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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
Tuesday, March IL.

Grover Cleveland born, 1897.
"Thy works become thee, they
smack of honor, and for an ear.
nest Of greater honor"
-MacLeth, i, %.
E. r. Fay, of Albany was in town
last week, and started for Nebraska
on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James O'Donnell leave
for Chicago to-day and will reside there
in the future.
George w. Matthias has sold lot in
Days addition to Catharina Sophia
Matthias for $500.
A number of Ottawa people attended
the dance given by the Hibernians at
Seneca last evening.
The young Mems Club gave ball
last evening at Willis Hall, Willis
orchestra furnishing the music.
Henry Holmes purchased the livery
stable, which he now occupies, from
f. r. Foy for $500, on Thursday.
The scholars of the public and high
schools of this city will have weeks
vacation, commencing Monday, April
18th.
Deputy Postmaster Groshens has
been confined to his house by illness
for week or more, and is still unable
to be out.
Larry" Haley, for several years in
the employ of Jas. Carew as mail mes
senger, now hustler for the Wabash
railroad, is visiting relatives in the
city.
Andrew Rhodes, of Megaffin's, has
been appointed mail-carrier by Post
master Nattinger in place of Chas.
Vosburgh, resigned, to begin service
April l.
Mrs. Daniel O'Leary died in Seneca
Saturday and was buried yesterday.
A husband and two children survive
her. See was quite well known in
Ottawa.
1t is understood that while Sulli-
van, the well known and popular Rock
Island freight conductor, while pass
ing lovely spot some time ago, was
struck through the heart by one OF
Cupid's arrows. His train will be tied
up this morning.
Miss Maggie Conghlin and Mr.. Den
mis- WEIGH, of Brookfield township,
were married at the Catholic church
at Seneca yesterday by Rev. Father
Mulgrew. Miss May GoOdsell of this
city, was bridesmaid and Mr.. Michael
WEIGH of Seneca was grOomsman.
The miners at Streator as well as
elsewhere throughout the west are not
a little worked up over dispatch that
the steamship Elder arrived in New
York on Tuesday with 927 emigrants.
of whom 500 were miners imported to
work in the Pennsylvania mines. AS
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
ANOTHER RAILROAD.
The ADVISABLE ana Ottawa Line--It is Pro
posed to Build Such a Line.

The ADVISABLE ana ottawa Line-It is Pro-
posed to Build Such Line.
There is scheme on foot to make
Ottawa the terminus of another rail
road line, and the chances are that it
will prove successful.
A Mr.. Platt, president of the Platt
Coal company at Seneca, was in the
city Saturday and talked the matter
over with several people. He was
brought here by Mr. M. N. Armstrong,
and before leaving yesterday had
agreed to do all in his power to have
the road put through. The proposed
railroad, if built, will run from Aux
Sable, five miles east of Morris, to this
city, distance of thirty miles. The
road will run along the south side OF
the canal between Seneca and Mar
settles, and from Marseilles to this city
it will run along the strip of land be-
tween the Rock Island railroad and
the canal. 1t will have terminus in
the SO" road and will enter Ottawa
on Michigan street, the first street
north Of the canal.
In 1882 NJ. n. Armstrong, f. l..
Fiske and others, surveyed the land
for the proposed Ottawa and Mendoza
railroad. The project fell through,
however. Mr.. Platt took the profile
to st. Paul and will have an interview
with parties there who have money to
invest in the road.
1t is to be hoped the plan will be
successful. The road, if put through,
will cost $4,000 or thereabOuts per
mile equipped. This will make direct
line through to Chicago. Aux Sable
is connected with the Belt Line near
Joliet by short line, and there is a
direct line from that point to Chicago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

