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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-07-25

Last Summer one OF our grand chil=
dren was sick with severe bowel trouble.
Our doctors remedies had failed, then
we tried Chamberlain Collie, Cholera
and Diarrboea Remedy, which gave vefy
speedy relief. We regard it as the best
medicine ever put on the market for
bowel complaints.-Mrs. e. G. Gregory,
Frederickstown, Mo. This certainly IL
the best medicine ever put on the market
for dysentery, summer complaint, collie
aud cholera infantum in children. II
never fails to give prompt relief when
used in reasonable time and the plain
printed directions are followed. Many
mothers have expressed their sincere
gratitude for the cures it has effected
For sale by j. H. McNeely, Colfax; DR.
j. v. Bonnette & Bro, Pollock, La.
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the rule OF Commissioners Murphy that
no names shall be arbitrarily dropped
from the pension roll, and the fact OF en-
listment and service should be deemed
conclusive evidence against disease or
disability before enlistment.
We favor the admission of the Terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona into
the Union as States, and we favor the
early admission of all the Territories hav-
ing the necessary population and resourc-
ca to entitle them to statehood, and
while they remain Territories we hold
that the officials appointed to administer
the government Of any Territory, togeth-
or with the District of Columbia and
Alaska, should be bona fide residents OF
the Territory or District in which their
duties are to be performed. The Demo-
cratic party believes in home rule, and
that all public lands of the United States
should be appropriated to the establish
ment of free homes for American citizens.
We recommend that the Territory Of
Alaska be granted delegate in Con.
gress, and that the general land and tim
Der laws of the United States be extend
ed to said Territory.
We extend our sympathy to the people
OF Cuba in their heroic struggle for liber.
ty and independence.
We are opposed to life tenure in tha
public service. We favor appointments
based upon merit, fixed terms OF Office
and such an administration of the civil
service laws as will afford equal oppor-
tunities to all citizens Of ascertained 1T
ness.
The Federal Government should care
for and improve the Mississippi River
and other great waterways of the Repub-
lie, so as to secure for the interior States
easy and cheap transportation to tide-wa-
ter. When any waterway of the Repub-
lie is of sufficient importance to demand
aid of the Government such aid should
be extended upon a definite plan of con-
tinuous work until permanent improve
ment Is secured.
We declare it TO be the unwritten law
of this Republic, established by custom
and usage Of one hundred years, and
sanctioned by the examples OF the great.
est and wisest of those who founded and
have maintained our Government, that
no man should be eligible for q thifd
term of the Presidential Office.
Confiding in the justice Of our cause
and the necessity Of its success at the
polls, we submit the foregoing declaration
of principles and purposes to the consid-
crate judgment of the American people.
We invite the support of all citizens who
approve them and who desire to have
them made effective through legislation
for the relief of the people and the resto-
ration Of the country's prosperity.
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THE PLATFORM
OF Principles Adopted by the Ma
tiOnal Convention at Chicago
July 1O.l1S08.


