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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Once more County Prosecuting At
torney Whittemore fails in fixing
guilt upon man whom he accuses of
bribery, the judge of the court re-
garding it as his duty to instruct the
jury to bring in a verdict of not
guilty.
Of course, it is not always dis
grace, and perhaps it is never really
disgrace, for a prosecuting attorney
to fail of convicting men whom he
brings to trial. 1t is often the case
that he ought to fail, for all who are
accused of crime are not guilty; and
it sometimes occurs that the prose-
cution itself, finding that it has ac-
cused an innocent person, or having
a case that it cannot prove, moves for
its dismissal. So we say it may be
no disgrace for the prosecution now
and then 30. fail of conviction. But
when such failure becomes not only
the usual thing, but the invariable
thing, in long series of cases, it
makes one wonder if there is not
something wrong with the judgment
or legal ability of that prosecuting
attorney. Surely there must be, or
he would not undertake the prosecu-
ton of cases in which he invariably
falls down.
1t is said that in England it rains
usually, but that in Ireland it rains
every day, and the natives assign
that as the cause for the greenness
of the islands vegetation. Be that
as it may, we are sure that this in
variable failure of the county prose-
cutting attorney to convict the men
whom he drags into court, argues
something of greenness in that func-
tionary of the law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09
TALES OF THE DAY.
Defeated Tom Marshall For congre

Defeated Tom Marshall For Congress
While the late James H. Beard, father
of Dan Beard, the artist, was painting
a portrait of Zachary Taylor, he said to
him: well, general, 1 suppose you are
to be our next PRESIDENT" Il hope not"
grunted the bluff old hero: no military
man has any business in the presidential
chair, but if they offer it to me, L suppose
I'll be fool enough to accept it,
And he was. Shortly after Mr.. Boards
marriage to niece of Colonel Carter, in
1885, he made the southern campaign
tour Tom Marshall of Kentucky was
then running for congress. He was de-
feated by a song, which Beard wrote,
and this brough a challenge to a duel.
Eighteen boon companions of the rhyme
ster answered the challenge and told
Marshall he must fight all of them, sin
ely or all at once, but the eighteen men
ne must meet! Somehow the duel never
came off, and Marshall never afterwards
alluded to it but once, and that was
when he first saw Boards canvas THE
Last Victim of the Flood Standing be-
fore the painting, Marshall seemed Wis
IDLY impressed. Finally. drawing himself
up to his full height, he turned TO the
artist and said: Beard, you're a mighty
good painter, but you're - poor poet"
san Francisco Argonaut.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Commenting on the platform adopted
by the California Republican state
convention, the San Francisco Chron-
icle says:
In the main the platform adopted at
Sacramento is strong and sound. It's
tariff and monetary planks are all
that could be desired. The declara-
ton for return to the protective pol
icy is what might be expected OF a
party which has made Mckinley its
choice for president, while the demand
for the free and unlimited coinage of
silver in the ratio of 16 to l and the
making of silver as well as gold a
legal tender in the payment of all
deots, both public and private, cor
rectly expresses a sentiment common
to nine-tenths of the Republicans of
this state and to by far the greater
number of those on the entire Pacific
slope.
The Chronicle seems very anxious to
take time by the forelock when it
speaks of the Republican party having
made Mckinley its choice for presi-
dent" 1t may do so, but it has not
done SO yet
II would be interesting to know
how Mckinley can reconcile his dec
laration to the editor-in-chief of the
Chicago mes-Herald-that he would
absolutely refuse to run on a platform
that declared for free coinage of
silver-and the declaration of the Cal
ifornia platform. They are simply ir
reconciliable.
The Chronicle says the platform, in
the main, is strong and sound. Close
ly scrutinized, it is found to have more
sound than strength.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

