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SATURDAY.
JDLY 31. 1897
THE SCHEME FAILED.
Tom Reed's little manikins in tbe
house were easily wrapped around his
linger when called npon to pass a bill
for the creation of the monetary com
mission the last day of the special ses
sion, and rushed the bill through io a
. hurry after the receipt of the presi
dent's message recommending a re
vision of the currency on lines 6ug-
- ge9ted by the assembled bankers at
-m . m T T., Va
Indianapolis last January. . uui m
senate was less pliable, and referred
the bill to the senate finance com
mittee. The action of the senate was
the most sensible, since the commis
sion recommended by President Mc
Kinley, in the following quotation
from his message, would have been a
useless and unsatisfactory body:
"The sentiment ot the country is
strongly in favor of early action by
congress in this direction to revise our
currency laws and remove them from
, partisan contention. A notable as
sembly of business men, with delegates
ffnTZ9 states ana territories, was nem
at Indianapolis in Jannary of this
noni- Tha fTnnnp.ial situation COm-
mtnded their earnest attention, and
af .er a two days' discus-ion, the con-
v btion recommended to congress tl e
appointment of a monetary commis
sion. I" commend 'this report to the
' consideration of congress.
"The authors of the report recom
mend a commission to make a thorough
. investigation of the mometary affairs
and needs of this country, in all rela
. tlons and aspects, and to make proper
' suggestions for any evils found to
exist, and the remedies therefor. This
subject should have been called to the
attention of congress at the special
session. It ought not to be postponed
till the regular session. I therefore
urge and recommend that a special
commission be created, non partisan
in its character.to be composed of well-
I A .:-- i ffamnt', TiArtieR.
1LI1U1 UIQU l,lt.H.UUD f . - I '
who will commend the confidence of
congress because of tboir special fit-
ness for the work, whose duty it snail
be to make recommendations of what
ever changes in our present banking
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sary and expedient, and to report their
conclusions on or before the first day
of November next, in order that the
same may be transmitted by me to
congress for "its consideration at its
first regular session.
': " "It is to be hoped that the report
will be so comprehensive and sound as
to receive the support of all parties
and the favorable action of coneress.
At all events, such a report cannot fail
to be of value to the executive branch
of the government, as well as to those
charged with public legislation, and
greatly assist in the estanusnmens oi
an improved system of finance".
AN "UJX BIASED" OPINION.
It is really too bad that such a brip ht
' light as the editor of the'Fpssil Journal
possesses in his brain should be hid
away in the mountains of the southern
part of Gilliam county." And It was an
unfortunate thing for the great Ameri
can people that this editor- did. not
give them the benefit of his "brilliant"
opinions prior to the convening of the
Chicago convention a year ago, so
that the democracy might have selected
8UQ1D ObOor BbflUUnru ucai vuu wuw
gifted orator of the "Platte, for this
learned recent subject of Queen Vjc
toria has discovered that Mr, Bryan
is a most ordinary Individual mentally
and as an orator has dozens of superiors
in the state of C-egon.
y Editor Stewart Tecontly travejed
290 miles from his quiet homeon Butte
creek to Pendleton in order to hear
Mr. Bryan speak, and after returning
devoted a considerable spice to
picking flaws with the speech. He
informs the reading public that Bryan
is only a third rate orator, as compared
with Mr. Gladstone and the Irish
patriots isa ''mole hill to a mountain,"
and as to his argument for the free
coinage of silver, Editor Stewart says
it is perfect rot, and could be refuted
by an ordinary mind, but he did not
attempt to answer a single argument
submitted by Mr. Bryan.
The - criticisms which the Journal
editor made of the speech are preju
diced and partisan from start to finish,
still the Oregonian quotes them in full
as coming from an "independent and
entirely nonpartisan paper,"when it is
a well known fact to all who have read
the Fossil Journal for the past five
years that it is and has been one of the
most narrow minded and radical par
tisan papers published in the Inland
Empire; its editor is and has been
ever since he landed on American
soil (which is not so many years ago) a
pronounced republican, and has ever
taken his ideas from the paper that
OW quotes mm as an tuuspeuuuui-.
. . i t i i a .
r OSSU journal is a uuaysruKiu
is the Oregonian. If the
sgxpresses regarding- car.
iblased, so are tnose ex-
1 Scott.
CATION.
slbly do so
Jon. Judi-
st as.es-
in
"1
-x,vev
two weeks in the year and become
a dyspeptic invalid before your days
are half numbered?"
There is smaller excuse by reason of
there being less of necessity for con
tinuous labor than thirty years ago,
and especially is this true of people
who live in this country. Those who
take a regular summer vacation will
acquire just as much in the end and
will have from ten to twenty years
longer time in which to accumulate
than those who work all the time.
