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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
SILVER THE REAL CAUSE.
Why Arizona and New Mexico
are Not Admitted.
Fight Against the Admission OF the
Two Territories TO Statehood VIII
BE Made, Apparently, BY the Anti
silver Men of Both Parties - Debate
May Be a Long One.

Washington, Feb. I2.-The house COM
mittee on territories held warm session
over the bills to admit Arizona and New
Mexico into the Union. For several
weeks it has been apparent that there
was disposition among some of the op-
Ponents of free silver on the committee
to postpone favorable reports on these
bills, at least for the present, to prevent
the increase of the free silver strength
in the senate Today the fight culmina-
ted, when, while the bill to admit Arizo-
ma was under discussion, the committee
voted 6 to 5 to adjourn.
It was enormously reported about the
house today that the vote was taken on
the Arizona bills and that the bill itself
had been defeated Although as stated,
the opponents of free silver were respon-
sible for the postponement of action on
the bill, all opponents of free coinage on
the committee were not in favor of de-
ferring action. Mr.. Scranton of Penn
sylvanla, the chairman; Mr.. Perkins of
Iowa, (rep.) and Mr.. Turner (dem. VA
who voted against the motion to adjourn
are also opposed to free coinage.
Those who voted to adjourn were Had
ley, Knox, Taft, Lowe, Harrison and
Owens. Messrs. Avery and Cooper voted
against adjournment in addition to those
named. Messrs. Harris and Leferve
were absent Both the latter are anti
silver men.
1t is therefore apparent the test of
strength today indicates the committee
is opposed, at least for the present, to re-
porting these statehood bills. 1t is
claimed both the absentees are also in ia
vor of deferring action, but Mr. Murphy,
the Arizona delegate, denied this. AS
the bill itself has not been defeated in
the vote can be taken when
ever the advocates of the bill are able to
muster majority.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
CHINESE AS CANNIBALs.
Horrible Stories Come of the Treat
ment of Japs at FOrmOsa.

Victoria, B. c., Feb. I2.-Dreadful stor
les have reached Yokohama of the treat
ment of Japanese by Formosan rebels
some correspondents going so far as to
say that the Chinese practice cannabal-
ism
Early in January the rebels took pos
session of the village of Kelung. A de
tachment of Japanese was sent to attack
the place, and after considerable opposi-
ton succeeded in driving the rebels off
and entering the village which was after
wards fired
The correspondent of the Japan Mail
in speaking of the arrival of the Japan
csc troops in the village, says:
"The troops were Mortified at the
CHASTITY spectacle of nineteen bodies of
their countrymen beheaded and other
wise frightfully mangled. They we're
railroad workmen who had met death at
the hands of the fends.
MANY of your readers may not be
aware of the cannibalism that exists
among the Chinese, although there is
today not a foreigner in Formosa but
knows of the eating of portions of the
bodies of savages, or is unaware of the
markets in Formosan settlements con-
tanning human flesh of savages for sale.
During the outbreak of 1891, so great
was the loss of life that savage flesh was
brought in and sold the same as pork in
the markets.
"The mutilated bodies of Japanese
were found, several of them disembow-
eled and with their hearts cnt out; also
minus other parts. Some were found
who had been burned at the stake, the
embers still smoking. Charred bodies
with hands and feet still fastened were
some of the awful spectacles the soldiers
saw.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
UhI lis ambassadors.

Washington, Feb, Io.-The nomina-
ton of Hen E. F. Uhl to be ambassador
to Germany was confirmed by the SEN
ate today in little more than an hour
after it had been received. The nomina-
ton was not formally referred to the
committee on foreign relations; to
which, under ordinary circumstances,
it would have been sent. The commit
tee was canvassed on the floor of the
senate and no opposition being devel-
oped, it was decided to confirm immedi-
diateIy.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
EX-SLAVES.
Organize Fer the Purpose of Making
Demand for Pensions.

