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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
THE JOHN l.. STEVENS.

captain and all hands of the Vesta
blind drunk" and before they could be
sobered up and got ready the John l..
Stephens went steaming by with the
government gold.
1t seems that United States Marshal
Rand had got wind of the contemplated
raid to capture the gold on the steamer,
and he warned the officers of the steam
err of what might be attempted and
placed on board IL of his deputies,
dressed as old Californians. These men
took passage in the steerage and pro-
fessed to be returning to their eastern
homes. They had holsters with pistols
belted around their waists, in the usual
California style. They made the ac-
quaintance of Neville's men and two of
them agreed to guard Neville as the
Barbara channel. Each deputy mar
shall had his man picked. and if the at
tack had been made by the schooner
Vesta they would have shot Neville and
every one of his gang.
The plot miscarried and the steamer
passed on her way to Panama without
any trouble.
The syndicate of English friends of
the southern confederacy lost all that
Neville had expended in fitting out the
expedition with the exception of the
proceeds of the sale of the schooner
Vesta and her supplies at Hong Kong,
whittier she went after the failure of
Neville's plans. The confederates of
Neville who sailed with him on the
steamer were paid off by him at Papa-
ma, and he and Miss Elliott took the
French steamer at Aspinwall for the
West Indies and Europe. The news
papers of San Francisco gave an ac-
count of the tempest in teapot" when
the schooner Chapman was seized for
attempted piracy.
The vigilance of Marshal Rand on
this occasion saved the government $4.-
000,000.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

ing of the vessel which had been desig-
mated to carry shipment of gold TO the
government. Upon this ship. the John
L. Stephens, Miss Elliot, Neville and
eight of their confederates took pas
sage.
Thus far there had been no hitch in
Neville's plans. Now trouble COM
menced. The schooner Chapman had
been for two weeks ready for her coast
ing voyage, and, as she did not go to
sea, the United States officers became
suspicious of her and placed watch
where they could observe everything
occurring on board. They also searched
the vessel, but found everything cor
rect, and would have dismissed the
watch had not a well-known south
erner, while intoxicated. Dragged of
what they were going to do. This was
reported to the revenue officers. and
extra precautions were taken. At the
time Miss Elliot arrived in San Fran
cisco, Neville gave orders for the cap
tain to take the men who had been en-
gagged in San Francisco weeks before.
and who were then at different sailors
boarding houses, to put TO sea and join
her consort off The island of Santa Cruz.
These men went on board in the night,
end next morning the ship got under
way, showing only the usual number of
men on deck. But the United States
revenue cutter stopped her. and con-
,eyed her to an anchorage under the
guns of AlcatZar island. The officers
and crew of AZ men were arrested.
In order not to have his plans blocked,
Neville started two men overland on
horseback for Santa Barbara. to take
boat from there to the island and noti-
fly the captain of the Vesta of the seiz-
ure of the Chapman. The captain of the
Vesta was ordered to intercept the
steamer, and was told that Neville and
his confederates would be on board to
assist him, and that they would disable
the machinery of the vessel in case the
guns of the schooner did not compel the
steamer to stop while they took the gold
from her. But 1.-The best-laid schemes O.
mice and men gang aft a-gle." When
the two messengers crossed to the island
from Santa Barbara they found the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
Progress of Science.

"Did you ever hear how Bubby got
into that breach of promise suit for
$1O.OOO?"
"No; how did it happen? I under
stand he claims he never proposed"
"Yes, but she had sensitiZed plates in
the dark room where they sat, and on
two of them she found mind impress
sions of proposals. She bases her claim
on these" -Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
In Doubt.

Ibid you ever stop to think, DEAR"
said Mr.. Crimsonbeak, gazing at his
plate of lobster salad, that the things
we love most in this life are the very
things that never agree with us?"
"Will you be so kind, SIR" said Mrs.
Crimsonbeak, Strengthening up, Ito tell
me whether you are speaking of the
salad or of me, sir?"-Yonkers States
man.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
Dainty Blouse Waits.

