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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24
From Tuesdays daily.

FROM Tuesdays daily.
The local lodge of K. of P's. re-
ceived their $500 regalia Sunday.
T. M. Peck was the lone arrival
on this mornings stage from Lew
iston.
County Assessor Fred White is
rounding up the town this week,
getting statements from property
owners for this years taxes,
w. II. May, M. D., of Spokane,
is sojourner at the Wilts- House,
looking over the town with the
view of locating and practicing his
profession.
CARD OF THANKs.-We wish to
thank our many friends for their
kind assistance during the sickness
and dsath of our little daughter
CARL AND MAY MCLEAN.
The village trustees have au-
thorized the construction of a rough
board shanty 12x12 feet, west of
the Bargain store in which to house
the hose cart of Fire Company
No. 2.
The report that Frank Thornton
had been killed between Badger
and the Hump turns out to have
been a false alarm. Thornton was
positively seen as late as Saturday
hauling hay near the Mountain
house on the Elk City road, and
he was then very much alive.
Gov. Steunenberg has vetoed the
bill providing for holding terms Of
the supreme court at Pooatello, on
the ground that the constitution Of
the state fixes Boise and Lewiston
as the places at which they shall
convene.
Another important business
transfer took place yesterday. The
meat market owned by Messrs.
Ingram & Bills was purchased by
Messrs. Robert Jones and Bert
Garfield. Consideration, 1900.
The new purchasers took possess
sion yesterday.
We regret to hear of the serious
sickness of two of the children of
our friend and county treasurer,
Geo. M. Robertson, at Mt, Idaho.
One of them is reported to be in
such a precarious condition that it's
recovery is not expected; but while
there is life there is hope, and we
will all hope and pray with George
and his wife for the best.
If the wars and rumors of wars
continue; if the typhoons, the cy-
clones and billiards. continue to
sweep the seas and the lands; il
the floods come that are threaten
ing and if the disease and pesti-
lence continue to spread, some one
will put on prophetic robe and be
bold enough to say: ''The world is
surely coming to an end"
Lee Balmer, Of Salem, Oregon,
who has been here some days and
failing to find a location for . 81,
loon, has decided to open in the
Hump section as early as possible.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24

Jas. P. Turner is back from q
trip to Spokane.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-24

He purchased Yesterday six horses
and will take his outfit in over the
rawhide road from Slate creek,
which is reported to be in excellent
condition.
Chas. Robbins, after whom the
famous Robbins district WAS II med
and one of the original locu. of
the Big Buffalo and Mcirimac
group, is lying at Lewiston very
seriously sick WITH pneumonia. He
went down with Sam and Sol Sill
verman week ago today and took
the disease on the way down.
Charley has many friends here who
hope that he will live hundred
years to enjoy hisnewly acquired
wealth.
The mining department of the
university has just constructed a
small but complete cyanide plant
which is to be used i'm determining
whether the cyanide process is APP
plicable to the ores of the state.
The plant can handle 300 lbs. of
ore which will be fair test of the
process on larger scale. Mr..
Moore is now getting the plant
ready for a run on some Pierce
City, Republic and Buffalo Hump
ore which is on the way To the
university.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27

