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The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
THE REPUBLICAN MINORITY.
A Significant Statement by Democratic
 Organ.

A Significant Statement by a Democratic
 Organ.
 While democratic senators are scratch ing around for any sort of compromise that may satisfy party expectancy, the republican minority stands by its guns and will have no more of hybrid com promise legislation. German, of the democratic steering committee, and most of the democratic leaders are ready and willing to throw the admin. istration overheard and take up with any miserable expedicnt that will shelve the coinage issue and pave the way to the passage of democratic tariff bills, elections bills, southern claims bills and harvest of appropriation bills, that democracy may be ia clover.
 So thoroughly democratic an organ as the New York World is candid enough to state that to the republicans belongs the credit of blocking disgraceful com promises. The world states that the 'simsurmountable objection is presented in the attitude of the republican sena- tors who support repeal They are op- posed to any compromise, per- haps because they remember that the sherman act was com promise and reflect how it operated. Without republican votes, and q good many of them, repeal cannot pass" The World then scores time-servlng democrats as follows: If democratic senators who are resisting repeal can contemplate this result with unconcern the democratic restoration to power is foredoomed failure and the southern states may as we'll begin to set their houses in order for another period of republican rule. If it ever does go through the country will have to thank republican senators for bringing about this desirable result"
 These are bold words and are signifi- cant of the difference in timber be- tween democrats and republicans in the senate. A party which has a president and majority of both houses, and then, after all of the vituperation which it has heaped upon the Sherman act and the wholesale pledges of repeal which it has made, goes and deliberate ly sets itself at work to devise weak compromises and continue in force practically the same act which it has so long abused, lacks in two grand par ticulars; the first is principle, and the second in veracity. y.-Minneapolis Trib- me
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
CHEAPER RATES.
The Railroads See Their Mistake and Make Lower Rates to Chicago-Unpreceden Passenger Traffic the Past Week.

The Raitroads See Their Mistake and Make
 Lower Rates to Chicago go-Unprecedented
 Passenger Traffic the Past Week.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-The lines of the Western Passenger association have finally seen great light. Some of them saw it long ago, but others did not, and those who saw reaped no ben- eft because of their clearer vision. The enormous amount of travel brought on by the one cent per mile rate Cfor Chicago day) has been with out parallel in the history of railroad ing, and all the lines now see that low rates bring the people, bring them in swarms and droves, bring them SC. that it is all the railroads can do to haul them.
 This state of affairs the roads nat urally desire to keep up until the close of the fair, and at yesterdays meeting of the Western Passenger association, action was taken which means that the 1 cent rate will be continued for the remainder of the exposition. The reso- lution making the rate was introduced d by the Burlington road. It provided the rates from western, southwestern and northwestern points within the territory of the Western Passenger association made for Chicago day at the fair be continued for the balance of the exposition, sales of tickets to be resumed October Il to continue to October 31, tickets to have final return limit of Move mber 15. The resolution provoked a lively dis cussion, the Wabash declaring that one fare for the round trip was enough, and the Rock Island asking that ten day limit be used. The Burlington resolution made the cheap tickets good on all trains and in all cars.
 The meeting split on the all-cars pro- vision and finally rejected the original resolution, but agreed that all roads could, by giving five days notice, put in the Chicago day rate for the balance of the fair. They all gave the notice and the sale of tickets at l cent per mile will be resumed October 15 The tickets will be good on all trains, but in coaches only. The holders will not be entitled to sleeping or dining car privileges. This resolution, however. bids fair to be removed within short time.
 Chicago roads have never before done such a business as during the last four days. The Burlington brought into Chicago during the time Chicago day tickets were on sale 65, 900 people; Mil. waukee & St Paul, 75,O0O; Northwest. ern, 10000; Michigan Central, 45,o0Oi Atchison, 4s,OOO; Lake Shore, 45,eO0i Erie, 4s,OO0, and other roads amounts varying from 1O,OOO to 3O,OOO. Nothing like it was ever known before, and the railroads expect that it will be long be. fore they see it again.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
The McCurtain Shortage.

