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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
MURPHY OPENS HEADQUARTERS.
A Conference Between Tammany Leaders
and Senator Bill.

and Senator Bill.
ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 2-The work
preliminary to the organization of the
legislature was enlivened this afternoon
by the arrival Of the New York and Kings
county members. Judge Grifiths and
Others, friends of Edward Murphy, Jr.,
opened headquarters at the Delavan
house. The secretaries OF several Demo-
cratic county committees came in with
resolutions endorsing Murphy Richard
Croker called upon Senator Hill this af-
ternoon; Edward Murphy. Jr., and Lieu
tenant Governor Sheehan was there too.
Hill and Croker went to New York later,
the former enroute to Washington. None
Of the leaders viii talk for publication.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
BIG PRICE FOR A COLT.
a Full Brother to yo Tambien Sold f,
$4,000.

S45, 900.
NEW YORK, Jan. "a special from
Lexington, KY. says the Kendall stables
have secured from the California breeder,
Theodore Winters, refusal of the suck
ling stud colt, a full brother to the flying
FLY Yo Tambien, with reputed price of
S45, GOO. The transfer to take place in the
colts yearling form. The sum named is
not only greater than yearling has yet
sold for in America, but as well tops the
worlds best record. The colt is said to
be an exact counterpart to his sensational
sister
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
California.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 2.-The Cali
fornia legislature organizes tomorrow.
Owing to number OF contests the com
pleyion of the state legislature on Joint
ballot is still in doubt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
Speaker Crisp III.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Speaker Crisp's
physician said this morning that the
speaker IS case was simply indigestion and
nothing at all serious.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
Bic Fire at wheeIing.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 2.-The Caldwell
& Patterson Corrugating works of Wheel
ing, W. Va, burned this morning Loss,
100000 insurance, $4,000.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
The sawyer VIII case.

SALEM, Mass, Jan. 2.-The jury in the
Sawyer will case returned late this after
noon with verdict sustaining the will.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
AFTER FORTY YEARS.

An Old Couple Seeking Separation in the
Courts.
DENVER, Jan. ?. = Especial Henry
Hester. rs years old, has been sued for
divorce by his wife, who is over 20, upon
the grounds OF cruelty and deserving her
company for young lady of is years.
The couple were married forty years ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
cALIFoRN1A AT WORK.
The Fight for the Senatorship Is Now on
The Candidates.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.-The California
legislature assemblies tomorrow in bi-en-
NAL session. The legisture is composed
of fifty-nine Democrats, fifty-three Re-
publicans and eight Populists. The chief
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-03
TAsCOTT NOT THE MAN.

He Did Not Murder Smell but Acts as a
Scapegoat for the Murderer.
CHICAGO, Jan. IA morning paper
has an interview with Detective Dyer who
probably knows more than anybody else
in regard to the murder of A. j. Smell, a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05

intelligent body of ladies' and gentlemen.
and their deliberations plainly showed that
they had at heart the best interests of the
schools in their several towns. The morn
ing session was called to order by Rev. /.
+. Booth, who was unanimously elected
permanent chairman, with Frank N. Smith
OF waterbury secretary. State Superinten-
dent OF Education M, s. Stone was present
ana addressed the company at some length,
giving those present some valuable sugges-
tons in regard to what was expected Of
them, and his Interpretation of the new
law in many of its prominent and perhaps
obscure features. A general discussion fol-
lowed which lasted the entire day. Gen. j d.
n Lucia, Hon. w. p. Dillingham; and G. Il.
CIough were frequently interrogated as to
their understanding of different phases of
the law their answers making clear several
Vexed questions. The question as to what
snail be done with the public money for the
past year was one Of the most important
matters discussed, and both Superintendent
Stone and the legal gentlemen present were
OF one mind in regard to it, namely, that it
belonged to the towns and school districts
to do with il as they see fit. The conven-
ton expressed itself unanimously in favor
oil free textbooks, Notwithstanding the bill
providing free textbooks was tabled in the
senate during its closing hours. The meet
ing adjourned at four o'clock subject to the
call of the chairman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05

