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s~ToDDARD's MULE.
A Nevada Story of How 1t Broke
FerryInan DaSsett's Business.

"A -NSNddh StoFy Oh HOW IL BTOK0
FerryInan DaGsett's Business.
Many years ago down in Idaho, dur
ing a gold excitement, a good many men
went into the country to make money
outside the gold-hunting industry.
Their idea was to make the other fell
lows delve for the gold while they, APP
%propriated it afterward. Rollin Dag
gett, afterward Nevada's Congressman,
established a ferryboat on a small creek,
and named the place deaths Ford"
at the same time %inventing a musty
legend to the effect that it was thus
named because so many lives had been
lost in the attempt to cross it. The
stream was not over a dozen yards
wide. and the water nowhere over two
feet deep; but he rugged up a t1atboat,
and pulled ii back and forth by a rope
c%ontrivance. Whenever the prospect
ors crossed he RECALLED them with hor-
rible tales of the treachery of the
stream, and the remorseless quicksands
which had drawn so many men and
mules to terrible deaths.
In the night when he ferried people
WV IN "oulu SttuIlOu tltIu llOU 10 neb
too near the edge of the boat, as a fall
overheard was certain death. By let
ting the dim old lantern 90 out and
making slow time he frequently inn
pressed the passengers with the idea
that the stream was half a mile wide.
For night trips he charged SIS, but if
the wind was high and the weather bad
he struck sanguine prospectors for
much larger sums. In the daytime ST.
was his modest charge.
He went along in this way for several
months, the men who rushed to the hills
looking upon him as u benefactor 10 his
race by this conquering of SO formida-
BILE an obstacle to travel as Deaths
Ford" One day Charlie Stoddard, the
promoter, appeared on the bank with a
mule and boarded the fiatboat to cross.
In the midst of the stream, just when
the ferryman was telling how danger
Gus the place was, the mule grew FESTIVE
and fell overheard. One leg caught on
a rope and he got his head under water,
and, unable to extricate himself, was
drowned. When he was cut loose he
lay there in the middle OF deaths
Ford" half out Of water, so that all
who came along saw what a miserable
sham the ferry was, and that any four
footed animal coIid walk across. Dag
gett tried to got the mule away, but he
was loo heavy to bulge, and so he lay
there in plain sight for weeks, until
Daggett's business as a fcrryman was
ruined. That's the reason old Dag
hardly eve speaks to Charley Stoddard
when he meets him. Carson (Mcuada)5
1rDe0}
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Editing With the Scissors.

The above remark is frequently made
in connection with newspapers, and is
too frequently meant as a slur. On the
contrary, under proper circumstances.
it should be regarded as n compliment
of a high character. The same ape
may be ably edited with the pen aud
miserably edited with the scissors. A
mistaken idea prevails that the work of
the latter is mere child's play, a sort of
hit or miss venture, requiring hardly
any brains and still less judgement;
that the promiscuous and voluminous
clippings are sent in u batch to the
foreman, and with that the editors
duty ends and that of the foreman
begins.
Instead of this. the work requires
much care and attention, with a keen
comprehension of the fact that eacl,
days paper has its own needs. The
exchange editor is a pains-taking, con-
scientious, methodical man, always on
the alert, quick in appreciation, retcn-
tive in memory, shrewd in d~iscernment.
He reads closely, culls carefully, omits
and amends, discards and digests, new
or Ignoring the fact that variety is a
great essential. There are sentences to
%recast, words 10 soften, redundancies to
prune, errors to correct, headings to be
made. credits to be given. seasons to be
considered, aflinilies to be preserved,
conslstencies to be respected. He knows
whether the matter is fresh or stale,
whether it is appropriate, and whether
he has used it before; he remembers
that he is catering for many tastes; he
makes raids in every direction; he LAYS
the whole newspaper field under con
%tribution; ne persistently .'boils down.
which with him. is not a process of re-
writing. but a happy faculty of expung.
ing, without destroying sense CON
tinuity.
His genius is exhibited in the depart
ments, the items of which are similar
and c~ohesive-in the suggestive heads
and sub-heads, in the sparkle that is
visible, in the sense of qualification
which the reader derives. No daily
paper can be exclusively original; it
would die of ponderosity. Life is too
short and hence an embargo must be
laid upon the genius of its rivals. A
bright cl'nned article is infinitely h,.ttar
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Precautions Against Riotins.

