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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
THE SARATOGA CONFERENCE


san Francisco August lS--Ihc chamber
of commerce of this city has sent letter
to the national conference, now in session
at Saratoga n, V. on the future foreign
policy OF the United States, In reply to an
Invitation to be represented at the confer
ence
1t Is shown that the chamber, In con-
junction with the leading manufacturing
and commercial bodies of San Francisco
and California, expressed Its Views upon
the subject at u meeting held for that
purpose on July ~, and had telegraphet
to President Mckinley resolutions favor
ing the retention Of all the Islands taktI
from Spain, A copy of the resolution ac'
companies the letter, setting forth the
Importance that such foreign policy has
for this city and tho Pacific coast.
The letter states that the invitation was
received too late for any representative
form this coast to reach Saratoga in time
to attend the conference
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
TERRIBLE CLOUD BURST

knoxville, Tenn. Aug IA terriD!,
cloud burst. IA which at least twenty lives
are known TO bc sacrificed, was last night
Visited upon the community Of Beach
Greek which place Is - miles distant from
Knoxville.
The torrent OF water rell in the vicinity
OF the home of William Figan, We'll To
do farmer and his entire family, wife ana
i've children. were drowned and washed
away with the Hood, Rigan. however,
escaped
The delugc OF water carried With Il
every other human being within It's reacn
but the only names OF the lost reported
here up to late hour tonight, In addi-
tlon 10 the Figan family are John Arnold
and Samuel Henry and wife, These pco-
ME resided within u quarter OF mile
of the figan home.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
BIG MINE SOLD,

Rossland, h, c., Aug, l8-1hc Center
star mine was sold today for tho btgces
price ever paid for mine In the kootena
81 OOOOOO cash.
The purchasers are the Gooddeham
Blackstock syndicate OF Toronto, or the
5V0,O0) shares capital stock oliver DuranL
spokane, ana Alex Tarlct salt Lake,
owned G6O. 600 shares,
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14

The schooner Dewey, from Nehalem,
with a cargo of spruce lumber for Port
land, in tow of the tug Maggie, arrived in
Yesterday.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
AFTER THE posrorrlcrs

Mauy hmeurlr- who Won, 90 serve ihe
bear PoDpi, ls Porto R,5.
Washington Angus. ls-Thc po-fpd. o.
department s. hearing from the paonl,
wbp desire to obtain appointments as
p1tmaGcrr u cuba porto Rico and
other newly acquired possessions 30
such appointments can bc made however
lu tho absence OF congressional auihlr.za-
uJu Meanwhile employee of the desart-
m,nt WI! be- detailed fsr this service.
The interior O, also receiving numerous
Inquiries .u regard 90 ihc public lands oi
thr new territory. but has no uficlal In
formation 90 give ou this matter
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
SAMPSON AFTER MANzANILLo,

Chicago, August ia special to the
Tlmes-Herald from Washington, says:
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
SULTAN DEAD.

Gibraltar, Aug. lS,--It is reported that
the sultan of Morocco is dead
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
wu1 coN1iNcH seNDrNo TROOPS.

san mnrl-co. August ig The q.tloa
10, ah.iher NJ DOT tAe yeuiirg of troop 90
ItuIlh uil,r the signing OF the pence
uf,tDrpl wu he continued i- being dis-
.ewed ln army circles mere. General
Merriam referring o. The matter said
81 shail make no change 10 the present
arrangements unless 20 ordered by the
authorities a' Washington. Every man
NJ ihe oEpedltlonary forces wlll oc sent
20 Manila n I am permitted 10 DO 20.
cannot py whether the jDurneyiug VI
troops io the islands would bc construed
ar 100 lnfflcil1u OF the protocol
with peace Jn assured fact. the troops
would be merely guards Boo preserve or.
l,r. suu look for orders from wash.
ifgipn settling the matter one way or the
other
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-14
MARINE NOTES.
10 d " IIITNI 7 7
County Clerk,

