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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24

A LAS sUMMONS-STATE OF MONTANA,
a county of Lewis and Clarke, ss.
In Justices court of Helena township, before
b.. i. Woodman, Justice of the peace.
Leo Edwards, plaintiff. w. +. Il. Q. Clothing
Company, defendant.
The state of Montana to the above-named de-
You are hereby summoned to be and appear
before me, Il. y. Woodman, a justice
q tho peace II md for the county
Helena. within ten days after the completion Of
tho publication, Of ths publication of this sum-
mons. to~wit, after Octobar 3, 1891, then and there
@ make answer TO ths complaint Of Lee Edwards,
tho aboys named plaintiff, In a civil action to re-
cover tho sum of .eighty-two, and fifty ~one-hun-
drodths dollars; eighteen dollnrs for wages due
plaintiff from defendant; Sb, 90 berth, 1915 for
meals and s3ii.7s for rnil way ticket from Chicago
10 Helena, which defendant agreed to furnish
plaintiff and afterwards refused to do, and In do
fault thereof JUDGMENT will 10 rendered against
you, i. u. g. Clothing Company, tho above-named
defendant, for the sum of eighty-two and fifty
one-hundredths tdollars. and costs of suit In this
behalf expanded.
Given under my hands this 4th day of eeptem-
Der, A.. ID. 1891.
II. y. WOODMAN,
Justice OF the Peace Of Sat d Township.
HHNRY q. SMITH. Plaintiffs Attorney.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24

foreign housewife in tho American mar
ket for SIS cents ii is a swindle to charge
the American housewife Sl.A0 for the
same article. Every dollar OF increased
duty imposed by tho Mckinley bill is
paid by the American consumer. Our
manufacturers still continue to ship
their goods abroad and sell them in com-
petition with tho wares OF free-trado
England. They have made no advance
in prices in the foreign market. All
that they get out of the American buy
ers over and above the price at which
they sell abroad is clear proht--money
needlessly taken from the pockets Of
the many to enrich the few. Many
manufacturers unblushingly admit that
such is the case. MIR. A. b. Farqnhar,
president Of the Pennsylvania Agrlenl-
tural works, said in Il recent letter,
"Certainly our manufactures are sold
much lower abroad; We could only need
protection to get better prices from Il
customers at home. We do manufac-
ture and sell in Canada, South America
and Europe many agricultural imple-
ments and machines"
The Iron Age, one Of the stitfest high
tariff organs in the country, says: ut
has been denounced as an iniquitous
proceeding that American producers
should be willing to let foreigners have
goods at prices lower than those which
they ask American to pay.
A vast amount of evidence has been
presented to prove a fact OF which every
one in business is fully aware
We would like to see the esteemed
Herald refute these facts.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24

Will the esteemed INDEPENDENT please
explain to a waiting public why the speak
ers Monday evening made no reference to
silver?-Journal.
Why, they didn't need to. They hadn't
lodged the issue, paired with Boatner
and betrayed their state. The two mem-
bers Of the party who are members of
congress, Messrs. Faulkner and Bynum,
are both on record as stanch friends of
free coinage and spoke and voted for it
every time.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24

THE daily Russell Harrison shows
commendable loyalty in bristling up a
Mr.. Beck for his sharp thrusts at its
proprietor in his speech on Monday
night. "He did not hesitate" says the
indignant personal organ, ito hurl his
vulgar jokes at various members of the
Harrison family" OF course he didn't
the horrld creature. It's a shame
So, there! And the i. p. O. of which r
B. H. is president, is right. AS the poet
says:
For he's Ben Harrison's only son.
And who is Ben Harrison2"
"Oh! why, he
He's the grandfather of Baby Mckee"
Beck, you are rebuked.
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
HELENA, MONT, SEPT. a, 1891.

tEgr- Montnnians abroad will always find Ink
nA1IY INDEPENDENT on file at their favorite
hotels: Fifth Avenue and Metropolitan, New
York; West, Minneapolis; Baldwin and Palace,
San Francisco; Mopcrmott, Butte; Leland Hotel,
Springfield. Ill.
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rHE M,K1N1Ey w1NpLE II.

