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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1889-03-11

.r~ Tie BUYERS iUITEis
<ss% issued March and Sept,
~ each year. It is an ency-
N clopedia of useful infor-
"a nation for all who pJr-
chase the luxuries or the
necessities OF life. We
can olothe you and furnish you with
ell the necessary and unnecessary
appliances to ride, walk, dance. sleep.
cat, nah, hunt. work, go to church,
or stay at home. and in various sizes.
styles and quantities. just figure out
what 10 required to do all these things
COMFORTABLY, and you can make q fair
estimate of the value of the BUYERS
GUIDE, which will be sent upon
receipt of 10 cents to pay postage,
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.
lll.ll4 Michigan Avenue. Chicago. III.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16

In regard to the character Of Mr.
Hise, words are useless TO the hun
dreds OF old settlers OF this county
who knew him so well, OF the thous
ands of prominent men In Chicago
and throughout the state, with whom
he had been in free and familiar in
tcrcOurse. IL is sufficient to say that
he was big hearted and generous, al
his life an earnest and thorough Dem
ocrat, a shrewd politician, but ever IN
his work open, fair and manly: so that
either as "a citizen, politician, bust
ness man or holder OF Office, not the
dot of a stain ever rested upon his
character.
He leaves a widow and two sons of
mature age in California, and sister,
the wife OF our present postmaster in
this city.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16

dental campaign in this and other
states, We're now for the first time
urged IN Iowa, and regarded by those
sturdy FARMERS rs original ideas-as
new discoveries-naked facts they have
never heard OF or even thought of
before. The overwhelming republican
majority there had so stifiled' investi-
cations into political questions that
the masses had grown indifferent and
accepted the say so of their leaders
without once questioning their accu-
racy. III Allison or ClarksOn said black
was white all their henchmen said SO
too and the party believed ito doubt
1t was treason; and when they said
protection was good thing for the
farmers they thought IL must be so
and hurrahed for il. They never would
have doubted it but for the little cir
cumstance Of the Irvine Trusts at
tempt to raise the price Of binder
twine from 10 to 20 cents per pound.
This tritling incident so directly
touched thir pockets that ii proved an
eye-Opener. The more intellige
farmers began TO talk about it, and
the more they talked about it the
palmer 1t appeared TO them that some
thing was wrong. They began to see
that they were being victimized, not
only in Irvine but in every other pro-
tected commodity they had to buy,
from horse shoe nail up to thresh
ing machine; and that everything
they had to sell was gradually depre-
ciating in value. They saw the pro-
tected industries growing rich out Of
their toll while they were growing
poorer, and that this understanding
delusion protection to home indus
try" was at the bottom of all OF it.
This set them to thinking and the
more they thought about it the palmer
the wrong appeared, and many staunch
republicans joined in with the demo-
Gratis to reprove their party for prac-
ticing this deception upon them and
for uphOlding Il system of taxation so
Numerically opposed to their inter-
ests. Once aroused, like new converts
they entered the campaign with even
more zeal than the democrats did. On
the stump and at their tire-sides, old,
staid republicans, who had never be-
fore bolted their party nominations,
stood up and detained against the
iniquitieS of the tariff and denounced
their leaders for the frauds they had so
long practiced upon them. They cared
but little about prohibition and looked
upon railroad eXtOrtions as no worse
than the itsidious eXactionS of our tar
iii laws. 1t was not prohibition in
Iowa that brought about this revOlu-
ton. 1t was an awakening among
the farmers to the injustice of the pro-
tective system. and future elections
will prove this to be the fact. PrOtec-
ton being one of the leading plankS in
the republican platform, it is important
to that party to conceal the true cause
of the turn politics have taken this
fall Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas,
and the Dakotas are all in the same
boat with Iowa. Their interests tell
them that they are suffering severely
from our tariff laws and the republic
can leaders are alarmed lest the light
should spread from Iowa into these
States and they too slip from their
grasp. Hence their efforts to divert
the attention of their partisans from
the true cause and saddle it upon the
prohibition side show. Nj.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16

