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The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20

Well, we set to work to think of ev- cry word in the language relating to robbery and containing five letters It was like working out some of those puzzles that you see In the Sunday pa- pers, but we couldn't hit on the right answer. Seeing as robbery" didn't furnish us with the word we tried words connected with politics and if we had only known it we were on the right track, but we never got there.
 We worked at the combination for good tive nty-four hours, taking it altogether, and then we had to give it up. Then we sent for the best safe burglar in the whole northwest, and offered him one hundred dollars to open the safe, giving him leave to try any plan he might prefer. The man had heard of Jim's patent burglar proof safe, and being an ambitious chap, who took a genuine pride in his profession, he was glad of the job But he didn't succeed any better than we had done. Picking at the lock, guess ing at the combination and working with the jimmy were all failures, and, having heard about the experiment that the first gang of train robbers had made on the safe with dynamite. he didn't think it worth while to try that sort of thing for the second time.
 For all that we kept tinkering at the combination for fortnight or more afterward. Jim had been quiet after the end of the first eight days and we couldn't get any answer from him. So, seeing as the time had come to bid farewell to him, we decided that we would take the safe down to the Athensville cemetery and bury it us it stood. Which, accordingly, was done on the following Sunday, and seeing as it was known that safe be- longed to Jim and was empty at the
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
THE NEW TARIFF.
Wages Being Reduced as n Result of
 Democratic Legislation.

Wages Being Reduced as Result of
 Democratic Legislation.
 A dispatch from Toledo describes the difficulties the knitting industries of that city and vicinity have to en- counter under the operation of the new tariff law. The manufacturers there will have to furnish goods at much lower prices than heretofore in order to meet the increased foreign competition. They may be able to ob- tain wool at lower figures and dye stuffs little more cheaply than be- fore, and perhaps make some improve ments in machinery before the Eu- ropean manufacturers achieve that ad- vantage, but if by means of economies in one or more of these directions they cannot achieve saving equal to the cut in the protective duties nothing will be left but to lower the wage scale or cease to operate the works.
 One of the Toledo employers states the case with reference to certain kind of mitten in which there is a large trade. The cost per dozen is 90 cents for wages, s5 cents for material, 10 cents for boxing and waste and 30 cents for selling. The total cost is S2.15. In France, Germany and Bel gium the cost per dozen for the same kind of goods is S1.11, including 25 cents for labor and GO cents for ma terial. Adding to this duty of S5 per cent. the foreign manufacturer is able to bring his product to our doors at S1.50 per dozen. There is difference of 65 cents which must be met in some way or the foreign mittens will be purchased by American consumers in preference to those of home make. Undoubtedly large part of it will have to be supplied from q reduction in wages.
 This is inevitable. The American manufacturer cannot afford to sell at S1 goods which it costs him S1.25 to produce. He no more will do that than the average consumer will pay him SIPS for goods which another man is willing to sell him at S1. His mater iais will cost some less, and wages are
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
Great Failing on i'm ReceIpts.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-The state- ment of the monthly receipts from cus- toms for the port of New York for the last ten days, practically the first ten days of the new tariff act, shows the total of $4, ,s44, ,319, as against Ss,723,O31 for the preceding ten days. Not one dollar of gold coin or gold certificates was received during the ten days at New York.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
Catholic Knights in Session.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 12.-At the seventh biennial convention of the state coun- cil of Missouri Catholic Knights of America which met to-day, about 15O delegates and members were present. Solemn high mass was celebrated after which the usual committees were ap- pointed. President Reising, in his an- nual address recommended that per capita tax be made for the purpose of paying the council furnishing funds to push the order and that the lorna tion of uniformed ranks be encouraged. The principal bushes of the convention will be transacted to-day.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
GERMANS MAY SECEDE.
The New Ruling in the Knights of Pythias
 May Cause Germans to Withdraw.

