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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28
LETTERS AND ANSWERS.
Victor, Colo

Victor, Colo, Dec. %.
Dear Aunt Busy. I like to read your
letters very much. Mamma says
ought to write to you very often Do
You get any letters from Victor? I
am years old and I go to the Gar
field school. | am in the first grade.
and my teachers name is Miss Potter.
Goodbye, Aunt Busy. l remain, your
loving niece
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28

In Killarney on Wednesday. at about
IL o'clock. man named Terence O'Con-
nor, an army pensioner, aged about 10
years. residing at Newmarket lane. at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting
his throat with an ordinary dinner
knife. O'Connor, who was alone in his
bedroom, attired in his drawers, called
out to his wife, who was in the room
underneath, that he was dying, and.
on entering the room, she was Mortified
to find him lying in a pool of blood on
the floor, with the blood-stained knife
beside him. There We're three gashes
on his throat, one of which extended
across the neck, .severing the windpipe.
Drs. O'Sullivan, Hickson and McSwee-
ney were promptly on the scene and
dressed the wounds. For some time
past he has been suffering from depres-
sion of spirits.
Tho 5aafb occurred IN %
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28

OIland, Ned, Dec. Is.
Dear Aunt Busy: l am II years old.
go to Park school and am in the fifth
grade. We are going to have an en-
tertainment at school for Christmas. I
am to sing and speak at school. My
teachers name is Miss Johnson. This
is the first time l have ever written
to you. l have never seen a letter from
Omaha in your paper. 1 hope you will
print this.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28

very serious accident, occurred in
Belfast on Saturday night last, where
by young man named Robert Mills,
aged % years, and residing at No. l
Essex street, received such injuries
that he succumbed on Monday. The
deceased, it appears. was in the act of
getting over a boarding which sur
mounted wall about six feet high for
the purpose of gaining access to his
own yard, when he accidentally fell
and sustained serious injuries to the
spine and neck
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28

On Sunday the people of Edgeworths-
town sustained a painful shock when
1t became known that young man
named James Brady of Cam Ca short
distance from the village), had com
mtted suicide by hanging himself from
tree in the garden situated at the
rear OF his own house 1t appears
from the stories current in the neigh
oorhood that the deceased had been
very strange in his manners for some
time previous, and about a fortnight
before the sad occurrence, had absent
ed himself for whole night, and gave
no account of where he had been.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28

A Special court was held at Granard
on Saturday to inquire into a charge
against DR.. Flanagan, date medical of
hcer of Rallinalee dispensary district,
and two other young men, who were
charged on remand with throwing
vitriol on servant boy named Rer-
nard Phillips. Mr.. Joseph Delany. So
licitor, appeared for DR.. Flanagan, and
Mr.. Montgomery for the others. The
accused were sent for trial to next
quarter sessions and conveyed to Sligo
Jail.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28

l know a curious little boy
Who is always asking why
Why this. why that, why then, why now,
Why no, why by-and-by.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-12-28

A married woman named Kelly
mother of six young children, was ac-
cidentally drowned on. Sunday. near
Castlebellingham. It appears that the
deceased, with two women, was gath
ering firewood blown down by the re-
cent storm along the banks of the Riv.
er Clyde, when she stumbled and fell
into the swollen stream and was rap
lily carried away The other women
who heard her seams being powerless
to render assistance, the body was
swept out to sea and has not yet been
recovered
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17
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81 am surprised" said one gen
tleman, who is well acquainted with
Spokane politics, ''that Mr.. Byrne
was not elected by at least 500 ma
jority, owing to the forces and fac
tons that were working against the
regular Republican nominee. There
was the Law and Order League,
which was fighting the Republican
candidate, owing to the fact that he
was being supported to some extent
by the saloon-keepers and the wide
open policy men; then there was the
Good Citizens Club, which was also
fighting the Republican nominee on
account Of the excessive taxation
which was being imposed upon the
people; then there were the usual
factions in the Republican party,
with this and that grievance, to con
tend with, and it seemed impossible
to harmonic them all in sufficient
time to elect the Republican nomi-
nee, and as a result Of all this cat
hauling the Demo-Pop nominee was
elected by ninety-nine plurality"
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

Are men of this age moral cow
ards, or are they so mercenary that
they will submit to anything rather
than antagonize an opposition or
lose a few paltry dollars? The
high license proposition, which was
before the city council, has been
side-tracked and laid to rest for all
time to come, so far as the present
council is concerned. Though the
most of the towns of this state have
passed the high license ordinance,
yet the city councilmen Of the larg-
est and most imposing city of the
state absolutely refuse to tackle the
high license proposition, and thus
are the saloons permitted to flourish
with only nominal license imposed
upon them, when under the present
conditions they are just as able to
pay high license. The theory Of
all this seems to be that majority
of the members Of the city council
are Republicans, and for fear that
they would bring upon the party to
which they belong the wrath of the
saloon element in this city, they
have absolutely refused to pass any
ordinance having for its object the
interference or curtailing Of the
present power of the saloon element
of this city. 1t hardly seems posi-
BILE that the Christianity and culture
of the twentieth century civilization
can boast of men who are either
moral towards of mercenary me-
mails, and yet the actions of some of
the leading men Of this age, and es-
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

