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Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
FAIRS WILL.

Old Jimmy" Fair thought he was
smart when he made what he considered
an iron clad will with a disinheriting
clause 10 the event Of d contest. In it
he decreed that his vast estate should
be preserved III its entirety and his chill
dren compelled to live on the interest.
But this does not suit tbs "hopefulg'' and
all three Of them with two out OF the
four executors have produced an al.
legged later will which provides that the
property shall be equally divided be,
tween the children. As there is no one
to contest the new document except two
executors who are left out ia the cold it
is to pe hoped it will be probated. 1t is
against good public policy to build ut
and p%erpetuate vast estates in this coun
try and the young Fairs ought to be al
lowed to have share and share alike Of
the old mans Accommodations and ther
"let her go, Gallagher" There is NJ
doubt but that they would enjoy spend
ing it and that is what money is mad,
snc
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
SUBTRACT IN UTAH.

The Salt Lake Tribune opposes a wo'
man suffrage clause in the constitution
now being prepared on the rather thin
pretext that it may endanger the ratiti.
cation by the people. The Tribune affects
to believe that there will be a pronounced
opposition to the constitution in any
event and that the woman clause will be
the straw that breaks the cancels back. 1t
seems absurd to intimate that after the
long and persistent fight of the people
of Utah for statehood a sufficient num-
Der could be found to prevent its accom-
plishment, especially on such shallow
grounds as the granting of woman sui.
frage. AS a matter of fact, it looks as
though the Tribune was resorting to a
dodge in its efforts to defeat the suffrage
movement, which it does not favor. It
is possible but not probable that the
constitution can be defeated and state
hood delayed in Utah, but il is safe to
say such an outcome will be chargeable
to a more serious and Objectionable cause
than woman suffrage.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
A MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY.
Il. POuillOn, Proprietor of the I, \.
Saloon. Claims to Have Lost $500.

+. POuiIlon, Proprietor of the I. \.
Saloon. Claims to Have Lost $500.
The police department we're motif;
recently by K, Pouillon, who runs the
X. L. on Third avenue south near Sc
ond street, that his house had been bp
glarized and $500 in cash stolen from
He claims that he had this sum 10
lady's hand bag which he kept in
bed room concealed between the nj
trees. Some time during the night L
thief had gained entrance to the b
room by cutting a pane OF glass witt
diamond, christening the windo
sash and getting in through the vi
dow. The marks of the diamol
on the glass we're plain to be seen. [!
Detective Germ has been at work on y
case but das been unable to get any c'
to the perpetrators. The man, who 4;
Frenchman, says that no one but hi
self and his wife knew Of the hid:
place of the money. The police, no
ever, think that the thief must hs
known where it al in some way or
would have taken the pains
did to effect an entrance.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

A Helena jury, following p%recedents
set IN many cities, has decided that it is
the duty of the city to see that sidewalks
are kept in repair and that failure to
do 60 renders them liable. The jury in
question awarded a gentleman named
Norris $1,000 for injuries sustained by
reason If a defective sidewalk. All city
ordinances provide a penalty for those
who do not keep sidewalks in repair, and
it is cheaper for the officers to enforce
these ordinances against individuals
than to have the city mulcted in large
sums.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

That was a notable plea the young
Helena man who wac accused of forgery
and raising city warrants entered as a
defense. He claimed that the warrants
he raised were illegally issued by the city,
being in EXCESS of the limit allowed by
law, and that there could be no crime in
altering illegal warrants. The plea is
an ingenious one whether it has merit or
not, and Judge Blake referred to it in
his charge to the special grand Jury
called to investigate city and county at
fairs. This will no doubt lead the jury
to inquire why the limit wal exceeded IN
the issuance Of warrants, who vert the
benefciaries, and whether there ia any
remedy for the taxpayers.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
MAGAZINE.

McClure's Magazine for April will Cot
tain the first of a series of illustrated D.
pers relating the more dramatic chapte
in the history Of the Tammany eoc,e
from it's foundation in 1889 down throu.
the startling Investigations Of the Lex
committee. The author of the papers
r. J. Edwards, who as Holland" of t
Philadelphia Press, has shown himst
to be almost without a rival in his in.
mate acquaintance with political affair
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