government prosecuted the work that
the rather important fact has hardly
attracted notice. II is route 500
miles shorter TO San Francisco than via
the isthmus of Panama, but it will have
powerful competition to overcome not
withstanding.
WHAT HE Cor" Hello, Colonel,
just back from Washington" Goa,
yes" ibid you get an Officer" 4" No,
not exactly" Didn't you get any.
thing at alp" "That's what | got
drunk seven times, got fined twice in
the police court, and got strapped Pm
en- route home in a side-door sleeper -
"What's tbat?" "A box car. pat.
ldnta Constitution.
THE Sun calls upon the democratic
party to live up TO it's pledges and stand
by its platform. That is what the
people desire. 1t was not victory
of men, it was the substitution of prin.
cipes as declared in the Chicago CON
ventlon, aud the nation will hold the
democratic party responsible for the
stewardship of Grover Cleveland Hy-
pocrisy and humbug on the part of the
prest mt administration will seal the fate
of the democratic party four years
hence. This is the trial of democrats,
and judgment of the people will fol-
low.-AddmS Freeman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
OFF the Track.

1t argues of defeat and despair when
an opponent abandons the straight line
of discussion to dig hole for his ad-
versary and seeks to chuck him into
the excavation. We regret to find, in
the last issue of the Ne,US and Citizen,
our much-respectedand highly-esteemed
friend at Hyde Park, H. M. Mcfarland,
Esq, enlisting in this forlorn hope and
exhibiting this sign of weakness in
what purports to be a reply to the
WATCHMAN's article of three weeks
ago on the co-insurance question. Mr..
McFarland's two weeks of deliberation,
in really good cause, would have
ended in wiser action. He uses twenty
six inches of newspaper space and
rather hysterical rhetoric in an at
tempt-not to unfold the merits of CO.
insurance and dissipate strong popu-
lar opposition-but to show that his
failure, in the WATCHMAN's recent
series of articles on the subject, to
"catch On" to what every person
clearly comprehended, was due to the
crudeness" of the EDITORS under
standing of " the theory and practice
of reinsurance" People with prop
erty to insure can have very little in
terest in question of that kind, but
they do feel an absorbing interest in
this co-insurance matter; and if Mr..
Mcfarland has any new light on the
subject, he should let it shine, not hide
it under bushel of trivial considera-
tons. " More light" is the cry.
In closing a column and half ar
ticle desultory shot or two is fired to
cover retreat from the field. Here
is the last gun:
Apparently the only thing that would
be entirely pleasing to the Waterman and
would redeem reinsurance in its opinion
from the shades of gross injustice, fraud
and outright robbery, is that the companies
issue their policies with a provision in
corporated therein, allowing the insured to
amend his policy on payment of the stipu-
i"VOH "u'ahCo III Iftoj SnOulu he Hnu IN case
of loss that he had not maintained the guar.
anteed per cent of insurance, and have his
loss adjusted under " the old methods"
This is rather querulous. 1t tends
to show that the writer is irrtated, that
he is not moved by a spirit of candor.
Has not the WATERMAN said, and en-
phasized its declaration by frequent
repetition, that " the thing that would
be pleasing to it would be a policy
written with straight rate, one that
shall be clear, simple and definite, not
the vague and crafty thing this co.
insurance clause is? We repeat: In
the matter of insurance against loss by
fire, the insured demands certainty and
definiteness. With him it is less a
question of the size of the rate than
of assurance that if his property is
damaged or destroyed by fire, partially
or wholly, the protection written in his
policy and for which he has paid his
money shall be Forthcoming.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
Dartmouth College Notes.

