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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

banner q Liberty.
The House last week passsd the
bill to refund to the States the
amount OF direct taxes paid to the
national government upward Of .
quarter OF century ago. The Re-
publicans supported the bill solidly,
and they received the assistance VI
= number OF Democrats.
This direct tax was levied under
an act OF Congress passed in 1861
Tor raising money to carry on the
civil war. The law imposed on the
several States yearly payments il
proportion 10 their population, aid
after Que payment the law WAS r.
pealcd. About $l5,000,000 wa
paid 10, aud this sum, with Is per
cent. commission, it il proposed By
the bill 10 return to the States. The
total amount is abont $17, 000, 900.
50 lar ~ equity toward those who
Originally paid the money to the
government is concerned, the ~ :
tempt to restore it is simply q farce.
Were there no surplus ~ the treas
ury, the proposition would not BE-
seriously entertained IN any quar-
l;cr. II is . surplus distributing jph
pure aud simple, and seems to !,aye
the further demerit Of being backed
up BY speculative lobby, a. GER
tain States stand pledged to pa,
heir chosen agents considerable
commission upon the shares they
Will receive when the job is sue
cessfuI. At the same time the re-
cep!ion OF the money by the State
would doubtless lead to local *
travagance in many instances, and
on the whole would prove undesira
bic 10 the taxpayers.
But the worst feature OF the scheme
lies 10 the principle ct the bottom
OF it, which is the same % that ia
volved 10 the Blair educational bill
and . half dozen others that al
times have been conspicuously b.
fore Congress. One and ell have
the direct object Of placing the
States 10 the position OF dependents
upon q rich and powerful govern
ment, and they are the more dao-
gerous because they carry with
them . bride to scar the peoples
cousciences TO the nnconstisutiona
and .nnrcpublican Tendencies Of the
measures. The bill will doubtless
pass the Senate, but Presiden: CIeve
land can do no more valuable ser.
vice to the people during tho 70
Of bis term than to place
the seal Of his condemnation upon
it.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

At the recent meeting Of the
Directors Of the Dubois County
Agricultural Association the follow
ing officers were elected for the eu-
suing year:
X. X. Observation-Disclosures.
X. f. Milburn-Vice President.
w. D. HamiIton-Secretary.
Dan. Rsutepohler-Treasurer.
DR.. g. z. Williams rendered hie
resignation as q director and DR..
w. X. McMahan was elected 10 bic
The following executive commit
tee:wa appointed: Dr.. w. X. Nc.
Mahan, J. Ii. Behrens, ST., and
Chas. Moenkhans.
At the subsequent meeting Of th.
Stock holders OF the Association II
was decided to make an effort 4
secure two thousand dollars add
.ional stock for the purpose o
purchasing the grounds. w. d
Hamilton aud Chss. Moenkhau'
were appointed committee to 20
Iicit stock.
1t is to be hoped that our citizen
will take hold Of the matter, as tn,
purchase Of the grounds will be o
material advantage to the Associa
|tlon.-Argus.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

DR.. J. Harris Rogers, Of Washing
ton. Is responsible for q new telegraph
invention, which will be known ns
visual synchOnism. The discovery
consists Of a method by which two
wheels, thousands OF miles apart. NAV
DO kept revolving in perfect unison,
and the application consists in the
ability to print and transmit from one
wheel 70 another about $50 words 3
minute. BY means Of q small instru-
ment with ten keys message is first
perforated on q tape. This tape runs
through telegraphic instrument, and
the perforations permit small steel fin
gers TO make electrical connections
with an ordinary telegraph wire. which
in its turn connects with the receiver
on the other distant wheel, and inilu-
enccs ten magness provided with
curves and strokes. which combine TO
form Roman letters ia accordance with
the original pcrforations.
The two indicators or wheels which
actually form the visual synchronism
give 900 revolutions q minute, and
each revolution forms letter. This
gives about $50 words minute. Tho
Morse characters have To be inter
pretcd. but as visual synchronomic
messages come out in Roman letters,
much labor is saved Autographs
biography" said Mr, Rogers, invent
ed by the famous electrician, Bake
we'll, about thirty years ago, and af-
forward improved upon BY Father
Secchi, Edison, Gray and Sawyer,
failed in practical applications for
want Of tho rapid synchronism now
introduced by me. With the aid OF
the new discovery it may now DO util-
lied. New York Tribune.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