receive a large indemnity fund from
China, the lowest figure mentioned be
ing S25O,OOO,OOO. AS silver has been the
national money of both the countries, it
was naturally supposed that the indem-
nifty would he paid in silver. 1t now
appears that this surmise was incorrect.
and that Japan will demand payment in
gold. If this be the case, the change
can only be attributed to the advice and
interference Of the money kings of Eng
land, who see in it a splendid opportunity
for profit and a chance to increase the
power and scope Of gold monometallism.
1t will be grist to their mill, and on the
other hand it will be a serious and dam
aging blow at the United States. Ours
is the one country in the world where
gold is unprotected and where it can be
had for the asking. The reserve is at the
mercy of those who will seek to plumber it
and they will not be slow to embrace the
opportunity. The result iseasily for seer.
The raid will be made, the reserve de-
| pleted and in pursuance of his bull
headed policy Mr.. Cleveland will issue
more bonds and add to the interest pay
ing debt. In other words the people of
the United States will be mulcted in the
sun of millions of dollars in order that
China may at the demand of England
pay it's wal indemnity in gold. The out
look is as sickening as it is alarming.
There is one hope for US. An American
citizen is the legal adviser OF China, and
the American ministers in both China
and Japan have taken an active part in
the negotiations up to date. If these
gentlemen will use and exert their in
huence and show their backbone as they
should, the gold proviso will be dropped
and the danger averted. BY every rule
of patriotism this course should be pur-
sued; that it will be is doubtful for two
of them at least are under the baneful
financial influence of the administration
and the other by lis affiliations can be
counted with the goldbugs, and the men
who are welded to the gold idol appear
to worship that god regardless of all con-
siderations that spring from loyalty to
the public veal. This confession is hui
initiating but it is justified by the record.
THE TRIBUNE in this case hopes that it's
conclusions may be wrong but it believes
that they are right.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

Silver ls no good, say the goldbugs,
yet yesterday in New York large blocks
of the new 4 per cent bonds that we're
sold to the syndicate at lO4 we're dis
posed of at 100. The interest and prin-
cipal of these bonds are payable in
coin" which mean silver il the govern.
ment 80 elects. The fact is investors as
we'll ae the average people are beginning
to realize that bimetallism will soon be
an established fact and hat silver is
just rs good money as gold.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

as eligible grabbers for the senatorial
plumbs that will fall into somebody's
basket. In this light the appointments
are not such q measly reward Of merit
as they appear at fret blush, though
each of the gentlemen would have pre-
ferrod a cabinet position or a foreign
mission, and certainly each felt that he
was entitled t. some such distinguished
honor at the hands of the appointing
power.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
DEBS VS.. EGAN,

John M. Egan of the General Mana
gers association woke up a Tartar when
he abused e. V. Debs in an interview in
a Seattle paper Monday. In a nutshell
all he said was what the whole world
knows, that the A. r. U. strike was a
failure, and that many men who took
part in it we're out of employment and
in want, and he added that Debs, who
was responsible for the fight, was not in
want, and was travelling over the coun-
try at the expense of the workingmen.
Mr.. Debs, on the other hand, makes
some rather broad assertions. He says
that Egan is a thief, and has robbed
every road and corporation that he ever
had anything to do with. He offers
$1,000 if Egan will stand on the same
platform with him and discuss the his
tory and cause of the late strike, both
to speak from the record. These be bold
words, and surely put the accused
on the defensive. If they are not true
Mr.. Egan has a remedy. Will he apply
it? But what is really more to the point
and what interests the public most is
the following which was hurled in the
teeth of Egan: ut was at the instance
of the General Managers association
that the trial came to such a sudden ter
mination at Chicago a few days ago.
They don't want it tried. They don't
want the truth to be known and the
trial was continued until May l. and
when that date comes around they will
want it continued again and 80 on until
the matter is dropped. But we, the &C.
cused, are endeavorin.y to compel the a C
cusers to try US, and if found guilty we
want to be punished, and il innocent we
want the world to know it."
1t is true that this is but a repetition
of what Mr.. Debs has said in his lect-
ure, but the utterance has special force
and Significance because it is addressed
directly to Mr., Egan, who is on the
ground and who invited it by his attack
on Debs. That strike was q costly one
| to all concerned and to many who were
not directly interested. Someone is re.
sponsible. Who! OF course the A. II. U,
inaugurated the strike. but the question
is was it justified? They claim it was and
challenge judicial investigation in order
that they may prove it. The machinery
OF the law was set in motion, but sud
denly stopped, the strikers allege, by the
general managers. This ia manifestIy
unjust. There is blame somewhere, anC
the people are entitled to know on whose
shoulders it rests. The trial should pro
coed and the investigation be as thor
ough AS it can po sibly he made. Thi!
is what the courts are for. Let them de-
their duty.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
MIR. RLIs E's MOUTH,