Those specious moralists who have
been condoning the gambler features
of the race course by pleading in its
behalf its marvellous achievements in
the way of the improvement of horse
flesh, feel outraged by Senator Stan
ford's sale of Sunol to Bonner, just at
her entrance upon what promised to
be a most glorious career. What is the
use of carefully seeking out the best
blood and muscle and expanding upon
a colt all the arts of the best trainer,
when, just as he promises to do some
thing, he is gobbled up by crank like
Bonner and buried away in his equine
nunnery? HOrseflesh, like every other
good thing in life, can only be worked
up to the highest condition by the
spur of ambition and the tiercest riv-
airy. Dexter, Rarus, Pocahontas and
Maud S., all cut off, so to speak, in the
midst of their career, with no one can
tell what possibilities before them, and
now AXtell and Sunol go the same way.
If horsehesh, on attaining certain
stage, is too good for the race course
what is the race course good for?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
For the FREE TRADER.
The Iowa Election.

The republican press in common
with their leading politicians, in their
efforts to account for their defeat in
Iowa, seem, with one accord, to at
tribute it to prohibition and Hutchi-
sons record in reference to railroad
legislation. There is policy in this.
Their object is to obscure the real
cause-to educate theirparty to believe
that the tariff had but little or moth
ing to do with it.
During the month of October, while
the campaign was at its height, had
occasion to travel through central
Iowa-through the rural or farming
districts. AT different villages | en-.
countered political gatherings of both
parties; also met numerous delega'
lions on the cars going to and returning
from political meetings. listened tC
their discussions and noticed that the
tariff question was really the only sub.
ject considered. Prohibition and rail
road legislation were only incidentally
alluded to. Along the rivers and in
the larger interior towns the liquor
question, no doubt, did cut consider.
able figure, but among the farmers II
was almost entirely ignored. Among
them tariff reduction took precedence
to all other subjects. 1t seemed as
though they had just awoke to the
fact that they had been laboring under
dreadful halucination, the deceptive
nature Of which had almost ruined
them. That instead Of being benefit
ed by protection they were, in reality
shamefully robbed by 1t. That while
the beneficiaries of the tariff were rap
idly growing richer-piling up Their
millions-they were having all the fat
fried out of themselves.
In conversing with many Of. them !
found that, until quite recently, few
of them had ever given the tariff Ques.
tion any thought; and l noticed par.
iticularly that the arguments used by
the democrats during the last presi.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
FRIDAY.

The Cronin case rested yesterday
the defense having closed their direct
testimony night before last. The pre-
dictions are that the defence will rely
on their ability TO prove ailbis for
their men. The defense, however,
promise more testimony in rebuttal
to strengthen that they have already
produced; and which will rebuff con.
clusively any testimony that may be
offered to prove the alibis that will be
advanced.
John Crerar, an old bachelor, of Chi.
cagO, has left an estate Of about 49,.
10000, the greater portion Of which
win go to found free public library
on the South Side, Chicago. Among
the beneficiarles of his will is Mrs
Norman Williams, daughter of Judge
Cation. who is given s5O,OOO personally
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
That Mantiamus.

