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Regulations Are Growing strict.

Omaha. Neb., July 19.-Employes of
the Union Pacific concerned in the
movement of trains, engineers, fire
men, conductors, switchmen, switch
tenders and fiagmen are beginning to
stir up among themselves n grievance
against the company because of the Sc
verify of the physical examination it
is Imposing these days, and the incon-
yenience and expense which the EN-
ployes are often made to suffer in com
pliance with it. Last winner and spring
n general physical examination of all
the employees concerned in the move
ment of trains was held. As result
about 5000 men along the system were
stripped and physically tested, as If
about to enlist as soldiers in the regu-
lar army.
During these troublous times has
come the information that a general
watch inspector has been appointed
who will in turn appoint local inspec-
tors at every district terminal. An or
der is to be promulgated that each man
concerned in the movement of trains
must have himself provided with a sew
enteen-jeweled watch meeting various
requirements of perfection. There is Il
growing sentiment of opposition among
all trainmen.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

by shrieking Boxers, who stripped
them and hacked them to pieces. Their
severed limbs We're tossed to the crowd
and carried off with howls of triumph
Some were already dead, having been
shot by foreign civilians.
He says he saw Chinese soldiers car.
rying the bodies of white children aloft
on their spears, while their companions
shot at the bodies. He gives other de
tails too horrible to be particularized
here
1t seemed that the Boxer leaders had
organized a plan, including the Offering
of rewards and rich loot for the an
Inhalation of Europeans throughout
China, and that Prince Tuan's generals
have been emphasizing the opportunity
the soldiers have of seizing the bodies
of white women.
st. Petersburg July 19-The state
of war declared in the Amur districts
embraces the towns of Blagovest-
chensk, Khabarovsk and Vladivostock.
According, however, 10 an announce
ment by the general staff, the situation
in Manchuria has improved since Gen
eral Gritski, chief of staff at Port Ar
thur, has taken over the supreme com
mand and has systematzed the push
ing up of reinforcements to the dis
turbed districts.
There is general surprise in military
circles at the energy with which the
Chinese are entering on the campaign
in northern China and at the admirable
state of preparation in which their
armament are and at the effective use
they are making of their weapons.
Further extensive movements of
Russian troops in central and western
Asia are in progress. There is no
doubt that Russia intends to bring her
Asiatic forces gradually up to their
fullest possible strength. 1t is also
noticeable that troops are being moved
in the vicinity of Merry, on the Afghan
frontier.
Yokahoma, July ia Japanese cor
respondent at the front accuses the
Russian soldiers of appalling barbara
ty toward the Chinese. They have, he
says, killed peaceful citizens, slaught-
cred women and children, pillaged
shops and massacred the owners. The
Pei Ho river is full of corpses of wom-
en- and children.
a Shanghai special of July 10th says:
Horrible stories are circulating regard
ing the brutality of the Russians
around Tien Tsin and callous destruc-
tion of human life in whatever form
it was found. Even coolies We're shot
apparently out of mere lust for blood.
These tales are filtering right into Chi
ma and are turning even the well-dis-
posed Chinese against the foreigners.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
Oregon Is Safe,

Washington. July 19.-The Navy De-
partment this morning received the
following cablegram from Captain
Wilde, commander of the Oregon, dat
ed Kure, July 18th:
The Oregon and Nashville arrived
at Kure at o'clock this afternoon. Ex-
pect to dock the 10Th. Shall i make
permanent or temporary repairs
would suggest putting on steel patches
which can be done in a short time and
the ship so back to her duty at Taku.
To make permanent repairs it will re-
quire at least sixty days, probably
more. Not n single man injured in any
way"
To this dispatch Secretary Long at
once replied:
Universal rejoicing over safety of
the Oregon. She is the Constitution
of this generation. If safety of the
Oregon permits, patch and go to Taku.
l commend your preference for service
there"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
what the Democr,t. Denoupce,


