davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
CASE OF MIDDLE WEST
J0BBERS CONTINUED.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Orders "a Postponement tBtiI
April rs.

Special Dispatch 20 the Post-Inteliigencer
WASHINGTON, Dec. u-ft has been
agreed BY the Interstate commerce com
mission and both parties 70 ths rate con-
troveFSy between the iobbers ~ tho Mid
ole West and the transcontineHtal lines
that the hearing held here yesterday shall
be continued IN Washington on April IS
next
The questions involved are SO great that
u is feared II IS impossible to gather all
the needed information IN any short
length OF time. II will therefore be hvo
OF six months before the case raised by
the Merchants Association OF 81. Louis
IS finally settled Il is expected that
representatives Of the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific will appear at the
April hearing.
No other testimony was heard by the
commission today. the hearing he!d yes
terday concluding the matter for the
present
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT
Executive Commftie~ Meet. to De-
termine ~ u shall he Held
tn Denver.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Dee 1i.-capi
w. ~ Armstrong. ~ this c.ty. senior
member 81 the national executive com
mittec ~ the Grand Army tcd1y received
from Chief Rassieur. ~
St Louis a call % eurne 70 fhat rify
Monday 10 attend 80 imr1rtant meet
Ing % the national executive committees
The purpose % he meeting ls 20 decide
whether nsSt years Gr8nd Array encAmp-
ment shall be- taken away from Dpmver
and held in some other CITY.
Capt Armstrong r. Inclined 20 think the
er,camDment wifi be taken from Denver
and n 80 it win he the gfss Instance
whore city has been deprived ~ nn en-
cmmpment after having secured 4 hy vois
of the order.
The final decision viii he made on Mon
day
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
DUTCH REFUSE TO
TAKE THE INITIATIVE.
Government Informs Kruger That II
Cannot he First To Suggest
Arbitration.

THE HAGUE, Dec. 1.-THE Dutch gov
ernment today finally and definitely re-
fused to take the initiative In behalf
of arbitration between the Transvaal
and Great Britain. The decision OF the
government was communicated In AN in
terview between Mr.. Kruger and DR.
Leyds on one side and the Dutch foreign
minister and the minister OF finance, NJ
q, Pierson, on the other
Mr. Kruger explained that the object OF
his journey was to disseminate the idea OF
arbitration. and the Dutch minister re-
piled that the role OF the Netherlands
must be passive. The initiative belonged
10 the great powers, he added. When the
powers had reached a decision the Dutch
government might what II could do
serenade of Mr.. Kruger by the schol-
ars liked for tonight has been prohibited
by the police out Of fear of disturbances
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
TRArNMEN DISCUSS STRIKE.
Representatives of Six BROTHER
hoods Hold Meeting.

PUEBLO. Colo, Dec. i1.-Representa-
tives from the six railway hrotherhoods
held meeting tonight for the purpose of
discussing whether they should take ac-
tion In support OF the striking teleg-
raphers. They were In secret session tilI
late In the night. The various delegations
were appointed as committees to present
the matter TO their respective brother
hoods separately and have them deter
mine what they want to do.
The meeting was Informal and those
present were very reticent but such rail-
road men as were willing TO say anything
expressed the opinion that they ought
to back up the telegraphers but that IL
might not be expedient to do so.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
FULL PLAY WANTED
FOR LORD ROBERTS.
The Statement That His Powers
Would BE Same as Lord woise-
Iey's Creates Protest.

LONDON, Dec. 1e-The information
drawn from Mr. Brodrick IN the house
OF commons yesterday that the powers OF
Lord Roberts as commander-in-chief
would be the same as those OF Lord
Wolseley calls out from the Daily Mail
a strong protest. The Daily Mail says
that with Lord Roberts as a lay figure,
liable TO he overruied by a minister OF
war, real army reforms are quite improh-
able.
The Daily Chronicle says:
We can but regret that Lord Roberts
mas not improved the shining moments
OF his popularity to put the position of
commander-in-chief on a sounder basis.
although we have no fear that Lord Rob
erts win be fiouted as Lord Wolseley is
reported to have been"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
WILL ASCERTAIN
MORANS' STANDING.
Dec.

