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All OF which RESPECTFULLY submitted,
X. 8. DHkssBR, Chairman
Supervisor Norton presented a bill of S29
from Horace Hull for s'enographic report
Of County Attorney Moloney's report. which
was ordered paid rs soon as said report was
delivered to the county clerk.
The following resolution offered BY Su-
pervisor Fischer was adopted:
Resolved, That the county clerk be and he
is hereby authorized to draw an order on
the county treasurer for the sum OF $500, on
account of fees earned in his office up to this
date. and properly payable from the county
treasury. the same to be accounted Tor IN
his next semi. annual report
Supervisor Norton presented claim OF
Dr. VIM. Kennedy of Leland for $l' 80 for
attendance on pauper in town of Adams, IN
the year 1888. and moved its allowance by
the board
Motion lost.
On lion of Supervisor Lewis the present
committee on pubic buildings was EN-
powered to continue the supervision OF thu
Improvement on court house grounds unit
the organization Of the incoming board.
The trustees of the Congregational church
Of Marseilles presented petition for th'
refunding Of taxes Illegally levied and pait
on their properly in said village, which wal
referred TO the committee on attachments e
be reported on At next July meeting OF TN
board
p. Finlen, county clerk. presented TAB
ula,ed statement Of the expenses OF the IN
vestigation Of the ex-oounty officers DOCKS
which was read.
Supervisor Armstrong presented state
ment of the amounts raid to jurors IN TIT q,
circuit court in the W. X. Milligan ana ="
L. Milligan cases, and moved that the sam
be made part of the statement OF expense
a. compiled by the county clerk.
Motion lost.
Thereupon it was ordered that the state
men. of the county clerk be spread upq,l
the records and published with the proceed
inps Of the board Said statement Is
follows:
Mr. Chairman &c In accordance Win y0u nsSr y
herewith submit statement OF the amounts paiu
orders on the county treasury in the mater VI S Z,
animation OF the books of the following .ls-S
Stockseger, county clerk; tin,en. v1unS v.s
| S,enhen Arnold recorder, q. Il. StockIar, SUBJ
schools; r. C. Gibson. county agent W. w iyi9l
circuit clerk A. 4. Brrtels. prop"'e o'e'A' "e D.
| Raymond. treasurer; .
Dec lSSo-w Dwyer.
Warren Norton ...'...-.''''''.'''' y" 70
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Supervisor Hickok, chairman committee
on miscellaneous claims, submitted the
following report:
Gentlemen. &C; Your committee on miscellaneous
claims would respectfully report that they have ex
amned ali claims presented before them. and reconl
mend the payment the following, and that the clerk
be directed Issue orders for the several amounts W
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T. C. GIBSON;
In accnnni with La Sale Con

Mr.. Chairman. &c: Your committee TO settle with
county superintendent Of schools would respectfully
that they have examined the bills before them
and recon mend the payment OF the following:
To G. b. stoekdale, county superintendent Of public
schools, debtor, from Dec Is. 1887. to March Is.
1858:
To postage Is 10. express l5,teegraph Is. tele-
phone 70. ~ per receipts for same. 70
To printing. ~ per bills rendered IS IS
To blanks for magistrate, etc, per order OF
To stationery-envclopes. etc................ 400
To cerks salary az per resolution Dec Is, So 100 "
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The claim of NJ Forbes for flags, 3 ", your com
mttce would ark to be relieved.
All Of which 1t respectfully unlimited. c,,.,-
Supervisor Hickok, chairman committee
on miscellaneous claims, submitted the
report of said committee, which was read.
Supervisor Armstrong moved to recon-
NIT said report, with Instructions 70 the
committee 10 strike out all claims therein
OF supervisors for attending the Circuit
Court In the capacity OF Witnesses.
Supervisor Lewis moved as a substitute
that said report be recommitted with In
structions 70 the committee to specify
therein what amounts are allowed TO the
different supervisors for attending the
Circuit Court as witnesses.
Supervisor Cullen moved that the board
allow the claim of DR.. JOS. Stout of $2i
for medical attendance In town OF Ottaws
which had been reported on adversely In
ths report of the committee on paupers-
Supervisor Fischer moved as an amend
ment that said claim be allowed to the
amount of $40 Amendment carried.
Supervisor Fischer moved that George
BONNER be allowed an order oD the county
treasury for Sl05S. the amount overpaid by
him by reason of double assessment OF
his personal property In the towns of Rut
land and Ottawa.
On motion of Supervisor Eades the mat
ter was referred TO the committee on abate
ments for further investigation.
| Supervisor Burke moved that the boart
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legal.
D. EVANS,
a.. f s,

