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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-09
Application for a Patent.
SURVEY NO. Cos. NOTICE NO. 26s.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
HALEY, Idaho. Septem Der 10, 1888

HALEY, Idaho, september 10, 1888.
Notice is hereby given that the "Black spsr''
organized and existing under and by virtue of the
laws of the State of Illinois, with its principal Of
fce in East St. Louis, County Of st. Clair in said
State. and doing business In the County of Alturxs
II. Watt whose postoiiee address is HALEY, Altu-
County, Idaho Territory. has nude apple ut ON
for United States Patent for the
"SILyER WEDGE"
Lode Mining Claim, situate ION unsurveyed land;
in Little Wood River Mining District Alturas
feet Of the lode. and surface ground 900 feet wide
being Lot No. ~. and described in the field notes
and plat OF the official survey file in this Office
with mag netic variation at Is degrees and 80 min
Beginning at the discovery point of this claim
and running thence south 80 degrees, l5 minutes
west 40 feet, center southwest end line OF claim
thence south 81 degrees 45 minutes east 800 feet
west 600 feet. 70 corner No. q thence north SO de-
grees, Is minutes east 1900 feet. to No. 3:
thence south 81 degrees, IS minutes east GOO feet,
to corner No. 4; thence south 38 degrees, Is min
utts west 1900 feet. to corner No. l. aud place of
Observation-Disclosures total area OF 2O.6tl acres
applied for. Area in csnhi,t with "Good Hope"
hereby claimed. From corner No. an. s. mineral
monument No bears south 70 degrees, SO min
utes west 2Gl feet.
The said mining claim being of record In the of.
trict at HALEY. in Alturss County, Idaho Terrific
~. the nearest known locations being the "Good
Hope. ""Blsck Spar" and Wedge Fraction
Any and all pc sons claimtr & adversely any por-
ton Of said "Silver Wedge" lode mining claim or
surface ground are required to file their adverse
claims thereto with the Register If the United
States Land Office. at HALEY. Idaho Territory,
within the SO days publication thereof, or they
will be barred by virtue of the provisions of the
statute in such eases made and provided.
no. BILLINGS. Register.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-09

! direct that the foregoing Notice Of App,iea.
tiun for Patent be published for the period of co
days in the WooD RIVER DAILY TIMES, a eewspa-
per published at HALEY, Alturas County, Idaho
Territory, bel. & the newspaper published nearest
sail claim. II. y. BILLINGS, Register.
First publication. September 10th. A. d 1888.
W. H. WATT. Attorney for Applicant.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-09

WHO Is going to be the next
United States District Attorney for
Idaho?
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-09

III (NVC Every voter should know that
Z Az -. the Union Pacific, the Overland
Route." and the Wsb,sh Western R.. commenc-
ing October 18th. will run Pullman Buffet Sleep
ers through from Cheyenne. via Denver. to Kan
sas City and st. Louis. with only one change Of
cars from Portland or San Frsncsco. The short
est line from Portland. san Francisco. II. lena.
butte City Salt Lake CITY and Ogden t. st. Louis.
The principal lins from Los Angeles to St. Louis.
The quickest tins froip points "est Of ch"vsnne
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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-09

All Of che above are generally pro-
nounced the best on the Pacific slope
and coast. They are well printed, on
extra thick paper, and gotten up so as
to require the least possible writing.
They are specially adapted to AIturas
coY,iy, and cost less to record than
ans other blanks of the same nature.
s4sParties ordering by mail should
ada / and /. cent per blank, for post
age.
Al orders should he addressed to
7. E. PICOTTE,
Haley, Idaho.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-09

~ Blank Proofs Of Labor for
safe Ut this office.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-09
Blanks! Blanks! Blanks !

The following blank forms are for
sale, for cash only, at the TINES office:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
The Delirium Tremens Policy.

