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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-08-17
Down Again

IN pricea is the market Coz
-four and feed. aud We fonou
Il closely.
Send US your orders and tbey
will be filled ~ TIE loves
market price.
The matter OF 5 or 10 cents
upon hundred p0unds OF
feed should not concern you
as much as the quality, a.
poor feed is dear at any prict
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
CAMPAIGN DECEPTION.

Geo. 4. Gray. the republican can
didate for attorney general, Will not
make votes for himself or his party
hy referring to the democratic numi-
nee for president as William Jennings
Aguinaldo Bryan. Neither Will he
make votes by attempting To make
his hearers believe that the war with
Spain and the war In the Philippines
are one and the same.
The Spanish war was over before
the Philippine war began. 1t became
a seeming necessity to the republican
managers that this government should
bscUme ii purchaser of Il country,
oStensibly a possession of Spain, but
from which She had been whipped by
the troops of the United States, aided
10y the Philippine revolutionists.
They made Spain a present Of
$40, 900, 900. Forty days before that
treaty was ratified by the senate our
troops had possession of the Philip
pine islands, and President Mckinney
directed the military commander of
our forces in Luzon to issue Il proc!a-
nation claiming the Islands as terri
tory of the United States aud the ten
millions Of people as subjects. Not
citizens but subjects. Does the con-
stituLion Of the United States recog-
nize such political status as a sub
ject? The organic law was in the
way. The administration of William
Mckinley and his managers were dis
loyal 10 the constitution. In the
islands of Sulu, portion Of the
Philippine group, the institution Of
slavery is acknowledged and pro-
tected. Human chattel> are recog-
nzed. People men, women and chill
dreu-are bought and sold, and the
stars and stripes protect the infany
Does the gentlemau not Know that
intelligent audiences with which he
comes in contact in Kooteuai county
can distinguish between il var for
freedom and a war for ctGlques?
Mr. Gray and his "ruuuy man."
Mr. Miller, may he gentlemen,
scholars and judges of good company
but as campaign orators they a~e
fiat failures.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
THE BoER MADE A TRAITOR.

Under British law, now that formal
proclamation has been made of the
annexation OF the TranSyaal as
British territory, Beers caught in
arms against the queen may be but To
death. 1t IS unlikely that General
Roberts will 90 to this extreme. al
least not till after the November
election in the U.fted States. By
merely appriSing the British anbas-
Sador that the American people would
not regard destruction Of the South
African republics with favor. Presi
dent Mckinley could have preserved
the Independence of the Beers. His
statement would have bepc an assur-
ance to Europe that the Unlted States
was not Engiand's ally, and fortified
by this knowledge France and Russia
would have INTERVIEWED and savt d the
brave Dutch republicans from s,lhiu.
cation. McKinley's responsibility foi
The DOWNFALL Of the Transvall and the
Orange Free State cannot be success.
fully refuted, aud as the execution of
captured Beers for treason wonld
therefore Intensity the dislike felt for
him by liberty loving Americans. the
BRUSH government, which he has
served so vel. aud which would like
70 Keep him in the White House
because he is very convenient British
lool, Will not permit Roberts To treat
the Beers as traitors for at least 10
months to come.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
FULL DINNER PAIL BOOMERANG

That .tull dinner pail is prov
ing boomerang for the republi
cans. They are beginning to.wish
they had not shed it at the demo-
Gratis because it is coming back
again filled with dornicks. The
laborlng man has been doing some
1guring anent the full dinner pail
and he has found that both pail
and contents are harder to get be
cause more expensive than thew
were tour years ago. The reason
the tin dinner pail and the food
that the thrifty housewife packs
INTO 1t each morning have increased
IN price IS because the trusts, fos-
tered by republican administra-
ton, have gotten control of them.
At the same time the trusts. instead
OF employing more men at increased
wages, have dismissed thousands
OF men and reduced the wages OF
other thousands. The laborino
man, after investigating all these
Things, has come to the conclusion
'n';t If he has full dinner pail he
is not indebted to the republican
administration for it, and if he
wants to continue to have a full |
dinner pail he will have to help
elect w. ]. Bryan, the candidate
OF The party which is opposed to
trusts
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