The mountain resorts and places for
enjoyable summer outing are the
crowning glory of this country. They
are easily accessible and afford every
thing that could be desired for restful
pleasure and renewal of physical
strength and health. .
Then there is something more than
physical comfort to be found in the
mountain woods aud streams. There
is that feeling that the Director cf
nature's bounties has provided these
places as a play-ground for weary
mankind that it jis a part of the Divine
economy- to accept and utilize these
temples of rest for the purpose for
which thev were intended. Ex.
VALUE AXU LEGISLATION.
The contention of the advocate of
silver with regard to tbe decrease in
price thereof has ever been that it was
the result of a lesseniugin tbe demand
brought about by tbe demonetization
of the metal by leading nations duriug
the early 70's, and they have as per
sistently contended that a remoneti-
zatioa of the metal, even by a single
nation of such commercial impor.ance
as the United States, would create such
a flnmnnd for- it air Ui ralsethe "prlco,
Both these contentions have been
streneously denied by the gold press,
but at last the Oregonian, which can
see nothing good in any metal except
gold, acknowledges that the da
monetization of silver was one of the
causes of its decline in price. In
recent editorial it says:
"The price of silver rose with other
prices after 1359, until it' was pressed
down, in a way perfectly easy to under
stand, by enormously increased supply
through vast new production and sim
ultaneous decrease of demand,through
tbe abandonment of silver as a money
standard by one great commercial
nation after another. The point to
be insisted upon now is that this fall
in the price of silver was hastened by
increased production of gold, and that
new additions to the world's stock of
sold will only press it lowor. To state
the principle in general terms, in
crease in the supply of either or both
of two money metals diminishes tbe
demand for that which is less efficient,
desirable and convenient by supplying
many who have had to employ it with
that which all would prefer, were there
enough to supply all with it. This ef
fect is so much more prompt and
powerful than that of the quantative
proportion of gold on general prices
that, if a stimulating effect of in
creased production of gold on general
prices were perceptible, silver would
be an exception to the general rule.
"Silver and gold may be conceived
as two kinds of machines for .making
exchanges, an inferior and a superior,
whose relative value depends upon the
world's demand for each, for that and
other purposes. It is understood bow
the value of tbe inferior machines Is
lessened by increasing the supply.
Tbe value of the superior machines
would not be decreased so fast by in
crease of supply, because those who
were using the inferior machines
would throw them aside and take the
superior, until that alone was in use.
This is .what the nations, from Ger
many to Peru, have been doing with
gold and silver for a quarter of a cen
tury. . Tbe obvious effect' of this sub
stitution is to decrease tho demand for
and diminish the relative value of the
Inferior machines with every increase
in the supply of the superior.
While much of tbe above argument
is well made aud true, it does not go far
enough into the ' real merits of the
queation to give a clear idea of present
conditions with refeience to silver.
-The only reason why silver is- today
the poorer machine for effecting ex
change is that it is not recognized as a
standard money. This office was taken
away from it, cdnsequently the demand
was diminished and the price fell.
Without legislation, or more plainly
speaking, bad it not been deprived of
money power, the demand would have
remained great and tbe price would
have kept apace with gold at the estab
lished ratio prior to 1873.
Then if the demand for silver was
lessened by legislation, is it not true
that it can be increased by legislation?
And if value was legislated out of sil
ver by cutting off the demand, can
value not be legislated back into it by
increasing the demand? Tbe argu
ment presented by the Oregonian sub
mitted above tends to prove this posit
ion, aud it Is a correct one beyond
question. Gold and silver are in their
natural state only commodities, and
tbe price of either is regulated by the
demand. Increase the demand for
either by making it a machine for
effecting exchange and the price must
rise. In short, legislate so as to
create a demand for either, as is done
by making it a standard of values, in
other words, a basic money, and its
price will rise. On the other hand,
deprive it of this function, and its price
will fall.
With a wheat crop of 575 million
bushels in sight in the United States
and an unusually light crop predicted
in all tbe other great grain producing
countries of the world, tbe prospects
of the American farmer are bright.
The recent issue of "Bradstreet's,"
which is usually very conservative in
its views as to the business future,
cails attention to tbe fact that the
stock of wheat in band at present is
unusually light, being only 75 million
bushels, while nearly all the great
'rain producing countries of. the world
unusually light crops this year.
t reports, it says, from Russia,
France and Hungary poinj;
ed wheat harvests, and that
dly supply her home de-
e reports from Australia
and adds: "This
States to the front
t exporter under
those wblch ex-
vival succeding
or six years
kiorny.'
