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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-24

resigned. and there are hal1 dozen ap-
pl3cazts for the appointment
Provincial Land Surveyor Sullivan saws
that the survey for the Columbia 4 West
ern railroad viii be completed By Ja.u-
AIRY !.
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Notes From Grand Forks.

srae!al Dispatch % the Post Intelliyencer.
GRAND FORKS. Sept 21-Petcr Nc
Colurn has been appointed 20 the city
council tn place 81 Mr.. Duford. res. cned.
Richard NcCarren. city treasurer. has
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Cold Coming From Franco

NEW YORK sep "a Steamer Ia Tou-
rasue. which sails from Havrs on Saturday
uext, viii bring s. 90 IN gold. consigned
% The Hanover National bank, Of New
YORK
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Sor so sAp AFTER ALL

Receivers Report ga Gnfnn Truzt &C..
Which Owned Useless Warrants.
Special Despatch 70 ths -IassY,-rxree-
TACOMA. Sept. 1-lSeessver Char3es
EstaArAsaa. y ire CHscg Tgust Ccnpany.
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funds brewery Burns In Lacrosse.
LA@AOSSE.~Wis. Sept. 23.-Early this
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
THE OHIO LYNCHING.

Law and order were set at defiance
by the people of the usually quiet little
city Of Urbana, o., on Thursday and
yesterday, who in their evaporation at
a monstrous crime demanded the life of
the s~elf-confessed criminal. The conse.
quences Were that two men were shot
to death and half a dozen others more
or less severely wounded, while the
wretched object of popular vengeance
was beaten into insensibility and stran.
gled to death at a ropes end.
1t was a most deplorable occurrence
and the fact of its having taken place
in Il community where respect for law
Is us strong rs anywhere in the land
makes it specially impressive. 1t is
hardly possible for people at a distance
to fully realize the transportation of the
friends and neighbors Of the victim of
such u crime as that committed by
Mitchell. There is nothing in the Grim
inal calendar more heinous or which
makes n stronger appeal for
punishment. All men appreciate this
and therefore 1t is that so many either
openly approve lynching for his crime
or do not condemn 1t. But this Is n
country of law and every citizen who
desires the supremacy of law must
reprobate recourse to mob violence under
any and all circumstances where the in
s'rumentalities for enforcing the law are
present and in full operation. Good
government, public order, the very exist
ence of our institutions. all require re-
spect for and submission to the law and
there can be no exception made to this
principle without danger to lawful gov
ernment.
So far as the authorities at Urbana are
concerned they seem to have lone moth
ing more than their duty. The firing
into the crowd by the militia was done
only after ample warning and when 1t
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
RAPIDLY BECOMING UNDECErvED.

The public never knows how rotten the re-
publican party is until the republican organs
begin denouncing the opposition for doing
something that the republican party prac-
tlced for Herald.
Perhaps, but the public Is being rap
idly undeceived. SO far as The Bee
is concerned, however, 1t has persistently
and consistently exposed and denounced
crookedness and corruption in the re-
publican party when it was in control
of the state government, and it will con-
tinue to expose II denounce crooked
ness and corruption in the opposition
party that has gained control of the
state government under false pretenses
of reform.
The fusionists promised to cut out
the useless state offices whose abolition
The Bee and other reputable newspapers
had repeatedly demanded. Have they
abolished n single state office? Are not
the three needless. high-salaried secre-
taries of the State Board of Transports
ton still drawing pay? Did not the
fusion legislature add to the number
of state employees rather than reduce it?
Does not the chief difference lie merely
in the fact that the names on the pay
roll represent fusionist ~spoils-hunters
instead of republicans?
Republican officials have been de-
nounced for aiding and abetting the
railroads in evading their Just shares
of taxation. The tax assessment of
railroad property in Nebraska for 1897
has been made by fusion state officers.
but the valuation of their republican
predecessors has been re-adopted with
out change. If the republicans under
valued the railroad property, what kind
of reform is it for f~usionists to endorse
and keep the undervaluation?
Republican state treasurers have been
charged with being recreant to their
trust when they used state funds to
bolster up shaky banks. But what
about a fusion state treasurer who
adopts the same under-the-hat methods
and puts state money in lettering de-
positories in return for favors shown
by their officers in going on his official
bond? Is this treasury reform?
The examples could be multiplied al
most indefinitely. Fusion state govern
ment does not mean reform state GOV
eminent. The people are awakening to
the fact that they were fooled by mean
ingless fusion promises of reform never
intended to be kept. They will look for
real reform in the restoration to power
of the %regenerated republican party.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
IOWA s'REss COMMENT.