1t is often asserted by the single gold
standard press of the east, and is one
of the stock arguments of public speak
ers on that same side of the subject.
1t was one of the things chiefly harpad
upon by Secretary Carlisle in his re-
cent speech TO Chicago workingmen.
Recently the proposition was sub
mitted to the Omaha World-Herald in
the following question:
There is now about $500, COO, 900 of gold
money in this country. Will not the
very first effect of free silver coinage
be to drive this gold into hiding and
thus reduce the circulating medium
that much? In other words, would not
gold go to premium at once and be a.
commodity to be bought and sold?
To which the World Herald cleverly
replied:
Not by any means. The most i'm
portant effect of free and unlimited
silver coinage will be to reduce the
purchasing power of money. Six
months after the new law dollar will
buy less than it will now. In other
words prices will rise. When prices
rise we have an era of investment and
enterprise. The man with 100000 in
gold coin will hang on to it hard as
long as he sees prices falling, but when
they set in to rise he will make haste
TO invest in some form of property so
as to get the profit.
Goldbugs say silver coinage means
imitation. 1t means rising prices, be-
cause the demand for gold will be les
sened, and men cannot hoard gold on
= rlro Of 40
hoard gold ON a falling market just as
they are doing now and have been
doing for several years, while business
stagnates and enterprise languishes
Give US silver coinage and prices rise.
When prices rise men who now hoard
gold will hasten to invest it and thus
1t will be put into circulation
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The other day The Herald had an
article entitled, Money for the Boys"
1t told how they could not only earn
dimes but dollars by gathering the eggs
Of the English sparrow and killing the
birds, the law providing bounty for
the same. Already that article has
borne fruit. Yesterday we saw some
boys who had taken our advice. They
had can with over a hundred eggs in,
and stated they had a lot more at
home. Keep UP the good work, boys.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

York the other day. Both are young
people, that is, in their present rein
carnation. They claim to have been
married in Egypt 5000 years ago. and
they recognized each other so soon as
they met in America, which was four
years ago. They had been married
twenty-six years when Methuselah
died at the ripe old age of nine hun
dred sixty and nine years. They re-
member their first wedding very dis
tinctiy. and no doubt could tell who
was best man and who bridesmaids.
But what is the necessity of this old
married couple going through the mar
riage ceremony again2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The largest Democratic state conven-
ton ever held in Tennessee has met in
Nashville and adjourned. 1t declared
for independent free coinage at the
ratio of is to L Secretary Carlisle's
Memphis speech seems to have borne
fruit entirely different from what he
expected.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The senate has passed the resolution
for an investigation of the bond sales.
We do not anticipate that anything
wrong will be found in connection with
those sales. We think Senator Vest
hit the mark when he said the trouble
was in the administrations financial
reQlicv
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Provo and other Utah county towns
are in a fever over an alleged gold dis
covery on the shores Of Utah lake
1t is to be hoped there is something
to it all besides great excitement and
wild imagination.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Ex-Secretary Benjamin f. Tracey, of
New York. is spoken of as candidate
for the vice presidential nomination on
the Republican ticket He is a strong,
able man, in fact, stronger and ADLER
man than Mckinley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Plat, Quay, Manley and Clarkson
are the allied powers that are fighting
Napoleon Mckinley. Will they in June,
1896, be so successful as were the allied
powers in June, 1915?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The women were victorious in the
Methodist conference at Cleveland
While the question of their admission
70 future conferences was left I'M
decided, still their present victory
presages future ones, if the old fight is
renewed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Some of the Ohio papers are finding
fault with Mr.. Foraker because he told a
reporter he didn't know McKinley's views
on the financial question. This is unfair
10 FORAKER, as Mckinley himself seems
to be in the dark on this particular Issue
w ashington Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Mr.. Rockefeller proposes to make a
gift of 100000 to vassar college And
all the sweet girl graduates and under
graduates are singing, He's a jolly
good feller.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Mr.. Morse's Life and Letters of DR..
Holmes is now destined to be the wade
mecum of the book lovers and of the
admirers of the genial Autocrat The
biographer has demonstrated that a
twlce-to4d tale may be made to possess
an interest not surpassed by that of the
latest revelation.-Boston Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

