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railway. to the effect that the Denver
Pacific stock, which Gould aud Sage
were charged with stealing, was con,
verted into Union Pacific stock ana
there cancelled, the Union Pacihc be-
ing then issued to Mr.. Gould in ex-
change for other securities, and that
the "transaction tutned out an ex-
tremely profitable one to the present
consolida ton Union Pacific Railway
company" The facts, remain eow.
ever, that tie stockholders OF Missouri
Pacific want to know why the
stock has dropped and divid-
ends have been reduc-
ed; the stockholders OF Missouri,
Kansas and Texas want to know what
has become of their surplus; the
minority stockholders Of the Fort Scott
and Wichita are in the courts COM
planning that they have been robbed.
A variety OF charges have been brought
against George Gould, aud, altogether,
the developments are decidedly inter.
es,ing. though it may be doubt. d
whether they will expedite trial in
court Of the real points involved.
Then there is The Stewart will case,
in which various heirs Of Mrs. Stewart
seek to show that she was unduly in
fluenced by Judge Hilton, and that
she was wrongfully persuaded to trans
fer to him the vast Stewart property.
Every person of intelligence la
known something of this strange cu =
and th,re has been II vast deal .
speculation concerning it, mosL ot
which, perhaps, has been both unwar-
ranted and unjust.
Shrewd and able lawyer as the late
Samuel Tilden was, his will las
been regarded as open to grave objec-
tions. His ben-fcent pur Ose was to
devote the bulk of his property to the
establishment of II great trust-lund for
the foundation and maintenance Of II
free public library. II , made such ar
rangements as he believed would make
it impossible, on the score Of sell in
terest, for his nephews and others TO
question his intentions. But he was
mistaken, and the great lawyers death
has been followed by another great
will case involving millions of dollars,
and to IL large extent the intellectual
welfare OF the people of New York. 1t
is certainly no exnggeration to speak
of these as causes celebres.
, 1888-04-19
RELIGIOUS GLEANlNGS.

Two ladies in Philadelphia have offered 20
bead n roll of fifty Presbyterian women to
give 81, 900 apiece toward the Million Relies
fund.
The Church Army, an organization of the
Army, has just dispatched three missionaries
10 India.
The Lutheran Church consstory OF Drcs-.
den, Saxony, has passed resolution that
persons known to be ndherents OF spiritual
Ism shall not be admitted to the holy COM
munion.
Rev. DR.. Judson Smith reports cheering
prospects for Christianity among the Mon
gos. The fact that tho number of converts
In China has doubled within ten years, and
now exceeds 10000, is at once proof that
Christian work is graudly successful there,
and Is n powerful stimulus to more abundant
labors.
At the twentieth anniversary Of Wome'el
Board of Missions Congregational, Boston.
l10 delegates were present from various parts
Of tho country. The reports show that the
society has liz missionaries with mission
schools in large numbers, in various parts Of
the world. The receipts for the year We're
sl23, ,220, and tho expenses sl2D S35.
The 10Th of February is the day designated
In the Presbyterian church for recounting
the past hundred years in the Sabbath
schools The board of publication and Sab
bath school work has prepared n suitable
special exercise for that day, historical, doc
trinal and practical. A collection for the
81, 600, 900 for the relief fund Will be taken in
the schools on that day.
, 1888-04-19
Strayed or Stolen.

Strayed form enclosure near
Oliver e. JOhnsOns Planning mill in
this city, one light red cow, with
one norm broken off al bout twO inches
from the head, about eight year.
old, also one dark rcd cow with
small white spots on fianks and face,
branded COB on hip, about Ave
years old. Liberal reward for re-
turn of animals or information lead
ing to their recovery. Leave word
u, Clifford ~ Otis Grocery, on
Howard ST., o. A. BUELL.,
4 1926 billiard Street, near IN.
, 1888-04-19
e Estray--25. 90 Reward.

Strsyed from my ranch about the
frst OF March, 1888, one scrrel horse
branded @ on left shoulder, bald face,
with two white feet, about 10 years
old, and about IA hands high. One
chestnut sorrrl, invisible brand, bald
face, nose white on left side, 6 years
old, 3 white feet, shod all around
when last seen, about Is hands high.
$25 will he paid for tho return or any
information that will lead TO the
recovery OF the above described
horses. JOHN CURRY,
4.18 6w C9urd' Alpne CITY, 1T,
, 1888-04-19

Detroit Tribnne: We can give the
free traders u pointer, but we will give
it to the prott ctionis's first 1t is this;
Many free trade documents purport.
ing to come from American sources
are from the English press. How do
we knowH Because they contain the
word "l"bour," and other wo DIS spelled
after the manner of the English, you
know. The American print shops
spell It "labor." The Golden club
should hide its ear.ma"ks better than
this.
, 1888-04-19
ptUe'!TeRs or EVE.

