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The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-06-27
U, c, VS. PASSING THROUGH,

The reporter was down at the
union depot this morning as the
train for Texas was being made up,
aud noticed many men wearing the
U Q, " badge, aud engaged sever
al In conversation as to what kind
ol time they had while IN Nash.
yIlle They all reported q splendid
tImo and good treatment Among
the number met waa Nd Meyers,
who belongs to Sterling Price
Camp, at Dallas, but who Is yard
master of the Y, u =, road at benI-
son. Texas He said at least ten
thousand Veterans started out ON
the march at Nashville, Tennessee,
on parade day. but a heavy rain
came up and the procession was
dIBbanded before many blocks were
tfayersed, He says the vote TO
change The name from United Con.
tederOto Veterans 90 Confederate
States Association was voted down
by a small majority The next
meeting place will be Atlanta, Ga,
We noticed some dyty or seventy
'Vots" ON the streets, aud they
were all good loobina fine dressed
fellows and walked like soldiers with
their uniforms on,
We say, long live the old fellows
Lnr The Lnal Chnarl
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-06-27
CHIC OPERA HOUSE LEASED.
The Hardin Brothers Will
have Charge Of the Opera
House the Coming
Season.
IMPROVEMENTS TO BIB MADE.
a=
New Scenery and New Paper For
the Walls ia Down For Part
of the Improvements,
IMPROVEMENTS TO BIZ MADE.

Mr., Harry lGhrich has given up
the opera house as It's manager, as
he wishe4 to travel the next season
us the advance agent for some great
troupe, and is now in correspon-
dence with the Robertson Faust
Company for place of this kind,
Mr. Chic has, with these facts
before him, leased bis opera house
to Messrs W. Q, j, o. aud S, M,
Hardin, who will proceed to over
haul the opera house and put it in
thorough repair rthe coming sea
son,
The II rdin Brothersar all hust-
lers, know a good thing when they
see II, and have seen enough Of
theatres aud theatre people as to
discriminate when booking a good
company or one of Indifference, and
will so inform the people through
the press Of what they can expect
from performance,
We learn that a goodly number
Of attractions have already been
booked for the coming season, hence
our people will loose nothing by the
change No doubt many other
good companies will be secured by
the enterprIsinR Hardin Brothers,
We believe they will do a good
prosperous business IN the manage,
meut Of the house,
Toward the retiring manager
Harry Ehrllth, we have nothing but
the EIndest feelings aud hope he
may catch on to whatever Che Is
reaching after, and make a success
.o( his undertaking
The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-06-27

Fine leo Cream with
crushed fruits, Smith
Drug Go. 4z4
The times., 1897-05-27

under reciprocity, employs an American
merchant fleet and a large number OF
Americans on the Pacific coastin handling
and refining the Hawaiian sugar product.
feet its monopoly 1t is the one thing
that stands betweeni t and compile te donli-
nation. It has bought, or is buying, con-
troi Of all the beet sugar plants, and, free
from competition with reciprocity sugar,
will be able to dictate the price of every
pound OF beets raised on the continent
The beet sugar industry, considered aside
from it's growing reia tions with the trust,
does not suffer from the free entry OF
Hawaiian sugar. In addition to all the
sugar produced in the United States and
Hawaii we are compelled to import a MIL
hon and a half tons upon which duty
must be paid. One California beet sugar
plant last year made a profit OF 80 per
cent, and another realized so per cent
on capitalization
The Tacoma Ledger represents Pacific
coast opinion on this matter in an ed
itorial printed on the 18th OF the
present mcnth "The maintenance OF
tie present treaty sustains, maintains
and holds our supremacy there and
in the Pacific Ocean, and until the
United States determines definitely
whether it wants or does not want
the islands, the status quo should not be
disturbed or weakened by any hostilccourse
like the abrogation of the treaty especially
when such covert and insidieuS schemes
are on foot in Japan and British Columbia
to supplant us and take our present status
there from U.S.
The times., 1897-05-27
The Trust aud Hawaii.

