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Iron County register., 1890-10-09
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TIE house we'll and cistern should
be carefully cleaned out and guarded
against the influx of any noxious fluids
from the out-houses or manure piles. 1t
is often noticed that the water rs not
clear for a certain length of time after
the cleaning of the well. This trouble
may be remedied by emptying a few
pounds of boraX into the we'll
Iron County register., 1890-10-09

THE Abyssinians make composition
of butter and pounded coffee berry,
which, in travelling, they find more sus-
tanning than either bread or meat
, 1890-09-11
THE LESSON OF LIFE.

Mondays funeral of fifteen OF
the victims of Saturday nights dis
aster teaches the sad lesson of life
and the suddenness and certainty of
death. When long suffering and
wasted invalid passes away, no
pangs of horror are felt. There Is
the usual sorrow and mourning on
part of those near and dear, but
others look upon death in such
cases as only the inevitable, and az
relief from suffering and distress.
But when men are cut down sud-
denly in their full vigor and man
hood, a different feeling is expe-
rienced.
Yesterday fifteen mangled and
disiigured bodies were consigned to
the clay. Two days before these
same bodies, possessed of life aud
strength and the hopes and feelings
that usually inspire men, stood at
their posts Of duty earning their
bread by honest toll. Some were
laboring for the support Of wives
and children, others for parents,
sisters and brothers. They did not
think that day that ere the setting
Of the sun their souls would be
ushcred into eternity by the terrible
power of dynamite that they were
utilizing to facilitate their work.
And when at morn they had gone
from their homes to finish their
weeks work no thought Of death
had entered their minds, and no
one doubted but that he would re-
turn Mt evening to his home IN life
and health.
1t was the end of the week, and
doubtless all looked forward to the
morrow as a happy day of rest, but
alas! the morrow never came. A
premature discharge of deadly dyna-
mite cut them of ere the day was
spent. Events like this forcibly re-
mind us of the uncertainty of life TO
the strong and healthy rs we'll az to
the weak and afflicted. From the
hand of death there is no immunity,
and no one knows to-day but that
his dread summons may be issued
before the setting of the sun.
, 1890-09-11

THE LAST OF TURNER.

The agony Is ended. The Turner
boom has fallen fiat, and John l..
Wilson will be presented to the re-
publican convention by the delega-
tion from his own county, and will
certainly be the nominee for con
gress Of the republican party.
But this is the smallest part OF
the victory. Such men as Tom
Warren, w. Nj. Ridpath, Justice
Curry and the dangerous elements at
their beck and call will not be per-
mitted to control the affairs of this
city and county. Men who know
the story of the past can understand
the true Significance of yesterdays
victory.
The result In this city was toe
close. 1t speaks not we'll for the
better elements that they came
perilously near allowing the clique
back Of Turner to carry this city by
methods 80 dear to the heart OF
every ward striker and heeler. The
gamblers, the dive-keepers and
habitues, and the scum of the city
were admirably organized against
Wilson. Small wonder that they
registered and turned out at the
primaries.
1t would have been stlnging re.
buke to the better elements Of Spo-
kane Falls II they had allow ed the
fight to go by default, and the coun-
try, with It's clean methods and de-
cent politics, had rallied to the res
cue, as indeed 1t has rallied most
magnificently, and had saved the
city from Its peril. The country Is
solid for Wilson because the poll.
ticlans who fought him found theil
arts powerless where men march to
the polls and vote their honest, sin
cere sentiments.
The result can be told in line.
Turner captured Shantytown, a sim
gle precinct out of nearly thirty-all
the others seem to be solid for VIII.
son. Even If he had captured the
city through the apathy Of the bet
ter elements and with the active
support of democratic ward workers,
there Is reason to believe that the
clean-handed country would have
reversed the verdict.
Nothing short of years of private
life and better associations can re-
store the shattered political fortunes
of George Turner. He has volun-
teered fight that has gained him
nothing and lost him all. 1t would
have been well for his future II he
had hearkened to the counsel Of his
truest friends.
, 1890-09-11
SUCH rs FAME

