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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-18

SPURenoss's- parents we're humble
people q usstoh extraction.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Sir William Gordon Cumming, the expert
London baccarat player, is soon to sail for
America to pay a visit to his brother in Da-
kota.
Count Herbert Bismarck has had a amo
present. The ancestral estate. where the
iron chancellor was born, Sohonhausen.
Msgdeburg, Prussian Saxony, has been
given him by his father.
The car il credited with these words
when the closer alliance with France was
pressed upon him recently: "If they could
only have one Of my brothers for emperor
the alliance would be concluded speedily"
The young Visoount Belgrave, grandson
of the Duke Of Westminster, will, On his
twenty-ffth birthday, be the richest man
in the world. At that suspicious time his
income will be not far from $4,000 u day,
a reasonably good start in life, ~ money
goes, one would say.
Thirty years ago. NJ. Worth, the great
man milliner Of Paris, WAS a salesman In
the employ OF II large London firm. He
went to Paris at the age Of twenty-four.
taking bat a few pounds in money. but an
excellent capital in the way of brains.
energy, taste and ambition. He now en-
ploys 1, 200 workers, and, during the famine
days of the commune. he generously denied
himself in order to care for seventy poor
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08
people. He 10 q man of cultivated tastes,
and haa a rara oolla0fion of old china.

people. He ID a man of cultivated tastes,
and has a rare collection of old china.
Mrs. Henry Mascot is one OF twelve
women who keep butcher shops in New
York city, but her establishment surpasses
all the others in the %neatnessa and good
taste of its appointments. All the vege-
table tables and counters, rs we'll as the fish
stands, have marble tops; the walls are
finished in a handsome pistachio green;
the cutting block is q model of neatness.
and there is an air Of wholesomeness about
the place which is very pleasant to the lady
customers at least. Mrs. Mascot allows
herself one decidedly feminine comfort in
the shape of a handsome plate glass
mirror overhead. She has two desks snd
a massive safe Of which she alone knows
the combination.
Froken Minna Telenius, from Finland,
who the other day committed suicide at a
Copenhagen hotel, ID the third authoress
who within some two or three years has
taken her own life in the Danish capital.
The two others were Fru Victoria Benedict
sson. the we'll known Swedish lady writer.
better known under her nom de plume az
Ernst AhlRren, and the young Danish lady,
Froken AIDA Roonkilde. Literature moi
having brought them the fame or the sue.
cess they expected, they were unable to
bear the disappointment. None had, how
ever, shown more determination than the
young Finnish lady who ended her life the
other day. She had arranged everything
with wonderful GOODNESS and dressed her
self in white before taking tho deadly
poison.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

The new city charter will not be
adopted unless it's friends work for it.
Experience has demonstrated that little
popular interest is manifested il special
elections at which no candidates are
voted for. The friends Of the charter
should form committees in every ward
in the city and see that voters are inter-
ested to go to the polls. The time is
short and prompt work is necessary.
The new charter will be printed this
week in time for everybody to thorough
" study it's provisions. We believe it's
adoption will give the city an impetus
in every direction.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

One OF the most foolish acts Of the
last congress was the passing OF the
direct tax bill which refunds 10 the
states about sl5,oOO,OO0 collected from
their citizens as an emergency war fund
in 1862. The tax was undoubtedly un-
constitutional, but the restitution OF
the money to the people from whom it
was taken is impossible, and it will so
into various state treasures where 1T
does not belong. President Cleveland
vetoed the refunding bill for this reason,
and he was right. To take this $15,0OO,-
600 from a nearly bankrupt treasury, at
this time when a deficiency is threat
ened, was bad tinanciering and worse
notifies.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08
THE LATE LEGISLATURE.

