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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24
DOMESTIC NEWS.


United States Senator Thomas c..
Power of Montana said yesterday that
he thought the silver advocates in the
last Congress had made a mistake in
trying to adopt a measure providing
for the absolute free coinage of silver.
The Senator was rated one of the most
ardent of the silver men because his
own State was full of bullion wners.
He said yesterday, however, that he
did not think that it was sound policy
to jump too quickly to the free coinage
of the white metal.
1T will not do for three silver-pro-
ducing States to attempt to dictate the
financial policy of the whole country"
he said. colorado, Montana, and
Idaho, of course, want to dispose of
their silver at the best possible prices.
[ think the rest of the country is willing
to act fairly with these States if they
do not ask too much. | do not believe
it is best to adopt free coinage while
bullion is worth only 81 an ounce.
When legislation is enacted that will
advance the price of bullion, which [
hope will soon come, free coinage will
follow naturally"
Senator Power is at the Fifth Avanue
Hotel nursing a wrist sprained about a
week ago as he was alighting from a
carriage.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24
STOTrX IN UGLY HUNOR.

PINE RIDGE AGENCY, S. D., March
1S.-Six weeks from now the grass will
be green, and unless all signs fail it
will be then that the Sioux will take
to the warpath in earnest. Persons
who have been studying the situation
all winter believe that another war is
inevitable. When Gen. Miles forced
the surrender last January of the re
bellious Brules and Ogallalas it was
hoped that the trouble was over Since
then, however, the young men have
been tainted and gibed by the squaws
and told so many stories of the old
time bravery and prowess of the Sioux
that they are restless and ready to
avenge their many wrongs.
It has been discovered that the Sioux
are in constant communication with
the Utes, the ArapahOes, the Chey-
ennes, and many other tribes. Their
cOUriers have been passing to and fro
ever since the troops were withdrawn
from the agency, and it is now the
boast of the leaders of the Sioux that
when the trouble breaks out again
there will be half a dozen tribes arrayed
against the soldiers.
1t has also been discovered that so
extensive has been the agitation among
the Indians that even the prisoners of
war at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago,
have been impOrtuned to join in the
outbreak.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24

THE PEASANT DISPLAYING THE FARMER.
1t may sound strange to Eastern
readers, but it is nevertheless true,
that there 7 mOr farms in Illinois,
Wisconsin. and Iowa that have been
deserted by their owners than there
are in New Hampshire, Vermont, and
Massachusetts. In the New England
States owners leave their farms because
the labor spent in c%ultivating them is
no longer remunerative, but such is not
the CaS in the prairie regions of the
West. There the owners of farms
leave them for the reason that they
can obtain sufficient rent from tenants
to enable them to support their fami-
lies in towns. Cities in several of the
western States contain hundreds of
retired farmers. Sprinfield, ILL.,, and
GAINESVILLE, Wis, 7 good examples of
the towns in which these absentee
landlords reside. These retired farmers
or absentee landlords take little interest
in keeping up good roads in the town
SIlIBC III Will CIIC1l 1CJIlu 10 S1UJdUCu,
or in sustaining schools of a high grade.
AS a rule they do not even keep up the
improvements on their farms or COM
mence new ones. They erect no sub
stantial buildings, plant no orchards
and vineyards, and set out no Orna-
mental trees and shrubs. Their farms
are worked, as mines and queries are,
for the amount of marketable material
they can be made reproduce. AS their
tenants ordinarily lease the land from
year to year, they have no interest in
making improvements.
The result of this is the formation of a
distinct peasant class, such as is found
in Bavaria and Bohemia. In entire
counties in Illinois and Wisconsin the
English language is scarcely ever heard
outside the large towns. The church
services are conducted in a foreign
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24
LABOR SHOULD NEVER FORGET.


