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Gilpin observer., 1900-05-24
t. ]. ALIYlTER, PUBLISHER AI0 PROPRIETOR.
THURSDAY, MAY "a, 1900.
School Teachers Elected.


Att meeting OF the school directors oil
district No. l, which comprises Central
City, held last Tuesday evening. May %
teachers were appointed for the school
year commencing next September. All
o. the present teachers who had made
Applications for re-appointment were
elected, and are as follows: F. FL. Clark,
Sup't.; Ethelyn NJ. Price, Johanna Reiss,
j. E. Fleming. Margaret L. Rank, Annie
NJ. Scheffier, Stella c. Ranney, Hattie E.
Lewis.
The teachers elected to fill vacancies
are Bessie B. Richey, Grace E. Reynolds,
Mildred Goldsborough, Josie Evans,
Elizabeth F. Lowe.
At the first meeting Of the present
board held few weeks ago, the follow
ing resolution was adopted, and the
above appointments are in conformity
with it:
THAT in the employment OF teachers
the following standard be adopted:
"For all teachers in the first eight
grades a candidate to be eligible must
have high school education, first
grade certificate, and shall have had at
least two years successful experience in
teaching, one year of which must have
been in graded school.
For all teachers above the eighth
grade, in addition to the above require
ments. a college education shall be re
quired."
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-24

pride of the West flour is the latest
and best flour on the market. Try it.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-24

DUCTOK COOK.
Gases and will guar
at moderate cost. l
thought their casos l
Write for question
Medicines sent FREQ
Co.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-24
Private and chrenls diseases Of llsr

non euu0ftuHlIO
fects Of youthful indiscro.
tions, syphilis, gonorrh1ai
gloet, structure, eoxuai
weakness, varicocclc, .un.
natural discharges, lost
vitality, failing memory,
unhtness to marry, blood,
skin, kidney or private dis
cases, arc speedily cured.
DIR. COOK has spent 30
years OF persistent study
and experience In his own
practice and among tho
largest Eastern hospitals
In curing this class Of dis
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-24

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Gilpin observer., 1900-05-24

Committee on unsold lots and grounds.
BLACK HAWK, Colo, May "a, 1909.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

greater part of his life, until now he finds
his friends scattered turnout every part Of
the county and beyond. Mr.. Royce Is a
pleas mt, wholesouled gentleman, man
whOI' it Is pleasure 10 meet anywhere
and the same time one OF the most pains
takt..' of officials. He will OF course re-
cevt large majority, but il will not be
any srger than he deserves. he il the
kind OF a man and official for whom 1t
should be pleasure for every republican,
and Others as well, to vote, the kind of man
who deserves and should receive the biggest
majority which his party and his other
friends can possibly roll mp for him. In
fact almost every vote might we'll be cast
with the thot that 1t is one vote more to
help swell to handsome proportions the
complimentary majority which he is sure
to receive rather than with the mere thot
that 1t is one more vote to aid in electiDg
him.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
A RECORD TO BE PROUD OF.
Cuba Has Been Rapidly Getting Into
shape for the Promised Self
Government.

The work of American occupation in
Cuba may be briefly summed up as fol-
lows: Good order prevails all over the
island. The country is self-supporting,
with a much lower taxation than i'm
posed by Spain, and at the close of the
last fiscal year there was an available
balance of $2,5oo,OO0. Thirty-one hun
dred schools have been opened, aS0O
teachers employed and 10000 children
are in school. Seven courts having trial
by jury have been established in the
larger towns. The elections for may
ors passed of quietly and no arrests
were made. Preparations are now GO
ing forward for electing delegates to a
convention whose duty will be to pre-.
pare constitution and form Of governf
ment for the island The troops are be-
ing gradually withdrawn and the way
to complete Cuban independence is
being rapidly prepared. This record,
unparalleled in the history of the deal
ings Of one nation with another, is evil
dence of the fact that the republican
party is builder and supporter of re-
publics, and not the friend of i'm
perialism. 1t does its duty, unterrified
by the shoutings of all the Bryans,
baileys and Blackburns, who would
shirk responsibility, minimize patriot
ism and refuse to guide the weaker ma
tions into the noble, self-denying path
OF liberty.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
The County Treasurership.

