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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25
SNOWFALL IN COLORADO.

Denver, March 24.-Light snow began
falling before noon. Indications show
that the storm extends over Colorado.
Wyoming, Utah, Western Kansas and
Nebraska. The snow here is melting as
fast as It falls.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25
THIRTY KILLED.

London, March 24.-Dispatches from
santahder, Spain, fix the number Of the
killed by the explosion of dynamite
which was being removed from the
sunken steamer cabe Machichaco, at
thirty.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25
a Descendant on wAsHINaToN.

Huntington. w. Va, March 24.-wal-
lace Washington, a descendant Of
George Washington, died last night He
vas chief clerk of the chief Of police Of
Richmond, Va.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25
WILL FOLLOW MeKANE.
A New York Banker Arrested for Sub
ornation Of Perjury.

Brooklyn. March 24.-Justlce Walsh
issued warrants today for the arrest Of
yincenzo de vilo an Italian banker, OF
New York, and valesco Ferreni, his
clerk. on charges Of subornation Of
perjury. There is evidence in the dis
trict attorneys office that De Vilo sold
naturalization papers to Italians just
landed at from $40 to SIS apiece. The
papers are forged, and have been used
by the italians to secure employment in
city department work. In connection
with these arrests, the World this even
ing devoted an entire page to develop
.ment OF the case. which is an organized
system Of buying and selling citizens
papers obtained by fraud, selling them
to aliens not lawfully entitled 10 be
naturalized. and who have become par
ties to the fraud. and are controlled
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25
DENIED THE MOTION.

Portland, March 24.-Judge Bellinger
today denied the motion Of G. j. Null
Key, William Dunbar and p. J. Bannon.
convicted of smuggling, Chinese labor
ers, for a new trial. No date was set
for passing sentence.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25

and driven to theipolls like sheep. The
article further states that when these
aliens return to their own country, the
bogus papers are bought back at big
discount and sold again to new arrivals.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25
DENVER'S DIFFICULTY
Decision in the Fire and Police
Board Case.
GOV. WAITE WAS NOT UPHELD
The Supreme Court Decides That He
Has No Power to Induct His
AppOintees Into Office.
GOV. WAITE WAS NOT UPHELD

Denver, Col, March 24-The supreme
court has sent the fire and police board
case back to the district court, The de-
cision is in effect against the governor,
and the matter is left where it was a
week ago, when the governor called out
the MALTA to seat his appointees.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-03-25

THEY SAY city the coast than Astoria hey say d.
recy Then suppose they be saying Hat
there Third Street than 5o2o citizens book store
We must We don't know how buy our blank books from
manufacturers who use scraps in covers pa1 binding Our manufacturers
don't know make have sci them for first class
THEY'RE afraid o--thats fact We don't know how.
But we're wide awake enough buy slow Astoria wide awake
enough from
Griffin 6 Reed
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30
The Noted Fourth.

Noted as is this day in the history
of the American people, it really was
a day of feast and celebration many
years ago-long before the signing OF
our Declaration of Independence. In
Scotland it used to be called st. Martin
of Bullion's day, and was Gel ebrated
with great feasting and sportin ng ,especi.
ally by the Scotch peasa ntry. 1t was
a common proverb that if the deer lay
down dry and rose dry on 'Bullion'a
Day." it was an infallible sign that
there would be good gose harvest
Gose was the term for the latter end
of summer, therefore gose harvest
meant an early harvest. Throughout
the whole of Europe, the peasantry
land, indeed, many other people) be
lieved that the rain on Bullion's day
betokened rain for twenty ensuing
days.
1t is remarkable fact, too, that the
two men who were especially associ
ated with the Fourth Of July-Jeffer-
son and the elder Adams, the first be
ing the author of the Declaration ol
independence, and the other its warn
indorscr-should have died on the
fftieth anniversary of the great day
st. Nicholas.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30