The Helena Herald IN attempting tc
meet the telling points made by Sena-
tor Faulkner against the Mckinley
tariff asks, "Who will believe the silly
stories SO often dlsproved, that our
manufacturers charge our W people
higher prices for their wares than they
will ship them abroad and sell them to
foreigners for?" We answer that every
man, who has eyes to soc and ears to
hear, will believe them, and that not
only have they never been disproved,
but they cannot be- disproved by the
Herald or any one else. Thousands of
American manufacturers do sell their
goods in foreign markets in competition
with the manufacturers of Europe at
prices from 10 to 40 per cent. lower than
they charge the American consumer.
This statement is fortified by facts and
figures that are simply overwhelming.
Several months ago the tariff reform
committee of the Reform club, of New
York, determined to settle beyond con-
troversy that our manufacturers were
selling goods cheaper abroad than at
homo. The committee first obtained
from firms engaged in the export trade
their domestic discount schedules. Then
by means of correspondence from for
eign countries, the foreign discount
schedules of the same firms were OBJ
tanned, although in some cases the man
ufacturers themselves furnished both
their domestic and foreign price lists
and expressed Indifference as to what
the criticisms might be On the differ
ence between them. A great mass of
documentary evidence was thus secured
and submitted to Mr.. J. A. Lindquist,
the eminent statistician of Cornell uni
versity, for compilation. Mr.. Lindquist
has completed this work and has now
on file thousands of these discount
sheets, which show at a glance that in
nearly every protected industry the
home manufacturer is competing with
the foreigner and selling his wares in
unprotected markets at prices from 10 to
40 per cent lower than he gets in the
home market. We quote only a few
items from the columns of figures thus
collated. One of the leading lights of
the Home Market club, of Boston, is a
manufacturer of shovels. He convinced
Mr.. Mckinley that his business would
be ruined unless he was protected by a
duty Of As per cent. He got 1t. Yet
this same manufacturer is exporting
shovels and selling them in foreign mar
kets at prices far below those he gets
from the American We
quote the home and foreign price on a
few of his wares: Z. I
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-24

And the same disparity of prices be-
tween the home and foreign market
exists in the quotations for other agri-
cultural implements. A plain steel
%cultivator which is put upon the home
market at S7.2O, is sold to foreigners for
$3.50. The wholesale price of a potato
digger to the home buyer is So and the
foreigner buys the same article here for
$6.75. An all steel two-ganged pillow
costs in the home market $3.50 and for
the foreign market the price is 1922.
A twenty-ton hay scale costs in the
home market 1925. The same manufac-
turer sells the same scale to a foreign
buyer for $2O2.50. Horse nails, Essex
No. 6, cost in the home market II cents
per pound; the foreigner buys the came
article at the same factory for 10 cent is
q pound. But lot us see how the house
hold is unnecessarily taxed for the
benefit of the manufacturer. A fiat
bottomed kettle is sold by the Pennsyl-
vania factory to the home buyer for
$l.40; the same kettle can be bought by
q foreigner at the same factory for IS
cents; a round-bottomed kettle that
costs the domestic purchaser $l.82 is
sold to the foreign buyer from the same
shop for $1.1O. A retail dealer who
wishes to buy silver-plated knives, forks,
spoons and other ware, listed at $40,
pays $4.36 for the same at the factory
while the same articles are sold to a
buyer for export at 1918. And so on
through a long list of articles in every
day use. Now nobody supposes that the
American manufacturer goes into the
markets Of the world and sells his goods
in competition with those of European
manufacturers at a loss to himself. Tie
gets a fair and reasonable profit or he
would not compete with the foreigner
But what do these figures prove? Why.
they demonstrate beyond possibility oil
denial that the American manufacturer
is over-protected by at least the differ,
ence between the price he gets in the
home market and the price he gets in the
foreign market. If a cultivator can be
sold to an Australian farmer, delivered
on ship board at an American port fol
$3.50. it can be sold to the American
farmer on board a railroad car at the
factory for the same price instead of al
S7.20, the price now charged to the home
buyer. IT a kettle can be bought by the
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THE INDEPENDENT

Rsmittances at tho riak Of subscriber unless
made by resiatered 1etter. check. or postal or ex-
press order, payable TO The Independent Pub
ishing Company.
~ Pcrsons desiring the INDEPENDENT served
IT their homes or place OF business can order by
postal card or through telephone No. 100. Please
report cascs OF irregular delivery promptly.
Advertisements, to insure prompt insertion,
should he handed in bafors 8 p. N.
Rejected communication not returnnble an
less postage il enclosed.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05

