Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-15
OUR ST. LOUIS LETTER..
A Permanent National Convention
Iaii-Improving tho Mississippi River
Married Women As Teachers

Married Women As Teachers
ST.. LOUIS, juno 80
The Missouri State Democratic con
vention which will meet in st. Loui
early next month to nominate tire,
judges of the supreme court will hole
its sessions in the building where
Grover Cleveland was nominated fouI
years ago This is the Exposition
building on Olive street. In 1896, il
will be offered to both the Democrats
and the Repu blicans for their conven.
tons, and II strong effort will be made
to have one or both of the Presidential
nominations come from it, The dele,
gates who swcltercd and got wet IN the
Chicago wigwam have not stopped
complaining yet, and the city will
enter the contest heavily handicapped
when it again applies for one of the
national conventions There was no
complaint whatever of the st. Louis ac-
commodations four years ago. The
Exposition building is permanent
structure made of brick, stone and iron,
in the center of the city, and it can
seat 10000 people with ease. When
the Democratic convention was held
here, only one-third of the hall space
in the building was used, and yet, more
than twenty-five thousand spectators
saw the proceedings.
The city will begin its canvass early
in '06, and judging by statements made
recently by the leaders of both parties,
it will be successful beyond the antici-
pntions of those who do not understand
how necessary to satisfactory conven-
ton work good hall is.
General Sherman did good thing
for st. Louis before he gave up his
house here and went to New York to
live. Those who used to know him here
delight to this day in telling how he
once turned the hose on water rates
collector who presented bill to him
while he was sprinlsling his
front lawn in the cool OF
the afternoon. The incident made
a good deal of fun ut the time, and it
called attention to the exhorbitant
prices that house owners had to pay
for the right to keep their grass green
in hot weather. The high rates the
city charged had prevailed then for
number of years, and nobody had ever
thought of Directing. Since the en-
phatic protest of General Sherman, the
rates have boon lowered little each
year. This year, the water rates col
lector announces another reduction,
and house owners who sprinkle their
lawns will have to pay hereafter only
about half as much as they were doing
when the irascibe old general aimed
the nozzil of the hose at the dun.
1t cost the st. Louis Merchants Ex-
change good round sum to get one
word into the platform of the National
Democratic convention the other day.
The word was continuous" 1t des-
rribcd the kind OF appropriations that
should be made for the Mississippi
river. The money was spent in paying
he expenses of an energetic committee
Of men who knew all about the river
and it's needs. They were in Chicago
A week, and won their victory by never
letting the influential men of the plat
form committee get out of their sight.
congress has always done for the river
exactly what the platform asked it to
do, and not a thing more. Hitherto,
the Platforms have suggested appro-
priaions for the river in sort of per-
way, and Congress has appro-
oriated in the same manner. The
money was given in scraps, and the
liver was benefited very little. The
lemand for the continuous" appro-
Dration this time will result in putting
nto the next river and harbor bill au
TEN that will cause millions to be
spent in deepening the channel.
A great school question controversy
is raging here. Should married
not dependent on their own
exertions for support, be allowed to
teach in the public schools? Some of
the school directors believe they should
not be, and n number of designations
have been demanded from teachers.
At the same time several school prin-
cipals, to whom there is objection on
various scores, are being dismissed, and
there is n probability that by the time
The big stone Office building on Locust
street is finished, many more of the
teachers who are now watching its cree
ton interestedly will no longer feel
any concern in the pay rolls to 10
made out there. All of these teachers
have, of course, many friends, and the
directors who are trying to reform the
pedagogic corps are having an unplcas-
ant time.
Col. l.. A. Grant, the Assistant Sec
rotary Of war, has just left the city
after a thorough examination of Jeffer-
son barracks He says that for the
army St Louis is one of the most import
mt strategic points in the West, and
ne returns to Washington intending to
have the work pushed on the improve
nent of the post. The appropriation
now being spent at the barracks is
$50, 900 only. Col. Grant states that
his will be supplemented at once by
, further some of SITS, 900, which will
go in putting up buildings that are
needed at once to house the additional
troops that are to be sent here
Senator Cockrell is preparing a bill APP
half a million dollars more,
md Col. Grant says this will be passed
without objection, as all the War dc
oartment officials are now cooperating
n advancing the post to leading
position among the forts of the
Thinning Fruit.
\ Missouri farmer says he thinned
The fruit on his trees at the rate of