Historian Green tells that when the Earl
of Stafford was warned of his coming death
he replied: 81 know how to look death in
the face and the people, too"
1t is probable that the members of the
Montana legislature would be somewhat
chary in prophesylng their appearance be-
fore the great author of all vetoes, but they
ne ed have no great fear of facing the peo-
pie will their record of sixty days. On the
whole, they have acquitted themselves in a
creditable way and have accomplished one
half more than was expected two weeks
ago. 1t is possible that in certain ines
they have accomplished too much. Several
avs made show at least doubtful wisdom
on the part of the trainers. Time will point
out mistakes which will be rectifed. No
one expects to find a majority of moral par
agons in a legislature. therefore no disap-
pointment will follow if the apparent excel
lent record of the late session does not i'm
prove under careful criticism. For the
most part the representatives, of both
houses are honest men with u conscientious
desire to serve their constituents. There
are always a few men ready to sell them
selves, and 1t often happens that tempta-
uAoAio L III tltCiI way. Lie DuI-
chase usually crops out and is talked about,
for a legislature is a very cosby body. 1t
is to be said to the credit of the
men who have left us that they leave
untainted by rumor of this sort of scandal.
If personal transactions of such nature
occurred they were kept way down deep
in a we'll" The friends of the eight hour
bill intimated that the mine managers had
made an active use of funds but they
offered no evidence in support of this
allegation.
This leads to a word about the third
house. 1t was the strongest and most
active lobby ever NOW in Montana,
though none of these gentlemen may be
termed professional lobbyists. When the
county officers bill was introduced they
came down on the house like IA band from
the Assyrian fold. Every county officer in
the state was either present or represented
by proxy. Each one had Il certain amount
OF personal influence with some member
and all worked like beavers, not to de-
feat the bill for they saw that could not be
done, but to staye IL off until after thsir
terms. At one time they had all but ac-
compllshed this purpose when there was u
sudden switch of opinion in tho house and
by sharp parliamentary tactics the bill an
nounced to take effect in 1892 was passed.
Inc county officers pulled all strings; thu,
Knew where to work and to Il man in a tree
their cause appeared to be just. Despite
tneif EFFORTS they failed to win. This result,
IL perhaps the best evidence of the indepep.
oeht position of the house on matters of
eeisia'lon. 1t Is a house that in nine
cases out OF ten will vote al it thinks.
-, ys/
The same may be said of the senats
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08
ROMANCE.

The magazine which contains the tales of
: oncs achieved a remarkable success. The
FIRST number was the number for February,
and the full edition was sold out before the
March number was issued. The original
plans for the conducting of the magazine
nave at once been broadened, its number of
pages has been increased, and for once at
least, a magazine has sprung into full life
with it's first number.
The March number contains twenty short
stories, all of the character that the Story
club was organized to emphasize, namely,
stories full of a~ction-stories that really
tell something-and not stories that are In any
way morbid or namby -psmby. The writer's
for the March number are Maurice Thomp-
son. Rudyard Klpling, Guy de Maupassaut.
| Richard York. M. Betham Edwards, Edith
Sessions Topper ana other writer's of equal
force and popularity. The initial story in
this number by the famous California wri-
ter, Mr.. w. C. Morrow, is one Of the most
| dramatic short stories that has appeared in
popular literature since the days of Poe.
The March number of Romance contains
several interesting announcements. There
/ will appear in the magazine forthwith
| stories illustrating life in the Confederate
states during the war-full Of pathos and
tragedy.
Arrangements have been made Cor the
publication of original stories of the sea,
illustrating American endurance, both in
the navy and in our merchant marine, in
old days and in recent times.
Tales from Constantinople will be con-
tributed by a foreign member OF the United
States legation, and stories of American
slavery. from the recolleotions Of a stock
holder in a slave-tradinR company.
The price of Romance 10 only 70 cents q
number, and n specimen number will be
sent on application for 10 cents by the pub.
Usher. Address the New York Story club,
80 East Twsnty-third street. New York.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

