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RECESS APPOINTMENTS.
of Lucky Mcn Who Step Into Om4
without Sens for,,l onnrn,,t n

Without Senatorial Confirmation.
WAs1lSoToS, Sept. s.--The president
has made the following recent appoint
men.s
Tomas 3. Teeter of West Virginia,
to be Indian ngent al Fort Hail agency,
Idaho; Marshal Pete of Pennsylvania,
10 be lndlnn agent at Klamath agency
IN Oregon: Richard McCloud, register
of the United States land office at Du-
rnngo, Colo: Thomas B. Edwards, reg
e:s.ar OF the land office ut Hugo, Colo;
Joan Thompson, surveyor general of
Wyoming; Francis Il. Rice. receiver of
the land Office at Lander, Wyo., John
Williamson, register of the land Office
nj Lander, Wyo.; Peter Couchman. In
dian agent Mt Cheyenne River agency
in South Dakota.
Peter Couchman was heretofore com
missioned as agent at Forest River
ngency i'll South Dakota. The name
has been changed TO Cheyenne River,
Eecessitating Il now appointment.
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AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

1t Invalidatcs Warrants Issucd by Chcro-
kee Strip Cities and Counties to the
Amount of $4,000
GUTHRIE, Okl., Sept. 10.-In the ease
in the supreme court wherein the orr.
ginal provisional government of this
city bought school furniture and issued
warrants therefor it is decided that the
warrants are void, as no city can con.
tract Indebtedness legally unless an
assessment has been made forcollection
OF taxes. The decision invalidates all
warrants issued by cities and counties
in the Cherokee strip during the first
four months of their existence and also
many warrants issued by other coun-
ties and cities in the territory, aggre-
eating a loss of $500, 900 or more to
holders of warrants.
Substantially dear madame, your
arguments in support of woman's suf-
frage are ull very well so far ax they
go, but YOU lenvo out Of the problem
tho most important factor Of nll-the
home, madame, the home-the unit
of Aine rican government.
Mrs. strongmind-In what way,
sir?
Would not giving the ballot to
women transform every home into n
center OF political convention and ami
mositx3
Nonsense. OF course not. Tho i.us-
band would vote as his wife tells him,
o: lie about it, just as he does row.
e-lH RI
Election lnspector-Have you been
natnralized?
notta that, maybee, but I have beena
vuccinnted.
lnspector-Better yet. Walk right
up.
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Ille yardi

That's fair mum. l knew by the APP
of the yard.
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"A telephone has been invented through
which a voics roay be heard in any part ~
o room.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-09-15

Tramp-Thankce, mum. That is the
best meal I've had fer two days. But ]
knew I'd git a good feed here.
Houselieeper-1ou did? is there
any mark on my fence?
Nom. Marks don't go any more.
People rubs 'em out, or paints 'em
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18

time contracts, by three-fourths of them.
Of the Pullman sleeping car system a
branch of the company's business totally
distinct from its manufacturing Of cars
for sale.
I'm the early part Of MAY commit
tee Of the employees demanded a restora-
ton of the wages of year ago. 1 ex-
planned 70 this committee infinitely and
laboriously the facts. showing that the
company was already paying them more
than that il was receiving for their con-
tract work and / offered them. for COM
plete assurance and 10 end all question,
an inspection of our books and contracts
This, and the beginning at once at Pull
man Of a promised careful investiga-
ton of a number Of shop complaints
seemed TO end all trouble. but a day
later. under the excitement of their
recruiting into the new organization, the
workmen closed the shops by abandon
ing their work, thus themselves doing
what | was StrenuOuslY trying to pre-
vent being done by the depression of the
car building business and the employees
who quit their work have deprived them
selves and their comrades Of earnings Of
more than $500. 900 up to this time. The
demand made before quitting work was
that the wages should be restored to the
scale Of last year, or in effect that the
actual outgoing money losses then being
daily incurred by the company in car
building should be deliberately increased
to an amount equal 70 about one-fOurth
Of the wages of the employees.
Business Folly to Arbitratc.
at must be clear to every business
man. and 10 every workman. that no
prudent employer could submit TO ar
bitration the question whether he should
commit such a piece of business folly.
Arbitration always implies acquiescence
in the decision Of the arbitrator. whether
favorable or adverse. How could I. as
president of the Pullman company. con-
sent TO agree that if any body Of men
not concerned with the interests of the
company's shareholders should. as ar
bitrators, for any reasons seeming good
TO them so decree. I would open the
shops employ workmen at wages great
er than their work could be sold for and
continue this ruinous policy indefinitely;
or be accused of a breach of faith2 Who
will deny that such question is plainly
not a subject Of arbitration?
rs it not then unreasonable that the
company should be asked TO arbitrate
whether or not II should submit such a
question 10 arbitration?
Removing the original and fundamen-
tai question one stage does not help the
matter: the question would still remain:
Can /, as a business man, knowing the
truth of the fact which / have stated
bind myself that l will in any contingency
open and operate the Pullman car shops
al whatever loss. if it should happen to
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18
rigs as snake Enters.

