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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-11-07
Notice Fer Publication.
LAND OFFICE AT HALEY, IDAHO,

Sept. 90. 1850.
Notice is hereby given that the following. named
settler has filed notice Of his intention 10 make
final proof IN support of his claim. and that said
lroof Will be made be. fore the Eegister and Re
ceiver It Haley. Idaho, on Oct II. 1890, viz
James Bingham for the northeast quarter of Sec
ton seven, Township three north, hange eight teen
east.
He names the following witnesses to preve his
continuous r. sidsnee upoR. md cultivation OF
said ard. viz: A. p. Turner, Thomas Mser. J
II. Mclaughlin, and h. z. Kuonce, all of HALEY
Idsho.
". 4. RILEY, Register.
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Gen. Alfred Pleasonton. Major, u. 3 A., retired
Is about again. He is great sufferer with the
cavnlryman's disease, hemorrhoids, and has also
had IA severe attack of infammatory rheumatism
The General has been confined to his room and
Iameness he looks quite we'll. and says he feels
better than he looks.
Gen William w. Belknap len Washington for
Rock ford Ill., on Tuesday last, having been invited
by the citizens of that thriving little city to deliver
the Memorial Day address, Gen. Belknap is a
splendid orator, and will give the Rockford people
II magnificent address.
Waterman Hoffman, who has been placed In
charge of Ellis Island. the Immigrant station at
New York, was IA Pilot under Admiral Farragut
A back pension of 81 zoo has just gladdened old
ELI Platt an inmate OF the Cumberland County
IN. j. almshouse.
A. b. Leeper Sergeant of Co. A, 18TH H. of
ownneco, H. is a candidate for the nomination for
Representative of the 10Th Senatorial District of
Illinois. Comrade Leeper promises the old boys
III his hopes should be realized by a nomination
and eeetion) that should the subject OF State mon
uments for the National Military Park at Chieka-
manga come up he will do everything in his
power to place a suitable monument to each of the
81 Illinois regiments who participated in that great
battle.
Mai Gen. Oliver o. Howard u. 8. Army, COM
mandng Department of the East, delivered the
Memorial address Sunday last at Worcester
Mass, before Post 10, c. "A. r., the Woman's Relief
Corps and the Sons of Veterans. He presented
pictures Of the Atlanta Campaign, beginning juss
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enough niggers TO cultivate good-siz farm,
with an occasional one to sell off when tho
cards ran against him at poker or he had bet
on the wrong horse, he became Captain or
Maiah." If his land was enough to form
plantation, and he had several hundred slaves
to work it, or he had been a Momber of Con-
gres5, he became "Kunnel - or General
| first went down TO Culpeper in the Fall
During that time and the succeeding Winter 1
had very little to do, and consequently did very
little. ! used to go to the post-ollice regularly
for my mall and frequently received large,
important-loOkiBg envelopes from the War De-
partment The people met there then always
greeted me very respectfully as Kunnel,' and
] enjoyed the title all that time But when
the cemetery in repair, and though l have bat
one hand, / can never stand around where
work is going on without wanting TO take part
One day, while l was pottering around, with
my coat Off sleeves rolled up, and shovel in
my hand, one of my Virginia neighbors came
in. His face expressed great surprise as he
watched me. Why, Kunnel,' he said, do you
work, yourselfY Certainly I said, little
sharply; why not2 think work is hOnorabIe'
Suttenly,' he answered; but we supposed you
was boss From that time the rank of KunneI
dropt. had been guilty of manual labor, and
was reduced to the ranks. No Kunnel' could
work with his own hands. But had the sat
isfaction of wearing the imaginary eagles for
several months. The past was at least secure"
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IsEWARE or THEM

