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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-08-24
TRYING TO CIvILIZE AFRICA.
One Result Is That the Natives Are Now
Fighting Over CreedS.

One Result Is That t!1c Natives Are Now
Fighting Over CreedS.
European nations are making the un-
pleasant discovery that African coloni-
zation is both dangerous and difficult.
History ought to have taught them a
similar lesson. It's pages are studded
with stirring events in the carly settle
ment of America and India in which the
natives served rs pawns in the hands of
rival nationalities to defeat each other
Nature seems to have intended that the
early settlers of the country should en-
counter obstacles and hardships in
order to improve the race Such has
been the result in America and to less
extent in India, where the maStCrful
race has had, in addition, to contend
with the depressing effects of climate.
Africa bids fair to reproduce in an cx-
aggcratcd form all the ugly features of
col: nization. England, Germany and
Franco have undertaken to partition
the country before exploring it and de-
Gniag with something like precision the
mctcs ald bounds of their respective
spheres OF influence, but without con-
sidcring the wishes and Sympathies of
the natives, who by right of prior pos
session are the owners of the soil. Nor
have they shown much moro respect for
the claims of minor powers, Spain, Por-
tugal ard Belgium, but. as often hap
pens wi: N TIC big robbers grow in
hatcd oTcr th,> spoi!s and quarrel with
e;sch other, the small fry may yet come
i'll for 81 share Of the swag.
Violent strife appears to have devcl-
opcd in the Uganda country, where
British, German and French spheres are
50 nCbulously marked that they en-
croach upon each other; strange to say,
TIC French and Germany have united
III protesting against the outraTes per-
petratcd by the British. The latter are
accused Of stirring up religious war
among the nGtivcs, in which repeating
rifles and Maxim guns are made to fig
urc ccnspicuously. 1t is certainly
qlcer, tl2& idea of native African armies
fighting to the death over creeds which
they had not heard of twelve months
ago, and whose highest notions of the
Deity were embodied in hidcoua images
OF wood and stone, and practically IL
lrStratcd by the annual sacrifice Of
hundreds of human victims. The Bal
timorc American is inclined to think,
II the reports are true, that religion
has been usc,l as Il cloak by the colon
ISIS to conceal their ambitious designs
OF territorial aggrandizcment. The
British have been the most arbitrary
AID rcst successful of colonists. Their
enemies say OF them that they are the
lrcliicst, but luck is very apt to follow
tEoSc who hare the skill and pluall t.
conquer it. 1t remains to be seen
whether t!.cir assurance or luck,
wni ,hcvcr il may bc called, will stand
by them III this African business.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-08-24
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW.
A Traffic Manager of the Lackawann
-Documentary Proof.

-Documentary Proof.
CHICAGO, May IA. Abram Fell, OF
Buffalo, N. Y, general freight traffic
manager of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad, was indicted BY the
federal grand jury yesterday on the charge
of giving discriminating freight rates to
Swift & Company, the packers of this city.
Fell is alleged to have steadily violated
the interstate commerce law relating to
freight rates for over year, and proof
was presented to the grand jury that on
Fell's orders $50 96S.6s was paid to Swift
& company in rebates through one of their
agents last year and that at another period
s., 400 was also paid to the same agent
whose name is A. R. Fay.
Rejoice Over the Fall Of Fell.
All the evidence by which it is expected
to prove Mr.. Fell's guilt is documentary.
and thus will be avoided the danger of
summoning witnesses who will at the last
moment refuse to testify. There is great
rejoicing among freight agents over the
news that Mr.. Fell had been indicted.
Complaint after complaint has been filed
with Interstate Agent Ketschmar and
District Attorney Milchrist that Fell had
been creating havoc in freight rates and
that his appearance in the city was suffi-
cient to cause break in rates.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
The Congressional Summary.

WASHINGTON, May 14-Ths proceedings
Of the senate yesterday were marked by
utterances Of warning from Cockrell and
Sherman on extravaganza. German plainly
stated that the expenditures to which
congress was committed would exceed the
revenues for the next two years and make
necessary an increase of taxation, and that
he was in favor Of spending the money
until we had navy to be proud of. No
business was done
The entire day in the house was spent in
flibustering against private bill, which
came over as unfinished business from last
Friday, and therefore was entitled to con-
sideration. The Republicans did not want
to adjourn, but the chairman (Montgom-
cry of kentucky heard motion to ad-
journ an couldn't hear a dozen demands
for division and roll call, parliament
ary stroke that was applauded. The mo.
tion to adjourn being declared carried
superseded the special rule for an evening
session on pensions Friday, and none
was held
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
THE CHURCH AND THE LABoRER.
Methodists Called Upon to Come Out
Against Capitalize Color Line.