As was shown in last week s
issue of the BLADE the county debt
increased from $50. 1881, in 1891,
to SIb5,S 55. 81, in 1893. Is it any
wonder the taxpayers of the county
made a complete change in their
public servants in 1903? This
change was sweeping Although
Auditor Callahan was not allowed
the courtesy Of placing deputy in
the auditors office, at his own ex
pense, for couple of weeks prior
to his Installation in office, that he
might become somewhat familiar
with the duties, he soon had the
affairs OF the Office Well in hand.
The chairman of the republican
county central committee has had
John w. Peters, former employee
in the auditors office, at work for
two weeks attempting to find
something that might give them
political thunder, but he did not
succeed. 1t is generally conceded
that had this chairman. exercised
half the diligence he is>now dis
playing in attempting to detect
some little oversight in political
management, when his party was
in power, the county would be in
better financial condition today.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
ELMIRA.
From Our Special Correspondent

From Our Special Correspondent.
The first OF this week .tohnn,a
johnson, formerly Of Priest River
had house-rasing. There was a
large attendance, and before niyht-
faH they had the side walls in nlace
The boys all came away delighted
with Mr., Jdhnsen's hospitality.
MI. Langley pankey, formerly Of
Kettle Falls. Wash, has accented 4
p9Sitibr' as clerk in Mr.. papp's store
here.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Martin ara
rejoicing over the arrival of babv
boy on Saturday.
Mr. Johnnie Martin Of Elmira and
Miss Edna Weiser of Spokane were
married in Spokane on Sept B. Mr..
and Mrs. Martin returned to Elmira
on Thursday where they expect TO
make Their future home.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
POST FALLS,

From Our Special Correspondent.
Charlie Collegiate is still very l5w
with typhoid fever.
Mrs. Fred Erders and family Of
Spokane visited relatives aud friends
here this week
VIII McCrea and family visited in
Post Falls this week. They formerly
resided here,
William Carter, Sen, has returned
from the Alberta country.
Bert Carter left Sunday for els old
honre in iowa
a Bryan club VIII be organized in
Post Falls SATURDAY. the 22nd inst.
a large number have already signed
the roll Of huaor, and Post Falls will
have one Of the largest clubs in the
county j. w. Settle has The list.
Call and see him and sign he Bryan
club constitution.
The surveyor for The irrigating ditch
moved his camp To IIaydon lake.
work on the ditch will commence,
this fall and continue all winter.
Ed. Ault returned from Wisconsin,
where he had gone to visit friends.
A force Of brick and stone n1asons
are here working on the Spokane and
Idaho Lumber companyS new saw
dust aud refuse burner. 1t is bejnp
constructed of brick and stone and
lined with irebrick. Its walls are
four feet thick and the burner is
twenty feet in diameter inside tine
walls 1t will he about fifty feet
high.
A force Of men under Engineer
hIblelt OF Spokane are here slIrypviuv
Tor the new concrete dams and lb4
power house of the electric comnapy
lie power house OF the electric COM
pany will be 200 feet in length and
hullt OF stone, iron and brick. II will
he situated on the lower end Of the
canal on the north side OF the Spo.
Kane river. Every hing will be first
class, and the machinery will he nucb
more powerful and larger than that If
lhe Spokane electric plant. Concrete
Jams VIII be built in the second
and third channels Of the river mi,
season, and the old dam of the FIRST
Will be repaired aud made
Walef-ught. SO work can begin ON the
ne" ualii as soon DIS possible. About
io,ooo morse power will be deyelonpd
ABOUT half Of which will be used for
noihe FACTORIES as needed and the |
oalahce transmitted to other towns
III less lllat two years there will be |
III electric railway from Spokane ia
ioSt rails, thus practically connecting
ne Two towns. Factories can tbon
1e run here at d less expense than in
spokane, and Post Falls will become
Is manufacturing suburb.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
A RouSins Meeting.

