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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-28
wARMAN WILL PROVE NOTHING.
A Trip That Will Simply Be a Novelty In
No Sort of Test

NO sort OF Test.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2e.-Mr. Cy Warmau
left New York Tuesday on the engine of
the New York Central Exposition Flyer
for Chicago. There has been much printed
regarding the strain on the nerves and
physical powers of engineers of the Nett
York Central's fast trains, notably the
Empire state exposition and the Exposf.
tion Flyer, which run long distances at 4
rate Of sixty miles an hour-and Mr.. WAf-
man has undertaken to demonstrate to tbe
contrary by travelling the entire distance
1000 miles, in the cab of a locomotive, so6
ject-as nearly as possible-to the same
conditions as fall to the lot of the engineer.
If he alights in Chicago in good share
physically, after covering the run Of tx
engineers, who relieve each other at statAd
intervals along the route, the fact should
be accepted as a complete refutation Of tfA
reports referred to.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-28
rcoresson the Diamond.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2s.-Following are the
League scores at base ball: At Louisville
Boston z, Louisville q; at Pittsburg-
Philadelphia 6, Pittsburg II; at Chicago
New York 2, Chicago making three
straight; at Cleveland = Washington Z,
Cleveland 8.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-28
Epidemic of Diphtheria.

BAY CITY, Mich, Sept 2s.-Diphtheria is
said to be becoming epidemic in this city.
The boards of health and education have
decided to close the Farragut school.
Ten cases have been reported from that
school since Friday
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-28
The Local Markets.

The market has been pretty lively all week,
Oats have gone up, also upland hay. Apples
have dropped and are coming in in good quanti-
ties. We quote:
GRAIN, ETC.
WheaI-74IT6e.
Corn-400s2c.
New oats 27GS0c.
Hay-Timothy. S. S.00GS900; upland. seas1o:
slougf &c. 0oGS7 90; baled. S10.0OG9 90.
PRODUCE.
Butter.Fair TO choice, 96t @2sc; creamery, SOC.
Eggs-Fresh, 1Sc.
Poultry-Chickens, 1Sc; turkeys Is1s; ducks
12nc; geese, 10c.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
Apples-s3 0OdS50Oper Dbl.
Potatoes-60c065c.
Onions-60c per bu.
Turnips-40c per bu.
LIVE sTocK,
Cattle-Butchers pay for corn fed steers
494hc; COWS and neifeIs, 2hG5Lc calves
4G5c.
Hogs-5Sc.
Sheep-5c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-09-28
Re.,enatlon Called For

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s.-Secretury Car
Isle has called for the resignation of j. r.
Garrison, deputy frst-comptroller of the
treasury. Garrison has been more than
twenty years in the treasury department..
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08
Professor XYells, Opinion.

Although the cause of commercial free
dom in the United States was greatly
advanced by the return of Mr.. Cleve-
land to the presidency, with a majority
in both houses Of congress (for the first
time in many years. pledged to radical
but intelligent tariff reform, it would
be great mistake to suppose that the
contest on behalf of this great principle
of human liberty had been fully won,
and that its friends can afford to relax
anything Of effort in its behalf.
In truth, the battle has only Just be-
gun. Nothing is more certain than that
a reconstruction of the existing (McKin-
ley tariff is not to be unattended with
difficulties. There is nothing that fights
more strenuously against any interfer-
ence than privilege, especially privilege
created and maintained by perversion
of the taxing power by government, and
it is also certain that every device which
unlimited money and fertility of re-
source can put into action will be used
in the next congress to prevent the will
of the people as expressed in the last
national election from taking shape in
tariff reconstruction. There are more
than so corporations and trusts in the
United States to whom the expenditure
of 81 100000 each would be a matter of
small Importance, provided all tariff leg
islation during the next 10 months can
be prevented.
The Bulletin of the American Iron
and Steel association, the money organ
of the extreme American -protectionists,
has already declared the protectionist
policy to be to fight tooth and nail for
"every line and syllable of present tariff
legislation" and it further asserts "that
it is by no means certain that the new
congress cannot be induced to let the
protective features Of the Mckinley tar
iff remain without material impairment.
Does any one doubt that The Bulletin
knows what it is talking about BY an
evident preconcerted programme it will
be also further noticed that all the pro-
lection journals throughout the country
have begun to play the old trick of
"bugaboo" or "scare" on the masses of
our people by bowling continuously
about the certain impending desolation
that is sure to come to American indus
tries if any reduction is made in the
present excessive and monstrous rates of
duties on imports.-David A. Wells in
American Industries.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08
Mckinley Overlooked Gas.

