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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
TILE YELLOW METAL.

Tho free silverites of Colorado have
changed their tune. There has Deen u
b;g increase in the gold output, and the
oretwbile free silver organs that were
brimful of evil prophesies if free SILVER
was not adopted are now talking golu
nc the means of salvation for Coiorado'
The Denver Mining Review says the
development and production of gold IN
tho last two years in this state prove
that there is gold enough in Colorado to
give employment to every man IN the
state that wants to work in the mines.
"But few years ago gold ore, to have
onv value. had TO be very RICH. e. run
500 or. more per ton, or be sufficiently
free milling to amalgamate. To-Day we
have in many camps a cash market for
almost any kind or sort of rock, art or
ganpue. iron or copper, if it carries from
S5 and upward of gold. The gold miner
Of today has far superior market for
his ore than that which the lead ana Sill
ver miner had ten or fifteen years back.
"Does the reader in the East want to
know where the ore is coming from, or
where il is to be found? If you do, come
with me. We will start in at the gold
mines in Boulder county and travel south
west on a line for over 400 miles to Du-
range. through Gilpin, Clear Greek, Sum
mit. Park, Eagle, Lake, Chaffee, Gunni-
son and on down through what is known
as Silver San Juan. In every county, IN
almost every mountain and camp along
the whole line, there are large deposits OF
gold ore. The Little JOhnnies are not all
located. There is plenty of vacant ground
as good AS the Independence, ana there
is more like the Golden Fleece.
"Take a comparatively small area-the
Leadyille gold belt-from Leadville to
breckenridge and from Alma to Red
Cliff, from the Gore range to the Holy
Cross. There is hardly mountain or val
lev, or the bed of creek, where you
can gather handful Of dirt that will not
show gold"
For more than 80 years this country
has been skinned over by the prospector,
who was always in q hurry to go beyond
where the gold was coarser and the mug
gets larger and thicker. Yet here and
there, at Alma, California Gulch, in Nc
Nulty, at Robinson, on Gold Run, Amer
lean and Harrisburg gulches, in Summit
county around Breckenridge and up and
down the Blue river, you can see where
these wanderers have stopped long
enough to search over the surface, and
even from these most superficial workings
untold, unknown and uncounted millions
of gold have been gathered by the cheap
est, rudest and most wasteful appliances
of mining known.
an this bit of rich territory there is
room for all the prospectors in the state.
And for all the outside capital that will
come to Colorado in the next five years
could find profitable investment"
1t is apparent from the above that the
people of the free silver states are awak-
ening to the fact that the business sense
of this country is inevitably and ire
vocably opposed to free silver, and the
sooner the free silver men in the South
and West fall into line the better.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
NAVAL MILITIA.

During the last 10 years our new
navy has progressed admirably and there
is no doubt but what, ship against ship,
our vessels are the equals, if not superior,
to the men-of-war of any other nation.
The personnel of the navy remains las it
always has been since the days of Hull,
Decatur and Biddle) at the head, a fact
that has been acknowledged by foreign
nations by the high encomiums bestowed
on Captain Mahan of the United States
navy by the naval authorities of England.
Captain Mahan was president of the
naval war college at Newport, r. l., the
only school for naval strategy in the
world, and under his tuition our officers
evolved in advance any naval strategy
movement that may become necessary in
case of foreign enemy attacking our
coast The college has also accurate
knowledge of every point on the Atlantic
coast whore the best defense can be made.
and also where the best points are located
for n probable landing of the enemy
forces, every yard of coast and fathOm of
depths is accurately charted; the best
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
POPULIST POW-WOW.
The National Reform Association VIII
Discuss the Omaha Platform.