II Sir Charles Wilson, the English
gentleman who has been visiting the
United States in the interest Of foreign
holders of Central Pacific bonds, is cor
rectly quoted, Secretary Carlisle has
been making some rather remarkable
statements. A brief talk of the Epglish.
man is printed in another column, and
in it he credits Mr.. Carlisle with saying
that the government would not deal with
the railroad on the pound of flesh prin-
| ciple and would remit the interest due
by the road il the principal was paid.
Just where the secretary Of the treasury
gets authority to make such a PROPOSE
ton is not apparent. 1t may have been
his personal opinion, but it has been
c~leverly twisted into an official express
sion. The fact is, il such a thing is
possible, the bondholders Of the road
are entitled to protection. They, as we'll
az the government, were numerically
robbed by the big Four" who organ
ICED and controlled and wrecked the
road, profiting thereby to the extent Of
many millions of dollars. OF this in
famous steal there is no doubt, and
knowing this it comes with bad grace
for a cabinet officer to say that he was
opposed - the government demanding
and insisting upon redress, no mat
ter what radical steps might be
necessary to secure it That
the opinion of Mr.. Carlisle is not shared
by other responsible officials is to be
found in the fact that the department of
justice has instituted suit against the
estate of the late Senator Stanford for
his share of the plumber. This must
have been known to the secretary when
he spoke and it is rather a curious com-
mentary on official etiquette, to say moth.
ing of the general proprieties that one
cabinet minister should publicly dis
credit the official conduct of another.
The remark of Mr.. Carlisle was un-
American and uncalled tor and is open
to criticism until it is fully explained.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
The Tranayaal authoritiea have Il

The Transvaal authorities have de-
cided that no more foreign silver coine
shall be imported into the states. This
may be all right for the present while
gold and diamonds are 80 plentiful in
South Africa; there was a time when
silver and United States notes we're not
current in California, but that era has
passed. The people in that state are
now glad enough to transact business
with the currency they once despised.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
j NGLASD'> BLUFF.

Inc firing % the mail steamship AL
liaucia b! a Cuban gunboat was but a
trivial affair. due, 10 doubt, to the over
zeal and ignorance It a Spanish naval
officer. ample reparatinn will! be made
il the shape OF an apology. and our Da-
tlopai honor being thus INDICATED the
public viii soon forget the Incident.
But. while that was but d small ripple,
the government now finds Itself CON
frolted with d situation that will
demonstrate it's Americanism. it's cour-
age and i'h ability. Reference iG made
TO the outrageous and p%eremptory de-
mand that Euglaro has just made upon
Nicaragua. not only for a sum of cash
due that it viii! be impossible to pay
but for a commission to determine what
other amounts may be due English sub,
jects for alleged damages. AS a part OF
the latter proposition is the rather in
sulting proviso that no citizen Of the
United States will be permitted to serve
on the commission. This may be al
right legally, but 1t is a display OF BAG
taste on the part Of the British gov
eminent. However, it is but a minol
matter. What concerns the United
States most are this insolent and impera
tive demands made upon Nicaragua will
the full knowledge that they cannot b
met. It will be seen by the dispatche
that the United States ambassador ha
been directed to request an e%xplanatio
OF the English government regarding it
remarkable procedure. For this promE
action every American will common
the president and Secretary Gresham
and Nil insist that the explanation cha
be forthcoming. No n supposes bs
that the move Of England is a prete'
and that behind it there is a purpose
secure a footing in Central America th'
II needs, and needs badly. That sue
an innovation upon the long held al
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

Lii Hung Chang, the accredited repre-
sentative Of China, has reached the city
where the peace conference is to be held,
and negotiations will at once be com
menced. Up to a recent date the out.
come Of the conference only created q
feeling OF curiosity on the part Of the
people OF the United States, but the
latest u~tterances on the subject are
freighted with grave import to us. It il
conceded that japan will demand and
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

The opponents of the income tax,
appear to have made up their minds
that the constitutionality of the law will
will be affirmed by the supreme court.
This being the case they are now en-
gagged in making faces at the court and
scheming how, by evasion and sharp
practice, to shrink their incomes to the
lowest notch. They will pay as little as
they must and that little grudgingly.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
POSTAL
ton,

The employees Of the United States
postal service, especially the railway
mail and letter carriers, have formed an
organization with u view Of securing leg.
%islation in their behalf, especially in re-
gard to wages and hours. The move lie
a commendable one, for the postal em.
ployes are the hardest worked and poor
est paid of any in the service. The or
ganlzation however gives rise to some
pertinent ard rather important ques-
tons. First, as to the right of govern
ment employees to enter into a combina-
ton for the purposes stated. There is
no law against it and as both branches
of the service are protected by the civil
service rules the members cannot be dis
charged by their superiors. This is the
legal status and there is a moral side to
it that may have a far reaching effect.
1t has always been held by the advo-
Gates OF government ownership of rail
roads and telegraphs that if they we're
under federal control there would be no
need for unions. The action of the
postal men proves to the contrary and
places il the hands OF the opposition a
powerful argument against the proposed
change, This is Of course a side issue.
Under the law and the conditions az
they now exist the combination is a
legal one and there il no reason why il
| shnuld moi accomnlish its uurnose.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
Helena is just now agitated over Il