UAVAsHINGTON. Dec. H.
WV Upon the recommendation
v " az the board Of instruction
Secretary Long VIII cause an in
quiry TO be made by expert navy
officers into the capabilities 81 the
ship building plant Of Moran
Brothers. Seattle; Fore River Com
pany. quincy. Mass. and John
Dialogue Sons. Camden. y. J.
The purpose is 10 satisfy tie de-
partrueut OF the ability Of these
concerns to construct hattieshlps
and armored cruisers. This in
qulry viii occupy A week, during
which time the bids opened last
week viii be thoroughly examined
and compared.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
WAR OFFICE RETICENT.
Indications That II Has News OF
British Success.

LONDON, Dec. 1.-THE Evening STAN
dard says the battle between Gen. Knox
and Gen. Dewet continues and that the
FORCES exchange ground ncessantiy
Lack Of definite information Is said to
be due TO the absence of teiegraphic com
munication with the scene Of action.
While the war office Is most retlcent on
the subject there are indications ahat The
officials have received news suggesting
considerable British success against De-
wet.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
AUGUST BELMONT I'LL.
Physicians Hope. However. That the
Worst Has Passed.

NEW YORK. Dec. u.-ft is reported to-
night that August Belmont the banker. Is
seriously III of'pneum0nia Al his country
seat near Hampstead. +. T. His phyai-
clan. however, hopes that The worst has
passed
Oswald Ottendorffer n SSH fI at hlr res
iaence. and there has bees no change
since yesterday
Roland Reeds condition also is un-
changed
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
denied By Tran.vaal Legation.

THE HAGUE. Dec. 1.-THE TransyaaI
legation says Il is authorized 10 contra
dirt the report that Esnoeror NichsiRs
has teieRrarhed 20 Mr. Kruger an inii-
nation that he wiil not receive him.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12

fifty-one operators leaving their keys
he said. Their places are heing filled
rapidly and no men who struck Will be
taken back. We have plenty OF men 70
fill the vacant positions. Trains are run
ming on schedule time and there has been
but little delay"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12

CAPE TOWN. Dec i1.--FleId Marshal
Ro'<rts. with hls Wife and daughters.
sailed for England today on the Canada.
Lady Roberts and her daughters were
brought to Cape Town by "a special train.
Great crowds chcercd the departing
steamer.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12

LONDON. Dec. ii.-A question put TO the
government In the house af commons to-
day elected the statement that there had
been l5,s25 cases Of typhoid fever among
the British troops in South Africa and
that of this number 3.s42 proved fatal
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12

LONDON. Dee fi.--Tt was said IN the
lobby of tho house ~ commons last ov-
ering that Gen Ian Hamilton who n re-
turning with Lord Roberts. viii receive n
high appointment In the war Office.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
DEBATE PROCEEDS ON
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.
Senator Clay Makes First
Speech in Opposition.
SENATOR HANNATOR REPLY
House Begins Discussion of the
War Tax Bill.

Chairman Payne. of Committee IN
Ways and Means. Opens the De-
bate I'm Favor of the Measure
Minority Views Presented by
swRnson-House Also Takes up
the Boos Matter and Orders nm
Investigation-The senate Dts-
cusscs the O1comRrEarine BIIl
and the Clark Case Incidentally.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12

plotting TO murder Lord Roberts during
his visit here recently abandoned their
schemes on learning that they were shad-
owed.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
MORE MONEY VOTED
ID GARRY On WAR.
House of Commons Sanctions
Estimate Made.
GLOOMY views ARE HELD.
Members Apathetio and Not In
clined to Criticise.

BY "A Vote of 2s4 to $4,000. 900
Are Permitted for Use In Prose-
cutting the Transvaal Wharf.-The
Speech of the New Secretary of
State for War Was a Pessimistic
One-Government VIII Prosecute
the Fight With Strongest Possi-
bic FOrce-The Session Expect
ed to End ON Saturday Next.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12
OPERATORS STRIKE
IS STILL GOING ON.
Zach Side Claiming It Will
Win in the End.
TRAINMEN HOLD MEETING.
Express Sympathy With Strikers
But No Action Taken.