Whatever else may happen in the
course OF the tariff debate in the Sen
ate. we sincerely hope that there is
enough patriotism and sense of right In
that body 10 defeat the nefarious scheme
by which it is sought to abrogate the
Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, under cover
OF the Aldrioh-AIlison-Pl Platt bin. solely
for the benefit OF the sugar trust
1t would be lasting disgrace to the
Congress aud to the country if the power
Of Havemeyer, searles and their Admin
!strati0n alliances should prove strong
enough to destroy all the benefits that
have accrued to the United States aud
its people, through the development of
trade with the Hawaiian Islands due
and political advantages conferred upon
tile Batiasn under and dependent upon the
existing treaty.
Under the specious but false plea that
the interests of American sugar beet
growers would be advanced thereby, the
trust is conspiring TO sever the ties that
secure to as the power over the islands
by which alone We can hope to prevent
their falling into the hands of Japan,
England. or those two powers Jointly
Our future commercial and naval posi-
ton in the Pacific and the far East is
recklessly and criminally attacked by
this obnoxious monopoly, that its con-
trol OF national prime necessity may
become absolute and irremediable.
OF the thirty-three million dollars in
vested In Hawaii In productive property,
,neTe than twenty-eight millions belong to
American citizens. Trade with the islands,
The times., 1897-05-27
ApnItcstious for Office.

Secretary Gage yesterday received ap-
plications for appointment 10 office in he
Treasury Department as follows:
Joseph p Herr, indianapolis, Ind, 70
be deputy auditor Of the Navy Department
at Washington, D. C; William F. Thomas.
Washington, d c., 10 be collector
of customs at Georgetown, D. C.; j. ".
burst, Alice. Tex, To be collector OF GUS
toms at Brownsville, Tex; r N. Humes,
Memphis, Tenn, to be surveyor of Gus
toms at Memphis. Tenn: n. II. Jones, Chi
cago. Ill, to be appraiser OF customs at
Chicago, Ill; Z. Z. Miller, San Fran
cisco. Cal. to be examiner of drugs at
San Francisco, Cal; c. D. Gates, Louis
Vile, Ky, to be collector of
internal revenue at Louisville, Ky /;
r NJ. Mccoy, st. Louis, Mo, to be super
vising Inspector Of steam vessels at st,
Louis, No; D. W. Shedd, Cincinnati, o. f,
to be supervising inspector OF steam YES
sells at Cincinnati, o.
The times., 1897-05-27
prncticaI Pacificatton.

(From the New York Herald
Gen Weyler, having enforced his order
driving reCOncentradoS off the fortified
sugar estates, Ito starve in the already
overcrowtled towns, and leaving their
vegetable patches for his underfed soldiers
is now beginning to empty the smaller
towns in Santa Clara. a Herald corre-
spondent, who saw the destruction by fire
of sitio Grand. near Sagua, writes as
follows:
There were about five hundred persons
In the place. nearly all women and chill
tiren, who had left the sugar estates and
their sole means of subsistence behind only
a few days before. They were huddled
along the railroad beds without food or
shelter.
Twas introduoedto the officer in charge
of the troops executing the order, and he
told me he had no idea where the h Omeless
and hungry people would go after they had
witnessedthe burning or their paim truts.
"'1'hat is not my affair, he said As
we talked, "A poor, wan faced woman knelt
before the officer, sa wing
my Colonel, your soldiers, after bum
inrrny house and its contents, have carried
off my cow and calf, which were our sole
hope of subsistence. My little children
will die. / pray you, tell them to return
the cow; they may keep the calf The
woman wept in her misery.
"'senera, saidthe officer, go your way,
OF you may share the fate OF your cow +"
The correspondent addstha could Ameri-
cans understand what is going on III Santa
Clara they would he appalled,.
This is the new concentration OF Gen.
weyler-in plain English, 1T is war on
women and children.
The times., 1897-05-27
Funds Asked for Local Uses.

