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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
The Old Pathfinder.

A mistake in government bookkeeping
did it, and the mistake was made in the
treasury department at Washington forty
years ago. In consequence of this it was
made to appear that Gen. John c. Ere
mont owed the government SIS, 900. The
thought Of this debt has been the life
misery Of the general and his brave and
lovely wife. It is true he could not
make out how it was that he was in debt
to the United States, but the govern
ment auditing experts said he was, and
it must be so. It has hung like mill
stone about his neck all these years.
Now it turns out that it was miser-
able error, an error Of the government
accountants, and Gen. Fremont did not
owe the United States cent. On the
contrary, when the books were rectifed,
it was found that the United States
owed Gen. Fremont $21, 900 in money,
and more than it can by any possibility
pay him in the suffering it has caused
him. Nice lot of clerks were in the
treasury department forty years ago!
And it is not much better now in other
departments. Not session of congress
passes that bills are not printed, and are
on the point of becoming laws, with
serious mistakes in them, mistakes usu-
ally of copying clerks. Too many of
these clerks are of the kind for whom
places are got in the departments at
Washington because they have not abil-
ity to get a living on their own account.
In one day Gen. Fremont's triple good
fortune came to him like sunburst.
He was appointed retired major general
with full pay, and his supposed debt of
$4,000 to the government was changed
into $21, 900 that the government owed
him. All this good news was brought
to him at once. It was more than he
could bear, and the aged hero fell back
in dead faint when he heard of it. But
what pity all his good fortune waited
till he was n years old before it came
to him.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
Aluminium Ships.

It is quite probable that by the begin
ming of the Twentieth century inven-
tons will be completed which will make
aluminium as cheap as iron. Then will
come such revolution in the industrial
world that people will thank Providence
they have been permitted to live in such
a time Of wonder.
Already aluminium is as cheap = H.
metal nickel. This is because Of Ameri-
can inventions for extracting it from
clay. By and by the supreme moment
will come when science will Weld to per.
sistent effort the grand secret altogether.
Then will be seen mountains of this beam
tiful metal. Houses glittering like Alad-
din's palace will be built Of it. The,
will not burn, they will not rust, they
will need no paint.
The greatest revolution, however, win
be in marine commerce. Ships win be
built Of this splendid metal instead Of
iron or steel. It is only one-quarter a
heavy as iron, therefore win only sink
slightly into the water. Where now
harbors must have water thirty feet deep
to accommodate our monstrous ocean
steamers, seven or eight feet will be all
that is required to float aluminium ships
of the same size. Car wheels and cars
made of aluminium will flash in burn
ished splendor, with never a break or
rust.
What sight it will be, the navies of
the world, built of aluminium, darling
like birds hither and thither in their shin
ing evolutions. It may yet be that before
the new United States is navy finished
we shall hear of the building of fast
aluminium cruisers The problem of the
navigation of our shallow American
rivers will be solved without appropria-
tons from congress, for this kingly
metal can be made into machinery and
serve any purpose that iron now does,
and steamboats, drawing three feet of
water will answer every purpose Most
wonderful Of all, however, are the pos
sibilities that loom up in the magma
ton. in respect to air navigation. Ma
chinery made Of this light, strong metal
can be put into air ships, and will not be
too heavy to be held aloft while it pro-
pels them.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

Fifty years ago a young countryman
from Vermont went to Boston to try hi,
fortunes. He hit upon the idea of estab.
fishing a parcel carrying business be.
tween Boston and New York, he being
responsible for the safety of the parcels.
His patronage was not large. At first
he carried all the parcels he had between
the two cities in his carpet bag, and
there was not more than money enough
to pay his travelling expenses, hardly
that sometimes. The young country
mans name was Alvin Adams, and this
May the Adams Express company cele-
brates it's fiftieth anniversary. It has a
capital of $12,0OC,O 900, carries parcels to
every state and territory in the Union,
and keeps 1900 wagons, 5000 horses and
10000 men busy the year round Is not
this good story?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
The Jute and Irvine Trust.