Railroad Onicfals Say They Have the
situation Well In Hand and That
So Far ms They Are Concerned
the Strike Is Practically Over
Have RenIIed Places of Those Co
ing Out-Telegraphers Claim That
They Are ON Firm Ground and
VIII Carry Their Point-Loolx for
Encouragement From Trainmen.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-12

PORT ELIZABETH. Cape Colony. Dec.
IA number of persons suspected of
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Must Share The Guilt.

AS solemn as is the responsibility Of
President Mckinley for the many and
awful evils which are flowing from
the saloon and the canteen, it should
never be overlooked that those who
voted for him did so knowing that
the party which he represented abso-
lutely ignored moral issuesin that cam
paign. Prosperity" it cried; "give
us prosperity" 1t is unreasonable for
these men to expect President Nc
Kinley to array himself against the
liquor interests of the country and so
insure his almost certain defeat, when
they are not willing to draw the line
on the liquor issue to the extent of
one ballot. Let not those who vote
for Mckinley or Bryan next month,
knowing as they do their record on the
liquor question, attempt later to shout
der upon the occupant of the White
House during the next four years the
responsibility which the President
must share with every man who has
intelligently given the approval of his
ballot to his policy and that of the
party which elected him.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Facts are Stubborn Things.

No reader of the Republican press
can have failed to notice the change
OF opinion regarding the canteen pro-
fessed by those who formerly opposed
that institution. Neither can any
thoughtful reader of those papers have
overlooked the fact that so large a
proportion of those whose minds have
experienced such remarkable revolu-
ton on the subject are in some way
related to President McKinley's for
tunes. Adjutant- General Corbin, COM
missioned officers in the army, and
thousands of editors of Republican
journals are conspicuous among those
who have so suddenly experienced
change of heart 1t is notable, how
ever, that the great mass of thought
full men are still unconvinced and that
the churches, assembled in their great
representative bodies, continue to put
themselves on record as Of yore. The
machine is a power, but it is not yet
omnipetent.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
A Worthy Leader.

Disappointed over the non-enforce-
ment of law by Mayor Gray and dis
gusted at the nomination of ex-Mayor
Ames by the Republican party, prom
inent business men of the better class
morally have asked w. J. Dean, of
Minneapolis, to stand as indie
pendent candidate for mayor, and he
has consented to do so.
Widely known in business, philan-
thropic and religious circles as a man
of ability, probity and unfinching
courage, he should receive the vote
of every friend of decency in that city.
His record is a sufficient pledge. Yet
he promises to enforce the laws and
ordinances, if elected, to the extent of
his ability, and no one need fear any
f1inching on his part when brought
face to face with the difficulties of the
trying position for which his fellow
citizens have named him. If Mime
apolis really wants a clean admins
tration there is no danger of his de-
feat, for the man whom we are proud
to call our w. J. Dean fills the bill.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Recent Church Declarations.

We call especial attention to the
declaration of the bishops in 1888 that
"the liquor traffic can never be legal
lied without SIM Our church will
never haul down that fag.-Minn. M.
E. Conference.
1--WE condemn the President of the
United States for his notification of
the anti-canteen law and submit that
such action is subversive of the forms
of our government, dangerous to the
liberties of the people, and without a
precedent in the history of our coun-
-Muskingum, Ohio, Conference of
the Methodist Protestant Church.
I'VE have no words strong enough
to express our utter detestation of the
army canteen and the expansion of the
liquor traffic under the protection of
the flag.-Missouri Conference of the
M. E. Church, South.
We favor prohibition for the nation
and the state, and total abstinence for
the individual, and we believe that no
Christian citizen should ever cast a
ballot for any man, measure or plat
form that is opposed to the annihila-
ton of the liquor traffic. -Southern
Baptist Convention.
I'VE believe that the time has come
when Christian men should withdraw
from all completely with the liquor
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
A Distinguished Convert.