4
CTATE or ILLINOIS, LA SALE CouNTy-ss.
- In the Circuit Court, 10 June Term. 4. u. 1883.
Fannie Sinp< on rs. william simpson In ChdhceTp.
Affidavit of ION residencetof William sSimpson hav.
ing fed In ithe clerks office Of III" Circuit Court
of said county. notice therefore hereby gwen TO the
said nonresident defendant that the complainant ed
her bill of complaint in said Court. on the chancery
side thereof the 10Th day of March 1883. and that
thereupon summons issued ont of said court wherein
said suit is now pending retnrnabe the second Mon.
dsy in the month Of June, ID. 1883 Gs Is by law re-
CURED
Now unless yor, the said nonresident defendant
above named, shall personally he end appear before
said Circuit Court on the first day of the next term
thereof TO be holden ~ Ottawa. In and for the said
county the second Monday In June, A. D. less, ana
plead anewer or demur TO the said comp ainanti bill
of complaint the and matters and things therein
charged and stated will be taken a. confessed aud
decree entered against you according To the prayer OF
WILLIAM W. TAYLOR, Clerk.
Ottawa Illinois. March 10Th. 1883.
ID. EVANS. Compts Solr. marlI|w
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Board and Feed Stable.

have secased the Barn 10 the rear OF Whites Hots
and am running the Barn In front OF Whites HOtal
(known the Ball yaruj. and have good warm stables
take horses by the day week. and guarantee aat
faction. ANY that has horses to board would de
we'll 20 call and see me. Strangers coming TO Ottawa
will md the best Of accommodations and taken of
their stock Teams be gotten from the barn any
hour Of day or night. Mr.. Brown would like " have
his friends call and see him, and he will endravor u
give them satisfaction. X. X. BROWN,
decl0-tf Proprietor
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DUNCAN. o'CoNoR & GILBERT,

al0rReys al L1'0
or THOMAS WELSH, Dxc,p,'
~ NOTICE. IL hereby given that the undersigned
ADMINISTRATIVE of the Estate of Thomas Welsh. late
Of the county of La Srll- and state of Illinois deceased
will appear before the Probate Court of said county on
the third Monday tbeing the EST day OF May. lse
at the Probate Court Room in OTTAWA. IN said county
when and where all persons having esiIns or demandi
against said estate notified 10 attend m" DreSen
the same in writing for adjustment
'' N ELLEN WELSH.
m.r,a aw AduinistratriX.
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allow claim Of G. M. Forbes of 80 0s for

allow a claim If g. NJ. Forbes of 80 0S fol
flags for decorating court house on the
occasion Of the G. A X reunion In August
last. Motion lost, by the following vote
Ayes - Burksrf, BTKe, Buuertield
Crock, Cullen, Fischer, Hickok, Hollecker
Howland, LAUDER, Maierhofer, McGibnis
McLauchlan, Rowe, Thompson, Mr., Chair
manic
Noes - Armstrong, Bowen, Dinamore
Dresser, Dunaway, Doyle, Fades, G-ans-
den, Green, Gnrney, Hiltabrand, Jennings
johnson, Lukins, Norton, Shawback, Stan
ford, spencer, Trumbo, Westwood, Wylie
al.
On motion Of Supervisor Fischer the
board adjourned until ! o'clock tomorrow
morning.
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Leaving balance rs 10
our committee would further recommend that the
following bills Of the superintendent Of schools he
audited and approved and the cerk directed to certify
such fact TO the auditor of public accounts at Spring
held for payment of the from the state treasury
as provided by Section Il Of the school law:
To g. B. stockdaie county superintendent OF schnols
DEBTOR for from Dec Is, 1885,. to March H.
1913: -
6l days spent In school visitation % 9o.....e ~ o.
81 do expenses DO do QV....,... " "
& do spent In examinations 1o0,....... 81 "
. do do tea bers' institute AD,,. 500
do do office work iW....... AW
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS %9 "
4 nf lei I'm ~ admitted
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FOR SALE.

