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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-05

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will play the local team. Another
game between Washburn and the
Chicago Unions will be played Mon
day. Both games will be h9re.
The two weeks old child of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Heist died last
Friday night and was buried Sun
day in the Protestant cemetery.
Rev John Gibson conducted funeral
services at the house.
The Bayfield, base ball team has
gone up in balloon. and will not
come down this season. Bayfield, S
team played good ball, and always
made it interesting for the other
teams with whom it played.
County Clerk John Froseth has
issued licenses during the week for
the marriages of A. P. Stone to Miss
Inga Wangberg, and Ole G. Nordlie
to Miss Johanne Olsen and Eugene
L. Lamb to Miss Edith Charron.
Miss Anna Sshipa, a woman Of
loose character, committed suicide
at the resort on the outskirts of the
city Thursday night. She was bur-
led Sunday afternoon. The woman
had a fit of dependency and drank
carbolic acid. She lived only a
short time.
When you are born the creator
starts you going and 60 long time
if you grease the handspring of life
with Rocky Mountain Tea. Great
lubricator. Sold by Owen, Frost &
Go
Fred Reber suffered the disloca-
ton of his shoulder Monday, as the
result of having been struck by a
rock which fell from the balloon
while in mid air. He is recovering,
but feels that he has seen all the
ballon ascension he wants to this
season.
/ L. n. Clausen is making some inn
provements and building an addi-
] ton to his Office One feature of the
work being done will be the addition
of brick vault in which he will
! keep his books and the records of
! his office, and the addition of pri-
! vate office.
! The republican county convention
! for the nomination of county officers
has been called for October 2nd and
/ the caucuses will be held September
10Th. The committee has decided to
hold the latter open for three hours,
so there will be no one but what will
have an opportunity to vote for his
favorite set of delegates.
H. A. Bluhm. died last Friday
night, after short illness, aged "a
! years. He was the father of Aug
ust Bluhm, Mrs. Antoine Majer and
Mrs. Charles Kreuger. The three
above named and Charles Kreuger
and Antoine Majer left with
the body on the morning train
Tuesday for Rockford. Iowa, where
it will be buried.
The public schools opened Tues
day morning after the summer
vacation. Everything is working
lovely. Among last years teachers
from out of town who have returned
and are at their work are: Messrs.
McClatchie and Cunningham, and
the Misses Charlotte and Adeline
Lowe, BARLEY, March, Arnold, Bur-
nett, and Evans. Miss Grant, OF
West Superior is one of the new
teachers.
Mrs. Mike Tahney died last
Sunday night, and was buried Tues
day morning from the Catholic
church. She leaves a husband and
: three children. In the morning
Mrs. Tahney attended funeral and
later that day died. No cause Of
the death is assigned and the cir.
cumstances are peculiar in many re.
spects, the cause of death not being
!, known. There was no investiga.
ton, although some of the neighbors
: thought there should have been
one.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-05

