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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-24
GALLANT BOYS IN BLUE.
Preparations for the Annual Encampment
of the Montana G.. A. r..

Preparations for the Annual Encampment
of the Montana G. A. II.
The tenth annual encampment of the
department of Montana G. A. r., will
be held in the G. A. r. hall at Helena
on Wednesday and Thursday, April 25
and 90. Department headquarters Will
be established at the Library G. A. r.
building where the council of admins
tration will meet on Tuesday evening,
April "a.
The junior vice commander in chief
OF the national G. A. r. and other prom
inent G. A. r. men have been invited
and are expected TO be present at the
encampment. All department officers
are requested to wear their uniforms
and side arms and all other comrades,
as far as possible, to wear uniforms.
Post commanders will report to
Assistant Adjutant General George
Heidi, at the department Headquarters
a. O'Clock a. m. on Wednesday, April
25, to receive encampment badges and
other credentials for admittance to the
department encampment. Comrade G
F. Gage of Wadsworth post No. 8, will
act as officer of the day; Comrade Ed.
S. Walker of Post 3, as officer of the
guard and Past Commander T. H. Klein.
schmidt of Wadsworth post No. 8, will
detail six sentinels for guard duty
during the encampment.
The committee on credentials is as
follows: J. H. Jackson, Lincoln Post
No 2, Butte; f. P. Sterling, Wadsworth
Post No. 3, Helena; G. I. Chambers,
Faragut Post No. 2, Livingston; P. H.
Hughes, Sheridan Post No. IS, Great
Falls; w. S. Mathews, William English
Post No. 10, Bozeman.
The question of the permanent loca-
tion of the encampment and other i'm
portant business will come before the
tenth annual encampment, and a full
attendance is earnestly desired. A grand
camp fire will be given by the COM
mander of Wadsworth Post to visiting
members of the G. A. r. and Loyal Lee
gion on Thursday evening, April 20.
It is expected that large delegation
will attend the encampment from Butte.
Il is not likely chat any decision will be
made regarding the location of the per
manent encampment this year, although
the matter will be considered. Among
the places favored as possible locations
Of the permanent encampment are Hell
ena, Butte, Bozeman, Deer Lodge and
Anaconda.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-24
Army Appropriation BIZ.

WASHINGTON, March 1s.-The army
appropriation bill was completed by the
house committee on military affairs
Yesterday. 1t appropriates a total of
S23,677,0OO. the appropriation last
year was S95,2Os 900. Aside from the
reductions the bill makes important
changes in the organization of the army.
The commanding officer, now General
Scho6eld, is made a brevet lieutenant
general. The major generals, now
numbering three, are to be reduced to
two, one of whom shall be commander
of the army, with the brevet of lieuten-
ant general.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-24
Found Guilty of Forgery.

FAIRHAvEN, Wash, March 1.-THE
jury in the second trial of ex-Deputy
City Clerk Grassert, charged with for
gerry, yesterday returned verdict of
guilty. An appeal will be taken. There
are 16 more indictments against him.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-24

An old acquaintance named John
Egan, who was born in St. Lawrence
county, New York, and now lives in
Upton, Mo-, went with me to look for
more work. He wanted to go down the
coast, while wanted to go to Calaveres
and work in the mines. To settle it
we stood a stick in the middle
of the road and agreed to go in
the direction In which it fell. 1t fell in
a southeast direction, and we struck
out for Vlsalia, both wearing red shirts
and accompanied by dog. At
Visalia l went to work for w. R. Owen,
commonly known as Pike Bill owen.
In the spring of 1886 I took charge
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