Methodists Called Upon to Come Out
Against Capitalize Color Line.
OMAHA, May 1.-THE first important
resolution offered in the Methodist con-
ference yesterday was one to the effect
that the church must come out more on
the side of the laborer in his fight with
capital. An attempt to pass this out of
hand was defeated, and it was sent to COM
mittee. Unordained preachers were
given authority to solemnize mar
riage when authorized by secular law; the
question whether bishops shall be per-
mitted to vote at meetings of the Book
Concern committee was sent to the judi
ciary committee. A resolution that was
applauded was one ordering a report on
the question whether there was not too
much politics" in the church elections
and how to abate the evil Memoirs on
the dead were then read and ordered
printed. At night reception was given
the fraternal delegates from the A NJ. E.
church.
Buckley Takes a Back Seat.
Lingi Mando, lay delegate from Italy,
arrived yesterday and was seated. DIR.
Buckley who had been occupying his seat,
which is an advantageous one, was order
ed to 60 to his delegation which is in the
rear of the assembly. This was greeted
with applause, as it puts the doctor where
he will not be SO effective in debate.
Wrangle Over the Color Line.
During the day long wrangle took
place over the reception of fraternal dele
gates. 1t leaked out that the fraternal
delegate from the Methodist Episcopal
Church South does not like the idea OF
being received with the other fraternal
delegates because there is one colored man
among them. 1t was finally decided to
separate the sheep and goats" and there
by relieve the southerner by holding the
receptions at different times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
EXPENDITURES ARE FIXED,

And Taxation Must BE Increased, Says
the Maryland Statesman.
Continuing, German said: THAT party
has fixed our expenditures at high rate,
rs think. Now they are fixed and cannot
be repealed. We are not responsible for
what goes on today. The senator from
New jersey does great injustice to me and
to his party when he intimates that we
can do better, when the fact is that we
cannot do better. The senator from New
Jersey would not increase taxation. How
can he help itp Your revenues are $780,
000, 900; your expenditures will be $500, ,0OO,-
900 or more, The treasury would be with
out money today but for the fact that they
have taken a fund which under our ad-
ministration was set apart for the redemp-
tion of the national bank notes, and they
have also taken the sinking fund. which
has disappeared, as the surplus has dis
appeared
Promised Entirely Too Much.
"When thoughtless orators were promis-
ing that we would reduce expenditures
800, ,OO0, 900 the senator from Missouri
CockrelD, with forethought that did
honor to him, published statement show
ing how we could not possibly do so. The
expenditures of the government are grow
ing year by year. The senator from Mis-
sissippi (George) asks me whether they
are justly growing. believe to q great
extent they are" German read statistics
to show the progressive increase of ex-
penditures. He concluded by saying that
It was best to tell the facts to the people.
The Democratic party was powerless to re-
duce expenditures and powerless to
change unjust taxation until the people
made change Of government.
villas Asks Some Questions.
Villas asked how many ships were under
construction, what they would cost, and
II it was correct that when all were COM
pleted we would have thirty-nine vessels
Of modern construction mostly. Hale re-
piled to these questions seriatim as fol-
lows, Twenty-four; about Csc, ,0OO, 900, of
which about 81, ,0O0, 900 had yet to be ap-
propriated; and @yes, more than thirty
nine"
Vilas-There is no immediate war an
ticipated, / believe.
Hawley-There never was.
Hale said he need hardly remind the dis
tinguished senator from Wisconsin that
most wars were not anticipated until they
came In our recent difficulty with Chill,
II that little country had only possessed
the navy she once owned she would have
had the United States by the throat.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMs.

