Semi-Weekly Gazette.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Kama delegation to the Chicago
convention are in favor of Cleveland.
The Fuahnagle, of Bochum, Germany,
baa commenced a damage Buit against
Bismarck for libel.
Harry Storrera, 19 years old, was
drowned at New York Sunday by the
capsizing of a sailboat.
Charles Smith, a tramp committed sui
cide on the Puyallup Indian reservation
Tuesday by hanging himBelf.
Earnest Rapp, a mechanic of Syracuse,
N. Y., r-hot his wife and baby Thurs
day, and then killed himself.
F. Harkness, a deserter from the
regular army, banged himeell in the
city jail at Spokane last Friday.
The body of Thomas Buggy, one of the
victims of the colliery disaster at Potts
ville, Pa., was recovered Sunday.
In a row among a gang of tramps at
Fairmont, W. Va., Sunday, pistols were
drawn and three of them snot ana killed.
Daniel Wedder. a farmhand near
Endicott, Wash., died Saturday of blood
poisoning, caused by the bite of a horse.
Georgine Walters, of New York, has
secured a verdict for $25,000 in a breach
of promise case against Inventor Schultz.
Two workmen named Knoll and Hey
drick, who murdered the widow Loucliert,
were beheaded at Goarlitz, Germany,
last Saturday.
The residence of the late F. E. Eld
ridge, five miles from Gervais, Oregon,
was destroyed by fire Thursday. The
Iosb is about $8000.
James A. Palmer, a trusted clerk of
Tiffany St Co., of New York, was arrested
Thursday on a charge of stealing $60,0u0
of the firm's money.
The village of Trent, Germany, was
struck by a cyclone Wednesday ami six
people were killed. A great deal of prop
erty was destroyed.
The bill introduced in the house by
Clark, of Wyoming, aims to give every
woman over 21 years of age the right to
vote for congressmen.
While some boys were playing in a
sandpit at Toronto, Canada, Saturday,
a slide occurred and three of the boys
were smothered to death.
OrvMe Griffith, a prominent rancher
near Dixie, Wash., was knocked down
by a horse he was hitching Tuesday, and
died a few hours afterward.
Sevaral Indians are in tko Grant
county jail for driving 40 sheep belong
ing to W. H.Johnson overa precipice.
They did it to pick the wool.
Ex-Postmaster I. C. Mason, of Tilla
mook, Oreiton, was arrested Saturday on
a charga of forging a money order. He
will be taken to Portland for trial.
A two-Btory building In Baltimore was
blown up by dynamite TueBday and sev
eral occupants had a narrow escape.
There is no clue to the perpetrators.
Louis Kuntz, a tailor, shot Charles
Evans Sunday, at Halt Lake, indicting
a wound which iti not considered serious.
A woman wan the cause of the shooting.
A man named Couman, a cook for
Day Bros.' logging camp, near Big Har
bor, committed BUicide'luesday by hang
ing himself. He is said to be well con
nected. An official telegram from Aunarn,
France, states that on April '!0 a sloop
foundered in the river Claire. Thirty
soldiers and tho sloop's captain were
drowned.
Hon. Patrick Grcville Nugent was ar
rested in London, charged with having
indecently aHBaultud a young lady named
Price. Ho claims that it is a case of
blackmail.
Gladwater, Tex., was lu the putli of a
hurricane Wednesday, and when it had
passed it was found an old negro woman
had been killed and seven other people
seriously injured.
A deal was completed Wednesday in
San Francisco by which the Fireman's
f und Insurance Company takes tne l a
cifio Coast business of the California In
surance Company.
Domlnico Coella, the Port Townsend
Italian murderer, was sentenced to eigh
teen years in the penitentiary. A stay
of proceedings was ordered pending an
appeal to the supremo court.
The people of Dayton are delighted
with their water works, at a recent test
from the street hydrants seven streams
of water being thrown each bh high as
the tallest tlagstull' in the city.
Typhoid fever has invadod the Penn
sylvania military academy at Chester.
Cadet Hurrell is the third victim fatally
attacked thus fur. Tho sanitary con
ditions are reported to be good.
The property of General lien Butler, in
Lowell, Mass., was attached Tuesday for
$50 000 by the Jnwetl Publishing Coin
puny, as the outcome of a suit about
printing the general's memoirs.
John Leary, ex-mayor of Seattle, was
married to Eliza P., daughter of Gov
ernor Ferry Tuesday. The all'air was
one of the most brilliant Boetal events
that over took place in Olympia.
An Investigation is being made to as
certain the guilt or innocence of the gov
ernmentollioials at Baltimore. It is re
ported that the facts do not justify the
dismissal of the alleged offenders.
An attempt on tho life of Election
Commissioner Michael Schwointhal ol
Chicago, was made Tuesday bv Thomas
Keenan, who lost his savings bv the re
cent failure of Schwclsthal's bank.
Petaluma, Cal., is excited over a case
of strychnine poisoning, which may re
sult in the death of Daniel Shaw and his
affianced bride, Allie Ilinkston. The
poison was put in a pot of tea by ucci
dent. Thomas O'Brien a New York bunco
man, who was under sentence of ten
years' imprisonment, made his escape
Thursday from a keeper who hail him in
charge. It is thought ho has gone to
Canada.
After making an examination of the in
sects found ou hop vines in the liuena
Vista varde. Professor Washburn, the
entomologist of the State Agricultural col
lege at Corvallis, pronounces them genu
ine hop lice,
l'orrowo and Fox (ought their duel in
Belgium Saturday. After two exchanges
of shots Fox's seconds ascertained that
his frock coat was perforated w ith bullet
holes. No blood was shed, but honor
was satisfied.
