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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-19

The present week Is the thrty-sxih and las, Of,
The Girl from Paris" a. the Herald Square Thea
ire 1t will be played this week by company
w1Ich has not been seen here before. being the
which IL to present the play 1 Boston FOR the
greater part OF IN" coming season. Tae members
Of ~ are Fred I.eunOx. Miss Rose Bc1udct MIS-
Andree Lorraine. Miss Hattie Williams. william
Prodrrick Miss Mamie FORBES. Miss SUSIE lill"
IiisI Frances Notere, Misc Bessie Wilton Miss
eseie Calcf. Miss Mary WebD Harry Earle: A.
gIstns Cramer. sydney de Cray Victor Moor
lanes Lee william Black. n. l.. Don. Miss Marie
Hilton Miss Lula Hesse George Campbell Mss
Ann. Buckley Thomas Kierns and Miss Georgia
Canc.
4, Uovt. Theatre ~ Bachelors Honeymoon
will begin rs third week tomorrow night u mas
only Two weeks more to remain. as The stage ~
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Myers and Mclean.

At the recent Democratic State conven-
ton Allen o. Myers was the personal
representative of John r. Mclean. AS
such he not only carried out the wishes Of
his chief, but was, in fact, the most influ-
entail Democrat in all that gathering. He
dictated the platform, and on the Sunday
before the convention, which met on We'd
nesday, told Blade representative exact
ly what it would contain, and he told it
straight.
Myers knows Mclean well. He was
connected with McLean's newspaper for
years, and each trusted the other to the
extent that he dared. For time there
was enmity between these two men. My
ers was not drawing salary from Nc
Lean. At this time Myers wrote book.
1t was labeled BOSSES and Doodle in
Ohio Politics." On page 213 Of this book
Myers had this to say of Mclean:
He has no morals. He is a stranger to SEN
timent. He is not deferred by scruples. II
he has an object in view and has the money
no community has right to- question his
act He believes every man has his price.
He goes straight to results and cares moth
ing about public opinion, methods or the
rights Of others. When he can get or has got
what he wants he pays promptly and liber-
ally. 1t doesn't seem possible that such a
character can exist in an enlightened age.
But John R. Mclean is fact His exist
ence must be acknowledged.
And now this same Mclean is boss of
the Democratic party in Ohio, and a can
didate for United States Senator, while
this same Myers is his chief henchman.-
Toledo Blade.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Ia Pension Money Wasted

The cutlery against the increase of the
nension list since the Mckinley admins
trat;on came in still continues, and we
have little doubt that it will go on as long
az new names are added to the roll. It is
not a popular clamor, for great majority
of the American people, irrespective Of
marty are in favor Of the pension laws as
thew stand and desire their impartial en-
forcement. One of our CONTEMPORARIES
thinks it unfortunate that some plan can
not he devised to stop the growth of the
LIST Death is doing a great deal in that
direction. 1t clipped off $4,000 names last
wear and it will continue to clip at an
increasing ratio as the years wear on, for
even the youngest of the surviving vet
Grams are getting to be old men,
We have, in a recent issue of the Post.
oxnlained the increase of the list since
the 4th of March by showing that it was
due to the Cleveland hold-up. Nearly all
tho civilizations granted under the present
administration came over from the Cleve-
land regime. 1t was the settled policy of
Mr.. Cleveland to hold up claims and pass
them along to his successor. There was
no saving to the treasury in this in the
long run. for a pension dates back to the
time of the application. Most of the held
up claims were those of widows, clearly
proven and sure to be allowed. The
Cleveland administration deliberately
halted the work of the pension bureau
and kept thousands of poor widows out OF
the money that belonged to them. If any
one doubts this the records of the bureau
will prove it. And it is in perfect har-
mony with the whole course of Mr.. Cleve-
land on the pension question. His views
are lust about those which his ardent ad-
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Wool at Twenty-Five Cents.