My advice to working men is this:
If you want power III this country; if
you want to make yourself felt if you
do not want your children to wait long
years, before they have bread on the
table they ought to have, the leisure
in their lives they ought to have; if
you don't want to wait yourself, write
on your banner, 50 that every politi-
clan, no matter how shOrt-sighted he
may be, can read it: 1--WE never
forget! If you launch they arrow of
sarcasm at labor, we never forget. If
there is a division in Congress and you
throw your vote in the wrong scale,
we never forget! You may go down
on your knees and say: L am sorry
| did the act. And we will say: 1t
will avail you in heaven, but on this
side of the grave-neverI'" So that a
mar in taking up the labor question
will know he is dealing with a hair
trigger pistol and will say: Il am to
be true to justice and to man, other
wise [ am a dead duck" - Wendell
Phillips.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24

tongue, and instruction IS given IN 1T
in the schools. The intellectual con
dition of the people who occupy farms
is not above that of the lowest class of
labOrers in our large cities. The town
ships they inhabit seem like detached
portions of central Europe put down
near the center of the New World.
NOminally these men may be citizens,
for town politicians have had them
passed through the naturalization mill
but they know little and care less about
the institutions of the country.-Prof.
Rodney WEIGH IN the February Forum.
THE ALLIANCE BUSINESS EXCHANG.
The following resolutions were unani-
mOusly adopted by the Alton NelsOn
county, Sub-Alliance, February 18th
"ReSOzUed, That this Alliance dis
approves the handling of intoxicating
liquors by any of our business agencies,
and the Executive Committee is hereby
requested to discontinue the sale, and
recall all lists containing prices of the
same.
"2nd. We call upon all lovers of
temperance and true morality in our
order to join with us in this action"
The first person to whom I men
toned that liquors were quoted in the
p~riceIist of our State Exchange, re-
marked: eff that is the case, then
I'm done" Another said he would
buy nothing at any store where liquor
was kept.
Aretherenotage agencies enough already
in the country for the sale of liquor,
without the Alliance starting another?
Or is it one Of the benefits to be secured
by the establishment Of the order, that
it's members should be enabled to buy
their whiskey at wholesale prices, and
50 conveniently, too, along with their
fertilizers, etc! There may be some
for whom this will be a convenience,
but they are in the minority, we are
sure. The principles of the Alliance
certainly forbid this business. No one
wants to turn it into a temperance Or
~ganizatiOn, but we insist that it shall
not be used topromOte intemperance. If
the Alliance could close a few grOg-
shops i'll the country, it would be no
small thing; but to open another, and
a wholesale one, under the auspices of
its Executive Committee, can only
result in driving out the best element
of the Orders, IN Southern Planter.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24
NEARLY SIX HUNDRED LIVES LOST.

OIL OdIIldiNOu II dCUlNCly progressing
NEARLY SIX HUNDRED I'VE LOST.
LONDON. March IS, 1S9I.-The agents
in this city of the Anchor line, to which
the Utopia belonged, have been in
formed that the Utopia was struck
abaft the engine room that she sank
stern foremost five minutes after the
collision in seven fathOms of water.
The agents announce that they find it
difficult to ascertain the exact number
of lives lost, but they say that 1870
Italians were saved, that eight bodies
have been washed ashore and that
there are 173 persons rescued from the
Utopia on board the British wal ships.
The agents add that the force of the
gale, which still prevails in Gibraltar
Bay, prevents the people on shore from
communicating satisfactorily with the
commanders of the wal ships, so they
are unable to ascertain the names Of
the survivors. Several boats belonging
to the feet were wrecked while engaged
in the work of rescue.
Admiral Seymour's official dispatch
from Gibraltar says: 1.-The Utopia,
entering the harbOr of Gibraltar at
seven p. m, in the dark, fOuled the
AnsOn'S bow, the latter being mOOred
off thenew mole. The Utopia fOundered
almost Immediately. l fear great loss
of life. Am doing everything possible.
The Arson is unchanged"
A dispatch from Gibraltar, dated
midnight, gives the following account,
told by an eye witness of the disaster
from the forts: 1.-The scene was ap-
palling, being heightened by the weird
searchlight effects. The ~terrOrized
emigrants huddled in a swaying mass
so thickly they hid the bow from sight.
Agonized rushes for a more secure foot
hold, struggles to save themselves and
to reach their families showed an awful
fight for life was proceeding. The
tors with intense horror and despair at
their pOwerlessness to help as they
caught mOmentary glimpseS of the res
cuing boats on the crest of the waves.
Among the acts of valOr at the height
Of the gale was that of a British MILDLY
who put off alone in a dingy for the
purpose of rendering assistance to the
half drowned persons who were cling
ing to the wreckage of the ill-fated YES
sci. Another hero was a seaman on
the irOn-clad Rodney. He boldly
plunged into the sea, and after a des-
perate struggle with the waves sue
ceeded in saving n Of the women who
were floating in the water.
a rocket apparatus for throwing q
life line to the doomed vessel was
quickly got in readiness On the shore,
but to the intense disappointment of
those who thus hoped to save the IN
fortunate people nthe sinkingsteamer
the machine was found to be useless,
owing to the vessel being at too great
a distance for the line to reach it.
Scarcely any Of the women on the
Utopia were saved. OF the crew,
t~wenty-four were rescued altogether.
The gale is now reported to be mOder-
ating.
An official notice has been issued,
calling a public meeting in the govern
ment house tomorrow for the purpose
of considering what action shall be
taken for the relief of the shipwrecked
people.
We congratulate the Winston DAILY
upon having secured the services OF
Maj. VIM. A. Hearne upon its editorial
staff.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24
FOREIGN NEWS.
AN I

