...? ' - - '. ; : ,' ist TC J ^ ^ ^ i. f * 4 ip * | THE COUNTY RECORD ~ KIJNG6T1REE, S. cT |k)P18 J. BBISTOW, Ed. & Prop'r. , ID FOB GOLD SEEK. If.' . Joseph Ladue in Consultation With the President and Secretary Alger. 6000 MEN ON HALF RATIONS. ,VJ BL That Will Be the Situation ThU Winter, ? . According: to the Alaska Pioneer?War Department Advices Are More Encoururine ? The Government's Kelndeer KB*. Sjj M?v Be I'tilized In Forwarding Supplies Washington, D. C. (Special).?Joseph . Ladue. the Alaska pioneer, who came to - * Washington to consult with Secretary Alger ^ about methods for the relief of the destituyV ? ' tlon which he and others who comprehend m the situation believe will overtake those " " who have crowded into the Klondike withI out adequate supplies, called on President / ^IcKinley. He was presented by Secretary ^ Alger. The President discussed the situa' : tion with Mr. Ladue, and appeared deeply ^ Interested in his suggestions for the relief O* Klondikers. Mr. Ladue estimates that there are about kv 1000 people In the Klondike, and that there &? . are provisions for only about 3000. He thinks the idea of attempting to arrange lor ioe engines for carrying supplies down f the Yukon is utterly impracticable, owing a /?* tKuf whan fha pittup frOU7AQ thfl l ?v ppnwi miiii nucu iuu iiipjt?uwtwr^n^ * ? tee in the centre is'foreed up/forming great hillocks. He believes that all persons who have not sufficient provisions and who can return to St. Michael before the river freezes ah on id do so. ? He says that navigation will not close for |jt- a month, and he advises that a courier be dispatched immediately across Chllkoot f- Pass to Klondike to urge all who can to embark on the last outgoing steamer. This ' suggestion will probably be adopted. In u addition he advises the establishment of .v t stations along Chllkoot Pass with dog I trains for conveying relief supplies. Before .tt . leaving the White House Mr. Ladue pref - \ wanted Mrv. McKinley a half-ounce nugget Of virgin gold. Secretary Alger also reoelved a souvenir Klondike nugget, k ' Secretary Alger said after the interview * that no steps would be taken looking to relief of the miners in the Klondike until 1 attar navigation closes and the Government learns through Captain Ray, who is at St. Michael, the exact situation. Secretary lgar has received a telegram expressing , the eplnion that the four steamers now go. -teg up the Yukon carry ample provisions for all persons now in Dawson City and "A, the vicinity. If they arrive safely perhaps , ' , there will be no necessity for any relief majeures. If not, it is possible that Mr. 3 ' Ladue1* suggestion for dog trains across | the Chllkoot Pass may be accepted. Qasretary Mm has instructed the Comj??t' i mission or of J&dueatlon to have t he reindeer now at Teller Station. Alaska, which have been broken to work, forwarded to St. lDQhael,to be held there for use in forward gT A, 1M ?ttfpuee to tM nioacure country B OH? %*> ' of emergency. There are aboat eighty of H*. the reindeer which, it la believed by the AdlalnMratloo, can be utilized in this way. r and the opinion prevails that they would to much more useful than dogs, because V thff travel more rapidly, draw more, and Z* eon hve on the little forage the country V' . produces. The Secretary says that each EE ? rstndeer will entry about 300 pounds and J5 will travel a hundred miles a day. CUBA'S NEW PRESIDENT. |j?V \ ' &>OUeMbwftMrate of the Be^bllc. tA v Km has reached New Tork of the elec-! iKrc (tonof Brigadier-General Mendez Capoteto the Presidency of the Republic of Cubs. Ho is a man of ability, and the Cubans in. New Tork City deelare he will carry on the im vl I' PRESIDENT CAPOTE, OF CCBA. wet with Spain with redoubled energy. President Capote is a graduate of the University of Havana, and one of the most distinguished lawyers on the island. He is only thirty-four years of age. M'KINLEY OFF FOR A HOLIDAY. Bf ?? The President Ooes With HI* Party to North Adams, Mass. President MeKlnley left Washington on the Pennsylvania Railroad at 9 o'clock Tuesday night for North Adams, Mas3., where he will he the truest for a week or > tea days of W. B. Plunkett. He was accompanied by Mrs. McKInley, AttorneyGeneral and Mrs. McKenna, Miss McKenna, Secretary and Mrs. Alger, Miss Mabel McKInley, his niece; George B. Cortelyou, Acting Secrelary to the President, and J. Walter Blandlord, Private Secretary to the Attorney-General. Just as the train started the President came to the broad rear platform of the end car and bowed right uud left to the crowd inside and outside of the station railing. His appearance was greeted with handclapping. The train consisted of four coaches. The private ear of President Thomson of the Pennsylvania