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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
HENRY CLAWS POKER PLAYING.
Some Stories That Recall the Old Gan
bling Days at the Capital.

That is the worry table at which
Henry Clay used to lose the greater
part of his Congressional salary" said
an old Washington gambler. "The
game he used to play was one in which
the blind was so cents and 81 to come
in. There was no limit in those DAYS.
as there generally is to-day. A man
could. however. demand sight for his
money. Clay's antagonist was gener.
ally Il man named Bright, and both
preferred to play a two-handed game.
The cards were cut one day and CLAY
got the fist deal He was a better
card-shufller than lives to-day. He
could hold his hands four feet apart
and fly the cards from one to the other
without a single card falling. Gen
orally he dealt with one hand
and without perceptible move
ment of the arm. throwing each
to its proper place with his long mus.
cular fingers. Clay was poor poker
play, however. He played for excite
ment and not for gain, and as he was
careless about his bets he generally
came out the loser. lie almost always
straddled the blind, and whatever
hand he held would raise the bet of his
antagonist. He used to bluff great
deal, aud as this would soon be found
out he would come out loser.
For nearly two hours the night |
speak of Clay had been having his own
way with Bright. He held king full
four times running and then had
jack full. Bright did his best to
catch Clay in bluff but it was of no
use. Clay had a hand that could be
beaten only by fours. The play began
at 3 o'clock and by 1880 Bright had
lost $1,000 aud had borrowed $500
from John Hancock. After that Clay's
luck vanished, and by midnight he had
lost all his winnings and $1,000 be.
sides-all the cash he had with him.
1t was Saturday night and Brigm
proposed that they quit so they could
so to church i'll the morning, but Clay
wouldn't have it. So he borrowed
$500 from Bright and let the game go
on. The game was continued. and bv
daylight he owed Bright $1,000. He
liqudated the debt by giving Bright
deed for S20 acres of Kentucky land
bank.
Clay went to church all the same
that morning. While he was talking
to the rector after it was over he put
his hand in his pocket and pulled out
pack of cards along with his handker-
chief. They tiuttered to the ground.
but Clay was not abashed and re-
placing them said that they must have
been placed there as practical joke
- JpQShin0fOu LETTER.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-The annual
report of the commissioner OF Indian
affairs, advanced sheets of which were
published to-day, says concerning the
great Sioux reservation allotments:
"a portion of the Sioux Indians at the
Pine Ridge agency Dakota, are de-
sirous Of taking their allotments at an
early day, and the agent at the Crow
Creek and Lower Brule agency, S. d.,
report that the Indians of this agency
most earnestly desire their lands al
loted without delay. Although the
agreement concluded with the Sioux
under the act of March .. 1889, pro-
vides for allotments, congress has
tailed to make an appropriation either
for the requisite surveys or for the nav
and expenses of the necessary accents
to be appointed by the president for
that purpose. The draft of an item
appropriating $40, 900 for SURVEYS on
the diminished Sioux reservations and
oil one appropriating $40, 600 for the
pay ana expenses Of special agents was
submitted to the department March
IL last. deem it important that these
appropriations should be made that
there may be no unnecessary DELAY in
carrying out the agreement with these
Indians looking to the early divisions
OF their lands A total of 1876. 1917
acres OF land is reported to be still re-
served for the Indians in Nebraska
and IA population of 3,701 Indians is
reported in the state.
Agent Hill of the Santee agency saws
OF the Indian police: The Indian DO
lice and court of Indian offenses have
been important factors in the admins
tration of affairs at this agency during
the past year. The police have been
faithful in the discharge of the duties
assigned them, quick to report to the
calls and demands of the agents and
every ready to perform the work
pointed out to them. They have been
valuable co-workers with the Indian
court in the suppression OF drunkenness
and vice and prompt to report to the
proper authorities any crime or INSIDE
meanor committed upon the reserya-
ton"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
A Unit.