The stealings of Jaeger, defaulting
ashler of Rothschild's bauk at frank
fort, amount to 1,250,000 marks. He
lost most of it In speculation in fruit In
Berlin and Odessa. It is believed he
committed suicide.
The indictment of Ed want Parker Dea-
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the aliened lover of his wife, has been
I to the loss serious ' charge of
ighter thus removing the aix-usa-
changed
manslaughti
tion of premeditation.
In a roccnt encounter between the
guardia civil, stationed in the mountains
of La Palma, in the Sagua district in
Cuba, and the brigands, the famous out
law, Victor Crtu, was killed, and several
of bis companions wounded.
Wayne county, Miss,, is the greatest
sheepraiiing county iu theSouth. There
are many nocks of 6000 head each. A
new disease has appeared among sheep,
and they are dying in droves. The loo
has already reached $100,000.
The six-year-old son of W. Day, while
walking along the liver bank, near the
Centennial mill, stumbled and fell into
the river. The stream is very swift at
that point and it is supposed that the
body was carried over the falls.
The bureau ol Americn ropublics is
informed that in several places in Cen-!
tral America flour is now being made
from bananas, which, under chemical
analysis, is found to contain more nutri
ment than rice, beans or corn.
Harry Rogers flogged the Uev. Father
O'Kaneon the public streets of Eureka,
Cal., with a horsewhip, The trouoie
grew out of assertions made reflecting on
the honesty ol rtogers' wile irom tne ai
tar of the church some time ago.
It is admitted hv Harrison's friends
that he may incidentally talk politics
with some of his friends while in New
York at the laying of the turner-stone of
the Grant monument, but they deny
that to be his motive in going there.
fiyl Harvel, who lives in the Kentucky
mountains, was Thursday killed by his
wife, whom he accused of intimacy with
Alexander Brady. While the woman
and Brady were running away they were
gored oy a mad bull and bom mien.
At St. Albans, Vt., Sunday the loco
motive attached to the south-bound cat
tie train on the Central Vermont, plunged
from an iron bridge into the river. Brake
man George T. Jelly, Engineer Babcock
and Fireman Minehau were severely in
jured. Two large barns were burned at San
Francisco, Sunday, and John Hand, a
teamster, and sixteen horses were
burned to death. Hand slept in the
barn. It is supposed h went to sleep in
the hay with a lighted cigarette in hie
mouth.
Arthur Freidham, a well-known pian
ist of New York, assaulted August Bat
tenhauser, a ticket-taker at Amberg's
theater, Wednesday night for refusing to
pass him in. Battenhauser received a
blow under the ear, and died in a few
moments.
Euaene Kauflman, poBtiuaster at Rie
eel, a small town twelve miles south of
Waco, Texas, was murdered Thursday hy
two negroes, the motive being robbery
A large band of regulators are on the
trail, and will hang the murderers if they
catch them.
People of Great Britain are becoming
excited over the repeated outrages on
women in railroad coaches. The com
partment system of locked doors affords
the Bcoundrols plenty of scope in these
cases. The American passenger car iB
the only safe means of travel.
John Hartnup, chief astronomer of
Birertone observatory, Dickenhead, En
gland, lost his life by a (rightful accident
He went to the summit of tho observa
tory to examine the apparatus. While
there lie overbalanced and fell to the
ground. His neck was broken.
A veil worn by a recently confirmed
girl at high mass in tho Catholic church
at JoBephatadt, Austria, TueBday, caught
lire and a panic ensued. Many worrier
and children f.dnted from the crush and
were trampled upon. If, is feared that
several victims wore fatally injured.
News comes from Scranlon, Pa., that
Mayor Fellows and P. A. Barrett, city
editor of tho Times, are arranging to
knock out the enmity existing between
them with hare knuckles. The indica
tionsaro that it will boa light to a
finish, but is not likely to prove fatal.
The Btate elect Ion in Louifiiana Tues
day was one of the liardeat-fouglit con
tests in the hiBtory of the state. There
were five tickets in the Held two dem
ocratic, two republicans and the people's
party. Foster, candidate lor governor on
the regular republican ticket, waselected.
The well-known White Swan, situated
twelve miles east of Baker Oily, from
which nearly $100,000 iu gold has been
taken out of a shaft forty feet deep and
thirty foot of tunnel, has been incorpor
ated with it caoital stock of $100,000-
20,000 shares at a par value of $0 each.
Tuesday. John Ileys, a farmer residing
near Touohet, died from injuries received
by being thrown from a horse the day
previous. Ho got up apparently unin
jured aflnr tho accident, and joked with
his family ntiont it. Luler be was at
tacked with severe painB in the abdomen,
went lo bed, and suffered terribly until
relieved by death.
At Dayton, Wash., Sunday night forty
masked men made an attack on a Chi
nese house and ordered the Celestials un
der pain of death, to leave in twenty-four
hours. The Blieriff was informed anil
put guards over each house preventing
the mob from further action. The mob s
work is not sustained by tho people at
large.
Speaker Crinp and the ex-speaker from
Maine had their usual hi'-aud-strike
hack in tho house Monday. It began
and ended with ex-Speaker Heed strain
ing a point to remark that thoro Bhoiilil
not lie an exhibition of temper on the
part o( the chair; to which the chair re
torted there-should not he any attempt
at scolding on the part of the gentlemen
from Maino.
How They Ilil It lu Denver.
Frmi the Denver Journal of (.'omineroe..
Early in 1801 tho Denver chamber of
eimimeree nnd board of trade instituted
the Denver Manufacturing and Mercan
tile Bureau. Naturally, it took some
time for the machinery of the bureau t
get into smooth running order, and It
was not until June, when placed
in the hands of a compeient,
iniliiBtriotiH ami painstaking man.
working in co operation with the board
of dheciors, that the wisdom which mig
geslod the establishment of the bureau
became apparent and justified. Since
then it has become an invaluable instiln
tion nnd the center of work pertain
ing to the establishment of new enter
prises ami the encouragement of those in
existence.