All the hopes of the soldier-haters are now
conferred upon dissensiOns in the ranks of
the veterans. All their efforts are concen-
trated upon promoting these discussions.
They feel that this is their only chance of
preventing any general pension legislation.
If they can make it appear that any consid-
cradle number of veterans are opposed to
any bill, they have accomplished much
toward not only its defeat, but the defeat of
any other measure. TO be able to say that
" The soldiers are not agreed among them
selves as to what they want, so that it is
impossible to know what to give them" is
TO fill their souls with joy. 1t will give
Senators and Representatives who are luke
warm on the subject of pensions pretext
to decline voting for any measure.
The Vaccinations of these determined
enemies of pcnsion-legislation are seen
everywhere. Papers that for years have
filled their columns with calumnies of sol
diers are now weeping crocodile tears over
the "insuilicency" and "inadequacy the
inequalities and iniustices of this bill and
that. 1t will be noticed that never, by any
possibility, is there measure which they
approve, or would like to sec passed. They
are very careful in this The better chances
any measure has the more enormities they
discover in ii, and the more blatant they
become for the soldiers to protest against it.
They work among the comrades by special
editions by circulars, and by the direct in
iluence of agents. They do not want their
dupes to support any bill, but, for one reason
or another, to oppose ALL
To follow their counsel and advice would
be suicide. 1t would be vastly better for us
to unite solidly on the least acceptable bill
than TO have none at all. If we divide
among ourselves we shall divide our friends
in Congress, and so run great risk Of getting
nothing. Whatever bill may be passed by
this session, will, with MI its faults, be a
long step in advance, and do an immense
amount Of good. II will not give nearly all
we want and should have-it will fall far
short of the justice that is due us. Yet it
will be good beginning, and We must rely
on future sessions to complete the work,
and give the soldiers what ia honestly due
them
Our earnest advice TO the comrades is to
spurn everything cmanating from these
sources. Despite all their protestations
now, they are just as malignant enemies Of
the veterans ms ever They have only
changed their mode Of attack, and are now
seeking TO accomplish by hypocrisy and
intrigue what they usually attempt by
calumny and falsehood.
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THE French papers profess to understand
that the order to our Squadron of Evolution
to proceed to the South American station is
strong hint TO Italy, and Germany back of
her, to go very slow in meddling with affairs
in Brazil. They believe that Italy, at the
instance of Germany, is trying to pick
quarrel with Brazil, TO give an opportunity
for an assertion of the power of the allies,
with a view to it's effect on trade. This may
or may not be 80. 1t would not be strange
if Germany, who is very eager for South
American commerce, should attempt some
thing TO offset the good results of the Pan
American Congress. Indeed, the ugly temper
showed recently by Chill must be attributed
directly to the Vaccinations Of the Ger
mans and the English. If the Admnistra-
ton has ordered the feet into South Ameri-
can waters for the reasons that the French
papers assign, il has acted wisely, and the
whole country will commend it's course,
even If it has to give the European powers
much more definite warning. IL liz our duty
to protect the South American countries
against European aggressions should such
be made This course has also the lesser
virtue of business shrewdness. We desire
the profitable commerce of the Southern
Continent for ourselves and nothing will
help further the securing this than our tax
ing the position of readiness to aid them
when unjustly assaulted by the strong Ma
tons across the ocean.
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FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS.
A List of Good Things in Store
for ihe Readers OF The Ma
tionaI Tribune.

TIE hare a magnificent Eot Of articles Of nm
ssuGl mort for tie readers Of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE srEica lriH be presented 10 them in
tie near future. Among these are:
BEHIND TIE LINES By Capt. r. J. Pat
tcrsoH. u The Iron Brigade. an interesting
sforg b. comra9e arho 'cqs rounded and
foLsn prisoner IN Gie first doy's fight at
GattysJHrg and sgas near Gen. Lee lcheH he
announced that The Jattle Of Gettysburg ,cas
Sgfoct. and tint tic army mast ryiaidraw.
@RElL russia By The author Of the '.St6Iy
Of q Caaaoaoer," descriptive Of his traUels
and life in Russia, and he people he met
a1re.
~ TIE DIAMOND FIELDS, By Edgar
Meis a seTies Of Iettcrs from South africa
u an gJle contributor 5rLo Is nor making O
four d The great diamond yfeIds Of that por-
lion Of he sroTId. No other paper in the
country has q correspondent IN that region
PAEISLdA SKETCHES, by Irs. Kate p.
Stau0oi. 4 continuation Of her series Of
iAtefCsfiHg letters.
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THERE is something of discrepancy be-
tween the estimates of Mr. Dockery, of
Missouri, of the farm mortgages in Kansas,
and those of Mr.. Perkins. Mr.. Dockery
says they amount to $300,OOO,0OO; Mr. Per-
kins says they are not more than $50,000,00O.
AS Mr.. Perkins lives in Kansas, and has n
farmer constituency, he probably knows
what he is talking about, and Mr. Dockery
is making the customary outrageous ex-
aggerations of Free Trade stump speakers
Then, again, what is Mr.. Dockery's remedy
for these mortgages2 1t is that the Kansas
farmers, instead of selling their grain at
home ut fair prices, and without the burden
of transportation charges for 1000 miles of
haul, should be compelled to send millions
of bushels more abroad, to compete with
that raised by the pauper laborers of India,
Russia and Egypt.
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THE ENTITY SLEEVE.
~ FLORENCE EARLE.