road was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. McKinlev. There was no prolonged stop on the way, and the train reached -' North Adams at 9 o'clock Wednesday warnliT Thirty-three Lives Lost in a Collision. The British steamer Tvria and the Ausyu?" trian steamer Jka were in collision near r- Fiume. The Iha was so badly damaged that she sank. Seventeen ot her passen-1 gers werQ rescued, but thirty-three were jgSsv -drowned. COUNTING SILVER DOLLARS. j Twenty-one Young Women Kept Bag? For Several Week*. The count of money in the vaults of the j United States Treasury at Washington Is i still.in progress and will not be finished for j j several weeks. The unusually long time occupied in the count is due to the cauI tiousness of Treasurer Roberts. In all previous counts the money has been weighed in bags, there being 1000 silver dollars in each bng. Two tests would be | ap^iifu IU must? ua^s, urjimmin^ vu whether the dollars were new or bad been used. A bag of 1000 new and unused dollars weighs about fifty-eight pounds and i fifteen ounces. A bag of badly used dol- ; lars weighs about fifty-eight pounds and i nine or ten ounces, a difference of $6 or $7. Counting this way the count did not take so long, but Treasurer Roberts has insist- ' ed that in one of the vaults in which old silver dollars are stored each dollar shall be counted. This is now being done, and the tinkle of silver dollars is heard for many feet throughout the Treasury. Twenty-one young women have been assigned to this count. In the vault which held the new silver dollars the count was made in the regular way. and the gold iu the vaults j I will be counted by weight. | BIG LOSS OF LIFE IN ITALY. Hurricane and Floods Kill 100 and In- 1 Jure as Many More. A hurricane swept over Sava, Oria and ! \ Latiano, all in the Frovince of Lecce. Italy. | Forty persons were killed, seventy were I wounded, twenty houses were destroyed, j and telegraphio communication with the scene of the disaster was cut off. At Oria the railway depot was demolished and all the railway men engaged there were killed. Two chateaux and thirty houses were destroyed in a neighboring village, where twenty were killed anu ineniy-iuur lujureu. At Mesagne fifteen were killed and five injured. A special "dispatch from Rome says that two villages near Brlndisi have been flooded and that twenty persons have been drowned. The floods, which were caused by recent heavy rains, wrecked every house in the two villages. Injuring many people. Great tracts of country have been devastated. KILLED BY TIGERS. A District in South China Panic-stricken by Their Bavages. Chinese advices say that much excitement prevails about Foo Chow over the killing of many natives at Euliang by maneating tigers, whioh have carried off and eaten many natives. Hundreds have fled to near-by cities for protection. They refuse to return and attend to their crons, saying that they will leave the country for good rather than fight tigers. Expert hunters have killed some of the beasts, but more come down from the mountains. They first attacked cattle, and destrnvad hundreds of them before many natives were killed. The foreign settlement at Foo Chow has offered a reward of *50 for every foil-grown tiger killed. Traps have been set, and tiger hunts on a great scale are now in progress. Several natives who were caught and torn by tigers and rescued by hunters are now In the Foo Chow hospitals. 1(500 HORSES DEAD. Strange Equine Malady Staging on Eastern Shore of Maryland. Dr. A. W. Clement, Maryland's State Veterinarian, reports an alarming epidemic among horses on the eastern shore, which killed over one thousand. Dr. Clement said: "The strange disease threatens to beoome general throughout the State. I made a post-mortem examination of a number of horses which died from the disease, and will make an official report as soon as possible. I cannot as yet Ilve any definite opinion In regard to the isease, but I am almost certain it is caused by horses eating some poisonous vegetable matter." A TORPEDO-BOAT COES DOWN. UUC (TOMTITK muuuDW ntnreiiuuic Schwerln One of Those Drowned. A Hamburg despatch says that Torpedoboat No. 26 has been capsized and sunk, aear the first lightship off Cuxhaven. Eight sf her crew, Including her commander, Duke Frederick William of MecklenburgJchwerin were drowned. The Duke was born In 1874, held the rank of Lieutenant in the German Navy, and was a brother of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The mother of the Duke received the tews of his death at Castle Rabensteinfeld, Jchwerin. The whole town has been thrown Into deep mourning. The church bells were lolled and the performance at the Court theatre was abandoned. EARTHQUAKE IN LIMA. two Shock* Crock Walls