A Now York woman is making SHIFTS for
scven cents d'.eu
Belva Lockwood expects to make small
fortune from hor lectures in defense OF Nor
monisin.
They say that tho queen regent Of Spain
has asked President Cleveland's wife for her
photograph.
In Morocco women who talk scandals are
punished by having cayenne pepper rubbed
into their lips.
Mrs Lewis and her husband have been do
ing Europe on a tricycle.. They are Ameri-
cans, of course.
Ex-Queen Isabella has packed her carpeS
bag and left Spain once more on nn 'Jntima-
tion" by the government.
Mrs Charlotte Cain, OF Milton, Mass, is
04 years old, and has green parrot which is
not less than 55 years of age.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, In spite OF her
advanced age, is fond Of outdoor exercise
and walks from five to seven miles daily.
Imitation Is the sincerest hattery i'm Eng
land as elsewhere. London girls have taken
to dressing their hair Ia Mary Anderson.
One of the ladies present at recent fancy
costume ball in Denver wore n dress of white
satin completely covered with copies Of q
local newspaper
There is rumor that Dr. Mary Walker
will celebrate her jubilee year by returning
TO the costume of her maternal ancestors, but
1t lacks confirmation.
Miss Sbyl Sanderson is an American who
promises to make name for her voice. She
is now in Paris, and Massenet has become
greatly interested in her.
The ex-Empress Eugenie had tho remains
of her husband and son removed To Farm
borough privately in order not to give Plon
Plon chance to exploit himself.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecho- has been very
liberal to the soldiers home &c Leavenworth,
having presented it with 1000 books from
the great Henry Wards library.
There are more ladies In Washington at
present trying to get into the departments
than there have been for many years, There
arc about fifty applicants for every position
Mrs. Reid, widow of Mayne Reid, tho nov
elist, is engaged in writing her husbands
life, and is searching for information of his
life and adventures here before and after the
Mexican war.
Miss Frances Lord was for years s1perin-
tendent of tho kindergarten system in Eng
iand She claims to be the only living woman
who has held public office in that country,
savo Queen Victoria.
Mrs. Charlotte Simonton, of New Rich
mond, Wis. has reached tho full term of 100
years. Her only caro- Is that her young SON
he was 81 last birthday may learn to smoke,
like tho other bad boys.
Miss Meull Meyer, n grandnicco OF Anton
Rubenstein and pupil of Liszt, is the rlusi-
cal prodigy of Vienna. She is not yet IL
! years old, but she has composed the music and
written the libretto of an opera.
| Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott docs most of her
writing in Boston. Thorc she takes n room
where she can he perfectly retired and quiet,
and with bottle of ink by her side and lap
tablet ON her knee, she writes until her task
[ Is done
, 1888-04-19
THREE CELEBRATED CASES.
THE STEWART WILL, THE TILDEN TRUST,
AND THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
JAY GOULD,

AND THE PkOCEEDlNSS huAlNol
JAY GOULD.
The New y ork courts have consid-
cred many celebrated cases, says a
New York paper, but it is hard to re-
call a time when we have had three as
important and as interesting as those
now in various stages OF progress.
There is the Stewart will case, the
Tilden trust case, and the attempt to
find a legal basis for proceedings
against Jay Gould. The last, owing to
Mr.. Gould's sudden frankness, has
temporarily overshadowed the others
The cause of the suit was the action
of Messrs. Gould and Sage in 1880,
when they held three millions of Den
YER Pacific stock as trustees for the
Kansas Pacific bondholders, and used
their position to manage consolida-
ton OF both roads with tho Union Pa.
cific, thus enormously increasing the
value of the stock which they held.
Certain of the bOndholders sought 10
bring suit for misappropriation Of trust
funds. One judge declared that the
statute of limitations was against
them, although a clause in the
D. nal code seemed to provide
especially for such a suit. The ques-
ton neither the case can be submitted
again to the grand jury is to be de-
cided by Recorder Smylh. Meanwhile
Mr.. Gould has struck back, declaring
that he is being prosecuted by a"news-
paper, cable company. and IL
woman" meaning the Herald, the
Commercial Gable company, and the
divorced wife of railroad officer
whose side Gould took III the divorce
proceedings. 1t is strange to find the
little Napoleon of finance" protest
against the prosecutions OF woman.
He is more effective when he declares
that the suit against him and Sage
was purely blackmailing operation,
and SUI plies details which seem to
show that the lawyer who inspired it
had sharp eye TO the main chance.
He fortifies himself, moreover, by IL
statement from Charles Francis
Adams, president of the Union Pacific
, 1888-04-19
DRINK IN ENGLAND.
ARCHDEACoN FARRAR SAYS 1T IS THE
MONSTER EVIL OF THE COUNTRY.

