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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
TYPICAL INSTANCES,

PLUTOCRACY'S wORK-THE RECORD
OF AFEw GRIMES.
A few typical facts, carefully collect
cd by the New York Voice. Every
worker among the poor knows that
such facts are but the extreme fruits
of conditions all too common.
Mrs. Annie Pensal, Ill West Fiji
teenth street, killed her child to keep
it from starving and freezing to death.
days before rather than see the misery
of his wife and little ones. lie is a
truckman out Of work. His little
family had been without food or fuel
for several days. She intimated that
had the police not arrived she would
have trangled the others.
James Flower, while being pursued
by a yelling crowd, shouting, "Stop
thief" suddenly turned and swal-
lowed a dose of poison. In an hour he
was dead. He had been driven to this
step by poverty. He left wife and
babe as legacy to the "kind-hearted"
world.
Eugene Schultzing's fourth attempt
at suicide succeeded. Out of work
and starving, he at last reached the
haven where human sufferings end.
Charles Davis, sober ana indus
trious young man, 20 years of age, poor
and out of work, and with all hope
gone, committed suicide on Feb. 26
Twenty years Of age all hope gone! q
land OF equal opportunities! o com.
petitive system, you force even youth
| to abandon what has belonged to it,
Hope.
The three-week-old daughter OF
Thomas and Marie Raso, Harlem, died
Feb. 8, but they were too poor to bury
| it. The husband made coffin out ol
| a macaroni box, wrapped the body in q
cheesecloth and took it to the morgue
| to be buried at public expense.
A pathetic story comes from Los An
geles, CAL, where civil engineer trie6
to commit suicide to leave his wife 9
| little policy to keep her from want
He left a card with a lock of his Wife.
hair-a love token he carried. He hat
| been three years out of work.
| A twelve-year-old Polish lad wa
sent to prison for 80 days for stealth.
coal. After he had served his term h
tramped back home to his widowet
mother, but only to find her dead. FL,
had stolen the coal to warm her a
she lay dying.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
Take Motto.

When you have finished reading
your REPRESENTATIVE hand it to
your neighbor, III he is not a sub
scriber) and let him read it, He may
want it sent to him regularly there.
after. Spread the light all you can.
II you know of leading man any
where not Populist, but who is open
to reason, send us his name and 25
cents, and we will send him the paper
for three months. This will cost yeu
about one-fourth of q cent a day and
it may do great good to the cause.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
THAT FLY PAPER DIDN'T SUIT.

Mr.. Donnervetter-"Hier is somdigs I
get specially for mine Irisch trade.
know you will like him. It vas fly
paper nit der picture of St. Batrick on
him."
rick. me chuckle-headed frind, an if it
wasn't for soilin' the hands av me 1t is
your face OF would break this minute.
Yez kin sell thin to the Apey A, an
much good may it do yez."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

More seed-thoughts are being
planted in the minds of men than ever
before. The study Of social conditions
is peing prosecuted as never before
Kansap.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
Total taxes and interest pr. an. 1924, 700

To pay the interest and taxes an
nually it required the entire product
Of SO, All acres, every foot in corn, aver
aging thirty bushels per acre, and sell
ing for 80 cent per bushel.
This is equivalent to 1881 full Sec
tions or little over three towns hips,
six miles square, and equivalent to
fully one-fourth Of the entire area of
the country.
During 1894 the recorded indebted
ness was increased over $l91 900, there
being that amount more mortgages
recorded than was released. This
means $58 to each voter and $11.5O per
capita. And il the experience Of the
whole state was the same, then the
mortgage Indebtedness OF the state
was Increased over $4,000, 900. Such
is life! q. w. CRUM.
Norfork, Neb.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
TWO HEARTS MADE HAPPY.

Papa.
Eyes, daughter?"
"You know you forbade Charlie
Crewde's coming to the house some
months ago, because he was in the oil
business, and oil was away down in
price, and you thought he could not sup
port wife,
II remember"
"Well, papa, Charlie has just brought
in a couple Of good wells, and oil is
worth
Say no more, my daughter. Invite him
hack"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

This robbing labor to enrich idle
ness will stop just as soon as the labor
ers stand together and vote together
for better conditions of living
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

For cooking purposes the raisin
brandy sold for 81. so per gallon by Geo.
Benz s. Sons, IS Fourth street south,
is just the thing.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

If our ministers voted for humanity
as often as they pray for It, Gods
kingdom would soon come on earth
Saline Union.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
WESTERN PROSPERITY.
DREADFUL PICTURE
How the Farmers Thrive in the
Best Part of Nebraska.
Won't Some of Our Friends Give
Us Similar Accounting For
Our Minnesota Counties?