of missionaries to Asia and Africa.
| But is ther- not here vast mission
| field for effort and influence?
ALITTLE RECENT IMPROVEMENT
IN SOME STATES.
The State of MissisSi -pi, Arkansas,
and the Carolinas, all need great re-
forms in this matter; Dut especially
Florida and Georgia. Their forest
terpentine works and their phosphate
mines are often awful spots. morally
and physically. louisiana is making
some special efforts at improvement.
Alabama and Texas are perhaps bet.
ter than formerly. Yet prison chap
lain in Texas writes to Howard ASSo-
citation (ISoSl practically there has
been no advance in the lease system
of our convicts. 1t can only be an
evil"
GENERAL OPPRESSION OF
THE COLoRED RACE.
The Howard Association has also
received, in connection with these sad
accounts of southern camps and chain
gangs, much information showing that
they form but one portion or still
vaster system OF oppres ion of the
colored race generally in the South
ern States. Ihe FOice Of Missions,
Atlanta, December, 1898 contains
long and terrible indictment of the
white race for the treatment of the
colored people since 1865.
IL says: 1.-The Cuban War and its
results and the American massacres
are nothing when compared with the
the thirty wears of 'whitecapping,
chasing by blooohounds, numbering,
burning at the stake, lynching, flaying
swindling, robbng, defamation of
character, injustice, false imprison-
ment and oppression, which the color
ed people of America have passed
through, and are still undergoing"
"rhis year 900 have been lynched and
murdered by our white Christian
friends and no voice but our own weak
cry has been raised in protest"
Many negroes were shot by the white
democrats in North and South Car
olina during the November elections of
1898 Re- emily also, many unoffending
colored people have been driven away
from their homes and farms in the
South by violent and covetous white
neighbOrs.
The same journal complains of the
silence of the pulpit, both North and
South, respecting these evils, and re-
marked that even the United >tateS
Supreme Court at Washington has
always turned scale against the color
ed race. Also that several of the
Southern States have distranchised
the negroes by wholesale, In violation
of the Federal Constitution, whilst re-
turning them all as voters for the
purpose of their own proportionate
representation in Congress. 1t is
known that some prominent politician
and Legislators at Washington have
made large fortunes as convict con-
tractors.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
The 0,,lesAC Chicks

The oldest clocks of American man
ufacture were made by Gideon Rob
arts, of Bristol. Conn. According to
the best authorities, no clocks were
manufactured in what are now the
United States prior TO 1900, at which
time Mr. Roberts first placed his time
pieces on the market His clocks were
made with the greatest care. and
much time was spent in perfecting
them. They We're ell of the style com
monty known as hall clocks. about
six feet in height, handsomely fin
ished and a recognized separate piece
of furniture in which the owner al
ways took great pride
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
BRUTAL CAPTAINS. +"


Fearful brutalities are perpetrated
by these captains" in the lonely, re
mote places where many OF the gangs
are located, as in forests and mines.
Sometimes convicts have been flaved
alive On one prisoners corpse forty
injury were found. He had been
literally beaten to pieces. Another
had been disgustingly dismembered
by kicks, and there was a great hole
gaping in his side. A young white girl
OF seventeen wears, after being repeat
edly outraged by the officers of the
camp, fed TO the woods. She was
overtaken by bloodhounds, her
clothes stripped off. and she was then
fiogged in the presence of ieering
men. Another poor girl, similar treat
ed, gave birth to a child, but both
mother and offspring were speedily
relieved by death. Women and girls
are habitually subjected TO the gross
est indecencies and exposures. In
one camp was found a woman who
had had seven children whilst there.
and another had had six there. And
such cases are legion
Christian America sends hundreds
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
WHO WILL HELP.

WHO WILL HELP.
The Voice 0f Missions mournfully
remarkS:-" here are no advocates of
human rights in the United States to-
day. Charles Sumner is dead, Abra-
ham Lincoln is gone, Wendell Phillips,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Dou-
glas and Harriet Beecher Stowe have
all passed away; and with them went
the last great advocates of human
rights" This complaint is, however,
too pessimistic.
Yet even the Society Of Friends
(Quakers) in America, once the fore
most champions of the negro, through
their ]. @. Whittier, Thomas Garrett,
Isaac B. Hopper, Levi Coffin, Francis
/. King and other good men, have of
late years, become strangely silent
and apparently arathetic, as TO the
oppressed race.
SELF HELP.
However, a people of twelve million
oil ght no longer to be mainly depend
ent upon or looking to others for their
own protection. They must now chief
ly turn to schemes of self-help-or re-
main oppressed
THE PROBLEM.
An American correspondent of the
Howard Associations wri-es (IS9e):-
"The negro trouble has become SO
great that, | fear, the difficulty can
never be settled but with blood"
The problem is indeed vast one,
and of pressing import to the United
States, both North and South. Is the
Christianity of that great nation to re-
main impotent for the solution? Are
the colord people to be driven to what
now appears to be their only means of
relief-by self-help, through imitat-
ing the methods of their adversaries
in the formation of Secret Societies
and powerful and compact, Organized
Unions, for defence and offence? 1t
is only thus, that they can make them
selves what they must be, somehow
spected and feared as race? But
at else are they to do, unless the
Ite race bestirs itself for other ef-
is than continuing oppression?
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
Anstralian Sign Ianunana

