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Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
THECHICAGOPLAN
Executive Committee Appointed
by the National Monetary
Conference
Assemblies at Chicago for the
Purpose of Naming Eleven
Commissioners
Whose Duty It Shall Be to Devise
a Better Currency" Chicago
Plan'' Favored.

CHICAGO, Aug 11-To carry forward
its work, the sound money executive
committee appointed at Indianapolis
last January, met in this city for the
purpose of creating national commits
sion, which President Mckinley was
prevented from naming by the failure
of congress to pass the measure pre-
sented during the closing hours OF the
extra session. The committee is COM
posed Of representative business men
residing in various parts of the country.
1t is strictly anonpartisan body. Hugh
H. Hanna of Indianapolis is at it's head
as chairman.
The other members are M. L. Craw
ford, Dallas, Tex; w. r. Dean, St.
Paul; J. w. Fries, Salem, N. c.; j. c..
Hanson, Macon, Ga; G. G. Harrison.
Philadelphia; Rowland Hazard, Peace
dale, r. l., John P Irish, Oakland,
Cal (; H. Fl. Kohlsaat, Chicago; John J..
Mitchell, Chicago; A. E. Orr, New
York; George f. PEABODY, New York;
J. c. Powers, Helena, Mont; E. O..
Stanard, st. Louis; A. E. Wilson, Louis
vile.
The business of chief Importance will
be to select II men to devote their time
to the work mapped out for them to
compose the committee To them will
be intrusted the responsibility OF under
taking to devise some satisfactory and
acceptable plan for revising, reforming
and regulating the currency system.
The appointment of such a committee
is in conformity with power conferred
upon it by the convention at Indianapo-
lis last January The sessions will, for
the most part at least, be executive.
The qualifications of every man whose
name is presented for membership on
the committee will be discussed. Great
care is to be taken in the make up OF
this body. Bankers, business men and
farmers are the classes from which 1t is
proposed to frame it.
Seven members of the executive COM
mlttre responded to their names when
Chairman Hanna called the meeting to
order. Those present were Hugh h.
Hanna of Indianapolis, E. O. Stannard
OF St. Louis, ]. f. Hansen of Macon,
Ga, George F. Peabody of New YORK,
Augustus E. Wilson of Louisville, J..
w. Fries of Salem, N. c., and II, H.
Kohlsaat of Chicago.
The committee held an executive ses-
sion and discussed plans for the future.
Nothing definite was done pending the
arrival of the remaining members of the
committee The present outlook is that
what is known as the Chicago plan"
will probably be adopted. The COM
mittee appointed will work upon the
general scheme mapped out by the In
dianapolis convention and will have ex-
elusive power regardless of the execu-
tive committee and Of the convention,
in the construction and presentation to
congress of new financial system for
this government.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
NOT ATTHEIREASE
Operators Becoming Apprehen-
sive That the Strike May
Last Too Long.
So That There Should Not Be
Time for Lake Shipments
Northwest.
They Say, However, It Is Impos-
sible to Grant Demands
of Miners.

PITTsBURG, Aug. 11.-There isa grow
ing feeling of apprehension among coal
operators that prolonging the strike for
few more weeks will prove bad for the
lake shippers. 1t is cited that when
the miners shall have returned to work,
there will be such demand for coal for
lake shipment that cars will not be OBJ
tainable to rush it through for shipment
before lake insurance rates advance,
which occurs near the time for rough
weather on the lakes and greater risks
of cargoes. At present, lake freight
rates are low and vessels are moored at
all the shipping points waiting for car
goes up. When coal again goes for
ward to the docks, it is feared the de-
mand for vessels will be so great that
time will be lost in taking on cargo be-
cause of the limitations at the docks to
moor vessels while loading and at the
upper ports while unloading.
Have Specific Contracts to Fill.
Nothing has been done by the local
operators looking to settlement of the
strike. They explain this by saying the
miners demands are impossible of COM
epliance, and until they are modified
there is no use of talking about settle-
ment. Contracts are said to have been
taken for all of this year at low spe
cifc price, waving the customary
clauses, which makes the price so much
above the mining rates. Most of the
lake coal contracts are said to have been
made without this clause this year, and
operators say that to jump the cost OF
mining to the point demanded by the
miners or any near approach to it, would
mean that the sheriff would become an
important person in their business.
They say they are doing nothing re-
garding the settlement of the strike,
but trying to get the uniformity agree
ment into operation, They maintain
that the adoption of this agreement Of
fers the only hope of Improvement in
the condition of the miners or the en-
largement of their earnings next year
and following years, and any rate above
60 cents for the remainder of this year
is impossible.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
MANUFACTURE OF ARMOR.
Naval Board Investigating the Cost of q
Government Plant.

