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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
THE TARIFF BILL.
Choicest Brands Of WI
he Republican Conference Committee
Has Reached an Ag raement.
,rtifcates.

he Republican Conference Committee
Has Reached an Ag raement.
l.. Washington, July IS.-The indica-
tions are that the tariff bill. as
agreed to by the republican conferees
probably will pass both houses of
congress and become law by the end
of the present week, although DELAYS
and complications now unauthorized
might somewhat prolong the final
struggle. An agreement has been
reached by the conference committees
OF the item of particular interest to
the west hides, wool, beet sugar
and lead received favorable attention.
1t is said the west is better taken care
care of than in any previous tariff.
Cyanide was protected tex per cent.
instead of 25 cents a pound, as pro-
vided by the house measure, which will
be of great benefit to western gold
miners.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
SHIPS WILL BE READY.
Japan WIN Find the American Eagle wide
Awake.

Washington. July 2O.-With view
10 having available for immediate ser
vice as many of the ships of the navy
as possible Secretary Long is consid-
ering the advisability of placing the
monitor Miantonomah in reserve.
The Miantonomah was laid up in
ordinary at League island in 1895, and
since that time but little attention has
been paid to the ship except to make
repairs from time 10 time
Secretary Long now intends to have
the vessel put In thorough condition
so that she can be ordered into reserve
with the Columbia and Minneapolis.
This means that ''short' crew with
"a full supply of stores and coal will
be kept on board and that she can be
made ready for sea service within five
lays if the necessity arises.
While department officials declare
there is no significance in this move,
the attitude of Japan with respect TO
Hawaii and Cuban troubles are suffi.
cient to make the administration de
sire 10 be in good shape to meet any
emergency that may arise.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
rhe anl.l re.er IN calIfernI..

san Francisco. July 20. The clerks
in the office OF the alaska Commercial
company were kept busy answering
questions and giving cut maps and
circulars descriptive OF the Klondyke
mining region. While a great MAORI
~ of the men who made inquiries were
laborers, not few came who occupy
lucrative positions in this city, but
who hoPe to acquire fortunes more
quickly ia the far north.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
Over "a WON an.

Denver, Colo, July ia man
named Wendell, night-watchman at
the Denver rolling mills, shot and ia
tally wounded George Gordon at
Jerome park. The men had previously
had trouble over Gordons wife. and
when they met the latter attacked
Wendell with an iron bar and was shot
through the stomach. The wounded
man was taken to the county hospital
ana is not expected to survive the
night.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
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! priety OF government ownership and
this would be used TO defeat the ends
of justice, but that they could be I'M
tied ON foreclosure. The resolution
was adopted.
Resolutions were adopted asking for
favorable legislation for irrigation,
beet sugar industry, good roads, and
calling for the establishment of de-
partment of mines in the cabinet
The government was asked to begin
the construction of the deep water
harbor at San Pedro, California. the
site selected by government engineers,
ana the charge nude that Southern
Pacific Influences were being used to
defeat the building of the harbor.
Hugh Craig of California was elected
president of the next congress, and
Wichita, Kansas, was selected as the
place OF meeting.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
ROBBED HIS MOTHER.


Denver.
Denver, Colo, July 20 Robert j.
Church, "a years old, of 1928 Green.
wood avenue, Chicago. was arrested at
the Brown Palace hotel ON charge OF
being a fugitive from justice. The
arrest was made on request of the
chief OF detectives Elliott. of Chicago,
who said the Young man was wanted
for emhezzling 500 from his mother,
Mrs. William ChurcA
After obtaining the money, as he
says. To start ip business, Robert eloped
with MAUD Miller. who is three years
older than ne, ana they were married
in milwaukee,. They arrived in Den.
yer week ago
Church was released after giving up
s9l6 all that was left of the 81. POO and
he win return 80 Chicago with his
bride.
The young man is son Of William
T., Church. who recently committed
suicide in Chicago.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
LEO AUERBAcH SUICIDES.
A lNew Yorker. whose wife is Visiting il
salt Lnke City.