Cadiz Republican: 1t is with pleasure
that the Cadiz Republican can announce
this week that the price of wool in Harri-
son County is twenty-five cents pound.
During the past week Messrs. G. Nj. Hogg
& Son have purchased the clips of wool
raised by the following well-known farm
ers of Harrison County, 35, 900 pounds in
all, paying in each case twenty-five cents
a pound. The clips of Dunlap Brothers.
Cadiz township; John Clifford, Green
township: S. B. Porter, Green township:
r. r. Cochran, Cadiz township; Joseph l..
Thompson & Son, Cadiz township; Henry
Mckee, Green township; John McDivitt,
Stock township; Samuel Hedges, Cadiz
township; Ross Mansfield, Wayne town
ship, Jefferson County; H. B. Lacey, La
ceyville, and Oliver Roob, Green town
shin.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Business Still Improves.

Business conditions continue to improve
and the reports which come from the high
est authorities on this subject are all sat
isfacto-y. The latest issue of Dun's Re
view, commenting on business conditions
the country over, says: Every city re-
porting this week notes increase in trade
and nearly all bright prospects. The
great change in business is emphasized by
the presence of a multitude of buyers
from all parts of the country, by their
statements of the situation at their homes,
and, more forcibly yet, by the heavy pur-
chases they are making. But the custom
airy signs Of prosperity are not lacking.
The strong rise in stocks, the growth of
bank clearings and railroad earnings, the
heavy speculation in many products, but
most Of all in wheat, have made the week
one Of surprising interest even to those
who best remember the upward rush in
1879,
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Wheat's Valuable Lesson.

The silver leaders are utterly unable
to explain the rise in the price of wheat,
and at the same time maintain their ar
gument of last year. The ablest of them,
including Mr.. Jones Of Nevada and Mr..
Teller, have ventured upon the task, but
all have failed. All are forced to confess
that the natural law of supply and de-
mand does apply in the present price Of
wheat. But such a confession could not
have been wrung from them a year ago.
Then they were cOntending, almost fierce
ly, that wheat was low solely because
money was scarce. Increase the volume
of money, they insisted, and wheat would
go up. But it would not and could not go
up without such an increase. Wheat is
now at the dollar mark, and even higher,
and yet there is no more money in the
country than there was last year. And
free silver meanwhile has not only not
been decreed, but the policy stands re-
jected at the polls.
Now that the problem has been solved,
and by process which all may so easily
comprehend, it seems strange that so
many people last year should have be-
lieved so implicitly in Mr.. Bryan's con-
tentions about money and prices. The
Nebraska leader and his lieutenants
would allow nothing whatever to the law
of supply and demand. Silver had been
struck down. By that act half of the
money of redemption of the world had
been destroyed, and hence low prices fol-
lowed for everything. They picked out
wheat for Illustration, and now wheat,
obeying tie spurned law of supply and
demand, goes to the dollar mark. Short
crops abroad, which create demand for
the American wheat supply, knock the
spots out CT the illustration, and force a
confession from the silver leaders which
completely disjoints all of the fne-spun
theories upon which they tried to put Mr..
Bryan into the White House.-Washing
tOD Star
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

mirer, the Baltimore Sun, expresses in
this paragraph. clipped from recent edi-
torial:
1T will not be long at the present rate
before we shall have duplicated the cost
OF the war in pensions. This would be
readily acquiesced in, however onerous,
II the money all went to the deserving,
but the fact that most of it is wasted is
legitimate cause for criticism"
Waste is unnecessary or useless ex-
pendIture. The Cleveland theory, as for
mulated by the, Sun, is that most of the
money paid to the veterans, their widows
and their orphans, has been unnecessarily
or useiessly expended. Mr. Cleveland be-
heved that the pension roll was honey
combed with frauds. In order to test that
bellef he was supplied with ample facili-
Ties TO hunt down and punish frauds. He
spent deal of money in that quest, and
the result was complete vindication of
the substantial honesty of the pensioners.
IN MS last annual message he presented
facts and figures by which he involun-
tarlly proved that the pension roll was a
roll Of honor. But although his hunt for
frauds was something very much like a
failure, he met with success in holding up
widows pensiOns.-Washingto Post
Dem.).
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
1t Was Not True, of Course.