Naval Board investigating the Cost OF q
Government Plant.
WASHINGTON, Aug. IA special
naval board appointed by Acting Secre-
retary Roosevelt for the purpose of pre-
pairing for the information of congress
estimates Of the cost of establishing and
operating government plant for the
manufacture of armor met at the navy
department during the day. The plan
is to make thorough investigation of
the question presented in all its aspects,
both with view to the cost of building a
government factory and propositions
will be invited also for the sale of a
complete plant to the government. The
last named proposition is made in order
to permit of consideration of economic
advantages of such plan. The board
will visit all important points in this
country and possibly Europe.
Inasmuch as the shipbuilders have
failed to respond favorably to the gov
ernment's invitation to submit bids
within the $500 mark for supplying
armor, the first duty of the board will
be to devise some practical plan for the
procurement Of armor for the three bat
tleships, Illinois, Alabama and Wiscon-
sin, now building, within reasonable
time
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
NO STRIKE IN IOWA.
Convention of Miners at Ottumwa Vote
Not to Go Out in Sympathy.

Convention of Miners at Ottumwa Votes
Not to Go Out in Sympathy.
OTTUMwA, Ia, Aug. 11.-At meet
ing of the Iowa miners here it was
voted not to strike in sympathy of the
Eastern miners. It was voted, how
ever, to assess every miner 25 cents per
week to aid the striking miners. The
agitators from Illinois worked hard to
get the men to declare strike but the
men decided they could do no good in
ordering a strike with such a small
number, and passed resolution order
ing notices to be sent out to all camps
in the state for another meeting at Os-
kaloosa Aug. 49, If two-thirds of the
mines in the state signify their inten-
ton of sending delegates the meeting
will be held, if not it will be called off.
1t is very probable that the meeting
will not occur, and that each camp will
settle its own scale and grievances with
the operators.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
full stock Of Wood Coal Lumber Lime Adamanb Brick etc. at ChOo
a~~uI~~II eA&%L1> eAe~

Silver certificates and bar silver have
made new low price record, going off
to 30 cents.
T. I. Smith, ''the borax king" has es-
tablished a million-doilar refinery near
New York.
The cattle and wool industry in Wy
oming has increased in value $6,000, 600
over last year.
All the timber on the Red Cliff In
dian reservation, near Ashland, is to be
cut and manufactured.
The steamer Lucania, which left for
Europe Saturday, took 100000 ounces of
silver and $4,000 Mexican dollars.
Manufactured exports for the fiscal
year ended June 80 aggregated in value
$276, 357, 1851. an increase of $4S, ,000,O
Articles of incorporation of the
Spreckels Sugar company have been
fled at San Francisco. The capital is
So, ,000,0 900.
A high German official says there
will be no tariff war with the United
States because his country is too weak
to wage one.
The reports of great loss of stock are
denied by Montana cattlemen, who,
however, admit that owing to spring
storms the calf crop is short.
The Missouri state board of equaliza-
ton has made raise of over $3,000,000
in the valuation of railroad bridges and
telegraph property in the state.
The Venezuelan government has
granted concession to hypothecary
bank and an Italian Steamship COM
pany with capital of S4,000,000.
The American Spirits Manufacturing
company has concluded a contract with
the government of Venezuela for a
monopoly of the spirits manufacturing
business in that country.
The Hudson river tunnel project to
connect New York and New Jersey has
been revived and plans are now being
perfected to resume construction where
it was dropped five years ago.
The yield of winter wheat in Kansas
aggregates 40, 5O2, ,oS7 bushels, or, with
two exceptions (1S9l-1892), the largest
in the states history. The yield per
acre is 14.9l bushels on the S,3l8, 76S
acrea sown.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
UNFoRTUNArE EVENTS.

d. Jayne & Sons chemical works of
Philadelphia have been destroyed by
fire.
A volcanic eruption on an island of
the Philippines caused the death of 500
persons.
BY fall of scaffolding at Worthing-
ton, Mimi, one man was killed and two
injured, one fatally.
An explosion in a. Bulgarian cartridge
factory killed 46 and fatally injured
more than as many others.
Several cars of Northern Pacific
passenger train were ditched at Graf
ton, N. D. The baggageman, express
messenger and mail clerk were slightly
injured.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
LABOR NEWS.