c. S. believe that trade should be as
nearly as possible unrestricted ? and
would not a direct tax, even though
levied upon the products Of labor upon
which tax should never be levied) be
less hurdensOme and less injurious
than a tariff tax that forces the con-
sumner to pay twice the amount nec-
essary to meet the expenses Of the gov
eminent? And does not the tariff
system place.a premium upon fraud
and a tax upon honesty?
The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company,
protected by tariff Of from IS to l52
per cent, made a net earning OF nearly
80 per cent upon its capital of 81, 75O,-
600 in the year 1889. 1t probably con-
tributed freely to the republican fat
friers' campaign fund, inasmuch as the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House has agreed to raise still higher
the duties on glass.
Farmers as a class insist upon an
economical local government. They
keep track of their local tax bills; and
ii they find them increasing unreason-
ably. they call their local agents to
account. The tariff tax is indirect
and insidious, indeed, it has been rep
resented as no tax at all but however
coated the pill may be, the truth which
has always been Democratic doc
trine," explained and insisted upon in
ClCveland's celebrated message, was
not crushed when Cleveland was beat
en-.
1t has been plainly proven that the
man Common Sense'is G. b. Philips,
of the Somonauk Reuielle. He may
frOth and sQuirm when he finds his
ignorance is exposed; but the cold,
hard fact remains that, though he may
not realize it, he is as dead as an Egyp.
tian mummy. WIN. CULLEN.
Worthwhile, III.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

Saturday, March Is.
Maine admitted. 1920.

"Come, come, good wine is a good IA
miliar creature II 1t be we'll used.
You are too severe a moraler."
--OthellO Ii, 3.
Mr.. Louis Rohrer. of Worthwhile,
was In the city yesterday.
l. II. Trowbridge, Of Marseilles, was
in the city yesterday on business.
Miss Belle Armstrong, niece OF sam
Parr, is the guest OF friends at New
ark.
Freedom and George Poundstone,
of Grand Ridge, were doing business
in Ottawa yesterday.
The youth who stole the box of
porcelain eggs probably appropriated
them under the impression that they
were hen-lain.
Licenses to marry were granted to
BYRON MOsher and Clara A. Cook,
Earl; Henry McNally and Barbara
Zeinke, Mendoza.
The Journals terrific onslaught upon
county agent Gibson, is somewhat like
the case of the hunter who shot at a
deer and hit calf.
Miss Mary Young has closed her
school at Reinhardt for the winter
term and will return to her home in
this city tomorrow.
Mr.. Fisher, of McCabe & Fisher, re-
rurned home on Thursday evening,
after visiting the eastern markets and
making a short stay in Washington
city.
The reason why a certain German
had one west side car all to himself
last evening might have been eX-
planned by Messrs. Limberger Il Co.,
manufacturers of a certain well known
compound.
s. J. Sparks, of Marseilles, says he
is tired Of driving and feeding that
"prize team" advertised as premium
to subscribers to a certain alleged
newspaper in Ottawa, and wants to
give a boy fifty cents to kick him.
"First come, first served"
An old man, 10 years old, was in
stantly killed by being run over by a
train on the Rock Island railroad, at
Bremen, a small station a few miles
east of Joliet, Thursday afternoon.
The Train which struck the old man
was the same one that bore the re-
mains of John Berry to this city.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
A Fraternity Banquet.

Occidental Lodge No. 40 A. F. & A.
NJ, held regular meeting in the hall
IN the Opera House block Monday
night, and work was done in the third
degree. Right Worshipful Brother
Elmezer BARBER, of Marseilles, district
deputy of the lodge, made his annual
visit to the order. Fifteen members
of the Marseilles division accompa,
MED him to this city. After the meet,
ing the party repaired to the Windsor
Hotel and all did ample justice to a
bountiful repast. The Marseilles PEG,
pie vote Ottawa the banner city of the
county.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

usual, the majority of them are Hun.
garians and Silesians. Well, why not!
Are we not living under Republican
rule, that taxes everything foreign
out of the country In the interest OF
American labor except-foreign labor
The bosses, syndicates and trusts have
all the protection they want against
foreign competition, but there is free
trade in labor That's republican.sm
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

OF twelve be appointed to 60 about the
city with Mr.. Barton and procure sub.
scriptions. The motion carried and
the chair appointed Messrs. Riale,
Merriaeld (L. b., Sapp, Lynch, Rich
olson, Trimble, Geo., Metzger, Hol.
land, Perkins, Cullen, (Wm.) De la
Chapelle and Bowman.
The committee is expected to do its
work to-day and tomorrow. Mayor
Sherwood is custodian Of money col
lected and will remit it to the COM
of Ramzee county.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
RELIEF FOR NORTH DAKOTA
The Meeting Last Evening-Committee of
Citizens Appointed.

