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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-19
ARE you ,NsuRepq
If 30, You Should Vote with Caution This
Year.

If 30, You Should Vote with Caution This
Year.
Col. Greene, president of the Connec-
ticut Mutual Life Insurance company,
has addressed letter to the $50, 0C0 pol
icy holders of the company, in which he
says:
"We never supposed it necessary to
provide that you should pay your pre-
Iniums or that we should promise to
pay your policies in any particular kind
or quality of dollars; both-with the
exception of certain Canadian insur-
aTfces made during the civil war and
while gold was at premium-are pay
able in lawful money" only on the
confident assumption that the American
people are sufficiently honest to keep its
dollars meaning what they were meant
to mean and always had meant.
But now comes a political party and
avows its distinct purpose to make a
dollar mean three distinct and widely
different things: Q) A gold dollar,
worth as bullion 100 cents anywhere in
the world; (2) q silver dollar, worth as
bullion only SO cents at the present
time; (3) all the paper promises of dol
lars to be hereafter issued by the gov
eminent only, redeemable in either 100
cent gold dollars, SO cent Cor less) silver
dollars or in new promises to pay, at
the option of the debtor or redeemer.
You do not need to be told that only one
least valuable of these dollars would re-
main in use. The invariable experience
of all the ages fixes that fact before
hand.
SHOULD this party so led come to
power upon this platform, the govern
ment dues, instead of being paid, as now,
in gold at 100 cents, or in paper, which it
now redeems with such gold and never
with silver, would be paid in silver or
the paper redeemed in silver, which sill
yer we could use in trade at only its
bullion value Of SO cents on the dollar.
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THE s.LvERlTE cATecHlsM.
In Which FREQ Coinage Theories Are
Plainly Stated.

In Which FREQ Coinage Theories Are
Plainly Stated.
What is money? Something made out
of nothing by government.
Is there any limit to the amount of
money which government can make?
Only the capacity of the. printing
presses of the country.
What kind of money is the best?
That which has the least value.
What does "cheap money" mean?
Money that will buy very little wealth.
Why are some people poor? Because
the money they get in exchange for
their products or their labor will buy a
large amount of goods.
How can the poor all be made richf
By stamping so cents worth of silver
zone dollar" and thus decreasing the
purchasing power of money.
What is capitalist? A wicked sinner
who has worked hard and saved up q
little property.
What is patriot? A man who covets
his neighbours property and wants to
get hold of it by law.
What does Repatriation mean! It's
simple scheme for readjusting the in
CAPABILITIES between the men who worked
and the men who have not.
What Is the golden rule of the silver
ties? Do others as they would not do
you.
What are we to understand by ''hon-
csty" and good faith between men?"
That creditors are to be cheated out Of
one-half of their property whenever the
debtors control congress.
Why not benefit debtors still more by
repudiating oil the claims of creditors?
That will come later. The public must
be educated into silverism by degrees.
What is creditor? A fiend in human
shape who loaned 100 cent-dollars and
doesn't want to be paid in dollars worth
so cents.
How will free silver help the farm
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ers? BY causing the withdrawal of all
loans, paralysis of industry, stagnat;on
of commerce and idleness of millions of
workers who now buy farm products.
How will the sixteen to one scheme
benefit the working classes? By max
ing them pay twice as much for every
thing they buy, while giving them little
or no increase in wages. H. will also
confiscate half of their savings bank
deposits.
What is silver mine owner? A good,
kind, unselfish citizen, who doesn't
want higher prices of silver 80 that he
will get rich, but simply because he
loves his fellow man.
Does his love for the workers lead
him to pay more than market rates for
his labor? Not much. Business and
sentiment are two different things. Be
sides he doesn't have to.
What is sound currency? Dollars
with so cents worth of silver and 80
cents worth of fat or paper dollars all
fat.
What is the chief duty of good citi-
zen? To hate everybody who is indus
trious and thrifty, and to meckly swal-
low all the nostrums of the cheap money
office seekers.
How can the people be made prosper.
Gus? BY setting class against class; dis
couraging the investment of capital;
contracting the currency by running
employers, driving out gold and over
throwing our sound financial system
Whidden Graham.
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The greenbacks then being redeemed in
SO cent dollars, the government bonds
and their interest being paid in SO cent
dollars, our national bank currency,
which rests on government bonds, re-
uecmable in 52-cent greenbacks and The
gold gone from domestic circulation in
to international trade, we shall be on
the single Scent silver dollar basis.
observation-disclosures gold dollars do not
swap even for Scent dollars of silver.
iron or copper. Fifty-two cents worth
of anything can never buy more than
90 cents worth of anything else. Then
the purchasing power of your policies
will be cut in two
Coming upon a silver basis would in
tensely stimulate again the production
: OF silver. The ores are now easily Access
sible, in inexhaustible quantity, from
which silver can be put upon the mar
ket Mt profit of 40 to so cents an ounce,
at which price "silver dollar" would
be worth 30 to 3S cents, or less than q
greenback was during the darkest days
Of 1864. Under that stimulus and under
euch conditions there can be no possible
doubt that the price of silver world
steadily decline on the average toward
the point at which it can be produced,
which in some mines is said to be al
ready less than % cents an ounce, and
inventions and improvements have not
ceased. Should we come upon silver
basis your policies would for the
present be paid in dollars" worth to
your families only about so cents; and
the great bulk of them would probably
be paid in dollars" worth not more
than from IS to 35 cents.
1t is therefore our duty to warn YOU
that by SO much as it was your duty to
make this provision for the protection
of your families, by so much is it your
present duty to see, so far as your action
can prevent it, that no part of that pro-
vision is lost to them by being paid in
"dollars" which are worth anything
less than the 100 cents in which you
have been paying your premiums and
in which, therefore, you and we sup
posed you were making that provision,
trusting to the personal and political
Integrity of the American people to
keep their honor bright and their money
good. We have never supposed--and do
not yet suppose-that the money stand
ard of this great country. producing for
md trading with all the countries of
the earth, is at the mercy of lot of
people who have lot of cheapenirg
metal to sell to us to use for n new
standard and who have long been care
fully and ut great expense organizing
this scheme politically by bringing into
one camp all the discomfort, the jeal-
ousy, envy, rnd hatred which the I'M
wise, unthrifty, inprovident, idle and
sels-indulgent are supposed to harbor
toward the self-restrained, industrious,
rareful, saving, thrifty and wisely
provident.
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HERE AND THERE.