Two years ago little, unassuming man
from the township Of Woodruff was given
the compliment of unanimous nomination
by the republican county convention for the
Office Of county treasurer. Woodruff knew
that in Richard f. Kay, or "Dick" Kay as
he viii! ever remain to his neighbors In the
town, they had man of more than ordi-
nary worth, of more than ordinarily sterli ng
worth even, and 10 presenting his name to
the county convention they felt rightly that
they were doing an act which would
strengthen the party ticket for that year
and also, by the record which he would
make In Office, for years in the future.
At that time there were many outside OF
the part of the county In which Mr.. Kay
had spent his life who knew nothing of him
whatever. There we're others who knew OF
him from acquaintance with him on the
board OF supervisors where his tOwnsmen
had sent him to represent them in looking
after the business of the county, and always
those who had met him there were ever
afterwards to be counted among his friends.
They had seen evidence OF the way in which
he seemed to consider 1t his duty to look
after, the interests Of the county and did not
hesitate to tell their friends and neighboIs
two years ago when Mr. Kay had teen
placed IN nomination for the responsible
offics OF counv treasurer what in their
opinion would be the way in which Mr.. Kay
would fill that Office. To say that Mr. Kay
as county treasurer has more than fulfilled
the expectations of even his moot sanguine
| friends and admirers is just one way Of part
ly telling the story of his first term In that
important office
NJ Kay has been a resident Of this
county for more than fory- two years during
all Of which time except for thr last two
years when his duties have kept HIM at the
county seat, he has lived upon his farm 10
Woodbull He has always remained a
farmer and has never been an Office seeker
but II was not long after ne came to the
county that his nei9hbors began to End on,
that the quiet young man who had come
smo them was a good penman aud a
seusici- adviser who could counsel and
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
IN PLAIN WORDS.
What Bryan Really Means by His
ChnnGeabie and Elastic
Piutform.

If called upon to tersely explain
what he said and meant in his long
speech of acceptance of the nomina-
ton by the Kansas City convention.
writer in the Washington Star says
Mr.. Bryan would be compelled to say:
II reiterate my fixed. una,terable de-
termination to stab the public credit,
to destroy the national repute for
honesty by legalizing a dishonest dol
lar; announce this murderous intent
in my platform in the precise words
employed by NE in 1896, when this
design was declared paramount.
But to assassnate national credit
is not my main purpose to-day; 1
plan also to destroy the nations for
eign trade. present and prospective,
and to strike down the republics
prestige abroad.
And since in stating my para
mount murderous intent of 1900 | use
16 words to employed concerning
my criminal design of 1896, now re-
affirmed, let no one heed the latter
threat.
'Since put first my plan, verbose
ly expressed. to ass@Ssinate national
prestige, let no one be alarmed at my
curt, brusque declaration of intent to
murder the national credit, which
quickly follows.
Concerning my free silver threat
all I ask of my political opponents is
to be let alone. l did not utter this
menance with the intent to make il
an issue. will not permit 1t to be
made an issue TO my own inconven-
fence by those whom 1t unnecessarily
alarms. l refuse to discuss it.. I de-
cline TO accept responsibility for It.
It IL TO be treated as II 1t had not
been said.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

