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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-24
A Serious ARRAY.

Saturday morning a difficulty
occurred between Jacob Slomer and
Joe Pecachec at VIM. Bohm's place
on VIM. Beasley's land, about Ave
or six miles south of Sinner, in
which Slomer was nearly beaten to
death.
The trouble started over stalk
cutter. Mr.. Beasley has 100 acres
of land here on which there are
about dozen renters. He bought
a stalk cutter for their joint use,
it was dispute as to whose turn it
was to nse the cutter which caused
the trouble.
Pecachec used club with telling
effect on Slomer. Nick Brod and
others We're attracted to the scene
by the sounds of the ARRAY. and
found Slomer in terrible condi-
ton. being covered with blood from
head to foot. DR.. Edison was
summoned and found the extent of
his injuries to be; two ribs broken,
right elbow smashed. necessitating
the removal of II part of the bone.
two fingers nearly torn Oft, hanging
by the flesh merely, three terrible
scalp wounds and numerous other
wounds and bruises.
Pecachec was arrested by Con-
stable Muckleroy and Deputy Sher-
iff Gerhard seimes and put under
a 5000 bond to await the result of
his victims injuries.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-24

Southwestern Telephone Company
to extend their line through the
city. This gives us direct COM
municution with all parts of Texas,
and little later with St. Louis
and all northern points.
Up to this time City Marshal
Loessin had been a disinterested
spectator of the proceedings, but
all at once Alderman Trautwein
sprung u sensation on him. The
marshal had made his report of all
monies collected since May 18TH,
and Mr. Trautwein inquired if airy
dog tax had been collected. There
isn't any dog tax" said Loessin.
20, yes there is" said Mayor Blohm
"here it is, right here" and pick
ing up copy of the city ordinan-
ces he turned to page IS, article 70,
and read;
! "There shall be levied and col.
lected an annual tax of fifty cents
for each dog owned in this town on
lthN e~st 3~y Of Janus s,.u,,IjIl
Iyear."
- The marshal was astonisbed and
remarked that the city would have nave
to furnish him with lasso and u
dog pound at once for the accom-
mediation of the about 15CO fec
dogs which infest the town. If the
law holds good there will be gem
eral slaughter of cur dogs.
The committee to receive bids
for stand-pipe conti'ts of the mem
bers of the finance committee; they
are Aldermen Trautwein, VOTERS
and Wagner.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-24
The City CoancAl.

The City Co1nc3 suit the council in regard to pro-
There called meeting cung hose for the
the City Council TudaF Street Commissioner Ahrens
last When the we 1eachd City Marshal Loessin also
found Myoh Bohed the meeting with their
carving over some chhirs for thnce
aldermen Messfs Tuten ant Under the head of unfinished
Wagner hand ndla htness the works question
later Eschhburg and NJ Esme and warmly discussed
VOTERS up and quoum bee question of erecting stand
ing present meeting was ape mooed and avoraby
to o der. we'd committee appoint
committee from the rd look the and
plny, consisting of c. r. HPlchnk It at early date
the writer present P CON Permission granted the
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-24
TRAUTWEIF & WOLTERS.
st-Two gins Un& One Manegement-4e

Their old gin has been mob to convenient point in the
southwestern pa Of town md everything thoroughly
hauled They better pbared than gin yonr
ton, and respectfully eoict 3r patronage.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-24
For Sale.

Baled hay at 40 cents per bale
by w, w, Fore.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28

By the time we had finished reading this the
girl returned with our supper. When she had
arranged the various dishes in front of us we
asked her why she had given US this chemical
analysis OF our butter product. Without .
word, but with gesture of impatience, she
turned the cardboards over, and we read:
This notice is given in conformity with sections
. and OF an act of the Legislature of California,
approved March 8, 1895, entitled "An act TO pre-
vent deception in the manufacture and sale of but
ter and cheese, to secure its enforcement and to
appropriate money therefor
Sec. 3. Each person who, by himself or another,
lawfully manufactures any substance designed TO
be used as substitute for butter or cheese, shall
prepare q state ment, printed in plain Roman type
OF size not smaller than pica statn in the Eng
lish language It's name, and the name and address
OF the manufacturer, the name OF the place where
manufactured or put up, and also the names and
actual percentages OF the various ingredients used
In the manufacture OF such imitation butter or i'm
ita, ion cheese.
Sec. 7. No keeper or proprietor OF any bakery,
hotel, boarding house, esfaurant, saloon. lunch
counter or other place of public entertainm ent or
any person having charge thereof or employed
thereat. or any person furnishing board for other
persons than members of his own family, or for
any employees where such board is furnished as
the compensation or as part of the compensation
OF any such employe, shall place before such
patron or employe, for use as food any substance
designed 10 be used as substitute for butter or
cheese, unless the same be accompanied by copy
of the statement described in section of this act
such substance is substitute for butter or cheese
The proprietor. having now complied with all
the requirements Of tho law, has only this wish to
express:
May good digestion wait on appetite
And health en- both.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
PERSONAL