We, the Democrats of the United
States, in National Convention assembled,
do reafjrm our allegiancd to those great
essential principles of justice and liberty
upon which our institutions are founded,
and which the Democratic party has ad-
vocated from Jefferson's time to our own
freedom of speech, freedom of the press.
freedom of conscience, the preservation
of personal rights, the equality Of all citi-
zens before the law and the faithful OBJ
servance of constitutional limitations.
During all these years the Democratic
party has resisted the tendency OF selfish
interests to the Capitalization of govern
mental power, and steadfastly maintain
ed the integrity of the dual system OF
government established by the founders
Ut this Republic OF Republics. Uuder its
guidance and teachings the great princi-
pie Of local self-government has found its
best expression in the maintenance of the
rights of the States and in it's assertion
of the necessity of combining the general
government to the exercise of the powers
granted by the Constitution Of the Unit
ed States.
Recognizing that the money question
is paramount to all others at this time,
we invite attention to the fact that the
Federal Constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals OF the
United States, and that the first coinage
law passed by Congress under the Con-
stitution made the silver dollar the unit
of value and admitted gold to free coin
age at ratio measured by the silverdol-
lar unit.
We declare that the act of 1873, de-
monetizing silver without the knowledge
or approval of the American people has
resulted in the appreciation OF gold and
a corresponding fall in the price of com.
modities produced by the people; q
heavy increase in the burden of taxation
and OF all debts, public and private; the
enrichment OF the money-leDder class al
home and abroad; prostratiou OF indus
try aud impoverishment of the people.
We are unalterable opposed to mono
metallism, which has locked fast the
prosperity of an industrial people in The
paralysis OF hard times. Gold monomet
allism is British policy, and its adoption
has brought other nations into financia
servitude to London. It is not only un
American, but anti American, and it cal
be fastened on the United States only b,
the sitting Of that spirit and love OF lib
erty which proclaimed our political indie
pendence in 1776 and won it In the wa
of the Revolution.
We demand the free and unlimite'
coinage of both gold and silver at tn
present legal ratio of 16 to 1, withou
waiting for the aid or consent Of an
other nation. We demand that tn
standard silver dollar shall be full legs
tender, equally with gold for all debt
public and private, and we favor sue
legislation as will prevent for the futur
the demonstration Of any kind OF lega
tender money by private contract.
| We are opposed to the policy and pra'
tice Of surrendering to the holders Of th
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Meeting of School Trustees.
Colfax. La. July %. 1896.

OiAo0s Luz " Nsy ~ AS~>Vs
The trustees of the Colfax High
School met this day pursuant to
adjournment, r. s. Cameron, pres
ident in the chair, and a full
board of Z members present.
The minutes Of the last meeting
were read and approved.
The secretary read a letter from
Prof. j. G. Levingood, of Marys-
vile, Mich, releasing the board
from the proposed contract with
him, which on motion was received
and accepted.
The secretary also reported hav-
ing received from Prest. Boyd, of
the Natchitoches Normal school, a
manual of the rules and regula-
tions of the high schools of Colum-
bus, Ohio, which would prove a
valuable aid in the making of rules
for the government of this board.
On motion the president APP
pointed H. G.. Goodwin, j. II. Nc
Nicely and L. NJ. Townsend as q
committee to draft bylaws for this
board and rules for the govern
ment of the school, to which CON-
mittee the president was also added,
and the committee requested to re-
port at next meeting of the board.
The president announced that
the regular order Of business for
which the meeting was called was
in order, namely, the election of a
principal for the Colfax High
School.
Mr.. S. M. Collins and Mr.. Alexis
Brian were then put in nomination
for the position, and upon a vote
being taken Mr.. Collins received a
votes and Mr.. Brian 2.
The president announced that
Mr.. Collins was duly elected prin-
cipal of the school, and the secre-
tary was instructed to inform him
of the fact, and prepare and for
ward to him contract in accord
ance with terms heretofore discuss
ed and agreed upon.
The board then adjourned sub
ject to call of the president.
r. S. CAMERON,
H. G. GOODWIN, President.
Secretary.
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nss-Jndicial Advertisements mast be paid
for IN adrance. or they ,cill be discontinued
after the first insertion.
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Hon. Daniel +. Beatty, of washington,
New Jersey. the great Organ and Pian)
Manufacturer, is building and shipping
moro Organs and Pianos than ever. In
1870 Mr.. Beatty left home a peDDiless
pillow boy. and by his ind0mitable will he
has worked his way up 90 as to cell 50
far. over 100000 of Beatty's Organs and
Pianos since 1870. Nothing seems to dis
hearten him; obstacles laid in his way,
that would have wrecked an ordinary
man forever, he turns to an advertise
ment and comes out of ii brighter than
ever, He was mayor OF Washington,
New Jersey, from 1879 to 1883. five terms.
and recently declined q denomination for
the sixth term. His instruments; AZ is
well known, are very popular and are 70
be found in all parts Of the world. We
are informed that during the next ten
years he intends to sell 10000 moro Of
his make; that means business of 620.-
100000. If we average them at $4,000
each. It il already the largest business
of the kind in exitence. Write or call
upon Daniel F. Beatty, Washington New
Jersey, for catalogue.
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Colfax High School.

