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Turkish Government to investigate the
outrage and bring any report that reflects
on either the kurds or the army. By
this act the Sultan seems to assume all
the responsibility tor what has been
done.
These stories of wrong and oppression
have aroused the civilized world. We
are glad to learn that our Government
has directed one of its ConsulS to make
an independent investigation of all mat
ters connected with the reported massa-
ere. But our Government does not stand
IN the same relations to Turkey as do the
European powers, that under the treaty
OF Berlin secured the right OF seeing that
goou government was maintained
throughout the Turkish empire. The
rights thus guaranteed ought now to be
exercised, and the first step should be the
most thorough investigation as to the
conduct of affairs throughout Armenia.
We cannot doubt that the European
powers will attend to their duty. The
winter is not a favorable time for visit
ing Eastern Turkey, where the snow is
often from eight TO twelve feet deep.
lime and patience will be required"
Erzlngan, which is referred TO in the
preceding statement is city ninety-siX
miles southwest of Erzeroum, situated
on the Euphrates, in the midst of the
mountains. 1t is noted for the energy of
It's people, both Turks and Armenians.
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DIAMOND swINDLE.
Operations of a Chicago Firm to
Investigated by Police.

Operations of a Chicago Firm TO be
Investigated by Police.
PITTsBURG, Dec. 16.-The police have
been informed by victim of the trick
that a Chicago firm, located on La Sale
street, is carrying on a diamond
swindle that is very catchy at this time of
the year. The plan of the nrm is de-
scribed as the sending, c. Q. D., to per-
sons whose names have been secured in
some way, sewed boxes, purporting to
contain diamonds. When the boxes are
opened the diamonds prove TO be worth
about 10 cents each. The boxes bear the
firm name of Perue, Wright ~ Co.,
Chicago. Hundreds of these packages
are said to have reached here with ex-
press charges ranging from 81 to 81.
Some have been delivered, but owing to
the timely notice gwen the police. many
rHmsin in the express office. The Adams
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MUNICIPAL MORALS,
Movement for the Publication Of San
Francisco Politics.

Movement for the Publication of San
Francisco Politics.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.-The clergy
men of this city are arranging for the
organization of movement in this city,
similar to the Lexow plan, for the i'm
provement OF municipal morals. Rev.
j. Cumming Smith, paster OF Trinity
Presbyterian Church, who has had YER
bal and written communications with
DR.. Parkhurst, took the initiative. A
union movement has been inaugurated
by the local organizations OF Presbyter-
ians, Methodist and Baptist ministers to
take concerted action. Ii the California
Legislature does. not appoint an official
purltication committee, the ministers will
conduct the investigation themselves,
with the aid OF citizens generally.
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American Cattle for Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. let is an
nounced here officially that the Govern
ment will grant concession to I. h.
Jones and Q. II. Nelson, cattlemen of
Pueblo, Col, and Kansas City, respect
lively, Tor the establishment of extensive
stock yards in this city. 1t is the inten-
ton OF the originators of the enterprise TO
bring large quantities of tine American
cattle into the country. place them on ex-
hibition in some locality especially de-
signed for the purpose and dispose of
them to Mexican breeders and dairymen,
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WILLING TO SERVE TIE STATE.
Aspirants for Positions Under the New
Admini II rat ion.

