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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-04
HORNBECk!
Is values will be sold -
until the day Of the opening.
Many Opportunities for Homeseekers, In
vestors and Business Which No
Other Town Can Offer,
BECAUSE

FIRsT-HoRNBEcK will be the Division Point between
Shreveport and Port Arthur
SECOND-It is located the great divide between the
Red and Sabine rivers; the Highest Point the Port Arthur
Route in the State of Louisiana
THIRD-Beautful springs of clear, cold water the
surrounding long leaf pine woods the elevation and
temperature will make HoRNBEcK desirable location for all
those afflicted with lung and throat troubles
FOURTH-HoRNBEcK is situated in the midst of the
largest body of Virgin Long Leaf Pine Timber in the United
States the lumber interests alone will give employment to
thousand people
FIFTH-The rich alluvial bottom lands of the Toro,
Anacoco and Sabine rivers, all of which will find HoRNBEcK
the and best market will support city of 1000
people
SIXTH-The size of the tributary country
the and west with practically competition, should
make HoRNBEcK city of 10000 people in short time.
SEVENTII-Already steps being taken for the
tion of large Hotels Santarums and High School Buildings
EIGHTH-HORNBECk is located in the north western
corner Vernon Parish La, "a miles south of Shreveport
and l34 miles north of Port Arthur.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-04
NallrOd0 NdteS Each Way From All Points.
Tickets Good Returning Until June IL.

For further information apply
F. A. HoRNBEcK, Land Commissioner K c., P. q G. R R
The times., 1897-04-05
A strait-Jaeketed House.

In his wel,-Temenlbered Century Maga-
zine article, the Hon Thomas b. Reed
wrote: The system of avoiding action
on important measures, by means of these
clogging rules, has done much to de-
moralize the House In another place
he refers TO them as "a species of strait
Jacket, which. though voluntarily i'm
posed. is as great a proof of unsound
mind as if some asylum had ordered it,"
From these apostolic utterances we feel
compelled TO make the deduction that
their distinguished author was unable
to escape infection by the Decentralization
OF the House of which he made mention,
and that he must consider the humility
with which the Republican majority now
wears his '-strait-jacket' to be quite as
conclusive OF mental alienation as if the
restraining garment had teen ordered by
an asylum instead of an Autocrat
In this view we think he has the country
with him. The leading journals of his
party are growing viciously over the
picture OF the popular assembly Of the
nation gagged and bound and unable to
transact business, all in order that the
elements and interests which failed to
select a Presidential candidate from Maine
and preferred some good Ohio man."
may be cruelty punished for their inappre-
citation. The Hartford Courant, whose
Republcanism is below reproach, is not
satisfied with position which seems to
assume that, the Dingley bill having been
passed, there is nothing more for the House
to do. 1t says: The assertion that noth-
ing has allied the country any of the time
but the present tariff is stupid
ignorance when it is not conscious and
reckless mendacity." So the Courant,
and many other exponents Of business
interests, want to see the padlocks taken
from the mouths Of members, and the
door of legislation opened. They want
some general business, since that is sup
posed by the people and most Representa-
tives in Congress to be about what the
latter are sent here for
But the Autocratis being Of character
nobly firm BE may yield 70 the pressure,
and the protestat0ns Of commerce, manu-
facture and transportation, or he may
not. When he is in opposition he is
positive in antagonism TO all wrongs,
expressions and rules. When in power
and control he is equally as firm in
their full and merciless application. No
overseer on plantation down South
tn slavery days ever was frmer.
The times., 1897-04-05
THE DEBTS OF CITIES.
Comparative Population Seems to
Have Little to Do With 1t.