THE revival of the income tax is likely
to be the next great political agitation
The %extravagant appropriations OF the
last republican congress-, aggregating
over 1000, DOC, 600, bring us face to face
with a treasury deficit in the very near
future. Senator Carlisle and other able
statesmen believe that there is no es-
cape from the income tax as a mea of
raising further evenue to meet the
enormously swollen expenditures.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

able legislation was secured were the bill to
repeal the gag law, the bill for the protec-
tion Of coal miners, and the bill to prevent
b~lacklisting. The latter two are good laws
while the former has been a dead letter SO
long that it is better stricken off the statute
books. The bill fot this Twas introduced by
Mr.. Psnrose and the others by Mr.. Brown
and Mr.. Lochray. To tie casual observer
the laborinR men seem to have been we'll
taken care of. At the best the eiRht-hour
bill was Of doubtful policy, while the only
other labor bills introduced were passed.
The laboring men will celebrate OIL Labor
Day, the new holiday on September l.
~
So rapidly was the work cleaned up dur
ing the last few days of the session that if
an extra session were now called the legis-
lature would hardly know what to do. All
that was desirable and part that was not
desirable was done. The new code will
furnish sufficient work for another session
next winter if it is thought best to call one.
Provision has already been made for print
ing this work and it will soon be
in the hands of the lawyers.
Some changes will doubtless be
ouHkS0bt0A AOA NV OOAoAN0AS sAO VA ~
next general assembly. The spirit of rapid
work caught the house during the last
week. Previous time had been devoted to
frequent speeches On unimportant subjects.
When the representatives saw An extra SEES
sion ahead they went to work and the re-
suits were very satisfactory. The avness
incident to the workings OF a new legisla-
tive body quickly wore away when the
necessity became apparent. The twenty or
more future governors and United States
senator's were made to realize that they
must postpone the manufacture of reputa-
tions.
Nv
A large part of the good work is the re-
! suit of hard work ON the part of officers of
both houses. The lieutenant governor and
| Speakers Comfy and Humber suffered no
| delay when the necessity for hurried action
came. The clerks of the house are entitled
to credit for they we're the hardest worked
| officials in Montana. Charles z. Pond and
Billy Stanley often worked all night and
then turned up smiling at 10 o'clock in the
morning to resume. The result was that
the records we're kept up promptly with the
proceedings.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08
THE FIrTY-sECOND CONGRESS.

The Flfty-second congress, like its
predecessor, will find the tariff and the
silver question awaiting it as "un
finished business" and with every pros
poet that in a conflict with the execu.
tive both questions will be precipitated
upon the country rs issues in the presi-
dental contest of 1892. There is little
doubt that an act repeating the McKin-
ley tariff bill will 60 to the president
next winter. Its passage through the
house is a matter of course. In the
senate the republicans have a nominal
majority OF fourteen. but among that
number are Plumb, of Kansas, Paddock,
Of Nebraska, and Pettigrew, of South
Dakota, who voted against the bill before
and are sure to do SO again. Since Jan
uary / five tariff reform senators have
been elected in place of as many sup
porters Of the Mckinley act: Hill, OF
New York, to succeed Evarts; PETER,
OF Kansas, to succeed ingalls,; Hans
brough, of North Dakota, to succeed
Pierce; Kyle, of South Dakota, to sue
coed Moody, and Villas, OF Wisconsin, to
succeed S%pooner. The accession OF
these mon to the senate very nearly
wipes out the high tariff party, and, ii
the Illinois senator is a low tariff man,
there will be a clear majority in favor OF
repeating the Mckinley act, even should
no other western senator flop, as three
or four are most likely to do.
Should the repeating act be vetoed by
President Harrison it would precipitate
the tariff question into next years can
vass in a shape that the democrats
would warmly welcome. The republic
can party would be forced to sustain the
obnoxious law and support the president
in his position, with the almost newt
able result of a repetition of the revolu-
ton OF 1890. The western states are not
going to turn back on this question.
Last years revolution has come to stay
until the people of those states secure
some measure Of the relief tn ey arede-
handing at the hands of congress.
The situation as regards the silver
question is equally interesting and
equally critical for the republicans. The
new house of representatives will pass a
free coinage bill with a whirl, by a
majority big enough to carry it over an
executive veto. The majority in the
senate for free coinage will be much
larger than before, but probably short
of the constitutional t%wo-thirds required
to override a veto.
Two negations will be presented by
Mr.. Harrison to the republicans for
campaign issues in 1892-No tariff re-
form, no free coinage.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