Secretary Gage yesterday sent to the
Senate copy OF communication from
the District Commissioners, submitting an
estimate for inclusion in the general de-
ficiency bill Of S6,I25, "a, for repairs and
Improvement to the LOvejoy School build
ing A copy OF the report Of the inspector
of buildings, which is based upon per
sonal examination of the building by the
inspector and Commissioner Ross, is in
closed. The Commissioners say the appr0
priation is urgently needed. The SecIe-
tary also submits an estimate Of 81 80
with whic,, TO pay judgments against the
District in the cases OF Isidor a. Du-
chesne aud the Washington Brewery Com
pany.
The times., 1897-05-27

In connection with the distribution Of the
relief supplies; or. he may take advantage
of whatever may be said or transpire on
the return OF Commissioner Calhoun. Fail
ing sufficient excuse in these directions,
he will begin to fire on American ner-
| chant vessels. or, perhaps. even order q
massacre of on consuls In one or more
of these ways he viii bring on war with
the United States
Then Cuba will be blockaded by our Navy
All of Weylcr's supplies come from abroad
We are assured on good authority that he
has never had an accumulation OF fifteen
days rations ahead since he came to the
island. Invery he Will be starved
out and surrender at discretion to the
United States Navy. He will declare that
while the glorious arm of Spain is irwin
cibie on the land, without like force he
cannot be expected to fight the navy of a
first-class power. As basis of settlement
the island of Cuba will be ceded to the
United states, the Spanish bondholders and
the sugar trust being protected as above
stated Relieved of the incubus of that
Cuban debt the remaining Spanish securi-
ties win advance to par and European cap
italists will rush to the assistance Of Spain
and reorganize her finances upon a living
basis. Preliminary speculation in the large
volume of securities To be affected by this
solution has even now been carried ON
extensively 10y the syndcates on the inside.
WHAT'S 30 become of Cuba and the Cubans
under this arrangement? Why Cuba WILDE
made a territory of the United States.
President Mckinley will say TO Cisneros,
Gomez, Garcia and all the other patriots
and heroes: Il promised that Cuba should
neutrality-suspicious.. What eaterindepend-
ency and later, ,asovereign state of thegIeat
American republic? Go and be happy"
The times., 1897-05-27
Breaking the Camel,s Back.


The Republican party may buy and trade
itself Into enough votes to pass the pro-
tective tariff bill, but i 1 is not likely TO nc
complsh this in advance OF a most thor
ough exposition Of the injuries and OPP
pressions against the masses involved in
its general character and provisions, as
they exist today Nothing could be clearer
in Illustration OF this than the arraign-
ment OF the Republican tariff policy by
Senator Vest of Missouri in his opening
speech against the Allison-Aldrich-Plat
bill in the Senate on Tuesday.
1T is frequently said observed Sena-
tor Vest, that adversely came with the
advent Of the Democratic party to power,
and that with the return Of Republican
methods and Republican measures there
would be again hope and prosperity and
JOY in tire land While the tariff bill
OF 1890 was pending in the House Mr.
Mckinley, who was in charge OF it, de-
clared that the widespread depression OF
doubted 1t was proposed then TO restore
prosperity to agriculture by imposing ex-
cessive. taxation upon everything that the
farmer must buy. 1t did have the effect
OF advancing the prices Of all commodities,
burt it lid not furnish agriculturists with
any additional means Of purchase. Now,
the hearts Of all laborers and producers
by advancing the cost t. them CT every
necessary OF life, for the benefit Of trusts
and monopolies, and in the face of a
plethora public treasury.
Mr. Vest asked: What is the condi-
ton of the Treasury of the United States?
Let Us see what the necessity is for in
creasing tariff taxatonr' He proceed
ed to show that on May 21, 1897, the
cash balance in the Treasury available
was 1928. $50. 0.6505O Taking from this
the gold reserve Of $10O, 600, boo, it
leaves 81 29, $50 5000 available for any
Governmental purpose. Compare this state
liiGAo NibA biit lItdbtEy COlulIlOliS ON
the day that Harrison turned over the
Government to Cleveland. Then the bal
ance ia the Treasury. including S2O,-
00o.0 900 Of subsidiary coin, amounted
to only S24,12s,087. Where is the ne
cessity, then, for taxing the breakfast
table OF the poor, or for increasing the
cost OF the poor mans beer and tobacco?
The Senator referred to Mr.. Dingley's
contention, that we ought to raise the
gold reserve to 81 so, 000, 900, as an
indefensble proposition to Increase con-
traction, and otherwise placed the en-
suing debate upon the proper plane OF
philosophic exposure Of Republican pre-
tensions, fallacies and expressions. We
are glad TO note the breadth and scope |
OF the plan OF attack. FactioUs opp0-
siuon anG obstruction well may be dis |
pensed with, if the analysis in detail !
Of the administration fiscal policy is to |
be as lucid and convincing as the Demo |
cratic opening address. The people of |
the United States will read and ponder. |
In / sos they will vote.
The times., 1897-05-27
NOMINATED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Some Very Desirable Plums Dis
tributed by Mr.. Mckinley.