One of the finest FaIms in Northeastern NenrasSa
Cnsis,s OF $40 acres of rich valley land, $50 acres unner
cultivation all under fence. Produced fourteen thou
), nd bushels " grain last year. Fine bcdnHs arg
corras Ou side range for one thousand head of
cattle Finest cattle and hog ranch In the state frCt
,nna ,irs asdress c. +. JOHNS.
n,sri:-I,n owner, Box I6. Ponca. Nebraska.
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Tour committee would further report that they have
examines, the accounts Of County Agent Gibson. to
gciher with the vouchers Ale Ia his office and md
them TO he correct and submit the following state
nent. Your committee would also recommend an ap
preparation OF $50 be allowed the county agent for
transportation Of insane, etc. that the clerk be direct
ed 70 draw order for the amount
CHARLES GIBBS,
Cha rman.
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Is there a positive cure?
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Right the Bigot,s Wrong.

To THE EDIToR-Sir: Ny friend, the Rev.
Mr.. Messing must have, according to his own
statement very improbable flock of sheep,
for out of the eighty-seven members of his con-
gregation, am credibly informed, there are
sixty-three black ones.
Not belonging to his congregation il perhaps
is none of my business, but this much / have
to say-having once been driven out of one
generals department / should not like to risk
again such a man as Gen. Hovey as governor
OF this great state | should much prefer some
one else, and think the best place for such
men as Gen. Hovey is at home, for without
power they can do us no harm. Once a Jew
bater always Jew hater, and therefore ask
my republican Hebrew friends to beware.
Look to your ballot and right the bigot's
wrong. LOUIS LOEB.
Anderson, Ind, Sept. 90
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MOrton's Guano Scandal.
[Detroit Free Press.


Was there not when Garfield was president
a little scandal or you may choose to call it by
any other euphemististic title, if you please,
about some "guano" in South America? Those
who have long range memories have not for
gotten it. Nor have they forgotten that Mr.
Blaine was then secretary of state and that Mr.
Morton, the vice presidential nominee, was the
American minister to France. The two nations
of Peru and Chill were involved in the diplo-
matte correspondence and trouble which inn
mediately preceded this guano business. Mr..
Morton urged upon Mr.. Blaine with great en-
phasis the joint action Of France and the United
States to prevent the overthrow of the Peruvian
government Shortly after Mr.. Morton's firm
Mr.. Morton is now the vice presidential nomin-
nee of the republican party-made a very
profitable contract by which the firm of Nor
ton, Bliss & Co. were TO have per cent. royalty
on all guanos and articles shipped from Peru.
The contract was based on the condition that
the United States should step into the breach
and help the land of the Incas. Peru was duly
protected. At any rate, its dismemberment
was prevented. The supposition is that Mr..
Morton made handsome profit out Of the
scheme, part of which will be spent to help
elevate him into the vice presidential chair.
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The Public Debt in 1851.

To THE EDIToR-Sir: VIII you be so kind
as to give the Indebtedness of the government
on the 4th day of March, 1861, when the repub-
here claim that it was largely in debt by reason
of the recklessness and extravaganza of the
democratic party. Give me the amount and
cause ofindebtedness. HENRY MILLER.
New Paris, Sept. Is
The public debt on the 18th of July, 1861,
was purely nominal-only s9O,5S0,S 7372. This
was not very much more than the expenses of the
government for the preceding twelve months,
which amounted to $66,65O,213. The figures
themselves show that there is no basis for the
charges of recklessness and extravaganza.
When this government has been in democratic
hands It has always been economically ad
ministered,
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THEREFORE.
The Reductio Ad Absurdum Applied to
Monopoly Logic.