LISBON, March IS, 1S91.-A cable
dispatch from Lourence-Marques says
that an inquiry into the circumstances
of the seizure of the steamer Countess
of Carnarvon is actively progressing.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24

A Kansas City cattIeman, A. J. Sni-
der, offers SO, 600, 900 for 6, 500, 600 acres
of the Cherokee Strip, as it is called.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24

swarm of ~lOcusts, they happen to fall.
Such an immigration ought to be pre-
vented if possible, or regulated if it
cannot be prevented. While love Of
self prompts us to refuse . carry a
burden, which is not only heavy but
dangerous to the common welfare. love
of humanity ought, on the other hand.
to prompt us to be merciful and to
welcome even those who are undesir-
able immigrants, because they are so
nor settlement. There seems to me
but one way to prevent such an unde-
Sirable influx of strangers; namely, to
convince those governments which
undertake to rid themselves Of their
surplus population by acts of intOler-
ance that their proceeding is inhuman,
and that, if such inhumanity on their
part is not promptly stopped, means
will be resOrted to which will make
such a government listen to the voice
Of justice and humanity. No country
ought to be made the dumping-grOund
upon which other countries could I'M
load their refuse matter, their invalids,
their aged, and their criminals. But
it is of no avail to attempt to sift the
material after it has arrived. 1t is in
human and unworthy of so wealthy a
country a America to drive the unfor-
Inmates from her doors after they have
been placed at her steps. Their com
ing must be prevented, or if that be
found impossible, we must do the next
best thing-endeavOr to succeed where
others have failed, and try by
wise regulations and by effective legi5-
lation to transform these immigrants
into useful citizens .-Rab6i Solomon
SchinddIer, IN The Arena for March,.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-03-24

We congratulate the Winston Daily
upon having secured the services OF
Mai. VIM. A. Hearne upon its editorial
staff.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
Resolutions OT Respect.

Whereas it hath pleased the Ruler
OF the universe to call from our midst
Fred A. Stevens, son of our esteemed
Superintendent whom none knew but
to respect and to love, therefore be it
REsoLvED:-That we, the teachers
of Bingham county, in convention
assembled offer our heartfelt sympa-
thy to the bereaved parents, sisters
and brothers, in their grief for him
whom the All w Use hath seen fit to
take from them.
REsoLvED:-That a copy of these
resolutions be given the sorrowing
family and that they be published in
the different papers throughout the
county.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
RGiirOad Racket.

Accidents, mash-ups and wrecks
are so little known On the Idaho Di-
vision under Superintendent Calvin's
management that accident insurance
companies are willing to withdraw
from the business along the line.
Superintendent Calvin and j. NJ.
Bennett were on the scene of Monday
nights fire before half the people of
Blackfoot awoke from their sIupbers
Tuesday morning.
Agent Miller is temporarily quar-
tered in box car and ready for all
railroad business.
Superintendent Calvin had a good
force at work in the burnt district
Tuesday morning before the sun
peeped over the eastern foothills.
There seems to be strong hopes Of
the building Of the railroad from
Boise to Butte.
The south bound passenger train
was five hours late Thanksgiving's
day. The big dinner at the dinner
station had nothing TO do with the
delay.
All passing trains whistle in recog-
rition of Agent Miller's box car, just
the same as when he occupied an en-
tire depot building.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