when was camping on the volga's banks,
The trader Zanthou with leash of mares
went by my tent. knew the Willy Jew,
And he know me. He muttered as he passed,
THE last Bathony. and his tusks are grown.
broken 'scutchcon is a scutcheon still.
And Amincs token in my caftan lies .
anime. who wecps and walls for his return.
He caught my eye, and slipped inside the tent
"Haw. Zanthou. up from Poland. at your
tricksl
How veer the boars on old Bathony's towers?-
True 70 the winds that blow on Polands
''They bite the dust. my lord, as beast to
beast.
When Poles conspre. conspiracy alone
Survives TO hover In the murky air.
MY lord, Bathonys gates are LETT liar
For you 10 enter, or-remain outside:
The forest holds the secret you surprised.
And men are there to dare us they have
dared"
"Haw Zanthon tell me of the paatlne.
The air of Russia makes a man forget
He was man elsewhere: the trumpets squeal
follow and tho thud of drums. You spoke
As II were OF )rincely birth: bark We,
Bai talon Is thu name listen to-"
THE cranes that plumber In your fens, my
Lord
The doves that nest within your woods. saw
Fly round the gaping walls. and plume their
Upon your fathers grave you know thisl'
"A token. Zanthon? so-a withered flower!
You tiluk wore one in my sword-hit Oncer
Watch. while fling 1t on the Volga's tide.
The cher. my father. sent me with curse
10 travel In the steppes, and so do.
The air of Russia makes man forget
lie was man elsewhere, for love, or hope,
And US he marches. he b. comes but this.
Haw, Zanthon. would you learn the reason
why?
Search ON the Caucasus, the northern seas.
Look in the sky, or over earth. then ask.
The answer everywhere will he. The Tar"
Elizabeth StOddard,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
Condition of the He'd Men.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-Commis-
soner Morgan OF the Indian bureau in
his annual report says that for ten
years there has been real progress in
the right direction in the Indian ques-
ton and that the outlook for the future
is encouraging. 1t has become, he
says. the settled policy Of the govern
ment to break up reservation and tribal
relations, settle the Indians upon their
own homesteads, incorporate them into
national life and deal with them not as
nations or tribos or bands but as indi-
vidual citizens. Tho American Indian
is to become the Indian American. Tho
Indians themselves are coming to I'M
derstand the present policy OF the gov
ernment and are showing increasing
readiness and even desire to adjust
themselves to it. Upon the subject of
the Improvement of the personnel OF
the Indian service Commissioner
Morgan says that wherever it
could be done without too great hard
ships he has endeavored to remove
those who We're immoral, incompetent
inefficient or unfaithful. No one has
boon discharged on account of politics
or religion. and in no single instanne
except for the Improvement of the SER
vice. Great improvements have been
made IN the government industrial
schools. Tho commission says that,
believing that the public schools are
the most effective means of American
izing our foreign population, he is de-
sirous OF bringing the Indian school
system into relation with that OF the
public schools. Not only so, but
wherever possible he Is placing Indi-
ans in public schools. He favors COM
pulsory education for Indian children.
At the date of the last annual report
there were one hundred and thirty
three Indian reservations in the United
States having an aggregate area OF
1Ol, 25O square miles. During the year
about Is, 600, 600 have been secured bv
cession from the Indians, and an agree
ment by which about T. 500. 600 will be
secured are now pending in congress.
The work OF making allotments ofland
in severalty under the several acts of
congress has steadily progressed dur
ing the year
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
Claim the Tarif RtIIf. IIInUal

NEW YORK. Oct. 29.-Upoa the APP
pIicaiion of Messrs. Balm, Joseph &
Co.. importers, Judge Lacey to-day
granted an order requiring the customs
appraisers of II certain consign-
ment OF cloths on which tho firm
claims that too high duties were
assessed. Tho firm alleges that
the goods in question were man
ufactured of worsted. An interesting
point of the suit is that the firm con-
tends that the act of May 0, providing
for the classification of worsted cloths
us woolcns, docs not apply because the
act was not passed according to law.
They assert that there was no quorum
in the house when the bill was certi-
fed to having been passed, and that it
was not legally enacted though de-
clared passed by the speaker.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
Evils of Promiscuous Bathing.