The Democratic platform condemns
and denounces the Philippine policy of
the present administration because "it
has involved the republic in unneces-
sary war" Was it unnecessary? The
flag was fired on, American troops
army, American authority was resist
ed, war was made on the United
States, and If the administration had
hauled down the flag, ordered the
dered Dewey's fleet to sneak out of
Manila bay, not single Democrat or
Republican, even in Mr.. Bryan's own
state, would have approved its cow
ardly course.
The platform denounces the annexa-
ton of the Philippines because "the
Filipinos cannot be citizens without en-
dangering our civilization" Admit it,
and what then? The same could have
been said of the Indians and mixed
races of the Louisiana purchase, of the
Seminoles in the everglades of Florida,
of the Apaches and other wild tribes
that overran Texas. New Mexico. Ari
zona, and California of the Mormons
who resisted American advance in
Utah, of the Aleuts in Alaska of the
ignorant blacks in Porto Rico, of the
listless natives in Hawaii, but no pre-
vious Democratic platform denounced
,f 7 @, IL,
California, Alaska, or Porto Rico.
The Democratic platform lenounces
''the greedy commercialism which die
tated the Philippine policy of the Re
publican administration" In other
words, the Democratic party condemns
the policy inaugurated by the victory
of Dewey in Manila bay. the policy
that took advantage of what our navy
had achieved, that claimed for the
United States Il share of the trade
of the Pacific area instead of surren-
dering it all to Great Britain: that
holds the gate open for the trade of
Russia, China and Japan, which is to
make our Pacific coast all that our At
lantic coast is.
The Democratic platform favors an
immediate declaration of the nations
purpose to give the Filipinos first,
stable form of government; second, in
dependence and, third, protection from
outside interference" In other words,
the Democratic party is committed to
policy that pledges the United States
to the suppression of rebellion, to ex-
penditures of life and money to estab-
lish a government only to turn it over
to anarchy, and then defend the war
ring, retrograding tribes from outside
interference. We would pay all the ex-
penses of governing and protecting the
Filipinos and have neither commercial
nor political benefit.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
OLD CHINA PUZZLES
THE OTHER POWERS

New York, July 19.-Sensational re.
ports that the Russian government had
handed the Chinese minister to st.
Petersburg his passports are fatty con-
tradicted. Certain districts on the
Amur have been declared in a state of
war-in other words, placed under mar
tial law. This by no means necessarily
implies that Russia has declared war
upon China, and in Washington it is
believed the government of the Czar
has shown no disposition to depart
from the position taken by all the pow
ers upon the lines laid down as defin-
ing the attitude of the United States.
Paris hears that Prince Ching is pro-
tecting the foreigners at Pekin, while
from ST. Petersburg comes a categor-
ical statement that the Russian gov
ernment has received confirmation of
the massacre of all the ENJOYS and for
eigners in Pekin on July 9th. A Chi
nese merchant who has arrived in
Shanghai is credited with having wit
messed the atrocities which would
make the blood run chill
a correspondent of the European edi-
tion of the Herald, who has seen an
official dispatch from Che Foo stating
that the legations We're still safe, points
out that the agent who transmitted the
message expressly refused to guaran-
tee the authenticity of the statement.
Secretary Hay expects direct news
from Minister Conger soon.
Port Arthur, the Russian naval base
at the extremity of the Liao Tung pen
insula, has been cut off by the Chinese,
who have burned two towns in the
neighborhood of New Chwang, which
is itself menaced.
Russian troops have inflicted severe
defeat upon the Chinese who attacked
Blagoyestschenk, capital of the Amur
province.
w. w. Rockhill has been appointed
United States minister TO investigate
the situation in China.
General A. II. Chafree has been COM
missioned as major general. He is on
the Pacific bound for China to COM
mand the American forces.
Shanghai, July 19.-Advices from
Tien Tsin still complain of lack of
unity and want of one supreme head
among the armed forces, acceptable to
ALL
1t is fairly and generally admitted
that it will be impossible to operate
against Pekin from the south until the
end of September.
London, July 19.-The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Express says:
A Chinese merchant who has just ar
rived from Pekin gives horrible details
of the massacre. He says he saw
European women hauled into the street
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Democrats and Silver.

