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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-15
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Ladies' Hosiery.

Fast black and finished seams, worth
Csc, for 15c pair. i
All our 81 10 and SOC Hosiery, to be
closed at 25c pair.
SO dozen Ladies' Fast Black Hose, &c
pair.
Is dozen Children's Ribbed Hose, 7c
pair.
19c pair.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-15

Secretary Grsham has refused Assis-
tant Secretary Josiah Quincy a tempo
rary leave of absence. If reports are
true Mr.. Gresham would make not the
slightest objection if Mr.. Quincy should
ask for permanent leave of absence
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NdMOidl Ddlh 4NOGCo. - pAOo,
The whole makes s., 6oe, 139, 735 in circu-
lation in this country last November.
The amount is somewhat larger now.
It is not quite $25 for every man, woman
and child in the country.
1t is evident, therefore, that there are
in the country in circulation an immense
number of silver dollars, upwards of 600,-
millions in all which are not, measured
by the bullion they contain, worth their
face value or even nearly that. 1t is a
cheap money, evidently.
Why then has it not long since driven
out the gold, which is not cheap money,
as every dollar is worth 100 cents?
This is crucial question, and one on
which there is disagreement. But
are not several conditions quite evident?
I. We do not have silver free coinage.
Hence the private citizen, (which means
all the world) cannot take silver that
costs him so or Is cents in gold and by
carrying it to the mint get a dollar that
will go as far in paying debt as the gold
dollar will go. So there has not yet
been the temptation for men to use sill
yer in payment Of. their debts and hoard
gold for its bullion value. No man has
been able yet to profit by dickering in
the two coins, the gold and silver. The
government has done the dickering and
has got the profit. nearly 70 millions
dollars in fourteen years.
II. The Treasurer of the United States
has met the demands upon him with
gold Even when he has been redeem
ing the certificates with which he buys
silver bullion he has used gold, al
though the law allows him to Use "coin ~
He also stands ready with supply of
gold to redeem the greenbacks ,outstand-
ing.
The effect this policy must have is
plain. Every citizen feels that the gov
eminent has taken upon itself the duty
of keeping each dollar in the country as
good as every other. And although
the government is under no obligation
to exchange gold dollar for silver one
on the request of the citizen, yet it is
practically doing that thing, in order to
keep the citizen contented with the sill
yer dollar
Then is not the sole reason for the
presence of the dearer gold coin among
us, athe feeling of the citizen that the
government will do as it intends to do?
The citizen even prefers the greenback
to the gold coin because he knows that
the government intends to redeem that
greenback in gold; and he believes that
the government can do what it intends
to do
But suppose he has doubts about the
ability of the government? This thing
happened in the days of the war, and
the elderly citizen will remember exactly
what he did. He carefully tied his gold
up and hid it away. The cheaper green
backs drove gold out. But when in 1875
the citizen again became convinced that
the government could do what it intend
ed to do, the gold was taken out of the
drawers and chests, and no man noticed
whether he paid out or received paper
or gold dollar.
The same has been true in regard to
silver; but of late the citizen has noticed
that the amount of silver in circulation
has been growing very large, and that
Uncle Sans stock of gold is growing
smaller. And he has been asking: "Can
the government continue holding one dol
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MANSON G. LARRABEE.
BASE e NJ T.

Closing out sale in basement saiesroom.
Linen Department. so pieces Twill
Cotton Crash Q $40 yard.
Is pieces Pure Linen Bleached Crash
8 3-4c yard. M
Very fine quality Pure Linen IN
bIeached Roller Crash Sc yard
10 inch Barnsley Bleached Linen Crash
Z 1-2c yard.
18 inch Unbleached Soft Finish Crash
10c quality, at this sale 1-2c yard.
Plaid Glass Linen Crash, pure linen,
SC yard.
A large variety of Plaid Glass Linen
Toweling at &c yard.
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THE PRESS.
TUESDAY, AUGUST Is.