The National Reform Association VIII
Discuss the Omaha Platform.
Kansas City, Feb. 1S.-A lively go
is expected here in the convention OF
the National Reform association, FEB
-. when it meets in annual session.
The future policy of the Populist party
in regard to financial and national ques,
tions will be decided. Two factions OF
the Populist party the one which IS IA
vorablc to the Omaha platform and the
other which would like to ma Ike new de-
partures, will be represented. and are
expected TO clash and make things
livaly. The meetings will be largely
attended
There will be q discussion on the ques-
ton of establishing national reform
press bureau in Washington.
III. Il. Taubeneck of Washington, chair
man of the national committee OF the
Populist party, will speak on the prob
lem of getting independent telegraph news
for Populist papers.
j. II. Mcdowell of Nashville, preSi-
dent of the association, will speak on the
power of the press
Gen. j. b. Weaver will speak ON the
necessity of unity of action by all Popu-
list papers.
The annual meeting of the national
union meets ut the same time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
PANDERING DEMOCRATS.

The Associated Press dispatches in The
Statesman yesterday indicated the de-
feat in the house of the resolution author
izing the issue of per cent gold bonds
to substitute for the 4 per cent bonds
sold by Secretary Carlisle. Rhetorical
swords flashed and clattered and cpl
gramatic bullets flew thick and fast and
the enemies of President Cleveland in
the Democratic ranks aided by all the
Populists in the house and 62 Republi-
cans carried the day against measure
intended to ease the financial situation,
save the people $16,0n0,0O0 in interest
and protect the national credit. 1t was
hoped by the country that the Demo-
Gratis in congress would display states
manship and patriotism and promptly
pass the resolution. The disappointed
and in the last election defeated Demo-
Gratis and demagogues, among them
Bland, saw the opportunity to harrass
and annoy President Cleveland, and
aided by the entire Populist and two
thirds Of the Republican strength of the
house, they have succeeded, at least
temporarily.
Time will demonstrate President Cleve-
lands wisdom on the financial situation
and the short-sightedness and stupen-
dous folly of those who are opposing
him. Demagogic trickery and burn
ing desire to pander to the arrogant,
ignorant and dangerous Populistic theo-
ries of the country have caused the Dem
ocratic house to lose another opportunity
to raise the party In the estimation of
the people and restore confidence in finan-
cial circles. .t.
The effect of the vote on the resolution
cannot fail to impair the credit of the
country and Keep business unsettled,
but that is small and trifling matter
to the financial quacks in congress.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

places to obtain coal, provisions, etc, and
to get volunteers ut short notlce 10 man
the ships. These volunteers are now
mainly enrolled as naval mllitla IN all
Atlantic states from Massachusetts to
South Carolina, and as inexperienced men
nowadays are of no use ON board OF a
modern warship, the general government
offers every possible inducement 10 the
different states TO organize
naval militia or naval re-
serves. Congress passed an act au-
thorizing the secretary of the navy, to
send a man-of-war to each state; When
the government of such state shall nave
reported the actual enrolment of an au-
thorized naval militia, $4,000 are. appro-
priated per annum by congress LOT the
different naval militias, to be apportloned
pro rata according to the number OF en-
rolled men and officers and naval Oflicers
and petty officers ore detailed by the sec
rotary of the navy for instruction and driil
and the home squadron has three months
of each year since 1890 been employed IN
going to the different states on the ATTAIN
tic coast to give the naval militias
chance to drill on ships actually in COM
| mission.
There is Il bill now before both houses
of the legislature to authorize the addl-
ton of four companies of naval militia
and if it passes we shall soon see some
United States war vessels in Texas har-
bOrs, and Texas will have the credit Of
taking the lead of the gulf states in a
movement of such vast Importance in
case of foreign complication.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
THE SOUNDNESS OF TEXAS DE
MOCRACY.