"No man in public office owes the public
anything"
The calamity organs are publishing the
above and crediting the statement to Sen
ator Hanna. The Senator is said to have
written the startling sentiment in letter
to Attorney General Watson. 1t must be
classed, says the Times-Star, among the
things that are important if true. But it
will hardly prove useful to the silver Dem
ocrats as a campaign issue. Its virtue in
this respect is badly damaged by the dis
covery that it is a pure invention. Mr.
Watson declares that no letter ever re-
ceived by him from Senator Hanna con-
tanned such a statement. This early eX
posture of the fraudulency of the cam
paign efforts of the McLean-Chapman
crowd is a stunning blow to the rampant
apostles of free silver.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

for public and private debts, or which Is
receivable for duties to the United States.
shall be issued by. the Government OF the
United States and shall be redeemable In
coin.
This means that all the paper money OF
the country shall be issued by the Govern
ment, and would thus be either nat
money or must be sustained by keeping
In the treasury an enOrmOussmetallIc re-
serve, much larger than the one which
now exists and which causes so much dis
satisfaction to the Democracy and its nat
associates of Populistic and socialistic
tendencies.
In support of these principles we invite
the cooperation of all men who love liberty
and hate corruption, oppression and tyranny.
A combination of high sounding words,
intended only to mislead and intlame I'M
thinking people, and coming with extreme
ly poor taste from a party whose entire
record up to the time of it's removal from
power in 1861, was directed against the
''love Of liberty" and in favor of "oppres-
sion and tyranny"
We hereby declare all trusts and monop-
olies hostile and dangerous to the people
enforcement Of all antitrust laws, etc.
All Of which sounds we'll. But the peo-
pie are naturally suspicious Of such de-
clarations coming from party which neg
lected during it's four years of power to
enforce the existing antitrust laws, and
which framed it's tariff law IN the inter-
ests of the sugar trust, the greatest trust
of the land with the single exception of
the one which it is now attempting to
place in control of the nation, the silver
trust.
We demand the immediate recognition OF
the belligerent rights of the Republic OF
Cuba, etc.
Which it is generally conceded would
be of little practical value to the Cubans,
and would probably destroy the opportu-
nifty of bringing about, through the peace
full and proper methods of diplomacy, the
results for which the people of that island
are now struggling.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
M'LEAN'S GOLD BOND.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT AND
SKETCH OF ITS HISTORY,
Man Who Would Pay Workingmen
in 4S-Cent Silver Dollars Demands
uoio' and Gold Only, for Him
self.
Official Records Show 1t.

Ihe demand for information about John
II. McLean's gold bonds continues so
strong that we reproduce this week the
pond In full with brief statement of it's
history. 1t is its own comment upon the
candidacy of man who advocates a
cause of paying workingmen in Accent
silver dollars and demands good gold dol
lars, and gold dollars only, for himself.
The transaction in question is that of a
contract made by him with the Columbia
Athletic Club of this city in 1889, in
which he requires that organization to
make sundry obligations, amounting to
$4,000, payable to him individually in
gold coin, both principal and interest.
Inc transaction related to the cOnstruc-
ton of club house for this organiza-
ton, the Columbia Athletic Club of the
District of Columbia. In that year he
made an agreement with the club by
which he sold to it certain lots in the
fashionable northwest part of Washing
ton, near the War, State and Navy De-
partments, and erected thereupOn COM
modious and costly club house, the price
of the land and the club house being $780,
OOO. This money the club agreed to pay
on or before the LIST of March, 1909, and
issued bonds payable to John r. Mclean,
bearing his name upon their face. These
bonds he required the club to agree to
pay in gold coin of the United States Of
the present standard of weight and fine
ness, also requiring it to pay the Inter
est thereon in like gold COIN"
There, can be no doubt about the accu-
racy of this statement. The bonds were
prepared and signed by the officers of the
club and turned over to him, and some Of
them have since passed into the hands Of
other parties who now hold them. Not
only are these bonds still extant and
readily obtainable by those who desire
to verify this statement, but still more
permanent and unimpeachable record Of
this transs ction is found upon the official
records of the District of Columbia. The
details of the entire transaction between
Club are set forth in a copy of deed OF
trust given in connection with this trans
action. Among the details of this trans
action, W hich are found on the official rec
ords, are copies of the two series of bonds
which the club was required to give as its
form of agreement to pay Mr.. Mclean
the gold which he required from 1T. There
were TO be two classes of bonds, one class
amounting to $4,000, each bond to be
for the sum of 1000. the second class OF
bonds being for $4,000, also payable IN
gold, and bearing higher rate of interest
than those Of the first class, copy OF
which is herewith appended:
COPY OF, TIN pnNn
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
COPY OF THE BOND.
THE COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
FIRST MORTGAGE FIVE PER CENT. GOLD BOND