New York, July 20. Leo Auerbach,
"A man IS years of age, was found lying
on the sofa of his room with bullet
wousd in his left breast and large
crayon portrait of his son lying beside
him. He had attempted suicide. lie
occupied furnished room in the resi-
dence Of Michael Neuman, at 2is East
Tenth street Mrs. Neuman heard
pistol shots and found Auerbach I'M
conscious. 4 revolver lay on the floor
near the sofa. lie was removed in an
ambulance to Haslem hospital.
There is no chance of his recovery.
His wife is in Salt Lake. He has son
Leo, who is a physician, in Denver.
The Neumans know very little about
the family
The wounded man was employed as
a salesman for d. Meyer, a furnishing
goods dealer in Green street. lie had
been working on commission and had
made no money for long time.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
BTMETALLISM IN ENGLAND,
a Swelling Tide of European Sentiment in
Favor OF the white Metal.

Salt Lake July IA special to the
Tribune Washington says Friends
Of international bimetallism are much
encouraged by the food of reports
from across the water Indicating a
swelling tide of European sentiment in
favor of the white metal The Wolcott
commission now in London is known
to be itself surprised at the encourage
ment which it has everywhere re-
ceived. Private dispatches and letters
more than bear out the tenor of tho
press reports and indicate that even
Lombard street is aroused to an appre-
hension of the fact that a change must
be made in existing coinage conditions
if English investors and English inter
ests in the Orient are not to suffer
more in the future than they are adj
mitted to be suffering at present
France seems to be prepared to join
with the United States in any propo,
sition advanced, and England is I'M
doubtedly willing to reopen the Indian
minis and to extend the use of sub
sidiary coinage throughout the king
dom.
The commission, headed by Senator
Wolcott, received its instructions re-
speeding the attitude of the admins
tration which enabled them to talk
business, and Messrs. Wolcott, Steven |
son and Paine have PERSONAL Y given
to those with whom they have con-
versed such information regarding the
growing sentiment for free coinage in
the United States and the feeling of the
president and his advisers looking to
such an agreement for international
as has opened the eyes of
England and drawn more strongly than
ever before toward the United States
,he directors of French fancial policy.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23

Washington, July 1s.-The govern.
ment has directed United States Min
Ister Woodford to formally present to
he Spanish government and press
'he claim of the family of the late DIR.
Ruiz of $4,000 on account of his death
Jail in Cubs.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23
TO TRADE IN ALASKA.
Senator Shoup at the Head of a New Mer.
camille Enterprise.

camille Enterprise.
Boise, Ida, July 1s.-Senator Shoup,
it is reliably stated is at the head of il
movement to establish an extensive
system of mercantile houses in Alaska
to supply the miners of the Yukon and
elsewhere.
Hon. A. J. McNab, Senator Shoup's
partner in Salmon City, is in Boise on
his way to Alaska to make preliminary
examinations: He will accom- pany
James NJ. Shoup, the senator's brother.
to Sitka' where the latter will take
charge of the United States marshal's
otlhe under his recent appointment.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23

W J. Bryan introduced Il resolution
calling upon the government to fore
close ON the Union Pacific railroad and
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-07-23

with the
lose him
ID are con-
SOUR loss is
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01

If ~vaulting ambition" in North
Carolina ever 'o'erleaped ftself' and
has fallen on the other side where
success does not harbor, it is seen in
Russell's last ecapade as big Towser in
the barn yard. He has played his cards
with little skill clearly, tt change the
figure. He has acted like a reckless
gambler who having no money and mo
friends to back him loses his head,
and driven to desperation madly VEN
lures his fate upon a last throw that
will be sure to end in disappointment
and defeat. When republicans in North
Carolina high in position" do not hest
tate to bestow upon the reckless tsar
their unqualified condemnation it is ap-
parent that Russell is about in the con-
dition Of the fellow who sitting on the
limb Of a tree deliberately sets to work
to saw it from nde him. Russell
ought to come to grief speedily, for he
is the deadest failure who ever under
took to be either governor or tyrant.
Even Curtis Brogden, the stupid, did
better. Holden is the only man whose
record as governor was so baleful and
brutal. He lost his official head. How
will it be with the present governor in
his role of tsar, judge and political
shyster?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
CRIMES o 1897