The hearing in the petition of John
Funk for mandamus to compel
Judge Daniel Evans, of the Probate
Court, to certify the case of the MOhr
heirs against Funk to the Circuit
Court, came up yesterday before Judge
Dibell.
The petition claims that Judge Ev-
ans, being an interested party to the
diction of the case.
The petition sets up the facts sub
stantially as heretofore reported in
the proceedings in that case in the
Probate Court, the substance of the
atfidavits filed by Funk, and the speech
of Judge Evans on that occasion.
Mr.. Mayo opened the arguments
about 4:30. He held that the petition
does not positively show or charge that
Judge Evans was, or is, an interested
party-that the claim of interest is
made on Conformation and BELIEF;
and that even were the Judge inter-
ested the cause should go to the
County Judge Of this County and not
to the Circuit Court.
Replying, Judge II. Il. Gilbert main
tanned that the words Conformation
and belief" were merely formal, and
that the words, "and charges the fact
so to be-" in the petition, do make an
unqualified charge of interest on the
part of the Judge. Further, he main
tanned that the statute calls for the
transfer of the cause to the Circuit
rather than to the County Court; and
that even if it were true that it should
be certified to the County Court, that
was not done, but Judge Evans &C
tually tried the cause himself.
Mr.. ID. b. Snow followed Judge Gill
bert, but had merely begun his re-
marks when at 8 P. M, Judge Dibell,
after being talked to nearly nine
hours on stretch, adjourned until .
o'clock this A. M. = Mr.. Snow spoke to
the question of Jurisdictions; defining
the word interest" and showing from
the authorities that personal interest
of a Judge in a cause, however remote,
not only disqualified him from acting
as Judge, but absolutely abolished
bis Jurisdiction. The arguments
were finished Thursday morning be-
fore Judge Dibell, who took the case
under advisement.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16

MUTINY Of the worst kind has
broken out in the ranks Of the grand
old party at Jacksonville, Ind. The
Lincoln Club of that place, that gained
a State reputation for its hard work
for " Harrison and the whole ticket"
during the campaign of 1888, has risen
in its Indignation and burned Presi-
dent Harrison in enigy. 1t is all on
account Of the offices. In doing out
the patronage of that region, the Pres
ident appointed not "A man of the Lin
coin Club but exactly the men the club
didn't want. what does the Presi-
dent take us for? 2" demanded the
Lincolnites, Does he suppose we
trudged through the mud following
brass bands and yelled ourselves hoarse
for fun? What are We here for If not
to get the offices ~
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
THURSDAY.

William f. Kent, the late member
Of the legislature, who has been found
guilty of election bribery in Chicago,
yesterday did the "square thing" for
Thomas Downey, who was implicated
with him. Kent, when Downey
threw himself on the mercy Of the
mercy of the court, explained that
Downey was mere tool Of his and
that whatever Downey did was on his
tKent's) advice. Judge Prendergast,
therefore, was lencDt and released
Downey, holding over him fine OF
1926 or $50 TO be imposed later.
A JohDstOwn disaster on IA small
scale occurred yesterday at Alton,
Ont, a mill dam breaking, the flood
carrying away six other dams, -four
bridges and half dozen mills. A
man and wife were drowned, their
house being carried away in the flood.
The five Central American States,
Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua and Costa Rica have
formed federal union, which only re-
quires the approval of the congresses
of the various states to go into force.
a burglary at the Office of the ltal-
ian charge d'aiTairs at Tangier has
sent an Italian cruiser to that port
where satisfaction will be demanded
under threat of bombardment.
A new trunk line, called the Amer
lean Midland, is being surveyed from
New York to Chicago, north of the
Pennsylvania lines.
The dedication of the great Catholic
university took place in Washington
yesterday. A rain cut short the cere.
monies.
Senator Farwell is in Washington,
and wants TO know what's the matter
with the Chicago offices.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
He must be hard hearted indie,

He must be hard hearted indeed
who can be wholly devoid of commits
seration for poor Joe Medill, of the
Chicago Tribune, on account of the
awkward situation he is
placed in by his late summersault on
the tariff question. Like all new con-
verts his zeal is Astounding in behalf
of the Protection fetish; but think Of
the cruelty of the Chicago Herald, on
the other side, taking up his argu-
ments point by point, and demolish-
ing them utterly by the simple pro-
cess OF clipping editorials from the
Tribune of year or two ago. The
strength and vigor Of those earlier
editorials compared with the weak
and swashy character of the later ones
form contrast that must convince
even Joe himself that either his cause
is desperate or he is approaching the
last stages Of senllity.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16

The following is true as gospel,
though said by VIM. Pitt Kellogg, Of
Louisiana, in depreciation Of President
Harrison's scheme to build up white
mans republican party in the south
at the risk of losing the negro vote:
"When the colored man stops voting
the republican ticket where is the re.
publican party? Three-flfths of the
white vote Of America is democratic.
Without the negro vote the republican
party is dead. The negro controls the
balance of power in five northern
States and twenty northern congress
sional districts. Where will the policy
of alienation stop"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
A New Machine.