Mr.. Mckinley strangely overlooked
one article when he framed his tariff.
Natural gas is imported largely into Buf-
falo from Canada. 1t enters by means
of pipes 1t is not accompanied by any
invoice or consular certificate. The Gus
toms officials do not weigh or measure
or appraise it. Our own natural gas
men object to the pauper gas of Canada
and insist that it ought to be taxed at
least as much as the difference in wages
between the well borers of the two coun-
tries.
AT last accounts the question had been
formally referred to the board of gen
eral appraisers to determine whether it
is dutiable, and if so at what rate.
There is q proviso in the tariff law
which says that every article not emu
merated shall pay the rate of duty of the
enumerated article which it most nearly
resembles in material, quality, texture,
or the use to which it may be applied.
Natural gas most nearly resembles arti-
fetal gas, but it happens that the latter
Is not mentioned in the tariff. There is
no gas in the Mckinley tariff except
laughing gas. There have been a great
many decisions under the similitude
clause of the tariff law, but nearly all of
them have been based upon some man
ufacturing process to which the article
has been subjected.
Of course all these decisions are worth
less, because natural gas is never manu-
factured. The rule of construction laid
down by the supreme court in the case
of Arthur versus Fox is that if the ar
ticle bears no similitude to any enumer-
ated article resort must be had to the
materials of which it is composed. What
is natural gas composed off Carbon and
hydrogen mostly. But these are also
unenumerated articles. So we find our
selves travelling in circle, and all be-
cause Mr.. Mckinley did not put some
gas into his tariff bill instead of expend-
ing it all in the congressional debates
New York Evening Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08
FREELAND, PA, JUNE s, 1898.
Still Talking for the Truth.

The New York Reform Club, which did
such great work in the recent presiden-
tial campaign, has its orators out through
the country yet. One of these is our
former townsman, VIM. B. Estell, and
that he is talking sound common sense
as he always does, is proven by the fol-
lowing from the Boston Globe:
Much interest has been manifested in
the series of talks on the tariff which
Hon. VIM. B. Estell, of the New York
Reform Club, is giving in New Hamp-
shire. There is no politics in these ad-
dresses, except the politics of common
sense, and it is small wonder that Mr..
Estelle's clear and cogent presentation
of facts regarding tariff and taxation
should find attentive hearers. 1t is in
one way an advantage that so important
a topic should be thus carefully present.
ed at a time when the excitement of
party contests is wanting, and no ap-
peals are made to prejudice against
listening to the claims of common sense
and justice.
In the Berlin, N. H., Iadependent, we
find another notice which bears testi-
mony to the above. 1t says:
The lecture on tariff reform at Whit
ney opera house Monday evening by
Mr.. w. B. Estell, of New York, was
attended by an audience of $50 men.
Mr.. Estell is pleasing speaker, and
held his audience better than one would
naturally expect, for the subject is not
one of interest to everybody. Tariff re-
form is generally regarded as Demo-
cratic doctrine, but Mr.. Estell does not
address his audience in the spirit of
campaign orator, but as one who prefers
to reason rather than to bluff, and COM
mon sense takes precedence over politi-
cal prejudice. We hope to again have
the pleasure of listening to Mr.. Estell on
the subject of the tariff
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08
Protection and the Worlds Fair.