It is darkly limited that many silver
delegates TO the recent Michigan con-
ventlon stayed away and sent PROXIES
who voted for gold Is Mr.. Don M.
Dickinson seeking to apply Mark Han
mas methods with southern delegates to
the Michigan financial situation New
York Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

If the Ohio man is nominated in all
proba bility the Ohio straddle on the
money question will be adopted, and yet
there will be a strong effort by the gold
syndicate to make the issue distinct on
the gold standard The politicians, if they
come up to the support of Mckinley, will
in all probability prefer a straddle, in
Plaindealer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

sn the public schools one cannot but
be struck with the great number of
women teachers whose Christian names
end in a diminutive.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Thomas A. Edison in the past
twenty-five years has taken out I'll
patents. He seems to have q cinch on
patents. Why doesn't he get a patent
on cinches?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

In the Spring young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of-DeWitt's
Little Early Risers, for they always
cleanse the liver, purify the blood, and
invigorate the system. For sale by
Nelden-Judson Drug Co.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

An Unlucky Spot.-Passenger ION
branch line, 10 guard)-"Say, why does the
engine always set up such piteous howl
at this particular spot?' Guard-'Ahi it
was here the engine driver first met his
wife."-Tit-Bits.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

What world of trouble would have
been saved had it been possible to turn
the X ray on Pandora box before it
was incautiously opened.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Mark Hanna sowed the wind and
McKinley is reaping in the delegates
with whirlwind
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The city council has contracted to
deliver the city from the power Of
darkness, but the contract is not opera
tive as yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The senate is so anxious for inves-
legations that it would not be a half
bad idea to have the senate itself in
vestigated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Murderer Holmes has been executed.
This does not expiate his crimes. No
one life could.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Mr.. Plat is not concecing a single
thing. Moreover. Mr.. Plat is not gain
ing 81 single thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Domestic Heresy-Husband-" are
two sides to every question" Wife
where did you get that impression?'-
Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The weather yesterday was exceed
ingly cold. If it just keeps up there
will be no bathing season this year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Don't you know it is wrong to fish
here on private grounds?' "Well, sir, the
line must be drawn somewhere. ~ onkers
Statesman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Morton, Reed, Allison, Cullom, Brad
ley ct al. are no longer mentioned as
even favorite sons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

McKinley's men passed through the
trocha in Indiana with all the ease of
an express train on a down grade
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Uncertain Effect.-Mrs. Flynn-"Whin 1
die, Moike, will yez miss me much?" Mr..
Flynn-"Oi'll tell yez whin yez be dead.
Phaix, Dim not fortin' teller. Truth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Mrs. Smith, notice you always have
either such tall servants or such short
ones" Mrs. Jones-(who is medium-sized
II don't want any whom there is any
chance of my clothes fitting. ''-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The Composition of Man-Dollie-'Do
you believe that man Is made of dust?
Chollie-"He has to be, to get any notice
from u."--Detroit Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

McKinley's hobby is protection, and
while he rides it almost 10 death he
doesn't straddle it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

SILvER-G77s.
LEAD-Brokers. 50; exchange, sS.o5.
COPPER-Easy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

The bill which has passed the house is
in substance what is known as the Tor
reg bill, and it is an excellent one. 1t
deals with the class we have last named
secure justice, at the least cost of time
trouble, money or risk TO all concerned
Its object is 10 relieve the honest insol-
vent, who is willing to give up what he
has, from an indefinite burden and an
endless pursuit; to set him free, with the
right to use such energy and capacity
as he possesses for his own support and
that OF his family and the advantage of
the community. That is clearly a good
thing to do. On the other hand, the law
deals with the dishonest insolvent with
prompt and severe methods.-New York
Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-09