pay for the material that ccInas tsn
the other labor, upon basis five Or sis
times higher than that he is getting
for his labor, and am opposed to the
kind of protection TINT ntdiscriminates in
this way-and that is what the McKin.
ley bill does.
There are scores of wrungs and in
constituencies in the bill. and it is all
wrong for Gov. Mckinley and his
friends to undertake to commit the re.
publican party to n proposition that
will lead to sure defeat in 1895. 1t Is
not crime for republicans to differ
upon these propositions, and some
one in our state should speak out for
the republican party. Personally, !
stand upon the tariff question where
the republican national convention
left it in 1883, for revision downward
I'VE have nova population of 65, 1000, 900,
and we shall soon have population OF
100 .o0O, 900. The people of this coun
try do notpropose to see silver knocked
out and we want tariff reduction a.
fast as the safety of the business in
terests will warrant. We want that
kind of protection that will deal justly
and fairly with all classes of American
labor"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30
THE SATURDAY.. JUN 10 1884

felt my whole soul 60 out In sympathy
TO that frightened little Mexican
jewel. and when heard Parker and
his followers decrying her sprinting
merits and doing all they could To
create q feeling against her and so EN-.
barrass her that she could not run as
she would under more favorable cir.
cumstances, felt the Old Nick spirit
that's in me struggling to the surface.
"The girls came onto the track, the
Parker girl an ill-looking, ungainly
creature. brazen and defiant, the Mex
lean timid and casting appealing
glances into the faces of the great
crowd. and the Indian maiden quite
unconcerned and seemingly without
interest in the contest. The Parker
girl was dressed in skirt of flaming
red, scarcely reaching her knees, and
beneath IL wore white stockings and a
pair of gaudily ornamented dancing
slippers. Martha, the Mexican, was
clad in plain gray of neat and modest
cut, and was barefooted. The Indian
girl, after she had thrown off her
blanket, wore but little more than the
look of unconcern which I have de-
scribed. The distance to be run was
two hundred yards, and there We're to
be three heats should two not be won
by one contestant, the party distanced
in the first heat to drop out and leave
the other two to finish the race.
"At the usual western signal, the
crack of a pistol, they were off, and for
quite distance twas neck and neck,
and then Marta took the lead. The
Indian girl, as / could now see, by a
preconcerted arrangement was sew
eral yards in the rear. On they came,
Marta with a half-scared look of tri-
umph on her face; the Parker girl
wearing an ugly frown and straining
every muscle to overtake her. When
but few yards from the outcome a
heavy cowboy sombrero sailed out of
the crowd, and Marita's feet struck
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

High protection and free silver
seem to be the republican catch. That
means high prices for what the laborer
and the producer buy and a deprecated
money to buy with. That is about as
beneficial to the poor American as the
old republican policy of high-pro
lection to American manufactures, but
free trade in foreign pauper labor
Kansas City Times.
The Mckinley bill taxes coal
iseventy-five cents ton to cover the
difference between foreign and home
wages, but the operators of Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and western Pennsyl
vania have just consented to pay their
miners on the basis of sixty cents ton
as special favor. From which we are
probably to infer that the pauper for.
eign coal miner pays his employer a
bonus OF fifteen cents a ton for the
privilege of digging his coal for him.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The government of the United
States should be in better business than
that of levying toll on the people and
collecting their pennies at their small
BTOceTy SVcCe nNrcHaSeS O Hi inc Llllh
of the sugar trust. That is the great
evil of the Mckinley tariff, not only
that 1t brushes out industry, but that
It lays the heavy hand OF taxation on
the people to collect their earnings in
order that the trusts and protected
monopolies may amass colossal for
tunes. Albany Argus.
The facts are that the country is
saffering from business paralysis
brought on by the vicious systein Of
overtaxation inaugurated by the
former administration, and the repub-
lican party having refused to allow
relief legislation to be enacted the
deficit is the result. But the republic
an party is responsible for 1t. That
party brought on the panic and pro-
tracted the business stagnation which
still continues. The reduction In the
volume OF business causes Z correspond
ing decrease in the revenues, and the
remedy lies In the repeal OF the Mckin-
ley law and the restoration OF a fair
and equal system OF taxation. : knns;ls
City Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30

