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PACIFIC COAST.
Vera Ava a Spiritualist
in California.
TEACHERS' UNION IN NEVADA
Tha Leaders of the Military Mob at
Walla Walla Arrive Safely
at Aloalraz Prison.
Travelers say there
IH
nn active vol-
ratio in the Cascades.
A teachers' union In being organized
in Virginia City, Nev.
Tim examination of Frank Heney for
the murder of Dr. Handy ingoing on at
Tucson.
Tim Indian scare in Idaho is not oatiB
imr apprehension to army officials at
okune.
The Junnita iH the onlv Healer not
re-
turned to Victoria, It. C, and fear
are
expressed for her safety.
Tim MMiii-annual session of the South
ern California Pomologieal Society is
being held at Pasadena.
The work on the jetties at the mouth
of tho Columbia iH progressing. Rock is
curried four miles out to sea and
dumped.
ThoimiH II. Horn, ft Pinkerton detec
tive, charged with robbing ft faro bank
at. Ueno hint April, hats been acquitted
by ft jury.
The Los AngeleH Consolidated Elec
tric Railway ban commenced running
electric cars on the road to Vernon, ft
distance of about three miles.
There are reports that the Stonewall
mine in San Diego county has Htruck a
bonanza, and that an option him- been
taken on it In Chicago for $1,500,000.
An Investigation into the difficulty
with the Clalitmie Indians in Idaho
shows it originated in greedy whites
trying to disjKissess Indians of their
lands and to frighten the Indians awny
threatened to bring in troops,.
The sixtv-secoiid semi-annual confer
ence of the Church of Jesus Christ of
I.ntter-Dav Haints convened iu the Tab
ernacle atSalt Lake Sunday, over 10,000
of the faithful being in attendance
There was a choir of (WO voices present
A printer who is in the state prison at
Carsou, Nev., for buying a bottle of
whiskey for an Indian, has appealed to
the typoB of Virginia City to keep him
supplied with tobacco, reading matter
etc., while he is holding down his pres
ent "sit."
At San Francisco tho public admin
istrator has asked Judge Coffey to settle
bis final account as special administra
tor of the estate of Mrs. Hopkins
Searles. He states that the estate in
California is valued at $2,0ri0,000, and
the rents amount to $5,000 per month.
San Kafael, Cal., is much chagrined
over the way ft young man calling him
self George C. Gorhatn, Jr., was enabled
to get into the swim of all the good
people and subsequently swindle every
body who truBted him. He married
VjIiHs Mamie Dwyer, whom he robbed
' and deserted.
The Alaska Packers' Association, com
prising the controlling interests in the
thirty-three salmon canneries of Alaska,
has been formed at San Francisco. The
association is controlled bv the follow
ing trustees: 8. M. Smith, G. W. Hume,
J. N. Knowles, Charles HirBb and K. B.
Beckwith, With D. B. Bradford as Secretary.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Meeting of Supnrlr Judge Will
Held In Seattle to Formulate
Uniform Mulct.
Be
The poNtofficcs of wliafeom and New
Whatcom will soon lie consolidated.
The harlior at Houth Rend lias Ihm-ii
relieved of 8:1,400 cubic yards of mud by
the Rowers dredger.
Yiikinm Indians are reported to be
willing to take up farms and throw open
the reservation to settlement.
Hoise thieves are again at work in the
vicinity of Spokane. Five animals were
stolen during the past week.
The Tiieoma smelting and refining
works shipped 4,2fi0 harof bullion, Val
ued at ftlfi.tHO, during Septemltcr.
Taconift's wheat receipt now average
100 curs daily, or about 07,000 bushels;
Seattle, :tT) cars daily, or about 24,01)0
biiHhels.
There is a movement on foot to take
the eastern portion of Clallum ami Jef
ferson counties, separated from the
Sound by the Olympics, and form a new
county of I hem.
An adjustment of the Iocs of the Che
ney Normal School, which was burned
recently, has licen made by the State
Auditor and the companies, ami 14,000
has been paid in by the latter.
Silver Ijike, one mile east of Medical
Lake, is becoming quite a finding resort,
the German carp put therein a few years
ago having Increased so fast that they
now furnish excellent aort lor hsher
men. Articles of incorporation of the I'uget
Sound Vinegar ami Tickle Company have
Isien filed by John Bnuiii, George I rick
and F. W. Bergen as trustees. The cap
ital is $10,000. The company promises
to manufacture yeast also.