In the times of free whisky, which Ben
HARRISON and his party are trying to
bring back, drunkenness was almost uni
versal throughout the land. Whisky was
used for drinking purposes instead of wa
ter by the bulk of the population, includ
ing women and children, and, as a repub-
ican contemporary remarks, was ''the
chief article of barter at every cross
roads,
A New England clergyman, the Rev.
JOHN MARSH, in writing of his flock at
Haddam, Mass, in those times, describes
them thus:
staunch, well-informed but plain people
whose labors were in shipyards, coasting fish
ing, quarrying, and farming labors in which
ardent spirits acre q daily ration at IL and as
regularly as food proUided at other hours. A
pitcher of water as part of the table furniture
was unknown. No one, not even the most del
icate female, used it.
This was, as Mr.. MARSH says, "a typical
New England community" There is no
village in all the United States of which
such a picture could be drawn in these
days of taxed whisky.
The Chicago Tribune, commenting on
the foregoing, says:
In such places as Haddam temperance reform
has progressed amazingly under the stimulus of
the high whisky tax. Local option laws have
been adopted in many of them, and high state
taxation has diminished the number of drink
ing places and the amount of drink consumed
in the others. Under the high tax Americans
have become from being considered the most
hard drinking of civilized nations. except the
Russians the most temperate, except the Nor
wegians.
Ben HARRISON and his party stand
pledged TO policy which would reduce
the price of whisky to % cents gallon,
and make it almost as accessible to the
people as water, with such appalling con-
sequences as are above described.
The democratic party says that the tax
on whisky shall stay. and that the monop-
oily taxes on food and clothing and shelter
must 60.
Isn't that right?
Down with monopoly taxes!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
wn with monopoly taxes!
Deserts the G. o. p.

Judge CHESTER II. KRUM, a lifelong re-
publican of st. Louis, son of one of the
early mayors OF that city, and himself
Judge elected by republicans for six
years, is out for CLEVELAND. He made a
ringing speech the other night before the
Twenty-second ward democratic club of
ST. Louis, in which, after reading the tariff
planks of the Chicago platform, he said:
Such is the platform of the republican party,
and the people are asked to give it their sup
port. But, gentlemen, no citizen of the United
States ought to approve such an astounding
declaration of party principles. From every
standpoint OF free government and public
economy it is the most atrocious party utter
ance which has been made in the history of
American politics. 1t finds extenuatlon neither
IN necessity nor concern for the public welfare.
1t is based upon no substantial foundation. 1t is
subversive of weil-established principles of
political economy. 1t finds no sane
ton in the constitution: Its sole purpose
is to maintain upon the statutes of the
United States laws which the necessities of ac-
tual war created, but which can now, by So
called protection, benefit less than 3,O0O,OOO OF
people who happen to be its favored recipients
only at the expense of over A 100000, who are
expected to remain quiescent and unwilling
victims of unjust and unnecessary tariff dis
ordinations.
He contrasted the republican platform
of 'S4 with that of '8S, and then spoke OF
the dangers of the vast surplus in the
national treasury, saying:
The war tariff hangs over this country like a
vast incumbus. The growth of its accumula-
ton in the treasury has been insiduously sap
ping the life-blood of American industries.
Like some deadly vampire OF fable, the war
tariff of 1864 is draining the veins Of its victims,
while its wings of protection" are lulling
them into repose.
He dwelt on President CLEvELAND's
tariff message and the democratic plat
form, declaring that neither favored free
trade, but only reduction in the war
tariff, which is running the country. He
analysed the Mills bill and Endorsed it as
a wise, patriotic and judicious measure.
Judge KRUM's hearty espousal OF the
democratic cause has created great SEN
sation at st. Louis.
Down with monopoly taxes!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
The Two Programmes.

The tax on whisky is tax on drunken
ness. The republicans say: "Take it off,"
The democrats say; Keep it on"
The tax on oleomargerine is tax on
fraud. The republicans say: ''Take it off"
The democrats say: keep it on"
The tax on cigarettes is tax on dudes.
The republicans say: "Take it off" The
democrats say: Keep it on"
The tax on wool is tax on the peoples
clothing. The democrats say: 'Take it
Off" The republicans say: "Make it
higher"
The tax on sugar is tax on the peoples
food. The democrats say: "Reduce it"
The republicans say: Increase it."
The tax on salt is a tax on an article
that is absolutely necessary to the preser-
walton of human life. 1t is tax which
the Indianapolis Journal has said no man
not engaged in the salt business would
have the cheek to defend. The democrats
say: "Take it Off" The republicans say:
make it higher"
The tax on window-glass lisa tax on day
light The democrats say: "Reduce it."
The republicans say: ''Make it higher"
The tax on lumber is premium on the
destruction of American forests, and a
prize for the production of droughts to the
ruin Of thousands of farmers annually.
The democrats say: "Take off this &C
cursed tax" The republicans say: make
it higher"
And thus it is all along the line. The
democrats are for repeating or reducing
taxes which cripple industry, Cypress la
Dor, reduce wages, curtail the markets of
American manufacturers and feed monoR-
olists with extortionate profits. All such
taxes the republicans want to retain or
increase. The taxes which tend to restrict
harmful indulgencies and to repress vice,
which discourage fraud, and which are
chiefly paid by the rich, and not by the
poor-these taxes the republican party
proposes to repeal, and the democratic
party proposes to retain.
This is the position of the two great par
ties, as set forth by their platforms and
defined by their candidates.
Down with monopoly taxes!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
Wouldn't be BlackmaiIed.

