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Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
DARES TO SEEK LIBERTY.
The Colorado CannibaI Anxious to Breath
Free Air,

Inc colorado SSnnioai ANXIOUS to Breathe
Free Air.
Alfred Parker, the man-eater, the man
who killed and devou1ed his compan-
ions and who took delight in telling the
horrible story, has applied for a release
from the psnisenrary at Canyon City,
Colo. Parsor without doubt is the most
icldi5h IN; Lhouiish man who ever es-
capped the hanSTIan'a nCusc. His record
is q gruesolno one. IN his time it is
known that he has killed and eaten five
men.
In ~Jat.uary, 1874. Al Parker in COM
pany with five others left Dry Creek,
San Juan County, for the Los Pinos
Agency, and in March OF the same year
he appeared at his destination, wild
eyed, haggard ard alone. He told con-
flicting stories about his companions,
finally stating that they had died on the
trip. Parker left bingham, Utah, in the
fall of 1873. Wintcr found his party of
twenty-one showed up at Dry Creek
with Chief Oaray, the famous Uncom-
pahgre Ute. After camping with the
Indian a few weeks he proposed that a
few Of them push on to the agency.
In COMPANY with, Swan, Miller, Bell.
Noon and humphrey they bundled up
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

blankets, cooking utensils and a gun,
and with a horse started over the range
in the coolest part of the winter. Food
was scarce. and soon the horse was
turned loose to die. Three days later
the provisions gave out and the party
became desperate. 1t was bitterly cold
and the non fell fast. The men ooh
turns breaking the trail, those follow
ing carrying the camp utensils. Starry
ing, the men chewed their moccasins, and
cut UP their blankets to serve as shoes.
When the matches gave out fire was car
ried IN a coffee pot by Swan, who was Old
and feeble. Sometimes the men found
frozen rosebuds and leaves and ate
them ravenously. Swan gave out when
near the top of the Continental divide,
and then the devilish work began. Sew
eral stories are told, but the one most
generally believed is hat each agreed
to climb the mountain and look for
signs OF the agency, leaving Swan in
camp in a clump OF trees. When they
left, Parker returned and struck the old
man a blow on the head with a Ratchet
and killed the others as they came in.
Bell, it seems, was bent on murder,
and had about made up his mind that
some one had to die to save the
others. He returned to camp and Par
ker assaulted him. A fight took place
and Bell u ccumbed. All that winter
Parker. g~houlish-like, remained with
the dead and subsisted on the choice
cuts from their bodies.
The tale Is a fearful one. He was ar
rested at the agency, but escaped and
was not again captured until 1883, in
Cheyenne. IN 1856 he was sentenced
on five counts to eight years each. each
sentence to commence when the other
expired. He is an ex-Union soldier.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
The Option Business Does 1t.

II don't understand" says a prom
inent Chicago operator, show trade
should feel SO bearish this year. The
wheat crop is only $40, 1000, 900
bushels against 612, 600, 900 bushels
a year ago: the corn crop only 1,618,-
900, 900 bushels against 1000, 900, 900
bushels last year; the oat crop 615,-
600, 900 bushels against 739, 600, 900
last year; the rye crop only 31,OO0,-
900 bushels against 33, 600, 900 bushels
a year ago, with barley only 5000, 900
bushels against $1,000, 900 bushels last
year, while the potato crop has shrunk
from $40, 600, 900 bushels in 1891 to
100, 600, 900 bushels now. Here is a
deficiency in these crops this year of
7O9, 600, 900 bushels with prices of
nearly everything in this line 20 per
cent. lower, and nearly everybody still
talking bearish. 1t don't seem rea-
sonable to me, yet [ must confess the
bears are making the money.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