A visit to the Columbian exposition
will present a valuable object lesson to
every student of the protective tariff,
otherwise called the American system" i"
AS the visitor passes through the great
Mining building, where the states and
nations of the earth have displayed in a
myriad of forms the various minerals
found within their respective borders,
his progress is arrested, and he stands in
silent wonder before the grand exhibits
of England, Germany and other foreign
countries. Space would fail us to emu
merate the thousand wonderful forms in
which the manufacturers of other realms
have displayed, with all the variety and
beauty that inventive genius and skilled
hands can create, the manufactured
forms of their native minerals.
He looks about him and asks, "Where
is the exhibit of Carnegie and the other
iron manufacturers whom this country
has made millionaires by protecting
them against the competition of these
foreigners" He looks and inquiries in
vain. The men whom this country has
shut out by class legislation have evil
IDENTIFY been actuated neither by motives
of gratitude to the foster country which
has helped them to make their vast for
tunes nor by pride to see our own coun-
try unsurpassed in this greatest of inter
national contests.
America for Americans" seems to be
an empty shibboleth to catch votes. No
patriotic sentiment lies behind it-only
inordinate greed to amass fortunes by
the help of government and the expense
of the people. No true American can
pass through the Mining building with
out feelings of humiliation and indip-
nant shame. We ourselves have heard
Republicans who have always voted to
sustain the system that has made mil
honaires of the Carnegies curse those
very Carnegies and the mockery of the
protective tariff and mingle with their
expressions of wounded pride denuncia-
tions of their own stupidity in helping
to bring about this very condition. n.-Oak-
land County Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

tunity, such as the only available route
to or between certain mines, deposits or
cities, and the privilege of exclusive
ownership of mines, deposits, water
ways and other Of natures bounties. So
long as one corporation or individual is
permitted to own and have the exclusive
use and benefit of the only anthracite
coalbeds in this country the price of
"hard" coal will be as high as the trust
can make it, of course limited to the ex-
tent that too high price would freeze
out customers and reduce profits.
The duty of rs cents per ton on btu
minous coal helps the Anthracite Coal
trust to sustain prices where there would
be real competition from foreign coal,
but the backbone of this trust-and it is
still strong-will not be broken until the
right to monopolize natures bounties is
abolished 1t is probable that this could
be most easily accomplished by taxing
the owners Of these natural opportunities
as much as they could get if they should
hire ont or sell the use of such privi-
leges. If the owners of the coalbeds,
the petroleum fields or the borax depos-
its had to pay in taxes all that these priv
ileges yield them above fair profits, these
monopolies would at once kick up their
heels and expire. The Reading company
could not then afford to pay millions of
dollars a year interest on mortgages on
coal lands which were bought and held
idle simply to obtain monopoly. Nor
could F. M. Smith afford to buy up and
hold idle all of the borax deposits in Ne
vada, Utah and Oregon. The Standard
Oil trust would never have existed to
make dozens of multimilionaires.
1t is special legislation which restricts
trusts and competition and laws that give
special privileges to those who by fair
or foul means get control of natures
storehouse that have made trusts possi-
bic. If the trust convention sits these
matters to the bottom, it will recommend
the abrogation of all such laws and priv
ileges.-Byron w. Holt.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08
"Tales From Town Topics"

The most reading matter, the most
varied in character, and the best and
brightest in quality of any weekly jour
nal will be found in T0wn Topics, the
world-famed so-called society journal of
New York. Wesay "so-called" because,
while it contains vast amount of news
of the doings of swell society throughout
North America, it also includes so many
other features of interest to the general
reader, comprising wonderfully bright,
short stories, serials by the greatest
authors; the most pungent witticisms,
brilliant burlesques, sketches and poetry,
and finally the most elaborate financial
news department, that it might more
properly be called a "journal for every
body" Each number is veritable
library, large enough to occupy the
leisure hours of the week.
From the same office is published a
literary quarterly, "Tales from Town
Topics" 256 pages in each number of
which is given an original story, obtain
ed by competition under an offer of a
thousand dollar prize, and occupying
about half the book, the balance of the
volume being made up of short stories,
ETC., from the numbers of Tom Topics
of years back. Both these publications,
clubbed, are sent for one year for $500.
Town Topics, 81 West 23d Street, New
York.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