Here is n condensed paragraph Of
flippant ignorance that Is sufficient
proyocation to call "Old Bullionr
from his grave. 1t is found In an
Oregon paper, the Tumwster
Herald, whose editor ought to be
captured and incarcerated In a re-
form school.
III Senator Benton, who recently as.
serted in q speech that "Oregon and tho
whole of the Pacific coast was utterly
worthless for agricultural purposes"
could take a trip through the grain
fields Of Powder. Grande Ronde and
Walla Walla valleys, and along the base
of the Blue mountains in Umatilla
county and see our wheat fields turning
out material for loaves and pancakes. OF
from thirty to forty-iive bushels to tho
acre, he would probably seek deserved
seclusion somewhere away up toward
the north pole where he could get ice
cheap to apply to his bump Of egotism
on which he wears his hat.
Senator Benton has been in bis
grave for thirty-two years, and he
never uttered the sentence attrib.
uted to him by the TImwater pa
per. Such flippant ignorance Is
almost atrocious In view Of the
teachings of history. Thomas III.
Benton was the one man In public
life fifty years ago with full UNDER
standing of the possibilities of the
Pacl lic Northwest. Oregon pever
had truer or an abler friend. From
the stump and the forum he spoke
of the possibilities of this broad Sec
ton, and with prophetic wisdom
foretold the construction of IL trans
continental railroad, the placing Of
steamboats, upon the Columbia, and
the turning Of the tide Of Oriental
commerce across the Pacific. That
was nearly half century ago, and
! Benton's wisdom was not shared by
a single prominent figure In public
life. To him the earliest American
settlers in the Willamette valley
turned when they were striving to
plant the stars and stripes over this
fair and fertile domain, to him they
wrote for guidance, and his friend
ship never failed them.
Benton was n man OF the West.
He represented state In the senate
that was itselfa wilderness, and his
long associations with hunters and
trappers who had penetrated the
wild region drained by the Oregon
gave him a broad knowledge of its
resources and prophetic view of Its
/ future. These views he asserted In
congress when other senators were
declaring that Oregon was not worth
wrangling over, that even If II
should ever become a state its repre-
sentatives In congress, starting i'm.
mediately after their election, would
be unable to reach the nations capi.
tai before tho expiration of the ses.
sion.
Some such remark as that attrib-
uted to Senator Benton by the Tum.
water paper has long been laid al
the door of Senator Webster. Prob.
ably this il erroneous, though upon
its face 1t Is not so glaring, because
| Webster was man Of the extreme
East, and was not In close touch
with the thoughts and the hopes OF
the Western people as was Benton.
, 1890-09-11

longer defy the authorities by rlains
In wild foray from one end Oh 'ne
state to the other.
Considering that Missouri was u
border and slave state, and that sue
and her people were torn ana uis,
tracted by conflicting interests anu
inclinations, her record during tiie
war was not bad. She remained III
the Union, although gentleman
who now sits In the United states
senate tried to represent her In the
confederate congress, and she SEM
more than 100, 900 men into the Un-
ion army, and the devi knows now
many into the rebel ranks.
Although we speak slightingly oi
tho Mlssourlans, and laugh at their
faillngs, we must admit that they
are, as a rule, a brave, hospitable
and generous lot Of people. They
come of good, hard-working STOCK
the class that settled the West
Scotch-Irish as a rule, and even dur
ing slavery days there was notable
absence in Missouri Of that prej'
udice against labor which charac'
terlzed the more Southern states.
The Missourians are not at all
ashamed of their origin, and judging
from the manner in which they are
rallying at Yakima they must be
rather proud of their nativity. Al
all events they are ahead of the citi'
zens Of all other states in assembling
in such large numbers.
When the Missourians away
back yander" learn about the big
barbecues that are given at Yakima,
and when they are told of the acres
and acres of tobacco that Is grown
there, there will probably be an
exodus from the old border state,
and Washington will swell her
population by the addition OF a few
thousand additional democrats.
, 1890-09-11
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4 PLEASANT REUNION.

