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The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-09-24

means simply that the government abandons all control of any limitation of the amount of American silver cur rency. 1t means that any attempt by the government to keep silver at par with gold is to be abandoned. It trans- fers the regulation of the amount of silver dollars from the United States government to the silver mine owners, not of the United States only, but of the world. Anything short of this would not be unlimited coinage.
 "The holder of bar silver, moreover, is to have it coined by the government free of charge, and the silver dollars which are thus to be issued in quanti- tics. limited only by the amount of sill yer on and below the surface of the earth, are to be 1G times as heavy as the gold dollar, though gold is not mere- ly 16 times but more than 90 times as valuable as silver.
 "The Chicago platform further insists that these dollars made thus from jO cents worth of silver shall be taken in every debt, public and private, instead of gold, and it forbids any man to make T contract specifically payable in any other kind of money.
 ''This is not bimetallsm, it is silver monometallism, for it is n matter of history that when one nation alone has coined two metals at false ratio the better coin is hoarded for speculation, while the bascr coins only pass from hand to hand among the people.
 "We have to-day three kinds of money in the United States. The gold coin of the United States is worth what it claims to be worth, because whether as a coin or as mere shapeless lump of metal, 1t is exchangable for that amount in any spot in the world.
 "The paper promise to pay of the United States, the 'grccnback,' is worth what it claims to be worth, because the United States rcdeems that promise on demand in gold.
 1.-The national bank note is worth what it claims to be worth, because it is issued against United States bond, and that United States bond is to-day payable in gold.
 "The silver dollar and the silver cer' tificnte are received for their face value not because the lump of silver in the sil. yer dollar is worth 100 cents, but be. cause their amount is not unlimited but limited. and because by accepting this silver money instead of gold for taxes and all government purposes the government is enabled to keep a certain limited amount of silver up to parity with gold.
 "Every piece of currency in the hands of the American people to-day rests upon this gold basis and buys what II does buy because it is upon gold basis
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MORE TROUBLE FOR SPAIN.

Unmistalrable Signs of an Uprising Thefo
 from the Carlist Party.
 MADRID, Sept 1s.-There are unmis- taka ble signs in Carlist circles thas Spain may have soon to face serious in- ternal troubles as well as the upris- ingh in Cuba, the Philippine islands and possibly Porto Rico. The Carlist deputies. early during the present month, took a determined stand against the adoption of the chamber bill providing subsidies for the Spanish railroads. They claim that the money thus appropriated could be better em- ployed in Cuba than elsewhere. protested against the whole policy of the government financial and political, and thereby placed them- selves on record before the people as being opposed to all the ills complained of by the suffering masses of Spain. It is more than likely that serious re- verse 10 the Spanish army in Cuba would be followed by an outbreak of the Carlsts, who are admitted to be better prepared than ever before to take the field with hope of success. Don Car los, through his marriage to the Princess de Rohan in 1894, was enabled to command large fortune, and there is no doubt that this money and other funds for a long time past have been used to prepare for another attempt to place King Charles VII. on the throne of Spain. If Spain loses Cuba, which seems more than likely, the Carlists claim that the downfall of the present regency will follow immediately, and that Charles VII. will be triumphantly placed upon the throne with little or no trouble.
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THE LEADING TOPIC.

An Apt Quotation from Lincoln-Th Fa-
 ble of Honor and It's Moral.
 The following extracts are from q recent speech delivered by Curtis Gould, of Boston, in Cooper Union hall, New York:
 "Thirty-six years ago when the na- tion was upon the threshold of great moral crisis, Abraham Lincoln, in Cooper institute, urged the people to do nothing through passion or i'll tenn per. Sophistry,' he added, can no more create middle ground between right and wrong than it can between the liv. ing and the dead.'
 "rhe United States stands again upon the threshold of great moral crisis It is proposed that every debtor, that the United States itself, shall aban. don the honor and wisdom of civiliza. ton for the low cunning of the savage It is proposed that we shall forever deprive the government of the United States of the trust and confidence, not Of foreign nations merely, but of oul own citizens. It is proposed that we shall swindle those who have trusted the government out of half their money It is proposed that we shall pay in sil Yer where we have borrowed in gold.
 There is a fable of ancient Ital, that tells how fire and water and honol started out together through tn, world. ,,
 Fire said: If am lost seek wher, ye see smoke, for where smoke is ther, shall ye find fire.'
 "Water said: If am lost seek wher, ye see green trees. for where verdur, is there shall ye find water
 "Honor said: If am lost, seek no at all, for when honor once is lost never can be found'
 "The moral of that fable is true no of Italy nor of America only. but o all countries and of all times. Dis honor and prosperity can never b bound in wedlock. The deliberate be trayal of trust is never twice success ful. The swindler of to-day is tn bankrupt of tomorrow.
 "The free and unlimited coinage o silver, at .he ratio of sixteen to one
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Capt. Jack White Dead.