Clay workers will be interested in a
new machine at work at the pottery
of the Ottawa Stoneware Co. in South
Ottawa, designed by Mr.. Murray Kirk
patrick, and called by him disinte-
orator, or, in other words, and more
correctly, clay washing machine.
1t is designed like a horizontal pug
mill "a large oblOng box, water tight,
with a central shaft on which are a
number Of iron cutting knives, as in a
pug-mill. In pug-mill the shaft
revOlveS comparatively slowly, but in
the washer rapidly, breaking up the
clay and disSOlying it in water which
runs from supply pipe freely into the
box. When thoroughly soaked, and
reduced to the consistency Of thick
cream, the water with the clay it car
res is run through a sieve, which
catches and removes the impurities,
allowing the pure clay and water to
run off into great watts which are floored
with steam pipes, where the surplus
water is lin winter time) driven or,
leaving the solid washed clay behind.
Clay workers who know the neceS-
sity of washing clays, especially for
stoneware, will appreciate the merits
of this simple machine, which will
purify about fifteen tons of clay daily,
and do it well. Nothing equals the
weathering Of clay in the atmos-
phere to temper it and improve its
natural qualities, but next to that is
the treatment by washing, and this
new machine, which Capt. Blanchard
had the enterprise to put into opera
tiOn, is valuable adjunct to this eX-
cellent pottery.
One secret of the splendid ware this
pottery is turning out is largely the
very thorough manner in which the
! clay is worked before burning. After
coming from the soak watts it is again
run through a pug-mill, so that every
pound of clay, before it goes to the
turner, is thoroughly and completely
tempered. 1t works up nicely and in
consequence OfitS thorough tempering,
dries and burns without che ckering.
and being slipped" while yet moist,
it takes on perfect glaze which is
homogeneous with the body, and re-
mains perfect after drying and burn
ing, which is not always the case with
slip-glazed stOnewareS that have come
into this market. Indeed, the Ottawa
StOneware Company's ware is fully
equal to the best Akron ware, deemed
in the past the best in America,
whether one considers strength, finish
or perfection of glaze: and it Is mat.
ter of local pride to know that the pot
terry is constantly pushed to fill its
orders
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16

No sooner had the report Of the
great performance of the great 3-year
old Sunol at San Francisco reached
New York, than Robert Bonner sent
Leland Stanford such an offer for the
colt as fetched" her; and she will
henceforth eat her feed (fguratively,
out Of the same trough with her great
rival Maud S., also owned by Bonner
Mr.. B. looks upon Sunol as the great
est trotter the world has ever seen
BY the way, AXtel having sold fol
100000, what ought Sunol to have
hrOught2
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
A Combination Lock.

The combination lock on the Jail
door Wednesday was responsible for q
loss of a good deal of time in the Grim
inal end of the Circuit Court where
Judge Blanchard is at work.
The pugilist Brennan. who is board
ing for time at the Hotel de MOrrissy,
was wanted as witness in the Meade
case. A bailiff was therefore sent out
for "Mr. Brennan" The aforesaid
bailiff, knowing Tom of our own
finest as the only Brennan OF any
great Importance anyhow, soon had
the efficient marshall within the pres
ence of the court. When MIR. Been-
nan was called to the witness stand,
however, the bailiff felt a large-sized
lump in his throat when he found
he had been too previous: that
Brennan,:the pugilist, and not Bren-
nan the knight of the "come-alongs"
was the man wanted.
A hurried descent was thereupOn
made on the jail for the particular
Brennan; but when the bailiff got
there he found thatnot only could he
not open the Jail door but no one in
the house could do it. Then Deputy
Reed was seen for, who was soon with
in the inner fastness of the hotel.
Brennan hastily put on his Sunday
clothes and with Mr.. Reed started for
the outer world.
Reaching the door they again found
it locked, both deputy and prisoner
both locked inside! Then another
officer who knew the combination had
to be sent for, and finally the door was
opened and Brennan marched of to
the court house.
But all this time the court waited
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
and $50, 900 for the benefit OF her chill