and Destroy Ceilings in Pern's Capital. There have been two strong earthquake hocks at Lima, the capital of Peru. Great ilarm was caused among the inhabitants, Ihe majority of whom rushed out into the I itreets. Many ceilings fell and walls were cracked luring the subterranean disturbance. The seismlo vibrations moved from west to east. Mellendo, in the south, and Palta, in the north, were not affected, but in the region of the disturbance there were fro quenr landslides, interrupting trarnc on me Oroya Railway, while telegraphic communication was interfered with. Ottor Skins Becoming Scarce. The hunting schooner Rattler has arrived at San Francisco from the Arctic, having secured twenty-six sea-otter skins and 193 fur-seals. Captain Xeilson declares that otters are becoming scarce. He got one skin that is entirely white, the first one ever taken, according to the hunters. The conventional color of the sea-otter is black. Skins here and there dappled with silver have always commanded the highest price. This pure white skin, it i9 expected, will bring from $700 to $1000, the highest price on record. Arroyo's Murder Premeditated. Velasquez,ex-Inspector-General of Police, now in prison in the City of Mexico, has confessed that he ordered the killing of Arroyo, the assailant of President l)iaz. His servant admits buying the knives with which the deed was committed. Velasquez j says that the man was not tortured. The Judge has decided t hat Yelasquez and Cab! rera, the detective, are guilty, and he : holds them fortrtul. England Ituy.ng Horses." Areportto theState Department at Washington from the United States Minister at Buenos Ayres says that agents of the British War Oflice have purchased 1400 horses in Argentina for use by the British Army in Africa. It is believed that these horses are better able to stand the trying African climate than any others. Troops Hie on Strikers. A special dispatch from Melzo, twelve , miles from Milan, Italy, says that during | strike disturbances there the troops were | called out and iired upon the strikers, killing one man and wounding eight. ' . ' " _ -v f. A RIOT IN NEW OEEAlT I A Yellow Fever Hospital Attacked by a Mob. ( nicDTPQcn RY THF POLICF. l/ivji liiulu u >> I The Structure Attacked Was a School Building That Had Been Transformed Into a Hospital For Yellow Fever Sufferers?The Edifice Partially Burned, But Saved From Total Destruction. ' New Orleans, Ls.. (Special).?The yellow fever situation in this city assumed a serious aspect Friday. Thore was an increase in the number of fatalities, and for n time early in the morning a portion of the city was under the control of a mob of panicstricken citizens. The trouble arose over the arrangement made by the Board of Health to use the Beauregard School Building as a yellow fever hospital. A meeting of citizens residing in the locality of the school building was held Thursday night to protest against the order of the health authorities, and afterward a riotous crowd made an attempt to burn the building. Two of the annexes were reduced to ashes but joint efforts of the police'and fire departments prevented : the destruction of the main building. | The alarm was sounded at 12.30 a.m., a large crowd being then in the vicinity of the school building. During the evening 8ister Agnes and a number of Sisters of flharitv. together with nurses from the hospital, bad been putting the building in order for the reoeption of yellow fever patients. The School Board, in the meantime, had removed from the building every desk and other article of furniture and the hospital managers had moved Into the , building cots and other necessary adjuncts for the treatment of the sick. At nightfall, Surgeon Bloom of the hospital, the sisters, and others had been warned that they had better leave the building. They did so, headed by Sister Agnes, and threaded their way through a dense mob of excited citizens. Then a small force of police was ordered to the scene, J but the mob outwitted the guards, and, 1 while the police were busily engaged in attempting to quell the riotous crowd in front j of the building, two men with a five-gallon can of oil proceeded to the rear and quickly had the building in flames. An alarm was turned in, but the first engine had scarcely arrived when its hose wis cut. When other engines arrived their hose also was destroyed by the mob. Chief j Gaster and Captain journee finally arrived , in a patrol wagon with a big squad of offl- j ! cers, who beat the mob back. Then the j firemen succeeded in preventing the total ; [ destruction of the building. | The school house is a handsome buildic g, entirely isolated and situated in the cent re of a large square. There was no danger of ; ] infection from it, and the