Some boys at Philadelphia played
slynching" and Evan Hamilton was cut
down just in time to save his life.
John L. Bretz, of Dubois county, has
been nominated for congress by the Demo-
Gratis of the Second Indiana district.
Interviews with large number of
French artists show that they intend to be
well represented at the Worlds fair
Bank clearings at 81 cities for the week
ended May 12 aggregated O., ,231, POI, ,204, of
which New York reported s735, 71,179
The governor of New York has COM
muted the death sentence of one Tanning,
who murdered his mistress, to imprison.
ment for life
A Boston syndicate will spend 81, ,O00, 600
developing the Bear Gulch group of tin
mines in the Black hills eighteen miles
from Deadwood.
James C. Lavelle, the Daviess county,
Ind, court house burner, has arrived at
the penitentiary at Jeffersonville on an
eight years visit.
Two hundred settlers in Michigan, dis
appointed in the outlook, will go to Mani
toba under the care of Dominion immi-
grafton agent
The Confederate Soldiers Home at the
Hermitage" Andrew Jackson's place at
Nashville, has been opened. 1t has &C
commodations for lbs men.
Elijah Cheavers. who murdered Dep
uty Sheriff Culpeper, was hanged at Wash
ington, the execution giving general sat
isfaction to all concerned, except Cheavers
himself.
Margaret Gillon, 63 years old, was picked
up by the New York police pitiably drunk
and in tatters. On her person, however,
was found bank books representing &, 100
in savings.
William Astor left between $50, ,000, 900
and $40, ,000, 600, most of it to his son, John
Jacob. There are many bequests to chari-
ties and to church institutions, amounting
to over S250, 200.
A move is on foot at Berlin to hold q
Worlds fair in that city. There is much
opposition to the scheme among the con-
servative landholders, who fear it would
disturb the labor market
Two masked robbers with the aid of q
quartette of revolvers robbed Paymaster
Fox, of the Solvey Process company, Syra-
cuse, n. Y, of $500 which he was taking
to the company's quarries to pay off the
men
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
Sou exempt from Com mpncarron.

NOT Exempt from oInp1catIon.
The United States could not expect to
maintain longer it's isolation from the
rest of the world. 1t could not continue
to count upon that exemption from COM
plication, or even war, if that was the
word the senator from Wisconsin desired
to be used, which had been enjoyed for the
past twenty-five years. We were simply
endeavoring to go on with this patriotic
work of building up navy which had
been SO ably described by the senator from
Maryland.
Mills Seems Rather Despairing.
Mills sad it was Condition, not the
Ory that confronted u.s." The country
was bankrupt. Without word of protest
from any one the sinking fund had been
stopped and preparations had been en-
tered upon for perpetuating the national
debt and making the annual interest a
fixed charge. He strongly denounced this
course and advocated making no more new
appropriations until the expenditures were
brought within the limit of the revenues.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
OUR ADVANCED CIVILIZATION.
An Illustrative State of Affairs Out In
Wyoming.

An Illustratfve State OF Affairs Out in
Wyoming.
BUFFALO, Wyo., May LIT is generally
believed that Robert L. Gibson and L. T.
Craig, United States deputy marshals,
have been killed by the rustlers. Both
went out to serve injunctions upon the
rustlers to prevent illegal round-ups, and
should have been back in Buffalo before
this. 1t is reported here that the ranch Of
Major Ijams, six miles from Blair's ranch
on the Powder river, and fifty miles from
here, has been sacked by the rustlers, and
from this it is inferred that Blair's ranch.
with 10000 head Of cattle on it, has also
been sacked. Intelligence from Blair's
ranch is anxiously awaited. for it Is feared
that several men left to defend it may
have been killed.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
PRODUCE AND LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Chicago.