and s60,OOO for the benefit OF her chill
dren.
John l.. Sullivan, whose name has
graced the head of the New York ~
Illustrated Ne,cS at $50 week, the work
done by some one else, has been
bounced from that labOrous position
Just why does not appear, probably
because his name after six weeks trial
failed to create the tremendous boom
in circulation anticipated.
The Pacific Railway commission has
returned from their tour Of the west.
No announcement Of their conclusions
on how the government will be able
To collect It's debt of $4,000, 600
against the roads will be made until
an official report shall come from the
committee.
Maggie Schremer, now doing ten
years time at Joliet for the murder
of her husband, whom she saturated
Wlln coal OH anu llltu sou VII NV, '"'
the marvellous gall to sue the order OF
Forcstcrs for $1,000 principal and in
tcrest on death benefit certificate OF
81 900.
A firm of butchers at Mayence, Ger
many, is going to try the experiment
of shipping beef from Illinois to that
city on the hoof to be slaughtered
there, and an experimental order of
900 steers has been placed.
The American Turf Congress, in
session in Chicago yesterday, made a
number Of important schanges in the
the racing rules. An attempt was
also made to change rules lO2 and JOG,
but it failed.
w. l.. Scott, interested in the Spring
Valley mines, has shut down his
mines at ShamOkin Penn, throwing
500 men out Of work.
The President has gone down the
Potomac on ducking expedition.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-16
Arguments Upon Dr. Evans VIII and tho
UneNecuted Head

The question as TO whether or not
the uneXecuted trust deed, left in the
hands OF Principal Williams, of the
Streator high school. by DR.. Evans
and conveying to Messrs. Williams
and Plumb seven lots and six store
| buildings on Main street, Streator, to
the city of Streator, for the purpose of
establishing and maintaining pub
| lie library, was argued before Judge
Dibell Tuesday, Judge Gilbert, of
Chicago, and Judge Burns, OF Streator
appearing for the city and the trus-
tees, and Walter Reeves, of Streator,
for the heirs Of DR.. Evans.
Judge Gilbert maintained that DIR.
Evans will did not bequeath the
property in question to anyone, but
expressly specified that it had been
decided In trust for the purposes set
forth In the trust deed. The inten-
ton OF DR.. Evans was very plain, and
IL was the duty of the court, having
determined the fact that the inten-
ZION or the doctor was to leave the
property In question to no other pur-
pose than that specified in the trust
deed, to declare the uneXecuted deed
operative. Such had been the hold
ing of the courts in all cases of this
character.
Mr.. Reeves argued that DR.. Evans
could not leave his property by two
methods. He must either make q be-
quest in a will or execute deed. The
mention OF the uneXecuted trust deed
in the will was statement and not a
beQuest, and, the deed being unexe-
cuted, the property in question still
remained in the estate to be admins
tered. 1t was intestate property. He
cited numerous authorities. The case
was concluded Wednesday, Judge
Barns speaking, followed by Walter
Reeves and Judge Gilbert closing the
case. No new points were developed,
the plaintiff maintaining that the in
tentiOn Of the.Doctor was clearly man
ifest, and such being the case the
trust deed should go into effect, while
the defense insisted that the will GER
tainly did not bequeath anything to
the city of Streetor and the deed be-
ing unexecuted title could not obtain.