New York Specinl:-The local authorities
have not been idle in arranging to cope
with II riot. Preparations have been
made AT most OF the armories for IL sud-
den c~all-out, and there has been II great
deal OF activity behind the walls
OF the state arsenal, at seventh
avenue and Thirty-ffth street. The
Forty.seyenth regiment OF Brooklyn was
under arms the nj .ht OF the riot in Green
Point andt heday after. Asuuad OF Earle's
battery was put on duty night and day.
The Gatling gun was transferred to the
arsenal, and the battery has since had its
rendezvous there. There is an effort on
the part of the authorities to keep the
whole matter quiet.
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Con. Crook on the Apaches.

Gen. Crook has arrived at Omaha from
Arizona and ut once assumed command OF
Tho department Of the Platt. He was ban.
quoted by friends, and he said:
l had but limited opportunities to con-
verso with Gen. Miles before my departure.
I infer, however, from he said that he
Intends to ,rrtiyely push the campaign
against the Hpaches- There are still nine
teen of the bucks. with Geronimo at the
head, to be captured. The only thing to
b. done is to run them down and make
them surrender. What difficulties that
will involve only an experienced Indian
fighter can know, Chasing these redskins
with the limited facilities at our disposal
il something like trying to run down a
Iock OF crows with cavalry. They haveto
be chased through mountains, valleys, for
ests and plains. with often nothing but an
indistinct trail to indicate the direction in
which they have gone. They can travel
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ten miles where our cavalry can travel one,
and they know every inch of the country
NO more troops are needed. The present
force is large enough. If the force were ten
times as large the result would be the same.
When run down and captured | do not be-
lleve these Indians should again be placed
on II reservation, and no treaty should be
made with them.
Gen. Crook says he left matters in such n
shape that Gen. Miles could take up the
campaign and push it to advantage.
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L%ynchins of wife Murderer.

George Graham, the wife murderer, was
lynched ut Springfield, Mo, by a mob.
Several men. heavily armed, called the
sheriff to the door, seized and forced him
to give up the keys. Then they went to
the cell and opened the door. Graham
was in his bunk. and was commanded
to get up. He WAS at first infu-
rate and replied with onths, but he was
silenccd by the muzzle OF n revolver thrust
in his face. He dressed himself, ,,nd when
the rope was placed around his neck broke
down and wept bitterly. He was led out
OF the jail at the end of the rope, placed
i'll a spring wagon, and the procession
moved in n northcrly direction.
1t is claimed that he rcasserted his state
ment that neither Mrs. Maloy nor Corr,
Lee was implicated in tho murder. A cloth
was tied over his face, his hands were
bound behind him. the rope was thrown
over q limb OF II tree, md the wife murder
er was run up. Iiewas stranclcd to death.
and at 5 a. III. the body of Graham was
hanging where left by the l%ynchers.
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The committee OF five to be appointed
under the resolution of Delegate VOORHEES,
calling for an investigation OF the lobby, es-
pecially in regard to ex-members OF con-
gress, will give an opportunity for some
sensational developement. Some members
OF the last house noted for their hostility
to the railroads are low in the employ of
and working on the Hoo for the Union and
Central Pacific. a well known law firm Of
congress-, is open counsel for the Union
Pacific, and has appeared for the road in
the courts.
Archbishop Taschereau OF Quebec will
not be installed as a cardinaluntil Septem-
Der.
The Spanish senatorial elections have
resulted in the return OF 1923 Ministerial
lists, twenty-eight Conservatives, six In
dependents, four Republicans and two
members Of the Dynastic Left.
The German government, with n view to
extending German influence and trade in
the East, has decided to establish u semi.
nary for the teaching Ct Oriental languages
in connection with the Berlin university.
A drawing by MISSIONER was sold the
other day at the Hotel Drouot, Paris, for
six francs. 1t was a hasty sketch OF u pair
OF legs.
Emperor William has sent the pope a
costly gold cross, mounted with jewels, as u
souvenir OF German gratitude for friendly
offices rendered by the pope in arbitrating
the Caroline's dispute.
The pope. addressing the Prussian gov
ernment on the revised ecclesiastical laws.
comedies the submission OF ecclesiastical
appointments to Prussia.
The emir OF Hnrran, by whom the Italian
expedition under Count Porro was massa-
cred, also captured fifteen indian soldiers,
but afterwards released them. The report
that II British outpost at Suakim had been
surprised and fifteen Indian soldiers cap
turcd ny the enemy arose from this cap
ture o indians by the emir.
The following are Northwestern patents
just issued: Bates, Jeremiah, S%herburne.
Mum. machine for separating flaxseed;
Brown. William j., Fl. Madison, Iowa,
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"A Dakota lawyer-editor announces that "
s'can mot live on wind.,.4 n6.sNo
manufacturer can use his hntshsd rroduct "
raw material-ANasy 4n4sA
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