Chicago, Feb. IA dispatch from
Topeka, Kan, says;
An organization:of ex-slaves has been
effected here by fifty colored men for
the purpose of making demand on
Congress for pensions. 1t is the Pur-
pose to make it of national scope. OF
those in the meeting fully one-third had
felt the lash The aged, the lame and
the blind were happy in the belief that
all they would have to do was to write
to Congress TO get national relief for
their distress. There are probably 1900
ex-slaves here.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14

escape from the factories and schools.
Seventeen persons were injured in one
tobacco factory by the collapse of a
stair case when the victims rushed up
on it to escape from the building. AT
the palace it was first feared bomb
had exploded. Much damage resxlted
from the force of the conclusion.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Petit
grew today introduced a joint resolution
directing the secretary of the treasury to
foreclose the government lien upon the
Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific rail
roads and pay the prior lien upon them
and to take possession of the roads for
the government. The secretary is al
so directed to pay the floating debt of
the railroad companies and take up the
stocks and bonds pledged as security and
to take possession of all heggovernment
lands unsold which are held by the
roads. The secretary is authorized to
issue 3 per cent coin bonds for the pur
pose of carrying the resolution into eff
feet.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
An Endless Chain.

Washington, Feb, Io.-Gold to the
amount of $2,3SI,ooo was today /. with
drawn from the sub-treasury at New
York, presumably to be used again in
making payments for bonds. This
leaves the true condition of the gold re-
serve at S42,o66,S6o. No official notice
of deposits have been received.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14

Washington, Feb. H. The treasury
today lost $923,oOo in gold coin and $Io,-
500 in bars. which leaves the true amount
of the gold reserve $5L939,4o3. This
however, does not include the gold de-
posted yesterday and today on account
of the bond purchase.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
Denver,s Mint site.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The secretary
of the treasury has accepted the offer of
A. c. Drake for the sale to the govern
ment of a site for the Denver coinage
mint building. The property is located
on Colfax avenue, South Thirteenth and
Evans streets. The price is $4,000.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
Religion and Booze.

Monereal, Feb. I2.-Montreal excise
men have seized an illicit still at the
Trapptst Monastry at Okla. The Off
cials of the revenue department, becom-
ing suspicious of the large amount of
whisky that was coming from the small
settlement of Okla sent two revenue men
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
THE REFUNELNG==BELL.
Roads Unable to agree on a Suitable
Bill.

Washington, D. c., Feb. IA rep
resentative of California, who is we'll
posted on the sPacifc railroad matter,
saws that there.is little probability that
the Union and Central Pacific railroad
people will be able to agree on bill for
the settlement; of their debts due the
government. The Union Pacific reor-
..,aniza;ion committee seems to be OPP
. to Euntington's funding scheme
> anxious for the roads to be sold
losure sale.
lehart, ohMaguire says the Vanderbilts,
;hmen. wind Chicago s. Northwestern
at during anxious to buy Union and
,tber has boeifc roads, as these, with the
dave brt . Central would give them
10 has moddne from New York to San
anderson IRIS Thurston of No1raska, VOL
lor seNolorado, and.othErs IN Congress
'id' VerglnsithS Union Pacific interests
7, ~ opposed to the refunding scheme,
and in favor of foreclosure scheme. If
the roads are sold at foreclosure sale
the Vanderbilts and Chicago & North
western will be the probable purchasers,
as they have long sought a line to the
coast.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14

Philadelphia, FEB. 1o.-Twelve thou
sand three hundred tons of sugar are
now ahoat on the way to this port from
Alexandria, Egypt. These cargoes are
on board British tramp steamers and are
due here about March 1st The impor-
tation in large quantities Of Egyption
sugar is new thing, made necessary
through the apprehension that the Gu
ban crops, by reason of the war. will be
very poor.
in addition to this large quantity,
considerable sugar is being shipped
from Hamburg, in British steamships,
and from Honolulu in American clipper
ships.
Doircy oood will ha fO,rf,d moro r1r0f1f
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
ALL ARID LAND is INCLUDED
Proposed Amendment to Mr.
CANDLES Measure.

