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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
TOOK TWELVE SHOTS TO KILL HIM.
Mr.. Sterrett Had q Fight with Grizzly
Bear That He Will Not Forget Soon.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Aug. 5.-H. L..
Starrett has inst arrived from the Gunnison
country. where be has been all winter on
the TomIche creek. He tells story of an
escape from q grizzly bear which is re-
msrkable. About half mile from their
camp is q large slaughter house which 10
used to supply the miners with beef.
1t was learned early in the winter that .
bear came to the place every night after
there had been killing to eat the offal. 1t
was supposed to be a cinnamon bear. and
on several occasions men went to the
slaughter-house with the intention of kill
ing it. but they had never been able to
catch sight of it. One bright moonlight
night Sterrett remembered that a beef had
been killed that day. and he determined to
try his hand at the bear. The story is best
told in his own words:
IL took my 50-caliber rife and Cly As re-
volver, both fully loaded. Ii was about
O'Clock when l reached the place. There Is
board fence around the corral ten feet
high. | walked quietly around the corral
TO the dram; and as i turned the corner
saw something in the shadow. 1 was afraid
to shoot. for thought it might be one OF
the boys from the camp. so / got all ready
ont. for Pm going to shoot
Il hardly got the words out OF my mouth
when the immense brute swung around, as
you have probably seen bears do, and stood
with his side toward me for an instant,
looking as big asa OK. / thought he was
an awfully big cinnamon, but thought the
moonlight might possibly make him appear
larger than he really was.
las he turned brOadside on sent q ball
into him with my rifle. heard the bullet
strike him. and he gave a grunt and made q
few steps away. / shot again, and again
heard the thud OF the bullet. This turned
him, and he made Decline for me. /
pumped three more balls into him, and
then dropped the gun and ran TO the corral.
intending to climb the fence; but when
reached it found that the boards had been
placed perpendicularly, and it was impossi-
BILE tn climb them.
Il turned and faced the bear, which was
not more than fifteen yards away. 1 fired
the six shots from my revolver point blank
at mis- head as he came on. and could hear
every ball strike the brute. My last shot
was fired when he vas within five feet of
me, and 1t turned him and he staggered
away.
II ran to where had dropped my rife
and gave him one more shot directly back
of the shoulder, when he dropped. He had
six balls from the rifle and six from the re-
vOlver in him.
1T all occurred in much less time than it
has taken to tell IT. and when he fell was
so weak and faint that l could hardly
stand. sat watching him for about five
minutes, when the boys from the camp ar
1t was then discovered that the bear vas
an old grizzly and one of the largest ever
seen in. that region. He weighed over
thirteen hundred pounds"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
SIXTY PER CENT. ON THE FREE LIST.

To hear the free-trader talk, one
would think that the average of duties
collected under the present tariff law is
something enormous, for the reason
that he is constantly telling about the
tariff which imposes duty of GO per
cent. Nevertheless, in spite of all such
assertions, more than half the imports
in value now coming into the United
States are admitted free of duty. TOshow
that this is the case. let us take from
the report of the chief of the Bureau of
Statistics the values of the merchandise
free of duty and dutiable during the
last quarter of the fiscal year 1891. which
ended June 80, for examination, as fol-
lows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
CATHOLIC GIRLS REBEL.
Father Moore Imperatively Forbids Associs-
ton with Protestant Young Men.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. Aug. 5.-The Rev.
Father Moore. of the South Meridian
Roman Catholic Church. having forbidden
certain young women of his congregation
from keeping company with Protestant
young men. the matter has aroused con-
siderable excitement in that city. Father
Moore went SO far as to threaten 10 expel
them from the church should they persist
in so doing and Sunday refused the COM
munion to one of the offenders The priest
has written to one of the young men re-
questing him to cease his attentions TO
Roman Catholic girl. This young woman
says that Father Moore or any other man
could not stop ner from going with whom
she pleased: also that the other girls told
her that they bad not promised 20 give
their Protestant beaus up. Father Moore
says that some OF the youns women OF his
parish have promised TO give up their
Protestant young men rather than incur
the displessure of the church. Father
Moore added:
IL have been looking over the marriages
in this place and falesville for q number of
wears past and / have found records OF
twehty-three mixed marriages. By mixed
mean the union of Roman Catholic and
Protestant people. Such marriages tend 10
degenerate the faith on both Sides and as n
result generally end In inhdelity. of the
twenty-tbree marriages ! referred to, not a
child of any of them attends a church of
any description. The rules of the church
are decidedly against such unions. and /
see that at a recent gathering of Protestant
ministers IN New York they passed resolu-
tons 10 the same effect or did something
similar to put a stop TO these so-ealled
mixed marriages. The Roman Catholic
Church permits no snch marriages. unless
under special dispeDsation ana a written
statement from the Protestant 10 allow the
Catholic TO follow the teachings OF our
church.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
Totals ,746.356 $119,I24

