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élebraied Spotted Tail, (Sin-m G51 11 who wga living at the fimu lot our story. A_- A- Lnun “ro" in the Sioux languagemeana “voioe.' and "VVaah-tny" mPau "good," and Ho Wash-flay or Good V , is ore of the sub- chiefs of the gran ba‘u 9f Brnle Sioux, wLan chief was bub a Iborb time ago the celebrated Spotted Tail. (Sip-m Gsl iu-ka) WflU WM nva av unv nu..- -- _V, The Sioux Indiana often have or have had more than one name, and Good Voice, when a yonng warrior, had been known as “The Trailer” from his suparior knowledge of this intricate Indian an; in following obwure tracks and paths, and interpretmg all the signs that: were found. and to recount a true adventure of his application of. this know- ledge, when with the author. In the obj act of this story. , A-.. 1- .,__._: .0.--" ha. 6-..»..A The Sioux radians often more than one name. and ( a young warrior, had bee] Trailer” from his suparior‘ v] in“ nun}. In June, 1877. I 103ml myself at Spotted Tail Agency in Northwestern Nebraska in command of the only company of Cavalry among eighty-eight hundred Brnle Sioux. The green Sioux War in which the gallant Custer and his brave men had been ioul: was over, hub so friendly had Spotted Tail and his large band of warriors been to the whites through this long and bloody struggle, that only a company or two of troops had ever been needed among them. In fact, a great number of this band had been enlisted an wants, and paid as soldiers. Spotued Tail, himself, their captain and Good Voice one of the sergeants. ‘ in LL-_..-LLmn-A n‘ But a few days' travel to the northward or Spotted Tail Agency lay the black Hills of kaobs, and when the restless spirit 0! min- ing “ prospectors " hsd discovered gold in their steep gulohes and mountain flanks, a dozen roads from the confines of oivlliz itlon pointed toward the new El Darodo, like spokes meeting at a. hub, and from away south of the Aqency, along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad following hhe Platte , LL___ .: a.-.“ "ma. ...-.._,. A good paying ma let over this read, and wagon could hardly deep sang, the mail,â€" I .LL‘..- “1 uunv yuan".-- i sharp spurs of well wooded bills. 111 a. gorge of whlch, between two high ridges, Pine Blufia lay. Old Indian trells used by hunc- ere oi mountain sheep, deer and antelope roughly connected the two. mm. “Konrnev Road." as we called its, rongmy ammo...“ w- -V V. This “Kearney Road," as we called it. was an nnfrequenbea highway. seldom pess- ed over except by the mall carriers, and once in a while_by some BlackBllla emigrants in wagons, who had been deluded by those interested in this route into the belief that) it: was a good thoroughfare. Many ponies had been stolen from the Indians and there were grave suspicions that: most oi them found a market: on reach- ina the end of this Kearney Road, afher 1 Duvu In: r. are" As slime diflionlh trailing might be expect- el, I sent: for Good Voice, whose acquir- menoa I knew not only by repntotion, but also by personal experience in several one; before, and he with a half a dozen other Sioux of Good Voioe's selection made up my party that) left Spotted Tall Agency lane in uhe afternoon oi A beautiful J une dly. and started due cub-wad in 3 "night: line for the little oobin 3p Plne Blnfit. Au 7 ____L uuv Alva-v -â€"..._ .n We reached the shaman over the rough mountain troll Belem at: night abet it we: evident that nothing more could be done nnnil morning. Shgoluly enough I found the cabin deserted, and no algnn of white men around. I greatly deolred and had hoped 1» meet some one who could give me information, or put: me somewhere near the trail. It was about ten o’clock at night, just after we had eaten a hasty meal (i run 11 rations, and turned into {our beda,-mere y a blanket or We spread out in the 0 on an- under the tall, swaying pines,â€"an while Our horses were crunching the greases now' far from our head, to the lengtn their lariane would allow them to graze. that we heard a wagon rumbling up the road from toward the Niobrara, and in a few minutes two men drove into the station much surprised at finding 30 large a force at their home. They were the mail-carrier who had taken Fosdick'e place since his disappearance, and the superintendent of this section of the mail route of about