Chicago.
CHICAGO, May L.
Following were the quotations on the board
of trade today: Wheat - May opened
s214c. closed S514c; June. opened s2ssc, closed
s2ssc; July, opened $3.50, closed s218c- Corn
May, opened 4Sc closed 4s1Sc; June. opened
%ssc, closed 445sc; July, opened Assc, closed
aa34c. oats-May, opened and closed
opened and closed 3O14c Pork-May, opened
sS721% closed $ssa18; July. opened $3.50
cossd clossd sst5i sS q ssgssRSS!, opened sss7 4
sosed $a27,k
Live Stock Prices at the Union Stock
yards today ranged as follows: Hogs-Market
fairly active and SC higher op best lots. other
grades steady; sales ranged at S3eoG.7O
pigs. S40GIS light $4,000 so rough pack
ing, s455@Aso mixed. sl50LO heavy
packing and shipping lots
Cattle-Market slow and prices weak:
quotations ranged at s430@ 40 choice
70 extra shipping steers, $3S5dA35 good
to choice do; $a550405 fair to good. sa.25Ga7O
common to medium do, $a00G355 butchers
steers, S2.700S3O stockers. s27O@aso 80 Texas
steers ss35G3.9J feeders, s1.4ooa50 cows
G0@a.6 bulls and s2Oo0475 veal calves.
Sheep-Market moderately active and prices
strong; quotations ranged at s5.COG6.l0 west
erns, S4.S03620 natives and $a751675 lambs.
Shorn lots 6G75 per loo lbs below quotations
given above.
Produce: Butter-Fancy separator, &c per
1b; fine creameries, O621c; diaries, fancy
fresh, lSc; packing stock, fresh, 10Hllc. Egys-
Fresh. 1S1kc per doz. Live poultry-Chickens,
lie per H.. roos eers- &c; ducks l31lSc; turkeys.
choice hens, lSc; young toms l2c; geese, sS.OJ
G6.Oo Per doz- Potatoes-Hsbrons SSG3Oc per
bu-; Burbanks SSG3oc; Rose. 293Oc for seed;
Peerless, 259s2Sc; common to poor mixed lots
2n32oc. Apples-Common. S2.OO622J Der brl;
good, 2.5o9z75; fancy, saOoGs.25.
New York.
NEW YORK, May IL
Wheat-No 3 red winter cash p6ne0lSc:
May, sss4c; June, sohc; July, 9Ozsc; August,
9o1<c. Corn-No. mixed cash, 55@55l4c;
May, H1zc; June, 5lsfc. Oats-No. mixed
cash, e4e4935c; May, S5c; June and July,
soc. Rye-Fairly active and firm; sl,<ass,ec
In car lots and boat loads. Barley-NeQ-
lected Pork-Nom;nal; mess, sl050all 90
for new. Lard-Quiet; July, Sse5; August
$666
Live Stock: Cattle-Market very dull and
slow for all grades at decline Of lOc per 100
lbs; poorest to best native steers, S4.0o0475
per 100 lbs; bulls and dry cows 81. Sl.SO94as.
Sheep and lambs-Msrket very firm; clipped
sheep, S4252555 per lCo lbs; clipped year
hngs $6. Is; very poor spring lambs, $50 Hogs
Market steady; live hogs, $<SOGa<o per
100 lbs
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
The Base Bali Record.

CHICAGO, May a = Only two League
games yesterday: At CleveIand-Pitts.
burg l. Cleveland o; at Cincinnati Louis
vile 5, Cincinnati z; rain stopped the
others. Western: At Toledo - Kansas
City 8, Toledo L. Illinois-Iowa: At Evans
vflle-Peoris /. Evansville O
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
New York.

What is more attractive than q pretty
acewith fresh, bright complexionf Fo-
ii, use Pozzoni's Powder.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-14
Cash Is What Knocks!

You know as we'll as we do that for Cash
you can buy cheaper than on credit. We
do strictly Cash Business, and when ira
ding with us you are not compelled to pay
for the loss of bad debts, etc. We have no
Old Shelf Worn Goods in our house. as the
goods of the old firm were closed out with
RUSH after their failure; we have more
nice new Clothing to select from than any
two Clothing houses in the city: The Lon
don is the only Cash Clothing House in
Rock Island.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-20
BLAINE'S SON DEAD.

Emmons, the Ex-Secretary's Favorite, Ex-
pires Suddenly of Blood Poisoning.
CHICAGO, June 1S.-Emmons Blaine,
second son of ex-Secretary of State James
G.. Blaine, died at the Mccormick man
sion, No. 1874 Rush street, shortly after11
o'clock this morning. Death was due to
blood poisoning, originating in stomach
trouble. Mr.. Blaine was taken i'll imme-
diately after the convention in Mime
apolis, where he was n of the most
ardent workers in his fathers behalf, and
was, in fact, regarded as a personal repre-
sentative of the silent secretary.
Mrs. Blaine and her son, Mccormick
Blaine, 2 years old, and Mrs. Cyrus Nc
Cormick were the only members Of the
family at the bedside when Mr.. Blaine
passed away. Death came so swiftly that
there was not time to summon the other
members of the Mccormick family who
were in the house at the time. I~netfec-
tual efforts were made throughout the
night to reach James G. Blaine and Mrs.
Blaine by telegraph to convey the intel
ligence of their sons condition. The
family left Augusta, Me-, several days
ago for Bar Harbor, Mr.. Blaine's summer
residence, but it was impossible lastnight
to effect the delivery of a telegram either
to Mr.. Blaine or to any one who could
transmit the message to him.
Emmons Blaine was the second son of
the Maine statesman and next to Walker,
who died suddenly just after New Years,
1890, was his fathers favorite child. He
was about 50 years of age, and his fea-
lures quite strongly resembled those of
his father. He was of ruddy complexion
with dark eyes and hair prematurely
gray.
He was known more as a business man
than as a politician, and had been rather
successful: He was of genial tempera'
ment and a fayorite among his associates
both in business and society.
He wss educated for the law, but
eventually went to Chicago with the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad, and
later was general freight agent of the
Sante Fee.
On September 26, 1889, he married Mis-:
Anita Mccormick, the daughter of the
well-known Chicago millionaire manu-
facturer of reapers. The ceremony took
place at Richfeld Springs, and was one
of the great social events of the season
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-20
AND STILL AT 1T.

