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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-05-20
Democratic Conventions.

Tho National Convention will meet
in Chicago, June Dist. At this time
it will be interesting to recall its
predecessors and the nominees, from
1860 down:
1s6O-Met April %, at Charleston.
Balloting began May 1. A portion
OF the delegates withdrew, and on
May B the Convention adjourned to
meet at Baltimore, June IS. June
23rd IL large number of delegates
withdrew and nominated Brecken-
ridge and Lane. The regular con
vention nominated Douglas and
Fitzpatrick. Defeated.
1S64-Sept 1, at Chicago. McClel-
Ian and Pendleton. Debated.
1SG8-July 8, at New York. Sey-
mour and Blair. Defeated.
1S72-May 4, at Cincinnati, Gree
ley and Brown. Defeated.
1SSO-June "a. at Cincinnati,
Hancock and English. Defeated.
1SS4-July II, at Chicago. Cleve-
land and Hendricks. Elected.
1SSS-June 6, at St. Louis. Cleve-
laud and Thurman. Defeated.
1S92-June 81, at Chicago-the
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Letter From Mississippi.
NORTH BOQUECHITTo, Miss.
March %, 90.

NORTH BOQUECHITTO, Miss.
March %, 90.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
By chance | have just gotten one
copy OF your valuable paper, and ]
cannot keep from informing you of
the extortion and expressions that is
practiced on the people of this coun-
try, by the capitalists and monopoly
men. A great many are so oppressed
by mortgages that they cannot get
money even to pay their quarterly
dues in the alliance. Hundreds of
them do not know anything about
the peoples party. Unless the pe ople
become informed on the pressing
needs and literature of the day they
will never know how to shoot the
ballot. JOHN G. BRECKENRIDGE,
Sfc'y
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10 demonstrate that our National Flas
means Freedom Free trade and Free mon
We propose to stand under The Stars ana
stripes and carry them forward to the highest
point Of National greatness through the broad
gage OF the l-ws of Eminent Domain: the
rig Us OF man. The lofty eminence Of one and
the broad expanse OF the other makes this law
highly emblematical Of the rights that each in
his products with his fellow man. With this
MY TO man we start out in the great arena
roducer and pass th.m over to the consumer on
exact Justice to all. While can make special
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ana on the most favorable terms We are nra
put upon the market for sale, and can furnish
from thresbiDg- machine to spool of thread.
tn OF May, and will formally open on the first
:.
q. +. MITCHELL,
Room No. 6. Central Market, Minneapolis Mimi
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divdual man is entitled to in the exchange OF
idea of broad princpes-or justice, equity and con
OF trade. We hope receive the products of the p
q business principle founded upon equal labor and
rates for farm products in carloads when the
yet small cOnsignments will be thankfully rece we'd
pared to handle all kinds of goods hat are usua
and send to order, any goods that NAV be wanted
We will be ready to receive goods the twenty fiji
OF June. Send orders and goods to Superintendent
By order Of
s. H. BARTLETT Mound City.
EARL koIsINGTON. Maple Plain.
JONAS H HOWE, Parkers Lake
S. j. BARTLETT, Mound CITY,
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS.

DURsUANT TO A RESOLUTION OF THE
board of directors of Modesto Irrigation
Distri, t. duly given and made on the 9TH day of
September, 1892, notice is hereby given that
and best bidder the bonds of taid irrigation
district TO the amount of fifty eight thousand
dollars 1888 O0O, bearing interest at the rate of
per cent per annum, payable Eemi-
year, on the presentation Of the interest cou-
pons at the office of the treasurer of said dis
tgict.
Said bonds are issued by the board of direct
ance with and by. the authority Of an act Of
the legislature of the state of California, en-
titled IAN act to provide for the organization
and government of irrigation districts, and to
property. and for the distribution Of wafey
thereby for irrigation purposes" Approved
Said bonds will be sold for cash, ana for not
less than 30 per centum OF the face value
Sealed proposals and bids for the purchase OF
said bonds will be received by the raid board
Of directors at their Office in the city of Mo
desfo. county of Stanislaus, state OF California,
bott, the secretary of said board, at Modesto,
Cal, at any time after the date OF his notice
and until 2:30 O'Clock pm. on the 4th day OF
October a. d. 1892, at which time and place
:he said sale will be made.
raid bonds will be each of the denomination
of $500, and will be negotiable IN form, and
will conform in all respects to the require
ments Of said act.
B dis must be sealed and addressed to the
secretary Of said board, and indorsed: "PrO-
posals for Modesto Irrigation istrict Bonds"
Done b. order Of the board Of direct9rs ro Ct
FRANK A. CRES5EY, President.
@. q. ARRoTT Secretary. 9-10 25t
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
How a Panic Was Averted.