; T Congressman James Ham
! iIton Lewis, the nored orator of
! Washington, will address the
! citizens Of Rathdrum Wednes
, day evening, Sept. 10Th, on
the political issues of the day.
. Mr.. Lewis will stop here one,
day when on his way east,
where he goes to accept a call
from the national committee.
, This is, perhaps. the only
speech he will make in the,
northwest during campaign.
The address will be delivered
in the Court House and will
be under the auspices OF the
Rathdlum Bryan Club. Don't,
fail to hear him.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
RATE oR. TAXATION REDUCED

There rs weeping and wailing
and crashing of teeth among the
republican politicians of Kootenai
county today because fusion
board OF county commissioners re-
duced the rate of taxation in the
county for the year 1900 to So 40
per hundred dollars, the lowest in
the history of the county. Repub-
means who are not tied to a gang
Of ex-county Office holders who
were instrumental in .saddling a
heavy bonded Indebtedness OH the
taxpayers of the county will re-
Joice at the reduction, and will
give due credit where credit is
dye. We have small class of
people in the county who can see
nothing good unless it comes from
a republican source. These men
as a rule are those who feed on the
crumbs that fall from republican
feast table when the old crowd
held high jinks around the court
house. You could not hire one of
them to make a journey to the
s.Court house to find out, whether or
not Robert S. Bragaw, the ex-
chief OF the old ring, ever turned
over to the county the monies he
collected for making abstracts.
Some even 60 SO far as to say that
.he was entitled to all monies re-
ceived for making certified copies
OF instruments and for taking
Acknowledgements, in addition to |
the 50, 900 year he received as
salary. This class of men care
very little whether the rate of tax
alton is high or low, if conditions
gould be changed SO their presence
would grace every jury box. From
1892 to 1898 the rate of taxation
constantly increased, and with it
came an increase in the county
debt, The rate of taxation for the
various years are as follows:
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

WHEN asked why, on Labor day,
the wage-earners of Chicago mani
tested SO much affection for Mr..
Bryan, labor leader replied: eve
are opposed to Imperialism, a great
standing army, government by in
junction, oriental labor competi-
ton, the black list and the trusts.
So is Mr.. Bryan. Then what more
natural than that we should love
the man who will stand before the
nation and give voice to our desires
and our grievances"
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
More Prosperity.

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Sept. l3.-The
Givernaad silk mill, employing 45o
hands, is idle. Three hundred wea-
Vers struck to-day against decrease
OF 10 per cent in wages. The super
lntendent of the mill said the cut was
Only temporary.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

GENERAL ALGER OF embalmed
beef fame will take the stump for
Mckinley Now let Nicely, Rath
bone, Egan and others of the truly
faithful Join the ranks of the
Amounted and sing with ex Gov
ernor Taylor the song of ''benevo-
lent assimilation" of other peoples
money.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
HELLO. CENTRAL.

Less than half an hour after the
commissioners fixed the levy on
Monday an interesting conversa-
ton took place over the telephone
line between Rathdrum and Occur
d'Alene. At the Occur d'Alene end
of the wire was man with a
stentorious voice. He was evil
IDENTITY man Of portly frame and
spoke very deliberately At the
Rathdrum end was man with a
piping voice which resembled that
Of young female. He spoke hur-
riedly am appeared much excited.
The following conversation was
overheard by a BLADE reporter
over our wireless telephone:
* rrr p rrr.
"Hello, Occur d'Alene"
.'Hello, Rathdrum! Is that
you, p"
"Yesl Say; did you hear about
it?"
mo; what's up now?"
"Why, those COMPOUNDED fusion
commissioners have reduced the
rate of taxation to 81 40 a hundred,
and it is going to play the
wit us, Pm afraid"
"You don't say SOL Well, well,
that's bad! But, say; can't we
make something else the issue?"
81 think, perhaps, we can. John
p rrrr eter"
"Pete who?"
"Why, John Peters, You know
him; he used to work for Bob
Yes, | know him. He is the
fellow that old Hart don't like.
amt hep"
ne same telloWr"
"Well, | never liked him very
well myself. He wanted to run
tor auditor two wears ago. and YOU
remember what a time we had to
choke him off. +"
81 remember it well-but ne has
been at work exporting the books
lately"
"Booksl What books? Bob's
cash books?"
'No; the books of the fusion
county officers. Don't say any
thing on the outside about Bob's
cash books.')
"Well. what did he find?"
Greatly, | don't know. forgot
% ask him"
swell, go and see him at cnce.
md have him report to Yost."
"lll do it, colonel"
"And, say, tell that fellow Yost
t he don't get in and roast them
elbows, especially that Brady. we
ant give him the postoffice next
ime. Do you hear?"
Eyes. hear you, colonel"
"Ask him why the d he
lon't deny that Bob ever made any
bstracts. No one can prove that
e did, you know
"I'll have it done at once. Good
ye."
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