HOUSTON, Tex, Sept l7.-Capt. Jack White, the last but one of the surviv. ois of the battle of Sabine pass, died last night. after lingering illness, caused by cancer in the throat He was one of Houston's oldest citizens The battle of Sabine pass was one of the most prominent features of the late war. At that engagement 42 men, under Lieut.. Dick Bowling captured part of the United States fleet and sent the rest to sea. Capt. Jack White was one of the 4a who defended the fort. The only survivor of that battle now is Mickey" Carr, an inmate of the confederate home st Austin.
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FOR ALTaELo AND WATSON,
Illinois ropuiists Fuse on the Governorshlp.
 but on Nothing Elae.

Illnois or"'S'S uSo on tho GovernOrship,
 but on Nothing Else.
 CuCAGo, sept l7.-After nine hours of exciting debate, the populist state convention late last night tacitly in. dorscd Gov. Altgeld by leaving the head of the ticket blank. F. H. Allen and 0. L. Bearss were named for elect ors.at-large. The fight of the con. vcntion was over the question of a cubcrnatorial nomination, and once or twice police were called in to eject dis orderly delegates. Under the compro. mise finally agreed upon, the head of ,he ticket was left vacant, and Henry p Lloyd, slated for the nomination for governor. was named for lieuteuant- governor
 The platform adopted indorsed the St. Louis convention and contained the following:
 'Tr do most heartily indorse the wisdom ot the national convention in the nomination ct Thomas F. Watson for vice president of the Un.tcd states and most emphatically denounce any action which prevents the populists of any state from the privilege of casting their ballots for him.
 The remaining presidential electors will be presented to the state executive committee by each congressional dis. trict.
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A Missouri Law Attacked.

JEFFERSON ITY. Mo. Sept. l6. The St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, when it applied for articles of incorporation recently, was compelled by State Treasurer Stephens 10 pay Sl2,500 to the state university endowment. or free scholarship tax under the Yeater act It was paid under protest. and now the company has brought suit to recover, alleging that the Yeater free scholarship law is ''inoperative, un- constitutional and yoid."
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TO OPPOSE FREE SILVER.
Noted Union Generals Will Make Tour
 of the Country.

of the Country.
 DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 1S.-The route of Gen. Alger's party, composed of ex- officers of the union army, who are to make speeches in various western states for the purpose of influencing veterans in the interest of the gold standard. has been agreed upon. They will travel in his private car and will be Gen. o. O. Howard, Gen. Daniel F. Sickels, Gen. Franz Sigel, Adjt- Gen. Thomas J. Stewart and Corporal Tanner. The first stop will be made at Chicago. where meet ing will be held in the Auditorium Monday night The next two days will be devoted to Wisconsin; Septem, Der 24 and 25 to Minnesota, September 9 to 2s to Iowa, September % and 30 to Nebraska, October 1, and to Kansas, October 6, 2, 5 and 9 to Illinois, Octo- Der 10, 12 and l3 to Indiana, October IA to Louisville, Ky; Octoter !5, ,l6 and l7 to Ohio, the week beginning October l9 to Michigan. It is probable that the party may stop at St. Louis October &
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Drowned Like Stray Cats.

NEW YORK, Sept. IA dispatch from London says: "The Standard publishes a dispatch from Constant. nople' saying that the Young Turkish party is covering the city with placards melting the people to dethronc the sul- tan. Serious trouble, it is added, is certain to occur within a week. Turk ish troop ships are nightly deporting Armenians to the Black sea, where it is believed they are drOwned.n
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MT. raul's Flying Machine.

