davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07
FLOAT TO REPREsExr sEArrLr.

st. Paul lnvites Psrticipation in Great
Northern Celebration Parade.
Acting Mayor Sweeney has received the
following letter from the St. Paul Jobbers'
Union in regard to the plans for the cele-
bration of the completion of the Great
Northern railroad. which he will refer to
the committee in charge Of the matter ap-
pointed by the Chamber OF Commerce and
the Merchants and Manufacturer Ex-
change:
You are doubtless aware that the city of St
Paul IL arranging to properly celebrate the COM
pletton OF the Great Northern railroad from ST.
Paul 70 Puget sound. The celebration will be
rendered 90 Mr.. Hill and will take place June z,
Sand 3. Among other features will be the
grandest industrial! parade on June that has
ever been attempted in the West
1t has been suggested that possibly Seattle
would like to build and equip float, which
should bear the name of the city and which
should be part OF the parade, the idea being TO
show something Of the resources of the state
and cities through which the Great Northern
line passes. Will you kindly advise me what
your city will do 1t the earliest possible mo-
ment
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07
Killed by whisky and . Train.

Deputy Coroner Frank Carroll returned
to the city yesterday morning with the re-
mains Of the man who was killed by the
cars near Birch, on the Northern Pacific
railroad Tuesdaylnight It was ascertained
that the unfortunate's name was John ].
Henderson, and that he worked for c. II.
McGrew. a rancher who lives near Birch.
Henderson got drunk, refused to 60 home
and in all probability went to sleep on the
railroad track. No inquest will be held.
The funeral services will be held this after
noon at Bonney 4 Stewards chapel. In
terment at Lake View cemetery.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07
VIII Soon Demolish Whitech.r.,

The Great Northern railroad is now en-.
gagged in settling with the occupants of the
buildings on the site of the passenger
depot, and as soon as this business, ia dis.
posed of and . franchise for the street
crossings is obtained the old ramshackle
structures will be torn down and White.
chapel will be no more.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

SAN Francisco. April 6.-The directors
of the Southern Pacific company TODAY re-
elected the old officers. as follows: Pre.i.
dent, c. p. Huntington; first vice presi.
dent. G. +. Croker: second vice presi-
dent, A. N. Towne; third vice president, ].
Z. Stnbbs; secretary and controller, q. L.
Lansing; treasurer, n. T. Smith; 1. L.
Gates. acting vice president and assistant
secretary at New York: H. f. Hunting.
ton. first assistant to the president.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07
PROFIT OF THE Posrorrlcr.

Large Revenue Derived From Seattle In
tho Last Quarter.
Assistant Postmaster w. J. Colkett has
completed the report Of the business done
by the Seattle postofice for the quarter
ending March 81, 1888.
1t shows that cash business Of $o6, 2O2 81
was done at an expense of s11.o43. 81, net
ting the government $15, 1906. or over
5000 per month. Of the net earnings of
the Office 81, S39. II was disbursed to railway
postal clerks. The sales of stamps and
stamped envelopes for the month of March
amounted to $9,03SO2. and for the year
ending March 81, to $99. 497 SO.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

Articles intended for the women's de.
rartment OF the Washington Worlds fair
exhibit should re sent TO the stutio of
Miss Fannie s. Campbell. room 81 Hinck.
ley block, where they will be taken care ~
IN glass cases and insured at their full
value. Zach article should he labeled a,
tagged with the full name and address of
the lender, and If intended for sale shonIa
be 50 marked. together with the nr,cs
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

To know that Richard Ill hesa.ehe and
neuralgia tablets afsora quick sad certain eure
CT every variety OF headache and give lame.
date relic, from suffering in ali nearalrte ss.a,
Geua Tor sale BIZ ali drugxissa
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

contractors. you can buy road .cr.pers
81 the Harrington 4 Smith sale for les.
than factory cost.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

Bricklayers, stonemssons, carpenters
GO 10 the Harrington Il Smith sale.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

G6odfcrm for March ID axes . special feature of
the single Tax, Thomas Elmer Will, professor
OF economics in Lawrence university, contribut.
ing IN artica.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

Richardson or Rose trowels for - cents
81 the Harrington 4 Smith sale.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

pr Rala. II sn.sh. Re.lssnce ,elephnna ID
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
NEBRAsKA's NEW SENATOR.