Fishing in Alaska is good il q Cana
dian gentlemen recently visiting there
tells the truth. He says that at Ton
gass Narrows he saw creek SO
crowded with salmon that the surface
was actually blackencd with their
backs aud dorsal fins. In some places
they were crowded so closely that they
could hardly move and could DO
picked out Of the water by hand. At
a canning establishment lie saw 5000
fish just taken, waiting treatment,
and in one case one draught Of seine
brought to shore $500 salmon. New
York Sun.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

According to newspaper correspon.
dents an indianapolis junta IL preparing
to run the General Assembly. Il seems
that steering committee has alread,
been organized, . sleader" appointed.
and that the proceedings a,e I'll cut and
dried, bills formulated, and that al the,
members will have to do will DO to obey
Instructions. That may Be sll well
enough In it, way, but II Il not tho
Democratic way Of doing things, and
the managers will find that some Demo.
crst from "wsv back" Il liable to get on
his feet Ia the caucus. or In either house
Of the Assembly, aud knock the bottom
out Of the "hull business. IN. A. Led
ger.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

Education has been carried to such
an extent in Germany that the gov
eminent has felt itself forced 70 step
in and compel tightening Of the
weight Of school books carried by the
children. German children carry their
books in knapsack. The police are
now ordered to stop children weighted
too heavily, get their address and bring
their fathers 10 court 10 be lined for
overlooking. New York Sun.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

Tho following patents were granted
for the week ending Dec. IS, 1888. re-
ported expressly for this paper BY joe
Il. Hunter, Solicitor OF American
and Foreign Patents. Washington, ID. q.
J. D. Clemmons, Hanover, slate
cleaner; Michael CIune, Indiana
polls, bed lounge; J. b: Deeds
Terre Haute, snti.fr'ctiun com
pound; }. d. Deeds, Terre Hsute
metallic packing ring, two patents,
I. Il. Roberts and q. r. Sanford
Indianapolis. buckssw frame; =. q
Sharp, Indiana polls, pessary; s. 4.
Yount, Lafayette, spectrum.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

A method Of giving . brilliant mo-
tallic surface to wood has been brought
out in Germany. The wood is first
treated in bath Of caustic alkali, then
in bath Of hyposulphite Of calcium
70 which sulphur has been added, and
finally in bath of acetate OF lead. In
each Of these baths the wood remains
for several hours. II Is then dried and
may be given o very high polish
ArkansaW Traveller.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

AtCentral City. Colo, the other day,
retort containing so, 900 IN gold was
placed in bank for safe keeping. Tho
gold was all produced in single day
bv ono mine. The amount Is the
greatest ever taken from any mine in
the sumo length Of time. NJ Chicago
Herald
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

The citizens Of Dion boast that they
have the oldest poplar in France, but
Just how old it IS no one knows Il -
l22 feet high, forty-iivc feet in circum-
ference at tho base. and twcnty-three
feet in circumference fifteen feet from
the base. Foreign Letter.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

King Humbert's gift to Emperor
William was series Of models 81 the
remains Of the men, women, children
and animals in the famous Pompciian
museum.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

Mr.. Jacob Flcken. ST., one OF our old.
est and highly respected cItixens. died
on laet Wednesday. Dec. 10, 1855, Il the
age OF 70 years, 10 months and l day.
after % illness OF six weeks, or compli.
cation Of diseasea -IIuntingburg Argue
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04
0aiss bridge Township 'rrsss-
tees Notice.

vVHE undersigned, Trustee or Balm
! bridge township, Dubois county.
will attend 10 Township business on
saturdays OF every week, at his residence
on North Main street, between Sew
nth aud Eighth. In Jasper.
The Library Of said Township 10 kept
4 the bookstore Of Mr.. Jacob Gosmann,
where persons wanting books can obtain
them ~ any time.
JOSEPH ECKsTETN, Trustee
April 30. 1883 Nv.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

II Utah comes into The Union she
will probably Be- called the Masri
monial State.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

Some ono says that an electric cur
rent will show whether or not o horse
q suffering from Lis shoes
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

