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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-08-01
TOWN TALK.
Latest News OF Emmett and
Vicinity
Something that Everybody should know
if They would be up with the times

Take your prescriptions TO Blatch-
lev.
The Equal suffrage club will meet
next Monday evening.
Order drugs of Blatcnley by tele-
phone.
DR.. Clymer visited the Rock creek
mines during the week.
Get Wall Paper. PAINS and Oils at
Blatchley's.
George Tregaskes came down from
Idaho City last Monday
Mail orders promptly filed by
Blatchley the druggist. Caldwell.
Considerable lumber is being hauled
from the Dry Buck mills at at present.
Monroe & Strickland have sold their
mining property on Willow creek for
$4,000.
WIN. Mossman the well known
sheepman was in from his Butte ranch
during the week.
Hayes. Bilderback. Blanchard and
Titus went over on the Butte Tuesday
on bear and buffalo hunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Ellison Of Silver
City are visiting Mrs. Eliston's mother.
Mrs. Langroise, this week.
p Abney and family accompanied
by Miss Emma Ray and Maud Crowder
left last Saturday for an outing in Long
valley.
Two Portland wheelmen who have
been doing the National Park passed
through town Sunday on their way
home.
Mrs. Ketchum. proprietress OF th'
hotel. went down to New Plymouth
Monday where she will enjoy months
vacation.
Isaac Wells moved from the Licl
property on the south side to the Hard,
Phillips place a half mile south east O
town on Monday.
WIN. Woody and family passed
through town on Thursday. from Boise
on their way to the mountains for al
outing Of couple Of weeks
deacon wardwell was down on tn
street Tuesday. the first time for severa
months His health is improving righ
along now and it is to be hoped he will
J ..,or 30 .e lixal,. ae avar
Mickey" Morton, OF Falk's Store
president of the Enterprise Ditch Co.
has been having some improvement
work done at the head Of the ditch nea
Mr. Adams place this week
i. II. Carpenter finished up tn
school census last SATURDAY.. The re
port will show that there are in thi
district POS children OF school age. IL
girls and 0s BOYS. being an increase o
10 over last year.
Harry Titus this week purchased o
Jonathan Smith, three lots on tn
south east corner OF Smiths Block o
Commercial street. The consideration
is understood to be sl750 90. Mr.. Titu
will at once begin the erection Of dwel
ling on his property.
A party OF young folks made an ex
cursion TO Dry Buck last Sunday, goiui
on horse back. and making the roun'
trip in dav. They report having ha'
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-08-01
NOTICE

All persons who are indebted 10 II.
Phillips will take notice that their ac-
counts have been placed in my hands
for collection and they are requested TO
call and settle them TO save further cost
JouS Ii. CARPENTER.
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delightful time enjoying the mountaio
scenery, huckIeberries etc. The party
consisted Of Messrs John Murray and
Jason Kelley. and Misses Maggie Murray
and Annie Hays The distance travelled
was about 10 miles.
Wanted At Once: Active agents for
each county. Exclusive control and no
risk. Will clear IL to 25 hundred dol
lars year. Enclose stamp for psrticu-
lars or 25c for 81 sample. Big Rapids
Mineral Water Co., Big Rapids. Mich.
36-d4s.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25

What the Bolt Means.

From the Springfield MOI Leader-Democrat.
Never in the history of a political
party in the United States has there
been a bolt carrying with it the sig
nlficance of the silver Republicans
walk out at st. Louis. Not only does
it jeopardize the presidency on the
Republican side, if indeed it does not
render it hopeless, but the senate is
thus taken away from the gold bugs
and Republicans.
1t means that no matter whether the
Republicans are successful in their
presidential ticket and in the lower
house of Congress, they cannot hope
to enact any tariff legislation for six
years to come.
AS the United States senate now
stands the senators from the silver
producing States have absolute con-
troll. Their balance of power is I'M
questioned. There are in the United
States senate at the present time AZ
Republicans and a Democrats and
Populists.
These silver senators who left have
gone over the country with their man
ifesto asserting that their votes will
never be given to the cause of protec-
ton until silver has been recognized.
The absolute assurance that protection
legislation is impossible, and that the
tariff law enacted by the Democrats
will be the law of this country until it
is changed or modified by a Demo-
cratic Congress is the result which
most prominently stands forth at this
tina
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
THE OLD SOLDIER A WOMAN.
Lightning Strikes Otto Schaffer and g
Remarkable Discovery is Made
Killed a Dove.

