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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28

THE engineers have been at work
the past week between Carthage &
White Oaks, in the interest OF the
a. T. & S. F.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28

DR., AGNEw, who chiseled u hole
in Roscoe Conkhng's skull, went
home where he had his own crani-
um chiseled, and he died on the
same day that his distinguished pa
tiant did
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28

JAMES REDpATH says he has not
joined the Catholic Church, but
that the extreme JUNCTION was ad
ministered to him by DIR. McGlynn
and some Of the other priests when
it was supposed he was dying.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28

The Fl Paso papers inform rs
that sub-contracts have been LET,
and DIRT will fly OH the White Oaks
r. K. by the 1st OF June.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28

JACOB SHARP left his family a
fortune OF $4,000, 900. Roscoe
Conkling left his family the record
of an untarnished name.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28

GRANT, Logan, Hancock, Hen
dncks, Arthur and Conkling, have
died within the past four years.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28
FREE TRADE.

There never, perhaps, has been
an issue interpolated in a political
platform so hard to understand as
the tariff. The greatest minds ev-
er produced in the United States
have differed and combatted on the
subject. But we believe that from
the beginning even unto now,
those of our people who under
stand the question, and are moved
by patriotic motives, are adherents
of a protective tariff. This was
we'll understood in an early day by
the democratic leaders who were
the tools of England. After the
war of 1912, when the spirits OF
our people were fired by the Eng
lish dogma, "once a citizen al
ways a citizen" upon which they
boarded Jour vessels and by force
transferred our seamen of English
birth 70 their ships, the democrat
ic slogan awas, Free trade and
Sailors Rights" knowing full well
that the latter refrain would over
shadow the former. And thus
they gained their nefarious object
for the time being.
Strategy has always been a favor
ite resort for democrats. During
the Mexican war appropriation
bills were always prefaCed with
declarations that the war was ho-
ly one, thus forcing patriotic wings
like Lincoln and Corwin to sub
scribe to a lie by voting affirmative
ly, or withholding their votes fol
appropriations and tnen be stigma
tised as traitors. But let us 90
back to the tariff.
The word Gree" as prefix tc
anything has a captivating, a mu
sical intonation, and the words
free trade" and "tree list" tick
les the ignorant ear. This is hap
PLY illustrated by Mr.. Clardy,
democratic Member of Congress
from Missouri, who recently said
81 am in favor of revising the
tariff" said Mr.. Clardy, "but
want to see it done in the interes
of the people, workingmen anC
all" lie teld of a farmer who hat
written to a Missouri Congressman
urging him to vote for the MILL
tariff bill. WHY" said the gran
ger, "if the farmer can get hi
clothing, salt and sugar free, he
will stand some chance Of making
living in this country" The farm
er thought he would have nothing
TO pay for sugar, salt and clothing
That was his idea of what " fire,
list" meant. The Congressman re
ferred this letter to the Ways anC
Means Committee. The Mills bill
would never become a law, Mr.
Clardy thought, but some kind O
tariff reduction measure Woul,
certainly be passed at the presen
session of Congress.
That the tariff needs revision
conceded by everybody, Sherman
Kelly and other pretectionists, bu
8 that it should be so revised as :
put American labor.in competitio
, with the pauper labor of Europ
patriots OF this country, unde
= whatever political name, will neve
; assent to.
The question is sometimes calIe
$ local one, but it should not be
treated. There are some WOO
growers who want protection fC
their product but would vote frC
trade for all other products. Som
advocate protection for iron, zin
tin, sugar, whisky, etc, but woul
favor putting wool on the :" frC
Il list" as also all other but the +
L suit of their own industries. W
l. advocate the protection of ever
t. Droduct which comes in compel
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28

SUBsSnIBE Tor the LEADER-
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-28
Saiurday. April 20 1888.

WA. 1afsrez, matter ss zEerr,eter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
CIVIL SERVICE.
Th New York Supreme Court Decides
Against Ciyil-SerFice Reform Rules.
The Law Of New York Not In Har-
m0ny With Civil-Serrice Reform.

