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Willmar tribune., 1895-12-17

If Editor Boen,- of Fe rgus Falls
and Editor Johnson, OF >Willmar, are
really the two leading candidates for
tile populist congressional nomination
in this district next year il would be
well for the public to- consider the mer-
it's of the two men and the chances, the
nominee will have in a. contest against
the repub blican cand idate. DR.. John
son is an easy writer and good
speaker. On the platform he makes q
much better shoWingstha ian Mr.. Boen.
But id d11sntdah S. stB Doctor Has Dgen
Willmar tribune., 1895-12-17
BANKS AND BANKS.
POpulists are often regarded

Populists are often regarded as
the enemies of the banking busi-
ness. This is a grave mis-
take and Misrepresentation, of
course. Legitimate banking
business is a. necessity of
modern life and modern busi-
ness. There must be some agency
that can act as = a clearing house
in every business center. Some
body that makes it a business and
study to know every mans stand
ing in a business sense in the
community. Conscientiously per-
formed, there is no more honor
able vocation than that of a. bank
er. And the ordinary private
bankers true interest lies bound
up with the true interest of every
citizen.
But what the Populists object
to on principle is that modern
monstrosity, the national bank,
that has usurped the function of
government as a. bank of issue.
Half private and half sovereign,
like the centaur of old, it has be-
come a beast of prey that men
aces free institutions. National
banks as banks of issue are
doomed. And if private banks
aregoing to uphold national banks
they may all go down in the same
vortex and government banks be
established. Government banks
are perfectly feasible and advo-
Gated by a number of able
writer's.
What our private bankers
ought to do, if they know their
own interest, is to purge their
ranks of the national banking
brigands, help the Populists to
get an adequate supply Of good,
sound, United States legal tender
money, gold, silver and paper,
and do business on the pros
perity of the people, rather than
on their necessity. With an ade-
quate supply of legal tender
money legitimate private banking
would at once become a scientific,
safe and solid business. There
would be no busted banks, de-
frauded depositors or absconding
cashiers. With a money volume
liable at any time to be cornered
and boarded, or exported from
the land, as at present, banking
is really at best but a risky spec
ulation. Thousands o. bark
stockholders have found out to
their sorrow during the past few
years: Will not the bankers put
on their thinking caps and think
for themselves, rather than blind
ly follow in the wake of the big
fists, that are really only leading
them into muddy water to get a
chance to swallow them up.
c.. J,
Willmar tribune., 1895-12-17

stand unoccupied. And this is
down east in proximity to home
market for all kinds of farm pro-
duce.
Now in view of these facts, not
populistic ranting, who dares to
deny that the agricultural indus
try has been ruined during the
last quarter of a century? And
low prices of agricultural pro-
duct have done it. Lay the causes
to what we will; improbable
farming is the death knell Of this,
as of every nation. And this de-
struction of the farming industry
Of New York State has been
wrought under a high tariff
and the gold standard. The
benefit to farmers from the So
called home market developed
under protection should have
come to the New York farmer.
But it has not.
The question that now forces
itself on the mind Of every citizen
be he business man or farmer is
this: Shall we continue with
this destructive policy until not
only the farmers down east are
driven from house and home. but
every farmer this side of the
Rocky Mountains is beggared?
Will not sensible thinking men
wake up when destruction of
some of our richest states points
with unerring hand to our own
fate? We wish to God, we might
speak in hope and encourage
ment about the prospect of the
Western farmers, but facts are
truth, and it would be fiendish
inhuman not to warn people of
an impending calamity. The
writer Of this lived in New York
State about twenty five years
ago, and has a vivid recollection
of the prosperity of the farmers
there then. The farmers there
was far more prosperous than the
farmers is now here even in the
best sections of Minnesota. We
little thought, and would not have
believed had anybody told us
then. that in 25 years after these
beautiful farm residences, and
big barns should stand empty
and useless. Such however we
now learn from official sources is
the case.
What is the cause of this ruin?
Well if it is not John Sherman's
policy then we have no ex
PLANTATION to give. And we should
be much obliged to any one that
can give'any other.
It is useless and cruel to say
that the average New York farm
er was. and has been shiftless
and thriftless. It is base SLAM
der. The New York farmer was
progressive and Wide-awake 25
years ago. His avocation paid.
When farming there failed to
pay the farmer became dissatis-
fed and lost his energy. The
same thing happens everywhere
It will happen here to. And
these very conditions are at our
doors. G. J.
Willmar tribune., 1895-12-17
A SILVER DOLLAR ALWAYS
WORTH 100 CENTS.