ARCHDEACON FARRAR SAYS 1T IS THE
MONSTER EVIL OF THE COUNTRY.
The monster evil Of England at
this moment is still drink, writes
A. chdeacon Farrar in the Fortn'ghtly
Review. 1t is, to use the phrase ap-
Piled by Emerson to the far less uni
vercal and overwhelming evil OF
slavery, San accursed mountain OF
sorrow" know no subject on which
the national conscience is so fatally
scared, as it were with u hot iron.
think that it would be impossible that
the demand for searching and radical
reform in our drink legislation could
be opposed, as it is, by fatuous jokes
and discrepit epigrams If those who
have so long successfully resisted the
righteous demand of suffering multi
tudes could only see, as the parish
cleyg, man, the prison chaplain, and
the hospital surgeon see, the hideous
train Of ruin, disease, and unutterable
dilion of our liquor traffic entails. l
can answer for it that in my own
parish. which contains many OF the
poorest-there would be hardly any
crime, or absolute destitution, or
hopeless misery, if we could elmi-
nate the curse drink, fOstered by
multitudes of ut edle.s gin-ehops. We
spend or drink directly nearly e126,-
100000 year, and indirectly n sum
almost inconceivable. In the "Judi-
cial Statistics for 1885," page 20. find
that 165, ,l39 persons were summarily
proceeded against for being drunk and
disorderly. In the London district
about 10000 are yearly arrested for
drunkenness, and If these 10000 are
women. The numbers may mean
nothing to some readers, to others
aey mean crimes of every degree of
violence and infamy-lhe tiendish
ki king and beating and manning OF
wives, the brutal i'll treatment of
Young children. the OVERLAPPING and
slow murder Of tens Of thousands of
infants, the imprisonment of blood in
another generation of criminals and
harlo,s. For the number of those ar
rested for drunkenness is known to be
IA very small fraction OF the number of
drunkards. The drink traffic is strong
in the influence of wealthy capitalists.
and brewers and gin distillers are free
ly elevated 10 the house of lords. In
defense OF our present drink laws
there is O banded union of the triple
forces Of ignorance, appetite, and IN
terest. Nevertheless, the fact remains
that drink is the chief cause Of our
worst national dsgraces AS nation;
that we sin, apd have been SHINING for
years with high hand against God
and man, by forcing our drink en- the
helpless childhood of the world; that
we are deoimating and demoralizing
and even destroying the poor aborig-
NAL races with which we come in con-
tact; that from John o Groats house
to Lands End we defile our own
country with the curse of ardent spir-
its, and that Intoxicating drink is the
greatest factor of crime, pauperism,
orphanhood, prostitution, insanity, and
disease"
, 1888-04-19
BASE BALL TALK.

All the Athletic players have signed.
Dave Rowe will manage Kansas City.
indianapolis has seven players under con-
tract.
Plttsburg's salary list will foot up about
e35, 600.
The country breathes easier now that Mike
Kelly has signed.
Davy Force is 4G years old and is probably
the oldest man playing ball.
Fifty cents admission will kill base ball in
Philadelphia. Philadelphia Press.
The American Association championship
season will begin on April lS and end Oct 10.
The Southern League guarantee fund was
reduced from 81 800 to 81, 900 ut the Atlanta
meeting,
The Athletics will take trip down to
Washington in April and show the Senators
that Harry Wright's team is not the only
Quaker City organization that can play ball.
The ball players who have returned from
I the Pacific slope say that they want no east
ern bli2zards, and in the future will spend
their winters in the Golden State That cli-
mate suits them.
The Kansas City Baseball association has
organized uihler the name of tho American
Association Baseball Club of Kansas City,
with capital stock of O,O0O, divided into
200 shares Of the par value of 500 each.
| This is what Sam Jones says about base
{ balls 'If | had yellow hound, and thap
hound went to see a game of baseball Oh
1 tunday, and then tried to slip back into my
yard, | would fiji him full Of buckshot."
President Nlmicl,, of the Pittsburg club, who
has just gone TO Mexico for Tho winter sara,
before leaving, that he did not care whether
Moi 'ormicls sionpl with the I'ittSbirR clup
, 1888-04-19
Grants Literary StyeI.