NEBRASKA'S NEW SENATOR.
The first time in the history of the
state, Nebraska has elected a senator
who is not Republican. The election
of a Populist does not speak we'll for
the sagacity of the Republican party of
the commonwealth. The Democrats
held the balance of power, and the Re-
publcans knew that 1t was simply out
of the question to elect a Republican.
The Democrats gave them distinctly to
understand that it was either a Demo-
crat or PopuIist. The Democrats dis.
liked the Populist quite as much as
the Republicans did. There was the
opportunity of the Republican party to
break the power Of the Populist party in
Nebraska by voting for the best man of
the Democratic candidates. MORTON and
BOYD were men against whom their
only objection could be that they were
Democrats. They were infinitely better
than the candidate of the Populists.
But they preferred rather to stand by a
fOrlorn hope, and permit man whom
they deteSted, than to take the step
which would elect far more creditable
man and defeat for good the party of
wild ideas. The Democrats come out
far better. ALLEN has Democratic in
clinations and will undoubtedly vote
with the Democrats in the senate where
he can gain nothing by voting for meas.
ures of lis own party. 1t was blind
folly on the part of the Republicans,
and they will reap their reward.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
TAX HUNTING.

Were MACAULAY'S New Zealander to
visit the halls OF legislation of our state
and examine the bills introduced relat-
ING to taxation he would conclude that
the question was new and important
one with which the SoonS were unfa-
miliaT. He would not infer from it that
there had been centuries of legislation
on this subject; that nation after nation
and state after state had spent effort,
time and money in trying to devise
some system which would compel men
to bear their equal and proportlOnate
share of the general burden.
Bills to tax incomes; bills to tax in
heritanceS; bills to tax mortgages; bills
to tax railroad lands; bills to tax eX-
press, telephone and other companies,
and one bill, worthy Of DRACo, pur-
poses to put the owners of hideable per-
sonal property on the rack, and set the
inquisitorial powers of the courts at
work to compel them to divulge their
hidden wealth to the tax .gatherer.
All efforts in this direction have al
ways failed. and always will fail. be-
be able to devise method of taxation
which other men would not be cunning
enough to avoid. The makers of safes
have given up trying to make safe
which a burglar cannot get into, and
have fallen despairingly back on max
ing one which he cannot get into in the
ordinary working hours of those cheya
Tiers d. indust RTE.
If experience teaches anything it is
that the true direction is in making
fewer instead of more articles carry the
load. Natural mOnopolies like mines
should be held to be the states prop
erty, and made to yield as large reve-
nues as possible. Artificial monopolies
like railway street car companies, tele-
phones and telegraphs should be made
TO share their earnings with the public
which gives them existence. Some day
when this mad hunt for taxable things
and drastic methods shall have run its
course and broken down with its own
weight there will be a quick and sharp
return to a very few sources of reve-
nues. But that time evidently is not
now, and the legislature is supplying
ample evidence that it is not
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
SOME MORE "ovERAGEs."