people in the ; neighborhood were unau-iy muiuiou. I Mayor Flower ordered a force of policeI men to guard the school house. The por- j tjon of the building not burned will be used ! as a hospital. A committee called on the | Mayor to protest against its use for that purpose. The Mayor denounced the outrage, and said that if it required all of the forces of the city and State, he was determined that the Beauregard School Building should be used as a temporary hospital. In the meantime, he sald. no effort or expense would be spared to bring to justioethe men who had fired the building last night. The Mayor has the support in his course of almost the entire community. Thus far there have been a few less than 100 yellow fever cases and fifteen deaths in this city. The death rate is in the neighborhood of fifteen per cent. It was in 187S sixteen percent., so that up to the present time the disease is about as virulent as it was in the last great epidemic. The situation in the infected Mississippi towns is improved, except at Edwards, where there are tweDty-tbree new eases, making a total of eighty-six under treatment. Most of the cases are of a mild type, the death rate being remarkably low; but there is considerable distress among the poor families, and the number of nurses and doctors is insufficient to care properly for the sick. SHERIFF AND POSSE HELL?. Martin and His Deputies Must Be Tried For Murder. At the close of the preliminary hearing of the Commonwealth against Sheriff Martin and his deputies la Wilkasbarre, Penn., the j Judges thought sufficient evidence had been produced to hold the defendants for ! trial on the charge of murdering the striking miners. The Sheriff and the deputies then came before the bar and entered bail I for trial in the sum of $6000 each?$5000 j | iormurderand 81000 for feloniously wounding. A bond was provided by a Philadelphia trust company.' Many of the Commonwealth's strongest witnesses Emitted on cross-examination that their object in going to Lattimer was to get the men at work there to quit and join them. Anthony Renovitch testified that he was in the seventh row of the marching column of strikers The Sheriff called out something. Then he took hold of the witness by the coat cellar and pointed his revolver at him. Witness pushed the revolver aside. Then he hoard the Sheriff givetho command to fire. He said Sheriff Martin was about 300 yards in advance of the deputies. Martin Snolocki was suffering much pain from a bullet wound in theshoulder when he took the stand. He said he was running towards the bush when he was shot. He sawtheSlwriff in the middle of the road, heard him say something, and immediately fK" ??i.mnn Ha nrlmtt-roH that he was *IAX> *1AIU? VV^UU. **v with the mob at West Hazleton in the morning when the Sheriff warned them to go home. Mr?. Kate Case, who resides at Lattlmer, swore that tho neighborhood was terrorized because the rumor got around that the strikers intended to blow up the town. She said 9he fled to the mountains with har family, as did a number of her neighbors. | Adjourned In Honor of a Colored Minister. Out of respect to the Rev. Matthew Campbell, a widely known colored minister, who was buried In Richmond, Ky., a few days ago, Judge Scott ordered the adjournment of the Circuit Court. This is | the first time in the history of Kentucky that such a mark of respect has been, accorded a colored man. Killed by a Earth Slide In Italy. Forty persons were killed and many others injured by an earth slip at the sulphur mines near Girgenti, Italy. Gold Seekers on Bicycles. The stampede to the Whatcom gold mines on Silicia Creek, in Washington, continues. Returning prospectors say that there is a continuous procession of men, horses, wagons and bicycles between Whatcom and Eigne Mile l'ost, on tt.e State trail.,# Three Killed in a Boiler Explosion. ; The boiler in tho sawmill of E. G. Dex, j hree miles from Livermore, Ky., blew up. Three men were killed and ten injured. Cold water run into the boiler caused the acoident. . , " - - ' > ' . ' . < ffi ; V r .1! 4 I ? ? ii ii >. 11 ??? THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. TTashlnrton It?mi. A portion of the soldiers sent by tho War 1 Department to Alaska will be stationed at St. Michael's, and a portion sent up the , Tukon to the boundary line. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani will resume her fight against the annexation of Hawaii as as soon as Congress convenes. The annual report of General Dumont, Supervising Inspector-General of Steam Vessels, shows that 650,000,000 passengers were carried during the year, and 183 lives lost. Kao o/ioanf a/1 'a Kl/l ftf i 1U3 VrvrCiUIUCilfc UOO ovvu^/?vu ? m.v. v? $416,000 for the timber on the Chippewa Indif.n reservation, in Wisconsin. Tha wrecking of the steam whaler Navarch by being caught in an ice pack in the Arctic Ocean, the probable loss of thir- I ty-seven members of her crew and one 1 passenger, and the rescue of the Captain ; and his wife and six of the crew, have just been reported to the Treasury Department by Captain Tuttle of the revenue steamer Bear, of the Behring Sea patrol fleet. The Monetary Commission appointod under the authority of the Indianapolis ! "Somcl Money" Convention held its opening session in Washington. The Secretary of the Interior has made requisitions on the United States Treasury < for the following sums to be used in the ! October pavment of pensions: Buffalo, I $1,650,000; Chicago, $2,875,000; Concord, ' N. H., $775,000: Des Moines. Ia.. $2,140,000; j Pittsburg, $1,750,000. Total, $9,190,000. President McKinley has commuted the sentence of C. Lee Addlngton, who was to . die on the scaffold in Taris, Texas, on Fri- I day, to life imprisonment. Addington mur- ! dered Oscar Hodges in the Choctaw Nation In 1895. Archibald J. Sampson, of Arizona, has * ' ? " tA ' been appointed unueu JilUlbbui. iV i Ecuador. Four chief? of division and twenty clerks i in the Post Office Department have been j notified to show cause why they should not be reduced in salary and position, to make room for other clerks ?of greater efficiency. Domestic. SZCOBD or THE LZAOCZ CUTIS. Per Psr Clubs. Won. JVost. ef. | Clubs. Won. lx>st. ct. Boston ...90 37 .709 Brooklyn59 69 .457 Bait 87 37 .7021 Pittsb'g ..56 69 .448 N'wYork.80 46 .635|Chica*o .55 71 .437 Cincin'atiTO 53 .569 Phiiad'a..54 73 .425 Clavel'd..65 58 .528 Louisv'le 51 72 .415 Wash'n.. 58 68 .469 St. LouiS.27 96 .220 1 Senator Jacob A. Cantor, of New York City, and Miss Lydia Miriam Greenebaum were married in Chicago. Richard Croker was Senator Cantor's best man. Two men were killed and three seriously injured by the bursting of a five ton flywheel at the factory of the Providence (B. I.) Rubber 8hoe Co. Fully $6,500,000 in gold coin is in sight bound from Europe and Australia for. America. Of this t2,500,000 will como direct to New York. United States Judge Constantino Buckley I Kilgore, ex-Congressman from Texas, diedi at Ardmore, Indian Territory, after a short ! illness. He was born In Newman, Ga., in 1835. B. E. Pear;, the arctlo explorer, In an interview in Philadelphia, shjti that when he goes North next year he wtu stay aniu no : reaohes the pole or loses his life In t&e | attempt. He has five years' leave of absence. General Benjamin F. Tracy says he will accept the nomination for Mayor of Greater New York if offered to him by the Republican organization. Henry George also announces that he will a.ecept a nomination by the free silverites, if an issue is made for him. , President McKinleyand the partyaccompanying hlro on hit Massachusetts trip went to Lenox, where they were the guests of John Sloane. Eighteer. gold seekers are said to have been been killed by a land slide near Bbeep Camp, on the Chllkoot Pass, In Alaska. All the bridgts on the Skaguay River have been wash jd out, and it is a raging torrent. Nea rly a dozen miners, mostly Russians and Italians, were killed or wounded by an explosion In a coal mine near Manoo, 111. John R. Gentry and Robert J. broke the world's team pacing record in Philadelphia, making a mile in 2.09. President McKlnley and his party were 1 warmly welcomed In the Berkshire Hills of TKu Pvoaiiltxnt la thft CPIlftSfc iuassouuuociio. AUV * AVU.-.VW. w 0 of an old friend, and made a speech to a big crowd at the Hooslc Voljey Fair, North , Adams. Sheriff Martin and his deputies were held for trial by the Court Jn Wilkesbarre, Fenn., : for the shooting of strikers at Lattirner. j The State Committee of the National Democrats, at a meeting in New York, endorsed Alton B. Parker, the candic >* Perpetual. Whkkuso, W. 7a. (Special).?The feat ure ui miorcsi iu -niu(> ????** vi *uv wK . tember term of the United States Court for the District of West Virginia was the application of ex-Govornor A. B. Fleming, of Fairmont, to make the injunction against Eugene V. Debs and others perpetual. The Governor was acting for his client, the Monongah Coal Company, and as there was no appearance for any of the defendants the injunction was made perpetual. Brockton Strfkers Win. Bbocktox, Mass. (Special).?The big strike of shoe lasters is settled, and it is apparently a victory for the strikers. SWEEPING OPINION AGAINST TRUSTS The United States Court in Kansas Severely Criticises Trade Combinations. In a decision handed down in Topekaa Kansas, holding that the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange is a trust, organized in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, United 8tates