There are still, strange as it
may appear, men, who would be
offended if one should question
their intelligence, who cannot
distinguish between the value
Of raw material and the finished
product, when applied to the
money question. They talk
about there being only so cents
worth of silver in a silver dollar,
and hence pretended to argue
that the silver dollar is only
worth fifty cents! AS we'll might
they argue that a watch springis
only worth two cents because the
steel in it is only worth
two cents. For it is
true that if you want to use the
steel in the watch spring for any
other purpose than a watch
spring, it's value is only a trife.
So with money. For money use.
the purpose for which it was
coined, it matters not one iota
how little or how much the metal
is worth in it, A full legal tender
dollar, is now, has always been,
will always be, as long as the
government stands, worth one
hundred cents, no more, no less,
if genuine, no matter what ma
terial it is made of. This'i is self
evident For full legal tender
dollar will pay 100 cents of taxes
to the government and debt to
private parties. And as the de-
mand for dollars to pay taxes and
debt is practically unlimited no
man needs to melt his coin down
for the purpose of realizing the
value of his money.
This talk that the commercial
value of the metal of which coin
is minted regulates the value of
the coin is utter nonsense. Gold
and silver is not coin money, any
more than a chunk of steel is a
watch-spring.
Gold and silver money, coin,
is manufactured article. The
raw material out of which coin is
made is simply a commodity of
bullion, and can pay neither debt
nor taxes any more than wheat
or corn.
But after it has passed
through the government mill,
called the mint, and secured the
impress of the sovereign coat of
arms, and according to law is the
money of the land, capable of re
deeming the home from the pub
lie tax gatherer and private credi-
or, it is something very different,
nobler, higher, than a mere com
modify. Its value is not guaged
by the value of the raw material
Of which it is made, but by the
uses it can be put to as money,
as medium of exchange Of all
other commodities, as a stand
ard of deferred payment, and a
discharger of all debts public
and private. -
This is why a U. S. silver dol
lar is worth 100 cents, here, or
elsewhere in the world minus the
express charges Of returning it,
although the silver OF which 1t is
was made is only worth 50 cents.
And the full legal tender dollar
will always be worth 100 cents,
even if the Uuited States should
coin all the silver in the world.
No matter what silver bullion
might be worth. For the de
mand for money in this country
is now so enormous and increas
ing every year, that. it far ex.
ceeds any volume Of money that
could be furnished even by al
the silver Of the world at 41241
grains 20 dblaf g, ] ..,s. IS
Willmar tribune., 1895-12-17
For Sale or Trade.

The residence property corner
End street and Litchfeld Ave.
J.T. OTOS.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
GONE FROM MILTON.
A Prominent Citizen Went to Salem
and Then Disappears.