Of gambling disposition were backing
their favorites with n reckless LIBERAL
ity characteristic of the far west.
III soon learned that the greater In
terest centered in foot race which was
to take place between three young
girls, an American, a Mexican and an
Indian who had won several such con-
tests in the towns further north and
who had been brought down to enter
the contest by sporting members Of
her tribe. The American girl was the
daughter of a bullying fellow named
Matt Parker, who ran saloon and
whose reputation was not exactly that
of saint. was told by merchant
friend, gentleman with whom my
house had long sustained the most
agreeable business relations, that dur
ing our civil war Parker was one Of
Quantrell's band of cut-throat guerril-
las. took prominent part in the sack
ing of Lawrence, Kan, and often boast
ed of his deeds of murder while mem
Der of that organization. Unlike the
very large majority of regularly enlist
ed confederate soldiers who accepted
defeat, and who are now on terms of
brotherly friendship with their late
foes and are answering in their devo-
tion to the grand old flag of our ia
theirs, he was yet an uncompromising
rebel and would use the stars and
stripes as dishcloth rather than al
low them to float over his house. After
the war he engaged in the horse and
cattle stealing business, smuggled
whisky onto the Indian reservation,
and rumor linked his name with dar-
ing stage robbery down in Texas in the
early T0's. He held no regard for the
Fourth of July as a patriotic holiday,
and took part in arranging the festivi-
ties of the day only for what he could
make out of them by stalking money
on the various races. The foot race
between the girls was an idea origin
ated by himself, for he believed that
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30

against it. She stumbled, fell on her
hands and knees, and although she
had but Il moment later regained her
feet the Parker girl had passed her and
won the heat.
The Parker crowd yelled themselves
hoarse and old Matt caught his girl
and hugged her to his breast A hid
eous toad hugging no less hideous
snake. ] can think of no better simile.
The cry of fraud was raised by the
hackers of the Mexican girl, but the
cowboy swore that his hat had blown
off by accident. and the bullying ma
jority ruled that it was square heat.
! walked down to where Marta was
standing, and such a change / never
saw. Her Spanish blood was thor
oughly aroused, her great lustrous eyes
flashed defiance at the crowd, and, as
the big cowboy who had remained near
me informed me, she had seen the man
purposely throw the hat and was de-
nouncing such rascality, and was offer
ing to give the American girl ten feet
the start in the coming heats if assured
of fair play.
Il could control myself no longer.
Calling loudly for attention attracted
the crowd around me, and in my indig-
nation said:
Men, am ashamed of you! You
claim to be American citizens who love
fair play; you are celebrating the
proudest day in American history, yet
you lend encouragement to an act
which should cause any honest man to
blush with shalne!'
"'Who are you" a dozen voices
yelled.
Il am an American, and / assure
you | have nothing but disgust for
those in this crowd who are disgracing
that name. came among You seek
ing home, came witha desire to help
build up your business interests, but
I'd rather locate in nest of rattle
snakes than among men who would
plot against u young, defenseless girl.
Now, l am worth half a million dollars,
your merchants here will tell you that
my checks are good for any amount,
and will bet any man in this crowd
five Thousand to one hundred dol
lars that the Mexican girl will win
the next two heats, for am going to
see fair play. and believe there are
enough honest Americans and natives
here to back me in doing So
"'iou- bet your life-thar'-is.' big
Tom yelled. The ours that's back.
in OF Matt Parker are towards, an
every square cowboy in the crowd will
stay with You, stranger. Won't you,
boys?'
Tom seemed to be great favorite
for ut his words ringing cheer went
up and a hundred voices yelled for q
square deal. Marta ran to me, and
taking my hand, said in her cuts
broken English:
80, senor, tank you. You good
man. You mucho bueno Amcricano
Me win. Me win. bad man Parker
he no laugh some more. Mucho grs
cias, mia amigo
II assured her that she should have
fair play, and that II her enemies de
sired to place any more money on theil
brazen favorite would meet every
wager.
81 will back you for all au
WORTH said to her, for know yo,
can win
ut WAS q wild. foolish assertion. bu
was thoroughly aroused, and was dc
tcrmined to down tho Parker factio,
even should meet with defeat b,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30