POLITICAL P0T-PIE


in Washington except to say some
thing about them that will induce
business not to come to the state,
and it, too, is painfully silent on the
Spokane election, which is a swift
indication tina THE election Of wild
eyed Populists is no longer desired
on the part Of progressive newspa-
pers, whether the party nominees be
the creatures Of fractional cliques or
not.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

Hon. R. W. Jones spoke to- the
Business Mems Club Of the Ply
mouth church of this city last Tues
day evening, taking as his subject
the Direct Primary Law, which
measure was advocated by Mr.. Jones
at the last session Of the legislature
of this state, but failed of passage.
Mr.. Jones feels, just as thousands #
others do, that the legislature made
a sad mistake in not passing that
bill, and he further thinks that a
little education on the subject will
serve to commit all political parties
to it in their respective platforms
prior to the next state election, and
the measure will be passed by the
next legislature early in the session.
No federal plums for this state
have dropped as yet, and the
silence that is being maintained by
the powers that be in regard to who
will most likely be the successful
applicants is so pronounced that it
is actually becoming painful. It is
generally thought that if W. R. Gay
does not succeed himself Jesse A.
Frye will 1t is also conceded that
Marshal Ide will be succeeded by
George I'll. Baker, and that Mr.. Idle
will step in Mr.. Heustis' shoes. All
OF this, however, is mere speculation,
and that is why there is so much
fretting over the matter.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

Though the Spokerman-Review,
the Oregonian and the Walla Walla
Union are bitter enemies of John l..
Wilson, it is rather remarkable that
neither one Of these papers has as
yet charged the defeat of Mr.. Brown
for mayor of Spokane up to Mr..
Wilson. The Pie-maker is of the
opinion that it was sad disappoint-
ment to the Review to see Mr..
Brown defeated, and its disappoint-
ment has been shown by its silence
since election, which has been al
most painful to those knowing the
predicament that the Review has
been placed in since the election.
This man Byrne, who advocates the
most Pedagogical of Populistic doc
trines, will be charged up to the
SpokeSman-Review, and his vision
airy theories, which will do a great
deal to impede the present prosper
ity of Spokane, will also be charged
up to the Review, for had it not
half-heartedly supported him he
would have been defeated and a
wide-awake, up-to-date Republican
elected. The 0regonian has no in
terest in Washington nor in any city
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17
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The Pie-maker notes that W. II.
Buttner, one of Seattle's leading
business men, who was accused Of
having embezzled a large sum of
money from a brewery firm in Ne
braska and then jumped his bond,
over which the Star went into such
ecstatic joy at being able to get a
bit of scandal to publish, has settled
the matter and the case is dropped.
1t was finally figured out that Mr.
Buttner owed the brewery concern
1913, which amount was Immediately
paid by him and the case dismissed.
The Star, which advertises itself to
print news without fear or favor.
seems never to desire to print any
kind Of news except sensational
news. IL pupllshed Things about
Mr.. Buttner which were wholly I'M
called for, even though they may
have been true, and, if Mr.. Buttner
should desire to take advantage Of
the law, that paper would have on
its hands the settling Of large dam
age suit for libel. It is out of the
province Of newspapers to- publish
things about private citizens, who
are not seeking public Offices or pub
lie honors, but who are attending
strictly to their private affairs, when
such things will injure such per-
sons business.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

pecially Of the United States, are
quite unexplainable by their fellow
citizens, who hold some allegiance
to good citizenship. It would ap-
pear that some Of them stand ready
to do or say anything that will bring
a dollar to their pockets, which, if
true, is most deplorable.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

The Pie-maker remembers some
time ago, when the city printing was
before the council, that the Times
said: eff the P.-I. secured the con-
tract at a lower figure than it, the
Times, it would be because the Pr.
printed a much less number of cop
les than the Times, and could afford
to do it at a cheaper rate" Now
comes the Times and bids only half
a cent an inch per insertion for the
county's printing in its weekly, when
it declares in its daily that its week
ly has the largest circulation of any
paper In the Northwest. How can
the Times afford to do the county
printing at such a price, which
would only mean seventy cents an
issue for a page Of its paper filled
up with county printing, when sew
enty cents would not buy the white
paper on which the notices were
printed, to say nothing Of the type
setting and the presswork. Just
why the Times felt called upon to
make such bid as that in order 10
knock the country weeklies out Of
this piece of patronage, is an mex
plainable thing The Times can
not make one cent out Of its con-
tract-in short, it not only cannot
make cent out of it, but it is COM
PEELED to lose on the contract. Is
this business, Colonel?
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

