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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06

NLw NOBR, Sept G.-Evausvilln
aud rufrv Huuto stock declined seven
points this morning ON tho report that
"A receiver had been appointed Tor the
ROAD, Later 10 was learned that the
nfpointmrn. lOT "A receiver was Sc
cured by a trick and the s,ooS ro'
covered.
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Special hfpoich 20 Nc NLW+
CASPER, Wyo., Sept. 6.-rhe Va
ttoua county board Of Immigration
which will DO auxiliary to the state
board has been organized. The state
boiri wns organized last winter for tue
purpose OF compiling statistics ffom
the several oouutieB for publication In
pamphlet form for the ayh,ematic ad-
vctiising VI this ftB1urots Of the
STATE,
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Row in a Melon Patch.

The charge against the young man
Price, gardener, OF shooting Hugh
Higs0n, In a melon patch, few days
since, was TO have been Investigated IN
Commissioner Pfatps court this alter
noon; hut on application Of the county
attorney the case was continued tem-
pofnfily,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06
SHE VANS A DIVORCE,
nut the County Selsclmen Don't See
Their Way 10 Grant ~

Among the applicants for relief at
the county court this morning was u
middle-aged, decenlly dressed woman
named Nelson, who, with her chill
dren. occupies ANAL tenement In
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06

LONDON, Sept. 0.--The india coun'
ell he's Uttered bills 70 the HmOnnt Of
forty million Tupers. The highust
tender was l5.3l6 pence. No
allotment was made. Tho same
amount ~ to be otieroI next Wcdnea-
DAY.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06

PARIS, Sept. 6.-rho Socialist lead.
ers have issued call for working.
mems national congress, for the latter
part OF the month to consider matters
Of party policy.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06
Athletic Tournament.

The sports commence tomorrow nj
1880 O'Clock nj Agricultural Park aud
thu entrance IL AZ the east gates.
Everybody n invited, Olher prZs
have been offered In abolition 70
those published In yesterdays NEWS.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06
TnE q. A.m VETERANS
A'port OF she. Committee on LcgIsIa,
lion.

tion.
lNhlANAPOLIs, Sept. 0.-This waa a
ny gay for the q. A. II. veterans.
NY wy met session OF the encampment
N wv, Us we'll as the first session OF
". Woman's Relief Corps and Daugh-
,s0. Oh tue Regiment. This afternoon
gi SIe were scores Of regimenth aud
IN ,l'lon reunions AMI tonight there
tJs.oe dozen or more public and
s ",aIe receptions, with electric and
h's'Al gas diaplAyA outside. Among
Eit. pot,s to tbs national encampment
lnat Of the special committee on leg.
y, 1,ts' iln' The object OF the appointment
te,e.'.s committee was to secure the en-.
iois.it,lhent OF two federal laws almost
Tba liaregaided for many year..
obS,,n providing that those dis.
ssryiso.au from the military or naval
~ 'o ny reason OF wounds or Eck.
NJ should have preference Ia the
ieh1 10 public 0illog; the other
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06

wAaiuNuTOs, Sept. G.-rho tarih
htaring before the ways and means
venmittue opened this morning with a
llsa Of the dealers IN metallic bed.
hsads against the reduction Of this tarin
thereon,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06
Purchased ihc "cIippsr."

WT7TITIT I77'TI1T-7' - w ~ " y
LANDER, wyo, Sept. &C. q.
Coutant, formerly associate editor Of
the Cheyenne Sun, has purchased the
Fremont county Clipper. The paper
will continue to Ia Republican In
IOitiCs.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06

WASHINGTON. Sept. Ga senAtor,
prominent rs au opponent OF repeal,
has placed the majority OF the Iopoalers
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06
rIrE POSITION nrvERsED.
hanks Looking tor Customers 60 Isis'
Money on rhine.

