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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22

When Lady Margaret Grosvenor,
third surviving daughter of the duke of
Westminster, gave her hand to Prince
Adolphus OF Teck, the other day, says
the PHILADELPHIA Times, her father gave
with It a marriage portion of five mill
lion dollars. The bride, the daughter of
probably the richest man in the world,
is rather good-looling girl whose per-
sonality, to say nothing Of such fabu-
1ous dot, would seem to entitle her to
something better in the way of hus-
band than the, ,impecunious young Ian
Ger whose name she now bears. The
prince is an officer in the seventeenth
lancers, the full uniform of which regi-
ment he wore when married The
wedding presents numbered about five
hundred, and included enough jewelry
to start store. The newly welded
pair will in future be known as 'stheir
serene highnesses the prince and prin-
cess of Teclx."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22

OF the frozen blood from the thdrax
and die within an hour after Eating.
The action of the poison ih warm
weather is much quicker Qeasion-
ally poison Is unsuceessfu assd, but
the hunter is almost snre of some
pelts, and Is sometimes richly reward
ed. From fifty to seventy-tive wolves
have been lxilledin one night from the
poisoning of one carcass. Thisgwas in
Middle Park, where the wolves are very
plentiful. :
1t takes two bottles Of strychnine to
poison one dead COW or horse, and from
one-fourth to one-third of bottle for q
sheep; small animals or birds require
less proportionate amount. All the
carnivorous animals may be destroyed
by strychnine. The larger ones may
be poisoned by putting few crystals
in small balls of butter or lard When
the animal is frozen so that it viii not
aborb poison scatter the balls round
about. Small animals can be killed by
poisoning scraps of meat, or small birds,
mice or fishes. The red fox can be
easily poisoned where it could not be
trapped. Stryrhnine must be handled
with great care. 1t should be used
moderately in small bats and placed
where dogs and cats are not likely to
find it.
Poisoned animals may be kept for
months, If necessary, and if promptly
removed when thawed the skins will
be good. A hole bored in a log or
block of wood and filed with lard
mixed with strychnine is very etfectual
when weather is not freezing. The
animals lick it out so slowly that they
die before they get away. The APP
proved method used here in Colorado is
to place small quantities of crystallized
strychnine in druggists capsules and
insert one of these in bait of meat
about the size of hens egg. Hang up
calf's head or some fresh meat in a
tree or on fence so high that wolves
cannot reach 1T. Then scatter the bait
around the spot every few feet. The
fresh meat in the tree attracts the ami
mails, and Shey readily pick up the bait
on the ground. A drachm bottle of
strychnine costs thirty-five cents and
contains forty or fifty doses of poison.
The capsule method is recommended as
best of all.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22
na Iia.Icr.tooa wornanl.lnd.

1t is related by Iit-Bits that u GER
tain man was recently very sad because
his wife had gone on visit, which she
would not shorten in spite Of his APP
peals TO come homo. He finally hit
upoa u plan to induce her TO return.
lie sent her a copy of each of the local
papcra with enc item clipped ont, and
When shc wrote to find out what it was
he had clipped from the papers he re-
fused 70 tell her, The scheme worked
admirably. In less than week she
was home to find out what it was
that had been going on that her hus-
band did not want her 20 know about.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22

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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22
POISONING COYOTES.
Methods OF uslng stryohnino ON wild An.
imaIs In the West.

a bill lately introduced in the Coll
orado legislature provides for the pur-
chase of strychnine by county commits
sioners for the destruction of wolves
and coyotes, which are becoming quite
desperate ali over the state and are
multiplying in spite of bounty laws,
says the Denver Field and Farm. One
way to put out poison is to telse fresh
dead COW or horse, remove the hide, cut
the animal open, cash the outside with
q knife and put strychnine in the in
cision and on the entrails. The erys-
tails of strychnine will soon dissolve
and penetrate the flesh. Carcasses thus
prepared are often frozen before the
wolves End them But the wolves eat
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22

The first real estate entry of record
IN kanawha county, w. Va. was made
January 3, 17a5, and is of one hundred
and fifty thousand acres of land TO
Phineas Taylor, of Waterbury, Conn,
who was the grandfather of Phineas T.,
hagnum, the great Snowman. The
property has been in litigation almost
ever since
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22
PROF. FALB ON 1895.
His Announcement OF the Critical Days
for the Coming Year,

Prof. Rudolph Falb, of Leipzig, the
diseogerer of the Critical days. in Civ
ing thcir number, order and dates for
the coming year in the columns of the
Deutsche Kaiser-Kalender for 1895.
states that observations begun in 1865
convinced him that tho influence of the
attraction Of the moon and sun upon
the waters of the sea had a similar Of.
feet upon the ocean of the earth,s at
mosphere, as well as upon the LIQUID
and volatile masses contained ia the
interior Of our globe. He discovered
says the baltimore Sun, that great at
mc 3pheric disturbances, shocks of
earthquake and explosions in mines
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22
An EnterprIsIng E.nperor.