Far away from civilization gesture
.an@uage is still extant in AnStraii.
Some OF Ihe tribes possess such an ex-
client code that it is almost as eff.
,.ient as the spoken LANGUAGE
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
4 Real BLESSING,

A novel sort of window glass has
oeen invented. Persons on the inside
IF the house can see through it. but il
s OPAQUE to those on the outside.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
Rni q PtRe-May Mill

The Eurds and Cossacks believe .hst
Mount Ararat is guarded by az TN
earthly being. and that no mas can
ascend the peak and live.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27

of missionaries to Asia and Africa.
But is ther- not here a vast mission
field for effort and influence?
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
4 Infnnn I

4 church ia London still possesses
an income originally given to II for M,
purpose OF buying fagots for bnrnins
heretics. "ins
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
HiUh IiyI-

The iottlest inhabited place in the
world is the Buddhist monastrv =.
Haipe, in Tibet. 1t is about II oOn
feet above the sea. '00'
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
THE LINCHINGS.

In the Richmond Planet, July 23rd
1898, bishop is quoted as saying:
Enough colored men have been
lvnched to death to reach mile high,
if laid one upon another-and nearly as
IN any women and children to make a
similar pile.
These lynchings ale defended by
many persons on the ground OF their
necessity of protecting white women
from negro assaults. No doubt. ocCa-
sionaIlv such crimes of this kind have
been committed by them, but they
have been immensely out numbered
by similar outrageS by whites upon
the females of the weaker race.
The colored people have need to
clear themselves from completely with
such crimes, and also TO cultivate
more honesty and truthfuln Ss. Nor
can they expect to be much respected
until they manifest more self-reSpect
and become less characterized, as
people, by their everlasting grin and
giggle. Lord Chesterfield said:-"l
never knew 'Merry-Andrew' re-
spected man" But the colored peo-
pie are too often such fools, and until
as a race, they manage to make them
selves both respected and feared,
they are not likely to get the justice
which is due 10 them. BuffoonS will
be despised.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-27
CONVICT MORTALITY.

Even the aggregate of lynchings IS
very small in comparison with the
enormous mortality Of the the convicts
in the camps and chain gangs. Where
as in English convict prisons the death
rate is under 7 per 1000 per annum, 1t
ranges in these camps from IS to over
200 per 1000 yearly.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

No wonder the real estate business in
chicago y dead.
People are tired Of paying the taxes
6 ethesa
Owing 10 the bribery Of ASSESSOR BY
~ Gas Trust and other rich corpora
tjoas the assessed valuation Of Chicago
property gets lower every year, while
~ taxes Of those who have to pay
grow larger In amount.
The expenses Of the city are greater
every year and the poor man who pays
taxes has 70 meet them. The Gas Trust
ard other bribers are not affected.
he honest taxpayers Of Chicago pay
. greater percentage on each 800 Of
thelr asssssed valuation than the peo-
Pc OF any other city In the United
States.
Ths following figures taken from the
New YORK World Almanac for 1880 and
fuEnished By the Mayors Of the cities
named, speak for themselves:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

Read the above figures, citisens Of
Chicago, and tlaen blush for shame.
Out Of The ten largest cities n the
United States Chicago ranks tenth IN
assessed valuation Of taxable propoety!
Does any one for . moment believe
that Pittsburg and Brooklyn and But.
falo. for instance. ere richer than Oil.
cago. not TO speak Of San Francisco
or st. Louis OF Balumoee3
A thousaud times moi
Chicago u the victim Of the bribe-giv.
ing propsnsities Of the Gas Trust and
other robbing corporations. which take
al that the people have and give them
nothing IN return.
Chicago gives the Gas Trust and the
other tx lodging corporations police
protection and IRE protsction. Il gives
the Gas Trust IT. streets free Of charge.
And n return the Gas Trust cheats
Chicago out OF IT. taxes and forces the
city to pay Il millions Of dollars for
the poor apology Tor ga furnishsd to
IT. lampposts and public buildings.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