a hundred and fifty miles, whom we will call Softenvllle, because that is not his true name. Softonville was much ex Jited over Foedick's murder, and openly expressed his desire to kill some of the Indians praent to atone the brutal act committed by some of their race. The two horses in the wa on were un- hitohed, the mall-carrier and ed one, and with the leather mail sack with its one or two letters, or perhaps no letters at all, die- appeared towud the Black Hills on his route. Soitenviile remained behind, and told me oi the day's doing. That morning while hunting on horseback for some evidence of the murder, about ten miles out on the road from Pine Bluffs, a bad odor led him to examine a deep gulch an the head of a canon, but a couple of hun- dred yards to the south of the road. and here, to his horror. he found poor Foadiek's so WASH TAY- mutd« I' travel to thernoybhivgfd of body, a shot abruugh the head and one Dblâ€"Ough t_he bo‘jy: He had carefully examined the ground, and found tracks of abouc a. dozen Indian ponies coming up a ravine into the mad, about three or four hundred yards from the scene of the murder. The tracks had m -n scattered all around, and again united, lm 1- ing to the north. the tracks of lucklene Fa!- dick's mule bringing up the rear, as ii t’ley were leading him after the animal. The max-eat: novice could easily tell the whole suory from these indicnions. We all thought: that a War party of Northam Sioux from the Missouri or Yellowstone chr had committed this foul son to secure the fine mule. and had done it close under the shad- mum, uuu unu uuuu u. vnuuv an“... "n. -..â€".. ow of the Agency of a friendiy tribe, that their depredationn might be thus covered up. Lrte as it was that night, I sent for Good Voice, and told him the story. He asked a green many questions of Softenville, who was evidently p» zz‘ecl and irritated by them. Any one could see that the questions were directly to the point, and yet the superintendent could not answer them. .N. LA: r v _ , WhenI bold Softenville that I wanted him to go with me nexb day to the scene, he objected on the ground than there was no use, as lb was now too late to do anything howard following the murderers and recov- ering the animus, since: they had a week the start; and as to burial, that had been done by him and the mail-carrier that day, which accounted for their getting into the station so late. Still hia objections were not very firm, and when I told him that I believed Good Voice could tell exactly which band had committed the act, and that it was very probable that we could thus punish the mur- deters, and possibly get the mule, he re- luctantly consented to accompany us to the place of the murder, and there leave us to attend to the importantt and pressing duties which called him away. The next morning we all stsrted out on the road to the eontheastward. The super intendent rode a. Spry little black horse with white feet, a little lame from having recently cash a shoe, but: no one but. an ob- serving person would have noticed the lame- DEBS. As we neared the place of Fosdick‘a grave alongside the road, which could be seen for quite a distance on the flat, rolling pleine. the pithy was halted and I sent Good Voice ahead no take a good look at the sur rounding: especially the tracks of the Indian ponies. I was anxious to know if pageible',‘ what band had done the deed. ,,,___4.-_ .._.l rvfiv-{fiagiggngagkithe interpreter and another Indian, and after being abagnt ne_arly an hour, anxiously running around on foot, he sent the interpreter back and told me chat he would like to see me alone, and I rode forward to where he stood near the grave. He had a particulary sweet, musical voice, from which be derived his present: name. and as he leaned against my horse’s shoulder and told his brief story in low tones, every intonation carried conviction with his words. He said that no ponies had come up the ravine pointed out for over a month ; that just eleven days before twelve Texas cattle had gone through it, but were grazing at the time and unattended by a harder, and had nething to do with the murder. I 5",: L_ _-__- Fosdick :’must have been killed by some one riding with him, and the shot, which was from a pistol. had been close and sudden, and instant death had followed. Moreover, the mule was