IN. Y Commercial Adv.-Ind.I
Wages are lower in Great Britain than
in the United States.
Great Britain is a free trade country
and the United States is protectionist.
Therefore, free trade produces lower
wages than protection does, and, there
fore, the Mills bill, though it is not at all
a free trade measure, ought never to be
permitted to become law, and Cleveland,
who is not at all free trader, ought not
TO be elected.
That is perfectly fair statement of the
republican argument as presented by Mr..
Blaine and the protectionist press Let us
parallel it with other syllogisms equally
sound and well constructed, and thus see
what it is worth:
Wages are lower in Great Britain than in the
United States.
Great Britain has no high mountains and no
prairies, while the United States has both.
Therefore the lack of high mountains and
prairies produces low wages to workmen.
Again:
Mutton is better in Great Britain than in the
United States.
Great Britain is a free trade country, while
the United States is protectionist.
Therefore tree trade improves the quality OF
mutton.
Wages are lower in Great Britain than in the
United States.
Great Britain's legislative body sits mostly at
night, while the American congress sits mostly
by day.
Therefore night sessions of the legislative
body lower the wages of the workmen.
These syllogisms are twaddle. of course,
but they are precisely parallel with that
which Mr.. Blaine and all the protectionist
newspapers are seriously putting forward
as arguments in the belief that American
workmen are fools enough to be deceived
by such shallow tricks.
But let us turn the thing around and
use the syllogism of Blaine in the other
way.
Wages are lower in Germany than in Great
Britain, and the German workman is much
worse off than the British workman.
Great Britain is free trade country and
Germany is protectionlst country.
Therefore protection lowers the wages OF
workmen and brings them into bad condition.
If the argument is good one way it is
good the other.
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interests of monopoly, which evoked
such enthusiastic applause, reminded me
of the anti-slavery rhetoric of sophomores
in anti-bellum days, when grave whig
and democratic professors shook their
heads and smiled at the philanthropic
vagaTies of the young men. There is
pointer here worthy the thought of grave
senators and congressman.
w. p. FIsHBACK.
NorE.-Yesterday's dispatches say that
manufacturers have agreed to sell
quinine at Sl.31 per ounce, and thereby
hangs tale. When it was proposed to
put quinine on the free list Mr.. Kelley's
constituents, Messrs. Power & Weightman,
the Philadelphia druggists, demonstrated
that it would raise the price of quinine
from S4per ounce to s., and that the coun-
try would be drugged with aduterated
quinine. But the congressman from the
"ague belt" had it put on the free list,
and the rat-catcher from the Kankakee
now has all the quinine his family can
use at S1.50 per ounce. w. z. T.
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The Emissaries of the Pennyslvania Mon.
opolists at Work In Indiana.


opolists at Work In Indiana.
To THE EDIToR-Sir: We understand
there are hired emissaries from Pennsyl-
vania in your state canvassing for Harrison
and Morton. If so, beware of them, for
they do not represent our or your interest,
but the interest of capital against labor,
and are paid by men who wish to con-
tinue the present high prices of various
manufactured goods, after having filled
our workshops with the cheapest laborers
they and their hired agents could procure
in foreign lands. Go into our mines and
our workshops and learn what we know,
now the price of labor has been reduced
by this competition, and see how neces-
sary, yea, imperative it has become for
protection against the greed and oppres-
sion OF employers; how wages have fallen
to starvation prices, while tariffs, etc, etc,
have been maintained to keep up the
prices of the products OF our
labor; how armed Pinkerton
police have been used TO intimidate us
when we were in the peaceable attitude OF
demonstrating against the reduction of
wages. And then, if you can give heed
to these hired emisaries OF capital we
pity your credulity as intelligent laborers
of Indiana. Beware bewarel for they
are wolves in sheep clothing. Yea, worse
hired minions of oppressors and extor-
TONERS. Listen not to their ingenious
sophistry and misrepresentation of the
condition of the wage-workers of Pennsyl-
vania. Vote square and fair for the great
reformers, Cleveland and Thurman, who
are squarely on labor's side, reclaimers OF
our public domain, ETC., etc.
EDWIN s. CUTLER.
Belle Vernon, Fayette county, Pennsyl-
vania, Sept. l6.
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Excess paid out BY Mr.. Harrison $40, SCI. ~

4r2 SSSiA1O,VOO W
sll5, O00.0 900 less the l.29 per cent. price
OF bonds SIS, 1920 ~
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Anderson Percifeld, prosecutor Of the Ninth
judicial district, made fine democratic speech
at Martinsville Tuesday night His handling
OF republican fallacies and Henry Clay Duncan,
republican candidate for congress in Mr..
Cooper's district, is said to have been q very
neat piece Of platform work.
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BEWARE OF JARRETT ct AL.

Waynetown, Ind, Sept. IS.
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HARRIsoN,s PLAN.
How Subscribers to His Campaign Fund
Are to be Reimbursed.