NLw Yuml, Sept. 6.-rhe banks
anu trust companies are Locking ior
customers 10 take money ON time at
yer cent on prime dividend stocks.
Thus the position W borrower aud
lender has been reversed completely
the past low Gays. Mercantile paper
iskC,l9.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-09-06
InE EIsTEnroDD.
The Competition. at tho Tirsi
Contest,


CHICAGO, Sept. Elm the Welsh
Eb,cdloud ut the Worlds Fair in the
competition for ohoTure. Ut male voices
ior pTizea OF $1,000 and $500, seven
choifs competed M follows leach choir
numbering nifty 10 sixty yoicosG Cam.
brian male chorus, Piltsbufg; Wilkes
barre, Penn, male ohOTus; Henrhyn
male choir, North wRltt; Tabernacle
male choir, Salt Lake City; Gwent
Glcc society, Edwardsyillr. Pa. (;
bhondba Glte society, South WHles;
Iowa Worid's Fair male party, Hitr.
mau, Iowa. The awards viii be- an-
nouuceu on Friday night.
This IL Wisconsin gay at the Fair,
and thf0nga " cit zens from the bad
gef slale appeared on the grounds
ety. Governor Peck held reception
Nlhe state building.
OuR swLEr SINGERS.
The competitive program In the
Welsh Eialedio1d opened this after.
noon with grand organ selection aud
mas chorusee by Mormon musicians.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
Lost on the Plain.

Roderick Mckenzie, sheepman
from John Day, Oregon, has disap-
peared, and it is thought he has
perished on the plains. Mckenzie,
with an assistant named Picker
ing, was driving 800 head of sheep
from the John Day river to the
Eastern market. On the morning
of July 25, Pickering went ahead
to pick camping place, directing
Mckenzie the way to drive the
herd. Mckenzie not putting in an
appearance at nightfall, Pickering
went back to hunt for him. He
found where he had left his en-
ployer, but no trace of the latter
could be discovered. He hunted
for three days, and finally fosnd
McKenzie's hat and shoes. After
searching two days longer he gave
up the search and gathered the
scattered band of sheep and drove
them to Mayfeld, where he told
the story. 1t is supposed that
Mckenzie lost his way in the track
less sagebrush plain, and after
wandering a doy or two in the
broiling sun, went mad.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
SPOILING FOR A FIGHT.

The trouble about Siam is not
settled, and it begins to look as if
France intended that it should not
be settled, No sooner does the
badgered Asiatic potentate agree
to the ultimatum of the aggressive
republic than new demands are
presented, The latest condition
insisted upon would be the height
of impudence if addressed to a
power of any consideration. Siam
having yielded eevrything presen-
ted in the ultimatum, including
cession of territory and payment Of
money indemnity. France requires
immediate occupation of certain
towns as security. This demand
would have been irritating enough
as part ofthe original ultimatum,
since there is absolutely no ground
for demanding security against a
power unable to resist France for
day, should she think it time to
take by force what the treaty gives.
Coming as an afterthought to COM
plete the accsptanes of French
terms by Siam, it looks like delib-
crate aud determined proyOcation
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04

WHO is RESPONSIBLE?


THE Oregonian and some of the
lesser lights of the republican faith
would throw all the responsibility
of the present financial stringency
on the democrats by attributing the
Sherman act to the work of that
party, claiming it to be a COM
promise, or the only preventive Of
free coinage law that would have
been placed but for the republicans.
We would like to have some of the
brethren who are trying to 'pan
off" such nonsense On their readers
to answer these quesions:
Would or would not President
Harrison have vetoed a free coin
age bill?
Could the bill have been passed
over his veto?
Was not the celebrated Reed
congress republican in both houses?
And did not that congress pass
the Sherman law?
What then is the law but repub-
blican legislation2
Why did not the Reed congress pass
a right silver bill, instead of "com-
promise?"
Why did it not repeal the Bland
blunder, instead of intensifying it,
by providing for--the force pur-
chase of 100000 ounces of fine
silver monthly, paying for it in
the equivalent of gold2
They knew Harrison would have
vetoed free coinage. They know
that his veto could not have been
over-ridden, They knew that the
purchase law was passed by a con-
gress republican in both branches;
and hence they know that the bill
is a republican measure. They
know the republicans, who con-
trolled the Reed aggregation, did
not pass an honest and safe silver
bill, because they were divided on
the issue; and they know that ag-
gregation would have tampered
and tinkered with the business,
had they been united, the tamper-
ing and tinkering being done to
placate the silver state, and get
their votes in 1892.
We have no purpose to shield
the democracy in this matter; but
We have the purpose to see, so far
as we can, that the republican bear
their full share of the blame for
the evil case in which we find the
country's finances,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04