"Thc colored troops fought nobly." or
rather the sound Democracy of Texas
as eXemplifed by their representatives in
the legislature fought nobly for the rights
of the colorcd contestant, Haller's seat.
occupied 10y Mr.. Duff on the floor of the
house of representatives, il giving it t.
Halter the negro Republican. This is a
prominent and pronounced dcmonstra-
ton of the fact that the Texas Dcmoc-
racy is sound to the core on the prin-
is n Democrat, for whom tcchnicaltics
might have been successfully used TO
retain his seat, and Halter is Republi-
can with black skin, the Democrats of
the legislature scorned to employ any but
the fairest means and the equities of the
case to seat, and doing so seated Halter.
1t is an evidence of the fact that prin-
ciplc and justice are paramount to party
in the Democratic party of this state.
1t emphasizes fact that The Statesman
has often asserted that there is no state
in the Union, North or South, in which
Republican, even colored Republi-
can, is more free to express his opinions
! with impunity than the state of Texas.
We have seen on the streets of the CAPT
tai of this state Democratic speakers
howled down from speakers stand
erected by Democrats holding n politi-
cal meeting by appointment, wher the
Democrats were sufficient in number to
sweep the negro mob from the face of the
earth. That illustrates the fact that the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
GOVERNOR HOGG'S INTENTIONS.

As we supposed, all the rumors of Gov
ernor Hogg, or Colonel Hogg, as he has
recently been dubbed, going into rail
road employment have been authorita-
lively denied. Governor Hogg is yet a
young man; he may truthfully be said to
be in the very prime of his mental and
physical vigor. No one would question
his physical vigor who had a glimpse OF
that portly form. He looks like the en-
bodiment of q board of health. Being
in this condition, with fame and vast
popularity and having the confidence
of the people of Texas, it is obvious
his interests lie in the practice of his
profession. We have no doubt if Gov
ernor Hogg would settle permanently in
Austin and open n law Office he would
at once enjoy highly lucrative practice
in all the superior courts of the state.
We repeat what we have said before,
that while many citizens of Austin diff
fered with him in many political mat
ters, none of them doubted his integrity
as man and ability as lawyer. He
is also highly appreciated here socially
and is citizen to whom the people of
this city would delight to extend all the
social courtesies that he so eminently
deserves. We hope he will locate in
Austin and unite his destiny with this
people. He could do us great good and
we are sure that all political asperities
would soon wear off and that he would
regard even his old political opponents
kindly in q short time and that his life
would be spent proftably and pleasant
ly in this city.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

der, mixed with eight pounds of meal per
steer per day, has resulted in an average
gain for the month of December, of 1903
pounds per head, at an average cost of
SA cents per day, thus it is plain to be
seen that the best results have been OBJ
tanned in the latter test without corn at
less than half cost.
l consider 800 or 900 pounds of meal fed
in any of our western states with straw
or corn fodder will put on 300 pounds of
beef into 80 to 100 days. Where if you
feed corn it will take from 20 to 80 bush
els to put on 300 pounds and at least 6-->
to six months to get the above gain. Tt.
this year as a basis, figuring your own
corn at 40c per bushel, taking 10 bushels
of corn at 4Oc, $2S; 80 pounds of meal at
an average of $50 per ton, SO, making q
difference of $40 in favor of meal. Rough
mes will cost about the same, whether fed
corn or meal. We have $50 hogs after our
cattle, and they are doing and putting on
fat as well as any hogs we ever fed. Of
course there is not as much feed for hogs
in this feed as there is in feeding all corn,
and in regard to the length of time for
feeding meal, it is now being found out
in Texas that the cause arises from feed
ing the hulls for roughness, they are SO
hard and dry; and so much of the cotton
lint sticking to them that after being fed
80 to 100 days will injure the cattle, but
where straw or corn fodder is fed you can
feed them as long as you wish without
any injurious effect, or as long as you can
on corn or any other feed. 80.
In putting our cattle on feed we give
them two pounds per day to the head for
the first six days, then we increase the
feed one-half pound every three days till
we get them on full feed, and in the above
1886 cattle we have not foundered a steer,
and every one of them is doing first class.
South Omaha Daily Stockman.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
SHOWING THE VIRTUE OF COT.
TON SEED MEAL.

