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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1903-07-16
BRYAN ON PLATFORM.
Says the Democrats of Iowa Are
Controlled by Trusts.

Lincoln, Neb., July 11.--William J.
Bryan in The Commoner discusses at
length the action Of the recent demo
cratic convention in Iowa in its failure
to reaf1rm the financial plank of the
Kansas City convention, saying:
The Iowa democratic convention
was not referred to last week because
the editor { the Commoner had not se-
cured the information necessary for an
intelligent discussion Of the situation.
He is now in position to say that the
convention was controlled by the re-
dictionary elements Of the party and
that the refusal of the convention to
reaffirm the Kansas City platform
was due principally to the influence
exerted by the representatives of cor
porations, but partly to neglect on the
part Of the friends, of the platform.
The corporation democrats are in
politics as matter of business; they
assume that their salaries cover their
political services and they can attend
conventions at little expense, while
the ordinary democrat must pay his
way. The cost Of railroad fare some
times affects the selection of delegates
and still more often affects the num-
Der who actually attend. IT, for in
stance, a county harmonizes by send
ing five corporation democrates and
ten Kansas City platform democrates
to a state convention and fails to in
struct, the five who can get passes
may go and six of the others may not
feel able to attend. Then the county
stands 5 to A against the Kansas City
platform; if they are instructed to
vote as unit the five may by voting
the four cast the fifteen votes against
reafIirmaticn. agE asag say
Corporation Democrats UnscrupuIaus.
To this advantage the corporation
democrats add the advantage which
they derive from the fact that they are
INSCRIPTIONS in method. They are
not only willing to betray constitu1
ents, but they consider it smart to
deal unfairly, with their party asso-
ciates. ".
In the recent iowa convention the
delegates from Wapello county were
chosen by a convention which endors.
ed the Kansas City platform, but the
reorganizers, chosen by courtesy, were
on hand and in the absence of some of
the Kansas City platform democrats
cast a majority Of the votes of the
county against the platform. Accord
ing to the American, Of Creston, Mills
county Endorsed the Kansas City plat
form, but was misrepresented in the
state convention.
How can an honest platform be ex-
pected from men who deal dishonest
ly with their constituents? 4
The Iowa platform contains many
good planks. but without improving
upon the last national platform in any
respect it shows weakness where it
departs from that document.
The plank against imperialism is
not clear. The coupling of Porto Rico
with the Philippine Islands leaves it
in doubt whether the self-government
mentioned is self-government in an In
dependent republic, as demanded by,
the Kansas City platform, or self-gov-
eminent as a part of our nation, as a.
few republicans favor.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
RetIIrned.

M. ]. O'Meara, who made himself
g millionaire by getting into Tonopah
at the right time, came in from the
east and expects to remain few
days. He was met here by Tom j.
Lynch, the junior member of the
O'Meara-Lynch company. Mr..
O'Meara says that much interest is
being taken in Tononopah in the east
at the present time, as well as in
other mining camps of the west.
The labor difficulties and the haten-
ing out of industrial securities in the
east has convinced capital that the
mining camps are much more lucra-
tive as we'll as safer field for invest
ments. Hence there is plenty of
money available for mining enter
prises, provided, that they have
merit.-Salt Lake News.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
Noted Mining Men Coming.

On June 1st John Hays Hammond,
consulting engineer of the Tonopat
Mining company, and his assistant,
G. c. Berger, accompanied by John
W. Brock, of Philadelphia, presi-
dent of the Tonopah- Belmont Devel-
opment company, will arrive in To-
nopah to make an inspection of the
mines. On the 10Th of June Mr..
Hammond will meet the directors OF
the Tonopah Mining company in
Philadelphia and present his report
which is anxiouslv awaited by the
stockholders.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
TOgnOni Not Guilty.

The criminal case of the State VS.
Tognoni was tried by Judge Lindsay
last Monday. Tognoni was charged
with an assault upon VIM. Mendes
at Duckwater, with intent to kill
Ralph Irwin, Chas. Irving and Mr.
Blair appeared as prosecuting wit.
nesses. From their testimony it ap.
peared to the court that the prose.
cutting witnesses, together with Pau
Irwin, Bill Lorigan and VIM. Men
des, were engaged in tearing out de.
PENDANTS dam at the time Mendes
was shot that this party had fired
rife towards defendants house be-
fore defendant shot Mendes. That
there was not probable grounds to
believe the defendant guilty of a
crime and he was therefore dis
charged. The defendant made no
statement and produced no wit.
nesses. 1t is reported that the
prosecuting witnesses have gone to
Belmont to swear out another war
rant, but we cannot believe this, as
such a course after the trial at Ton
opah would be simply persecution.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

