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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-15
PUSHING THE RAILROADS.

Tormni Strongly GarIisioned to Prevent
the Works Being Destroyed.
New York. April IA dispatch TO tho
Herald from Wady Halfa, Egypt, sayss
Sarris and Akasheh hasc been strongly
garrlsoned. and the railway between these
points is being pushed forward as rapidly
az possible, Four miles OF rails have been
already laid and th, track will be CONF
pleiod along the course laid down In 1S&
In order to pass tho cataracts. For tho
guarding of The railway strong posts
have been established on the Nile at Sem.
leh, Wady Ainbigol and Sonkie. Each OF
those posts has been supplied with a con.
tingeht 10 guard tho point opposite TO IT
OH The line an 1t is laid. In order TO pre-.
vent tho Dervisliea from destroying tto
works.
Tho ncrvishes at suarda, who number
aoo0 have advanced their posts 70 Mcgra.
hoh. distant fifieen miles from Aknsheh,
the main body OF the Dervishes etilt re-
manning nj pongola.
The Mori,leT announcement OF tie cx.
petition has been excellent In the b0u-
dan md has been of great service 70 the
Six s,ra,ncra have arrived at Wady
Hahn with n third battery Of artillery.
stores, etc. a
Newspaper correspondents are % pres
ont prevented from going beyond Sarsaa.
osMAN DIGNA LOSING GR0UHD. a
HIS Prestige Injured by Defeat at the
Hands Of Arabs 81
Now York, April liza dispatch TO the
Herald from Cairo sayH; Tho criir OF
pongola Is moving norlhward viii, ,ce.l-
siderable forces. Spies report his huylttE
iiaased Aboafntneh. seventy miles s2ath
,.C ssnarda, 70 Join sho esytshss Y 70 gso J
masslng at the latter place, which ~ tor>...
Iy-fiya mtiea from the E'gyp,ian outpost
NJ Akashah. The upinion Is iiei1 ~ E8tI,-
;iun Headquarters iliat coini,iissariat diff
flcliltias Viii prevent the dervlshes frsAnh 4
making ANY formidable advance north Of
Suarda.
1'he prestige OF Osmnn Dlgna II reported
to 10 on the wane and Is likely 70 be stlIl
further compromised by his defeat ny
friendly Arabs near Tamni Dcsertefs
from his fores are coming Into Suaklni.
II appears highly probable that there will
lie more fighting In the immediate future.
Credible authorities predict that the ruiz
Ing Of the mixed tribunals, which has been
postponed for n fortnight. In the matter
Of the advance or f5o0n1 Tor the DongQla
expedition VIII be In favor. OF the commits
sionors of the Caissc dc Ia Dettes,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-15

STATE.
Wtl nluett. onlorod living noar fdha
sailed TO his door and nssassinatod
A Nainbolt, who Killed y. T. biaeH' 'e'
mnnled To iail ut Calvert withont pau
Proceedings of the state LumhermeuH
association at Austin.
SATURDAY nights storm wrought havoc
I'm North Texas. Late reports add to the
lis, Of dead.
r. q. Powell and two ladies Rhot by w.
L. Oliver nj Eassett
Epworth league In session In san An
tonic
THE MARKETS.
rntton-Iivcrpool spots and futures ad-
yancod American future markets slight
ly higher
A produce exchange Will be organize In
Houston.
Cnshers have advanced 'nsecd oil 3
cents per gallon.
Wheat ,sda. lower than yesterday on
good crop news
stocks continue TO advance and realizing
proved only small setback.
Cattle barely steady on light transac-
lions.
The effect Of the Brown case decision
on traffic associations
American Railway association ronven-
ton At Cincinnati
Local and general notes AMI personals.
Arbitration hoard hears arguments IN
the cotton Insurance difrerenuai rate case.
Preliminary steps taken In the fore
closure sale OF tho Atlantic and Pacific
Receivers Hopkins and Wilson, OF tho
Louisville Evansville and ST. Louis. re-
sign.
LOCAL.
Military companies preparing for the
Volksfest celebration.
New rails for the street car line.
Notes caught around the city hail.
A day'a record In the courts.
The Gienwood cemetery case nip ON de-
murrer.
A man sho, in the leg near the Magnolia
brewery.
ST, LOUIS s. w. Parish Shoe
company one Of the oldest. firms IN the
city. has assigned, stock and fixtures val
ued al $4,000.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-15
TELEPHONE