and with little delay. and then. in very lit
tie while, there would be no executive Office
worth fighting for, much less numbering for.
This Russian style Of succession has never
had any show or support here. In the next
place, Americans are as conspicuous for 10y
atty to institutions as the English for loyalty
to their Queen, or the Germans for loyalty to
their old Emperor, and as little likely to pro-
vide succession to the chief executive officer
by striking down their institutions as the
British to enthrone the Prince of Wales by
shooting or poisoning his mother. The in
ducements to such crime have been for a
century past just what they are now, and
they have never moved any friend of any off,
Ger to any offense to clear the way for his sue
cession to a higher Office, either in the State
or the Nation. If it has not been done in a
hundred years, it Is not likely to be done in
two hundred, or thousand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

Mr.. LABoUOHERE, Of the London Truth,
says of the measures before Congress for vice.
presidential succession: cit appears to me
that this sort of constitutional mechanism Of
fers premium for partisan assassination. !"
The implication is that the prospect or posi-
bility Of accession to the presidency will in
stigate some of the ambitious friends of the
officer next in the line Of succession to pro-
cure the Presidents removal in the Guiteau
fashion. The most obvious refutation of this
impeachment of American loyalty to law and
legally constituted authorities Is that no case
of assassination, suggested or approved by any
succeeding officer, or any friend of such an
officer, has ever occurred in nearly one hun
dred years that the law of vice-presidential
succession has remained unchanged, and the
changes proposed neither contain nor imply
anything of stronger tendency in that direc-
ton. In the next place, if the succession
should ever become the prize of murder or
murderous conspiracy, the days of the Repub-
lie would be about numbered, and nobody
would know this better than the mon inter
ested in such succession. They would
know that to direct or approve such an act
would be sure to bring retaliation ~ bloody.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
THE Atlanta Constitution saws:

"What the Southern farmers need is mar
ket. They cannot have this market without
the building up OF Southern industries.
Southern industries cannot be built up under
the auspices of free trade. We ask Southern
congressman if the welfare of Southern farm
ers is not of more importance to them and to
the country than the theories of the absolute
free-traders."
1t is one of the most healthful signs for the
future that economic questions are coming to
be discussed in the South. They will inevita-
bly, break up the Democratic party and the
solid South, which is held together by ties
growing out Of the war and of reconstruction,
and based on sectional jealousies and hatreds
incident to the slavery and war periods and
which Southern leaders and politicians have
not been wise enough or broad enough to
overcome. But as the industrial pulse of the
South grows stronger the new South will de-
velop new ideas and new political forces. Her
people will not always be content to be
linked with dead and putrescent past.
They will demand to be admitted into full
membership with the party and policy of the
whole country, and this can only be done by
overthrowing the dominance of the old free
trade, anti-industrial Democracy. Now, all
the Southern congressman are Free trade Dem
ocrats They will not always be. The people
will find that there is something better and of
greater advantage than to cling to dishon-
ored name and rest in baleful shadow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