Postmaster W. A. Bounds has received
liclal notification that the Houth Bend
iHiHtolliee has been promoted to the third
class. The iiostmaster'a report for the
niiiiter ended S'ptemlicr 30 shows
H2:t K2 as the amount of stame can
celed. The Northern Pocilic land department
is doing a big business in the Clarke-
county tract. The fears that the com
pany will lose the land have about sun-
sided, and much html is lieing sold.
1 hone who settled on their Hind prior to
IHS.' get it for $2.00 an acre.
Hie lumbermen who met at Tacoma
the other day to prepare plans for secur
ing Washington luinlier for the State ex
hibit building at the Columbian World's
I sir have decided to meet at Seattle
within thirty days for the purpose 6f
perfecting an organisation of- the State
Lumlierincn'H Asoeiatioii.
The projected ship canal to connect
Puget Sound with I-akes Lnion and
Washington at Seattle, if carried out,
will make Seattle one of the finest har
bors in the world, having a fresh water
lock large enough to accommodate the
commerce of any port j but, as the im
provement would cost $.5,000,0(10, it is
scarcely prouame mat it win in under
taken for many years.
A zinc ledge Is tho latest mineral dis
covery made in the vicinity of Spokane.
C. P. Carlin reports that he has discov
ered a fourteen-foot ledge of that min
eral, and recently took samples of the
ore to Charles Fassett for assay. Mr.
Fassctt has made a number of assays,
and finds that the ore carries from XI to
40 per cent, of the metal. The location
of the ledge is withheld.
A writ of error to the Supremo Court
of the United States has been a!l,ved
bv Chief Justice Anders in 4 the Se
attle Valentine scrip case pf Milton L.
User vs. Monin Hros. Company, the
transcript must be filed at Washington
within Bixty days. An attempt will be
made to advance the case on the ground
of its great public importance, bo that it
may be Heard next rebruary.
Hoy Moya, a Seattle Chinaman, has
secured a permit, irom ine iieaitn iie-
partment of Tacoma to exhume the
Iwnea of a half-dozen Chinamen who
were buried in the south part of the city
near Center street several years ago, be
fore the Chinamen were driven from the
city. Hoy Moya will work under the
protection of United States Marshal
Brown, and the bones exhumed will be
Bent to China.
I. J. Lichtenberg of the Superior Court
of King county has issued a call to all
Superior Judges of the State to meet at
the Courthouse in Seattle Novemlier 27
for the purpose of formulating uniform
rules for the government of the Superior
Courts. Although a wide diversity of
opinion iB expressed concerning the ob
jects of the meeting, nineteen of the
Judge give approval of having it. Each
Judge is expected to select a member of
the bar from bis county, and the attor
nevs bo chosen will confer with the
Judges. It is expected that there will
be a good attendance, and it is probable
the guests will be entertained by the
Bar Association of King county.
A California company has leased for a
term of years a coal mine near Kelso,
about half a mile from the Cowlitz river
and three miles from the Columbia, in
Cowlitz county, and is preparing to de
velop it. A tunnel has been run in 200
feet on the upper vein, and from this
point a shaft has been sunk eighty feet
passing through five strata of coal. The
first is seven feet in thickness, the sec
ond two and one-half feet, the third four
and one-half feet, the fourth five and
one-half feet and the fifth seven and one
half feet. There is coal enough in the
upper stratum to last for a generation or
bo. Edward Kimball, an agent of the
company, has had a working test of the
coal made at the power-house of the ca
ble-rosd company at Portland, which
proved very satisfactory. It is a good
quality of IiKnite. hard and clean, carry
ing 45 per cent, of fixed carbon, which is
a little better than the best Washington
eoal.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Electrocution Reported
to Bo a Success.
NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING.
Minnesota's Supreme Court Declares
Wheat Futures Are
legal
and Contracts Void.
Heal estate in Oklahoma is Itoomiiig.
The grip is making its appearance in
New York flgiiin.
Neither St. Paul nor Mliiiieniiolis baa
a single horce-car line.
There is a fine of f5O0 for practicing
hypnotism In Cincinnati.
The Arctic lee Machine Company at
Jleveland, Ohio, has assigned.
A f.'i0il,(MK) union railway station has
UHt Is-en ojiemtd in Imisville,
A syndicate has offered to buy the
Washington monument for a shot tower.
Pennsylvania farmers, irrespective of
A 1 1 i km orders, are hoidim; wheat for
.50 a bushel.
lieHcoii Hill in Boston is to lm ex-
)'ored by diamond drills in the interest
of rapid transit.
