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Iron County register., 1897-12-02
RETRENcHMENT AND REFORM
The Winter Government Continuing to Re-
deem Its Pledges.

deem Its Pledges
ST. JoHN's, n. F., Nov. 27.-The gov
ernment of Sir James Winter, continu-
ing the policy of reform and retrench-
ment upon which it entered imme-
diately on assuming Office, has ap-
pointed a civil service committee to in
quire into and roorganize the various
public departments. Many dismissals
are being made of unnecessary officers,
and the cabinet is confident of being
able to reduce the colonial expendi-
Lures SIOO. .OOO
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

DURING the week ended November %
failures throughout the United States,
as reported by &. G. Dun & Co, were
236, against 800 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 25, against 3S last year.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
The FusIon Republicans VIII Vote for tn
Caucus Nominee.

NauNU4 ANULkAIHlSes
CINCINNATI, Nov 27.-At the recent
election the fusion ticket which car.
ried this county contained nine demo-
cratic and five republican members of
the legislature. There has been some
doubt as to how the republican fusion
lists would vote son joint ballot for
United States senator. They decide to
vote for the republican caucus nomi-
nee, which will make the legislature
stand so republicans to 65 democrats
on ioint ballot for senator.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

MARSHAL BLANCo, the captain-gen-
eral of Cuba, has been authorized by
the government at Madrid to sign a
credit of 500, 900, to be devoted to the
immediate relief of the suffering peas
ants who have been gathered in the
vicinity of the towns occupied by the
Spanish troops. as a precautionary
measure, and who have been suffering
hardships and privation.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

The five survivors of the crew of the
alleged flibuster Competitor, recently
pardoned and released from Spanish
prisons in Cuba, arrived at New York,
on the 22d. on the steamship Saratoga.
The description of these mental and
physical wrecks of former men and
American citizens, as furnished by the
press dispatches, was pitiable in the
extreme.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
CockreII.s Granddaughter.

Oliver Morosco, a young man of San
Francisco, and Miss Annie c. CockreIl,
granddaughter of Senator Cockreu, will
be married December Is.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
Wanted TO Die.

Harry Cox, ex-treasurer of Buchanan
county, attempted suicide by jumping
into the river at ST Joseph, but was
rescued aud restrained
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

a. 81. Purdy, a poultry and produce
dealer of Golden City, was arrested on
charge of violating the game law by
shipping out of the county.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

OVER 500 American men and women
and a few English guests celebrated
Thanksgiving day by dinner in
london on the evening of the 2Sth.
The party included John Hay, the
limited States ambassador and his wife
and daughter; Henry White. secretary
of the United States embassy. aud
many other noted personages. Many
happy speeches were made.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
From Frying Pan Into the Fire.

Marion Bauman has been paroled
FROM the penitensiary at Chester, Ill.
that he may answer to charge of horse
stealing at Key teSvilIe.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
By ELI d. AXE.

EMPERoR WILLIAM of Germany ar
rived at Kiel, on the 22d, to attend the
swearing in of the naval recruits.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
Says the Law Is Constitutionau.

The state supreme court has declared
the law passed in 1881 requiring that
chutes for the passage of fish be built
around mill dams constitutional.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

James Barker and Elmer Fruit
young men of prominent families, were
cremated in fire that destroyed
Black Bros livery barn at Bethany.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

Our great common
wealth, filed with a
larger population than
belonged to our whole
country when our IA
therS fought for ma
tional independence,
can look back over the
sixty years of state
hood and see the sim
pie Industries of the
pioneers grown to the
div ersif1ed in terests
which have made US a
great state in wealth
and in a great many
other ways.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
Sale of short Horns.

w. P. Harmed, proprietor of the Idle
wild herd of shOrthorn cattle, held his
second annual sale the other day, near
Bunceton.
Col F. NJ Wood, of Lincoln, Neb, was
auctioneer, and sold the offerings, consisting of
y young bulls and "a fancy heifers, for So 6s0
The heifers were good as have gone under
the hammer in Missouri for many years. They
brought an average price of Sl47 per head. The
bulls averaged $IU5 per head. The 81 head
brought an average of SIPS per head
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

At st. Joseph mad deer broke out
of Krug park and attacked Mrs. &. q.
Rau, wife of the park superintendent.
Before help reached her she received
injuries which may cause death.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
Never Reached Her Destination.