When it becomes the fashion to tell
the truth concerning the health of promi-
inent men the public will be better off
and the men especially concerned also.
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If the Sherman law is repealed by the
House it will be because the Republic
cans will vote almost unanimously
that way. It is admitted that ma
jority of the Democrats are opposed to
repeal unless it be accom- panied with
onerous conditions.
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MANSON G. LARRABEE.
MAIN FLOOR.


Thursday we received another case of
Ladies' and Mems Linen, Cambria and
Lawn Handkerchief from the manufac-
turers in Belfast, Ireland, in plain white,
colored and colored borders, hemstitched
and plain, also initial.
These goods in perfect goods would
sell at II, rs and 81 lie each, but are
seconds with thread broken or mis-
prints, which is really no injury to the
wear, SC.
All of our 81 1-2c extra heavy Silk
Windsor Ties which were made for us,
a special order, the balance of the stock
will be closed out at 23c each.
large boxes of Silk Ribbon Remnants
one lot 4c, one lot &c, one lot - 1-2c and
one lot Tic yard. These goods are all
perfect, but run in lengths from to
yards.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-15

The prolongation of debate in the Sen
ate is mere question of lungs, and it is
admitted that in lung power the silver
men of that body are superior to the anti
silver men
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MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS
the FIRST BUT GREATEST WEEK
SUMMER CLEARING Up Sale.

OF the crOakers
forget that this great country with ITS vast
natural wealth s that i'm great
SUMMER CLEARING UP SALE giving values
that beat all records.
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hirty cents profit left to the govern

Thirty Colts piOuO ielt TO UIle gONoru-
ment
The Secretary has been obeying the
Sherman law since 1880, with the result
that he has bought about 100 million
ounces up to date. Up to the 1st of last
November there had been purchased I'M
der the Sherman law 100, 479, 9S1 ounces of
fine silver, costing SIG, 1888, $50, or about
~ cents an ounce on the average. In
the nine months since that time silver
has fallen still more. If coined into dol
lars 100 million ounces wouldsmake about
154 million dollars Thus what the gov
eminent paid not quite III million dol
ars for could be coined into 154 million
dollars. Thus the certificates used in pay
ing for the bullion could be redeemed,
and leave 81 millions of silver dollars In
the public treasury. AS a matter OF
fact the Treasurer coins very little OF
this bullion, preferring instead to redeem
the certificates in gold For the Sher-
man law declared that it was the policy
of this government to maintain the gold
and silver dollar equal in value; and the
Secretary of the Treasury has conceived
that the only way to do this was to re-
deem the Treasury notes principally. in
gold. Thus from May last year to the
middle of July thiss.year about S54, 900,
900 in Treasury notes were paid for sill
yer. In the same time about $40, 600, 600 Of
such notes came back to the Treasury
for redemption and were redeemed in
gold. The Secretary might have coined
some of his silver bullion into dollars
for use in this redemption, and thus
saved money for the government, for
with the silver which he could now buy
for one Treasury note, he could coin
about 81. 10. This is on the assumption
that a dollar Treasury note would still
buy 100 cents worth of silver after the
silver seller should findEthat this certiti-
cate was redeemable in So cents worth
of silver, AN assumption which does not
seem reasonable.
1t will be remembered that there was
profit on the Bland dollar also; and
the Secretary of the Treasury reports
that from the passage of the Bland bill
to June of last year, a period Of fourteen
years, the profits of the silver coin
age had amounted to nearly 70 million
dollars.
This somewhat complicated review of
the forms and nature of our circulating
medium may be supplemented with a
succinct statement Of the proportions
of the various kinds in circulation.
The last report of the Secretary of the
Treasury will show these proportions
nearly enough:
(Silver Dollars. ........ SCI ,672, 455
e;,uorj Subsidiary Silver 65, 985, 4OS
ohsei Silver Certifca ties. .324, 552, 532
Treasury Notes 49,. ..114, 567 ,423
Total Silver $3.50. III, s1s
-, (Gold Coins.. .$411, 252, 1877
uoiu Gold Certificates .120, 255,349
Total Gold. 1881 ,bo7 ,54e
s. Notes .s332, csc, 234
oroenpa'As Currency Certificates. 10,55o, 900
| Total Greenbacks .$342 ,630.234
| National Bank Notes $165, 224, 1877
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
A LIVE CONCERN.