then keep the counsel to himself. 1t was
but short time comparatively before he
was being sent for or consulted In the matter
OF making contracts, drawing up wills and
other papers for his neghbors and serving
as commissioner in estates OF In some other
capacity connected with them. Such was the
feeling of confidence which his neighbors
have always felt for him that for the last
twenty seven years he has been connected
with the final settlement of some estate in
some such legal capacity without more than
one break and that short one of less than
year. frequently indeed he was connect
ed with the settlement of more than one
estate at the same time.
1t was but natural that his neighb0rs
should also at various times avail themselves
of his services for the township and he
served number OF terms To their entire
satisfaction as township clerk and also some
six different terms as supervisor. In all Of
the positions he was as careful as tho the
business In which he was engaged were his
own personal matters and while he was al
ways In favor of progress, and the i'm
provenent OF the roads and the betterment
of the bridges and school houses OF bis town,
yet he always was moved by the idea OF the
final economy of the matter and was never
accused of any leaning towards extrava'
gance. In Religious way too his interests
have always been with the churches, Of
whatever denomination, and altho OF
staunch Presbyterian stock himself, he has
never confined his support to that denomina-
ton but has been equally ready to do his
part In the advancement of society by as
sisting wherever his assistance was needed
no matter what the denomination was which
was In need of the help.
In his broader relations to the people of
the county as their treasurer, Mr.. Kay has
done just as his friends insisted that he
would do, gained the esteem Of all who
have come in contact with him in either an
official or social way and there has already
come over the county a feeling that he be-
longs no longer to Woodruff but to the
county as whole. His perfect gentleman
illness, his modest, quiet bearing, but back
of It all self reliance which can be shaken
by no bluffing of any sort, have made him
friends from among all those with whom he
was associated. He was elected two years
ago by u handsome majority over one of the
most popular democrats whom that party
could find to run and that he is much
stronger this year than he was then Is ap-
parent to the most careless observer OF
things political. His majority will be a
large one and 1t should be 50.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

The commercial travellers of the United
States are keen observers of men and events
and can give pointers as a rule to the best
barometer ever made in detecting suspicious
changes in the business atmosphere of the
country. That is why the democrats have
attempted to give prominence to the state.
ment by them that large per cent of the
drummers Of the country were going to vote
for Bryan this year. Since their first state
ments have appeared however there have
been a number of straw votes taken among
drummers in different parts of the country.
Here is sample of the actual results so
obtained. Mckinley SO, Bryan 9, Prohibit
ton 8, on the fence 3, total 90. There have
been other votes taken with similar results
and probably the democratic national COM
mittee will soon try to corral train load of
democratic drummers-if it can fad that
many, which is hardly probable-for the
special purpose Of taking straw vote to
publish abroad thru the land. However the
expense of finding as many democratic
travelling men as such scheme would re-
quire will doubtless keep even the demo-
Gratis from attempting 1t, abundantly sup
piled tho they are said to be with money
this year.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

Was, 1t imperialism or militarism last
spring when, safter one of those marauding
bands of Filipino banditti had attacked a
peaceful Filipino village, two companies of
United States troops followed the band at.
tackled, Aand dispersed it, and returned to
their friends in the village the thirty or more
Filipino women whom the bandits had
taken awoy? Yet that is the position of the
United States troops In the Philippines to-
day and has been ever since the bandit
bands of Aguinaldo began their first I'M
warranted sattack on American troops with
the intention: ofsmurdering every white In
habitant of Manila and the entire islands.
1t has been one continual struggle to give
the people of those islands the largest and
truest liberty possible for any people to en-
Joy.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
Shiawassee-Ingham Senatorial Conven-