Iowa miners have decided not to
strike at present.
The strike of shoemakers at ST. Paul
has been satisfactorily settled.
Anthracite miners of Pennsylvania
may go out if the bituminous miners
win their strike.
It is officially announced that the
trouble between the Grand Trunk sys-
tenn and it's employees has been satisfac-
torily settled.
y The great strike of bituminous coal
miners is now in its fifth week. The
miners profess to be well satisfied with
the progress thus far. No attempt has
as yet been made to fill the places of the
strikers.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
WOULDN'T BE ENJoINED.
Marching Miners Decline to Keep Of
Public Highways Leading to Mines.

Marching Miners Decline to Keep Of
Public Highways Leading to Mines.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 1.-THE
marching miners, Notwithstanding the
court injunction issued against them,
lined up on the public highway leading
to the Ingle mines early in the morning
and as the men came to work at
o'clock they were again appealed to by
the strikers with the result that the few
who had started to work decided to join
the strikers. The entire force is now
now out and the marchers are devoting
their energies to the other mines of the
city. 1t has been conceded that if the
Ingle men were induced to join the
strikers those in the other mines here
and at Newburg would quickly follow
suit. The strikers remain orderly.
They are being well fed.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
Every Man Came Out.

WHEELING, W. Va, Aug. 11-Mat-
ters took turn in the Wheeling dis
trict and the miners are feeling encour-
aged. In the morning small army of
miners from Moundsyille and Benwood
gathered at the works of the GlenGale
company, eight miles below the city,
and soon induced the working miners
at that plant to come out to a man.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
Carried Away look Gates.

PoRT CoLBoRNE, Ont, Aug. 1.-THE
steamer Britannia, bound up the We'll
land canal without cargo, carried away
the four gates of lock 6. Traffic will be
suspended three or four days while re-
pairs are being made The steamer was
not damaged.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11

The will of the late Colonel Charles
f. Crocker has been admitted to probate
at San Francisco The estimated value
Of the estate is $3.O0O,o00, but it will
probably be three times that amount.
John Jacob Astor has donated 5000
to purchase Elmwood, the home of
James Russell Lowell at Cambridge,
Mass, which will be turned into mem
orial park and be thrown open to the
public.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
NEWS OF A LEGAL NATURE.

Judge Tuley has declared the Chicago
vehicle tax ordinance void, It allowed
bicycles to be taxed 81 and other vehicles
in proportion.
United States Judge Garland of South
Dakota has denied the application for a
permanent injunction to restrain the
state railroad commissioners from put
ting new rates into effect.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

Frank N. Bristol, D. D., pastor of the
First M. E. church of Evanston, Ills,
has accepted call from President Nc.
Kinley's church, the Metropolitan M.
E. at Washington.
The corner stone of ST. Mary's hos
pital at Duluth was laid Sunday. About
4,oO0 people were present at the cere-
monies, which were under the auspices
of the different Catholic societies.
Bishop McGolrick of1ciated.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
.SarsapariIIa
Sense.

( Any sarsaparilla is sarsapa-
J rilla. True. SO any tea is tea.
So any -four is -four. But grades
} differ. You q0ant tie best. It's
sowith sarsaparilla. There are
{ grades. You want the best. If
you understood sarsaparilla as
well as you do tea and -four it
J would be easy to determine.
( But you don't. How should
} you? When you are going to
! buy a commodity whose value
, you don't know, you pick out
an old established house to
trade with, and trust their ex-
J Perience and reputation. Do so
J when buying sarsaparilla.
} Ayers sarsaparilla has been
I on the market 50 years. Your
grandfather used Ayers. 1t is
a reputable medicine. There
are many SarsaparilIas -
! but only one Ayers. 1t
cures.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
silver Breaks to So ga.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE price of
bar silver in London broke to 25A pence
and the New York quotation went to
55A cents for bars and 42A cents for
Mexican dollars. The opening was
5614 cents for bars and 4S1 cents for
Mexican dollars.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
Mnat pntin tl,a avn

GRANITE FALLS, Mimi, Aug. H.
Judge Gorham Powers has handed
down decision in the Hanley Falls
"Y" case. He holds the act to be con-
stitutional. and says the roads must put
III the "Y."
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
THE DEATH RECORD.

Mrs. Margaret Claybaugh died at
Findlay, O., aged 1Ol.
W-ilSiAm Elmer Rockwell, well known
base ball player and manager, died IN
San Francisco of meningitis, aged az.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
HARD TO INFLUENCE.
West Virginia Miners Susceptible to
Neither Reason Sentiment.