Matsu Hito, the Japanese emperor,
who recently celebrated his 70 rty-sec-
ond birthday, has given Japan the tel
egraph, railroads, ironclads and perfect
modern military equipments. Latterly
the Japs have been realizing splen-
did interest on the investment.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-03-22

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ts' merits, send for specimen copy free), and
ron will admit that seeing these THUMBS has put
rou In the way of saving money by finding In one
Magazine everything to satisfy the literary wants Of
he whole famiy.
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Notice.

The undersigned having been ap-
pointed by the court Receiver for
the G. A. Barrett Co., all parties
owing said firm are requested to
call and settle their accounts.
G. A. BARRETT,
Receiver.
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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

And SO If the British Govern ment
wants to lay cable to Honolulu
they can do it without infringing on
the ancient" (from Kalakaua's time)
treaty between the U. s. and Hawaii.
Well the whole thing savors OF the
usual lions tail twisting that the
self-styled Americans here indulge
in, and gives a fair idea of the accu-
rate information which our patriots
try to feed their hoped-for fellow
countrymen on. To people here
who know, masses of lies like these
simply injure the cause.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27
THAT DEPRESSION.

That depression in trade and in
all industries exists in the country
is beyond dispute-even for Mr..
Schmidt. The preliminary report
OF Senator Schmidt's depression"
committee cannot be said to tend to
show the cause of said depression
or the remedy for it. 1t is to be
hoped that the final report of the
committee to be presented at the
next session of the legislature will
be of more value than is the last.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

always be found near large estates
there from the revenues of which
they derive their main existence. In
Hawaii, there are no prosperous
towns and villages. The owners of
the estates import their necessities
from abroad, and export their cash,
along with themselves, as soon as
they get a chance. When Hawaii
ceases to be an orange to be sucked
by a single class OF men depression
will cease.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27
SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1894.
TIE USUAL INSTRUMENTATION

Two columns in the Advertiser
are devoted to Washington cores
pondent of the Boston Journal
styled "Webb." The object is the
cable between Vancouver an Aus
tralia. The value of this gentle
mans lucubrations is evidenced by
the following extract: "This cable
which the British Vancouver, the
western terminus of the Canadian
Pacific railway, to the Hawaiian
group is designed as another mill
tary agency of the British govern
ment. The object of this cable is
not for commercial usage. only. If
it were cable designed for CONNER
cial use, why should it not be land
ed at Honolulu, where the COM
merce of the Hawaiian Islands is
and whore it could be landed with
out in any way infringing upon this
ancient treaty between the United
States and Hawaii, and where the
consent OF the United States Gov
srnment would not be required2 If
the British Government desires to
lay a strictly commercial cable be-
tween Vancouver and Honolulu it
would have no difficulty in doing
that. The Hawaiian Republic, un-
doubtedly, would very promptly
grant the necessary permission and
no request would be necessary from
any foreign power.
But the island of which the ces-
sion is requested or upon which the
eezsion is requested or upon which
the British Government wishes to
have the authority and the permis-
sion of the United States to land
this cable, is simply rock in the
ocean, about quarter of mile
long. There is no harbor to it. 1t
is inaccessible even to small boat,
except in profound calm. 1t is a
rocky bluff situated where it is abso-
lutsly unapproachable to commerce.
No ship can ever go there. 1t would
require vast sums of money to pre-
pare harbor which would make it
possible for ships even Of the light
est draft to approach this rock. 1t
is absolutely nothing but rock. If
the telegraph cable station should
be made there it would be of no ad-
vantage to the commerce of Homo
lulu or to the commerce of the
world. Ships could not land there.
A special cable must necessarily
be laid from that point to Honolulu
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