of stock goes into development of
the mine and the erection of machin-
cry. This price will be increased
and when the mine reaches the
bullion producing stage this stock
will sell all the way from so cents to
50 per share.
The company is capitalized at
1000 shares of 81 each With 10000
shares in the treasury for develop
ment purposes. Not stock scheme
but legitimate proposition for the
development of a property which is
considered one of the best in the
whole country. This stock will ad-
vance as it is now much below what
it should be sold at. All stocks will
advance within a very short time is
the opinion of the best judges of the
situation. Almost every kind of
business is affected by election I'M
certainties except mining stocks.
During the years of panic and de-
preston the western mining camps
knew nothing of the hard times.
There may be decline of industrial
stocks but not so with mining.
AL stock is non assessable, and no
personal liability printed across the
face of the certificate.
Assays have been taken carefully
by the superintendent at every ten
feet, so as to obtain regular aver
age, and they have gone from Sc to
1887. 69 per ton. An average sample
of forty pounds of the rock, sent to
J. D. Young of Chicago, returned
1851 SO per ton and another 40
pounds sample taken at the bottom
of the shaft at depth of 106 feet
went $l29.64 per ton Assays, in
GLIDING pay streak, showed on the
second level Q85 feet a general
average of $5632, and outside of the
pay streak 500, providing that
even our low grade ore will pay
good profits to mine and mill
1t will be borne in mind that Of
ficers receive no salaries and all
moneys are expended to make a
mine and a bullion produce The
following named gentlemen are, it's
officers.
President, w. F. Tanning, of
Spicer-Fanning Co., Big Depart
ment Store, West Superior, Wis,
Vice-President, w. n. Anderson, of
Berger-Anderson Milling Company,
Milwaukee, Wis, Treasurer, G. Fl.
Sunderland, Insurance and Real
Estate, West Superior, Wis: Joseph
Sellwood, Manager American Steel
& Wire Co.'S. iron mines, Duluth,
Mimi; Neil Berger, of Mine Centre,
Ont, and one of the original own
ers of the property.
These gentlemen represent the
conservative and shrewd business
men of the Head Of the Lakes. Write
any bank as to their standing.
With such men managing the pro-
perty, the investor can feel that his
money is being legitimately used to
make the the property more valu-
able by opening it up, and not to en-
rich officials drawing fat salaries, or
that it is being expended in pro-
digal or reckless manner. The
fullest investigation of the property
is asked for 1t is widely known
and little inquiry will prove that
every assertion contained in the
above brief statement is fact.
Write or wire for stock. Address
), all letters to: RANDOLPH GOLD
MINING Co., LTD, Superior, Wis.
! P. S. Please give name and adj
dress. Will send stock through ex-
press company or bank or you can
forward money or check.
NJ. D II VOC
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-05
National Encampment.

Grand Army Republic, Chicago,
I'll. Aug. q to Sept 1, 1900. The
Omaha will sell excursion tickets to
Chicago and return on Aug 25, 26,
n, % and 29 at a rate of one fare for
round trip. Good to return until
Sept. 1st 1900.
People who burn the lamp of rea-
son nee Rocky Mountain Tea. Great
est rerson producer known. Soc.
Sold by Owen, Frost & Co.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-05

are practically annihilated
by the ocean cables and
land telegraph systems
which now belt the cir
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Nicaragua.

The Democratic party Is in favor of
the immediate construction, ownership
and control of the Nicaragua canal by
the United States. The failure of the
Republican party to make any prog
ress in carrying out pledge contained
in its platform four years ago, together
with the substitution in its latest plat
form of a plank favoring an isthmian
canal for specific declaration in ia
vor of the Nicaraguan canal, would in
dictate that the Republican leaders
either do not appreciate the Importance
of this great waterway to the mari
time strength and commercial inter-
ests of the country, or that they give
too much consideration to the interest
ed opposition of transcontinental line.
The Hays-Pauncefote treaty, now be-
fore the senate, would, il ratified,
greatly lessen the value Of the canal,
if it would not indeed convert 1t into
a positive menace in time of war. The
paramount interests of the United
States in the western hemisphere, to-
gether with the obligations to defend
the republics to the south Of us, makes
it necessary that our government shall
be able to close the canal against any
hostile power.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The party expresses its pride in the
soldiers and sailors of all our wars,
and declares its purpose to deal gen.
erously with them and their depend
ents. A liberal policy is natural and
necessary in government which de-
ponds upon citizen soldiery, instead
of a large standing army. Self-inter-
est, as we'll as gratitude, compels the
government to make bountiful pro-
vision for those who, In the hour OF
danger, and at great sacrifice of bust
ness, health and life. tender their
services to their country.
The pension laws should be con-
strued according to the generous spirit
which prompted their passage. The
platform very properly reiterates the
position taken in 1896, that the fact Of
enlistment shall be deemed conclusive
evidence that the soldier was sound
when the government accepted him.
A certificate given now to the health of
a person 40 years ago, even If easily
obtainable. should not have as much
weight as the certificate of the medical
officer who examined the volunteer
with view of ascertaining his fitness
for army service.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Imperialism.