issued a proclamation designating today
aa ArhOr Day,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-15
r-,,r ,ND1ANA Is PEarEcr.

washington, April 1.-THE special ocAro
,nno,n,cd 70 make the trip from Pesf
I 49,, ~ usrptcn Roads on tho Indiasl
a mosa ,hus make y. anal in.psc cas. q q ~
vessel, nas ,'srt The board finds tAof
navy n wsskness or defect u h4l4s
a. there - ~ ~ eauIpment. nor e there ~
h aafnns N - inc machinery Of the ind'ees
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-15

Houston defeated New orleans again by
n score Of . to q
Winners at Memphisi Lord zeni, 10 8:
Damona, 4 to d; urania, 4 to s; Preside,
to /; Eunuch. TO 4; Sea Robher, u to J.
Pierre l&orrillsrd's horxes were IN three
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
Pistol VS.. Mortgage.

Most people are afraid of the pistol,
but the mortgage has robbed more than
standing armies. 1t has caused moro
crime than all other things. The tears
of the world, directly and indirectly,
for thousands of years have been caused
by that instrument. AS. ro5ber it is
the chief. The moment you give
mortgage you begin to slave for some
body else-for the time it takes to pay
it, just as much a chattel for the
usurer's profit as was black slave
Yet men will sustain laws by their bal
lots and thus put them at the mercy
of others. A mans body is not
strange, but his mind is "corker,' -
as the boys would say. When men
didn't want titled kings, they abolished
them by making no law to provide for
them. When they didn't want to be
chattel slaves, they repealed all laws
protecting that peculiar institution. II
they don't want to be slaves to money
sharks and spectators, all they have
to do is to repeal all laws for the col
lection of debts, and they are done with
all future trouble. This was one Of
Horace Greeley's old maxims when the
Tribune was in power in the land It
is justice, but will never be done while
money rules the law.-Exchange
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
The Patriots of America.

The Industrial Legion was the first
secret society organized in the interest
of reform. Its mission was to organize
the forces of Populism in every state
of the Union. Under the splendid
leadership of Paul Vandervoort it has
done and is doing great work. The
Silver Knights of America was the Sec
ond secret reform organization to be
formed. It's members geek the remone-
tization of silver only. Now new or
ganization has been born-the Pa
triots of America. It's mission is to
teach patriotism and the science of
republican government as enunciated
by Washington. Jefferson, Jackson and
Lincoln. Its lodges will be schools of
patriotism for young and old. Its Sc
cret work will be done in executive ses-
sion only. It's members will vote as a
unit. William H. Harvey, who has
done more than any other man to edu-
cate the people on finances, is at tho
head of the new organization. Lodges
are being formed rapidly in the states
east of the Mississippi and it is needless
to say that the Order will exert a pow
erful influence in the campaign. With
Harvey at it's head, Populists need not
fear that influence. Populists know
honest, unselfish men. Harvey is one
of them. He has made some money
out of his various publications on
finance, and now he is reinvesting it
in cause that means so much for hui
manity. God bless Harvey and the
Patriots of America.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
from an agent. AS result. Mr.. Atkin-