not the object of the attack. The murderer had dragged the body to the pocket in the head of the gulch, and had then had a hard time catching the mule, which was evidently frightened by the blood of the murdered man, but had finally been success- ful. He then led this mnle. which had pull- ed beck hard on the lending strep, three or four hundred ytrde to the southward. The murderer, said He‘Waeh-tay, made a circuit, came back and crossed the road about a hundred yards below the grave, and then went northward. He ended with the signifi- csnt remark, that whoever had committed the murder had ridden the horse now in the possession of Softenviiie. L,,LL: _. ~_-..LI-. a-) I ‘lvuuwuvâ€" v. ~-_.,,r,, Hi: conclusions Ion-bled me greatly, and I naked both Good Voice and the interpreter to say nothing more shout them for a While, an suspicion wergnow quoting very pain bed. 1 17 n,, A_____ AL- ._..___A I followed Gud Voice over the ground, end everything he 1nd said Was mule clear. The csthls trsoks were made immediately fiber the last heavy shower, which Good Vaice distinctly remembered as occuriug on the elgch of the month, a heavy thunder- storm, for the mud had been so soft as to squirt up heugoen their toes. The wake: e LLA _____..A A n A n A n Gkn u... _r w-“ a, n, , was not: yet eff of theground even on the hillsides, u it) had poured back into the tracks cutting crevice: in the side mud, wl.hout7 beating down the sharp edges, as would have been the one, had it been the relultaelf. In w“, therefore, immediately after the rein before the water had well drained ewe y. The ooursé of the murderer's horse w“ well shown, although in some plzoea the trail was obscure ; but that invariable one shoe 20151 a. uggform story. ,,__ L_: h..- -L--- mun-e. v..- 7 , Sail! Sofhenv‘llle‘l home had two shoes gone, but the load of one was very recent. as was shown by his humans ; and with this explanation the void was perfectly filled. Good Voice now wanted to return to where the trail of the murderer leading the mule had crossed the Kearney Road, and follow it. He reasoned thus : if the mule was the Object of the murder. in would have been I, run“ 44...- ‘ "HA m:n:nn milieu to the Black Hills, then a wild mining camp, for sale. If not, then it wan probably led back into some remote ravine never vls- iced by man, and hhere killed. We took up thla frail. and at occasional points Good Voice would show me where the mule pulled back persistently, frightened by the scene which he had gene through, and probably by the smell of blood. Alter following it; about five miles to the north- ward, in a dry, sandy ravine we found the body of the mule shot through the head. Not fer away in the grass was the mail bag cut open' and a few letters scattered around, and also a few articles recognized as belong- ing to Foadick. . . .. . 1-, 53A-.. L-.:_ALL , v .. ...__ Everything possiblebeingfonnd out, Good Voice hunted up the trail of the murderer, md started to follow it again. It now led once more to the north westward in a course that would lead to the head of a creek c511- ed the Wounded Knee, that flowed north- ward. maifiv¥§§€fcertain that Indiana had noth ingto do_v§ith the affair. .... . . j,_‘ n_u. Good Voice was somewhat puzzled for a minute by finding two tracks or trails lead- ing this way, and so expressed himself. Soft- enville, who had followed us intently, and very pale with suppressed excitement. know- lng full well the meaning of Good Voice' 5 allusions to him, even though not interpret- ed no him, at this juncture, whh an oath to beluga: u_p pin swaggef'gug courage! said: "fifthâ€"1Hsz huaunhin‘l; I don; it, the way he some about in. How does he account for these two trails if only one msn killed Foa- dick?” 7 __ _ Bu: in a quiet way Good Voice accounted to me to: the two trails, by saying and show- ing that. they were made at different times, and so irregularly divergent and crossing, that no cm: s :ber persons would evar have riddcn than Wuy lugeLher. lluul u u. .‘_J _..,_V.__V_ A close inspecaion showed one to have been nude nu the time of the murder. The beraa that made a trot; was 111de u: a trot, an! frtqiently, for a. long streich, at a gal- lop; wnile me oxher track was nearly al- ways at a. walk with an occasional trotting apart, and no: more than two days old. ,___:_____ __ LL‘ apulu, nuu uuu lule .u-.. ."V _â€"J_ -. It was evidrnt that the murderer on the lean occasion had used the lame horse as at first, and had made this second ride in the night, or in the morning so early that the sun htd not dried up the dew. for a‘xighn perches of mud were on the grass where the hoof had trampled it down: ‘ .1 ..