TOTALS --.---..SSf,|4o,ooo $llS,lZ4,Soo
Of these countries we purchased $91,-
37S,6 $3.50 more of merchandise than we
sold them. This is very large amount
of money to be paid as balance where
it is possible to pay in merchandise, as
we can under the arrangements which
give the products of the United States
a great advantage over those of our COM
petitors. But if there are those who
sheer at the prediction of large trade
by reason of the new arrangements, they
understand the facts. Even the New
York Evening Post confesses that the
trade reports show large increase in the
exports of iron goods from this country
to Brazil. Before the treaty with Spain
was announced. commercial bodies in
New York cOmplimented the adninistra-
ton upon the work it had accomplished.
But the most significant testimony to the
effectiveness of the administration policy
comes from foreign sources. The attempt
prevent the ratification of the treaty
which gives the United States so decided
advantage in the markets of Cuba is
important testimony. The constant
alarm expressed by British and European
newspapers over the prospect of the
immediate loss of their trade with Bra
zil and Cuba is conclusive testimony. A
Boston paper recently gave the views of
German in the South American trade.
i'm which he declared that the policy of
the United States had made the country
to the south part of it," and that the
control of the trade by United States
producers was but a question of short
time, as such difference as is made in
favor of American production by the
reciprocity agreements puts European
competitors out of the race. The Ger
man said that his and other houses
would continue in business, but they
would be compelled to buy their goods
in the United States, for the reason that
when the discrimination in the import
duties was taken into consideration
Americans offered the best terms. Reel
prOcity is the great hit of the age in
American craftsmanship and diplomacy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
Not Stuck on Bynum.

And now comes Bynum. the grass burner.
who says that, after mature reflection and
to believe that reciprocity is humbug. q
fraud and sham. This. of course. do settle
it, and now it will be in order for the Dem
ocratic press, big and little, TO take back
every good thing they ever said about reel
procity. OF. better still. deny that they
ever said it. Only yesterday, as IL were.
this same press was singing in chorus that
reciprocity WAS free trade and they wanted
more Of it. but now Bynum, the only By
mum. swsars that itslsIe fraud. andi of
course Bynum knowa If we owed the
devil one hundred demagOgues of the most
detestable sort. and if his satanic majesty
refused to take Bynun for the entire lot,
We should always think he was trying to
beat Us in an underhanded manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

thousand votes. Monday night, after
the election. the leaders of the new
party. just from Kentucky, predicted in
Cincinnati vote of at least forty thou
sand and the control of the Legislature.
1t now turns ont that its vote is about
one fourth of that number. and that, by
the aid of other factions. the new party
has one Senator and q dozen members
of the House. And yet, with such a
failure, those fellows will continue to
predict that they will cast a million
votes next year and carry several States.
For cheerfulness they eclipse Mark
Tapley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
S94.SS4.423
S131,s33,s26