A company has been organized in
Des MOines under the name of 1.-The
Alliance Twine Company" for the
purpose of manufacturing and estab-
fishing factories to manufacture Cot
ton Bagging and binders Irvine
from marsh grass.
1t is almost impossible for those
who have not seen it to realize what
an exceedingly strong, smooth and
soft bagging is made from this
hitherto worthless material. It is in
every way superior to iute, and the
means for manufacturing it so sim
pie and inexpensive that competition
in price is altogether out of the
question.
The grass requires no special hand
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

HEIBERG, June 24Jn, 1o9O.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
My DEAR SIR.-In reply to your
call for a campaign fund would say
that have no cash, but if it would
help the problem any I will give a
chattle mortgage on the last horse
that l have got that there isn't a
mortgage on. Five dollars for each
farmer is not a drop in the bucket
compared with the robbery that we
are laboring under on our wheat
crop. Last year lost at least $3.50
through trickery. So five dollars
would be we'll spent, if it would help
to break the slave chain.
P. s. OLSON.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

BENEDICTIONs FROM WARM HEARTS.
MENTOR, Mimi, June Oath, 80.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
After having read the GREAT WEST
for some time, we have come to the
conclusion that it is the best and on
ly paper for our farmers.
Our alliance is an enthusiastic and
working one, and it has found the q.
w. IAN inspiration" Our prayer is
"God bless you in your work."
G. II. TRIP,
Secretary Mentor Alliance, No. 5e4'
WORTHINGTON, Mimi,
June Oath, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Enclosed find postal note for SOC.
for which please send me another
copy of Caesars Column, cheap edi-
ton. After reading the book find
it of very great interest and impor-
tance, and have interested others in
it. Every farmer and working man
ought to read the book by all means,
as a warning to the people. 1t is
superior to anything that has ever
yet been published. NJ. DORNE.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
Dakota County Alliance.


The following are the names OF the
officers of some of the alliances or.
ganized last week by Mr.. Donnelly, in
Dakota County:
LEBANON ALLIANCE: Edward
Dunn, President; John Dunn, Vice
President; John Lester, Secretary
Daniel Delaney, Treasurer.
huntsville ALLIANCE: Lewis
Judd, President; James Corrigan,
Vice President; Edward Kennedy,
Secretary; John F. Fahey, Treasurer
CASTLE Rock ALLIANCES. G. H.
Wager, President; Rev. John Batson,
Vice President Oscar Tuorson, Sec
rotary, Henry Pryor, Treasurer.
EAST CASTLE Rock ALLIANCE: J.
C. Dawson, President; Temple C.
Child, Vice President: John Ferris,
Secretary; Mrs. George McNeal,
Treasurer.
LAKEv1LL ALLIANCE: T. O'Leary,
President; Joseph Barres, Vice Presi-
dent; James Dryer, Secretary, and
Otto Alderman, Treasurer.
VERM1LL1oN ALLIANCE: Nichols
Clotz, President; Henry Greis, Vice
President; Edward N. Wallerins, Sec
rotary, and Joseph A. Wagner,
Treasurer.
He also organized an Alliance at
Miesville, but the names of the Of
ficers have not been received at this
Office. He also started the work OF
organizing an Alliance in Welsh
township, Goodhue County and at
Inver Grove, Dakota County.
This gives II alliance in Dakota
County. The whole county will be
organized before fall.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
BijOu Hills Times:

Bijou Hills Times:
The Sioux City Journal gives ex-
preston to self evident truth when
it said that the farmers movement
wou d not down and that it comes
out of conditions that have got to
be corrected" The discussions
that have been going on in the sub
ordinate lodges OF the Alliance dur
ing the last year or two have opened
the eyes of farmers to the fact that
they have been the dupes of design
ing men, and that the financial legis-
lation has been in favor of money
and against the farmers and laborers.
This error must be corrected. Law
must be made SO that the men who
labor and produce the wealth shall
be able to enjoy it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