| Good Voiceftherefore, said that the mur- derer on the day of the not was only too anxious to get away from the scene, even in that lonely country. Afterward he hm re- turned, for some reason, to the scene of the murder. Once more on the trail like a. sleuth hound, Good Voice held It for six or seven miles through dlfiimlt stretches of hard qrmlxc. carpeted wlth bnfinlo grass, until the W onnd- ed Knee was reached at its bud. Every one expected it to follow down that; stream toward the Black Hills, 3 sort of refuge then for many a criminal. The two trails here separated inn vast stretch of stnmpy red willows, so that it was impossible to follow hath, and I told Good Voice to follow the umu. After a moat intricate winding around through marsh and Willow broke, as if intend- ed to throw a trailer 03 of the scent, Good Voice managed. by everalhaura’ hard work, to find where it took up its true retreat, and to the surprise of all it led nearly due west- ward toward the station at Pine Blufis. Dirkness set in before we reached this point, but when we gave it up. the station was but two or three miles away, and the trail bearing directly for it. For resinous too long to explain, I did not arrest Softenville, but calmed his fears as much as possible. That niaht I slept at the lonely station, and Dukness set in before we reached tms point, but when we gave it up. the station was but two or three miles away, and the trail bearing directly for it. For reasons too long to explain, I did not arrest Softenville, but calmed his fears as much as possible. That night I slept at the lonely station, and the next day went to Spotted Tail Agency and made my ieport. Within a day or two I had to take a force of oavalryrnen and Indian scouts down. the Kearney Road, for some of the Indians around the Agency were losing their best ponies. It was well guessed that they were disappearing down this almost deserted thoroughfare, which was so Well adapted to such nefarious schemes. I was much more successful than I had expected he be, and found reason to believe than the principal agents in this business were the persons ostensibly using the road for mail purposes. 1 W, AL _...V first LUV Ll'flu nu m...- “.r ..... In fact, at one station I found such good signs that in had been used to shield the snolen stock from time to time, than although a. boy only was found there, I arrested him for complicity in the crime. It was a ter- rible sight to the poor boy, a score of painb‘ ed, feathered and angry Indians, and an equal number of sun-burnt, dust-begrimed troopers, all of them fully armed, around him, and this, too, hundreds of miles from any svmpethy or friends. It was no wonder nhat he felt than: his last hour might be close at hand, and still less wonder that he broke completely down, and readily surrendered himself as a key to unlock the whole mys- tety. .. . ,,,,r....: A...“ A: ugly. At this very time, no he confessed, two of his companions am this station were absent on their way to the Platte Valley with a dozen or fifteen stolen ponies, brought to the station above by Sateenviile. and there procured by hi3 “chums” as he called Ehem. I/u Softenville often brought: herds of stolen Indian stock, numbering even as high as twenty to thirty, as far down the road as his own “ ranch,” as the VVeaternex-s call a. station or isolated house. He had often heard Fosdick‘s murder spoken of by dif- ferent parties, on! all believed that Sof- Ienville knew more than he would sny. When Foediok had found out Soften- vllle’s true character. he had remonshrated emphatically with hlml and when he found than words were of no Ivall. notified Soften- ville to find some one to take his place as soon as he could. Yet he ngreed to remain a few days until I substitute could be foun‘d. ,, L1“ an AV" Mu,“ u»...- _-__-_ These few days were fatal to him. By night muohes, through the help of the boy, I Iuooeeded in etfl'ng three of the persona most direcny mplicsted in this series of thefts. I denired to get; Softenville for a higher crime, and accordingly determined to visit Fosdlok’s revs, diliuter the body, and see if Seftenv le’u story, or the conjec- turel one of Good Voice was correct. UM|I| 'uv v- . -.