In 1897 there were over 10, 900 cases of
murder and manslaughter, and only
some 120 hangings by the courts and
some 40 or less lynchings. So nearly
10000 Of the scoundrels escaped alto
gether. Since this year began some 100
or lynchings have occurred. If
it keeps on at the speed made thus far
it will reach the figures of last year. It
is reported that lynchings have occur
red as follows:
Texas 10, Alabama IL, Mississippi 10,
Georgia and Louisiana 8 each, Tennes-
see Z, Florida 6, South Carolina, Ken
lucky and Arkansas 5 each, Missouri
3, Virginia 2, and Arizona and Mary
land 1 each. In the north, California,
Ohio, Nevada, Alaska, and Illinois
have had 1 each. That is incomplete
as you will see at a glance. Maryland
has had more han one lynching, North
Carolina has had one, Indiana has had
n quite recently. In fact, there
have been more in some northern
states than reported. Only five ac-
cording to that account in the north.
Too few by many. The account. not
entirely trustworthy, says, of the vic
Tins Of these 81 lynchings 80 have been
negroes, IA whites and 3 Indians. OF
the SO negroes lynched, IS were KILLED
for the crime Of murder, while but IA
have been killed for rape and 9 for at
tempting it. OF the remainder 4 have
been lynched for robbery, 3 for arson,
2 for suspicion Of arson, 2 for race pre-
judice, 2 for murderous assaults, 2 for
unknown causes, and / each for bur-
glary, writing an insulting letter,
clipping with a white woman, train
wrecking, refusing to give evidence,
insults and harboring a murderer. II
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
Big Racket Store,
ON FRONT STREET OPPOSITE ORION HOTEL
PrlC6 List For the Fall OD6nlnQ Trdd6.

yards long, at 45c a pair; 3 yarl4 long at
&c a pair; better Curtains, 3k yards long.
75c. soc, $l.0o. $.25 and $50 a pair. ORA
perry Of all Kinds from &c. loo, 12c up to
finest Silk at Soc a yard. Curtain Poles
and brassstrilmmings at 25c. Shades Spring
Rolls and Fixtures at 12hc and 25c. each
3x6 feet; SKI feet at Csc.
UNDERWEAR, for Fall and Winter, all
grades. and best value we ever had.
Ladies' Undervest. with long sleeves, at
fSc, nice goods; better. heavy weight. at
Csc; one-half wool at soc. and up to the
very best line of goods at TIC, $1.O and
SIPS. Chiidren's long-sleeved Undervests.
for Boys; and Girls. from 1Oc to 25c; better.
all wool Waist, from 25c, Csc and Soc each.
Gents fine Underwear. Remember ours.
We have the best assortment, from IL
ounce White Merino Shirts at zoe each:
Is ounce very nicely made White Merino
Shirts at 25c; very heavy double-seated
Canton Flannel Drawers, wide waistband.
at Csc each. Mems one-half wool brown
Undershfrts, a special job, at 3Sc each.
worth SOC: better Shirts n Pants at SOC,
Csc, 75c and up to $3.50 a suit. We can
please ladies. children and men for their
fall Underwear. We have got the stock
and the prices. Look at ours.
We are headquarters for Gents and
Boys Suits. We ave as nice a line of
Clothing as any clothing store in our city.
We sell Suits from $2.25 to $14.OO. We can
save you money on a nice Suit for the
boys from 75c to s.. 20 a suit. Our stock La
all fresh, pretty and new. Our $500 limo
cannot be matched; all wool and pretty
styles and nicely made.
been replenished in every department with
beautiful Hats. Sailors, Red Crown,
wide brim, at SOC each. A very nobby hat.
stylish and new. 100 dozen new Feathers.
Wings, Murphy Wings, from 15c to 25c a
pair, Cock Feathers at 1Oc a bunch. Tips
Aigrettes, Quilts and Plumes. We can mt
you up in a beautiful hat. nicely trimmed,
at a very small cost, and our styles arc
the prettiest to be had.
A big line of Ladies' Capas and Cloaks.
Nice Capes made Of Ladies' Cloth at 100.
$1.25 and up to $3.50. Cloaks from 81. SO,
s. 80 and up to $500.
We have a big drive in Ladies' and
Gents Kid Gloves. Ladies' nice, fresh
Kid Gloves. a job, at Sc a pair. Nice stock
Of Gents Gloves from sc to 75c; extra big
values.
We carry everything In the Notion line.
and we will do what we can to serve you
with the best of bargains and sell at the
lowest price. You can find US at 112 North
Front street. opposite the Orton Hotel
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
THE sEMIWEEKLY MESSENGER: FRIDAY, OCTOBER /, 1897