Davenport Democrat: Judge Van Wagenen
os Sioux City Isl gging his friends to push
his little boom for the fusion nomination for
Governor. JudgaS Van Wagenen is the man
who so seriously mismanaged the political
ambitions OF Boies about a year ago.
The eX-Soyernor may have forgiven the
judge. but he cahh3t forget the mistakes.
Des Moines Leader: Independence is get
Under what is called The Belknap census
habltants, and. 1alder the so per cent pro-
vision OF the mplGt law applying to cities
exceeding 5000 IN population, the necessary
statement OF dSns9nt was obtained. On
Monday Judge Blair hsnded down a decision
declaring the census irregular. The saloon
keepers at once closed without waiting for
the serving OF the injunctions. 1t is a poor
week not 6isclos rng a new wrinkle in the
mulct law.
Davenport Republican. Congressman
Lacey. who was interviewed at Des Monies.
where he went 10 deliver a Decoration Gay
address. says that every tariff must be and
has been the result of compro Mise and
thinks Senators Allison and Aldrich have a
,ery delicate task in steering the tariff bill
through the senate, which is 50 nearly
equally DIVIDED, but they are old pilots.
familiar with all the difficulties OF yenate
navigation. Secretary Wilson everybody
recognizes as the right man in the right
place. Majer Lacey thinks General Drake
will be renominated and reelected by a
very satisfactory majority, which he de-
serves. as he was one of the best soldiers
that honored Iowa In the rsbeliiaa.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
GOOD FOR THE T.. +. A.

The Travellers Protective association
that has just concluded the $ ssions of its
1897 national convention at Nashville
has liked upon Omaha as the meeting
place for next year. This convention
comes to Omaha in 1898 because the
great Transmississippi Exposition will
be open at that time and the delegates
will have the advantage of this power
full attraction to increase the attendance
upon their gathering. The Travellers
Protective association is an organization
with fraternal and benefit features
whose membership includes commercial
men all over the United States, and the
enlisting of these travellers under the
banner Of Omaha in 1898 means that
the advantages of Omaha as the con
vention city during the exposition year
will be sung in every city, town and
village in the country. The assurance
that the Travellers Protective association
is headed toward Omaha ought also to
have its influence on other national
bodies for whose 1898 conventions
Omaha is bidding. Nothing succeeds
like success and the capture of II few
large meetings should act as a magnet
on others.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

newspapers. No such instrument for the
confusion OF tyranny and wrong was ever de-
vised as the printing press. From the time
1t first appeared public enemies OF every
description have made a losing fight against
It. II che Missouri slave owners could have
demolished Lovejoy's newspaper they would
have been satisfied, but when they found that
as long rs Lovejoy lived there would be an
anti-slavery journal at Alton, they were
ready and willing to resort to murder.
But the anti-slavery press survived the
attacks of sixty years ago and the anti
corruption press will escape unframed from
the attacks Of today. Every attack serves
more thoroughly to convince the people that
freedom OF speech and of the press lie at
the foundation of free government and arc
as Necessary today. when that government
is threatened by the forces Of political cor
ruption, as they were when it was threat
ened by slavery and secession.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
MORGAN DOOMED.