Mrs. Hettie M. Burtless, aged 78, OF
Stotesberry, Vernon county, died in
the union passenger station, Chicago.
Death was caused by old age She was on
her way to Elburn, Ill. to spend the rest of Le1
days with her son, Irving. For long time the
son had been desirous thathis father and moth
er come to him. and they started on the Jour
ney. When the train arrived in Chicago Mrs.
BurtleSS was so weak that she had to be taken
on the train in a roller chair, She had been in
the waiting-room only few minutes when she
aXnred-
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

The spirit of philan-
thropy among our cit
liens has been active in
providing for the needs
OF suffering and unfor-
tunate.
ChriStrian workers
have brought many to
acknowledge their obli-
cations to lead better
lives, and countless
numbers have been
made happier for their
efforts during the year.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

Coz. Stephens:
Our great common
wealth, filled with a
eater populat ion
than belonged to the
whole country when
our fathers fought for
national independence,
can look back over the
Seventy-six years of
statehood and see the
simple industries of the
pioneers, grown to the
many diversified indus
tries which have made
us the eighth state in
wealth, and we are fifth
in numbers and polit-
ical power in this great
Union.
Inc spirit OF philan-
thropy among our citi-
zenS has been active in
providing for the needs
of suffering and unfor-
tunate.
Christian workers
have brought many to
acknowledge their obli-
cations to lead better
lives, and countless
homes have been made
happier for their efforts
during the year.
Iron County register., 1897-12-02
Hon. William Ii. Letcher.

Hon. William II. Letcher, one of the
best-known lawyers in the state, died
ct st. Joseph hospital in Kansas City.
Deceased was born in St Louis, Septem Der
"a, and was educated at Washington college
Lexington. Va; was admitted to the bar in
1S4S, and located in Marshall soon after
He was elected to the legislature in 1856,
and reelected in 1883 by wings and Amer
leans. While member of the assembly he OBJ
tanned q state reputation in the debate on the
Cape Girardeau Sunday Bill" In 1873 he was
adelegate to the convention which framed the
present state constitution
Iron County register., 1897-12-02

GIyeerine-Eighty Quarts OF the Stun Lee
Go-One Man Fatally Burned; Two 9th
ers Seriously Injured; o Team and En-
gine Blown TO Atoms, and Three Towns
BADLY Erackad
The record-union., 1897-09-19
FURTHER ABOUT BOOK CLUBS.

The Record Union" the other day
gave editorially some account of
the Yonkers Book Club, now
twenty-five years old, and how
a community without a free Ii
brary managed at small cost to secure
the opportunity to read goodly number
of the best books. That little sketch has
aroused interest in several sections, and
we are asked by number of cores
pondents for fuller details. Really. we
gave them fully in the article referred
to, but they are simple and it will not be
Improbable to review them, and add
some facts that have since been pub
lished in the New York Times"
In any small community where there
is no free library, and at least twenty
persons or families who desire to read
good books let there be called an as
sembly of such persons or representa-
tives of the families, each bringing the
small sum of So Let them organize by
tary-Librarian For the latter Office,
one must out of community public
spirit consent to act for one year. He or
she should be a person having some
knowledge of books and his or her res
idence should be rather nearer the cen
ter of the community than not Or, as
has been done in one village, a space can
be secured in some office or public place
for shelf room for the books to be pro-
cured, and trust reposed in the club
membership TO draw and replace the
books in regular order the librarian
keeping such supervision over them.
however. as is consistent with other
duty.
The $40 should be paid over to,the Ii
brarian who will purchase with it at
The record-union., 1897-09-19
IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.