The State of California sailed yesterday
morning for San Francisco.
The Columhne leaves out this morning
for Destruction island.
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the people are bimetallists." The Republi-
can party said in 1892 that nine-tenths of
the American people were bimetallists.
They told the truth. (Applause) 1t was
true in 1892; it was true in 1896; it is true
today, and it will be true in 1900. Cap
plause) But when they framed the plat
form of 1896. and when the influences that
We're in control of the Republican party,
deeming themselves strong enough to show
their hand, made that plank. it was neces-
sary in some way, while declaring for the
gold standard, to secure the votes of a
large proportion of this nine-tenths part
of the American people. How should they
do it? That was the proposition. Mark
you with what shrewd diplomacy they
met the necessity. The gold standardites
are great students of human nature.
They know the weaknesses of or
dinary men, do the advocates of
the gold standard. They know that the
American citizen. as a rule. is not think
ing of some reason or seeking for some
reason to get out of political party that
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OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN

Of fself-government. The emancipation was
the recognition of the defined right oi
| social and political equality among the
children of men, without the concession
and realization Of which there can be nc
| social happiness, no Industrial, permanent
prosperity.
The restoration In the world today Of an
equitable and just measure of the burden
of debts, the restoration and enterprise OF
the power to hope, the giving back to the
robbed masses of mankind Of the right OF
acquisition of property and OF holding
what individual effort secures. that 1t shall
not be taken away as II by the offices of
thief In the night, by an automatic rob-
berry, due to an elongating money meas
ure that values up the burdens of all debts
and taxes, is itself an appeal to the same
rights that were vindicated in 1776 and in
1860. and its realization is just as neces-
sary that the progress of the world and
the happiness of society may go on.
The chairman of the meeting tonight re-
ferred to the campaign as having opened
now. Let me assume to correct in
measure the statement of the judge, and
let me say that the campaign has never
stopped. (Applause.) The campaign of 1900
began the day after Bryans nomination in
1896 (applause) and it will go on until the
day of his election in 1900. (Great applause.)
THE CAMPAIGN OF sc
My friends, there never has been in the
history of politics in this world a parallel
even n suggestion-of the campaign of
1896. Abuses have grown old. powerful
almost respectable, in the United States
The great Selfshness of men in one form
and another has been the Nemesis of every
that has ever arisen and fallen
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Los ANGELES HERALD. SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY IS, 1898