TUsKAHoMA, l. T., Oct. Il. - Ex- Treasurer Green McCurtain's short age is still all the talk here and the more it is looked into the larger his shortage gets. Attorney General C. E. Nelson has figured out his short age in the lease district money. He has deducted the attorneys fee expenses for paying the money out, the amount he has paid per capita and the amount he turned over to his successor, and finds s334, s44 short in addition to the sl19,OOO. making total shortage of s453, ,S44 on the lease district money.
 Besides this, Dr. N. Wright, the na- tional agent, has turned over to him s13O,0OO collected as royalty. None of this has been accounted for.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
CURRENT COM MENT.

cBThc more national issues are dis crowded 10 the wall. State Regis ter.
 ey-Hoke Smith says Lochren did all this pension meanness. Those gentle men who have been praising Hoke should now expurgate the files. s.-Toledo Blade.
 gB-A witty Ohioan says that the democracy "has cured the smoke nuis- ance." The reference of course is to the smokeless chimneys of the factories and furnaces of the ountry.-Albany Journal.
 Even the turkeys down south are catching the democratic spirlt-''an old gobbler in North Carolina" is re- ported as scratching up dozen pota- toes and sitting on them" It is G turkey appreciation of the democratic majority in congress, Chicago Inter Ocean.
 cB-The mighty howl that has gone up from the throats of the brigadier congressman over the increased pen sion appropriation demanded by Con- missioner Lochren is pretty reliable indication that, while Commissioner Lochren's career as member of Mir. Cleveiand's official family may be bril- liant, it will be painfully brief. Min neapolis Tribune.
 CB"The free traders are having hard time with the delegations which appear before the committee on ways and means in the interest of a reten- ton of the Mckinley tariff, and they are striving to let the country know as little as possible of the proceedings. Chairman Wilson and colleagues are confronted with too many hard facts to make their contemplated work of tariff smashing an agreeable prospect-Na- tional Tribune.
 When the democrats resorted to all sorts of unseemly devices to prevent legislation during the session of con- gross when the republicans were in power all of the free-trade papers in the land were daily filled with articles on the sacred right of the minority to obstruct, but now that the senate is ex- ercising its undoubted privilege of discussing most important piece of financial legislation we find the same papers intemperately declaring that the people should rise in their might and force the senators to vote, whether they wish to or not.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
LOYAL LEGION OFFICERS.
Gen. Lucius Fairchiid Elected Command er-in-Chief, MT. Harrison Declining.

Gen. LucIus FaIrchiid Elected Command
 er-in-Chief, MT. Harrison Declining.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 13. At the annual meeting of the Loyal Legion Gen. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, ex- commander-in-ch of the G. A. R., was elected commander-in-chief of the Legion, ex- President Harrison declining positively to be a candidate. The other officers are: Senior vice commander in-chief, Gen. Nelson Cole, of Missouri; junior vice commander-in-chi Adm. Henry Erben, of New York; recorder in-chief, Col John P. Nicholson, of Pennsylvania; chief Col. Cornelius Cadle, of Ohio; chancellor in-chief, Capt Peter D. Keyser, of Pennsylvania; register-in-chief, Gen. Arthur Ordway, of the District of Columbia; haplain-in-chief, Rev. H. Clay Trumbull, D. D., of Pennsylvania; counsel-in-chief, Gen. o. M. Poe, of Michigan; counsel, H. C.. Key, Gen. J. M. Brown, of Maine; Maj. w. P. Hax- ford, of the District of Columbia, and Col Arnold Arend, of Massachusetts. The next annual meeting will be held in Philadelphia in October, 1894.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
EXPOSITION FINANCES.
The Worlds Fair Ledger Shows a SaSis' , factory State of Things.