. CHICAGO, Sept 17.-William Paurs flying machine has passed successfully through the first of the arduous tests designed for its trial. Bound to the earth by heavy ropes it tugged and strained at its moorings at the end of the ways like giant bird whose image it might be, fretting against the bonds that held it captive. The most con- spicuous features of the machine are the two huge lateral wings, which measure 40 feet from tip to tip, and are shaped like the wings of bat. Between them is hung the body of the hOat
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KILLED BY GASOLINE.
Peculiar Death of Two Small Children at
 Bonner Springs, Kan.

Bonner springs, Kan.
 BONNER SPRINGS, Kan, Sept IT, Yesterday afternoon Hasley Petit, the four-year-old son of A. w. Petit druggist, and Charley Waters, three- year-old son of J. D. Waters, were found in Mir. Pettit's cellar, lying on their faces, almost dead. Standing near was a fve-gallon gasoline can, al- most empty, while the clothing of the children and the cellar floor were saturated with the fluid. Med ical aid was hurriedly sent for, but the children were past all hope of recovery. There were no evi. dences of an explosion, and the suppo- sition is that the two children had been playing with the can of oil, had upset it, and in trying to right matters were overcome by the fumes and fell to the floor in the position they were found lying in the fluid. Their bodies were terribly blistered, as If by terri. ble burns. It is said there are few cases on record where gasoline inhala. tion has caused death.
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EmbassIes to Be Protected.

CONsTANTIN0PLE, Sept. l6.-The am- bassadors of the powers held meet ing yesterday to arrange measures for the protection of the embassies and the foreign population generally in the event of the renewal of disturbances here. The plan agreed upon is under stood to include the united action of the warships of all the powers. each ship being assigned a certain position, the men to be landed at a given signal.
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NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.
John Boyd Thacher for Governor-Th
 Chicago Platform Indorsed.

John Boyd Thacher for Governor-Ths
 Chicago Platform Indorsed.
 BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept lS-The dem- ocratic party of New York, in state convention yesterday, adopted the fol- lowing resolution:
 The democratic party of the state of New York, in convention assembled. unreservedly indorses the platform adopted by the demo- cratic party at the national convention at Chi- cago on July q 1893 cordially approves the nominations there made: pledges to William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall its hearty and active support, and declares as its deliberate judgment that never in the history of the dem- ocratic party has a platform been written which embodied more completely the inter- ests of the people. as distinguished from those who seek legislation for private benefit, thaR that given to the country by the national dem- ocratic convention of 1896
 John Boyd Thacher, mayor of Brook lyn, was nominated for governor and Wilbur F. Porter for lieutenant-gov. Q-nnr
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Mixed School Question Adjusted.

PERRY, Ok, Sept l5.-For nine months great trouble existed in this city over mixed schools, but the mat ter has been fully adjusted by the city school board, which has given to negroes one of the best school build ings and their own teachers. School has opened with white attendance of 500 and colorcd 100. Race wars and riots were imminent on several oc. casions. The laws of the territory pro vide for mixed schools, unless the vot CTS otherwise elect.
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Awful Vengeance Meted Out.

CUTHBERT, Ga., Sept. l7.-Reports which came last night from over the line in Terral county indicate that Lum Warren, the negro who assaulted and almost murdered Mrs John Bass, has been lynched, but whether by burning at the stake or by the milder methods of shotgun and moose, is not altogether clear. The first report was that the negro had been or undoubt- edlv would be burned alive.
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Railroad EarninCs Decreasing.

CHICAGO, Sept. l6-The total earn incs of 1O4 railro ads, em bracing s7,O00 miles of roads. for the month just closed aggregate s36, ,692, ,6so, decrease of 2.I per cent. from August last year, in which month earnings showed a gain of 1.5 per cent from August, 1894. By far the worst showing made by any group of roads is that reported by the central western group, decrease of l1.7 per cent.
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ARE THEY HOLMES 'VICTIMS7
Human Bones Turned Up Near the ormsr
 Home of the Murderer.