P.ngland and Germany have each ap
plied for 200, IKK) square feet of space at
the (kilumbian Fair.
Strong resolutions were adopted at a
public meeting at Windsor, Canada, fav
oring commercial union with the United
States.
Cadets (irillith of Maryland and Kav-
Himniih of Nebraska at the Annapolis
Academy are to U court-martialed for
la.uig.
lhomas I'.dison, the electric wizard,
ms a new system of applying electricity
o cars that does away with the trolly or
he slot.
The Minnesota supreme court declares
wheat futures are illegal and operators
on the wrong side can repudiate their'
ontracti.
The Odd Fellows in the United States
an tioust ot a memherslup ol nearly
oo, (XX) and an annual revenue of more
than 17,000,000.
The official rewrt on the executions
iy electricity at New York show them
to have t'eeu a complete success, as wa
lesigued by the law.
The Boston Herald has a dispatch say-
ng that ex-Speaker Heed will Kive up
politics and enter a large business cor
poration at New York.
It is probable that the scheme of
transmitting mail in large cities by pneu
matic tubes will be abandoned on ac
count of the great expense.
It iB estimated that the WeBtern rail
roads have earned $2o0,o00 the past year
from the transportation of Mormon mis
sionaries and their proselytes.
New York will soon have a score or
more ot practically lree puiiiic oaths,
unless the plans of the trustees of the
Huron de Hirsch fund miscarry.
The water is bo low in the Erie canal
that boats are grounded all along the
line. The creeks and feeders have not
been so low us now in some years.
There will be more than an average
yield of corn and buckwheat in New
York. A large tobacco crop baa nearly
been secured in excellent condition.
The excitement at Clearfield, Penn.,
over the suspension ot the Ulearneid
and Hout.dale bank still continues, and
the mobbing of the bank was feared.
The Mexican government is preparing
to meet all revolutionary forces that
cross the Bio Grand, and the prepara
tions indicate that the government is
much alarmed.
AH the northwest railroad companies
are calling attention to the critical situa
tion in the ortn Dakota wheat helds,
where the wheat is lying in stacks for
want of threshers. '
No rain worth mentioning has fallen
in iSorwaiK, uonn., since eariy in ine
sorine. As a consequence her reservoirs
are empty, and arrangements are being
maae w tap ine mams oi a ueignoonng
town.
Developments in the Christman bank
failure at Paris, 111., make the situation
more serious than at tirst supposed, it
is stated that the loss will not be less
than $150,000, and the assets may not
exceed $10,000.
Chairman Coppel of the board of
directors of the Denver &' Rio Grande
railroad has issued a circular announ
cing the appointment of E. J. Jeffery,
formerly general manager of the Illinois
Central, as president and general man
ager.
The Lee county, Aric., troubles are
probably at an end unless a mob at
tempts to hang the negroes now in the
Mananna jail. It appears that no less
than fifteen negroes were killed out of
a gang of nineteen who commenced the
trouble.
The wharf strike at Savannah, lia., is
gradually extending to all branches of
colored labor. The business ot the city
is at a standstill. Money is tied up in
cotton, which is piled up in the yards
and sidetracked along the lines of the
railroads. The banks are unable to ac
commodate their patrons. The strikers
are quiet and orderly.
The distillers at Peoria, 111., the great
est whisky-producing city in the world
have decided to use theTakamine (Japan
ese) process of making whisky. The
new plan greatly reduces the cost of
manufacture. A queer feature is that a
species of bugs found on the rice is used
instead of yeast for the fermenting
process.
OREGON MELANGE.
Horrible Butchery of One Chinaman by
Another Occur at John Day
The Wheat Fleet.
The Similiter Valley Railroad Com
pany is now running passenger coaches
regularly for the accoinuuxlation of its
patrons.
The river bottom two or three miles
from Pendleton is alive with rattle
snakes, of which there are more than
have been seen for years.
The Western I'nioii Telegraph Com
pany proposes to extend its line from
Marshficld to Florence, if the jieople of
the Kiuslaw Valley are willing to share
the expense.
The grain fleet from Europe is arriv
ing lit Portland. The warehouses are
crowded with wheat, and the fleet of
vessels coming to carry it away is larger
than ever known at Portland.
There Is considerable talk of organiz
ing an athletic club in Portland for the
purKise of promoting friendly glove con
tents with large pillow gloves as an in
rent i veto greater proficiency in the manly
art of self-defense.