The following statement will give a
reasonably fair idea of what the pres
ent financial system is doing for the
great agricultural northwest. These
figures are not intended to represent
the exact amount of each item to a
cent, but are so near correct that no
kick can be made on them. In fact,
the amount is SO astounding that
few hundred thousand one way or the
other would cut no figure to speak OF.
My attention was first called to this
subject while making a list of mort
gage expirations on farm lands, after
which investigated the other item,
but not so thoroughly as the mortgage
indebtedness on farm lands
I have had several bankers make
climates on the other items and they
practically agree with the following
statement. 1t is enough to make any
ordinary man lose faith in the present
money system, which has often been
said to be the best ever conceived by
the mind of man, and especially when
one knows that Madison county for
twenty-five years never saw crop
failure and always produced a most
bountiful harvest.
The records show this debt to be
the growth of years, and even now
not more than one man in ten is get
ting ahead any, and vast majority
are simply living from hand to mouth
and have been for the past twenty
years. Every particle of surplus,
which should have been laid by for a
rainy day, had to be turned over to
the eastern mortgage holder as trib'
ute, and this year with its short croI
finds scores of farmers, who have farm
ed all their lives and owned the land
they titled, with not enough reserve to
carry them through the winter, and
have had to make additional loans tc
live on.
Farm mortgages. ........... 50, 500, ,O0(
Town mortgages (real estate) 100000
| Bank Indebtedness. ......... 1000, ,OO(
| Chattle Indebtedness aside
from banks hold, ,es timated) 1,000,00
Bonds, various kinds, about. $4,000
| Indebtedness on 81 miles of
| railroad at something like
$4,000 per mile (or more)
which the people must pay
indirectly by freight rates.
(The railroad produces no
wealth ITSELF. ............ 1,soO,OO'
Total. S., ,21o, ,oo'
Vote of Madison County, 1894 1928;
Population five to voteD... 1912
Indebtedness per capita..... 43
Average rate of INTEREST,". 70I
Amount of interest per an
mum. 504, 20,
Annual taxes. es............ 120, COZ
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
MINNEAPOLIS. MINI. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 1895

Charles Foster. but, no doubt, could
procure one. The facts, as we print
ed them are, that G.. L. Donnells, of
Gibsonburg, Sandnsky county, Ohio, q
veteran soldier, on his return from
the army, had in his possession, as the
pay he received for his services in the
army, 7.3O notes; that with these
notes he purchased from the Hon.
Charles Foster the farm on which he
now resides, making the first payment
in the 7.30 notes In his possession;
that Mr.. Fest received these notes
and gave him deed for the land.
ga sworn statement Of this fact can
now be furnished, ii necessary. Mr..
Donnells is respectable, well-tO-dO
farmer, whose word is as good as his
bond. and Mr.. Foster can not deny
the statement here made. Yours, re-
spectfully, Fl. F. BARNES.
Mr.. N. A. Dunning,
Washington, D. c."
now call your attention, Mr.. Sec.
retary, to the testimony of the lead
ing Republican daily Of the state of
Kansas, a journal which has bravely
espoused your cause and Is just now
giving me Hail Columbia" in this
present discussion. II can prove my
case by one Of your most obtrusive
and rproarious witnesses it seems to
me That I>haye established my point.
TIE Topeka Capital recently dis
cussed, classified and arranged the
circulating currency of the country
very minutely aud carefully.
April 4, 1890, replying to cores
pondent, the Capital said:
There is still another very inter
esting feature about our circulation,
beginning in 1eds, when the actual
currency circulation was upward of
$50 per capita. But as our correspon-
dent does not inquire anything be-
yDnd the last ten years. we begin in
1915, just when the secretary Of the
treasury begins in his message con-
corning the circulation. There has
been an actual decrease per capita
since 1872. and a large relative de-
crease in comparison with the busi-
ness development'0f the country"
April II, 1890, replying to another
correspondent, the Capital resumed
the S,1hioct as fn1invuS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