You talk about the palhos
la the hardshipS OF the war.
You may talk about the glory,
OF the cause that you fought for;
Bot there's nothing so pathetic
As the lesson we receive
From the quiet, idle tapping
OF the gsclc=a empty sleeve.
You may talk about the marches.
The scaut rntious and "hardtack
OF " The last drop IN the cnnteeu,"
Aud the empty havcrsaciS
There's nothing 50 conviucinEin
The Impressions that YOU leave
As thc mute and stegchlcsa record
OF the useless empty sleeve.
You may speak Of Southern prisons,
But thciI horrors could not last
or the ronr md din Of battle.
And thank God that, too, has past.
Bat we see grim reminder,
Every morn and noon and eve,
III the living. speaking presence
.! the useless empty sleeve.
Soldiers deck the graves of comrades
with the <aurel that they won.
Poets sing Of gallant heroes,
And OF deeds of great renown:
But there's naughl iu poets anthems
Or the chapicts that they weave
That can beat the touching story
OF the useless empty sleeve.
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TRIBU NETS.

GIGANTIC ANTI-TREATISG SOCIETY.
There is no doubt in the minds of anyone
that the purely American habit of treating
is responsible for more intemporance than any
other single thing. Various attempts have been
made to reduce this evil by the organization of
anti treating societies, which would put the
custom of drinking on the same basis as in
European countries, whore such thing rs
treating is unknown. every man paying for his
beer or wine as he pays for his hats aud neck
ties. In French cafe or n German gdsihdus
IA proposition to pay for another's drink would
be regarded, if not ms an insult as something
very unusual. So long. however, as we retain
our Free open-handed ways, it is going To be
rather uphill work to restrain tho offer and
together in drinking places. The Secretary of
War has however organized the biggest anti
treating society ever contemplated. In an
order amending paragraph $50 of the Army
Regulations he prohibits the sale of ardent
liquors or wines in post canteons, but author
ICES tho commanding officers of posts to allow
the sale of light beers there on week days in a
room used for no other purpose. and, if possible,
separate from the building in which the can
teen Is located. The order concludes: "The
practice of what is known as treating must not
be permitted" If this regulation is strictly
of about $4,000 members in good standing,
which will form strong nucleus for other re-
formers In the same direction to build around.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY %, 1890.
TEN THOUSAND WATCHES
TO GIVE AWAY.

We have decided upon securing 100000
more subscribers, and TO do it viii give away
10000 of the famous Trenton watches 10
club raiseTs.
We viii send a watch FREE, post paid, TO
every club raiser who sends rs club Of
ONLY TEN subscribers for one year.
This is an opportunity never before
offered, because this watch is not cheap
catch-penny make-shiit, but A genuine, full
jeweled patent-lever movement IN dla-
mond-silyer case, warranted for ID years.
Diamond-silver il a compound metal as
its name indicates, composed Of pure silver
and nickel. 10 give il hardness and color.
il is not plated. but solid, so it wears the
came clear through, and is so warranted.
Now, who wants one2 There are just
10000 Of them TO give away, and we do not
anticipate much tronble in disposing of them
on these terms.
An hours work win get one. We hope
cur friends viii appreciate the opportunity.
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WORK OF THE PENSION OFFICE.

During the week ending May %, 1890 4977
claims were received, of which ,003 were origi-
nal invalid. 526 widows, 4 war of 1912, 5
bounty land SO navy. old war, 80 on ac-
count of Mexican seryice, and 3.24I applica-
lions for increase. The names and Dnstoflice ad-
dresses OF 6,ig7 officers and comrades were
furnished for the use OF claimants. There
were 1921 pieces of mail matter received ;
g., 1913 letters aud blanks sent out.
The number of cases detailed to Special Ex-
amincrs WAS 677 756 reports and eases from
Special Examiners; cases on hand for special
examination. I0,S79.
Report Of certificates issued during the
week ending May 81. 1890: Original, /, 7G0; in
crease, 525; reissue. $50; restoration. 81; du-
pIicate, 4; accrued, 90 arrears. o; act of March
,, 1883, o; order of April 3. 1857. o; act Of
Aug. 4, lsS6. o; supplemental, o; arrears, June
7, lss5, 3; Mexican war, 10; total, zoos; re-
issue same date o.
Number of rejected claims reopened, 55l /;
act of March !, 1880, 10.
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NoETnrnS PRISONS.