A Prominent Citizen Went to Salem
and Then Disappears.
Several responsible parties from
Milton have told a story to a re-
preventative of this paper which
contains some ugly facts for pro-
minent citizen of that city to face,
says the East Oregonian.
Six years ago, one II. T. Morris
came to Corvallis, in this state,
and one year later to Milton, where
he opened u harness shop. At the
time the electric light plant was
put in, he engaged with the pro-
prietor and became an electrician
finally having charge of the ma.
chinery in the station. Morris, ac-
companied by Mrs. Morris, and oc-
cupied very high position among
the people Of the town and vicin-
ity. He was active in church work
and high up as secret society
man. When the county division
movement was started this last
time, Morris was a leader, and came
down to Pendleton to interview the
business men of this city on'the
subject and to ask for signatures to
petitions which were to be presen.
ted to the legislature asking that
Vernon county be set off from Um-
atilla, Morris joined the throng
which went to Salem to lobby for
the bill introduced by Representa-.
tive Davis, and was in the state
capitol city up to Friday before ad-
journment, Since that day, he
has not been heard of and an in
vestigation was ordered by lodge
in Milton, committee being nam
ed to make the inquiries. What
they discovered has not been made
public.
Others pursued Investigations,
however and il has been found that
Morris real name is not Morris,
but r, K. Thomas. He came to
Oregon from Humeston, Iowa,
where his wife lives, her name be.
ing Mrs. Anna Thomas. A lady
living in Walla Walla recognized
Thomas, and when she made known
her discovery, persons in Humes-
ton were communicated with and
Thomas photograph sent to them
for inspection. All pronounced it
a representation of the r. X. Thom-
as who lived in Humeston, and
Mrs. Thomas also said she recog.
nized it as photograph Of her
husband.
1t was also stated that Thomas
left Humeston for the west in com.
pany with another woman, leaving
his wife and children in the iowa
town, though it is not alleged that
the woman knew that Thomas was
q married man.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
THE BOTTLE KILLED HIM.
A Drunken Indian Falls From His
His Horse and is Killed.

~
Monday evening an Indian who
is known as 'Two-slips," fell from
his horse, near Pendleton, and was
reported to coroner Kimery as be-
ing badly injured. The coroner ac-
companied by DR.. Vincentimmedi-
ately started out, and at a point
east Of st. Joseph's academy and
opposite the Fisher home they found
the dead body of Two-slaps He
had started from Pendleton in COM
pany with two other Indians to re-
turn to the agency, evidently in
toxicated, and he was seer to fall
from his horse. The fall broke a
bottle which he was carrying in
his breechclout and fragrant Of
the glass pierced his groin, severe
ing the femoral artery. From this
wound he bled to death in few
minute. AS there was no suspic-
ion of foul play, Coroner Kimery
did not consider it necessary to
summon a jury, but will make a
report to the county court emhody-
ing the evidence regarding the case.
The body was turned over to other
Indians, who conveyed it to the
agency,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

state. The pleasure offered by an
ocean voyage together with favor
able reports of fortunes to be made
in Alaska have quite turned the
heads of some residing in Athena
and Weston, who are contemplate
ing trip up there this spring, and
lose sight Of the prospects of con-
siderable suffering in the far north
country Of Alaska as a result of the
large number Of people who are
going there in anticipation Of am
assing fortune in the rich gold
fields. The juneau Mining Rec
ord cautions intending immigrants
that in going to Alaska they will
find it no poor mans country, that
no one should arrive there with
less than $500 in cash, and, If to
WOO the tickle goddess in the gold
mines is the intention, practical
experience, robust constitution
and indomitable will are necessary
requisites. The mining regions
are hundreds of miles from supply
points and the season in which op-
erations can be carried or is con-
fined to few months in midsum-
mer. Not one person in a hundred
makes Il strike the first season and
unless prospectors have sufficient
funds to carry them through the
long rigorous winter, starvation is
almost inevitable.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
so.CALLEp NEWSPAPER LAWS,

The assistant attorney general,
for the postiiice department, has
made an important ruling in re-
gard to what are known as "news-
paper laws
Those so-called laws provided
that the subscribers to newspapers
are liable for the price thereof un-
less they give express notice to dis
continue, or when they give notice
to discontinue without paying ar
rearages, or refuse to take papers
from the office, that the publisher
of the newspaper can have any one
arrested for fraud who takes the
paper and refuses to pay for it, and
that it is q dangerous trick to al
low subscription account to run
ON six months or a year and a.halt
and then tell the postmaster to
mark it refused or send the edit
or a notice to discontinue the pa
per-
The department has time and
again informed parties making sach
inquiries and the public generally
that there are no such laws. The
ruling as made, however, goes be-
yond this; it is to the effect that a
publisher who makes a demand
for payment Of the subscription
price of his paper through the
mails, accompanied by q threat Of
enforcing such pretended laws in
case the demand is not complied
with, may be prosecuted for at
tempting to obtain money under
false pretenses, provided that he
knows that such so-called laws
has no existence as the laws or
decisions Of the courts.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

d, w. McDANALD, of Milton
ncighborhood, better known as the
'sage of Mud creek and who has
signed willis to newspaper artic-
les on division to the Milton Eagle,
in which he promises the dear peo-
pic an afiliction Of the division
question two years hence, says
promises an acquisition to the ag-
gregation in the shape Of a "three
legged" monster of some sort.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
Thorough Farmers.