Ex-Governor George s. Bou well
Secretary Of the treasury, under Presi'
dent Grant, and who was General
Grants warm personal friend for
many years, has written signed edi-
tolial for the Boston Globe, in which
he discusses Grants literary ability at
some length. After reviewing the
style of several writer's, including
Lord Macaulay and Horace Smith, he
comes tO General Grant, of whom he
Ays:
"If General Grant possessed style
Ns u writer it was both natural and
simple. His use of qualifying words
was moderate, and skillful writer
would have more promise OF SUCCESS
in nm attempt to initiate DR.. Johnson
than in an attempt to initiate General
Grant.
"a style may be good or bad in the
estimation of critics, but a writer has
acquired style VIII n he has so inn
pressed himself upon the public that
his writings are distingui-hable and
distinguish, d from the writings OF
others, and in this respect General
Grant did not err when in his letter of
May, 1885, he said "the public has
become accustomed TO my style OF
writing. They know that it is not
even an attempt to initiate either lit
erary or classical style, that it is just
what it is, and nothing else 1t was
imi ossible for any person to have
written the two volumes, or one vol
ume, or even one-third of volume Of
his memoirs and deceive the public
permanently as to the authorship.
"The man General Grant was in all
+ General Grants writings, and no other
man could have stood in his place. AS
, he thought he spoke and wrote. There
was no art, no subtlety, no duplicity in
the man there was no art, no rhetorics
no sophistry in his writings. Thu,
constituted and thus limited, no hope
however inspired, no promise, nc
threot could have led him to commit
the work to another hand upon any
| other terms than the open avowal ol
the authorship. But if General Grant
had been indifferent to moral consid
erations the fact that what had ap
peared over or under his name had
been written by another hand coull
not have been concealed from the pub
lie.
"The story that he has told in hi
memoirs is "a plain, unvarnished tale
IL will grow with the history of thu
country. 1t is as enduring as the Ian
6 iage.
"At page 496, volume 2. of his me
mOirs, il fac simi'e of his letter il
which he dictated to General Lee tn
terms Of surrender. OF that lette
General Grant said when put m,
pen to the paper did not know tn
first " rd that / should make use q
in writing the terms. | only kne'
what was in my mind, and ! wished t.
express it clearly, 80 that there coul'
be no installing it,
when General Grant wrote h
knew what was in his mind, and hi
sole object was to express clearly wha
was in his mind. His orders In tn
field Were written by his own hanc
and for two reasons--first, because h
could more clearly express what WA
in his own mind, and second, that j.
case Of error Of execution there woul'
be no third party involved. In hi
memoirs General Grant has always eA
pressed what WAS in his own mind, an
(! IL Is fortunate for his fame and for TIN
1 cause OF the truth that the volume
are not the work OF literary man, bu
the simple story of a man Of affairs an
J IL great General"
, 1888-04-19

carry with them credentials from any
body who commands respect No
tourist who visits this city should fall
to ut least take "A drive or a walk
through these beautiful grounds, aud
visit to the post farm would also be
amply repaid by the things TO be seen
1t is admirably titled by the soldiers
who raise much that contribute to
their tables OF the luxuries OF farm lie.
j. s. ID.
, 1888-04-19
j. r.. McCarther.