Have Little to Do With 1t.
New York, April 4.-The Greater New
York will begin business as a municipality,
so to speak, on January /, 1888, with a
municipal debt in excess of $500, 200 900,
a debt larger than that OF any four other
cities of the country. There is general
opinion, for which, however, there is no
real warrant, that he debt Of American
municipalities is based upon their pOpu-
lation, area, age, and resources; but the
fact is that while these elements regu-
late the running expenses OF American
cities, the debt is fixed rather by the form
Of government they have enjoyed or suf-
fered from in the past Boston and st.
Louis are cities OF the same size very
nearly tthe difference in population bet ween
the two was less than 5000 by the last
censusl, yet the municipal debt Of Bos-
ton is three times greater than that of st.
Louis, while, on the other hand the tax
rate in st. Louis is so per cent greater
per 81 900 OF valuation than il S in Boston.
Louisville, u city OF 200 oo0 population,
has debt OF nearly $1,000 900, but
CovIngton, in the same State, with a
population OF 81 900, by the last census,
has debt of 81, 400 o60, and Newport,
Ky, city of $4,000, has debt Of
81 100 600 Chicago, which has 4 popula-
tion considerably in excess OF ,250 900,
has municipal debt of St7 900 900,
whereas New Orleans, which has popu-
lation of ESQ, 900, one-fifth of Chicago's,
has debt OF Sl5 900 900, and some local
improvements under way viii materially
increase it. Indianapolis, with a popu-
lation at the last census Of more than
100 900, has debt of 81 4 0S, 600, where
as Evansville. which by the last Federal
census had a population OF only 80, 900 one
half as large. has q debt of 50 loo, 900.
The municipal debt OF Kansas City is
81 600 900, and Sioux City, Iowa, owes
81 200 900 The municipal debt OF Phil
adelphia is So 900 900, and of Pittsburg
Sl2 600 900, but Providence. which has
about one-half the population of Pittsburg
has municipal debt of Si3, ESQ 900 Mil |
waukee and Detroit are two cities hav-
ing almost the some populatiOn-205, 600 |
by the census OF 1890
Since then Detroit has increased more
rapidl Y in population, and the area included
in it is somewhat larger than the area
of the Wisconsin city. Yet the debt of
Detroit is $4,S00 600, whereas the debt |
of Milwaukee is $500 900 San Antonio, |
Tex, an ancient town OF less than 10 900 |
persons, has been wide awake enough to
contract IA. municipal debt considerably in |
excess of $4,000 GOO, whereas the city |
of Fort Worth, which has been generally |
alluded to as being thriving and enter |
prising settlement. has adebt of ST 300, 900 |
only. In New York State, Buffalo has a |
bonded debt of $4,000 900, Syracuse of |
$500 900, Troy of 81 200 900 only. Long |
Island City of S3,5o0 900, Yonkcrs OF |
$4,000 ,OO0, Albany of 81 100, ,00o, Roches- |
ter of $500 900, Utica of S3GO.OOO, |
Poughkeepsie Of S1,To0 900, Dunkirk of |
S275.G00, and Mount Vernon, n. Y, Of |
100000.
The times., 1897-04-05

that Investments in Spanish bonds may be
saye1? There was too good reason for be-
Iieving that to be the fact while Cleve-
land and Olney were in power. They are
not so now, and we look with sustained
confidence, but with growing impatience.
to see revolution toward the precepts
AMI practices of better American days; OF
days when the cry of outraged, tortured
humanity could be heard above the clatter
of the stock ticker.
Are the Spanish sentiments of Sugar and
Bonds to outweigh the ational desire to
give the poor heroic Cubans a fighting
chance by acknowledging their belliger-
ency? Does the Cleveland-olney COM
placency toward Spanish butchery still af-
feet US that we should longer tolerate the
atrocities OF that creature Weyler, whom
Henri Rochefort calls "a wild beast with
a human face?'
What would England do if that power
were in our shoes in relation to the Rivera
case? In 1878 two brothers named Cue
Shoff were arrested by the Turksi In Eastern
Roumelia and condemned to be hanged.
Lord Derby, then English foreign minister,
promptly telegraphed the queens ambas-
sador to inform the sultan that il the pris-
oners were executed the British fleet then
near Constantinople would take instant sat
isfacton for their deaths, They were at
once released, and one of them to-day is the
minister of finance of Bulgaria.
The application OF the story to the matter
of Gen. Rivera and Col BaCallas explains
itself. Some Of the pluck a nd spirit of Lord
Derby would be welcome manifestation
to the Americanp people il they should hap
pen to see it around the State Department.
1t is the kind Of spirit that makes men and
nations great
The times., 1897-04-05
Coming Home to Roost.