WI extend our sympathies to the un-
happy people OF Colorado who are suffer
ing from too much legislature. Our
own is over and gone, and it shines by
contrast with the Denver body, which
appears to be composed OF rings within
rings. The Republican cheerfully speaks
of one gang as the "Coyote combine
Would Colorado like to swap a Coyote
for a Cayuse, we wonder?
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

The government which was so firm in
its determination not to let any more
of it's Indian wards be subjected to the
demoralizing influences of the circus,
has changed it's mind since the late out.
break and has given Buffalo Bill per-
mission to take one hundred Sioux on
the road this season. Competitive bids
for the rest OF the tribe, from other
shows of good moral standing, will be
received by the Little Father Under
The Big Hat at Washington.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

WHILE the Australian colonies are
formulating articles of federation and
endeavoring to agree upon a uniform
tariff system, they might do we'll to
give up state control of railways, which
has done much to retard their develop
ment. Mr.. W. M. Acworth in the March
Forum says: Nor can it be said that,
either in the extension Of new lines or in
the facilities afforded by the existing
ones, the Australian colonies nave shown
any development to match that OF the
railways of America. Railway rates
may have ONE down, but they have not
descended by leaps and bounds like
those of the western American roads,
and it may we'll be argued that the
extraordinary development of the
American west, as compared with the
slow progress of agricultural settlement
in Australia, is mainly due to the differ
enc between the f%iercely competitive
system of the American lines and the
more conservative methods of Australia.
We're the railway experts of the world
poAON3 AO Doyos ~ u AldlulN NC tOuDU-
ed that the railways of England and the
United States would secure the first and
second places between them. In speed
and accommodation, in the energy
which pushes railways into remote dis
tricts, and in the skill which creates a
traffic where no traffic existed before
they stand to-day in the front rank, as
they have stood for the last half cen
tury. To say that they are very far from
perfect. is nothing; it is only to say that
they are worked by human agency
Their worst enemies will scarcely deny
that they are at least alive; SO long as
there is life there may be growth, and
we may hope to see them outgrow the
faults OF thelr youth. The charge made
against state railway systems is that
they are incapable Of vigorous life. The
old adage which proclaimed that sneces.
sity is the mother of invention has
been restated of late years as the law oil
the survival of the fittest in the struggle
for existence. If the doctrine is true
the state railway system, relieved from
the necessity of struggle, must cease tt
be fit and will fail to survive"
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

THE modest but perennial Alger, of
Michigan, it is reported, will kindly
forego the republican nomination for
president next year and take second
place on the ticket with Blaine. Blame
and Alger-nct M cent reduction in
taxation, but millions for subsidies and
pensions! That's about the drift of the
situation,
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

BY an announcement elsewhere in
to-day's INDEPENDENT it will be seen
that the school trustees propose to ask
the people to vote 100000 more for
school buildings. The new high school
building, it is found, will cost 20 per
cent. more than first estimates, which
indicates careless figuring somewhere,
but 1t is certainly necessary to complete
the building and the need of new build
inss, and additionsse49to others, for
other schools, is too apparent
TO permit Of controversy. There
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

IT is a remarkable coincidence that at
the very time a coroner's jury was issu-
ing warrants for Chauncey M. Depew
for culpable negligence in the Harlem
tunnel accident, he was at a dinner party
holding a political inquest on Thomas
B. Reed.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

The legislative enactment providing
that the city may issue bonds to meet
100000 Of the floating debt has already
had a good effect on our credit abroad
and Helena bonds are quoted at figures
that are hattering to local pride.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

HELENA, MONT, MARCH s, 1891

kE-Montanians abroad will always find THE
DAILY INDEPENDENT on file at their f~avorite
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan, New
York; West, Minneapolis: Baldwin and Palace,
San Francisco; McDermott, Butte; Leland Hotel.
Springfield. Ill.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

is nothing for which our people
pay taxes more chserfully than for
school purposes, but they cannot be too
vigilant in seeing how their money 10
expended.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08
FOR sAIE !!