MINNEAPoLIs has captured the Ma
tional Republican Convention for
1892, and the time has been fixed for
June It'll. This causes a general sur
prise. San Francisco, Omaha and
Cincinnati made giant struggles and
offered unlimited promises for it, but
Minneapolis captured the prize. Now
it will be in order for st. Paul to bite
its tongue with envy and jealousy at
the good fortune of its twin sister
The selection may be interpreted as a
stIong bid for the extreme northwest
ern states.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

THE selection of Minneapolis for
the republican convention in 1892,
may be scored as a victory for the
Blainites as against Mr.. Harrison. A
quiet canvass of the committee, so
Washington advices say, showed an
overwhelming majority in that body
for Mr.. Blaine, or, if he could not ac-
cept, for some new man rather than
Harrison.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

ONLY one time since 1860 have the
republicans gone East for a presi-
Dental candidate, and that one time
they were defeated. All these long
years the democrats have been going
East for their candidate and only one
tine we're they successful, and that
was when Cleveland and Blaine, both
from the East, were candidates.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
JupeE Clagett telIs the RepubIica

JUDGE Clagett tells the Republicans
in Washington that unless Dubois is
unseated and he be given the seat in
the Senate from Idaho, the State will
go Democratic in 1892. At the same
time he asks for support from Demo
cratic Senators, and there are Demo
Gratis in the State who say to those
Senators: Seat HIM, seat him.
If, as Judge Clagett says, the State
will be turned over to the Democrats
because of his failure to win the con-
test, We submit, in all good faith,
if it will not be good party politics
to see that he be defeated. five can
win the State ON as easy conditions
as the Judge names then the Demo
Gratis of Idaho have nothing more to
do than to watch the columns of TUE
NEWS for telegraphic notice that
the Judge had turned his face from
the Nations Capitol for the fir COW
cred hills around Osborne, and that
their own army would soon be put in
motion for the field where victory was
promised and assured,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

CURIOUS blupders of many sorts
creep into even the most carefully ed
tied journals. The London Daily
News, speaking Of the recent elections
in this country, says that tthe Re
publicans have carried the entire
State Of Philadelphia" This IS good.
American geography is not the strong
point of British newspapers. The
Springfield (Mass) Republican con.
tanned few weeks ago an article of
considerable length on the death Of
Gen. W. H. T. Lee, confounding him
throughout with his cousin, ex,Gov.
ernor Fitzhugh Lee, who il still alive
and fourishing. Cases like these
help us to bear our own blunders
with a greater equanimity than we
cvpld otherwise command.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
A FavOrIte Remedy.

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a
fayorite during the winter months on
account of its great success in the
cure of colds. There is nothing that
will loosen a severe cold so quickly,
or as promptly relieve the lungs
Then it counteracts any tendency to-
ward pneumonia. 1t is pleasant and
safe to take, and fully worthy of its
popularity. For sale by w H. Behle
& Son Druggists.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
IL Vas Loaded and Surprised
the C0IC.

George Heaton is rancher of this,
Bingham, county, living about 30
miles east of Blackfoot. Mr.. Heaton
has a son, and, two years ago, that
son carried small pocket pistol. In
his ran,blings about the rancho he
lost his pistol. All search for the
weapon proved frIitless, and it was
finally given up as lost for all time.
A few days ago one of Mr. Heaton's
COWS was browsing in the sage brush
near his corral, when all of sudden
u pistol was fired in her face and the
ball from it passed through her upper
lip and nostrils. The report of the
pistol and the antics of the wounded
COW attracted Mr.. Heaton to the spot,
and upon examination he found the
long lost pistol under a bunch of sage
brush where the cow in browsing had
moved it and fred it. just how her
cowship managed to touch the trigger
and fire off a weapon that had grown
rusty from exposure to the SHOWS and
rains of two years will never be known,
but like many poor mortals she was
no douot surprised to find it loaded.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
The Fight WiH 90 ON.