These figures prove that during the
last quarter of the last fiscal year nearly
go per cent of the value of merchandise
imported into this country did not pay
cent of duty. 1t is probable. however,
that in future the preponderance of free
goods will not be so large as during the
quarter quoted, as April was the first
month of free sugar and the imports
were unusually large; but it is safe to
assume the accuracy of the prediction
of Major Mckinley and others in the
House, when the present tariff act was
under consideration, that half of the
imports would be admitted, should it
become law, free of duty. In this con-
nectiOn it may be observed that, during
the corresponding quarter of the previ-
Gus fiscal year, only Sale per cent. of the
value of the merchandise imported was
on the free list. The difference between
go and 34l2 per cent, upon which no
duty is paid, is very marked one. and
a very essential one when it is remem-
bered that the difference includes sugar.
And yet it must always be borne in
mind the free trader will never present
such facts az these to the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
THE GREAT SUCCESS OF RECIPROCITY.

The only people in this country who
now attempt to belittle the reciprocity
policy and achievements of the admins
tration are a few alleged statesmen OF
the Bynum variety, who are too bigoted
to study facts and too wise in their own
conceit to heed the opinions OF listen to
the experience of practical men. Of
course, there are the free-trade organs.
which accept the views of the Golden
Club leaders and ignore facts and ex-
perience, but such organs are no longer
taken into account by intelligent people.
The fact that the administration policy
ia proving a great success and is sure to
bring the people of this country an i'm
mepse trade is so positive fact that no
candid man of intelligence can refuse to
admit it. Since the passage of the tariff
act, Oct. 2, 1890, reciprocal treaties and
trade arrangements have been concluded
with Brazil, Cuba and Porto Rico, and
San Domingo. During the last fiscal
year our trade with those countries ag-
gregated $146,S71, 342, and was divided
into exports and imports as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
Anew days ago one William Fielding

A FEW days ago one William Fielding
plunged a chisel into the back of a little
child in Providence, r. |. In the course
developed that the culprit came to this
country two and half years ago from
an English reformatOry. where he was
under sentence for five years, but was
released at the expiration of four years
on condition that he would emigrate to
the United States. 1t would be well for
the commissioners now in Europe, who
are investigating immigration, to ascer-
tain, if possible, how far the system of
exporting criminals to the United States
nreyails
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

The Chicago Inter Ocean suggests
that in the event that Germany persists
in its unreasonable policy of excluding
American hog products from its markets
much longer. the President exercise the
power given him in the meat-inspection
law and prohibit the importation of
German sugars to this country. which
amounted to over $15, Zoo, 900 in value
during the last fiscal year. A large
number of American citizens share the
Inter Oceans feeling in favor of such a
responsive" policy on the part of this
government.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

CONSUL BOOKER, who rep
resents the British government at the
port of New York, has recently made a
report to his superiors at home regard
ing the effects of the Mckinley tariff
act. Consul Booker is free-trader,
but in his official report he is, unlike the
free trade editor, bound to state facts.
In his report the consul general says:
Influenced by the new and higher duties
afforded for the benefit of American manu-
featuring interests, new life has been i'm
parted to the cotton. wooden, wOrsted and
knit underwear industry. Everywhere, es-
pecially in the Southern States new textile
mills have been going up with surprising
activity, and all the old corporations have
been operated on full time. AS rule, all
the cotton-mills have had a year of unusual
activity. and the goods have found ready
sale generally. The wOrsted-gOods IN
dustry has been marked by fresh life since
the new tariff has TO great extent cut Oft
the importation of the lowest grades of such
goods. Ali the old factories have started
up and are making goods on safe orders,
and new mills are being erected by Eu-
ropean and British capitalists with view
to manufacturing finer class of dress
goods. etc, than ever before has been pro-
duced in this country. The wooden goods
industry, apart from ladies' cloths does not
show any perceptible sign of Improvement,
but keeps on slow. steady gait apart from
carpetngs and wooden underwear. Both
of the latter Industries have been usually
busy during the last SIX months. at fairly
profitable prices.
There could not be any more positive
and conclusive testimony regarding the
efficacy of the Mckinley law as pro-
moter of home industry, which was one
of the leading objects of its enactment.
Being English, it may be hoped that
some of the trade organs which are
trying to discount the good effects of
the Mckinley law will give it place in
their columns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

