UNCLE SAM'S LAND.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 88, 7 January 1908, Page 7

UNCLE SAM'S LAND.

- NEWSY NOTES PROM THE STATES. < • Loan Rates Lowering. New York, November 26. New York bankers arc looking forward to J a rosumption of cash payments within a very short time. The return to a strictly 'cash basis in banking transactions is largely de- * pendent upon the loan ; rates on money, j Theso rates are steadily declining, and call money practically went begging : in |Wall j Street late to-day at 3 per cent, and below. Rates on timo loans continue comparatively high, but are gradually being lowered. ' By . tho time tho loan-rate reaches 6 per cent, it is believed the bankers will feel assured onough of their position to resumo cash payments. Now circulation from the issuo of 3 per cent. Treasury certificates of in- • debtcdness will bp available within. a fow . days, and this will bo important in' hastening J tho return to tho usual banking system. | Ore in a Cellar. j : Reno (Nov.), November 20. 1 ' One of the biggest finds of stolen " high- ' grado" over known in tho camp of Goldfield ! was mado this morning by Constablo Inmhn ; in the collar of George Richardson; ' About j 12,0001b. of rock was;' hidden ,in . sacks be- 1 npath a pilo of rubbish, and ,nil of tho rock 1 will average at least 5dol) a lb. .It .is • thought that Riohardsori,' who is an assayer, I secured his 60,000d01. worth of ore from tho j Consolidated and Floronco properties, as 'tho 1 oro much resembles the rqck taken from 1 these mines. Richardson formerly conducted an assay office in Pueblo/ Col., and was ; arrested, there last spring .for tho.'. same 1 offence, and his trial on that charge is still pending. ' At _ that timo ha had 60,000d01, worth of " high-grade " in bis'possession. Ho has been arrested in Goldfield, and his case will be followed with much interest, as j tho frequency of 'discovories of high-grading ' of latq has caused tho mine-owners to take ; a to fight such cases.stub- >j bornly for tho purpose of setting all examplo in tho camp. ' : ■ 1 Hearst Held for. a Criminal Libel. | - Neva York, Novembor 21. 1 i Justice Wyatt, in the Court of Special ' Sessions to-day, field William R: Hearst for ! the Grand Jury on a charge'of criminal libel preferred by "William Astor Chanler. S. S. ' Carvalho gave bail for Hearst., Tho amount ; of the bond was fixed at 500d01., tlio usual 1 sum required in misdemeanour cases.. Car- 1 • valho tho general manager of Hearst's 1 New York newspaper.' 1 Both Hearst and;iiis 1 bondsman were in court when. Justice Wyatt handed down his decision. They) repaired 1 to'< tho offlco • of District-Attorney. Jerohio while tho bail bond was being prepared. It was later approved by Justice Wyatt', and 1 Hearst and his attomoys drove away in tho big red automobile which had brought thorn to tho Criminal Courts building. Tho charge against Hearst grow out of a publication in tho Nejv York Evening\Journal " concerning, the case of Raymond Hitchcock, tlio 1 actor v Chanler's name was mentioned in ) connection with tho , articlo. Tho Grand Jury, is is said, has:already undertaken an investigation of tho charges against Hearst, and a scorb of witriosses havo been Nsuiiimoned. . A Jealous Jap. Fresno, Novembor 20. : . .After tracking his faithless wifo and her lover for six months, tho chaso. extending from Scattlo to Fresno, a . Japanese, whose namo is unknown, this morning at two o'clock caino across tho despoiler of his home ; .'iri tlio Trilby -.Garden here, and , shot him I dead.' Tlio dead man's namewas Okamato, t and tho affair is stooped in Oriental mystery, for tho man who was shot had attempted to . stavo off.hisfato by' sending to the husband sums :i of;.jnfjney aggrogatiii" 600 dollars as • peacb"gifcs; ' Tlio husband 'accbptcd-.this ' monoy and was ostensiblysatisfied, whilo • all tlio timo ho, was using tho money-fur--1 nished by Okamato in tracing and killing tho ; latter." Tho. murderer, is riot yet captured.' 