been deelaml forfeit in the meetings of these people is keenly alive to the situation-- . Before the meeting at Pertle Springs he sent our a letter dated August 11th, to every delegate he could trust, telling mm the furls and exhort ing him to be at the convention ready to crush out tbe influeoue of these Social ists, as he cans the",' in the alliance. This secret order call itself "the anti- monopolists," and vry few, it any, farmers lx)ong to it. I'lhe Star says its strength !Vi maHj'TS the cities, and farnieis af its oatapsf1. rake its po-litical chestnuts from tbe tire. men who favored . ,, A Dauntless Captain. Jose de Guatemala, Aug. 31. An incident which occurred at LaLibertad, in the republic of Salvador, ten days ago bore some resemblance to the Barrundia offatr which happened ou "the steamer Acapulco in San Josede Guatemala during the late war between Salvador and Guatemala. One'of th parties concerted Saw in this case, however, was an American. The Pabitio Mail Steamship Co's. steamer City of Panama stopped at Gorinto, Nicaragua, August 5th, on its regular northbound t:ip, and among the passengers on board were Patrick Brennan, an American citizen residing in Salvador and four native Salvadoreans. These men have incurred tbe displeasure of President Ezeta, and were regarded by him as revolutionists. The steamer reached La Libertad August 8th and Ezeta's officers demanded a surrender of Brennan and his companions. Capt. White refused to comply and the commandant of the fort went to the steamer with a boat load ot armed men and informed Capt. White that the latter could consider himself under bis orders as he had come to take possession of the steamer and arrest the men. Capt White's indignation was arroused at once, and without waiting to discuss the matter at all he told the commaadabt if he did not leave the steamer immediately he would throw him overboard. Thecommandant evidently perceived that Capt. Wrhite wab disposed to carry out his threat, for he withdrew from the steamer without further discussion. A short time before the steamer sailed Captain White was informed that President Ezeta had been notified of the occurance and had gone with a large armed force to Acajulta, the next port in Salvador, intending to takeoff the refugees at all hazards. Capt White accordingly determined not to go to Aoajutla, and at his arrival at Srn Jose de Guatemala, laid the facts be'o e the United States Pacheco. The men whom Ezeta desired to capture are now in Guatemalan territory and Ezeta has requested Guatemala to surrender them. The exact details of the charges made against the men are not known here. Brennen has resided in Salvador for some time and is a railroad conductor. He is said to be a man of means, and some prominence in tbe country, curing the late war with Guatemala, his business operations was interrupted and, it is said,, at President Ezeta's request, he accepted a commission in tbe army of Salvador, enlisted his railroad 'employes in the regiment he com man ded At the close of the war he returned from military service and when the revolution was threatened in Salvador some time later, it is said Ezeta again desired Brennan to enter bis service and enlist debis railroad employes. Brennan clined to do so, and it is supposed in this way he incurred Ezeti's displeasure. The four Salvadoreans whom Ezeta wished to eieze were Dinayola, who claims to have been legally elected president of Salvador, but who has been deprived of office; Gen. Letona, commander in chief of the Salvadorean army in 1885, but who has been in xile forthe past five years, Gen. Bernandez, a wealthy exile and Col. M. Rivas of the Salvadorean army, a nephew of Gen. Rivas. who was executed at Ezeta's orders for the part he took in the late ' civil insurrection. Railway Accident. Davisville. Cal.. Aucr. 31. The rns- - secger train was derailed near here by tne spreading ef tbe rain caused by tbe heat The enorine and tcmr onr wore ditched and badly Jfvrecked. Postal Clerk Quinby was killfd. Several others were oeriuusiy lnjureux PRICE FIVE CENTS. COSMOPOLITE Hih ROGUES, Toned Pickpockets and the Like Show THE TOUGHS VISIT OGDEN. Lrtters Captured Fron Oa ef the Great Cans: in Omaha Ik t ray Peculiar FacU. Tbe police of Omaha about a week ago arrested one J. C. Talbot, alias J. C TWp and G. IL Buroutn for stealing v an overcoat. After their arrest it was discovered that both were finished criminals, and had doM time" but it was not until their private paper were perused that it was learned what polished crooks and artists ia their profession the prisoner are, The follow mg letter found ia Talbot's possession were first published in the Oraaba Bee. Gbees IiiTiat, Wjx, Jan. 189L Friend John: Your letter received and glad to hear from