The Oregon State Insane Asylum ap
(wars to have been in an unfortunate
condition before the present manage
ment assumed control. The sleeping
rooms were filled with vermin, and the
sheets from the beds were used as towels.
T. 15. Trevett, William L. Ladd and
Lewis Bussell, who were judges of the
recent regatta at Portland, have decided
that the Willamette and Portland senior
fyiir-oared crewa must row BK'ain. This
race whs protested on the ground of foul.
A number of Astoria's athletic young
men, who attended the regatta in Port
land a few days ago, are contemplating
organizing a boat club. There is a four
mile straight-away course of smooth
water on Young's river, from the old
mill, that is unexcelled for racing pur
poses. The slate quarry recently discovered
i
n Josephine county, twelve miles from
Grant's Pass, is the only one in the
Northwest south of British Columbia,
and there is onlv one in California, so it
is hound to lie of value. The slate is of
superior kind, ahead of nearly all slate
found in the r.&nU
William A. Pinkerton, General West'
rn Superintendent of the Western di
ision of Pinkerton's national detective
agency, has decided to establish a Pacific
Virthwest branch in rortland. He baa
rented a suite of rooms in the Marquara
building, and the branch office will he
opened at once with Charles Mapplestein
n charge.
The Oregon Board of Commerce ha
'ected the following officers : President,
P. F. Oslwrne ; Secretary, Charles Kan-
lolph; Treasurer, llenrv Failing. Ten
Vice-Presidents from various Boards of
Trade throughout the State were elected.
A committee of seven was chosen to have
full charge of raising funds for the
World's Fair exhibit.
At Astoria O. W. Dunbar and George
Hibbert, publishers of Tmm Talk, have
been arrested on an indictment from the
grand jury, charging them with criminal
iIh?i. the complainimr witness was
Samuel Elmore, and the article w hich he
deemed a libel was published in Town
Talk over fourteen months ago. It re
flects quite seriously on Mr. Elmore's
character. The men gave bail for their
appearance. The case is looked upon bv
the legal fraternity as a huge joke, and
the two editors state that they have
abundant-proof to substantiate the arti
cle in question.
A mo t horrible butchery of one Chi
naman by another occurred at a mining
camp near John Day, Urant county. An
Fue had loaned Ah now H, and when
the former asked to be repaid, the bor
rower replied by drawing a huge knile
and hacking away at How as he might
chop down a tree. Not one of a dozen
or more wounds inflicted Reached a vital
part, but great chunks of flesh from
arms, hips, chest and back were sliced
off, and m a very short time the butch
ered Monuol bled to death. Other Chi
namen in the camp succeeded in dis
arming their murderous countryman,
and kept him in captivity until Sheriff
Cresap could be sent or. lhe murderer
is now in jail at Canyon City.
The mill of the Willamette Valley
Milling Company at Salem will be ready
to begin operations m two or three
weeks. The delay has-been caused by
the failure of the rolls to arrive. A rail
road has been built down Front street to
connect the mill with the Southern Pa
cillc lines. This will enable supplies of
grain to be received and flour to be
shipped to much better advantage. Not
so uiucn wheat is now Drought into a
lem bv farmers from the surrounding
country, as a great deal of land has been
planted to fruit. With a railroad and
the river alongside, the mill will be able
to obtain 8ii pplies from all parts of the
Willamette Valley. It will use a large
quantity, as its capacity is 800 barrels
per day.
Word has iust been received of a dar
ing robbery, which was perpetrated upon
the National Bank of Enterprise, Wal
lowa county. Cashier Holmes was alone
in the bank, when a man entered ana
said: "How much money has John
Smith of Portland on deposit here?
Uoon Mr. Holmes saving that no such
man had any money there, the visitor
pulled out a pistol, arid sticking it in his
face-said: " You are a d d liar,
Bv this time two confederates had come
up on horseback, and while one, sitting
on his norse, wun a pisioi m eacu nanu
warned the people back, the other en
tered the bank and pushed all the
money on the counter $3,500 into a
sack. The three then escaped to the
mountains in the direction of Cornuco
pia, A posse was organized and sent in
pursuit: but. as the country is sparsely
settled, their capture is doubtful. Four
thousand dollars more was in the till
under the counter, and could have been
had as well as not, had the robber taken
the time.
FOREIGN LANDS.
trf
The Viceroy of India is
Alarmed.
FRENCH PILGRIMS AT ROME.
An Examination of Podlach's Affairs
Proves Him to Have Been a
Life-Long Scoundrel.
The King of Italy takes great interest
in raising camels.