Land once stays ActiOn-NO More
Land Applications TO be Acted ON
Until Fanal LegisIatiOn-Uhl Embas-
sadOr to Germany-A Badly Mixed
Mixed situation in the senate.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
WIFE TURNS ON HUSBAND
A Startling Story Comes From
Butte.

The Man is a Dynamiter-He BLEW
Up the Residence of Foreman Mar
tin BuckIey-He is Wanted For
Serious Crime in One of the Eastern
states, the Nature OF which She
VIII Not DivuIge.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14

Doing good will be found more profit
able in the end than digging gold.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-02-14
Pacific Roads Foreclosure Bill.

government.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
SPECULATIVE MANIA IN LONDON.

London is in the midst of a tremendous
stock-speculating craze which may in time
| equal that of the palmy days of George Law
and the famous South sea bubble" The
fnanciers of the big metropolis the brok-
| ers the jobbers, the man about town and
| the "toiIing masses are all filed with an
Unsuitable desire to speculate and are buy
| ing shares right and left. The promoter is
in his glory and is making much hay while
the sun shines. Nothing is considered too
chimerical, the most visionary schemes
being placed on the market and all sorts
| of ventures are exploited, along with many
| legitimate investments.
One of the most noted promoters in Lon
| don is floating beef tea company with a
capital of $1O,OeOOOO. divided into 100000
shares at s.. Everybody seems anxious to
| buy. The promoter expects to make $500
| COO out of the business in six weeks. In
Vulnerable bicycle companies are being or
| ganized, capitalized for enormous amounts
and their shares thrown on the market to find
| ready purchasers. Another enterprise being
| boosted is that of a man and his wife who
! own a dressmaking establishment in Paris.
| They want TO sell out for s., 500 600, and ow-
| ing 10 the present mania for speculation
they will doubtless find customers.
Ladies' Pictorial and Sporting and
| Dramatic Publishing Company seems 10
be very popular concern with the Lon
| don folk, as its shares have been oversub-
scribed. In addition to these concerns the
stock of various cab companies, theatrical
companies, newspaper publishing compa-
MES and the like is on the market to say
nothing of innumerable shares of Austral-
ian and South African mines.
Everybody seems to have plenty of
money and there is no trouble in disposing
| of the stock OF anything that makes good
showing in the prospectus. In due time the
usual reaction will follow and a good many
| people will find that they have speculated
not too wisely but with too little judgment
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
The Immigration Bin.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
The Lodge immigration bill is to be put
to Il final vote in the senate on Thursday
next. and it will then be determined. for
the present. at least. whether our immigra-
tion laws can he properly s1teSuarded
with limited educational restrictions. II
the bill fails now that will be the end of it
until another congress assemblies. for it
will be then too late to accept the house
bill to which this is an amendment.
The main and chief provision of the
Lodge bill is that all immigrants over the
age of II years shall know how to read and
write their own language, which is GER
tainly n very moderate requirement. Prior
to 1880 or about that date, our immigrants
were from the stronger and more advanced
nations of Europe. from the United King
DOM Germany. France, Norway. Denmark
and Sweden. If they were not all educated
there were but few actual illiterates among
them, and they possessed high order of
natural ability. Our foreign population be-
came the bone and sinew of the land. and
in generation grew to be assimilated with
our institutions.
1t is not so with the largest proportion
of the immigrants to-day. They are It diff
ferent people from the great Teutonic and
Celtic races that preceded them. They
care nothing for our institutions or for our
government. They do not believe i'm edu-
cation even after their settlement here.
They keep their children from school as
much as possible and set them to WORK az
soon as they can run about They come
from the central and southern parts OF
Europe-from Italy, Austria Russia and
around the Mediterranean. and are woe
fully illiterate. They are Industrious as
workmen. but have no desire for citizen
ship. end they only increase the already
large number of unemployed.
The Lodge bill should pass. so that as
many as possible of these undesirable per-
sons should be kept out of the country.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
sTOMACHs REPAIRED.