"The impression is prevalent through
out the United States" said Edward L.
mon domestic pig is a sworn enemy To all
kinds of snakes and that il is capable
of receiving the bite of the most deadly
serpents without experiencing the least
injury or even Inconvenience. This same
immunity from harm seems To exist in
other countries as we'll. A friend of
mine who passed several years in India
told me that the pigs in that country
are very fond of eating the cobra de
capallo. and that he had repeatedly seen
them i'm conflict and noticed that the
pig would be bitten over and over again
i'm the snout and about the face by the
writing reptile before the latter was
overcome. and in no instance did the
slightest injury result TO the Pig.'-St
Louis Globe-DemOcrat
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18

NEW YORK, July 1s.-"There is
hardly anything new to be said as To
he position of the Pullman company"
said George n. Pullman this evening
but l have SO many indications Of the
facility with which my expressions and
those authorized by me have become dis
torted. and thus misleading 10 the public
and of an entire forgetting of my earnest
efforts TO prevent the strike. that per
haps II is well that 1 should again make
a public assurance that the deplorable
svents of the last few weeks have not
oeen caused by the Pullman company
taking an obstinate stand in a debatable
matter. and refusing 10 listen to reason.
The leaders of disorder have not hest
tated to harrass the public by all means
in their power because. as they say the
Pullman company would not submit to
arbitration. and now that disorder seems
10 be quelled. they are reinforced in their
clamor for arbitration by some prominent
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PRENDERGAST is HANGED.
THE ASSASSIN PAYS THE PENALTY
FOR HIS CRIME.
Scenes in the Prison During the Day
The Prisoner WeakenS on the
ScanOId and Is Barely Able 40
Speak n Last Adieu.