The decision of the supreme
affirming the death sentence of the hawe:
court in the case of George Morgan, con
victed of the murder OF the child, Ida
Gaskill, is received with satisfaction by
la~w-respecting people of this community,
If the SevereSt punishment known to
our law could even have been meritcd 1t
was called down by the perpetrntOr OF
this fiendish crime. Morgan has had the
advantage of every defense and appeal
his lawyers could devise for him. but
they have been unable to overturn the
finding of the jury which brought in the
verdict of guilty. Since Morgan was
convicted another murder was com
mitted IN Omaha and The murder, r tried
convicted and executed, while Morgan
has been enjoying the fruit of the laws
delay. Even those opposed TO capital
punishment will admit that by com
palison Morgan has been favored be
yond his deserts.
1t is the certainty more than the
severity of the penalty that acts as the
preventive of crime. One example of
even-handed justice promptly melted out
may be expected to do more to re0reS+
lawnessness than n dozen mt on
the wickednesS of sin. For this reason.
while deplOring that such drastic vim
dication of the law should be rendered
necessary, good citizens must express
satisfaction that the intent @. the penal
code has once more tliumphed over legal
bubbles and techpicalities.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
THE MIDDLE STATES.
Evidence of Progress q
Parallel in the Old World.

Parallel In the OLD World.
Statistician Mulhall in North American Review.
There is a greater concentration Of wealth
In the state of New York than elsewhere,
the average per inhabitant being 40 per
cent over that Of the union at large. This
is partly shown in the prodigious value Of
house-property, including public buildings,
which averages 1910 per inhabitant in the
state of New York, against 1920 for. the
whole union. The six middle states taken
collectively give an average Of $500 of house
property per inhabitant, which Is double the
ratio found in Great Britain, and hence 1t
may be affirmed that the people of these
states are, on the whole, the best housed
community in the world.
The average wealth per inhabitant has al
most quadrupled in forty years, a marvellous
proof of the progress of these states, and
unparalleled in Europe; for McCulloch lays
it down that only prosperous nations can
double their wealth in that interval. The
accumulation in the middle states per in
habitant has been 5000 per annum higher
than in New England, and exactly double
the average accumulation yearly in Great
Britain in the interval of 1S60-1S95. Agri-
cultural wealth forms only Is per cent Of
the total in the middle states, whereas 1t is
rs per cent in the whole Of the union.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

Senator Tillman wants to punish news.
paper correspondents for contempt
who make cftargJs against senators
which they can not prove conclusively
to the satisfaction of n committee of in
terested members of the senate. But is
he willing to reverse it and have every
senator punished for contempt who
makes false statements about the news
papers and the men who make the
newspapers? Senators m~isrepresent the
newspapers twice to ev.ry time the
newspapers misrepresent senator's, and
the senators rest secure in their legisla.
tive privilege of freedom from %accounta-
bility for words uttered in debate on the
floor of the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
Abundant Fighting Material.


Our government has just completed 8
grand census OF the entire American militia
probably with a view of ascertaining where
we should stand in the case of a war with
some other power.
The new figures collected show that we
have today in this country over 112, 900 uni.
formed and organized state militiamen, who
might at any time be added to our 25, 00C
regular soldiers. This would make a total
Of over 1877 900 organized soldiers ready to
fight at a days notice.
But even this is only one-sixth of the
estimated armed strength Of Great Britain
In case of war we should have to depend
upon volunteers or a draft and at our maxi
mum quota we could place in the field
10, 037, $40 men.
Those liable and available for military
service between the ages of 1S and As years
in the United States, II placed in a long,
single rank, side BY side, with the usual
space between, would reach from New York
to San Francisco without a break. This is
greater than the estimated strength of any
other nation in the world, except Russia.
1t Is well to know our possible strength,
even If We never again have occasion ia
fully test it. Until general arbitration takes
Command probably the best safeguard against
war will be a proved ability to sustain 1t II
forced into II.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
Tom watson's War Cry.
Philadelphia Times.


Tom Watson, the picturesque populist from
Georgia and late populist candidate for vice
president, is after the scalp of Populist
Chairman Marion Butler and is incidentally
calling on late Candidate Bryan to get of
The fence and let the world know whether
he is a populist or a democrat.
Watson suspects Butler of blowing with
the republican heifer in order to reap a
harvest for Butler and Bryan, of playing
fast and loose with populists and democrats
in the hope of keeping himself in line for a
fusion candidacy for the presidency in 1900.
Watson abhors fusion from the bottom of
his heart and is demanding that both Butler
and Bryan shall hoist the pOpulist flag and
no other or get out of The populists' camp
boots and baggage.
1t is not likely that Butler or Bryan will
DO either II they can help it, but they will
have to stuff their ears with cotton to
escape the din of Watson's demand that
they shall become pOpulists of the Watson
type or flock with one of the other of the
old parties,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