To THE EDIToR-Sir: Nc political cam
paign can be conducted without money,
and plenty of it. The great question
at the outset is where to get it, and
If large amounts are subscribed
who will repay the contributors. Gen.
Harrison depends upon monopolists and
bondholders for the necessary funds for
his campaign, and it will not require
compound microscope TO see where the
scheme for repaying the amount comes In.
II we notice Gen Harrison's letter of &C
ceptance, we discover that he proposes to
reduce the treasury surplus By purchasing
bonds at the market price, which is Sl.2S to
Sl.30 (averaging 81 29!. AT the premium,
the Sll5,O0O000 SURPLUS will PURCHASE
$50, l47 ,255.Sl WORTH OF BONDS, for which
the country would pay So, S52, 1910 PRE-
MUM. In 1891 the AZ per cent. bonds be-
come due and will be paid at par value,
consequently we have three years Of in
terest to pay.
The interest on S115,0O0,O0O at Al per
cent for three years would be SIS, 525, 900,
which, deducted from the principal, would
show the amount of bonds paid at matur-
ity as sos, 475, 900. Now, compare Gen.
Harrison's scheme with the proper policy.
We will place these figures together
S115OOO,O 600 less three years interest at
80 per cent.-.. Sg9i4IosOOO %
s1l5, 900 less the 129 per cent. price
OF sS9l47,2oo IL
Excess paid out by Mr.. Harrison $40, s27.744 81
To whom?
Why, to the bond-holders and monopo-
lists.
Who are these bond-holders and monop-
olists?
Why, the men who have grown rich by
high tariff. The men who have subscribed
to Gen. Harrison's campaign fund, and
the SO. 327, 744.S1 would reimburse the re-
publican campaign hackers in very good
shape.
Now, when we contrast President Cleve-
lands policy of reducing the tariff to the
requirements of the country, and protect
ing our industries by giving them free
raw material, thus placing them on an
equal footing with their foreign compel
itors, then we shall have enlarged pro-
duction, and with enlarged production
increased wages for the laborer and greater
demand for our production to the utmost
parts of the earth.
Now, when we compare President Cleve-
lands honest policy, we hold up our heads
with pride. We know from experience
InaI ne CaunOI De confronted Dy ulSnOne1t
politicians, nor monopolists, nor bond
holders. We know he has stood by the
rigid rule-the golden rule. Is it best to
exchange a certainty for an uncertainty
for a consort with monopolists; for man
pledged to free whisky and tobacco, or for
man with a Chinese record?
say, is such man a safe man for this
high Office? | believe the people next
November will answer no! e. @. NJ
Sept. Is
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-12-07
Masonic Funeral.

The funeral of the late Judge J. W.
Mofit, Notwithstanding the inclem-
ency Of the weather, was nurnerously
attended by the friends and relatives
Of the deceased, as we'll es by his
brethren of the mystic tie, be having
been many years ago constituted an
honorary member Of Temple Lodge,
No. 7, +. & AN. Atl2 80 the Masonic
brethren assembled at their lodge
room, it being draped in mourning,
and, under the leadership OF DIR. Jay
Tuttle, worshipful master, observed
the funeral ceremonies peculiar to the
order in the lodge room. Then
clothed in their white aprons and
wearing the evergreen representing
the sprig of Acacia, they formed in
procession and marched to the hos
pital and took charge OF the casket
containing the body Of the deceased
brother, the pail bearers carrying it
by hand to Warren's dock, where il
was deposited on the deck OF the
steamer Electric and conveyed to
Skipanon and thence to the Masonic
burial plat in the city cemetery,
where it was tenderly laid in its last
and final earthly resting place with
Masonic honors, Rev. w. s. Short,
chaplain Of Temple Lodge, assisting
the W. n. in conducting the solemn
ritualistic public burial service pecu-
liar to the order.
after life's ftful fever
He sleeps WE'LL"
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SALEM. Dec. 5.-The state lax levy
was to-day fixed as follows: State
levy, current expenses, three and
seven-tenths Of q mill; militia tax, one
fifth of mill; university, one-tenth
of mill; total, four mills.
The total value OF taxable property
in the state is SS5, 800, 429, being about
$5,000,000 less than was expected,
several counties having returned de.
creased valuations. Total estimates
for the current expenses of 1889, in
cluding the expenses OF the next ses-
sion OF the legislature, are S3l7, ,805.6S,
and the resulting rate OF taxation is
three and seventeenth mills, being
one and two. tenth mills less than the
levy made last year. To this must be
added the special taxes levied by stat
ute Of one-fifth OF mill for the mil
itia, and one-tenth of a mill for the
state University, which makes the
total taxation for all purposes, as
above stated, four mills.