The 10000 sons and daughters of
old Pike who gathered together at
North Yakima last week, after hav-
ing had most pleasant reunion,
lasting three days, have returned to
their homes, carrying with them
many pleasant memories of the time
50 agreesbiy spent during the first
days Of September.
1t is impossible to estimate what
good socially will result from such a
gathering. Old friends, long sepa-
rated by force of circumstan ces,
meet again, and the threads of
friendship 50 long dropped as
to be almost forgotten are
once more taken up and
woven into beautiful web. New
and lasting friendships are formed,
and the rest and recreation that
come from mingling with their
fellow-mcn is felt by many whose
customary round Of life leads them
In a groove remote from the world
at large, and whose only social rec
reation consists In meeting the
peighbors in, perhaps, a sparsely
settled district.
OF the Missourians who gathered
at Yakima last week, many were
pioneers who came to the Northwest
twenty-five or thirty years ago, who
helped lay the foundation stones OF
the great commonwealth of Wash
ington and Oregon, and who have
watched and aided the development
of these states from almost unbroken
wildernesses, inhabited only by
Indians and wild beasts, to the
powerful members OF a great
country which they now are,
and to these brave men and
women, as well as to Others who
bazed the way for the multitudes
who have since followed in their
footsteps, the respect and admira-
tion of the citizens of these two
Pacific states is due.
1t has been customary for years
to regard Missourians as proper
target for harmless wit and rid
icule, but undismayed by this, ma
tives OF that state, wherever they
may find themselves, stand
shoulder to shoulder, proud of their
state and its resources, and always
glad Of an opportunity as being
counted as from Missouri.
, 1890-09-11
A CALAMITO US YEAR.

The dreadful dynamite explosion
in this city last Saturday night, by
which fourteen men were killed
outright, three others 80 badly hurt
that they have since died of their
wounds, and still others so seriously
injured that recovery Is almost i'm.
possible, adds another to the already
long list of disasters in this country
which have occurred this year.
Beginning while the year was yet
young with the dreadful storm
which devastated Kentucky and
the southern portion of Illinois, In
diana and Ohio, and by which up
ward of 100 lives were lost and
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty destroyed, cyclones have been
an active agent in the destruction of
life and property. From Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts and Nebraska
accounts have come of death-dealing
storms, and the dreadful details are
still fresh in the minds of all of the
cyclone which, sweeping over Lake
Pepin, In Minnesota, struck a
steamer loaded with excursionists,
sending her to the bottom of the
lake with more than 100 of her
passengers.
Railroads, too, have been fruitful
in adding to the list OF those killed
by accidents. Trains have been
wrecked in all sections of the coun-
try, from the extreme East to the
Pacific coast, and the lossof life from
this source has been very great.
The loss of life by fire has not been
very great, nor has the loss of prop
erty from this source equaled that
of 1880. Perhaps the most destruc-
tive fire in any city was that in the
building of che Associated Press In
New York city, In which most
valuable records, impossible to be
replaced, were destroyed. In Fort
Worth the spring palace was burned
while ball was In progress In the
building, and few lives were lost
by means of the panic which en-
sued.
Flood, also, has claimed victims,
several lives being lost during the
unprecedented rise Of waters In the
Southern Mississippi valley in the
early spring, when land previously
considered above the reach Of the
highest flood possible was submerged
by the angry waves Of the Father OF
Waters.
At sea there has been nothing to
equal the dreadful storm at Apia of
the preceding year, and, while sew
eral shipwrecks have occurred, the
loss of life from this source has been
, 1890-09-11
ANARCHY tanned.