Tho Trustees of the Colfax Higl, School
for Males and Females take pleasure in
announcing to the public that the second
Ten Months Session of this school will
begin OH the First Monday of Scptcm-
Der. 1896. No pains will be spared to
make it first-class High School.
RATES OF TUITION.
Primary Department q 50 per month
Preparatory 90
COLLEGIATE ESQ
Music, Vocal and instrumental 8 80 :" %
Incidental fee rs certs per session.
Good board can be obtained on reasona-
BILE terms. Two hotels in town. and sew
eral private boarding houses in town and
vicinity will board cheap. Those having
children to educate should send them in
and give MS fair trial. We are in the
race to stay.
r. s. CAMERON, President.
II, G. GOODWIN.
Secretary Board of Trustees.
Colfax, La, July 10, 1896.
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Oh, my! Editor Dunn, of the
Peoples Demands, is supporting
Brian, the Democratic nominee
for President.
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The Nominees.

William Jennings Bryan, the
nominee for President, is a native
Of Illinois, and is thirty-six years
of age. He has been for four
years member of Congress from
the first district of Nebraska, where
he stood the peer of men of nation
al repute, and has achieved some
national renown as a champion for
free silver and tariff for revenue
only. He is in some disfavor with
Democrats on account of his gen.
eral sympathies with Populistic
ideas. He is intense in his zeal,
somewhat demagogic in his appeals
to class prejudicss, but with it all
he is clean and honest, and has the
universal esteem of his neighbors.
He is lawyer of only moderate
means, and enjoys the confidence
and respect of all who have had
dealings with him.
Arthur Sewall, the nominee for
Vice-President, is a millionaire
ship-builder, of Bath, Maine, and
stands out prominently in that
State as a champion for free silver.
He is also connected with many
mercantile enterprises, besides his
vast shipping interests, and is noted
for his executive ability and splen-
did management. He is charitably
inclined and is said to be greatly
liked by all of his employees, and
has the knack of making many
firm friends among those with
whom he becomes acquainted.
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Beatty's Organs and Pianos.

self-sealing fruit jars at A. A. Deans.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-07-25

Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cures
colds, Group and whooping cough. 1t is
pleasant safe and reliable. For sale by
j. H. McNeely, Colfax; DR.. ]. v. Bon
nette & Bro, Pollock. La.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

g PASO STEAM LAUNDRY,
telephone 17.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

for long term low interest bonds or
their redemptiO with the proceeds Oh
such bonds. If this is not done, he
thinks such currency obligations when
redeemed should be cancelled instead
OF being reiss ued. National banks should
redeem their own notes. Ihey shout q
be allowed to issue circulation to the
par value of their deposits security and
their circulation. Taxes should be
reduced to one-forth of one per cent.
Summing up the financial situation,
the president says:
tine ertire case may be presented
by the statement that the day OF
sensible and sound financial method
will not dawn on us until our govern
business and the accumulation Cf funds
and confines its monetary operations
to the receipt OF the
money contributed by the people for
its sup Iort and the expenditure Of
such money for the peoples benefit.
All good citizens long for rest from
feverish agitation and the inauguration
by the government of a reformed
financial policy which will encourage
enterprise and make certain the rewards
of labor and industry"
After deuOuncing the tendency OF
the times towards the creation OF trusts
and monODolists, the tendency OF whlc n
the president said is to crush out
industrial independence and to hinder
or prevent the use of human faculties
ard the full development of human
character, he appeals TO congress to
exercise rigid economy, saying. The
way of perplexing extravaganza is
easy but the way to frugality is perplex-
ing"
President Cleveland concludes as
follows: when our differences are
forgotten and our contest of political
opinions are no longer remem pered .
nothing in the retrospect OF
our public service will be as fortunate
and comforting as the recollection of
official duty well performed and ne
mory OF a constant devotion to the
interest of our confding fellow coun-
trvmen." " GROVER CLEVELAND.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07
TERRIBLE SMASH-UP.
Five Men Killed i'll the Worst Freight
Wreck the :. p. Ever Had.