Messrs. Lee & Son of Let's, Ia, fur
ish the following statistics concerning the
fattening properties of cotton seed meal
and their manner Of feeding same.
The past 80 days we have been feeding
1856 head of cattle as an experiment, divid
ing off said cattle in separate feed lots in
two lunches, one of 112 head and the
other 224 head. For instance one bunch
into meal which mixed with cotton seed
is being fed on corn, cob and husks ground
meal at pounds per head per day has re-
suited in an AVERAGE gain ~ 107H Mound,
per head for the month Of December
1894, at an average cost per head per day
of IS cents. The other bunch Of 224 is be
ing fed on cut oat straw and cut corn fod
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
MARVELLOUS RESULTS.

From a letter written by Rev. ]. Gun
derman of Diamondale, Mich, we are
permitted to make this extract: 81 have
no hesitancy in recommending DR.. Kings
New Discovery, as the results were al
most marvellous in the case of my wife.
While was pastor of the James church
at Rives Junction she was brought down
with pneumonia succeeding Ia grippe. Ter
rlble paroxysms of coughing would last
hours with little interruption and it seem
ed as If she could not survive them. A
friend recommended DR.. Kings New Dis
ctoyery; it was quick in it's work and high
ly satisfactory in results" Trial bottles
free at j. A. DeGaugh's drug store. Regu-
lar size soc and 81. ..,.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
Democracy of Texas was capable of ex-

Democracy of Texas was capable OF eX-
ercising great forbearance.
We know that if the courts and Jurles
Of this state have used leniency in the
trial of cases the colored man has beer
that beneficiary and these facts we have
attempted to impress upon our Northern
contemporaries who have been so in
sistent on the federal government inter
fering in the Southern states for the
protection Of the rights of the colored
man.
And now comes the representative De
mocracy of the state in the Legislature
and by its action in seating a negro
Republican over white Democrat says
to the world that the South has been
grossly slandered and maligned, and that
the Democracy of Texas at least has
clearly demonstrated that every man
in its borders, white or black, Demo
crat, Republican or Populist, has a
perfect assurance of the enjoyment OF
all his civil and political rights.
That it required some effort on the
part of the Democracy of Texas to com
pei themselves to forego their overwhel'
ming general majorities and yield place
to their former slaves is unquestionable
and quite natural, but that they have
done so, manifests devotion to the right
and obedience to the law, for which they
deserve all honor and praise. The De
mocracy of Texas has shown that they
are superior to all the tricks of politics;
that they scOrn to appeal to might and
that they are willing at all times to be
governed by the laws of the land. All
honor to the Texas Democracy.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

1t is refreshing in these days of iinan-
cial stress to sec County Judge McFnll
and his commissioners step to the front
with reduction of taxes. You will find
the figures in the local columns and while
the amount of reduction is small it shows
that the commissioners court is deter
mined to practice rigid economy and con-
duct the finances of the county on bust
ness principles. So far as the Statesman
knows, this is the first reduction in taxes
made by any county this year. Old
Travis sets the pace along this line.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

1t was supposed last week that the Chi
cago merchants had succeeded in making
n corner in eggs, but when the barn yard
producers of this delightful fruit of the
breakfast table were informed of the con-
spiracy against them they sought their
nests with the mighty purpose of break
ing down this corner, and their success
was announced in the most clarion tones
of their champions, the chandeliers Of
the morning.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

Bill Nye says lady in Washington
announced that she was Virginian, but
by way of apology, said she was not ne
gro. We venture to say that no Virginian
negro ever made an apology for his state
nativity. If there is one thing a negro
is proud of it is that he was born and
"rared" in Old "Vargina."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
JEWETvT'S FIRST FIRE.
Several Business Houses Burned Out.
Aggregate Loss $4,000