Fred Fuller was convicted of the lar
ceny OF coat and sentenced to thirty
days in the county jail by Judge Hag-
gerty in police bourt yesterday.
Alice Niggle was arrested yesterday
afternoon ON the charge OF assault and
battery.
Peter Hughes was found guilty of
having stolen level, crowbar, Ak and
lantery from John Rens, in police
court yesterday, and tine,. Sl7, IN de.
fault Of which he went to Jail for sixty
days.
Bart Milowski was in police court
yesterday for failure to support his
wife. He pie AIDED not guilty and will
have q trial December 10.
II. Silverman, the candy man, swore
out a warrant yesterday tor the arrest
of two small boys vino grabbed sack
of peanuts and made their escape.
Robert and Charles Wilson were SEN
fenced to fifteen days Imprisonment
in the county jail yesterday by Justice
Hydorn for vagrancy.
Judd Skinner of Byron. was arraigned
in Justice Hydora's court yesterday on
| . charge of having committed highway
robbery upon Otto Behnke. Behnke
claims to have been held up and re.
lieved of Sl.s0. Skinner pleaded moi
guilty and was released under $500
bonds to appear for examination De.
cember ii.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05
IN THE DEPARTMENTS.

schsei Jantsors Clothed with Police A.
therisy-Monthiy Pay Rolis Audited.
The board of police and fire commits
souers held q short session yesterday
afternoon and passed upon several ac-
counts presented to the departme nts.
Among the accou nts were the depart
ment monthly pay rolls, which were
allowed ~ follows: Fire department.,
"a .Soe %; police department., "a. A.7s5.42.
Petitions were received and disposed of
As follows: From the board of educs-
tion, asking that the lanItors of Grand
vile avenue, Oakland avenue, Cort
avenue and East Leonard street schools
be clothed with police author
ty, which was granted; from
r. j. Fi.z Morris aud l.. 3. Conksy for
appointment as veterinary for the de-
partment; referred 10 the commit ttee
on drs department.; the res esgnatson
OF Robert Lowell as driver of hose cart
No. was accepted; from James Gesry
manager Of tue Worlds Museum, Ask
ing that I. w. Abbott and j. J. Taylor
be clothed with police authority, which
wss granted, applications from c. w.
Baker and p. I. King for positions on
the police force were placed on file:
from ID. kEmm asking police protection
on East Fulton street. referred TO eom-
mite ou men and dicipsine.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05

tallsts desiring TO invest money and
from concerns either seeking = location
or the enlargement Of their facilities.
Several applications were presented
asking for the position Of secretary.
and a committee WAS appointed 10 con-
sider the same. Another cem-
mittee was appointed 20 select . ioca-
ton for the associatlon's headquarters
with power TO act. A suitable othce
will be found immediately. BY 4
unanimous vote the name was changed
TO the Grand Rapids Improvement
board. Chairman De Haven, OF the
committee on printing, advertising ana
publishing, was authorized to have
printed vest pocket book containing
the advantages of the board. which
will be distributed throughout the
city. Each member of the board will
be furnished list of the names OF peo-
pie eligible for membership and will b.
expected 10 invite them TO JOIN the
board. Thomas F. Carroll is ~ present
acting as secretary and will voluntarily
fill the place until permanent success
sor is appointed. The meeting ad-
journed subject to the call of the presl-
dent. After the meeting the committee
on secretary convened and will make =
report at the next meeting OF the
board.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05
A MINOR SPORTSMAN.

Ne Sits In tho Wet. scernful Of Dlseen-
fort. ~ Long ~ He Can Fish.
Market night in dull. drab suburb.
Every shop is open and every shop
keeper is ''slamming 1t like n good 'un"
lis believing out the excessive and ex-
traordinary cheapncss of lis wares.
From the low, gray clouds fine drizzle
of rain, like pepper from q castor
whose top is too literally pricked. in
the hand Of an injudicious cook, falls
upon an abundance of pale men and
dowdy women with basket and bags
of caulihowers and the like. It Is hu-
mid and spiritless; the one thing for
men and women to do il to get home
and draw tho blinds between them
selves and the elements and try to re-
member thPt they are women and men.
They thinkso, too. and 10! . bridge.
Here is canal in whose flood even
limbs. Infinite and innumerable gene
rations of cats have found herein tho
term of a perplcxed and smorous and
vagabond mortality; yet here, in the
foul drizzle, is an old man fishing. Sol
itary. hopeful, moist, he sits upon .
camp-stool by the vile waters, peering
through the gloom at q certain float Of
quill-sulking, immovable, now and
anon the rallying point of little host
Of twigs and their attendant scum.
Here he sits, this very minor sports
man. scornful of discomfort, needless
of jeers from the bridge, troubled only
by tho knowledge that the night il
come when no man fisheth, and that
there will soon be nothing for him but
home and q oozy room and tobacco in q
comfortable armchair.
It may be that in his time he was .
runner, and that once the Goddess
Handicap, the true Bona Dea, was good
to him. 1t is probable, for when q GER
tain stile is reached "Excelsiorr' is no
more a cry for men, And in declining
from the cinderpath upon his angle this
excellent old fisherman is but type Of
the race.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05
THE BOA CONSTRUCTOR.
How TO Escape from the Monsters Dead
" Coils.