The Democratic party is constituted
as the party of opposition. 1t is op-
posed to whatever the Republican par
ty has done or contemplates doing, and
it is always ready to announce itself
in favor of any plan which is indorsed
by number of voters sufficient to
make their support worth the trouble
1t is part of its plan to take advant-
age of every disaffection or difference
that may exist among Republicans,
and it is always ready to conciliate
these disaffected elements and to adopt
them into the Democracy on terms
sometimes fair to them but always ad-
vantageous TO the Democrats.
A striking instance of this willing
ness of the Democracy to do almost
anything in order to get votes is given
by the action of the Kansas City con-
vention in regard to the silver plank.
The question at issue was the adop-
tion of the direct reference to free
coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1, 1t being
generally understood that an indefinite
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

According to report of Maj.-Gen.
Otis to the war department from Feb.
10 to April 90 of this year, there were
received at the port of Manila 100000
bales Of Manila hemp. Additional
quantities Of that fiber were coming in
at the latter date as rapidly as coast
ing vessels could be secured to trans
port the same. The receipts this year
promise to be as large as those of any
preceding year. The report. character
ICES the statement that the insurgent
authorities threaten to kill any of the
natives round cleaning hemp as being
circulated for the purpose of keeping
up the prevailing high prices.S
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
INDEPENDENCE
FOR CUBA SOON

Washington, July 19-Cuba's inde-
pendent government is to be organized
and the withdrawal of the United
States from the island is to be accom-
plished within nine months. This is
the extreme limit which the admins
tration officials now set for continuance
of American military control of the is
land.
The situation in Cuba and the pro-
gram to be carried out by the United
States were considered to-day in
meeting of the Cabinet and at a lunch
con in the White House. which was
participated in by the President. men,
bers of the Cabinet, and Major General
Wood, who went over the situation in
Cuba with the President and Cabinet
as fully as he did with Secretary of
War Root yesterday.
General Wood impressed his hearers
with his convictions that matters in
Cuba We're in Il satisfactory condition
and that there would be no difficulty
about n gradual withdrawal of the
troops.
1t is not the intention of the admins
tration to reduce the military forces in
Cuba below 5000 men until after the
general elections for delegates to the
constitutional convention, before the
end of October
The convention will assemble as soon
as possible after the election and the
future of the Cubans will then be plac-
ed in their own hands. as an organiza-
tion of their Independent government
and the date when it is to assume its
duties and responsibilities will depend
very largely on the action of this con-
vention.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

That part of the Congressional Rec
ord Index which gives the history of
all the bills and joint. resolutions pre-
sented becomes, upon the adjournment
of congress, interesting as basis of
review The references given in this
history show the successive stages of
legislation. For example. here is the
history of Senate bill No. 26S: To
amend the Revised Statutes of the
United States relating to the northern
district OF New York. introduced by
Mr.. Platt of New York and referred to
Committee on judiciary. Reported
back with amendments. Amended and
passed senate Referred to House com
mittee on judiciary. Reported back
with amendments. Consideration OBJ
jected to in House. Debated and
passed House Senate disagrees to
House amendments. House insists on
its amendments. Conference appoint
ed Conference report made and agreed
to. Examined and signed. Approved
by president.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

The reunion of the North and South
will he commemorated in a novel way
by the state of New Hampshire.
through the presentation of appropri-
ately inscribed bronze tablets to the
two most recent additions to the navy
the battleships Alabama and Kear-
large. A commission appointed to
recommend a suitable gift from New
Hampshire to the Kearsarge reported
in favor of tablet and added the sug-
gestion that, as the old Kearsarge once
fought and sunk the old Alabama. it
would be pleasing pledge to the
reunion If replica of the tablet for
the new Kearsarge were placed on the
new Alabama.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

Citizens of Escanaba, Mich, are now
all agog over the doings of a Chicago
man who fought huge bear the other
day, repulsed the -onsiaughts of the an
imal, outwrestled the creature in the
clinches and drove it off defeated.
This feat may have seemed remark
able .or Escanaba, but no Chicagoan
who has battled for place upon the
cable cars of that city for the last few
years would think it even more than
ordinery.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