1 The
to tho
ttoa
of June
THE CANADIAN HOG.
The discovery of rich gold mines on
the Clondyke has been the agency of
bringing out the avaricious trait that
lu-ks behind the Canadian govern
ment. It has brought forth an order
that will retard development of mines
throughout the dominion, and will re
sult in increasing- the hardshipps to be
endured by miners and prospectors,
not only at Clondyke but in all parts
of the Canadian territory.
lhe cabinet at Ottawa has decided
to impost a royalty on all placer dig
gings on the Yukon in addition to $15
registration fee a ad $100. annual as
sessment. The royalty wiil be 10 per
cent each on claims on which fhere is
an output of $500 or less monthly, and
20 per cent on every claim producing
above that amount yearly. Besides
this royalty, it has been decided in re
gard to all future claims staked out on
other streams or rivers, that every al
ternate claim should be the property
of the government, and should be re
served for public purposes and sold or
worked by the government for the
benefit of the revenue of thedominion.
Such a ruling as thisannot but re
tard development of tbe mineral
wealth of the dominion, for prospectors
will not care to hazard the dangers of
life in the frigid north in order to dis
cover precious metals and then be taxed
(virtually fioed) for making discoveries.
In making this ruling tbe Canadian
government has displayed its hogieh
ness, and is in striking contrast with
the liberality shown by the American
republic Here the alien or tbe citi.
zen may delve into the bowels of the
earth discover aiid operate mines, and
whatever he finds is bis own, all that is
changed by the government is a min
loum price for tbe ground aud a fee for
registration. But the'Canadian hog
not only taxes the minei for tbe privi
lege of working, but reserves one-balf
all the mines discovered for the special
benefit of the govern men t.
TARIFF POINTS.
An order has been received at Pitts
burg for $2,000,000 worth of steel pipe,
for Melbourne. Of course, there is
but one reason why -this order was
placed with American manufacturers
rather than with British. The Ameri
cans offered the better bargain. Or
egonian. S'.ill, we suppose, the Oregonian
will contend that a protective tariff is
needed to protect American steel
manufacturers against foreign compe
tition. D. H. Bibb, of D. H. Bibb Lumber
Company, returned -to tbe city from
Portland, Oregon, on the 29th ult..
after an absence of two weeks, during
which time he closed a contract with
the imperial government of China for
10,000,000 feet of railway ties and
70,000,000 feet cf bridge stringers to
be used in the construction of a rail
road through the province of Manch
uria, China, the grading of which has
been completed. The contract involves
a sum in the neighborhood of $25,000.
There was a battle royal in the bidding
between the mills of British Columbia
and tbe American mills, but one of the
latter carried off the prize. Marshfield
News.
Here we are getting lumber con
tracts in the face of world wide com
petition in foreign countries, and yet
lumbermen say that they must have
"protection," .or British Columbia
competition will drive them out of
business.
W. S. Byers has just entered into a
contract to -deliver 15,000 barrels of
ilour for shipment to Japan. He had
the option of furnishing 25,000 barrels
more, but as it was required earlier
than his mill could turn It out he had
to refuse the further order. Pendle
ton Tribune,
Another example of the growth of
our foreign trade under the despised
Wilson tariff law, denounced by our
high protective friends as a free trade
measure. Roseberg Review.
WHY WHEAT IS GOING UP.
Natural causes have led to a situa
tion in tbe bussness -world which is at
once unusual and gratifying. Under
ordinary conditions agriculture is
about the last of our great national in
tereBts to experience the stimulating'
influence of reviving prosperity. This
year, however, is the very first. The
return of good times has made its
greatest advance in the agricultural
states. Those communities arealready
in prosperous circumstances. Their
farmers are paying off their mortgages,
increasing their bank deposits, improv
ing their properties and reaping the
solid benefits of successful industry.
1 he explanation of this hopeful con
dition is clear and simple. Wheat has
done it alL The total crop of that
cereal in the United States this year
Is estimated by government experts at
460,000.000 bushels, and although tb al
ls 32,000,000 bushels move than the
yield of 1896, the grain is already sell
ing for 20 cents a bushel more than it
brought 12 months ago, with every
likelihood of much higher prices be
fore snow flies. In the light of these
facts the splendid business revival in
tbe agricultural states is easily under
stood The wheat harvest is supple
mented with the prospect of a corres
ponding large yield of corn. Crops of
all kinds, says the New York Mail and
Express, are up to the average, and
many of them above it, and from every
point of view the outlook for the
American farmer is more promising
than at any time in many years. .
Tbis encouraging situation at home
is strengthened by adverse conditions
in foreign agriculture. Not one of tbe
great wheat-growing countries of the
world will gather an average crop.