A very remarkable surgical operation is
reported from New York. A mans stomach
was removed, flushed, swabbed out and
otherwise put in good repair, and then re-
placed in its cavity, where it began at once
its normal functions, which had been dor
mant for a number of years. During the
months the stomach had been in open re-
bellion, its owner had been obliged to fore
20 all gustatory pleasures and live mostly
on thin cruel. which is. as everyone knows
likely to pail upon the palate after a pro-
Iongsd course. From the time this particu-
lar stomach refused to keep up its end of
the row in the cooperative economy of ma
ture until the operation was performed
the patient lost ll3 pounds and was reduced
10 the similitude of an articuIated skeleton
such as would have given the late Mr.
Venus much delight TO see In consequence
lie felt much depressed and out of sorts.
as people generally do when there is trou-
BILE in the epigastric region. After the
operation the organ was sewed TO its
proper attachments with silk thread and
the patient began to improve right away.
At the expiration of three weeks he turned
up his fastidious nose at the cruel and be-
gan to tackle soft-shelled crabs and lobster
salad with the hardihood of an old gour-
met. and to-day he can eat a quarter of a
mincc pie just before going to bed and it
never faxes him.
This triumph Of surgical skill seems to
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

the world. in recent twenty-four hour
bicycle race. when he covered the mar
velous distance or a miles. His average
speed was nearly twcnty-threc miles an
hour for an entire day and night. making
no allowance for stops.
The work done by this French athletes
legs was no whit more wonderful than
that which he accomplished with his mouth
and stomach. He CONSUMED one and one
half pounds OF chocolate. several small
pies, six pears. three quarts OF boiled rice
and milk. two quarts OF tapioca. two and
one-half dozen eggs, and several bowls OF
soup. That was all he ate. He drank sev-
en- bottles of Vichy water, one pint Of
cocoa, two bottles OF wine and two bottles
of port. That was all he drank. The
solids and liquids together must have
weighed about . pounds. So the Ia
nous rider took into his stomach about a
pound OF food or drink an hour. on the
average, day and night, for twenty-four
hour.
After this who will say that bicycle rid
ing is not good for the appetite2 What
sport or occupation on earth can beat its
latest record in the food consuming line?
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

ism, in it. Legal quibbIes, unworthy Of a
statesman who sits in the seat OF Wash
ington. and who has been compared to
that great patriot Andrew jackson. There
are Jacksons and Jacksons, and some are
soft-boiled,
Cuba Is struggling to be free, but the
door OF the White House Is slammed in
the face OF Maceo's representative The
salt OF the Cleveland administration has
lost it's American SAVIOR. The message was
one to please every reactiOnary, every
mUsty and medieval mind on the planet
II would read well in YildiZ Kiosk where
=. craven ravisher OF women and pro-
NOker OF assassination resides; It would be
good news for KipHng's Tomitnson. who
was neither bad nor good. and so floats in
the windy spaces between the worlds unfit
for heaven or he'll.
L was Il iukswarm message, carrying no
conviction. except that OIney's cold intel
lectual calculation dominated the hedtat-
ing phrases.
i. was a message that should not have
come from the chief OF the New World
republics to which Latin-America looks for
guidance and inspiration.
Il was a message that the noble Spanish
republicans who desire Cuban Independ-
! echoes the sentiment Os the dwellers in
| palaces, Of the kings and statesmen who
| distrust the people and care not for hu-
man liberty.
1t was a cold. n cruel message.
| No wonder the American people were
! ashamed. But they Will reply 10 IT,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
THE WHEEL AS AN ArPETIzER.

