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The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
GAGE ON FINANCE.
Tho Next Secretary of the Treasury 3tates
 His POsition on the Issue.

 His Position on the Issue. CHICAGO, Feb. 1.--Lyman J. Gage was questioned concerning the most vital issues with which he will deal as secretary of the treasury. Mir. Gage, with candor, makes his position quite clear on all of them, as follows: Our whole money system is the resultant of .nakeshift legislation and unscientifc com promises. It is time that reform began. In my opinion the greenbacks should be per- manently retired. The silver purchased under the sherman act should be gradually sold and the treasury notes redeemed and canceled Somo well guarded system of banknOte circula- tion, broader and more elastic than the present national bank act provides should bs inausu- l rated.
 Such banknotes should be redeemable at Q central place and be redecmable in gold only Silver certificates. which form nearly one- | fifth of the circulating medium of the United States. are dangerous By their use volume cfinferior money has found an abnormal use.
 They are the most perplexing feature in the
 much involved problem of our national l finances.
 There is no reason why the government l should act as a warehouse man for either gold | or silver. Such function is outside the proper l limit of action.
 But we are faced by condition. The enor-
 nous amount Of $500 coo 900 of silver, represented
 by $33s 900 900 in silver certificates, added to the Sl5O' O'0OO,O coo purchased by the government under
 the sherman act. constitutes standing menace | to every business interest To sum up, the defects of our present cur | rency system are:
 First Confusing heterogeneity, which needs | simplification.
 Second-The greenbacls controverts the prin- l ciple of paper money, viZ: That every note | injected into the commercial system should | represent an existing commercial value. Third-The treasury note is a standing evt- | denoe of foolish operation--the creation of a | debt for the purchase. on falling masket, of a commodity for which the purchaser has no use;
 1t lies open to the just charge of being both | idiotic and immoral Fourth-The national bank note merely con-
 forms to the principle of paper money. but the
 unreasonable requirements for security para
 lyze it's efficiency and operate to destroy it's
 elasticity.
 | Fifth-The silver certificate encourages tho
 use of silver to larger extent than is con-
 sistent with the safe preservation of that metal on parity with gold.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
NO HOPE FOR THEM.
All Pending Western Measures Will Fail to
 Pass Congress This Session.

All Pending Western Measures Will Fail to
 Pass Congress This Session.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-It is settled now as nearly as anything can be set tied in advance, that all pending local measures in which Kansas and the southwest are interested will fail of passage at this session. The Kansas City, Kan, building bill, the Fort Hays military reservation bill, the To- peka building, the Oklahoma free homes bill, the Wichita reservation opening are all held up on the calen- dar in such shape that there is no show of their passage. With Presi- dent Cleveland now rests the fate of the plan for the speedy opening of the Wichita lands. He has practically taken the matter out of the hands of the secretary and has now entire charge of the case.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
Thurston VIII Ignore It.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Referring to the action of the Nebraska legislature in instructing him to vote for the free coinage of silver, Senator Thurston said Saturday: "The present Nebras- ka legislature does not represent the party that elected me to the senate. When any of the legislators show a disposition to come to my proposition I will consider the matter. We are now as far apart as the poles, and there is no apparent prospect of agree mant.o
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
TWO REPORTERS KILLED.
Two Stcamships on the Mississippi Collide
 with Disastrous Results.

Two Steamships on the Mississippi Collide
 with Disastrous Results.
 NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 29.-At 12:30 o'clock yesterday morning collision occurred in the river about 12 miles above the quarantine station, between the steam yacht Argo and the fruit steamship Albert Dumois, in which the yacht had her bow stove in and sank within very few minutes after the accident. How the accident occurred and who was to blame for it the courts will most probably be called upon to decide. Messrs. Hester and Blassini are missing and their fate is doubtless sealed. They were we'll known and popular reporters on the Picayune.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
RELIGIOUS FRENZY.
A Nebraska Man Returns from Meeting
 and Stays His Wife and Children.