member of the profession the other day,
and the latter unfolded to him the fact
that democracy, among others, was not
90 fashionable as in years gone by. "For
the last ten years or So" he said, "be-
ginning about the time of Cleveland's
appearance as a presidential candidate,
the democratic actors have outnum-
bered the republicans, three or five to
one. Lately, however, the tables have
turned, and I believe the republicans are
actually in the majority. It is not good
form or good policy for actors to be
quoted on politics, but I could give you
the names of a dozen we'll known men
who have discarded democracy since the
last presidential election. To what do I
attribute the change? Well, I cannot
attribute it to anything except the hard
times. Actors are like other people and
are subject to the same influences,
whims, prejudices or whatever you may
choose to call them. Ever since the
last election business has been going
from bad to worse, and this season 1t is
exceptional to find a star or a combina-
ton that is making money. We may be
wrong, but with most people we would
like to try a republican administration
for a change. We might be better off
and we couldn't do worse"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

EDITOR JEWELL writes from Washing
ton OF a continued business depression
there, and all through the east. That
the democratic policy is wrong, he says,
Is 0 generally conceded, and that the
depression is due to democratic incom.
potency and the inexpediency of the
party policy is admitted, and the people
are sounding a pretty good warning at
each and every election. The present
tariff bill is n Of the weakest, for the
purposes Of business Improvement, and
n OF the strongest for purposes of bust
ness depression, which could we'll be
conceived. It is o sectional measure.
aiming evere blows at certain indus
tries, and %endeavoring to build up
others, and succeeding in nothing but
the stagnation of all business. Especi-
ally to the northwest, is it unjust. It
taxes the farmers sugar, and takes off
III protecting tax from his products
barley wool, and the other agricultural
resources of the country. It diecrimi-
mates against those states along the
Canadian border, it will be a direct stab
at North Dakota, and it should be OBJ
posed by every resident Of the state, re-
CARELESS of politics or party. It is against
US, n we should be against it.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27
answer would probably be in the mega

answer would probably be in the mega
tive. The Coxeyites are marching Wash
ingtonward day by day, and not n of
them has any idea as to hoy he will SUBJ
sist, or exist, when the end of the jour
ney is reached. The average Coxeyite
cares not whether he begs, borrows or
steals; whether he is tile recipient of
charity, or of the favors of the police
station. So long as his stomach is kept
filled, in some way, his brain is not wor-
ried with the pressing importance Of any
moral obligations. In fact, it is a serious
question whether one in fifty of the ones
who compose the army knows what he
is marching for, or realizes what is ex.
pected to be attained by the movement.
For these reasons, it would be we'll to
take charge Of the whole motley throng,
when it's members set foot in the capital
city, furnish each one with a pick and
shovel, or a woodsaw, and put the army
of the commonweal to work. If this
plan be adopted, it is safe to say that
the retreat of the Coxeyites from the
capital would be much more hurried
than has been it's advance.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

The st. Paul Pioneer Press company
has increased it's capital stock from
100000 to 100000, and with this addi-
tional 100000 it has purchased the
Pioneer Press building. The Pioneer
Press company is now, therefore, the
owner instead of the lessee of the Pioneer
Press building. The holders of the addi-
tional 100000 of stock issued, are all or
nearly all citizens Of st. Paul, as are the
owners of the 100000 Of stock Of the old
company. The management of the paper
has not changed, and it continues as
usual-one Of the solidest papers IN the
twin cities-and one of the best edited
in the northwest.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