Justice Van Brunt and Associate Jus.
tice Brady, OF the general term of the su-
preme conrt, of New York, constituting a
maj GRITTY ST the court, have decided the
test case OF Thomas G.. Killeen against
civil service reform rules and in favor of
the SPOTS system, IS far as the board of
public works of the state is. Concerned
Mr.. Killeen applied to the secretary of
the New York state civil-service commits
sion for an examination for position in
the Office of the perintendent of public
works. He received an answer TO his ap-
pllcatlon denying it, and the reason Civ
en- for the denial being that the attorney
general had published an opinion that
der the consultation Of this state there is
no power to control the appointments to
positions under. the superintendent of
public works, 50 far as com petitiye posi-
| tions are concerned
The opinion says: at seems to us that
the making OF the superintendent OF pub
licworks in this state in his appointments
subservient 80 the CT gil-service law would
be clear violation of the provisions of
the constitution creating the superintend,
ent the absolute power of appointment
and removal of certain persons employed
ID the care and management of canals.
The power given TO the superintendent is
absolute. No language could confer the
power in broader terms. The superintend-
ent alone is to appoint, suspend, or re-
move. He is to determine qualifications.
As he is to be solely responsible for the
work done, he is not to be allowed to shelf
er himself behind the excuse that he is
not responsible because he could not sell
ect his own employees"
The court admits that the power (as
they interpret it) granted to the super-
intendent of public works by the consti-
tuition is extraordinary and unusual. Mr..
Killeen will take the case 10 the court of
Appeals. In consequence OF it claim is
now raised in Albany that the state prison
department is not subject to the proyis-
ions of the civil-s6rvice laws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
CRIME.

Two professional burglars were arrest
ed at Clinton, Iowa, Wednesday, on the
charge Of having broken into and robbed
the safe of a bank at Tiskilwa, H., re-
Gently.
AT Clinton, Iowa, Tuesday night Fan
Burns and Jimmy Foster, two widely
known cracksmen, were arrested for the
Tiskilwa. (IlI.) bank burglary.
THE attorneys for Coy and Bernhamer,
who were convicted of the Inoiana tally
sheet forgeries have filed petition for a
new trial.
The convicted election tally-sheet con-
spirators at Indianapolis have been re-
fused new trial, and both of them were
sentenced to the State Penitentiary.
MAY WILSON, an 11-year-old girl, an in
mate of the Hospital for Crippled Chill
dren at New York, has confessed that she
was responsible for the late fires in that
institution. she confessed that she had
set fire to the building, but could not tell
why.
In the Circuit Court at Rock Island,
ILL.,, Monday, the jury convicted DR.. Vim
ton, leading homeopathic physician, of
malpractice, granting $1,000 damages to
a lady whose dislocated arm he treated in
such way as to make it useless.
OLIVER SEWARD went home drunk at
Covington, KY, Sunday afternoon and
began shooting a revolver at members of
his family. Miss O'Nelll, the first victim,
tainted after the second shot, ard as Gar
rett SpauIding, Stewards stepson, was
trying to revive Miss O'Neill the shooting
went on and Spaulding was hit, dying
the next day from his wound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
WASHINGTON.

For twenty-five year, with the excep-
ton Of one brief interval, the postmas-
tiers of Washington have been citizens Of
Michigan.
REPRESENTATIVE Hopkins, of New
York, is engaged TO be married to Miss
Tram, daughter of George Frances Train
of New York.
AFTER long debate Wednesday, the
House adopted a resolution for the ap-
pointment OF a special committee of five
to investigate the Reading strike in all
its phases, and also the difference exist
ing between the miners and operators in
the Lehigh ana Schuylkill regions.
IT is stated at the white house, and
also a. the state department, that there is
no truth in the report that the president
has sent a message TO the senate in re
gard to the Canadian fisheries trans
hitting draft of the treaty.
TELEGRAMs continue to pour in from
the South, to Southern congressman in
opposition to the bill taxing lard mixed
with cotton seed oil. The feeling deveI-
oping against this measure is very
strong, and the prospects Of its passing
are regard &c as very slight.
UNITED STATES Consul EIfwing, at stock
holm, has informed the State Depart
ment that the Swedish Government has
declared against the Importation of pork
sailed. The Consul says the order is
founded on a report that a hog pestilence
is raging in the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

