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Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Tourists Death.

DENVER, Col, August 31.-Last Tuesday
a party of tourists left Boulder, COL, to
make the ascent of Longs Peak. Wednes-
dsy morning, when at an altitude of Il, 900
feet, Mr.. Striker, of Iowa, attempted to
start q boulder rolling down the mountain
side, and in SO doing his revolver fell from
the hostler and exploded, the ball striking
him in the neck and killing him instantly.
The remains were carried down the noun
tain and will be shipped East.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
A Fast Row Boat.

Samuel L. Farmer, of Henderson, Jeffer-
SON county, N. Y, has invented boat
which, he claims, can be rowed faster than
any now in use. Only one oar is used,
which is thrust throught the middle of a
boat, somewhat after the fashion of a
center. board. The boat is propelled by
working the oar backward and forward.
The leverage obtained is enormous, and
the inventor says that small boy in his
boat can beat professional oarsman in a
shell.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Exciting Scene.

LONDON, September IAN exciting
scene was witnessed at an exhibition by
Miss Beaumont, aeronaut, at North Shields
yesterday. In descending from her balloon
with parachute the woman got caught by
q lightning conductor, from which she
hung suspended by one arm far above the
ground. There was q great crowd of spec
tators, and the excitement was intense
Ladders were brought as quickly as posi-.
BILE and by their aid and daring the aero
naut made a safe descent.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
C,oor;ppHouse Report.

BosroN, September IA table com
piled from dispatches from manageis :,
the leading clearing houses in the United
States and Canada shows that the gross
exchanges for the week ended August Sls'
were 1857 s21 1888, an increase ondinu OF aoH Re1
cent compared with the corresponding
week of last year.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Robbers Captured.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, September 1.-The
two burglars who killed John Lawrence al
Monticello on Friday night, when Law
rancs discovered them in the act OF roooing
his upele's store, were both captured yes
terday. One of them confessed this morn
ING When found they were up 'ree
within fifty feet of where the murue' was
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Land Office Notice.

WASHINGTON, August 29.-ActiDg Com
missioner of the General Land Office Stone
to-day sent the folio wing telegram to the
register and receiver of the land Office at
Independence, CAL:
"Filings allowed for lands that may be
selected, and sites for reservoirs. bitches or
canals, or lands susceptible of irrigation
thereby will be at the risk of the parties
filing under the act of October %, 1888,
and the circular of August 2, 1885,"
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Made an Assignment.

MINNEAPOLIs, September 2.-J. Frank
COLON, the young attorney who was arrested
about three weeks ago charged with a
series of forgeries aggregating $4,000, this
evening made an assignment to the Mime.
sofa Title & Trust Co. Collom's assets
consist mostly of real estate located in this
city and Gladstone, Mich.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Surveyor General for Montana.

DEER PARK, September president
made two appointments to-day-Geo. o.
Eaton, of Montana, to be Surveyor General
of Montana, and John Little, of Ohio, to
be commissioner on behalf of the United
States in the Venezuelan commission. The
latter has accepted and will be in Wash
ington at the meeting to- morrow.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Important Decision in Regard to
Cigar Labels.

ST. LOUIS, September 2.-In the United
States district court to-day Judge Thayer
rendered decision to the effect that the
counterfeiting of union labels cannot be
prevented. This ruling will affect the
cigar makers organizations in the United
States and Canada, it is claimed, very
seriously, as it practically decides that
their label is of no value whatever.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Ten Thousand Lives Lost.

LONDON, August 30.-Advices from
Yokohama state that disastrous storms
have recently occurred in Walsyama. Ten
thousand persons perished in the floods
following the storms and 10000 were rem
dered homeless. The loss of property is
enOrmOua
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
The American Bar Associations New
Officers.