Perhaps it viii feed our national pride
TO know that the greatest burglar the
world has known is an American, Will
lam Porter. But even he got caught at
last, and his native country is to mourn
his absence for many years to come. Mr..
Porter is in cruel gaol in France.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

BY very large majority the presby-
teries of the United States have decided
in favor Of revision of the catechism. Il
is little odd that those voting most sol.
idly against revision were colored Pre-
byterians Of the south. Negroes 5are
eminently conservative in theology.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

It costs so fine and six months inn
prisonment to ''savagely beat and almost
kill" chief Of police at Plymouth, Pa.
Material for chiefs Of police must be a
drug in the market at Plymouth.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

The Farmers Alliance of st. joseph.
Mo-, have a large contract. They have
undertaken to bull the wheat market.
They propose to build great elevator,
fill it with wheat and keep the grain
there till it reaches a dollar q bushel.
The plan seems all right, but perhaps it
won't work.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

There is plenty Of ice in New England
to supply the whole country. The river
banks are crowded with ice houses.
There is thus no reason why the price Of
ice should 60 up to an exorbitant rate
If the price continues as it has been
doing, the thing to do in self defense
will be to turn about and freeze out the
ice men. 1t can be done by the manu-
facture of artificial ice. This industry
has at length been brought almost to
perfection, the only lack being small
machine suitable for individual families
and diaries. But that, too, will come in
time.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

Il nothing happens Kansas will have
great boom agriculturally this year.
Winter wheat has nearly recovered
from the frost and comes out strong.
Spring wheat is in splendid condition,
oats, rye, hay, grass and apples ditto.
Now, if prices are only such next fall
that Kansas farmers will not find it
most economical to burn their corn for
fuel, then many mortgages will be paid
off.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

IDLEwILD. Mimi, June 23d, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT West:
Enclosed please find series of reso-
lutions passed by our alliance last
meeting, and which they desired to
have published in the GREAT WEST.
Lincoln County is ripe for indepen-
dent political action, although not
so strong in other parts perhaps as
in our alliance, as indicated by the
resolutions. We expect to put in a
full county ticket, and a convention
to nominate candidates for the legis-
lature is called to meet at Marshall.
Lyon County, on July 1st.
c. C. HATCHARD,
Secretary 80.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04

Letter on Campaign work from
Mentor is a good one-crowded out
this week.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
Resolutions Of 80.

eve WILL VOTE 1T TO A MANI"
WHEREAS, The Minnesota State
Farmers Alliance in convention as
sembled in March last adopted a
constitution and declaration OF prin-
ciples, said declaration OF principles
containing measures OF reform needed
to raise burdens now bearing heavily
upon the farmers of this state, be it
therefore,
RESOLVED, That Shaokatan Farm
ers' Alliance, No. 80; do heartily
endorse said constitution and decla-
ration of principles, and advise the
calling of the state alliance in special
session, not to "discuss the propriety
OF taking Independent political &C
tion," but to nominate a full state
ticket.
RESOLVED, That the candidates for
the several Offices be chosen from the
alliance and other reform Organiza-
tions.
RESOLVED, That we will vote that
ticket to a man if we can get to the
polls on election day.
RESOLVED, That in view of the
vote of our congressman on the Nc
Kinley tariff bill, we desire a man
nominated for congress who will vote
as he talks.
WHEREAS: A call has been issued
for a union convention OF all the re-
form forces OF the United States to
meet at st. Louis on the third day of
September 1890, for the purpose of
forming a new political party be it
therefore,
RESOLVED, Thatit is the opinion OF
Shaokatan Alliance No. 80, that
the Minnesota State Farmers ALI
ance should be represented at said
convention, and that the executive
committee select delegates from their
number to represent us, or in the
event of the State Alliance being called
in special session they be chosen by
the alliance.
We heartily second this resolution,
and believe the matter should be TAX
en- up on the 16th-by all means.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
ACaII to Organize District Alliance
in the Third Congressional District.