Human Bones Turned Up Near the Former
 Home of the Murderer.
 CHICAGO, Sept. 1s.-In the dense woods between North Evanston and Wilmette, grave has been found full of human bones. Several bones and a skull, supposed from its size to be that of woman, were found. The spot is only few rods from the house in which II. H. Holmes lived at Wilmette. and it is thought by the police that the bones may be those of some of his vic- tims. The bones had evidently been inferred within two years, and were apparently placed in the grave without a coffin. No clothing of any sort was found. From the sizes of the bones, it is thought they must be from several people,
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BEN MORRIS LYNCHED.
Indignant Citizens of Watonga Hang ths
 Murderer of John Ruckman.

Indignant Citizens Of WatOnga Hang the
 Murderer of John Ruckman.
 WICHITA, Kan, Sept. 1.-The bitter feeling against Ben Morris, one of the negroes who murdered John Ruckman, a prominent cattle dealer, culminated in lynching at Watonga, Ok, last night. The enraged citizens stormcd the jail, overpowered the jailer, dragged the terrified negro forth, strung him up to the nearest tree and left his body hanging there. The en. tire anti-hor>e thief association is securing the country for his accom- plice. who. if caught, will meet the same fate as Morris.
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EDITORS AT DENVER.
The Federation Chooses Officers for tl
 Ensuing Year. .

The Federation Chooses Officers for the
 Ensuing Year. .~g.
 DENVER, Col. Sept 17.-Yesterday afternoon the Federation of Editors chose New Orleans as the place for the next meeting and elected the follow ing officers: E, L. Bentley. Louisiana, president; l.. $. Scott. Louisiana, cor. responding secretary; Mrs. Harbrough, Kansas, recording secretary; T. F. Henley, Oklahoma, treasurer; vice presidents: Kansas-J. E. Junkin; h. dian territory-W. H. Walker; Louis. ana-John Dymond; Texas-E. P. Robinson; Utah-C. l.. Wright; Mis- souri-R M. White; Oklaboma-T. E. Hensley; Nebraska-W. E. Pursell; Col orado-E. H. Talbott; Wyoming-F. w Oft
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 First district, Reed. w SlS4 10, 369 Second district, Dirgley. .l0,043 about Il 900 Third district. Milliken. ,2I about 900 Fourth district. Boutelle. .l0,5l9 about 15.OOO They have carried every county in the state.
 They have elected unanimously re. publican senate and 146 out of 151 mem- bers of the house.
 They have cast the largest republican vote ever known in Maine, while the democratic vote is the smallest ever known, except that of two years ago, when the democrats allowed the elec- ton to go by default.
 The city of Bath, the home of Arthur Sewall, one of the appendages to the Bryan ticket, cast total vote of 1,710. Of these votes 1910 were republican, n gain of GOO. MT. Sewall was beaten in his own ward by 1S2 out of 242 votes. Mir. Sewall was beaten in his own family by a vote of 2 to 1.
 The city of Portland gives Powers, for governor, plurality of 1,037, 0 gain of 1,451 over 1899.
 MT. Mahley, playluily hnd yet eN- ultantly. asks: What more coull Maine have done for the cause of good government, honest money and pro- tection?" Nothing more. MT. Manley. Republicans outside of Maine are not unreasonable. They do not want tho earth. They are entirely satisfied with Maine. both for September and Novem- ber.-Chicago Tribune.
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OKLAHOMA'S CELEBRATION.
Third Annual Anniversary of the Opening
 of the Cherokee Strip.

of the Cherokee Strip.
 PERRY, Ok, Sept. lS.-Wednesday, 80. 900 people in the Cherokee strip, or Cherokee outlet, celebrated the third anniversary of the opening. Septem- Der 16, 1893, strip of land 60 by 300 miles was opened to settlement, and to-day no less than so,0Oo people in- habit this land. All the towns, with an aggregate population of 10000, found in this strip of land have all evi- dences of prosperity found in old states. In nearly every town in tho strip people celebrated the opening. and many speeches were made.
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UNDER suTLER'S DIRECTION.
The Watson Sentiment In Kansas Being
 Worked Up Through the National Chair

Tho watson sentiment In Kansas Being
 Worked Up Through the National Chair
 man.
 TOPEKA. Kan, Sept 16.-John F. Willits will be chairman of the middle of-the-road populst state central com mittee, and Editor Steinberger, of Girard, will be secretary. The state central committee will be selected very soon, and the last of this week the committee will likely meet here and organize and open up headquar. ters. When the committee assemblies for organization a letter will be read from Senator Butler, chairman of the populist national committee. The chairman urges the action taken and insists upon an organization of the straightouts. The work is being done under his direction.
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The Kentucky senatorship.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept lT.-A Frank. fort, Ky, dispatch says the repu blicans are determined to elect a successor to Senator Black burn at the extra session of the legislature in December and that deal has been arranged with the sound money democrats to cast lots as to whether Mr. Blackburn's successor shall be democrat or republican.
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Pre-vArranged Collision Results Fatally.