For value received, the Columbia Ath-
letic Club of the District of Columbia
hereby acknowledges itself indebted, and
hereby agrees to pay, to John X. Nc
day of March. 1909, One Thousand Dol
lars, in gold coin of the United States, OF
the present standard weight and fine
ness, at the Citizens National Bank OF
Washington. at the City of washington,
and interest thereon in like gold coin at
the rate of five per cent. per annum, ON
the first days of September and March OF
each and every year, on the production
and surrender of the proper coupon here
to annexed.
This is one of series of forty-five
bonds each of like tenor and effect,
numbered consecutively from 1 to 40 In
elusive. and secured by first mortgage
deed of trust bearing even date herewith,
executed and delivered by said obllg0r
to said George w. Swartzel and A. L:
Britton as trustees. for the holders OF
said bonds, conveying the said estate
therein described and the buildings. bet
terments and improvements which may
be erected or placed thereon and duly re-
corded in the office Of the Recorder OF
Deeds of the District of Columbia.
If default of payment of interest on
these bonds is made and continued for 90
days after due demand, the principal
thereof. at the option Of said trustees,
subject to the control of the majority In
interest of said bonds. shall become due
as provided in said deed of trust. The
0bligor hereby expressly valves all. any.
and every benefit or privilege of any ex-
tension, stay or appraisement law now
existing or which may hereafter be en-
acted and of all right or equity OF re-
6emptiOn in case of sale or foreclosure
under the terms and provisions of said
deed of trust.
This bond is subject to redemption on
the first day of March, 1894. or on the
first day of September or March OF any
wear thereafter at the option of said
obiigor, provided proper notice of the in
tention to redeem and pay for same be
given in writing to the holder hereof per-
sonally or by publication in a newspaper
of general circulation in said city OF
Washington. and in either case not less
than 60 days previous to the date named
for said redemption.
In witness whereof, the said Columbia
Athletic Club of the District Of Columbia
has issued this bond to be signed in its
name by the President. sealed with the
cornorate seal. attested by its Secretary.
this first day Of March, A. D. 1889.
(Signed)
COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLUB
of the District of Columbia.
CHARLES A. BRADBURY,
President.
HOWARD PERRY. Secretary.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Mexican W orkingmen in Hard Luck.

special commission sent to Mexico by
the Trade and Labor Assembly at Chi
cago last fall reported that teamsters got
81 per day in Mexican money in the City
OF Mexico, while those in the city of Chi
cago get $1.75 per day in American dol
lars, which, as indicated, are worth near
~ 212 times as much as the Mexican dol
lar. Street car drivers get IS cents per
day in the City of Mexico in deprecated
money, and in the city of Chicago 1926
per day in good money. Printers in Mex
leo, $1.25 per day; in Chicago, So. Press
men in Mexico, 1.2O per day; in Chicago,
$3.5O. Shoemakers in Mexico, $1.25; in
Chicago, $3.50. Carpenters in Mexico,
$1.25 per day; in Chicago, $3.50. Brick
layers in Mexico, $1.25; in Chicago, 81
per day. Laborers in Mexico, 3713 cents
per day; in Chicago, $1.25. When it is re-
membered that these wages quoted in
Mexico are now being paid in alleged dol
lars which are worth but about 43 cents
as compared with our dollars, which are
worth 100 cents, the contrast in earning
capacity is something appalling.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
What Would Hammer.

eff the Democrats should gain control
of Ohio they would send to the Senate a
man who would support the vicious prin-
ciples of the Chicago platform. The State
would be gerrymandered, and fifteen or
sixteen men, instead of five, as at present,
would be sent to Congress to support
these same vicious principles. CHAIR
man Geo X Nash.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
MexicO's Predic ment.

