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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28
THEY CALL 1T A MURDER.

Indiana Farmers In a Frenzy Over
Brutal Acts of Gamekeepers.
Lake County Indiana, has been greatly
stirred by the shooting of four farmers
by the gamekeepers of the Tolleston Gun
Club. In Hammond, Whiting, Tolleston
and Grown Point the farmers gathered,
and threats were not only freely made
against the men who were concerned in
the shooting, but against the property of
the gun club ms WELL Threats of organ
izing to ''clean OUT the gamekeepers, sack
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

For the twelfth time in succession the
Prince of Wales has been nominated for
the Office Of grand master Of Englisb
Mark fAsons.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

In India sugar sap is reduced by the
use Of eleven boilers, the juice being
poured from one to another. until It
has become q stifY molasses.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28
CRAWLING MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2s 1897.
FROM LAKES TO OCEAN
DEEP WATERWAY CANAL MAY
BE BUILT.

Report of the Com mission Is Favora.
bic to the Scheme, and 1t 10 Conn
mendcd by the President : Census
Figures Upon Empioyments.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

You miserable devil, where did you
get the notion that you are smart?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

CRAWLING LODGE. No. $50. y. Il A. NJ.
meets in regular communication on Thursday
evening ON or before the full Of the moo
FRED NARRES, w. NJ
A. TAYLOR, Secretary
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

GRAlLING CHAPTER, r. A. NJ. No. 49,
Meets every third Tuesday in each month.
J. X. MERZ, H. p.
A. TAYLOR, Sec.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

MARVIN POST, No. 24o, G. A. r., meets tho
second and fourth Saturdays in each month
w. s. CHALKER. Post Com.
J.J. COVENTRY, Adjutant.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

CRAWLING LODGE, 1. q. o. f.. No. 157.-
Meets every Tuesday evening.
z. b. JOHNSON, N. G.
p T.. JOHNSON, Sec.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

CRAWFORD TENT, X. o. t. NJ. No. 1o2-
Meets every Saturday evening.
j. j. COLLINS Com
T. NOLAN, II. e.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCH.
Rev. W. II. Mawhorter. Pastor Services every
Sunday at 7:cO p. m. and alternate Sundays at
103o a. m. Sunday school at . p. m.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

ST. MARY's CATHOLIC CHURCH.-Father
H. Webeler. Regular services the last Sunday
in each month.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

DANISH Ev. LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev.
A. p. w. Becker, Pastor. Services every Sun
day at 1880 a m. and y. m. and every ryWednes-
day at D. m. A lecture In school room IL m.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-01-28

COURT CRAWLING, J. o. F., No. 7D.-Meeto
second and last Wednesday OF each month
j. WooDBURs, G. r
b. WISNER r. g.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

customs duties. He would have made
a thoroughly competent collector of IL e
undivided district; he will be a most
efficient ruler over his half of a divided
kingdom. The WATCHMAN congratu-
lates Colonel Mansur upon his appoint
ment. For the collectorship of the
Vermont district, Colonel Benedict of
the Free Press was an aspirant, as he
had been for the same Office in the old
district, but DIN Merrill secured the
congressional preference and will there
fore draw the salary and secure the per-
q~uisites of the office for the next four
years.
In reviewing the contest for the
Office of collector in an editorial in the
Free Press, Colonel Benedict displays
some bitterness over the outcome. or
Mr.. Merrill's candidacy he says:
His position as chairman of the republic
can State committe enabled him to use the
party organizations in the counties, towns
and State at large, and it was used with
vigor and without scruple. He withdrew
from Col. Mansur some OF the support
which had been pledged to the latter, and
became a very formidable competitor for
the ofice-the more 80 as he was understood
to be in favor at the center Of patronage for
this state.
The WATCHMAN cannot withhold an
expression of its surprise at the Free
Press charge against Chairman Merrill.
Merrill INSCRIPTIONS? The contem-
porary declares it. Something of the
same kind was alleged a year ago in re-
spect of Chairman Merrill's manage.
ment of the pre-convention canvass for
a candidate for the governorship, but
the Free Press praised Merrill, secuted
the allegations and looked sever at the
allegators. But the contemporary
seems now to be in a position to speak
with greater freedom and candor-not
to say truth. 1t has been very gener'
ally remarked, for a long period, thai
whenever any member of this States
delegation in Congress-particularly the
Junior Senator-took snuff the FreSs
Press sneezed. So the thrust at "the
center of patronage for this State
seems "the most unkindest cut of all"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