Pretty blouse Waste to be worn un.
der zouave jackets are made of liberty
silk and have delicate tracery of fine
gold and silver thread in scroll design.
These are especially pretty and orien-
tal-looking when worn with velvet
jackets. which should also be emit roid-
cred either solidly or with a band
around the edge.-Leisure Hours.
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The Plefades.

The Pleiades contain six stars visible
to eyes of an ordinary keenness, though
12 or il have been counted in this clus-
ter by persons of extraordinary eye
sight. A two-inch telescope shows
about 60 stars in this cluster.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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GOVERNMENT TREASURE

T the opening of
congress in 1863
there appeared in
w a S in ct o n \
young and beauti-
full woman. The
letters of introduce
ton w hich sh e
brought to the lead
ing people opened
to her the doors Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

it is brave to overcome, it is sanity to en-
dure.-Chicago Standard
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

We think Piso's Cure for Consumption
is the only medicine for Cough.-Jennie
Pinckard, Springfield, Ills, Oct. /, 1894.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Put a pain to sleep? st. Jacobs Oil do
this with sciatica. Torment cured.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

When bilious or costive eat Cascare
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. Zoe, 25
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

The more grateful we are for our bless.
lngs, the smaller our trials will look.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or grippe, Zoe.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Our idea of a hopeless fool is man VIII
has stiff neck from looking up for al
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17
She Was Unkind.

Mr.. Dudeleigh-Ah. Miss du Million.
l have come to press my suit, doncher
know
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Borrowed trouble demands large interest.
Chicago Standard.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-03-17

Miss du Million-You may be goose.
Mr.. Dudeleigh. but this is not a tailor
shop.-Omaha World Herald.
The herald., 1897-09-16
Good to See a Familiar Face

1T is funny" says the girl whose sum-
mering has carried her to many different
places this season, "but one has such an
affection for any one who comes from
home when one is away. 1t is not neces-
sary to go abroad to have that over
joyed feeling at seeing familiar face.
I was walking down one Of the princi-
pal streets of a large city, where was
obliged to wait several hours for a train
the other day, when 1 came suddenly
upon a young man whom I knew ever
so slightly, and thought even more slight
ly of, when at home. But he was away
from home and my heart gave a sudden
jump and actually throbbed with de-
light, and my greeting would have been
warm one If l had not discovered
at the second glance that the passing
man was a stranger, bearing only re-
semblance to the acquaintance thought
im."-New York Times.
The herald., 1897-09-16

the supreme court and the congress Of
the United States had even dreamed
that such a terrible thing was being
done, and the worst Of 1t is that these
two coordinate departments of our
government were particeps criminis, so
to speak.
But Is a contract legal and therefore
to be held inviolate by legislative bodies
and by the courts merely because it is
contract? Suppose that two men en-
tain house or to hold up certain man
and rob him? Should the police let
them go because they have made con-
tract to perpetrate wrong?
The courts have held time and again
that a trust is an unlawful contract
This paper has recently cited the decl-
sion of the Michigan supreme court in
the Diamond Match case, decision that
ness of a trust combination. A trust
robs the man who seeks to enter into
competition by taking from him the
power to do business, or it prevents him
terms as it may dictate.
Mr.. Thurber next twangs an oft
twanged string of the monopoly harp.
He cites the cases OF the Standard Oil
company and the American Sugar Re-
fining company to show that the price
Of oil and sugar have steadily declined,
and therefore that the oil trust and
sugar trust are to be regarded as great
public benefactors.
What tommy rot! To tell the people
that the price of oil has decreased 20
cents gallon wholesale during the past
25 years and then attribute the credit for
the decrease to the beneficent offices of
the Standard Oil company is like the
Republicans claiming the "credit" for
the recent rise in the price of wheat.
Cheap oil (and oil is not as cheap as it
would be under free competition) IS not
sufficient to compensate for the menace
that the Standard Oil company has be-
come to the country from the enormous
power it has acquired through its profits
in the oil business. That power has
been injuriously used. Nor would it
impair the assertion that trusts are
menace. if it had not been injuriously
used. The courts have held that it is
dangerous for any man or corporation
to be possessed of such power, whether
that power be used or not, and it was
not intended that monopoly should
have that power. Mr.. Thurber might
declaim from now until doomsday to
the effect that trusts are benefit to the
country and people would not believe
him unless they lacked. sense or were
tarred in some way with the monopoly
stick.
The fright of contract" is all right,
Mr.. Thurber provided you make the
right kind Of contracts.
The herald., 1897-09-16
"THE RIGHT OF CONTRACT"