The Treasury is reported as issuing in
structions To collectors OF customs au=hor-
izing them TO collect and retain sam
pies" of all goods imported, in order
that they may secure evidence upon which
to work the retroactive illcgality in
the future, should the Dingley bill ever
become law.
II appears that this cool authorization
to seize and sequester property belonging
TO importers is not universally relShed
by the latter. Indeed, some of tn lem
have employed eminent counsel to ascer-
tain whether they ought to have the re-
tanning collectors arrested for plain every
day larceny, or only proceed against them,
in more civil manner, for trespass- The
beauty OF the whole thing is that the
all know that the so-called retroactive
clause OF the tariff bin has not the
slightest chance of passing the Senate,
and that it would be utterly null and
void, as being unconstitutional, If it were
passed. Hence, the brutal annoyance Of
the importers under the circumstances is
almost incOmprehensible to them.
They represent and form a considerable
portion OF a class of people in this coun-
try who spent much time and more money
to secure a Republican Administration
The times., 1897-04-05
The Doom of Rivera,

Although the proceedings Of the court
martial which tried Gen. Ruis Rivera and
Col Bacallas, his chief Of staff, at San
Cristohai, have not been promulgated, there
is no doubt that he has been sentenced to
death, and it is probable that he has been
shot before this time. If that should prove
to he the fact, it will amount to one more
evidence of our national disgrace
There never was a time before in the
history Of the United States when the right
of bellgerency would have been withheld
from people struggling for liberty nearly
within sight of us. under the conditions and
circumstances that exist on the island of
Cuba today. We are tired of arguing the
question Of right or duty in the matter.
Almost the entire weight of accepted
authority on international law makes that
recognition mandatory upon us, as a ques-
ton of common humanity A dozen glorious
American precedents stare us in the face
and ask usif the nation has growncowardly
and heartless, in the last days of the cen
tury whose earlier decades found govern
ment and people ever hand in hand i'm the
encouragement and support OF any people
of the Western hemisphere fighting for
liberty against European despotism.
What reasons and causes are at the bot
tom Of this base degeneration from the
faith and courage of the Fathers? We still
can grow reasonably mad about Turkish
pillage and murder in Armenia or Crete,
and we can raise money and food to send
to ADMINISTRATION India. How does II hap
pen, coincidently, that, with cool and
silent indifference, we can witness the
colG-blooded murder of gallant gentlemen
prisoners of war, or the burning alive of
old ladies, the public auction of young
girls, sold to life of shame; or thefiendish
butchery of little babies in Cuban streets
all close to our shores. in the hemisphere
we hypocritically claim TO leadi in the paths
of humanity and Christian civilization?
Is it because Lombard street and Wall
street demand the crushing of the brave
people of Cuba, and that we should aid
Spain in the atrooious work, all in order
The times., 1897-04-05
Cousins and Bash:-Bazoulxs.

While the armed Bashi- Bazouks employed
by the Christian admirals are naSsacreing
peaceful Cretan peasant families, with
drawing to the Interior under safe
conduct" and the Queens ''Jackies''
are engaged in the unwelcome task of
seizing the food ana destroying the dwell
nent, so the dispatches advise US, The
money kings and the dynastic families
belonging TO them, are making q heroic
effort to avert the horrors of war, as far
as their own interests are severally con-
cerned, and to coHfine the theater OF pill
lage and murder to one unfortunate island
of the Aegean Sea
Tuesday will be the anniversary of Greek
independence, and European opinion is to
the effect that on that day the Greek
National Society, which is far more pow
erful than King George and his govern
ment, may demand war, in which case
il Will follow at once. Otherwise there
are hopes for peace. One report has it
that not all Of the powers have yet agreed
to the blockade The general situation
is more mudGled than ever.
Eastern Europe is III the condition of
a powder magaZinein which an into xicated
individual is smoking pipes and striking
matches. Perhaps it may not blow up,
and perhaps otherwise.
The times., 1897-04-05
RODE WITH GEN. SHERIDAN.
Death of Major Miller at His Home
in Pfttsburg.