! factory State Of Things.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-Auditor Acker- mans monthly statement of the expo sition's finances to September 30, were given out yesterday. It shows that the exposition is not only out of debt, but has handsome balance in the treasury. The amount realized so far from the sale of souvenir coins is s1,920,1 120; total gate receipts to end of September, s7, 404, ,593; total from concessions to October 1, s2,6OO, 3O7; the photographic receipts to September 30 were s137, 426; total mis- cellaneous receipts S669, 195 The to- tai liabilities of the exposition are only s97,212. Fire protection has cost s231,- 46s, and the guard and secret serv- ice s9S2, 13S. Total expenditures on actount of construction, s17,044, TAB; miscellaneous disbursements, s6,260,- 947. Total receipts from all sources, S25, ,234, 199 Total expenditures on all accounts, ss4, ,9O5, 69O, leaving balance of S1, ,O2S, EOS in the treasury.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
TIME EXTENDED.
Oklahoma Settlers Given Another Year to
 Make Payments.


 Make Payments.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The bill pre- pared by Representative Flynn grant ing settlers on certain lands in Okla- homa, an extension of one year in pay ment of their homestead entries, passed the house yesterday. It had previous ly passed the senate, but a minor amendment was made to it in the house, and it was again taken to the senate. mittee on public lands, broke into Mr. Cockrell's speech with a motion con- curing in the house amendment, and the matter was disposed of.
 This bill is one of the most impor- tant affecting the new territory with which congress will be called upon to deal. The homesteaders affected are those who have located on the Shaw nee, Pottawatomie and Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands. After settling upon the lands the farmers had to contend with two seasons of drought and found it impossible to meet the first payment as provided for the law opening the country to settlement.
 The bill which will become law with the presidents signature, gives another year to meet this payment, thus enabling thousands of farmers to retain their lands, who would other wise be compelled to relinquish them. Another section of the bill permits homesteaders in the Shawnee, Potta- watomie, Cheyenne and Arapahoe In- dian lands to receive patent for their land at the expiration of twelve months, upon the payment of $1.50 an acre. The homestead settlers in the public land strip can take out patent in twelve months upon the payment of Sl 25 an acre.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
DEMOCRATIC CHARGES.
Unjust Treatment of Union Veterans by
 Bourbon Disclaimers.

Bourbon Disclaimers.
 What impudence it is 70 talk of the veterans of the country being 'treas- ury looters."
 Are not the men who fought four long years to save the nation presum- ably better guardians of the nations honor and we'll being than men who never made single sacrifice for the country?
 The veterans not only fought for the country, freely imperiling life and limb, but they sacrificed great deal more money by their service than the bondholders lent the nation; and, fur thernore, they came home, and for years subjected themselves to unheard- of taxation in order to pay off the claims of the men who had lent the country money. They were the firm est champions of paying the bondhold- CTS to the uttermost cent of their claims, and in the best money-in gold.
 Is it not wickedly absurd to speak of such men "looting the treasury?"
 And, too, cannot these men be trust ed to make the pension roll a ''roll of honor?"
 Who did so much as they to make it a roll of honor in the first place?
 Did the men who now declaim about "bummers, bounty jumpers, "coffee coolers" etc, ever speak more compli- mentary of the union soldiers? Did they ever say that the enlistment roll of the union army was a "roll of honor?"
 The veterans of the union army made the enlistment roll one of the brightest honor, and they can be relied on to make and keep the pension roll one of similar integrity and esteem.-National Tribune
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
HORSES cReMATEp.
Nearly Six Hundred Burned In Fire at
 Chicago.

Chicago.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 13. = Frenzied with fright, and driven into stampede by 8 raging fire that broke out last night in the Wallace street barns of the Chicago City Railway Co, nearly 600 horses were burned to death. The barns were entirely destroyed and the total loss en- tailed by the company will reach a high figure. The building was two story affair, which extended 400 feet on Wallace and ninety feet on Thirty ninth street. The fire, when first discovered, was in the northeast corner of the upper floor and it was not thought to be serious blaze, but it gained rapidly on the firemen and be- fore much of anything could be done to save the horses the entire building was in flames. The number of hostlers around the building was not large, and though they did their best and were aided by men from the rapidly gather ing crowd, they were able to rescue but few of the poor beasts.
 All the horses were on the first floor, and in ten minutes after the fire was discovered they were helpless. They were blinded by the flames and the smoke that rolled through the place in great volumes, and soon a stampede was in progress. The animals surged back and forth in groups of fifties and hundreds in their efforts to escape.
 In the burned building were 576 horses and in the upper story were thirty cars. There were also 200 tons of hay and 800 bushels of mixed grain. Soon after the fire started the flooring fell and with it the heavy cars and tons of grain and hay About seven- teen horses were killed outright it is believed by being crushed beneath this mass.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
THE GREAT STORM.
Echoes from the Country Below New
 Orleans.