A Nebraska Man Returns from Meeting
 and Stays His Wife and Children.
 WAYNE, Neb., Jan. 29.-C. K. Rash returned home Wednesday night from revival meeting and murdered his wife and three children. When the sheriff and coroner reached the house yesterday the dead bodies of Mrs. Rash and her ten-year-old son lay on the floor, frightfully gashed, and the two younger children lay dead on their beds with their heads mashed to jelly. The deed had been done with three pieces of soapstone. When the sheriff entered, Rash was sitting in the win dow and made no offer of resistance. It is supposed that Rash's mind had be- come unbalanced as the result of the excitement at the revival meeting.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
A SHOCKING UTAH MURDER.
IS TT GEORGE TAYLOR7
A Man Said to Re the Meeks Murderer Un-
 der Arrest in California.

A Man Said to Re the Meeks Murderer Un-
 der Arrest in California.
 HANFORD, Cal, Feb. 1.-Saturday a man who had known George Taylor, the notorious Missouri outlaw and murderer of the Meeks family, well in Missouri, claims to have seen him on a street here and notified Sheriff Buck ner, but by that time the man had left town. Later, however, he was located in sheep camp, IA miles southwest of here, near Tulare lake. The sheriff or ganized posse and went in pursuit. The officers knowing the desperate nature of the man they were aft CT, waited until dark. Then they sur rounded the camp. The man wanted was completely surprised and made no resistance. With him was young boy who was also arrested. The two were brought back to Hanford and are now in jail. The captured man denies that he is the much wanted Taylor He calls himself "Rattlesnake Bill" and gives no other name. He tells a number of contradictory stories as to where he came from, locating himself successively in Texas, British Colum- bia, Montana and Oregon.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
TWO Men Blown to Atoms.

TOLEDO, O., Jan. 2s.-A tremendous explosion of nitro-glycerine in store house belonging to the Ohio X Michigan Torpedo Co. of this city, occurred yes. terday afternoon near Brader, 25 miles south of here. The explosion was so tremendous that it was plainly heard here, and it rattled windows in the southern part of this city. M. Myer. son, of Toledo, and Edward Dennison, of Rising Sun, were blown to atona
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
ANOTHER TREATY SIGNED.
A Commission Will Settle the Alaska
 British Columbian Boundary.

n SOm"ibblOu VIII Settlo thC <hidbAu-
 British Columbian Boundary.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. l. - Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote at II o'clock Saturday, signed the convention for the definition by commission of so much of the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions as is marked by the Hist meridian. It will be sent to the senate Monday. It provides commission of four members. The names are not given, but will be agreed on hereafter. The commission will meet in London or Washington. It is claimed by friends of the administra- tion that this new treaty will be second in importance only to the Venezuelan boundary treaty and involving the same principle-the determination by peaceful arbitration with Great Britain of an important boundary dis pute.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
JAPANESE WAGES.

Goodly Increases In Almost Every Vocation
 Reported Since the War with China.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. Limited States Consul Connolly has supplied the state department with tables showing the wages of various classes of labor, more or less skilled, in Japan for 1894, 1895 and 1896 that illustrate the great in- crease in certain lines since the China Japan war. Agricultural laborers, male and female, have had their wages advanced from 10 yen per day to 20 yen, weavers from l5 to 35, tailors from 60 to 1aO, paper makers from Is to 4O, fishermen from 20 to 40, blacksmiths from 45 to S5 and so on.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
NOTHING BUT TARIFF.
Chairman Dingley Says the Extra Session
 of Congress Will Consider This Subject

Chairman Dingley says the Extra session
 of Congress Will Consider This Subject
 Only.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Chairman Dingley, of the ways and means com mittee, has set congress buzzing by his latest statement. He said yesterday: "There will be no general legislation during the extra session of congress. President Mckinley will call congress in extraordinary session for the speci- fic purpose of passing revenue bill. When we meet in March the bill will be ready to present to the house, and it will be passed within 30 days, and sent to the senate. Nothing else will be done by the house. We shall adjourn from day to day, or take three-day adjournments, according to the provisions of the constitution.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04

him matters of policy. It is known that Mir. Gage has been making arrangements to close up his af. fairs in Chicago in order to be free to take position in the presidents cabi. net. It will be necessary for him to relinquish all connection with the First national bank, and it was a mat ter of common knowledge about the bank yesterday that he had begun to shape his business to retire from that institution to go to Washington.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
Nevada Wants the Fight.