During the performance of play in a
crowded theater at an Italian town re-
Gently one of the players behind the scene
thought he saw tiny threads of smoke curl
ing up from the floor of the stage He
called the stage managers attention to it,
who on investigation found that under the
stage the place was on fire. The manager
kept his self control and returned to the
stage, where one of the chief actors was
about to appear. The manager whispered
the situation to the actor and asked the
latter to feign sickness when he went out
to act his part, and thus give an excuse for
stopping the performance. The actor did
as suggested. He went on the boards inn
mediately and pretended to reel and then
fell.
The audience rose in sympathy, and the
stage manager rushing forward hurriedly
said that, owing to the serious illness Of
the singer, the performance would have to
close for that night. The doors were
promptly thrown open and the audience
was hurried out Just as the last of the
audience was leaving the flames began to
burst through the stage, and looking back
the people saw the real cause of their dis
mlssal. The theater was destroyed, but
no lives were lost.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02

CURED at Novgorod, Warsaw and Moscow.
The terror spread to St. Petersburg, and
soon the capital was in an uproar. The
troops revolted and Joined the mob. The
czar, who was at his country palace, was
notified and returned to the city. Dashing
among the excited multitude he cried out
in those melodious, but thunder tones of
his, that had often turned the tide of bat
tie and changed defeat to victory, 'My
children, the hand of God is on us; let us
pray" Silence followed the tumult; the
czar of all the Russias offered up an elo
quent appeal to the throne of grace, and in
tears and penitence his subjects returned
to their duties as citizens or soldiers.
Various mobs have been the result Of the
introduction of cholera to the United
States In 1889 Rhode Island established
an armed quarantine that caused much
trouble and some bloodshed, and the visi
tations of 1S48 and 1854 were attended with
difficulties" and hardships. The present
attitude of the people of Long Island only
shows that humanity is the same at all
times when confronted by danger, and that
there is perennial truth in the statement
that ''self preservation is the first law Of
nature"
But some there be who reck nought of
personal danger if they may serve and save
their fellows. The doctor climbing up the
side of an infected ship is as much hero
as the soldier who faces the cannon, and
the minister, priest or nurse who volun-
teers to attend the wants, spiritual or ply
sical, of the stricken deserves the laurel
crown equally with a Leonidas or Hora-
thus. FRED G. DAYTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
DETECTIVE NOVELS.
THEY SEEM TO BE HAVING A GREAT
VOGUE AT PRESENT.

How One American Writer Was Almost
Forced Into That Line of Vork-The
English Author, Conan Doyle, and His
Peculiar Methods.
From Ja;k Sheppard to Jesse James
the daring criminal who operates on a
large scale has been favorite on the
stage and in fiction. Next to him in
popular interest, possibly before him, is
the great detective; and it is no small
evidence Of the advance of sound ideas
among the uneducated that even in the
cheapest popular resorts the detective is
gaining and the outlaw losing favor.
From Jonathan Wild to Allan Pinker-
ton, from Vidocq to Inspector Buckett'
(whose real name was Tuckett), the ac-
tual man has been SO lost in the stage
hero and character in fiction that most
peonle do not even know there was
real man.
Nor is the popular taste satiated. In
truth it is but whetted by what has been
given it, and it is as certain as any
thing in literature that really well
written detective story would find a
publisher at once, and make money for
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
He Felt Hurt.