Echoes from the Country Below New
 Orleans.
 NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 13.-The police jury of Plaquemine, one of the par ishes visited by the great tornado, has been carefully investigating the dam age inflicted by it and makes report thereon. It shows a loss of 260 lives, 415 houses destroyed and total dam age to property of s7SS, zoo. The sugar cane was very slightly damaged, the rice two-thirds and the orange crop three-fourths. In one of the ten wards into which the parish is divided, ward two, every house but three was blown down; in ward three three-fourths of the houses were destroyed and the rest badly damaged; in ward ten the dam age was greatest, every house being destroyed.
 Plaquemine parish is only portion of the district affected. A large pro- portion of the people in the storm dis trict have emigrated. There are refu- gee camps at La Fourche and at Harves vivors are being fed by the citizens re- lief committee. The population of the district devastated was about coco, and of these over 2,000 were drowned or killed and 1,2O0 have left permanently, reducing the resident population to about 2,5OO. The people around Blu ras, in Plaquemine parish, are generally leaving, as they have no houses crops, levees or orange trees left. They will generally emigrate to the sugar districts of the parish. Not 200 of the former population of l,60O people of Chemeie Canuada will remain and over half the inha abitants of Grand isle will seek a safer home.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
REAR END COLLISION.
The Disaster Caused by the Air Brakes Failing to WOrk-Twelve Killed and Twenty-one Injured.

The Disaster Caused by the Air Brakes
 Failing to Work-Twelve Killed and Twenty-one Injured.
 JACKSON, Mich, Oct 14.-As a direct result of the policy of the railroads of the country in refusing low rates to the worlds fair at an early period, thus forcing the people to go there in mass, the lives were crushed out of twelve passengers in an instant at the depot here and twenty-five persons were maimed, many of whom will either succumb to their injuries or be crip- pied for life.
 The Oswego special on the Michigan Central railroad was made up into two section because of the demand of in tending worlds fair visitors for room, hundreds who might have gone months ago having delayed until this time in the hope of securing better excursion rates than had been offered heretofore. The two sections were running only a few minutes apart
 The first section of the special was lying on the main track just east of the depot here at $40 o'clock and the pas sengers were either crowded into the dining car or still asleep when the sec ond section dashed up from be- hind. The air brakes refused to work.
 The next moment the engine of the second section crushed with awful force into the rear of the first section, and before it stopped the two rear cars had been completely destroyed and fully seventy people in them either killed or injured.
 As soon as possible the work of relief began.
 All the undertalSers and physicians in town wers soon on the ground and in a short time every undertaken estab- lishment was morgue When the wreck had been cleared away it was found that seventeen bodies required only burial and that fifty-two people were in need of surgical attention.
 Engineer Whalen, of the second sec ton, who was badly burned and one of whose legs was broken, said: 'I saw the signal in the yard to keep back and had my engine in hand, as l thought, but when l came down near the train, which was still, my air brake would not work and I ran into the coaches. The failure of the air brake made it impossible to stop. l never had such an experience before" a.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
HOW IT WORKS.
A Specimen of the Fruits of the Demo-
 cratic Victory.

A Specimen of the Fruits of the Demo-
 cratic Victory.
 A correspondent says: I met an old democratic friend of mine in Cincin- nati, and after we had exchanged greet ings I asked him what he was doing.
 Nothing but pressing brick for Walker, Doolittle & Nopay," was the response.
 How is that?" I queried.
 Simply because l was one of the fools who thought the country needed a change" he replied. "I had good job that paid me twenty-one dollars a week, but believed that the McKin- ley tariff was robbing us workingmen. l took an active part in politics last fall and did missionary work among my fellow workingmen for Cleveland and reform. I know thai I get two votes for Grover that would have been for Harrison but for me. We'll, Gro vers in clover and Pm on my uppers. l never stopped to think that my boss would be affected by the tariff. He says that he can't afford to run his shop. He has no orders, and even if he could borrow the money to keep his shop going he says thatit wouldn't pay him to do so, as he would eventually have to sell his goods for less than it cost to manufacture them. He has slacked up, and I was one of the men who were let go. Am going to vote vote for Neal this fall? Not on your tintype. I'm democrat and 1 never voted against my party yet, but this time I'm not going to vote at "-N. Y. Advertiser.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
THE UNION PACIFIC.
It Goes Into the Hands of Receivers-A
 Very Qrliet Proceeding.