Argentina, Australia, Russia and In
dia all report less than their customary
yield, and tbis means that vast markets
hitherto supplied by those countries
will have to draw upon . the United
btates for enormous quantities of wheat
and other cereals. Argentina, our
most formidable agricultural rival on
this continent has already made pur
chases of wheat in the United States
small, it is true, and ostensibly for
seeding purposes, but still of sufficiei t
volume to disclose tbe unfortunate re
sults of herown harvest. Brazil, whose
markets have been supplied by Argen
tina for several years, has become a
heavy buyr of our wheat. Australia,
with no wheat on hand and no harvest
to gather before January, will have to
buy vast supplies from our Pacidc
coast states; and England, io conse
quence of the Australian failure, will
be compelled to seek tho game source
of supply,
With this rising tide of exports the
merlcan wheat crop Is bound to be
absorbed into tbe markets of
, and the upward tendency in
ly to continue. The visible
In world is at the
touched in yeai?.
"Nie
-tat
3
-vrm
er, wifh a crop
ct he average,
Is face to face with a situation which
promises magnificent returns for his
investmeut and Industry. With agri
culture thus leading instead of follow
ing the great business revival now in
progress, the return of prosperity
must necessarily b swift, general
and permanent. For when - agri
culture flourishes, the whola country
will flourish with it.
TIME TO SELL.
Ail the benefits that can possibly
accrue from the levying of a duty up
on imported wools in the way of fixing
prices this year are now realized fully,
and it would seem that the prices pre
vailing now are the best that will be
obtained until another clip is shorn.
Buyers generally are not makinsr
purchases on speculation, but to fill
such orders as they may anticipate
from manufacturers, consequently
they will not ofiJr speculative prices.
With this state of affairs existing we
believe it will be to' the interest of
wool raisers who have their product
stored in the warehouses here to ac
cept the ruling prices and make sales
at an early date. Fair prices can be
realized now, and even should wool
advance slightly within the next few
months, which is improbable, there
would be little gained by holding
longer. Tho proper time to sell any
producs is when buyers are plentiful,
and that time seems to be at hand in
the wool market at present.
EDlTOlllAL NOTES.
Durrant has been photographed
with a view to selling the pictures.
Photos taken about three minutes
after tbe drop would take the best of
any.
A few days ago a cloudburst in Pen
nsylvania destroyed several thousand
dollars worth of Mark .Banna's prop
erty, this a forecast of the deluge
that will strike Mark Haana later on?
Andree can add to the sensational
features of his polar balloon flight by
landing in the new Alaska gold mines.
That would fill the air with balloons
starting from every point of the com
pass. "The new sugar schedule, as amend
ed by the conference, offers a distinct
encouragement to tbo beet sugar in
dustry," remarks the Globe-Democrat.
It might well have added to the sugar
trust industry.
Undoubtedly the Clondyke gold
fields are great, but itis well to remem
ber that tbe tales of the successful
ones are now being told, and that there
are the tales of the disappointed and
the broken down yet to be heard.
When Speaker Reed appointed the
committees for the . 55 congress last
Saturday he gave Oregon two places.
Congressman Ellis was assigned to tbe
committee on public lands and Con
gressman Tongue to a place on the
agricultural committee.
The Ding ley bill is an attempt to
force up the cost of living in the
United States in the expectation that
it will be easier to get anlear living
than a cheap one. If the theory works
Mr. Dingley will be entitled to insert
himself in American history as. a
greater inventor than Keeley.
A year ago the republican party
promised the country an honest dollar
and a protective tariff. It has given
us a protective tariff with a vengence,
the highest ever enacted in America,
but as to the honest dollar, it has not
yet relieved us of the dollar that has
the faculty of being awful scarce and
dear.; - .' .- . .
i No doubt some of the coal magnates
Bow wish (hey bad Eugene V. Debbs
again' behind prison bars, for he is
making his power among the laboring
classes more felt than ever before.
Debbs failed in attempting to engineer
the great railroad strike but be will
win the coal miners' strike beyond a
doubt.
:. President McKinley has named a3 his
controller of currency Robert B. Trace-
well, of Indiana. This is o.ie cf the
most important offices in the United
States, since the entire national bank
ing system is under the fiipe-rvislon of
a controller, and it is certainly to be
hoped Mr. Tracewell will prove more
efficient than did Mr. Eckels.
