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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-08-20

"Only q month. It is supposed that
be had been in hiding in the woods OF
perhaps concealed in the cabin Of some
friendly negro between the time Of the
commission Of the crime and that day
upon which he applied for work at the
camp"
The next morning accompanied Mr..
Briggs, the counsel for the defendant,
over to the court house-a dilapidated
old frame building which had once been
whitewashed. as an observer might con-
clude from the mottIed appearance Of its
exterior. About the door was the Gus
tomary crowd Of idlers; inside, the
benches full Of gaping curiosity seekerA
Within the bar few men sat with their
feet on long table, copying the attitude
Of the judge, whose dignity Of station
was marked by the small raised plat.
form on which his chair was placed back
Of smaller tabla To be tried in such
. place would give an unwonted horror
TO crime, and would technically make
the inaietion Of punishment an unusual
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22

tire production of the United States is
added to the currency of the people. -
Whatever the abstract merits or de-
merits of the silver question may be,
the action of the republican congress-
men last winter, and the loudly-ex-
pressed horror of these same gentle
men on the stump at the present time,
at the phantom of something terrible
which they declare the democrats in
tend to do if they get the opportunity,
are glaringly inconsistent and pro-
foundly ridiculous.
One reason which they give for con-
senting to this silver measure is that
they feared something worse would be
done if they didn't pass it. This is as
logical as though bank cashier should
steal all the funds of his institution so
that his successor would be compelled
to be honest.
The republican chairman of the COM
mittee on finance candidly admitted
that the successful silver bill was a
piece of pure politics" whose chief
purpose was the payment of an adj
ministration debt" That debt was SO
well paid that he would be worse than
political Shylock who would demand
further usury on it. No wonder Mr..
Lodge refused to discuss the repu blican
end of the silver question--Boston
Globe
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
From Puck.

treasury, operating it in connection
with the keystone and Spring Garden
national banks. For years under Quay's
control of state politics, there is every
reason to believe that the Pennsyl
vania state treasury has been operated
on the same plan, and it is not at all
surprising that Quay has made most
strenuous efforts to shut off an investi-
cation of the period during which the
treasury was under republican control.
But for the fact that the character of
these so-called banks was patent, pub
lie confidence in banks in general might
have been seriously impaired by these
repeated failures at a time when ma
tional finances have been thrown into
great confusion by republican recl1-
lessness. but the public has been quick
to see that there is no more connection
between legitimate banking and the
schemes of these ringsters than there
is between banking and burglary. The
failures have had an excellent effect
in fact. They have driven a number of
political ringsters out of the banks into
exile or prison and they have so edu-
Gated the public that when bank goes
into politics, or politics gets into a
bank, the public will be better able to
diagnose, hereafter, the symptoms of
the most deadly disease to which bank
ing is Subiect-St. Louis Republic
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
ROTTEN INSTITUTIONS.
Pennsylvania's Political Buccaneering Sys-
tenn.

tenn.
The political banks of PENNSYLVANIA
began failing Immediately after the
democrats carried the state, the insti-
tuition presided over by Quay's candi-
date for governor leading off and the
rest of them following with frequency.
if not regularity, up to the present
time. Whether the list is exhausted
does not yet appear, but it is probable
that there are others too rotten to re-
main open much longer. These insti-
tutions were in reality not banks at all.
They were leeches which the Quay
the state.
When, with democratic success, Quay
was no longer omnipotent in Pennsyl-
vania, these so-called banks began to
fail, astonishing the country with the
disclosures of their rottenness. Con-
temporaneously, similar disclosures
have been made in other states, for the
political bank is not confne d to Penn
sylvania, though it has fourished there
more than anywhere else. In Penn
sylvania each one of these political
banks is the headquarters of a
ring of politicians masq uerading
as fnanciers. The ring was
sometimes local, but in the case
of the Philadelphia banks it as
PRED to national Importance. Both
state and national Office holders were
more or less involved in the ring which
gained control of the Philadelphia city
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
WEEDS AND WEALTH.