He was all ready to CO. His satchel, um-
brella and canes were waiting on the
veranda of a big Saratoga hotel. He
stepped inside to the clerks desk, handed
over a dime and asked for postage stamp
The clerk passed it out, and with it eight
cents change
''Hew's thisS" inquired the guest in sur
prise. "Some mistake"
"You gave me dime"
81 know it.'
"Then what's the matter?"
you've only taken out two cents for the
stamp"
"Hey?"
II say there's mistake, young man.
You charged me seventeen dollars for
three days board, and I gave the head
waiter two dollars, and the waiter who
served me dollar or so more. Every bell
boy who has waved whisk broom my way
gathered in about ten cents wave, and
paid forty cents to be shaved and seven
cents for newspaper, I've had a real nice
quiet time in your town, and just as am
going home with sweet memories of this
quiet frugal spot you dispel the whole
thing by charging only two cents for post
age stamp 1 can't stand it. Say it was a
mistake, old fellow; say you had SO many
things to think of you made slip, and
take a dime for this stamp. It's worth it,
my boy. BY by" and the light hearted
guest threw a dime on the counter and
was gone A shade Of surprise crossed the
clerks face. He picked up the dime and
dropped it in the change drawer.
Front" he said, pitcher of ice water to
No. 970. New York Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02

the author. A striking instance is that
of Anna Katherine Green. She longed
for place in the higher walks of litera-
ture and especially in poetry. She had
a painful but far from unusual expert
ence in getting polite refusals, and at
last her mother, very practical wom-
an, said, "Why not write a story?"
The young lady did not at first like
the idea. Nothing seemed more un-
likely than that she should deal with
crime, for that seemed to her especial
ly low. Nevertheless the more she
pondered the more she saw that the
public wanted just that. Il conclud-
ed," she says, "that story Of plot
must involve hidden crime of a srlfi.
GENTLY serious nature to call for sab
tie evolution as well as complication.
There is no better field for such work
than daily life. 1t was necessary, ow.
ing to the structure Of the story, to
call in the aid of high class detec.
tive. And SO my dear old friend, Eben.
ezer Gryce, was created" She decided
that the man who committed the crime
should be the first to announce it, and
that the detective should make a sad
blunder at the start. The rest was mere
detail and SO ''The Leavenworth Case
was written.
Her hope was to earn money enough
to publish her poetry and reputation
enough to make her better work, as she
deemed it, sought for by the public.
But her destiny was fixed. She is a
writer of thrilling detective stories, and
as such the world knows her. Her first
was written in the upper room of an old
shoemaker's house in East Haddam,
Conn. Her Gland and Ring" was writ
ten in the same town, and she is said to
be now engaged on third, the scene of
which will be laid in that place.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
IL Wore ON Him.

Can any one tell why it is that in all the
pathetic stories of housecleaning with
which the newspapers periodically abound,
it is invariably the husband and father
who is represented as the chief sufferer?
Here now is the latest of such veracious
chronicles, clipped from the St. Louis Post
Dispatch. Perhaps the mystery is explained
by the excessively sympathetic nature of
the average man.
Directly after breakfast the man of the
house took to the sofa in the sitting room
with the morning newspaper, while his
wife set about the housekeeping. She
was dismantling the front room, and before
he had finished the sporting column she
had carried past him seven chairs, three
tables, desk, four footstools, all the pic
lures, a piano stool, bookcase and sundry
other pieces of furniture.
Then she lugged in pair of steps and a
pail of water, and began to clean.
DO you want any assistance, Marias"
said the man, ut that point, as he rose and
folded the paper.
"Not just yet, DEAR" said Maria.
"Well, then, think pll leave you," said
he, and he started for the Office.
On the way he stopped to tell three men
that if there was anything that wore him
to the skin and bone it was that confounded
housecleaning.
"We are right in the midst of it now,
and tell you Pm about used up. Youths
Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
took refuge from the plaque.