BILE result. 1t has made the profits OF
ordinary industry precarious or imposst-
BILE. 1t has made a scale OF declining
prices, beneath the blight OF which steady
employment is impossible for the labor
ing man. Investment is discouraged upon
the part of him who has capital that he
would like to put to work. and the inevita-
Bile result is that those who produce II all
must combine In order to reduce expenses,
force down wages and force up prices or
keep them falling as fast as they otherwise
would.
Thus the trust is the offspring of an ap-
preciating money standard. You can
| never kill the monopoly, you can never kill
| the trust, until you destroy the money trust
and the gold monopoly of the world. Gap
plause.)
PLATFORM PRONUNCIAMENTOS
1 have had something to say about the
failure of the Republican party in 1896 to
do it's duty in regard to this great ques-
tion of bimetallsm. Bear with me for a
moment while 1 point out to you one or
two interesting circumstances in connec-
ton with that platform adopted at st.
Louis In the year 1892 the platform adopt
ed by the Republican national convention
used this strong and patriotic Ian
guage 1.-THE American people. from
tradition and interest. favor bimet-
allism, and the Republican party
demands the use of both gold and
silver as standard money" Is not that
perfectly distinct? Is not that honest?
Was there anybody in the republic that
misunderstood 1t?
The national committee of that party. in
managing that campaign of 1892, put out
what is called a Republican campaign text
book and in the course of the arguments
which were therein furnished to the speak
ers that should advocate the Republican
party's cause in that campaign, on page
l57 of that book, you will find the state
ment, under the authority of that Republic
can national committee: "Nine-tenths of
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he happens to be in, but is looking FOR
some excuse to stay in. Uaughter) The
problem therefore, was to give definite
assurance to the gold standard powers
of the world, while giving an excuse to the
bimetallists of the party to vote the ticket
once again. How should it be done?
A BID FOR VOTES
They did it in this WISE and the plank
was written in the offices of the Associated
banks in the city of New York. applause }
When l make that statement | am not
speaking metaphorically but by the card
If l could get a subpoena honored, and then
get open the mouths of the witnesses sub
poenaed, | would have no difficulty in
proving that statement 1t was written
and then given to Thomas c. Platt of New
York, with instructions to take it to St.
Louis and at all hazards to compel it's
adoption by that convention.
A distinguished senator of the United
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States, who was then bimetallist. and
who was desperately seeking some excuse
to stay In, secured the insertion In the
plank as 1t came from the New York office
six words. (which we pledge ourselves to
promote" Much salvation did he find in
those six words.
Mind You, II was not the language of
the old heroic days OF the Republican par
ty, when, as in 1899. they declared, ''The
Republican party demands the use of both
gold and silver" but It said, 1--WE are op-
posed, therefore, to the free coinage of sill
yer, except by international agreement
among the leading commercial nations OF
the earth. which we pledge ourselves to
promote" Not to insist on, not to demand.
not to secure. but to pat on the back and
promote. IL somebody else would start 1t
going. (Applause.l And then. after that
weak and inconsequential language in re-
gard to the free coinage of silver mark
with what sort OF stride they marched to
their conclusion: "And until that can
be secured'-T am now quoting the Ian
guage of the plank-"the existing gold
standard must be preserved" Not will
be smiled upon; not will be put up with;
not will be endured-but the existing gold
standard must be preserved. That was
the language of that recreant and traitor
Gus declaration. My friends. 1t was open
to the intelligence and patriotism of every
Republican. if he had only thought lit
tie while about it,vto see whether he was
being led under the chcanery of that dec
laration. You may gloss it over as you
may, but you will find that there is abso-
lutely 10 excuse for any man who de-
clares under any circumstances for the
free coinage of silver to put up with the
of the gold standard. You
cannot be in favor of thing and against
it at the same time. and be honest (Ap- |
plauseO If you are for the free coinage
of silver at all. whether by international
agreement or otherwise, it is because the |
gold standard is wrong. If the gold stand
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and Egypt, and Greece and Rome. and all
the disasters that ever encountered the
civilization of the world. 1t has been shown
to meanif kept up only a little while longer,
the disappearance of the right of private
ownership of property upon the part of
the masses in the United States. and the
aggregation in the hands of few, that
might be counted, possibly, upon the finger
tips, of all the real and personal wealth
in the republic. 1t has registered itself in
the results, even the cold figures of the
census of 1890, as showing these uncontro-
vertible and appalling facts, viz: that two
per cent more than half of the people Of
the United States do not own property;
that two hundred and fifty thousand men
in the United States-yes, that twenty-five
thousand men in the United States-own
more than half of all the property in the
country; that, whereas, Rome fell when
eighteen hundred men owned the Roman
wealth. greater Wealth ihconteivably is
The herald., 1898-02-13