As a few, only, of the results, may he
mentioned :
Cotton mill, capital $400,000
Woolen mill, capit 1 100,0:10
Paper mill, capital ioO.OOO
Match factory, capital 100,000
Hoot and shoe factory, capital. . . 'Jo.OUO
An overall factory, capital 10,000
These establishments aro being con
structed, and soon will bo in running
order, giving employment to a large
number of workers in the respective
branches. Hero is au aggregation of
$8S.',IHH) in capital secuied in a lew
months. But this is not all. Other
large manufacturing establishments have
been secured and will, within a short
time, bo in operation, representing a
capital of no less than $f, 460,000.
Theso embrace iron and steel mills, a
barbed wire fence worka, white lead and
nMu'i-irkn. furniture factorv and curriinrn
works. These aro not myths. Several
entcrorisim: men are knocking at the
,l.r fur a.titiittsion. and it ih iiHtftUesa In!
, 111 ro"
eive. luleiiunto encour-
j ft'rI,"rVtt,'.r..ii in II
(Jn ando
ooded with inanities
other capitalists, and
no pains have been spared to point out
to the latter the masifuld advantages en-
in. lianvur m imuiiif ict urimr ami
. .
distributing iwiut. The ri turns from
various bouicos tor the year indicate tne"""- runuay nigni. iu ; . r , - lu.JUu i-iaiboii BKeieione lmnedded three
value of the products of our mainline- j be the carrying out the determination a loyal subject or even a morey-loying nui very anxious to find her, as I can re- feet below tbe surface. Some oftherrl
lories to be about $44,000,000, an In-1 Keliglo... w.r in K.t Afrlc. i of the highbindeis to kill all Christian ; pne could ask. The reign of Frederic III., main in town but a few hours." are the remains of full-grown persona
crease of Per cent, over the figures of l The London Standard's Zanzibar cor- Chinamen. The police have arrested ! less than a hundred days, had been d.m t know where she s gone, sir." I while tbe otheis are of children of 10 or'
ISM- an increase lu the number of respondent confirms the recent published ' Lee How Lung and Sam Lung, in con- too short and too full of physical seder- ''How many children has she?' 12 years. It is supposed that the re-
establishment; 18 4 increase in the, story about lighting in Uganda, Fast ! nection with the shooting, and a search ing Jo let the world know tne strength r.ight.iir. mains are those of many generations
number of employees, and 19 per cent. ! Africa, between Protestant natives and for other interested parties has been in- and breadth of the ruler whom Bismarck ; Ah ! I I! soon find her. then. M.e's ago. Some of the bodies were quite ner
in the waaes usiJ. Catholic converts, led bv King .Mwanua. stituted. next appeared to represent. In hia sue-1 in one of the shce stores." i feet when first taken out.
ATTEM PTED THAI KOIIBtRY.
Flre.llaiked Men Try to "Hold l'" Train
do. 1 at a Tunnel Near North Powder.
The Union Pacific can now claim the
distinction of an attempted train robbery,
the only one that ever occurred on this
part of the road.
the train which tne manned gentry
t,ied to hold np was Wednesday night's
west bound, Mo. 1. It was approaching
tunnel o. , three miles wesi 01 norm ;
Powder, when Engineer Al Stevens !
noticed a man ahead, waving a flag.
He answered the signal, slowed down
and would have stopped, but a nearer
view showed that tbe fellow wore a
sheepskin mask, and held a Winchester
behind his back. Al pulled the throttle
open and jumped ahead. It was a risky
and "nervv" thine to do, for the robbers,
of whom there proved to be five, two on
one side of the train and tnree on tne
other, all with masks and W inchester
rifles, had a good chance to pepper the
engineer, Fireman Fred Phelps, and
Conductor Gradv. The latter was stand-
iug in the side door of the baggage car,
looking out to see what the trouble was, j
and had a good view of the man with the
Hag as ttie train passed., men again
there might have been a loosened rail in
the tunnel. Jt might not nave uncueu
the train, as there is a steep up-grade at
this point, but would have left it at the
mercv of the robbers. But it was a
choice, between two evils, and the engine
plunged torward. as iney passeu uie
robber with tbe sheepskin mask, a tall,
powerful fellow, he took a shot at the
cab, but failed to do any damage.
He doubtless intended to frighten
tbe engineer into stopping, but,
failed in his purpose. A glance back
when the train entered tiio tunnel
showed the five robbers disappearing
down a ravine.
As soon as Grady saw what w as up he
scrambled through the baggage car,
stumbling over trunks, to reach the
train-box, where he had a "14" in his
grip; but he secured the weapon too late
tigetashot. About aha'f-mile west of tbe
tunnel the train stopped and a consultation
was held. Trie engineer was then pretty
while, and Fireman Phelps yelled, ex
ciiedlv : "Get your cannons, or we'll all
lie shot!" The passengers, of whom
there were about twenty on board, held
an eager pow-wow, and were stowing
monev and valuables away in their shoes,
feiring that there might be train-robbers
all along the route. An inventory wsb
taken of the "shooting irons" ou board
and there were found to be but twelve
pis'ols, nearly all small weapons, not
taking into consideration the express
messenger's gun, which couldn't hit the
iido of a barn at fifteen pace3. So it
was deemed prudent policy not to go
back and chase the robbers.
Seuators Ltvluft In Style.