Rigby is with his father in
the firm as Rigby & Son. one ofthe
heaviest producers OF wheat in Ore
gon. A party of gentlemen recent
ly drove past their fields, some o.
500 acres of summer fallow, and
found evidence Of thorough til
ling Of the soil Every foot has
been carefully gone over previous
TO seeding and there are few weeds
tobe seen. MFR. Rigby, in conversa-
tion to an East Oregonian reporter,
said, in response to a question on
the subject: I'VE do pretty thor
ough work and find it pays so to
operate. The other day, when we
sold our 1894 crop and delivered il
at the platform, an agent of the
wheat company remarked that there
was no grade above No. /, or he
would grade our wheat higher than
that Our entire crop was No.
strong and was sought after by buy.
ers, | attribute it entirely to the
fact that the land was well worked
and weeds and wild plants kept
carefully down.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
ATHENA, MARCH 9th 1895.

WHEN the deficiency appropria-
tion bill reached the serate, the
California, Nevada and Oregon
senators secured the insertion Of
an amendment appropriating ~
100000 to reimburse the Pacific
coast states for money expended in
aid of the suppression Of the rebel
lion. The greater portion Of this
sum is due California, Oregon's
share being but 1886, 1928, but it
is a sum the treasurer Of Oregon
would heartily welcome. With this
and other amendments, the bill
went to the house and into confer
encc the last dav Of the session.
The house conferees insisted upon
the senate conferees receeding from
the amendment, and, as the time
was short and the bill in danger Of
failing to pass, this was done, and
the effort TO secure payment Of
these claims at this session met
final defeat
The effort TO secure remunera-
ton from the government for the
war expenses Of these states has
been continuous for a number of
years. Bills have been introduced
into each congress and pushed Wig
orously, bnt with no result hither-
to beyond favorable reports for the
war claims committee Of the house
and military committee of the SEN
ate. The Oregon claims have been
fully proved, and the exact am
cunt due definitely ascertained, SO
that very soon after the appropria-
tion Of the money the state treas
ury should receive it. That they
are just is admitted by the willing
ness Of the senate to provide for
them by an amendment to the APP
preparation bill, and thus settle
the matter at the present session,
instead Of demanding that it come
in regular way by the special re.
lief bill long since introduced and
buried beyond hope Of resurrection
during the brief hours of the pres
ent session that still remained.
The effort will bo renewed when
the next congress meets, and its
final succession is only a question
Of time. This is sort of public
expenditure that always finds op.
ponents on the score Of the present
necessity for economy, and, were
this economy applied in other di-
rections as we'll, Oregon could have
no just grounds Of complaint be-
cause payment of these claims was
postponed until q time when the
national treasury should be in a
better condition for meeting other
than necessary current expenses
Oregonian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

TIE Pendleton Tribune says:
senator elect Mcbride has given no
evidence of being influenced by the
boilers" No; neither has senator
elect Mcbride given any evidence
that he is being influenced by
"Dolphcholia." The case of sena-
tor elect Mcbride seems to be one
of Il don't know where | am at"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

We offer Ono Hundred dollars Reward for
amy csese OF Catarrh that cannot be cured Nv
Halls CatarTh Cure,
+ j. Cheney ( CO., Props, Toieds, o.
We the undersigned have known +. j. Chen.
ey tor the last II years. aud believes him per-
fectiy honorable in all business transactions
and financially able 20 carry out amy obllgsls
tions made by their tirm
West 4 Iruax, Wholesale Druggist Toledo,
@. Walding. Kinnan 4 Marvin, Wholesale
Druggist Toledo, Ohio
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous SUR
faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
Actual Residence Not Necessary