took refuge from the plague
Meanwhile the "City Of Flowers" wilted
beneath the blast of the destroyer. The
desperate and depraved alone could be
procured to nurse the i'll or bury the vic
Tins, and they undertook these tasks chief
ly because they afforded chances for rob-
berry. The cry ''bring out your deadr' re-
sounded day and night through the streets
of the stricken city, and those 'in vinculo
mortis"-for the town was effectually
quarantined = could neither escape nor
hope. Naturally there were mobs, riots
and an utter Abandonment Of everything
save adherence to the olden advice "eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow we
die"
1t is recorded that many priests and nuns
abandoned their vows and became infected
with the general panic of despair and dis
sipation, but through the gloom of terror
shines down along the ages the fortitude
Of the sisters Of charity, who fought dis
ease and administered consolation to the
stricken until Summoned from a life OF
toll to their glorious rest iinheaven."
Other mobs and panics are of record,
such as those of 1854, and later in Eng
land after the "king had come to his own
again." OF that awful time Of fear and
desolation Defoe, the author of Robinson
Crusoe," has written at length. 1t may
be noted that the plague came to London
from Holland and Germany. In 1720 an
epidemic desolated Marseilles, which had
it's origin at Havre, and the galley slaves
were released that they might act as
nurses. OF course murder, rioting and de-
bauchery followed
But it is about that form of disease
known as Asiatic cholera that the man of
today is most concerned. Scarcely had
India been subjugated by the Caucasian
when it took it's revenge for defeat by
spreading pestilence among the victors.
and close and careful researches that
hare made among reports, documents, his
tories and local chronicles, show that since
1917, when cholera became recognized
tourist of the western world, over SO, 900 000
of the earth's inhabitants have succumbed
to it's attacksl In Asia and Europe during
the last twelve months nearly million
have perished, the largest mortality being
in Persia and Russia.
1t was in Russia, by the way, when the
cholera wave Of 1881 was rolling westward,
that Czar Nicholas showed his power and
his courage. Physically he was the strong
est man of his generation; mentally he was
giant, and withal be was an autocrat
Because of the pestilence, riots had oc-
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
Needed Repair.

The old practice of badgering witnesses
has almost disappeared from many courts,
but in a western Kansas town it is still
kept up-sometimes, however, to the dam
age of the cross examiner.
Lawyer S. is well known for his un-
comely habits. He cuts his hair about
four times year, and the rest of the time
looks decidedly ragged about the ears. He
was making witness describe a barn
which figured in his last case.
"How long had this barn been builts"
sob, don't know. About a year,
mebby About nine months p'raps."
"But just how long? Tell the jury how
long it had been built"
"Well, I don't know exactly Quite
awhile"
'Now, Mr.. B., you pass for an intelli-
gent farmer, and yet you can't tell how old
this barn is, and you have lived on the
next farm for ten years. Can you tell how
old your own house is? Come now, tell us
how old your own house is, if you think
you know"
Quick as lightning the old farmer re-
piled:
"Ye want to know how old my house is,
do ye? Well, it's just about as old as you
be and needs shinglin about as bad'
In the roar that followed, the witness
stepped down, and Lawyer S. didn't call
him back,-YOuth'S COmpaniou
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
The EEects of Diving.

An Australian pearl diver says that
one of the strange effects of diving is
the invariable bad temper felt while
working at the bottom of the sea. AS
this usually passes away as soon as the
surface is reached, it is probably due to
the pressure of the air affecting the
lungs, and through them the brain. The
exhilaration and bonhomie of the noun
tain climber is a contrary feeling from
an opposite cause. A diver becomes SO
angry at some imaginary wrongdoing on
the part of those in the boat above that
he gives the signal to be pulled up
with the intention OF knocking the
heads off the entire crew. only to for
get what he came up for when the sur.
face is reached.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
No Use wishing.

"You see," he explained to the ingenious
young thing as he showed her the wish
bone, you take hold here, and I'll take
hold here. Then we must both make a
wish and pull, and when it breaks the one
who has the biggest part of it will have his
or her wish sometime"
ssBut don't know what to wish for, (" she
protested.
"Oh, you can think of something" he
said
mol can't" she replied. IT can't think
of anything want very much"
''But we mustn't spoil the fun that way" "
he exclaimed. l"I'll wish for youn
'Will you, realIy2" she asked.
s'Why, yes, If you can't"
"Well, then, there's no use fooling with
the old wishbone,, she interrupted with a
glad smile. "You can have me. II Detroit
E~aA Prasa --...--- =
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
ae bad NO sympathy for One Sick boy.