First Legislator (brandishing his fsts)
Nov I've got you, confound you! You
called me lot of insulting names this
morning.
Second Legislator (calmly)-"What Of
It? That was during . legislative see-
sion, wasn't .it?'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
Total. $211, ,239. 9.515.41

eff $211, 239, ,515.41 of currency were
destroyed during the fiscal year, and
If $1S1. COG. .S04 of currency were on
hand and not in circulation there
must have been the amount of these
two items 1892 1886, ,319.4D in circula-
tion at the beginning of the year. II
this be added to the total given above
as the actual circulation at the end Of
the fiscal year June 80, 1860, we have
a grand aggregate for the beginning
of that years., $50. 239.7O9 plus $780,
1886, ,319.4 equals 81, PAP, SIG, ,O28. IA per
capita circulation of $64 at the close
of the war, July 1, 1885,"
Mark you, this is not my statement
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15

1UCdI. .............. $I, O0U, DUO, 1IU
GAIL these different kinds of notes,
certificates, ETC., amounting to 81, $780,
506,21 were used as currency. Ma
tional bank circulation June 80, 1856,
$281 ,419, ,908. Add this to the other
and we have total active currency
circulation at that time of 81, $50, $780,
at 35, 000, 600, gives per capita circu-
latiOn OF $52.
by t,rEisg tospage 1853 Of the same
report--Finance Report, 18S6-we find
a brief statement of outstanding
United States notes, which are classi-
fed as mot used in circulation
These are:
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
HATCHING THE FISH
A Correspondent Describes the
Process Interestingly.
THE BIGGEST DAYS WORK
Why the Conditions on the Upper
Claekamas are so Favorable
for Salmon Propagation.
THE BIGGEST DAYS WORK

"A correspondent writes: your people
May like to know what is being done here
in the way of Matching salmon by the
Columbia River Packers Salmon Propa-
eating Company. We came here about
the first of June, into the heart of the
forest, and we might say, hewed our
way here and since then have cleared
away the forests and erected two build
ings, each 20XS0 feet, and each contain
ing nine troughs Ga feet long, so that the
two haze a capacity of 100000 salmon
eggs Besides clearing the ground and
erecting these buildings, we put a rack
across the Oak Grove, a stream four
miles below where we are located, to
prevent the salmon going up that, and
have also butt a rack across the Clack-
amas here at the hatchery. The first
salmon were seen here on June 10Th, and
we took the first eggs on July 22d. These
are the first salmon that come into the
Columbia river in the spring, and are
in the Clackamas as early as the first OF
February. They are the finest of the
Chinook salmon, nearly all large, weigh,
ing from twenty to forty pounds, ana
that after they have made the journey
from Cape Hancock to the Cascade noun
tains without any visible food. Many
may think 1t strange that these fish are
so long in getting up here, but they travel
very slow after they have passed the
fishing grounds on the lower river, ana
some of them were seen a few miles be-
low us for two or three weeks before they
made their appearance here. We have
taken the eggs from about 400 salmon and
they have averaged about 6OO0 eggs each,
so we have nearly 2,5OO,OOO eggs in the
Matching house. Our largest days work
was $4,000 eggs from forty-four salmon;
but 1t looks now as though the run was
about over for this year, as we will not
wait for the late run for it would bring
us into the cod weather before they
would hatch and get large enough to
turn loose and as the weather and water
get cooler, it will take them longer to
hatch, so If we should stop taking the
eggs now, 1t will be as late as the middle
of November or later before we will
have all the young fry turned out ana
by that time we will have snow and colo
weather up here in the mountains. We |
are, however, taking about $4,000 eggs a |
day, and shall continue to do so, if the |
fish last"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
THE OPENING.
Fishers New Opera House Filled With a
Fashionable Audience