The GLOBE has it on an authority
Which no man would doubt were he told
it, that one elevator at Duluth had an
leverage" of $4,000 bushels of wheat
when it cleaned up the crop of 81 last
summer. This, following on the heels
of an Investigation which showed,
through all the whitewash, averages
aggregating several hundred thousand
bushels, shows that the system has not
been melded since then.
How do these averages come about?
The state has lot of men appointed by
it, but paid by the farmers, who SO bust
ness it is to weigh into these elevators
the grain received. 1t is their duty to
weigh out the grain sent away. If they
do their duty there could be no gain;
there might be loss from the natural
shrinkage. If they do not do their duty;
if they let grain go in at less than Its
actual weight, there will be gains.
1t was urged during the investigation
that the averages were but trifle per
bushel handled, as if that could excuse
a steal which aggregated hundreds OF
thousands of dollars. The difference is
only one of degree between the track
thief who takes bushel and the ele-
yatOr agent who sets his scales to take
an ounce out of each of a million or
more bushels, or the weighmaster who
cCnniyeS at it.; they are thieves all,
taking that which is not theirs.
1t is inevitable in. such large transac-
tions. it is urged in explanation. If so,
then it is because of uncomfortable Incl
dents Of the methods, and these are as
apt to produce a shortage as gain.
Why is it that always there are averages
and never shortages? Why are the
quantities always plus and never minus?
The present system does only what it
was intended to do when built; 1t but
tresSes the elevator men. 1t enables
them to say to the shipper whose grain
is short, 1--WE can't help it; it isn't our
fault. There is the state weighmaster's
certificate" If the weighmaster were
strictly honest, and his scales rightly
adjusted, it would settle it. But if he
weren't, or his scales weren't, if he was
interested in making averages, it would
not settle it. The fact is that all weigh
masters are not honest, and this puts
under suspicion all their certiti-
Gates. The incident is recalled of
the suspicious dealer who ordered
some forty cars of his wheat weighed
out of Minneapolis elevator for al
legged shipment East, getting a weigh
masters certificate of weight. lie then
ordered them taken to another elevator
in the same city and unloaded the same
day, getting again a weighmaster's cer-
tificate of weight. There was large
difference between the two weights.
The case was too glazing, and the ele-
vatOr company settled it. There is great
opportunity for collision; there is strong
inducement for collision, and it is too
much to expect that there will be no
cOIluSiOn
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
TALKED ABOUT WHEAT.
The Senate Grain and Warehouse
Committee Pass Resolutions.

the meeting of the senate committee
on grain and warehouses was largely
attended yesterday morning. Senator
Brown appeared and made strong
argument for his bills abolishing the
offices of railroad and warehouse COM
misSionerS, but no decision was reached,
and the following resolution, offered by
Senator Donneily. was adopted:
Resolved, That, without delaying the
action of this committee, the chairman
of this committee is hereby directed to
correspond with the governors of the
states of North and South Dakota with
view to secure such legislation from
the legislatures of those states as will
result in the construction of state grain
houses or elevators at Duluth, contigu-
Gus to each other, for each of the three
states, and they create system of grain
houses for the Northwest that will place
the farmers of their region beyond the
control of the elevator ring, which now
mOnopOliZe5 our markets and breaks
down the value OF our great staple.
Senator GeiSSel moved to test the
sense of the committee that the amount
to be expended in the construction of
the grain house at Duluth shall not be
less than S300,000 provided that the bill
shall be so drawn that all the said sum
shall be made up out of the inspection
fees levied upon cars of wheat, so that
eventually nothing should be taken out
of the tax funds of the state, and that
the inspection fee on wheat shall be
raised SO that it shall not exceed 80 cents
per carload, that rate being sufficient to
build and equip such state grain house.
This was adopted.
Senator Erickson moved that sub
committee, consisting of Senators
Hompe and Canestorp, be appointed to
prepare and report to this committee
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09

oils, Duluth and st. Cloud public eleva-
tors, the first bill reaches valuable
point and provides for the settlement of
disputes, as follows:
In case there is a disagreement be-
tween the persons in the Immediate
charge of and receiving the grain at
such country elevator or warehouse and
the person delivering the grain to such
elevator or warehouse for storage or
shipment, at the time of such delivery,
as to the proper grade or the proper
dockage for dirt or otherwise, on any
lot of grain delivered, an average sam
pie of at least three quarts of the grain
in dispute may be taken by one OF both
parties and forwarded in suitable
sack, properly tied and sealed, express
charges prepaid, to the chief inspector
of grain at st. Paul, which shall be &C
companied by the request in writing, or
either or both of the parties aforesaid,
that the said chief inspector shall eX
anime the same and report what grade
OF dockage or both the said grain is
in his opinion entitled to and would re-
ceive If shipped to the terminal points
and subjected to official inspection.
1t shall be the duty or said chief in
spector, as soon as practicable, to eX-
anime and inspect such sample of grain
ana ad1udge the proper grade OF COCK
age or both, to which said sample is in
his Judgment entitled, and which grain
of like quality and character would re-
ceive if shipped to the terminal points
and subjected to official inspection.
In the second bill, after providing for
the condemnation of land for elevator
purposes, it is also provided that the
railroads shall be compelled to construct
side tracks, and make the proper con-
nections with such elevators.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09