Cttzens appoihteu.
The public meeting for the purpose
of taking action for the relief of the
suffering farmers of North Dakota,
called by Mayor Sherwood, convened
in the supervisors room at 8 O'Clock
Monday evening, with the mayor in the
chair and Noah G. Perkins as secre-
tary.
John Barton, one of the county COM
missiOners of RamZee county, \. d..
stated that he was in Ottawa in the
interest of his county, the residents Of
which. all farmers, are in destitute
condition. They have had no crops in
two years and must have seed wheat
and sufficient supplies to carry them
through until August. Every farm
and all live stock and personal prop
erty on it is mortgaged to its full val
ue, and the county bonded to its full
limit, per cent. Something must be
done and done at once.
Mr.. Riale moved that committee
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Lady I'm Texas Writes:

My case is of long standing; has
every remedy l could hear of, but
Bradflelds Female Regulator is all
that relieved me. Write the Bradtield
Reg. Co., Atlanta, Ga, for further
particulars. Sold by all druggists.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

L. B. Hawks, prominent Montana
ranchman is visiting friends here.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

them 10 give beautifully OF their eoods
tor the upport OF the cause. Yea. he
walked down the aisle with solemnity
and unto him who did mot fork over .
was his countenance ono Of severity and
reproach. Moreover, he carried q Koran
I'm his coat-tail pocket whithersoever he
went, no that even the Christians did say
they counseled together and said among
themselves: Sch Richards is q
righteous eunuch and n just, and though
he he not II Christian, yet will he treat ms
with fairness and honor"
Then did we, o, Caliph, lay our hand
upon the ear of Richards. and drew him
behind a door, and said unto him: ''Be-
hold, thou art ruler OF the upper khan, and
10 il needful unto us and Allah, that thou
wipe the floor with the Christians hat
to the faithful. And IL thou dost this
him. up i'm style, peradventure thou shalt
be chosen n caliph along with u.s."
And arose, and when he had
winked a certain wink with his loft eye,
he went about his business. And he got
the Christians that belonged i'm the upper
khan together with soft words and dis
armed them. And he stroked their heads
with q club. fea. also he spat on his
hands and patted them ON In small of
the hack with a fence-rnil. And the
Christians waxed wroth and demanded
by what authority he did these things.
Then Richards cried With q loud voice:
"Allah ID Allah; and there are no flies
ON HiInw
And the Christians cussed and swore a
Allah, and besou9ht Richards to come
oil. But Richards cried the more We
hemently:
"Allah is Allah, and Richards is his
prophet. For Allah came to me in n Wis
ion and revealed To me how to do you up.
Behold even now I have done you up.
Great is Allah, and that which his prophet
saith goeth, and don't you forget IT,"
And the Christians blasphemed and
swore that Allah was a chump, and
Rickardz an exceeding fraud.
Thus, u caliph, did we razoo the dogs of
utterly and forever. Yet did
they have gall to go of by themselves and
choose two caliphs of their own. / pray
You when they arrive at the palace cut
their heads full speedily. Caliph
Power and ourself will he with you
presently. For Power was chosen caliph,
and not Rickariz. For when Richards
that Allah had revealed unto him i'm
a vision that even he was to he caliph, be-
hold then the faithful laughed him tn
scorn and implored him to invent n new
unto himself. Yea, they besouRht
him to go hence and soak even the head
OF him. Moreover. n certain man named
who also was filled with desire |
to he caliph, lifted up his voice and took |
an oath that he would see Rickardz some |
time i'm the future.
Convey, q caliph, we beseech thee. our |
regards to the sultan and to Prince Ruzzl |
his son, and say unto them we have got
there with an exceeding great 9~otness
SCHANDERz,
Caliph of M~ontanza.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

they ara . summary Of q scheme which
has been reviewed more than NICE In
these columns. We hold space in this
newspaper open for b use of any
friend Of silver who desires to show
that Mr.. Windows complex "plan "
meets the demand of the day. Yet IL
In probable that congress will give heed
to what the secretary proposes. His
"plan " has the favor of President
Harrison-whO al much an aaid in his
message that he had not given h sub
ject q passing thOuRht-and that means
a good deal to members Of congress who
want to be solid with the administra-
ton. This question ought to he sepa-
rated from politics, at the same time
we ask candid readers to compare the
five-line declaration in the platform on
which Harrison was planted last sum-
mer with this mornings sixth section
of the "plan" which gravely u
that at shall be lawful" for a single
individual to favor silver or frown on it
he pleases, thus deciding its fate. 1t
will go hard with silver II Window
wins.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