The decrease of immigration into the
United States in 1897 was 112, $50 less
than in 1896, each year being to June
Both This is 33 per cent. decrease,
gratifying figure In the earlier year
we debarred from entry 3,031; in 1897
we excluded 1880 This may indicate
greater vigilance on the part of the
authorities or a wholesome deterrent
influence due to the previous exclusions.
Probably both causes operated, since
the percentage of decrease in the total
input would indicate that restraining
laws have served to deter immigration
of the undesirable classes, and because
the illiterates who entered in 1896
amounted to SO, 1856, while the illiterates
in 1897 We're 1850
The percentage of immigration from
Austria Hungary, Italy, Poland and
Russia was the same in each year, 90.
The percentage from the United King
dinavia was 80 in 90, and 81
in '97. The average of money brought
in by immigrants per head was
S11 in 1896 and $15 in 1897 AS an evil
dence that immigration statistics re-
fleet the industrial activity of the coun-
try, it is to be remarked that the i'm
migration in 90 was one-third greater
than in '95; so that the falling off in
'97 precisely equals the excess of go
over 90.
We are to conclude, therefore, that
with the returning tide of prosperity
the input in '97-'9S will recover from
the recent decline, and probably ex-
coed it, which suggests that the i'm
grafton officials should be still more
vigilant and rigid in enforcing the ex-
clusion regulations. 1t is also a sug-
gestion that the most favorable time
for further stiffening the exclusion laws
| is this year, when they will bear least
heavily, becuse of the decrease of in
put referred to.
The record-union., 1897-09-19

no sweeping and utter obliteration of
to-day's consummate fools. by the
breath of divine wrath. These money
ed women are doing precisely the thing
that of all others they should not do.
They are adding fuel to the fires of dis
content. giving the anarchist seeming
excuse for his bomb. and crystallizing
an element that many believe will pro-
mote successfully a violent upturning
of social and political conditions in our
to a force aimed directly against or
DERBY society, and which threatens to
turn first against just such women and
men as the baggage protestants to
their downcasting and complete sub
lection, after being stripped of their
possessions. Heaven be besought that
such conflict as some fear may never
come on in blood and strife, however
much of social transformation may be
brought about in the order of evolu-
ton, and by the arts OF peace.
Why under the burning sun should
not these rich danes pay duty on their
fine linen and purple raiment, their dia-
monds and their bric-abrac? What
justice would there be in making the
waiting maid pay, as she must and
does, on her linen and cheap jewelry,
and in exempting her mistress from
her due share of contribution to the
revenues of the country? 1t is alleged
that some of these people in the past
have managed by baggage importations
to cover a sufficient margin of saving
out Of non-payment of customs dues
to meet all their expenses Of mainte-
nance while touring Europe. If that is
true, who footed the bills? Assuredly
those at home who paid the revenue
taxes. If the maid must pay on her
Isle thread mits, by all means make
"miladi" pay on her French kinds.
So far as the protest and boycott of
these resentful women go, they will of
course amount to nothing, but they
will make a handle for the professional
distuf bers, the walking agitators and
the bowling destructionists, and that,
at least, is annoying. However, great
is the evil out of which comes no good.
The incident will at least rivet the $500
rule upon the Federal system. These
silken danes have builded better than
| they thought, they have set at rest
completely all doubts concerning the
wisdom of the new policy, expressed in
the section of the Dngley bill referred
The record-union., 1897-09-19
AN INExCUsABLE IGNORANCE.

The Record Union" said that moth
ing could be more dangerous to repub-
Hcan institutions than the influence Of
a consolidated vote. It pointed to the
fact that popular election for Presi-
dent would turn over the choice Of
President to the populous centers. At
tempting to answer this, the call"
exposes its ignorance of the most re-
cent political data. 1t says:
Can there be any completer exposure
of the futflity of the consolidated vote
argument than is contained in the
statement as it stands? When did the
people OF the territory comprising the
manufacturing interests of this country
ever cast a consolidated vote?"
Let the facts of recent history an
swer the Call McKinley's majority
of the popular vote in the United States
was 2S6,244. His plurality as against
Bryan. was 603, 044: but the first figure
represents his majority. The balance
of power which would be exercised by
the manufacturing districts of the
United States is fully Illustrated in the
majorities cast by the New England
States, Pennsylvania and New York.
The majorities given to Mckinley over
Rr-van were aS follows.
The record-union., 1897-09-19
THE FOOLS ARE NOT DEAD.