49,
A meeting will be held in Glencoe
Thursday, July 10th, at IL A. NJ,
for the purpose of organizing a dis
trict alliance and transacting such
other business as may properly come
before the meeting after it is organ
ICED. Representation of subordinate
alliances will be one delegate and
one alternate, the same as at the
state alliance, only one will be en-
titled to vote, but both to take part
in discussions that may take place.
. 1t is hoped that all alliances in the
Third district will be represented by
delegates, or at least send a letter
to James Phillips, Glencoe, Mimi. CIV
ing the expression of their alliance
as to the advisability Of organizing
q district alliance and taking indie
pendent political action.
Delegates will report at city hall,
Glencoe, on arrival.
HAMLIN V. POoRE.
Vice President Third Cong. District.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-27
PROGRAMME OF THE SENATE.
The Republican Caucus Maps Out &
Line of Procedure.

The Republican Caucus Maps Out a
Line of Procedure.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-A brief caucus
of the republican senators was held this
morning at which the order of business
arranged by the committee appointed at the
recent conference was approved. The pro-
gramme includes the dependent pension bill
administrative customs bill, land forfeiture
bill, Jones' silver bill and bills for the ad-
mission of territories to the union of states
Besides these, there will occur a debate on
the Montana election case, which will be
called up next Monday.
An effort was made to put the worlds
fair bill on the programme, but as it was
intended to include only measures now
pending in the Senate, the effort was un-
successful. IL was determined to pass an
order fixing IL o'clock as the time of meet
ing of the Senate.
There was some talk about an electio n
law, the general opinion being favorable o
the enactment of some measure to regulate
national elections. No conclusion was
reached, however, some senators believing
it to be better plan to await the action OF
the House on the subject before taking any
steps themselves in the preparation or con-
sideration of the bill.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-27
POPE LEO AND THE KAISER.
Tho Correspondence Between Thel
on tho Labor Conference

Tho Correspondence Between Them
on the Labor Conference.
BERLIN, March 20 The Reichsaneeiger
publishes the letters that passed betweel.the
Emperor William and the pope ON the sub
ject of the labor conference. The emperor's
letter. in which he inclosed the programme
of the conference, announces that Bishop
Kopp has been appointed delegate, and says
the emperor knows that Bishop KoDp is
thoroughly imbued with the l0pe's ideas
and will materially contribute to the success
Of the humanitarian work
The pope in reply congratulates En-
peror William upon taking the field for
rosolute effort in "a worthy cause which
meets the pope's heartiest wishes. After
alluding to encyclical dealings with the
social question, the pope says he recognizes
the high value OF an attempt to settle
the questions by an international con-
ference; appreciates the emperor's ac-
acknowledgement OF the great efficacy Of
religion and the church IN the solution of
social questions; hopes that the church's
servants will be supported by the authori-
ties in the exercise Of their functions in
connection with social questions; warmly
wishes the conference success; expresses
qualification at the appointment of Bishop
Kopp, and concludes with cordial wishes
for the welfare Of the emperor and his
family
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-27
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.
A Nationalist Succeeds Mr.. Bigga
A Conservative Victory.

A Nationalist Succeeds Mr.. Biggar.
A Conservative Victory.
LONDON. March 90. The election in the
Ayr district, comprising Oban, Irvine, Ayr,
Campbelltown and Inverary, TO fill the
vacancy in the House Of Commons caused
by the resignation of Capt. John Sinclair,
home ruler, took place yesterday. The con-
servative candidate, MIR. Somerville, re-
ceived 2,610 votes against 2,450 for Mr..
Rutledge, liberal. At tho last election Mr..
Ashley, liberal unionist, received 2, ,268 votes
and MIR. Sine lair 1881.
BIGGAR's SUCCESSOR.
DUBLIN, March 26.-Vezey Knoz, nation
alist, was to-day elected to the seat in the
House of Commons for the west division OF
county Kavan, made vacant by the death Of
Mr.. Biggar. There was no opposition.
MAKES THE STANDARD FEEL GOOD.
LONDON, March q, 3 A. M--The Stand
ard says the result Of the Ayr election is a
fitting subject for congratulation for
unionists Of all shades of opinion, and that
it skaters the falacious science of by
elections which Mr.. Gladstone raised on the
Ayr election Of 1885
The Daily Neles says that while the result
is disappointing, there is no cause for dis
couragement.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-27
ALLIANoEMEN IN POLITICS.
President Polk Warns Congressme mer
to Fall Into Line.