A few years ago stockings were not
worn; now they may he of silk or cot
ton, and the latest advices tell us of
stockings cut so as to expose the toes,
which some newspaper correspondent
describes as ''ten tiny pink shells"
As | see them thus arrayed--or disar-
rayed, to speak correctly fear the
girl will soon begin to calculate the
effect of what some one lately called
''artistic baroness" on the mind of
masculinity, and the man to be too
conscious of the value of muscle and
calf which he exposes.
AS the mouthpiece of the crowds
who come to witness these exhibitions,
let me quote the little girl who. in the
innocence of her heart, asked her
mother ''if she might take off her dress
and play in her underclothes like the
ladies did on the beach"
After the bath these young people
settle themselves on the sand for per-
haps an hour or so, rarely having any
chaperon or older person with them.
Is it right that an innocent and
childish creature should be thrown in-
TO such close and utterly unguarded
companionship with one of the oppo-
site sex? A girls purity and perfect
Inconsistencies are her greatest
charms, and can we expect her to
retain these graces in such an atmos-
phere?
You may say bare legs are no more
demoralizing than bare shoulders, of
which we have surfct in every ball
room. Granted; but because we con-
done one indelicacy are we to smile
quietly on all? Round dances have
been the subject of pulpit oratory; let
the moralist and preacher now turn
their attention TO this rapidly increas-
ing CNil.-LndieS' Home Journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

THE decreasing calibre of the small
arms@0f the modern European soldier
is about TO have curious effect upon
the composition of bullets The old
fashioned bullet consisted entirely of
lead. and few great literary gems con-
corning the horrors OF war have been
written without alluson to powder
and lead" AS the smokeless powder
is abolishing the smoke of battlen
from the prose and poetry OF war. so
the improved construction OF the bullet
promises to render fatally unrealistic
in the literature OF the battlefield OF
to-day most OF the tried and approved
phases as to the classically mortal
metal
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
where did You apprehend himp"
''At home in his mothers house"

"Where did you apprehend himpn
AT home in his mothers house"
But
He was there all the time YOU 70.
manned there, Ned my boy. you've
made blunder for once; but don't let
it happen again."
What do you mean, sir?n
For reply he opened the door OF the
private inner room-his own special
sanctum. A slight boyish figure leaned
against the window, smoking ci.
garette. with black curls tossed back
from marblc-white brow aud brilliant
eyes. He mockingly inclined his head
as | started ut him. with motion not
Unfamiliar to me.
Clara Mattison!'
Yes" he said, in a soft. sarcastic
voice, CLARA Mattison, or Perley Mat
.ison. or whatever you may choose to
,all me. Many thanks for your polite
ness. Detective Meredith; and if Won
w5uld like another lock of hair
| turned away, burning scarlet, while
MIR. Clenner closed the door.
Never mind my boy; it will be n
lesson to you" he said, laughing.
Az h'N'O u WY Pictty SlIl, Dut am
not ut all susceptible"
What dou6le-dyed fool | had been.
l had lost the reward, failed in the esti
nation of my fellow officers and be.
haved like n brute to poor Kitty-aud
all for whatP
| went to Kitty and told her the
whole story, and to my surprise, the
dear faithful. little creature loved me
just as well rs ever.
II won't be jealous of Perley Matti-
son. Edward" she said, smiling what
ever | might be of his sister. And
dearest, don't be discouraged. I'll
wait as long as you please, and you
will be second Mr.. Clenner yet"
She was determined to look on the
bright side of things, this little Kitty
of mine! But | felt the modification
none the less keenly; although. as Mr..
Clenner said, it would undoubtedly
prove a lesson to me.
Perley Mattison's girlish beauty is
now ecipsed in one of Her Majesty's
prson-n do i pity him. The stake
for which he played was Highland no
lost. -Ecening WorM.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

