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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-18
Status Of the Fee Bill.

Taxpayers who give heed to the
campaign promises made by the
fusion orators last fall will remem-
Der with what emphasis they de
nounced the useless and exorbitant
expenditures of public money.
They cite instances Of high sal
aries paid to officials who did
nothing but direct the work of
deputies, and they denounced in
every school house the evils of this
Ubiquitous system proclaiming the
reforms that would be instituted
when the change Of administration
was made.
The history Of legislative action
along these lines shows what small
pretencs the members are making
to carry out campaign promises.
Among the 6rst bills proposed was
one by Workman Of Boise county
reducing the compensation to be
paid to legislative attaches fully
fifty percent. This was in the
direct line with the proposed re-
forms but it met with violent pro-
test and died an early death. A
bill to reduce salaries of state off
GERS received more consideration
for two reasons: First show
Of something had to be made to
satisfy members who were really
in earnest, second, if this reduction
really did carry it could in no way
effect the salaries of officers already
elected and the easiest reform is
the one effected by striking at
somebody in the future.
The third measure is the fee bill
aiming at direct and immediate
reduction OF the expenses of county
Offices. This is the shoe that
pinches and the action Oh this bill
shows how insincere the reformers
are In their cry Of retrenchment
The whole question of exorbitant
expenses in public offices lies in
three or four county officers.
County clerks, sheriffs and asses
sOrs receive in salaries and fees an.
nnal amounts ranging from $4,000
to $Io,o 900. In other words these
county Offices are better paid than
the highest salared state officer,
the governor, who at present only
receives $1,000, and under the new
salary law has that cut in two.
In.the twenty-one counties of The
state at least sixty-three men re-
ceive higher salaries than the gov.
ern0r. yet in the name and pretense
Of reform, the highest dignity in
the state IS cut to a mere pittance
while the scores of fat county Off
GERS still continue to draw twice
the amount that would be a fair
compensation for the services rem
dered
Members who favor the bill are
only half hearted in its support.
They favor reductions where it ef-
fects men other than their friends.
A lobby Of county officers is
now In the capitol working TO de-
feat the measure they favored with
loud acclaim when they made the
canvass before the taxpayers.
Democratic and populist county
clerks. sheriffs and assessors are
by concerted action moving heaven
aud earth to def at the fee bill.
II this is the promised reform let
the honest taxpayer make the most
Of it.
Nav Thenev fop 0ald
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-18
r. G. BROWN, M o.. D.
PHYSICIAN X SURGEON.
Main ST., Lewiston, Stanton Block

The doctor is a graduate of the Brit
,sh School of Medicine (England) Eel
low Of the Society ct Medicine of Great
Britain, Graduate of the American
Medical College, Member of the Ma
tional Association Medical Hesbalists
of Great Britain, and Vice President
of the American Association of Physi-
clans and Surgeons Indiana).
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-18

Practices in the state and Federal Courts of
Ida no and Washington. Office. next door to the
Odd Fellows building.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18
The Death Of Queen Elizabeth.
(From the-.Cornhill Magazine. J

tfrOm Un0. COrnnlll magazine.
Of the efficacy of physic Queen Eliza
beth had always been skeptical. Now
ten or twelve physicians came to the
palace, each promising, with all manner
of asseveration, - her perfect and easy
recovery" if she would follow simple
course of treatment. But they spoke in
vain. Nor could the protests of council
ors, divines, and waiting women induce
her to accept medical assistance. Her
melancholy was "settled and irremova-
ble,'' and she had no wish to prolong it
by lengthening out her life. She only
broke silence to murmur: 81 am not
sick, / feel no pain, and yet | pine
away She was asked whether she had
any secret cause of grief. She replied
that she knew of nothing In the world
worthy of troubling her. At length, by
force lit is said) she was lifted from the
cushions and put to bed. Her condition
underwent no change. Gradually those
about her realized that "she might live
If she would use MEANS" but that she
would not be persuaded; and Princes, as
they tearfully acknowledged, cannot be
coerced. Nevertheless, until the third
week they looked forward to renewal of
her old vivacity and the dispersal of her
1Cuuoi Sy. ouu du uilC WCCh ~ Wdo
perceived that the ground she had lost
could only be recovered by miracle.
On Wednesday, March 20, her Councillors
entered her bedchamber to receive her last
instructions. She had none to give. The
Archbishop and Bishops offered up prayer
at. her bedside, and she derived some COM
fort from their ministrations. In the
evening she sank into quiet sleep, such
as she had sought without avail for nearly
q month. She never woke again
About 8 O'Clock in the morning of
March "a she departed this life, mildly
like lamb. easily like ripe apple from
the tree" When she was examined after
death, her physicians reported that 'she
had a body of firm and perfect constitu-
ton, likely to have lived many years :"
Death was, in fact, prepared to the last
to bargain with her for "a few more years
of life, but his terms implied an enfeeble-
ment of those faculties on whose unre-
stricted exercise her queenly fame seemed
to her to depend. By refusing to be party
to the truce she invited her overthrow.
But she never acknowledged herself van
quished; she made no will, she bestowed
no gift on any of the faithful attendants
who wept beside her deathbed, and she
declined to guide her Council in the
choice of a successor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