Alaska is almost as large in area as
the entire United States east of the
Mississippi. "It is rich in mineral
wealth, and has already yielded many
times its cost in the 'precious and
other metals. Every year its value to
the United States is increasing, and
yet it is entirely isolated from the rest
of our territory just as Cuba would
be were we to acquire it.
ine president refuses to give up
Powderly, notwithstanding the senate
refused to confirm his appointment to
be commissioner-general of immigra
tion, and has reappointed him for that
position. Whatever else that may be
said against President McKinley, it
must be conceded that he is true to his
friends as ia shown by his persistency
in forcing Powderly upon the people.
The members of the Woman's Veg
etarian union in Loudon nave a new
craze. It is for vegetarian dress. They
have concluded it is as wrong to kill
animals for clothes as for food. Tbey
want vegetable boots, vegetable
gloves, vegetable gowns and even
vegetable note paper. They have de
cided that the kid, the calf and the
sheep 6hall be spared, if their influence
can do it.
Publicity is the greatest safeguard
against extravigance, negligence and
defalcation. Every custodian of pub
lie funds city, county and 'state
should be compelled to publish monthly
statements of the amounts collected
and disbursed, the balance on hand
and wbere deposited," says an ex
change. This is true and applies to
contingent funds as well as to all
others.
The prospeScts are favorable that the
coal miners will win their strike and
that wages will be advanced. Operators
though not willing to concede every
thing the miners demand, reconlze
that the miners have the best of them,
since they are unable to fill their
orders, and are also unable to operate
their mines. Whatever concessions
are made by tbem, however, will be
because of necessity, and not because
of any desire to better the condition of
the miners.
Papers which have been reporting
all evidences of returning prosperity
have given prominence to the report
that the farmers of Nebraska have can
celled $30,000,000 of mortgages in the
last eighteen months and many were
refusing renewal of loans. It trans
pires that about this amount in mort
gages has been cancelled on the rec
ords but tho greater portion ot it Is
represented by cancellation by fore
closure, which is not an evidence of
returning prosperity so much as it is
an evidence that tbe land , is passing
out pfthe bands of the people who ar
urowioif more landless as time rolls on
and the soil coDtjnuef to be mortgaged.
AN EX-AUDITOR SHOUT
Another Washington
is a Defaulter.
Official
GREAT BRITAIN'S WAY
She Would Not Parley Long- With
Japan Over Hawaii But Would
Annex the Islands.
More Wealth ia CJoniiyfce Rich Quartz
Discovered in the Camp A Tacoma
Police Suicides Still Mlneis
- . . Strike,
PORT Tonwsexd. Wash., July 27.
Sheriff W. J. Dyke, cf Clallam county,
was a passenger ou tho steamer today
from Port Angeles to Seattle with a
warrant for the arrest cf John W.
Troy, late auditor of Clallam county.
The commissioners have just dis
covered that Troy is short in his ac
counts with the county. Already
duplicated warrant?, amounting to
$1100 have been discovered and tho in
vestigation has only begun. It is
thought the shortage will reach into
the thousands.
Troy left Port Angoles last Wednes
day and it is thought he has gone or is
preparing to go to the Clondyke. He
is known to have purchased a miner's
outfit in Seattle four days asro.
Troy's predecessor in office, M. J.
Clump, was also several thousand
dollars short in his accounts with tbe
county and is no serving an eight
year term in the state penitentiary.
CiumD was a republican and Troy a
democrat. The latter was raised in
Clallam county and belongs to one of
the most respectable pioneer families
of the Puget Sound country.
THE WAY POINTED OCT.
America Fboald Follow England's Plan
in Dealing With Inferiors. .
New York, July 27. The Herald's
European edition pnblisbes the follow
ing editorial under the heading,
"What's Japan Got to Say About It,
Anyhow?"
"We publish a special dispatch con
firming one printed in the Temps rela- '
tive to the protest of Japan against the
annexation of Hawaii by the United j
States.. We do not think that tho j
United States can even entertain the !
protest concerning its policy from any
non-Anrlo-Saxon race pure and simp!e
and has, for the last 200 years, gov
erned the world by its common sence,
force and civilizing Institutions, and
today 83,000,000 of the Anglo-Saxon
race across tbe water find themselves
confronted with one of those Mongo
lian, Indian and Australian continents.
We know what England would do un
der tbe circumstances, and we trust
the Anglo-Saxon United States will do
the same.
"P. S. A few American warships in
Japanese waters would do no harm."
OW IT'S A QUARTZ .FIND.
Another Rich Strike Keported from the
Clondyke.
San Francisco, July 27. The latest
rumor from Alaska and the Clondyke
is of the discovery of wonderfully rich
quartz in. large quantities on the
Stewart river. Particulars are vague,
and beyond the fact that the ledge is a
large one .and that tbe rock assays $300,
nothing can be learned. The discovery
was made some time ago, but nothing
was said until the ledge had been pros
pected and an assay made.