1T is said that ''cheap corn makes
cheap pork" but cheap grass makes
cheaper pork Corn is the standard
hog feed, but there are feeds that arc
better for growth and cheaper by far.
1t is cheap feed that makes cheap pork.
In feeding cornmeal to chicks, it
should never be made into dough.
Feed the meal either dry, or only
slightly moistened. For this purpose,
milk is better than water. Dry grits
is an excellent food for chicks after
they are one week old.
Laying hens should be fed little
better than usual during the hot sum-
mer weather and while moulting.
Get them in good condition before
they begin so shed their feathers,
and they will be better able to stand
the strain, and get through with the
operation sooner.
The feeding of fowls on farms
should be confined to supplementing
the results of foraging. Fowls with
open range will scurry round and find
nearly all the food they need, except
during winter. good feed of corn OF
wheat at night is all outdoor chickens
require. Bugs, worms, grass and the
seeds thereof constitute the perfect
diet for fowls.
Regardless of the price of wool,
we hold that sheep can be made profit
able on nine farms in ten throughout
the country. Some farms can support
profitably a flock of 100 or more. others
only so, and others still smaller mum.
Der. A small flock can be profitably
kept for mutton for family use alone,
utilizing, Of course, to the best advan.
tage, the wool and pelts.
The question, why does hog
root?" has been long and earnestly
discussed. and various reasons suggest.
ed. One reason, which it seems to us
has been overlooked, is that the hog
roots for food, and If he has half a
showing he gets it. The implement
used may not be pretty, but It is beau.
tifully adapted tor the purpose Of tprs'
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Prophecy and History,

Why don't our silver friends stop tell.
ing what is going to happen if they
have their way and content themselves
by learning what did happen when other
nations had similar epidemic of silver
lunacy such as now menaces us? Their
prophecies won't accomplish anything
because they wish 1t, but stern reality
win repeat the disasters with Us that IL
inflicted On others II wo presist In ouy
willtul hl.sdpees,--Geor Cans,
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10 cleanse the system In . gentle and truly
beneficial manner, when the Spring time
comes, use the true and perfect remedy.
Syrup Of Figs. One bottle will answer for
al the family and costs only 30 cents; the
large size 81. Buy the genuine. Manufac-
tured BY the California Fig Syrup Company
only, and for sale by all druggists.
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PractIcai sheen Bu.b.ndrx.

