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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-29

sam Wall ard some other newspaper cor
respondents 20; a. far as Circle city.
- miles from Dawson bat were
obliged 20 retrace their way 20 Fort fa-
kon. where food is obtainsbie. They may
remain there Until spring. but 4 is more
likely that. n ara opportunity offers. they
wIll Try 70 reach 81 Michael and return
home. 90 recuperste for a fresh start next
year.
Capt. Higgins says "a q worse than fol-
IS Tor any one "a 20 20 Alaska new.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
fro BE CONTINUED.
Russian Influence in Per.,n.

For several years past the influence
of Russia upon Persia has kept in
creasing. Russian merchants are
competing everywhere successfully
with the B%ritishers. and have obtained
from the Persian government con.
cessions where those Of the British
were rendered valueloss or withdrawn.
Now, Russia has succeeded in gaining
ascendency in the Persian army; a
number Of Russian officers of eserve
have obtained leave of the car to go
10 Teheran, the capital of Persia, for
the purpose OF ~instructing the Persian
army. officers as we'll as soldiers,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
What Makes tho Tronble.

It IS roughly estimated that to keep
n modern battleship in powder and
shot for n hours fighting would cost
$111,654.4O, and to keep the United
States fleet in action for the same time
would cost a round million. A TO
ton gun, 16h-inch bore, costing in
England $82, 500, is used up complete
ly in ninety-fve rounds. There is no
need for this country to expend one
dollar in war. if we had such peace and
plenty as unobstructed nature and IN
INSTRUCTED industry would confer. II
is laws and privileges that make nearly
al; the trouble.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

mas the elder did when q French fool
put a similar question to him. 1
would tell you yes, my ancestors be-
gan where yours left OIL"
A Washington correspondent says,
"The house roared, and although the
house has laughed at Payne vast num-
bers Of times, and he ought 20 be. we'll
used and hardened to it, Payne got
angry, and has never taken an agreea-
BILE view Of Simpson since" There
was great merriment over the scene
Weedsport On. W Chief.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
Ran Up Against Simpson.

Payne--our W Sereno-ran I'D
against Simpson of Kansas the other
dag. He undertook to make a speech
On the tariff. While he was in full
flight, Simpson asked him a question
that Payne was unable to answer. So
hc resorted to ridicule in order to
avoid it, by saying: Il would, if 1 de-
sired to be supplementary, reply by
asking the gentleman from Kansas if
his ancestors were monkeys" Simp-
son quickly %rejoined by saying! "And
II you did, I would answer you as Du-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
THIN AN ACE,
CHAPTER IX-CoNrlSUEn.

CHAPTER IX-CONT1NUED.
where are you, my brother? Come
here. Quick!!"
feel my way toward the voice and
my hand comes in contact with the
arm OF the Cossack.
lin my trousers pocket you will find
"a match box. Strike a light he die
,tates- Il must see what | am doino
here
l comply. and see a CHASTITY sight
On his back on the bed. his bodv
~scenvuIsed, his face purple and swollen,
his tongue protrudin~ from his mouth,
lies the warder who had so recentlv
looked in on me The Cossack's fin
gers are tightly twisted in the COLLAR
OF the prosGrate mans uniform, and
the Cossack's knee is on his chest. He
is to all appearance. lifeless.
He produces some cord from his
pocket and binds the mans wrists to-
gether behind his back. After which
he proceeds to gag the gaping mouth
with a handkerchief.
Now he turns his dancing ewes on
me. What you thought when | pulled
you back? What"
What thought l? II would be hard
to say. l was so taken by surprise, so
Enthusiastically
You thought | had turned traitor,
that was what you thought"
He shakes with smotbcred
laughter. Yet all the time
his quick nervous fingers are
busy tying the knot at the back of his
victims head.
In less than five minutes l am cleav-
ing the cold, black water, striking
out blindly for the opposite shore. in
my rea comes the Cossack. gaspine
and spluttering. From the noise he
makes l know he swims dog-fashion.
The river is not wide, and already |
feel the bank. Cropping for 4 hold.
my hand comes in contact with a
branch by which 1 pull myself up.
The Cossack is close on my heels.
Catch hold of this branch" ]
whisper bending it down to where ]
hear him gasping. So hastily is it
snatched from me that had almost
lost my balance. l recover myself &c
find dark object rising at my feet.
Onward" he pants. taking the
lead.
A little more scrambling and we
are on the road. The Cossack hur
ries me along a few hundred PAGES.
Then a form steps out from the trees
and silently confronts US.
1t IS Yerack!
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
HANNA Q
MUST PAY THEIR DEBTS TO
THE RAILROADS.
when the Truth il Known We NAV
Find That That Supreme Court De-
cision Simply Cleared the Way for a
More Favorable Bill.