THE large and valuable collection of fos-
sis, geological specimens, etc, which the
late Ralph Butterfeld bequeathed has
reached Hanover. 1t will be kept in the
museum in Culver hall until the Butterfield
building, provided for in the WILL is com.
pleted
THE third annual indoor athletic meet
was held in the gymnasium Saturday after
noon, March %. The entries were numerous
and the events well contested. The college
record in the high kick was broken 10y
Chase, '96, he making eight feet, seven and
one-half inches.
LAST Thursday evening the members of
the Press Club listened to practical talk
on journalistic work by George III. Moses,
80, OF the editorial staff of the Concord Eyen-
ing Monitor. The speaker dwelt especially
upon the duties of the newspaper CORE
spondent, fact which made his address of
unusual interest and value to the mem bers
of the club.
THE annual concert of the college Glee
and Banjo Clubs has always been regarded
as one of the most agreeable breaks in the
monotony of Hanover's winter life. This
season the remarkable success achieved by
the clubs on their extended trip awakened
unusual interest, and the result was a large
and brilliant audience in Bissell Hall on the
evening of the 23d.
THE first annual banquet of the Dart
mouth Press Club was held on the evening
OF March 10, at the Wheelock hotel. Thirty
eight members of the club with Prof. G. f.
Richardson, the guest of the evening, sat at
the tables and enjoyed the fine supper and
the toasts which followed. The banquet
was in every way a success, and is doubt
less the precursor of long series of similar
meetings.
The production of 1.-THE Rivals" by the
Dartmouth Dramatic Club was a great sue
cess. Better selections for the different
characters could hardly have been made.
Each seemed peculiarly adapted to his part,
several OF the actors showing skill equal to
that of professionals. Both from a financial
and artistic point of view, the boys have
done we'll, and, if they appear in some of the
larger Vermont towns, as is probable, they
deserve warm reception.
THE old college begins already to feel
the activity Of the new regime. The trus-
tees assure us that, in addition to the three
new instructors already elected, chairs in his.
tory and sociology will be established next
year. Next week President Tucker and a
New York architect will examine the
grounds and bulldogs with view to
needed changes and definite plan for the
erection of new halls. 1t is understood
that President Tucker favors the erection
of future college buildings around the old
campus which, after the removal OF athletic
sports to the new field, will be made into
beautiful park.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
Americas Seals.

The cases and counter cases of the
United States and Great Britain. unde,
the treaty to arbitrate the Behring Sea
difficulties between the two nations.
have been made public by their stimuli
taneous submission to the senate of the
United States and the parliament of
Great Britain. The cases are COM
prised in fourteen volumes of printed
matter about equally divided in bulk
between the two nations. Two of the
six volumes which contain the United
States case are portfolios of maps and
photographs of seal rookeries.
Briefly summarized, the claims made
by the United States are as follows:
That Russia claimed and exercised up
to the time when she ceded Alaska to
the United States the exclusive right
to the seal fisheries of Behring Sea,
and resisted by force the invasion of
that right; that Great Britain, having
never resisted or objected to Russia's
exercise of exclusive rights, is to be
deemed as having recognized them;
that Behring Sea was not included in
the phrase "Pacific Ocean" in the
treaty of 1925 between Russia and
Great Britain, and that after that treaty,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
SAD DRO WNING fCCTDENT.
Robbie Best Drowned in the winooski
Tuesday Afternoon-The Body not ye
Recovered.

Robbie Best Drowned in the winoosISi
Tuesday Afternoon-The Body not yet
Recovered.
AN accident that cut short bright young
life and plunged a family and community
IN mourning occurred at about half-past
three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Robbie
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A.. Best, was
playing with the young son of John Daley
at Gleason's wharf, just back of the River
side: He attempted to go out on thin ice to
reach a stone about seven feet from the
bank, when the ice gave way and he was
dropped into the swift current. He at
tempted to save himself by catching hold of
the ice, but it broke under his touch and he
was swept under the ice, which reaches
nearly across the river at this point. The
Daley boy ran for help, but no trace of the
drowned boy could be seen when assistance
arrived. His cap was picked out of the
river several rods below. Searching parties
were at once organized, but the thick ice
with which they had to contend and the
swift current under it made the location of
the body very uncertain. Up to late hour
last night it had not been recovered. Rob
bic was a universal favorite in town. and the
hearts of the whole community go out to
the stricken parents in their grief, which
is too deep for words to express. Everything
possible will be done to recover the body.
but what these plans will be cannot be
stated at this writing In the absence of
j. w. Brock, first seectman, Street Com
missioner Roberts acted promptly in the
matter, and gang of men was put on last
night after dark to thoroughly drag the
river III the vicinity of the scene of the ac-
Cident
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05