LAST yetroger "a, 600 miners and mine
Ohio.
DULUTH is sending 200 car loads of coal
west daily to points where there is an
urgent demand for fuel.
THE Michigan State Temperance Ali
ance has joined the Prohibition third
party. It has heretofore been non parti-
san.
The Lake Shore road is issuing 2,5C0
and 5000 mile tickets at two cents mile,
good over the entire system and connect
ing lines.
Jan. 81, was 40, 361 $50 bushels, decrease
of $50, 1872 bushels, corn, 6 ,677 ,034 bushels
decrease of 60,456 bushels.
SAM JONES and Sam Small are drawing
bigger houses IN Kansas City than all
the theaters in town put together.
THE cold weather has driven so many
bears from the foothills into the town of
Grass Valley, CAL, that no one dares stir
out of doors after dark.
MORE than S1OOO0,OOO worth of oysters
we're shipped from Maryland to ali parts
of the world this season. Over $1,000
persons are employed in the industry in
the State.
THE Michigan Supreme Court has de-
clared fraudulent and null and void the
prOmissory notes given by thousands of
Bohemian oats. This is important to
many duped people.
On Monday the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company announced the sale of individ
ual mileage tickets for 1000 miles at 2
cents mile, still continuing the sale of
1,000-mile books at 212 cents.
REPORTS of dullness in the bituminous
coal trade come from PittsburS, and a
tendency to a reduction in prices in Chi
cago and other Western points is announ-
ced.
II is stated that $4,000 is contributed
annually by poor people of the city of
Milwaukee for Louisiana lottery tickets.
No one has been known to draw a prize.
AN explosion of ice by dynamite in
Newport harbor, Monday morning, caused
terrific shock along the Rhode Island
and Massachusetts coasts, and 1T was
generally supposed that there had been
an earthquake.
ALL letters, petitions, and other papers
bearing on the case of the anarchists are
being classified at Springfield by Cover
nor OgIesby's clerks, after which they
will be placed in a strong trunk and be
slowed away for safe keeping II the
vaults of the State Department..
OWING to the Reading strike, the pro-
duction of anthracite coal in Pennsyl-
vania last week was but 447 464 tons,
against 606 ia tons in the corresponding
week of 1887. Congress is about TO il
vestigate this protracted and troublesome
strike.
FoR lack of fuel, caused by the Reading
(Pa.) coal mine region, strike the iron fur
mace of that district are suspending oper
ations. Already nineteen of the forty
three furnaces in the district have gone
out OF blast, and others will soon be
obliged to do likewise.
ONE hundred clerks, operators, train
and section men between st, Louis and
Toledo have been discharged, and two
passenger trains dropped by the Toledo,
st. Louis and Kansas City Railroad Com
pany, to reduce the operating expenses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