Enterprise of Pratt Bros. in Order
ing Extensive School Supplies.
With the near approach OF the time
for reopening school comes the thought
OF the need of new books, stationery
and other educational supplies. The
buyer OF Pratt Brothers who is now in
the east has ordered for that enterpris-
ing firm such a supply of these goods as
will bring joy to the hearts of teachers
and others interested in school goods.
The assortment of new blank books,
blackboards, ink, crayons, school desks,
the latest and most improved and in
short every appurtance OF the modern
school room which will in few DAYS be
on exhibition at Pratt Brothers, will
bear not unfavorsble comparison with
the stocks OF the stores of many OF the
large cities OF the east.
In fact nothing has been neglected to
make the assortment complete and the
greatest care and experience have been
used in getting the articles which have
met with the sanction OF those who
have made study OF the relative
merits OF school supplies.
In disposing OF this magnificent new
stock the spirit of liberality and fair
dealing for which Pratt Brothers are al
ready noted will be continued and the
margin of profit upon these goods will
he marked down to the lowest notch, so
that any who may have in the past or
may be contemplating sending away for
school supplies will be persuaded that
they cannot buy few dollars worth Of
goods and secure as low figure as large
dealers.
The enterprise OF Pratt Brothers in
thus keeping abreast of the directors of
school affairs in the advancement OF all
that pertains to better education, is
highly commendable and stamps them
as one OF the firms OF which Phoenix
has a right to be proud and to number
among its most highly respected and
useful business houses.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
LOCAL BRIEFS.

James T. Simms Yesterday de eded to
George A. Simms lot IL, in block %,
Central Place.
Martin +. Warren, an inmate OF the
insane asylum from Pinal county, has
been turned out as cured, and last
night he left for his home at Florence.
A deed from w. II. Hearst OF the San
Francisco Examiner to Mrs. L. w.
Brotherton to Sc d sw 4 sw a sec 80,
To n, r | e, was filed in the recorders
Office yesterday.
An adjourned meeting of native born
Californians residing in the valley will
qe held at the opera house next Thurs
day night for the purpose OF organizing
a parlor of Native Sons OF the Golden
West. Those entitled to membership
are requested to attend.
II Deputy United States Marshal
Standard keeps up the pace taken yes
| terday he will make a record. Before
the ink had got good and dry on his
signature to the oath OF office he took
Rickers, The notorious green goods man
and iail.breaker whom the United
| States officials have been hunting for
| the last four months.
| There is some silver mining going on
| in the territory. Ed Metcalt came
down from above Mlnnehaha Flats yes
terday and said that he was working in
a / 700 foot tunnel as industriously as
If silver was quoted at $l.26. Miners
in that part OF the territory are bank
ing on the overthrow OF Cleveland and
the gold bugs, if not at the present ses-
sion, some time within the next four
years.
The solicitude OF the postofiice de-
partment to serve It's patrons resulted
Yesterday in the failure OF the eastern
letter pouches to arrive. AS soon as
the washouts were reached on the Santa
Fe line the prospect OF an early passage
was so uncertain that it was decided
to send the letters for points on the
Southern Pacific, back over the Atlantic
& Pacific and through California. Re-
| pairs were made ca .lier than was ex-
pected and the newspapers came yes
terdsy morning but the letters are
wandering along the coast.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
An Obstinate Boatman.

Mr.. P. q. Tompkins has returned to
Yuma from the exploring expedition to
the mouth OF the Colorado, Guayamas
and other unknown and savage lands
and cities, contiguous to the coast OF
the Gulf of California. When Mr..
TomDkins was within twenty miles OF
Yuma on his return trip he met native
OF the country and offered him 500 to
row him up to Yuma. The native
thought this was too much and pro,
posed to make the trip for $40. After
considerable dickering the obstiuacy oil
the boatman prevailed and only SO was
accepted.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
A ROCKY TIME
Experienced by a Wild West
Show.
The Disaster Due to the Leaving OF
the Only and Original
Arizonlans.

