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THEY DID RESOLVE.

An evening contemporary, that
manages to dispense a remarkable
assortment Of misinformation daily,
says that the Democrats should
cease guying the Republicans be-
cause their convention of clubs at
Toledo (sic) adjourned without
adopting a platform, now that the
Indiana Democratic editors have
met and adjourned without adopting
any coinage resolutions We cannot
undertake to correct all the errors
into which our neighbor falls; but
in this instance we beg leave to as
sure it that the editors did say some
thing, and, if it was jocularly said.
1T was an infinitely more creditable
performance than was the Ssh" of
the Cleveland meeting.
1t may also be suggested that
the Democratic editors of Indiana
have not been accustomed to meet
year after year in advance of their
party's convention and blaze the
track for it to follow. But this is
What the editors did say:
Whereas, there appears to be a large
and varied assortment of opinions on
the money question among the mem
bers OF the association, and each one
seems to think that all that is needed
to bring his brothers into agreement
with him is further study of the cues,
ton on the part of the latter, and as
each and ell doubtless concur in this
therefore,
Resolved, that nothing should be done
on any day that does not have to be
done on that day, and that can better
be done tomorrow
That if one does not really have to
cross swollen stream at once if the
bridge spanning is shaky and in need
OF repair, and is being repaired, and if
besides the stream is falling, and gives
promise of being in such condition that
it may be forded or crossed dry shod
before one needs to be on the other
side, 1T is the part of wisdom to camp
under the olive branches in the shady
grove on the side of the river. N
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WIFE'S TALE OF WOE.
Mrs. Richard Mcdonald, OF Frisco,
Found in St. Louis.

y. IL,
Found in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July II. - Mrs.
Elise Mcdonald, reported to have
fled from San Francisco with 100000
belonging to her husband, Richard
H. Mcdonald Jr., now in Jail in that
city awaiting trial for forgery and
embeZzlement in connection with
the wrecking of the Pacific bank,
was located in this city today. She
is stopping with her sister-in-law,
Mrs. John Charlton, at 26OS North
Garrison avenue. At first she would
not admit her identity, but after
reading the report of her alleged
flight, she acknowledged that she
was the wife Of Richard H. Nc Don
aid. She then said: ''Now, let me
explain everything to you, since I
have disclosed my identity. In the
first place, the report that L have
fled with my husbands money is
untrue. 1 have not handled any of
his money for three months, and
then the amount was not more than
$4,000. This was all that was ever
entrusted to me for defending my
husband, and 1t was all that he had"
She related the story of her first
meeting with Mcdonald, in 1890, and
told of their marriage. Three months
after their marriage, she continued,
the trouble came on. Richard H.
Mcdonald ST., my father-in-law,
went to New York and then sent for
u.s. she continued. when we ar
rived there he asked my husband
to take me and go broad. My huS-
band said no; that he was innocent
and would go back to San Fran
cisco and face the charges. Then his
father begged him to go, and even
offered to pay our expenses. But
still my husband refused, and the
result was that we went back to
San Francisco, his father remaining
in New York, where he is at pres
ent. Then followed my husbands ar
rest and all of this trouble, of which
l know nothing. I am totally ignor-
ant of my husbands financial deal
ings, therefore am not in a position
to talk of them. But I know that
my husband is innocent of the
charge against him, and is the vic
tim of political conspiracy. That
is why his father wanted him to
go abroad, as he said that our enc
mics in San Francisco would resort
to any means to pull us down."
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an idle thunderbolt which the CEN
trail government proposes to dis
charge, and the threat of it leaves
that body worse off than before.
The issue has to be faced of a re-
treat and surrender of the con-
federation to the determined de-
mand of one province, or the COM
pulsion Of that province by armed
force. If the former course is adopt
ed, the government will lose the
support of probably sufficient Con-
sentative members to defeat it. If
1T chooses the latter horn of the di-
lemma, it will not only lose Liberal
support, but it will precipitate that
bloodiest of all contests, a religious
civil war. Whichever way it turns,
the outlook is full of difficulty and
disaster. 1t will probably bring in
its bill to re-establis separate
schools in Manitoba, pass it, and per-
init that province to ignore it with
out further controversy. This posi-
ton is superlatively ridiculous, but
it seems to be the only one either
safe or possible. -
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WHAT HAS BEEN DONE ON RIV-
ERS, LAKES, HARBORS AND
CANALS.
THE TWENTY-FOOTCHANNEL
POE SAYS WORK is PROGRESS
ING STEADILY ON THE SHIP
CANAL.
MISSISSIPPI IMPROVEMENTS.
Col. suffer Objects to Separating
the Mississippi and the Red
River.