Kinleyism, an organ of the reputed
father of that ism says: Under the
tariff law of 1890 there was surplus of
$37, 239, 1921 on June 80, 1891, of S9,914,
543.66 on June 80, 1892. and of s., 341, 90
on June 80, 1S93.' Even stopping at June
80, 1893, what would be the sense of going
back 20 an ism which produced a rapid
dwindling surplus, running down from
it is grossly dishonest to stop at June 80,
1893. for during the year ending June so,
1894, under identically the same law, there
was a deficit of over S120O0,0O0. What I'M
which turned a surplus of S105, 3OOO 600 into
a deficit of So, 100000 in four years. Yet
this preposterous thing looks to the organ
like a simple business proDosition."-
Chicago Chronicle.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14
IMMIGRATION MEETING.

The immigration meeting at the court
house in Washburn. Saturday 9TH inst. at
2 o'clock p. M, was we'll attended. Sew
eral dollars were subscribed toward the
State levy on our county and the secretary
was urged to make collections as fast as
possible.
1t is absolutely necessary that we should
send in at least half of our State dues by
April 1st, 1896. Let all remember this
and hand in whatever they feel like they
can give toward the cause, thus saving the
trouble of asking you in regard to it.
This money goes into common State
fund of ten thousand dollars all to be used
in gaining permanent residents for our
State of which Mclean county expects to
get her full share. On motion, the next
meeting of the executive committee will
be held at the usual place of meeting,
on Saturday, March 2Sth, at 2 o'clock, p.
m. On motion. meeting adjourned.
A. G. RANARD, Secretary.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

John j. Robinson, Coal Harbor's bon.
anzo farmer. met with serious mishaD.
at Leiban's ranch, Burleigh county, Tues
day evening. Mr.. Robinson, having just
returned to Bismarck by train from a
busisiness trip to CathaY, and anxious to
reach home as soon as possible, procured
a pony for trip in the saddle. ALI won't
we'll until he reached Leiban's bridge,
when the awkward beast stumbled and
fol- throwing Mr.. Robinson with such vic.
lence against the curbing that leg bone
was broken at the instep. Mr.. Leiban at
once hitched up his team and took Mr..
ROBINSON back to Bismarck and placed
hlm 4 Il safgeon's care.
Since the above was in type we learn
I. that Mr.. Robinson is coming out all right.
The boys do say he has joined the Saliva
tion army, and was with the contingent,
east from Fargo, and that some Of his
brothers and sisters in the cause will be
In these parts soon.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14
A FRONT RANK LAW FIRM.

R. N. Stevens. Esq, late editor of the
Bismarck Tribune and one of the best
known attorneys rs we'll as most frert
rostrom speaker in this State, reached
the Capital City, from Washington D. c.,
where he was staying for some months
back. Mr.. Stevens will again resume the
practice of the law III Bismarck, associa-
ting himself with Hon. E. A. Williams
known to every we'll informed citizen here
as among the formost of the old Dakota
Territorial lawmakers, and who yet re-
tains the distiction of being the formost
parlimentlarian in North Dakota, and 1t
is doubtful if he has an equal in the
Northwest. The new law firn-it will be
needless to add-will take from, rank and
keep it.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14
AS Others See Us.
SOME OF THE MANDAN PIONEER
EDITORS OBSERVATIONS OF
MCLEAN COUNTY.

Editor Tuttle of the Mandan Pioneer
as court stenogra2he:, accompanied
Judge Winchester OF his trip to WASH
burn for the special term oi court r. Gently
held here. Editor Iut.le is known as
close observer, and seldom deals in werdy
superfuities. The following from the
Pioneer of MARCH, 9th, is a part of well
written article of his trip here, aud the
sober view of things as obsered. Coming
study, his views of the Mclean county v
coal fields are of much interest. Says
the / iunt,r: .
''Whcr one journeys up the Missouri
river, whether on the east side or the west
side, realizes that Mclean, Oliver and
Mercer counties are MT far apart. Espe-
cially do the people of Oliver and McLcsn
consort with each other during the w;utcr
months, when 1t is easy to cross the river
on the ice.
The Washburn mil is being run now
by the ever popular Larry Casselman, c..
L. Baxter and Olaf Parry. A very excel
lent quality of -four is being turned out
by the mill. as it is attested by sample
which was handed to- the editor by Mr.
Casselman, and which proved to be the
right kind of an article to please critical
breadaiakey.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