flsher new opera House Filled With
Fashionable Audience.
Last night the doors of Fishers new
opera house were thrown open to the
pubic FOR the first time, and when the
hnlshing touches are completed 1t will
stand an ornament to the city and fill
much needed want.
The initial performance was given by
Bacon's stock company under the man
agement of Mr.. John f. Cordray, the
well known theatrical manager of Port
land. The company Is a very strong
one and were enthusiastically received
last night by fair sized audience of the
elite of the city They will remain dur
ing the week and will no doubt draw
crowded houses, as it has been a long
time since Astoria has had an opportun-
ity of witnessing a first class performance
at home.
The play presented last night was "Kid-
naped, which has a good plot and is re-
piete with thrilling situations, interviewer
with humor and pathos. Each member
of the company performed well his or
her part and the scenery was well de-
signed and mounted The play is in five
acts and holds the attention of the audi
ence from the rise of the curtain to its
final drop. Mr.. f. w. Bacon, as Louie
Rhingold, the "Dude;" Mr.. William Bur-
ress, as Michael McMooney, vivid a STAR"
Mr.. George Watson, as the officer; Miss
Camille Cleveland as Grace Baybrook;
Miss Jennie Weidman, as Daisy Nc
Mooney, and Miss Virginia Jackson, as
Maggie MoMooney, Mes wife, and Pajol,
a hag, made especial hits and received
many encores. The following is a synop-
sis of the play.
Act Home of the McMooneys. The
escape.
Act II-Northcottes studio. Scene p
The escape by the roof Scene 9-The
leap for life from Brooklyn bridge. Saved
Saved!
Act III-McMooneys skye par!or. Scene
2-The bride kidnapped.
Act IV-The Old wine cellar. A den OF
The fire.
Act V-The deserted dock. Arrival of
the police patrol. The assassin captured |
kidnapped" will be repeated tonight |
and there will be no doubt large house, |
as prices have been reduced to the popu-
lar figures of 25c, soc, Toe and 81.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
sHAKEsPEARE oUrsHooK.

Just publlshedl 6i pages each The
Comedy OF Fraud; and the Merchant
Prince; two new plays by DR., Grove,
luthor of the Tragedy Of Abraham Lin
'oln; The Rise and Fan of Jelt Davis;
Ulysses Third The Mockery of Justice;
Ben Thar; and other
Nays, For copies OF each book send
en- cents In stamps to DIR. s. w. Grove,
II w. 49th street. New York City. De-
ided,y the choicest Literary Morse,s OF
he age,-Critlc)
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
pAcoNs srocK COMPANY

Is one of the strongest dramatic organi-
cations that has visited the Pacific slope
In many months. The plays are all new,
and the amusement loving pubic ofsAsto-
ria wiz, be given genuine dramatic
treat. The company have played long
and successful engagements In San Fran
cisco and Les Angeles. In Sacramento,
Cal, they played continually for forty
two weeks. In New York Kidnapped ran
for one hundred nights IN Portland
they have played fifteen weeks at Cor
dray's theatre and return at the close
here and play al season.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
BUYERS AND SELLERS.

The following deeds were fled fol
record yesterday in the recorders office
Theodore Nicholai and wife to S.
Fl. Willett, lot s. block g., City
of Astoria, as laid out by Jno,
Mcclure Observation-Disclosures. 800 .ot
Andrew Hahn and wife to John
Hahn, lot l. sec. 80, tp. N, rye
w, 20 Sl-10O0 acres .................. 80 0l
Tax deed County of C.atsop to r.
p. Graham, undivided y lots o.. u,
49, Necanncum Grove .......... &c. 10. A
Same to Abbe e. Sampson, E u lot
l, block 8, Ocean Grove ........ l5.3
Peninsu,ar Land and Trust COM
pany to Frank Dixon, lot Z, block
?, Taylor's Astoria. ................. go OF
c. r. Higgins to d. R. Campbell,
lot II, block 2, Astoria addition
to Warrenton Observation-Disclosures, 60 .0U
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
Letter SALE!.
Mems Suits.

Grey mixed tweed, round corner
formerly $8.5o........ NOW IS 7s
Brown double-breasted cheviot
formerly $II................ 100
Black cheviot, round or square
corners, formerly $I2. 5o.. 30
Blue cheViot. round or square
corners, formerly $I2. So . d" 20
Black or blue cheviot, round or
square corners, formerly $I5.. " 10 90
Black or blue cheviot, round or
square corners, formerly $3.50 1925
Dark fancy worsteds, formerly
plo. o............ ........... " 10 7s
Dark silk mixed, straight or round
corner, formerly SI5............ :" II 90
Heavy blue assabet cloth, round
or square, formerly $I8...... IL 80
Brown mixed Scotch tweed, round
or square, formerly $I6. 5O... b" II 20
Blue flannel suit, round corner,
formerly $I2. 2.5o................ g 8 75
Black clay worSted, round or
square, formerly $I75o...... " II 90
Blue clay worsted, round or
square, formerly $I7.5o........ " II 90
Black or blue worsted, round or
square, formerly SIS. ...... " 10 50
Grey cashmere, round corner,
formerly Observation-Disclosures. " SIS
All summer SUITS worth from $40
to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. reduced to 7 50
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
MADE "A HIT.