WASHINGTON, Oct go. -Directoi
Leech Of the mint makes a lengthy
statement in regard to the treasury
purchases OF silver bullion and the
recent decline in the market price Of
silver. He says:
The treasury method of purchasing
silver has been criticised in these par.
ticulars:
First-That the large purchases by
the department do not include all the
silver bought.
Secondhand the London price is
used as basis Of the government pur-
chase.
Third-That bids to the government
are on the decimal system and tend to
favoritism.
In regard to the first criticism he
says the government purchases silver
as 1t does bonds and indeed any article
required in considerable quantities, by
public competition, the lowest offers
being always accepted provided they
do not exceed the highest market
prices. For the benefit of small pro-
ducers, however, the supcrintendents
OF tho minis are authorized to purchase
small lots at the price fixed from day
to day by the director, corresponding
to the market price. These purchases
average possibly half million each
month
.Second-lt is not true that London
prices are used as basis of the silver
purchases under the new law. During
the last administration not only was
the London price the only price used.
but the department did not pay an
equivalent of the London price, but
made counter offers to bidders on the
day that silver was worth less in New
York than in London by the cost of
transportation and insurance across
the water. The present administra-
tion has been governed in its purchase
by tho New York price. At no time
since the passage of the new silver law,
or indeed for some months before, has
the treasury felt itself limited in its
acceptance Of London prices.
Third-ln regard to the government
quotations being on the decimal basis,
one of the critics says:
The suspicious and significant fact
in regard to the governments purchase
of late is that houses Offering large lots
nave been underbid by the hundredth
part OF cent. The governments
quotations arc on II decimal basis,
which Is great advantage to those
who may have advanced information
in regard to the price the government
Is willing to pay on given date"
The government has no scale of its
own. and bidders use whatever scale
suits them best. II one house happens
to bid decimal lower than another, is
the government to decline the lower bid
because of the decimal9
The idea of any seller having lad
vanced information as to the price the
government will pay. is ridiculous and
impossible. If there can be any fairer
method devised for purchasing silver
than by public competition, it would
be difficult to conceive of such q
method. 1t is the method which has
been pursued by the treasury under all
administrations since 1873.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

The French duel Is perfectly pleas.
ant and harmless affair as II general
thing, but once in II while duelist
has been known TO receive IL slight
scratch which required little atten-
ton lest blood poisoning should follow.
But even this slight danger has been
overcome. AT every French duel now
adays the surgeon is supplied with an
antiseptic, with which he smears the
swords of the adversaries just before
the battle begins. lu this way a sword
scratch is harmless, and the only pos
sible danger, except, perhaps, taking
cold while fencing in ones shirt
sleeves, is removed.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
Decision Postponed.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-A motion
was made in the United States supreme
court to-day to advance three habeas
cases growing out of the arrest OF
proprietors of original package estab-
lishments in Kansas for violating the
prohibitory liquor law The point
raised is that it was unnecessary for
Kansas to re-enact its prohibitory law
after the passage of the original pack
age law by congress in order for it to
become of effect as against selling orig
inal packages. The chief justice an
nounced that the court would not de.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

THE early Christians-those who had
the good fortune to sit under the best
preaching OF that day. or any Other
day, practised communism; all they
had was thrown into II common fund =
and each had all he needed, and none
lacked. But the very idea of such a
system is repulsive to people of the
present day. An exemplary church
member wants to pay II stated price for
NIL he gets, including his church pew
and it is said that the most prosper
Gus churches, in financial sense, are
those that derive a Irregular and reliable
income from the rent OF their sittings.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
NEWS NATES

Denver social circles are seriously
disturbed by sensational scandal. c.
A. Dean, prominent railroad contrac.
tor, has sued S. Willis French for 800,
900 Tor the alleged seduction of his
wife French is u wealthy real estate
man of that city.
Walter Baltellot. brother Of Major
bartellot writes to the press that Stan
ley never before limited at his present
charges against the major, even in a
lengthy private communication ad-
dressed to the dead mans father which
contained eight separate charges.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
The Federal RuiIdip~ nj Omaha