Pittsburg, Pa, April H. Major Charles H.
Miller a cousin of the late Franklin Is.
Gowan, former president of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railway, and who as
a staff officer rode by Sheridan's S side ON
that famous twenty-mile ride to VIM
chester, died in Pittsburg some days ago
from injuries received by /. collision with
a bicycle.
At the opening of the war Mfr. Miller
enlisted in the Forty-eighth Penns sylvania
Infantry, which played conspicuous part
in the days Of the rebellion. This was the
regiment that fired the mine at Peters
burg.
He was promoted to second lieutenant
for bravery, and was stationed ut Fort
Clark, Hatteras Inlet, In 862-
He resigned his commission and on Sep
tember 6 OF the same year re-enlisted in
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He
was promoted to assistant adjutant-gen-
eral OF the First Brigade, third division
cavalry corps, Army of the Potomac Serv-
ing in the Wilson raid and in all the bat
ties throughout the Shenandoah Valley.
During the Appomattox campaign he was
with Custer, and in March, 1S65, he was
brevetted major for bravery OH the field
of battle He was mustered out OF service
in September of that year. Since then
he has been engaged in mercantile pur-
suits He boasted of having been in all
the important battles Of the war, coming
out of them safely.
A week ago he was crossing the street
at North and Irwin avenues, Allegheny,
when Morton f. Morganstern, an en-
graver, of No. 80 Fulton street, Allegheny,
approached on a bicycle. He rang his bell
and Major Miller heard it and paused. The
bicyclist slowed up, but, by misunder-
standing, started ahead and collided with
Major Miller.
Major Miller was thrown to the Eaye-
ment and became unconscious. He was
taken TO the Allegheny General Hospital
and was later removed TO his home where
he died.
The times., 1897-04-05
Lord Pauucefote,

If the gossip Of government circles in
London is to be believed, among the hon
ors which are to be dealt around to cele-
brate the diamond jubilee Of Queen Vic
toria there will be peerage for Sir Julian
Pauncefote. The distinguished diplomat
in question distinctly and richly deserves
recognition and promotion at the hands OF
his sovereign His tact and wisdom in
handling the difficulties of his position in
this country have been wonderful During
the second administration OF Mr.. Cleve-
land, to all intents and purposes, he was the
American Secretary of State, directing
the foreign policy Of the United States and
as much of its internal policy as he cared
to, always consistently in the interests of
the British government.
Circumstances have rendered his task
In this regard not easy, but feasible. He
has enjoyed the solid backing of the organ
ized money power of Great Britain and
connection for the subjection Of the Ameri-
can people to financial slavery under lis
yoke He has had the advantage of will
ing agentsin thepersons ola nominal Presi-
dent and a nominal Secretary Of State,
both owned and controlled by that same
power But for all that his mission has
been one requiring abilities OF the highest
order, and he has demonstrated their pos
session in n degree amounting TO genius.
Really we were afraid that the loss OF The
arbitration treaty might cost Sir JuIianhis
promotion To the House of Lords, and are
glad to think we were mistaken. Aside
from that heartrending failure, he has ac-
oompliShed quite enough to deserve a
simple barony, which we presume is about
what he will get, and he has our congrat-
ulatiCns.
The times., 1897-04-05