CARSON, New, Jan. 29.-The Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight will be pulled off in Nevada, probably at Carson. The state senate yesterday passed the bill to legalize glove contests and Dan Stuart, the fight promoter, announced that the mill would occur in the silver state. The bill to permit glove contests passed the senate by vote of nine to six. It had previously passed the house.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
Melton VIII Re Freed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. so.--The prisoners of the Competitor, who have been lam gushing in Cuban prisons, are to be internationally released, by order of the Spanish government. Aside from the genera, interest attaching to this information, it possesses a decidedly local flavor for Kansas people, as one of the prisoners, Owen Melton, halls from the Sunfower state.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
His Money Was Gone.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 1.-Charles Sheridan, farmer from St. Mary's, Kan, came to town yesterday with $l10 in an inside vest pocket. He came to see the sights and he saw few of them. He was drunk when he went to a lodging house at 1915 Union avenue. When he awoke this morning his money was gone.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
James Inks Hanged.

OREGON, Mo, Feb. 1.-James Inks was hanged at s:52 o'clock Saturday morning for the murder of John Pat. terson, May 15, 1895. Life was extinct in 14h minutes. Inks died invoking the blessing of the Lord upon all pres ent. This was in striking contrast to the life he led before the crime was committed. The murderer leaves a wife and four children.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
THE TREASURY PORTFOLIO.

Mckinley Said to Have Settled on Lyman ,.
 Gage, of Chicago.
 CHICAGO, Jan. 2s.-Lyman J. Gage left last night for Canton, o. The Chi. cago financier, who has been offered the portfolio of the treasury, went in answer to telegram from President elect Mckinley, asking him to come to Canton. Having made a diplomatic tender of the secretaryship of the treasury Co the Chicagoan, Mir. McKin. ley naturally wishes to discuss with
The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-02-04
WOMAN suFFRAoIsTs.

Heated Debate Over Plan of Work-Con-
 tr0l of Campaign Funds.
 DEs MONIES, Ia., Jan. 29.-The Na- tional Woman Suffrage association in- dulged in heated debate yesterday on the proposition for plan of work, led by Clara B. Colby, of Nebraska, to add the chairmen of standing commit tees to the business committee of the association, thereby enlarging it to 14 members. It was decided to insist
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-02
TEACHERS AND EDUCATION.
The True Teacher il More Than Z
Setter of Tasks.

The True Teacher il More Than q
Setter of Tasks.
The true teacher Is more than q setS
ter Of tasks and a nearer of lessons;t
he is an influence. And his pupils are
not, first Of all, students. but human
beings. Hence, If necessary, a teacher
would be willing to sacrifice something
from his ideal, in the matter Of hisI
own formal preparation, If by doing sol
he car secure the far greater and morel
important gifts Of bodily and mental
ance and proportion and a p%rofoundl
and sympathetic knowledge of his fell.
low men. No n Is so ~dreadfully I'M
danger Of getting into a mental rut, OF
becoming dogmatic, pedantic n pr1g-9
gish; and the antidote for these thingsi
is found in getting absolutely away.
from his professional environment for
as long a time as possible each year,.
resting his nerves and brain, and,
above all. mingling with men and woul-t
Ell whose standards and interests are
absolutely different from his own. To
go from his class DON to a place wherea
the same old grind in another form Is
still going on, to make one of q crowd.
of jaded, nervous, sensitive beings who
are stewing in their own juice, and
Cabling over and over the formulas
Of the Educationist, so far from being:
a stimulus and an inspiration. is actu-,
ally the undoing Of a teacher, and sends
him back to his work with a still fur
Their exhaustion of energy and enthu-
siasm and sympathy. So we say to
the educator if he can be a man, 60 Of
somewhere, anywhere, to the place
where education doesn't count: bivouac
in h woods with a party Of stock
brokers, or hobnob with down-east fish
ermen; and to the woman teacher we
recommend the society Of the most friv-
olous, giddy and flirtatious young girls
who infest the myriad resorts in sum-
mer. This will keep the balance prop
erly adjusted. replacing hysteria and
dullness and nerves by a renewed in
v~igoration. an augmented sense of hui
nor and Il saner and more highly de-
veloped insight into human nature
The Bookman.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-02
ELIJAH P. LOVEJOY.
THE MONUMENT TO HIS MEM.
DRY AT ALTON, ILL. a
History of This Remarkable MINIS
Fight Against the Evils of Slavery
Thrilling Events that eliminated in
His Assassination.
Died Il Martyr.