NHARTER NOTICE.-Notice is hereby given
~ that an application will be made to the
governor of the state of Pennsylvania on Mon
day, the nineteenth day of June, A. ID. 1893, by
Eckley b. Coke, Alexander B. Coke, Eckley b..
Coke, Jr., Henry B. Coke and Il. b. Ely, under
the act of assembly of the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, entitled IAN act to provide for
the incorporation and regulation of certain
corporations approved April 20, 1874, and the
supplements thereto, for the charter of an in
tended corporation to be called 1.-THE Beaver
Meadow Water Company
The character and object whereof is the
supply of water to the public at the township
of Banks, in the county of Carbon, and to such
persons, partnerships and corporations residing
therein and adjacent thereto as may desire the
same, and for these purposes to have, possess
and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges
of the said act of assembly and its supplements.
5. p. Wolverton, Solicitor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08
Opposite Central Hotel, Freeland, Pa.


A PPLlCATION for annexation to the bor-
~ ough of observation-disclosures is hereby given
that an application will be made to the court
of quarter sessions of Lllzerne county, on July
l, a. d., l&Ej, and to the grand jury of said
county, which meets on September o, 1888, by a
number of the owners and residents of adjOin-
ing;property for the annexation OF certain lots,
outlots, etc, to the borough of Ffeeland, now
situated in the township of Foster, described
as follows:
lst All that portion of the Woodsde addition
bounded by the alley east of Adams street on
the east; the right of way of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company on the south the alley west
of Ridge street, and part of the alley west of
Centre street, on the west, and by the southern
boundary of the borough of Freeland on the
north
End. All that tract of land known as "The
Park, situated east of the borough of Free
land
Bird. III that portion of Burton's Hill bound
cd north by lands of the Aaron Howey estate;
east by the borough of Freeland; south by
lands of the Cross Creek Coal Company, and
west by land of Tench Coke estate.
John d. Hayes, Solicitor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

OHARTER NOTICE.-Notice is hereby given
" that an application will he made to the
governor of the state of Pennsylvania on Mon
Eckley B. Coke, Alexander b. Coke, Eckley Is.
Coke, Jr., Henry b. Coke and Il. b. Ely, under
the act of assembly OF the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, entitled ian act to provide for
the Incorporation and regulation of certain
corporations" approved April 20, 1874, and the
supplements thereto, for the charter of an in
tended corporation to be called "The Oneida
Water Company"
The character and object whereof is the
supply of water TO the public at the townships
of Schuylkill, and to such persons, partner
ships and corporations residing therein and
adjacent thereto us may desire the same, and
all the rights, benefits and privileges of the
said act OF assembly and its supplements.
s. p. Wolyerton, Solicitor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

1t may be, 1t certainly will be, of in
terest to students everywhere to know
about law that has just been passed
by the Ohio legislature. The said law
makes hazing at school or elsewhere
misdemeanor punishable by fine and i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. The
amount of the fine is from S100 to $500
and the term of imprisonment from six
months to two years. Branding or tat
tooing by nitrate of silver or other means
gets dose of penitentiary too. Now
the young ladies and gentlemen OF Ohio
may look out Every state in this Union
ought to have just that kind of law.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

The Philadelphia Public Ledger prints
n tabplated statement of the national
debt from 1866 to 1892. July /, 1865, the
debt was s., 9,sO7, ,2s8, ,o37.55. July /, 1892,
it had been reduced to $931, ,34o. The
united fortunes of dozen of our richest
millionaires could wipe the whole sum
out. The Ledger remarks: "This extraor-
dinary extinguishment Of the govern
ment's obligations shows something Of
the wonderful resources of the country
and the folly Of the talk of national
bankruptcy"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

( GHARTER NOTICE.-Notice is hereby given
~ that an application will be made to the
governor of the state of Pennsylvania on Mon
day, the nineteenth day of June, A. ID. 1888, by
Eckley B. Coke, Alexander b. Coke, Eckley b.
Coke, Jr., Henry Is. Coke and Il. I5. Ely, under
the act of assembly of the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, entitled IAN act to provide for
the incorporation and regulation of certain
supplements thereto, for the charter of an in-
tended corporation to be called "rhe Drifton
Water Company"
The character and object whereof is the
supply of water to the public at the townships
of Halle and Foster, in the county of Luzerne,
ana to such persons, partnerships and corpora
tons residing therein and adjacent thereto as
may desire the same, and for these purposes to
have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits
and privileges of the said act of assembly and
Its supplements. s. p. Wolverton, Solicitor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