The subjects, however, treated IN
tbis letter important as each may
seem in itself, do not press so impera-
tivelv for solution as the question
which the platform declares to be the
paramount issue in this campaign.
whether we shall adhere to, or aban-
don those ideas of government whlch
have distinguished this nation from
other nations and given to its history
nc neculiar charm and value, is ques-
tion the settlement of which cannot
he DELAYED. No other question can ap-
nroacb il in Importance; no otner
nroetion demands such immediate con-
sideration. 1t is easier to lose repu-
tation than to establish one, ana this
nation would find it long ana iaDorl-
ous task to regain its proud posltlon
among the nations, if, under the stress
Of termination, it should repudiate the
se,f-evident truths proclaimed by our
heroic ancestors and sacredly treasured
during career unparalleled In the
onnoIs of time. When the doctrine
that the people are the only source OF
mower is made secure from furtner at
tack we can safely proceed to the set
tloment of the numerous questions
which involve the domestic ana eco
nomic welfare Of our citizens.
Very truly yours,
w. ]. BRYAN.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Arbitration.

The platform renews the demand
for arbitration between corporations
and their employees. No one who has
observed the friction which arises be-
tween great corporations and their
numerous employees can doubt the
wisdom Of establishing an impartial
court for the just and equitable set
Element of disputes. The demand for
arbitration ought to be supported as
heartily by the public, which suffers
inconvenience because of strikes and
lockouts, and by the employers them
selves, as by the employees. The e-tab-
lishment of arbitration will insure
friendly relations between labor and
capital, and render obsolete the grow
ing practice OF calling in the army to
settle labor troubles.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Smoothing the Way.

The Duke of Cambridge Is brave
soldier and a kind-hearted gentleman.
but he Is not a scholar. He has been
recently in Rome. and one of his ex-
periences there is toll in the London
Chronicle as specially characteristic Of
all persons concerned. On the occasion
of visit to the Vatican. the duke,
hearing from friend that it was
proper to tax Latin there, rather nerv-
ously brushed up few phases and
passwords. The Vatican. on its part.
hearing that the duke spoke nothing
but English, was equally punctilious.
All guards who could speak English
were ordered to the front. The cham
berlains of English nationality or
speech were required to attend, and
the pope himself practiced the English
sentences he had learned from an Eng
lish resident in Brussels fifty years
ago. The gallant duke, when he ar
rived at the outer portals of the Vati-
can, was addressed by a guard, who
said, This way, your Royal High
ness" The duke started with relief
he was rid, for moment, of his
Latin. The same experience met him
at each turn, and in the ante-rooms 1t
was repeated. Reaching at last the
doors of the pope's private apartment,
the duke was met by a monsignor,
whose mother was English and whose
own accent is native. who offered to
take His Royal Highness' hat. Pres
emily the pope, evidently priding him
self on the vernacular. asked his Wis
itor to seat down." well. I'll be
hanged" blurted out the astounded
duke.-Youths' Companion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Reclamation OF Arid Lands.

The time is ripe for systematic and
extended effort to reclaim the arid
lands and fit them for actual settlers.
The last agricultural report estimates
that homes can thus be provided for
many millions of people. The i'm
pounding and use of the waters which
are wasted in the spring would people
the western states with thrifty, intelli-
cent, and industrious citizens, and
these w.uld furnish valuable market
for all the products of the factories. A
small percentage of the money spent
in a war of conquest would provide oc-
cupation and habitation for more peo-
pie than would ever seek a residence
in colonies within the tropics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