But is the plan practical, what it ap-
pears to be? The money deposited with
the government will draw no interest.
Private banks may not be safe, nj
government banks Will be safe. VIII
people desire to deposit where they can
not draw any interest? The govern
ments takes their money and invests
it, but the investment brings no benefits
to h depositors other than security.
Mr.. larry will discuss his scheme when
he makes his annual report He may
make recommendations that can be
approved OF by men OF caution and
judgment and a proper understanding
is not without danger hat 50 much
of the earnings OF the peoples, OOO,-
600, 900 OF more-shal1 come into the pos
session Of the government. If the gov
had shown itself wise, just,
fair, honest and of real business ca
tic feature would be modified much.
We do not say hat the savings banks
system shall not be adopted, with GER
tain precautions, &C.. but we mean to
say hat at this writing We are not
satisfied that the system l. without Sc
rious objections that may be urged
against it. It will require much ma
chinery, will increase the office holding
business much, will make the patronage
Of the appointing power much larger.
1t Is true in Europe the mOnarchies
have adopted a system Of postal saw
ings banks, but hat need not be neces-
sarfly or safely what the United States
need. Are the working people in the
monarchies really better off than h
same class in this country? It is all
right to save, out the best way is the
wise way. What is the best way?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01

If there are three-fourths Of the con-
victs now who cannot read or write, it
is indeed a bad showing for the state,
after spending so much money on the
education of the negroes. If it is really
true that crime now is almost entirely
confined to the ignorant, the unlettered,
it is a strong plea for educating all the
negroes and all the whites. Two re-
marks here: First, the negroes IN slav-
cry were ignorant, but they did not
constitute the criminal class, as now.
It looks as if liberty had converted ig-
norance into ~rascality and given to the
illiterates a heavy bid for criminal
practices. Second, the records of every
p~enitentiary i'm the south about the
year 1885, or later, showed that a large
majority then in as criminals were able
TO read and write. What has increased
the criminal class among the uneducat-
ed so much, as schools have been in
creased and so much attention is given
to the schools? We never believed that
education vas preventive of crime.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01

correct the lynchings for rape In the
south have not been 50 numerous a.
those for murder. When the negroes
stop Wandering and raping the hang
ing by mobs VIII decline immensely.
perhaps practically disappear. But
what a commentary on Justice Is ft to
have nearly 10000 scoundrels guilty of
murder and mansl1ughter In one year
who altogether escaped the halter. 1t
is indeed a d~eploraSie record OF crime
and a vesy poor exhibit for the courts
in protecting human life and Furnishing
with death the bloody villains. 1t II
quite certain that many Of the rapists
escaped. beth the regular and
Judge Lynch's courtE
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
STATE PRESS.

