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The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-09-28

dry and run into tanks charged with a
solution of cyanide where it is allowed
to stand about 60 hours. The solution
is then drained. the pulp washed with
fresh water, drained again and the
pulp dried by vacuum until it contains
only l0per cent moisture. The sOlu-
tion is then passed through gold tanks
into zinc boxes where the gold precip-
itates. J. H. Dobbs, foreman of the
mill, who has charge of this work, will
leave for Fergus county shortly, where
he will take charge of a similar plant.
Prominent among those whose faith
in the Flat is unbOunded is Col. J. H
johnson. and it can be said without
fear of contradiction, that the colonel
has interested more capital in this Sec
tion than any other man. He is at
present operating on the Columbus, OF
which company he is seneral manager.
The property of the Columbus consists
of four full patented claims, the COL
umbus, George Washington, Martha
Washington and Napoleon, which COW
er the Columbus vein and adjoin the
Revenue and Monitor mines. A small
! force of men began development work
last May, aud while development has
been the prime object from one to two
car loads have been shipped monthly,
paying all expenses and placing q
handsome dividend in the company's
treasury. Shafts and drifts have
opened up the ore body for 400 feet,
the vein being fiat and from three to
twelve feet in width, running from two
and one half ounces gold and three
ounces silver to II ounces gold and 10
ounces silver to the ton. The Colonel
proposes to continue driving levels and
sinking shafts until he ascertains the
extent-and value of his ore body and
up to the present time his investiga-
tions would satisfy the most sanguine.
Mining men assent this property has a
splendid future. George Bodgett, an
experienced mining man, has charge
Of the Columbus as foreman. Mr..
Bodget has a number of valuable prop
critics near Sterling Mrs. ]. H.
johnson is one of the heaviest stock.
holders in the Columbus.
The Shamrock is owned by Mrs. J.
H. johnson and George D. B. Turner.
The shamrock is we'll equipped with
commodious shaft house and all nec-
essary appliances. The shaft is 65 feet
deep and 60 foot level has been run.
The vein is seven feet wide, carrying
low grade ore, with an occasional
bunch of very rich rock. Work will
begin on the Shamrock shortly and an
effort will be made to find the main
ore chute, which, it is expected, will
disclose large and valuable deposit.
Mr.. and Mrs. johnson also own q numb
er of valuable undeveloped properties.
They expect to begin work soon on the
Treasury group at the head of which
company is Gen. Rosencrans, U. S. A.
| Mr.. and Mrs. johnson have home
which is a veritable oasis in the
desert 1t is built on the southern
plan-all on the ground floor, with
wide veranda extending all around it.
1t is handsomely furnished and is sit
uated in the center of a picturesque
basin, surrounded by pr otecting crags.
In stone spring house adjoining the
kitchen is spring of pure mountain
water, from which pipes run into the
house and stable. 1t is one of Natures
gifts from which the owner can take
much pleasure. The various ont build
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16

cratic party to have an insufficient
revenue from customs. So far as
the party was permitted by the
combination in the senate in the
interest of protection to make the
customs produce revenue, the re-
suits, as shown by the returns for the
year ending June 80, mark the diff
ference between Republican and
Democratic methods. The receipts
for the year just closed, ten months
of which were under the new tariff
act, amounted to $151, 0O0,000 The
Republican purpose ito reduce rev.
enue" has been changed into the
Democratic purpose to provide suffi-
Gent revenue, and the results of
ten months operation of the latter
method show an increase of $4,000
900 in the revenues from customs.
With the experience the country has
had there will be no occasion and no
desire to return to the former.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16