s. d. Mitcheson of London is In town.
DR.. A. E. Smith of Portland, Or, is in the
City.
J. A. Carignan of Arizona is at the Occl-
dental.
E, B, Hornung, druggist OF Marysville, is at
the Grand.
II. B. Patton, a business man OF Golden, Colo,
is at the Lick.
W. Massey. a sugar-grower of Honolulu, is at
the California.
G. w. Morgan. cattle-raiser OF Duncans
Mills, Is on visit here
The Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is here, &C
companied by his family.
Lord Sudeley of London went to Monterey
yesterday for short visit.
Fred w. Hume of Milwaukee arrived here
yesterday. He is at the Palace.
Mrs. E. P. Buckingham, who owns large
fruit ranch at Vacayille, is in town.
E. H. Daggett of Visalia, Deputy Sherlh OF
Tulare County, arrived here yesterday
j. NJ McChesney, owner of a leading sugar
plantation in the Hawaiian Islands, Is in town.
Mrs. George Mills, wife of Manager Mills OF
the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, Carson, is
at the Palace.
Herman SchainYald, the well-known real
estate dealer, returned from visit TO Homo
lulu yesterday.
Attorney ]. Z. Richard and family returned
yesterday from an enjoyable trip TO the Ha-
waiian Islands.
Judge H. A. Wideman. the wealthy ana
pioneer resident of Hawaii, arrived here on the
Alameda yesterday.
D. T. Davies of Tacoma, manager of the Car
bon Hill coal mines, owned by the southern
Pacific Company, arrived here yesterday.
E. C. Macfarlane and T. W. Macfarlane, Tor
some years conspicuous in the political ana
business circles of Hawaii, are at the Cali
fornia.
The Rev. John Maher and the Rev. w. J.
Madden of Queensland, Australia, arrived here
on the Alameda yesterday, and are at the
Occidental.
w. B. Biddle of Chicago, general freight ana
traffic manager of the Atchison, Topeka ana
Santa Fe Railroad, is on a visit to California.
He is at the Palace.
J.T. McDevitt of Cripple Greek is in the City.
Lionel A. T. Johnson of Amergate Derby,
England, is at the Palace, He arrived from
Auckland yesterday.
Among the passengers on the Alameda from
the antipodes yesterday were Mrs. Mary Rosen-
thai of the great gold camp of Kilgori1e and
Mrs. and Miss Scott of Victoria, Australia.
Herman shainwald, of the firm OF shainwald,
BUCK Dee d Co., returned on the Aia1neuh ifoAn
Honolulu yesterday. With him was his sister,
who had spent nine months travelling in the
Orient.
Mrs. Churchill wife of United States Consul
General Churchill of Samoa, arrived here yes
terday from Apia. Mr.. Churchill succeeded
General Mulligan of Kentucky, who not long
since resigned.
W. A, Harper of Harper Bros, the publishers
OF Harper's Weekly and other publications, is
at the Palace. He made the trip from New
York to Sydney, N. S. W., on sailing vessel
for his health. He is much improved, and will
go East in a day or two.
The Hon. Frank Farwell member of the New
South Wales Parliament, who has been ap-
pointed by the New South Wales Government
to investigate the fresh water of California
and examine into the fish interests, is at the
Occidental. 1t is the intention to stock vari-
GUS New South Wales rivers with fish,
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28