somewhat when it was attempted to cut
through the mass hat was left in the high
way between the residence OF Mr.. hur
and Mr.. Hickory. The logs, limbs, roots,
boulders, gravel and mud were all in such
a compact mass that it was impossible to
in order to clear the highway 1t was neces-
sary to actually cut a passage through the
pile that was left directly in the road. Mr..
Mehuron Is OF the opinion that he will be
obliged to use dynamite to loosen the piles
that were left in every direction scattered
over his fields. 1t is impossible to describe
the compact mass.
A trip up through the canyon that was
left in the track OF the slide gave an added
idea of it's tremendous force. Birch, spruce
and hemlock trees two feet and more in
diameter were twisted off and the churning
process which they went through before
they reached the level land where they
were deposited, stripped them Of bark and
limbs as clean as it could have been done
with an axe. When the reporter first
reached the lower end OF the slide he inno-
Gently inquired how 80 much peeled timber
happened to be so far up on the noun.
tain, and was informed that the process OF
peeling was carried on during the wild ride
down the mountain,
The whole avalanche and the ruin it has
left Is a sight rarely seen, and will well repay
q trip to that locality. AS has been stated
the home OF Mr.. Belts Is nearly under the
mountain, a half a mile or more from the
main road, and upon the very verge OF
civilization, During last Sunday by actual
count more than one thousand people were
at his home, from where hundreds Of them
took the trip up through the track left by
the slide. About Sunday noon the land
within a radius Of half a mile around Mr..
Belts home locke like a vast camp
meeting. The people came on foot, on bicy.
cles and by every known conveyance, and
it was anything but a quiet Sunday in thai
neighborhood. The Fayston landslide Of
1897 will pass into history as one of the
most important events in the history OF
Vermont during the closing years of the
nineteenth century.
The WATCHMAN reporter is indebted to
Judge @. e. Jones for courtesies extended
He was driven to the scene of the avalanche
by the hospitable judge, introduced to the
people Of that locality, and by him his at
tention was called to many facts Of interes
that might otherwise have escaped his
observation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21
Some Federal Offices,

The Vermont delegation in Congress
seems to have been divided as to the
appointments to certain prominen,
federal offices in this State. There wal
an v e division as to who should be
district attorney, Senator Proctor and
Representative Grout favoring w. A
Lord Of Montpelier, while Senator
Morrill, supported j. L. Martin Of
Brattleboro, and Representative Powers
w. L. Burnsp of Burlington. A de.
cision Of the matter vas finally made
in favor of Mr.. Martin and his appoint
ment will be recommended to the Presi.
dent. Either of these candidates would
make an entirely efficient district attor.
ney. There is disappointment in this
locality and in other parts of the State
over the turning down of Mr.. Lord,
but it was a fair contest and the unsuc-
cessful candidates have only encounter
ed the fortunes of war. Mr.. Martin is
a lawyer of great ability, and a mar of
high character and strict integrity.
The duties of the Office to which he has
been recommended will be faithfully
and efficiently performed, if the recon-
mendation is followed by appointment
and confirmation, as it unquestionably
will be.
The collectorship for the Vermont
customs district has perhaps excited
the strongest public interest. The in
tensity of the contest for the office, to-
gether with the personality of the lead
ing aspirants, was apparently embar-
RAISING to theVermont members ofCon-
gress, and to accommodate them the
National Legislature obligingly made
two bites of the Vermont customs
cherry by dividing the district along the
mountain line. Col. u. M. Mansur is
recommended for the office of collector
for the eastern, or Memphremagog, dis
trict, and Olin Merrill for the western,
or Vermont, district. Colonel Mansur
had been the leading candidate for the
collectorship of the undivided district,
and he had no competitor in the new
eastern district. He has been deputy
collector Of customs and is practically
familiar with the business Of collecting
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21
England's Method of Annexation,