The new city attorney should enforce
the following resolution passed b. the
City Council:
Resolved, That TIE City Attorney
be and he ID hereby directed to m
stftute proceedings to test the constatu.
&ionality Of the oct Of the Legislature
permitting the consolidating Of gas
companies, and also annul the Get Of
consolidot1oh Of the Consumer Gas
Company, the Peoples 0as Light and
Coke Company and the Equitable Gas
Company, for the reason that these
companies In consolidating under the
name Of the Peoples Gas Company
have violated the express conditions
against consolidation contained IN the
ordinances granting them the privilege
to operate In the city Of Chicago.
49,
Commenting upon this most neces-
sary action BY the City Council, the
CHICAGO RECORD OF SATURDAY,
May ~, 1893, SAID:
: aid. Bigane was mot elected 90 a
reformer. Nevertheless he offered In
the Council Monday evening q Get Of
resolutions that may be made to work
for the relief Of Chicago from the grasp
of the lighting corporations. Probably
some Of the aldermen were taken By
surprise or they would not have allow.
ed the resolutions to get past the stage
where they could be used for sandbag.
cling purposes. But the resolutions
were adopted, and now need only the
signature Of the Mayor to make them
effective.
1.-THE resolutions call attention to the
benefits Of municipal ownership Of the
city water works and suggest possible
benefits to come from municipal owner
ship Of the lighting service. They en-
power the Mayor to appoint commit.
tee Of nine to investigate and report
upon the experience Of other cities with
municipal ownership Of lighting planti
and to agitate for state legislation thai
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

win enable the municipality 70 furnish
light TO IL citisens. AZ Mayor Harri-
con 10 known TO b IN favor Of the ex.
tension Of the functions Of the munic.
ipality In the direction Of Q larger de-.
gree Of public ownership It 10 to b.
presumed be win sign the resolutions,
unless he nnds some serious objection
to their form. By doing 20, and BY up.
pointing Q arst-class committee to car.
~ out the purpose Of the resolutions,
he win do much to prepare the way for
q proper solution Of the lighting prob
lem In Chicago.
"THB LyoH9Ixe coMPAxyss o. car
cAoo, ESPECIALLY TEN Gas coNPANI1s,
HAv1 T11Ar1D TEE PUBLIC MOST
sHAaaDvuLLy. sHHy ssouRsD 11Ax.
cHIsns UPoN THs 1xPRsss STIPULATION
TnAT TH1Y WOULD NOT CoNDiNu, Duf
WOULD coNPRT1 wIT1 orr ANOTHER,
THsY PRocssD.D. H0wsv1a, 80 PORN
4 TRUST II VIOLATION o. yuu Law,
AND TuHN, 10 AVOID RMDARAAssNBxT,
FAD THE LxaIsLATUaE Pass An ACT
LBaALI8INo Ta1IR sTATUs. NonH 59AN
THAT, they HAD TIE LIaIsLATURu
PASS ANOTHER ACT MAxIxo AxY vUn.
Ta1A COMPETITION WITH THEM PRAc.
TICALLY INPossJBLn. JUST BBvORs
THsss LAWS WENT INTO EyvEcr An
ovys1 WAS MADE ~ RxsPoNsInLE PER-
Sons 70 yUnNIsH LIGHT uPoM TsRNs
MUCH Mo11 yAvoRABLH TO coNsUMERs
AND TEE CJTY TaAN TEE TnUsT MAIN
TAIN. TIE AoSxTs OF TH1 TsUsT PR
vSNx1D TIN PASSAGE OF TIE oRDI.
NANCE.
Evidently the only relief from the
situation 10 In extending the functions
Of the municipality. The city has q
municipal electric lighting plant, which
the Mayor and Council, very wisely,
have taken steps to enlarge. Upon &c.
curing the proper authority from the
Legislature the city plant could be stiA
further enlarged and used In furnish.
Ing Hight to private consumers, Just a.
the city furnishes water to citisens. In
the course Of time the city might very
well 20 further and take over the ex.
listing lighting plants and thus control
the entire lighting service Of the city.
"A move to secure from the Legisla.
ture authority for municipalities to
furnish light to private consumers
would meet with hearty cooperation
from the smaller cities Of the State.
Many OF them have electric lighting
plants for furnishing public light. They
could just a. well as not furnish light
to their citixens, and frequently have
sought from the Legislature the privi.
lege Of 20 doing, but without success.
In several neighborng States cities
having municipal plants are allowed to
sell light. The cities Of Illinois, esq.
cially the smaller ones, should be given
this same privilege. II Mayor Harrison
should name this committee and Il
should be successful In securing legis-
lation Of this sort II would earn the
gratitude not only OF the people OF
Chicago who protest At being held In
the grasp OF the gas trust, but OF the
citizens Of the smaller municipalities
Of the State az well"
49,
Tue Gas Trust has GOT Q new wrinkle
for squessing the people. Il = the "sas
range" scheme. furnished BY the 81
company. II works wen In doubling
Dooplo'o oxpon0o1,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