The pioneer real estate arenU Cf Eastern
Wash ington, has all the best city and
country property on his list. Information
upon city and suburb IN property cheer
fully furnished by letter Parties Shown
over the city and given every atten.- -,
ofiico HowarT1slreet.
, 1888-04-19
ONEiL a SULLIVAN
CHEWEIAH w. Il.
N OF A RIES PUBLIC.
AND
Real Eestate and Mining Brokers,

Town propeiy in Chewelah bought and sold
WIN pegoii,ie purchase or sale Of III ipcsln
the che welah und Colvi le districts, an ndfur-
nish Information pertaining thereto. Cor
esponIence solicited 10
, 1888-04-19
First National Bank.
Spokane Falls, Wah. Ter;

james n Glover, Horace i. Cutter, Frank II.
Moore. II. NJ. Mccartney, ii W. Fair
weather, Jas. Monaghan.
CORRESPONDENTS
First National Bank .... Portland Oregon
Com mmerc;al National Bank :. Portland
First National Bank..-., Walla Wal q. w. j.
Anglo ,;aliforninu Bank Lid . San Francisco
American Exchange National Bank New York
First National Bank ...... 80. -, Paul
First National Bank. ......... ..,....... Chicoyo
First National Bank k.......,..,t.,.......H Helena
This Bank VIII huy aud sell Exchange County
Warrants, make Collections, Loan Money, and
transact General Banking business. Goid
dust bought.
Special Inducements offered to Merchants,
Miners, Mechanics Farmers and all classes OF
Commercial men.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

so much as to see Mr.. Blaine
president, but. This but" is the rub.
1t Is no use TO allow our enthusiasm for
Mr.. Blaine 10 run riot with our judg-
ment. Great as he is, his party Is
greater, and and the welfare of the
country demands self-sacrifice and pat
riotism instead of an idolatrous and
blind admiration Of the brilliant qualities
of some particular statesman. Mr..
Blaine has, as we believe, set the noblest
example of patriotic self-sacrihce and
devotion to the cause of Republioanism,
by relinquishing his claim to an honor
that was his. The blind admiration of
some Of his friends in dragging his name
into the race, turns this splendid ex
ample Of devotion 70 the best interests
Of his party into trick, and robs it of
its glory, aud neutralizes the good that
Mr. Blaine intended TO do. The Repub-
hcan party has an abundance Of material
from which 10 choose; but if we were
short of material il could be easily made,
for. after all, II will be the party and its
principles which will be on trial before
the majestic tribunal of popular sover-
eighty. and not the man at the head of
the ticket AMERICAN"
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
A LAUDABLE UNDERTAKING.

The statement was given out few
days ago to the effect that a Chicago
party would in short time go on an ex-
petition into southwestern Texas for the
purpose of capturing as many as posi-
bic of a herd of bison said to exist in that
quarter, the only ones in the United
States at this time, the object being to
preserve the species of native animals
from complete extinction. 1t is lauda-
bic undertaking from every point of
view.
AS an advertisement for the paper hav-
ing the venture in hand it bids fair to
surpass, in quick results, the late bal
loon excursion of the New York World.
Then again, as a means of preserving the
remnant of the mighty herds which
roamed the plains but fifteen years ago
for future study and multiplication, it
is the only one at hand. When the buff
faloes are taken it may occur to their
owners to cross the strain with that of
common range cattle and produce spe-
cies which can withstand the rigors of
cold weather and short feed. Indeed.
such an experiment has already been
tried in Manitoba, and the result is an
animal of docile nature and tough con-
stitution, which, while it answers the
domestic and commercial purposes of
range cattle, sustains life under condi-
tons which prove destructive to the
common run of COWS. From the shaggy
coat of this hybrid good quality of
yarn can be manufactured, and in re-
spect of hide, meat and milk, the animal
yields no precedence to the ordinary bo-
vine. The opportunity thus afforded TO
adapt herds TO the weather will be quite
apt to reform the policy of waiting for
the weather TO adapt itself to the herds
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09

with those of any people in the world; and
Notwithstanding the poverty of that race
kentucky today, when she spends dollar
for the education of white child, gives q
dollar for the education of the negro. /
find her increase in population from 1870
to 1850 to be q. IS per cent, while the in
crease in boasting Pennsylvania was but
q. 80 per cent. find her the eighth state
in the Federal Union in point of popula-
ton. | find, too, that the great common
wealth of Kentucky is free of debt but
that the state Of Pennsylvania is cursed
with debt over and above it's available
assets of ten and half million dollars.
Such a showing as this is no less graft
flying than surprising if it may be ac-
copied as correct, and we have no rea-
son to doubt any part of it except that
in relation to the state debt, and this
only recent developments prove the
contrary to be true. In view of this
showing the Hartford Courant suggests
that 1.-The only thing Kentucky lacks to
become particularly happy and envi-
able state is for it to swear off on whis-
Ky, feuds, firearms, free trade and bar
barous politics"