the canvas and rendering it brittle and to
make an even surface for receiving the paint,
which is mixed wi tn lnseed oil with very little
or no turpentine and is consequently thicker
splashed uponth surface with brush, and
then With q long steel trowel the workman
spreads the dabs of paint and produces mod
erately smooth surface. This trowel color is
then another coat is laid on In q similar man.
ner and this completes the back or under side
of the cloth While the first coat of the back is
drying the front is primed ana pumleed and
is required in the work in that side, the coat
is secured quite smooth with pumlee and two
more trowel coats are laid on and each pum-
iced as the first. Another coat Is then LAID on
ca arefnllv with a brush and that is the ground
ON which the pattern is printed. The print
ing is by means of wood BLOCKS. Inc pattern
is first drawn and painted in It's complete torn
and colors upon a piece OF paper, another
niece Of paper is laid under this and the out
lines of that portion of the pattern included in
one color are prcked through TO the lower pa
per- In like manner pricked outlines of
each of the colors are prepared. Each OF these
nricked sheets is laid upon block of pear
tree wood and busted over Wltn powdered
charcoal or lampblack, ana tnus the pattern
is drawn in dots upon the wood; the carver
cuts away the wood surrounding the pattern
and leaves it standing in relief. These blocks
are backed by gluing them 10 q piece OF deal
and this piece again to another, with the
fbers at right angles to prevent warplng.
Each block is then-dabbed with the required
color bv boys, after which the printer places
the block on the cloth where IL is 10 go, and
with the handle OF short, neaVy manner
strikes in the pattern he has 10 PRINT; he pro-
ceeds with a repetition of this, and as be ad-
yances he is followed in order by the printers
of the other colors, who place their oloeKs ac-
curately over the pattern tue nrst mas come
menced. The first printers CHIEF care is 10
keep the repetitions OF the pattern accurately
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28

bermen and teamsters, were seated at three OF
four long tables. The tables were covered witn
oilcloth. The tableware was very thick ana
heavy ironstone china. much cracked ana
chipped. The knives and forks were steel,
with handles colored and cracked from rougn
usage and hot dishwater Near each end OF
the table was set.of casters, originally, doubt.
less, quite snowy with silver plating, out al
this period much the worse for the wear OF the
plating.
The dining-room girl who came to wait 9 on .
US ratified off the bill of fare in exactly tne
same way that dining-room girls do in JIG, 600
other hotels all over this broad land: AS she
received our orders she slid the big putter-
dish from its place near the middle OF the
table over toward us, saying, Here's your
substitute butter" at the same time taxing
from one of the casters, where they were kept
like the bills of fare in cheap restaurants,
pieces of cardboard about the size and shape
OF the ordinary restaurant bill OF fare. She
laid one of these down on the table beside
each OF US and started for the Kitchen.
Wondering slightly at this. we each picked up
the cardboard laid before US, and this is what
we read:
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
MEN OF INDUSTRY.

The CALL published yesterday mum ber
of interviews with workingmen and bust
ness men on the political situation. The
mum Der of interviews was not large, but
each of the men who spoke was not only
the representative of large class, but
was typical of that class. and in the ag
gregate they gave what may be consid-
cred fair expression OF the opinions and
convictions of the great body of intellt-
gent Americans OH the issues OF the CAM
paign.
1t is worth noting that every working
man among those who were interviewed
expressed the belief that the tariff issue is
of more importance to the country than
that of the money problem. I. j. Mccoy,
an irorfmolder, who has been Democrat
hitherto, said: Protection is the only
thing that will draw this country from the
slough of dependency" w. H. Price, q
gunsmith, declares for Mckinley, BE
cause times were far better in my line OF
business when his bill was in operation" I"
Neil @. Whyte, a brass founder, says:
"McKinlev's election will help my busi-
ness, th herefore will vote for Mckinley"
F. A. Bastian, machinist, says: SIN my
line of business the effects of Clevelandism
have been felt. believe in protection
and my faith in its good results has never
wavered for an instant" Martin Fuchs,
a pattern-maker, says: "I believe the well
fare of our Nation lies in adhering to q
protective tariff" E. H. Black, painter
and decorator, who has prune orchard
in Santa Clara Valley, has found his trade
as painter and his profits as All orchard
ist lowered by free trade and desires a re-
turn to protection.
The expression of opinion goes on the
same way all along the line. John Petty,
a blacksmith, says: II can't see that the
silver proposition will help the working
man at all. What we want is protection. -
John Vance, carpenter, put the whole
question in nutshell: "I am for McKin-
ley, of course. How could any man who
earns his bread by the sweat of his brow
be otherwise" Frank Robinson, a lum-
herman, paints the situation clearly in
saying: when Cleveland went into Of
fee the Democrats promised us 81 day
and roast beef; now we are content to get
81 day and free lunch" w. J. Darren,
a wagon maker, says: 81 was Democrat
last election, but since then l have seen
the ruinous effects of the Democratic
policy and legislation. There is no hope
for prosperity but in Mckinley and pro-
lection"
The opinions of business men are in ac-
cord with those of workingmen. Every
one sees the need of protection. To the
workingman dependent on wages for
the maintenance of his family return to
the protective system that made work
abundant appears the imperative demand
of the hour. In comparison with that the
money issue seems slight. Business men
see in addition to the evils of free trade
the great risk of intrusting the remoneti-
zatlon of silver to the party of bunglers
and fiascps. They regard the possibility
of the election of Bryan as serious
menace to the welfare of the people, and
are as eager as the workingmen in sup
port of Mckinley and the great principles
Of the Republican party.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
A NEW IDEA.