to war.
To confirm this conclusion, naval
operation before Bangkok progress
as if war has already been declared.
The admiral is pursuing course
which seems wholly Independent
Of diplomatic negotiations, but
which must be in accord with se-
cret instructions from the minis
try. French gunboats are fock-
ing into the river, the blockade is
maintained, and the city is in
hourly expectation of lombard
ment. This is strange attitude
for power, all of whose demands
have been met.
The explanation must be sought
outside of the relations of the two
powers Immediately concerned
France has absolutely nothing to
gain by forcing war upon Siam
which she could not get as surely
and more cheaply by steady diplo-
matte pressure. Either the min
istry is blindly seeking a war, to
divert public attention from do
mestic affairs, or some great power
is the object Of the provocation. os-
tentatiously showered upon Siam.
The intimate understanding be-
tween France and Russia in omen.
Gus. Both have an interest in dis
tributing the peace of Europe.
Both have been storing up their
strength for a war of revenge or
aggression. Both are stronger re-
latively to their enemies
enemies than they have been for
twenty years, and both find OPP
portunity in the domestic difficult
ties of their enemies, the absorp-
ton of England in the Irish ques-
tion and the serious division be-
tween the German emperor and
his parliament. Both may think
that no more propitious moment
than the present is likely to ar
rive for trying conclusions with
the rest of Europe.
If France were concerned alone
it would be difficult to understand
why aggression should begin in
Asia, instead of on the Rhine. But
France is united with a mighty
empire, which is accustomed to us,
allies as pawns in it's own game
If it suited Russia to attack Eng
land first, France would probably
acquiesce, trusting to bring her
own end out of the general con-
hict likely to follow,-Portland
Oregonian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
-s-as------s------->n-
THIS AND THAT.

Would you believe it2 Up to date
there have been just 105 bank fail
ures in the country since January
1st, and but 81 of these went into
the hands of receivers, the others
having either re-opened or having
prospects of doing SO. Of the 1C5
failures fifty-fve were in Western
States. The republican newspapers
are endeavoring to prolong the
panic for the sake of its effects up
on politics.-East Oregonian,
It is to be regretted that the
governor of this state was so narrow
as to be unwilling to greet the vice
president Of the United States in
this city, his first stopping place
within the state. Even Governor
Pennoyer did not wait until MI.
Stevenson reached the governors
home but rose early in the morn
ing and went down to Salem to
give his greetings. But our own
governor has deferred his greeting
until the vice president has spent
three days within the state. We
apologize to Vice President Steven
son for this negligence on the part
of the chief executive of this state;
we prefer to consider its negligence
as o lack of knowledge as to good
form in such matters, rather than
a gratuitous insult.-Tacoma News
John Hansen, now in Jail at
Astoria for the murder of his wife,
in confessing to the deed placed
great stress upon the fact that the
woman was exceedingly anxious
for him "to go to work." even sug-
costing that he help her "pick ber-
RES" Being unable to stand the
indignities thus heaped upon him,
he picked up cudgel that lay
conveniently near, and, watching
his opportunity, gave the unrea-
sonable woman blow that set
tied her-tendelly watching by
her side in the berry patch until
she died, and then considerably
announcing her death so that she
might be given decent burial.
These may not be mitigating facts
in the case when brought before
Clatsop jury, but as the woman was
clearly 'to blame" verdict of
manslaughter, followed by a SEN
tence to the penitentiary for few
years, to be duly abbreviated by
executive clemency, would be about
the right thing-that is, if prece-
dent is worth anything in such a
case in Oregon. Besides this,
Hansen is an old man, and this is
his first murder-points that
should not be overlooked in max
ing up the verdict when the pro.
per times comes Portland Ore
gonian.
4
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04


effect on the price Of the metal in
London?"
This question, which goes deeper
than would appear at first glance,
has attracted the attention of Mu-
rat Halstead, and in a letter to the
New York Herald, he undertakes
to answer it, and he does it in his
customary terse and off-hand fash
ion. He says:
"What would be the effect?" 1t
would be greater loss to the silver
men than the stopping of the pur-
chase of the metal. Under the
free coinage system foreign silver
would come in at once and COM
pete with our silver product in get
ting gold, and the price would go
down to the ratio of thirty.two to
one, and perhaps lower. The free
coinage of silver would mean
among other things its irretriev-
able fall.
The New York World parallels
this statement. 1t says:
The result of the adoption of the
free coinage act would be to dump
in our market substantially the
worlds product and store Of sill
yer. And it will probably require
that experience to convince Mr..
Bland that he is wrong.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
An Indian awake. !"