CHICAGO, August 30.-The American
Bar Association elected Henry Hitchcock
ofSt. Louis, President, and list of twenty
vice presidents. Among them are Presi-
dent Harrison for Indiana and ex-Attorney
General Garland from Arkansas. The fol-
lowing are for the west: California, Geo.
w. Monteith, of Sandiago and for Montana,
Decius s. Wade of Helena.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Americans to be Expelled From Chin

Americans to be ExpeI1ed rom ChInd
LONDON, August 3O.-A dispatch to the
Standard from Shanghai says: Pekin ad-
vices say that number of high Chinese
officials have pstitioned Prince Chun to
have all the Americans employed In China
expelled from the Empire. 1t is reported
that Prince Chun consents"
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
DESTROYED by an Earthquake,

LONDON, Semptember IA severe shock
of earthquake was experienced at Erzerou m
yesterday. The village of Kantzork has
been en9ulfed in lava. One hundred and
thirty-s six lives were lost.
Helena weekly herald., 1889-09-05
Wants the Chinese Exclusion Act Re-
pealed.

NEW LONDON, August 28.-A resolution
adopted by peace meeting at Mystic,
Connecticut, declares that the Chinese ex-
clusion act is violation of the right of all
to freedom, a national disgrace and
provocation of war and calls on Congress
for it's repeal
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
A Wall of Disgust.

The president-elect is disguised and dis
heaTtened with the republican Office
seekers. Through his organ he utters a
pitiful wall, which ought TO excite the
sympathy even OF those who have no adj
miration for the man or for the principles
he represents. ''If Gen. HARRISON is not
broken down in health before his term of
office begins" says the organ, lit will be
due TO his constitutional vigor and en-
durance, and not to the considera-
ton of his countrymen. The pressure
on him IS rGy great and con-
staptly Increasing. 1t takes the dual
form of an immense mail and a constant
stream OF visitors. From any
reasonable point OF view it is disgusting.
The average office-seeker is ut
terly inconsiderate and implacable. No in
terest, public or private, can at all COM
pare, in his estimation, with the impor-
lance of his claim for an office being
brought to the personal attention of the
president-elect with the least possible
delay, either by letter or in person. Thus
the never-ending and ever-increasing
army OF ofhce-seekers combine to make
the pressure incessant, insistent and in
tolerable, and the time and strength OF
the president-elect are continually ex-
hausted."
1t is Gen. HARRISON S misfortune that he
belongs to a party which regards public
Office, not as public trust, but as pri-
vate snap. II is an aggregation of very
thirsty and very hungry place-seekers.
Subtract the never ending and ever in
creasing army" of spoils-hunters from its
ranks, and there will be little left but an
array OF monopolists and jobbers and
mass of ignorant negroes. There are
democrats who are not wholly insensible
to the allurements of a commission in the
public service, but neither in number nor
in voracity are they to be compared with
the grand army of republican patriots"
who are making BENJAMIN HARRIsoN's
life burden with their ceaseless and un-
blushing opportunities for office.
The amiable gentlemen who imagined
that the republican party afforded prom
ising agency for the reform of the civil
service will find much food for reflection
in the organic deiverance from which we
have quoted.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30

it? 1t may be said that HARRISON is not
president yet. but that is not the point. 1t
was his election that was to give the coun-
try "boom" by insuring the perpetual
ton intact OF our blessed tariff system. 1t
is settled that the evil of lower taxes is not
to come upon the country. 1t is settled
that taxes are 10 be made higher and i'm
ports checked, as demanded by the Chi
cago platform. The wicked tariff reform
ers can do no mischief for a long time to
come. Why are there more idle men,
more business failures, more smokeless
chimneys in our manufacturing centers,
lower prices for farm products and greater
depression in commercial circles than
a year ago. when the free trade acita-
ton was in full tide, threatening to carry
everything before it?
The monopoly organs owe it to the peo-
pie to explain these things. And the peo-
pie owe it to themselves to demand an
explanation.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
The Question of Ballot Reform