Nothing more is being heard about the
talked OF during the Cleveland admin
istratiOn. Even the radical currency re.
formers, who want the ~GreenbackS ne
tired and cancelled as soon as possible.
seem to have lost sight of il. 1t hasn't
been in evidence since the present ad-
ministration came into power, or indeed
since the election last November gave
assurance that the ven Of the gov
eminent would be made equal to the eX-
penditures. For some weeks past the
treasury has been getting Il larger rev
emu from customs and as Il result it
is able to retain the Creenbacks eX-
changed for gold exported and also II
considerable amount which have been
received in other ways.
What does this show? Simply that
while are sufficient there need
be no anxiety about the withdrawal OF
gold from the treasury to any serious
extent. 1t Is II practical demonstration
of the contention of the republicans that
all that is required to break the so-cGlled
endless chain Is to provide the govern
ment with sufficient income. And this
being demonstrated, there is no valid
reason for demanding that the legal ten.
der notes shall be eliminated from the
currency. Except the free silver hereSy
there has been nothing more delusive
than this endless chain theory.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
A MARTYR OF THE PRESS.
Deserved Tribute TO IA Famous West
ern AbOlitionist.


The dedication of the monument to Elijah
p. Lovejoy at Alton, Ill, almost sixty years
after his death. marks a significant phase OF
the struggle for the abolition of slavery
Loyejoy is commonly spoken OF as an early
martyr to the cause of abolition. In a GER
tain sense he was. But in a far broader
end deeper sense he was a martyr to a cause
that transcended even the cause OF negro
emancipation, the cause OF the freedom Of
the press.
Prosecuted and threatened with assassina.
ton in ST. Louis L~ovejoy moved his paper,
the Observer. to Alton. Here his presses were
destroyed three times. and he ordered q
fourth. He was engaged In guarding THU
from destruction when he was shot and
killed. He had previously made an appea
TO the people for that freedom In the publ
cation OF his Ideas which was guaranteed
him by the constitution and the laws.
No evil cause fights long against liberty
and right before 1t finds itself Ia a war with
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
R~ecastine othe Sugar Schedule.

The sugar schedule is the weakest part
of the finance Committees tarif Dill, and
tho report that att is going to be postponed
until the rest of9thei bill is dealt with will
not create surprise. Many republican sen
ators are opposed to this schedule in its
present shape, ana the ;antagonism toward
it among the Republicans in the house is
probably much fmore widely extended. OF
course the republicans will come to an annie
able settlement OF this sugar duty question
without any great delay, but the debate on
il will probably be more interesting than
that which will be called out by any other
provision of the bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
MODIFIED JOY.
SomeryiIle Journal,

Somerville Journal.
The grass is green, the leaves are out,
Sweet Spring is here. beyond q doubt.
The azure skies
unmeasured depths of blue appear.
The blossoms and the birds are here.
Likewise the flies.
The bees are buzzing round the hive.
The growing garden seems alive
With budding germs.
The apple trees are just a sight,
With dainty blossoms, pink and white. :
And n k worms.
The pansy beds are bright with bloom.
The lilacs with their sweet perfume
The senses WOO.
A sense of joy your being floods: "
The are full of buds.cs ...
And rose-bugs, too.
Yes, 1t is really Spring once more,
The joyous time Of hellebore
And budding hope,
The time for using paris green.
A season for enjoyment keen,
And whale-oil soap.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

seemed absolutely necessary In order to
check the Infatuated mob determined at
all hazards hat Mitchell should answer
for HIS brutal crime with his life. He
paid the penalty. but 1t was at a terri
BILE cost. And who can say that the ex-
than good7
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

What an accommodating state treas.
urer Florida has just gotten rid of,
When 1t was found he was short in his
accounts he finally. after months of cogi-
tation, decided to resign, and did resign.
Had he declined TO vacate the good
people of Florida might have been com
PEELED to send him to prison as the only
way of dispensing with his services.
As it is, he expects to enjoy permanent
peace If not prosperity and leaves it to
his bondsmen to settle with the state on
the best terms they can make.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
To Have
Sport. >.