IN view of the complicated social problems
already threatening the peace of this country,
the Boston Herald thinks that what we need
even now, and will need much more in the
future, is the overshadowing personality of
some great leader; the still, strong man,
who can see deeper, further and clearer into
the perils that may confront US than any Of
his fellows and who will have the will and
the force to lead the Nation in the path which
his superior wisdom assures him is the only
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

individual property must continue. or the Cau-
casion race viii speedily relapse into universal
sloth. loaferdom, poverty and ignorance. -Chica-
60 Tribune.
THR centennial fends have got hold Of the fact
that the Fiftieth congress, to be elected next
summer, will be the centennial Congress, and
they will be asking for funds presently for big
congressional spread over the event The less
celebrating the country gives Congress chance
for the better. The members are prompt enough
to seize even funeral occasions for spree, with
out throwing extra temptations in their way.
Springfield Republican.
If there is any mania present it is not among
the dogs so far as the evidence goes A simi-
lar course of treatment with cats would quickly
produces like disturbance among them. There IL
probably no domestic animal that cannot be
chased, and beaten, and abused into semblsncs
of distraction. If the frightened people will alb
stain from the search Of mad dogs. and cease
to regard every dog as a deadly enemy. we havs
no doubt that the alleged cases Of rabies will
very soon stop-New York Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
THE Philadelphia Press, Republican, gives
voice to Republican sentiment everywhere
when it saws editorially:

The Philadelphia Press, Republican, gives
voice to Republican sentiment everywhere
when it says editorially:
POSTMASTER Jones, of Indianapolis, has very
promptly and properly dismissed one of his
carriers for maligning the character of the late
because we assume that the offending carrier
was not discharged until the charges against
him were investigated and fully established.
ter Jones did exactly right and his action
will be earnestly approved by the people,"
Unfortunately for the honor of Mr. Jones,
the premises Of the Press are not according to
the facts in the case. There was no investi-
cation whatever. On the unsupported word
of an ex-convict the carrier was dismissed in
side Of three minutes from the time he first
heard the charge made. In view Of the
marked respect paid the memory of Mr.. Hen
bricks by the Republicans of this city and Of
the country at large, this summary dismissal
was infamous It would be poor reparation
to reinstate Mr.. Stems, with an apology.
Possibly, when the movement for the Hen
bricks monument drags little more heavily
even than at present, the friends of the late
Vice-president might look toward Grandfather
Jones and acquire large and comprehensive
views of the why and wherefore.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

CINCINNATI, Jan. A daring and UNIQUE
robbery took place on the Harrison pike, just
outside the city limits, at an early hour Sunday
morning, the burglars being mere boys who
wore masks and conducted themselves in regular
dime-noyel style. Theodore Wolf lives in small
house a little apart from his neiehbors. His
wife, who was alone in the house, was abed and
asleep She was awakened by q knock at the
front door, accompanied by the summons, Open
this door, or we will break it down; we're rob-
berss The woman almost tainted with fear
The threat was executed, and the masked
marauders stood before her.
Where is your money and your silverwaref"
demanded one Of the robbers. The woman de-
tected the voice of boy attempting to speak
like man. She refused to give up her valua-
bles and one of the rufians threw her upon the
floor and choked her, while the other went
through the house, scattering everything to
right and left and shoulderng and pocketing
whatever struck his fancy. When the house
had been thoroughly rified, the two young rob-
bers made good their escape and have not yet
been arrested. nor is the identity of either
known to Mrs Wolf. When Mr. Wolf returned,
scarcely half an -Four after the unique robbery
had been committed he found his wife nearly
overcome with fear, and she has been danger
ously i'll ever since
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