ASplrantS Tor Positions Under the New
administration.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.-Governor-
elect Budd says he will make no State
appointments until February or March.
For Private Secretary, John Markley,
formerly slated for the place, now wishes
TO be Secretary of the Board of Health.
E. l.. Coluon of Stockton is mentioned
for Private Secretary, with Marion De
Nries of stockton and Ed McCabe Of
Merced for second choice. John d. Nc
Gillivray of San Francisco and Isidor
Alexander OF Sacramento are the leading
Candidates for executive secretaryshi
If the Legislature does not abolish the
Office of Attorney for the Board of Health,
Frank Gould of Stockton may succeed
George A. Knight. The candidates for
Adjutant-General are Lieutenant Colonel
Dennis Geary, Colonies Scott and Coch-
ran OF San Diego ana Park Henshaw of
Butte.
l.. II. Brown. Secretary of State-elect,
will make William L. Sesnon chief
deputy. ". Ii. Govan and George A.
McCalvey Will also be deputies.
Attorney General w. +. Fitzgerald will
appoint Judge DAILY of Ventura chief
deputy. TIE other two deputyships lie
among Charles Post of sacramento, Frank
Sprague OF Redding and w. ii. \ ndersou
OF San Francisco, the latter now being in
NJ. NJ. Estee's office.
Among the deputies said to have been
selected by Trowbridge II. Ward of .os
Angeles. Clerk-elect of the Supreme
Court, are X. a. Marshall, II. A. Nc
Craney and +. c. Woodbury..
John Lynch OF San Bernardino is slated
for Speaker of the Assembly, and either,
Tom Flint of San Benito or Frank Me-
Gowan of humboldt as President pro
TEN. Of the Senate. Frank Brandon and
Marcus ID. Boruck are candidates for Sec
retary OF the Senate, and NJ. Ii. Smith for
Sergeant-at- Arms.
Senator Perkins now claims 56 out of IS
Republican members OF the Legislature
on the first ballot.
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Special to the REcoRD-UNIox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoS.
VICTORIA (B. c., Dec. 16.-The steam
snip Portland, formerly the Haytian Re-
pubic, returned here this morning, leak
ing badly and with her rudder damaged,
the result of two terrible hours OFT Cape
FIattery last night. She was coaI-laden,
bound from Nanaimo to San Francisco.
passing out at 1880 last night. Once clear
| OF land, she was in a raging gale. The
sea swept over her decks, and for a time
IL was feared it would extinguish the
hres. An effort was made to bring her
ABOUT, Dut she refused to answer the helm,
and those aboard feared for time that
sue would be completely at the mercy of
the waves. Every man in the crew was
called to duty. The ship was finally
brought about, and after two hours was
back inside of Tatoosh light Captain
Holmes was not asleep for forty-eight
hours, and is almost prostrated. He said
TINS evening that the ship was constantly
uhoer water, and that the gale was the
worst ne ever was in. one of the crew
stated that he made up his mind the ves-
sci would plunge into sea land go down
Ihe vessel will be surveyed tomorrow.
Any vessel that was off the cape last
night must have been seawo orthy 10 ride
"h0 SUI Ill' SSF6IdA large steamers re-
ported overdue have arrived.
MISSING STEAMSHIPS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. l6.-As the DAYS
go by, smaller and smaller become the
chances for the safe return of the steam
ships keWeenaw and Montserrat. 6osen-
field u Co. still cling 10 the belief that the
former vessel will turn up ali right, but
| the pilots, the sea Captains and the tug
boat men all believe there is no hope tor
the old black binder or the Pacific I'm
provement Company's collier Montserrat
Captain i. Z. II. TobiteIand at one time
! the owner of the MOntserrat said that he
dld OF have much hope for the arrival OF
either the Montserrat or the keweenaw,
simply because they would have been
heard from before this if they only been
damaged.
the Nigilant has gone outside the heads
with i've days provisions, and will re-
main at sea long enough to make search.
1t is probable that either the steamships
have broken their shafts or been other
wise disabled and are drifting helpIessly
about on the ocean, or have gone to the
bottom. Orders to the cutter Corwin have
not yet been received from the Secre-
tary of the Navy. but it is likely the . es-
sci Will be started out IN day or two.
| The Rush is now somewhere OG the
northern coast looking for the remains OF
the IvanhOe. She may learn something
OF the fate OF the GOLFERS.
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Another Victim of the Desert,

SAN DIEGO, Dec. l6.-H. Z. Holland,
James E. Mason and Sol Vines have re-
turned to Nuevo from a prospecting trip
on the desert, which was an unusually
hard Cne, extending into the Cocopan
Mountains, near wnere the BreedlOve
party perished two years ago. On the
trip south the party discovered the re-
mains OF another victim Of the desert.
The flesh had been almost entirely eaten
away by coyotes. The remains could
not be identified.
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Indication Pointing to a Crime.

CAZADERo, Dec. 16.-This town is
quite stirred up over the mysterious dis
appearance of John Cook, a cripple, who
kept a wayside resort just outside town,
and who has not been seen for a week
\ search OF his premises discloses sew
eral mysterious bullet holes, which leave
no doubt that crime has been COM
nitted. That robbery was not the
motive for the crime is almost certain,
for money that he had saved was un-
touched. The woods are being searched
for the remains
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Hotel Destroyed by Fire.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 16.-The hotel at Irving
ton was destroyed by nre this morning.
The fire was not discovered until it had
gained good headway, and there was no
water supply in the building, and it was
soon burned down. 1t was owned by
Nelson Brownell. Loss, $1,000; fully in
sured. A printing establishment in the
building was also burned.
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A Hich snIarled Locker.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.-Jockey Harry
Griffin, the highest salaried man in his
profession in America, arrived to-day,
and will appear before the San Francisco
public at the Bay District track this week.
de is under contract for next season at
salary OF $50, 900,
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ARMENIAN OUTRAGBS.
Terrible Fate of a Man Captured
by Savage Turks.
FLAYED TO THE WAIST-TEE FLESH
COOKED AND EATEN.