One of the most commendable of all
the provisions of the Dingley Law
is that which admits free of duty no
baggage Of a traveller that contains
more than 500 worth of dutiable goods.
Recently one Of the money kings Of
New York had to draw his check for
$1,000 tic pay duties upon the goods his
wife had in her forty-one trunks, on her
return from a visit to Europe.
This and similar incidents have
aroused certain of the women of the
fashionable rich set in New York to a
protest. and they have set about TO
secure the repeal of the provision of the
law referred to. One of their first as
saults takes the form of resolve TO
boycott the members of the New York
Board of Trade, who were Instrumental
in having the provisinon inserted in the
law that these women of coin propose
to down.
We sometimes lose faith in Proyi-
dence. when we observe that there is
The record-union., 1897-09-19

Tramp steamers and tramp sailing
craft are f1ocking into the Atlantic
ports of the United States from all
quarters. They are Italian, Dutch,
English, Norwegian, German, French
and all sorts. Never before were so
many foreign tramp ships seen upon
our Atlantic shores. They are over
here 10 carry the wheat of the United
States to foreign markets. 1t is said
that orders have gone out from Liver
pool buying houses for ships from all
quarters to hasten to the United States
and secure charters for grain carriage,
and in many cases they are guaranteed
these. Here, then. is a commentary
upon the depborabie policy that has
permitted the American merchant ma
rine to run down until it takes a long
search To find an American flag flying
over a salt water bottom. We have
just now 100000 bushels of grain to
expor<, and we must trust to foreign
ships to carry it away, whereas, forty
years ago the American bottoms would
have been sufficient for the carriage of
the whole of it. without engaging sin
gle foreign vessel to assist
The record-union., 1897-09-19
THE PROPOSITION IS DEAD.

The Cali has practically abandoned
it's attempt to amend the Constitution
so that no man could be elected to
membership on the State Board of
Equalization unless he became sub
servient to San Francisco. 1t has
ceased to argue the question and has
become a pewling apologist for the mis-
take it made in mooting the proposition
in the first instance.
The record-union., 1897-09-19

his frame rigid. He is a highly cult
ured Englishman, being educated first
at Bruce Castle and then at Rugby.
He has an elegant country home at
Wargrave, on the Thames, and is well
coined everywhere by the cultured
classes. At 10 he went to Africa and
obtained permission from Lobengula,
King of the Matabeles, to hunt ele-
plants He spent twenty-three years
as South African hunter. During
1877 he killed 20 elephants, 8 rhino
ceros. 4 hippopotami, 100 buffalo, As
zebras and 13 lions. He has suffered
many hardships and had many mar
row escapes. He thinks elephants
will never become extinct, for they
thrive where men cannot go
The record-union., 1897-09-19
Which Road First?
MERGED SUM