THE old argument that women are
not entitled to political rights because
they cannot be soldiers seems to have o
less substantial foundation than for
merry. At all events, if women cannot
fight in war time, they can and do join
the army in time of peace, and display
great activity in the service. Think
what the G.. A. r. would be without its
Woman's Relief Corps, and consider the
female bands" and girl cadets that
marched with the Veterans in Detroiti
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

WHAT an cutlery there would be if one
of the first suits brought under the anti
trust law, passed by the last Congress,
should put Calvin s. Brice, chairman of
the Democratic national committee, in
the position of defendant. Those who
have been looking up the matter assert
that the proceedings of the firm of Brice.
Thomas q Mckee in forcing other mine
operators and creating a monopoly by
IFS connection with the railroads consti-
tute an unlawful conspiracy. At least,
Circuit Judge Kay. of Tennessee. has SO
deeida1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06


THE president of the Georgia Farm
ers' Alliance. Congressman-elect Liv-
ingston, was indiscreet enough, while
making a speech in Topeka, Kan, to
inject into it the following bit of sec
tiOnal partisanship:
want to take strong ground against the
infamous pension swiDdle. Throughout
the North see lots of lazy, healthy bum
mers, able bodied and able to work. and
who should be at work on the farms, and
would be there were il not that they are
supported in idleness by q pension. They
are no better than our ex-confederates, who
are compelled TO earn their living by man.
uaI labor. and are therefore a much more
self-respecting lot OF fellows. Had our
Southern Alliance the power we would
abolish all pensions. The war has been
over more than twenty years, and our
Southern people won't stand this swlndle
any longer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

would surpass those of foreign countries
lin heavy ordnaneel and make o more dur
This has actually been accomplished.
Those. therefore. who have raised such q
howl over the duty on tin. and who have so
confidently predicted the failure of every
effort to make American tin plate, had bet
ter hedge at once and be prepared, on short
notice. to say II told you So"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

corresponding approval of it among their
wives. Inasmuch as the drinkers are
voters, with the power to unmake Offend
ing councilmen, there is no probability
that the ordinance will pass; still. when
the large income that would accrue to
the public treasury from such source is
considered, the city law-givers may be
tempted to risk il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

Madison Courier
for Mayor in Indianapolis is recollected
here as the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in 1872. Mr.. Herod is one of the
ivost men in the State. He 10 hustler oft
"a well AS on the stump. No one can tell q
story better or mingle with the people
more genially. But. higher than this,
HerOd is fine lawyer. an upright citizen,
q thorough Republican and man in every
way admirably qualified to preside over
the municipal affairs of q great and grow
ing metropolis-sueh as the beautiful cap
ital of Indiana is to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
joynnent.

Tue Louisville Courier-Journal esti-
mates the Democratic plurality in Ken
tucky between $4,000 and $4,000, but the
Commercials figures and estimates.
which seem more reliable, make it less
than 10 5O0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

THE independent New York Adver-
tiser, after reviewing the record of bru-
tally and homicide which appeared in
Mondays papers, would like to know
whether there "was any general cause
other than mere human wickedness,
coupled with rum, opportunity and idle
ness" The trinity-rum. opportunity
and idleness-is fearful one, and idle
ness is scarcely the least of the three
anils
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

ONE cause of general complaint is the
deplorable condition which the present
city regime has permitted the streets to
get into. They seem to have been to-
tally neglected and to be left to the
mercy of every one who cares to dig
them up, leaving ridges or hollows, and
making reservoirs for stagnant water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

DESPITE the displeasure expressed by
the News, large number of citizens of
Indianapolis, whose names are not pleas
ing to its cultivated ears, will take loud
part in the municipal campaign on the
Republican side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
A Record Smasher.