Endorsement of the Chicago PLATFORM
without special reference to silver
would be equivalent to an abandon
ment Of the silver issue. In the com.
mittee the vote was 26 to "a in favor
of the silver plank, but the majority
in its favor was, it is said due to the
vote of Hawaii, territory with no
votes in the electoral college, whose
representative changed his vote after
the first count showed tie. Besides
Hawaii four other territories voted for
silver and one territory voted against
it, so that the vote by states was % to
81 against silver. But the twenty-three
states against silver have 2S7 electoral
votes, and the twenty-one states for
silver have 157 electoral votes so that
tion would, If the matter was brought
before it, vote against silver by a
nearly two-to-one vote. 1t was then
that compromise manifested itself in
truly Democratic manner. To placate
the silver men the committee, and aft
erwards the convention, deliberately
adopted by a unanimous vote false
hood. 1t declared its Endorsement of
16 to / when the committee vote had
clearly shown that the party was not
in favor of that principle, and then in
order to cancel and nullify the effect of
what 1t had DONE il undertook to spec
ify which one of its contentious was to
be voted upon by the people. To the
anti-imperialist plank it attached
shingle which says in effect: This is
the real thing. Do not be misled by
anything you may find later on"
That the shingle and not the silver
plank represents the real sentiments
Of a majority of the party at the pres
ent time, there is no doubt, but the
particular point under discussion is the
dishonesty of party that would adopt
as a part of its platform a political
principle in which the large majority
of its membership had ceased to be-
lieve.
Under the circumstances no thinking
Il
that the Democracy would do anything
for silver in the seemingly impossible
event of its success
Once before under circumstances
that promised much better for free
trade than the present ones do for free
silver, the Democratic party brought
disaster upon the country by its fran
tic failure to do what it was pledged
to do in its platform. 1t would be very
much less likely to accomplish any
thing for silver at the present time,
for the reason, as before stated, that
the party has already put itself on rec.
ord as being opposed to it's own plat
form, and having adopted the silver
plank merely to suit Mr.. Bryan's per-
sonal IDEAS and to catch votes in west
ern states.-Colorado Springs Gazette.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
Fatalities on Alpine Peaks

Berlin, July 19.-The annual ciaptcr
of Alpine accidents has begun unus-
ually early this year. Within a week
seven citizens of Berlin, including two
ladies, have met their death in the
Alps. The latest case was reported to-
day. William Wiegand, the we'd known
Alpinist, and a teacher of gymnastics
in number of Berlin institutions, fell
with Moser, the most famous guide N
the Tyrol, while climbing Koenig's
Peak. Both We're killed.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

Vienna's Academy of Sciences has
decided to collect photographic rec
prds and store them in one of the Vi
emma libraries. The collection will
include, frst, specimens of every Euro
peap language and dialect, to which
will he added later on non-European
languages; second, the finest contem-
porary musical performances, with
the national airs and tunes of all races,
and. third. speeches or phrases uttered
by celebrated men. The academy is
irving to find some more durable ma
terial than is now employed to take
the impression of the sounds.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

In New South Wales a new use for
the phonograph has been found. A can
didate who found it impossible to visit
all parts of the sparsely settled region
he wished to represent in the legisla-
ture dictated his speech into an instru
ment and sent a number of copies
about for his constituents to hear,
large picture of himself helping the
voters to know whom they were voting
for.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

for leasing the oil lands owned by the
crown in the district of Baku, in order
to reduce the price of coal oil, which
within the last few years has been
raised exorhitantly. 1t is proposed that
after 1900 the lessees shall pay to the
government 40 per cent of the oil pro-
duced "in natura.' so that the govern
ment can become competitor in the
sale of the article. Heretofore the
lessees paid a certain tax in cash.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

The largest sturgeon was caught re-
Gently in the North Sea. 1t weighed
b25 pounds. but the delight of the fish
ermen was tempered by the fact that
it did $3.50 worth of damage to the nets
before II was killed.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