How to Escape from the Monsters Dead.
s. II any reader of this article should
ever be SO unfortunate ac to experience
the embrace of boa constructor, says .
writer in the Chicago Herald, it is rec
commended that he try to release him.
self by taking hold of the creatures
ta1 and unwinding it from that end.
It can be easily unwound in that way
but otherwise it is not possible The
way TO kill a snake is not to attempt to
crush its head, the bones of which are
very hard, but to strike the tail where
the spinal cord is but thinly covered by
bone and suffers readily from injury.
It Is the same way with an eel Hit
the tail two or three times against any
hard substance and it quickly dies.
The boas are not venomous, but their
.fangs are sufficiently powerful to in
flict serious wounds, and large speci-
mems have been known to swallow
men whole. The case is related by the
traveller Gironicre of criminal in the
Philippine islands who hid from justice
In q cavern His father, who alone
knew OF his hiding place, went some
times TO see him and to take him rice
for food One day he found instead of
his son an enormous boa asleep He
killed it and found his sons BODY in
the snakes stomach Serpents some
times swallow prey 50 much too big for
their digestive powers that they actual
ly burst from rcpletion- The instance
Il recorded Of boa constructor which
swallowed q goat, the horns Of which
pierced the belly of the monster snd
killed him.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05
Light TURNED ON AGAIN
Prot. Carmen Disposes OF Engi-
nser's" Fallacy.
HE ALSO EXHIBITS HIS FILTERS
And y Explains Their Tees for Ffifsring
Impurities From WAtsr-Nsws of
the seysral CITY aad
Csaaty Courts

The stormy character of last nights
weather kept many of the members Of
the Kent Scientific Institute ~ home
last night. and the attendance wss
small. Mr.. q. W. Carman replied to
"Engineer's' paper in Monday morn
ing's Democrat. lie showed conclu-
Gvely by diagrams that "Engineer"
had made the unscienhtic mistake Of
confusing the amount of light and the
intensity OF light IN his estimates; that
while the amount of light must remain
the same, vet the intensity OF the light
Will vary with the angle At which IT
strikes the surface. The intensity will
be At Its MAXIMUM when the surface IS
perpend! d!cu.ar TO the Light, and will be
zero when lt Is horizontal. In street
lighting the greatest need ~ 10 have
vertical objects illuminated, rather
than the bare surface of the street.
J.W. Mathews then stated some ex-
perlmcnts which nc has begun IN the
analysis of water. He had prepared
i've samples; two OF city water and two
OF hydraulic water, IN each one saEple-
filtered and the others unfiltered. The
fifth was . sample Uttered by one of
the lasest iilterers. In chloride. which
WAS detected by the addition of silver
chloride. the unfiltered city water
showed the greatest amount. City
water also showed the greatest amount
of organic matter. After this Mr.. Car
men gave a short talk on the subject of
filters, describing several kinds. The
subject will be continued at another
meeting.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05

When we remember that only ten
years ago the people Of Uganda and
Victoria Nyanza were elr ast unknown
TO the world. il is surprising TO read
that the missionaries there recently
sold, in few weeks. four thousand
reading-sheets printed in the native
language. They send word that they
could sell ten thousand copies at once
if they had them. They say that the
people are most anxious To acquire the
art of reading. and that their eagerness
for books is astonishing "As long as
we had q reading-sheet or book left, :"
writes one, - crowd swarmed around
US day and night, and hundreds were
disappointed when the supply gave
ont
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05

In the United States navy the reln-
tions between seaman and officer have
In them some touches of democracy.
The clean, civil. sober. capable seaman
is treated with high degree Of consid-
Grafton, and by the system of merit
marks that prevail in the service he OBJ
tains frequent leave and is certain Of
promotion. Within twenty-five years
there has been a vs-st Improvement in
the conduct of seamen, and Jack ashore
is now not always bent on adebauch.
An old naval story illustrates Jack as
he was. Peterson, able seaman, had
obtained leave, and the officer gives
him parting edmonton to keep sober
and return on time. Peterson hears it
all in respectful silence. and then,
touching his hat. says: "Please, sir.
then, why should go ashore?"
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05

Tom Cosnors Takes . Mean Revenge
Upso His Employer.