WASHINGTON, July 12-Co1. o.
M. Poe, in charge of the work of i'm
proving the rivers and harbors on
the great lakes, has made his annual
report. He has supervision of the
ship cannal connecting Chicago, Du-
luth and Buffalo. The object is to
obtain a twenty and twenty-one-foot
channel connecting all these lakes.
Appropriations have been made, and
the work placed under the continu-
ing contract system, so that it will
be continued steadily. Col. Poe says
the ultimate attainment of a naviga-
BILE depth Of twenty feet was fore
seen when the projects were adopt
ed for improving ST. Mary's river at
the falls and Hay Lake channel, the
st. Clair and Detroit river. The cost
OF the entire project for a deep water
channel is $S,340,00O, of which $780,
600 has already been appropriated.
The Sault Ste. Marie canal is an
important feature of the waterway
connecting Lake Superior with the
other lakes. Col. Poe says there has
been an increase of all traffic
through the canal except wheat,
which has fallen off 3 per cent.
Flour has increased 10 per cent,
which more than covers the de-
crease in wheat. The total freight
traffic has increased 20 per cent, and
the passenger traffic 35 per cent.
Work has favorably progressed on
the st. Mary's river at the fails to
obtain twenty-foot channel This
Improvement is expected to cost
$4,73S,S65, all of which has been ap-
propriated, and $2,S72,O73 has been
expended. The twenty-foot channel
at Hay lake was estimated to cost
$2,659,115, Of which $2,165, 900 have
been appropriated. The work is now
so far advanced that no additional
appropriations will be necessary. At
st. Clair flats eighteen feet of water
has been obtained, and no further
work is being done until the other
projects of the deep waterway are
more advanced. Satisfactory prog
'ress is being made on the Detroit
river, but only a small amount has
been expended during the year.
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GETTING READY FOR THE CROP.

The wheat crop in the Northwest
is sufficiently advanced to require
the most active preparation on all
sides for handling it. The railroads
are getting ready to do their share
Of the business, and their activity
is contributing to the improved con-
dition of the country. Their shops
are rushed with work, putting their
rolling stock into shape to carry the
enormous amount Of freight that is
expected to come in when the crop
begins to move to market. They are
looking for additional employees, and
wages feel the stimulus of
the new demand. This alone
is enough to bring more pros
porous times to scores of cit
les and thousands Of families. The
demand for labor by farmers in their
fields is more active and pressing.
The letter published in our columns
yesterday, received by Mayor Smith,
and stating that 5000 men can find
employment in South Dakota at good
wages frcrn this time until winter
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order which had not been. complied
with by employees for two years, the
result would be different from what
1T had been in this case. The greater
part OF the afternoon session was
devoted to the presentation of petit
lions from roads other than the Erie
to be considered as parties to the
application for an extension of time
Mr.. Cloud, on behalf Of the Master
Car Builders association, presented
f1fty-f1ve letters authorizing him to
represent as many roads in asking
this extension. Mr.. Morrissey stated
during the afternoon that the train
men would not object to an extern
sion of the time until the 1st of jan
uary next, If they could have as
surance that the roads in the mean
time would devote their energies to
a compliance with the law. The
chairman announced that the COM
mission would take the petition for
an extension of time under consid-
GRAFTON.
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THEY WON'T ACCEPT 1T.