Adoption of the Charter. " The
officers of election shall make return
to the board of county commissioners
of Nye county, and the said board of
county commissioners shall, within
five days thereafter, meet and can
vass said vote, and shall enter upon
their minutes the result of such can
vass. They shall first canvass the
vote for and against the adoption of
the charter. If from such canvass
they find that a majority of the
electors have voted against the adop-
ton of this charter, then they shall
declare this charter rejected, and
the offices to be filled at said election
dissolved. If, at said election and
canvass, they find that majority
of said votes have been cast in favor
of the adoption of this charter, then
they shall proceed to canvass the
votes cast for the various Offices
under this charter, and proclaim as
follows: Said board of county com
missioners shall cause certificate of
election to issue to the person receiv-
ing the highest number of votes for
mayor. The five candidates for
councilmen receiving the highest
number of votes for said Office in
such City of Tonopah, shall be de-
clared elected to the Office of coun-
cilmen for the City of Tonopah by
the board of county commissioners
of Nye county, who shall thereupon
cause certificate of election to be
issued to such persons. The persons
receiving the highest number of votes
for the offices of city treasurer, city
attorney and police judge, shall in
like manner be declared elected to
their respective offices, and certi-
ficate of election issued to them by
order of the board of county COM
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
Case Submitted.

Attorney p. NJ. Bowler came in on
yesterdays stage from Carson City
and surrounding towns. The old
mining suit of the Southern Nevada
Gold Mining Company VS.. The Holmes
Mining Company, was argued and
submitted before the Supreme court.
Mr.. Bowler appearing for tbs Holmes
company.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
LARGEST CIRCULATION In TONOPAH
ENABLING ACT.

The controlling section of an ACT
passed by the last legislature to en-
able the people of Tonopah to incor-
porate or organize city government
is given in Section 30, in legal phrase
as follows:
1t shall be the duty of the board Of
county commissioners of Nye county,
upon petition by a majority of the
taxpayers within tn e corporate
limits of Tonopah, as shown by the
records of the assessors and treas
urer's Offices, to issue a proclama.
tion of an election within the limits
defined in this charter as the limits
of the City of Tonopah, to be held
within thirty days thereafter, at
which election all the qualified cleo
tors residing within the limits of the
City OF Tonopah as hereinbefore
prescribed, as shown by the register
of votes for the last preceding gen.
eral election, shall have the right to
vote for the election of one mayor,
five councilmen, one city attorney,
one police Judge, one city treasurer,
and also to vote for or against the
adoption of this charter. The said
proclamation shall be published in a
newspaper in said City of Tonopah
for at least three weeks prior to the
date of said election, and printed
copies of such proclamation shall be
posted in three conspicuous and pub
lie places in the City of Tonopah.
Said proclama ton shall set forth the
purpose of said election, the place
where the same shall be held, the
names of the inspectors of election,
and such other matters as may be
deemed proper in the premises. All
provisions of law relating to general
elections so far as the same are APP
plicable or not inconsistent with the
provisions of this section, shall be
observed in the conduct of such cleo
tion. Candidates for the office of
mayor, councilman, city treasurer,
city attorney and police Judge, to be
voted for at such election, shall file
heir names with the county clerk of
Nye county at least ten days before
he date of such election. The
county clerk of Nye county shall
ause to be printed a sufficient num- {
lumber of ballots for said election. I
pom which shall appear the names il
the candidates for the offices above
pecified, also the words "For Adop- il
ION Of the Charter" - against il
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
Returned.

}. W. Storer, prominent mining
man of this section, returned from
New York city on Monday. Mr..
Storer is interested in the Commo.
dore group of claims north of Tono-
pah. He says great interest is be-
ing taken by the New Workers in
Tonopah mines and that several cap
italists of that city will visit Tonopah
in September.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
Water Increasing.

The Crystal Water company have,
during the week, increased the water
flow considerably in their wells. The
company have been doing expensive
work in running drifts to cut water
channels. Manager Lewis says
there will be an abundance of water
for all purposes this summer.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
Tonopah Cash Boy Mining Company

THE Boy
the tina
BOY are
Preside A
4
$ rizo December 10 1902
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

A number of men were put to work
repairing the Utah shaft prepare
tory to resuming operations in that
mine. Virginia Chronicle.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
Mining Maps.

The new pocket and wall maps of
Booker Il Bradford, civil engineers,
are for sale at the BONANZA news
store.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30

Fresh French confectionery at the
Bonanza candy store, adjoining the
postoffice.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-05-30
our Stock of Shelf
C Mining Hardware

Is the most complete in Tonopah including Hercules
Powder Evas Fuse, Nails, 500 per keg Rails, Wheel
barrows The Celebrated Balm Wagons, Canton Steel,
$13 90 per hundred pounds Screens Screen Doors and
in fact, everything the builder
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
Enormous Cost of High Speed.