1t is amusing to read the COM
ments of some Of the weekly papers
in this state as to the results of the
Spokane election. Some declare
that the Republican party was de-
feated in that city because the nomi-
ness of the party was selected by
John L. Wilson, while others de-
clare that John L. Wilson deliber-
ately, wilfully and with malice afore-
thought, knitted the ticket because
he could not boss it. In the opin-
ion of the Pie-maker both of these
stories are stories in the true sense
Of the word. He does not believe
that Mr. Wilson ever dictated Mr..
Browns nomination, nor does he be-
lieve that Mr.. Wilson did anything
in that fight but help in all the
ways he knew how to elect Mr..
Brown after he had been nominated.
1t the Pie-maker is not mistaken,
Mr.. Wilson said to a number of pol
iticians before the convention was
held that he would support anybody
that the Republican convention
might name, and that that anybody
was without strings. However much
Mr.. Wilson may be opposed by the
politicians of this state, there is one
thing that he can boast of, and that
is, he has always been a consistent,
straightforward Republican, supper
ting the nominees Of his party with
out eQuiVocation.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

One fact which is noteworthy con-
corning this election was the large
vote that the Prohibition candidate
received. Ordinarily such candi-
date would not have received over
three or four hundred votes, but in
this instance he received 1 500 votes,
and had he been anything like a
popular candidate he would have
been elected over both the Republi-
can and Populist candidates. The
heavy vote the Prohibition ticket re-
ceived in the Spokane election has
given new life to that party all over
the state, and some Of the more en-
thusiastic ones are really believing
that their ticket stands good show
Of winning at the next general cleo
ton in this state.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-05-17

The Spokane election is now a
thing Of the past, and explanations
of how it happened are quite in or
der. To the surprise Of the politi-
clans outside Of Spokane and its i'm
mediate vicinity the city went Dem
ocratic Under ordinary circum-
stances it is overwhelmingly Repub-
ican, but under circumstances not
in the bounds of the ordinary it is
about one hundred Democratic. It
is unfortunate for Spokane at this
iuncture to have gone Democratic,
for it might have a bad effect on the
president, who will visit there in a
few days.
Later: The president heard Of the
election and cancelled his visit to the
Northwest.
The San Francisco call., 1901-11-21

more difficult to maintain. The jealousies of Euro
pean nations would lead each of them to strive to get
the better not only of us but of one another in the
arrangement OF such treaties; and as consequence
there would be incessant chickering's In the end as
Senator Hoar has pointed out, we would have to
take our tariff regulations out of the hands of Con-
gress and leave them to the State Department to be
determined by treaties with foreign powers. There
would be confusion both at home and abroad and a
continual temptation to some power to get in and
smash things.
The system of reciprocity proposed by Mr.. Blaine
and embodied in Republican platforms was expressed
at Philadelphia in the declaration: Eve favor the
sociated policy of reciprocity so directed to
our markets on favorable terms for what we do not
ourselves produce in return for free foreign markets
By standing firmly by that system of reciprocity we
would neither sacrifice our industries at home nor
embroil ourselves abroad. Any departure from it
would result in perplexity and wrong to some Amer-
interest The United States has much less to fear
from any retaliation that may be devised by Euro
pean nation, or by all Europe combined than it would
have from the weakening of the protective system by
varying reciprocity treaties It is decidedly best to
keep Our tariff regulations in our hands. We do
not need commercial alliances any than military
alliances Our policy should be that of frendiness to
all, but special favors to none
The San Francisco call., 1901-11-21
Cuban English.