force OF the cities, by which certain dis
tricts are overerowded. There is some
thing in this. The hardes. judges of the
poor are often found among men and wo-
men brought up in the old-fashioned coun-
try community. They are apt to take
the view that there is no need OF a man s
being pauper. In the country, food is
more. accessible, and there is no exorbitaat
rent to pay. on the other hand, work is
harder to get. The Salvation Army would
provide work in the country, so that the
woods and fields, instead of into the
slums
Commander BoothTueker characteriZes
some of the present policies in terse and
forcible way. The ostrich policy, he says,
is pursued 10y burying the head in the sand
and denying that there is any trouble
The football policy consists in kicking the
tramp from one city to the other, requir-
ing OF him only that he get out Of town.
The crucifiNion policy treats the pauper as
criminal, and comes in for Commander
Booths unqualified contempt. The in
quisitorial policy lets man starve while
the philanthropist is finding out about his
past life. 1t will cost. in this way, 75
cents to get % down mans throat, and
even then it viii often go down the wrong
as many as the countries into which the
army goes. In the city it is found that
cheap food and lodging houses saved many
people from starvation or loss of self
respect Another feature of Salvation
Army work in London, and to some ex-
tent in America, is the Rescue Home for
Fallen Women. II is claimed hy the army
that so per cent of the women who pass
through these homes are restored to lives
of virtue The Prison Gate Homes, which
receive the eX-criminal at the most dam
gerous time in his life, when he is struggling
with temptations within and without, are
claimed to have been the means of saving
so per cent of their inmates
The hold which the Salvation Army has
on the worlds due to the fact that il works
among the very lowest and most down
trodden class, the people whom no other
organization has been able to reach. No
platitudes or hypocrisy viii go down with
the professional criminal or professional
vagrant. Whatever may he thought of the
peculiar doctrines OF the Salvation Army
and their form of worship, their ideas on
social problems are the result of soul
searching experience, and should be lis
tened to with respect. When man has
gone where even the police can hardly
keep order, and a woman has succeeded in
winning the affection and respect OF
people Who would never be suspected of
feeling either-when this man and this
woman come to us and tell us what we
can do for the criminal classes, their opinion
isworth something. WhateveritS faults, the
Salvation Army is not visionary, and it has
never been accused of getting rich at the
expense of the public.
The times., 1897-04-05

The Hon. Benton McMillin has a way
of going straight to the point In the
spectacle is presented to the world of our
having to contribute charity to the sub
earth, while she is bonbartiing Christians
in another part of the earth" Mr..
AfcAIilin is right, and the contrast is as
shameful to England as our national at
tltude in relation to Cuba is disgraceful to
The times., 1897-04-05
FIVE RANCHMEN PERISH.
They Were Caught in the Wyoin-
ing blizzard,

Cheyenne. Wyo., April Five ranch
men, names unknown, from Mitshen's
Bottoms, western Nebraska, perishcd in
the blizzard which has been raging for
the past two days, while attempting to
drive to Cheyenne.
The bodies OF two of the men were
found yesterday, several miles from
sheep camp. which they had evidently
tried to reach after unhitching their
horses and abandoning their wagons in
Tuesday nights storm. 1t is feared many
others. rancimen and sheep-berders, have
perished.
The times., 1897-04-05

Officeseeking interest is being trans
where launches, sloops and oyster boats
are in great demand for use in intercepting
the Dolphin Shepherd Mckinley Will not
lose his faithful, bleating flock by that
little game unless he puts out to sea-,
Then, if he lost his reckoning and got
more than three marine leagues from the
coast, he would he out of the country, and
Mr.. Hobart could seize his Job.
The times., 1897-04-05
The Salvation Army and Pauperism

The Salvation Army and Pauperism
Commander BoOth-Tucker has written
q little essay on the pauper policy of
America. which sets forth in a clear
and concise manner his ideas as to things
which should be done, and the way to
dothem He compares the various methods
of religious work to the shingles on the
roof Of house. They may overlap, but
save the time, trouble and expense re-
quired to fit edge to edge with absolute
exactaess He doesn't think it is neceS-
sary that people should all work alike,
and recognizes the fact that in mans
work, as in natures, there is a tremendous
amount of apparent waste. Thus he does
not believe IN tearing down the work OF
any other religious body and this it may
be said is 4 strong point of the Salvation
Army. They have too much to do to
waste great deal of time in denouncing
other churches.
| The plan of the Salvation Army for
coIonizing the pauper element OF the
great cities has been much discussed. The
commander gives as one Of his reasons
for the scheme, that the main cause of
pauperism and crime is the centripetal
The times., 1897-04-05

Just because the House voted to put
copper on the free list some people sup
pose il is there; hut 1t is not The Dingley
bin was 'iammed through without the
least reference to what the House did, OF
did not, do with it, 1t went to the
Senate in the shape that the House OF
Reed, and not the suppressed House of
Representatives, wanted it, and copper
was not put on the free list