AAO @@e>>A -FO ~ H'P"ohy Ac& eAO oAch DOJs
William was unquestionably ill that hot
afternoon when he came into the brokers'
office in Broad street, where he is employed
as a messenger. His face was the color of
ashes and wore an expression of ''gone-
ness" that excited the pity of every one in
the place. The junior partner, with words
of sympathy, told him to go home at once.
just as William was starting the senior
member of the firm came in.
'Hello, what's the matter?" he asked,
seeing the boys pale face.
'sI'm SICK" mumbled William.
'What ails your" The broker was sus.
picious instead of sympathetic
"My stomach" answered the boy.
"What's the trouble?"
"It hurts" said the boy.
"What have you been eating?" sternly
asked the employer as he looked into the
boys eyes.
ooh, nothing much"
''Any hokey pokey ice cream"
ga little"
elbow much?"
"Four glasses maybe or fve." i IL a.
Anything clse?" Sss. u
eyes, some pie" .sSssssss.s sssssa ~
"How much?" .,,s;a;las ia & X y y XII
"Four pieces" sasgHS
"What else?" f:ss:sf s syf s4srA u,
"Some waffles." Hsas.ss'sssss;5 q ~
"How many-a dozen~ .A' q
mo, sir. Only three" 5sasx
"What else?"
"Some cakes"
els that all?"
"Well, some apples and a piece of water
melon and"--
"And whata"
"a piece of pineapple, think"
"What have you been drinking?"
"Some soda water and Lemonade"
"That's all you can think Off"
eyes, SIR"
"Well, you go home, and if you ever get
sick again I'll discharge you."
The men in the Office looked in wonder
at the little boy with the enormous capac-
ity, and wondered how it was that he
wasn't dead instead of being only sick
New York Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
NOTICE To CREDITORS.

TNsTATE OF LOUIS Err, DE-
~ ceased. Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, executrix of the last will and
testament of Louis Lchtenberger, deceased. to
the creditors Of. and al persons having claims
against the said deceased, to exhibit them.
with the. necessary vouchers, within ten
months after the first publication of this
notice, to the said executrix, at the ONCE OF A.
w. Hutton, attorney at law, in Temple block,
Los Angeles city. Californis, the same being
said estate, in said county OF Los Angeles.
Dated L Angeles, California, this IL tn day
OF September, 1892
MRS. EMILE LICHTENBERGEk,
Executrix of the last will and testam ent Of
Louis Iichtenberger, deceased. 9-16-6 "
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02
The Praise of Idleness.

Young Aime Maillard, the great COM
poser, was at the time Of our story a
member Of a rhetorical class. The pro-
fessor gave as the subject of an essay:
"The Praise of Idleness." On the day
appointed the themes were handed in by
all the pupils except Maillard.
"Sir," said the professor, II have had
nothing from you yetp'
"Here it is" replied the young rhetori-
clan, as he placed roll of paper on the
masters desk and returned to his seat.
The professor turned over the sheets one
by one; nothing but blank pages met his
eye Turning to the pupil he angrily ex-
claimed:
"Trying to make a fool of me, eh?"
mo, sir" quietly remarked Aime Mail
lard; II only thought that the highest
tribute you could bestow on idleness was
simply to do nothing. Petit Lyonnais.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-02

DR., Conan Doyle, another famous
writer in that line, created in 'Sher-
lock Holmes a new style of detective.
His character is that Of physician, who
studies men and their motives and al
ways captures the criminal in the end.
DR.. Doyle's greatest task is in devising
the climax. He always gets that and
writes the end of the story first-all the
rest is easily done in week. He is a
tall, broad shouldered and very open
air sort of man, and says that his best
ideas come to him when he is walking,
rowing, tricycling or playing tennis.