GHARTER NOTlCE.-Notice is hereby given
~ that un application will be made to the
governor of the state OF Pennsy ylvania on Mon
day, the nineteenth day of June, A. ID. 1888, by
Eckley B. Coke, Alexander B. Coxe Eckley B.
Coke, Jr., Henry b. Coke and Il. b. Ely. under
the act of assembly of the commonwealth of
pennsylvania, entitled IAN act to provide for
the incorporation and regulation of certain
corporations, approved April 20, 1874, and the
supplements thereto, for the charter of an in
tended corporation to be called "The Coke Iron
Manufacturing Company"
The character and object whereof is the
manufacture of iron or steel, or both or of any
other metal, or of any article of commerce.
from metal or wood or both, and for these pIr
poses to have, possess and enjoy all the rights.
benefits and privileges of the said net OF assem-
bly, and its supplements.
S. 7. Wolverton Solicitor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

This Is to be remembered about our
gold export, The more millions of it we
send to Europe the more plentiful will it
become there and the less the demand
will be for it. When Europe has enough,
more will be glut, consequently there
will cease to be an export demand hero.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

QUARTER NOT1CE.-Notice is hereby given
~ that an application will be made to the
governor of the state of Pennsylvania on Mon
day, the nineteenth day of June, A. ID. 1893, by
Eckley Is. Coke, Alexander b. Coke, Eckley b.
Coke, Jr, Henry B. Coke and Il. Is. Ely, under
the act of assembly of the commonwealth of
Pennnsylvania, entitled IAN act TO provide for
the incorporation and regulation of certain
corporations,n approved April 20, 1874, and the
supplements thereto, for the charter of an in
tended corporation to be called "The Tom
hicken Water COmpany."
The character and object whereof Is the
supply of water to the public at the township
OF Blackereek, in the county ofLuzerne, and to
such persons, partnerships and corporations
residing therein and adjacent thereto as may
desire the same, and Tor these purposes TO
have, possess and enjoy all the rights benefits
ana privileges OF the said act of assembly and
lts supplements. 5. z. WOlvertOn, Solicitor
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08

4 GHARTER NOTICE.-Notice is hereby given
~ that an application will be made to the
governor OF the state OF Pennsylvania on Mon
DAY, the nineteenth day of June, A. D. 1893, >by
Eckley Is. Coke, Alexander B. Coke, Eckley h.
1oXe' Jr., Henry B. Coke and Il. B. Ely under
the act OF assembly of the commonwealth of
rennsylvania, entitled IAN act to provide for
thc incorporation and regulation of certain
supplements thereto, for the charter Of an in
Tended corporation to be called Coke Brothers
and Company, Incorporated"
Ihe charter and object whereof is the mining.
preparing, shipping and selling of coal, and for
these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all
the rights, benefits and privileges of the said
actor assembly and its supplements.
S. p. Wolverton, Solicitor.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-06-08
WASHlNGTONe LETTER.
Washington, D. c., June

Washington, D. c., June 6.
Secretary Carlisle has MADE it rule
to see everybody that called on him at
his office until last week, when after
much deliberation he came to the con-
clusion that his promiscuous callers were
taking up so much of the time that
should be devoted to weighter matters
that it was his duty to follow the presi-
dents example and deny himself to
general callers, and an announcement to
that effect was made. 1t is easy enough
to see Secretary Carlisle if your business
is OF public nature, but otherwise you
cannot. Theoretically it seems hard on
some of his callers, but practically there
was no other course left for him to take.
In the present state of the country the
official duties Of the secretary of the
treasury are of the highest Importance,
more depending directly upon him than
upon any other member of the cabinet,
and John Griffin Carlisle has never
shirked or neglected his duty, although
he has often found it, as he probably
does in this case, more or less painful to
perform.