The New Ruling in the Knights of Pythias
 May Cause Germans to Withdraw.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-Charles A. Lee, supreme representative Knights of Pythias, was asked regarding the secession of the German lodge at h. dianapolis. He said he was not sur prised to hear of it, and would not be surprised to hear of others. This is America" said MT. Lee, land we want our order to be an American order. It will be better for these chapters to get out of the order if they are not willing to conform to the American style of things. We have over 300, 900 members and about 13,0OO German members. If these l3,O00 German members go out, 26,000 new men will come in on the strength of the new rule"
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
Saunders in Jail.

WICHITA, Kan, Sept 12.-Gen. Saun- ders, the leader of the Cripple creek division of the Coxey army, whose bond was forfeited in the United States court here yesterday for non-attend- ance, presented himself, pleaded guilty and was fined $50 He objected to go to jail in default, and offered to pay a man to guard him at the hotel till Van Prather, the state auditor, could send money to pay his fine, but Marshal Nicely refused and the general spent the night in the Sedgwicl county jail.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
Peace Restored in Brazil.

RIO DE JANEIRo, Sept. 12.-Gov Cas- tillho, of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, reports peace restored along the entire seaboard. In the part of the province bordering on Missions there are few guerrilla bands remaining, but that is all. The chief towns are all garrisoned by government troops. The state is rapidly becoming quiet and orderly, and Brazilian refugees are returning at every opportunity.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
Pennsylvania Democrats.

HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. l2.-The democratic state convention recon vened here yesterday to fill the vacancies on the state ticket caused by the death of Hannibal K. Sloan, of h. diana county, and the withdrawal of ex-Judge Butcher, of Union, the nomi- nees for congressmen-at-large, Thomas Collins, of Bellefonte, and Henry Myers, of Allegheny, were unanimous ly chosen to fill the vacancies.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
The Czar Desires Only Peace.

BERLIN, Sept. 12.-The Boersen Cou- rier publishes an interview with Dr. White, Russian minister of finance, in the course of which he says that the czar desires to be at peace with the whole world. It is great mistake to suppose that Russia is disposed to vio- ate peace for the sake of France. The Russians are convinced of Emperor Williams and Emperor Francis Joseph's love of peace.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20

B-Sheep shearing will rapidly de- cline now, but the shearing of farmers who formerly owned flocks will con- tinue at an increasing rate.-Indianpo- lis Journal.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20

hide yourself in the fire box, or under the water in the tank?'
 !, See here" says Jim, "I ain't no Ulame fool, if l look like one. No, sir, oont callate to try any such games aS those you're a referring to, but do expect to get inside that safe when ,ne train is held up and to stay there anuI the robbers get tired of'trying 10 open it."
 That's big scheme, Jim," says the vohouctor, but I'd like to know how .sVU expect to open the safe again when you want to come out?"
 'N' says Jim, "that part of the busi-
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
A DISHONEST BILL.
The swindIing Policy of the Humbugging
 Democracy.

The Swindllng Policy of the Humbugging
 Democracy.
 When the democratic national con- vention, held at Chicago in 1892, dis cussed the tariff question, the plank from the Randall platform of 1894 was brought forward. This was on the lines of modified protection. But it was howled down by Henry Waiter son and other free trade fanatics, and for it was substituted the Neal-Wat- terson plank, which denounced the system of protection" as ''unconstitu- tional' and as "a fraud--a robbery of the majority of the American people for the protection of the few" It was with this tariff plank in their platform that the democratic party went before the people pledged to free trade.
 How have they carried out their promises? They have struck down wool and protected coal They have freed salt and protected raw sugar. They have freed tin ore and protected iron ore. They have laid before the people bill which is not free trade bill, or even bill for revenue only, OuI Ill III "h1Ch ul11C1o from the republican tariff only in de gree, but not in kind.
 It has been estimated (by democratic statisticians) that the grand average of duties under the republican McKin- ley tariff was fifty per cent It is est;- mated (also by democratic statisti- cians) that the grand average of du- ties under the democratic sugar trust tariff is thirty-eight per cent. This makes difference of twelve per cent. If, as the democratic platform alleged, protection is unconstitutional" a fraud" and robbery" how about this sugar trust tariff? If fifty per cent. protection is unconstitutional, is thirty-eight per cent. constitutional? Does twelve per cent. make the differ cnce between honesty and dishonesty? If fifty per cent. protection is fraud and a robbery, is not thirty-eight per cent. protection robbery and a fraud?
 It is small wonder that Grover Cleve- land hesitated to affix his signature to this humbug bill. It is not an honest bill It is tainted with all manner of scandals and rumors of bribery. It is not what the rank and file of the dem- ocratic party asked for, nor is it what the democratic leaders promised to give them.
 The democratic party's platform was swindle, it's investigation" of the sugar scandal was sham, and its so- called free-trade tariff is a fraud Sau Francisco Argonaut.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20
cY-The figures from Maine are sig