When the Umatilla Indians
have "wake" it is no insignif-
cant affair says the East Oregonian.
An influential Indian whose
English name was Joe Smith is
dead, and his departure to the hap
py hunting grounds will be cele-
brated tomorrow on Tutuwillow.
His relatives were in today with
two good hacks, and out-ftted at
the Pendleton Mercantile Com.
pany's store, buying blank cts
quilts, fine fancy silk shirts and
other goods, these. to be distributed
as presents among the mourners
Provisions were also bought for 6
funeral feast, and they must have
invested two or three hundred dol
lars.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
THE EFFECT.

soME time ago the Atlanta Con.
stitution took occasion to frame
the question: "With our mints
reopened to the unlimited coinage
Of silver, and the metal placed on
an equality with gold bullion be.
fore the law, what would be the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04

He is little late getting around
to it, nevertheless we are gratifed
that Secretary Carlisle has made
official announcement of his pur-
pose to enforce the Geary law. If
he had set his foot down at the
start in favor of enforcing the law,
his department would have had
less trouble with the Chinese and
with dishonest officials.-Portland
Telegram.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
OUR CURRENCY. .

Rhodes Journal Of Banking for July.
The inception of panics may
be generally traced to currency in
fation and the speculative dis
position which such an event al
ways promotes. 1t is somewhat
of a paradox that the prevailing
monetary stringency had its origin
not in lack of money, but in q
too liberal supply of that article.
Notwithstanding this, the forth
coming session of Congress will
doubtless witness frantic endeav-
ors to show that all our financial
woes are attributable to currency
contraction, and the insufficiency
of the present supply. In view of
these probabilities, it is worth while
to examine what proportion the
the currency in use in the United
States bears to that of other count
ries, and also the basis of our paper
circulation. Our currency now
comprises 100000 in legal
tenders, $140,000,0O0 in Treasury
notes. $174,731,000 in National
bank notes, and nearly 100000
600 Of silver dollars and certificates
at par with gold because of the
policy of the Government in ex-
changing gold on demand for sill
yer. We thus have for 60,000,-
000people, VI, ,060,000,000 of paper
and other credit money for which
there is available for redemption
purposes about $9S,OO0,000 of gold
reserve, known as "free gold," and
the $175,000,000 in the National
banks, or total of about $685.
100000. The point is made that
in addition to the gold available
for redemption purposes, all the
national and private resources Of
the country are virtually pledged
for the security of this credit mon
ey. But in times of extraordinary
financial stress there is limit to
the debt-paying powers Of even the
wealthiest government, if that
wealth is not in a form that can be
quickly realized on. The fear of
the adoption of policy of liqui-
dating its obligations in depre-
ciated currency will impair the
credit Of any nation, and during
the time of financial panic, credit
and faith, however high and
strong, cannot supply the place
ofmoney.
England, whose monetary sys.
tenn is the crystallization of the
experience of many years, has, in
clllding Wales, population of
29,000,000. about 1885, ,oOO,.
600 ofpaper money in circulation,
secured by an equal amount Of
gold. France, with 3S,000,000
people, has $700,000,0o0 of paper
money secured by $340,000,000
gold, and Germany with q pop
ulation of 50,000,000 has $685.
100000 paper secured by $780,
100000 in coin and bullion, only
a small part of which is silver.
1t would appear from these fig
ures that if anything is to be gain
cd from a study of the course pur.
sured by the leading commercial
nations Of Europe, there is no de-
mand, in reason, for currency ex-
pansions. A consideration of
modern methods Of finance will
tend to show that the strength
of the fabric of finance is more
dependent upon the stability than
the Dimensions Of the foundation,
and that while the gold basis may
be somewhat narrow it sustains
with unyielding firmness the mon
ey systems of the great nations of
the world, and that in finance, as
in architecture, the weightiest and
most enduring structures are rear
ed on basis more solid than
expansive.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04