S2,039 ,052. and of silver 1861, TAG,
against S9,031, l7o in the prior year
an increase of 5000, 569.
If there has been no falling off in
the amount of coin melted annually
for use in repairs and jewellery, the to-
tai value of the precious metals used in
the industrial arts and manufactures
IN the United States during the last
year was, approximately:
Gold, $19, zoe, 900, and silver, So
$50, GOO, a total of $29, $3.50, 900, of which
SO, 697, $40 gold and ST, 2S9, 073 silver,
consisted of new bullion.
The price of silver fuctuated during
the last fistal year from $1.02 per fine
ounce, whicE was the price at the be-
ginning of the year, to $0.S55 March
%, the lowest price, closing June 80
at S0.873, a variation of So? an ounce
during the last fiscal year. Since
July l, 1892, the price of silver still
further declined until Aug. II, 1892,
it reached S3 cents a fine ounce, the
lowest price silver ever reached.
Since then the price has advanced,
and at the present writing, Nov. l.,
1892, it is $O.S6 per fine ounce. At
the lowest price of silver during the
fiscal year, the commercial value OF
the pure silver contained in a silver
dollar was &c cents; at the highest
price it was 50. 1856, and at the average
price $0.724. The number of silver
dollars distributed from the minis dur
ing the last fiscal year was 9,4O7, 900,
beng So, 800, S74 less than in the pre-.
vious year.-Kansas Farmer.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

5000. 052, and uf silver 50, G31, 746
against $9,031, 178 in the prior year
an increase of $500, 56S.
If there has been no falling off in
the amount OF coin melted annually
for use in repairs and jewellery, the to-
tai value of the precious metals used in
the industrial arts and manufactures
in the United States during the last
year was, approximately:
Gold, $40, 700, 900, and silver, So
100000, q total Of 500, $50, 900, of which
so, 697, $40 gold and 81, 289, 073 silver,
consisted of new bullion.
The price of silver fuctuated during
the last fstal year from $1.02 per fine
ounce, which was the price at the be-
ginning of the year, to $0.S55 March
2S, the lowest price, closing June &c
at $O.S73, a variation of 50. 1? an ounce
during the last fiscal year. Since
July l, 1892. the price of silver still
further declined until Aug. II, 1892,
it reached S3 cents a fine ounce, the
lowest price silver ever reached.
Since then the price has advanced,
and at the present writing, Nov. 1,
1892, it is $O.86 per fine ounce. At
the lowest price of silver during the
fiscal year, the commercial value of
the pure silver contained in q silver
dollar "a Sc cents; at the highest
price it was $0.786, and at the average
price $0.724. The number of silver
dollars distributed from the minis dur
ing the last fiscal year was 9,4O7, 900,
being So, 800, S74 less than in the pre-
vious year.-Kansas Farmer.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
READING COAL COMBINE.
Continuation of the Investigation by tn
House Committee.

Continuation of the Investigation by the
House Committee.
The House committee appointed TO
investigate the Reading Railroad an
thracite coal combination resumed
Thursday morning In the Commerce
Committee room the inquiry it conduct
ed into this subject during the recess in
New York. Philadelphia and elsewhere.
William H. Joyce. general freight agent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was ex-
amined. lie offered in evidence a letter
dated April Is last, addressed by him to
e. r. Holden, chairman Of the anthra-
cite rate committee, New York, calling
attention TO the fact that during the
last year the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, through its coal company,
had made with individual operators con-
tracts for the purchase of their coal
upon a percentage OF the prices realized
at Underwater.
The Reading Company, the latter
added, had made similar agreements
with q number Of miners and shippers,
and it was therefore necessary for the
Pennsylvania Railway to do likewise if
it were to secure the product of collier
les that had heretofore shipped over
lis lines. These contracts gave ship
pers for their coal go per cent. of the
prices obtained at tide-water. The let
ter stated that the Pennsylvania Com
pany would therefore reduce it's price
for carrying coal to tide-water. Wit
ness said that the price over their road
vas determined by the law Of supply
and domaGd.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
The Income u

The farm and labor organizations
have been ridiculed as cranks because
they have advocated a tax upon in
cones as a mean of raising a national
revenue. But our Washington cor
respondent tells us that this idea is
now being pushed by some of the most
energetic and influential members of
Congress, and present indications are,
says u correspondent, that such q
measure will easily get through the
House, unless Mr.. Cleveland, who is
understood to be opposed to it, shall
call a halt, and even then the chances
are that there will be some eyeopening
talk IN the subject in both House and
Senate. Whatever Mr.. Cleveland's
opinion may be, We can see no other
leans of escape for the Democratic
party. They have promised great re-
auctions of the tariff. If this promise
be kept. a reduction in the tariff
revenue would most like follow. There
seems to be 10 serious proposition to
reduce salaries OF expenses, hence
there must be some other means of
raising revenue. The tax on incomes
naturally suggests itself as the most
feasible means, and a means in the line
of right and justice, and one that is
really made necessary by the tenden-
cies of the times; and the logic Of
events would seem to drive the Democ-
racy to it.
Thus are the farm and labor organ
izations being vindicated, and the first
while cranks are proving to be the true
leaders in the advocacy of measures
necessary to the general welfare.-Pro'
gressive Farmer.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
The monetary Conference.