A brief dispatch from London last
week announced that a British warship
had hoisted the English flag on three
large islands belonging to the Solomon
group in the southwestern Pacific.
England thought she wanted these
islands and appropriated them without
form or ceremony, and 80 far as known,
no protests have been filed. With the
usual method of British procedure Eng
land has taken these three islands with
out asking the permission of the other
powers, or giving the natives any voice
in the matter.
The Solomon group of islands was
originally discovered by Spain and they
are now in the possession of England
and Germany; they are situated five
hundred miles east of New Guinea and
extend some six hundred miles in two
parallel chains, with a total area of
about fifteen thousand square miles.
They are peopled by about 100000
natives, divided into several tribes,
that are constantly at war with one
another. They are savages, many of
them cannibals, and ancestor worship
is their religion.
The vegetation is said to be magnih-
cent, especially in forests of valuable
wood that covers the mountains, but
the natives in every way are far below
the native Hawaiians in civilization.
The dispatch above referred to states
that Scattered owe the Pacific are
many small groups of isolated islands,
many of which. have been annexed to
Great Britain or placed under British
protection" No protest is made to
this and the list of annexations is GER
tanly a long one But when, after con-
sidering it for many years, the United
States proposes, for its future safety, to
consummate one annexation in the
Pacific, and the cordial consent OF the
native population is granted, it is OBJ
jected that such an event will disturb
the existing situation in the Pacific,
while in fact no other leading nation is
respecting such an imaginary "existing
situation" No longer ago than 1896 Jap
an took the island of Formosa as one of
the trophies of war wrested from China.
1t is not greed of territory that impels
the United States to annex Hawaii.
That island is i~mperatively needed by
America for the defence of the territory
she already possesses in that part of the
world, and 30 far as the status quo in
the Pacific is concerned it is a thing of
the past. England has furnished an
example of this by annexing the Solo.
mon islands and Japan illustrated this
fact when she annexed Formosa two
years ago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

The Empire State express train on the
New York Central Railroad broke the
record Of every railroad in the world last
Friday when it made the distance between
Syracuse and Buffalo, 1888 miles in 1877
minutes. Tit time as announced was l43
minutes, but allowing for a minutes stop at
Rochester and two slow downs near Syra.
cuse, and at Newark, aggregating four min
utes the actual time was 1877 minutes. The
train left Syracuse at 2:24 p. M, twenty
three minutes late, and arrived in Buffalo
at 4; Al only two minutes late. The fastest
time was made from the top OF the hill west
OF Batavia to East Buffalo thirty.two miles
in twenty-six minutes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

BUT little is seen in the daily papers
of late regarding the situation in Cuba.
The present is the rainy season there
which prevents extensive military oper-
atoms, but it is apparent that the in
s%urgents are utilizing this time as a
period of preparation for the r%eopening
of active hostilities next fall. Within
the past week applications have been
received by the Cuban agents in this
country for winter supplies for the
several rebel commanders in the island,
and they state that the arms and ammu-
milton now in their possession are sufi-
cient for the exigencies Of the wet
months. During the rainy season
there will be no %perceptible drain upon
the of the insurgents, their
"fncancial burdens are light, they are
thoroughly acclimated and the rowing
life to which they are subjected does
not inconvenience them. On the other
hand the Spanish soldierly in Cuba is
weakened by disease and the hospitals
in the province of Havana are reported
full and over-1owing with sick and
wounded men. Many Spanish generals
have returned home because of illness,
either real or feigned, and it seems
probable that the difficulty of keeping
the Spanish army up to its former
numerical standard will be increased in
the future. Ali the enthusiastic stories
from insurgent sources are not needed
to convince thinking men that there is
no evident disposition on the part Of
the rebels to compromise with the
Spanish government. General Gomez
is still strongly e%ntrenched with ten
thousand troops in Santa Clara province
and thus far has experienced little diff
Guilty in eluding the superior forces OF
Gen. Weyler who have vainly attempt
ed his capture.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