TOPEKA, KAN, June ga story
comes from Bntler county, which is as
romantic as it is strange and peculiar.
While a terrific storm was raging, Otto
Schaffer, a hermit farmer, who had
lived there many years, took shelter
in his cabin and vas Offering up a
prayer for protection when a bolt of
lightning demolished the house and
killed Schaffer.
Neighbors found the dead body on
This official prepared the body for
burial, and in doing 80 made the dis
covery that has been the talk of the
county. He says Schaffer was a woman.
The deceased was an ex-soldier and
participated in many of the battles of
the a Despite this discovery the
Grand Army veterans turned out and
gave Sehaffer q soldiers burial. An
incident happened in the burial SER
vices which the old comrades believed
was a warning 'aent from God. As one
of the comrades fired a last salute over
the empty grave INTO which the coffin
had been lowered, it was found that
the gun was loaded with ball as well
as powder and the shot killed a dove
which was flying over. The dove
fiuttered and fell on the coffin, dead.
Schaffer leaves considerable property,
but no one in the county knows of
relatives of the deceased,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
Bland Is the Man.

From the Columbia mo Herald.
The nomination OF plutocrat McKin-
ley on a gold platform settles it that
Bland is the logical candidate of the
Democrats. 1t is to be a fight of the
masses against the classes, of the
moneyed powers against the people.
Mckinley, who has always stood for
high tariff ] n its most aggressive form,
now becomes the champion of gold
and thus embodies the highest type
of monopoly. Bland is recognized as
Americas greatest commoner. His
public life has been n stubborn and
unceasing battle for the interests of
the producers and the consumers in
lower prices for what they buy and
an abundance of money with which to
buy it. Wherever the English Ian
guage ia spoken his name in known.
He in a platform In itself. He needs
no introduction or explanation. With
Mckinley on one side and Bland on
the other the people will require no
orators nor newspapers to set forth
the issues involved. He who runs
may read.
OF the candidate mentioned for the
nomination no one approaches Bland
In reputation or in Identification with
the issues which will overshadow all
others in the campaign. Besides, he
possesses the sturdy personality, the
simplicity of character and the un-
questioned sympathy with the com
mon people that will make him irwin
chile. The Democracy will throw
away its greatest opportunity If tire
ects Bland.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
DISCHARGES FIVE EMPLOYEES.
Result of a Conspiracy to Steal From
the Alton Road.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, June 21.-There
are no additional disclosures relative
to the robbery of the Chicago and
Alton Railroad Company by ticket
agents and conductors, acting in coll
fusion, the former issuing and the lat
ter collecting from passengers and re-
turning to the office in this city large
numbers of uncanceled tickets. The
amount of the stealing will probably
never be known, but it is believed to
have been large. Assistant General
Passenger Agent j. W. Charlton, Jr.,
and Travelling Auditor William Gala
CHER have completed their examina-
ton of the office here, but the result
of their investigation has not been
made public. 1t is learned that five
employees Of the company three
ticket agents and two conductors
have been discharged from the SER
wire.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
BLAND ENDORSED IN ARKANSAS.
Opposition of Jones and Berry Proves
Futile IN the Convention.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June 19.-The
Democratic State Convention was in
session until 2:15 O'Clock this morn
ing, the greater part of the time be-
ing taken up in a hot fight over the
question of expressing a choice for a
Presidential candidate. A resolution
~instructing for Bland was finally
adopted by a vote of 42O to 1927.
The platform adopted makes no
reference to the national administra-
ton. The financial plank favors the
ratio of 16 to /, independent of the
action of any other nation; demands
the repeal Of the present laws dis
crediting the silver money of the ma
ton and legalizing private contracts
payable in gold alone; opposes the
national banking system and favors
only the money of the constitution,
believes the power and duty of the
government to furnish a circulating
medium should not be delegated to
any private corporation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
QUICK JUSTICE FOR A BRUTE.
A Negro is Taken to the Scene of His
Crime, Hanged and Rlddled
With Bullets.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, June 2l.-Near
Hartselle, Ala, shortly after dark last
night, while Mary, the 9 year cid
daughter of Gwin Pickett, a well to do
farmer, was passing from the kitchen
to her mothers room, a distance of 16
feet, across q porch, she was seized by
Leon Orr, a negro farm iaborer, who
was hid in the darkness, and carried
away. The chlId's attracted
the family's attention, and when the
father came in search was instituted.
The girl vas found nearly a mile
away in an unconscious condition.
She had been assaulted and horribly
injured. A posse was ut once formed
and pursuit of the negro began.
About midnight officers arrested
him near anyille, Lawrence county,
and carried him to Moulton Jail. Fear
Ing mob violence the sheriff hid the
negro in the Court House. The mob
reached Mouiton at 2 O'Clock in the
morning, found Orr, o~verpowered the
sheriff, and, strapping the negro to Q
horses back, carried him back to the
scene of his crime, 10 miles away,
where, directly at the place where
the girl had been found, they hanged
him to a tree and riddled his body
with bullets. The negro confessed to
his crime before he was lynched. He
begged for an opportunity to pray but
only one minute was granted him.
The girl, at last accounts, was dying
from her injuries.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25