The Chicago Tribune; a Hanna or
gan, asks, under a flaming headline to
its Washington correspondence, did
Hanna promise a pooling bill?" The
Tribune then answers it's own question
by saying that the effort to force con-
slderation and passage of the railway
pooling bill in advance of the tariff
bill in the senate is the result Of
strong pressure from powerful
sources and relates a story current
in Washington, and mot denied to
he effect that Mark Hanna promised
the great railroad interests a pooling
law in exchange for their support in
~ runs thus:
THE big railroad corporations of the
East apparently by some ~preconcerted
move declined to contribute at all I'M
less they could make terms. These
terms were said to be the passage of a
pooling bill on the lines of that orig
lnally passed by the house and which
tailed in the senate. A member Of the
interstate commerce commission made
the charge directly at a meeting OF the
senate committee on interstate COM
merce, and it was not denied"
Readers will remember that fire.
quently during the last campaign the
Post-Dispatch charged that the only
explanation of the attitude of the rail-
roads was the existence of a bargain
between them and the Republicans for
the passage of the pooling law, which
they had twice carried through the
house, and which had been defeated
in the senate. The Post-Dispatch
called attention more than once to the
fact that such a bargain was clearly
disclosed in the Mckinley platform,
which was entirely silent as to inter-
state commerce, while the Chicago
platform demanded the enlargement of
the powers Of the interstate commerce
commission to protect shippers against
extortion.
The truth was as clearly to be seen
then as it is now. Once understood,
1t explained the silence of the Mckinley
platform, the heavy railroad contribu-
lions to the Hanna campaign fund,
n the coercion Of railroad employees
to vote for a candidate and a policy
he majority of them did not approve
IF.
Little by little the inside history Of
the gold campaign of 1896 is coming
out. And the evidence, as it accumu-
:ates, reveals the monstrous character
and extent Of that conspiracy against
the people.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
A Prophecy.

Place the money power in the hands
of a few individuals (bankers) and
they by expanding or contracting the
currency, may raise or sink prices at
pleasure. The banking system con-
centrates and places the power in the
hands OF those who control it. Never
was an engine invented betrer calcu-
lated to place the destinies of the
many in the hands of the few.-John c..
Calhoun.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
CHAPTER X
A COssack's Joke.

MY companion utters one word in a
language unknown to me. and Yerack
retreats into the black gloom Of the
trees. There is d stamping of horses
and the mutf1ed rolling of well-greased
wheels. My sight having grown &C
customed to the darkness. | can make
out a ''troika'' and some sort of vehi-
Gle as they emerge on the road. We
quickly climb into the latter. which
proves to be a cart laden with sacks
OF wool. Yerack springs to the seat
in 'front.' and away we speed as only a
Russian 'troika" can.
Nothing says Yerack to either of US
until between us and Kovno lie many
versts, and the barren land is still
about us. Suddenly he observes:
well, brothers, so far, good. And
now for the transformation scene!
Thou, Vladimir Alexandrovitch. as
thy hands are white and thou hast
something of a clerical air about thee
here he gives vent to a sly chuckle
care to be TRANSPORTED into a
pope (Russian priest). with purple
silk HAITIAN and flowing locks; not for
getting a beard that would grace a
patriarch. 1t rests with thee to play
the new role we'll. Art thou satisfied
with it?"
''Yerack, my friend, I have no
words wherewith to thank thee" 1
exclaim, warmly.
bah. l merit nc thanks. If l save
thee. it will be life for life. I like to
be level with people, and for thee.
brother Kalatch. as the leopard can
not change his spots and thou art al
ways a Cossack confessed. every inch
of thee. aver in that DEVILS livery
thou hast seen fit to don of late. I
have procured a Cossack's dress. In
any other thou wouldst surely look
like a Cossack in disguise. With a
bushy beard from ear to ear and a
quarter of an 'archin' off thy mus
tache, methinks thou wilt pass"
Il would to God thou wouldst make
haste and let me rid myself of these
soaking duds!' replies Kalatch. with
irritation. while his teeth knock to.
gether like castanets. Il am certain
ly sickening of ague! Hast thou no
brandy. brother?'
''Yes. l have brandy. Thou art
more likely to catch d weasel asleep
than Yerack on the road without his
flask" And Yerack takes a large
flask from one of his capacious pockets
and thrusts it into Kalatch's hand.
Finish it not. Leave a drop for a
brother" he cries. after the flask has
remained a full minute glued to the
ex-warden's lips.
':Ah-h" signs Kalatch. Il feel
betterr!'
Pass it on. " says Yerack. And I,
too. feel not a little comforted when
a moderate draught of the stimulating
fluid has reached my interior. After
Yerack has followed our example he
gropes among the sacks and brings up
two bundles which he presents to US
respectively.
1t is one of the most difficult things
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
His Art.