1 Protest Against Clirist'mas Carols. ■ . New York, November 21". A published account, to-day ha 3 it that, the Board of Education has .ordered that no 1 hymri.or carol in anyway mentioning Christ j dr Christmas shall bo sung henceforth in tho . public schools of New York. Tho order is , contained in instructions given by- Frank It. . Rix, . general musical director, to all tho i teachers under-him that pupils must not bo permitted to sing songs containing any words or phrases accentuating religious significance. Not only this, but it is learned that tho song books in liso in the schools are now in tho ■ hands of printers for revision, so that they may bo free from all sectarian reforonco, even the words " Christ" and " Christmas." Tho Board's action is tho result of agitation, of a year ago by Jows, deputations of whom appeared before tho Board and complained that > tho Christian festival, as celebrated in tho 1 schools, was essentially sectarian.. No actidn was takon at the time, but tho mattor was referred to the Committee on Elementary Schools, tho chairman of which is Abraham Stem. That committeo roported recently in favour of eliminating all sectarian reference from the song books, and tho Board of superintendents adopted tho report. | Cold Slugs for Coins. J Coltifield (Nov.), November 20. If a plan now under consideration by W. • E. Dowten, manager of..'the-Nevada Goldfield t Reduction Works, is consummated, Goldfield t will soon have a circulating medium which ' will 'rolievo to a great extent tlio scarcity of ' real money with which the camp is afflicted. ;i The plan is to take the bullion produced by ' the mills, mako it into bars and stamp ! thereon the valuo, which will bo used as ! monoy. Tho question of the legality of tho , plan and its possible conflict with thoccurr r : rency laws or tho land is now being ini vestigated. At present tho'three reduction works' of tho camp—the , Nevada Goldihi'l, t'.io Combir ation and lunkhead mills—are turning out about 5,000 dollars a day, but this amount could easijy bo quadrupled by running on oros of a higher grade. At the I rate of 20,000 dollars a day the camp could I produce 600,000 dollars ,a month in gold. . James R'. Davis, of the Round Mountain . Mining Company, has agreed to put tho i bullion from that mill into circulation in • tlio same way providing the plan is found to i be feasible, which would add from 30,000 l dollars to '50,000 dollars a month to the ; amount available. Houses Over Craves. Los Angeles, November 21. Authorities investigating conditions in tho City Cemetery made the astonishing discovery to-day that A. C. Smith, a squatter who fears not ghosts, has built himself a comfortable homo in the midst of tho graves, s fitted it with every convenience, and is lead- , ing a life of ease, without a landlord to molest him. It happened that ho chose the i. site for his house among tho headstones benoatli which a score of firemen sleep, and an > officer of the department made complaint to ■ the City Council. Hundreds ,of curious pcr- > sons havo seen tho strange residence, and . wondered who occupied it and why, but [ never brought it to official notice. Smith, , who is the son of a former carotaker of tho f burial ground, was notified this ovening that . lie must get out and take his houso and i family along. Ho appeared shocked. The | house' is a two-story structure, well-built, ! and Smith said lie thought ho was doing i tho city a favour by living there.

ity and cosmopolitanism, and tho condition causes us to bo singularly inconsistent. "Homo, Sweet Iiomo," we sing—and straightway start for tho Continent. "The Hoast Beiif of Old England" wo praise untiringly —but nono but French dishes travel down our throats. —"Truth." When lie discovered a native drinking milk (lircct from a cow, a Dutch farmer named Dutoit, of Potchofstroom, Transvaal, flicked him with a whip. This treatment so exasperated tho Kaffir that he seized tho Dutchman's beard and pulled most of it out. Tho bunch of hair was produced before tho magistrate, and tho culprit sent to a mouth's hard labour.