CHICAGO. July 13.-The assassin #
Carter Harrison paid the penalty on the
gallows today, sane or insane.
Prendergast rested we'll last night. and
seemed calm and collected when the iailer
left him A few minutes before. He re-
fused until late last evening to receive
spiritual consolation. but when night-fan
came on he asked that Father Muldoon
be admitted As is the custom. the as
sassin was closely guarded by bailiffs
during the night Between and =
o'clock Prendergast partook heartily Of a
breakfast of ham and eggs. He showed
a ravenOus appetite. and about o'clock
sent word to Jailer Morris that he was
again hungry. The jailer gave him an
other hearty meal which he disposed Of
quickly. and seemed to relish greatly.
The assassin talked freely with his
spiritual advisers and several times. ap-
parently fearing that they would desert
him. remarked: You must stay with me
10 the end"
As the hour for the execution came
nearer. Prendergast showed some signs
Of slightly increasing nervousness. but.
on the whole. he was remarkably calm
and well collected. Throughout the ja!
the officers and other attaches remarked
about his behavior, for il was the gen
eral opinion that he would weaken badly
a good while before the hanging. Father
Barry was still with Prendergast at II
a. m, having been in constant attendance
upon him all the morning.
The little assassin had changed very
much since last night. and was now
deferential 10 mis- spiritual adviser. He
announced with tritle of bravado, Il
will die game and set a great and shin
ing example TO this country" He i'm
tended, he said. To make speech, which
he asserted would be the effort Of his
life, and he was very particular lest he
be misguided or misinterpreted. Pre-
parations were being made al II a. m. To
bring the condemned man to the gallows.
Prendergast had been removed from his
cell in murdereS' row 10 an ante-TOom
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be the opinion OF a third party that I
should do so? The answer seems TO be
plain.
The public should not permit the real
question which has been before il to be
obscured That question was as TO the
possibility of the creation and duration of
a dictatorship which could make all the
industries of the United States. and the
daily comfort of the millions dependent
upon them. hostages for the granting Of
any fantastic whim of such a dictator.
Any submission to him would have been
a long step IN that direction. and in the
interest of every law-abiding citizen Of
the United States was not TO be con-
sideTed for a moment.
A. to Charges Against the Company.
"A few words are pertinent as to some
industriously spread charges against the
company. One of these charges is that
rents are exorbitant, and it is implied
that the Pullman employees have no
choice but TO submit. The answer is
simple: The average rental of teuements
at Pullman is at the rate Of SO per room
per month and the renting of houses at
Pullman has no relation to work in the
shops Employees may. and very many
do. own or rent their houses outside Of
the town; and buildings and business
places in the town are rented TO en-
ployes or to others in competition with
neighboring properties. In short, the
renting business of the Pullman COM
pany is governed by the same conditions
which govern any other large owner of
real estate. except that the company it.
self does directly some things which in
Chicago are assumed by the city. If.
therefore. it is not admitted that the
rents of any landlord are to he fixed by
arbitration. and that those of the adj
joining towns of kensingtOn and Rose
land should also be So fixed. it can hard
~ be asked that the Pullman company
should abandon the ordinary rules which
govern persons in that relation
AS TO the charges for water, the COM
pany until lately had a contract with
the village of Hyde Park, under which
il paid cents per thousand gallons and
pumped the water itself. The gross
amount paid the village per month for
the water consumed by the tenants was
almost exactly the gross sum paid by
the tenants therefor. Since the inclusion
of Hyde Park and Pullman within the
city of Chicago the company pays the
city about cents per thousand gallons,
and not having increased the charge TO
the tenants are paying for the water
consumed by them about $500 per month
more than is charged to them. The
company has made repeated efforts TO dis
associate itself from the supplying of
water to tenants. but the city of Chicago
has as yet failed to apply the ordinary
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newspapers. but, Sc far as I know, by
very few, if any business men in the
country.
What is the demand concealed under
the MISUNDERSTANDING word arbitra-
ton? A little more than year ago the
shops at Pullman were in a prosperous
condition; work was plenty. wages We're
high and the condition OF the employees
was indicated by the fact that the local
savings bank had Of savings deposits
nearly 500, 600. Of which nearly all was
the property of the employees. Our pay
rolls for that year show an average earn
ing of over $500 per annum for every per
son. man, woman or youth on the roll.
Then came the great panic and depreS-
sion Of last summer Many customers
stopped negotiations and Cancelled orders,
and our working force had to be dimin-
ished from nearly 5000 to 1000 in Novem-
Der, 1893
The great business depression existing
throughout the country had naturally re-
suited in wage depression and the only
hope OF getting orders was by bidding
for work at prices as low or lower than
could be made by other shops and this
of course necessitated a reduction in the
wages Of the employees at Pullman. This
was arranged satisfactorily, as | supposed,
and in close competition. disregarding all
account of capital and machinery, ! Sc
cured enough Of work to gradually in
crease our force to 1900 the number on