could meet these requirements. It
therefore became a custom, as 1t
has long been in other countries, ex-
cept France, to place public loans
through the mediation of banks or
of powerful syndicates. This has
not only cost the people much money
in high rates and in commissions, but
it has been much more unfortunate
in preventing that access of patriot
ism and of devotion to sound finance
which would be assured if the obli-
cations of the nation were held by
the people themselves. There is
enough capital in this country, made
up of small amounts anxious for in
vestment, to buy it's public obliga-
tons many times over. If any city
of first-class credit should offer it's
bonds on such conditions that they
could be taken freely by every
body, it would soon realize the ad-
vantageS of this method.
The savings banks of the United
States, which hold billions Of dol
lars in their charge. pay lower rate
of interest than is borne by most
municipal bonds, even of the gilt
edged variety. The people who have
accumulated these savings would
certainly as soon trust them to the
city or town in which they live as to
the charge of any bank association.
The difference lies in the fact that
they can deposit small sums in the
bank; while if they wish to buy
bonds, they must not only get to-
gether several hundred dollars to
make the purchase, but they must
pay a commission to the brokers
through whom alone they can be
had. In all our cities large amounts
of Indebtedness previously incurred
will fall due at different dates in the
future. 1t would be easy to provide
in advance for funding this debt in
new bonds of denominations at least
as low as $25, and carrying a rate
of interest not over, say, per cent
in the cities of the East. or 4 per
cent where capital is in greater de-
mand. If these bonds could be
bought directly of the city without a
commission, there is no doubt that
every dollar of debt could be refunded
without aid from outside capital,
and without paying either the pre-
vious high rate of interest or any
brokerage to interested parties.
We have already commented at
length upon the immense advantage
that it would be to have some such
policy adopted by the United States
government and it's bonds placed on
sale at every postoffice. The public's
debts ought to be held in this way,
instead Of passing into the hands of
combinations of capital which alb
stract profit as their share in the
transaction for merely passing on
the investment to the workers and
savers of small amounts who are. in
the end, their real owners. When
some city which is anxious to Sc
cure the lowest possible interest
rate shall make beginning of this
practice, by disposing of it's bonds
in small amounts to every indi-
vidual who comes, the policy will
speedily become universal. 1t will
be bright day for the country when
it does.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
FOX RIVER MILLS CLOSED,
Secretary Lamont Orders the
Water Power Shut OFF.

APPLETON, Wis, July 15-The
water powers situation in the paper
making districts of Fox river, from
Menasha to Depere, which has been
strained for many weeks, was brought
to a crisis today by an order from the
secretary of war shutting off the use
of any water whatever for power pur-
poses until the water is raised about
twenty inches to the crest of Menasha
dam. This order will be obeyed by
manufacturers, but will result in the
almost total paralysis of all manufac-
turing on the river, with the exception
of three or four mills, who have suffi-
Gent power to run their mills. The
loss to this valley by the shutdown.
computed on basis of full time and
full product, as existing before the
first curtailment Of water, on May IL,
is $4,000 a day in wages, $50, 900 in
value Of product, with 5000 men out of
employment. The duration of the shut
down is problematical, an accurate
estimate of the time required to raise
the lake to the necessary Level being
impossible under existing conditions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
REDUCE THE TAN RATE.

A step in the right direction has
been taken in the proposed reduc-
ton of county expenses. There is
no party interest in this, and there
ought to be none. A Democratic
mayor and a Republican county
auditor join heartily in a measure
that proposes to give some measure
of relief to the burdened taxpayer.
This is, however, but a single item
in the policy of economy and re-
trenchment that must govern in st.
Paul from this time forward. It is,
in the first place, inexcusable that
we should have to pay considerable
part of our county expenses at all.
The existence in Ramsey county of
two separate sets of offices, most of
them we'll and some of them highly
salaried, covering practically the
same field, is an objectionable ex-
travagance and wrong. Long ago
the city and county offices should
have been consolidated, with the
few exceptions which might pos
sibly have to be made. This is an
other of the promised reforms which
we did not receive at the hands of
our last delegation in the legislature.
Since we must now make the best
of this dual expenditure, let it be
fn
ment elsewhere of a total bill of
$500 for official fees in collecting
$4,000 of delinquent taxes exhibits
an abuse that demands correction.
Whoever helps to reduce the tax
rate is a benefactor of the people and
of the city.
The tax rate as a whole for next
year must come down. 1t is easy to
say that the public service is living
on short commons now; but, how
ever true it may be, it does not
change the situation Whenever a
man finds that he is living beyond
his income, he must reduce eS-
penditures. The Glob takes the
position that the tax rate in St.
Paul for the forthcoming year must
be made less, much less, than for
the year now passing. Whatever in
conveniences we may have to suffer
we must bear; but the public inter-
est is imperative, and it requires a
lessening of the burden of the tax
payers. On that platform we take
our stand, and that battle we pro-
pose to fight to the finish. 1t can
be done; and at the proper time the
G. o will be prepared to point
out the way. For a beginning, the
reduction of county expenses is a
wise and necessary step. We are OF
the opinion that the figures may be
made considerably less than those
in the auditors estimates, and they
should go to the bottom before they
are approved.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
REVENUE AND PARTIES