AS AN indication of the great
prosperity that is stalking through
the land, r34, 900 coal miners will
strike Monday for better wages, in
order to allow them to meet the
increased cost of living under the
rule of trusts.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

COMPLAINT is made by the pluto
cratic press that in his Labor day
address in Chicago Mr.. Bryan
talked politics. He told the wage
earners that if they would usher in
Juster economic conditions and
thus benefit themselves.they must
make a wise use of the ballot.
lhls is the truth. If to tell the
truth is to talk politics, Mr.. BRYAN
is guilty.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

The gold bugs attempt to make
political capital by continually
shouting sound money. Gold IS
probably sound enough money,
but all that the farmer and work
ingman gets of it is the sound as
it iingles in the bankers pockets.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

If the trust cormorants who rule
the republican party wished to
abolish trusts, they could do SO
without congressional action. Re
publican success next November
would give them no more power
than they already possess. Only
the common people who suffer
from the extortions of trusts will
ever abolish or regulate them, and
the democratic party is the instru-
ment by which the people must
accomplish the undolng of cor
porate powers which menace the
liberties of themselves and their
children.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

WE would advise the republican
campaign managers, if they desire
to make any showing at all at the
polls in November, to'muzzle their
stump speakers. Every meeting
held by the gold bugs adds totes
to the democratic majority.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

WHY did not Frank O'Hill make
complaints to the prosecuting at
torney when he knew Geo. II
Tease was not turning over to him
he full amount of the licenses. he.
was collecting?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
a PRAYER AT NIGHT.
NEW York Press.l

tNeW YORK PIeSs.J
Now. at the end, lay me down to sleep
From all my little delving in the sahd'
pray the Lord still, still. my soul to keep
Along my journeying to another land'
Warm from the tempest and the fur.he'
deep
Now at the end. lay me down TO sleep''
III, perchance. She uld die before WIKI,
If there wait chasms dark and Lethes u'n''
pray the Lord. who knows, my soul 10 YAM
Safe through the vods between TINS ny
and Him,
&nd lift me. Mt the last, for my sonls saAe
or I. pefchance, should die before wahe'
Amenl
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

HE paramount issue Of the cam
palgn in kootenai county with the
leaders OF the republican party is
the election Of William Mckinley
and the retention Of their Jobs.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

Why did not John w. Peters,
who now poses as an expert ac-
countant, detect some of Bob Bra
gaw's crooked work when he was
a deputy in his office?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

y Fly did the last board of county
commissioners reduce the assess
ment of the Northern Pacific Rail
road company s53,3Io, while the
present board refused to give them
any reduction?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

WY don't Sheriff Bradbury rib
up more criminal cases Tor the
county to prosecute?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

Why was Auditor Bragaw al
lowed but 81, 200 for deputy hire
in 1891 when the amount was IN
creased to 81, 900 in 1892?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

Why did William Ryan draw
$1,000 per year for deputy hire in
the assessors office when it was
strictly prohibited by the state
constitution and has never been
attempted by any other assessor?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

WHYwere no professional Jurors
selected by the present board of
county commissioners when max
ing up a list for jury duty?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
A FEW WHY'S.

Why did the republicans always
manage to get on a democratic
officials bond prior to 1902
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

WHY was Charles l.. Hoffman
paid 5000 for legal advice to the
board Of county commissioners
while acting as a canrlss,as board
in 1892 when the county had a
paid prosecuting attorney?
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

"McKTNLEY Pro GcrIoN," is the.
title of a republican campaign
song written by A. ~ Cosner, a
shoe cutter of Newton, New Jer-
sey. Any workingman who can
live in that hot bed of trusts and
sing of protection certainly has a
skin thicker than a hogs. If Cos
ner can't cut shoes any better than
he can write songs he will never
make fit.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
toFFICI Ala
toFFICIALD n
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEpIrf
COMMISSIONERS JoURN4r.
SEPTEMBER TERM