Relative TO Affairs in Turkey
commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions-Japanese Forces Gain An
other Victory over the Chinese
Robert Louis Stevenson. the Novel
ist, Dies Suddenly in Samoa.
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CAUGHT IN A RAGING GALE.
The Steamship Portland Arrives
at Victoria Leaking Badly.
RESULT OF TWO TERRIBLE HOURS
OFF CAPE FLATTERY.

Small Hopes Entertained for the Safe
return of the Steamship Keewa.
nav and the Collier Montserrat-
believed Either to Have Been Dis
abled and Now Drifting HelpIessly
About on the Ocean or Gone to the
Bottom.
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Funeral of John A. Kooken.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. l6.-The funeral of
the late John A. kooken, who died at
Santa Monica last Thursday of heart dis
ease, took place yesterday afternoonsat
Horton Hall, under the ritual OF the q.
II
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Died shortly After Arrest.

SANTA CLARA, Dec. 16.-A well
dressed young German, about so years
old, died Saturday evening in Anaheim
In less than an hour after he had been ar
rested on charge OF forgery Deceased
is believed to be Oscar Breiback oil San
Bernardino,
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PROGRAMME OF CONGRESS.
Nicaragua Canal Bill the Leading
Measure in the Senate.
WILL OCCUPY ATTENTION UNTIL A
VOTE IS REACHED.

Promise of an Exciting Week in the
House-An Effort to be Made to Set
Aside the Remaining Days, Begin
ming Tuesday, for Debate on the
Carlisle Currency Bill, With Pro-
visions for a Final Vote on Friday
Next.
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Express Company agent has telegraphed
TO Chicago asking that an investigation
be set on foot.
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The President On a Hunting Trip.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. = President
Cleveland, accompanied by DR.. o. ReiIley,
Captain Evans and Charles Jefferson, left
Washington this evening on an Atlantic
Coast train for hunting trip on the coast
OF South Carolina. The party will return
in about week,
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Children Die From Exposure.

WUAPUN wis.,, Dec. 16.-The Schultz
children. who disappeared from their
home in the town of Waupun last Mon
day, and for whom hundreds of men
have been searching, were found dead
this afternoon in the woods, two miles
from the homestead. They lost their
way in Mondays storm and died from
exposure.
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Boundary Question Settled.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-It is learned
by tie Bureau of American Republics
that the long pending boundary ques-
ton between Paraguay and Bolivia has
been at last settled by treaty agreement
between the two countries. Bolivia
acquires territory which gives her an out
let along the right bank of the Paraguay
River Tor a distance of about twenty
leagues. The bureau is notified that the
Republic of Honduras has adopted the
gold dollar of the United States as its
standard coin.
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HINCKEY EXoNERATED.
Wrightington's Injuries in the Spring
field Game the Result OF Accident.

WrIghtington's Injuries in the Spring.
field Game the Result OF Accident.
New YORK, Dec. 16. - Immediately
upon the close of the football season, the
Yale Football Association, in view Of the
charges against Captain Hinckey of the
eleven, requested committee of prom
inent gentlemen to investigate. The
committee, which was perfectly salts
factory TO the Harvard eleven, have
found that all the charges of roughness in
the Springfield game have centered in
the alleged injury of Wrightington by
Captain Hinckey. The committee ex-
amined Captain Hinckey, who states
most positively that he did not "knee' or
otherwise maltreat Wrightington in the
Springfield game, and that he has never
been guilty OF unfair roughness in any
of the games in which he has taken part.
In his statement before the committee
Referee Boviard says he was near the
men at the time the alleged willful injury
occurred, and he maintains that Wright
ington was thrown perfectly tair, so his
Injuries were the result OF accident, aud
not of malevolence on the part OF the
members of the Yale team. Hinckey
was eXonerated.
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Brazil,s Now PRESIDENT.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The Bureau of
American Republics has received in full
the inaugural address of President De
Prudente De Moraes, delivered Novem-
Der 10th. The new President is the first
to be elected to the high office by the
voice of the people of Brazil, his two pre-
decessors having been elected by the vote
of the National Congress. The address
speaks of the discussion and strife
through which the republic has passed
since the inception, November Is, 1889,
TO the loyalty and confidence of. his
cOunLrVmeu
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PEACE NEGOTIATIONS,