The honor and glory of being champion
bicycle rider and breaker of records Is
doubtless great, but there are other and
more substantial compensations than glory,
which is, of itself, an evanescent thing and
likely to be wrested from the possessor by
some more successful competitor.
Look, for instance, at the good things to
eat which Teddy Hale, who recently rode
about 1000 miles in 1i2 hours, slowed away
in his interior department during his ar
duous labors On the first day of his ro-
tary perambuIation over the country Mr..
Hale had four quarts of beef tea, a like
quantity of chicken broth, two roast chick
ems Out they were smalD, two boiled
chickens. also small, an even dozen French
chops. two gallons of oatmeal, three quarts
of custard. a couple of dozen bananas, six
pounds of grapes and two pineapples. To-
tai weight. 3iI& pounds.
On the second day Mr.. Hale's appetite
began to improve somewhat, and he got
away with four pounds of roast beef, four
roast chickens. one boiled ditto, big lot
of Clipped potatoes, pudding ad libitum,
four quarts of beef tea and six quarts of
chicken broth, three dozen bananas, three
pineapples six chops, five pounds of grapes,
a quart of stewed Goldfish, one pint of tea,
two dozen eggs and last, but not least,
twenty stewed prunes. Weight of this grub
80 pounds.
On the third day Teddy's appetite began
to fail and his friends We're considerably
alarmed. as he ate only 81 pounds. But he
managed to get away with. among other
things, a couple of pounds of blue fish,
seven quarts of broth and beef tea and a
lot more of stewed prunes.
For the next three days the amount eat
en- declined greatly in weight. On the
fourth he had, besides the prunes, which
measured two quarts, twelve quarts of stuff,
including oatmeal. rice milk. sago, tapio-
ca pudding and jelly the whole only weigh
ing 10 pounds. The next day the victuals
tipped the beam at l1I2 pounds He did
better, however. on the sixth day. his rec
ord for the day being one whole Goldfish,
half roast chicken. more prunes, and d
few quarts of broth and custards, all of
which weighed about Il pounds. The en-
tire weight of the food eaten in six days
was 1929 pounds. worth $65.
One of the good things claimed for the
wheel is that it increases the appetite. If
1t has the effect on all of its devotees that
it had on Teddy Hale it will make the for
tune of restaurant and hotel keepers
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
THE BENTON MONUMENT.

Kansas City has grown to sufhciently
metropolitan proportions TO want to look
and do as other large cities. 1t has arrived
at a stage when il is necessary 10 pause
and give some attention TO growing beautl-
fuI and attractive as well as to growing
bia, and prosperous It's enterprising ciTi-
zens have recognized this necessity and are
proceeding accordingly. They have planned
an elaborate system of parks, paseos and
boulevards and are preparing to push 1t
through TO 4 speedy completion All the
large cites of the country contain statues
of the nations great men, or of men prom
inent in the life of the state or OF the
municipality. or monuments of some KIND
erected to their memory. The people OIL
Kansas City are beginning to feel that
we ought TO have some statues and monu-
ments-not simply for ornentauon, out
also to show our appreciation of the great
characters of history.
1t is fitting that the first public man 1t
is proposed thus to honor in Kansas CITY
should be one of Aissouri's greatest citi-
zens. The movement for the erection of a
monument to Thomas H. Benton is most
worthy one and one in which every intel
lgenI TeSluenI Ol lue CilS Ifiii e%AAS p'1No'
In the hands of the Commercial Club the
undertaking cannot fail, and the spirit
with which it starts out shows that 1t Will
be easy of accomplishment.
The location of the structure has not yet
been considered, but it will, of course, be
placed at some point where it can be seen
10 advantage-some conspicuous spot where
it will not only command the attention OF
our own citizens but will be observed by
all visitors. Where is there better place
than the Junction? Planted in the TRAN
gular space where Main street is widest
the statue would be more conspicuous than
if set upon the highest hill. 1t would be
seen by all and would grace the city's bus
mess center, with no suggestion of COM
nercial advertising to offend the sensible
tiles. When visitors asked, Whose statue
Is that?" the answer would need TO be
only the mention OF the name. 1t would
not be necessary to explain who Benton
was or why the city should thus prom
inentiy honor him. $685.
Unquestionably the Junction is the best
location in the city for monument to
some distinguished statesman or hero, and
unquestionabIy the space should not be
given for the decentralization of any per-
son who is not thus distinguished. The
Junction is, par excellence, the site for
| the Benton monument.