From the way some people act, one
would think 1t wouldn't be safe for
them to go to sleep for fear they
would attempt to turn over and would
roll off the earth.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

The Methodists have 142 mission
aries in China, the Presbyterians 209,
and the American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions ITO.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

Recent floods in upper. central. and
southern Italy, which threatened the
lines of railway, have brought to the
attention of the government the neces-
sity of replanting forests on the hill
aides.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
The
Pnkham
Record

10 q proud and Eseosies0
record. II Is q record Of
0ur0, Of constant 00n-
guest over obstinate Me
Of W01senS Ills that deal
out despaIEy suffes-kn0
that many women think
ID vv0nsAnr8 natural hoFE-
faOoS ekxs0s-dos-s and dis
placements that drive out
hope.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

notice, but only accomplishment gains
applause
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24

In China. twelve miles from Lion
Chek, there is mountain of alum
which yields 100 tons yearly.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
No Nomination for Senator In Idaho.

Pocatello, Idaho, July 1S.-The three
silver conventions spent all day wait
ing for their committees. The confer
encc committees came to IL deadlock on
the question of nomination of a Unit
ed States senator.
They finally referred the matter to
their respective conventions, the Silver
Republicans declaring there should be
no apportionment of offices until it was
decided that a senator should be nomi-
mated. The Populists and Silver Re
publicans at once passed resolutions
favoring the nomination of senator.
The matter came into the Democratic
convention at o'clock this evening.
The project to nominate senator was
defeated by vote of 125 to 121. This
vote disposes of Dubois chances, ac-
cording to the opinion of political lead
erS
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
Night of Terror,

Chicago. July 19.-Twe hundred pas
sengers of the steamer Charles McVca
passed a night of terror on sand bar
500 feet from the Michigan shore, and
after being twenty-five hours on the
way, reached Chicago last night.
For fourteen hours and thirty min
utes men and women were tossed about
as the steamer rolled from side to side
during the efforts to release her. FL
nally, through the efforts of three tugs,
the steamer was pulled from the bar
and able to resume her journey to the
city.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-24
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With Imperial Splendor.

Washington, D. c., Nov. IL
Discussion and plans for the in
auguration are already under way.
Republicans are in feverish exul-
tation over the alleged endorse
ment of their policies, and declare
the ceremonies ehall be the most
imposing ever held on the western
continent. The parade, it is said,
will be compared with none, ex-
cepting the review of the army of
civil war.
Troops from all the American
colonies are to attend. The pen.
sion tuilding in which the inau.
gural balls of late years have been
held in the times of Garfield,
Cleveland, Harrison and McKin-
ley, is considered too small and a
vast temporary structure is to be
erected. Railroad magnates prom.
ise the lowest rates and everything
will be on a scale of imperial
splendor.
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BAPTIST CONGRESS.
Two Sessions Held in Richmond
Yesterday-COngress to
Close To-day.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 2-The
Baptist Congress of America held
two sessions here to-day. The
subject for discussion this morn
ing was: "Wherein lies the eti-
cienoy of Jesus's work in the re-
conciliation?"
Fine papers were read by DR..
w. R. L. Smith, of this city, and
Prof W. L. Poteat, of Wake Forest
College, N. c. DR. E.J. sagebeer'
of. Germantown, Pa, followed in a
thoughtful speech, after him came
DR. J.J. Taylor, of Norfolk, Va,
who delivered an entertaining and
eloquent address. Prof E. Il.
johnson, of Crozier Theological
Seminary, closed the discussion in
a lucid exporitior tisthis funda-
mental doctrine.
"Romanist Survivals in Protest
antism," was an interesting SUBJ
iect discussed. DR. VIM. H. WI it.
slit, of Louisville, KY, and the
Rev Frank NJ. Goodchild, of New
York, read papers, and the Rev
Sparks W. Melton, of Augusta,
Ga, and DR. Madison c. Peters, of
New York, were the appointed
speakers.
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