Since the war with Spain and the occu-
patton of Cuba by the United States Ha-
vana merchants have almost completely
revolutionized their business methods.
Many of them employed English speaking
clerks and correspondents, but from the
following circular, which has been wide
ly distributed in New York, it is evident
that the writer might have been more
easily understood If he had written in
Spanish
NEVER before there was so good a
chanse to get the highest brands in Ha-
vana Cigars as we offer!!
"HAVANA, June %, 1901.
'Dear Sirs: We have the pleasure to
partake you we are just starting an spe-
cial mail order department which prac-
tically renders the service of saving time
and money.
Having you to pay for Havana cigars
every where in the Stats, besides ex-
penses and duties the profits of middle
men, surely you can't get them but at
too high a price, while ordering from us
we put you perhaps to no other EX-
PENSES THAN THOSE OF FORWARD
| ING. AND OUR REASONABLY
PROFIT, wiz
"Can quote you for any brand Can
| ship "a HOURS AFTER RECEIPT OF
| ORDER.
1--WE would send your by mail once a
| week or several times to several ad-
dresses one box containing 25 cigars OF
| the brand you chose in one package
which REGISTERED AS SAMPLES you
! get at your Post Office probably WITH
OUT paying duties on them
| 1--WE CHARGE YOU PRICE-L1ST
PRICE. Postage for a REGISTERED
BOX of 25 cigars is FROM 30 TO 40 cents
add to both quantities 10 per cent (tc
pay our expenses and get some profit,
| AND YOU WILL KNOW the COST OF
YOUR CIGARS AT HOME
although you had to pay duties yor
save so per cent, which is the profit o.
the importer & retail.
Make a trial with us and you will in
| crease your orders to mutual advantage
I Trusting to hear from you with or
der no matter how small it is, and assur
ing you to do our best to deserve youl
patronage"
The San Francisco call., 1901-11-21
RECIPROCITY TREATIES.

~ AISER WILHELM was reported short time
x ago to have said: eff no commercial treaties
n negotiated, l will smash things to pieces
When the report submitted to Senator Cullom
who is slated for the Craftsmanship of the Senate COM
mittee foreign relations he said "If there be any
truth in the dispatch from Berlin respecting the re-
markable declaration of the Emperor, it admits of
but meaning and that is that in the absence of
satisfactory reciprocal treaties Germany will abandon
her present system of moderate tariff and substitute
for it something approaching to non-ntercourse COM
mercally with nations that refuse Germany fair treat
ment. l infer that the Emperor of Germany means
that unless revise tariff laws or adopt recp-
rocal measures which will give Germany better op-
portunities to get into markets, he will resort to
retaliatory methods keep products out of Ger
many. Threats of retaliation will not have any inhu-
ence upon the Government of the United States in
its endeavors protect its interests both at home
and abroad"
There may be truth in the report concerning the
statement of the German Emperor, but the fact it
was reported in Berlin and believed there is proof
that it represents phase of public sentiment in Ger
many If the Emperor did not use the threat attrib
uted to him, it is certain that good many Germans
would be pleased to have him make such threat
and live UP to it. In fact, commercial competition
has now become so keen that considerable number
of persons in Europe losing their mental balance
on the subject and would probably be glad to see the
beginning of war of tariff retaations among the
different countries in the hope that they might profit
by it
Evidences of the spirit expressed in the threat at
tributed to the Kaiser to be found in the utter
ances of many of the leaders and the organs of the
German Agrarians of French economists and notably
in the addresses made at the recent conference Of
the Austrian agricultural and manufacturing interests
at Vienna. Over and over again we have been told
that the United States must make tariff concessions
or face a commercial war;
The temper thus displayed by the nations of Europe
is in itself sufficient warning to the United States
OF the difficulties that will attend the undertaking
OF an elaborate system of reciprocity treaties AS Mr.
Carnegie has said reciprocity is nice word to say,
but the thing itself would be difficult devise and
The San Francisco call., 1901-11-21
DUELING IN GERMANY.

~ ERMAN army officers are having hard time
by reason of the conflict between the laws and
- the customs of their army in reference to
dueng. The case of Lieutenant Hilderbrand who
the dispatches from Berlin announce has been SEN
fenced to courtmartial to two years Imprisonment
for killing Lieutenant Blaskowitz affords striking
illustration of the dilemma which confronts them
The has excited good deal of interest in Ger
many by Of its pathetic features. Blaskowitz
who on the eve Of his wedding attended sup
per at which he with others drank too much and on
his way home became quarresome and struck two
brother officers, who were taking him his quarters
Next day the was reported to court of honor
of the regiment, and the officers who were struck were
commanded to challenge. Blaskowtz, who, it SEEMS
had no recollection Of the affair, spending the
evening with his hancee when he received telegram
calling him back to the regiment to fight He offered
to apologize but the court of honor refused to admit
it. He bad two challengers to meet and had he
capped the first he would have had to stand UP before
the other. He killed. it appears at the first fire.
and honor satisfied.
A few years ago it is probable there would have
been no further proceedings in the matter but of late
the consequences of dueng and the outrageous bar
barsm OF the DEGREES of the socaed courts of honor
have aroused the German conscience and deter
mined effort has been made by some of the foremost
men in the empire to put end to the practice They
have not yet succeeded but they have accomplished
enough it seems, to punish to some extent those who
kill an antagonist in duel Lieutenant Hi1derbrand
has been caught in this double trap The regimental
court OF honor compelled him to fight his friend to
the death for blow which among any other people
would never have been thought of again by either
party. He killed his friend and now he must go to
jail for two years