over sixty years ago, on the night Of
Nov. I, 1887, Elijah p. Lovejoy was
shot dow. in Alton, ILL.,, while with a
few stanch friends he was defending
his printing press against the blind
fury Of a pro-slavery mob. This Is the
Incident upon which was based the APP
preparation Of $4,000 by the Illinois
Legislature for the erection in Alton
Of a monument to the memory of the
martyr, the dedication OIL which took
place on the recen anniversary of that
famous tragedy.
The man whose brief career is thus
commemorated in marble and bronze.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy, was born at
Albion, kennebec, Me-, Nov. s, 1902.
He was the eldest of a family of nine
children, the son Of a Congregational
minister. The early years of his life
were spent upon the little New En-
gland farm, and were distinguished
only in his abnormal desire for knowl-
edge. His spare time was always occu-
pied in study, and by his own thrift he
was enabled to enter the sophomore
:lass in Waterville College in 1923,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-02

ANCiENTS VALUED GOLD.
Antique Mining Implements Discov.
cred Near the Red Sea.

Antique Mining Implements Discov.
cred Near the Red Sea.
Gold was probably the first metal OBJ
served and collected, because of the in
stinctive understanding Of it's intrinsic
value. About it superstitions grew, re-
ligious and ceremonious rites and
strange crimes were committed for its
possession in the days when it was be-
lieved that it was of such stuff that the
sun itself was made and the halls of
Nalhalla paved. Rock paintings and
carvings of Egyptian tombs earlier
than the days Of Joseph indicate the
operation Of washing auriferous sand,
and a subsequent melting in furnaces
by the aid of blow pipes. Less than
twenty years ago the old mines Of
Nubia, SO graphically described by
Diodorous, were rediscovered on the
shores Of the Red Sea, together with a
line Of ancient wells across the desert:
h underground workings where ore
veins had been followed with the pick,
the rude cupelling furnaces for assay
Ing, picks, oil lamps, stone mills, NOR
tars and pestles, inclined warming ia
bleS of stone, crucibles and retorting
furnaces Of burned tile, by which the
entire process could be traced.
Here slaves and hapless prisoners
Of war exchanged their life blood for
glittering dust to fill the treasures Of
their captors. In India and Asia
Minor the powdered ore vas washed
down e smooth, sloping rocks and
gold caught in the heeces of %sheepskins
sunk in the stream. 1t was literally
a golden fleece that Jason brought
back from the Caucasus. Further
north and following the eastern foot.
hills of Mount Ararat to the southern
slope Of the Ural mountains in Rus
sian Siberia, where last year millions
were taken out Of the old mines. the
ancient Scythians broke up rock and
gravel with copper implements, scrap
ed out the glittering dust and nuggets
with the fangs of wild boars, and car
ried their gain away in bags of leather.
All through this region miners Of to-
day know hat one Of the chief dangers
to be avoided are the Scythian pits,
sixty feet deep in the gravel, and
shaped like a well. The remains Of
thousands Of small furnaces Of burn
ed clay testify to the long period over
which the workings of the mines ex'
tended.-Modern Machinery.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-02
LOVEJOY'S DEATH SCENE.
iigiouS revival that