COLUMBUS, O., Aug 11.-Phil H.
Penna, ex-president of the United Mine
Workers, and an Indiana operator, to-
gether with another Indiana operator,
had private conference with President
Ratchford Samuel Gompers is here
and says he will go to West Virginia as
an organizer if President Ratchford SO
directs. Leading labor men who have
been in West Virginia have said to
friends here that it is a hard field to or
ganize, for the reason that the miners
there as class are not so well educated
in economic questions as elsewhere and
fail to be impressed either by reason or
ser.iment.
Admiral Nelson's old flagship Foun-
droyant has been wrecked.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
Lincoln,s Cousin Dead.

BAY CITY, Mich, Aug. 11.-Thomas
B. Raymond, first cousin of Abraham
Lincoln, is dead, aged 81 years. His
mother aud Lincoln's mother were sis
terS.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Gold is reported in the Wichita noun
tains in Oklahoma.
A bridge to cost $400, 900 is to be built
across the Missouri river at Ponca, Neb.
Fibel & Grabbe, the big Elninence,
KY, distillers, have filed deed Of as
signment.
Morris tribune., 1897-08-11
news OF NOTED pERsoNs.

King Milan Of Servia is SO i'll that
some anxiety is felt by his friends as to
his recovery.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-06-30
A Wonderful Sign.

Prussia fifty years ago had a State
lottery, and in every town, large or
small, was collector, appointed to sell
the tickets. One day servant girl
came to the collector in Hagan, and
asked If she could buy No. %.
He did not have it In his possession.
but as the girl seemed very much in
earnest and refused to be put off with
any other number, he tried to obtain 1t
from some OF the other collectors in
town and finally succeeded.
The drawing took place and Hagan
rose to a state of feverish excitement
when 1t was known that this girl had
become n winner of large sum OF
money. She found herself, for time,
the chief object Of interest in the town.
She was, Of course, asked how she
came to fix upon No. %. Thereupon she
gave this simple and lucid explanation
Il dreamed one night No. T. and sec
ond night dreamed No. 7, and a third
night again. SO l thought. Three times
seven makes twenty-three,' and !
bought that number!"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-06-30

plants which are already extinct In
wild state, or fast becoming so. or
plants of this mlass the following may
be mentioned: Bean, chick-pea, lentil,
tobacco, wheat, Indian corn and prob
ably sweet potato. Some of these never
have been seen IN a wild state, while
others have become so exceedingly
rare that apparently 1t Is only ques-
ton of n comparatively short time
when they will have disappeared alb
solutely. They have been so long In
cultivation, and are so profundly modi-
fed that they have not the faculty of
sowing themselves and propagatlng in
definitely outside of cultivated ground,
so that if they should cease to be culti-
vated they would soon disappear from
the face of the earth.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-06-30
Beneficial.

Again the statement is repeated that
yawning, besides being a healthy func-
ton generally, has a very salutary eff
feet In complaints of the pharynx and
Eustachian tubes. According to the
results of late investigations, yawning
is the most natural form OF respiratory
exercise, bringing into action all
the respiratory muscles of the
chest and neck. 1t Is recon-
mended that every person should
have a good yawB, with stretching of
the limbs, morning and evening, for the
purpose of ventilating the lungs and
tonifying the muscles Of respiration.
Throat and ear troubles are sensibly
relieved by this form of gymnastics.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-06-30

that time the one motive which has In
fluenced his daughters life has been
to make up to her father, In measure,
his irreparable loss. She has been the
home-maker, and has kept the hearth
side bright and CHEEKY, and to her
brothers she has been both mother and
sister, 1t would be hard work to per-
suade any of those boys that there is
another sister In the world like her.
Miss Flora Is a slender, graceful girl
with dark hair and blue eyes, and the
clear white skin which Is the usual ac-
compartment of that combination. Dur
ing the years her father has taken such
an interest in the Iowa Agricultural
College she has been one of Its STU
dents, and later one of its officers. Miss
Flora's has been busy life; her house
hold duties are much more arduous
than those which usually fall upon n
young girl and, added to this she has
held the position of the college llbrar-
ian, besides being an active church
worker (the family are devout Presby-
terians), and this with her books and
music has left but little time for the
friyollties. And her books and music
have not been neglected, for she is a
devotee of st. Cecilia, and plays on al
most any instrument that comes under
her hand, which she has a beautiful
clear soprano voice, which has had
careful training. But her music Is not
her only talent; she is book lover, a
careful. discreet reader who learns to
love her books as she does her friends,
and she has very facile pen and has
written some excellent short stories and
sketches which have commanded more
than local reading.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-06-30
The Queen at Loeb Laggan.