The following telegram from Oakland
to the San Francisco Examiner an
nounces that Phoenix enterprise is
having rocky time there:
OAKLAND, CAL, Aug. Associated
Press. l-One undersized constable OF
Oakland was engaged for just five min
utes in routing the great Historical
Arizona Wild West Show. The con-
stable, single-handed, captured four
desperate and heavily armed cowboys,
United States marshal or two and a
band of unkempt and rather rough
looking Indians. All these, with the
addition of band of Indian ponies and
several tepees, were gathered in by
Constable Heating without force OF
arms either. Heating simply read an
official document and the camp sur
rendered without blow. The paper
ne read was writ of attachment which
had been issued in suit brought by j.
s. Reed of San Francisco against the
proprietors of the show to recover
S230.65 claimed to be due on assigned
claims. The suit, together with one
commenced in the superior court sew
eral days ago by one of the partners in
the venture to secure $500 from the
other, has resulted in the disbandiDg
OF the show.
Several first-class Indians were wan
dering around Oakland today looking
for jobs, and the cowboys are disconso-
late at having been compelled to give
up their arms"
This would never have happened if
our own Arizona Charley had remained
with the aggregation, OF if it had not
been deserted by Doc Goodwin, Bob
Lee and the other original Arizonians.
The failure is the result OF the at
tempt OF lot of California talent to fill
their places, SO that practically nothing
was left of the enterprise but the steers
bronchos and Pima Indians.
The combination should be enjoined
from using the name "the Historical
Arizona Wild West Show"
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
Ice! ICeI

The Phoenix Ice Factory will deliver
Ice In the old city limits at the follow
ing prices:
Fifteen pounds or less, cent per
pound.
Over twenty-five pounds, q cent per
pound.
Special rates on amounts exceeding
200 pounds.
Our ice is made from natural water
and the ice crystals while forming are
constantly exposed to stream of run
ming water, which effectualIy removes
all Impurities, the product being in
every respect the same as natural ice,
and we guarantee it to be equal in
purity, density, and keeping qualities
TO any natural or manufactured ice in
The world. S. d. LoUNT & Son.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
To The Worlds Fair.

The Santa Fe route will sell from
Deming and Ell Paso tickets to Chicago
and return for $3.50, to st. Louis and
return for $47.10, to Kansas City, At
Gibson, St. Joseph, Leavenworth and re-
turn for $4,000, limited for return to and
including November Is, 1898. Passen-
gers via the Santa Fe route make close
connections at Deming, are offered all
the conveniences known to modern
travel, quickest time, meals that cannot
be equalled, and are landed in the heart
Of Chicago, close to hotels, cable cars,
and elevated roads. Secure your Pull
man accommodations by writing to G. II.
Morehouse, q. F. & P. A., Ell Paso,
Texas
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
ey stand: actually upon the thresh.

they stand: actually upon the thresh.
old.
As for the rights of settlers being un.
safe in the hands of the present COM
pany the idea is preposterous. The in.
tegrity OF such men as Mesrs. ingalls,,
Carpenter and Coe, is unuuestioned.
1t is only by the most outrageous ras-
cslity on the part of these men, that
the future evictions can ensue. Earl
B. Coe has already spent over 100000
upon the land represented by the grant.
The company has, it is true, negotiated
for Sl50,0O0 more to be used for the
same purposes. The prices charged for
land OF which 5000 acres have been
sold, has been moderate. In no case
on its terms OF longest time, has over
$50 been charged and by far the greater
part has been sold at S25, the rate of in
terest being but per cent per annum.
A powerful effort will be made in the
next few days to prevent the appeal
which means so much to Yuma.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
journalistic Enterprise.