The dispatches say that the none
tary conference does not attract half
the discussion in Europe that the death
of Jay Gould does. The money kings
of Europe cannot see anything to have
a conference about. SO far the discus
sions have been first, upon the propo-
sition of the American delegates, which
was to re-establish universal bi-metal-
ism on any rates which could be agreed
upon; second, the plan of Rothschild
of Paris for the United States to on
tinue the Sherman law of 1890, and
Europe to buy 25, 1000, 900 ounces OF
silver annually as long as the price
keeps below Sc cents. Then came the
Moritz-Levi proposition. which is more
properly q series of questions impossi-
BILE to answer. The point of the plan
is that gold should be recognized as
an aristocratic coin. That no gold
should be coined less than 81 or 20
francs, and that silver should only be
a subsidiary coin below the gold, and
legal tender only to the equivalent Of
the lowest gold piece. They are now
considering the plan of Tietgen, the
Danish delegate, which is to extend
the terms of the Latin union, which
would be to CON all silver, but at an
ever-varying ratio to be determined by
the price of silver bullion on the Lon
don market. We see no prospect OF
anything being done that will be rati-
fed by the American people. The
delegates have no power to bind Con-
gress to any course of action, and the
legislation OIL silver by the United
States is not to be dictated by foreign
nations.-Ex.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
EVERY dav some one asserts that

EVERY day some n asserts that
"fat money or paper money, unless it
is made redeemable in coin, is not
goods not a legal tender" Why?
We'll, there is nothing behind it." Is
a United States bond good? Is it not
worth a premium in gold? Did not
Mr.. Cleveland pay out $72, 900, 900 in
premiums on United States bonds|that
were not due? What makes a bond
good? "The security is the wealth
and patriotism of the nation which is
pledged for it's redemption. If this is
true. when the same Government
creates a dollar in paper money, and
bases that dollar on the wealth and
patriotism of the whole people, why j.
it not a good dollar? What do you
want to redeem money for?
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
The Monetary Conference,

The dispatches say that the none
tary conference does not attract half
the discussion in Europe that the death
of Jay Gould does. The money kings
of Europe cannot see anything to have
a conference about. So far the discus
sions have been first, upon the propo-
sition of the American delegates, which
was to re-establish universal bi-metal-
ism on any rates which could be agreed
upon; second, the plan of Rothschild
of Paris for the United States to con-
tinue the Sherman law Of 1890, and
Europe to buy $4,000, 900 ounces Of
silver annually as long as the price
keeps below Sc cents. Then came the
Moritz-Levi proposition: which is more
properly a series of questions impossi-
BILE to answer. The point of the plan
is that gold should be recognized as
an aristocratic coin. That no gold
should be coined less than 81 or 20
francs, and that silver should only be
a subsidiary coin below the gold, and
legal tender only to the equivalent OF
the lowest gold piece. They are now
considering the plan of Tietgen, the
Danish delegate, which is to extend
the terms of the Latin union, which
would be to coin all silver, but at an
ever-varying ratio to be determined by
the price of silver bullion on the Lon
don market. We see no prospect of
anything being done that will be rati-
fed by the American people. The
delegates have no power to bind Con-
gress to any course Of action, and the
legislation on silver by the United
States is not to be dictated by foreign
nations.-EX.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
The Income Tax.