Two valuable Plants That Grow on the
Western Alkaline Plains.
There is use for everything if men
had but the wit to find it out. It is evil
dent that we stand only upon the
threshold of ultimate knowledge of the
methods by which the vegetable king
dom may be made to contribute further
to human necessities. 1t is doubtful if
there be any waste products. Waste and
ignorance seem to be nearly synonym
GUS terms.
The alkaline plains of the west, for
example, produce two peculiar plants
which give promise of great value for
domestic and manufacturing purposes.
What is called the Mexican ''soap
weed" grows luxuriantly in west
ern Kansas. It thrives in the rain
less regions where other vegetation
fails, sending it's roots into the soil in
search of moisture. 1t is the root OF
the plant that is valuable for its
saponaceous quality. A factory has
been built in Kansas City for manu-
featuring toilet soap of the finest quail
ity, in which this root forms the chief
ingredient. The new industry prom
Uses to be permanent and remunerative.
A still more important discovery has
been made in the valuable properties OF
a root known as the ''canaigre" root.
The plant is native of northeastern
chihuahua and northern Sonora,
Mexico, and in some parts; of
New Mexico, Arizona and Texas 1t
responds to cultivation in dry, sandy
soils impregnated with alkali, does, not
require much water, and grows to the
size of common beet roots. From the
canaigre root an extract is obtained SO
rich in tannin that it is pronounced to
be UNNECESSARILY superior. to oak or
hemlock bark in the process of tanning
leather. A writer in Hide and Leather
says that ''canaigre liquors, give less
trouble to prepare. and tan rapidly,
leaving the skins or hides clean, pliable
and well filed. The starchy mat
ter is just what tanners want,
without the trouble of extra mixing
as in the case with other tam
ming extracts" A manufacturer i'm
Texas is offering to sell canaigre. 10 the
tanners, either in dry form or the liquid
extract. It's effectiveness has been
demonstrated after years of trial
A substitute for the use of bark for
tanning leather would be of Immense
value in stopping. the destruction of oak
and hemlock forests. So also the pos
sible turning of the waste Alkaline
plains into productive and proStable
areas for the. cultivation of w0fna BILE
roots native in those arid regions must
be esteemed am achievement remarlSa-
bic in the annals of agricultural expert
elphia Record.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

AL the political issues ROW be-
fore the people-national, state and
local-are involved in the election this
year The democrats dodge none.
They force the fighting upon alL-N.
Y World.
-Blaine's popularity in Pennsyl-
vania is indisputa BILE. He is so much
admired by the republican napoleons
OF finance in that state that they use
his well known ''burn the letter. on
all of their business correspondence.
Chicago Herald.
"A bsurdity is quickly reached at
both ends of the republican chain of
reasoning. If the protectionists main
tain that high duties produce high
wages, then with high wages must
come higher prices of manufactured
articles consumed-which is what they
are trying to escape admitting.
ton Globe.
Gov. Campbell certainly acquitted
himself most handsomely in the joint
debate at Ada. His opponent, Maj.
Mckinley, is confessedly an able man
and fine speaker. But the difficulty
was that he had the wrong side of the
arg ulhSne ne governor Htu, GHcIS-
fore, an easy victory.-Kansas City
Times.
Hon. William Mckinley, dressed
in a suit of clothes of imported Eng
lish wooden cloth, made by Eng
ish labor from English raised wool, is
travelling over Ohio telling the farmers
of the great benefits and beauties of
the Mckinley bill American shoddy,
the result OF McKinleyism, is not good
enough for the great advocate of a rob
Der tariff. Plain Dealer.
A stewpan made of such ''tin-
plate" as the Ohio mckinley and pro-
lection" campaign medals are made of
would give off salts of lead enough in
cooking stew in it to poison an entire
family. Mr.. Mckinley has put him
self in the 'hands of his friends and
the Chauvenet quantitative analysis OF
his campaign medals of Piqua tin"
shows that some of the hands are very
bad.-St. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
a BRITISH BLOW.