The pure air Of freedom can not
long he breathed even by anarchists
without the most astonishing ben
eficial results. Not quite three
years have passed since the hang
ing of Spies, Engel, Fischer and Par
sons, yet the Chicago anarchists
gave n picnic last Sunday for the
purpose Of swelling the monument
fund, and the affair is reported by
the papers as "a picnic Of the jolly,
clean and entertaining order"
There were beer and dancing, but
nothing disorderly or at all alarm
ing to free institutions. A few of
the men wore red badges, but the
speeches were not at all incendiary
in character. In short, IL was n
quiet family affair, and the we'll
filed lunch baskets showed that as
rule the anarchists have learned
that the best way to get the good
things of this world Is to go to work
and earn them, and not make muir
derous threats, tamper with dyna-
mite bombs or drink beer all day
and hold meetings at night In halls
draped with the red banners of an
archy.
The Importance of this lesson
should not be overlooked. 1t forms
in itself a magnificent tribute to the
stability of American institutions.
1t shows that in freedoms soil the
dangerous seeds of nihilism and an
archy soon die for want of nourish-
ment to feSd upon. The municipal
authorities of IA city have stamped
out danger that the whole power
of European governments is power
less to control. 1t shows that we
can assimilate dangerous elements
that would jeopardize the very ex-
istence of n monarchy. We can do
this with safety within certain lin.
its, hut the fact that we have taken
several thousand rampant anarch-
lists and made fairly good citizens OF
them Is no reason why we should
attempt the assimilation of too larg q
u proportion Of that dangerous ele-
ment.
This gratifying result could not
have been attained had 1t not been
for the hanging Of four of the ring
leadersof the movement and the trag-
ic suicide Of a fifth. Time has clearly
shown that the authorities hanged
the right men for the Haymarkct
murders. Sundays peaceful picnic
ought to prove that to the satisfac-
tion Of any doubters.
And still men can be found right
here in America, beneath the stars
and stripes, who declare that a
limited monarchy is a better and
safer form of government than a re-
public.
, 1890-09-11

considerable number of citizens
whose interests were not deeply in
terwoven with the oity's welfare.
The authorities Of Idaho ought to
take vigorous steps for tho protec-
ton OF the lives and earnings of the
workingmen who are engaged In
the useful labor Of building new
line Of railroad. Tho influences are
such that hundreds of men of the
best metal are apt to DO led astray
and started upon lifelong careers of
weakness and vice. Take the av-
erago youth, fresh from tho farm or
tho schoolroom, full Of enthusiasm
and largely controlled by an ex-
uberant flow Of animal spirits, and
turn him loose amid such surround
ings. and 1t would be surprising II
he should not yield to the danger
Of his associations and throw away
his earnings and the best years Of
his life. II is difficult to guide the
feet Of youth into safe and honor
able paths even with the assistance
of home influences. Turn them
loose In hotbeds of crime and vice
and the consequences become ter
rible
1t Is not pleasing to ride in luxu-
rious ease In a palace car over lines
of railroad and refie ct upon the
knowledge that the ease and con-
venience Of the public have been
bought with the price OF wrecked
lives. In such merge ncles It be-
comes the high duty Of the officials
In whose Jurisdiction this center Of
lawlessness and vice finds an exist
ence to consider we'll their respon-
sibillties and the consequences Of n
failure upon their part to meet their
highest duties.
, 1890-09-11

all the little thrusts that society,
even in New York, does from time
to time receive Mt the hands OF the
press.
The refinements and cultivated
enjoyments that are the natural ac-
cessorles Of wealth are the best and
highest delights Of purely material
existence. With great wealth
comes the power of attaining the
highest education Of oIr universi-
ties and those of Europe, and all the
Developments of art and science.
The best music OF the world, the
finest operas, the delights of leisure
ly and extended travel and wide
reading and all those luxuries and
ultra comforts of life that In proper
use conduce to the highest degree OF
vigor, heaithfulness and happiness
are free as air to the possessors OF
great wealth.
Yet, how unenviable are most
such. 1t Is constant surprise and
a never ending cause Of grief and
consternati that those who are at
the top notch of aristocracy, those
who have the blue blood of long
line of wealthy ancestry in their
veins are mainly the shallowest and
most frivolous of mortals. Not only
this, one might pass over the fop-
pishness and fads of the society OF
to-day, II there were underneath II
all groundwork Of sincerity and
character; but it's sad documentary
on human nature that the society OF
to-day Is breeder of vice, under the
white exterior ofunblemlshed stand
ing, and that young women are
brought up from the cradle with the
idea that love Is ridiculous, that the
main chance is everything, and that
Ii Is almost n crime not to sell them.
selves for money. The very words
fashionable young man." too, are
almost Synonymous with "unprinci-
pied, dissipated scion of a wealthy
family"
There is something in name, but
there Is more in absolute truth and
sincerity, and we must infer from
the incontrovertible facts that man
degenerates as his wants are more
easily supplied.
, 1890-09-11
THE MIS.SO URIAN.S