We are reliably informed that in
the event the board of county COM
missioners should ia il to provide for
the expense of testing the legality of
the action of the State board of equal
ization in raising the taxes of pri-
yate individuals and lowering the
taxes of railroads in the county, the
expenses will be met by the taxpayers
and the fight will go on. The fight
is already on in Oneida, and we wait
now to see if commissioners will step
aside and let private individuals take
control Of the matter.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
What Does He Take Us FOrl

JUDGE CLAGETT claims that his de-
feat for the United States senate will
give the state to the democrats in
1892. And upon this statement he
asks democratic senators to vote for
him. What does the Judge take the
democrats for anyway? Gen'l Grant
once said: "the democrats may be
counted on doing d-n fool thing
at the right time" but Mr.. Clagett
will find that they have learned a few
things, at least, since Grants days,
and now know how to do the right
thing at the wrong time for the re-
publicans.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

The News predicts a big Demo
cratic victory in Idaho IN 1892.
Leaving out its own judgment in the
matter it bases this prediction on the
statement of Judge Clagett, leader
among the Republicans. He claims
that his defeat will insure demo
cratic victory in the State, and the
law and precedents are against Mr.
Clagett, therefore the victory will be
ours.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

IT is now definitely settled that the
New York legislature is democratic
on joint ballot. A gerrvmander of the
state will probably be made to correct
the old evil of a republican district
of $4,000 voters being equal in repre-
sentation to a democratic district of
10000 voters.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
NOTICE.

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ undersigned will apply In accordance
with the act Of Congress, approved March 3D.,
permission 10 cut and remove timber for
merchandising purpOses from the townships
ten 40 and I'D north Of - east, u NJ, and
township ten t10l north OF Range "A east Is " i,
In bingham County, Idaho. The land from
which the timber II TO be removed Is noun
famous and rocky, totally unfit for a0ricul-
tural purposes, and the character of the tim
Der Is pine. and II is expected 1,OO0,Wn feet
viii be necessary 10 TO meet tho demands Of
the settlers In said vicinity.
@. n. MOON,
Dated Nov ~, 1891
BEANE & KuEKEL, Attorneys.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

MINNEAPoLIs has been given the
Republican National Convention in
1892 and St Paul is arranging to bid
for the democratic convention.
Wouldn't there be "a high old time of
rivalry between these twin cities i'll
their entertainment of their national
guests.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
Desert Lands. .-.NOtice Of Intention to
Make Proof.
UNITED sTATHs LAND OFFICE.
.CKFOOT. IDAUu. NnVFNHER 4 IguI

INIfED 5TAIHS IAND UFFICE. 7
BLACKFooT, IDAHO. NOVEMBER 4, 1891.
J. Annie f Keeney, OF Salt Lake City, Salt
Lake County, Utah. who made desert land APP
for sell nwi4 nelf swl4 and lots ., I, 8, 8, Sec
ton o. township south, range 10 east Is. NJ.
hereby give notice of my intention to make
dnal proof TO establish my claim TO the land
above described before Register and Receiver
at BlackfoDt. on Saturday the 18th day OF De
cember, 1891, and that expect TO prove that
said land has been properly irrigated and re-
claimed In the manner required by law. by
two of the following witnesses
Jacob W. Keeney, Ralph n. Merrill. John
Gray, Samuel Lloyd, all of Bingham county,
Idaho.
ANNIE r. KEEEEY,
Beane & Kunkel, Attorneys.
PERRY !. ANsoN,
Register.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

Mr.. CLARKsoN succeeds Senator
Quay as Chairman of the Republican
National Committee. He made a
good start; he couldn't handle his
own State. Iowa, with our boys-Boies,
in the race.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

THE seesawing is still on at Boise,
when one member of the board of
prisons is in another is out. With
this kind of business the whole board
will soon be out. This IS no predic-
ton, it is a truism.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
TuIyes are GETTING better

THINGS are getting better The re-
cent canvass for the Governorship of
Ohio was an exceedingly active ONE.
Both Major Mckinley and Governor
Campbell strained themselves to the
utmost to capture the votes of the
people. After the election was over,
Governor Campbell sent the following
courteous telegram to his successful
opponent: Il heartily congratulate
you upon your election. l have no
doubt that you will serve the people
of OHIO with fidelity and honesty
Here speaks gentleman.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28

Mr. MILLS viii preside this winter
where Boss Reed held the rod and
the reins LAST winter. That matter is
virtually settled, Mr.. Mills will be
speaker.