the taxpayers of school district but to
the entire body of the people-and the
town is the unit of it's proper division
and the schools of the town are its
rightful benefciaries.
In respect of this matter of the
proper distribution of the district sur
plus there are, as usual, many men of
many minds" District officers, who
are the custodians of this money, have
somewhat responsible stewardship
Trustworthy legal opinion is, in effect,
that the courts might not overthrow an
honest attempt to distribute this sur
plus to the taxpayers or to use il for
the purchase of school apparatus, or
school Libraries, or to apply it to the
Improvement of school buildings, or to
other similar purposes; but sound legal
advice to district officials in this di-
lemma is TO keep the surplus intact till
the legislature shall say what shall be
done with it, and shall give them I'M
questioned legal authority in the mat
ter. BY acting upon this safe counsel,
district officers may avoid litigation, or
shun all opportunity for litigation.
We note with pleasure that some
patriotic taxpayers to whom district
treasurers have made dividends of sur
plus funds have returned their share to
the town treasurer to be used for school
purposes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
A Troublesome SurnIus.

The existence of surplus and what
to do with it seems to be, in the case OF
the school districts of the state under
the new school law, question quite as
embarrassing as that which once arose
in national politics respecting an excess
OF funds in the general treasury. What
the law is which the legislature enacts
for the administration of school affairs,
seems to be matter of eternal dispute
and uncertainty. Two years ago the
supreme court was called upon to exer-
else legislative functions in order to
rescue the schools from the chaotic con-
dition in which the legislature of 1890
plunged them. The situation at this
time is far less serious, but the gaps
the legislature of 1892 left in its lines of
school enactment begin to yawn as the
school officials approach the perform
ance of their duties.
Many districts after settling their ac-
o. counts find themselves burdened with
surplus of funds, and the question
with the district officials is what to do
with their unused money. In some
cases this surplus is the accumulation of
years-probably of years in which every
cent OF the annual income should have
been expended for school purposes, for
better teachers, for improvements upon
school houses, or for maps, charts,
globes, etc. In other cases this surplus
will arise from the division of the nub-
lie money which will be made this year.
In the thrifty system of financiering
under the district system, some dis
trlcts not only "supported their
"schools" upon the public money.
without recourse TO direct taxation. but
actually paid dividends therefrom.
Others curtaied direct taxation by as
much as the money divided from the
public treasury or private legacy re-
heved them from the direct burdens of
supporting schools. Few were the
cases in which school districts con.
formed to the letter and spirit of the
laws and legacies devoting money 10
the better and more liberal public in
struction of children.
In round numbers, according to the
statistics of the subject, the cost of sup
porting the public schools was. for 1892.
about $735 900, and the smaller part Of
this sum was paid by the districts.
Now, under all the circumstances of the
case, if there is surplus in any dis
trict treasury, to whom does it right
fully belong? If the spirit of the law
the income from the United
States surplus and the Huntington
fund and the state school tax among
the districts had been regarded, no dis
trict could have accumulated surplus.
If the spirit of the law is regarded, the
distribution of the public school money
which the selectmen will make this
year under the old law, and which will
in many districts constitute their sur
plus, or the bulk of it, belongs not to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
Note and Comment.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS is negotiating
FOR the purchase of an estate in the
Maryland county where he was born a
slave seventy-siX years ago, with view
to spending his declining years there.
ANOTHER proof of the prosperity of
the country under the Cleveland adj
ministration: The factory which sup
pies Maxwell with axes is running day
and night and can't keep up with his
orders.-Ne,o York Tribune.
IT isn't the democrat who blows the
dust off his label to show the age of his
politics that gets nearest to the trough.
Political spavins are not accepted at the
value set upon them by their owners.
and there is where the hard feeling
begins.-Pioneer Press.
The Tehuantepec railroad, from the
gulf to the Pacific, is nearing compile
ton, and so quietly has the Mexican
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05