Everett p. Wheeler, the eminent
New York lawyer, has contributed
to the currency discussion a pamph-
let to which he gives the title Real
Bimetallism." He was moved to
write it by his own experience in the
business Of his profession, which
brought him in contact with the
operation of the silver standard in
other countries. He lays his knife
on the nerve of the whole matter,
including the paper currency as we'll
as the metallic, in this proposition
that he makes to the. advocates of
free coinage of silver at a non-ex-
. istent ratio:
And now let me make one PROPOSE
ton to the free coinage advocates.
You say that the free coinage of silver
would tend to equalize the value of
the two metals, and that this would
De done by natural means, without
any legal compulsion. Would you
agree to repeal all laws making silver
a legal tender, if on our part we should
agree, on that basis, TO allow silver to
be coined by the government without
charge to the purchaser (owner)? In
other words, are you willing to let each
OF the two metals stand on its own
bottom, without any aid from a legal
tender quality?
Under such plan there could be
the freest coinage of silver, retaining
the present weights because Of famil-
larity with them. Let the legal ten
der be taken from all currency, and
you have at once an honest one, be-
cause you have one that depends
on it's own worth. A legal tender
enactment is always a source of
weakness. Today the various forms
Of our currency float on an even val
uation, not because creditors can
be compelled to accept them in dis
charge Of debt, but because there
is universal confidence in their solv-
ency; a feeling strengthened by the
receipt Of all of them by the govern
ment for its taxes. When, after
1890, the apprehension began to grow
that the government would not be
able shortly to redeem it's promises
IN the best money, the effect of the
legal tender clause became appar-
ent in the rush of the suspected
money to the treasury in payment
of taxes. 1t almost entirely displaced
in the receipts the money of greater
confidence, and entirely excluded
the money of universal and I'M
questionable solvency. 1t was only
the repeal of the mischievous acts
of 1878 and 1890 that prevented the
appearance of a discrimination in
trade and commerce against the
money that needed the legal tender
| standing to give it currency when
confidence was wanting. The peo-
pie have become indoctrinated dur
ing the last thirty years with the
idea that a legal tender enactment
is inseparable from all forms of
money. 1t is accepted as an inherent
and indispensable quality, needed to
give it value; whereas the fact is
| that it is needless, never helpful
and always injurious. Education in
this direction is needed until it is
generally realized that a legal ten
der clause is nothing more than the
pistol in the hands of the highway
man who demands your purse.
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WORK ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
Levees to BE Completed and Con-
tinuOus by June 30, 1896.

WASHINGTON, July 12.-The Missis-
sfppi river commission has made it's
annual report to the chief of engineers.
The allotmentS made under the river
and harbor act of 1894 were as fol-
lows: Madrid, Mo-, $4,000; Memphis,
Tenn, $50, 900; Greenville, Miss, $780,
Geo; Natchez and Vidalia, Miss, and
Z Louisiana, $4,000; Atchafalaya and
Red rivers, Louisiana, $40, 900; New
Orleans, $4,000; st. Francis river, S75,-
900. Under the continuing appropria-
lions there were allotted from the sun
dry civil appropriation bill of 1894 the
following amounts: Surveys, gauges
and observations, $97, 100; channel work.
1862, 400; plants, $212, 500; dredges and
dredging, $4,000; levees, 81, 5O2, 900. From
the appropriation of the civil bill of
March, 1892, the following allotments
were made: Surveys, gauges and OBJ
servations, 199, $780, channel works, $780,
600; plants, $4,000; dredges and dredg-
ings, $3.50, 600; levees, s1,60O,220. In 1892
congress made provision for the eX-
penditure of 1895, coo from July l, 1892,
for four years, under the direction of
the Mississippi river commission, for
the Improvement Of the Mississippi
river. The most important part of the
NOIh Is the OIL l6N6eS. he
commission has allotted out of each
appropriation more than S1,5O0,OOO for
this work. The region designed to be
protected covers about 9,7G9 square
miles, and is mostly in Missouri, Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Louisiana,
with smaller sections in Illinois, Ken
lucky and Tennessee. 1t is confidently
stated by the commission that by the
close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1896,
all Of these levees will be continuous
and very nearly, if not absolutely,
standard grades and dimensions. In
the last river and harbor act the COM
mission was directed to inquire into
the advisabilty of separating the Red
river from the Mississippi and main
ing navigation between them by means
of canal. The commission says that
this might at some future time be
desirable, but that to force the Red
river through the old channel would
be hazardous and would require great
care. Lieut.. Col. Charles Suffer sub
mits a minority report in which he
disagrees with the other members of
the commission as to the separation
of the Mississippi and Red rivers, and
urges the immediate enforcement of
the Red river and Mississippi systems.
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A RIDICULOUS POSITION