Hon. Champ Clark was at the heaG
of a delegation which went to the
Illinois State Convention to work III
the interest of r. p. Bland for Presi-
dent. The correspondent of the st,
Louis Republic from Peoria says:
Among the other speakers OF the
afternoon, Champ Clark of Missouri
seemed to be the most popular. What
he said struck a responsive chord
in the breasts of those present.
He began well, and all through his
address made excellent points that
the audience grasped and applauded
vociferously. When he mentioned
"Silver Dick" Bland, there was cheer
ing in the portion of the hall occupied
by thel Southern Illinois delegates.
When he spoke of Horace Boies, the
Cook county crowd cheered. He
mentioned all of the candidates which
have been spoken of, and each of them
seemed to have supporters in the
convention.
"Champ CLARK made a fine impress
sion upon the convention to-day, and
/ am sure he made votes for the Mis-
souri, man. Bland is looked upon per-
haps as not the greatest man in the
Democratic party, but aside from his
ideas on the financial question he has
always been a Democrat, and that
counts for a good deal. ] would not
be surprised to see him go into the
Presidential contest and win ont with
out much trouble"
There were many other expressions
of the same sort. The Iowa fellows
can talk all they please, but the Gov
ernor and his advisers remember too
well the remarks of Boies at the time
of the great strike. These were some
of the words:
ssThe labor unions cannot get away
from the fact that they are RESPONSE
Bile for the troubles we Q in these
great strikes"
--
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
INDIANA ALL ONE A
Its Delegates Will Be Instructed to
Vote for Free Coinage.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, June 22.-The
advent of the week of the Democratic
State Convention finds the free silver
element in command OF the situation.
While a number of gold standard del
egates have been selected the proper
ton is SO small to the 1900 that will
compose the convention That the free
silver element will have everything
their own way from the adoption OF
the platform to the naming of the
State ticket. In addition to this they
will select the thirty delegates to the
Chicago convention, and, though some
gold men will be ON the delegation,
their presence there will be due N
tirely to the fact that they are the per-
sonaI choice of the Governor and have
consented to abide by the instructions
of their districts.
For delegates -at-large none but
trusted free silver men will be chosen.
Senators Voorhees, and Turpie, ex-
Congressman Shively and Major q. V.
Mensies have been agreed upon for
delegates at Large, and there Is no
doubt but they will be selected With
out a contest.
All delegates will be instructed in
the district conventions to vote for
Matthews at Chicago, and also to vote
for a plank in the national PLATFORM
declaring in favor of free and UNI
limited coinage at a ratio of 10 to 1,
and the State Convention next day
will be asked to give similar instruc-
lions to tho delegates at-large, the
purpose being to bind the delegation
in the most emphatic manner and
place Indiana in harmony with the
| most extreme %utterance on the sub
iect of silver.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
TEN THOUSAND LIVES LOST,
Appalling Result OF the Earthquakes
and Tidal Wave in Japan.