Monday the 10th day of Sepi.a.,
1900.
Board of county commissioner !.
at 10 o'clock, a. m, for the n,,.s5 1870 !
of fixing the tax levy for the year. IN, ssss
rs 10y law required.
The commissioners present II.
N. G. Sisson and l.. Il. Ditta..,.s
A. N. Tucker being absent. :
The board at this time tont
cess until 2 O'Clock p. IA.
AFTERNOON SESSION
at the assembling Of the ho.,d q
O'Clock p. M, all members h.,.
present, the board proceeded " q,
the rate OF taxes to be levied ~ I.
assessment roll OF 500.
On motion 1T was unanimo...,s
voted by the board 30 DIX said r.to
levy for the year 1900 at 81 "a ......
dollars and forty cents per -,
hundred dollars. taxable pronartv \.
the same appears on the assess,as,,
roll of Kootenai county for The "a. ,
1900, the said levy tU te saprey,,,.,,
as follows:
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15

james and William Sackett, father
Ahd son. were arrested "Wednesday Nv
Deputy Sheriff Dyer on warrants
sworn out of probate court by james
A. Adams, charging them with horse
stealing. The preliminary examina-
ton was held Thursday afternoon
and large number Of witnesses were
examined. The case eccupled the
attention Of the court AL Of the after
noon aud until the aeon hour on Fri
day, at which time the court took
the case under advisement until y
O'Clock this. Saturday, afternoon,
when a decision will be rendered.
The animal which Adams alleged
was stolen from him was found in the
possession OF J. ii. Scott, who traded
and gave boot for it to young Sackett.
mere was nothing in the testimony
adduced to connect the senior Sackett
with the theft and he was discharged.
The younger Sackcli. is out on bail
pending the decisi Il of the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-01
INCREASE IN sHIpBuILD1NG.
Vessels Officially Numbered by the
Bureau of Navigation.

The total number Of vessels built and Of
ficially numbered by the bureau of naviga-
ton during the calendar year inst ended
was 954, Of 267, $40 gross tons, compared
with 955, of 237, GOO gross tons. for the year
1898. Steam vessels built during 1899 num-
bered 421, of 16O,132 gross tons, compared
with 800, of 169,602 gross tons, for 1895.
Sail vessels numbered 533, of 1O7,51O gross
tons, compared with 4O5, of 67,99S gross
tons, for 1898.
The increase IS almost wholly the At
lantic and gulf coasts, where 65s vessels. of
163,519 gross tons, were built, compared
with 53S vessels, of SO, COS gross TONS for
1898. On the Pacific coast only ia vessels,
of 20,0S7 gross tons, were built, compared
vious year. This falling off in construction
on the Pacific coast, in spite Of the fact
that the Alaskan trade next year will be
very large, Is due partly to the belief that
American merchant vessels hitherto en-
ployed as transports to Manila will be re-
leased and enter the coasting trade in the
spring. Construction on the lakes COM
prised 70 vessels, of 1904 gross tons. COM
1898; on the Mississippi and western rivers,
Up. of 1892 gross tons, compared with Ill,
of 1905 gross tons, for 1893.
OF steel steam vessels. almost wholly for
the coasting trade, 1913 gross tons were
built on the seabOard and 1885 gross tons
on the Great Lakes. compared with 39,123
gross tons on the seaboard and Al, 40 gross
tons on the Great Lakes for 1898. The con-
struction Of 1913 gross tons of steel steam
vessels on the seaboard is the largest out
put of this description In our history.
For purposes of comparison it may be
noted that unofficial figures show that one
British shipyard during 1899 built s26s4
gross tons of steel steamships and another
built 1851 gross tons during the year.
Eighteen British shipyards during the past
year launched each over 10000 gross tons
of steel steamships. The total output for
the united kingdom for the year has not
been ascertained, but 1t will exceed IA
steamships Of 1853, 1913 gross tons, practi-
cally all of which were steel, built during
1898.
The returns for the first six months of The
fiscal year show the construction in the
United States of 527 vessels, Of 13.., 1877 gross
tons, compared with Oil vessels, of I30154
gross tons, for the corresponding six months
of the previous fiscal year. None of the
foregoing figures include unrigged barses
and canal boats. Including these, the to-
tai documented tonnage built in the United
States during the current fiscal year bios
fair to be somewhat over 800, 600 gross tons