The cost of extra knots of high
speed was elucidated by recent expert
ments with a new armored British
cruiser, Cape of Good Hope, of 14,100
tons. On her eight-hour trial she made
a mean speed of 23.05 knots. Her coal
expenditure for various speeds was
plotted with surprising results. To go
from Ills knots to % knots needed,
roughly, 5000 additional horse power,
while the last knot alone absorbed
1921 horse power. That is to say, to
progress from % to % knots needed
as much power as the total required to
drive the ship at about 16 knots; or,
to put it in still another way, the
power needed to drive the Cape of
Good Hope at full speed would pro-
pei two similar vessels at about 10
knots. The coal consumption at full
speed was, roughly, twenty-six tons
per hour; at 10 knots about IL tons
per hour. Again, at full speed the
ship would steam 0.85 knot for each
ton of coal burned, while at 10 knots
the distance would be double for q
similar consumption of fuel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
PROTECTION FoR COAL.
How Its Removal Has Injured the Far
West

f1oW ttS Removal Hd8 Injured the faf
West.
The feet of vessels engaged to bring
coal from Australia to this country
numbers sixty-seven- There il not the
slightest possibility that the effect of
this will be to reduce the price of the
fuel to consumers. 1t will be to give
the dealers a bigger profit. and to give
to a foreign country the benefit of .
market that should have been left to
home enterprise. This fleet will un-
load at San Francisco. In the North
west there is coal enough to supply
the California demand, and would still
be enough were the demand far great
er. Formerly Washington supplied
much of this coal. The demand has
been lessened by the adoption of oil
burning methods, but still remains con-
siderable. Now it will be filled by
Australia. Ships can afford to carry
coal at a low rate to ports into, which
they have infrequently sailed in bal
last. Thus the wild furore to take the
duty OF something has deprived this
coast of an important protection The
public mind awoke to lively conception
the hoggishness of the retailers had
sent prices of coal in the East to a
figure where the poor were in danger
of freezing. Statesmen smote their
swelling breasts and vowed that they
would remedy these conditions. Then
they took the duty of coal, to the det-
rIment of Pacific coast interests, for
which they have as little care as for
the interests CT Patagonia, and their
consciences ceased to cause them
pangs., The removal of this duty
could have no possible bearing upon
the evils it was sought to cure. All
that it could do it has done. 1t has
struck a blow at the Pacific coast; 1t
has diverted money to Australia, and
it has not had a single beneficent eff
feet.
This part of the country is in favor
of protection, and it would include
coal. The East has no Australian com.
petition to fear. The agitators who
favor fooling with the tariff want lum'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
Always Looking for cheapness.


The free-trader always approaches
men from the standpoint of the pro-
Queer only. They are advised to vote
for cheapness, with the implied prom
Use on the free-trader's part that all
other things shall remain as they are.
But they never do remain as they are
If an era of cheapness comes upon q
country, everything becomes cheap, in
GLIDING labor and the product of the
manufactures. The result is that
while everything is cheap and theore-
tically within the reach of the poor
est, the ability to buy is so curtailed
that the sum total of profits is reduced
and poverty ensues. We are to have
another campaign upon the tariff, and
there will be nothing new injected into
1t but the specious claim that the tariff
is responsible for the trusts, and this
is not new. The result of this next
contest will depend altogether upon
whether men are short-sighted or far
sighted Whether they are capable
of learning from experience so recent
that it seems impossible that any
could fOrget.-Cedar Rapids Republi-
can.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
STATE sEcRETs OF AUSTRIA.
They Are Securely Placed in Rooms
Made of Iron.

They Arc Securely Placed in Rooms
Made of Iron.
The Austrian imperial archives have
been lately conveyed from the Hof-
burg to the great house built for them
adjoining the Foreign Office. They
will later on be opened for public in
spection, from the most ancient docu-
ments down to those of 1910. The
rooms containing. the secret archives
are of ironwork, each story being COM
pletely separated from the next one,
so that neither five nor water can pen
citrate. Hose supplying abundance of
water is fixed in every direction, the
windows can neither be melted by fire
nor destroyed by blows, and the orna-
mental ironworks before each window
can be unlocked in case of emergency.
1t is remembered when Napoleon
Bonaparte invaded Austria and es-
tablished himself at Schonbrunn, with
what terrible haste the secret
archives were carried off to Buda-
Pesth, to the Ofen stronghold, these
being the first things secured when
all else was left. Among the iron
cases stands a plain brown wooden
box, which will not be opened for fifty
years.
the late Crown Prince Rudolph, hur.
riedly collected at Mayerling on the
day of the disaster, and placed in box
bought in the adjoining village.-Lon-
don Telegraph
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30