YOKOHAMA, June lit Is now es-
timated that 10000 people were
drowned by the tidal wave on the Ia
land of Yesso, in the northern part OF
Japan, following frightfui earthquakes.
In addition TO the town of Kumaisha,
which was wholly destroyed, many
other coast towns have been washed
away entirely or in part.
Yesso, which'has suffered from the
tidal wave, is one of the islands form
ing the Kurile Archipelago north Of
Japan. 1t ia $50 miles in length and
$50 miles in breadth. 1t has a popu-
lation of about 10000. 1t is char
acterized by its irregulari-
ties in it's relief. The most regular
chain is developed parallel with the
southernmost of the Kuriles termin.
ating in a long peninsula, which has
an absolute elevation of 5,4S0 feet.
The DEVILS Mountain, n little to the
| south, rises 1900 feet higher. This
| island of Yesso is believed to be the
| oldest upheaved land ON the face OF
the globe. Everywhsre 1t ia deeply
furrowed by the actieis of running
waters. Around Volcano Bay a series
of lakes rise amphitheater wise.
These lakes have been formed by
| volcanic action. The most recent
eruptions In Yesso took place in 1852,
| 1866, 1857 and 1874.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
Not the Answer He Expected.

A visitor from Manchester had been
invited to address the Sunday School.
"I am reminded, Children" he said,
"of the ree of a boy who was once
no larger than some of the little fell
lows / see before me. He played
truant when he was sent to school,
went fishing every Sunday, ran away
from home when he was 10 years old,
learned to drink, smoke tobacco, and
play cards. He went into bad COM
pany, frequented stables and low tap
rooms; finally became a p~ickpocket,
then a forger, and one day, in a fit of
drunkenness, he committed a cow
ardly murder. Children" he con-
tinued impressively, "where do you
think that boy is now?"
"He stands before us!" cried the
children, as with one voice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
A LARGE CHRISTOPHER CROP
A Kansas Farmer Harvests Fifteen
Bushels of Insects OFF Seven
Acres in Two Hours.

Topeka, Kas., June 20.-A terrible
drought is spread ove Western Kan
sas, and all kinds of crops, even to
the irrigated districts, will be almost
a total failure. Irrigation farmers
along the Upper Arkansas River, in
Colorado, have tapped the stream of
all the surplus water, and the result is
that the irrigation bitches in Kansas
are dry.
In the vicinity of Garden City
myriads of grasshoppers are warm
ing about every field and threaten to
destroy all crops not already ruined
by drought.
Yesterday Henry Grow, a farmer,
caught 10 bushels of grasshoppers of
of seven acres of alfalfa in two hours.
The hoppers were fed to Crows hogs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
AS SEES IT.
He Says the Convention Marks the De-
cline of the Republican Party,
While the Platform Stands
for Paralysis and Misery.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, June 20.-Gov-
ernor Altgeld was asked this afternoon
what he thought of the action of the
national Republican convention, and
replied as follows:
1.-THE Republican party passed its
high water mark in point of strength
ten months ago; since that it has been
steadily declining. The convention
was one of the most mediocre in char
acter ever held by that great party,
and showed that the party is now at
the opposite pole from what it was
when it nominated Lincoln. Then its
conventions were made up of states
men, orators and patriots, and there
was a noticeable absence of those men
and those influences which represent
only pelf and greed, and which seek to
control affairs by base and corrupt
methods. This convention was noted
for the scarcity OF statesmen and ora
tors, and was manipulated in such a
way that it will be known in history
as Mark Hanna's trust Both of its
ehairmen were corporation hired
at used to be said of some of the
territories that no man could move in
their fashionable circles unless he had
either committed a murder or stolen
some horses, and in that st. Louis con-
vention no man who had not manipu-
lated Congress or ravished a legisla-
ture or seduced a Judge in the interest
of organized greed was considered
worthy of the notice of Republican
gentlemen.
"The platform can be summed up
in two capital Gs, Gold and Greed, and
stands for paralysis and misery, and,
considering the antecedents of the
candidate and the n in which he
was put before the public now, it is
clear that he is to be only a servant
| who will carry out orders.
"Long before November that ticket
will have upon it the curse of
the American people, and if
the Democratic party will be true to
it's great mission and will neither
straddle nor compromise, but, stand
for the interest, the welfare and the
rights of the great suffering masses,
then the ides of November will wit
ness the complete annihilation of that
plutocratic association which, with
out right or authority, calls herself the
Republican party"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
A Bu.ter Test at the Fair.