from an agent. AS result, Mr.. Atkin-
SON naturally concludes that the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the farmers pro-
ducts go further than they really do.
But what is OF more consequence,
Mr.. Atkinson, is the fact that the farm
ers are loaded down with fixed charges
that call for as many dollars when
wheat is at so cents as when it sells
for 81. Rent, taxes, interest, all be-
come more burdensome as prices fall.
and it takes a greater quantity of pro-
duce to raise the number Of dollars re-
quired to meet these charges. But this
is not all; prices at which the farmer
sells. falling faster than wages and re-
tail prices at which he buys, profits of
farming are destroyed and production
is curtailed, which entails a dead loss
on the country. When the farming
classes are not prosperous, the country
cannot be prosperous, for as Secre-
tary Morton truly said some years ago.
Everybody knows that the successful
perpetuation of the industrial activities
OF the American people is based, and
possible only, upon an intelligent and
fecund agriculture
When we are not making full use OF
our resources, agricultural and other,
we are wasting absolutely our national
wealth, for lost time is never found
again. 1t is wealth lost forever. The
losses suffered by the producing classes
are for the most part 30 ores gain.
Let us look a little further. Farm
dwellers furnish the IA per cent of our
exports. By adhering to the gold stand
ard we have cut the prices OF these farm
products in half and thereby deliberate
ly impoverished our country. We have
depressed the prices of the products we
export much further than the prices of
the commodities we import from
Europe have fallen, and to this extent
we are unconsciously taxing ourselves
for the benefit Of Europe. The $780,
100000 pounds Of cotton and the 76, 6,000,-
600 bushels of wheat we exported last
year brought no more money to the pro-
ducer than the 1900 O00, 900 pounds of
cotton and the $4,000 900 bushels of
wheat exported in 1873. At prices Of
1873 our exports last year would have
brought $1,746 800, $50, instead of s793,-
397 $50; our imports would have cost
us $1,152, ,503,272, instead of $731, ,957,-
875. These figures are not mere esti-
mates, but based on actual calculations
of commodities representing 67.1 per
cent of our exports and 44.2 per cent of
our imports. In other words, we would
have received 1858, 900 600 more for our
exports. paid $42O, 900 more for our
imports. Increased interest charges
aside, we taxed ourselves last year for
the benefit Of Europe (by adhering to
the gold standarG the enormous sum
of $533, ,O00 600, sufficient to meet the ex-
penses of our national government, and
$3.50 100000 besides. We have wasted,
squandered our national wealth quite
long enough.TThe American.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
Women Lawyers Opposed.

PITTsBURG, Pa. Jan. 4.-Pittsburg
has one woman lawyer. The other
lawyers are opposed to her on account
of her sex, and do not want any more
admitted to practice. A committee
will report to the Allegheny County
Bar Association Saturday as follows:
"Your committee are of the opinion
that the very nature of the practice is
such as to render it peculiarly unde-
sirable that women should be admit
ted, and their admission would be in
furious to the profession"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
snrar Prices Adxance.

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-The effect of in
cendiarism in the sugar cane fields Of
Cuba by the insurgents has reached
this market with greater force than
that noted last week, and sugar is on
the upturn. The net advance this week
has been a quarter of a cent a pound.
Conservative dealers are predicting
further advance of fully half cent
and others look for an upturn of a
cent. The latest report is that the
Cuban crop is rapidly passing away in
smoke
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
Gold at a Premium in New York.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Treasury de-
partment officials are somewhat per-
turbed over the news that gold is COM
manding a premium of 1 to II per
cent in New York, subscribers to the
new bonds being the bidders. The
fact that the gold bid for must be
''outside gold"-that is, gold outside
the treasury vaults-affords only mo-
mentary relief, for with the coin sell
ing for any such tempting premium as
that, they fear it will not be long be-
fore some means is found of drawing
on the reserve to meet the demand.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
Two Thousand Cattle Drowned.