eB-The figures from Maine are sig niflcant This is an of year," a year in which, under ordinary circum- stances, the vote would have been light. Yet the republican majority seems destined to reach 10000. In the presidential year of 1899 it was but 12,5OO. The greatest majority hereto fore achieved was 27,690. The majori- ties are phenomenal also when consid- cred in relation to congressional cleo tions. Reeds plurality is estimated at 10000. He has been the stalwart cham pion of protection against the on- slaughts of the democratic free-trade majority in the Fifty-third congress. He has his reward.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-09-20

ey-It seems to be Mir. Cleveland's studied purpose to break down and sweep away everything which has been established beyond the seas for the protection of American interests in foreign parts. We are building a great and expensive navy, not because there is danger of collision with other powers, but because American trade is expanding and American inter- ests are springing up all over the world. But the Cleveland adminis- tration discourages everything which tends to sustain wise foreign policy. Mir. Cleveland truckled to England in the Behring sea matter, as he is now trucking to Germany in the Samoan matter. It places the country in hu- initiating light before the rest of the world. Albany Journal.
The morning call., 1894-07-03
GREED AND PRIDE.

1t is given to few men to carry at all
times and under all circumstances level
head. The proverb has it that pride pre-
cedes a fall. History is full of examples
where men who had achieved greatness
fell before their greed for greater honors.
The despairing cry of the great church
man, Had / but served my God with hall
the zeal / served my king" means simply
that he was stripped of honor and wealth
for the sin of having tried to grasp more
than be could hold 1t does not take a
prophets eye to discern several Americans
who are riding for a tall. On this poin,
the Stockton Independent says:
Carnegie's example should be warning to
Pullman. A few years ago everybody respected
Carnegie, but now there Is none so poor as to
do him reverence. His greed precipitated the
strike at Homestead which cost SO many lives
From the time of that strike he was generally
execrated. Pullman's greed and imperiousness
precipitated the great railway boycott strike
and his name may also become a synonym fol
greed, oppression and arrogance.
1t is not likely that Pullman cares much
what his name is synonym for, so tha,
the word failure" is not included as one.
He is tco rich to fear poverty, and TOO CON-
pletely absorbed in money making to feel
any reproach that may alta ch to that pur-
suit. But Pullman prides himself on his
success. So far he has overcome all OBJ
stacles that have stood in the way of any
purpose he desired TO accomplish. II his
attempt to grind few dollars out of the
labor of his employees should fail he would
be made unhappy.
The morning call., 1894-07-03
COMPETING RAILROADS.

California will lose enough money BY
the present railroad tie-up to build rail-
road from Stockton to Bakersfield. But
when the tie-up is broken the money it
cost will be gone and we will not have the
road. If that much talked of road was
now in operation there would be no
paralysis of business throughout the
locality tributary to it. If Pullman cars
were part of the ordinary outfit of San
Joaquin train they would be dropped.
Business could be done without chem.
But with the entire State under single
system, and that system controlled by
men who consider railroad service private
business TO be conducted in way to make
the most money for its managers, the busi-
ness of the State is paralyZed. 1t is in the
power of one man who vibrates between
New York and Washington to set all these
idle wheels into motion. This man has
only to give orders that Pullman cars be
detached from all trains until the difficult
ties between Pullman and his employees
are settled. These few words would have
the effect of magic. Trains would run in
every direction. Produce would find Its
market, the money for 1t would find its
way 10 the producers. and through them to
the ordinary channels of trade The busi-
ness OF the State is in the grip of one man,
and he man who is supremely Indifferent
TO all interests save his own. The waste
Of money and labor caused by the railroad
monopoly would within five years build a
competing local system if our people would
set about IT,
The morning call., 1894-07-03
MAIL SERVICE.