Congressman De Vries leaves this al
ternoon for Crocker's Station, near the
Yosemite Valley, where he will meet a
number of Government officials and
proceed with them to Mono Lake, along
the route where it is proposed to build
a public road TO the valley.
Last spring Colonel De Vries intro
iuced bin in Congress calling for the
construction of such a road, the Ma
tional Government to work jointly with
California in the matter, and the trip
of inspection which is now to be made
is in pursuance OF that move. The gen.
tlemen who are to meet the Congress
man at Crocker's are the Chief of the
Geological Survey at Washington;
Messrs. Ashe and Price of the State
Board of Highway Commissioners and
Captain Rodgers of the Yosemite VAL
ley.
1t is thought that the proposed road
will cost between 100000 and $4,000.
1t will be approximately sixty miles
long and will run eastward from the
valley, opening up a route into it from
the Nevada side and bringing into view
some magnificent scenery at present in
accessible TO tourists.-Stockton Mail
If we understand the situatio cor
rectly, the sooner this little scheme is
'nipped in the bud" the better will it be
for California and the General Govern
ment. Not that we have any objection
to good roads being built into the val
ley, and lots of them, but just now
proposition is under discussion to open
a free wagon road from Yosemite TO
some railroad point in the San Joaquin
Valley, where such a wagon road would
be of far greater utility than would the
one proposed by Mr.. De Vries And it
is very unlikely that the Government
can be induced to assist in opening two
free wagon roads to Yosemite this com.
ing year.
In locating free wagon road out of
yosemite, that route should be chosen
which will accommodate the greatest
number Of people. We believe we can
say without fear of contradiction that a
road from Yosemite into the San Joa-
quin Valley would accommodate 100
people where road out of Yosemite
on the Nevada side would accommodate
one. Ninety-nine per cent. of the
travel to natures wonderland has al
ways been via the San Joaquin Valley.
and always will be- This is true sof
tourist as we'll as local travel.
OF course it would be nice to bring
INTO view some magnificent scenery at
present inaccessible to tourists" but
we think before that is done the mag
nif1cent scenery of the valley should
flrst be made accessible to the hundreds
OF thousands of Californians who have
not been able to see it because no free
wagon road has been built To bring
the matter down to a plain statement
of fact, free road from the San Joa-
quin Valley to Yosemite has become a
necessity. a road out of Yosemite on
the Nevada side would be a luxury. 1t
should therefore not be difficult TO de-
termine which road should be built
first.
The record-union., 1897-09-19

A rebellion has broken out in Guate-
mala, and as soon as the news reach
ed this Government a United States
war vessel was ordered to proceed in
haste to that country to protect Amer
lean interests. That is right; but why
is it that no United States war vessel
has ever been sent to Cuba, where a
bloody revolution has been going on
for two years, and American citizens
have been robbed and murdered?
The record-union., 1897-09-19
FREDERICK C. SELOUS.
The English Elephant Hunter Pay
ing a Visit to This Country.

One Of the most picturesque charac-
ters Of modern times is Frederick
Courtney Selous, the English elephant
hunter, who is now in this country.
Mr.. Selous is 10 years old and is
; feet 10 inches high, as straight as a
plumb line, and shows in his move
ments that his muscles are tough and
The record-union., 1897-09-19

tent, brawling and disorder. 1t wants
every man TO be law unto himself. 1t
would, however, have no such thing as
be as good and no better than his
neighbor Anarchists are communists
in degree, but at the same time they
would have no law for the direction of
community interests
The record-union., 1897-09-19
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1t will be observed that McKfnley's
plurality over Bryan in the United
States was $685. 44, while the plurality
given in the States above tabulated IS
81, PSI Thus Mckinley received in
the manufacturing districts of the
United States 20S,O00 more plurality
than in the United States; or. to pre-
sent this IN another way, he received all
OF his plurality in the manufacturing
districts of the United States and 20S, :
600 more. But McKinley's majority
was but 2S6. pa, while, as already no.
ted the plurality in the manufacturing
districts of the United States was over
500, OOO
The Presidential election Of 1896 is
not the only instance which fully illus
trates the capacity of the populous cen
tiers of the United States to choose a
President.
The record-union., 1897-09-19

The Cleveland Leader calls atten-
ton to the fact that the anarchists and
the radical socialists are not the
friends Of labor Il cites in proof. as
if proof Were needed in such a case.
that at the anarchist picnic in Chicago
September 5th the chief speakers scott
ed at Labor Day, and denounced those
who observed it or took pr in it's pa
rades. Anarchism feeds on discen-
The record-union., 1897-09-19
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Cloudy and unset
tied weather Sunday; warmer in the Sac
ramento Valley; northerly winds
The record-union., 1897-09-19

Last week of fair. Vote tonight.
Capital" Java Blend Coffee booth, Pa
vilion.
The record-union., 1897-09-19

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The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
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as -second-class matter.
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