The senatorial convention for the four
teenth district was held in Lansing Monday
afternoon and after the Shiawassee and the
Ingham candidate had each received twenty
four votes apiecs for three ballots the nOmi-
nation went to John Robson, of Lansing,
who secured one Of the Shiawassee votes.
The convention met In the city hall Mon
day afternoon and was called to order by
w. G. Nesen, of Lansing. who read the
call aud then called D. l.. Sprague, of
Owosso, to the chair as temporary chairman.
Geo. w. Freeman, of Lansing, was chosen
as temporary secretary and the following
committees were chosen:
Permanent organization and order O;
business g. w. Loring and K. o. Dewey
Of Shiawassee; r. G. Ostrander Lansing,
and James Wheaton of Leslie.
Observation-Disclosures Schneider and c.
J. Davis of Ingham, and Willis Fox and
George 4. Campbell of Shiawassee.
Telers-A. II. Phillip, Alaiedon: A. b.
Cook, Shiawassee.
After the appointment of the committees
short recess was taken to give them a
chance to prepare their reports and the con
vention then got down to business by find
ing that both delegations were filed,
twenty-four from each county, by making
the temporary organization permanent, and
then by proceeding to ballot for the candi-
dates for senator Mr.. r. G. Ostrander
presented the name of Mr.. John Robson, OF
Lansing, speaking of the candidate in the
highest of terms and declaring him a man
In every way worthy of the honor which
his fellow citizens asked the convention to
confer upon him. Mr.. K. j. Cook, OF this
county, was placed In nomination by Chas.
A. Whelan and the nomination was second
ed by Hon. f. Il. Watson. Both spoke
very highly of Mr.. Cook and gave good
reasons why he would be not only strong
candidate but man who would make one
of the best representatives which any dis
trict in the state would have in the higher
house.
Both delegations had held caucuses be-
fore the convention and each had deter.
mined at the caucuses to stand by Its par
ticular candidate to the end. The result
however showed that to the Shiawassee
delegation the end seemed nearer the be-
ginning than 1t did to the Ingham delegates
for on the fourth ballot one of the Shia-
wassee delegates, who had not been pres
ent at the caucus held by the delegation in
the morning, concluding not to couside r
himself bound longer by the action of the
caucus, cast his vote for the Ingham candi-
date, Mr.. Robson, thus giving him the
nomination by the vote Of 25 to 30.
After the nomination had been made,
both candidates were called for and made
short addresses to the convention and but
for the momentary disappointment on the
part OF the Shiawassee delegation the very
best of feeling prevailed. The convention
then appointed a senatorial committee con-
sisting of Jas. w. Jordan and Chas. w.
Shipman, of Shiawassee, and Henry M.
Williams and Geo. w. Freeman, of Ingham,
after which the convention adjourned.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

Strange that in paying its compliments to
the Argus and to THE TIMES this week.
and especially in scoring the former paper
for the alleged twisting and turning of a
letter from which 1t publish, ex,.acts, TIE
sound money supporter of TIE free silver
presidential candidate, the Owoss Press,
should find it necessary or should be so
careless as to misquote each of the above
named papers in the course of one short
article. True the Interpretations were only
trivial, and we will presume unintentional,
but they emphasize In a very unexpected
way what the Press kindly says to the Ar
gus about living in glass houses and heaving
rocks.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

The social democrats Of the eighth con-
gressional district stole march on the
free silver democrats by holding a con-
gressloual convention in Saginaw Tuesday
evening and placing candidate for con-
gress in the field. The candidate is John
KortaD, of Saginaw, who was secretary of
the socialist county committee. After max
ing the nomination for congress the conven-
ton resolved itself into county convention
and placed full county ticket in the field
for Saginaw county.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

1t will be seen from this table that
curing the year following September
l, 1897. the capacity of furnaces in.
creased at the rate of over $4,000 tons
week, the next year at $4,000 tons,
a week. and then in the single month
Oh september, 1899. it jumped 1000
tons week. In two years. time the
number OF blast furnaces increa sed bv
nearly 100. These figures are from
'ne statistics given BY the Iron Age,
and are correct
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

The only reasonable grounds for sus-
pecting that Gen. Prosperity's conduct of the
campaign may be disappointing to his best
friends seem to arise from the 'chumm iness''
that important functionary has shown for
Gen. Apathy. 1t seems pity that Gen.
Apathy cannot be dealt with by drumhead
court martial or otherwise disposed of in
some effective way, TOR, his influence out of
the way, the forces OF Gen. Adversely
would be so thoroughly whipped that sur
render or complete humiliation would be
inevitable. Gen. Apathy has been the
means of the loss of more than one impor-
tant engagement on the part of Gen. Pros
perity and has indeed been the means of
seriously injuring the reputation Of the lat
ter as campaigner, but 1t Is expected that
measures will be taken in short order to
remove him from the staff and when once
out from under the influence of this old
crony the campaign will begin to become a
lively one with certain victory in sight.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