you. Well John, I think :t is Blanche that has made Joe sore. I do not know any other reason. W hen 1 go to W. . again 1 will stop at same hotel, Ibt ie at Ablborr hcoee and in case Blanche "s name is mentioned I will say I do not know where she is. and do not intend to have anything more to do with her, which you can depend on. ttobinson is in 1'ortiand 1 suppose. Anderson was to go west on short line and I tonight hut he had a come-bacam going in his place. I have just come from Huntington on my own run and was going to Ugden, so now I an good for three days longer on the road. Yes, u is in Ugden, but we have quit. bhe is willing to go to 1 lot bonnes. Ark., as soon as possible. You need not be afraid of her showing cd next season. I have been a monkey all season and now it iB over. I appreciate your advice to me more than from anyone else, and from now on I am going to attend to business. Powell quit. I hear Hamil ton is in a bad tix seven charges. Hie name In S. F. is Lpwis. I suppose you re;w aooui, ueorce raiteneirs death. gave your regards to who you mentioned and they wanted them sent back. Write me to Ogden, care of Best regards to Andy. P. T. IL t k San Francisco, Jan. 2, 180L Friend John: Your favor received some time I just ago. John has gone to Chicago. received dispatch from hira saying he Pullhad bought an elegant sixty-foo- t man car. lie will probably turn an old sleeper into privilege and dining car. I have had four or five different letters from people wanting these privileges, all good people, also several here. Have not consulted John but am satisfied that it will be all right fore you to have them. Terms 50 per cent after fixing and plug-in- g money is taken out; If 1,000 to be put up to secure a shake down to the show of any kind and as few people as possi- ble. Now I enclose two letters both good men. Gately is an all around man, but not a big money getter. ' Yeu will remember him at Blaine last season. He might be all right Clint Worrall is a man and I am afraid be has the show overrated. Write him a nice letter anyhow. I will aiways have something for Jack Wolf, as he expects to go out with us. Watch Smith about the car. We are getting an elegant elephant car built here. Write often and let me know all the news. Yours, Jos. B. McMahow. P. S. Figure with Worrall alone without his fixer, as you can probably do that yourself. Sycamore Springs, Cal., 23, 1890. Friend John: Your letter of the 18th forwarded to me and haBten to answer. I am working here at this port again with Goodfriend and Eddie Hall. My wife and I are stopping at these springs which are about three miles from the the port every steamer port I walkito "day. This is a swell place to stop. I go hunting and riding every day and am getting fat and making some money. There is not much travel on the steamers, but we manage to get a good guy every day. We had a guy for $500 last steamer, and with other small touches we got $709 in all. We get a steamer every four days. Clint Worrall wrote for the privileges to Joe McMahon and gave him a swelling about the Wallace show. Now Worrall ia a good player, but can get no more money than any one else, unless he has the best of support Clint is also swelled about his show and thinks he can come 'on and run the show. You could not handle him at all and there would be no money in it tor you. Don't listen to this man Gately from the north. He would not work unless he fixed ,himyelf, and then the sheriff of the county would have to give him a written agreement not to pinch him. Don't take any one unless you know him well, that he is a good worker and one who will do tbe square thing by you and do what you tell bim. Don't think I am trying to give you advice or try and learn your business or to knock any one. I would like very much to go with you with some show as I feel certain that with you I can make more money than any one you can get, still if you find I cannot go tell me who you are to join out and I maybe able to see that you will be treated square. Let me know when you expect to come to S. F., as I have something to tell you which I think will square thinys with Joe. I will write tonight to the McFlynn show about the privileges. Hoping an answer by return mail I remain as ever, Mike Golden, your friend, 114 Mason street, S.F. Thomasvitxk, Ga., Dec. 25, '90. J. B. McMahon, San Francisco. Dear Sir; Your very kind letter at hand. Will you be kind enough to present this letter to man. I will deposit 1500 your privil of fl.OuO with him or yon as you mutually may agree for a shell joint, ffiysif to do tbs work, I will gire 50 per cent od I mean what I say, 50 per cent, to hi a and I will bring with m th beet fixer in the Urated States, Mr. T. J. Ford, who Fixed for Lew Whit and Owney Gvan with