Sheep are peculiar in that they must
have perfectly sweet food. Anything
sour gives them fits, literally fits of
various kinds. which the shepherd
should guard against But there is no
possible question about roots, es.
pecially the sweet, pslatable and M.
tsicious spgsr'hsst " The suesulest
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-19

DR. JALAP-"Let me see your tongue.
please." Patient-"O, doctor, no tongue
can tell how bad feel."-Boston Tran
script.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-19

FLANNEL next to the skin often produces
rash, removable with Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
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'sTHEY say Barrows has writer's cramp. VI
swell; don't wonder, considering the
literature he feeds on.n-Harper's Bazaar.
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= FITs stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use OF DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free % trial bottle
Il treatise. Dr.. KLINE, 933 Arch st. Phila Pa.
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WE think Piso's Cure for Consumption is
the only medicine for Coughs.-JENNIE
PINcKARD, Springfield, Ills., Oct /, 1874.
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"AN' 30 O'Flanni8an was stint M fer
loife, We sezf' "Yis, but his friends do be
thryin' to get his sintence redooced tin
years. life.
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FoREIGN-"T thought her husband was
French "Oh, no. Broken English" ~
Detroit Trihuue.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-19

Halls Catarrh Cure
3 Constitutional Cure. Price 80
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-09-19

-....No competent workingman is
pverpcid IN gold. but he might bs under,
paid ~ silver.
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Mosr Of US know good thing when some
one else has it.-Life
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
The Governor Here.

Hon. Frank Steunenbcrg, governor
elect, came over from the capital Thurs
day morning and spent the day making
a partial inspection Of the insane asy-
lum and its grounds.
Our Blackfoot people have great ex-
pccta;ions and hopes Of the successful
management of the state affairs the
coming two years, and were pleased at
the Governors visit. Had Il been known
In advance that he was coming, our peo-
pie would have rendered him a recep-
tIon commensurate with the dignity
and honors OF the Office 70 which he has
been elected. and in keeping with the
esteem in which they hold him.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
BIG LAND CONTEST.

Case of the State US. the Peoples
Canal Company, InpoIping over
10000 Acres, Heard in the Land
Office This Week.
The contest case In the local land
office this week, OF the State OF Idaho
against the Peoples Canal Company
for lands covering over 66, 600 acres on
the West Side of Snake river was one
OF the most important ever given a hear
ing in the office.
The State was represented in the
case by Attorneys Bishop & Lea, of
Ogden, and Chalmers & Beckwith and
Beane of Blackfoot and the defense by
Messrs Dietrich and Hannaford OF
BlackfOot. State Engineer F. S. Mills
and Chief Clerk Frank Fem Of the land
commissioners Office were also present
in the interest Of the State.
The lands involved are practically
the same which have been in dispute
for many months between the Ameri.
can Falls Canal Company and the
Peoples Canal Company. and which
are TO BE- reclaimed by water from theil
respective canals.
A large number OF witnesses were
called for both parties, and the attor
neys conducted their cases with mark
ed ability. The Register and Receiver
are not required TO make any findingi
in the case, but simply 10 transmit tn,
testimony in the hearing to the Com
missioner Of the General Land Office a
Washington. The testimony is volumin
Gus and as soon as the stenographel
can type It, it viii be forwarded {.
Washington without delay, and tn,
Secreiary's decision may be looked TO
within the next 60 days.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
AFTER TEN YEARS.
DR.. Z. j. 0'caIiaghan Will Be
Pardoned on Christmas
Day at Boise.