Helena is just now agitated over Il
proposition to tond its large floating IL
debtedness represented by 7 per Get
warrants. For once the leading citi2et
are not in harmony and it will not be sN
prising il the bond issue is defeated 4
the coming election. This seems strang
yet a similar bond issue was defeated,
Butte a year ago, the majority by the
votes declaring that they would rath1
pay 7 per cent than 5 or 6 per cent il
terest. There is no accounting for tt
nopular will.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

Secretary Gresham, it is said, wants to
get rid of Mr.. Thurston, the minister
from Hawaii. The Transformation scene
on that little island has caused the ad-
ministration lots of trouble. Mr.. Cleve-
land didn't cut the cards right when the
deal was made and has been angry ever
since.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22
BEWARE OF sACALINE.
The United States Agricultural Dep"
mont 30 Says.

The United States Agricultural Dep1'
mont 80 Says.
Washington Muzzy recently wrote
the United States department Of az
culture concerning the merits OF "
plant known az sacaline. This is an u
ported plant, which, through the et"'
of interested nurserymen, has gal''
some reputation in the past year al
forage plant, and several Cascade couE,
ranchers have contemplated experlme'
ing with it. Henry A. Robinson, sts'
tician Of the department, advises y
Muzzy thus:
The agrotologist OF this departns,
says that sacaline Ia not suitable J
your section Of the country, or, in "
IL not q forage plant Of any value.
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

tilities. The situation for the Japanese
government is a critical one and il it i.
endowed with wisdom, the conference
will proceed n the war be declared
at an end. Any other course will bs
onicida1
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

Mrs. Mary Lease has satisfied all VI
are concerned that her lease as a men
Der OF the Kansas board of state Charts
is a good one.a and che now proposes to tai
a lease on the Office of mayor of WichiH
Mary does not intend to belle her nam
Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-22

The Montana Agriculturalist is the
name OF a new monthly published at
Livingston in the interest of the farmer
and stockgrower. 1t is d neat paper and
should meet with abundant patronage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-17
AN INUNDATION.
Two Rivers in California Overflow Their
Banks.

STOCKTON. Cal, May 1.-THE 1evee
near Paradise cut broke yesterday and
the waters of the San Joaquin river
are flowing over the country from their
banks to Moore's landing, a distance
of 10 miles. One-fourth of the 4nun-
dated land is in wheat, the rest being
grazing land. The San Joaquin is
higher than ever before, the heat of
the last few days having melted a
great volume of snow in the mountains
Near Fresno, the Kings river over
flowed its banks on the Laguna De
Tache ranch yesterday, destroying
1, 10 acres of fine grain. The break
commenced in the James canal, and is
80 feet wide.
A MOTHER AND CHILD FOUND DEAD.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, May 17.-Mrs.
Kate Reed and her 3-year-old son,
King Brewer, were found dead in bed
yesterday morning from chloroform
poisoning. Relatives claim the deaths
were accidental. Mrs Reed, who was
q widow, married her present husband
last October. Shortly afterward she
was deserted by him and ever since
has been respondent.
RAN AGAINST A LOTTERY LAW.
MARINETTE, Wis, May 1t7.-The pub
fishers of the Daily Eagle, the North
Star and the Marinette Argus were yes
terday arrested for alleged violation of
the lottery law by Deputy United
States Marshal Buckley. The newspa-
pers published a result OF! a hospital
prize drawing.
RUSSIAN THISTLE DESTROYED.
FARGO, N. D., May 17.-1~Examina-
tions show that wheat, onts, barley,
rye and fax were badly injured by
Wednesday nights frost. THE injury
to wheat will reach 10 to Is per cent.
There is compensation in the fact that
the Russian thistle was completely
destroyed wherever out of the ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-17
THE NONSENSE OF TWINS.

Secretary Thurber is DeIuged With Let
ters Announcing TripIets and QuadrupIets
WASHINGTON, May 17.-Private secre-
tary Thurber was seen by reporter last
night Asked if he was too busy to be
interviewed, he replied: "No, am not.
l just want to be interviewed. l want
TO stop this nonsense of people who are
blessed with twins, triplets and quadrup-
lets writing to the president that they
have named their youngsters after his
family and asking for money.
81 have had forty-two letters of that
kind in the last twelve hours. I have
denied over and over again that story
that $500 was sent to the father of trip
lets in Indiana, but the story is still be-
Heved, and we are being deluged with
begging letters from all over the coun-
try. No attention will be paid to them"
Mr. Thurber then vigorously tore up
two-score or more epistles announcing
that the population of certain states was
increasing by leaps and bounds.
''That $500 story" continued the pri-
vate secretary, "has led one man to an
nounce that he is the father of quads
There are any number of twins and trip
lets mentioned in these forty-tw letters
but only one case of tours. The father
has selected three names from the presi-
dents family, but is a little at loss to
get the fourth as the quadruplets are
Eyirls''