FoREIGNEEs TO BE PROTECTED.
SHANGHAI, Dec. l6.-An imperial or
der mas been issued commanding the
gendarmes of Pekin to give special pro-
lection to the Legations III that city, and
to the residences of foreigners. The
gendarmes are directed to immediately
arrest any person who attempts to dis
turb the peace.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-25
AUTOCRACY.

For generation there has been
practically but one man for the Shy
locks to purchase in their schemes
of brigandage-the secretary of the
treasury-and he has responded
with alacrity to all their demands.
Carlisle is traitor Of such base de-
gree that he should be nationally
ostracised. He has betrayed the
people. His dark doings will loom
up, not many moons hence, in two
or three hundred millions of inter
est bearing bonds. Shylock has de-
manded them, and, not in thirty
years has Shylock made demand
to which the secretary of the treas
ury mas not acceded. He should be
shorn of his power to do evil to the
people. To leave the happiness of
nation contingent upon the Ca
prices of one man is too much of an
autocracy there is not an element
of republicanism in it.
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ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE!

Again we urge farmers and labor
ers of all classes to revive old or
carnations or establish new ones.
This is absolutely necessary if we
are to win in the impending con-
fict
We are now confronted with a
powerful organization known as the
money power. 1t embraces, under
one head, the various corporations,
pools, trusts and combines, includ-
ing bond, holders, railroad compa-
mics and stock gamblers, who, if
one interest is attacked, all the rest
ioin in it's defence. 1t is known
that this general combine works in
the legislatures of the states and in
congress, or even going back to the
primaries and elections. working
through the lavish use of money to
defeat unfriendly candidates.
The several departments OF our
government will yield, or are surely
yielding, slavish obedience to
this devil-fish of society, and we
behold the dreadful spectacle of a
few vulgar, heartless men debating
laws and administering govern
ment for sixty-five million of PEG
pie of the most enlightened, brave
and humane of all the worlds his
tory. Not one of the milllonaires
i. known in the fields of art, litera.
ture, science, education, labor OF
religion. Wealth wrested from the
laborers of this great "free" coun'
try has erected throne, upon
which. in gaudy attire and insuffer
able arrogance, is seated the most
contemplate sovereign that ever
swayed an empire. TO be the sub
;ects or serfs of a monarch is enough
4, raise from the dead the immortal
heroes of 70. We sound no false
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-25

THERE is great suffering abroad
in the land. John Sherman told
congress there would be if certain
contemplated things were done.
They were carried into effect, and
the result is idleness without a par
allel-appalling poverty, beggary
and want, and John Sherman is
working with all the devilish energy
he is master of to permanently fastcn
these conditions upon the nation
and yet, some people call him "hon-
est John Sherman. Great God
where shall we go to find u robber?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-25

Just read what that Blood and
Brides" crank, Gov. Wait, of Col
orado, says, to support his idea of
coming silver by the state: "lf,
therefore, silver has been demone-
tized, am in favor of remonetizing
it. If it's coinage has been prohib-
tied am in favor of ordering it
enlarged. The concession to con
gress of the right to coin money
was in the nature of a trust, the
execution of which can only be en-.
forced by a continuous coinage. If
a trustee neglects or refuses to per-
form a trust, the courts, in ordinary
cases, compel performance, or, in
default thereof. the trust reverts to
the trustor. If, in this case, the
government being the trustee, there
is no competent power to compel
the execution of the trust, THE
RIGHT TO COIN MONEY RE-
VERTS TO THE STATES OR THE
PEOPLE," ***
Hold OH |! we are mistaken. 1t
was Jane, G. Blaine who said the
foregoing. and he said it in the
hunse of representatives Oh Febru
airy I, 1877, and the speech may be
found in the Congressional Record,
volume I. part L, Forty-fiith con-
gress, page S20.-Col. Ii. NJ. Greene
in the Jeffersunian, Lawrence.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-25