Fam FOR SALE. The farm q the
crossing OF the railroad and Paioka river,
Of 237 acres IL fDr aale. Good coal lsnd
good isrn, land. Easy terms. Apply q
Courier of|lco.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04

Twin - aiIl;
5he eessw drawing nigh
shall gArle from M lits no cowsrdc cry;
kays though the night my dsHdLmt droAd fainuI
vu b. still
For oil know,
Though suffering hours delay.
Vet 70 Eternity they paas away,
Carrying sosnsthing Onward = they 0ov.
outlasting vol
YEA something won;
The harvest Of our tears-
Something unfading. p'ucked from fading yoass;
6omething 70 blossori on beyond the sun
From Sorrow won
The agony.
40 hopeless now Of balm,
Shall sleep Al last, In light - pure ana calm
~ that wherowith the stars look down on Thea
Gethscmano
-vlorcnce Earle Coates In EIarpers Magazine
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15

Concentrated indignation. Can any sane
man believe such testimony and say you
are not guilty? She also identifies every
prominent article in strangers trunk and
says they were the woman's who disap-
peared Mrs. Mixture does likewise; that
white dress she made no one could make
it, no one else wears white dress; oh, no;
no one else has sewingmachine that sews
a stitch like hers Where is the S. bill
Mrs. Lundstrom left with her? Why was
it not produced? Because she never left it
with her. She did not have S. to leave
with her, and 1 did not have enough to
give her money to buy ticket to 60 to
Butte.
Now, let US pass on to the evil
dence of Detective N. P. Walters.
GOING FOR THE DETECTIVE.
He says he found the articles lin the
prospect hole on the morning of March 4th.
along with other witnesses, who stated
they were found in my possession after 1
left Helena for this city. Why does he 90
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Helena, Montana, Thursday, August IS, 1889.

people who have no regard for the truth
whatsoever, the paid hirelings of the law.
Take the evidence of Mrs. Hartwig and
was Mixture, of two of the main witnesses
of the prosecution. Do you believe them?
Which of these stories do you believe? Her
first at the preliminary examination or the
one in the district court at this city? Or do
you believe all or any part of her evidence?
Her first was that the defendant in this
case came home about $50 on the evening
of Mrs. Lundstrom's disappearance, lighted
a lamp and commenced taking down the
things off the wall and packing them in
the trunks; also that he made considerable
noise and she doubted very much whether
1 slept any all night, and as to the low
talking she heard, she could not really call
it qua rel. What does story No. 2 say?
That the defendant in this case came home
about 10 o'clock, walked in, made no noise
whatever, got up at an unusual hour in
the morning. When asked as to the loud
talk, she stated with vehemence in her
speech and look that it was anticipated,
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15
HOW PITIFUL! HOW POOR!

little child in city street,
With ragged clothes and with shoeless feet,
With hungry eyes and with hungry face,
withered leaf on Il e tree Of race!
With plaintive tones she pleads for more
For crusts and crumbs, to fill her store!
How pitiful! How poor!
A lady fair in a mptuous home,
With gems and jewels she calls her own, ..
With servants at hand, with servants to wait
With all the glitter of style and state!
She lives for self, and for nothing more,
And small and mean is her spirits store!
How pitifull How poor!
A tattered tramp a dusty road,
The careless wor d his cold abode,
His hope all gone and his manhood lost,
wreck sfoat and tempest-tossed,
An aimless life and nothing more,
For naught can save ambitions store!
How pitiful! How poor!
millionaire In official place,
pOmpous mien and naughty face,
love of power, a will to reign
Rules his thoughts with cruel pain
A slave he Is and nothing more,
Who sells his soul for such scanty stofel
How pitifu bow pooi!
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15
HO VI E..