We have received during the last few
days number of communications from
different parts of the state presenting vari-
Gus plans for an election law. Without n
single exception they propose the print
ing OF tickets by the state and counties, a
secret ballot and very small precincts.
We have printed several hundred letters
upon this subject since the election and
are indisposed 10 burden our columns
with any more, in view of the fact that
the legislature is reasonably certain to
enact a well-considered and iudicious
election law within the next few days. 30
far as we have been able to learn. there
is a substantial agreement among the
democratic members of both houses in
favor OF such measure, and there viii
be no opposition to it from the majority
side. Public sentiment as expressed
through THE SENTINEL and the rest
of the democratic press of the state
has made itself felt upon this
subject. and we do not believe there is a
democrat in either house who is unmind-
full of the fact that it would be political sui
eide for him to oppose the enactment OF a
law which will come fully up to its re-
quirements. Let us have precincts con-
tanning not to exceed 200 voters each
tickets printed by the state and counties
and distributed by the officials of the same;
an absolutely secret ballot; system OF
challenges which will efiectually close the
doors against illegal voting, while afford
ing full protection to legal voters; and
let the ballots, after the canvass has been
completed be destroyed, and Indiana will
have, in our opinion, as perfect machinery
for registering the popular vote as any
state or country in christendom.
In addition to an act making the
above provisions, bill for the
prevention and punishment of bribery,
such as has been introduced by Senator
BYRD, and prohibiting the use of money
in primary meetings and conventions,
such as Senator BARRETT has introduced,
ought to be passed.
There are no other questions before the
legislature of such profound and far-reach-
ing Importance as this question of election
reform. The Legislature should proceed,
as speedily as possible, to dispose of it in
a way that will meet the popular approval.
A failure to do this would be lasting
proach to those who are responsible, and
would disgrace the democratic party OF
Indiana before the country. But we are
convinced that there will be no failure.
The democratic newspapers of the state.
without a single exception, demand
election reform, and the democratic party
sustains them in this demand. The legis-
lature will not fail to comply with it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
The Pity of IL.

The plundering of the people by the
school-book trust is not by any means the
most serious injury it inficts upon the
state. 1t is bad enough to rob the people,
but it is infinitely worse to Systematically
debauch those who are intrusted with
their educational interests, and who ought
to be moral exemplars fortheir communi-
ties. It is notorious fact that many
county and city uperintendents, town
ship trustees, members of school-boards.
and instructors, including even principals
of higb-schools and officers and professors
of our higher institutions of learning, are
hand in glove with the trust. Their in
none of which will bear close scrutiny, and
is Systematically utilized to promote the
ends of the monopoly. This influence
viii be brought to bear upon the legisla-
ture to prevent any action against the
trust. 1t is already making itself
felt. We are informed that remonstrances
are being circulated throughout the state
by persons having official connection with
our schools against any interference by
the legislature with the textbook monop-
oily. What ali this means it is unneces-
sary to point out. What it imports of
moral obliquity on the part of those who
are charged with the care of the youth of
the state during the period when their
minds are most plastic and their charac-
tiers are being formed is really appalling
to those " ho realize that integrity is the
foundation OF all that is good in manhood
and womanhood. An organization which
is systematically corrupting the teachers
of our children is doing an amount OF
evil which cannot be measured in dollars
and cents. 1t is sowing the seeds OF
moral disease in the community, which
will by and by produce rich harvest Of
theft, peculation and bribery. If the
school book trust, therefore, were not
making a penny out of the people, it
would still be great public evil. The
crying sin of the day is not intern
perance, nor RIGHTEOUSNESS, nor pro-
family nor any OF the transgressions that
are most acclaimed against by our
religious and moral teachers it is dis
nUutEbNs lAlC HAdlAdi1 VI DtlnOhdA
integrity in the United States has greatly
declined during the last few years. Not
only in the public business but in the
affairs of great corporations, and of large
commercial and financial enterprises OF
every kind, is this fact made glaringly
manifest 1t is evidenced by the growth
of bribery in our elections; and by the
increased potency of money in
such bodies as city councils, boards
of commissioners, school trus-
tees, state legislatures and even in
the national congress; by the fire.
quent lapses of our judiciary and by the
immense number OF deialcations, en-
bezzlements and breaches of trusts by
those charged with fduciary duties. If
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30