THE Recent Furious Gale which Swept
Over the British Isles the Occasion of
Much Damage and Loss of Life.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE gale which has
ragged over England, Scotland and Ire
land for the last two days renewed its
fury this morning. The storm is ac-
companied by heavy thunder and vivid
lightning. Reports received from the
channel ports agree that awful weather
is prevailing in the channel. The
Boulogne packet boats are unable to
put to sea All along the coast the
beach is strewn with wreckage. From
Holyhead comes adispatch saying that
the body of steamship fireman has
been washed ashore at that place and
it is believed the drowned man be-
ionged to a steamer which has foundered
during the gale. A Cardiff coal-laden
steamer sank Wednesday near Holy
head. and its entire crew persisted. 1t
is thought the dead fireman may have
been one of her crew.
The weather. in the city is almost as
severe as any experienced in many
years
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
a FATAL RIDE.

Ehree Members of the Chicago Inter
ocean STAFF Crushed to Death Beneath
Deraiied Locomotive while Taking a
Midnight Ride on a Fast Train for the
Purpose of Description and Illustration.
CHICAGO. Oct. ga horrible acct
dent, resulting in the death of three
members of the Inter-Ocean staff, oc-
"curred on the Chicago & Eastern Illi-
'1ois railroad yesterday morning at IL
o'clock at Crete, Ill. The dead are:
Leonard Washburne, sporting reporter
Tor the Inter Ocean; Fred w. Henry,
reporter for the Inter-Ocean; ]. A. Nc
Aferty, artist for the Inter-Ocean, and
James Clark. engineer
The train left Evansville early yes
'terday morning and proceeded safely to
Crete, where it ran into an open switch.
The four men who were killed were on
the engine. Henry and McAfferty hav-
ing gone out for the purpose of writing
up and illustrating a midnight ride on
the fast train, and Washburne, who
was returning to Chicago from an In
diana trip, having Joined his friends on
the engine.
The accident came without warming
and as the locomotive plunged from the
track the four men were caught and
buried beneath the wreck. Fireman
Lafferty jumped from the engine and is
slightly injured.
instructions were sent from this city
to have the bodies sent to Chicago i'm
nedlately. A reply to this dispatch
said that the remains of McAfferty and
Henry had not been recovered from
the wreck, and were supposed to be
Under the engine.
The engine and baggage car were
completely destroyed. Two passenger
coaches and the sleeper were more or
less damaged. The round-house at the
switch was destroyed and fell upon the
wrecked engine.
Upon receipt of the news of the acct
dent, President Saul. of the Chicago 6,
Eastern Illinois railroad, accompanied
by physicians started with special
train for the scene of the wreck
Leonard ID. Washburne was sporting
editor of the Inter-Ocean. He was es-
peciaily well known in baseball circles.
He Travelled with the Chicago club in
their journeys, and his articles at
aracted widespread attention.
James McAfferty came to this city
about two weeks ago from St Louis,
where he had been employed on the
Republic for number of years. Pre-
vlous to going to St Louis he worked
on the Philadelphia Press.
Fred Henry was 81 years old, and
had been employed on the Inter Ocean
for about two weeks having come hero
from louisville
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
Confessed the Burning of the Washington
(Ind.) Court House.
WHOLESALE INDICTMENTS

The United States Grand Jury at Ell Paso,
Tex, Pays Diligent Attention to the
Lottery People.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-Col. M. ID.
Wheeler, chief post Office inspector, has
received the following information
from Inspector Maynard, at Ell Paso,
Tex: 1.-THE United States grand jury
reported four indictments here yester-
day against Paul Conrad president of
the Louisiana state lottery, and other
officers and employees of the lottery
company. for violation of the antilot-
terry law. The grand jury has been in
session since the 5th instant, and yes
terday reported the results of their
labors. Five hundred and fifty indict-
ments were returned, covering an equal
number of separate and distinct cases
against the officers and employees of
the Juarez lottery for violation of the
anti-lottery law. The trials will proba-
bly, begin next week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
THE HlCKSVILLE WRECK.