1t was only two months ago that Hen
ry Clews of the Weekly Circular Letter
came strainfuly to the defense of Wall
street and now we have F. B. Thurber,
a New York groceryman. trying to
help out the trusts with an article in
the current North American Review EN-
titled 1.-THE Right of Contract" Mr..
Thurber does nothing by halves; he at
once proceeds to place the trusts under
the protecting aegis of the Cons titution.
Fortunately one Thurber does not make
CONSTITUTIONS.
Mr.. Thurber asserts, to begin with,
that legisla ton against trusts is an IL
legal restraint of trade" and he cites
the Constitution of the United States as
follows: Article l. section 10, says:
mo state shall pass any law impairing
the obligation of contracts" Then he
cites the railroad anti-pooling law, the
Sherman antitrust law and the decision
Of the supreme. court in the Transmits
souri, Freight association case as illus
tration of the impairment of contract
in violation Of the Constitution.
1t Is very remarkable that Mr. Thur
ber should have discovered that the
Constitution was being violated before
The herald., 1897-09-16
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN

Upon the surface there is not the ap-
Ohio contest, but that tremendous ef-
forts have been put forth secretly may
be presumed from the known energy
and industry of Hanna. The surface
work will be done later and after the
proper foundation has been laid for it.
Hanna is inordinately ambitious and
defeat would put an end to his political
career, not only as a senatorial aspirant
but would impair his power as chairman
of the national committee of his party.
There has been irrefragible evidence
that he is able to command money
without limit, and also that patronage,
The president has taken pains to dis
play his favoritism at all times, and es-
pecially during his recent trip to Ohio.
The issue OF the campaign is not cleo
ture that will make Hanna senator, and
everything that is necessary will be
traded off to accomplish this one OBJ
ject
The Republican state convention ire
dorsed Hanna, or practically nominated
him for senator and closed the door to
any other candidacy.
John R. Mclean of the Cincinnati En-
quirer is known to be candidate on
the Democratic side, but his party has
not taken action that precludes support
of any other man.
The Republicans of the state are
called upon to elect a man whose po-
litical methods are more corrupting
than any which have been employed in
America, and to set the seal of approval
upon a bosssm that dictates to con-
gress, to the president, to a great po-
litical party and to the country. How
far Republicans of Ohio are bound to
the Juggernaut of the party machine
will be made known at the election.
Hanna Is not statesman, nor does he
possess large information on any great
subject. He has energy and wealth,
and has learned how to manage politics
with dexterity. Ohio has had many
great senators and some rather small
ones, but so far as natural endowment
and attainment are concerned, Hanna is
the least of all. His ability is that of
mere political manipulation, a quality
with which craftsmanship is not apt TO
be associated
The herald., 1897-09-16
SWEPT CLEAN

The Merchants and Manufacturers
association at its meeting last Monday
night took up in earnest the question of
street cleaning. The association is
strongly in favor Of the "man-to-a-
block" system, which has already beer.
outlined in these columns. The opinion
was unanimous that something must be
done, owing to the failure of the present
system, or to the neglect Of the officials to
properly carry out that system, and the
block plan seems to be the most feasible
and efficient of any that has been sug-
gested.
The business men of the city are justi.
fably indignant over the present condi-
payers they have the right to demand
either radical change or an improve
ment. The Merchants and Manufacture
ers' association did not take up the mat
against the existing abuses. They will
discuss it again next Monday night,
when further light will have been OBJ
tained and a movement will be inaugu-
rated that will undoubtedly produce
gratifying results.
Whatever the cause may be, the pres
ent condition of the business streets is
disgrace to the city. About $4,000
year is expended for street cleaning.
but we do not by any means get the
worth of the money in clean streets.
While the business men of Spring street
and other leading thoroughfares would
perhaps be willing to contribute to
fund for street cleaning purposes, as
Secretary Zeehandelaar suggests, that
burden ought not to be imposed upon
them unless it can be shown that the
annual appropriation for that purpose
honestly and efficiently expended, is
inadequate to produce the desired re-
suits. Our business men should not
| be mulcted because of dishonesty or
| inefficiency at the city hall.
The herald., 1897-09-16
POLICE IMPROVEMENTS