WASHINGTON, Oct 29.-At the treas
ury department the supervising archi-
itect said that nothing will be done to-
wards preparing plans fer the proposed
new federal building in Omaha this
season owing to the fact that there is
bill pending in each house to extend
the limit OF the cost Of the new struc-
l"rc. Tho Office does not feel war
rantcd in going ahead and mourning
the expense of preparing II full set of
plans for building which may never
DO built. The whole matter will be
delayed until TIC close of the present
congress when, il no further expendi-
ture is authorized, plans will be pre-
pared with the idea of erecting n
building TO cost about $500. 600. which
is the amount available for this pur-
pose at the present time.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
General Gfbbon,s Renor,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-The secre-
tary OF war has received the annual
report of Brigadier General John Glib
bon, commanding the department of
Colorado. He reports that the Indi-
ans of the extreme northwest are in n
perfectly peaceful condition and that
the troops in his department are in
good condition as regards discipline
and drill. He recommends certain i'm
provements in the administration ,of
the military to authorize the s,4fretagv
by law to established schedule of pun
lshments for certain well-defined OF.
lenses, to which court should conform
in their sentence by requiring a strict
compliance with the law in converting
general courts by establishing mill
ltary court of appeal. whose duties
should be similar to corresponding civil
courts.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

THoUGH the postal service has
reached a high degree OF efficiency.
millions of letters every year fail TO
reach tne persons to whom they are
addressed. Over 5000, 900 are annu-
ally sent TO the dead letter Office,
and twice rs many more are de
stroyed by the man who thinks it is
safer to tear up letter than to mail
it "a month or six weeks after he has
been asked by his vito to please drop
it in the box rs he passed by the cor
ner.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07
IL Is Not FurnIyaI.

ELLIsvILLE, Miss. Oct. 29.-Fred
Davage, the Englishman who was ar
rested at this place by Detective
O'Flynn as George I. Furnival.
charged with the murder of five per-
sons in Nance county, Nebraska, in
September, 1884. was tried before
Chancellor Evans on a writ of habeas
corpus this afternoon. and, it being
clearly proven by some of the oldest
citizens Of the town that Davage was
living here in September. 1884, the
prisoner was discharged. This is one
o1~the most remarkable cases of mis-
taken identity which has ever been
tried in the courts Of southeast Mis-
sissippi. Nationality, personalities,
peculiaritics. scars and tattooing were
almost identically the same as de.
scribed as being on the man wanted.
Messrs. Goddard and Mawhiney of Ne
braska, who came for the prisoner
will leave Ellisville on their way home
tonight. Davage and his many
friends are rejoicing over the result OF
the trial
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-The first
motion to secure final action from the
supreme court OF the United States on
the constitutionality OF the New York
electrical execution law was made in
the supreme court to-day. 1t was
moved that the case be set down for =
speedy hearing. The point raised Is
that the Kemmler execution demon.
strated that killing by electricity is
cruel and unusual punishment and, as
such, it is prohibited by the constitu-
ton OF the United States. The court
took the papers.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

SELF-REsPECrING and patriotic Irish
men have long been ashamed of the
appe lis made to the world in the name
of Irish restitution when the resources
OF the island were ample for the sup
port OF the people were they not taxed
TO maintain the landlord class aud their
onhangers in luxury. They have
maintained that were the cultivators
OF the soil free to live on what their
industry produced such periodical APP
peals would be unnecessary,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-11-07

THE common roads in this country
are declared by travellers to be the
worst in the world. They are becom-
Ing poorer every year. Since rail-
roads became common but little atten-
tion has been given to wagon roads.
Before that time farmers. merchants
and manufacturers were all interested
in having roads over which heavy
loads could be hauled They knew
that good roads resulted in great saw
ing in wagons harness and horsehesh.
They were then willing to pay taxes
for constructing and keeping in repair
the roads leading from one town to an
other. Property owners on the lines
oil these roads were also anxious to
have the roads kept in good condition.