eanch on the Rio Bonito. in New
Mexico, and were seated on the We
randa which ran in front of the low
adobe ranch house, enjoying a smoke
and chat. At the table ] had been
greatly impressed with the rare
beauty and modest delneanor of Eber-
hard's young Mexican wife. 1t seemed
strange that she, yet but little more
than child, and of a race regarded by
western people as inferior in the
social scale to the whiter-sliinned
Americanos. should be the mistress of
the greatest ranch and the wife of the
most wealthy cattle king in all that
region. She had not. taken a promi-
nent part in our conversation at the
table. her knowledge of the English
language being somewhat limited, yet
when she did venture a remark or re-
spond to an inquiry ] could not but
note the soft music of her voice, and
when at some witty remark she joined
in our laughter the room seemed filled
with ripples of silvery sound
As Eberhard and myself sat on the
veranda enjoying our cigars and tne
delightful c)olness which always fol-
lows as a sort of an apology for the
heat of q New Mexican summer day,
said to him:
II was not aware until this evening,
Frank, that you had married Mexi-
can girl. Could you not find one of
your own race good enough for you?"
lie smiled good-naturedly, and,
knocking the ashes from his cigar, re-
piled;
"Plenty of them, no doubt. but
never felt in marrying mood until !
fell captive to Marita's dark eyes,
There is bit of romance connected
with our marriage. and | don't mind
telling you the story IL you care to
listen.
''lou are no doubt aware OF the fact
that by my fathers death in Denver, a
few years ago. inherited Il very com
Portable fortune. tried to fiji his place
In the business world for time. but
somehow always seemed ont of my
slenent in busy city life. and the de-
sire grew upon me to secure a great
ranch and establish myself in a more
quiet life.
Nearly three years ago i severed
the last business bond and started out
20 seek for such . ranch as my day
dreams had pictured. ] looked an
over Arizona and northern Texas. and
1nxlly drifted up to Las Cruces, on the
RiO Grsnde. reached that town on
/. che third day of July, and found the
people in hutter of excitement over
The cv lebration OF the following day
L. a
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30
SHE RULES THE RoosT.
The Woman Mayor of a New Zealand Town
Calls Down UnruIy Councillors.


Calls Down UnruIy Councillors.
Mrs. Yates, the mayor of Onehun-
ga, in New Zealand, is troubled, appar-
emily, with one or two unruly council
ors, and has some difficulty in keeping
her team in order. At a recent meeting,
reported in the New Zealand Herald,
the proceedings are described as live
ly.' The question under discussion was
an outbreak Of typhoid fever in the bor-
ough. At an early stage in the discus
sion Mr. Tapp expressed the opinion
that certain correspondence had been
kept back.
The mayor, with much frmness, said:
81 expect an apology from you, Mr..
Tapp, for making that remark, and
shall adopt similar course with any
other councillor Sc expressing himself"
Mr.. Tapp denied accusing her worship
OF suppressing correspondence. He
must have been misunderstood.
The mayor-I won't allow any coun-
cilor to insinuate that have kept back
correspondence.
Mr.. Tapp-You quite misunderstood
me, Mrs. Mayor.
Afterward Mr.. Tapp insisted upon
speaking, when he was ruled out of
order. The mayor said: 81 am the per-
son to dictate, not YOU"
Mr.. Tapp-Oh! no you're not.
The mayor-Don't answer me back.
Mr.. jackson, having moved a resolr-
tion, entered into a lengthy dissertation
on sanitary matters in general AS
Mrs. Yates has made a regulation that
the mover of u resolution shall be al
lowed only five minutes to introduce
it, she drew attention to the fact that
Mr.. jackson had spoken seven minutes.
Mr. jackson laughed and said the coun-
Gil had no power to make such an alb
surd regulation, and in any case it
did not apply to any one replying. He
would insist upon his right of saying
what he had to say, and did not intend
being talked down.
The mayOr-Mr. jackson, are you de-
flying my ruling?
Mr.. Jackson-Yes, in this matter.
The mayor-Then order you down.
Mr. Jackson said he would not be
gagged.
The mayor-Then I rule you out OF
order, and if you don't obey we might
as we'll dissolve.
Mr.. Jackson-Well, shall certainly
not obey you. You yourself have wasted
most OF the seven minutes and must
not interrupt me.
The inayor-You have rambled away
from the subject.
Mr.. Jackson-If did you forced me.
At this point the pickering ceased
and the business proceeded In quiet
ness Melbourne Argus.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30