Opposite tbe senate wing of the capi
tal is a large building called the Malthy,
which was formally used as a hotel, but
which was purchased by the government
about eight months ago for $100 000, in
order to give the senate additional room
for its committees. The building con
tains about 125 or 130 rooms. A few
lays ago General Catchings, a member
of 'thebouHO committee on rules, went
to Senator Aldrich, who is chairman of
tbe committee in the senate having
charge of the rooms at the disposal of
that body, and asked him to set apart
in the Maltby house one or two rooms
for tho use of the honso committee on
rules. Senator Aldrich Baid it was Im
possible to accommodate the house in
that manner, as the rooms in the Maltby
building were all occupied.
This appeared to be very strange. In
vestigation revealed the fact that each of
the 88 senators in the senate hud been
provided with a privnto room in the new
building in addition to the regular com
mittee rooms which am at tbe disposal
of the senators. This is an entirely new
wrinkle in senatorial luxury. Magnif
icent state funerals at the coat of thou
sands of dollars. $1000 rnirs. $2000 chairs,
apollinaris water and trifles of that kind
have heretofore been as lar as tins nun
ionaire club has gone at Uncle Sam's ex
pense. iNow it seems, that tne govern
ment has paid $J 110,000 for a building for
the purpoBO of providing eacu senator
with a private room. Each senator al
teady biiB a private clerk. The next
thing in order will bo a private carriage
and coachman for each of them. Cer
tainly the present agitation to elect sen
ators by the people is not inopportune
l'of-ullur Cuse of Polygamy.
lly the arrest of a Mormon in Trenton,
a Binall town in Utah, a peculiar case of
polygamy is brought to light. Several
years ago My run Butler married twin
sisters on the same day at Logan. The
young daughters of Israel were as near
alike us two peas, bunco the United
States marshals were very muc h con
tused in trying to discover which was
the Inn fill wife. Mormon polygamy is a
peculiar aflair. ffotwitliHtauding both
of Butler's wives wero married to him
the same day, and by the same officiat
ing prieHt, one is by law made au illegiti
mate wife, or rather no wife at all. The
woman who wa first led to the altar is
called tbe "first" wife by the Mormons,
she is recognized by law, no matter if
lliesamo authority marries the second
wife to the husband the next minute.
In the case where two sisters marry
1 be same man the rule of the church is
that the older must bo the first wife.
VoleainieH ill Krnptlon.
Indians fiom Lower California arrived
at V 11111 1, Ariz., Wednesday, and report
the volcanoes near Lake Sullulee, close
to the Gulf of California, in activeopera
tion. They say on April 10 an earth
quake shock was felt anil almost im
mediately tho volcanoes became quite
active. Tbe greatest eruption occurred
last Thursday night. The country for
twenty miles around wiib illuminated by
burning sulphur, and molten reck was
throw n over hundreds of feet, while the
noises of exploding gases soen Bpread
consternation among ihe Indians, who
wero down in that region on a hunting
trip. The Indians hurried away as
quickly as possible. This report con
lirmsthe previous accounts from Lower
California volcano region, that when
ever a heavy earthquake occurs on the
I'aeii'ui Coast, the activity of these vol
canoes is groatly increased.
Vlectrlc Ciimimiiles Comblue.
'the Philadelohia Press prints an arti
cle stating a gigantic electric combina
tion has been effected by the Thompson
Houston and Kdieon companies. The
former, w hich has a capital of $10,000,
000, and the latter $15,000,000, will, It is
said, bo opened soon as the Federal Klec
trio Company, with a capital of iiO.000,
000. The combination was brought about
through the insiiumentality of Vander
hilts ami Drexel, Moigan oi Co., of New
lorkuity. Ihe ultimate object is said
' the absorption of all the electric
" Per companies in me conn
try. 11 Mi
K.Twomblv is mentioned as
preeiiieiu 01 nie coniiuiiBuoii,
and 0. A
11. ("nt!:n. now cenerul munttkror of the
luompson-Iloustnn Company, to be geu -
i erl manager, the deal, it is said, has
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ail1 the charter waa obtained under the
laws of New York state. New York City
i will be the headquarters of the new con -
'The protestants, he Bays, were well
armed with Snider Titles and were vic-
tonous unm captain Lugaru, oi me
British East Africa Company, arrived
with re-inforcements armed with Maix
rifles. There were heavy casualties on
both sides. The correspondent also says
that Bishop Heath reports many Catho
lics have been sold into slavery, tie
Btates that the CatholicB are massing !
orcPS to renew the attack on the prot-
estants.
FIKE AT ATHENA.
llarn
Kurim and Five Hones are
Koasted to Ueath.
Sunday mosevig at about four o'clock
fire broke out! kthena in a barn belonging"')-
' SlroTp. The structure
was all ablaze when the fire was dis
covered, and nothing could be done to
save it.
There were five horses in the barn,
and they presented a most pitiful
spetaele, the poor beasts being literally
roaBted to death in Bight of their human
friends, who found it impossible to save
them. One staggered against the door
m, fel out, still alive, but a mass of
burned llesli. It hail to be Bhot
Three of the horses belonged to Dr.
Sharp, and his loss, barn and animals,
will be in tbe neighliorhood of $8000, no
insurance. Tbe other two were a team
W. H. Beers had left in the barn, pre
paratory to start next morning for his
ranch on Yellowjacket, Hirch creek.
Ihe means at hand to combat the tire
evidenced Athena's almost total lack of
protection, and its enterprising citizens
perhaps lose no time in securing a
waterworks system.
The fire is believed to have been of in
cendiary orpins-.
KAClf- .5AK MAY KKSI LT.
Another Hatch of Mtujinn.'t Negroes Sold
at Public Auction.