How important to the world may be
the turning of boys thoughts into the
right channel is indicated by the fact
that the telephone was originated by
Prof A. G.. Bell when he was boy.
His father, the venerable Prof. A. M.
Bell, gives an account of the matter
in letter published in Mr.. George
Hess new work, Flame, Electricity
and the Camera" In the boyhood of
my three sons l took them to see the
speaking-machine constructed by Herr
Faber, and We were all greatly inter-
ested in it professionally. To test
their theoretical knowledge and their
mechanical ingenuity, offered prize
to the one who should produce, the best
results in imitation of speech by me-
chanical means. All, of course, set to
work, but nothing of startling novelty
was devised. The scheme of my sec
ond son, A. G. Bell, was, however, the
best. This contest-as well as the
whole course of the boys education
directed their minds to the subject,
until the sole survivor of the lads came
to the conclusion that initiative me-
chanism might be dispensed with, and
merely the vibrations of speech be
transmitted to an electric wire. This
was entirely his own idea. He illus
trated it to me by diagrams, and
sketched out the whole plan of CEN
tral-ofi"e communication long before
ANYTHING had been done for the prac-
teal realization of the idea. can
claim nothing in the telephone but the
impulse which led to the invention.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Cuba.

The recognition contained in both
the Democratic and Republican plat
forms of the right of the Cubans to in
dependence, removes the general prin-
ciple involved from the domain of par
tisan politics. 1t is proper, however,
to consider whether the accomplish
ment of this purpose can be safely en-
trusted to the Republican party after
it has yielded to the allurements of the
Colonial idea, and abandoned its ear
lier faith in the natural and lnalien-
able rights of man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

the army and navy have their repre-
sentatives there; the state department,
with its consular service, and the
treasury department, with Its close
connection with fiscal affairs. keep the
executive in touch with the business
and commercial interests. A cabinet
officer truly representative Of the wage
earning class would be Of invaluable
aid, not only to the toilers. but to the
president.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The Republican party has persist
emily refused to comply with the ur-
gent request Of the Interstate Com
merce commission, for such an en-
largement Of the scope Of the inter-
state commerce law as will enable the
commission to realize the hopes
aroused by its creation. The Demo-
cratic party is pledged to legislation
which will empower the commission
to protect individuals and commune
ties from discrimination, and the pub
lie at large from unjust and unfair
transportation rates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

By inadvertence the Income Tax
plank agreed upon by the Resolutions
committee, was omitted from the plat
form as read and adopted. The sub
iect, however, is covered by the re-
affirmation of the Chicago platform,
and | take this occasion to reassert
my belief in the principle which under
lies the income tax. Congress should
have authority to levy and collect an
income tax whenever necessary, and
an amendment to the federal consti-
tuition specifically comforting such au-
thority ought to be supported by even
those who may think the tax unneces-
sary at this time. In the hour OF
danger the government can draft the
citizen: it ought to be able to draft
the pocketbook as we'll. Unless money
is more precious than blood, we can
not afford to give greater protection to
the incomes of the rich than to the
lives of the poor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
CANADIAN BUFFALoEs.
Like Their Kin of the States They Seem
Destined to Extinction.

Like Their Kin of the States They Seem
Destined to Extinction.
The wood bison, as the buffalo Oh
British North America Is known, ap.
pears to be doomed to extinction. J.
A. Allen of the American Museum Of
Natural History in his notes on the
wood bison summarizes the number Of
these buffalo estimated to exist during
the last ten years as follows Estimate
in 1883 of Professor Hornaday, now
directo. OF the New York Geological
society. $50; Russell, 1894, few hum
dred; Jarvis, 1897. about 300; Moberly,
1897, ESQ to 300, and Stone, 1899, 80.
The home of the wood bison has been
in the neighborhood of the Great Slave
lake in the northwest territory. Within
the last six years these bison seem to
have worked northward, and Mr.. Allen
says: 1T is pretty safe to assume that
they have been exterminated entirely
from their former range south OF the
Peace river. and that few years more
will suffice for their complete exterm-
nation" Frank Russell, who hunted
the wood bison in 1894, wrote Of them
in 1898, saying: "The herd at present
consists of a few hundred only They
are so wary that only one effective shot
can be fred, when they betake them
selves to instant flight, and, as with
the moose, pursuit is altogether futile.
They cannot be hunted in summer, as
the country which they inhabit is mos
quito infested and wooded swamp at
this season. They can only be killed
by stalking in midwinter, when their
pelage is at its best. The Indians
along the Peace and Slave rivers make
occasional trips into the buffalo coun-
try with dog teams to establish lines
Of marten traps. When they discover
band Of buffaloes, they, Of course.
kill as many as they can, but they
have not made systematic efforts to
hunt them for their robes, as they have
the musk OK. Fortunately the officers
of the company have exerted their in
fluence toward the preservation Of the
buffalo. not trading for the robes until
the recent advent of rival traders. Dur
ing the winter of 1928 forty buffa-
loes were killed, the largest number
that had been secured for several years.
I saw most Of these robes, which were
very dark, the hair thick and curled.
making a robe superior to that of eth
er musk OK or plains buffalo. They
were so large that the Indians had to
cut many of them in half for conve-
nience in hauling on the sleds. From
$40 to $50 is paid for the robes"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21
Department of Labor.