The city council yesterday rejected
the proposition of M. P. Thye to es-
tablish a police signal box system for
the city, but that does not signify that
the idea of providing such an improve
ment has been abandoned. On the con-
trary it is expected that arrangements
will be made that will call for bids for
providing a signal box system and it is
likely that within a few months the
project will be we'll under way.
While the details have not been fully
arranged, 1t is known that they con-
template, in addition to the signal box
system, the establishment Of branch po-
lice stations ir three Of the four new
fire stations that are to be built in va
rious parts of the city. Los Angeles ex-
tends over a great deal Of territory, and
the branch stations will undoubtedly
be a great convenience. AS for the sig
nal boxes, every large city in the coun-
try has them, and they have come 10 be
a necessity to we'll regulated police
department.
1t does seem, however, that the best
thing to do to improve the efficiency of
the local police department, after pro-
vidng the signal system, is to increase
the force to basis demanded by the size
of the city. The signal system will help
to a considerable degree to make up for
the smallness of the force, but it cannot
take the place of men altogether.
For another thing, police ambulance
is needed more than branch police sta
lions.
The herald., 1897-09-16
THANKSGIVING DAY ORANGES

The new orange crop is making fine
progress toward maturity. Like that of
last year, it will be very early. There
will be no difficulty in getting plenty Of
highly colored oranges for the holiday
trade. At Porterville, in Tulare county,
a Mr.. Frost is preparing to send east
few cars bearing the legend Thanks
giving Oranges"
Last year we got out a good many
early in December, and We shall prob
ably do so this year.
There are many advantages in an
early season. There is always a good
demand for the fruit at holiday time for
trimming Christmas trees and dinner
tables. The picking of part of the crop
from a tree at an early date allows the
others to grow to larger size. By be-
ginning early the marketing of the crop
is extended over longer time and there
is less risk of quitting the markets
The danger from frost is most fire.
has been moving pretty freely for ten
weeks or more before such catastrophe
it is pleasant to know that half the crop
perhaps has been disposed of and that
where the cold was damaging there was
less fruit to injure
This last contingency, however, is sc
rare that it scarcely enters seriously into
our calculations.
The one serious objection to early ship
ment is that the juices do not fully ma
ture until February and March and the
fruit does not do itself justice with the
consumer before that time.
The crop this year will be the largest
yet harvested here, and We hope the
growers will meet with no disappoint-
ment of their hopes.
The amount involved for the fruit. for
The herald., 1897-09-16
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1ss
GOLD AND FAMINE

The arrival at San Francisco yester-
day of the steamer Excelsior with ST.
600, 900 in gold forms an agreeable varia-
tion from the diminishing stories that
have accompanied the other recent ar
rivals of steamers from that section of
the country. 1t is said that of the sixty
three passengers on board the Excelsior
all but two brought money. This does
not signify, by any means, that all the
others got rich, and it may be we'll to
accept with a reservation the statement
regarding the amount Of the treasure
cargo.
In another and an equally important
respect, the Excelsior's passengers
agreed with those who have come down
on previous boats. and that is regard
ing the danger that starvation and
other cruel hardships will be experienced
by those who remain in Dawson City
through the winter. They say there are
already seven thousand people at that
place, with more coming in every day,
and that provisions are already running
short. To add to the difficulties Of the
situation the prospects Of getting
further supplies into the city before
spring are very remote.
At this distance the people can only
shudder at the prospect and hope for
the best If there is anything that the
government can do in the way of pro-
viding against possible contingencies,
steps should be taken. at once.
The herald., 1897-09-16
WEED THEM OUT