: Judge Ross has instructed the Grand
. Jury of Los Angeles that the Southern
Pacific COMPANY is not by law required TO
run any other trains for the carrying of
the mails than their regular passen ger
trains. Consequently the failure Of the
company to carry the mails on other than
regular trains is not violation of any law
Of-the United States. The Judge also in
forms the Grand Jury that obstacles
thrown in the way of passenger train
carrying the mails are TO be considered as
obstacles to the passage of a mail train.
This view Of the Law includes passenger
train carrying the mails under the pro-
lection thrown over a mail train.
If these instructions are allowed the
force of judicial decision they place the
Railway Union in a bad position. The
union has assumed the right to prevent by
com bins alton the running of Pullman cars
without exposing its members to the pen
alties that would attend concerted action
TO prevent transportation company from
carrying the mails. The leaders of the
strike have expressly stated that they
would extend all aid in their power to the
Transmission of the mails. while refusing
work on any train to which Pullman car
was attached. Judge Ross is in line with
Attorney-General Olney's order that all
the protection given to mail train should
be given to each department of such as
ordinarily made up.
The morning call., 1894-07-03

Bourbon at the time of the advent of
white men. This bird is allied by its
structure to the modern pigeon, but it was
bigger than swan and weighed fifty or
sixty pounds Its wings were so small as
TO be useless for flight. It's beak was
hooked, showing that it was bird Of prey,
and It's digestive powers were so strong that
it could assimilate stones and even pieces
of iron. Sailors easily killed it aud ate the
flesh, which is described as coarse and
greasy. Of this creature some specimens
were brought to Holland by Dutch mari
ners, and pictures of them are seen in
museums. But not living member Of the
family survives. Naturalists have a the
ory that it was descended from pigeons
which flew across from Africa. and, find
ing their wings useless in the island for
ests. ceased to use them till they shriveled
and became mere rudiments of organs.
When a colony of French HUguenots
settled on the island of Rodriguez, in 1851,
they found bird there to which they
gave the name of the solitaire from its
lonely habits. 1t was twice as big as an
ordinary turkey and weighed forty-fye to
fifty pounds. Its neck was longer than
turkeys, but it had no tail. and its wings,
being too weak to support the weight of
the body, shrank away till they became
mere appendages. The solitaires were
excellent eating and not at all pugnacious.
When captured by the Frenchmen they
to feed and wept INCREASINGLY till they
died. This species is now entirely extinct.
though skeletons are abundant.
The great aux existed within the present
century. though it is now believed to be
extinct. Its home was in the Arctic. 1t
lived on rocks and supported itself by
fishing. 1t was not a dangerous bird, be-
ing only three feet in length, with
wings which were too small for prolonged
flight. Its celebrity has been due to Its
gradual disappearance from its old haunts.
A living aux at the present day would be
priceless.
These various forms of bird life are the
connecting links between the fossil birds
and the birds of the present day. The re-
searches of Marsh, Huxley and others
have exploded many old notions about the
size Of the birds in the preadamte era.
The pteradactyls and the platypterus
were reptiles not birds. and though birds
of huge stature may have lived in the
eoeene, the stray bones which have been
found incline to the reptilian type. The
first undoubted fossil bird is the archaop-
teriX, whose skeleton was found in Bava-
ria and which was the size of a crow. AS
rule the sO-called bird whose bones are
set up in museums and which are said to
have dourished in the days when the coal
measures were formed crawled through
seething mud puddes in the bayous and
swamps OF the primeval tropical forests.
The morning call., 1894-07-03
EXTINCT BIRDS.