The farm and labor organizations
have been ridiculed as cranks because
they have advocated a tax upon in
cones as a means of raising O. national
revenue. But our Washington cor
respondent tells us that this idea is
now being pushed by some Of the most
energetic and influential members of
Congress, and present indications are,
says u correspondent, that such q
measure will easily get through the
House, unless Mr.. Cleveland, who is
understood to be opposed to it, shall
call a halt, and even then the chances
are that there will be some eyeopening
talk on the subject in both House and
Senate. Whatever Mr.. Cleveland's
opinion may be, we can see no other
means of escape for the Democratic
party. They have promised great re-
auctions of the tariff. If this promise
be kept, a reduction in the tariff
revenue would most like follow. There
seems to be no serious proposition to
reduce salaries or expenses, hence
there must be some other means Of
raising revenue. The tax on incomes
naturally suggests itself as the most
feasible means, and a means in the line
of right and justice, and one hat is
really made necessary by the tenden-
cies OF the times; and the logic of
events would seem to drive the Democ-
racy to it.
Thus are the farm and labor organ
izations being indicated, and the first
while cranks are proving to be the true
leaders in the advocacy of measures
necessary to the general welfare.-Pro-
gressive Farmer.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

EVERY day some one asserts that
"fat money or paper money, unless it
is made r~edeemable in coin, is not
goods not a legal tender" Why?
WELL, there is nothing behind it," Is
a United States bond good? Is it not
worth a premium in gold? Did not
Mr.. Cleveland pay out s72, 900, 900 in
premiums on United States bondslthat
were not due? What makes a bond
good? "The security is the wealth
and patriotism of the nation which is
pledged for it's redemption. If this is
true. when the same Government
creates a dollar in paper money, and
bases that dollar on the wealth and
patriotism of the whole people, why is
it not a good dollar? What do you
want to redeem mencv for?
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

IMPORTATION has been received from
~Conshatta, o. T., of the death of Gen.
Henry Gray, one of the few surviving
members of the Confederate Congress
and Brigadier General of the Confed-
crate army.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

LAURA BIGGAR, the actress, a mem
Der of "a Trip to Chinatown" company.
neglected topay a hotel bill at Cineinna-
ii and was arrested at Hamilton and
taken to Cincinnati.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

A NEGRO woman is under arrest at
Edgefeld, S. c., for numbering her two
year-Old babe and then serving IT
cooked to her friends at a quilting party
as roast pig. 1t is probable that she
will be lynched.
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
+o+o1 oo;nooo of c;1vor doll

The total coinage of silver dollars
under the act of Feb. %, 1878, to the
close of such coinage was 1878, 166, 1913,
and under the act of 1890 to Nov. 1,
1892, $33, 1877, $40; under act of March
8, 1891, $5,07S, 472, a total coinage of
silver since March 1, 1878, of $416,4 49,
1856.
The net profit on the coinage of sill
yer during the fourteen years ended
June 80, 1892, including the balances
in the coinage minis on July l., 1858,
has aggregated $40, 1876, O65.
This would seem to be very satisfact-
DRY, but if the present value of silver
bullion were made the basis of calcula-
ton the commercial value of the silver
bullion coined into silver dollars would
be far less than the government has
paid for it.
The product of gold and silver in
the world during the calendar year
1891, based upon returns to the Di-
rector of the Mint, was as follows:
Fine Commercial Coinage
G GeSais' s GUESS; s1a5 S ,iss,oo s1as S1 IS. Goo
Silver. 49,. 43, 994, 600 1885, COZ 1856, 174.OOO
The coinage of gold and silver in the
various countries Of the world, during
the same period, so far as reports have
been received, aggregated:
Sll9,I SS, 735
oliver l35,OUS, l42
The stock of gold and silver in the
United States on Nov. 1, 1892, based
upon official tabulations brought for
ward from year to year, was, approx
mately;
Gold. $656,041 1868
ollYer 5Sf,bll, 9ol
81, 243.6 ,S14
The amount of money in actual cir
culation Outside of treasury values),
including paper and metallic, was ST.
COG, 139, 735, II $24.3 "a per head.
The value of gold bars furnished for
industrial use during the last calendar
year was $16, 664, 953, against $14, 6O5,-
9Q1 in the prior wear. an increase of
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22