The republican politicians started out
some weeks ago to ''fry the fat out" out of
the protected manufacturers, to use the
expression of Senator MORRILL, of YER
mont. BY frying the fat" out of these
men, who, according to the ancient Nor
RILL, "dre making east fortunes eue1y year out
of the tariff" he meant blackmailing them
out of funds for the republican corruption
fund in this campaign as proposed by
INGALLS, OF Kansas, in his famous land
also infamous) letter to the Chicago dele
gate. How much 'fat" has been fried out
of the protected manufacturers we do not
know, but we have no doubt good deal.
Not all who have been approached, how
ever, have submitted to the frying
process. One of those who refused
to let the campaigners fry the
fat out of him was Mr.. ARTHUR
T. LYMAN, treasurer of the Hadley manu-
featuring company of Holyoke, Mass, and
the Lowell manufacturing company of
Lowell. He received a circular asking
for money contribution TO the Holyoke
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08

industry, In answer to a pamphlet full OF
misstatements, that the republican cam
paign committee has been circulating
throughout the state. THE SENTINEL has
attacked none of these industries 1t
has not called them 'odious monopolists,"
or characterized the men interested in
them as highway robbers" or employed
any such terms in speaking OF them. The
Journal knows this. But being utterly
unable to meet the facts and figures which
THE SENTINEL has presented, showing that
these industries would not be injured
by tariff reform, the Journal re-
sorts to the disreputable but
characteristic device of charging THE
SENTINEL with attacking" them. We
over-rate the intelligence of its readers if
they are not able TO see that these tactics
are confession that THE SENTINEL's argu-
ments are unanswerable.
The only local industry that has been
attacked in the indianapolis press this
year is the Encaustic tile works. The at
tack was made by the Journal 1t con-
sisted of a series OF sheer fabrications,
which were promptly refuted, but have
never been withdrawn.
Down with MONOPOLY taxes!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
Sample Republican Lies.

A subscriber at Dublin, Ind, sends THE
SENTINEL a republican paper printed in
New Hampshire, which contains the fol-
lowing:
Gov. GRAY of Indiana is tolerably well posted
on democratic matters in that state, and he al
lows that the republicans will win there.
The Hon. CHARLES VOORHEES,, for eight years
a democratic senator in Indiana will take the
stump for HARRISON and protection.
OF course these are sheer fabrications.
Gov. GRAY is confident that the democrats
will carry Indiana in spite of MoRToNs
barrel and DUDLEY's dirty work. So is
Senator D. w. VOORHEES,. CHARLES W.
VOORHEES, lives in Washington territory
and is hearty supporter of CLEVELAND
and THURMAN. So much for these lies.
There appears to be a systematic attempt
on the part Of the republican press to cir
culate such falsehoods as the above in To-
calities remote from the place where the
persons referred to live, and where the facts
are known. For instance the Journal of this
city prints the names every day of alleged
democrats lin other statesl who have come
OFT for HARRISON. In four cases
out of five these so-called Har-
rison democrats are fictitious persons.
The others, as rule, are not democrats at
all, or else they are misrepresented. The
republican game is one OF bluff, brag and
buster all along the line. The plan is to
"claim everything" But these tactics
were employed four years ago, and did not
succeed. They will not succeed now. The
drift is all with the democrats now, as
every observant person can see. The
republicans are demoralized, and
are making desperate efforts to I'M
load their platform. to explain away
HARRIsoN's Chinese and labor records,
and to save as many congressman, ETC., as
possible from the general wreck next No
vember. The betting all over the country
is in favor of CLEVELAND at heavy odds.
The only danger to the democrats is from
.over-confdence, and if the republicans
keep on making their noisy claims this
will probably be overcome as the cam
paign advances.
So up and at them, boys, all along the
line. Down with monopoly taxesl
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08