The Bacon Stock company, under the
management Of Mr.. John Il. Csrdray,
of Portland, so well known as an en-
terprising pay giver made a decided hit
at the opening of the Fishers opera
house last night by their fine performance
OF kidnapped" before an appreciative
audience.
Owing to a misunderstanding about the
prices in the sale of seats, the audience
was not as large as 1t would have been,
as families ana hundreds of others were
turned away when they learned that
there were no 25 and so cent seats to be
had. Tonight the scale of prices viii be
25c, soc, 75c and 81 and there will be plenty
of seats for families at the popular price
of two bits. Come early to avoid the
rush. as all are anxious to see kid
naped," as performed by this c.ever COM
pany.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
THE BOY AND THE SCHOOL.

You are proud of your boy.
You want him to look well.
Why don't you go to Herman
Wise's and get him a new suit
at marked down, "Red Letter
Prices"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10

W. a. WeEs estimates that $4,000 BUSH
els of wheat will be stored at Corvallis
this season, Mr.. Wells, who is a careful
watcher Of the grain market, says that
there is a shortage of several million
bushels of wheat this season. and thar
the price is bound to davance. The price
here this week is forty-two cents, being
a trifle more than the market will justify
in paying. Gazette.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
"rHE MILWAUKEE,"

The only railroad lighting Its trains by
electHcity
The only railroad using the celebrated
electric berth reading lamp.
The coaches now running on 'The MIL
waukee are Palaces on Wheels.
On all its through lines, the Chicago,
Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railway runs the
most perfectly equipped trains OF Sleep
Ing, Parlor. and Dining Cars and Coaches.
For lowest rates to any point In the
United tsates and Canada. apply to ticket
agents. or address c. ]. EDDY,
General Agent.
Portland. Oregon.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given 20 all parties
holding clatsop county warrants indors-
ed prior to November LIST, 1892. TO present
the same to the county treasurer for
payment as interest win cease thereon
after this date.
1895. b. L. WARD,
Treasurer OF Clatsop Co
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
TAKING HIS MARK.

That's whatthey say when a
man makes a ten strike; Her.
man Wise has made a mark
"a red mark -On every arti-
Gle in the store.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
THE SCHOOLS CROWDED.

Large Attendance at the Opening Yes
terday.
The attendance at the opening of the
fall term of school yesterday was the
largest known in years on any first day,
and If the natural increase occurs dur
ing the next few days it looks like the
school board win have to rent other build
ings in order to accommodate the un-
expected influx of scholars. Five teachers
at McCiure's school have 265 pupils, while
three teachers at Adair's school have
1856 scholars.
This would seem to indicate an increase
in population and growth of the city ana
on such a basis the school board can
wei afford to hire more room and ad-
ditional teachers.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
CARD OF THANKS.

Those who so kindly assisted in the re-
covery of the body of my brother, who
was drowned In the unfortunate yacht
accident during the regatta, and those
who assisted at the funeral, will Please
accept my sincere thanks.
CHARLES MEADOWS.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10

The Astoria Baseball club Is daily prac-
ticing on the grounds on the hill through
the Kindness Of Mr.. Van Dusen. An in
teresting match game will be Played on
Sunday next with the soldiers nine at
Fort Candy. The latter club has a num-
per OF Eastern men in 1t and they have
been practicing two months.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10

Messrs. Robb & Parker have commenced
putting in their new counter and will
make a general overhauilng of the en-
tlre office. This has been found necessary
10 meet the requirements of the times.
hoDD & Parker VIII be in the front of
the procession when the proposed i'm
provements are finished
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10
WORTHY OF NOTICE.

There is nothing but bold, clear-cut
truth in the statement that to secure per-
feet At, quality and style in your shoes
at the lowest reasonable prices-you must
go to the firm OF John Hahn & Co., 479
Commercial street.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-09-10

What brings people back to the Asto-
ria Wood Yard after they have sounded
the possibilities everywhere else? May
be It's one thing, and May be It's another.
But the fact remains-back they come.
And of course the Astoria Wood Yard is
proud Of 1t.