To-day she held picture in her hand.
All, if that face once haunted her In dream,
What then? 1t was face to draw all eyes,
So glorious the brow, so sweet the mouth
With its proud curve, that could be firm at will.
Their friendship? 1t wss naught. They scarce
had met
The half score of times-at dance or play,
He thought not of her There was one affair."
Beyor d the seas blue BREADTH gentle girl,
To whom bis all of faith and love was pledged,
And he was not OF those who pledges break.
But once mid a waltz twas " hispered her
That he, the stranger In a strange land,
In an hospitals fever-ward lay i'll, > seN.
And in his wanderings asked e'er for her. ~
Not that he cared. 'Gis kno Sn the mind oft thus,
Swayed by delerium, fixes on that
1t never rests upon in saner mood,
But iult because II was the suf rers wish,
little spa e. and she, In quiet gown,
Sat while dark-Iobed sister, pure OF face,
Told her all gently of the sick mans state,
And after led her to his sleeping form,
There knelt she till the dark, sad eyes unclosed
And looked upon her face-not in surprise,
But quiet earnestness. Then, while a smile
OF rapture past describing swept across
His face, he murmered softly one word, "Homel"
Then closed the ey es that saw not earth again
"Home"-dearest home and besti Oft did she
muse
On that syllable of dying lips.
O. did he see as she believed, that land
That country fair beloved of earth-sick eyes,
Or was he in that moment mirage-best
By one last sight of scenes beyond the wave
Faces of mother sister, sweetheart all
His heart held dearl? What heav'n was home"
that hour?n
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15

adverse to the prisoner in the dock? Your
statutes say nay. I bad four just such
jurors as that. Had they been true and
honest men they would have asked the
court to excuse one Juror when balloting
as to the cause of death. Was
there any evidence introduced to
to show the most gullible the cause of
death? None whatever. Gentlemen, you
have found your verdict upon this princi-
pie: A woman was killed; somebody had
to suffer to satisfy the law; you picked q
stranger up on your streets and said We
have not evidence enough to convict him,
but hang he must.
PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE.
In conclusion 1 must say that the Terri
tory of Montana in hanging George Duncan
Bryson commits a judicial murder, breaks
the hearts of the most noble father and
mother in this world, end dishonors the
most honorable name in Canadian history.
Some day, God willing, God will clear up
this mystery. He will no doubt reveal the
guilty ones, and they will be justly pun
ished. How, gentlemen of the jury, will
you feel when am vindicated
in this statement and my name
shall be set forth as another victim of cir
cumstantial evidence? Will this nation
continue to convict men on the same prin-
ciple or will they hesitate? Time will
tell. LIE me say few words as to
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15

with the man described specifically as
the one above? Certainly she did. Did
she ever inform her friend, myself, of it !?
No, she did not Who is this man? Is he
the one who killed Annie Lundstrom or
not? 1t seems 10 most any level-headed
man that he knows something about her
death. Take the hackman covered with
blood from head to foot. Why does he
leave town on the very evening she disap-
peared and has not been seen since? Were
these two men in collusion with each
other? Did they make the tracks leading
to the hole where the body was found? ?
There must have been two men in order to
tie the woman's hands the way they were
when found and secreted in the hole.
REVIEWING DIXON's ACTIONS.
Who was the man or men who, as proved
by the evidence of Mr.. Wright, when
the defendant in this case was in Jail in
Helena, took a pole out of that hole,
knocked the steps off and threw them fully
100 feet from the hole and returned on the
night previous to the body being found and
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15

up there with three or four men to do de-
tective work? Because he put them there
himself; secured his hirelings to substan-
tiate his story and make an impression.
How easy to take ring and scratch the
initials A. L. on it! How easy to take
those hairpins and put them in the hole
How easy to take that handkerchief and
put it there! How miraculously easy to
take that pocket-book at the time the body
was found and slip into his pocket. You
will agree with me, gentlemen, that. had
those things been in that hole
October 1, 1883, they would have
been found. You have q sample
of his testimony when he sw ore that
bought the ticket for Mrs. L. at the
depot along with Anthony Kuntz. Did
we not have to put their own attorney on
the stand and contradict them to establish
the truth? have never been to the pros
pect hole in question, but have common
sense enough to know that Detective
Walters committed perjury, and the good
people pay such scoundrel 81 500 year.
Did the defense not prove to you without
question that this woman was in company
with another man below the depot and
again with man of the same appearance
going in the direction of the hole on the
evening she disappeared Did she not by
the evidence of Mr.. Chandler have
clandestine and probably criminal meetings
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Rates of Subscription.
THE OLD WIFE.