Hostess-Ah. Miss Budd. let me in
troduce Sig. Barbini, the great artist
Miss Budd Enthusiastically am
so glad to meet you. What is your
specially in drawing?"
Sig. Barbini (of the opera)-Crowds
signorina; crowds. Judge.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
THAI Is Love.

Elder Sister-I must drive around
to Hose and Mantles; l hear they have
quite a new thing in gloves.
Younger Sister (most sweetly)-
Indeed! And when you get them on it
will be quite an old thing in gloves,
won't it. MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
Keep 1t Before the People.

Keep it before the people:
That the earth was made for man
That the flowers were strewn,
And the fruits were grown
BY the great Creators hand;
That the SUI and rain,
And the corn and grain
Are yours and mine, my brother
Free gifts from heaven,
And as freely given
To n as we'll as another.
Keep it before the people:
That man is the image of Sod;
Whose limbs or soul
We may not control
With shackle or shame or rod
We may not be sold
For silver or gold,
Neither you nor 1, my brother
For the land was given
Like the life from heaven,
To one as we'll as another.
Keep it before the people:
That famine, and crime, and woe,
Forever abide
Still side by side
With %luxury's dazzling show:
That Lazarus crawls
From Dives halls
And starves at his gate, my
brother
Yet the land was given
To man from heaven,
To one as well as another,
Keep it before the people:
That the laborer claims his need:
The right of all soil,
And the right to toll,
From spurs and bride freed:
The right to bear,
And the right TO share
With you and me, my brother,
Whatever is given
BY God in heaven
To one az we'll as another.
A. ]. H. Duganne.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
Sincere.

Friend-What did he say to you
when he proposed to you?
Miss Rox-He said life without me
means nothing.
Frierd-He was sincere in that.
That's just what his possessions
amount to.-N. Y. Press.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
On Lawyers.

Lawyer (indignantly)-There was
lying before there were lawyers.
Client (bitterly)-Yes; but there
couldn't have been lawyers before
there was lying.-New York Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Die view o1 Simpson since. Ihere
was great merriment over the scene
Weedsport On. W Chief.
PEN POINTS.
Principle should be greater than
party, but is i~t?-Ridgway Populist.
Prosperity cannot be inflated too
much. To initiate prosperity we must
first initiate the money of the land
Longmont Times.
A people can be enslaved just as ef-
%fectually by making property of their
lands and labor as by making prop
erty Of their bodies.-Fort Scott Ian
tern
John Bull is arranging to loan John
Chinaman $50, 900, 900. The date Of
British occupancy of the Celestial EN-
pire is not made known.-Omaha
World-Herald.
Switzerland is considering a propo-
sitlon to buy all it's principal railways.
The price set is 1854, 348, 769 francs. 1t is
proposed to raise the funds for this pur-
pose by a loan redeemable in sixty
years.-Pittsburg Kansan.
John ]. ingalls, says: "The people are
aroused to the menac Of money In
politics." Good news. 1t is time.-Sn.
yer Knight-Watchman.
Secretary Alger says that hard times
are due to the fact that the people are
practicing too rigid economy. Well,
that is too bad. If there is any way
thai they can exist without such prac-
tees they would be glad to have Nc
kinley, Alger or anybody else tell
them about it right away.-Topeka
Advocate.
When the creditor class enhances the
purchasing power of money so that a
$4,000 loan has a $4,000 value at ma
turity, it plucks $ $1,000 out Of the
debtor by it's dishonest scheme; and
not only is the debtor defrauded of his
money, but language is defrauded of
its proper meaning by calling such
money honest.-Free Coinage Journal.
1t cost $1.91 per head to run the Fed
eral government in 1860, and $5.4S last
year, and nothing to show for the diff
ference but oficeholders drawing sal
aries from the whole people for cam
paign work to the public injury; in
other words, making the people pay for
being robbed. 1t is similar with this
state; the necessary OUTLAWS could be
reduced three-fourths with positive ad-
vantage, besides the saving of taxes.
But it cannot be done under any sort of
party rule or an electoral system
adopted thereto.-San Francisco Star
1t is quite the fashion in Washing
ton to make and retire a major general
each week. With proper care and a
slight acceleration of speed, every Of
flcer in the army al become a major
general before he is retired. AS each
will draw the pay Of his rank at re-
firing, if death spares the three-starred
gentlemen long enough there will not
be any troublesome surplus in the
treasury even should McKinley's high
tariff bill pass just as he desires it
Monte Vista Graphic.
The question that is now agitating
the people is, what kind of a show did
the "adyance agent" advertiso? W7bor
we look at the great scramble for "pie"
at Washington we are inclined to con-
clude it's a comedy, but when we see
the scramble among the masses for
bread, with the attendant crimes. sui
cides and incidents of starvation. then
it is that we conclude that Mr.. McKin-
ley is advertising a tragedy, and is not
SO far ahead Of his show as some peo-
pie seem to think.-Iowa Tribune.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02
PEN N