This, if true, will mean much for the
Clondyke region The Stewart river
runs into the Yukon not far from Daw
son, and it Is reasonable to suppose
that the placer gold now being found
in such quantities below may have its
origiu in the mountains at the head of
tbe Stewart and neighboring rivers
and creeks.
THE TROOPS WILL WAIT.
Proposed Alaskan Expedition Baa Been
Temporarily Abandoned .
Cheyenne, Wyo., July 28. Colonel
Randall, of the Eighth Infantry, re
ceived a telegram from Washington
this morning stating tbat the expedi
tion to Alaska has been temporarily
abandoned It has been discovered
that many supplies necessary for such
an undertaking as the one proposed
are not on hand and much time and
expense would be necessitated to send
tbe soldiers to a country where the
preservation of life depends on perfect
equipment.
The part of Alaska mapped out to be
visited is said to be rapidly freezing up,
and after serious consideration of all
these facts the trip has been pro
nounced injudicious at this time and
postponed probably until spring.
A SAN FRANCISCO ENTERPRISE.
Dyea and Dawson to be Connected by
Telegraph
San Francisco, July 28. The Clon
dyke Is promised close communication
with the rest of the world in a short
time. At least a telegraph company
has been incorporated which will get
to work immediately, it promoters
say, 6tiin(ring tbe wires. Article of
incorporation of the Alaska Telegraph
A great many people
look health t- and
arenot. There are
many forms of
sickness wbicb
leave an outward
semblance of
health. This fictl
tious health is like
a bobble that
nursts at a touch.
It is like an empty
eerjr shell-tbat the
slightest pressure
will crush. The
outside of tbe body may look all right long
alter disease has begun its areaatui work
inside. If a man looks well and. doesn't
feel well, he had better be governed by the
feeling not by the looks. A great many ap
parently strong and vigorous men collapse
suddenly. They have what is known as ner
vous prostration. -They go along persist
ent'.y, day after day, working hard and think
ing hard, apparently healthy, and some daj
they go home and go to bed and don't gel
np again. The trouble didn't all come at
once. It came on gradually. A strong man
can live on hi9 nerves and his health for a
lone time without apparent injury, but it
isn't a safe thing to do. - Whenever there is
nervousness, or insomnia, or undue fatigue
from ordinary work, when irritability takes
the place of contentment, when a man
isn't sick but doesn't feel ouite well"
then is the time he should begin to take
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It
is the best tonic medicine and nerve food.
or invigorator in the world. It assists di
gestion, increases the appetite, promotes
thorough assimilation of tbe food, purifies
the blood and adds to it the life-criving prin
ciples that are needed to feed the starved
nerves, it puts ine wuo'e ooaj into penect
tune, and stimulates each organ to do the
work for which it wax intended. Thou
sands of people have been brought back
to happiness and vigorous health. Thou
sands of people have been cured of most
serious sickness by this wonderful med
icine. Druggists sell it.
sena si one-cent stamps to
pay for mailing only, and re
ceive free copy of Doctor
Pierce's great thousand page
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& Telephone Company have i.ecn tiled
with the county clerk of Saa Francisco.
The capital stock of the organization
i3 $230,000 of which $100,000 has been
subscribed by the director-.
The proposition is to construft a
telegraph line which will connect Dyea
with the town of Dawson, and branch
lines connecting Dyea with Juneau,
and D.iwsou with Circle City. The es
timated length of the proposed line is
1000 mih-s.
The plan of construction wii'. be
after the style of military systems used
iu war times. A wire a quarter of an
inch thick, covered with a kcritn in
sulation will be used. The wire will
be laid along tho ground, instead of
bciag stretched on poles. Trees -i-poles
will be used only to cross a uuily.
The promoters of the enterprise ex
pect to get to work laying the wires in
tire? vrrrk?, and to have them Ltid lx
weeks later.
Kates are Uoing Up.
New York, July 28. The Tribune
says:
The rise in ocean freights for grain
carrying steamships is found to be ex
tending to all grades of ocean freights,
and steamship companies an- looking
for .vard to a season of great prosperity.
The large demand abroad for Ameri
can wheat has caused a hardening of
wheat transportation prices at a high
figure, which is bound to go still high
er when shipments of spring wheat be
gin in August.
It is not certain whether or not this
increase in grain-can y ing prices is re
sponsible for the boom in other freight
rates, but It it certain there is a boom
and a decided one. With tho excep
tion of the season of 1893, ocean
freights have not reached so high a
hgure as they are now since 1891. In
1893 they were the same as they are
now, but present rates, it is said, are
bound to be increased. Already rates
are from 33 to 40 per cent higher than
they were last year ia July, and fO par
cent higher than two years ago.