During ten days-The we'll known Estes Ranch,
acres, all fenced. Three hundred acres under
cultivation and 10 acres in, pa ture fenced off.
Fair buildings. alter ample for irrigation and
stock. One Of the most desirable ranches in the
state. Price at rock bottom and terms easy.
DUNCAN MCLEOD, Atlas Building.
February IL 1891. Helena, Mont.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

Choice French and English fashions in dress
goods just received at sands Bros.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08

Ihe other labor measures on which favor.
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SaSA V
s~istence in legislative matters as in other
states. This is presumably for the reason
that he fares much better in every way.
The term laboring man of course includes
all who labor including the professional la
boring man. This the year the miners
asked for eight hours. They could have
selected no better medium than Peter
Breen, of Jefferson county and Butte" as
Mr.. Hotter says. Mr. Breen is a bright
youngma and a good deal of n diplomstist.
l have heard that he introduced the eight
hour bill against his own wishes but this
does not matter. LIZ made u gallant fight
for it and came off with Hyinp
colors though his cause was defeated,
Mr.. Breen gave the miners side which
WAS undoubtedly exaggerated for the miner
is not as bad off as he would have people
believe. Mr.. Wallace looked after the legal
part while Mr.. Howey discussed the ques-
ton FROM a socislistic standpoint, Here
was n we'll assorted and we'll balanced array
of talent. These representatives opened
the fight and for a time had it their own
way. The Roderick Dhu on the other aide
seemed timid until Mr.. Penrose sounded
the bugle in Il convincing speech. Others
followed n the debate warmed until both
sides of the question were fairly presented.
1t may be added that John X. Toole. while
not a scholarly orator, made q speech thu,
will be remembered for some time. Wbep
the time came for voting there vera M
signs of shrinking. The men who Opposed
The measure as one OF bad policy at this
time did not hesitate in declaring their DO.
sition. Several representatives had beer
told by laboring men that ''they wouid b,
remembered.' Some Of these took th,
Tip" and others voted as they pleased.
~
The other labor measures on which favor
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-08-20
ENRElrN iMTELllz-M.GE

Two sTEAsJEEa that were racing
colljded near Iol5ohaloa and E30 per
sons lost their lives.
OWING to wholesale CORRUPTION hay
ing been uncarthcd in his department
Sir Hector Lar@evia, minister Of nub-
lie works in.the dominion government,
bus resigned
THE yaH}t in the cathedral mt Lima,
Peru. in which the remains Of Francis
co Pjznrro were placed in 1851 was
opened and the remains moved to The
chapel of the vicerovs. The body was
found well preserved.
NEAR BowmanyiIIe, Ont, Mr.. and
Mrs Hawkins and AIiss Mary Bee
were drowned by the capsizing Of a
boa.
hDELINA PATTI threw open her new
! theater 10 The world on .the 18th ut
Craig-y-NOs. Wales.
IE France immense tracts of timber
were being consumed by forest fires
II Hamilton, Ont, John Callahan, an
| employee Of street railway company.
! confessed that he had in the last six
years embeZzled $t3. 600.
| NEAE PotSdam, Germany, a tornado
| Icvclcd farm buildings and over dozen
| persons wore killed.
Two OF the leaders of the massacre
Of British officials in March last We're
hanged at Manipur, India.
THE wheat crop Of France win fall
! $500, 600 bushels short of supplying its
own needs
Moscow police received orders that
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:ri' tr "H - tici li"ri vii also furnish
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No money for .,Tr Easily and quickly
i".ir tirS;rg l 'Etr" ui' ";r' tari county.
have aiIes'y tastt ad lTtfc With employ large
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