TO HEALTH
The English and German Exper
Specialists flake Another
Marvellous Cure
KIDNEY TROUBLE AND RHEUMATISM CURED


of her crippled
person. Mrs W. N Kline. Redlands, Cal
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| already distributed among twenty-five
thousand citizens of the United States.
1t shows that four thousand and forty
seven families own seven-tenths as much
as II .SS9 1853 families, according to that CEN
sus. 1t shows that as we have gone on as
a nation, endeavoring to pay our debts
with measure that made us give up more
commodities as the equivalent of the same
debt, We have continually made ourselves
more and more the slaves of the creditor
nations OF the world. 1t has shown us
that, whereas, in 1869 the American people
In public and private capacity. owed fr-
eign obligations to the extent of about
fourteen millions of dollars, and although
since that date they have sent abroad
more than they have received of goods
and merchandise and gold and silver bull
lion about twenty-seven hundred millions
of dollars, that twenty-seven hundred mil
lions of dollars has not wiped out the in
debtedness Of fourteen hundred millions
and left a balance of thirteen hundred mil
lions. as in ordinary everyday arithmetic
it ought to have done. but that, colossal
and inconceivable as 1t may seem, the ac
tual fact is that although twenty-eight
years ago we started with a foreign in
debtedness, public and private, aggregat
ing fourteen hundred millions of dollars.
and have paid off twenty-seven hundreds
of millions of dollars against 1t, we still
owe the creditors of the world from five
thousand to six thousand millions of dol
lars. (Applause.)
THE INEVITABLE RESULT
Ny friends, 1t has been shown as absolute
ly as anything in this wide world can be
shown that that policy, if pursued, will
end in making the producing classes of the
United States absolutely the slaves and
property of the creditor classes of the
United States, and that the fair nation to
which we belong-the greatest and most
glorious among all the galaxy of states
will end by becoming mere tribute pay |
ing vassal to Great Britain, as they have |
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ard is wrong. the world is perfectly well
agreed why it is wrong.

ard is wrong. the world is perfectly well
agreed why it is wrong.
THE GOLD STANDARD
The gold standard has been indicted
ever since it was mistakenly enthroned in
the world for high crimes and misdemean-
ors, and has pleaded guilty at the bar of
public justice for four and twenty years.
(Applause) The gold standard has been
declared to be a system of money wherein
a measuring unit is provided that constant
ly gets bigger as everything else reck-
oned in it gets smaller; as a measure of hu-
man effort and human toll that continually
makes the bearer of burden discharge
it with greater equivalent of money than
it meant to him when he assumed it. and
as constantly taking from the unrequited
toll of human labor the wealth created to
put into the strong box of the monopolist
and the idler. (Applause.)
1t has been shown to be a money system
fraught with every evil that can possibly
attack a free state. 1t has been shown to
have in it the seeds of the fall of Assyria
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Well and FavorabIy known


aid and relief the hands of
th-the and Expert
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Only One Of Many

Kline only Of Of people who have been restored
their good of sick afflicted than
diseases They well
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Catarrh Cured for $3.50 a Month

EXPENSE. The
remedies and
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Consultation Free


give
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-26
A FINE FARM FOR A L

We offer for sale at $40 per acre. the
Overman place, eight miles west Of
Grangeville, consisting Of II6o acres.
The home place comprises 60 acres.
with a new two story dwelling house.
36x,6 feet, 40 ieet high and containing
II rooms, with water piped throughout
the building, and cost 5000; cellar and
woodshed 24x48 feet. horse barn 4ox6o
feet, all painted. Windmill. plenty Of
running water, new granery aSxI6 feet;
smoke house, 3 stock barns, orchard Of
400 bearing trees. ETC., and $40 acres en-
closed by an 8-rail hos-tixht fencing.
The ,ther place consists OF $50 acre.
in three fields. enclosed with wire and
pole fence, with spring and reservoir foI
stock. All good pillow land except
about tena acres. A box house Of three
rooms downstairs and two rooms up
stairs: spring within 40 steps Of house
A thousand acres Of pasturage adjoining
with 6ne grass, water and shelter fo'
stock the year round. $40 per acre buy
it. For further particulars call on A.. F
Parker Grangeville, or Cyrus Overman'
on the ranch.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-26