Bryan is for free wool. The effect of
that would be to cheaper the price of that
commodity in this country. Then, as II to
balance things up, he is for cheap money,
so that the former may still seem to get the
same amount for his wool clip that he now
what he Is now getting, however, will be
little careful about asking Mr.. Bryan to Sc
cure either of those favors for him.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

Bryan still insists that the prosperity
which the country is enjoying is only tenn
porary. Well, 1t must be confessed that a
good deal does depend on the reelection of
President Mckinley, but perhaps Bryan
shouldn't be so confident of his own sue
cess
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
THE OWOSSO TIMES.
And to think of having Altgeld on th'
supreme bench of the United States!

In the South Carolina senatorial prima-
ries there was no candidate against the re-
nomination of the Hon. Ben Tillman, yet
to show him q marked compliment, over
thirty thousand out of the eighty-three
thousand men who voted at the primaries
scratched the name of the distinguished
knight OF the pitchfork of from their tick
ete
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

To those who want to know why the
United States has not treated the Filipinos
as she treated the Cubans 1t may be sug-
gested that the Fliplnos have never given
the United States the chance to do SO.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21

Four years ago one of the things which
Mr.. Bryan asserted the country needed
was to get out from under the money
power of Europe. He was very sure that
we must stop borrowing money from
Europe or be ruined, and he even went so
far as to insist that we must repudiate what
we already owed and pay the same In
money worth only One-half as much as the
money we borrowed in order to get out
What has happened? We have stopped
borrowing money from Europe, but in
stead of eyer asking them to accept dollar
that was worth less than a dollar in the
pay ment of any debt, our debts have been
paid In money that was just as good as the
money which was loaned to us, while
strange to say those same European coun-
tries are already indebted to us in the sum
of many millions of dollars, all In the same
solid serviceable yellow metal which is
none too good for any American I'm any
station of life, whether 1t be paid him for
his days work in the factory, for his pro-
duce from the farm or for the products OF
his creative business energy and skill.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
IN SPLENDID SHAPE.
Evidence Tint Labor Is Flourishing
Given by Americans Foremost
Labor Leader.

The labor conditions in 1893 and
1899 are stated tritely and truly by
Samuel Gompers, the head of the
American Federation of Labor. Mr.
Gompers' exact words are worth Mac.
ing in parallel columns. He said:
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
once Dorrowins. Now solx.n.

The United States borrowed $500 ,ooo-
900 In gold In the.last Cleveland admin.
istration in order to save its credi,
The United States hes $500. ooo, Geo IN
bank to-day. :"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
Iron Trade n. Indicating Prosperity.

Under the Mckinley administration
blast furnaces largest of use have been
fired up, new ones built, and unprece-
dented prosperity inaugurated in the
iron and steel business. The following
table shows the wonderful growth in
iron products:
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-09-21
AMOUNT SOLD FOREIGN COUNTRIES
MORE THAN WE BOUGHT.

ASo 57l, 1884 05l
This looks as though we were cap
turing the markets of the world" un-
der protective tariff and gold
standard faster than any other ma
ton in the world ever captured them.
and when the figures for the coming
fiscal year are in it will be the pros.
perity record of the world. The
truth Of this is shown by the fact
that for the year ending June 30,
1900, the total commerce of the year
surpasses by the vast sum of $s17.-
729,25o that Of any preceding year,
and we are still expanding. Do we
want to take any step that will es.
tablish free trade and free silver and
at one step paralyze this magnificent
progress we are making? Ponder the
above and answer with your ballot
in November.