Mr.. Bryan informed the people of a
town in New York that "what we want is
a dollar that will maintain its parity with
the property which that dollar is to buy"
This is new financial proposition. 1t
gives money function it was never sup
posed to possess. In fact, Mr.. Bryan is
the inventor of the newest and latest
thing under the sun. Either Mr.. Bryan
knows more about the science of money
than was ever known by any other man in
any age of the world, or he knows less
than the most ignorant man on earth.
According to Mr.. Bryan's new discovery
in the science of money, dollar should
always maintain its parity with the thing
it buys. This means that the dollar and
the thing it buys should be on q parity
because they are interchangeable commo-
dities. Ii, then, bushel of wheat and q
dollar are on parity to-day and not on a
parity to. m orrow, the one or the other has
lost in value, and whichever has lost must
add to its quantity so as to maintain the
parity, but as the dollar must maintain it's
parity, according to Bryan, with the thing
it buys, the dollar necessarily becomes the
thing that fuctuates, while the thing it
"
the dollar is the unit of value.
Hitherto commerce has ruled that the
dollar possessed the unit of value, and
that if it takes more wheat, corn, cloth or
other commodity to get dollar to-day
than it did yesterday it is because the
commodity is of less value; that the dol
lar has not changed in value, because
unit" does not change. and 1t is the rela-
tive value of the commodity that has
changed. A unit of value thing is neces-
sarily ilnmovable. There are times, how
ever, when it takes more corn, wheat,
cloth or other commodity to get the ''unit
of value" than at other times, and COM
merce has always supposed that value
fluctuations of commodities are at
trlbutable to the operation OF the law of
supply and demand; also that the
volume of the article exchanged for dol
lar is governed entirely by the necessity
for the exchange on the part of the article
and that it is the necessity of the article
for dollar that regulates the purchasing
power of the dollar. Mr.. Bryan says the
dollar and the commodity should be kept
at parity, and so they are for the mo-
ment the exchange is being consummated,
but the philosophy of his argument is
that So cents worth OF wheat should be
kept at parity with dollar. Well, it
can't be done with or without 1.-THE aid or
consent of any other nation"
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
An Object Lesson.


The Southern Pacific has been placed in O
rather embarrassing position. Its competitor,
the San Joaquin Valley Railway Company,
with fine disregard for any and all>opposi-
tion, has slashed rates in the valley. and now
Mr.. Huntington's monopoly has got to meet
the cut or go out of business. The agents Of
the Southern Pacific have been travelling
through the interior promising special rates
to shippers, which is clearly In violation of
the interstate commerce law, in order to keep
their business The position of the Kentucky
corporation now presents splendid object
lesson to the farmer aud other tillers of the
to the thinking man that for all these years
the company has been Systematically robbing
California producers. The fact that the San
Joaquin Valley Railway Company, new cor
poration, can carry goods at far lower figures
than those charged by its rival shows how
carefully Mr.. Huntington has been consider
ing the Interests of California.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
TURK AND CHRISTIAN.