republican club. He replied announcing
that he had no money for the Holyoke
club, and saying further that he proposed
voting the democratic ticket this year for
the first time in his life. He gave
his reasons. He said in the first
place that in his opinion the re-
publican members of congress from New
England, the Home market club and the
Wooden manufacturers club had done
more harm to the protected manufacturers
of Massachusetts than the democratic
trainers of the Mills bill. He said the
democratic congressman had advanced GER
tain tariff rates in that bill at the request
of republican manufacturers, while the re-
publican members had done nothing to
assist the manufacturers, saying: Leave
the schedule as it is; it is better for the
election"
Mr.. LYMAN further said: "I very much
regret that the republican party, with
which l have acted from the beginning.
has, for political success, taken position
which consider hostile in its practical eff
fects to the protected industries of Massa-
chusetts. He also said: 81 cannot feel
it to be right to vote for any one who can
honestly stand On the republican plat
FORM"
MIR. LYMAN is one of many manufacture
ers in this country who have studied the
tariff question in its practical aspects, and
who know that policy which cheapens
their raw materials, opens up the mar
kets of the world to them, and gives them
legitimate protection instead of shutting
them up by Chinese wall as demanded
by the exclusive platform adopted at
Chicago, will in the long run promote
their prosperity, as well as that of the en-
tire country. Thousands OF manufacture
ers like Mr.. LYMAN will vote the demo
cratic ticket this year for the first time in
their lives.
Down with monoply taxesl
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
Shall Foreign Commerce. be Prohibited?

II high tariff is a good thing, higher
tariff is a better one. That's what the
monopolists who made the Chicago plat
form seemed to think, and so they de-
clared for an increase of the AZ per cent.
tariff. e., "such a revision as would
check imports" Now if we "check i'm
ports" we check exports also, because i'm
ports can only be paid for with exports.
Stopping imports means stopping all for
eign trade, shutting off our foreign mar
kets altogether and isolating ourselves
from the rest of the world, as China
where wages are lower than in any other
country on earth-has done for centuries
This may be wise policy, al
though it seems like an anachronism
tenth century, which have brought
the peoples of the world closer together
than they have ever been since the dawn
of history. Admitting, however, that it is
wise policy, the logical thing to do,
obviously, is to pass laws absolutely pro-
hibiting all exports, except of articles
which we do not produce in this country,
and laying such taxes on those articles as
will yield sufficient revenue to carry on
the government. 1t is possible if such
policy were adopted we wouldn't have
government to carry on very long. But
however that may be, it is clear that the
doctrine proclaimed at Chicago, if followed
to its logical conclusion, would compel an
absolute embargo on all foreign commerce.
excepting in the very few commodities
which We do not and cannot produce in
this country. Why not, then, go the whole
length at once, and pass laws absolutely
prohibiting the importation of any article
which is grown or fabricated in the United
States? This would compel our people to
buy only domestic productions, and it
would give the trusts and combines abso-
lutte control of the home market HORACE
GREELEY said that the way to resume was
to resume. Similarly, the way to check
imports is to check imports-that is, pro-
hibit them entirely. 1t is the Chicago
doctrine that the less foreign
commerce we have the better we
are off. Of course, then, with no for
eign commerce at all, we should
reach the very summit of prosperity. We
throw these suggestions out for the benefit.
of Ben HARRISON If he were to elaborate
them in his letter of acceptance, it would
show not only that the Chicago platform
is Sin entire harmony with his views" as
he has already declared. but that he is will
ing to carry out the ideas OF the platform
sin their length and breadth" 1t would
define the issue between moderate protec-
ton and prohibitory tariff still more
sharply than it has been done, and would
give the people an opportunity to get rid
of foreign commerce altogether by the
election of HARRISON.
But so far as THE SENTINEL is concerned,
it is opposed to the whole principle of ex-
clusion and prohibition when applied to
trade. Its motto is
Dou-r, with raoponOIv taxacf
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
The Labor in Starch Factories.