There was a terrible head-end COLI
sion early Sunday morning OF two
freight trains, two miles east OF Sand
Fork siding on the Southern Pacific. or
seventy one miles east OF San Antonio:
a collision that is regarded as the
worst smash-up the road ever had IN
the way of a freight wreck. Five
trainmeu were killed viz, Engineers
Cody and Brown both men with
families, and who ran east out OF the
city two wears ago: both tiremen, whose
names at present writing are unknown,
but reside at San Antonio and strangers
at this end of the line: while the fifth
man killed was brakeman, also from
San Antonio, and who was evidently
riding on the engine.
The co lision was between an extra
freight going east, and the third sec
tion of freight number ~ coming west.
The extra evidently got mixed up on
the mum ber of sections in the regular,
or the engineer thought be could make
the next siding beyond Sandy Fork, for
he pulled out from the Fork IN time TO
meet the third section rusnlEg west ana
evidently on curve. From the size
of the wreck both trains must have
been going at full speed. for the demor-
alization of both engines and some
twenty cars was complete, the engines
being reduced to scrap iron, and the
cars to SplinterS, while tdrough lrelghI
was scattered all over the right OF way.
Wrecking outfits were sent out from
San Antonio and Houston just as soon
as one of the surviving train hands
could run back two miles to Sandy Fork
and wire, and surgeons and medical
aDpliances were taken out from San
| Antonio in coach attached to the
wrecking train. The bodies were re
ported buried under the debris, but
were pulled out as soon as the wreckers
could remove the wreckage resting OF
/ the poor fellows. Life was fnund eX
tinct. The other train men were badly
shaken up. but marvelOusly escaped
i The track was for some distance tori
to pieces, aud the road bed p,Oughea
, up. so II shoe tlY track was bull afour c
/ the wrec<. aud travel resumed after q
! DELAY of nearly ten hours Number
twenty. passenger, due in This city a
10 this afternoon, viii be here abou
90 m 10 consequence of the tclden'
! The mana cement Of the road 5 giving
the sad matter careful Investigation.
( La'er-It has been asCFrtaiu.d thai
the names Of the ti"emen were Ho,t
aud As<iu. The brakcHuu's name
was Heard. 1t : claimed now that the
catastrophe was due to lha extra
thinking thatthc second section # the
regular freight was the third. Sandy
Fork is a ding, and there is no mig n
operator there. The terrible accldeD
makes the railroad mep weer grgHi
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07
THE ms AND OUTS.
Going and Coming of FL Paso People
and Others
q u NIo,l-au Of Do1loO ic OF III q

Going and Coming of FL PasO People
and Others
G. r. Mackey, Of Dallas, is at the
Pierson.
Don Kedzie was in from Lordsburg
yesterday.
DIR. a. II. Van Cleye has removed to
Silver City.
Mr.. Lee, of the Vegas Optic, was in
town today.
Deputy Sheriff Banner, of Las Cru
ces, is in town.
O. T. Bassett has returned from Ca
lifornia, and reports fine weather in til e
golden state.
Mrs Virginia Brady and son will be
dOmiciled for the winter at the resid-
ence of Miss Westcott
Harry Turner, of ST. Louis, who has
been representing a tobacco house in
this city, has gone home to spend
Chris tmas.
J. II. HampsOn and bride arrived or
the grOom'5 special car this afternoon
attached to the Santa Fe train, and the
couple continue through this evening
TO the City of Mexico. Hampson wa:
congratulated by many friends while
here. He expects to reach Acapulco
On the Pacific coast with his roac
inside of two years.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07
4 Mince Pie Social.