IT is subject for profound congratulation
that since the adoption of prohibition crime
has wonderfully decreased, the moral atlnos-
phere has been purified, and peace and good
order prevail. Quiet reigns where once scenes
of disorder and confusion were supreme.
Property values have increased; our towns
show unmistakable evidences of prosperity
and our people universally indorse the change.
General Presentment of the Grand Jury of
Cobb County, Georgia, Superior Court for
November term, 1885.
The above is from the Voice, the national
Prohibition organ, and the wild, rampant ad-
vocate Of third-party political prohibition. 1t
should be kept in mind that all the good
things spoken of by the Cobb county grand
jury have been brought about under the OPP
Grafton of a local-option law, which the overly
wise 'Prohibitionists" of Indiana and else
where loftily sneer at; and, also, that there
has never been third party movement in the
State of Georgia st. John received less than
$50 votes in the whole State in 1884. There
is no statutory or constitutional prohibition in
the State of Georgia, and there are no third
party Temperance" people there Why not
tell all the truth in the Voicef
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05

The new Council met for the first time last
night, Mayor Denny presiding, who, gave the
body what may be called his inaugural adj
dress. The message is brief, dignifed in tone,
clear in statement, and will certainly be salts
sactory to the public, indicating that
the new mayor is Thoroughly acquainted
with the affairs of the city, and
comes to his Office with a better
equipment of knowledge and experience than
is usual Mr. Denny hopes the 800 liquor
tax will not be tempered with, and pledges
himself to do his share toward the enforce
ment Of the law. We are persuaded that
the Office Of mayor can be- made
much more influential in this direction
than even its incumbents usually think, and
we hope to see Mr.. Denny put it unmistaka-
bly, and strongly on the side Of an impartial
and stern enforcement of the penalties against
the willful and persistent violators of the
law. People and tax payers should read what
the mayor has to say about the financial con-
dition Of the city, and the economies that must
necessarily be practiced. The public ought
to know the exact financial condition of the
city, and then they can better judge of the
efficiency and fidelity Of the officers and Coun-
Gil The mayor places himself in favor of
such imperative improvements as the viaduct
to the South Side, the proper care of The
city parks and the building Of line
of street railway to Crown Hill. In all these
he voices the intelligent sentiment Of the
people. One of the most important recon-
mendations is for the establishment of a pound
and the redemption of the city from the
present cow disgrace. This should be attended
to at once. 1t will be a reasonably fair
test Of the capacity Of the new Council to i'm
prove upon the record Of the old one, TO find
out whether it is afraid of ''the poor mans
cow" which is always the property of some
miserable, misery rich man, who wants the
city to feed his animal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-05
ARE NEWSPAPERS GENERALLY LrARss
DIR. Cleveland's Letter to MIR. Keppler Con-
demned

rIr. Cleveland's Letter to Mr. Keppler Con-
demned.
Richmond (Ya.) state.
Are these the words of some Buffalo fought
They may be- and yet they are the words of the
President of the United States Shades OF
Washington. and Jefferson, ana Adams! Had
the President chosen to spend a minute of time.
q drop Of ink, and the infinitesimal wear aud
tear of pen point he might have explained that
what he charges was directed only against an
unhappy large number of INSCRIPTIONS and
disreputable newspapers He might have shown
that for an exalted and patriotic press which has
thousands of representatives in the country he
had that respect which is due from all sensible
public men. But he seems to strike on: regard
less of what or whom he hits. He has forgotten
his own beginning and all that he owes to the
newspapers for acquainting the people OF the
country with his acts, and thus making it possi-
BILE for him to rise to the place he now fills But
the average politician is proverbially forgetfui of
the services of the press and it seems that Mr..
Cleveland has not risen above the average poll
tician in gratitude. This coarse and sweeping
denunciation of one Of the most powerful aud
useful forces in affairs is serious blunder as
1t is an inexcusabe exhibition of folly and AFRO
ganc0