In anticipation of the passage of the
pending tariff bill by Congress, Jamaica
has taken up bill which provides for
increased duties on articles imported
from the United States with the expecta-
ton that later on reciprocity treaty may
be negotiated. The duties RENTED under
the old reciprocity treaty of 1890 were not
restored after that treaty was destroyed
by the tariff act of 1894. This is another
striking illustration of the tendency now
adays to frame tariffs with a view of after
wards trading with them as good bar
gains from time to time present them
selves
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

Misrepresentation made to the United
States by Japan in reference to the pro-
posed annexation of Hawaii can hardly
be called protest. In 1871 treaty was
made between Hawaii and Japan by
which citizens of either country were
permitted to visit Or reside in the other.
A treaty between the United States and
Japan permits the former to exclude citi.
zens of the latter, from its territory. The
Japanese minister has called the atten-
ton of the state department to the change
that annexation will make in the relations
between Hawaii and Japan, as it will alb
rogate the treaty of 1871 and permit the
exclusion of Japanese from the islands,
but he has disclaimed any purpose in SO
doing of protesting against annexation
There has been good deal of talk of
designs against Hawaii on the part of
Japan; but there has been no
very good evidence to support it,
Indeed the Marquis Ito while on his way
through this country to theQueen's jubilee
denied that Japan entertained any designs
and he made similar denial in Paris.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

PORTLAND & RUMF0RD FALLS RY.

NOTICE is hereby given that as provided in
~ . - the trust mortgage given by the Portland
4 Rumford Falls railway to the Old Colony
Trust dG company OF Boston, Mass. dated Feb. /,
1892, said railway will pay at the office of Kid
ger, peabody & Co.. liz Devonshire street,
Boston, Mass.. or at the Portland Trust Co. in
PORTLAND. Me-, on and after the first day of
August 1897, upon presentation and surrender
thereol. with interest due thereon to said first
gay OF august, all bonds issued and now out
standing under and secured by said mortgage
WIN premium of per cent on the principal
tnereol. An 1uture interest on any of such
in accordance with the terms of said mortgage.
X. c. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
Portland. Me-, June L. 1897.
ielSdM W&Ftaup1
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

Gov Tanner, of Illinois. has signed the
bill forbidding the coloring of butterine,
and the consensus of opinion seems to
be that this will put an end to the manu-
facture of that article in Illinois. Thous-
ands will be thrown out of employment
and it is estimated that the Federal gov
ernment will lose more than 5000, 900 an
nually in revenue. From the other point
of view it is regarded as great victory
for the farmers and will tend to put
money in their pockets. The merit of the
measure would thus seem to depend upon
the particular end of the glass from which
it is viewed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST

The Linn Wooden Company, of Hart
land, has again been awarded the govern
ment contract to manufacture the 18, 600
or more shawls which are furnished an
nually to the Indians. For five years in
succession the contract has been awarded
to them. The first shawls made by the
firm had to be brightly colored. Red,
yellow and black were the colors that pre-
dominated, but now these have been out
grown by the change in the tastes and
customs of the different tribes and every
year witnesses a change toward some
thing less striking. This year gray will
be the color most used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

At the close of May the Wilson German
bill had been on the statute books for
thirty three months and in that time had
caused deficit of s115, 1000, 900. as the off
cial reports will show. Whatever differ
ences there may be touching particular
schedules, one thing is obvious as sug-
gested by the. above figures, and that is
the paramount necessity of measure
that will relieve the continued bankrupt
condition of the treasury which Demo-
cratic policy inaugurated.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