The Stanton Eliot records the destruc.
ton OF tI:e fe@ remaining beavers on Knife
river by the harrington brothers. The
Farringtons being stoekmen, ought to
be the last to encourage, let alone partic-
ipate in the destruction of these beavers,
for reasons they very we'll know. A live
beaver finds ready market at from $40 to
SIS while prime skin is only worth from
50 to s. owing to the depressed fur mar
ket. If the promised destruction of the
Alaska seal herds, 60 on, the beaver raiser
will come in for his inning. The destruc-
tion of the seal, will leave beaver without
& rivalln tue watsr fur llne-in all the fur
markets of the world.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14
Furniture at Wholesale Prices.

We Represent the largest manufacturers
of Household Furniture i'll the world, and
sell to anybody at factory prices. A
shipments direct from the Chicago factory
Our largo furniture catalouge mailed to
any address on receipto of 6 cents in stamps
to pay postage. Our special Baby carri
agae Catalogue. showing 63 new styles
mailed free. AMERICAN FURNITURE AaEN-
cY. Retail Profit Smashers, Gelena, Kan
Kansas
Baby Carriages at wholesale prices
Catalogue showing 63 new styles, free.
AMERICAN FURNITURE AGENCY,
Gnlena. Kansas.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

A dispatch from the city of Mexico,
dated February 29th, says the general i'm
preston in we'll informed circles is that
the revolution in Nicaragua is part of a
general clerical plot for overthrowing the
liberal administrations throughout Cen
tral America. Clericals have the support
of the moneyed Glasses. They desire to
prevent the United States from gaining a
stronghold in Nlcaraguan affairs, and to
crush out the tendency to request an Am
erican protectorate. especially in Gaute-
maIa. Excited priests are stimulating
tlte revolution and have secured funds for
IL.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

Col. j. G. DIV er, returned on Thursday's
stage, from the capital city, where he has
been for the past two wesks. He was ac-
companed by Ed. Caffee, bridge carpen-
ter on the N. P. railroad, who will spenda
few days in the city.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

Tho county commissioners of Billings
county are offering three dollars apiece
for wolf and coyote scalps: but. of course
they must be killed in Billings county.
mer0us and voracious out that way.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

Mrs, J. j. Robinson, passed dewn on
Thursdays stage for Bismarck, where she
goes to attend her husband, who is laid up
at the Lemborn Hospital, with a broken
leg.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

Ed. Richards, Charley Danielson and
Martin Hagen. and families, came up
from PAINTED Woods Lake to attend the
musical festival. il. Washburn last Sunday
evening.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

The cold weather s:hanys on we'll for
enrinp month. The thermometer in Wash
burn Thursday morning was IL degrees
below zero, and on Friday morning, 10
below zero.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

Il. Buel, of the firm of Walker, Bros.
printers and bookbinders, reached
McLean's metropolis Saturday evening in
company with w. s. Casselman of Bis
marck. Mr.. Buel has Travelled extensive
" over the Northwest, and has taken
great interest in North Dakota's coal de-
velopment,-said, after being shown some
glossy specimens taken fresh from the
Satterlund mine-that it was the best
looking Ignite coal--by all odds-he had
vet met with in all his trav vels.
The Washburn leader., 1896-03-14

Services byJ. A. Diesen, at Fort Clark
the coming Sunday. Religious services
Sunday 22nd, March at Mr.. NJ. Hansons
house at IL, a. IN. Sunday 29th, at Nettls
Creek school house, No. at 1880 a. m.
and at Lveldrup school house No. 1, 2,So,
p. m.