tTbDute0 Dy MT. AAtkinley.
Tie President yesterday sent in the fol-
lowing nominations:
Francis s. Jones, OF Louisiana, secretary
OF the legation of the United States at
Buenes Ayres. Argentine Republic
Charles BUrdett Hart. OF West Virginia,
to be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Colombia
John G. Thompson of Illinois. to be As
sistant Attorney General.
james Edmund Boyd, of North Carolina,
to be Assistant Attorney General.
Kenneth K. Pendleton of North Carolina,
collector Of customs, district OF AlhenIafle,
North Carolina.
James S. Fruit ,'of Pennsylvania, coIleo-
ter Of internal revenue, twenty-third dis
trict of Pennsylvania
Thornton S. Howard, of Iowa. register
Land office, pes Moines, Iowa; John W
Miller, or Oklahoma. receiver public
moneys, Woodward. Okla; Lucius A
Wright, OF Colorado. agent for Indians Of
the Mission Tale River agency, in Cali
fornia.
Postinesters-Joh / Fullwoo6. Cedar
town, Ga; ate E Moore, GeneseO, Ill;
William II. Conger, Plymouth, Ind; P
ID. Mcmahon, Charter Oak, Iowa; Arthur
ID. Patterson, Cresco Iowa; E. L Powell,
Eima, Iowa; NJ L. Hussey Guilford. Me;
F. j. Hefnemann, Kukwood, No Lewis
F. Rabeock, Pillings, Mont; William II.
lillian, Humphrey. Neb.; Fred p. Dearth,
Woodville, N f.; w l. Norton, Hight stown,
N j.: Henry ID. Ponnet, Del Rio, Tex;
Fred B Kfnsley, Barron, Wis; William F
Britain, Sheridan, Wyo.
The times., 1897-05-27
It is a fine and beautiful thing to pa

1t is q fine and beautiful thing TO pay
were brought up to do both. We were
brought up as nation on Poor Richards 8
Almanac and Lord Chesterfield s Letters;
and we received a fresh dose of instruc-
ton on both these points in the last CAM
paign, when we were told that we must
obligations in gold invariably. These two
precepts are the key to the present Cuban
situation MI. Mckinley means to be po-
lite TO Spain and to pay his debts to the
trusts and syndicates.
The times., 1897-05-27

Unless Senator Morrlll's health should
be in a condition to permit OF his voting
on the tariff bill. the Republicans will
the Senate of Mr.. Mallory of Flmida gives
the opposition forty five votes, against
forty three Republicans and one Populist,
in the absence OF Senator Morrill,. The
Administration would then have 10 ''pla-
cate" one more opponent to make a tie,
1t is a case of close quarters for the tariff
scheme
The times., 1897-05-27
Condition of District Banks.