The sugar-lieet roots throughout Eu
rope are progressing fairly.
The Sydney (Australia) lighthouse has
an electric light equal to 12,000,000 can
dles. In thirty-three years $3.'!,000,000 has
been expended on Ixmdon's drainage
system.
Damascus is to be lighted by electric
ity, while Smyrna is to have an electric
railway.
The funeral of the Grand Duchess Paul
of
Russia involved an outlay oi over
200,000.
New Zealand is surpassing the Argen
tine Republic in the exportation of
reseed beef.
In Bali, an island in the Indian Archi
pelago east of Java, the burning of wid
ows still goes on.
It is announced that Afghanistan has
been opened to free commercial inter
course with Russia.
The Viceroy of India is alarmed at
the sullennes8 of the native population
over the child-wife law.
Bismarck has written five chapters of
his liook. Thev treat of events which
apened in 1800 and of his retirement.
Taking the officers holding honorary
rank into account, there are 2,050 Gen
erals in the British army, or nearly one
for every 100 soldiers.
A rise in the Bank of England rate
can be reckoned upon to 4 per cent, be
fore the end of October and to ) percent.
ime tune in November.
It is understood that the Ameer of Ca-
bul is taking steps to obtain from Eng
land a geologist, a chemist, two miners
and a number of mechanics.
The Queen of Spain is reported to
have purchased the Marquis Alcalise's
vast estate, including two palaces in
Southern Italy, for 7,mK),000 francs.
Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, Borneo, has
proclaimed his son, Vyner Brooke, as his
successor, and has decreed that ne snail
attain his majorityt the age of 17.
The Central Strike Committee has in
formed the trades throughout Germany
that the present time is not opportune
for a struggle between employes ana
employers.
The abolition of capital punishment is
being written about in the London press
with the effect of producing a very clear
cut argument in favor of letting it re
main.
The Belgian government will form a
new regiment of artillery, two of infan
try and one of cavalry to garrison the
Mease forts, and will enroll o.ow re
cruits yearly.
The Welsh National Council, meeting
with the Liberal Federation of Wales ftt
Pont-v-Pridd. decided to raise 10,000 to
carry on the campaign work for church
disestablishment.
The latest dispatches from Siberia re
port that the railway strikes aj;e assum
ing a serious aspect. The government
advocated vigorous measures in dealing
with the strikers.
An interesting work that is now in
progress in Glasgow, Scotland, is the
construction of three tunnels under the
harbor from shore to shore for the ac
commodation of foot passengers.
After January 1 a convicted seller of
adulterated food in London will have to
display a notice of the fact in his shop
for twenty-one days, ihia is an applica
tion of the principle of the pillory.
Caron, the engineer responsible for the
recent railroad collision at St. Mande,
France, has been sentenced to two years'
imprisonment, and De Gurrois, the sta
tion master, to four months tor negli
gence.
The British postoffice authorities are
reported to be again considering the pro
ect of having an alternative transconti
nental route to India bv balonica in ad-
lition to or in substitution of that of
Brindisi. .
Efforts are being made and with some
success in London to induce parents to
continue giving school pence to their
children that they may put the money
no longer needed for fees, into the school
savings bank.
To prevent accidents from the Lauffen
Frankfort cable, which .transmits i
deadly current of 25,000 volts, all the
poles for the 112 miles are adorned with
skulls and cross bones surmounted with
a warning notice.
The President of the Suez Canal Com
pany has informed the Secretary of
Llovds that as soon as a tank steamer
now in course of construction, is placed
on the canal vessels carrying petroleum
will be allowed to pass through.
A number of French pilgrims at Rome
visited the Pantheon, and showed disre
spect to the tomb of Victor Emanuel
This created a row, and a fight ensued
When the facts became known in the
city young men paraded the streets
hissed the pilgrims and demanded the
Italian flag should be raised on all the
hotels. It was several hours before" the
excitement subsided.
ItMord ef Tblldrwa'a Welch.
Mr. Fronds (iultm, whose reMarehes
on heredity have tieen so interesting and
imiioi tunt, st.'iit-l a few years ago a se
ries of inqiiirii-8 into the development of
children in height, weight and strength,
at various nges. The trouble w that for
the material he ri-quir.il to lie of any
Use, they must be carefully sifted, and
even they would, for the most part, re
main ojien t f.'onmilcrahln doubt.
Gidton can hardly have hoet, when
he invited the British paterfamilias to
Bend in the htatwtics of a family's
growth, that in regard to weight that
worthy but usually unscientific character
would take the iin-eary precautions.