On Greenland's Icy mountains,
That's where want TO be,
This weather, where the mercury
Abldes at ninety-three.
For some sweet maiden Eskimo
I'd swap Bess, Nell or Cora,
And at her daddy's ig'oo gate
We'd study the aurora.
-Dalies Chronicle.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
LATEST NOVELTIES IN TRIMMINGS TO MATCH

Chiffon and Oriental laces, embroderies Hamburg
edgings fancy Ties Gloves mitts Handkerchefs, etc.
Entirely and complete line of Ribbons unique
in design and very pretty, Underwear and Hosiery in
all grades and remember that we
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04

Monday at vansycle, the ther-
mometer registered 102 in the
shade and 11S in the sun, That's
q little warm.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
The GRANGE STORE


Our rev stock of Dress Goods has
arrived from New York, and we will be pleased to
show them Among the dress goods will be the latest
patterns in Ponelles Grenadines, Sateens, Chambrays
Cashmeres, Sublime, Summer Sutings etc ETC.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04

If you want the new take the
Press.
The morning call., 1893-10-17
BOUGHT THE ROAD.
The Southern Pacific Makes Another
Purchase.

The San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit
Railway has passed into the hands of the
Southern Pacific, the legal transfer having
been made yesterday. The road is twenty
miles long. and extends from Los Angeles
to Monrovia, with branch running from
Shorb to the Raymond Hotel, on the out
skirts of Pasadena. The Southern Pacific
has been operating the road under a
verbal contract for some time. 1t was
formerly operated by the Los Angeles
Terminal Company, and is standard
gauge steam railway, running through a
beautiful section of country.
A new departure has been taken in the
method of selling tickets by the Southern
Pacific creek route, by which the runners
employed by that company now sell two
tickets for cents. The runners purchase
100 tickets from the box-office for S2 and
by selling them at 2115 cents each derive a
profit of n cent ticket. The company
still charges 8 cents when tickets are
bought at the bOx-office, and only do busi-
aess at the reduced rate through the
medium of their runners.
The morning call., 1893-10-17
THE CURTIS JURY,
Charge Of Embracery Is
Made.
Attorney John N. e. Wilson Says
that King McManus and w. j.
Dunn Are Involved.

Frank McManus. more famiiarly known
as "King" McManus, and ex-State SEN
ator William j. Dunn have been brought
into undue prominence through a charge
of embracery preferred by Attorney j. n.
Z. Wilson. 1t will be remembered that
Wilson conducted the defense of NJ. B..
Curtis. who was recently acquitted of the
charge of having murdered Police Officer
Alexander Grant, and it is in connection
with this case that the charges are made.
According to the story told by Mr. VIII
son McManus aud Dunn are trying to col
lect $1,000 which they claim is due them for
having secured the faYorable votes of four
jurors in the Curtis case. The attorney
says that when Curtis was in jail pending
his third trial for murder McManus and
Dunn visited the prisoner and offered to
secure his acquittal by the purchase of
urors for $4,000. This sum was finally
reduced TO $4,000. but Curtis refused TO give
them any satisfaction. They then went to
Attorney Wilson with the same PROPOSE
tion, but were ordered out of the office.
Two days after Curtis acQuittal Nc
Manus and Dunn visited Mrs. Curtis at
the Occidental Hotel and demanded
$1,000 of her, saying that that amount was
necessary 10 pay four jurors whom they
had influenced. Mrs. Curtis said she did
not have the money, but would, in lieu
thereof. deed them ten lots in Peralta
Park, Berkeley. The next day the three
met by agreement in Wilson's Office. and
McManus and Dunn renewed their de-
mand. McManus. to show that he had
really influenced certain jurors, produced
receipt for $1,000 signed by T. Nj.
McFarlane. one of the jurors in the case.
The attorney. upon seeing this. went to
the telephone TO ring for an officer. and
McManus and Dunn fled from the office
leaving Mrs. Curtis in possession OF a
slip of paper upon which was written the
names of two women 10 whom MeManus
wished to have the Berkeley property
decided. A few weeks later, so Mr.
Wilson says. McManus and Dunn went to
Fresno and threatened violence if Mr.. and
Mrs. Curtis failed to disgorge. Curtis has
since been constantly attended by body
gu ard. as he feared his life would be in
danger