Jewett, Feb, 17.-(Special. )-Jewett
experienced its first fire this morning at
z o'clock. Losses are as follows: V. A.
Moore, two buildings, no insurance: ]. b.
Monroe, two buildings insured for $1,000
and stock of drugs, about $25OO valua-
ton, insured for 5000; Adkisson & Reed
grocery stock, value $4,000, insured for
SlOOO; w. T. Evans, drugs and office,
no insurance; Claude Watterson, gro
ceres, no insurance. The store building
OF W. Il. Levy, damaged, covered by in
Surance' Goods of other merchants, dam
~; aged by removal, covered by insurance.
Inc n'''' sat" loss is about $4,000. No
Mlnq was blowing or the entire town
would have burned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

The fellows who are abusing Clevc-
land and crying aloud for "cheap money"
mean that they want cheat money"
or money that will cost them fifty cents
on the dollar to pay the loan of an hon
est dollar worth hundred cents. Money
is going begging in New York at 1 per
cent per annum, and yet these fellows
want more per capita" What good does
the per capita" do them? They have not
dollar Of the present per capita, and
they wouldn't have if the per capita of
this country was $4,000.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

BY the way it is noticed that the con-
gressional poppies vote "agin" Mr.. Cleve-
land every time. They can do so with
good grace but its amazing how con-
gresham claiming to be a Democrat can
do so. Are they true blue Democrats!
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

In considering the fee bill legislators
should remember that competent men
must fill the Offices of district attorney,
district and county clerk and the minor
positions, and to secure such men good sal
aries must be paid.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

Arbitration bills are generally n neat
way to pander to the prejudice of class
The fatal thing about them is the want
of any legal backbone. They can't stand
alone, and any attempt to make an arbi-
tration bill do so results in its sagging
down like an empty bag. They are en-
phatically, all of them, empty of any legal
force
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

Miss Gould finds it necessary to give
her prospective husband, French count
100000 to balance the plebian blood
in her veins against the double tides of
blue blood that flow in his veins, or per-
haps he found 1t necessary, and made the
demand for 100000 She will be lucky
if in the course of u months she gets clear
of him by the payment of another ST.
100000. In this country we have a nat
ural antipathy to financial provisions as
a previous binding clause to marriages.
An American youth generally wants the
girl. If she brings any money into the
family it is all very well, but quite in
delicate to make any pre-marriage con-
tracts concerning money.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

A photograph has been taken of the
brutal execution of an Indian tried and
convicted by an Indian court, which APP
pealed strongly to the senators of the
United States when exhibited to them
1t aroused their sympathy for the muir
derers and also their indignation against
the Indian court, OF course this was
meant to control the action of the senate
against voting the Indians territorial
relations and the abolition of tribal rcla-
tions.
This kind of an argument would be
fairer if the accommodating artist had
photographed the cruel murder of which
these Indians had been guilty. They
have been known to burn persons at the
stake, but so have our Pilgrim ancestors
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
COLONEL OCHILTREE Is HERE

San Antonio, Tex, Feb. 1S.-(Special)
Col. Thomas Ochiltree, after spending
the day here, left tonight for Austin,
Tex. His business at the capital is to
secure few amendments to the law re-
lating to telegraph companies preliminary
to the postal telegraph company entering
the state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
ANOTHER CONFESSION.

Minneapolis, Feb. 17.-Miss Wachtel;
the stenographer, was seen tonight and
it was learned that Blixt made another
confession which changes the whole
course of events if it is allowed in the
trial of Harry Hayward. She claims that
Blixt stated to her in answer to cues
tion from his attorney that Harry Hay
ward III. II m up to the job of numbering
Miss Cling 1t was planned previous to
the tragedy and all of the details agreed
upon almost exactly as stated by Blixt on
the stand, except that the name of Adry
should be substitute for that of Harry
in the confession.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

Before many days the big pumps at the
dam will be working and lights flashing
from the towers.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21

Vanderbilts $4,000 chef is capable of
nothing superior to mothers pies. 80
say we all of us" chorus young America.
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder is the
magic she uses.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-02-21
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