oipie oLoulu Ue SIedIcA Iudn
party, but is it?-Ridgway Populist.
Prosperity cannot be inflated too
Ruch. To initiate prosperity we must
Longmont Times.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

A people can be enslaved just as ef-
fectually by making property of their
lands and labor as by making prop
erty of their bodies.-Fort Scott Lam
tern
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

John Bull Is arranging to loan John
Chinaman $780, 900, 900. The date of
British occupancy of the Celestial EN-
pire is not made known.-Omaha
World-Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-07-02

Switzerland is considering a propo-
sitlon to buy all it's principal railways.
The price set is 1854, 34s, 100 francs. 1t is
proposed to raise the funds for this pur-
pose by a loan redeemable in sixty
years.-Pittsburg Kansan.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-17

critter was alookin fur me and glad to see
me. A bar had killed one o his hnwps
the day befo', and he was hilin over with
madness and hnnkcrin fur row. When
walks up to him, no grins with delight
and seq
"'Hch White. yo' laid me on my beck
t'othcr dny, but reckon the Lawd helped
yo'. He can't help yo' in this ycre fout
which mr. about To occur Yo' will be n
licked man In two boots and holler. I'm
Rwine tu hang on TO myself and not quito
kill yo', hut yo' he crippled for life when
It's over Let the wilLou cum out and sec
the fout.
&c Hcw's it to lei? SCI /.
A far fuut,' sc2 ne. NO THROWN
rocks nor hiitin with clubs Whoup!
Cock "A doodle .dor
"Waol, we went at IT," said Hob as he
hitched around his chair and his eyes
flashed. "Sue and her NAV was out thur
Hs befo', and the gal gimme smile as |
went in. Il was Il rough and tumble fout
l jest knoWed I'd got 10 do my level best
or go undcr, aud didn't lose no chances,
That fout lasted mighty nigh two hours,
and two or three times ] was almost on
the pint Of lctin 90, Bimchy, howsum-
ever, | seen that Bahhit was gittin tired
out, and the gal she clapped her hands
and sickcd me en-. Ton minits artcr that
| had him whipped, Thar wasn't no mis-.
take about it, bekase he riz up and SEE to
me:
'Zeb White, I'm a whopped man, and
that gal is yo'rs. | didn't bcliev thar was
critter on these mountains as could make
me boot, but yo've dun it, and now when
do yo want the galY
Right now, 1 reckon, says I.
I" 'AiE'5 It purity sudden?'
Not so very, bein as she's ready tc
CO.
Then, nav, bring out the hroomstick
and let 'em jump over it, and if they want
to be married by preacher they kin do it
sum other tirlc. "
And you took the girl homer" asked
"Sartinly," replied Zeb. eyes, sab
took her right home with me, with hel
feather bed on my back, and she's out
thar in the kitchen maxim mincc pies this
mint. As was snyin, these we're mar
riages o. today don't amount to shucks
When yo' luv a gal and hey to lick her oil
pop to git her, then 20 know she's wutl
the Rittin.' NJ. QUAD.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-17
FEB WHITES WOOING
THE PossUM HUNTERS QUEER STORY
OF HIS couRTsHIP.