In regard to the local depression
one OF the main causes is the large
amount OF money which is paid out
month by month by the government
in salaries and wages, and which is
not spent here as was formerly the
case. Employees under the mon
archy we're men with families and
mostly inclined to live up to their
income. Money was freely spent
and the merchants were the gamers.
Now, the employees who share in
the 100000 or more which monthly
is paid out of the treasury board,
the greater part of the money and
confne their expenditures to the
bare necessities of life, mainly
patronizing Chinese stores and me-
chanics; who in turn save what
money goes into their banks for the
purpose of sending it to China.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

afterward in order to make the cable
of any advantage whatever"
Shades of the Lehua. Weren't
we ship-nay in fact a whole
navy-the navy of the Hawaiian
Republic7
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Representative Hanuna has new
idea. He says the army ought to
do the fighting and the police the
arresting. He evidently wasn't
here during the "unpleasantness."
The cases were then reversed. But
perhaps the honorable gentleman is
right Only how would it be, should
the police want to fight the army, or
the army arrest the police. How
would his rule work.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

have no need to enquire what other
nations are doing. Very wisely did
Washington advise to retain this
happiness as long as they could"
Let the deluded annexationist in
these islands ponder upon the fore
going, even though he extract but
little comfort therefrom. 1t is only
too patent that we have to shape
our own ends. No true American,
be he Republican or Democrat, has
any intention to take up our hero
geneous population and try to
mould it into an American colony.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

The Star learns from a Canadian
paper how British politics are con-
Quoted. The revelation, though
strange to him, must be- pleasing
from its source-to the editor of the
Bulletin. The main fact is that in
England government must possess
the entire confidence of the people.
Let there be the slightest mistrust
or want of approval shown and
every minister at once resigns.
Here, as the Star knows, it is
different.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

Senator McCandless with his mo-
tion in favor of annexation in the
Seuate means we'll. He honestly
believes that the action is for the
furthering of what he 80 strongly
desires. But has he reflected that
neither he nor the Senate should in
terfere and do other peoples bust
ness for them. 1t is for the execu-
tive to ask for "closer political
union" Any attempt by other per-
sons-no matter how highly placed
Ito do so, indicates lack of conf.
dence in their disposition to carry
out the functions entrusted to them.
A honorary member OF the His
torical Society of Massachusetts
wrote in 1881, as follows: "In the
United States we do indeed see a
boundless dominion successfully
guided under democratic system.
But the territory in this case, extern
sive though it be, is all compact and
continuous, and the population how
ever large it may come to be, will
still in the main be homogeneous.
If the United States should come
into the possession Of countries
separated from her by the sea and
of different nationality, her position
in the world would at once be es-
sentially altered. 4 The
supreme happiness for country of
course is to be self-contained, to
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

That there is depression, serious
depression in Hawaii is not to be
wondered at under those circum-
stances-and Schmidt helped to
make it so. 1t more of surprise
that under existing circumstances
the people manage to live at all.
But importing more paupers is GER
tainly not the remedy. Rather re-
import some of the sugar barons
and get them to spend their money
here.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

he is good to the printing offices
and pays them for printing his COM
positions while most people want to
get them in print for nothing.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

In yesterdays issue of The INDE-
PENDENT there appeared a paragraph
which reflected unjustly on Mr.. @.
Ballantyne. 1t inferred that
Mr.. Ballantyne was in someway
connected with "a certain opium
combination which it is alleged for
got two trunks OF opium on the
wharf which eventually fell into the
hands of the Collector General, Mr..
j. B. Castle, co-promoter of Mr..
Ballantyne." We regret the publ
cation OF this paragraph which has
led to inferences which ought not
to have been made. The paragraph
tends to injure Mr.. Ballantyne, per-
sonally and we admit was published
in our effort to hurt the enterprise in
which he is engaged, and to dis
credit the gentleman in the estima-
tion OF the people of Honolulu.
The policy of our paper has been
against the proposed franchise in
which Mr.. Ballantyne is Interested,
but we have never had reason to
reflect on his character as an estim-
able and respected citizen of this
city.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

The committee in its report says
very little about the depression but
devotes considerable space to advo-
eating the importation of pauper
labor. We fail to see how the i'm
portation of paupers can work as a
relief to trade? Bringing into the
country more people without money
can hardly be considered remedy
against hard times. There is not
money enough to 60 around among
the present working population and
the proposition to further divide
what little there is seems too alb
surd to be seriously considered. The
depression started with the over
throw of the established govern
ment. Since then the absentee land
lord has become more numerous.
The Hawaiians who are "cash Gus.
toners" have been driven to the
wall, and, in official and private posi-
tions, strangers without family and
interests here have been placed,
generally men who save their wages
with the object of getting suffi-
cient competence to leave the coun-
try and return to whence they
came from.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