AN American sailor named Louis Para
dyce, lately arrived at San Francisco from
China, tells story of horrible treatment in
the prisons of Siberia. He, with another
sailor, named Wilson, was stranded on the
coast of Kamschatka, and, while travelling
inland In quest OF provisions, came to n
camp OF Russian soldiers. They We're ac-
cused OF being spies and sent to a convict
station. Paradyce tells of horrible cruelty
inflicted on the prisoners there. Although
Wilson and himself were roughly treated.
they were not logged as other prisoners
were. There were about 5000 convicts at
the station, and every Wednesday those
who had disobeyed the rules during The
week We're given fifty ashes with the
knout. A woman, about TO become a mother.
was knouted, and three hours later gave
birth to dead child. or 5000 convicts in
camp l,SoO wore ball and chain. Many
men were too feeble to walk and were
dragged along by their companions. Sol.
diers would prod them with bayonets to
make them move more quickly. The con-
victs were fed with black bread and raw
SAT- meat. They were finally rescued by
the officers of the United States ship Marion
and taken to China.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
The Bradley Fertilizers.
How They Grow Corn and Potatoes
Mountain View Farm,

How They Grow Corn and Potatoes Mt
Mountain View Farm
MIR. Reuben Bates writes us as follows
from Waitstield, VT: We used Bradlev,s
phosphate last spring on our corn, applying
1t with the Billings Corn Planter. The field
was ploughed the previous fall, and about
thirty loads OF barnyard manure applied
broadcast in the winter. When the land
was sufficiently dry in the spring. IL was
well pulverized with a disk harrow, and the
manure thoroughly mixed with the surface
SOIL. Inc corn planter applied about 175
POUNDS OF phosphate per acre. The field
was cultivated with horse hoe and cultiva
tor, no hand-hoeing being done. The crop
matured well, was ripe and sound, and
yielded 100 bushels of ears per acre
My potato field was prepared in all re-
spects the same as that for corn, and marked
in drills three feet apart. The seed and
Bradley's manure were dropped by hand
400 pounds of the latter used per acre, The
cultivation was all done by the horse hoe.
The crop yielded 300 bushels per acre.
II lind that it pays better to use good re.
liable phosphate that is rich in all the ele-
ments OF plant-food than it does to use one
which is deficient in any of them. have
also used Bradley's phosphate in RAISING
peas, beans, and garden crops, with good
results"
FERTILIZER FARMING
The question is often raised, docs it nav
to use fertilizer for seeding DOWN." We
are glad to receive testimony on this ques-
tlon from MIR. j. A. James of Middlebury,
Vt,,who, to use his own words, saws: I" Il,
the spring of 1888, | used Bradley's Eclipse
Phosphate on tifty-ive acres of clay land in
the town of Weybridge at the rate of 300
pounds per acre, and sowed the land To
oats, and seeded down to grass | had a
heavy crop of oats, and have cut three
heavy crops of grass-the first year, fully
100 tons of hay Previous to 1888, every.
thing raised on this land had been sold off
for nearly twenty years, and nothing mt
back in the shape of fertilizer. Land on the
other side of the fence adjoining this field
was sowed to oats, and seeded down at the
same time without phosphate, and the crops
on that land were not worth cutting. The
hrst two crops of grass were not cut at all
not being worth moving. | cannot farm
without phosphate. | have used nearly ali
Kinds, but have never used a bag of Brad
ley's phosphate that did not give good re-
turns for money invested"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05

IN commenting editorially on the
threatening letter sent to citizen of
Montpelier, published recently in the
WATCHMAN, the 81. JohnSbury Gale
DOMAIN says: "There is no demand for
white cap methods in Vermont; and
it makes no material difference whether
the letter mentioned above means
much or little in this particular in
stance. The spirit is there and it
should be wiped out. The capital of
the state should not trihe with her own
reputation as law-enforcing center"
THE collector of internal revenue for
this district, Hon. James E. French,
has just issued some additional in
structions concerning the weighing of
maple sugar, which are of much i'm
portance to licensed producers. He
rules that in weighing sugar this season
the weighers will proceed the same as
last year. Concerning the size and
character of packages he says: elf
several small packages are put together
or punched into one, making a package
that can be readily weighed and marked,
the small packages being of the same
grade of sugar, the entire number will
be treated as one package, weighed as
one, labeled as one, and returns made to
me accordingly"