of our farmers are tenants. Ut the
farm owners, 80 per cent. were
owing on their farms an average OF
$l,13O, and the value of the farm
was only $500. Since the census
was taken, farm land has steadily
declined, or the dollar has steadily
advanced. The mortgages will take
two-thirds of the farms, and then so
per cent. or half the farmers of the
United States will be tenants. From
the same showing, 60 per cent. of
the home-Owners are tenants. Ut
those who owned homes, 29 per
cent. carried incumbrance, averag
ing $l,13O; value of home, 1854.
The mortgages will take three-fifths
of the homes, and the number of
home tenants will be swelled from
60 to 81 per cent There are l2,-
100000 families in the United
States. Eleven and half million
families own $1,000, 100000; five
hundred thousand families own $43,-
600, 100000. Of the families that
own $43,OOO,OOO, 900, there are
4,O47 which own $S,094, 900, 600
and all live in New York city.
This stupendous robbery has been
effected, largely, in thirty years,
and is going on today in full tide.
backed by president, courts and
congress. If we have not kept
what we produced in the past, shall
we keep it in the future 1t can
not be.
The power that stripped us yes
terday, that strips US to-day, strips
us tomorrow, if there is no change;
but there must be change. AS
American freemen, we will never
submit to the god of avarice, or
sacrifice at it's affairs. But, if we
would not be forced 10 submit, we
must work work ! work mot as
bushwackers, but in solid column,
shoulder-to-sh shoulder: the mechanic
ide.by-side with the operative, the
miner, the railroad employee, the
farmer-and. shall we say the clerk,
the merchant and the professional
man? Solid columns cannot be
formed without organization. The
brave armies that fought under
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan would
have been food for the carrion in
six months, if each man had fought
on his own hook. If Grants Shers
mans and Sheridan's armies had
not acted in concert, the Confeder-
acy would have won. We don't
care under which general you
fight, Just so you fight. The sol
diers in one army may have prefer
red the general of another, but the
preference never dampened their
ardor.
To farmers, we would say that if
you do not like the Alliance, go ill.,
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DON'T YOU BELIEVE THE LIES.

| SCduuS up IOI MIS-. HcdSc, dHu says
brand as a cowardly lie every re
port you hear derogatory to thu
good name of Mrs. Lease" 1t il
reported that Mrs Lease and Cyrus
Corning are to form partnership
to start daily paper for the pur
pose of fighting the administration
Speaking of this. the Pleasantol
Herald says that it has always ha(
a good opinion of Mrs. Lease, bu
if the report is true as to such I
partnership, that there is room t.
doubt the sincerity of Mrs. Lease
in the peoples cause.
The above item appeared in las
weeks Labor's Tribune, of Carthage
Mo-, and came to us marked, so we
presume the editor wants us to say
something about it.
All right here goes :
In the first place, we are greatly
surprised that any Populist paper
should give credence to the stories
that are set ahoat by the old party
papers for the sole purpose of hurt
ing the peoples cause. There is
not a Populist editor but what wei
knows that we cannot get justice
from a single old-party paper. 1t is
their chief delight to get reformers
to quarreling among themselves.
Mrs. Lease is NOT about to form &
partnership with Cyrus Corning OIL
any one else to start daily paper
to fight the administration Just
set that fact down in your note
book. However, it would be not {
whit worse for her to form a part
nership with Cyrus Corning thar
with an editor who is constantly
bowling for fusion with the Demo
cratic party--the editor of the Pleas
anton Herald, for instance.
Other professed Populist papers
in the state have reprinted the old
party lies, and one has got so low
as to re-publish some of filth which
appeared in old Sol Miller's paper
which, for nastiness, lays the Police
Gazette III the shade
The papers, as a rule, that arr
abusing Mrs. Lease are edited by
men who have received a hand on
from the administration table, o.
are expecting "small smear o pie.
There may be a few exceptions tt
this rule.
Some of the enemies of Mrs
Lease say she is going into the Re
publican party. The wish is fathe
to the thought. The fusion
advocates desire it, because they
think such move would kill hel
influence with the people, and thus
rid them tf troublesome foe. Re
publican leaders are also anxious tt
have her join their party, and TO
the same reason. They well know
that then the lioness' teeth and claws
(fguratively speaking) would be re
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Yes, brother: the AGITAToR stands
up fr Mrs. Lease (God bless herr,
and time will prove that we are
right in doing SO.