Comptroller Eckels reported yesterday
that the condition of the national banks In
the District of Columbia at the end of the
business day May Ia, was as folio ws:
Total resources, S2O,359,89O; loans and
discounts, $S.o37.818; due from other
national banks, 81, ,146,O62; lawful money
reserve. S3.563 $50; average reserve held,
44.21 per cent: capital stock, S3, ,075,o0O;
surplus fund, 81 ,422 300; bank notes out
standing. S7O3, ,865; individual deposits,
14112.867.
The times., 1897-05-27

Mr. Clark Fitch, of Philadelphia, has
Just returned from business trip to the
Pacific coast, and last night. at the Riggs
House, said:
what struck me most forcibly in San
Francisco was the evident love of the
natives fol the shrimp as a food product.
The Pacific coast shrimp Is smaller but
far more palatahle than the insipid prawn
which we get in the East, and is served
in every possible form and course in the
restaurants there. A plate of boiled shrimp
is served to each customer, just as dressed
coldslaw is frequently served here as an
appetizer. Shrimp soup. shrimp fTitters
and shrimp salad are prominently men
toned on the menu, and ! found myself
locking to see If shrimp ice cream was
not on the bill, as grand finale to the
meal"
The times., 1897-05-27

The Administration is somewhat w0r-
ried because we may have to pay the
TO be sent to starving Americans In Cuba
We can understand now why the facts of
their suffering were concealed as long as
possible II is monstIous 10 let tie world
know that there could be anything but
prosperity and oily fatness under 100
ner cent tariff
The times., 1897-05-27

The Cuban mass meeting on Sunday
nextin the Columbia Theater win beunder
the auspices of the Knights of Labor, the
national organization of which has taken
hold OF the Cuban question with true
4 .sicrican fervor Probably before the
time fixed for the meeting enough win
be known in regard to the latest evolu-
tion Of the Executive plans to make dis
cussion interesting
The times., 1897-05-27
GEoRGETowN CoLLECroRsHIP.
Three Candidates in the Field foI
the Office.

OF collector Of customs for Georgetown rs
being conducted by W F. Thomas, T. L.
Frazier, and W. B. Todd. all residents in
the District OF Columbia. Mr.. Thomas was
the last TO enter the race, he having filed
his application with Secretary Gage yester-
day.
1he present collector is Dorsey ClageUt,
who was appointed during Mr.. CleveIand's
Administration. in June, 1895, and cOmnus-
stoned the following January. There ap-
pears to be some doubt as 10 whether Mr..
Clagett was appointedfor fuIlterm Off 1nr
years, Or to fill an uuexpired term. The
question is being examined into by Secre-
tary Gage.
The times., 1897-05-27
Poor Smoker,

al saw you last night as passed by your
house What in the world was that con-
trivance You had sticking out from your
forehead?''
ssCute, wasn't it? You see. my wife lets
me s,noL ein the house. but have TO wear an
arrester TO keep from soiling the ceiling
Clever, amt ft?"-Clevcland Plain Dealer.
The times., 1897-05-27
loan OF THE PETREL ASKED.
The Fish Commission Steamer
Wanted for Police Duty.

The Commissioners haverequestejof OF Hon
John j. Brice, United States Fish Commits
sioner, the useof the steamer Petrol and her
engineer during the period in which II is
proposed to transfer the machinery from
the old police boat, Joe Blackburn, 10 the
new police boat.
1t is thought that this transfer can begin
about June 20, and the work VIII be com
pleted in about four weeks 1t is desired
to substitute the Petrol for the blackburn,
if the vessel can be spared from her oTdin-
arg duties with the Fish Commission The
use of the engineer is also asked, for the
reason that the engineer of the Blackburn
will he needed to superintend the transfer
Of the machinery from the old to the new
police boat.
The times., 1897-05-27