IRo report VI tue OltectoI VI III
Mint says:
The mines of the United States pro-
duced during the calendar year 1891
precious metals as follows:
Fine Commercial Coinage
Metals, ounces. value value
sS1ei:.,.,, s5 s,ss1 t :S55 s5 s4 ,5as;SaS s 7s. 1889 s.sSs
The coinage of the minis during the
last fiscal year aggregated lib, 800, l24
pieces, valued rs follows:
Gold S35, 5O6, 9sl. SO
Silver dollars $3.50, 467. 90
Subsidisrv $3.50. Sill 60
Mino co b<'o''lo,'-
Total. So, 792, 976. 60
The total coinage Of silver dollars
under the act of Feb. %, 1878, to the
close of such coinage was 1878, 166, 1893,
and under the act of 1890 to Nov. l,
1892. $33. 167. $40: under act of March
8. 1891, So, 07S, Az. a total coinage of
silver since March /. 1878, of $416,412,-
335.
The net profit on the coinage of sill
yer during the fourteen years ended
June so, 1892, including the balances
in the coinage minis on July l, 1893,
has aggregated $40, 1880
This would seem TO be very satisfact-
orv, but if the present value of silver
bullion were made the basis of calcula-
ton the commercial value of the silver
bullion coined into silver dollars would
be far less than the government has
paid for it.
The product Of gold and silver in
the world during the calendar year
1891, based upon returns to the D1-
rector of the Mint, was as follows:
Fine Commercial Coinage
Meta s GUESS ssas slas, 1 iSs,6o SIPS, is, 600
silver. 800. .443,99I.oOO 14s.265,Ooo 1sS,114,coo
The coinage of gold and silver in the
~various countries of the world, during
The same period, so far as reports have
been received, aggregated:
s1Is' 49, 3 139 90
The stock of gold and silver in the
Tinted States on Nov. 1, 1892, based
mon official tabulations brought for
ward from year to year, was, approx
mately;
$3.50 81 % 's SIS
SILVER o.,o,
81 .24S, Csc, s14
The amount of money in actual cir
cn1ation (outside of treasury values),
Including paper and metallic, was ST.
COS. 1873. 735, or $24.34 per head.
The value of gold bars furnished pr
industrial use during the last calendar
wear was $40, 664, 953, against $l4,60a,..
Sol in the prior year. an increase pf
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
Child and silver of 1S9I-ee,

The report of the Director of tn e
Mint says:
The mines of the United States pro-
duced during the calendar year 1891
precious metals as follows:
Fine Commercial Coinage
Metals, ounces. value. value.
Gold........ 1,6O4,s $40 $33, 175,OO 1913, $4,000
Silver. 5s,33l,OOO 57,63O,OiO rs, 4l6, sos
The coinage of the minis during the
last fiscal year aggregated 1886, 124
pieces, valued as follows:
Gold .S35, SOC, 9s7. so
Silver dollars 1929, 467. 90
Subsidiary silver. $3.50, Sill go
Minor CO ms 1896, ITO, 50
r.. S1 TOO oTc 60
Cherry County independent. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 18??-1896, 1892-12-22
Gold and Silver of 1s91-9e.

The report of the Director of tn e
Mint says:
The mines of the United States pro-
duced during the calendar ear 1891
The National tribune., 1892-11-24
The Fortune-IeIler's Advice.


colored woman named Matte Davis has
been living here for the last 10 years. Her
husband died three years ago, leaving her
large family of children to take care OF. She
has been in destitute circumstances for some
time past. and being firm believer in vood0o-
ism, she few days ago consulted the heavens
and was told to go to Madame Edna Schanider,
local fortune teller, who would help her out
of her financial troubles. K The cOlored woman
did as the inspiration DIRECTED, and after a long
conference with tho fovtnue-teller the latter,
she claims. told her to dig in a certain place on
her property aud she would find buried treas
ure.
The Davis woman hurried homo and began
the work Of excavation. She struck the top
of heavy iron chest at the depth Of three
fest, and after some hard work succeeded In
completely unearthing it. She then called In
John s. Hurley, wsll-known merchant, and
with his assistance the box was brought to the
surface and opened. II was filled with Mexi-
can gold coins none Of which was of later
date than 1886 1t was carefully counted, and
the total amount found TO DO just 81, OoO. The
money was placed in tho hands OF the bank
here to be exchanged for United States coin.
The money is believed TO have been buried BY
Jose Martinez, very wealthy Spaniard, who
lived here before Texas declared her independ-
eDcs. He was forced to, leave town suddenly
at the time Of the Mexican War troubles, and
was soon afterwards killed in battle, Tho col
ored woman is wild with joy over her good for
tune, aud has promised TO award her beneiacIef,
the fortune teller. large part OF 1t.