A careful reading of the account in
Yesterdays Herald of the meeting of the
board Of police commissioners will con-
vince the most indifferent that eternal
vigilance the strict enforcement of the
ordinances and conservative policy gem
orally are essential in dealing with this
saloon question in this city.
Tuesday night a protest was filed by
eight property owners who discovered
that an application had been filed for a
license for a saloon to be located within
q block and a half Of a public school
building and in the same block in which
the Newsboys' home is situa ted. 1t is no.
likely that this application will be
granted.
The attention of the commissioners
was called to saloon on South Spring
street that had been formerly conducted
In disreputable manner There were
several small rooms in the rear that had
been used as wine rooms These were
afterward taken out but it seems that
they have recently been restored The
matter came up through petition for
transfer of license, and was postponed
for week, after which the board made
an examination of the premises.
The board would be justified in refus-
Ing license to any saloon that main
tains wine rooms. These places are used
for the most evil purposes and have beer
the cause of the downfall of an appalling
number Of young men and girls. They
are the resort of the lowest classes. tits
only necessary to recall the evidence in
the case Of the -Four Hundred" saloon,
the license of which wasrecently revoked
The herald., 1897-09-16
Roger Williams in History

To the Editor of The Los Angeles
Herald: Will you permit me to make a
kindly criticism OF a historical aliusion
ir an editorial of last Saturdays issue.
In reference to President Andrews of
Brown university. you speak C.. Con-
gresham Joseph Walker of MassaChu-
sets as "a representative OF thai mar
row proscriptive spirit which drove
Roger Williams from Massachusetts,
bay to Rhode Island"
The historical Misrepresentation Is so
universal that it's repetition may well
be pardoned, but the truth is that Roger
Williams was not driven from the Mas
sachusetts Bay colony for his religious
opinions at all And If there was any
persecution or narrowness 1t was on the
part of Williams and not the governor
and magistrates of the colony.
1t made very little difference to Gov.
Winthrop and the magistrates what
Mr.. Williams religious views and opin-
ions might be, but when he chose to at
tack the civil authority of the govern
ment and denounce the validity of the
charter and teach resistance to the laws
framed under it, then the magistrates
kindly warned him that such utterances
were E.ot safely to be tolerated, because
there was at that very moment strong
party in England represented by Arch
bishop Laud which was seeking the
revocation of the Bay charter" and
taking away from the colonists the
lands which they had planted and the
homes which they had established in
so much Of privation, hardship and sor-
row. The story is too long to tell in a
newspaper article. How the good Gov.
Winthrop kindly demonstrated with
him, pressing a piece of gold into his
hand at the sad parting, as Williams
tells it, How the church at Salem, of
which he was the minister, also re-
monstrated against his attacks upon
the civil authority. How he turned his
back in anger upon the people of that
church, even refusing to say grace at
the family table because his wife would
not leave the church. And how, after
he had established his new colony on
the shores of the Narragansett, he
naively tells how he took pains to pre-
vent just such attacks upon the civil
authority as he had made at Massa-
chusetts. All this Is too long to tell
here but If one cares to know the truth
and do justice to the founders Of the
first American commonwealth he can
find it in John G. Palfrey's History of
New England and still more in detail in
the Rev John Dexter's monograph on
Roger Williams. c. F HARRIS.
Pasadena, Sept. 13.
The herald., 1897-09-16

The personal inspection of the boule-
ward in Elysian park by the park COM
missioners Tuesday was most timely.
1t will result in precautions being taken
the first heavy rains may wash away a
considerable portion of the boulevard
built last winter. An undelZround pipe
will be placed at the point menaced to
carry away the water and loss of
thousands of dollars, the value of the
work being considered, will be averted
by the expenditure of not over 5000. The
boulevard is to be one of the show places
of the city. and it must be properly pro-
tected