The recent enormous fall in the price of
s;lver is driving Mexico to consider the
advisability of going to the gold standard.
The example of Japan. Russia, Peru and,
in fact all the intelligent nations of the
world. is having its effect upon the states
men of that country, and, followed, as it
is, by the business troubles growing out
of the great fall in the value Of silver,
warns them that they must fall in line
With other civilized nations if they expect
90 maintain their business and financial
standing.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

The continued rains of the past few
DAVIS have caused serious loss to the coal
dealers who have boats moored near Ba-
ton Rouge, La. The fleet of w. G.. Coylc
4 Co., about fifteen boats, filled with
water and sank.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

Business must indeed be bright when
the New York Journal, which year ago
was insisting that nothing but me free
coinage of silver could bring prosperity TO
the United States, has published fuii-
page article showing prosperous condl-
ton in New York and the country over.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16
Rrief Comment.

The increase in the production of gold
in all parts of the world is proving very
discouraging to the free silver theorists.
The value of the silver dollar has fallen
10 cents and the price of wheat has risen
% cents per bushel since the free coinage
orators were insisting last year that
wheat and silver went hand in hand as to
prices.
The 1900 election is likely to find the
world with billion dollars more of gold
than it had in 1896. The wonderful in
crease in the production of gold in all
parts of the world is proving very discour-
aging to the free silver theorists.
The friends of the free coinage PROPOSE
t;on who have been insisting that their pet
financial theory would, if put in practice.
increase our sales abroad are not discuss
ing very loudly the fact that in the very
year in which the country refused to adopt
free coinage it's exports were the largest
in its history, amounting to 81, 032, O01,
300.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

DIR. James b. Angel, the new United
States minister to Turkey, has arrived ~
Constantinople.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

Miss Genevieve Griffith, engaged in
raising Chinese pheasants in the Waldo
hills, eight miles east of Salem, Ore, has
about 200 young pheasants that are now
taking on plumage. They are yet running
at large. and it is hardly possible to dis
tinguish domestic from wild birds around
the Griffith place.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

On the first day of September. 1889. the
Columbia Athletic Club of the District
of Columbia will pay to the bearer Tween
ty-fiye Dollars in gold coin of the United
States at the Citizens National Bank OF
We shinptou. D. c. being six months in
terest on its first mortgage bonds. Glass A.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

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The interest coupons attached to the
bond road as follows:
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-16

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-16
Wyoming.

Caspar Derrick: Ira Karman called
at the Derrick office yesterday and sub
stantiated the report of the rattlesnake
killing out in Bates park last Sep
TENDER. Mr. Karma1 said he and
James Kennedy killed 27S rattlers one
day and, accompanied by William
Kennedy, he went back to the scene
the next day and they killed so more.
Carbon county furnishes more prison
ers for the penitentiary than any cOun-
ty in the state.
A reward of 800 is offered for the
arrest of John Thompson. an Elk
Mountain, Carbon county. cowboy, who
is charged with killing range cattle.
The wool growers of Carbon county
have started vigorous campaign
against scab. Several bands of sheep
have lately been quarantined under the
state law. which makes dipping COM
pulsory when scab is discovered. An
assistant scab inspector has been ap-
pointed. who will visit every band of
sheep in the county, and personally in
spect them A large band of Utah
sheep are uuarantined west of Green
river. The holding of this hand on
the trail will prevent other Utah sheep
men from driving their sheep on TO
the desert.
James =. Keefe. pioneer resident
of Rawlins, died last week.