I cannot too strongly emphasize the
Importance of the platform recon-
mendation of the establishment of "A
department of labor, with member
of the cabinet at it's head. When we
remember how important position
the laborer fills in our economic, So
cial and political fabric. it is hard to
conceive of valid objection being
made to this recognition Of his serv-
ices. Agriculture is already represent
ed in the presidents official household;
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Corpora lions in Politics.
The Democratic party makes no war
upon honestly acquired wealth; neither
does it seek to embarrass corporations
engaged in legitimate business, but 1t
does protest against corporations en-
tering politics, and attempting to as
sumo control of the instrumentalities
of government. A corporation is not
organized for political purposes, and
should be compelled to confine itself
to the business described in its char
ter. Honest corporations, engaged in
an honest business, will find it to
their advantage to aid in the enact
ment of such legislation as will pro-
tect them from the undeserved odium
which will be brought upon them by
those corporations which enter the po-
litical arena.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The Chinese exclusion act has proven
an advantage to the country, and its
continuance and strict enforcement, as
we'll as its extension to other similar
races, are imperatively necessary. The
Asiatic is so essentially different from
the American that he cannot be as
simulated with our population, and is,
therefore, not desirable as permanent
citizen. His presence as temporary
laborer preserving his national identi-
ty, and maintaining foreign scale OF
wages and living, must ever prove an
injustice to American producers, as
we'll as perpetual source of irrita-
ton.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The blacklist as now employed in
some places enables the employer to
place the employee under practical
duress. for the skilled laborer loses his
independence when the employers can
not only discharge him, but prevent his
securing any similar employment.
The blacklist enables employers to Sc
cure, by mutual agreement, that con-
troll over the wage earners which a
private monopoly exercises without
contract.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

Several planks of the labor plat
form are devoted to questions in which
the laboring classes have an immediate
interest, but which more remotely eff
feet our entire population. While what
is generally known as government by
injunction is at present directed chief
ly against the employees of corpora
tions, when there is disagreement be-
tween them and their employer, 1t in
wolves a principle which concerns
every one. The purpose of the in
junction in such cases Is to substitute
trial by judge for trial by jury, and is
a covert blow at the jury system. The
abolition of government by injunction
is as necessary for the protection Of
the reputation of the court, as it is for
the security of the citizen. Blackstone
in defending trial by jury, says:
"The impartial administration Of
justice, which secures both our persons,
and our properties Is the great end of
civil society. but If that be entrusted
entirely to the magistracy. a select
body of men. and those selected by
the prince such as enjoy the highest
offices of the state their decisions In
spite of their natural integrity, will
have frequently an involuntary bias
toward those of their own rank. and
dignity. 1t is not to be expected from
human nature that the few should be
always attentive to the interests and
good of the many"
II the criminal laws are not sufficient
for the protection of property, they
can be made more severe, but a citi-
zen charged with crime must have his
case tried before jury Of his peers.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The reasons given by Washington,
jefferson. and the other statesmen of
the early days in support Of the doc
trine that we should maintain friendly
relations with all nations. but enter
into entangling alliances with none.
are even stronger to-day than they
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-09-21

The platform Endorses the princi-
pie of direct legislation. This is al
ready applied to the more important
questions in nation, state and city. 1t
rests upon the sound theory that the
people can be trusted, and that the
more responsive the government is to
the will OF the people, the more free
it will be from misuse and abuse.