A member of a shipping firm said:
"We have the fortune to have in
this country the greatest aggregation
of crops we bave ever known, while
abroad the yield has hoen poor. Peo
ple think that when there is a great
.wheat crop vessels will bo loaded
down carrying it out of the country;
but wheat is a small factor in the
whole. Corn is more important, and
barley is beginning to be so. though a
few years ago wo shipped almost none
of it."
A BIl.L-RAlEK AT WORK.
BUrer CertlBeares Changed From Two to
Five Dollar.
New York, July 2S. The subtreas
ury otScers have noticed recently tbe
presence of a number of finely executed
silver certiScates of the new issue
which have been clearly raised from
the denomination of $2 to 35. Two of
these bills found their way to the sub
treasury from banks yesterday and
they have been preceded by numerous
others, all apparently the work of the
same artist.
In raising the bills the person who
does the work makes no attempt to
change the grouos of tbe vignettes. All
that is done is to erase the figures and
words two" and substitute therefor
the words and figures "five." Upon
presentation tbe bills are redeemed ut
$2 each. The secret service men are
working to detect thti artist' c counter
feiter. A Horrible Doable Slurder.
Springeteld, 111., July 27. A
double murder was committed here to
day. James Mingle, a horse trader, is
accused of the crime. The victims are
Mary Briscoe and her infant -child.
They were killed by chopping their
heads with a hatchet The woman did
not die till several hours after the deed
was committed. The baby wa3 dead
when found. It is said that tbe cause
of the trouble was the woman's refusal
to live with the man any longer. Min
gle has been arrested.
Suicide at Tacoma.
Tacoma, Wash., July 27. Alexan
der W. Plass committed suicide at his
home in this city this morning by
shooting himself in the forehead. He
was a night policeman, and had just
come off duty. Last night he seemed
in his usual spirits, aud gave no intima
tion of contemplating suicide. He has
been subject to epileptic fits, and the
disease was growing upon him. He
was a prominent member of the Ma
sonic lodge which body will bury him
Preparing tor the Sale.
Omaha, Neb., July 27.-TDecrees of
tbe sale in foreclosure of the mortgage
on the Union Pacific railway were re
ceived here this morning- by Genera
Johu C. Cowin, special United States
attorney ia the case. The decrees are
signed by all the parties to the suit.
Judsre Sanborn will be in Omaha this
week to make tbe final order of the
sale.
To Prison Fur Life.
New York. July 28. A dispatch to
the Herald from Key West says: Man
uel Fernandez, the young- American
who was tried by court-martial In 'l3a
v&na, charged with bearing- arms
against tbe Spanish government and
adjudged guihy, has been sentenced
by the tribunal to imprisonment for
life.
miners Intimidated by Women.
Fairmont, W. Va., July 28. Polish
women armed with stones and sticks
kept several men from going to work
at Monongah today. Others bave been
warned not to. enter. Colonel B. A
Ficklnger said today, if tbe men at his
mines were not at work by Friday noon
other men would be brought in.
More Mines Closed Down.
Columbus, O., July 23. Fred Dil
cnes, or tne national executive com
mittee, wired the national headquar
ters of the miner's union that the Sugar
Creek, McDonald, Turkey, Knob and
Dunlay mines have closed down by a
vote of the miners at a mass meeting
in the new river district.
Rritlnh Wheat Crop la Short.
London, July 27. The Agricultural
Gazette recently sent out a circular
asking information on the subject of
crop prospects. The circular elicited
738 replies, the substance of which
shows tbat the wheat crop for the
United Kingdom will be much below
the average. '
Strike Is Kx tending.
Parkersburg, W. Va., July 27.
The miners in tbe Mononagh region
have gone out en masse. News from
the Southwest and the great Kanawha
valley is that tbe miners have banked
on Governor Atkinson's good will and
struck. There Is great excitement.
A Hanctng at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa., July 27. Pas-
q lulie Dadrrlo was banged today for
the murder of Medestino Moffo, a 3-
year-old chiir. The crime was one of
t e most brutal in the police records of
Philadelphia.
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IT BEL0NGTT0 AMERICA
The Palmyra Island Which England
Recently Seized is American Ter
ritory by Right of Dis
covery. A Treasure Ship With S2,0OO,000 of Alas
kan Gold Will be Guarded by llev.
enne Cotters Locomotives
Shipped to Japan.
Pittsburg, July 29. At 2 o'clock
this morning Sheriff Harry Lowrey
was called from his bed and asked to
send deputies to the mines- of the New
York & Cleveland Gas Coal Company.