The negotiation of the treaty of annexa-
ton of the Sandwich Islands by Secretary
Sherman has of course served to recall
what he says about the acquisition of
foreign territory by the United States in
the concluding volume of his Memoirs.
1t was written less than two years ago.
1t is as follows:
The events of the future are beyond the
vision of mankind, but 1 hope that our
people will be content with internal
growth, and avoid the complications of
foreign acquisitions. Our family of states
Is already large enough to create embar-
cassment in the Senate, and q republic
should not hold dependent provinces or
possessions. Every new acquisition will
create embarrassmentS. Canada and
Mexico as independent republics will be
more valuable to us than if carved into
additional states. The Union already
embraces discortant elements enough
without adding others. If my life is pro-
longed | will do all 1 can to add to the
strength and prosperity of the United
States, but nothing to extend its limits
or to add new dangers by acquisitions of
foreign territory.
1t certainly looks very strange to see the
man who wrote the above negotiating a
treaty for the annexation of islands 1000
miles away, populated almost entirely by
Asiatics. What considerations have
changed the Secretary's mind are not
known, but it must needs be that they
were very weighty ones, for the conyic-
lions above expressed were based upon the
experience of lifetime spent in public
affairs
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

For the first time in the history of the
United States Geological Survey its an
nual report is completely issued within a
year of its calendar date. This report is
Of 9at interest and value, containing
carefully arranged information touching
the mineral resources of the country
which must be of practical use to the de-
velopment of these sources of wealth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

Hotel Atwood, Lewiston, has been
leased by G. j. M. Merrifeld, the we'll
at Rockport. He has also traded for the
furniture and will take possession at
once. A number of improvements are
to be made in the house, including a
piazza on the front side.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

The annual meeting of the Franklin
County Medical association was held in
Pennington last Tuesday. Dr. Addison
S. Thayer of Portland, was the guest of
the occasion, and he delivered a very in
structive paper on Neuritis. DIR. V.sO.
White of East Dixfeld, read a paper on
Gastric Ulcer; DR.. Makepeace of New
Sharon, one on Pneumonia; Dr. Howar d
of Pennington, one on Unusual Compli-
cations in La Grippe. Nearly all the
physicians of the county were present and
listened with much interest to papers and
discussions. The election of officers for
the ensuing year resulted as follows:
President, DR.. G. L. Toothaker, Phillips
Sec. and Treas, DIR. A. G. Howard,
Pennington; Oh. of Elk. Com, DR.. H.
B. Palmer, Pennington. The next
meeting will be held in Pennington the
second Tuesday of September
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

Ex-senator Dubois, of Idaho, declares
that what he wants is ''to wipe the Re-
publican party off the face of the earth. -
1t would be wise for him to remember
that ADLER men than he have foo1ishly at,
tempted the same Ething and when the
smoke of battle lifted were found man.
gled and bleeding "outside the breast
works -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, JUNE IS.

- France will spend SAC, 900, 900 in strength
ening her navy and Germany will Zap
propriate an equal amount on hers.
Merely, of course, to preserve that equilib-
rum of naval strength SO essential to the
maintenance Of that even balance Of
power on which the peace of the uni
verse depends.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18
Practically the Citizens Union at thei,

Practically the Citizens Union at their
recent meeting decided upon the
nomination of Seth Low for Mayor of
Greater New York. Mr.. Low will find
support among all sorts and condition of
men in that city and if wisdom prevails
in Republican counsels the hosts of Tam
many may yet be put to flight in the ap-
preaching municipal campaign.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

In a fight between the italian and
French workmen at Barcarin, near St.
Louis du Rhone, France, Thursday, two
Frenchmen were killed. The district is
intensely excited and the police are tax
ing steps to meet further disturbances,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18