It Goes Into the Hands of Receivers-A
 Very Quiet Proceeding.
 OMAHA. Neb., Oct l4.-On a plea in equity filed in the United States dis trict court here Judge Dundy ap- pointed S. H. H. Clark, E. Ellery An derson of New York and Oliver w. Mink of Boston receivers for the Union Pacific Railway Co.
 The application for a receiver was made by the executors of the Frederick l.. Ames estatc-Oliver Ames, second, Samuel Carr, Edwin F. Atkins and Pe- ter B. Wyckotf
 The announcement of the application and the appointing of the receivers came simultaneously just before l o'clock p. m.
 The action was a complete surprise in every way, despite the fact that there had been hints from time to time that the system was not in good fnan- cial condition.
 Receiver Clark at once called upon General Manager Dickinson for posses sion of the property and it was turned over to him with due formality and record. Thus $500 miles of rail and water line and the employment of 22, 900 men changed control.
 The application and order in the fed eral court were carefully printed, show ing previous preparation.
 The application was made by the ex- ecutor of the estate of the late Frederick L. Ames and by E. F. Atkins, heavy stockholder, and P. Wycoff, son-in-law of the late Sidney Dillon, also repre- senting a large block of stock. It re- cited that owing to dull times, de- pressed business and the approaching maturity of bonds which the road would be consequently unable to meet it was deemed best for the protection of all interests that the property should be put into the hands of the court, where suits could not disintegrate and impair the value of the system as a whole.
 The proceedings were very similar, says General-Solicitor Thurston, to those under which the Northern Pa cific went into receivership It was necessary to keep the system together and prevent separating it and lessen ing its earning power. Mir. Anderson represents the interest of the govern ment.
 The future of the road depends large ly upon the prosperity of the country and somewhat upon the course which the government will pursue in dealing with the debt that the road owes If this debt is adjusted favorably it is possible that after some years the sys- tenn may be returned to the hands of the owners.
 This receivership, in Mir. Thurston's opinion, is really beneficial. The time had come when the road must be put into condition for winter and for in- creased business and the receivership will not have such depressing effect as is usual in such proceedings General Manager Dickinson has no- tified all heads of departments that all officers, agents and employees will be retained until further notice. 1t is stated that there are not likely to be any important changes. MT. Dickinson will stay in his place. It is predicted that no changes of pay schedules asked for by the employees will be granted and that it is not i'm. possible that the cut of pay of schedule men talked of in August, may be put into force.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
An Ovation for Mckinley.

CHILLIcoTHE, O., Oct. 13.-A notable demonstration of the Ohio campaign was held here last night, when Gov. Mckinley addressed big meeting. The fact that Chillicothe is the home of Laurence T. Neal, the democrat who is opposed to Mckinley, gave additional interest to an occasion which was in the nature of an ovation. There was nothing strikingly new about his speech, and he indicated his tired out condition with every period Possibly for this reason he failed to enthuse his audience. An overflow street meeting was addressed by Lieut.. Gov Harris, State Auditor Poe and others.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-19
Emma Goldman Indicted.

NEW YORK, Oct 1.-The little anar- chist, Emma Goldman, was found
 guilty by the jury in Judge Martine's court. The jury retired at 8 o'clock and gave its verdict at 5. Mir. Hall asked that the defendant be remanded until next Monday, when he should move for an arrest of judgment, on the ground that the indictment does not recite an offense known to the statutes of the common law. The prisoner was remanded until Monday. She says she was not surprised at the verdict; that she had teen convicted because she was an anarchist and an atheist, not because she had committed any otfenss-