- _ I found that he had been shot from the right side by a pistol, no close to the head then it burn: the skin. Al the ground sloped downw-rd no the right, and rho pistol shot ranged downward, nhe murderer must) have been riding close we poor Foldick. when the fatal shot wee fired. Therefore. the act: was not likely to have been committed by Indians. The fetal bullet wn secured. When the grave WM nearly finhhed, strangely enough, Sefbenv‘ille cnme along rinkng in e mail-wag- gon. He was arreeted, and taken with the others to the Agency. - -: ,,LL__X..:-_ unnuu w u... .1._.',. The far-Awe Knrney civil authorities were notified o Softenville, his crime and the testimony, but either 3 too aaep interest in their road to the Black Hills or the usual epnthy dependent on distance made them hedbete to move in the matter, and Soften- viile, too, had to be let go in course of time. The boy, as being the only one that had con- fessed, and, therefore, the only one against whom they bed positive testimony, seemed likely to sufi'er from their zeal, but I drew the line at this point, and had him released. Good Voice still lives at: the Brule Sioux Agency, 3 living monument of how hard it in to commit a crime even in the most lonely country, and under the best circum- stances to cover it 11p. n , fl”. ,_,_ _ He : They had a long letter at home from my sister this morning. She doesn’t ap- pear to find the climate lmlf so trying as she expgobed; .. L4-.. 1!... "a. Ana CL L‘wu. pfi She: That‘s satisfactory, I'm sure. And no: yotimus}: 1:911 me all her news. ,,~IA VA" can that: uu'v ’v .4..-â€" --__ 7,, He: ‘i'm afraid [ can't. You hadn’t got to the poatacriph when the city. Hadn't Reached the Postscript. v, FREDERICK SCHWATKA see thay I left: for The New Mode at Dlspmchlng Criminals.â€" " Will be tried June 24“). Contempt of death, the wise old Gancon philosopher, Montaigne, tel‘a us, is one of the greatest: hem-fix; thou virtue oonfsrs on mankind ; it is *he means of accommodating human lilo with a soft) and easy tranquility, and giving us a pure and pleasant taste of living. without: which all other erjaymentu would become extinct. EXECUTION BY ELECTRICITY. But while some of the most vlrtuoua of mankind look upon the approach of death with fear and trembling others who have yielded to evil support it: with greater ease than life. In the city of Bufi'alo during the week just past Judge Cnildn pronounced sentence of death on William Kemmler, a. crafty con- vict who had wsnoonly murdered Tillie Z'ogler. his mistress. Now. Kemmlar will be the fuse person in New York to suffer the Jeath penalty by electricity. the new meth- od prescribed by law ; and his thought than his execution will excite more GENERAL AND SCIENTIFIC {STE-BEST than has attached to the legal killing of any other murderer in the histpryp} “19: Mayo. When manner of person is 'thia Kemmler who will meet; death in the form of the most powerful agent you conquered and unilizad by the genius of civilized men? In would be natural to suppose that he does nob share the scientific or pnblic interest in this par- ticular instance concerning the application of elochticiby as e distroyor of life, yet this is by no means apparent. For we are told that Kemmler exhibited no particular emo- tion when he heard the judge’s words fixing his destiny, but: walked steadily out of the court-room, chatting gayly wlbh the officers on the way back to jail. u u ,LL!__ Yet it may be the?) while he had nothing to say in extenuation of his enormous crime, and while The displayed neither nervousness nor fear, he was mentally curlous to know whether death would come painlessly, or whether he would realize the force of she fatal shock, or whether he would meet: the victim of on some shore beyond the grave. Indeed, might) not the some ghasny thought: have occurred to this murderer at such a time thab once occurred to th it highly imaginative nd much neglects} poet, Alexnnder Smith : “A thousand yena hence, when we both are damned, We'll sit like ghosts upon the wailing shore, And xeml our lives by the red light of hell." Perhaps there was in Ksmmler’s breast: at least a. faint solicitude as to the sort of country he is shortly going to. Anyhow he displayed a fins contempt of death, and two facts attending the proposed electrical exe- cution may have he}pe31_to brPce him up. The first in that the felon does not know beforehand and never will know in reality at what precise moment the fatal shock will extinguish his lamp and stop the currents of his warm blood. The sentence is that it will be ” within the week beginning June 24.” Secondly. death will be practically instan- taneous, and therefore without pain. “ova.