A boy must be free to romp
he doesn't want to be think
ing about his clothes all the
time. We make our boys
clothing to stand the wear
and tear of healthful sport
and it's always stylish in cut
and fit.
ust at present we are offer
ing some very superior quail
ties at very inferior prices.
Sweet plaid cheviots that are
so popular this season. in sim
gle and double breasted two
piece suits. for SO. 90. Also
light and dark mixtures in
same style suits for $500.
Then there are better suits at
s3.5o-same style in cut, but
of better material-and some
at 81. 90 and $500.
These are all our own make
of suits and we know all about
them Each one is warranted.
You run no risk in our chill.
dren's department.
Hats and caps to go with
suits at reasonable prices.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

Tom Watson is again propounding to
William j. Bryan that unpleasant ques-
ton as to whether he is a populist or n
democrat. If Mr. Watson could only
occupy Mr. Bryan's shoes for n few
minutes he would realize how impoIite
1t Is to inquire into matters that would
best be kept secret.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

ES-President Cleveland declines to
act as counsel for Venezuela before the
boundary arbitration tribunal because
he a been personally active in bring
ing the arbitration treaty about. Ex-
President Harrison, however. is also in
thela law business and he had no disquali-
flying connection with the treaty negoti-
atoms
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

The convention of the national TRAY
elers' Protective association will be cor
daily welcomed to Omaha in 1898. The
drummer boys may be assured of a
warm time, to which they will undoubt-
edly contribute in their well known lib
eral style.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

The movement among the secret So
cieties which will meet In convention
In Omaha next year to erect suitable
buildings at the exposition grounds for
their own purposes should meet with
general approval and encouragement.
The more of such buildings that can be
secured and made TO tt in with the gen
eral architectural scheme the better.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

Bids for printing the new session laws
II be r~eadvertised. even though the
constitutional provision requiring tie dis
fribution of the volumes within sixty
days after legislative adjournment is
thereby again fractured. That constitu-
tional provision is accustomed to bien-
NAL fractures.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

1t Is taken for granted that the re-
freshments provided at the approaching
grocers' picnic will not be confined to
the commodities sold in the shops Of
the participants, but will be of n ma
ture to necessitate the friendly co-opera-
ton of the butchers, the bakers and
the brewers.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

Chicago Times-Herald.

Forward, turn forward, o Time, in your
flight; give us warm weather, please. JUS
for tonight. Chilled to the bone, we have
frosted our feet; good Mr.. Garriott, turn or
tho hnntf
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

These are trying days for the calamity
popocrats. Calamity has been their
s~tock-in-trade for so long that they can
not express themselves on any other
subject, but continue their incongruOus
lamentations almost by force of habit.
The time-cure appears to be the only
hope for these unfortunates.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

Illinois, though lying beyond the Mis-
sissippi, has set u mark of liberality
toward the exposition which states on
the hither side of the river will do well
To nnnulntn
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
II Sunset Metal.

SUTITSWtTU N0TVDIEN'TT'
The coming gold mining convention in
Denver serves to dispel the popular Illusion
that the mining states of the far west are
silver states almost exclusively. From the
first development of mining in that country
to 1896 the total value Of gold produced was
So. O59. 946. 100, while that Of silver was but
81 36S gO1 600.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

We must not expect much from that
legislative investigating committee at
this season of the year. 1t is yet too
early to launch any state house dis
closures with expectation of political
effect on the coming fall campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05

1t is plain that the term of usefulness
of General Campos has received Il rev
lease of life, although he has been time
and again declared to be a political
corpse. Political resurrections are pos
sible in Spain, just as they are in other
countries
Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-05
THE BEE ON TRAINS.

All railroad newsboys r
supplied with enough Bees
to accommodate every pas
senger who wants to read n
newspaper. Insist upon hnv-
ing The lee. II you cannot
get n bee on II train from the
news agent, please report
the fact, stating the train md
raifrOad, to the Circulation
Department of The Zee. The
Bee Is for sale ON aH trains.
INSIST ON HAVING THE BEE.