In the present condition of the country
it does not seem as though there could be
any doubt of the unwisdom of democratic
tariff policy. Enough has happened, and
a sufficient number of results have been
accomplished the past year, to demon
strate to almost any fair-minded person
that there is something wrong. And, ad-
hitting this, one has not far to seek to dis
cover what is wrong. From a Thousand
and one different sources have come evil
dences of democratic incompetency.
And not alone are these mute evidences
of a faulty system of national economy,
such as silent workshops, and m~otionless
looms, and spindles, and will wheels and
machinery. Each day, there are out
spoken COMBINATIONS of democracy
from the very lips of the persons whom
democracy purports to benefit. On Sat-
urday last, over a thousand workingmen
marched down Pennsylvania avenue in
Washington, and on to the capitol, and
there, a committee of them delivered
over to the United States senate, a pro-
test against the Wilson bill, and against
any tariff changes, as proposed by it.
They were representative workingmen,
and Of the Kind which is the backbone
of the nation. They were not an aggre-
cation of irresponsible Migrants, seeking
after the enaction of some visionary leg
islation. They were representatives of
the greatest manufacturing states in the
union. They did not argue against the
theoretical beauties of free trade. They
had no time to waste in the discussion
of visionary benefits to accrue from pro-
posed democratic reform" They knew
naught and said naught of the visionary
effects of theoretical causes. But they did
know the existing effect of democratic
legislation, and they asked that the
cause be removed. They were the per-
sons affected by the reform" tariff pol
icy, and the effect was not to their liking.
None knew better than they, what had
been the result of the proposed tariff re-
duction. None knew better than they
who were out Of employment, and whose
places of employment we're closed,
whether or not the proposed Wilson
bill was beneficial. For it's theoretical
benefits they cared not at all. They
were practical men, and they protested
against something which resulted TO
their practical disadvantage, and no
stronger evidence of the unwlsdom of
democracy, and of democracy's policy of
60 vernment couldD
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

JAMESTOWN has an order of regula
tors, and they are doing some good
work. According to the Alert, on
Tuesday night, as the result Of their de-
mands, two women of the town, left and
the evening before a madam took her
departure for Fargo or some more dis
tant point. Yesterday a male member Of
the fraternity received through the post.
office, a missive bearing a 1Oc. special de-
livery stamp which, addressing him by
name, said: "You are hereby requested
to leave jamestown inside of twenty
four hours or suffer the consequences"
Signed Regulators" As the recipient
was "down on the rocks" he occupied
a good portion of his time thereafter
hunting a friend and the loan of a ten
to get out of the city. He said he had
lived in the city for twelve years past
and this was the first time that he had
ever been treated in such an "~ungentle.
manly" manne The citizens in the
southeast part Of the city met the other
evening and politely but firmly told a
notorious street walker to vacate the
city and this she promised to do, going
to OaKes. There seems q deter
mined and commendable move in James.
town, to rid the city of some of its more
undesirable "parasites."
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

AS WITH sheepmen in North Dakota,
the wool men in Arizona are feeling blue
owe the prospects for the Wilson bill be-
coming a law. They have already felt
the depressing effects Of the agitation
and have been compelled to sell their
1898 wool for s28O,0O0, while their clips
of 1892, not so large as those of
1893, sold for ss5O,OOO. They calculate
their wool industry to be worth $4,000
600 under protection, but this will
all fade away like a summers dream if
Mr.. Wilson's measure is put through
the senate in it's present form.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

The sudden death of James F. O'Brien
at his home at Devils Lake, is peculiarly
sad. MI. O'Brien was n of the promi-
nent democrats Of the state, and his
ability had just been recognized by his
appointment as United States district
attorney-an honor which was pleasing
to himself and his friends. His sudden
death, before his qualification, is a
peculiar example of the fickleness of
fate, which has bestowed honor, and
then taken from the honored one, the
life, which is necessary to it's enjoyment.
There will be general regret and sorrow
at the untimely death of James F.
O'Brien.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

les of life. The republican custom was
to build new mills and workshops and
factories, and in other ways, by sound
legislation, to furnish places of employ
ment, where the workingman Of the
country labored, with a feeling that he
was worthy of his hire, and with a spirit
of independence and happiness and Sc
curity. The democrats have taken this
opportunity from him, and know not
how to wrestle with the problem of the
disposition of the unemployed-they are
unable to solve a problem of their own
creation. And the populists, binding
themselves wllfully to the fact that the
SOUND legislative policy of the republi-
cam is the one thing which will give the
workingman back his lost position and
the good wages he formerly received,
would rush to his aid with national aims
and governmental charity-fne offerings
to the men, whom long and steady en-
ployment at good wages and under
prosperous national conditions have rem
dered independent, and have educated
and improved! Verify, between the pops
and dems, the plight of the workingman
is a sad one. Andy yet each party claims
to be the party of the people, and the or
gan with which monopoly is to be
crushed, and justice dispensed, and vari-
GUS other acts of high-fown fol-de-rol &C.
complished. The populists and demo-
Gratis are burying the workingmen under
the ruins of smokeless factories and idle
shops, and at the same time bowling of
the immense good they have done and
are doing to the masses.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