Furegaugh all one summer of 'SO. Mr. Fords is a 93 degree Mason in the 33 dree, Knight of Pythias, a Grand Army of tbe Republic, a Knight of Labor, and we worked last summer twenty-on- e stands in succession in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I refer you to any grafter in the eastern country about Mr. Forde and Mr. A. Forepaugh. jr., Burr, Robin 4 French, of French circus. Mr. Mc-iuanon, i wu yon tne truth when I say that Forde got tiOO a week from Burr Robins to fix license alone no draft was allowed with French ACo. this summer. Mr. Bobbins is the company of this concern. Mr. Forde worked for me until tbe P. A. Robbins show closed and then went to French k Co. When cot work don't suit T mill nnif If I do not satisfy all parties concerned io my mooey-geiiin- g capaoiutiee, no harm dona. I can nnit. Tluuaa aU this to vour nririWA nrt II will man like Forde certainly if appreciate . .i uo uuq t ikqow or care 10 nave ma. I sav will this a ehakmlown ia imnoiuiKI with Fords' fixing. lour ery Truly, C. C. Worrall, Thomaaville, Ga. P. S. Please tell vnur nriviWa man to answer either one way or the other. At 00 per cent I furnish my own outside work and all. If a smaller per cent is given "players" by Mr. Talbot let him state figures. I am anxious to get on the eoast Stamn in. Can brinir our if No charge for that Want to rU my- n self, Tahmi. Wash- - n w. J Deo. 2tl. 1S90. Ik Mabon.San Fraucisco, Cs.l Dear Sir: I would like to secure the privilege with your show this season. I will nlano ?500 in tbe ticket wai?on and good fixer, and endeavor to conduct evervthing in a business like manner. Should you think favorably, address me Y ours Resnectfullv. as above. 11 F. Gatkly. Gately ia one of the smoothest crimi nals who ever operated in the west He it was who had full charge of the firemen's tournament in Council Bluffs two years ago, when the largest aggregation of smooth worker ever assembled together robbed people right and left' without any molestation whatever from the authorities. In fact, so successful was the "fixing" done that when Omaha detectives attempted to call a halt when pickpockets were caught in the act, the crooks, assisted by the Council Bluffs officers, drove the Nebraska sleuths oft tha grounds. Gately was "pinched" in Omaha five years ago. He had 11,100 in hi pockets at the time, and was fined $50 ' ' ' and costs. One of the envelopes addressed to Talbot gave his location "L3G0 South Tremont street, Denver," Chief Seavey is of the opinion that the men have just come from the coast f6r the purpose of working the Creeton blue grass palace,, the corn palace at Sioux City, the Grand Army of the Republic reunion at Grand Island, the state fair at Lincoln and other fields that promise a lucrative har vest for their efforts. "Just think what a field a crook with a Grand Army of the Republic button would have at Grand Island," said tbe chief. "His badge would give him full swing and he could get all the information he wanted and steal everybody blind before they knew what he was up to. Then that fellow down at Thomas-vil- le has a great chance to operate. One of the biggest hotels in the country is located there, and there is always a big crowd of northern people there. This man is probably working them as successfully as Golden is grafting tha steamer passengers out around Sycamore Springs." The following letter from a southern official which appeared among Barnum'a credentials will show how his "fixing' enables him to stand with some people in the country who are supposed to ba honest enough or sharp enough to know better:- . Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 0. Mr. Bar num attended our exposition with hia wax wonders, including Rube Buarowa dressed as he was when I saw him dead, in his coffin. Messrs. Barnum and Cooper proved to be gentlemen here. Their detective museum was attended by thousands of our best citizens. It gave general satisfaction, and I take pleasure in recommending them to you O. A. PlCKAKD, Chief of Police. , ... . Satisfactory Trial. New York, Aug. 31. The exhibition trial of the engines of the artnored cruiser Maine was given today on East river. Secretary Tracy and Engineers. Melville, Baker, Moreley and Katfer, of the navy department were present The engines of the Maine are the largest ot their kind ever built in this country. The trial was eminently successful. The Davis Case. Butte, Mont, Aug: 31, In the Davia case today a number of witnesses were placed on the stand by the proponent who testified from their knowledge of R Eddy since boyhood the will was not in his hand writing. W. M. McCracken and Charles S. Warren of Butte, who had intimate business relations with the late A. J. Davis thought the signature in the will was genuine. j; |