There was little mince pie social
Saturday night at the Pierson. The
participants Is of the same were O. T.
Basset, Police Surgeon Childs, of
Hartford, Coma, DR.. Kaufman, Of
Chicago. and representative of the
HERALD. The mince pie inspiration
was furnished by a talented artistic in
the cookery line, a lady friend of the
served up ''plping hot"by the hotel peO-
piefor the gastrOuOmic edifcationOf the
aforesaid quartet, and without extra
charge for cOrkage >
t. e pie went down very smoothly
without hitch, and the police surgeon
who used to guard first base on the
Yale university uine. TOOK his share as
easily and gracefully as he was wont OF
old TO reach up four feet into the air to
catch hot fly from the bat ''amid the
plaudits OF the crowd" DR.. kauffm ann
has been constitutionally opposed to
mipce meat as an incubator OF the
festive nightsteed, and the cause of
the midnight appearance of a line and
interesting ancestors angry at being
thus called up to crafty the imagina-
day, he declared con gusto, that he
had sleep the previous night as
sweetly as an infant upon its mothers
breast; while Q. T. Bassett said he
never had struck the like Of that pie
since the time he sat in high chair at
his grand CmOther's ia BILE back in the
states, and tossed off the mince pie at
the old lady's Thanksgiving table.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

faces, as they realize more than ever
the dangerous nature OF the business
they are engaged in.
\ TELEGRAPH REPORT.
Special to the Herald
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. "A
most disastrous wreck occurred on the
Southern Pacific at Sandy Fork, about
so miles east of here, Sunday morning,
and five men were killed.
1t was a head end collision of two
freight trains and is believed TO be due
entirely to carelesSuess.
The dead are: Engineer Tom Cody,
Engineer W. II Brown, Fireman Will
Holt, Fireman George Askins. Brake
man Dove Woodson Heard. They all
live in this city.
The wreck was caused by the care
lessness of he crew of the east bound
train, No. %, which had orders to stop
on blind siding at Sandy Fork until
three sections of No. 24 passed.
The crew was asleep when two sec
tions OF 81 passed and believing the
third had passed, backed out of the
siding to the main line when the third
24 came along and collision took
place.
1t was a foggy morning. About 200
yards of track were torn up. The
bodies arrived yesterday evening.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

makes The raiiroaQ mRa weet grove
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

-5The football match game between
the High School team and the G. II d.
team played yesterday afternoon in the
immediate of HickersOn 5 mill, resulted
N a score of 26 to 0. in favor of the
High School. 1t was obvious from the
beginning that the High School boys
had the advantage, but the G. II. team
promises to return the compliment in
the near future.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

There was big attendance yester.
day at the first full fight of the season in
Juarez, large share of the spectators
being Americans. There were three
BULLS, only one of which was killed.
and one bull was brought into the ring
twice. The bull killed was slaughter
ed rather than scientifically slain, and
one Of the tOreadOres came near gettin
gored. The exhibition was rather
tame.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

1t is often mystery how cold has
been Caught. The fact is, however, tha 1t
when the blood Is poor and the system
depressed. one becomes peculiarly liza
or the strength fails. Ayers Sarsapar-
lila should be taken without delay.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

Ayers Pills, being composed Of the
essential virtues of the best vegetable
aperients, without any of the woody or
fbrous material whatever, is the reason
why they are SO much more effective
and valuable than any other cathartics.
The lest family physic.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

Shedd will have some more of those
guaranteed ''Overland'' wheels in soon,
and say, he is almost giving them
away, if you want to save money, see
him before buying, it will be to your
interest.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

By the courtesy of the Western I'm
ion Telegraph company the following
SYNOPSIS of President Cleveland s
message sent to congress this morning
was delivered over the wires today 10
the press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

Nulcanizing the best; enameling
perfect finish: repairing. highest grade
Shedd 3054 San Antonio street.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

%! lbs. sugar 81 90 cash. 25 lbs.
sugar Sl.O0 with purchase of 81. 90 other
groceries. Pearce. 2Ol Stanton ST.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-07

-! lbs sugar $l.oO cash. % lbs.
ugar 81 90 with purchase of ST 90 other
groceries. Pearce, POI Stanton St.