Be it enacted by the legislature of the State
of Minnesota:
Section !. From and after the list day of
November 1893, it shall be unlawful for any
person, partnership or corporation owning or
operating street railway in this state, or for
any officer or agent thereof experimenting or
having charge or control of the management
of the said line OF railway or of the cars
thereof operating electric, cable or other
cars propelled either by steam cable or cleo
trcity which require the constant services,
care or attention of any person or persons OH
any part of such car except on the rear plat
form thereof. to require or permit such serv-
ices attention or care of any OF its employees
or any other person or persons between
the list day of November and the 1st
day of April of each year. unless such per
son, partnership Or corporation, its said of
f1cers. or saperinte nding and managing
agents have first provided the said car or
cars with a proper and sufficient Enclosure
constructed of wood, iron and glass, or SIM
liar materials, sufficient to protect such en-
ployes from exposure 10 the inclemency of
the weather.
Sec g From and after said Nov l. A. D.
1883 it shall be unlawful for any such per-
son, partnership or corporation so owning or
operating street railways using steam, cleo
trio or cable cars, or any experimenting or
managing officer or agent thereof, to cause
or permit to be used upon such line of said
railway. between said Nov. l and April ] of
each and every year, any car or cars upon
specified in section l of this act is required
unless said car or cars shall be provided with
the Enclosure provided for in said section of
this act.
Sec. 3. Any person, partnership or cor
poration owing, operating, superintending
or managing any such line of street railway
or managing or experimenting officer or
agent thereof who shall be found guilty of a
violation Of the provisions of sections 1 aud =
OF this act shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor. and. upon conviction thereof, shall
be punished by fine of not less than five
hundred (50a) dollars nor more than one
thousand GOOD dollars. Each day that any
of said persons cause or permit any of their
said employees to operate such cars in viola
ton of the provisions of section l of this act,
or cause or permit cars to be used or OPP
Grated in violation of section 3 of this act
shall be deemed separate offense.
Sec. 4. 1t is hereby made the duty of the
county attorney of any county in which any
such street railway Is situated and operated,
upon information given to him by any per
son that any person, partnership or corpora
ton has violated any OF the provisions of
this act to promptly prosecute such person,
partnership or corporation for such viola
ton.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09

of representatives of Michigan, but
when it reached the senate it was
tabled with yell. That President
HARRISON should rise above party so
far as to make an effort to lift the SUI
preme bench out of party mire is incom-
prehensible to his party. Judge JACK
son has himself spoken upon the sub
ject, regarding it as a grand step in the
direction of raising the bench above
party, with which it should have moth
ing to do. There are too many CLARK
SONS in the Republican party. The long
power it has enjoyed has made its MEM
bers narrow and selfish. Office and not
principle is its guiding star. The force
bill is the measure of its breadth. The
people have buried it and performed one
of their greatest works.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
TALES OF THE TOWN.

Regular meeting of the assembly this even
ing.
John Dorsch, nineteen-year youth.
was arrested III Minneapolis yesterday,
charged with stealing a pair of shoes valued
at 81, from Thomas Conway
The trial of Robert Warrington. charged by
William Dampier with the larceny of 81. will
be heard before Judge Cory this afternoon.
The defendant and complaining witness
were recently in partnership.
Paul Krascher, who fired pistol ball into
his neck with suicidal intent last Sunday
evening died at the city hospital yesterday
morning. No inquest will be held. and the
body will be turned over TO brother of the
deceased.
Ats O'Clock last evening Samuel Linstnger,
living at go Barr street, Il switchman en-
pIoyed in the Great Northern yards, was
struck by switch engine. He was badly
bruised and was taken to st. Joseph's hospi-
tai, where he was attended by DR.. Murphy.
Hermann, the gentleman with the serpen-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09
NEW SENATE BILLS.
Many Important Measures Read
in the Upper House.