Senator Morrill, says that "the Re-
publican party will not permit an in
sufficient customs revenue to con-
stantiy threaten the degradation of
q large share of the money now in
circulation. The remark only illus
trates that ripeness of years does
not bring tc all men habits of cam
did statement. The insufficient Gus
toms revenue. under which the treas
ury has been staggering, resulted
from Republican enactment. 1t was
the avowed and deliberate purpose
OF the Mckinley act, SO declared in
its title, TO reduce revenue" We
have shown III previous articles how
effectively il carried out it's pur-
pose il operation. From s229, COG, 900
Of customs revenue in the year pre-
vious to It's enactment, the receipts
steadily declined, under the contin-
uins ooe' alton OF the act, until they
reached sI21.eoo,GO0 a year ago.
1t IL ast the purpose Of tie Demo
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
SALTWATER NEWS.
Grand Jury Finds Logging Swim
dies Amount to S15O,OOO.

The report of the grand jury, which
was in session nearly two weeks, has
been made public. In it the jurors
recommend that some additional
safeguards be thrown around the proc
ess of scaling logs by employees of the
surveyor generals office and that
every scaler and tallyman so en-
ployed be required to give bonds. The
report stated that owing to the reluc-
lance on the part of some of the wit
nesses to testify it was difficult to Sc
cure evidence. Much of the frauds
perpetrated were before 1892 and cam
not now be punishable, but the total
shortcomings will amount to fully
$150,O00. The jurors also visited the
state prison, and report it to be in
admirable condition. They visited the
county Jail and recommend that a
separate building be constructed for
females and boys.
James Murphy, aged thfrty-two
years, died Sunday night of consump-
ton. He is survived by an aged
mother, a wife and child, three
brothers, Ed, John and Bartholomew,
and three sisters, Mrs. P. j. Kava-
nagh, of st. Paul; Mrs. ]. j. Kar5t and
Miss Mollie Murphy. Deceased has
lived in ST. Paul for the past few
years. The funeral will be held to-
morrow morning.
Warden Wolfer has returned from
the southern part of the state and re-
ports that the orders for the prison.
made binding Irvine continue to pour
in. He has already refused orders
amounting to over fifty carloads.
Johnson Lindgren, aged seventy
two years, died Sunday night at his
home in Scandal. He is survived by a
wife and seven children.
The contract for erecting the new
Drechsler block has been let to o. H.
Olson.
The Cyclone took out a raft yester-
day for Tabor & Co., of Keokuk.
The city council, at it's meeting this
evening, will let the contract for con-
structing sewer in Olive street.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
GLOBE Jews IN DEMAND.

The regular press dispatches Of
Monday contain an abstract of an
interview with Senator Sherman, of
Ohio, on the principal questions Of
the day. 1t is rightly concluded that
Mr.. Sherman'S views are, at this
time, of the greatest interest to the
entire community. In this interview
he states, in terms as positive as
them, that he will not be, under any
circumstances, candidate for the
presidency. He touches upon the
prospects of the other principal can
didates, making a conspicuous omis-
sion of the name of Mr.. Harrison.
He also discusses the issues that are
likely to stand at the front in 1896.
These are the tariff and the finan-
cial question. And upon each of
them Mr. Sherman discourses at
length in what may be con-
sidered the most valuable communi-
cation that he has made to the peo-
pie.
1t is with great pleasure that the
G l o b e notices the publication, in
all the papers of lesser enterprise
of the most valuable features of it's
own Sunday issue. The interview in
question is taken verbatim from a
conversation had by Mr.. Sherman
with Mr.. Frank G. Carpenter, spe-
cial correspondent Of the st. Paul
G l o b e, which appeared in full in
our issue of Sunday. The G b
is the one newspaper in the North
west which receives, or has a right
topublish Mr.. Carpenters letters. The
one with which he furnished us
on Sundays the most important con-
tribution yet made to current politi-
cal discussion. The review by SEN
ator Sherman Of the situation is
exhaustive from the Republican
standpoint, and contains much to
give encoura cement and confidence
to Democrats. We are glad to see
that some of our contemporaries are
sufficiently appreciative of the news
of the day to copy it in their col;
umns, even if they are obliged to ex-
tract it from previous publications
in the G o b e. We can spare some
of our copyrighted matter for the
enlightenment of those who still
read other newspapers, because the
absorption of such excellent G l o b
news, though coming secondhand
and twenty-four hours late, will un-;
doubtedly lead them to seek it here
after at it's original source.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
SELL THEM TO THE PEOPLE.