How He Made old Man Rabbit uoot
when They wrestled -- They Rested
Three Days, and Then Came n Rough
and Tumble right For the Fair One.
We had returned from a trip up the
mountain to see a squattcr's daughter
married to n young mar who was assist
ing to run moonshiue still when old Deb
White. the poSsum hunter Of Tennessee
lighted his pipe afresh and said:
81 reckon they was married all ri-ht
'nuG, but gittin married amt as It was
in my day"
Iaskod him to explain himself, and after
little thought he continued;
conc day, whom was young Teller ~
%. ! seen "a gal over ON t'othcr side of tho
mounting that jest filed the hill. iuncd
up to her and was tulkin bout bars and
wildcats and SIGH when her mother steps
in and SCI:
Stranger, mebhe yo' ar wantin t,
take my gal away fur wife,
"'I'm reckoIin TO consider that |
would, | replies.
""Then I'll blow the horn fur her POP
to cum outer the woods ana tell yo' what
| is what
'fnho hlOWcu ana nlOWCu, ana bllnCbN
tnc old man appeared. Ho was a powerful
man, and he didn't look good naturcd.
His name WAS Rabbit, and arter lookin
me over he seq:
Stranger, it's got to be n mighty good
man who takcs-lny dartcr Sue away fur
his wife. How fur kin anybody h'ar ye
! holleri'
"'Two miles, If the wind is right, seq 1.
And about yo'r jumpinY'
IT'S clus on to eight feet when don Z
slip
'Hev 20 dun any climbing
Il hev. I've climbed the tallest tree
in sight of these yere Cumberland mount
ings.'
=" And the number Of bal. and wild
cats what yo've slain?' he goes on, seemir
to want to pick furse with me.
They'd purity nigh I'LL yo'r cabin,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-08-17
SEE I, feelin a leetle riled at the way he

SEE I, feelin leetle riled at the way he
spoke.
WAL seq he arter stoppin to con-
slider bit, nobody kin take that gal
away jest bekase he kin boot or climb or
kill varmints. He's got to lay me on my
back in far fout. I'll gin yo' week to
think it over. If yo want the GAL yo'
must cum back and tackle me, and Pm
tellin yo' I'm bad critter as long as I've
got one foot on the airth.
81 went away feelin sort o. cast down."
said Zeb, "but the mo- thought o. it the
mo- wanted that gal Sue fur my wife.
That night made up my mind that I'd
try fur her, and next day went back to
her cabin. Her pop was thar, walkin
around and feelin powerful mad cause
he'd shot at a bar and missed him. When
Gums up he smiles a wicked smile and
seZ:
"Stranger, ar yo' gwine to try fur my
gal SueP'
" Il ar, SEE l.
I" Then, may the Lawd be praised, fur
I'm jest achin fur riot The fust thing
yo've got to do is to lay me on my back,
and warn yo' that it's never bin dun by
mortal man. shan't strike nor kick nor
bite, but warn yo' that l shall slam yo'
staff of Tennessee
"Thar was cl'ar space in front o. his
cabin" said the old man, land when the
gal and her mother had cum outdoahs we
threw off our coats and begun bizness. l
was accounted a powerful hand on a
wrassle but that man was also powerful
critter, and reckoned I'd hev to hey help
from tho Lawd to gain the victory. 1t
was 10 O'Clock in the mawnin when we
begun, and the clock was jest strikin /
when / Topped him on his back. That
spot o. ground looked as If fo'ty hawgs
had bin rootin it up fur week, and we
was so beat out we could hardly speak.
Mo- than 20 times in them three hours
that critter had me almost dun fur, but
I'd send up n sort o. u prayer and git a
new hold, and at last fetched him. When
he was able to talk, he riz up and took my
hand and seq;
"'Stranger, it was far wrassle, and
I've bin Topped wouldn't IA believed
yo' could hev dun it, but yo' did, and I'm
sayin yo' ar purity good man. Howsum-
ever, it amt over yit. Yo've got TO lick
me to git Sue, and know yo' kin never
do it. Well take three days to rest up, and
then yo' kin cum back and tackle me. "
"And did you goY' asked as the old
man made a long pause.
"Fur shuah, " he replied. 81 was mighty
sore and lame, but knowed he would be
! as bad of. Besides, that gal Sue had boot
cd fur mo when Topped her pop, and
knOwed by that she was with me and
would hope fur me to come out on top. In
three days went back to hev 1t out. The