the roll last April. Nine weeks ago the
car shops at Pullman were working with
car building contracts on hand enough
TO keep them going for about sixty DAYS.
and with all business forecasts leading
10 the belief that no considerable new
orders could soon be had.
Work ut nm Actual Loss.
THE most important of the work in
hand had been taken by me in competi-
actual cost to the company Of delivering
without any reckoning for the use of
capital and plant. This work was taken
10 keep the large force Of men employed
and to postpone and with the hope Of
avoiding, the numberless embarrassment
10 all classes of people at Pullman and in
its vicinity Of a closing down of the
works, TO prevent which the company
considered il a wise policy to operate the
shops temporarily at an actual loss.
In this condition Of things came the
agitation seeking 10 create a labor organi-
cation embracing all railway employees and
apparently other industries 1t is my be-
lief that the controversy excited at Pull
man was merely a move in the greater
scheme these shops being selected not
on account Of discomfort in them, but
because Of their prominence in various
ways, and because of the chance of a
show Of justification for a simultaneous
and causeless attack upon the RAILWAYS
Of the country for the use, under long
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off the Jail Office. which is. in fact, the
bathroom, and where the last kindly
offices We're being performed for the
miserable wretch.
Prendergsst especially requested Sheriff
Gilbert To allow him twenty minutes in
which to make his dying statement but
his temper has been prOverbially uTsczs-
tain, and il was thought by many that
he would a the last moment fOreg0 his
determination. The jury of physicians
at 1910 o'clock filed In and Inspected the
scaffold and appurtenances- Fifty deputy
sheriffs were ranged around the sides Of
the corridor and the rather tedious,
though in reality short wait began until
the final march should be taken up.
At 11:f2 o'clock hush fell upon the
throng IN the corridor. and far down the
somber halls could he heard the muffled
tramp Of the mon marching to the gal
lows few moments later Sheriff Gill
bert and Jaiier Morris appeared Al the
right Of the scaffgld The prisoner. pale
and unsteady. walked behind them. Ha
stood without apparent nervousness,
though a trifie weak and unsteady. az
his arms We're being pinicned. He
seemed determined TO die game, and
looked calmly out on the assembled
crowd below him The white shroue
was next placed about him. and. barring
a little restless motion Of the eyes, up
down and from side tn side he made
no motion. Jailer Morris placed the rope
about his neck. the white cap over his
head. and Prendergast. game ID the last
had taken his last look on earth An in
slant later. al 1I:46. he Shot down
ward. the head twisted to ono side
the neck having apparently been broken.
Slowly Swayiug back and forth. he
hung for few moments while the ply
sicians held his wrist. slight. spas
mOdic movement of -be legs was all The
sign Of life apparent within tee loosely
hanging white robe. Surrounded by the
jury Of physicians. tire corpse swung 10
and fro, and az 11.5I. nine minutes after
the trigger was sprung. he was pro-
n0unced dead. and the murder 9f Carter
Harrison was avenged
The assassin made no audible sound
from the time he left his CELL aDpar-
emily being lost i'm contemplation of his
awful fate. He took final leave Of his
spiritual advisers. gave a last handsbake
% his guards. ana. with low and chok-
ing voice. hade them "a last adicu He
YVES dissuaded 10y Sheriff Gilbert from
his determination 10 make "a speech.
At 11.5S Jailer Morris uuloosened the
anchored end of the rope the shrouded
corpse was slowly lowered and laid IN
the coffin STANDING underneath the plat
not badly distorted.
Prendergast's Crime.
The crime and the criminal were alike
extraordinary. Prendergast, a newspa.
per carrier. about twenty-three years Of
age took great interest in politics. Dur.
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frontage rates to the houses and shops
in Pullman. although it is done in the
adjacent towns.
No Watered stock.
Strenuous efforts have also been made
to create prejudice against the Pull
man company by charges that its stock
is heavily watered. The Pullman COM
pany was organized twenty-seven years
ago with capital of 81 ,OOO.O 600. of which
two-thirds represented the appraised
value of its franchises and existing con-
tracts The company has grown until
its sleeping car service covers 125, 900
miles of railway, or about three-fOurths
of the railway system of the country,
and that increase Of service has necessi-
tated increase of its capital from time
to time until it is now $4,000, 900. Every
share of this increase has been offered
TO stockholders and sold to them or TO
others in the ordinary course of business
at not less than par in cash, so that for
every share of increase outstanding the
company has received 500 in cash. There
are over 1000 stockholders of the COM
pany, of whom more than one-half are
women and trustees Of estates. and the
average holding of each stakeholder is
now eighty-siX shares, one-fifth of them
holding less than six shares each"
President Pullman and Gen. Horace
Porter left the Pullman Office in the
Mills building at 7:3O i'm the evening.
When asked as TO his movements Mr..
Pullman said:
MY family is at Elberon and I in
tended to go there tonight. but | am too
fatigued. I shall stay in town. passing
the night at the Union League club. l
cannot add a word 10 what l have said
in my statement"
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Pullman Speaks After So
Long a Delay.
Relation of the Company to
the Strike.
ARBITRATION NOT PRUDENT
When 1t Means Operation OF
the Shops at a Loss.
Pullman Makes Quiet Thrust
at Debs