Favette, Mo., is again on the verge of
war because of a vagrant sale ef negroes
w hich took place there Saturday. About
a month ago a good deal of excitement
waB caused by the Bale of three vagrant
negroes. Saturday the feeling was inten
sified by the public sale on the block of
three men and one woman, because they
could offer no visible means of sup
port. Henry Thompson, William Miller
and John Wilkins were the men. All
are hearty negroes who had never before
been arrested. Ihe woman was Mary
Whiteside. She was accused of vag
rancy. Ihe colored people were brought
into the public square at 11 0 clock and a
great crowd of both colors gathered.
Ihe whites made fun of tbe victims, and
the blacks freely expressed their dis
pleasure at an abuae which so cruelly
brought to their minds the days of
slavery. The woman was put up first.
She brought 10 for sixty days' work.
The men sold for $10, $12 and $13 respec
tively, being taken by reliable farmers
about the country. The negroes declare
tbat this must stop, or that tbe whites
must be sold with the negroes. The sale
took place on a block, Sheriff Crelgei
officiating.
Nlie Revenged tier Lover.
One of the most sensational killings
ever known in Oklahoma, is reported
from the western border of that territory
A young man named Henry Harvy has
boen paying attention to a young wo
man in that neighborhood named Mary
Wilson. Another man in the same
vicinity also wished to pay bis respects
to the young woman, and the result was
that a feud was at once inaugurated.
Harvy was the favorite suitor, but the
lover, John Tobin, waB well-known as a
desperate character, and a fight was the
inevitable result of the complication.
Harvey was with Miss Wilson at a
dance, and during the festivities a
quarrel was Btarted between the two
men, which resulted in Harvey's getting
a ball through his right lung, which in
flicted a perious but not fatal wound.
Miss Wilson was wi'h him when the
shot was fired, and as be fell to the
ground she drew from his pocket his re
volver and fired point blank at Tobin,
shooting him directly through the fore
head, killing him instantly. The people
of the vicinity say that she served him
right. She at once went to nursing
Harvey, nnd to hotter do it she called
for a minister and was married to the
wounded man.
An Indian leleKtle.
From the Oklahoma Times Journal.
For the first time in the history of polit
ical National Conventions in tbe United
States, the republican national conven
tion at Minneapolis will contain a full
blooded Indian, and tbat Indian will be
a delegate from Oklahoma. He is
"White Turkey," chief of the Shawnees
and as good a republican as anv of bis
white brethren. Ho is n full-blood and
dming the war assisted the Federal
forces in every way in his power and
commanded a company of Indian soldiers,
He is a lineal descendant of that old war
chief, Tecumseh, who was defeated long
ago by William Henry Harrison, the
ancestor of the man lie now goes to help
renominate to the highest office in the
land.
Mo Provision tor au Election.
It has been discovered that the state
legislature of North Dakota has made no
provision whatever lor tne election 01
presidential electors. It is now too late
to provide for a legal election at tho polls
unless there is a special session of the
legislature. The regular session of the
leirislatuie meets the first iuesday in
January, six days before the meeting
of electors, butvhe legislature may have
a democratic iil.ority, while the republi
cans have a majority in the senate, or
vice versa. It is suggested that an
agreement bo mado by the party leaders
and a form of voting gone through in the
regular manner, w ith the understanding
that the legislature indorse tne action oi
the people by electing the electors.
A ltrule or a UiiNbHiid.
A sensational case came up before Jus
tice Taylor last Tuesday at Walla Walla
when John Williams. otWallula, was
examined for aBsault on his wife. He
was fined $100. The evidence disclosed
shockiuir brutality. Williams le't hii
wife very sick, and, on returning, found
her in bed, and beat her feartully, at lust
choking her infifinsensibilitv. He then
had a ftiend named Sample swear a coin
plaint charging .Mrs. Williams with in
sanity. The woman appeared in court
badly bruited, with hoi eyes blackened,
and told a. straight forward story of her
husband's abuse.
.1 Min
st'm le.
News has been
trairedv at Park
received of a terrible I sitting for her picture. In those del igbt
t'iiv. Utah. Miss I fill tete-a-tcles he forgot all about the
Grace Fluelling was walking along the
railroad track witli a young man named
Paradise ; her uncle, Mr. Trottman, fol
lowed. Making a circuit, he got ahead
and bid in the bushes, and as the pair
passed him he Bhot the girl, killing her
r . II- .1 Klm.alf in.
I ill. !...- .il..l n-m,n,l Ha nhipeted to
lnsiumiy. no men nnwi uiu.on,
; the girl keeping company with Paradise.
I .
i-itii .k.(,,,.l.,l.n I l,lnil,)ln.
...,,.
j Low Bach and Jeu Geng, Chinamen,
: veta shot and mortally wounded by
; highbinders in a restaurant, at St. Louis,
JERKY SIMPSON'S VIEWS.
What the People! Party Will lo and
Hopes to Accomplish Not After the
Presidency.
Jerry Simpson, in a recent interview,
spoke very freely of tho plans and hopes
of the peoples party in national politics.
He expects that their candidate tor tne
presidency, wno will be General Weaver
or Ignatius Donnelly, will receive tne
I electoral vote of eight Btates, namely,
1 Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, the two
Dakotas, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas,
and South Carolina. "We feel certain
of carrying all ot these with one excep-1
tion of North Dakota," he said. When
reminded that this would throw the elec
tion into Congress anil make a Demo
cratic President a certainty, Air. Simp
son said.
"That ib all right. It is not the presi
dency we are after. Our underlying pur
pose is either to obtain control ol the
house and Bcnate or else to hold the bal
ance of power iii both parties. We
would, of course, elect our president if
we could. At present we don't antici
pate that. But a presidential ticket car
ries with it a certain prestige. A full
ticket, with presidential electors and
everybody else on it down to the hum
blest candidate, will give us a great many
voteB we could not otherwise get. That
is onr principal purpose in putting a pres
idential ticket in the field that and a de
sire to continue our national organiza
tion."