Complete List of the Casualties by the
Baltimore & Ohio Wreck Near Hicks
willie, o.
TIFFIN, o., Oct. 16.-The following
Is a complete list OF the killed and in
fured by the accident on the Baltimore
& Ohio road, near Hicksville, o.,
Wednesday afternoon:
Thomas WaterStone, a farmer who
lived in Williams county, ILL.,, died
from his injuries two hours after the
accident
Mrs. Waterstone injured in the spine
and suffers from numerous bruises.
An aged farmer named Matthews,
IRON Chicago Junction, o., sustained a
fractured skull, and died about two
hours later.
Miss Minnie Miller, aged 16. of Chi
cago, injured about the head and spine.
She cannot recover. ff:
Mrs John Dinsmore, Braidwood, III.
injured internally; recovery doubtful.
A Mrs. Crawford and daughter, of
Duluth, Mimi, were both injured, and
the young lady also suffered internally,
which places her life in jeopardy.
Mrs. E. 5. Brooks, OF Canton, o.,
severely hurt.
J.P. Brough and wife, of Mansfield O.,
injured on the head and spine, but not
seriously.
Margaret Brisch and Jane Davis,
sisters. residing in Camden, o.; both
probably fatally injured.
ID. ID. Scott, McConnellsville, o., and
q lady friend, Mrs. James Laffy; Mrs.
John G. Jenning and two children,
Mount Vernon; L. J. Martin, Mans
vile, w. "; Mrs. Steward and little
daughter, Sheridan, o.; Mrs. Rhoda
Woodruff, Winchester, Ill, and Lewis
Peters, of Philadelphia. were all pain
fully but not seriously hurt.
Mrs. Sheldon, wife of the secretary
of the Baltimore Young Mems Christian
association, and the 2-year- old child of
her sister who accompanied her, were
very seriously injured
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
Looks Bad for Hoey and spooner.

NEW YORK, Oct 15.-It was learned
late yesterday that John Hoey, the de-
posed president, had drawn out every
dollars worth of his stock OF the cor
poration just before the Boston dis
patch and Kinsley express negotiations.
Clapp Spooner, the ex-vice-president,
also disposed of his holdings at the
same time. The Investigating commit
tee and the friends of the deposed Of
ficials were thunderstruck, and much
unfavorable comment, is heard because
the men retained their positions and
drew their salaries long after their
financial interest had ceased.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
THE DELIGHTS OF YACHTING
As They Appeared to Man Who Was
Taken Aboard for Ballast.

L Fl
/ As They Appeared to Man Who Wai
| Taken Aboard for Ballast.
| I assisted at yacht race about ten
days ago, and the doctor says that
| may sit up in bed now and write an
account of it. It is believed by the
| general public that am drowned, but
my physician informs me that this is
| not true. Many letters of coincidence
have been received by members OF my
| family and placed on file. One Is from
the captain of the yacht that / sailed
on. He closes by saying that it must
be a great comfort to my friends to re-
fleet that in life / made as good shift
ing ballast as he ever used. This cap
| tain is a rough seaman, but it will be
| noticed that his heart is on the right
side. l regard him as a physiological
phenomenon.
My weight, at times when l have not
| recently been drowned, is about two
| hundred and forty pounds. They want
ed me to sit on the windward side to
keep the yacht level, and l was expect
ed to sing "Larboard Watch. Alloy"
white Wings" and the ''Wreck of the
julie Ia Plante" at stated intervals. /
did not know these songs, but / gave
my pants hitch and sang Gathering
in the Shcaves" in such manner that
made the captain look sad.
We carried about half an acre of can
vas and plowed the pillows merrily.
1.-The Plowboy's Jov," which every body
pronounced timely and appropriate.
The captain said that everything de-
pended upon me. I was to lie fat un-
der the windward rail and bear down
hard. He said he would like to have
me weigh as near a ton as I could.
was admonished to avoid drawing in
long, deep breaths !, as much as
possible, because air; was light. and it
would not do for me to be making a
balloon out of myself at critical time
like that. The mate suggested that 1
might do all the breathing that was
necessary when the yacht was in stays
and hold my breath when ON tack.
At about this juncture the yacht cap
sized. There were five life-preservers
on board-one for each man. The
reader who does not suppose that pos
sessed myself of those life-perserversi in
a hurry does not understand my grasp
ing nature. 1 shouted to the others
that l would try to save the life-pre-
servers if they would endeavor to
rescue the pig-iron that was inside the
yacht. Then 1 kicked myself free from
the wreckage and fioated Off Our
noble captain was the last man to leave
the yacht. ''Save yourselves"' he cried.
''Never mind me. / have no wife nor
little ones at home.
This was true, for his family had gone
to Ypsilanti on visit. Then this self
sacrificing man took a large chew of
tobacco and calmly waited for boat to
come and take him off. He knew that
the yacht had air cans enough slowed
away to float her, and he didn't want
any company.
The other mem bers of the crew over
took me and seized all Of the 1ife-pre-
servers. / am informed that my re-
mains were subsequently recovered and
worked" for all there was in them by
the life saving crew.
Yachting is a manly and pleasant di-
version. Therefore I have bought
farm in the interior of Kansas.-Detroit
Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
CopYRNFf i69