By the bed the old man, waiting, eat in vigil sac
and tender,
Where his az ed wife lay dying and the twilight
shadows brown
Slowly from the wall and window chased the
sunsets golden splendor,
Going down.
rs is nieht?" she whispered, waking for he,
spirit seemed to hover
Lost between the next worlds sunrise and the
bedtime cares of this,
And the old man, weak and fearful trembling
as he bent above her,
Answered. Yes"
"A re the children in?'' she asked him. Could he
tell her? All the treasures
CT their household lay in silence many years be-
meath the snow;
Tut her heart was with them living back among
the tolls and pleasures,
Long ago.
And again she called at dew-fall in the sunny
summer weather,
where is little Charlie, f-ther? Frank and
Robert-have they conner"
They are safe" the old man faltered; "all the
children are together,
Safe at home"
Then he murmered gentle soothings, but his
grief grew strong and stronger,
Till IL choked and stilled him as be held her
wrinKled hand,
For her soul far out Of hearing, could his fondest
words no longer
Still the pale lips stammered questions, lullabies
and broken verses,
Nursery prattle, all the language of a mothers
loving heeds,
While the midnight round the mourner, left to
sorrows bitter mercies,
Wrapped in weeds
There was stiffness on the Iillow-and the old
man listened lonely
TIL they led him from the chamber, with the
burden on his breast,
For the wife Of sixty years, his manhood's early
love and only,
Lay at rest.
Fare you well!' he sobbed, my Sarah; you
will meet the babes before me;
'Tis little while, for neither can the parting
long abide,
For you will come and call me soon, L know
and heaven will restore me
To your side"
II was even CO. The springtime, In steps of win
ter treading,
Scarcely shed its orchard blossoms ere the old
man closed his eyes,
And they buried him by Sarah, and they had
their diamond wedding
In the skies
The Church Union.
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placed the pole back in its former place, I
should judge to allay suspicion ? Does
that man know who put that body there or
not? Most undoubtedly he does How
did Mr.. Duncan Dixon find that "Ipjun,"
as he termed it? Can you tell in short
metre? In less than two hours after the
reward was offered he finds what the whole
town of Helena was baffied to find in
three and almost four weeks. Oh, my
friends, standing here as 1 do on the
brink of the grave, tbs monstrous to behol !.
Innocent as am, death is nothing, mere
Whit, compared to the brand of shame
which falls on my child, my offspring, her
whom love next to God better ii an all
else in this world. Her image is engraved
upon my heart never to be effaced only
when it ceases to beat and then to carry it
with me to heaven, to paradise.
1t is safe to say that have been con-
victed on public sentiment. Do you call
this compete mt Juror when he says he
has formed an opinion and that opinion is
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1889-08-15
THE SCENES.
Bryson Addresses the People From
the GaIIows and Maintains
his Innocence.

BOULDER, August 9-11 a. m. Special ]
A large. concourse of people thronged the
Jail thel past hour to take last look upon
the condemned man. Leonard Pan, Of the
Salvation army, arrived and held brief
prayer. service. At 1920 Bryson
changed his clothes for suit sent to him
FROM Minneapolis. His father was still
with him, but left promptly at 1890, cry
ing.bitterly. What passed between them
will never be known. At 1045 the
march to the gallows commenced, led by
Sheriff Halford. Bryson walked firmly,
assisted by jailor Ellis. At the gallows
he read the following statement in loud
clear voice:
BRYSON's DYING STATEMENT.
BOULDER, August 8, 1689.-To the citi-
Gems of Montana and the world: See the
shadow of death lowering over me. See
the instrument of death to be dealt out to
q stranger in your land. Over your hills
came with friendless woman more than q
year ago. That friend has according to all
accounts gone to her last resting place.
Are you positive? No, you are not. Is
il the friend friend left at the Montana
Central depot in Helena? Can you answer?
You answer yes. You can prove it was
her clothes by the marks, but whose body
was in those clothes? Was it ever identi-
fed? Never. Why was not called on
to identify it? Let them say it was Annie
Lundstrom and pass on to my guilt. Have
you any evidence to conclusively prove
that the poor young man, standing before
you to-day, committed the crime? You
have none whatever. True, you have cir
cumstances and suppositions that speax
volumes. but what do they prove? Merely
inuendos. Can you hang man on such
evidence? Evidently you can without re-
morse. You take the evidence as gospel OF