The gathering at North Yakima
of the Missouri clans in such sur
prising numbers ought to remind us
that we shall have to stop poking
fun at the Missourians. There are
many people from that fine old state
in our midst. and it is too much like
treading upon our own corns.
As a matter of fact, the Mis-
souri, Of tho present is quite
different from the Missouri
of ante-bcllum days. Aside from
politics the state bears strong re-
semblance to Washington. Its sur
face is diversified by prairles, hills,
mountains and forests, and in va
riety Of resources and products II is
second only to this state. Like
Washington 1t has rich mines of
iron, lead and coal, wide sweeping
forests, great watercourses and "A
diversity Of climate that Is product :
i've OF all the fruits and field prod
ucts common to the temperate zone.
There was time when Missouri
held within her broad borders a
great deal that was lawless and OBJ
jectionable. She sent good many
border rufiians into Kansas and a
few into the more distant West, but
conditions have undergone a marked
change there within the last quarter
of a century; intolerance 10 dying
out a new generation is in the sad
die, and to-day the state has one OF
the finest free school systems in the
United States. Old Pap Prices
army has done Its last fighting, and
has been scattered to the four cor
ners Of the earth and elsewhere, and
the James and Younger boys no
, 1890-09-11
A HOTBED OF VICE.

Away up at the base of the st.
Regis divide, within few miles of
the boundary line separating Idaho
from Montana, the town Of Potts
vile has sprung into existence, and
for wild deviltry and lawless acts 1t
bids fair to take place In the his
tory of Western railroad building
alongside that occupied by Jules
burg, the hurrah camp 80 notorious
twenty years ago, when the Union
Pacific was pushing its long iron
lines into the golden West.
A year ago the site now occupied
by Pottsville was one of natures
wild reserves. To-day it has become
the abode Of tinhorn gamblers, low
whisky dive keepers and fallen
women Of the most desperate stripe
social outcasts whom the inexor-
able laws of society and diseased
passion for gold have driven into
the wilderness. This degraded eie-
ment are there because several thou
sand hard working men are in that
vicinity, and because these men, un-
protected by the safeguards of So
ciety and unrestrained by the ties of
home and the beneficent influences
of good men and pure women, fall
an easy prey to their debasing and
deadly wiles. There they are given
the free swing that u coterle of cor
rupt politicians would like to give
them In this fair city of culture and
refinement, the license they were
given right here less than year
ago, before the law and order ele-
ment arose in their righteous wrath
and scattered them to the corners of
the earth, mover again to cast dark
cloud upon the moral and material
welfare of Spokane.
This vicious element gained q
foothold here after the great fire by
slow degrees, and In the hurry of re-
building the burnt district even the
better elements became deadened
somewhat to the enormi,y Of the
vice. This was natural enough, aud
ns that dangerous element robbed
and fieeced tho thousands of work.
ingmen In our midst and turned
their ill-gotten gains into the chan
nels of trade. they even fortified
themselves with the support Of =
, 1890-09-11
THE FROZEN NORTH

Another story comes from the re.
mote North of trials, dangers and
hardships endured by an undaunted
band of Arctic explorers in their
endeavor to add to the knowledge
already gained of the frozen lands
In that far region, which are, rs yet,
wrapped in mystery.
Early in the summer of 1889 an
exploring party, sent out by the
United States government, left San
Francisco for Alaska to locate the
l4lst parallel, the boundary line be-
tween Uncle Sans territory and
the British dominlons. The party
was under the command Of Lieu.
tenant McGrath, and they reached
Sitka In June Of last year.
The expedition Mt once started
North and nothing has since been
heard from the party until last Sat
urday, when word reached San
Francisco that they were still In
Alaska, and would remain there
this winter.
The story Of their wanderings is
but repetition Of what has already
been told 80 often concerning Arctic
explorers. Expecting a steamer to
bring supplies fprther up the coast,
McGrath, with but few stores, led
his party 1900 miles north of Sitka,
10 a region remote from any settle
meDt. and while watching for the
relief which never came---the vessel