To the Editor OF the Ledger
MEXICO, Mo-, June 23.-I netiee IN
Yesterdays LEDGER an article in ref
erence to testing cow for butter at
the next meeting of our Fair Asso-
citation. In that article you make a
statement which is absolutely Dr.
rect, viz: that we'll kept butter COWS
will earn a net annual profit of $40 to
SIS to their owners. In order, how
ever, that they may do SO they should
have extra feed and attention and
should be bred for the dairy. No
COW, however well bred, will pay her
owner If she be fed on corn stalks
and wheat straw and given the
usual winter shelter that many farm
ers furnish their stock, viz: the
side of a barbed wire fence; but with
comfortable quarters, we'll bedded
with straw, and a liberal feed of mill
stuff and crushed corn, together with
a small quantity of oil meal and clover
hay, with other rough feed, a well
bred dairy COW should net her owner
not less than $50 per year. At some
future time, if you so desire, may
furnish the LEDGER with some per-
sonal experiences on this subject, but
for the present | desire to say a word
in reference to a test of butter at the
coming fair. In your article of yes
terday you intimate that | would
probably take charge of and suggest
rules o govern the test. 1t would
afford me great pleasure TO attend to
this part of the test, free of cost to
anyone, but the first thing to do is to
secure not less than 800 to be divid-
ed into four premiums. The whole
thing hinges on securing the 500. /
am sure the Fair Association will
make a liberal subscription to the
fund and / know of several who will
start the subscription at 50. With
this as a ~'fstarter" suppose that sew
eral parties be named to solicit sub
scriptions. l promise to do what |
can to advance the cause and viii
guarantee to raise not less than SO,
| Every member of the creamery COM
pany should subscribe and see to ii
that his friends help also. If the Sl0t
is raised, 1 have no doubt that an in
teresting exhibit will be made. Pos
sibly there will be Is or 20 entries,
and, if SO, some startling dis ciosures
will be made when the COWS + put
under the Babcock test for butter.
No one knows how valuable a butter
COW he has until she is tested. There
are many cows owned by farmers
that would surprise the owners il
tested. So if any nj has a good COW
let him not be afraid to enter her fol
the test. She may be the n to pro-
duce the most butter fat. At al
events, let US have a test-something
that we have never had; something
new to the majority of our people,
and something that will interes,
everybody. Subscribe to the prem
ium fund, and bring on your COW, be
she Jersey, Holstein, Shorthorn OF
scrub, for sometimes the scrub wins
W. F. WHITNEY.
The catalogue will go to press in q
few days and if anything is done il
should be done at once.-[EDIToR
IEDGER
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
The Onward March

of Consumption is stopped short by
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. If you haven't waited beyond
reason, there's complete recovery and
cure. Although by many believed to
be incurabie, there is the evidence of
hundreds of living witnesses to the
fact that, i'm all its earlier stages, con-
sumption is a durable disease. Not
every case, but q large percentage Of
cases, and we believe fully % per
cent. are cured by DIR. Pierce's Gold
en Medical Discovery, ave after the
disease has progressed so far as to in
duce repeated bleedings from the
lungs, severe lingering cough with
expectoration (including ~tubercular
NATTER great loss of flesh and ex-
treme emaciation and weakness.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
HAIL STORM IN NEBRASKA.
Railroads Covered to a Depth of -Four
Feet in Some Places.

OMAHA, June ga terrible hail
storm ragged last night in the western
portion of Nebraska and between
Paxton and Brule. At Megeath sid
ing, on the Union Pacific, the hail
reached a depth of over two feet.
The section men were sent out with
shovels to clear the track SO that
trains could run. The hail for sew
eral miles varied from that depth
down to three inches and was packed
in upon the track like pebbles. In
some places the hail stacked up to a
depth of four feet, but this was only
in draws and pockets.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-06-25
SOCIETY WOMEN VISIT SALOONS
New Move Likely to Break up the Bus
mess in Racine.

RAcHINE, Wis, June 2l.-Another
and more dangerous war c%onfronts the
saloon keepers. Last night Mrs. Jno.
8. Hart, a prominent society woman,
president of the W. G. T. u, and four
other members of the Union visited
prominent saloons of Maine and other
streets, sang songs, prayed and i'm
plored the saloon keepers to dis
continue the business. Many Of the
patrons were prominent young bust
ness men and they bolted for the back
doors and the women had everything
their own way. The proprietors were
sorely vexed, and some of them re-
quested the women not to sing, but
unavailingly.
While no conversions were made, 1t
Ia understood that the women will
continue the visits and make every
effort to prevail upon the saloon men
to close up their places.