The party Of naturalists who lately un-
dertook to explore the unknown regions in
the provinces of Otago and Canterbury in
New Zealand in the hope of discovering a
living representative of the moa family
have returned unsuccessful from their
quest, and we may thus abandon hope of
seeing that weird representative of prebis-
toric bird life in the flesh. The moa is
evidently destined to share with the dodo
shelf of fossil remains.
It was the connecting link between the
emu and the birds Of the carboniferous
era, and was first cousin of Sindbad the
Sailors roc, which carried off an elephant
in its talons. 1t stood ten or eleven feet
high in its bare feet, and it was so raven
Gus that 1t ate pebbles. and In the words
of the poet, "Corkscrews and gimlets but
its appetite whet." 1t is found as far back
as the post ploeene era, but it must have
survived till comparatively recent times,
for portions of the creature, with feath-
ers and skin attached. have been found in
Maori ovens, and a human skeleton was
lately unearthed, with the egg Of moa in
its hard. The bird must have been mon
arch of forests in which neither elephants
nor lions nor bears f1ourished /; its strength
fitted it to conquer the kangaroo and such
animals; its tibia measured a yard in
length, and its toebones resembled those
of an elephant Ii is pity that we can
never see 1t in the flesh.
Another bird which has sometimes been
classed with the moa was the dodO, which
abounded in the islands of Mauritius and
The morning call., 1894-07-03

his veto OF the bill appropriating $4,000 TO
pay It's expenses. Is has caused great deal oil
junketlng 10 Europe-New York Mail and Ex-
press.
Sweetness and light make gooc comDlna-
ton, but the light thrown on the sugar trust
and Its dealings makes picture not at all pleas
ing to those who have old ashioned ideas about
the honesty or legislators.-New York Tribune.
Senator Hill gave additional proof yesterday
OF expanding craftsmanship. The man who
few years ago boasted Il am Democrat Is
now proud to say that he is ashamed OF his
party.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
The only justification of an income tax Is the
necessity of providing means to carry on war;
and the people will not indorse such method
OF raising revenue under any other clrcum'
stances.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Hamlin Garland has actually succeeded In
making Joaquin Miller talk.-Atlanta Constitu-
Iion.
Now. If Joaquin Miller can only succeed In
making Hamn Garland shut up.-New York
Sun.
We are bossed too much There is every
reason 10 believe that the sum extorted as
blackmail in this city during the last ten years
runs far into the millions. Who's got it?-New
York World.
Lynch law Is baO, but there are worse things.
Chcago's reputation in re Prendergast might
be materially improved by a resolute and busi-
nesske ynching party.-New York Recorder.
The morning call., 1894-07-03
PERFECT PARITY.

a writer in a magazine making great
pretensions in the way of scientific treat
ment of subjects denies the utility Of
bimetallsm because during a long period
of years it did not hold the money OF the
two metals at exact parity. Sometimes
gold would be shade higher than silver.
and again the position of the two metals
in relation TO each other would be re-
versed. Columns of statistics are given
showing that there never was exact parity
that there would be fraction OF l per
cent one way or the other. These columns
of statistics prove more than their COM
pliers intended. They show that during
a long period the money of the two metals
did not separate so far but that the
cheaper was always accepted without cavil
In payment Of all debts. This is the hinge
upon which bimetallism turns. The
cheaper of the two will always be used in
general business and IN payment of debts.
In this way substantial equilibrium is
maintained. The greater use of the
cheaper increases the demand and soon
brings it to parity. Bullion quotations
fuctuate slightly, but either metal is good
money. When. after period during which
gold has been quoted at slight premium,
silver being meantime in most common
use, gold begins to appear in ordinary pay
ments. it's appearance is accepted as an
indication that silver in its turn has
reached slight premium. But the debtor
pays in either metal and the creditor is
content that the option should rest with
the debtor. 1t follows that exact parity is
only reached when one metal is made the
standard, the other being treated as COM
modify. This is the kind of bimetallism
under which silver has deprecated 80 per
per cent within twenty years.