HEGSlO6nb EOlk w aTuS SOuST666m6u
to Fall Into Line.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-President Polk,
Of the National Farmers Alliance, is pre-
pairing to appear shortly with other repre-
sentatives of the alliance before the con-
gressional committee to which was referred
in advocacy Of the alliance the bill to provide
for receiving deposits Of crops from the
farmers in government store houses. This
is the only measure yet formulated by the
alliance. President Polk says it must be
passed or some better bill in the same line,
or the men who vote against it must
look to themselves He is not here,
he saws, to threaten or to lobby, but
to present their duty clearly to these
servants of the people. He says the alliance
is rapidly extending northward and will
within year spread over New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan,
giving 6 national character to the farmers
state organizations in their states. 1t will
also acquire the strength Of the New Eng
land farmers league. IL will then hold the
balance Of power politically in twenty three
states, and while II is non-partisan will use
It's powers 10 advance its measures.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-27
FIXING UP THE TARIFF.

Hides Restored to the Free List-The
Duty on Jute Ragging Increased.
WASHINGTON, March 26.-Taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity afforded by the
debate in the House on the Wyoming DILL,
the republican members of the ways and
means committee spent the entire day in
consultation and hearing recommends
tions touching the tariff bill. The dis
cussion touched upon acids, oils, borax,
copper and nickel, hides, and large
number Of other subjects. A delegation of
brewers and masters from Oswego OBJ
jected to an increased duty ON Canadian
barley, New York city delegation lodged
an earnest protest against the proposed in
crease Of the duty Oh fine linen from 35 to
so per cent, and anumber of representative
glovers urged the committee to stick
to the provisions Of the present law as it
affected gloves, but to add some safeguards
against undervalustion. The principal
action Of the day was reconsideration of the
decision to tax hides and they have been
restored to the free list. The duty on iute
bagging was also increased.
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS AROUSED.
New York, March 26.-An important
meeting of manufacturers of clear Havana
cigars was held this afternoon at the Office
street, with Pascino Lozano in the chair, to
consider the course Of action to be taken
upon the proposed schedule for taxes on
tobacco included in the Mckinley tariff
bill, now before the ways and means COM
mittee of the house. Resolutions were
passed asserting that the adoption
of the schedule was inimical to
the interest of this section Of trade to such
an extent that it would drive manufactur-
ers of clear Havana out of the trade by the
competition of those making q lower grade
of cigars. A committee composed of w.
Barnett of this city, Joseph Seidenburg Of
Key West, and A. Mauerera of Tampa,
Fla, was appointed to go to Washington
to protest against the passage of the bill
with the schedules regarding tobacco as it
stands at present.
POLITICAL ACT.
By putting hides back on the free list the
committee disregard the vote by which the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
said tnat it wished the proposed tax on
hides to remain in the bill, and respect in
stead the voice of the Massachusetts repub-
lican congressman, who testified that Mas
sachusetts would 60 democratic If it should
not be taken off. The vote stood to 2.
Chairman Mckinley not voting. The two
who held out were Messrs. Gear and Lafol.
lette
Some time was spent in discussing the
sugar question. It was determined to
change the rates from ad valorem to specific.
The rate of reduction will probably be de-
creased on refined and partially refined
sugars from 65 per cent. to % per cent.