frame of law and provisions hanging in
every school-room. in every superin-
tendent's home, from that of state to that
OF village school.
Those provisions were but the agents
passport. At all the great school gatherings
in those hospitable old states no man was
so prominently conspicuous as the school
book agent, Representative of the Nlessrs.
A., B., c., D., T., F., ETC., etc, ETC., and
publishers of the books used exclusively
in the schools of eighteen states, besides
1900 cities not named and outside their
regular territory" County by county fell
into the grasp of these conspicuous gen.
tlemen, like ears of ripe wheat into the
bend of the sickle
The harvest was gathered home to Bos-
ton, New York, Cincinnati and other great
centers of control and publishers head
quarters. To-day these same conspicuous
gentlemen stand in the corridors of our
state house, and will dare to dictate to our
press and our law-making power what
they wish done. Yet, for heavens sake,
don't call them monopoly" says the
Journal. Cali the state ring, call the OPP
position to the book trust. the republican
governor included, a ring; but, pray, don't
call the nineteen houses of the school
book syndicate a ring Call it all-"the
democratic corruption idea"
Remember your duty, egislators-demo-
Gratis and republicans. Stand together for
the people of the state in this matter; and
remember that it will not make you any
more Corrupt" to vote your majorities on
the side and in the interest of the people
and their children in so grave matter as
involves hundreds of thousands of dollars
every six wears you lease the state out.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30

princely splendor in Chicago; who de-
fraud their employees by "pluck-me stores"
and short weighing" and who, in the
last campaign, even asserted the right to
control their sufrages. It is in the in
terest of these monopolists that the
seventy-fve-cent tax on soft coal is main
tanned; and we call the attention of Sen
ators VOORHEES, and TURPIE TO the fact,
that notwithstanding this protection"
Clay county is to-day filled with idle
miners. and those who are employed can
hardly earn enough to keep body and soul
together.
What we have said in this
matter is said in no unkind spirit
toward Senator VOORHEES,, or Senator
TuRPIE, who also voted against the repeal
OF the duty on coal. Both we believe to
be sincere tariff reformers, and we regard
their votes on this coal question as a mere
error OF judgment, made without due re-
Election, and not as an indication that they
are not sound upon the great question of
taxation which remains the vital issue be-
tween the two parties, as it will be until it
has been settled right In the battle be-
tween the monopolies and the people we
expect that the distinguished senators from
Indiana will continue to bear an honorable
and conspicuous part; and we feel great
confidence that they will not again permit
themselves to be betrayed for moment
into an attitude which may appear incou-
sistent with the great principles to which
the democratic party is irrevocably COM
niftad
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
Monopoly Predictions Unfulflled.

From the time that President CLEvE-
LAND sent his great tariff reform message
to congress until the recent election the
republican newspapers and politicians
were constantly asserting that the danger
of reduction of the tariff had unsettled
trade, arrested development, checked
great industrial and commercial en-
terprises, and deranged the whole bust
ness system OF the country. If this
danger-this threat" as they called
it-could be removed, business, they said,
would instantly revive; confidence would
be restored, new industrial enterprises
would spring up on every hand, the de-
mand for labor would be greatly in
creased, and wages would everywhere ad-
vance.
Well, HARRISON was elected, and with
him a congress pledged not to reduce the
tariff. The threat" was removed on the
9th day OF November There is
no possibility of any reform OF
the tariff for at least three years to come.
The high protectionists have assured
control of every branch of the government
for the next two years, and OF the execu-
tive for four years. 1t is reasonably GER
tain that law will be enacted this year
increasing the tariff ali around. From
the protectionist standpoint there is not
cloud on the political horizon.
But where is the promised restoration
OF confidence? Where is the great re-
vival of business that was TO come when
the "free traders were overthrown
Where is the increased demand for labor
and the great advance of wages that HAIR
RIsoS's election was to bring?
They are not visible. On the contrary,
business is ianguishing everywhere.
Wages are declining. Mills and factories
all over the country are closing their
doors or cutting down their forces. The
values of farm products are declin-
ing. Business failures are growing
more numerous. Last week r. G. DUN 4
Co. reported 80 failures, against only 269
for the corresponding week of 1888, when
President CLEVELAND had just made his
attack on the tariff. DUN teHs us that
"the state of trade is unusually perplex-
ing" that there is general complaint of
dullness'' and that cit is undeniable that
the prevailing temper is one of disap-
pointment at the result of business since
the new year began, and this is not
wholly explained by the steadily declin-
ing prices OF products" There is serious
disturbance in the great iron industry, and
the Iron Age reports a general weakening
which there Is no use in blinking at, !"
and holds that furnaces which cannot
face without serious loss decline of fully
81 from present prices may wisely suspend
production. And the same kind of talk is
heard in every department of industry
and every branch of trade.
What do the workingmen who voted for
HARRIsoN in order to secure steady en-
ployment at high wages think of the stu
atom What do business men and farm
ers who voted for him in order to remove
the menace" OF tariff agitation from the
material interests of the country think of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
The Tin Plate Job.