your sufferings from Catarrh.
That is, if you go about it in the
right way.
There are plenty of wrong ways,
that perhaps you've found out.
They may relieve for time, but
they don't cure.
Worse yet, they may drive the
disease to the lungs. You can't
afford to experiment.
But there IS a right way, and
sure way, that does cure. Thou
sands of otherwise hopeless cases
have proved it. It's with DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. BY its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it permanently cures the
worst chronic cases. Catarrhal
Headache, "Cold in the Head -
everything catarrhal in its nature,
is cured as if by magic.
It's a way so sure that the pro.
prietors of DR.. Sage's Remedy
offer, in good faith, $500 for a
case of Catarrh which they can.
not cure.
IF it's sure enough for them to
make the offer, it's sure enough
for you to make the trial.
They risk $500. What do you
risk 2
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22
NO PLACE TO STAND.
The Unstable Nature of Republican Foun
dations,

datlons.
The epublicans seem to be unusually
| hard pressed to find an issue that they
can comfortably or confidently rest
upon. The Mckinley bill was tried
last year and found more treacherous
than rotten reed. Now they have
| shifted to the silver leg. but fail to find
in this change of position the relief
that they hoped for.
The New York chamber of commerce,
purely business body, at it's first
meeting after the summer vacation,
passed, with only one dissenting vote,
resolution condemning the disturb
ance OF the currency caused by the &C
ton of the last republican congress and
calling for the repeal of the silver act
for which that body was responsible.
That is blow between the eyes, It
numerically knocks out the hypocrit-
zeal pretense that there was any thing
worse in this line to be done. If there
was any danger to be wrought by max
ing silver a conspicuous part of the
country's legal tender, the measure
passed last winter embodies it all.
When the whole silver production of
the country, available for coinage, falls
about ten million ounces short of what
that law authorizes the country to pur-
chase, it looks as though the most eX-
IRENE silver man had obtained the sub
stance of what he was striving for, and
would not now worry himself very
much about the shadow
The republican congressman of Mas
sachusetts voted for this measure. The
two democratic representatives voted
against it The Ohio republicans of
Ohio in this years platform approve
the amended coinage act of the last
republican congress, by which the en-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-10-22

There is species of terrapin at the
London Geological gardens which is in
the fortunate position of not having to
work for living. Like the children in
the fairy tale, it has simply to open it's
mouth and food will drop in. In the
mouth of the reptile is little tag of
flesh which is in continual vibration,
and nearly always visible, for the crea-
ture remains open-monthed for hours
together. It is believed that the sight
of this is particularly afluring to the
piscine mind. The fish commits the
very pardonable. though fatal, error Of
installing the process for q wriggling
worm In trying to take the bait it is
caught in trap and swallowed. --Ram's
Horn.