Speaking OF starch, We find the follow
ing in the Elkhart Sentinel:
The Elkhart starch company employs twenty
or twenty-five men, depending on the state OF
the trade, and thirty to thirty-fve boys. Most
of the men receive Sl.20 a day. Three or four
having positions of more responsibility get
S135 to $1.55 a day. But one, the shipping
clerk, gets 3. The boys pay ranges from 331s
cents to 90 cents a day. The older ones, doing
work formerly given only to men, receive from
So to s. per week. Most of the younger boys,
some of them lads from thirteen TO sixteen
years, work seven days in the week. Sunday
morning breaks for them with no promise of
rest or change, or recreation-nothing but the
opening of another day of unending unbegin-
ming grind. They form a pitiful looking pro-
cession as they file out of the factory in the
evening, carrying their empty dinner pals,
their pale haggard, joyless faces a mute but
pathetic protest against the social and political
systems that make such things possible, or the
power that gave their miserable lives.
As we showed the other day the labor
cost of starch is only u per cent. The duty
on starch is "a per cent. The manufacturer
now gets bonus of 50 per cent. oUer and
ADORE the entire cost OF his labor. What
sort of wages his employees receive is shown
from the foregoing from the Sentinel.
We may add right here that one of the
largest starch manufacturers in Indiana
saws he is not afraid Of foreign competition
if the Mills bill becomes a law, and that
wages will not be reduced. Forty-seven
per cent protection, he says, is good
enough for him.
Down with monopoly taxes!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-08
A "JournaI" Discovery.

We find the following characteristic tar
iff deliverance in our Chinese contem-
porary:
THE SENTINEL is having uphill work trying
to prove that the Mills bill does not favor free
trade. AS matter of fact the Mills bill de-
clares for:
Free trade in lumber, which we produce to the
value of $500, 900, 900 annually 80
Free trade in wool, of which We produce over $780,
Free trade in salt, Of which we produce nearly
40 600, 900 bushels annually.
Free trade in fax hemp, jute and other ibers.
Free trade in cement potash, lime and brick
Free trade in meats, game and poultry.
Free trade in vegetables peas and beans
Free trade in stone
Free trade in nearly one hundred other articles
produced in this country, most Of which would be
produced in sufficient quantities for home consump-
ton If properly protected.
This is a pretty good start toward destroying
American industries and surrenGering the
American market to foreigners.
According to this logic we have always
had free trade There is free trade all
over the world. There is no protective
tariff anywhere and never has been, ex-
cept in China, which used to prohibit i'm
ports altogether. If free list makes
free trade, ALEXANDER HAMILTON was
free trader. So was HENRY CLAY. So
was HORACE GREELEY. So is JAMES G.
BLAINE. So is Pig Iron KELLEY. So is Ben
HARRison, who voted for bill, which is
now a law, that provided for
Free trade in cattle, horses, sheep and fowls
for breeding purposes. Raw materials.
Free trade in chemicals, drugs and dyes of
many kinds.
Free trade in cocoa.
Free trade in coffee.
Free trade in cotton, which is one OF the
principal American products.
Free trade in diamonds, rough and uncut
Free trade in eggs, an important American
product.
Free trade in fertilizers
Free trade in bananas (grown in the United
States.)
Free trade in furs and fur skins.
Free trade in hides and skins, produced in
great quantities in America.)
Free trade in ivory.
Free trade in rags.
Free trade in raw silk.
Free trade in spices.
Free trade in tea.
Free trade in tin.
And free trade in several hundred other ar
ticles, many of them produced in America.
A free list no more makes free trade
than one swallow makes a summer. There
never was tariff without free list. The
articles enumerated in the foregoing extract
from the Journal are nearly all, as will be
observed. important raw materials of man
ufacture. With scarcely an exception the
great leaders of the republican party in
former years recommended that the duty
be removed from them. GRANT did so.
So did HENRY WILSON. So did CHARLES
SUMNER. So did President ARTHUR. So
did Secretary FoLGER. So did Secretary
McCULLoCH. And JAMES A. GARFIELD
advocated the policy of making all raw
material free. - - -
We presume the Journal found the in
teresting morsel above quoted in some
monopoly organ, and reproduced it under
the impression that it was valuable cam
paign material. That's the way the Jour
nal is in the habit of discussing p the
tariff.
Down with MONOPOLY taxes!