BOISE, IDA. Dec. 1.-THE board OF
parions held meeting yesterday and
pardoned DIR. Z. J. o'Callaghan on con-
dition that he leave the state, the par
don 20 take effect on Christmas day.
This was a peculiar case. In 1885,
o'callaghan killed John Breene at
Blackfoot, and was convicted OF muir
der In the first degree. When the case
came before the Supreme Court that
tribunal found that the verdict was not
warranted, and instead OF remanding
the case, changed the inding TO muir
der In the second degree, and sem
fenced the man 10 Imprisonment for
life He entered the penitentiary on
March 20, 1856. o'Callaghan was one
Of the best known physicians in the
southeastern part Of the state, and had
a practice extending into Montana and
Utah. He had quarreled with man
named Willard Crawford. and the lat
ter threatened to kill him. On the
night of the killing he was drinking
with Breene. The latter went out for
liquor. Though he passed out the
front door he came back TO the door in
the rear. oCallaghan heard him Ium-
bling at the back door and supposed
that II was Crawford come to kill him.
Going to the window he shot the man
dead. Then followed the trial and
conviction, and the remarkable action
OF the Supreme Court.-Special to Salt
Lake Herald.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19

The North Atlantic states had a ter
riole storm last Tuesday night which
was In all appearances, a kin to Dak-
ota blizzard. II was the worst known
tothem since 1883.
The Fair and New England Dinner
given bV the ladies Of the NJ. z. Church
on Thursday and Friday was a luccess
10 every respect. About fifty dollars
were cleared.
The Peoples canal company is push.
Ing lie work on It's canal, notwithstand-
Ing the contest agains. il. Fifteen
teams are al work.
Mrs. Joseph d. Miller, at one time a
resident Of Blaekfoo., but nov Of Kinks
vile, Missouri, Is member Of the oc-
tober class Of the school Of osteopathy
In that city. As We understand IL osteo-
pathy isa new healing science by which
the sick can be cured without medicine
or surgery, and Mrs. Miller aspires 10
De doctor Of that school.
The Moreland dramatic company
played Through Snow and Sunshine, y
70 fair audience at the opera house,
Wednesday evening, and gave general
satisfaction. After the performance
the young people engaged in pleasant
dance, which lasted until the gray
morning began 20 show itself over the
distant hills.
From . circular Of the New York
life Insurance company received Al this
osfice, we note the good fortune OF three
OF BlAckfoot's citizens. Their twenty
year policies mature this month and
each Of them will receive the following
amounts:
G. W. Bergman. .s2, $50. .6s
Geo. b. Rogers. ... .... 2,e99. IS
Il. II. Hopkins. ns....... l,202 80
The Idaho Falls Times OF this week
ssyr: "a sneak thief entered the eel.
lar Of z. =. Co!iman and stole the
bulk Of the preserves and sweetmeats
belonging 10 Mrs. colimAn." This
presehts good opportunity for the
new sheriff 10 initiate himself into the
workings Of . detective and into the
methods Of making arrests. Preserves
are tempting. but the thief should not
20 unpunIshcd.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19

days fishing he was very successful,
but, timid as he was, his courage failed
him, when he begun to debate in his
mind the best way of approaching Mr..
Keeney for the sale. He could not
find the courage to approach direct,
but in walking by the hotel, held up
the trout 50 as to attract Mr.. Keeney's
attention, who hailed him and begun
negotiations for trade.
Mr.. Keeney was ready buyer and
contracted to take all the trout that
young Evans might bring him at eight
cents per pound, and encouraged him
TO continue the sport as a money max
ing scheme. In short time Mr.. Keeney
had paid the young fisherman $500. He
was millionaire in his own estimation
and he began to build his castles for
the future. He had money to attend
the Fourth of July ball, and the re-
manning $3.50 he invested in a yearling
heifer TO be his in his own right and
title.
The remainder Of the story is briefly
told. Mr.. Evans by honesty, integrity
industry and strict attention to busi-
ness, and from the increase of his in
vestments has become one Of the
wealthy men of his county. He has
the confidence of all who know him,
and the high distinction and honor
paid him at the November election,
show the estimation in which he il
held by the voters throughout the
state of Idaho.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
WOMEN APPOINTED.
First TO Derive Benefit from the
Equal Suffrage amendment.