One can how little the average father
of a family is likely to l careful in audi
matters, when ne oliHerve how careless
ho is in taking the record of bis own
weight. He w ill take hw weight on one
of ihie rather questionable nickel ma
chines, and remark with a suiisGcd miIo
that ho has increawHl four or five pound
in weight; without noticing that, per
hart, his List weighing was taken just
before a meal on a warm day, when he
was lightly dad, whereas tho new weigh
ing has been taken soon after a rather
full meal, and when he is warmly
drefscd. It does not occur to him to
notice that a couple of glaiiseu of water
add more than a jiound to the weight,
and a full meal three or four pounds;
while a suit such as a man wears on a
cold day will often weigh four or five
pounds more (without counting? oVer
i -n) than tho clothing suitable for a
nn day. Richard A. Proctor.
Ir.aprrtnr Byrnm on Detrctlveh
I want to speak right here of a couple
of fallacies of the popular mind in regard
to the detective business. First, tho old
iik'a of setting a thief to catch a thief is
all non.-tfnHfl. Why, you could not tru-t
your man; would have to have another
to watch him. No; you must have
thoroughly honest and reliable men. Of
course we sometimes get information
from one thief about another, but never
do we employ a man who has ever been
a crook. The second popular fallacy is
that the detective ia a regular variety
and lightning change man, who at will
undergoes transformation of appearance
and language, something like the Dr.
Jc-kyll and Mr. Hyde business; people
fancy that a collection cf wigs, whiskers,
mustache, and a make up apparatus, to
gether with a wardrobe that would put a
variety actor to shame, is a regular and
necessary part of the outfit of a detective
bureau. That is all burcomb. You get
that in dime novels and French detective
stories. Y ears ago, m foreign countries,
that kind of thing was, perhaps, resorted
to, but never nowadavs. The most a
man does here, perhaps, is to change his
clothes. Cleveland Leader.
The Triumph of Gunpowder,
Bv 1450 the simplest complete armor
for horse and man cost alxmt $2,000 of
our money, a large sum for a single sol
dier. One shot might ruin all this, and
knights, brave with their lives, hesitated
to risk a property so valuable and so
lard to replace. Thus the nobles retired
to the rear of the. battle, and in the pay
of the Fifteenth century princes half
armed light cavalry appeared, doing real
service, but retjuii ing time to obtain any
prestige. The knights did not learn
their lesson, but went on making armor
heavier, to resist the effects of powder.
They had a momentary success at ror
novb, but at Marfgnano and Ravenna the
Swiss and Spanish infantry handled them.
roughly, while Pavia proved their inef
ficiency to all. It 6eemed to them ter
rible that such a knight as Bayard
should have his back broken by a pinch
of iKiwder and a shot from a common
soldier; but the change had to come.
We find the buff boot on the gentlemen
who charged at Ivry, and, in spite of
Louis XIII, armor in, his reign degener
ated into a gala costume. Scribner's
Magazine.
Suppressing the Press.
The arrest of two editors for printing
an extract from another paper question
ing the validity of the anti-lottery law
is certainly carrying things pretty high
in this land of free speech and liberal
government.
The Foil has no objection to the
stamping out of the lottery companies,
but the line should be drawn, it thinks,
at that point where irresponsible under
lings of the government attempt to
stamp out the press.
On this line the Atlanta Vonmiuiion
says that " this policy will not work. If
lotteries cannot be destroyed without
also destroying the freedom of the press,
the people will be in favor of letting the
lotteries alone, we cannot artord to
yield our right to speak and publish fair
criticisms of public measures. If we
yield the right in one instance, we may
expect to be forced to keep silence when
ever it suits the government to demand
it. Fortunately it is no easy matter to
bulldoze the newspapers of America.
The menace of fine and imprisonment
will intimidate very tew. no matter
what Federal officials may hold, the
newspaper men of the country will not
change their conviction that an honest
criticism or discussion of the provisions
contained in the anti-lottery law cannot
with any show of justice be held to be a
violation of that law. If they are mis
taken in this belief, then the law will
have to be repealed or modified. In this
Republic the government cannot array
itself a;ainst the press and have the
support of the people."
It is the policy and practice in some
of the monarchies to inhibit criticism
by the press of the acts of government,
but until the enforcement, or the alleged
enforcement, of the anti-lottery law no
one dreamed that such a thing would be
attempted in the United States. Houf
Ion (Tex.) Post, September 16.
The Tennessee Legislature will
prize-fighting a misdemeanor,
make