For seventeen years Ex-Governor L.
G. Hughes, of Arizona, has bravely
fought the rum power, while remain
ing in the ranks of the Democratic
party, but has at last come where he
belongs. He has this month an
nounced his adherence to the Pro-
hibition party and rendered his SER
vices to the national committee.
During these seventeen years of
warfare with the liquor business, as
pointed out by the New Voice, Gov
ernor Hughes has had a rough time
He has been burned in emgy, villifed,
slandered and lied about. Once he was
assaulted and nearly killed.
Years ago he served two terms in
Congress from Kansas City, Mo. Later,
by virtue Of his having led the Ari-
IONA delegation to the Democratic con-
vention and cast the five votes for
Grover Cleveland, votes necessary for
his nomination, he was appointed Gov
ernor of that territory, but later still,
at the urgent request of the liquor
men and gamblers, he was dismissed
by Mr.. Cleveland.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
John q. ,WOOlley.

No hero decked with jeweled crown,
Deserves more honor or renown,
Than our STANDARD Bearer true.
Bring forth the laurel, oak and pine,
The palm and ivy intertwine,
With red and white and blue.
Go write his name in letters bright,
That all the world may read Alright,
His fight against the wrong;
Crown him who dares the foe to face,
Crown him the mercy of Gods grace,
And raise the victor's song.
IN. ]. Gazette.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
They Don't Love Us.

This is the way the official organ of
the Minnesota Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation frees it's mind on the eve of
election:
Il love a Republican, because he has
some method in his madness; 1 love a
he's whipped and is always ready to
protest that his knockout was only a
breathing spell. But a Prohib is a mule
with no pride of paternity nor hope of
political posterity. The race is dying out
That last sentence reminds us of the
wicked farmer who said: "There is
no hell-but I'd give my best brindle
COW to know it,
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
1t (the liquor traffic. can never be
legalized without sin. - Methodist
General Conference.
nckinIey Could Stop 1t.

The bodies of nearly 1000 soldiers
who persisted in the Philippines will
be brought home for burial. Com
paratively few of these fell in battle.
The hundreds of saloons and houses
of prostitution, protected by military
rule, have produced an awful harvest
of physical disease and insanity, as
we'll as of immortality. ''Who slew all
these?" Ask the commander-in-chief
of the army and navy, whose will is
law in our distant territory, and to
whose standards big brewers and dis
tillers have been focking as doves to
their windows, since the development
of his (beer and whisky expansion
policy.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Effect of a Ballot.

A vote for the candidates of the Re-
publican or Democratic party is a
vote to perpetuate the saloon, part
of whose annual output is $500 smoth-
cred babies, 5000 murdered wives,
5000 suicides, 1000 murders, 10000
murderers, 100000 widowed mothers,
$4,000 fallen girls, 100000 orphaned
children, 100000 paupers, 100000 in
sane, 100000 predetermined, 100000
criminals, 100000 drunkards, 100000
boys who take the place of the dying
drunkards, untold crimes, misery, woe,
want, weeping, wailing, war, shame,
disgrace, disease, degradation, de-
bauchery, devastation, destruction,
death, riot, revelry, ruin.
We do not say that all those who
vote with the license parties intend to
bring all this woe upon their fellow
beings. But the awful holocaust goes
on just the same. 1t is the ballot and
not the intention which tells the story.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01

traffic, and vote together at the next
November election for its complete
overthrow Iowa Synod United Pres
byterian Church.
We do most strenuously disapprove
of the un-Christian conduct of the
President of our republic in personally
drinking intoxicants in public and in
refusing to use his undoubted authori-
ty and the express law of Congress in
Kidding the United States army of the
saloon.
Not only prayers but votes are need
ed for the overthrow of intemperance,
and hence we earnestly ask the voters
in our churches to go to the polls and
vote as they pray.-Wayne, N. Y,
Baptist Association.
"The administration has defeated
the evident intention of Congress in
the anti-canteen law, and by most
absurd opinion of member of the
cabinet has perpetuated the saloon in
the army to the ruin of thousands of
our soldier boys and the confusion of
Christian citizens. The opinion will
rank in the future with the bred Scott
decision Of Judge fancy. More alb
iect submission to the liquor power
was never seen in the history of the
country-Rock River M. E. Confer
ence.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Progress in the South,