4AsPEN, Col, suffered a fire loss of $13,-
600 Monday morning.
THE celebrated trotting stallion Happy
Medium, valued at $4,000, is dead.
IT is reported from Tuscoia that the
peach ouds in that section are all winter
killed.
AT Port Blakely, W. T., opposite Seat.
tie, two sawmills, the largest on Puget
Sound, were burned Friday at loss of
$250,0 with no insurance.
building of the Austin powder works
near Cleveland, o., was blown up Fri
day, killing one man. The shock was
terrific, resembling that of an earth
quake.
THE rolling mills of the Britton Iron
and Steel Company, Cleveland, Ohio,
have been destroyed by fire; loss,
$4,000.
MRS. A. j. ELLIS, of Kansas City, woke
up Wednesday morning to discover that
her twin children, month old, had been
smothered during the night.
PROF. ASA GRAY, an eminent botanist
and professor of botany in Harvard col
lege, died of paralysis Monday evening,
aged II.
A CONFEDERATION in Charlestown, S. c.,
Wednesday afternoon, destroyed wharf
and 1000 bales of cotton. Loss about
5000 600.
FIFTEEN carloads of cattle and hogs
destined for Boston and New York were
frozen to death at Palmyra, N. Y, and
several carloads at other points in the
recent blizzard.
A CONFEDERATION in the business center
of Phlladel phIa Tuesday night, consum-
ed about $1,O00,000 worth of property,
involving Ia whole or in part several
mercantile houses.
ONE hundred thousand dollars damage
was the result of fire Friday morning
in the Rogers Locomotive works, at
Paterson, n. J.
Ar st. Louis, Monday, j. j. McGarry
secured verdict for $1,000 against the
Missouri Pacific Road. During the
great strike of 1886 McGarry, who is a
prominent Knight of Labor, was arrest
ed for hindering. traffic, tried and &C.
quilted. He then brought suit for $780,
600 damages.
TIA dry goods house of Barnes, Hen
gerer & Co., at Buffalo, was burned
Wednesday, causing a loss of about
$1,200,000. Adjoining buildings and
structures on the opposite side of the
street also suffered heavy losses. 1t is
believed that the total damage is covered
by Insurance.
BELIEVING a collision imminent at
Junction, III, Tuesday night, the engineer,
Fireman Daniel Donovan, of Marquette,
Mich, and Edward Kelley, a stockman at
Gladbrook, Iowa, jumped from the cab of
a freight engine. The latter two rolled
under the wheels and were killed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09

The British steelmakers are expert
encing heavy demand for all kinds of
material. and some works have orders for
six months to come.
A REPORT is curreet in diplomatic cir
cles at Vienna that the ornaments still
proceeding in the interior of Russia will
shortly form the subject of formal in
quiry on the part of Austria.
THE Novoc Vremya has Boosting edi-
torial article on the prospects of war
The writer expresses the opinion that
the nations Of Europe ought really to
break their necks for the sake of Bull
garia.
The new military bill nov before the
German Reichstag states that the loan
asked is needed for the arming of 700,-
600 extra troops, in order TO be prepared
beforehand for declaration of war and
to avoid confusion.
Two ALLEGED American dynamiters,
named Callan and Hawkins, have been
convicted of partici patton in a murder
GUS conspiracy in London, Eng, and each
sentenced to fifteen years imprision-
ment.
A CHEMIST named Derby and his wife
ana SIX cnuOren nave been 1Onnd Oeau In
their dwelling house at Manchester, Eng.
Their death was evidently caused by
poison. They had been dead several
days. The belief is that the man, driven
to desperation by his inability to sup
port his family, administered poison TO
them and then committed suicide.
WHEN the Episcopal church at Belleek,
county Fermanah, was opened Sunday
morning, it was discoveTa that an attem pt
had been made to burn the building.
Rushes and straw had been heaped in the
alleys, and all Bibles and altar linen placed
thereon, and fired. Many paWs were
badly damaged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09

over hundred among its customers
Most of them have curly hair, and leave
1t long enough to show what its inclina-
ton Is, while the straig ones
have a somewhat closer clip though
never as close as that of the ordinary
man. Then there are women who are
trying the powers or some ore of the
hair restorers that this shop, like all
Others of its kind, keeps on hand, and
come once or twice a week to have it
applied in the efforts TO evade gray hairs
or keep hold of those they have and are
afraid of losing. The attendants are
mostly girls from 20 90, neat and well
dressed, with big white aprons covering
their quiet-colorsd frocks, and their own
halr beautiful example of what neatneso
and care will do for woman's head.
Au oafoers have been since the days of
Noah famous for their conversational
abilities, and they have been only NJ ere
men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
Six Children Burned

The six children of Lester SingleFy,
colored man of Clarendon county, S. c.,
were burned to death THURSDAY night,
The parents locked them up about 1
o'clock, and went to negro church, about
two miles away, where religious revival
was in process. During their absence the
house caught fire and burned TO the
ground, the six children perishing in the
flames. The charred bones of the vic
Tins were buried yesterday in one grave.
The children's ages ranged from Is
months to 1G years. It is supposed they
set the house on fire by overturging a
lamp. The door was locked and the
heavy window shutters strongly bolted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
FOREIGN.