District Judge C. J. Foster made some severe criticisms upon the formation of trusts and combinations to control trade. The exchange is an organization of commission men who control tho sale of live stock in Kansas City. All live stock which enters the city must pass through the exchange. Judge Foster Issued an injunction restraining it from doing business, because it is an unlawful combination. In tho course of the decision the judge says: "The crying complaint of to-day and the great menace to the welfare of the people is the tendency of wealth to monopolize and control the industries of the country, and it must be oonfessed by every thoughtful observer that many of the so-called stock and produce exchanges are among the most potent instrumentalities for the accomplishment of these purposes by speculators and adventurers." FOUND ON THE MESA'S TOP. Results of an Expedition Recently Sent Out by the Government. P. W. Hodge.of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, has just returned to Washington from an expedition to the Enchanted Mesa, of New Mexico, which has excited the interest of scientists and the daring of exploring parties. It was brought Into prominence a few months ago by the expedition of Professor William Libbev, of Princeton University, who reported no evidences of early occupancy. Mr. Hodge's explorations have brought good results, however. He ascended by an extension ladder comprising six sections. The Mesa was determined to be 431 feet from the western plain to the top of the highest pinnacle above the cleft, and the talus at the base of the cleft 2*24 feet above the plain. Mr. Hodge found several potsherds. two stone axes (broken), a fragment of a shell bracelet and a stone arrow point. All vestiges of the ancient trail ascending the talus, and continued thence to the summit by hand and foot hole9 in the solid rock, have been obliterated; but some traces of the holes remain. Fast Freight Rons. The B. and O. 8. W. has been making records on quick despatch freight within the past week or two. Two trains, one weighing 732 and the other 734 tons, ran from Cincinnati to Parkersburg, 200 miles in eight hours and three minutes and eight hours and four minutes respectively. The run from St. Louis to Cincinnati, 340 miles was made in sixteen hours. Considering that some of the grades exceeded one per cent, the performance ranks with the best on record and demonstrates that the track and motive power of tne B. and 0. S. W. must be in good condition. Sixteen Suicide* in One Week in Chicago. Sixteen persons who had found life In Chicago a failure committed suicide la9t week. Five of the unfortunates were wo- j men. Four of the victims hanged them- ! selves, four took poison, three drowned 1 themselves, two used revolvers, one inhaled gas, and one leaped from a window. Bears Invuuv . *?..o Orcha/ds. Citizens of Kendrick, Tata County, Idaho, have been obliged to fight large numbers of bears which have invaded their orchards nightly, owing, it is said, to failure of the wild berry crop in the mountains. * ; A . .y ' , v - I , CONSTABULARY MUST GO. $8 Gov. Kllerbe Has Not Dccl the refugees to come to his hotel. Had he said "come" the shipment of the water would have been seriously interfered with and there would have been danger of spreading the germs in every '$ direction through the medium of the -M water. Again, the business of the & hotel for the next summer season would have been injured. All the $ same, it was a most tempting offer. Mr. Harris felt that his lithia spring water -..vjr would be an antidote for yellow fever . tM and was confident that the germs oould ' jfflj not live at the place, but he did not care to have the dreaded words "yellow fever" mentioned in connection with his resort?The State. - THE PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY. ' The River Companies Are Mining Steadily, But Not to Excess. Phnnnhaf* Tnsneator Adoluhus W. , n9H Jones was in Colombia last week, so the State, fresh from the phos- "'M phate fields. The river rock induetry in this State, he said was not *3 so dead as it has been represented as ; being. While the output is not so large \ as formerly, the companies are mining V .l i about ten thousand tons each < month. The Beaufort, Farmers' and Empire companies he said, were min- JgiM ing to a considerable extent, bnt they never allowed a surplus of rock to get ?' VJjj on hand. ^ They were keeping everything well < in nand and not letting the production .,&? exceed the demand, 'lhere is not now &1E in the river section mo-e than 26,000 tons of rock. already mined. Of this amount more than half belongs to the L'oosaw com i any, which has given np work. When this company quit it had ^ a much largor supply on hand bnt has 1 ?