He denied that the people 'a party
would make any alliance with either the
republicans or democrats, claiming that
it would make a thoroughly independent
fight. He believed the white membi rs
of the party in tbe South would stand
firm and tbat tbe colored vote would De
divided. He said :
"We have a million colored people in
onr organization now. As this number
increases both the old parties w ill make
a frantic endeavor to got the rest of
them. The republicans will hold what
they have and the democrats will reach
out for all they can gi?t. We will thus
divide the colored vote. And this being
done the negro question aa a 'ques
tion', will disappear. The negro will
then be a factor and not an issue in fu
ture campaigns and we will then hear
the last of the necessity of a distinctively
white man's party in the South. We
will at least have accomplished this
much good and I hone tho monopolistic
press of the East will appreciate it."
No attempt will be made to make an
impression on tbe Middle and New Eng
land states, which Mr. Simpson regards
as "beyond redemption."
AllOVT IMUIOKATION.
Kesti lotion of Iimiilferallon Necessary to
the Kxtent of the monopoly of the
Land.
From the Heattle Spectator.
Mr. Henrv George, the distinguished
political ecouomiBt, expresses himself
strongly on the immigration problem.
He says:
"1 do not believe any restriction what
ever upon the immigration of people
Irom fcurope of this Caucasian race who
are not diseased and who aro not
chronic paupers or criminals is in ac
cordance with the spirit of our institu
tions. We should have room enough for
the whole population of Knrnpe, were
notour lands monopolized, and were they
taken from the grasp of those who hold
them for n'o other purpose than the hope
of profiting by their increasing value.
the effect of the coming here of the
whole population of Kurope would be but
to raise wages, increase our prosperity
and augment our strength. I do not
deem it necessary that immigrants should
tie compelled to read, write or speak the
Unglisli language before becoming natu
ralized. They can become good citizens
without it."
Theoretically Mr. George is correct.
The ratio of increase in wealth of a
country is greater than the ratio of in
crease in population, if the people are
progressive. Ten thousand men co
operating together can produce more
than ten times as much as 1000 men.
There is more wealth per capita in
thickly settled communities than
those sparsely settled. The larger the
population the greater is the sub-division,
and consequently the efficiency of labor.
it natural opportunities were open to ail
men, if a few Individuals were not given
the right to exact toll from all others for
the privilege of living, if the unearned in
crement attached to land were taken to
defray the expenseof government, and the
products of labor and capital wore there
by released from their oppressive bur
dens, we would have room enough for
the whole population of Europe and their
coming would increase our prosperity
and augment our strength. But these
are "ifs." Under our present
economic system immigration is not a
benefit, buta curse to the majority of our
citizens, while it adds to the per capita
wealth of the nation. To a few accrue
all the benefits. The rest suffer through
the increased competitions for lands,
their enhanced values and the conse
quent reduction of the returns to labor
and capital employed In production.
There being little probability that the
people will, for many years, develop
sufficient intelligence to correct the con
ditions which retard their progress and
give rise to the inequality of distribution
which is tho curse of our century, they
should be protected as far aa possible
from the consequences of their own igno
rance. THK IUONY OF FATK.
tier .Esthetic Soul Expeotert Too Mitch
Muti' Waywardness.
She was romantic. Her father was a
millionaire, whose life had besn devoted
to sausage making, says London Tid-Bits.
He was practical naturally, but all the
poetry of the family was centered iu her.
She was beloved bv another millionaire's
son, but she had bean reading romance
and stuff, and when he proposed to her
she declared he must do something
poetical for her.
"Dearest, what can I do?"
"Become a poor artist."
"I couldn't ha any othor kind of an
artist."
"I mean you must intend to become a
poo' artist. Pa does not know you. Y'oti
must come and make love to me and I
will fall in lova with yon. Pa will object
and make a row. We will elope ami ut
married, and when it is all over we'll
tell him, and it will be- delightful."
And so he b?catna a poor artist and
took a poor studio and daubed ou can
vas and Dretended to piint pictures.
And there was another milii inaire's
i daughter got to coming to his studio and
romantic maiden, and when tne romantic j
maiden came one night in peasant cos-;
tume as a sweet surprise to run away j
with hiin she found he waa married to '
the other girl and had gone ctl" ou his ,
honeymoon. She thinks that romances ;
are ail lies now, and that nothing bap
pens as it happens in books.
Character of the Herman Fmperor.
Poultney Bljelow lu tbe April Forum,
The new emperor ou mounting the i
throne was, of course, expected to sustain
the policy ol a minister whom his grand-
cessor the Germans have an emperor :
who has not only abundant physical.
energy ami endurauce, out ns nun it aii
eontf mot for humbust. socialism, and the ; into
crooked police me'hods that always sug-1
tfest a feeble or rotten executive. He.
is a nractical manager and does not pre-1
'end to be a Baviour of society. He has
no quack nostrum for poverty, crime, I
prostitution, or the discontent that sets!
class against class. His business is to j
see that the government machine runs ;
smoothly, that competent men are em- j
ployed, that the people's taxes are spent
lor tne pun 1C good, mat ine law ib mi-
ministered without favor, and that re-
m-ius are inuuired into. He has the
mind of a Yankee; he loveB experiment; j
his methods are direct. He is the j
sort of man that forges to the front in a j
new country. We can imagine him
leaining his trade in some machine shop, i
then rapidly rising to a position where;
inventive talent, thoroughness, patience,
and, above all, honesty, tell Bay at the !
head of some great manufacturing or j
ship-building enterprise. j
On his succession to power, ix, ne
did what most young men do when sud- j a(;,-epted by the people of Sioux City as
denly placed in' charge of an estate. He 1 nothing less than a calamity to the busi
inquired how the previous manager had neBB interests of the state and of this
done his work ; lie examined personally j c;ty in particular. It is said by the lead
into!!case8 of alleged wrong; he noted , ;.; )m9in,.ss men that its failure has
carefully the testimony of qualified oh-;
servers; hiBeyea were opened to the need
of reform in all directions ; he suggested
these reforms to the manager; the man
ager did not agree with the master ; the
manager resigned and now spendB his j
time in emoarrassing as lar as ne can me
movements of the manager who has
superseded him. The immediate cause
of Bismarck's resignation will lie known
when the emperor chooses to make the
matter public. Today we can regard only
the official acts of the minister, and from
these infer what reason there was for his
being retired.