some invidious comparisons with Yer
mont's financial condition and bawls
again for a "house cleaning in this
State" The item in question repre-
scented New Hampshire as being prac-
tically out of debt and set that State up
as an exemplar, in this respect, for
other States. Now as to the State in.
debtedness of these two communities
the facts are these: New Hampshire
had a bonded debt, June l, 1897, Of
$3.50, 800; floating debt, 800; trust
funds, S676, sos SO, making her total
liabilities So, 263, 4O5. SO. The States
assets were $685. ,637.91, making its net
Indebtedness, S1,667, 767 As. Vermont's
financial statement for the year ending
June 80, 1897, is printed on page three
of this paper. Its liabilities are, for
the most part, for temporary loans and
for taxes it collects from the towns to
distribute them again for the mainte-
nance of roads and schools. But Yer
mont's exceed these liabili-
ties by the sum Of $335,614,23, and its
funded debt is only 1885, 500. which
the State practically yves to itself and
it does not count as an active liability,
Furthermore, according to the stats
tician of the Tribune Almanac for 1897,
the aggregate debt of New Hampshire
State, town andImunicipal-is $S,148,'
1862; that of Vermont, S3,7S5,373
Vermont's financial fabric is pretty
clean, but the houses of the calumni'
ators of the State are filthy enough.
Turn the hose on them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21
@attbman 4 Journal.
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.
No features of the new tariff bill is

No features of the new tariff bill is
more satisfactory to the masses than
the fact that it eliminates absolutely
the advantages which the trust enjoyed
under the Wilson law. 1t seems more
and m probable that the new law
will be more satisfactory to the people
than any tariff measure which has gone
upon the national statute books within
the memory of the present generation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

LATE dispatches from Washington
indicate that it is still understood that
President Mckinley will, as soon as the
tariff bill is out of the way, send a
message to the present Congress asking
that the President be given authority
to appoint a commission to consider
the currency question and frame a
measure for a general currency law.
The delay in sending the message,
which has been twice expected, has
been due to the fear that such action
might precipitate a general currencydis-
cussion and thus delay action upon the
tariff bill. Whether it will be possible
to pass q measure of this character
through the Senate without very great
delay, is, of course, uncertain, but if
Republican votes Ia pass it, it will
promptly become a law. 1t is felt
among the Republican Representatives
and Senators that q commission selected
from the best students of finance in this
country will be able TO frame a much
more satisfactory currency measure
than would in all probability be prepar-
ed by any general committee of Con-
gress, which in the nature of things,
would not be made up of men who had
made a life long study of this complex
and difficult questions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

week, now that the conferees have
reached an agreement, n~otwithstand-
ing the threat of a coterie of democrat
icv and populist Senators to delay the
acceptance of the conference report by
the Senate. These threats were prob
ably made for effect before the agree
ment was reached, as nothing can be
gained by delaying the acceptance of
the report and even democrats and
~populists are not likely to engage IN
butting their heads against the rock
wall of public opinion when they can
get nothing by doing 80.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

THE prosperity that Nebraska seems
to be now enjoying, as noted in the
news columns of this issue, and the
fact that eastern business firms have
authorized their representatives in
Nebraska and other states in the
Mississippi valley to resume loans on
farm property at low rates of interest
must be somewhat embarrassing to Mr..
Bryan in his proposed stumping tour
of the western states this fall.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

A GRAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Oil heals
the sick, 1t makes the ailing well. 1t is a
standard household remedy for all aches and
pains and diseases of the head, throat and in
cramps, dyspepsia, diarrhoea and cholera, as
we'll as a hundred other common complaints.
No family should be without It for a day or an
hour. AT druggists and general stores.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

THE new law abolishing polygamy
among the Indians in Oklahoma Ter.
ritory is liable to lead to serious
trouble. In that territory there are
over two thousand polygamous Indians
and 10 the demand of the officials of the
territory that they shall give up the
wives which the law will NJ longer
allow them to keep, they respond in
a defiant manner, telling the officials to
come and take them. Appearances
would indicate that the presence of
troops will be necessary to enforce this
new territorial law.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

AN item respecting the finances of
Vermont's sister State, New Hamp-
shire, has been going the rounds of the
papers, and has appeared in some of
the Vermont papers, including the
WATCHMAN. The Rsformer makes
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

THE official statement sent out by
the Texas Board of Agriculture that
the State will raise this year over three
million bales of cotton, and that the
corr crop will be the largest in the
history of the state, calls attention anew
to the extraordinary u and un-
usual energy is to be found in that
state. In proportion to its inhabitants
Texas has 45 per cent more railways
and ITO per cent.more banks than the
other states of the South. 1t grows
one-third of the whole Southern cotton
crop and has no rival in the United
States as a producer of beef. Notwith-
standing its frequent lynchings and
other unpleasant features for which the
state has become notorious, it is now
leading the South in agricultural pro-
ducts and is as much a land of promise
as any state in the Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

The tariff bill, as it now stands is not
perfect-nothing of human construc.
ton is-but it is a good bill, and will be
endorsed by all who believe in a protec-
tive tariff, and will add to the believers
in protection. 1t will enable many
thousand Americans to get the pro6ta-
BILE employment they have been with
out for four years, and will, at the same
time, produce all the revenue needed
to u the government. No one man
deserves more credit for this bill than
Chairman Dingley, whose name the
bill bears. Since last December he has
worked early and late on the measure,
and if the Dingley tariff proves as
popular as its supporters expect, who
knows but it's author may not in the
course of time be as highly rewarded as
was the author of the Mckinley tariff.
Here's hoping that Dingley times may
be as prosperous as Mckinley times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

AT the recent populist convention
held at Nashville, Tenn, Tom. Watson
and his associates put an end to further
prospects of fusion between the popu-
list party and any other political Or
ganization. That convention, which
distinctly declared against what Mr..
Watson called "Hessianism in pol
%itics," represents a large majority of
the populists of this country, and it
can safely be asserted that no national
convention of that party will ever again
be able to repeat the performance of
1896 and make the populist party an at
tachment to any other political organ
ization. -
THE latest patriotic society to be Or
ganized in this country is the Order
of the Founders and Patriots of Amer
ica," of which Col. Fred Grant has
recently been appointed Governor Gen
eral. According to the prospectus sent
out, its members can only be those
whose line of descent comes through
patriots who sustained the Colonies
in the struggle for independence in
the Revolutionary war. To the un-
initiated the Order of the Sons
of the American Revolution COW
ers the same ground, but the new order
makes an opening for a long list Of
Office holders that will make many in
dividuals happy and will do no harm.
One has to hustle in these days to keep
posted on all the associations and So
cieties that are in existence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has had to
abandon attending the dedication OF the
Logan statute in Chicago, owing to the
delay in ~disposing Of the tariff bill. He
did 30 very reluctantly, as he was par
ticularly anxious to be there, but, of
course, duty came first. He did not
wish to be away from Washington when
the tariff bill is finally acted upon by
Congress, as it is certain to be this