The republican party declares for
more pensions still, and all this to catch
the soldier vote-the fellows vote who
one time made a contract to fight for so
much a month. The fellow got his
money and what he could steal on the
side. He came home and engaged in
whatever pursuit best suited his fancy
and his pocket book. That was about
thirty years ago. Yesterday we read in
a western paper the statement that a
certain man had received a pension of
twelve dollars a month and would also
get three or four years back pay. This
means that the fellow will receive about
five hundred dollars. And he gets it
| because he was disabled in the war. He
may not get over half Of the amount for
some agent will get the other half-but
any way the government will cough up
the full amount.
Now about that case. The editor of
THE GLOBE has known the man who
| gets the pension for twenty years. He
| has seen him at intervals for that length
| of time, and the fellow during those
years has been full of whisky at least
two-thirds Of his time. He is known as
a dead beat and a wife beaten. He owes
| everyone money to-day if he ever owed
it. He has practically killed himself
drinking whiskey and now comes in the
government and rewards him for it
This is the picture and yet the grand oil
party whoops it up for more pensions.
The fellow in question would have
been just as much of a physical wreck as
he now is if there had been no war. He
waits almost thirty years and then drags
himself-Or what whisky has left of him
self before a pension agent and tells his
story and perhaps swears to it-and the
government arranges it for him. He
reaches down and takes $500 and gets
his name on the payroll for ten o.
twelve dollars a month. With the pen
sion money he will pay a few of hi;
debts-and on the strength of his gOoC
fortune he will proceed to open up new
accounts and increase his fields in the
matter of beating people for grOcerie:
while he will pay cash for his whisky.
This picture is not overdrawn. The
colors are really lighter than they are il
the original. And yet we stand all this
This is but one case in ten thousand
and the pension roll grows bigger yea.
by year. 1t is the grandest humbug o
the century and the bureau of pension
should be abolished.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-20
BAD ENOUGH.

The dispatches announce the death OF
lannon's BLAINE, son of JAS. G. BLAINE.
1t seems only a short time ago that the
ex-secretary was called upon to bury his
son WALKER, in whom the aged father
saw so much. WALKER was his conf
Dental friend, his companion, n be-
sides all that was blood of his blood and
flesh of his flesh. 1t is said that when
WALKER died the old man was pros
trated with grief-he was heard to say
that he would rather have gone than to
give up WALKER. EMMoNs was bright
was a great orator, or would have been.
He was business from the shoulder and
his father lavished upon him increased
affection after the death of his idol. But
without warning, and within three hours
time, EMMoNs is taken sick and dies.
This crushing blow, coming upon the
heels of the Minneapolis defeat and the
resignation from the cabinet, will doubt
less hasten MIR. BLAINE to his grave.
And does all this pay? Does the man
with so many TROUBLESOME matter how
successful in business, no matter how
fully realized his ambitions-does not a
man like BLAINE envy the mendicant in
the street, the tramp who has no trouble
and no care?
WALKER BLAINE and EMMONs BLAINE
were smart and talented-they both were
men with futures-but they have gone.
YOUNG JIM has caused his father and
mother unreasonable humiliation and
grief; he has been the black sheep in the
flock and he alone has been spared to
comfort the parents in their old age-he
cannot honor them.
And so it goes: The brightest and brain
lest man in America-a statesman with
out a peer-known in every land as the
leader of the government for thirty years
and more-and this is his lot. 1t is really
and pathetically sad. What the aged
father will do now, under this new load
| of grief, time will show-but his burdens
are increasing.