in the Upper House.
Mr.. Leavitt, 5. F. 240-Prohibiting
contingent fees by attorneys and pro-
Yiding penalty for champerty.
Mr.. Day. S. F. 241-Amending the
law providing for the organization of
school districts.
Mr.. March. S. F. 242-Providing for
the registry of all paupers and feeble
minded persons and all persons in the
prisons and reform schools.
Mr. March, S. f. 243-Requiring rail
roads to connect \their lines with
switches.
Mr.. Dean, S. F. 244-Authorizing the
appointment of an assistant state libra
rian at 5000 per year.
Mr.. Davis, S. T. 245-To regulate the
receipt, storage and shipment of grain
in elevators outside terminal points.
Mr.. Dean, S. F. 246-Amending the
penal code.
Mr.. Dean, S. F. 247-Amending Sec
PIT, Penal code.
Mr.. Dedon, S. F. 248-Appropriatlng
$4,000 per year for state mineral land
agent and prescribing his duties.
MI Davis, S. F. 249--Providing for
condemnation of railroad lands for ele-
vator sites.
Mr.. Sanborn, S. F. 25O-Appropriat-
ing S1,326 As for the purchase of 2.452
acres OF land for Itasca park. This
land is owned by the Northern Pacific
railroad
Mr.. Sanborn, S. F. ISL Relating to
condemnation proceedings relating to
State park at Lake Itasca.
MI. Sanborn, S. f. 252-To prevent
the destruction of muscalonge in cer-
tain lakes in ltasca State park.
Mr.. Dean, S. f. 253-Amending the
penal code.
Mr.. Lommen, S. F. 254- Appropriate
ing $500 for a bridge near Red Lake
Falls, Polk county.
Mr.. Lommen, S. T. 255-To reimburse
certain settlers for expenses in defend
ing their titles to lands in certain cases.
Mr.. Erickson. S. F. $50 Appropriate
ing $4,000 to reimburse Chippewa county
for bridges built.
Mr.. Craig, S. F. 225577-Relating to the
adjustment of the swamp land grants
OF this state and authorizing the APP
polntment of commission to inveSti-
gate the various grants.
MIR. Peterson, S. D., S. F. 25S-Relat-
ing to appeals in justice courts.
Mr.. Peterson, :. D., S. +. 259-Amend-
Ah- eAiO law ACltLitS " COuIG ISPOlIC
Mr.. La Due, S. F. 6O-Appropriating
$500 for bridge across Rock river in
the township of Vienna, Rock county.
Mr.. Glader, S. f. 261-Placing all ele-
vatorS outside Duluth. ST. Paul. Mime
apolis and st. Cloud under state inspec-
ton and declaring them public ele-
vators.
p Mr.. Smith. E. r., S. F. 26a-Defning
the word apparatus"
Mr.. Brown, s. f. 263-To compel rail-
road corporations to provide elevators
to receive and handle grain. These
storehouse5 are to contain scales, but
are not to be used as storage elevators.
Mr.. Lommen, s. T. 264-Joint memoir
ial to congress asking for the improve
ment of the Red Lake river, to be made
by the general government.
Mr.. O'Brien, S. f. 265-Authorizing
county commissioners to aid in the
maintenance of county hospitals.
- Mr.. Tawney, S. F. 266-To compel
street railway companies to protect
their employees from the inclemency of
the weather.
Mr.. Smith, John Day. S. F. 267-Re-
pealing the statute authorizing the for
nation of farmers mutual fire insur
ance companies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-09

ing or afternoon sessions should be held
was again discussed. The discussion
was broken in upon by Davis with a
motion to take bis insurance bill from
the table and refer it to general orders.
Senator Dean took occasion to remark
that the bill should have gone 10 the in
surance committee and suggested that
bills that really belong elsewhere and
are sent to the judiciary committee to
pass upon constitutional questions
should be rereferred to their proper
committees to be acted upon. Senator
Morse insinuated that if the bill went to
the insurance committee it would die
there. The chairman of the committee.
Senator Dean, replied somewhat warmly,
but ali was serene again after MOrse's
declaration that he had no intention of
impugning the gentleman's motives. A
motion to refer the bill to the insurance
committee was lost and the bill was sent
to general orders.
The senate adjourned to 10a. IN. to-
morrow.