"SO PLACE LIKK HO.UK."
But the Man Who Unoted It IXdii't Kind
it Jiint the ThiiiK-
He was writing au essay on the beauty
of home life, and with his pen held sus
pended in the air soliloquized thusly :
"There is no place like home "
"Papa," called a boy voice at the door,
"will you mend my sled?"
'"Go away, sir. Don't you know better
than to disturb me when I'm writing?
Now tbat idea is gone and I must begin
all over again. There is no place"
It was a woman's voice this time.
"Reginald, (he gas is leaking like
everything, and you must see the com
pany and have it stopped."
"There is no place like home," began
the wretched man, just as Hannah, the
girl, thrust her head in to ask:
"Did you order the kindlin's?"
Then he seized his pen and wrote flu
uatly for full five minutes before he gave
up his wild dream of fame. "There is
no place like home for discomfort, an
noyances, cold, hunger and every kind
of disturbances on the face of the earth,
at the most inopportune and trying mo
ment." A ltrute of a Husband.
From ttie New York Prer-H.
"Howisvour daughter today
Mrs,
Carper "
"She is getting better, but she has had
a severe time of it."
"What caused her sickness?"
"Her husband."
"Why, I thought lie wits oue of the
kindest of men."
"He doesn't show it then. Here he
deliberately gives that poor child a lot of
money lor her own spending just at the
time the new Bpring bargains are put on
the counters at the stoves, and she goes
out shopping, rain and shine, and almost
getB her death of cold. It's a wonder
she isn't in her coffin. Kind husband
indeed !"
Vie or the Nunrt Itlnst.
From the Knglneer.
The use of the sand blast is now found
to be a very convenient anil effective
method of cleaning buildings. A pump
which forces a blast of airat a pressure of
four ounces to the square inch through a
system of flexible pipes removes the un
clean surface of stone readily. One
square foot of stone can thus be cleaned
in ten minutes, and the rapidity of the
process can be increased by the use of a
higher pressure. Another, though older.
application of the sand blast is for tbe
whitening of the outside of incandescent
lamp bulbs, and decorative effects are
often introduced by fastening letters or
ornaments upon tne outside.
A nistorinn "Too Previous."
From the 8t Louis (llobe-Democrat.
F'dwin A. Freeman, the eminent En
glish historian, who died a few days ago,
was certainly a little too premature in
one of his most important works, tha
first volnme of which was published in
1803. On the title-page we read in large
capitals: "History of Federal Govern
ment from the Foundation of the Ach
aian League to the Disruption of the
United StateB." This must have been
written in that part of 1803 which pre
ceded Vicksburg and Gettysburg.
A PMrun of A rt.
Frcm Gold News.
jlrs. Siiirnliet. "Mv dear, there's a
lot of big chromos beiug sold down to
Daub & Co.'s. Go and get a dozen and
have them scntii ht up, so I can bang
'em before the boarders come iu to tea.
Get high-colored summer Bcenes, the
hottest looking you can find, with cows
wading in streams, girls swinging in
hammocks, people fanning themselves,
and so on."
Daughter. "Why do you want that
kind, ma?"
Mrs. Slimdiot. "Coal's gone up."
Sizing Him rp.
From the New Yorh Press.
Paragraphias "Have you seen the
now editor in chief vet?"
Literary Editor. "No, have you?"
Paragraphist. " Yes, and I have been
Bizing him up."
Literary Editor. "Y'ou have?"
Paragraphist. "I have, indeed, and I
have come to the conclusion that he has
no hayseed in his hair."
Literarv Editor. "What makes you
think so?"
Piiiagrnphist. "He is entirely bald."
Knvy.
From tbe Toronto Gr p.
Mick O'Dell (of the third concession of
Beilarney to a ne'ghbor, whose son has
just returned from college w ith a degree).
"And is dthat tho bye that has all the
larnin?"
Neighbor. "Yes."
larnin
O'Dell. "And is that all th
he can get?"
Neighbor (puzzled). "Weil er yes."
O'Dell (reflectively). "Well, if I bed
all dthat larnin' I'd be a dark in a
stoor."
Htul Children Hlmsell.
Fiom lined News.
Gentlemen. "Is Mrs. Matronne
home?"
Servant. "No, sir."
at:
Getiileuiun. "lama relative whom
Lincoln and Darlfi.
1 lot of the bloody ground"'
Two eliil'lreu caiiu.
1 the North weal the dark eyes of sadneis,
1 the South went tlie bright eves of indues
And tliey notii grew strong.
Into the war of words
lvo giants passed
s,rn, - m tlx- counure o( a faith niakini! awn.
lulin 'mid the threaleniUKsof Hie "lark siorin of
"''
And they both won power.
Into tbe flash of arms
'1 wo leadt-i'H striate.
Quaked tbe trembling earth while brothers' blood
was shetl,
lnl the lieree dogs of war feasted on the dead,
And tliey both stood linn.
hit of the smoke of war
Two lii-roes euine.