EDIToR kArIoEAL TRIBUNE: Were any North
ern prisons constructed Ike Andersonyille.
otherwise without shelter Were Confederate
prisoners kept starvation allowances or pat in
disease and yoririn-iufcstcd prisonsg How many
rebel prisoners died in Northern pri.ons2- MARY
a. liovIY, Corresponding Secretary. T. J. stanley
WRC., Lower Salem, o.
We will state to our correspondent that
there were no prisons in the North that at all
rcsembled Andersonyile and the other rebel
prisons. In all the Northern prisons were
substantial, warm barracks built, the prisons
were supplied with blankets and an album
dance of Wholesome food. They were kept
under close surveillance, II is true, but
every effort was made to have them prop
crly fed and sheltered The fact that 10000
rebel prisoners died in prison is explained
by the enormous number of those who were
captured. In all We took more than 100000
prisoners during the war, Of whom but
10000 died. On the other hand it never
will be known how many Union prisoners
died in the hands of the rebels The books
of statistics put the number at %, 100, but
this only has reference to the comparatively
small number who were found on the inn
perfect rolls captured from the Conlederates
The War Department estimates that the total
number was about 1900 This was about
one-half of the whole number captured,
while the deaths of the rebels in our hands
made up less than 10 per cent.
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OUR faithful comrade, Gen. George s..
Merrill, Past Commander-in-C Chief, and for
years the efficient Chairman of the GAR
National Pension Committee, is suffering
from an ineffably mean attack on him, in
stigated and paid for by more or less rotten
insurance companies, whom, in the discharge
of his duties as Insurance Commissioner of
Massachusetts,, he has been compelled to put
under the ban. Because he will not allow
them to prey upon the people of his State,
they are spending tens Of thousands ofdollars
in attempting to defeat his reappointment.
The columns Of every purohasable paper
TEEN with calumnious assaults upon him, and
the insurance sharks are now trying to stir
up his comrades in the GAR against him,
and are circulating the meanest sort of SLAM
doris upon man who has done an
amount of hard, unselfsh work for
by few men in the Order. The sound,
reliable insurance companies on the other
hand, are standing firmly by Gen. Merrill,
rs are all men who understand the situation,
and desire the people of Massachusetts, to be
protected against bogus insurance sharks.
He will come out of the fight VIGOROUSLY,
rs he always does, for lie has right on his
side.
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RANK IN VIRGINIA.

We were speaking of the general prevalence
of military titles the other day, when COmrade
II. Y. Patterson, the Superintendent of the
National Cemetery at Culpeper, strolled in.
"The way the thing used to be arranged in
Virginia" he said, was this: When man was
grade or SO above the poor white trash, and
owned possibly one niger, to help around with
the cultivation of his few acres of barren Vr-
ginia knobs, he was esquire" If he had
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IT was very cruel in Mr. Nelson Dingley,
after the Free Trade orators had devoted
several hours Of the Houses time waiIing
over the oppression 10 the farmers from the
duty on ammonia used in fertilizers, TO
knock their arguments all into a heap by
the statement that no ammonia is used in
fertilizers. But, then, truth is frequently the
cruelest Of All things.
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TIE ux1rEp STATES As 4 LAvp rrYER.

THE UNITED STATES AS A LAND BUYER.
In the Mem Eagauder aud Yale RcrieU Hon.
A. Q. Keasbey discusses the operations of Uncle
sam in the real-estate markets of the world,
and shows that he has been quite an extensive
purchaser. Our first big transaction was in
1903, when we bought Of Napoleon. for SIS, 80, :
000 the lower part OF Alabama and Mississippi,
ali that is at present Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa,
the Indian Territory Nebraska Oregon, North
and South Dakota and Montana that part of
Minnesota lying west of the Mississippi, part OF
Kansas, half of Colorado, all OF Idaho and part
Of Wyoming. In 1919 we bought of Spain the
Two Flordas," a strip containing 1858
square miles aud extending from the western
boundary of Louisiana to the Atlantic. The
price paid was S5,000000. For what is now
California, Utah. Nevada, and part of
New Mexico and Arizona we paid Mexico
$is5O0, 600, and slO,0OOOOO more to Texas for
the part of New Mexico lying east of the Rio
Grande which was claimed by her. In 1858
we paid Mexico $4,000 900 more for strip in
the Messilla Valley, which we both claimed
In 1867 We paid Russia s., zoe, 600 for Alaska In
all we have bought :, 776,OiO square miles, at a
total cost of $50 100000, an average price of
s.. 90 square mile, or four cents an acre.
THE NATIONAL TRIGUNE's aid is constantly
being invoked for all manner of schemes, but
one of the oldest is an earnest appeal from q
gentleman in Illinois for us to throw our
whole soul into an appeal to cur Government
and those of Europe TO reduce the size of their
small silver coins and make them six and
eight-cornered. What is to be gained by this
he does not explain, and until no does we are
not going to assist him with our whole soul, or
any portion of it. We are suspicious of any
thing that looks like putting corners on money
1t is hard enough for editors to get when it is
all round.
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SENATOR DAVIS seems to figure out q
continuance of pension expenditures on the
bonded debt. He forgets that pensioners die
off very rapidly, while death does not vitiate
bond coupon as it does a pension certif-
IA
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EUery man ,OhO tO0re the blue, and euery
friend of his, should take THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. IL giUes more and better matter
than any other family soeekty paper, and costs
only tto0 cents tOeek.
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TIE N17T0NAL TRIBUNE Is ae onlg
champion lie soldiers haze among he great pa
Pe's Of the country. Tie best a0ay 10 helm all
S.iegGas : ~ getting IL more subscribers.
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any fair-minded man that the dismissed
officer was q victim to the spite of a clique
a too-cTedulous ear