There was a picture in one of the
British galleries which has an anus
ing story connected with 1t. 1t is enti-
tied "Loch Laggan," and was painted
by Sir Edwin Landseer. 1t shows
Queen Victoria in plain gown beside
her camp stool, at which she had few
moments before been sketching by the
shores of Loeb I.aggan, in the High
lands of Scotland.
In the center of the picture stands a
pony with a deer on its back, its own.
er, stalwart Highlander, at its head,
with an expression of amusement and
surprise on his face. Near at hand are
the Queens two young children, the
Princess Royal-now the Empress
Frederick of Germany-and the Prince
of Wales.
The story is this: At the time when
the scene which the picture represents
occurred, Sir Edwin Landseer was In
Scotland giving lessons in painting to
the young Queen at Balmoral.
The Queen had gone out to sketch
and to receive her lesson, when Sir
Edwin, walking to Balmoral to give it,
missed his way, and had to cross
difficult piece of country road. Coming
across Il Highlander with a pony he
babe him hurry on ahead and tell the
Queen that he would reach her ere
long. The man needed no second bid
ding, and jumped on his pony's back.
He had not proceeded far around the
lake before he drew up in front of
lady, whom possibly he regarded as OF
ordinary appearance, and who, accom-
panied by two children, was engaged
In sketching
The Highlander doffed his cap, and
said:
Gould ye tell me, ma'am, where l
might possibly find the QueenT
"Oh, yes replied the lady, turning
from her drawing. Il am the Queen
The Scot looked again. This was too
much for him. Putting his hands on
his knees, and looking very much
amused at what he regarded as an at
tempt to play a joke on him, he ex.
claimed:
Cannon
By this time Sir Edwin, who had
made as rapid time across the hills as
the Highlander had made around the
road, arrived. He made a sketch OF the
scene with the overcanny Scot in the
very act Of expressing his incredulity.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1897-06-30
AMERICANS MAKE AssINTHE
tt Is Sold as the Genuine French Ar.
tic,e in All Saloons.

tiSie III All Sa1OOHas
The manufacture of genuine French
absnthe Is the latest American indus
try. This is guaranteed to be the real
stun, straight from the bouleyards.
Franco-maniacs who frequent the
cheap table dhote restaurants of the
upper east and west sides imbibe this
stuff, which In an arrangement of COM
plicated glasses is allowed to drip into
II glass of water, where 1t acquires an
Opaque hue. The absinthe Is pre-
yiously n clear light green liquid. 1t Is
made from the common worm-wood
which Is found in many old New Eng
land gardens and from which thick
examination of custom-house exports
that sixty years ago large quantities of
this American wormwood were ex-
ported from New York and Vermont to
France, where 1t was used In making
abslnthe.
But so large has the home consump-
tion now grown that we now use all the
wormwood for our own production as
well as five times as much which Is inn
ported from Germany and France. The
American wormwood Is regarded as the
best in the world. Another expensive
herb that Is grown here Is saffron,
which Is worth from SO to $S per pound.
Until quite recently the supply of SAT-
from came from Vermont, but severe
drought there killed most of the plants
and the price has increased in conse-
quence. In many Western States, as
well as In Mexico, II has since been ar
titicially propagated.
In Michigan there are vast fields OF
peppermint, which Is cultivated care
fully and sells for high price An
other medicinal herb grown in Michi-
gan Is sage. which Is sold at $40 per
ton, In addition to which 100 tons of
sage are imported into the United
States every year ut n value of $50 per
ton, most of 1t coming from Italy. In
the mountains of North Carolina and
Tennessee boneset, pennyroyal and
thorn apple leaves are cultivated, as
well as mandrake, bloodroot and black
cohosh, all of which are used in patent
medicine. California and Cape Cod
are the homes of horehound, which
makes a cough medicine.
This country raises greater variety
of medicinal herbs than any other, pro-
ducing those that grow in cold and hot
climates, as well as those that thrive
on dry mountain tops and in the humid
valleys. Burdock, angelica and bay
berry are some of these roots and others
are spikenard, unicorn root, cascarilla,
cramp bark, thyme and pigeon berry,
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