Hon. d. j. Cooper, of The Dalles,
has received the following dispatch:
WASHINGTON, March 1, 1895.
HoN. d. G. CooPER, The Dal.es. Ore
Ellis bill which passed the house
Wednesday, amending law 50 as
not 70 require actual residence on
railroad lands. passed the senate to-
day with amendment, and goes to
the president for his approval.
JoHN H, MfTcHELL.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

ONE Of the worst billiards Of the
winter struck Creston, Iowa, Mon
day, when the thermometer fell to
30 degrees below. Nothing of the
kind in Oregon-butter cups, birds
etc, have full sway--"but such is
our climate.n
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

TlE Tacoma Morning Union will
turn over its plant to the school
children and allow one edition to
be gotten out By them, the proceeds
to go to any object the children
may select.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

TIM Oregonian is a great news.
paper, one Of the largest aud best
on the coast, but il shows a deplor-
able weakness In resorting to such
Language as "stinkers," and simply
because certain men are not ia ac,
cord with its senatorial views,
pointedly remarks the Wallowa
Cbieftian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

THE extremely low rates offered
BY competitive steamship compan-
rs from points on the Sound to
Alaska Is attracting the attention
q many persons throughout the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

THE experts looking over the
books Of Baker County have al
ready found that county to be 1910.
o00i in debt and there are several
more precincts to hear from.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08
PUBLIC NOTICE.

the mayor and common council OF the city Of
Athena, Oregon, at meeting thereof to be
held on the 2Oth day OF March, 1895. for q
liquors in less quai titles than oae Quart. said
liquors to be sold only In the Matlock building
situated ON lot Q, in block 8 Of said city.
Dated Feb. 20, 1895. LEW SHAW, Applicant.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

The mayor of The Dalles died
yesterday in that city. He occupi-
the position Of bank cashier and
was we'll known,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-08

DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
WeEsd's Fair Highest Msdal aad Diplsma.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-07-30
DODDRIDGE.
A Rising Railroad City in
Sulphur Township.

The Texarkana & Shreveport
Railway is now running to Dod-
dridge, in Sulphur township, Is
miles south of Texarkana.
Already a depot has been con-
structed, and the town surveyed of
into business and residence lots and
there is not a particle of doubt as
to it becoming a commercial place
of considerable Importance. Sui
phur township raises from six to
eight thousand bales of cotton, we
are told, and nearly all of it will be
marketed at this new railroad town,
This, together with other products
of the soil, fine timber lands, ETC.,
will insure its making live town,
For some time to come Doddridge
will be the southern terminus of the
Texarkana & Shreveport railroad.
Town is well located, on a high,
sandy plateau, four miles east of
Bright Star and three miles west of
Spring Bank; Kelly bayou, near by,
will receive the drainage and offa(
of the place,
Work of opening out the streets
will begin at once. Opposite the
depot is "Fouke Place" a wide plat
of ground, upon which will front
the business houses, to be built at
first; then there are the following
avenues, running east and west;
Collins, SIay, Bryant, and others.
Several merchants are arranging
to locate there right away, and ere
another two weeks elapse, half
dozen or more new store houses will
be in course of construction, One
or more saw mills are expected to
start up soon,
1t is estimated that not less than
1900 bales of cotton will be brought
to the new town this fall,
Now is the time to get in on the
"ground floor" as lots are going
cheap The first stores will reap
rich harvest.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-07-30
Where to Go During the Summer.

The Missouri Pacific Railway and
Iron Mountain Route make reduced
rates during the summer season to
Colorado and the famous resorts of
the Rockies aud beyond, Also to
the Northern Lakes, White Noun
tains and Atlantic Seashore, On
trains passing through st, Louis
there Is only one change of cars, in
the new Union Station the grand
est, largest and most magnificent
passenger station in the world, Any
information desired IN regard to
rates, sleeping car service, counec.
tlons, etc, can be obtained on ap.
pheation to the nearest Missouri
Pacific or Iron Mountain ticket
agent, or II, Q, Townsend, General
Passenger Agent, st, Louis, Mo.