The state commissioner of agriculture
aud labor has issued a bulletin in re-
gard to the Russian cactus, giving a
brief account Of the new pest in the
northwest, with improved methods of
combating it, and containing the report of
the cactus committee appointed by the
governor at the LaMoure meeting, Nov.
18th, 1898. The pamphlet contains the
full text of the noxious weed law passed
in 1891, and gives perspective and de-
tailed views Of the plant. Copies of the
bulletin have been sent to county audi
tors for the benift OF county commits
%sioners, supervisors, road overseers and
the general public.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27
something of what that was; but, great as

something of what that was; but, great as
it was, that was the work Of simple, power
less man. The Yellowstone park stands
there, a marvellous creation, as though
God himself was a competitor for the prize
for wonderful productions, and earth fur
dishes no parallel to the %splendors Of that
wonderful park. y = = The marvels of
that park defy description, and I am glad
that this house has had the wisdom to lie
this bill come up for consideration, in or
der that additional comforts may be prot
vided for the people who visit that region,
so that millions may enjoy a trip which
will give them pleasure, education and
powers Of language which even my friend
from Maine, who asked for an explanation
does not dream of. i
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

EVEN Henry Clews, who has been pre-
dieting good times and business REVEALS
as soon as spring should open, now ad-
mits that this expected revival will not
occur before the fall mouths at best, ow-
ing to the hardness and incompetency of
the Legislative branch of the national
government. Clews says: "Out of the
uncertainties attending the situation at
Washington, n probability is coming
out with distinctness, namely, that
the tariff bill is conceded to be sure to
pass, either with the income tax attach
ment. or without it. But the time for
its enactment is now set back as far as
next August. This is a discouraging
prospect, as it means that the manufac-
turing interests are to be keptin a state
of compulsory inactivity for two or three
months longer than has been anticipated.
Under this state of affairs, it is out of the
question to expect any noticeable revival
of general business until the fall months,
whereas such improvement has been
hoped for about midsummer. This, how
ever, mean disappointment rather than
positive encouragement. In most
branches of trade, the symptoms indi.
cate a readiness to resume business up
on IN active scale so soon as these legis-
lative restrictions are removed. It is
conceded more and more that there is a
large measure of purchasing ability
among the community at large; and that
naturally leads to the inference that,
when this long protracted restraint upon
both production and marketing Is with
drawn, there must be a sharp rebound
of activity, in order to recruit the sup
plies that have been subjected to a
twelve-months' curtailment, ranging be-
tween Is and 40 per cent. But while
these prospects are counted upon with
almost entire unanimity, the fact that
they stand forward some four or five
months in the future prevents them from
being discounted in Wall street opera
lions, and inclines spectators to a
Micawberish attitude"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27
BY NJ. FL. JEWELL
IN RE Coz