In the debate in the senate on the pro-
posed increase of duty on tin plate, the
following colloquy occurred:
Mr.. Vance-"Will not that tariff duty, if i'm
posed, increase the price of the domestic ar
ticle?'
Mr.. Aldrich-''If the increase of duty goes
into effect before the American producer
secures part or the whole of the American
market undoubtedly it will"
Mr.. Nance-"IeS. Well, who will pay for
that increased duty while the American pro-
Queer is trying 20 get hold of the market"
Mr.. Aldrich-''The people who buy tin plate
and consume tin plate will probably pay the
additional cos"
Here we have frank admission by a
leading high tariff senator that the con-
sumner pays the cost of what is call protec-
ton. Last summer and fall lot of cheap
politicians were running around Indiana
trying to convince the people that they
didn't have to pay the expense of protec-
ton. They succeeded in convincing good
many OF them; and now along comes
Senator ALpRICH and gives their whole
case away. 1t is very sad
The New York Times has made an esti-
mate of what it will cost the American
people to protect tin plate, as proposed.
The present rate of duty-about 81 per
cent.-increased the cost of their tin plate
last year more than S6OO0,OO0. 1t is pro-
posed to increase this duty to 20 per cent.
on the first day OF next January. This
will put an additional burden of S1S,000,
600 on the people next year After that
the industry may be established" in this
country, as the proponents OF the duty
predict, but if so we may be sure that
combination OF manufacturers will be
formed to extort excessive prices from the
people, and their tin plate will continue
to cost them every year many millions
more than it is worth. A half dozen
Pennsylvania capitalists will pocket these
millions, and there will be a fresh source
from which to replenish the republican
campaign funds But the people will
have to foot the bill.
This is only one dish in the feast which
the republican party is preparing to spread
for the country.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

a SUBSCRIBER, Columbus. Ind: We have
no idea now much it would cost TO get UP
good comedy company" bat we know it
would not cost so much TO get it up as to run it
after it was gotten M. We certainly should
not advise anyone but a capitalist to embark in
the enterprise.
\ SUBSCRIBER, Franklin, Ind. As a general
thing actors and actresses have TO furnish their
own stage costumes. But this rule does not
apply as 70 spectacular pieces, the costumes for
which are provided by the managers.
II. D. BARRETT, Willow Branch, Ind: Barnes
is a proper name. The plural would be
Barnses, the Possessive Barnes or Barness.
J. 5. HARDY, Whitestown, Ind: When con-
gress assembled after Vice President Hendricks
death. John sherman of Ohio was chosen
president of the senate.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-30
The ChiII Blast

That sets the naked branches a-quiyerng, Is not et
BY the wealthy vaetudinarian indoors, but not all
the covering that be piled on his warm bed nor
all the furnace heat that anthracite can furnish viii
warm his marrow when chills and fever its icy
fingers along his spinal column. Hostetiers
stomach Bitters is the thing 10 iniuse new warmth
into his chilled and anguish frame, 90 remedy the
fierce fever and exhaustng sweats which alternate
with the chill. Dumb ague, ague cake, bilious re-
mittent-in short, every known form OF maiariai
disease is subiugated by this potent and at the same
time wholesome and genial medicine. Biliousness,
constipation dyspepsia sick headaches, loss OF sp-
petite and sleep, kidney trouble, rheumatism and
debility are also rcmedied by it, Use il with per
sistenee to effect thorough cure.