The first women in the state to derive
any benefit from the adoption OF the
equal suffrage amendment are Mrs Ell
izabcth Kinport, of Pocatello, and Rose
Davis, of st. Anthony, who haye been
appointed notaries public by Governor
Mcconnell. To be eligible to serve as
q notary it is necessary only that the
applicant be an elector OF the county,
and these ladies are now able to qualify
under the constitution as amended.
Statesman.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
EXCURSION RATES
For Christmas and New Year HoE
idaYs.

The Union Pacific will sell round trip
tickets December Oath, 25th, 31st and
January LIST, from Blackfoot to any
point on Union Pacific line, in the State
or any point on the system within a
radius OF $50 miles at one-fare for the
round trip. Tickets good returning un-
til January 4th.
Annual meeting State Teachers AS
sociation, Pocatello, December 29th,
30th, 3lst. Full fare going, one-fifth re-
turning, providing so or more are in at
tendance who have paid full fare for
the going trip.
Rabbit drive at Market Lake, Dec,
10Th. One-fare for the round trip, good
returning Dec. Both.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
DEMOCRATIC ELEcToR EVANS
How Jake Kecney Started Him
in Life.

Trifles are pivots on which the life
Of man often turns: they are 'peb-
bles In the streamlet scant" which Of
ten change the course of his whole
river of life. We recall a case in point,
one truthfully applicable to the Hon.
L. l.. Evans, Democratic elector-elect
from the southern part of the state of
Idaho.
When Mr.. Evans was little boy just
entering his teens, he lived with his
widowed mother in Malad valley,
Oneida county. AT that time the
county was thinly settled, the people
were poor and Mrs. Evans and her son
ranked with the poorest. The little
fellow was ambitious but his ambition
was often checked for the wart of
money 20 carry out his plans. Because
OF this he put u check upon his wants
and made them as few as possible.
AT the time 10 which we refer, the
citizens OF the valley were arranging
for grand Fourth of July celebration,
to close with big dance in the even
ing. The price of admission to the
dance was fixed at fifty cents. Young
Evans wanted TO attend but he knew
his mother was too poor to furnish hin
the money. After reflection he made
up his mind to go and began to stud,
plans for securing the money by hi
own efforts and without his mother
aid.
The plan decided upon was to catcl
a string of trout and sell them to Mr.
Jake Keency, who was then running
stage station in the valley. In his frs
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
Ross Fork Christmas Exercises.

The following program will be rem
dered at the Connecticut Mission House,
Ross Fork, December 25th, 1896:
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
~The BIaekfoof."

The Blackfoot hotel will pass back
into the hands OF Mr.. W. G. Stuflle-
beam early next week, and he viii have
entire control OF its management.
Mr. Stufiiebeam Is thoroughly expe-
ricncod in the hotel bnsincss, and II viii
Be remembered that this hotel, under
his management few years ago, was
counted the best ever run In the town.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19

County Treasurer Winters came
down from Rexburg, Fremont county,
Wednesday.
whoever attempts to throw mud VIII
got himself bespattercd with mud.
polls-all kinds, sizes and prices--at
The Fair Store.
Il win pay anyone that is needing
Iouae Furnishings TO visit the Idaho
Furniture Co., Pocatcllo.
The largest doll ever in Blacktoot y
going TO be given away by Ben Fernish'
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
TERMS OF COURT
In the Fifth Judicial District OF
idaho, 1897.

Bannock County, at Pocatello, May
17th, November Goth.
Bear Lake County, at Paris, Feb
ruary 18th, August 23d.
Bingham County, at Blackfoot, March
Sth, September Goth.
Fremont County, at st. Anthony,
April 10Th, October 4th.
Lcmhi County, at Salmon, May Sd
October 18th.
Oneida County, at Malad, May Slst
November LIST.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
PROGRAMME
Before and Aher.

THE NEWS makes this axiomatic
statement by authority;
All the marriages booked for Black
foot "before the holidays" which fail
Of celebration are sure of dates after
the holidays" And that is comforting.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-12-19
NOTES:

Agent Teter returned Monday morn
ing from Washington. ID. c.
Mr.. Churchill, of TT. Hall, was over
last Saturday for school children.
A card party was given at the home
of Mrs. Evans, Friday evening. Those
present were: Miss Leigh, Miss Nc
Kay, Miss Anderson, Mr.. johnson and
Mr.. Eldredge.