GUTHRIE, o. T., Dec. 31.-J. H. Van
tine, prominent cattleman from the
Usage reservation, says that hundreds
of head of cattle and horses were
drowned in the swollen streams here
the past week, entailing ruinous losses
on many stockmen. Over the line in
the Cherokee nation, he SAYS, 1T is
still worse, C. Heyden alone having
400 cattle drowned in Grande river,
Joel Bryan 200 head and Jack Riley
loo, with scores of smaller losses,
bringing the number of cattle drowned
in that section in excess of 1000.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

You are opposed to corporations,
trusts, and thieving combines, are you?
Well, then, why do you vote with them?
They all vote either the democratic or
republican tickets. Why don't some of
them vote the Populist ticket, you ask?
Because the Populist is the real genu-
inc Observation-Disclosures. anti-mo-
nopoly party and the corporations
know that if it should get into power
the thieving combination wouldn't
last any longer than snow ball in
Hades.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The bankers have announced through
their chief servant in the White House,
and their other servants in the govern
ment treasury department, that the
only way to keep reserve in this coun-
try is to put it in their hands. We fully
agree with them. The bankers take
everything in sight of the money kind,
II they can get at 1t.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Old TIb-of-Fat's doodlebug, the
comptroller of the currency, seems to
think that everybody is doing we'll
enough but the bankers; therefore he
recommends that the government loan
them all the money they want at one
fourth of per cent. The government
is now charging the poor bankers per
cent for the money they borrow and
they can only get about IL to Is per
cent for it from the people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
DAILY Paper started by Girls.

young women printers, Misses Daisy
Allen aud Lulu Jenkins, have signal
lied the commencement of new year
by issuing the first number Of the
Daily Postal Card, newsy little even
ing paper. of which they are publish
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
OMAHA'S CASH BOX SHORT
A Discrepancy of s77,7OO Found In the
Treasurer's Accounts.

TreasurerS AccOunte.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 4.-Several
months ago City Treasurer Boln was
forced to turn the Office over to his
bondsmen when defalcation of $685.
600 was found. A committee ap-
pointed by the city council at once
commenced an investigation and has
delayed its report from month to
month. A report was to have been
made last night. At the last moment
the committee notified the council
that the report must be again post
poned. In explanation the committee
said new and unexpected discrep-
ancy had been found. The figures in
dicate an additional shortage in the
city treasury, which unless counter
balanced items are found, will reach
over ST., 900 alone.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
Senator PETER wants a bill passed

Senator PETER wants a bill passed
prohibiting the government from pay
ing the funeral expenses of Congress
men who die in Washington. We know
the Senator's object is all right, but
when the average Congressman is oblig
ing enough to die, it is so much cheaper
to bury him than for him to have lived
we don't feel like making kick on a
few thousand dollars as funeral ex-
penses.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
TWO BAD FIRES.
Over $4,000 of Property Reduced to
Ashes In Twelve Hours.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. Am twelve
hours, beginning at 10:45 o'clock last
night, there were three fires in Kansas
City, Kan, which destroyed property
valued at SIS, 900, including six busi-
ness houses in the Armourdale terrific
ry; the Bancroft tabernacle, the largest
public hall in the city and one of the
well known buildings in the State of
Kansas, and five private dwellings
at each of the last two alarms the fire
department was delayed because they
were fighting the fires then burning.
All of the buildings burned were
frame. There was insurance of about
$40, 1000 on the whole loss.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The plutocratic papers are not only
demanding another issue of bonds, but
insist that they shall be gold bonds.
The republican congress will be likely
to authorize the issue of such bonds.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
American Born Chinese.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4-Judge Nor
row decided in the United States dis
trict court that every Chinese born in
the United States is citizen thereof.
The decision was rendered in the case
of Wong Kim Ark, who was born in
1873 in Sacramento, Cal, returned to
China a year ago, and is now refused
landing because the collector of the
port holds he is not a citizen. The
collector will appeal to the supreme
court
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The biggest trust in this country and
one that is doing the most harm is the
trust the people have in the two old
frauds that have made miserable
failure administering the affairs of this
government.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
Atchlson to Make Car couplers.