-.” ___ _,,- ,, Hereafter, themr it: may be- no unusual thing to see New York criminals going to their doom with witty remarks on their nque and which pleased old Montaigne and ‘the ancients. Theodorua answered Lysimachuq, who threatened to kill him : “Thou will: do a. brave feat to arrive at the toms of a can- hharides.” "One that: they were leading to the gallows told them they must not carry him through such a. street, last; a. merchant who lived there should arrest him by the way iur an old debt. Anotzher told the hangmzm hs must: not: touch his neck for fear of making him laugh, he was so tick- lish." Bun in Murderer Kemmler’s case, as in the case of all who shall be executed by the new method. there will he no appreciative an- dience admittezl which would applsud any witty remlrke he might: feel diapoeed to make. He is practicelly dead he the world already. Great secrecy will attend all ex- ecutions by eleonifluy, end in future the morbid publi: In New York state will have Eovgiillrov}: horrors to feed upon. 0n the ground of familiarity with French the British Mlnister and the French Minister at Washington are getting quite chummy. Father Dsmleu’s self-sacrifice in the leper seuclement of Molokai, aroused such general admiration that the Protestants of England raised money for him to build a church. The tourist) is expected in Prince Edward Island this summer, and if he is wise he will go there. The island railway has been im- proved in several respects as to new bridges, express trains, sharp curves and so forth, and the travelling accommodation is therefor ready. That ls a. more detail, but is worth noticing. The chief point is that the island province will be on hand with all its beauty and attractiveness, one of the fairest spots in a. lovely continent. and in summer such a place as makes the Canadian proud to own that part of the Dominion, and the Wander- ing “S:ater"â€"for so our Yankee cousin ob- jects nou to callhimselfâ€"to murmur : “Well now, these 'are Britlahers do have a fine country after all.” A STRANGE ROIIANCE THAT NATURAL ASSURANCE HIS SAVAGE CRUEL’l‘Y London Crowded th‘i Visitorsâ€"A Sen- sational Rumorâ€"G eneral Matters. It looks as if London were going to make more money out of the exposition than Paris, and the French are already saying that ml, is the customary luck of the English, who do not fight themselves, but realize large profits by selling goods to the other com- batants. No such crowd of foreigners ha. been known before there at any time of the year. Even in thejnbilee month the hotels were not so Lpacked as at present. London has ample facilities for taking care of twenty times as many visitors as now choke up her more central and familiar parts if there ex- isted any intelligent means of letting the guests know where the accommodations are. The wisest thing any American who is bringing ladies with him to Landon can do is to leave them at Southamption or at Liverpool or Chester, or at some nearer northern point, and come alone to London first, to secure apartments to which he can later bring his family. If he does not do this and comes on without having secured lodgings, the chances are that they will all be put into an extremeiv miserable day or two of chasing after shelter, and then will get the worst that is to be had instead of the best. A shock was felt throughout: the Pnris Brouse the other day on the receipt of an agency telegram announcing that the King of Innly and the German Emperor would travel to Strasbourg uogehher and that: a grand re‘ view of the garrison would be held there in the presence of the allied monarchs. It was pointed out by interested stock jobbers that such an action on the part of the Italian monarch could mean nothing less than an absolute provocation to