For more than fifty years the question
has been asked nearly every day, How
much longer are the powers going to per-
nit the Sultan of Turkey to murder
Christians without cause or provocation2 ?"
The Turks are permitted to persecute
Christians until the latter are driven to
desperation, when they are shot down, 'as
Christian dogs should be- quoting from
one of the Porte's Cabinet officers. The
word comes from ConstantinopIe that
hundreds of Armenians were shot to
death in the streets of that city because
they were rioting, but it Is safe to say that
if they committed any overt act they
were driven to it.
But for halt century fimsy excuses
have been given for numbering Christians
in Turkish territory, and the powers have
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
THE LAW AND THE BUTTER
chicago Record.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Aug. 6.--We were
travelling in siskiyou County. that northern
part of the State which geographically is .
part OF California, but commercially is part
of Oregon. 1t is a wild and sparseiy settled
region. with only here and there hali-culti-
waited ranch and an occasional mining camp.
1t was one of the latter we reached about
nightfall. We were directed to the principa
hotel in the place, q roughly boarded, two
story building, of which the most prominent
feature of its internal arrangement was the
barroom, which was also the Office, and con-
tanned in one corner wooden sink provided
with paper bucket filed with water, two or
three basins and a couple of community towels
hung on rollers.
Supper WAS ready when we arrived, and we
low ceiling-the dining-room-in which about
twenty roughly dressed men. most OF them in
their shirtsleeves and apparently miners, lum-
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
A BEE STING.
Sacramento Bee.

Patriotism and loyalty are dying out in this
country. The cry is ali for self The
greed for gain is the national disease of the
American people. Patriotism is dying, selfish
ness is predominant. Every one wants to know
what is in 1t for him. Envy stalks about seek
ing whom it may be1ttle or destroy.
Gentle reader, whom do you think was the
author of the above? What high-minded and
noble patriot, burning with love of country,
himself the very personification of unselfsh-
ness, the apotheosis of personal and political
honesty, put forth those tender blossoms of q
noble mans regret in the rank and weedy
garden of political unworth and unpatrlotic
greed?
Look at Sundays Examiner, and you will see
the article signed by d. M. Burns.
Achl Mein Gottl "How beautifully he do
xyr ~
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28

OF buttoning garment and yet avoiding, but
ton-holes the bugbear OF many nome oress,
maker) is shown on this garment. A silk cord
is sewn just inside the edge, which at inter-
vals forms tiny loops just large enough 10 al
low the buttons to slip through.
A sacque OF mignonette green cashmere had
all the edges button hole stitched in scallops
with black silk. The collar was further
adorned by narrow rufle of black lace,
For spring and summer wear washable fap-
rics are preferred. Pink batiste with rutfie
of Valenciennes lace on the edge OF the collar
and down the front. White and blue cuck
with trimmings OF creamy white lace In bands
and seryiceable.
Brown Hollands with trimmings of white is
equally useful and can be frightened up Dy
bows OF rose pink, light olive green or tur-
Quoise blue
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
OPINIONS OF COAST EDITORS.
The Present Evil.
San Jose Mercury.

Mr.. Bryan is an advocate of free wool, free
sugar, free lumber, free coal, free fruit and
free manufactures of every kind. He goes on
the theory that If the American workingman
and the American producer can't live on
decent American standard and compete with
the ill-fed, li-clothed pauper labor OF foreign
countries, then so much the worse for the
American workingman and the American pro-
live in huts and go half naked, and they will
have no trouble in competing with the cheapest
labor of Europe and of Asia. The present evil
consequences of Democratic free trade are sui
ficiently obvious. but they are light compared
with those which are sure to follow the con-
tinuance of that un-American and ruinous
nolicY.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28

always accepted them as gospel truths.
The report comes that the other nations
are hurrying warships to the Golden Horn,
but that is to prevent enc another getting
undue advantage. and not to protect
Christians. 1t Is unfortunate for civiliza-
tion that the United States is barred from
participating in the affairs of Turkey, but
all the people OF this country can do is to
hope for better things for the Cretans and
the Armenlans. and make Turkey pay
literally for property of Americans that
is destroyed in the Porte's frantic on
slaughts upon his Christian subjects.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28
IN THE e BICYCLE DAYS.

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
lie stole wheel, and away he run;
But copper feet
Young Tom could beat,
And they locked him up in Harrison street.
Little Tommy Titmouse
Worked for cycling house,
Went to his mea
On other mems wheels.
There was man In our town
As wise as were our sires;
He ran across a piece of glass,
Ard punctuTed both his tires;
And when he saw the air was out,
With all his might and main,
He took his little nickel pump
And pushed 1t in again.
Ding-dong bell,
There's the man who fell.
Who knocked him down.
The meanest man in town.
Who called the cop?
A man who saw him drop.
What q wicked man was that,
To try to kill the oy clist fat.
Who never did him any wrong,
But kept a-pedaling right along.
Chicago Daily Tribune