lion he embraced the Presbyterian
:aith, and his purpose in life was sud-
1enly changed. He entered the Prince
on Theological Seminary in 1882, and
vas licensed to preach a year later by
he Philadelphia Presbytery. Return
NC, however, to st. Louis, he was as
listed by friends in the founding Of a
weekly newspaper, which he called the
st. Louis Observer. The first number
appeared Nov. %, 1888.
The slavery question was then agi-
:ating the community, and 1t was i'm
possible for a man Of his positive con-
victions to keep still on such a vital
subject. During the summer of 1884 he
formally announced his opposition to
the whole system of slavery. and there
by began his troubles. His editorials
soon began to be talked about, yet they
would read as very mild ~utterances to-
day. They r significant also in that
they prove that Lovejoy was not an
abolitionist. He said in his own col
umns: Gradual emancipation is the
remedy we propose. This we look up
on as the only feasible and, indeed. the
only desirable way of cffecting our
freedom from the thralldom in which
rights of all classes of our citizens
should be respected, and the work r D.
posed, carried on and finished as one
in which all classes are alike interest
ed, and in which all may be called up
on to- make sacrifices of individual in
community" On another occasion he
said that emancipation should be eff
fected ''by the masters and no Others"
He hated slavery, but appreciated the
position and feeling Of the %slavehold-
ers, and frequently stated that it was
even this line Of argument was bitter
ly resented, and under cate OF Oct. B.,
1885, a letter was SEN to him by a COM
mittee of st. Louis citizens command
ing that he a talking Of slavery in
his paper. He refused fatty and in an
editorial said: '"The free communica-
ton of thoughts and opinions is one Of
the ina1ienable rights of man, and any
person may freely speak, write or print
on any subject, being responsible for
the abuse of that liberty" I'm the clos
Ing paragraph he thus declared him
self: II do, therefore, rs an American
citizen and Christian patriot, in the
name Of liberty. law and religion, SOL
EMMY protest against all these at
tempts, however and by whomsoever
made, to frown down the liberty Of the
press and forbid the free expression Of
opinion. Under q deep sense Of my OBJ
legations to my country. the church and
my God, l declare 1t to be my fixed pur-
pose to submit to no dictation. And !
am prepared to abide by the conse-
quenceM I have appealed to the ton
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-02

there again, with Love3oy. and saw
him killed. This roll of honor is as fol-
lows: Elijah =. Lovejoy, Thaddeus p.
Hurlburt, Royal Weller, James Morse
Jr., Edward Breath, J. G. Woods, Reu-
ben Gerry, Enoch Lang. Samuel J.
Thompson, d. +. Randall, Amos II.
Rolf, William Harmed, John s. Noble,
George H. Walworth. George II. Whit
ney, Winthrop s.. Gilman, George s.
Brown, III. d. Davis, ID. Burt Loomis,
Henry Tanner. OF this committee the
last one, D.. Burt Loomis. passed away
at his home in Minneapolis one year
ago. About 8 o'clock the mob sur
rounded the warehouse again. The at
tack came promptly, accompanied by
many shots. Capt. Long ordered one
shot fired in response. This killed a
man, and the mob dispersed, but re-
turned later to the attack with greater
fury. An attempt was made to fire the
roof, and during a lull Lovejoy went
out to G if the blaze had taken hold.
Then five shots rang out from behind
Il woodpile and Lovejoy fell dead. That
ended the trouble. The mob at once
retired and no further demonstration
was made. Lovejoy was buried two
days later. and by coincidence a col
ored man dug his grave and cared for
II for years while others knew not even
It's location. Later Thomas Dimmock,
a st. Louis journalist, procured a lot in
the city cemetery, had the remains re-
moved there and placed Upon the grave
the present stone, 4 scroll OF New En-
gland granite, bearing the words:
Here lies Lovejoy. Spare him now
that he is buried" In August, 1885,
Mr.. Dimmock transferred by deed to
the colored people Of Alton all right,
title and interest in the lot and it's con-
tents, and they are now it's legitimate
custodians. Such is the history of the
man whom the people of Illinois have
thus commemorated in imperishable
stone. History has INDICATED his work
and his principles-the essential point
Of which, after all, was based not on
abolitionism, but upon the maintenance
at all hazards of the right Of free
speech and the liberty of the American
press.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-02

set him adrift on the river. He lis
tened calmly, and then said: Gentle
men, l am in your hands, with neither
the power nor the disposition to resist.
l have, however, one -.quest to make.
My wife is dangerously i'll and I was
on my way to town to have a prescrip-
ton filled. If one Of you will pledge
his word to take 1t and have the medi-
cine prepared and deliver it at my
house without letting my wife know
what has become of ME you may do
with me what you wish" There was
profound silence for a moment, and
then the leader said: Boys, l can't
touch him. He is too brave a man."
And he was allowed to go in peace. On
Sept. p, another press arrived. 1t was
destroyed the same night. Then Love-
joy thought Of removing either to st.
Charles, Mo-, or to Quincy. But he was
not disposed to run away from trouble,
and on the advice of friends he re-
NAMED and ordered a new press.
In anticipation Of its arrival another
public meeting was held. with the OBJ
ject of persuading the editor to take