The failure of New Y ork city and of
Philadelphia to receive subscriptions
for the full amount of 8 per cent
bonds that they offered for sale is
not ascribed, by the best informed,
to the low rate of interest, but to
the fact that the authorities of these
cities pursued the old policy of Of
fering their securities in such blocks
that only banks would be able to
buy them We do not understand
why this policy should still be per-
sisted in by the United States, by
city governments, and by public
authorities everywhere. Nothing
can be more sure than that the in
terest rate on the public indebted
ness Of all solvent communities
could be reduced 1 per cent or more
by offering bonds for popular SUBJ
scription in small amounts There
is no longer any reason why this
should not be done. When the great
war loans of this country were made,
it was necessary to secure immense
amounts of money within a very
short period of time. Only banks
or other associations having COM
mand Of great amounts of capital
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16

Michigan Miners Hold Morning
Mass Meetings.

1SHPEMING, Mich, July 15.-The
miners of Ishpeming and Negaunee
held a mass meeting this morning at
Union park, midway between the two
cities, and decided to strike for in
creased wages. Delegations of striking
miners, headed by brass bands, visited
the various mines to influence the men,
Five thousand men are affected
The demand for an advance in pay
has been refused by the Negaunee
mines. The men have been dissatisfied
for some time past and many of them
are very determined, and may remain
out for some time. About LOCO Negau-
nee men marched in body to the
Ishpeming mines at noon. The Ishpe-
ming miners are satisfied, as a rule, to
continue work a few weeks longer, in
the hope of a voluntary raise on the
part Of the companies, but the trim
mers and common laborers are much
dissatisfied with their wages. The Ish-
peming men have not made a formal
demand on the companies, but in case
they are compelled to go out they will
submit a proposition. The demand of
the Negaunee men is for an increase
of 10 cents a car on the contract price,
and about Is per cent to trimmers and
other laborerS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
SALE SET FOR AUG. IA.
Whisky Trust Property Then to
Go at Auction.

CHICAGO, July 15.-tThe whisky
trust property will be advertised for
sale Wednesday" said Levy Mayer,
attorney for the reorganization COM
mittee, today. ''Under the law there
must be four weekly advertise
ments. The sale will take place
Wednesday, Aug. ii, at the Clark
street entrance to the Cook county
court house, and will embrace all
of the property offered by the de-
cree. This property is located in
Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Indi-
ana, Ohio and Kentucky-eighteen
distilleries, and the Office building in
Peoria. The bid of the reorganiza-
ton committee-$9, SOC, 900, payable in
stock of the old company to the ex-
tent of the committees holdings,
and the balance in cash-is sure to
be accepted"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
DIsMIssALs CAME QUICK.
Mr.. BOrden's Rebel Sympathies
Too Pronounced.