The one to liis dentil by the assassin's red tllllut
A aiaityr died, the oilier tor hii own laud.
And they both found peace.
A. l Houston.
Pickaway, V. Va.
' Lincoln and Ihivls were both born In Ken
tucky. IOWA'S PUU1ILE.M
t'ontluat-fl Demand for I.ea-Ulatlon on
the Liquor QueMtloli.
A telegram from Sioux City says: The
,l.,b.!t of the Gatch high license bill is
neen the death blow to some of the
most important and extensive enter
nrises of tbe cilv. A petition was cir
culated by the leading republicans of the
city addressed to tho members of the
iowa house, asking them to reconsider
the vote by which the bill was in
definitely postponed. A strong delega
tion of republicans will leave for the
capital, ostensibly to work for the pas
sage of a judiciary bill in which thiB city
is interested, but really to labor with the
members of the house to induce them to
reconsider the vote on the Gatch bill.
Telegrams have been sent to the leading
republicans in all the large cities of the
state asking them to circulate similar
petitions and send them to the cnpitol in
charge of strong delegations of workers.
It is understood that the request win ne
complied with, and that strong, united
efforts will yet be mane to secure tne
passage of the bill. The defeat of the
bill was a complete surprise to the lead
ing republicans here, many of whom
have spent much time in the capital this
winter working for it. The pian now is
to bring strong pressure to bear on the
prohibition members irom their own
homes, and thus work the bill through if
it is possible to do so.
At Des Moines Senator Ypmans has
introduced a bill in the senate to legalize
alcoholic liquors in Iowa for sale withiu
the state tor tne purposes now specineu
by law and for export from the state.
Enormous quantities of alcholic liquors
are now Bhipped into the state and it is
not thought good business sense to dis
criminate against their own industries
once engaged in their manufacture. The
bill will certainly puss the senate by
something more than a party majority
and it may pass the house. In any event
the republicans will be compelled to go
on record for or against it.
The Amount of It.
Mr. David A. WcIIb has been making
some computations on silver and finds
there are now in the vaults of tbe United
States treasury $-100.000, 0C0 worth of
that metal. This makes 11,000 tons, and
the government is buying every week 42
tons additional, to thiB store. The stored
silver furuisheB an interesting subject for
computations. A cubic inch of silver
weighs 0.38 pounds, and a cubic foot 057
pounds, so there is on hand 53,500 cubic
foet. It would take 220,000 men to carry
it, each carrying 100 pounds. If coined
into dollars and piled up in a column, it
would reach t!7 miles. This immense
amount of silver is in dollars, 3-18,070,-2f)3
; small coin $15,848,620 ; silver bars,
$41,570,253; trade dollars, $2,301,200;
$409,101,320, and yet buying seven tonB a
day.
Swindled by Curtl Sharpers.
Honry Wenkle living near Santa Cruz,
Cal., has been swindled out of $1000 by
card-9harpers. On a pretense ef buying
his farm, two strangers induced Wenkle
to bet $1000 on three-card monte. Wen
kle thought he had a sure thing and put
up the money. The strangers also put
up $1000, and the whole sum was placed
in a tin box which was locked. Wenkle
won the bet and the strangers handed
him the box and left. When the farmer
opened the box it contained some lead
and waBto paper.
Chinese Merchandise.
Some curious items are found in the
lists of China's trade statistics. For in
stance, the report of exports from Ichanii.
a large city on the Middle Yang tse-
Kiang, contains an item of 13,000 pounds
of tiger bones, valued at nearly $3,000.
Only a Chinese would think of putting
tiger bones to any other use than that of
a fertilizer, but in China tigei bones are
nsed as a medicine. They impart to the
invalid some of the tiger's strength. An
other item is 9,000 pounds of old deer
horns, worth $1,700 another medicinal
agency with whose peculiar properties
Western medical science is not yet ac
quainted. He Made a Cold llluit.
Saturday Charles M. Austin entered
the Utah National bank at Salt Lake and
handed the paying teller a slip of paper,
on which was written : "Give me $250 in
currency, please ; refuse and you die this
minute." Austin had in his hand an
ugly looking revolver. Teller Hawley
dropped to the floor behind the counter
and warned tits associate. to look eut.
Austin walked out nonchalently, but
was arrested and locked up. He is a son
of L. 8. Austin, general manager of the
Salt Lake Construction Company, and a
man of hiph standing. The young man
has been drinking heavily.
. Silver In Central Park,
The astonishing discovery has been
made that through the ledge of rocks
along the Eighth avenui side of Central
park in New Y'ork, runs a vain of silver.
The "find" Is a rich one too. A careful
assay by H. Charles Ulman shows forty
six ounces of silver to one ton of rock.
There is no record of a prior discovery of
a silver deposit on Manhattan island and
the credit belongs to Ulman. For manv
years he has been engaged in siver min
ing in Colorado and his attention was at
tracted by the peculiar appearance of the
rock and the discovery ot the silver de
posit followed.
They Quarreled Over a Ditch.
A serious difficulty took place Saturday
between Johnson and Davidson, two
ranchers linns: about eight miles from
I Buiee. ihey were partners in a ditch
nnd had some quarrel over a head gate,
; Johnson wanted to take the head gate
'i i'liMiisuu loin mm to keep bis
hands off. A quarrel ensued, in which
Davti'son struck Johnson over the head
with a shovel, inflicting a serious injurv,
from which it is feared he will die.
Davidson was brought into town and
held in $2000 to await the results.
Skeletons t'nenrthed.
C. B. Herren, while engaged in the
! Construction nf a .tileh nm,
about fonrmilen eonih i u..,.i .i '