ATcHIsoN, Kan, Jan. 81. T.
Backus, G. I. Backus, c. w. Weller,
r r Herd and r A. Park, have in
corporated the Columbia Car Coupler
Company" for term of fifty years
Capital stock, $50, 900; general Offices,
Atphison
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Wall Street will not present mes
sage to Congress during the present
session; Cleveland has done that for it.
1t will have it's henchmen there, how
ever, to see that his recommendations
are carried out.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The fact that our whole financial sys-
people cannot depend upon the advice
of the bankers and bondholders to run
the finances of the country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The Omaha platform favors loaning
money to the people at 2 per cent.
That is paternalism and the widest
kind of lunacy. Cleveland favors loan
ing money to the bankers at one-fourth
of one per cent, and so recommends in
his message. That is craftsmanship
and the very acme of business wisdom.
Bah!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Our civilization has made money it's
god. therefore our civilization is wrong.
II we are not going to worship the true
God, 1t would be cheaper to have gods
of wood and stone.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
Pensions for All

WASHINGTON, jan 4.-Congressman
Blue of Kansas wants to pension all
all old soldiers who have been honor
ably discharged and who have
reached the age of IS years. He intro
troduced to-day bill to give each old
soldier who meets the requirements
S12 a month.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Governor Altgeld ought to be
loved and admired for the enemies he
has made. 1t requires true courage
and patriotism to stand the fire of ridi-
cule and denunciation that he does in
the interest of the people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

II the majority of the Democratic
party is In favor of free silver it will
say so at its next national convention
that is II 1t has the courage of its con-
victions. II 1t don't it would be just as
well to bury 1t at once.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

DEsIsoE, Tex, Jan. z.-Triplets,
boys, we're born Wednesday night to
Mr. and Mrs. b. J. Arnold, near Wood
vile, Ind. Ter. The mother is II
years old. They have been married
one year:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Private ownership of railroads has led
to the corruption of more Courts
and Legislatures in the United States
within the past thirty years than public
ownership would in two hundred years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The men who want free silver ''in-
side the party" will fight for free silver
before the convention and for a gold
standard afterwards. That's the kind
of free silver men they are.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The constitution says: Congress
shall have power 20 coin money and
regulate the power thereof" but Cleve-
land recommends that this power be
turned over to the hanks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

II was the bankers that told us the
repeal of the Sherman law would bring
prosperity. They lied. They now tell
us that 1t is necessary to destroy the
greenbacks. They lie again.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

II the postal service was owned by
private persons the first thing they
would do would be to water the stock
and the next thing to raise the price of
postage stamps.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

About the only thing the democratic
politicians can say now is stick to the
party, boys"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Government ownership of railways is
no new theory; fifty-four nations in the
world-a large maiority-own and
operate all or part OF their railways.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Some of the best men that ever lived
have been thrown in prison for the
principles they advocated, but no prin-
ciple has ever been killed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

The republican congressman boldly
announce that 1t will be their policy
to draw their salaries and "do moth
ing" This is very refreshing in view
Of the fact that we pay them $1,000
year to do something. Yet if the
present congress persists in doing moth
ing It will be worth more to the people
than any congress they have had for a
lqpR tma
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

II any man would transact his pri-
Vate business after the manner in
which our servants conduct our public
business he would be considered luna
tic
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

against the ownership and operation of
railroads by the government that can
not also be applied to the postal serv-
ice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

No man is justly entitled to more
than he produces; anything beyond this
is wrongfully held, although it may be
according to law"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

That good Western man" who is
wanted as a candidate for president by
the democratic party is still is in the
woods.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Enormous wealth on the one hand
means abject poverty on the other.
There is something wrong in our dis
tributive system.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08
KremlIn.s Postofnce Robb,ed.

KREsfIIN, Ok, Jan. 4.-The post
Office at this place was entered by
thieves last night and about $500 in
money. and stamps stolen. The safe
was opened without inJuring the safe
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

Wherever municipal or government
ownership has been tried, it has saved
the people thousands and millions of
dollars
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-08

roe doctrine as long as Cleveland is in
the White House.