MR. GLADSTONE viii return to England
Feb. 6.
THE movement of Russian trooes to
the frontier continues.
STORMY weather and some casualties
are reported in England and Wales.
THE government of Uruguay has de-
cided to abolish all export duties.
GLADSTONE has issued en- urgent whip
for home rulers to attend the opening of
parliament.
The statement is made by officials that
the German military bill will involve the
expenditure of 234,o00,O 900 marks.
THE bundesrath has ordered the ex-
pulsion from Germany of the anarchists
Gutenberg, Schopin, Ignaz, Mezler. and
Haupt.
THE crew of the British brig Warren
W., Capt. Buchanan, from Charlottetown
for New York, which was abandoned at
sea on the 9th uIt., have arrived at Fal-
mouth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
SENATOR Palmer and Immigration

Senator Palmer has concluded to leave
TO the other Republican Senators the
business of making campaign speeches
tuned on one key and has made speech
to suit himself. To furnish the occasion
or his independent department he intro
duced a bill to restrict immigration and
then pA oceeded to show that this country
is suffering from an oversupply OF for
eigners and that it needs nothing quite
SO much as protection from the army of
tramps, beggars and anarchists that are
swarming through the gates of the Amer
lean paradise. There is something in
the subj ect of Senator PHlmer's speech
worth considering besides its Nero cam
paigE feature. 1t is true, as he says, THAT
some parts of this country are getting a
little crowded and that good percent
age of our new arrivals contribute to the
crowding. The jails, poorhouses and in
sane asylums are getting too full for
comfort, while the army of foreign beg
gars and wild-eyed cranks still at large is
bigger than can be put to any good uses.
If Senator Palmer can devise a way to
separate the immigrant chat from the
wheat and leave the chat somewhere out
side the bounds of this country he can De
forgive the desire to make a little par
tisan capital out of the effort. SEN
a. 81 N DlaTr
English requires American Copsuls at
foreign ports to give would be immi-
grants certificates of character if they
deserve them and to refuse certificates TO
those who do not, no immigrant to be al
lowed to land without certificate. In
addition ne would levy head tax of an
amount sufficient to cover the expenses
of the sitting process. II is quite prob
able that with the right kind of consular
officers at the principal ports of depart
ure, the sitting could be better perform
ed there than at the ports of entry. It
would be necessary, however, to desig-
nate few chief European ports from
dlOAc AdhbS NC
to land. Unless this were done the cranks
and beggars would be shipped from the
insignificant ports at which no proper
means of obtaining information regard
ing their former standing would be avail
able. In addition to these precautions
some way would have to be devised of
preventing the importation of undesir-
able immigrants by way of our Canadian
and Mexican frontiers. It is probable
that this will prove the most difficult
part of any effective scheme to restrict
immigration. If Senator Palmer can
devise asysten that will do this effective
ly hs will deserve and be awarded a good
deal of credit for his ngenuity. Every
body agrees that we have already crimi-
mails and @eggars enough of our own.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-09
The Royal Mob.

4 story comes from Honolulu that
after Queen Kapiolane and her daugh-
daugter got home from their recent trip
to Europe they caused to be put into shop
windows pictures of themselves taken in
London in the superb court costume that
they had bought in Paris. a native mob
passed resolutions denouncing this breach
of Sandwich island customs as TO cloth
ing, visited all the shops where the pic
lures we're displayed, destroyed the por-
traits, and then went to the palace end
demanded that the costumes themselves
be delivered to them. The royal ladies
had to yield, and saw the triumphs of
Worth torn In pieces by the mob. A
promise was then extracted that the queen
and princess hereafter wo0ld wear only
the native costume, and the mob broke
u ID.