BOSTON, Mass, July 15.-Minister
Dupuy de Lone, of Spain, who has es-
tablished a temporary summer Legal
ton at Swampscott says regarding
Mr.. Borden, of Fernandina, Flo, who
is reported to be laboring among the
Christian Endeavorers for a resolu-
ton favorable to Cuba: This Mr..
Borden was our vice consul in Flor
ida, but was dismissed for being con-
nected with Marti. and for having
arms in his store for the filibusters.
This occurred while he was an official
representative of the Spanish govern
ment. Mr.. Borden says he was vice
consul for Spain, England, Sweden
and Norway, Uruguay and Brazil.
After his dismissal by the Spanish le-
cation, Mr.. Muruaga, my predecessor,
placed the facts before Sir Julian
Paunceforte, the British ambassador,
and Borden was obliged to resign his
British vice consulate. The Swedish
minister and the consul general of
Uruguay have also requested him to
resign. The Brazilian minister will
undoubtedly take the same course"
The minister is informed that. Borden
has been under the surveillance of the
federal authorities for some time.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16

Now and then some bashful man
on 3 street railway car is covered
with modification by being precipi-
tated into the lap of some woman.
Yesterday gray-haired gentleman,
entering and just taking a seat, was
sent sprawling to the floor. 1t is no
more necessary that the street cars
should be started into motion with a
jerk than it is that railway train
should be. Thirty or thirty-five years
ago passengers on the latter were
bumped and jolted by the jerks made
in starting or stopping the trains,
but railway engineers long ago
learned to start their engines so that
the transition from stiffness to mo-
ton is imperceptible. It is so on most
electric cars now, but there are al
ways a few uninstructed or care
less motoneers who have not mas
tered the art of gentle starting.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
WARRANTS FOR IYNCHERs.
An Old Trouble Revived by Angry
Joint Keepers.

EMPORIA, Kan, July Is. - For
several weeks detectives have been
at work securing evidence against
the men who lynched George Rose at
Cottonwood Falls in May, 1884. There
are twenty-five warrants in the
hands of the sheriff for prominent
people in Cottonwood Falls and
Strong City. The trouble grew out
of the recent closing of Strong City
joints, and it is said that the LIQUOR
crusaders are the men for whom the
warrants are out, and that the
friends Of the jointfsts are behind the
work of the detectives Much excite
ment prevails in both towns, and the
best people in Chase county fear seri-
Gus trouble before the quarrel is
settled
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
A NEW WAY ROUND.
Chinese Working u Fresh Dodge
on the Authorities.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July IS
The Chinese have discovered a new
way by which they hope to beat the
exclusion act. 1t is by landing Chi
nese as natives of this state The fed
eral officials received information that
a ring has been formed here by Chi
nese and whites to land Chinese fraud
ulently. The Mongolians are to be
shipped here from Hong Kong as ma
tives of California. For every one
that is safely landed the ring is to re-
ceive 5000. There are now said to be
200 young Chinese on the way here to
be landed as native citizens. Collector
Wise learned of the fraud and is TAX
ing steps to prevent its opera ton
Every Chinaman that tries to land in
the future will be closely examined,
and if he cannot prove beyond a
doubt that he has a right to land he
will be sent back to China
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
JOY IN THE LAND.
General Manager of the Missouri
Pacific on Crop Conditions.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 15.-The
Gould party, accompanied by Cen
eral Manager Doddridge, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, who have just trav-
ersed the line of that system
throughout the West, are in Kansas
City. Speaking of the conditions of
the crops to an Associated Press re-
porter, Mr.. Doddridge said: 81 have
had an intimate acquaintance with
this Southwestern country for many
years, and L have never known such
crop prospects. We crossed the
country as far west as Denver, and
then have run up and down three or
four lines from the Union Pacific
south to the Indian territory, and
the prospects for crops are simply
enormous, especially corn. What
surprised me most was the adj
vanced condition of the corn crop
throughout the section named. 1t is
in tassel, and ears so well advanced
that the hot winds cannot affect
them, unless they come inside of two
weeks, and with terrific force, and
it is not only corn, but every other
crop except wheat, which is short
Farmers of this section of the coun-
try are shipping in pigs and stock
hogs to feed this corn to already.
The same general conditions pre-
vail throughout the Indian terri
tory and Northern Kansas, and Tex
as, you know, has the biggest corn
crop 1T ever produced. The fruit crop
is simply enormous everywhere.
Miss Gould was charmed with the
situation as she found it. The trip
was made for the purpose of &C
quainting Miss Gould and brother
Frank J. Gould with the crop con-
ditions which prevail, as well as the
general conditions of the property in
which they are so largely interest
ed"