Charles Burdctt Hart, nominated yes
terday to be minister to Colombia is an
old Washington newspaper correspondent
He is Baltimore man by birth, and did
his first newspaper work there. He then
we.:t TO Philadelphia, where he worked on
the Inquirer, and after a time came to
Was hin Ston Mr.. II art is remembered
among the old timers as a man of Drawn
as we'll as brain. He offended some one
during his early career here by one of his
articles, and This andividuaI, long since
forgotten, visited Hart's office for the
purpose of administering what was deem
ed by the aggrieved party to be Il neces-
sary chastisement. The argument was
short, sharp and disastrous for the visitor
Tart was feeling quite good that day, and
in the course of this ''disCussion' he
picked his man up bodily and threw him
down stairs like a bundle of rags, and the
man never came back.
The times., 1897-05-27

Ex-senator BriCe is in favor of Demo
cratic harmony in Ohio. andis wise enough
to see tnat the only way to get it is to
bow To the Endorsement of silver With
silver and the Cuban policy Of Mr. Hanna,
an easy job is cut out for the State Demo
cratic committee
The times., 1897-05-27

The American spirit which has been
successfully suppressed in all other di-
rections, Will be allowed to find a vent
in guns and firecrackers, frightened horses
and panic-stricken cable cars, blown off
thumbs and all manner OF celebrations,
on the Fourth of July. The District Com
missioners have spoken. They are with
the bows
The times., 1897-05-27

Mr.. Fart returned from Washington to
Philadelphia where he did editorial work
on the Press. He was largely instrumental
in bringing about the big graveyard rob-
berries expose in that city, piece of news
paper work that startled the city and agi-
tated it for months, resulting eventually in
the stoI.page pf the ghoulish practices. Mr.
Hart married daughter of Mr. OFT,
wealthy merchant of Wheeling, W. Va, and
moving to thatState in 1882, he purchased
an interest in the Wheeling Inteiligencer,
then owned by Arc chie Campheu
The times., 1897-05-27

THE Old South Church in Boston, said
Mr David Nelies, of that city. at the Ebbitt
last night, ''has decided that the ecclesi-
astcal innovation known as individual com
inunion cups is not adapted TO its use The
society appointed a committee uf four to
look into its merits, and three members of
it were impressed with its advantages and
reported in its favor The fourth member
differed with hem, not on religious grounds.
OF for reasons Of taste, but because of facts
peculiar to the Old South Church. Thefatts
are THAT TIE society has a communion service
of thirty seven pieces, described as probably
the most historical and venerable of any in
the country. The oldest piece dates back
to 1910, and nearly all are special gifts
to the Church, presented by honored and not
able donors. The objectiug committeeman,
Mr. Henry d. Hyde, held that it would s,e
unwiee to discard this service. and that the
church might safely continue TO use cups
'couseorated by use of nearly one hundred
and seventy Y years by worJhies of bot hc.urch
and state, through the period of the French
war. tie American Revolution, and the civil
wGr, dating back to day before George
Washington was born He held that to put
out Of sigttthe memory of all the old service
suggests would be TO violate q sacred trust
and the society agreed with him by a vote
of 90 to 15. Whatever the advantages of
the Iicw system may be, the objections to
the old are not SO cogent but that one may
applaud this triumph of sentiment over nice
considerations Of convenience" ="
The times., 1897-05-27

Sagasta, Canovas and all the rest OF the
Spanish leaders are agreed that not q
foot of territory shall be sold They viii
allow it to be seized and paid for, just the
same. The scenic effects OF the play al
ready are worthy of attention.
The times., 1897-05-27
She Didn't Have To.

81 believe you said that you d never mar
~ woman who didn't love you wen
enough to black your shoes. How did the
test turn out?''
We'll, you see. / took to wearing paten
feathers just after was married "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer,
The times., 1897-05-27
The Depths of Misery.

81 once thought there was nothing worse
than wheeling baby carriage"
The Brookiynite sighed.
-s'But when it comes to wheeling an
empty carriage and carrying a baby who
won't stay in it"
He sighed again.-New York World.