Tom Co1nors Takes = Mean Revenge
Upsa His Employer.
The mssnest kind of thief was cap
tured last night in the person of
Thomas Cornors. He has been deliv-
ering' clothes for Mrs. Jennetse, of
Henry street, who 10 in the laundry
business on . small scale. Yesterday .
dispute arose over some trivial matter,
and Connors swore vengeance. He
racked his brain for something dire, and
as . result decided to steal the poor
woman's wardrobe. He entered the
house and succeeded in getting posses
sion of her shoes and stockings vie
he WAS discovered by Mrs. Jennetle.
The thief fled with the angry woman
In hot pureuit- The chase was of short
duration. Mrs. Jennette's sprinting
abilities were superior to Counor's, and
when he WAS painting and out Of breath
sne was rs fresh as daisy. She grabbed
HIM by the collar and reached for her
shoes which he clung TO with might and
main. She managed to get one stock
ing aud one shoe when Connor broke
and ran again. Complaint was made
against him, and he is now lodged IN
the county Jail.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05

cate to masculine eyes: who Il always
delightfully."- clean. with fresh-curled
hair; who affects certain perfumes, has
curious gestures and modes OF express
sion; who wears tinkling ornaments At
her wrists and quantities OF rings on
her fingers; who Sbounds in parasois.
fans and shswls. which we men carry
trailing humbly about in her wake.
This is the fluffy s'rl, and. my dear
lady, long experience with her has
taught me that she usually possesses q
temper - fluffy as her gown"
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05

lAs Aay, vsisy creatsrs with . rsn>sr .,
Her Own.

sAs Aay. vsisy creatsrs with . rsnpsr .,
Her Own.
young man speaking Of . giri 70 &
matroa OF his acquaintsnce recently
said. according 70 the New York Re.
ooraer:
"oh. ahe's one Of these ffsffy girls."
my dear boy" said the mstron.
'swhat on earth Ia fluffy girlg-
"why, don't Jon kpow7~ replied ths
young msn- "A girl who hss blue eyea
golden hair. hrilliantcoloring and looks
like bit OF Dire len china girl Who
II always hitehed ar in . big armchair
and has plsintive little tale Of woe 70
eonAde 20 you--not 70 you. my dear
madam. but 70 me--to some man. TIE
gira who wears charming eowns al
frills and ribbons sna hopeseasly intri
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05
A Great RAILROAD.

By the absorption of the Chicago &
Atlantic railway between Marion and
Chicago, the ERIE has at last effected
its entrance into Chicago, and now &C.
cupies the proud position of being the
only line between Ch.csgo and New
York entirely under one management.
One result of this is the arrangement
whereby all the through trains of the
Erie are now run solid between Chicago
and New York without change. Pas
sengers holding through tickets, whether
first or second class, are able TO go
from Chicago to New York without
changing cars.
Pullman's most modern Sleeping
Cars are run on all through trains via
this line, and on their Vestbule Linz
tied, Pullman's Dining Cars. No extra
fare charged on this train. In fact,
the rates via the ERIE are lower than
via any other route offering equal
facilities.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05
Civil Cases In Court.

The circuit court calendar for the
December term contains fourteen
criminal, forty-threc civil jury and
SEVENTH mine civil non-jury and twenty.
five chancery cssss.
The case of the Grand Rapids School
Furniture company against the city
was given . partial hearing in the su.
perlor court yesterday. 1t will be taken
up again this morning.
The case of Mary j. Meyers against
Ex-Poundmaster Louis Henry was con-
tipued over the term in the superior
court Yesterday.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-05
Cowan Lodge Election

Cowan Lodge No. SO, Knights Of
Pytbias. has elected the following Off,
GERS for the coming year;
P.C.-Chas. A. Beebe.
G.. CIV. Z. Wood.
V.C.-Fred Voikert.
P.-William Walsh.
X. OF X. and S.-Chas. d. Nsahr.
NJ. OF Aired olley.
NJ. of E.-Jas. 4. Kegan.
NJ. OF F.-Chas. ID. Neahr.
Trustees-D. l.. Campau, e. y. Car
rel, +. Brewer.
Representative to Grand Lodge-F.
T.. Temple.