Waco, Tex, Sept. l6. 6.-The pre.ar' ranged collision which has been so ex- tensively advertised took place yester- day at Crush, Tex, IA miles north of this place. on the Missouri, Kansas X Texas railroad. There were six cars behind each engine and the wreck of both engines, as we'll as seven cars, was complete. Nine of the spectators were badly injured by falling wreck age. two probably fatally. It is esti mated 5o,OOO people witnessed the col lision
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DIPHTHERlA EPIDEMIC.
Terrible Condition of Affairs In an Indian,
 County.


 County.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. l7.-Dr. J. N. Hurty. secretary of tine s.a:e boa.aa of health, returned yesterday from Orange county, where he reports a diphtheria epidemic of large propor. tions raging in the countrya few miles west of the famous West Baden and French Lick resorts. He reports the state of affairs as horrible. In one hovel, containing. but one room, he found two dead children and another child dying in one bed, while in an- other lay three more children and a mother, all dangerously i'll. The place was reeking with filth and the head of the family, named Joseph Breeden, seemed utterly unable to cope with the condition
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Rep. Plurality.

The average plurality prior to ls0c therefore has been little over 17,0O0. and, taking these figures as basis for comparison, the gain has been over 32,. 900. As compared with 1892 it is ovc, 37,OOO.
 The republicans of Maine have not only returned their four congressman,
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THE VICTORY IN MAINE.
A Telling Blow for Good Government and
 1 Honest Money,

In looking over the battle ground of ed popocrats and populists and their shattered paraphernalia, as the smoke clears away, one realizes for the first time the real extent of the magnificent victory achieved by the republicans.
 They have rolled up nearly three times the greatest gubernatorial plu- rality ever known in presidential year, as will be seen by the following table:
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Panic in a School Room.

CHICAGO, Sept. l7.-A child tipped over q cupboard in an ante.room of the Ogden school, and the sound of break ing glass so frightened the younger children that they were terrorized, and rushed from tie building. No one was hurt.
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C.r,,.Io yyilI stump Kentucky.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept. 16.-A letter has been received from John c. Car lisle in which he states that he will at once begin to arrange his business and affairs, and will then come to and stump the state for Pal mer and Buckner under the direction of the state campaign committee.
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SAVED BY HIS PET DOG.
Faithful Animal ArOuses Its Sleeping Mas-
 ter Just in Time.

FaithfuI AnImaI ArOuses ItB SIeeping MAJ.
 ter Just in Time.
 OAKLAND, Cal, Sept ls.-That James Feenan, we'll borer, who resided alone in a small cottage at Berkeley. was not burned to crisp last night is due to his pet dog Dell About two o'clock in the morning fire broke ont in the adjoining room and the dog by its frantic howls and frantic tugs at the bed clothes awakened its master, who was already surrounded by flames. In escaping from the house he was seriously burned.
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A Much-shot-at Burglar Escapes

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16. Early yesterday morning the houses of Edwin Kaehler, Charles Sutter and Gustav Hinspeter, in Cabanne residence district, were en. tered by burglar. who was shot at by each of the three householders and hit by none of them. There is no clew to the intruder's identity.
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E.plo.Ion of FIre Damp.

WALKERS MILLS. Pa., Sept. l8.-An
 explosion of fire damp occurred yester.
 day morning in the old Hawnest coal mine. The miners who were caught in
 the mine by the falling debris were ell rescued without injury.
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No Speeches from Harrison.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1s.-Ex-President Har- rison has asked the national republi- can committee to make no appoint- ments for him to speak. His time IS too much taken up with his private af- fairs to permit him to make campaign speeches, according to a letter re- ceived from his private secretary to- Aory