Warner Miller was elected In place of
Thomas G. Platt, who resigned at the
same time with Mr.. Conkling.
Back of his senatorial career Mr..
Lapham had q record Of several terms
i'm theh house of representatives. Until
1S4S he had been u democrat. In hat
year he supported Van Buren, and h
Wilmot prOvisO. In later years he was
elected twice-pOssibly three times-as
member of congress. New Workers
will always recall the famous day, July
~, 1881, when he was chosen senator.
to shine in IN federal senate.
Indeed, his career there was a
dismal failure. Before his term
ended more thai one newspaper re-
ferred to the unfortunate habit to
which he seemed wholly to have sur
rendered himself n which made his
conduct in the senate little less
than d~isgraceful. Nobody thought of
him for "a second term, and William NJ.
Evarts took the seat. Months after
wards Warner Miller, who succeeded
Plat, made a hard fight for another
term in the senate, having Levi II.
Morton for his chief rival until Con-
gresham Frank Hiscock came between
them and captured the prize.
The interesting fact suggested by the
death Of Mr.. Lapham is that the ire
mendOus political power in New
Works republican politics held by such
men ~ Roscoe COnkling and Reuben
f. FentOn, passed from New YOrk's
when Lapham and Miller en-
tered the senate's doors. 1t has never
been restored to any senator from that
1t is firmly held to-day by
Thomas e. Platt who, when he added
his resignation to that of Conkling, cut
a figure i'm politics SO insignificant that
he became the original ME Too" i'm the
annals of New York. But he is the
i'm republican politics of New
York to-day.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21
ITS Owl WIRE

The STANDARD takes pleasure in an
nouncing that u special wire now con-
meets it's Butte office with the editorial
rooms in this city. A cOmmOdiOus
Office for the Butte service has been
fitted up in the bank building, corne of
Main street and Broadway, secOnd
floor. In this office the operator has
his desk. and the STANDARDS exclusive
wire furnishes prompt news service di-
rect to the night editors room In the
STANDARD building here, where the
Anaconda operator seated himself for
the first time last Saturday, i'm charge
of the STANDARDS special wire SER
vice" which will hereafter be a constant
feature of his newspaper. In addi-
ton, the STANDARD now has two men,
bers of its editorial staff detailed for
exclusive duty i'm Butte. with w. w.
Walsworth in charge of the news de-
partment there. The STANDARD is
now favored with a railway service
whereby ii can deliver papers i'm Butte
bright and early every morning. The
delays hitherto incident to this delivery
have embarrassed the STANDARDS pub
fishers and annoyed it's patrons. 1t il be
lieved that the vexing interruptions in
cident to the organization Of this service
have now been put out of the way and
that the distribution will he satisfac-
tory to all concerned. The growth of
the STANDARDS circulation has been
80 rapid hat the mail facilities at COM
mand were not able, at first. to keep up
with the procession. Delays which we
could not avoid were the result, but
these will soon be overcome, to the re-
lief Of hundreds of patrons in Deer
Lodge county, i'm Silver Bow and
Beaverhead, i'm Granite, Phillipsburg,
Elliston, and i'm a score of other towns
where the STANDARD is the reigning
favorite with newspaper readers.
This newspaper appreciates the lib
eral patronage with which Butte has
favored it.; patronage which has been
especially helpful in sending its circu-
lation mp to the front at a speed for
which no rival in the Northwest can
furnish a parallel. The STANDARD
prints every morning more Butte news
than any other newspaper in Montana,
adding a more complete summary
of state and general news than any of
it's rivals furnish. More than his il
sells more copies every day i'm the week,
by many hundreds, than the total cir
culation, paid and unpaid, of any west
side contemporary. 1t proposes to
keep up its present a without a sim
gle break for the next ninety days and
hen prove its claim as the news
paper whose circulation nO iva i'm the
Northwest can match.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21
SOON FORGOTTEN.