The St. Joseph, (Mo.,j Herald recent
ly issued a forty-two page edition on
the occasion of the celebration of the
fftieth anniversary of the founding of
the city. The issue of the paper Is a
comprehensive and condensed history
of the struggles and trumphs of the
foremost commercial city west of the
Mississippi. The enterprise of the
Herald in years to come will be blessed
by descendants Of those who read it
fresh from the press. Much local his
tory which would otherwise would have
been lose has thus been compiled for
all time.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
THE ALG0D0NES.
Why the Confirmation
Should Stand.
Approval of Jose JuSto
Milla'S Action
Nine Years After 1t was Taken
by the Treasurer General.
Thus Is Removed the Objection that
It was the Act OF State indie
pendent of the Government

No matter how improper or even base
the origin OF the Algodones land grant
the fact that after long and exhaus-
tive trial OF the case before a court con-
:sting Of five judges appointed for the
especial purpose of sitting upon the
land grant cases OF the southwest, it
was confirmed, is more powerful ar
gument in favor OF its validity than the
unin.elIigible yaporings to the contrary
Of lis enemies in Arizona. Many of the
latter are either settlers upon other so.
called grants in Arizona and through
ml.in0rmation fear that the conirma-
uOnoi this indicates the validity of all
the others or else are catering 20 a
popular sentiment of antagonism which
exists in Arizona to all land grants in
general.
Tie original Algodones grant of 1888
depends for its force upon the signature
dJ0Se Justo Milla, treasurer-general of
the state OF Sonora, whose authority for
issuance was a state law. Nearly
every other Arizona land grant was
issued by officers OF the state Of Sonora
by virtue of state laws and has nothing
Else to depend upon. The most i'm
Poriant question which the United
states land court will have to decide is
upon the right OF a separate Mexican
state to have issued grants independent
OIL The general government.
In the case OF the Algodones grant
even though the original document
may have been unauthorized, incom-
pIete, signed by an officer not in har-
mony with the general government or
what you will, it was nevertheless ia
IO47 approved by the Mexican govern
meat and its appreciation duly and
IIeegItlmately recorded. The judges OF
Inc land court have at the expense of
Inc claimants travelled into Mexico,
examined these records, found them
genuine and by a majority decision
nave decided that the fact of the ap.
PfOVal OF the government Of the act of
we state OF Sonora in making the grant
independent OF the genuineness OF the
original grant itself justified the con.
nrmation OF it.
-, The whole matter, it will be seen
w therefore, hinges upon a point Of law.
lhe proposal now Is to test this point
% % law in the supreme court OF the
IAIIed States, which is perhaps a
uClen years behind its docket.
The decision OF the land court is al
gWed to stand in this matter until the
-o'h OF tbs current month 1t will be for
ever settled. The standing OF other
grants OF the territory, many of which
are fraudulent grabs, and will, no
H toiO be repudiatei by the court. will
oe ia no wise affected, and the town
, ""u county OF Yuma may enter upon
VIE era OF prosperity, OF which today
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12

Citizens, study your health; good
health is happiness. Use Coronado
Natural Mineral Water at every oppor-
tunity. Physicians from all over the
country are recommending it to their
patients for positive relief in kidney
trouble and indigestion. For sale in
quart amp pint bottles by all reliable
druggists, grocers and wine merchants.
Orders can be left with l.. Melczer,
wholesale liquor dealer, agent.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
Only Right to Tell.

The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, the en-
inent English divine, writes:
"BEDFoRE PLACE, Russell SQUARE,l
LONDON, December 10, 1888. !
81 think it only right that / should
tell you of how much use | find ALI
cocks Porous Plasters in my family and
among those to whom | have recon-
mended them. | find them a very
breastplate against colds and coughs. "
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
The Courler'S Motor,

The Courier's 800 water motor is still high
and dry, notwithstanding the fact that the
country is flooded ard saturated with water
from the Sonora line to Utah. The motor is for
sale.-Courier.
The Courier has kept the inefiiciency
of this motor before the country for
something more than year. As the
Courier says, perhaps it's too high and
dry. The water company will do well
to buy that motor at any price.
Arizona republican., 1893-08-12
Walker g. Cant.

Real Estate, Insurance and Money
brokers. Houses to rent, and rents col
lected. Prompt attention given to all
business entrusted to US. Office No. IA
Wall street.