In business, in politics and in all
things. IT is best to be square. honest,
truthful and sincere The demagogue
and trickster, h political Jockey and
the Janus-faced pie-hunter can only
stay on top a hort time. The end of
all such men is orse than the begin
ming. Truth is mighty and will pre-
vail. In the end right will come out on
top. Every deceiver Will be known
and every jackass viii have his ears
exposed.-Lexington Dispatch.
There appear to be only one reason
for leasing the penitentfary convicts to
a syndicate; and that is that the ad-
ministration cannot or will not have
this institution SO managed that it is
not a scandal and a burden to the tax
payers. The penitentiary, under demo-
cratic administrations, was self-sup-
porting and a credit to the state.
Now it is overrun with the governors
favOrites, and accusations of the most
serious nature are made against it's Of
ficers without drawing any denial. The
proposition to farm out the convicts
ought not to be considered.-Asheville
Citizen.
1t would be a long story to recite
what we understand to be the conven-
tional southern view which, for short,
has been crystalized into the term
white supremacy" Briefly, we may
say, that in a representative and par
ty government, the representative re-
fleet, pretty accurately in the long run,
h character Of their constituents. So,
while he white allies Of the negro get
the offices and control the negro III a
certain sense, they must (from the
average white mans standpoint) have
been born with OF acquired an inferior
view of their relation to the negro to
hat entertained by the members OF
1.-The white mans party" Circum-
stances lave made of the democratic
party in the south the white mans
party" So, when We say that white
supremacy" is the paramount issue in
North Carolina, we lei that "clean
ment"-in other words, Democratic SUI
premacy-is h paramount ISSUE
Fayetteville Observer.
The proposition to lease the peniten-
tiary and convicts to a private corpora
ton for a term of years is h best evil
dence of h incompetence of it's pres
ent management. Superintendent
Smith himself gives the following fig.
ures in his report to the directors: Bills
| audited $19, III; accounts not audited
$13, OS6; fertilizers $4,000; borrowed
from state treasury SIS, 900. Total in
debtedness $3.50 Deposited since
| April 1st of earnings of ~penitentiary
SIG, 927; amount due from all sources
S., 5000. He thus confesses that h in.
stftution since it was put under hi:
| control has cost $4,000 o than i
brought in. This is since the first OF
April. 1t was his showing which in
duced the attempt to lease the whole
| system to private parties. The reason
| the lease was not made was not tina
| the would-be lessees did not pay
| enough to the state, but that they
| would rot allow the republicans AND
| populists to fill all the departments o.
the system with incompetent heelers
And the ~pie-eaters decided to hold OIL
to the offices no matter what it cos
the State.-CharlOte News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
POINTED

When Mr.. Foraker talks Of 300, 900 re-
publican majority in Ohio he becomes
altogether too funny for Mr. Hanna
Washington Post.
Mrs. General Longstreet has decided
to hold on to her office until her hus-
band can pick up something in that
line.-WashingtOn Post.
Bryan addressed Is, 1000 people at the
Sedalia, Mo-, fair, n Foraker about
1000. That is an average of silver and
goldbugs in Kansas.-HOustOn Post.
We advise Mr.. Mckinley to try a
negro postmaster on some Ohio COM
munity. We want to see how the
scheme would work--Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-10-01
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK

Thereisa disposition, wethink, to make
the establishing of postal savings banks
by the federal government a platform
with the democracy. AS we said recent
Iy, we are not sure of hi wisdom of
bis movement. We are not satisfied
for the reason given the other day in
a paragraph copied from The Jackson
willie (F1a.) Times-Union and Citizen.
The paternal feature is conspicuous in
h plan, and the United States gov
eminent would nave control of a stu
pendous sum, the careful savings of the
people. The article quoted from pro-
pounds questions in connection with
the plan or system thai are we'll wor-
thy of consideration by southern demo-
Gratis before they accept it and plunge
into the deep. dark sea Of paternalism.
Northern leading papers warmly in
dorse it, but they are h papers for
the most part that are for the single
gold standard. The republican post
master general is anxious and insistent
for postal savings banks. The plea is
it keeps money in circulation, keeps it
moving. How can it work his way
except by the governments using the
deposits to invest in some way, in
bonds or some other form. Will this
be keeping money in actual circulation
in h ordinary sense? The plea is that
people who save money and do not de-
post, put aside their savings in stock
ings or other places for safe keeping.