The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-30
|BRADY'S CONFESSION
Says He Robbed the Train Near
the Sheep Camp.
FIGHTING IN CUBA AGAIN.
Lake Washington Canal Commenced
Amid Rejoicing Polar Ex-
peditiOn Discussion.
FIGHTING IN CUBA AGAIN.

Sacramento, July 29.-Jack Brady, tn
notorious outlaw, has made a confession
to the officers and 1t Is such a straight
forward story bearing out facts alread,
in their possession that they have n,
reason to doubt the genuineness of hi
assertions.
BRADY made a clean breast Of 1t. ad
p1itting that he and Browning had robbed
the train near the sheep camp. He tol(
his story in such a manner that there
can be scarcely any doubt as to Its truth.
fulness
Brady says that before holding up the
passenger train they went out on the rail.
road track and experimental with some
torpedoes, placing them in front of q
freight train. They worked satisfactorily
and the next night they went out to hold
up the express train. Just before n
reached point selected by them for
their work, the track walker came along
ana they pressed him into service.
Ihe robbery was well planned and
turned out richer than their fondest de-
sires had hoped for. They ran the loco
motive close up to the town of Washing
ton, he said, took off their treasure re.
Versed the lever and sent the engine
on the back track. AT the time thew hed
no idea that they had captured a fortune
of $500
After taking out about $500 they buried
the remainder of the Doodle.
BrGwning went to San Francisco and he
followed him several days later. There
they led a rlotoUs life, and spent their
money on women and wine. They made
number of trips to. Yolo county to get
the Lrelpaipdaa1,aS- IOITN-1I2Srsv v I'll
Chicago, July 29.-The last day Of the
HarveyIHorr silver debate opened this
afternoon. The days attacks were d.
rected at the question of the feasibility
of independent action of the United
States on RECOMMENDATION of silver in the
free and unlimited coinage at the ratio
of 16 to l with gold, regardless of the
action of other countries.
Horr, coming down to the question in
hand, declared it was useless to try to
fix the relative value of any two sub
stances by legislation. Suppose some
body should try to fix the relative value
between a bushel Of wheat and bushel
of oats. AS soon as one Of them had a
large crop up would go the ratio, and
legislation by the nations of the whole
world would not maintain the ratio any
more than 1t would make water run up
hill. The law of gravity would stand In
the way. 1t was so in the matter of the
ratio between silver and gold. The law
of supply and demand stepped in and the
history of the worlds legislation showed
that it was impossible to maintain a
fixed rattle between the precious metals.
Mr. Harvey returned to his cube ar
gument declaring it was a valuable OBJ
ject lesson. 1t showed that, the Roths-
childs could corner the gold Of the world
in their vaults. Who was 1t that clipped
coins in 1873? Who was it that estab'
lished "a robber standard? Resuming the
argument he asdi: The gold advocates
Feared that debts contracted in golt
would be paid in silver and the mar
who had stipulated to pay gold woulC
have to buy it at a premium. This wa!
fallacious AS soon as silver was re
monetized no man could stipulate fo
payment in gold. The demand for gold
believe, would depreciate, and at thu
same time the demand for silver woul'
increase, and soon the differences be
tween nations would be wiped out.
He declared that 1t was the stamp OF
| the coin which gave 1t value.
Horr said there was no such genera
lack of perspicuity in the country a
| Harvey had claimed. 1t was a fact tina
! no people on earth had been as prosper
Gus as the people OF the United State
since 1873. Why, during last year thes
people whom Harvey said were on tn
verge of starvation had paid over $1,000
eco for 100000 bicycles and they were nc
strictly examples Of necessity. They wer,
ne said, used somewhat for business, bu
mostly for recreation.