The reouest came from W. P. De
Armltt.; "..:"',"'--'''
. Oak Hill was invaded at midnight by
a email army of miners from -the Bob
bins mines at Willock. They marched
into the village, 450 strong, to the tune
of a drum and fife. Most of them were
armed with revolvers or clubs. They
said that at least as many more of the
Finleyville, Gastonville and. other
mines In the Wheeling district' were
on tbeir wav to Oak Hill and would
arrive soon. "
The little town is in a great state of
excitement. Only a few deputies,
about eight or ten, were on hand, but
when the miners arrived Superintend
ent Thomas De Armitt telephoned at
once to A. P. De Armitt at Allegheny
to send more.
The Bobbins men say tbat the De
Armitt men will be forced to go out
They are determined, but no violence
is looked for yet.
It is estimated that by daylight there
were several thousand miners en
camped upon the hills surrounding the
property of the New York & Cleveland
Gas Company. They came from every
direction, headed by a brass band
Nearly all of them carried heavy walk-
intr -sticks and some were armed. There
were uo scenes of violence, however,
and no indications of drinking. At
about 4 o'clock 100 strikers assembled
at Turtle Creek and headed by three
brass bands, with flags and banners
flying, marched by the houses occupied
bv De Armitt's miners. The strikers
hooted aud veiled aod theu marched
to the mines, where tbey planted them
selves before tbe pits, thus compelling
De Armitt's men to run the gauntlet
to work. ,
A short time later Sheriff Lowry,
who had been asked for assistance, ar
rived from Pittsburg with 50 deputies
armed with Winchesters. Tbe strikers
quietly withdrew and the new deputies
were placed on guard.
When the mass meeting was called
to order at 10 o'clock this morning
there were 6000 striking miners 1n the
vicinity, and before it was well under
way there were 5000 people in tbe
vicinitv of the schoolhouse. At about
9:30 o'clock 200 miners from tho Sandy
Creek mines marched to the meeting
and quite a large number came from
Turtle Creek. Tbe meeting is wit hout
doubt the largest held during a strike
in Western r ennsvivania, ana tne
leaders are hopeful of Its effects upon
the men.
TO PROTECT TBE CARGO.
Steamer Portland to be Convened Ont of
Behrlug Sea.
Washington, July 29. The steamer
Portland, which is expected to leave
St. Michaels about September 15, will,
it is said, have on board gold from the
Alaskan gold fields valued at $2,000,-
000.
P. B. Weare, of Chicago, president
of the North American Transportation
& Tradlner Company, has advised the
treasury department that he fears an
attempt will be made by pirates to cap
ture this cargo and has asked tbat the
government detail a revenue cutter to
convey the Pottland out of Behring
sea. rnis request nas ujd gran tea.
The revenue cutter Bear and possibly
one or two otners win convoy ine.
Portland. '
Locomotives for Japan.
Philadelphia , July 29. The Bald
win locomotive works yesterday booked
an order for 20 locomotives for Japan.
This, with othr orders makes a total
of 60 for that . empire. Thirty have
just been shipped. The order just re
ceived is for the Japanese government.
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BY KIOHT OF DISCOVERT.
United States lias a Valid Claim
Palmyra Island.
Upon
ial from Washington :ivs
In support of tbeir'claini to Palmyra
island, which has boon taken posses
sion of by the British government, tbe
London authorities refer to the fact
that the British flag was hoisted oer
this territory in Jd89, Even if the of
ficial records of the Hawaiian govern
ment fail to show the title of the Dole
regime to the island, the United States
is in a position to raise the claim that
the island belongs to this government
by virtue of discovery by an American
citizen. This fact is recognized by the
British authorities in an official publi
cation which contains a reference to
its discovery and the action of the
British in placing their flag over it,
The publication is the official direc
tions of the hydrographie office of
Great Britain issued by the-admlralty
In regard to Palmyra island,, the vol
ume states:
"Palmyra was discovered by Captain
Saule of the American ship Palmyra,
in 1802, and was formally annexed to
Great Britain by Commander Nich
olas, of H M S. Cormorant, May 18,
1889. There wera no inhabitants 00
the island at t he time Ot. its annex
ation, although Messrs. Henderson and
McFarlane, of New Zealand, contem
plated cultivating it."'
A high odcial of the state depart
ment said last night that an investi
gation regarding the rights of Hawaii
and Great Britain to Palmyra island
Is now being made.
The Itosh tfroni New York.
New York, July 29. Mrs. W. G.
White and Mrs. T. W. Cave are desti
tute and reflecting the existence of the
gold craze. They called upon tho
poormaster and Informed him that
their husbands bad left them and their
children penniless and gone to the
gold fields of Alaska. They were em
ployed In a local printing office.
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