War. A downward movement in French and Italian rentes was the immediate result of the re- port. Although it became pretty evident before the closing time that there was no truth in the rumor, the bonds affected finish- ed at a considerable reduction from the rates of the previous day. Captain Wisamann. in a report from Bsgamoyo dated Mayl, refersto the troubles of the missionaries. He says he recommend- ed the English to take and open up the road through Masailand. Dr. Peters placed one hundred Somalia at Csptsin Wissmann‘s disposal for a. month $0 assist: in crushing Bushiri. Poor Bisma' 0': never gets in England credit for sincerity or good feeling about anything. When he took the trouble to write an auto- graph letter congratulating Capt. Murreil of the Mislouri on his heroism, saying that all seafaring nations were proud of his conduct, it became necessary for the English press to find some deep and wicked motive. The con- clusion was promptly reached that his idea was to fl itter his young master, the Emperor, by establishing Germany's position as one of the seafaring nations. Captain Murrell, of the steamer Missouri, which rescued the passengers and crew of the Dmmerk, paid a visit the other day to Coichester, his native place, and was given a. most enthusiastic reception by the citizens. In the evenings. banquet was given in his honor. The strike in the mining and other in- dustries in Germany, which has been in progress some days past, is undoubtedly the most formidable labor disturbance that has occurred since the farmation of the present German empire. The complaints of the wage earners are practically the same as those which have frequently been heard in America; that is, insufficient pay and ex- cessiVe hours of work. Relatively consider- ed, there is even more justice in complaints of this kind in Germany than in America, for not only is the scale of wages there far below the average of similar occupations in this country, but the hours of daily labor are very much longer. Yet it is probable that the statement or the German employers, that they cannot afford to increase wages or lessen the amount of work, is much nearer an honest statement of fact than similar assertions made by American employers. The intensity of feeling on this subject is shown by the fact that in a country where laws are framed to prevent the formation of distinctive labor organizations, nearly 200,- 000 wage-earners have united together in a strike, and have held out, with hardly any r( sources, for a considerable period of time. Taking the conditions under which this widespread strike has been carried on. it seems to us to be one of the most remarkable labor demonstrations that has ever occurred. OTTAWA, May 23.â€"A change has been made in the route for the proposed telegraph line from Victoria, B. C., t» Bonills point, where it is proposed to establish a. signal station. It was at first: suggested to build a line from Comsx, which lies almost due north of Victoria, to Alberni settlement, and then lay a cable down the Alberni canal to Bonills. The cost of the cable, however, would be far in excess of a land line, and it hss therefore been decided to build a direct line to Bonills via the shore route. When the signal station is in operation it is expect- ed that it will be a green boon to the British Columbia. tug owners, who have hitherto been greatly handicapped ss age-inst their United States rivals for the ‘sck of prior knowledge of vessels coming up the straits. One Effect of the Combines Bill One effect of the Combines Blll is seen in the diseolutinn of the 03111 Carnage Company of Ottawa. This company was organized by the combineter coal dealers of the capital for the purpose of squeezing out new comers ; but since the publication of the evidence taken before the Combines Committee, three firms have successfully stood out against the local combine, and accordingly the Cntsge Company is dissolved, each dealer hereafter engaging his own Beams. Score one for Clarke Wallace. rrluuouu, Juzu mun... "v... “nut- first to revive the sen serpent: story s-e; son. The monster seen by him was 300 feet long and hnd a. head like a "beef bmel." Captain Smith, of the steamer British Princess, jest afiived from Liverpool, in the A“... 4.1. _-- LATE CABLE NEWS. The German Strikes. A Change of Route.