into three pretty accurately defined
groups-those who work in the factor
les, those who own. or are employed
on the farms and those who satisfy
the mercantile wants of the commun-
ity.
The storekeepers are mostly early
settlers who got money enough by
farming or working at odd jobs to
start little places of business or equip
pushcarts. They increased their stock
gradually as their earnings allowed
and now some have places of business
so big that they venture to call them
by such names as 1.-The Bargain Store
of Cape May County and Cape May
County's Department Store
Many of the stores do considerable
credit business, and none of them, it is
said, lose much by it. Several of the
merchants are said to be worth from
$4,000 to $4,000.
There are also hote1keepers, bar
bers, bricklayers, shoemakers, carpen-
tiers and other artisans, besides pro-
fensional men.
The factories employ considerably
more than half the working popula,
ton. More work in the clothing and
knitting mills than anywhere else, and
the rest are engaged chiefly in ma
chine shops, of which there are three.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
How to Fill Your Pipe.

Worshipers at the shrine of My
Lady Nicotine will be interested in a
correspondents method of filling a
pipe-a method from which he has
obtained results greatly superior to
those yielded by the old style. He
places a wooden match down the CEN
ter of the bowl, its lower end enter
ing or covering the hole that leads to
the stem, and holding it in position
with one finger, presses the tobacco
in firmly all round with the unsharp-
ened end of a pencil. The match is
then withdrawn, the pipes lighted up,
and the full flavor of the tobacco ex-
tracted without waste.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
Across the Street.

Across the street the bright lights flashed
and cleaned.
And fortunes favored ones were gath
The merry music of the dance out
streamed
Upon the air.
Across the street-it seemed so far away.
That Joyous world, from my unhappy
sphere,
Made up of toll, day after day.
And year by year.
I turned from my window with a sigh,
Thou mak'st nfe's differences. o God,
so wide"
I could not conquer that ungratefur cry
Tho hard I tried.
Across the street. next night. across the
street,
Deaths grim insignia from the door
was hung
heard the passers by. low voiced. re-
peat.
$50 fair. so young"
Across the street-ah, surely twas not so.
That they were mourning who last
night were gay,
That yonder mansion was a house of
woe,
Where death held sway?
Across the street, beside single light
A cherries company a sad watch kept.
And she, the homaged one of yesternight,
Forever slept
Boston Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
OF Course.

1t is curious fact, and one worth
keeping in mind, that the same free
trade papers that so cordially APP
proved the sentiments expressed In
the speech of Gov. Cummins in Des
Moines at the Republican county con-
vention, are greatly dfsgruntled at the
speech of President Roosevelt in Min
neapolis three weeks later Gov. Cum
minis declared that the tariff ought to
be Immediately torn up both by direct
legislation and by reciprocity in COM
peting products while President Roose-
welt declared that for at least two
years to come, or until after the cleo
ton of 1904, the tariff should be left
entirely alone Ergo. the free trade
papers were delighted with Gov. Cum
minis and displeased with President
Roosevelt OF course they were.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30
PEOPLE AND
EVENTS
CAUSE OF BALKAN TROUBLE.
Race Hatred at the Bottom of the
Whole Difficulty.

Race Hatred at the Bottom of the
Whole Difficulty.
The cause of the trouble in the Bal
kans is the rooted aversion of Chris
tian people to be ruled by a race whose
sway has been described, in the same
terms which were applied to King
Bomba, as the "negation of God"
For generations they have cher
ished the hope that one or other of the
Great Powers would come to their aid.
The Great Powers have al
ways felt that in any breakup of
Turkey passions and ambitions would
be aroused which would bring on that
most terrible of all scourges, a great
European war, and therefore have dis
couraged any movement and turned
on the water whenever there was any
smoke to be seen. But -. in striving
to perpetuate the statu quo in the
Balkans the Powers have been flying
in the face of fate. In Macedonia
or on its confines are found Albanians,
Greeks, Roumanians, Montenegrins.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-30

May county, and with abosrt half the
original tract fit for cultivation
Through the Hirsch fund Woodbine
immigrants were able to get a home
and land on terms which would have
been impossible under ordinary cir
cumstances- The trustees of the fund
had houses and other buildings put
up and then decided them, together
with some land, over to any colonists
who wanted a home and could make
a cash payment of 800. The trustees
took a mortgage on the property for
the balance, and monthly payments
of from SIS to So were required.
They offer practically the same
terms to the colonists still but are, of
course, a little more particular about
the details than they were then. Most
of the houses are two-story frame
structures, containing from five to ten
rooms and furnished with many mod
ern improvements.
The people of the place are divided