A dozen Prohibition speakers are on
the stump in Kentucky. The party has
never been so enthusiastic there
Alabama has full list of presidential
electors.
w: T. Bundick, Virginia state chairman,
is almost constantly in the field. The
heretofore.
The Florida platform declares among
other things that ANY party claiming to be
give an earnest of it's sincerity by first
attacking the liquor oligarchy, the most
gigantic and baleful Of all trusts
Two years ago only seven persons at
tended the state Prohibition convention
Of Texas. This year over one hundred
were present. From 10000 to $4,000 votes
are promised for Woolley and Metcalf.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Trading with 1.-The Trade"

From the eleven men representing
the protected interests" who attend
ed the conference" called at the office
Of Gibbs, Hanna's financial representa-
tive in Philadelphia, the name of
Joseph F. Sinnott, of the big whisky
firm, Moore & Sinnott, heaued the list
in the Republican papers of that city.
The immense distilling interests of
Philadelphia, estimated at not less
than $50,000,000, have undoubtedly
put up the stuff ere this and will con-
tinue to be protected" AS to the
protection of the home, of manhood,
womanhood and childhood, that is diff
ferent. But the Christian men of the
nation are getting what they voted
for four years ago.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01

Women vote in Colorado. Appre-
ciating their greater opportunity, the
state w. G. T. U. convention declared
that the prohibition or the drink trade
dwarfs all other issues; and that since
all parties save one ignore that issue,
they are shut up to the support of the
Prohibition party. They call upon
"all women voters, especially mothers,
to ignore the minor questions of ex-
pansion and currency and all such,
and just this once vote for the home
and agains. the saloon
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
The last chance to win some votes.
This number sent direct at one cent a
copy.

Mr.. Bryan condemns the sugar trust,
the steel trust, the Standard oil and
other monopolies, but is as dumb as
an oyster regarding the whisky trust,
the greatest of all. The fact is that
even in the democratic party the liquor
question is so lively an issue that if
it's leader should once mention it, a
volcano would start on it's upward
career and the Nebraska orator would
be in it.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Last Year of the Switch-Back.

The two Ond one-half mile tunnel of
the Great Northern Railway, under the
Cascade Mountains, will be completed this
month.
This summer offers to passengers to the
Pacific Coast their last opportunity of
crossing the Cascade Mountains on the
great engineering trumphs of the cen
fury.
Write for booklet, "Last Year of the
Switch Back" to r. l. Whitney, General
Passenger Agent, st. Paul, Mimi. or t.
any agent of the Great Northern Railway
Send six cents in stamps for "Across
America, the finest railway booklet eva
published.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01

Life lies in the blood, Strength lies in
the iron of the blood. Diseases consume
the iron, all fever burns and destroys it.
The urine becomes red or brown from
iron which has been devitalized and Sc
creted from the body through sickness
and disease. Fifty doses of Fl. w. Bark
er's Iron Compound will supply all the
iron needed for three pounds Of blood 1t
is the best remedy known to medical
science and recommended by physicians.
so cents at drug stores or The FL. w.
Barker Medical Co., Elbow Lake, MINI.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
We are opposed to the free and I'M
limited coinage of drunkards.

The Republican sheriff of the county
OF which Portland, Maine, is the coun-
ty seat, nullified the prohibition law.
The people answered by electing the
prohibition candidate over both his
Republican and Democratic rivals
The Republican President nullified the
ant1-canteen law. What shall the an
swer of the people be-?
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01

The Rams Horn has sent out AGO.
900 circular letters to it's subscribers
and others, asking them how will
they vote next month. The result, so
far, is Mckinley 1891, Bryan 1910,
Woolley 2,286.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01

Drugs are compounded in alcohol one of
the worst poisons. We cure all forms of
disease without drugs. Will you investi-
gate? The l.. M. Rheem Osteopathic In
stitute, Fourth floor Globe Building, Min
neapolis
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01

Logically every Christian voter be-
longs to the Prohibition party, for no
other party stands for what he claims
to represents. S. Hardin in State
Leader (Mo.)
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01
Did our big Club Offer on the second
page stir you? Read it again.

Republican Or Democratic victory
has come to mean the triumph of vice
over virtue, of lawlessness over law
Oregon Searchlight.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1900-10-01

We employ none but the most skillful
operators. The L. M. Rheem Osteopathic
Institute, Fourth floor Globe Bldg, Min
neapOlis.