The government of Canada finds
itself in a position at once difficult
and ridiculous. 1t has decided to
take no action at present on the re-
fusal Of the Manitoba legislature
to obey its order; and to wait until
next fall, after a conference with
the Manitoba ministry has been had.
before introducing a bill for the res
toration of the separate school sys-
tenn. 1t has done this as a. means of
preserving, for the time being, it's
dignity. 1t has cost it, however,
the support of some of the French
Conservatives and the resignation
Of one member of the government.
1t is not impossible that the ministry
itself will be defeated by the votes
of enraged French Catholics, al
though this is not believed probable.
But it does not appear what is to be
gained by this postponement of a
settlement of the difficulty that has
arisen.
There is no reasonable prospect
that the Manitoba authorities will
yield. They had the issue plainly
before them and acted only after
mature and thorough deliberation.
They know, moreover, that they
have the hearty support of a great
majority of the people of their prov
ince in the position that they have
taken. All that the Ottawa govern
ment can do, in the interval of delay
which it wishes to secure, is to treat
for terms. 1t makes no difference
whether it introduces it's bill now or
several months later. A bill passed
by the dominion parliament can
have no more of persuasive or COM
pelling force than an article Of the
federal constitution, or an order
approved by the privy council OF
Great Britain. Since the latter has
been nuliif1ed calmly by the Mani
toba parliament, it would be foolish
indeed to suppose that it would pay
greater respect to the former. It lis
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-13
HE DENIES THE LEAK.
Brokers Do Not Obtain Tips From
Washin@t0n

WASHINGTON, July 12.-Assistant
Secretary Dabney, of the agricultural
department, when asked today con-
corning the statement of a New York
broker that he had been furnished ap-
proXimately accurate information on
the July crop in advance of it's official
PRONUNCIATION, said: 'Ft is the same
old story that is raised every once in
a while, but never youched for. We
deny it absolutely. The truth is that
there are plenty of other people out
side of this department who are en-
gagged in the work of preparing statis-
ties of the crop in the interest of the
exchanges. They have correspondents
all over the country, doubtless in
many cases the same correspondents
that the department mas. The crops
are the same, whoever reports them,
and their reports might reasonably be
expected to be as accurate as ours. If
a man has a set of these figures it is
money in his pocket to say they ema-
mated from the department of agricult-
ure. The truth is that they don't, and
that is all there is about it,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-13
FREE SILVER ROT.
Ex-senator Sanders Sick of the
Rimetaliic BIuster.

NEW YORK, July 12.-Ex-SenatorW w.
F. Sanders, of Montana, in an inter
view, said: eve are enjoying better
times in Montana and all through the
Northwest. Business is picking up.
We have been forced to adjust our
selves to new conditions, and this in
itself was good for us. The free sill
yer talk by newspapers and dema-
gogues is something wearying. There
is not a newspaper between Minneap-
oils and the Pacific coast that is not
full of the cries. 16 to L. the crime
of 1873, the oppression of the peo-
pie international agreement and
John Sherman And they are full of
all the rest of the rot Religious pa
pers are also devoting space to the
discussion. There is an attempt by
some free coinage men to boom Don
Cameron, but it is unsuccessful.
should say the sentiment was divided
between Mckinley and Reed, with Nc
Kinley a trifle stronger. There is
some talk about Morton, and some of
Allison. Mr.. Harrison made a good
president, but I think the Montana
people rather hold to the idea that one
term is enough
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-13
AFTER D. T. HEDGES.
Sioux City's Prince of WrecLers
Sued for $500. 900.