WashnRton Gazette.
In q recent issue the New York Mail and
Express devoted three pages to the admins
istration of President Harrison. 1t is a re-
port of the work accomplished by the vari-
Gus departments of the government of the
United States. Every thing is taken up
piecemeal, and q summary shows the work
of the administration to be. as the Mail
and Express puts it, "record-smashing
era for clean government. practical results
and business methods"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

ONE of the Democratic editors in the
State, believing that the report that the
editor of the Sentinel favored the single
tax theory was incorrect, addressed an
inquiry to the editor relative thereto
and received the following reply:
INDIANAPOLIS. July 10, 1891
Editor Democrat-Th Sentinel has never
advocated the single tax. In one article.
published about year ago, 1t pointed out
the impossibIlity of collecting taxes oil q
great deal of personal property. and 1T has
spoken with respect of Mr.. George and
others engaged IN the single-tax movement.
But it has never committed itself to single
tax doctrine In any way. As the new law
provides for the assessment of personal
property that was never assessed before,
such as franchises, natural gas plants, etc,
any one can see that instead OF being
step in the direction OF the single tax. it
really goes tho opposite way.
The editor Of the paper, to convince
his readers that the Sentinel had been
slandered, printed the above letter. but
the contemporary Of that paper seems to
have Sentinel scrap book, from which
it quotes, that "those who read, and OBJ
serve, and think, are becoming more
strongly convinced every day that the
taxation of personal property every
where and under all circumstances is a
fraud" and further that "the tax on per-
sonal properly ought to be wholly re-
pealed.n And again the following quota
ton is made:
The prospect is that the system of pri-
vate property in land will remain as il is,
for some generations. at least. hut that all
taxes. at least for State and local purposes
Except such as NAV be derived from the
sale of franc hises) will, in the near future,
be laid upon land.
In view of these and other quotations,
the Republican contemporary is of the
opinion that the Sentinel does not keep
Sentinel scrap book.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

THE Sentinel, if it is prudent. will
keep very quiet about saloon-keepers.
But for them. their influence and contri-
buttons, the Democratic party would
not, to use the phrase of Mayor Sullivan,
ELL horse-car" in this city. 1t isn't
nice for the Sentinel to sheer at saloon
keepers i'm view of that fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

ACCORDING to all accounts the veter-
ans have had good time at Detroit.
Remembering the hard times they once
had, everybody will be glad of their en-
invnapt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
Method I'm Her Madness.

"But are you not taking considerable risk in
letting your young men owe two or three weeks
bOardl"
EYES, there is some risk" answered Mrs. Hash
croft But then, you see, they worry over it so
that they lose their appetites. So save money
in the long run"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06
An Unusual Complaint.

Anderson Bulletin
The scarcity of small money is working q
great Inconvenience to business. for it is
hardly possible to get enough change to
carry on the line of everyday trade. Peo-
pie with fives, tens and twenty dollar bills
that they want broke" are seen almost
any time chasing from one store to another
and from bank to bank. Silver seems to
have vacated the city to make room for
paper money of larger denominations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

PERHAPS the reason the mugwump
and Democratic organs hesitate to call
upon Senator Brice to resign grows out
of their knowledge of how much money
the Office cost him. If their zeal for re-
form extended to the length of offering
to make MP the financial outlay to the
New York Senator for Ohio, he might be
willing To let 90.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-06

SENATOR STEWART, o. Nevada, who
has been dencuncing the demonetiza-
ton of silver by Congress az the crime
of the nineteenth century, has been
shown by an Eastern paper that he was
in the Senate and agreed to it, or per-
mitted it to be done without protest.