And Says the Real Question Mt Issue
Is Whether Not Concessions
Shall Re Granted 20 Dictator
Denial That Rents Are ExOrbItant
or That the Company Charges
High Rates for Water-The COrpO-
ration Has Not a share of Watered
stock.
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4 Good sign.

Landlord Of newly opened wine tavern Ito
wafterJ-"PiccolO. mind YOU pay special
attention 10 that gentleman sitting yonder
he has such a red complexion. Ill Corrlere
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18
Read Our OffCl!

This magnificent work has received
the unqualified endorsement Of the lead
ing papers OF the country as the great
est and most artistic Photographic re-
production ot the Worlds Fair that Il
before the public. The Boston ''Trav-
eIer'' voices the sentiment Of the press
thus: . &C.,.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18
20 Watered stock.

frontage rates to the houses and shops
in Pullman. although it is done in the
al facarr
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18
PrendergaSt's Crime

The crime and the criminal were alike
extraordinary. PrenderEast. newspa.
per carrier. about twenty-three years Of
age, took great interest in politics Dur.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-18

The only original. authorized and com
plete Photographic panorama Of the mar
veIous buildings. exhibits. scenes anc
surroundings of the Worlds Columbian
Exposition A sublime spectacle. su-
blimely illustrated.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-03

Settlers desiring perfect their title and obtain their
patents the shortest possible time the best service
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-03

A NUMBER of gossiping commun-
ications have recently appeared in
the Sunday Sun and a would-be inn
itating sheet of less character and
standing. From the way the par
ties have been singled out, it is
evident that the animus of the
attacks has been spite work. A
proper cure for this business would
be to give the scandalmonging
clique of Bonner's Ferry a dose of
their own medicine in the Sun.
We have a few pious (?) individ-
uals in this town noted for nothing
unless it be gossip, who do not
seem to be aware the public is on
to their escapades. A notice in the
Sun would enlighten them on that
subject and cause them to mind
their own business--if they had
any. We will say this, that the
men who have been the especial
targets of these articles have done
more for Bonner's Ferry than any
other equal number of men that
could be picked out. They attend
to their own business and have
business to attend to-which can
not be said of those people who are
noted for gossip. They will con
tinue to prosper and be well
thought of by those whose opinion
is worth having, and they will live
happier to far higher degree than
will those low, ignorant vampires
of society who live on the swill of
gossip, and who will sink along, II
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-03-03

THE people of Bonner's Ferry
know how to sympathize with the
people of Kaslo in the misfortune
that has just befallen that promis-
ing young town. 1t has been but
a few months since this place suf-
fered a similar calamity. Times
are hard at best and new towns
like Bonner's Ferry and Kaslo are
ill prepared to suffer such disasters
The fortunes of Bonner's Ferry are
so closely linked with those of
Kaslo that its losses will be felt
here. These fires emphasize the
fact that business men should al
ways consider an outlay for fire
protection legitimate expense. Ii
is cheaper in the end.