Sued for $4,000
SIOUX CITY, To-, July 12.-The
Credits Communication company, Of
this city, has begun suit against D.
T. Hedges in the United States court
in Los Angeles, Cal, to recover $780,
900 on personal notes given by
Hedges to the Union Loan & Trust
company, which went under during
the financial panic of 1898. Hedges
was one of five men who operated
the famous syndicate during the
boom days in Sioux City He was
the first to knock the props from I'M
der the tottering Union Loan &
trust company, resulting in it's total
collapse. Before the failure of the
union company, Hedges made a gem
eral assignment of all his property,
amounting to $2,247 900. This forced
the union company under, and a
number of other institutions soon
followed, every crash being alleged
to be directly due to the maneuYers
OF Hedges. The Credits Commuta-
ton company, which is bringing suit,
was organized by over 300 bankers
and f1nanciers scattered all over the
country, who were interested in the
institutions which failed Hedges is
now living in Los Angeles.
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RAILWAYS ASK TIME.
Interstate Commission Listen to
"A Protest.

WASHINGTON, July 12.-The in
terState commerce commission
granted a hearing today to the rep
resentatives of the receivers of the
New York, Lake Erie & Western
Railroad company on their petition
for an extension of time within
which to comply with the act of
congress requiring all railroad COM
panies engaged in interstate COM
merce to equip their cars with grab
irons and hand holds by the 1st of
July, 1895. Samuel T. Conkling, at
torney for the Erie road, presented
the grounds of the petition. He said
,000 cars had been equipped, and
thessMorll had been pushed as rapid
ly as possible, but that another year
was necessary to complete it. John
w. Cloud, secretary of the Master
Car Builders association, said he
believed that up to date between
80 and rs per cent of the cars of the
duired, but to take out of service
at one time all the cars not so
equipped would materially cripple
interstate traffic.
LACK OF UNIFORMITY.
Afford E. Brown, second vice grand
ma .er of the Brotherhood of Train
men, created something of a stir
by taking the floor and asserting
that there was a great lack of uni
formity in both size and location of
hand holders. He thought the rail-
road managers should adopt uni
form system and submit il to prac-
teal men. He suggested that there
had been sufficient time for putting
the law into effect, and said that if
q railroad company had posted an
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TREATED AS CRIMINALS
Western Trespassers on Federal
Lands to Be Prosecuted.

Lands to Be Prosecuted.
WASHINGTON, July 12.-The secre-
tary of the interior has requested the
attorney general to direct the United
States district attorneys in Oregon and
California to proceed criminally
against treSpaSserS ON the forest reser-
vations Of the United States. Here
tofore there has been some doubt
among the attorneys under what law
such trespassers could be prosecuted,
but abundant authority is contained
In a law passed in March, 1875, which
prescribes a fine of not over $500, and
Imprisonment of not over twelve
months for each trespass. The prin-
cipa1 trespassers in the Western states
are the sheep and cattlernen, who drive
their herds into the government lands
and crush down or burn the under
brush which holds back the melting
SHOWS OF the spring, causing disastrous
freshets. 1t is this source of damage
that the department is DESTROYS of put
ting an end to. Another class of tim
Der treSpaSSerS, those by which the
wood is actually stolen for purpose of
use or sale, are more prevalent around
the Western great lakes than on the
Pacific coast. They are generally
settled by civil suits for the recovery
of the manufactured value of the tim
Der taken. Today's instructions do
not apply to them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-13
NINETEEN WE'RE POPS.
llNIass Meeting', of Maryland Sill
verites Attended by Twenty.

Ver1teS Attended by Twenty.
WASHINGTON. July PA conven-
ton Of Maryland citizens interested
in the silver question began here to-
day. The call designated the assem-
blage as a mass meeting" but the
attendance was limited to about a
score. E. NJ. Rurchard, of Hyatts-
Vile. Nd, who had projected the con-
vention, explained that the small at
tendance was because 1.-THE farmers
are very busy just now" S. S. Field,
of Baltimore, was chosen permanent
chairman, and T. Garfield Jenkins, of
Camunkey, secretary Chairman
Fields said the principal fight was
against national banks as the repre-
sentative of the money power. A dis
cussion ensued as to adopting means
to disseminate silver literature among
the farmers and laborers. This led to
differences of opinion as to the proper
methods, some urging that there
should be no affiliation with parties.
Resolutions were adopted this after
noon rSaff1rming allegiance to the
Populist party and to the principles
laid down IN the Omaha platform. On
a call it was shown that nineteen out
of the twenty present were Populists.