Excepting China, Il would b hard to
and any country where the extortion
practiced By the Cas- Trust on the peo-
pie Of Chicago would long be tolerated.
The Gas Trust robs the people In ev.
cry way.
Il rents gas ranges to poor people at
outrageous prices. II then puts on OK.
tra pressure scientifically applied and
forces dir through the pipes ct . great
rate. This pressure b especially strong
svenin&s when supper 10 being pre-.
pared. The people pay for wind which
costs the Trust nothing.
Special assessments for gas lamps 80
right along, Int the poer people DO not
ct the gas o. The btreets after they
pay their aseeGsments. The Gas Trust
owns the streets. The city has moth.
Ing to DO With them.
The Gas .trGe h not fuzuishing one
half the light \ sAouid furnish, and for
years, according % published reports,
Il did not furnish 24candle power to
the city. M
Il l. reported that the Gas Trust 10
getting paid for Thousands Of lamps
which are not n service, and this can
Be easily verified,
49,
- cheap ere ne msateslalo new
lDood IN tho Usonueaotuso CO re
that ire eoenm6nlV can ~ eeld q
o-psolst ~ - Uosseo ~ 600 Sooe
~ lllumlnating passpesss ana ~
- eeWto pr 1000 - ~ svsi.
49,
When the eangamqp County Grand
Jury Investigates Legislative bribery
Il must not forget Ne Gas Trust agent
who manipulated the deal Of 1897.
That deal win not be outlawed Tor over
. year yet.
~
II the people Of Chicago permit them
selves to be robbed By an Octopus
which has NO legal right to exist, they
are not entitled to any sympathy.
49,
The people Of Illinois demand con.
stitutional convention.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

The Gas Trust has got Q new wrinkle
for sQueesing the people. u = the "eas
range" scheme. furnished BY the gas
company. II works wen In doubling
Deoples sxpsnsss.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24
The sas 10 Of . poor quality and the
condition Of the sas lamps was never
20 bid.

"What b the price II Dobhin1
Electric Gospr
give cents Z bar, full DE, jusl
reduced from ten. Ham't bean leo
than tn for ~ yeara" N
why, that's the price u common
brown soap. Send ne : box I can't
afford y buy Nv other soap aftsr
this"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

II the people Of chicago permit them.
selves to BE- robbed By an Octopus
which has no legal right to exist, they
are not entitled to any sympathy.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24

The people Of Illinois demand con.
stitutional convention.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24
But the Rich and Robbing Gas Trust
Will Be Permitted to Escape
Easily.
o310,OOO-N viii Do SO
Again.


the West end North sides M have make
make
following Of
taken the latest Of the Illinois Bureau
ln6o Aate
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-06-24


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until the Of awakening situation
sudden and tying the
be ssason Springfield can the day Of reckoning
81 sst the PEOPLE out Of :ss IN s.ss lat snd ess.sd
to nh The g msk tie proas to The people should
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