It has looked for a time as though the
states of North Dakota and Minnesota,a f-
ter having watched the movements of the
several branches of Coxey's army from
afar, might havs a little practical expert
ence with them. At any rate, it is an
undoubted fact that an army of 500 re-
oruits are en- route east from Montana.
They are travelling by way of the North
ern Pacific, and part of the distance have
made fairly good time. At latest re-
ports, they we're stuck in a landslide,
but this delay cannot last indefinitely,
and when the blockade is raised, the
army will again resume its journey, and
what will be the outcome, it is difficult
to predict. The fact that the men helped
themselves to an engine, and cars, proves
their determination, and will take some
pretty bold opposition to hinder them
from a continuance of their journey. 1t
is but natural that the residents of the
several places through which they are to
pass, feel some little apprehension, for no
community is anxious to have 500 or 600
unemployed men turned loose in it's
midst. At the same time, it is difficult
to devise a means of escaping the tenn
porary invasion of the army. Down in
St. Paul, people are alarmed lest the
army shall reach there, and be unable
to get further, and prolong the stay Of
the soldiers Of Coxey a disastrous length
of time. Accordingly, the st. Paul
Dispatch considerably suggests that the
North Dakota authorities stop the army
on the western boundary Of the state,
and refuse to let them go further. This
is a generous suggestion, and will doubt
less be highly appreciated by those of
North Dakota's citizens upon whom
such a move would unload the whole
army. But if the Dispatch were &C.
quainted with the country about the
western boundary of the state, it would
at one realize the impracticability of
such a as suggested, for aside from
the cattle ranges, there is nothing to
sustain either Coxey's army, or the au-
thorities which would be necessary to
hold and guard them, unless both sides
should feed on the same grass as the
cattle. And after the army had been
stopped, the TRIBUNE would ask what
could be done with them. They could
not be turned loose in one band to
forage over the whole state, and their
arrest would tax the Jail facilities of the
whole of western Dakota and eastern
Montana, beside, perhaps, precipitating
riot and blooshed.
1t is not probable the army will get
beyond Fort Keogh, as the United
States troops there will probably take a
hand in the matter and detain them.
The Coxey aggregation is not likely to
get to the North Dakota boundaries,
but should they continue on their march,
and North Dakota be in for partial in
vasion, about the best thing to do would
be to induce tie army to hurry in its
trip through the state.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

The startling news is received that
Prof. Morgan, while e%xoavating at the
foot of the brick pyramid Of Dashour,
has found what he believes to be the
mummlied body Of the fourth dynasty
king Morus Ralouab. This bit Of in
formation will be conveyed at once to
the democratic majority In congress, as
it is understood that the failure of dis.
covery Of Ralouab's mummy is all that
has kept the tariff question unsettled.
A business revival may now be looked
for at once.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-04-27

SENATOR SMITH of New Jersey, one
OF the twelve United States senators who
were branded as traitors by the Mime.
sofa democracy, not long ago, does not
seem to be worried over the fact. Mr.
Smith seems rather to have become still
more firm in tie opinions, which have
led to his being called tr%aitorous. In
speaking of the matter, Mr.. Smith says:
Party ties grow weak when they make
disregard of one'sOwn convictions and dis
loyalty to ones own people, the test of
fealty. And l do not hesitate to add that
even the misrule of the republican party
is to be preferred to the communism of the
pOpulists and socialists. If that be trea-
son, then self-appointed censors of Mime
sofa do right to lay the charge at my door.
Again, in speaking of the Wilson bill,
and especially of the income tax pro-
vision, Senator Smith says:
l oppose it, and shall do everything I
can to defeat it: ~ because it is unneces.
sary, ~ because it is unjust, (S) because
it is unsuccessful, ~ because it is unpopu.
lar, (5) because it is undemocratic, (6) be-
cause it is un-American, ~ because it is
unwise, and finally, on general principles,
because it is unworthy of an intelligent
government, supposed to represent a free
and enlightened people.
Whether it be denounced as t%raitorous
or not, it is readily to be seen from Sena.
tor Smiths words, that he does not pro.
pose to sacrifice his opinions, and the
interests of his own people for an odioue
provision of an odious measure, such as
the income tax, which was merely intro.
duced to catch support from a third
party. MI. Smiths state voted the other
day, and the result proved them tired
of democratic talk and misrule. Mr.
Smith seems to be Of nearly the same
opinion.