Where's twice as many people now as when l
was q lad.
ND not half as many flags a hoatin as we had;
Nd on the streets there's no parades one tenth
as fine as We
When we was boys, was won't to come down
here 10 town to see.
why. In them days July the third was hardly
more than done
Before the boys out o. bed to fire tho
sienal-run;
ND all the time that passed from that ontil the
day was DER
You'd talk and couldn't hear yourself; the
boomin' and the roar
O. capnons stuffed with powder til you'd think
the things would bust
WA sich IL even coaxed the rain to come and
lay the dust.
Just at noon
The village band would wrastle with some
patriotic tune
ND then the declaration by the men that made
us free
The justice OF the peace would read straight
through from A to z;
And then some clever man that could nse Ian
guage just a bit,
He'd take the stand and tell us all the good
that came OF It,
When this was done the minister would read
some piece OF verse,
And then invoke u blessin' and request us to
disperse.
Them exercises over, we would have barbe-
The gals ali dressed in Sunday best, and all the
fellers too:
Nd when the night came over nll, we'd set OF
colored lights
ND wheels nd bombs in honor of tho men as
gave us rights.
But ROW the Fourth 1t amt the same as twas
in days Of yore.
The boys all say they've heard the declaration
"rcaa before
They do not care for lofty speech high sound
ing phrases'--and
They git more chills from cooling drinks than
from the village band;
Nd III the cities boys with squibs is guilty of a
Sin
That warrants cops from overseas in runnln
of en in.
'"Spread-eagle CAB" Is what they call the talk
of olden times,
md patriotic poetry is only fudge and
rhymes"
I'm sorry for to see 1t so. 1t sort o makes me
fear
There S much more Tory blood about than we
have need for here:
But. after all, I'm satisfied II these folks git
TOO hy,
They'll and the true American to-day is
pretty sp-y.
There never was time IN all our country's his
tory
AS have read 1t. and I've read 1t mighty thor
oughly,
When one good healthy straight-out man--the
sort loves his land
Warn't able sittin down to lick ten tories
with one hand
And even II there amt much show In patriotic
ways,
I'll bet this country's bound to last forever and
some days.
John kendrick Bangs, in Harpers Weekly
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-06-30

the buffers and thugs who hung about
his place, drank his dguardtente and
bowed to his will in everything, could
by some skulduggery retard the prog
ress of the other two contestants and
allow his girl to win the race, and him
self to win the heavy stakes which
would be placed upon the result of the
contest
81 learned, too, that there were
grave suspicious that the Indian girl
and her people had been fixed with
cash, and that she would purposely
drop behind, leaving but the Mexican
and American girls as the real con-
testants. The hackers OF the Mexican
girl were mostly from among her own
people, though few Americans had
backed their belief that she would win
with pretty heavy stakes. However,
the friends of the Montezuman fairy
were largely in the minority, and
greatly feared there would be foul
play which they would be unable to
prevent.
Il went to the grounds the following
afternoon with no intention to take
any part in the festivities except as an
onloolser. The track was Il straight
one, half mile long, just outside the
| town, and when reached 1T found a
! great crowd assembled there, Mexi-
cans, cowboys, Indians and the entire
American population Of the town, at
that time small. Matt Parker was
there. tiourishing roll of greenbacks
and loudly soliciting bets on the horse
races, but more particularly challeng,
ing anyone to post money against his
girl in the foot race.
Noting crowd collecting near by
where / stood stepped forward
through curiosity to see what was at
tracing it and learned that the Mexi
can girl was there with her friends
who seemed to be expostulatipg with
her. When | had elbowed my way
through the motley crowd near to her
| could not but stare in amazement.
had expected to see rough-looking
dark-skinned, lily clad girl such as We
so often see in the Mexican towns, but
instead found her a rarely beautiful
young creature with large tender eyes
and evidently of very timid disposi
tion. There were tears in her pretty
eyes, and her voice trembled as she re
piled to the half angry words of thos,
about her.
"A great big fne-looking cowbcJ
stood near me, There he is now out By
the branding chute, God bless him
Big Tom, my foreman, and he will bs
my foreman as long as run ranch)
and turning to him asked the trouble
He understood the Mexican tongue
and with somewhat dangerous ligh
in his eyes he replied:
Some o. Matt Parker's sneakin
dogs have been threatenin' the gal
an have got her so skeered up She
i afraid to run. There's crooked worl
a-goin' on here. an If wasn't afrai'
1t, d bring on row an that somebod.
that didn't dessrve it d git hurt II
pull my gun an claim fair play If go
downed fur it,
''The horse and donkey races wer
soon over, and Parker's winnings wer
80 small that he was in decided.
bad hnmor. The girls were thel
called to the scratch for the foot race
BY this time had become deeply In
terested In the contest, and ! want 4
; 70 say right here, Jack, that 1t has al
ways been my nature TO take the par
of the under dog in the fght. no maj
!. N what odds nsy " asainst.it