The Advertiser editorially en-
dorses the following rot 1t simply
emphasizes it's insulting attitude to
President Cleveland and every
other national head who seems dis
posed to prevent the Castle COM
bination from fencing in this section
of the world for their and their
Asiatic serfs' exclusive benefit:
"The British Foreign Office is un-
derstood to be preparing to press
it's claim upon the Hawaiian Repub-
lie in behalf of those British con-
spirstors who were imprisoned or
banished for plotting in the late re-
bellion to destroy American lives
and property with dynamite and
devote Honolulu to pillage. This
impudent demand that they should
be not only pardoned, but compen-
sated for such inconvenience as they
may have suffered makes the nation
which had no mercy for the Irish
patriots spectacle for gods and
men.
"And all OF those embarr rassments
and perils, it should be clearly born
in mind, are of our own inviting.
II President Harrison had been re.
elected, or if President Cleveland
had followed the accepted princi-
pals and traditions of American
stat tesmanship, Great Britain never
would have dared to offer such an
affront to the American people as is
involved in her present hostile and
overbearing policy toward friendly
republics. She never would have
dreamed of it. These complications,
with all their serious possible conse-
quences, are the direct result Of two
years of scandalous feebleness and
bungling at Washington"
"The personal importance which
an individual whose name gets into
diplomatic correspondence suddenly
reaches has always been future OF
international controve rsies. Star.
Does our brother of the chair
scissors, and quill begin to wish that
he had been in Jail tooi Never!
The Stars announces editorially
that it "will endeavor to refrain
from getting angry about the latest
international incident" The Incl
dent is that the u. S. Government
has made demand on the Hawaiian
Republic for $25,OOO damages on
behalf of an American citizen James
Durrell for this governments action
towards him during the revolution.
The Star also says it "does not
share this publicly expressed fear
that the fact of Congress being in
recess will make any material diff
ference in the issue-but it may"
(The italics are ours). Probably the
Star owns the States as we'll as the
Hawaiian Republic.
And the Electric Railway fran
chise goes over to next session
And the President will appoint a
commission to enquire about it.
And shortly Jim will wait for his
shares of the non. .assessable stock.
And people say that The INDEpEN-
DENT did it all, But that is not
true. 1t was the fatally selfish
features OF the CAB which killed it.
The general public usually like an
honest deal,
There is going to be a new labor
commission, but we SUPPOSE it will
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

The absentees are the main cause
of the troubled financial situation
in Hawaii nei. No country can for
any length of time afford to be
drained OF the currency which
should be in circulation in the coun-
try. The sugar barons, who reside
in San Francisco, New York, Paris,
Liverpool, Bremen and elsewhere,
spend their enormous incomes de-
rived from Hawaiian soil in those
places. They pay a triAing amount
OF taxes to the Hawaiian govern
ment and generally get one-third of
those, and there they believe their
obligations end. With one or two
exceptions the fortunes amassed by
them in Hawaii have been made en-
tirely here. Few OF them brought
capital with them, when they land
ed here. Hawaii to them has been
but miloh COW, but the future will
show that she has nearly been milk
ed dry and is becoming sterile and
barren. Senator Schmidt, who has
lived in Germany, must have seen
the difference in the style of living
of landed proprietors and financial
magnates to that indulged in by
men similarly situated in Hawaii.
Prosperous towns and villages can
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27

A local paper, writing anent the
proposed abrogation OF the Recipro-
city treaty fills two columns with
the same old lies with which every
kamaaina is familiar. The new
writer Juggles the figures like the
novice that he is. The planting in
terest may pray to be saved from
such friend. 1t is shown that the
official figures give valuation of
sugar plants at $2s,172,3OO; but says
the novice, Eve all know that $780,
100000 is the actual value.' This is
a good pointer for tax assessors.
The writer then goes on to say that
ut is safe to say that three-fourths
OF the amount invested in this great
industry is owned by American
citizens" The writer is talking
through his hat. Saving the Ameri-
can capital brought into these
islands by Mr.. Spreckels, where was
any other placeds The capital is
is American only in the sense that
the American people contributed to
the Hawaiian planter, by and
through the treaty, the money that
developed our sugar industry-only
this and nothing more. Again, does
the writer count the interests of
Messrs. Baldwin, Wilcox and Cooke
as those of American citizens9 If so.
he is outside OF the record. There
Is no need for borrowing trouble
about the treaty; it will not be alb
rogated Both OF the political parties
in the United States stand sponsors
for the. treaty, and nothing but the
crassest folly on our part will en-
danger reciprocal relations with the
United States. A visit OF the fool
killer to the Executive building
once a month might be a safe pre-
caution, however.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-27
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