immensely long Deak, which lives on
the brains of persons whose si'ulls it
fractures with its bill. Anybody who
is SO unfortunate as to encounter the
cannibal spirit may be transformed
into a grizzly bear. On the other hand,
if he can please the demon, he may OBJ
tain power to handle fire without being
burned.
Another guardian spirit is a fearsome
warrior who lives in the far north. He
travels constantly, and never leaves his
rance. By obtaining his protection a
man may become invulnerable, or he
may acquire power to catch the invisi-
BILE disease demon. This demon is at
all time flying about in the air in the
form of a worm. The fortunate protege
of the warrior spirit catching the worm
| can throw it into the body of al enemy,
who will d lie at once. The suggestion
/ of the modern germ theory of disease
contained in this belief is quite interest
ing. Not to be neglected among the
guardian spirits are certain ghosts,
which bestow the power or returning
to life after death.
d. Boaz has secured for the National
museum a large number of masks, such
as are worn by the Indians of the Alas
kan coast in their ceremonials. Some
of them are Of enormous size and as
tonishingly observation-disclosures En-
l%uirer.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-26
ALASKAN CANNIBALS.
bold Seekers VIII Sec Them En-
Route to the Klondike.
Queer AbOrigines Whose Customs and
Habits Are Based Upon
Beliefs in the super.
natural.

Along the coast of southern Alaska
well some very queer aborigines, as
gold seekers flocking to the klondlke
fegion Will surely discover. They do
he most of the freighting across the
passes into the interior, carrying loads
Pm their backs, but their population dur
ng many centuries has been SO shut
fway from other tribes by gigantic
fanges Of nov clad mountains that
hey have developed a peculiar culture
md customs unknown anywhere else.
Hence the exceptional value of a mono
graph about them prepared by DR..
RAM Boaz, a distinguished ethologist,
which is to be published shortly by the
National museum.
These natives may be said to live
|argely n a world Of imagination, mas
much as their customs and habits of
wing are based to a great extent upon
deas and beliefs wholly supernatural.
creation, from theE. point Of view, is
Peopled by strange monsters and de-
mons, which, while morally hostile to
man, may be rendered friendly and even
Peipful with the aid of certain cere-
nonlals Of a quasi religious character.
TOT example the most important OF
Fnese monsters is n serpent which has
head at each end of its body and a
human head in the middle. To touch
ms strange monster these natives be-
,e'e Is death, all the joints of the vic
IN becoming ~dislocated, but specially
aVored individuals are enabled 10 per-
URN wonderful feats by wearing a
Pelt OF its skin, while its eyes, Used as
ing stones, will kill any animal, even
'naies. Another Of these fabulous be-
iies is a wild woman who lives in the
rooas. She has enormous breasts, and
farries a basket, into which she puts
nndren whom she steals for the pur-
Pose of eating.
one OF The most remarkable of the
ss'iVais celebrated by the Indians is
niVal OF ghosts, which is held each
ln,er. II seems to be derived from n
''oh that tells of a journey made
: IN adventurous individual to a region
eheath the earth, inhabited by phan-
0ms' The celebration itself is a mimic
presentation of the, visit to Hades
aoresaid, and the performer who rep
esen's the submundane traveller wears
kulls.
.anhioalism is very conspicuous in
myths current among these people,
~ nave themselves been eaters OF
eaa iah flesh up to a recent period. In.
~ though the whites are supposed
nase put a stop to such practices, il
b"a seem that secret indulgence in
18th. 'oen Wholiy zone """'
re "a number of strange demons
m"orshipped as guardian spirits
'nem a cannibal demon that live.
ae mountains and is always en-
sa IN the pursuit of human beings
ms table. The smoke of his chime.
bal ae color of blood. ard he has u fe
nto.;sia'e who gets food for him 10y
ling men and collecting corpses
40 mouse is a fabulous bird, with al
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-26
Farmer Hopkins Evidence.
AE Tells ABOUT The SUFFERING OF HIS
DAUGHTER.
Victim Of Nervous Prostration and Neuralgia.
Saved After Her Physician Abandoned Hope.

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