"A man who, not SO many years ago,
figured -conspicuously in national poll
tics, has been dead and buried these
ten days, yet no reference to him I'm any
western newspaper has fallen under the
STANDARDS eye. Indeed, but for the
related eastern exchanges, we would
not know that ex-senator Elbridge
q. Lapham, of New York state, il dead.
The fact that MIR. Lapham ever sat i'm
the federal senate il hardly worth not
ing. He cut no figure there worth talk
ing about. His chief title to fame lies.
not in any public service he ever ender-
ed, but solely in the recollection that he
was the successor of Roscoe Conkling,
whose unfinished term the Canandaigua
man served out after Mr.. COnkling re-
signed and lost permanently the seat to
which he believed the New York legis-
iature would certainly return him after
his resignation had been sent in.
The memorable fight which. i'm those
days, kept the New York legislature in
session during weary months, was
waged not 80 much to get any favorite
in, but rather to keep Senate COnkling
out. Conkling had plenty of friends in
New YOrk's senate n house. They
would have been willing to vote for
him-many of them in matters of polit-
ical favor owed him much, but tie
constituencies i'm nearly every quarter
of the state refused to have it undo
any circumstances.
Mr.. Conkling could not be made to
believe this, at first. such was his pO-
litical strength that he fancied he could
slap Tie lace of the new Garfield ad-
ministratiOn and rely OH his own state
to applaud his conduct. Had he been
re- elected he would have been greater
tn IN the administration. The people
Of New Ork very promptly decided
w ,at to d. with Mr.. COnkling, but il
TO * q good while for voters at
home to break the tie hat
bound tn him u good many senators
and ass~emblymen. When, at length,
the sunk. ng senatOr saw h inevitable,
he quietly eft the city of Albany ut
midnight and was hundreds Of miles
away before many OF his closest friends
knew he had gone. He % returned
TO renew the fight. 1t was bravely kept
mp By his devoted followers, but when
the inevi.as.e came Mr.. Lapham was
promvtly cA0ten TO succeed him and
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

The STANDARD claims the right to
speak for the citizens of Butte and to
expose official faithlessness by virtue
of its circulation i'm that city, by virtue
of the right and duty which every rep
utable newspaper owes to the taxpayers
and by virtue Of the fact that for rea-
IONS wholly unaccountable the Butte
newspapers have not presented the in
matter,
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21
FiGht 'Ena with CLAIMS,

From the chicago TriDune.
If the price of oysters Is forced up too
hiRh the people can fall hack upon he
unassuming clam. With the judicious
use of canned tomatoes, as everybody
knows, one full-grown clam will make
four chowtlerS.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21
CURRENT

Another Debt tn Christopher.
From the New York sun.
II il hadn't been for Christopher Column
bus where should we hove got qurnine
pills?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

We print h fourteen separate and
distinct sections of the Window "plan"
this morning, not to discuss them, a.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

From the New York Tribune.
The United States doesn't want an Of
fensive navy, but il does want one that
can knock spots out Of anything that il
offensive to It.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21
what Montana Has.

From the Omaha bee.
Montana has an assed valuation of
SO. 100 cash in the treasury, no floating
debt, a th-ree-cornered legislature and
four brawny senator's. These advantages
give the state n unique and unrivaled po-
sition IN the union.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

From the Chicago Herald.
A man in Pennsylvania claims tn have
discovered n process of human Insulation
by which a man can stand the severest
electric shocks. II his scheme In success-
ful his fortune In made. There are over q
million customer for him i'm New York
alone.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21
IL should lse Amended.

from the Omaha WOrld
A bill Is to he Immediately reported to
the senate granting pensions to 'soldicrs
and sailors who are incapacitated for the
performance of and providing for
pensions to their widows, minor children
and dependent parents" This should be
amended to include the wife's relations
and intimate acquaintance. and so
may be-, after "a while, Wa might all get
l,anSiOna
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

From the san Francisco Chronicle.
The charge against Parnell which has
been brought by O'Shea places the Irish
leader i'm AN ugly position, but IL ID dif1-
cult to see how IL can he used for political
effect. The aim OF this renegade who
WINS deprived of office by Parnell ecaus
he proved unfaithful, In simply revenR
and he has chosen the tim , when Parnell
In i'm poor health to harass him with . law
suit. Probably II all the facts come out Il
will he found that he FIRST tried blackmail
before he appealed to the courts.
Funeral notices neatly printed at the
~ CSu ~r{uv ~ ~ n07~e
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

A Minneapolis paper says that Sarah
Bernhardt has 'crcated IA new character
We trust that il is better than her old one.
A new railway i'm Wisconsin is called
''tlie waukesha, Pewaukee, O-conomowoc
and EASTERN" We predict IL will he
called 1.-THE Ja~w-Breaker' for short.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-21

An erratic statesman in Kentucky IL
one who will not drink whiskey nor he
on ~ horse race. He cannot he long fol-
this world-at least that part of 1t known
a. Kentucky.