The opposition, which is making itself
manifest, to rushing the Hawaii treaty
through the Senate rests upon sound
basis The matter is of too much conse-
quence to be pushed through without a
full and deliberate consideration of all
the consequences that it is likely to in
volve. The Senate spent months consid-
erlng an arbitration treaty with England
which was to last but five years, and
which had behind it a preponderating
public sentiment. Certainly it can hard
ly spend less time over treaty which is
going to impose upon US the government
of million of people, only about ten per
cent of whom are English speaking, and
nearly all Lthe remainder Asiatics The
question is one upon which the sentiment
of the country should be obtained, before
action, because after annexation is accom-
plished there is no backing out. If we
annex this land, we have got to govern it
and settle the complicated race and labor
problems that will surely arise. Up to
the present time there has been little in
teiligent discussion of the, subject and
hence little opportunity for an intelligent
public opinion to be formed upon the
matter. When the original annexation
treaty was. semitic the Senate the public
was good deal incensed at Mr.. Cleve-
lands efforts to restore the deposed
Queen, and was not in the right state of
mind to consider the policy of annexa-
ton calmly and intelligently. There is
now no feeling on the subject to bias the
Judgment, and when the facts are sub
mltted the conclusion of the people can be
trusted. There are arguments in favor OF
annexation, but there are arguments Oh
the other side also, and the public ought
not to be shut off from hearing and
weighing these arguments as they practi-
cally will be If the treaty is rushed
through in executive session.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18
By F. 0. BAILEY s. co., Auctioneers.
FURNITURE, DRY GOODS, Etc.

GATURDAY. June / 9th, at 10 a. M, at sales
- room. Parlor Shit, Coucnes. Pictures.
Chairs. Tables, Walnut and Ash Chamber Sets,
Cabinet Beds, Sideboards, Dining Tables, Bed
ding, Pillows, Mattresses Spring Beds, Stoves.
800 yards Carpeting, Norris Piano, Organ,
Also lot Dry Goods, Pant Cloths, Flannels
Shifting, Dress Goods Crash, Skirts, Spreads,
Linen, &C., &C., &c. Sale will begin at 10
sharp, je17dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

Col. Charles L. Warren, who has been
confined in Auburn Jail some time as a
vagrant, and who has been making
efforts to secure his freedom was released
from Jail Wednesday on bail and is at
through his counsel f. A. Morey, ESQ.
took measures to secure his release by
habeas corpus proceedings. The motion
was denied by Judge Savage and excep-
lions allowed, and the case will be argued
before the law court at Portland in July.
Warren is very indignant about his con-
tinement and claims that any law is out
rageous that will allow an officer to arrest
train ready to leave town. He was re-
leased on bonds Wednesday and will re-
main at liberty until the law court settles
the matter.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18

After months of persistent working, a
definite proposal has been received by
President Hichborn of the Augusta Board
of Trade, for the location of a shoe fac
tory in that city. The name of the firm
is the Boyd & Corey Boot and Shoe man.
ufacturing company. 1t is substantial
concern, having taken its start 60 years
ago. For many years it has operated one
of the best plants in Marlboro, Mass,
employing at times as many as 800
hands.
There is probably no more peaceable
and law-abiding town in the state of
Maine than New Sweden, and the citi-
zens intend that it shall continue to bear
this reputation. For this reason distur-
bers are not wanted and not tolerated in
that community. A short while ago a
man who claimed to be doctor and a
veterinary surgeon came to the home of
one of the residents and stayed for two
weeks. 1t didn't take the neighbors that
length of time to ascertain that the man
was % drunkard and nuisance, and so
when the authorities failed to take any
steps in the matter number of the
young men organized themselves into a
committee to wait upon the stranger and
tell him to get out. He neglected to go
within the "a hours allowed him and the
young men then proceeded to fire him
out and duly caution him against return
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-12
THE LITTLE LATE SUPPER
1t is Good for Digestion and a Cure
for Insomnia.

The old tradition that to eat any,
thlng just before going to bed is sure
o produce indigestion and render sleen
impossible is now happily exploded.
something of light, palatable nature
IN the stomach is one of the best aids
10 qdletude and rest.
Some physicians have declared in
ueed, that good deal of the prevalent
insomnia is the result of an uncon-
sclous craving of the stomach for food
ID persons who have been unduIy
frightened by the opinion that thew
must not eat before going to bed Or
VINO have, like many nervous women
been keeping themselves in a state of
semi-starvation.
Nothing is more agreeable on retir-
ing Tor the night than to take a bowl
o1 not broth, like oatmeal Cruel or
lam soup.
Ihls is especially the case on cold
winter nights, when the stomach
Graves warmth as much as any other
part Of the body. Even a glass of
not milk is grateful to the palate on
such occasions.