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p%? •wlv-''-'' &&£•••• ai if A# ttHang «P VOL. 6, No. 8. MNMNTY NVMtT HAHCES KI.A(JRAXT VIOLATION OK Kit UTS IN IDAHO. Only Hrlt'f S.viio|»nIm of Mnjnrity lie port i-nn lit* Si'cureil—Tli«* Minority Report luiruoM tlie Military Au thorities! with Rxer«iNiiiK' Iiu'xoiim nble A lit ra I'oncr—Tlint I In* Lhw wi»n Violated Ity tlie tiovern or of I tin tin ami fJenernl lerrimn. The majority and minority reports of the committee appointed to investi gate the'('oner d'Alene outrage have been filed. We have bene unable to se cure but a brief synopsis of the major ity report by reason of their refusal to make the same public until ap proval' by the house military commit tee. It is understood, however, that the majority report maintains that the district had been jn a state of insurrec tion since 1892, and the conditions in IS!)!) culminated in the violent state of insurrection and riot. The Legislature could not have been convened to meet the emergency and the committee holds that "under the circumstances the fjovernor was warranted incalling on the President for troops." "The United States army and its of ficers acted strictly within their in structions of the law. President Mc Kinley and the war department exer cised every precaution to have the mil itary act solely within trie constitution and did not enroach in the distinct sphere of the civil authorities." The minority report as given out by Representatives Lenta, of Ohio, ana Hay, of Virginia, who drafted it, is as follows: "The minority point out that the ev idence taken during the investigation shows that there was absolutely no ri oting in Shoshone county, Idaho, after April 23, 1899: that when the United States troops arrived upon the scene quiet was restored and no resistance was being made to state authorities, who were arresting as rapidly as pos sible those who were suspected of be ing implicated in the crime of April 29, 1899. "It is maintained by the minority that the troops sent to Idaho by the President of the United States contin ued to be under the control of the President, and the military commander could only use the troops to preserve peace and order and prevent resis tance being made by the lawless per sons to the process of the courts and the proper civil authorities of the state. The. President of the United States has Upholding a tyrannical* course of con duct pursued by the Governor of Idaho. "The minority point out five flagrant instances of abuse of power and viola tion of law by General Merriam, the commander of the troops. "1. General Merriam sent on May 3 about 150 troops to the town of Burke and arrested without warrant the en tire male population of that town, con sisting of about 300 persons. It was an outrage upon the liberty of the citi zens which has no parallel in the an nals of this country. "2. General Merriam sent a detach ment of troops into the state of Mon tana for the purpose of arresting fugi tives from Idaho, an inexcusable exer cise of arbitrary power by General Merriam. "3. Lieutenant Lyon, acting under the orders of his superior officer, by threats of violence forced certain citi zens to work in the Tiger-Poorman mine against their will. No such fla grant invasion of the right of the cit izen can be cited in the history of this country. "4. Major Smith suppressed the Mullan Mirror, a newspaper published at Mullan, thus denying free speech and free press. This was a gross vio lation of the law which can not be de fended." In summing up the minority say they "are satisfied from the evidence ad duced before the committee that Gen eral Merriam was wholly mistaken as to his powers and duties that his con duct has resulted in the gravest injur ies to the liberty of the citizen and the rights of individuals. Innocent men have been kept in prison for months without trial and have been finally dis charged without any charges being preferred against them. "At one time or another there were over 1,100 men in the prison at Ward ner, known as the 'Bull Pen.* They were kept there many months. They were not tried. They were not charged with any crime they were held and guarded by the United States troops. It was the duty of General Merriam and of the President of the United States to inquire into the causes and reasons for the detention of so many American citizens. No such inquiry was ever made. Such indiffei'ence is hard to understand and harder to ex plain. "The plea that General Merriam was acting at the request of the Governor of Tdaho and his state representatives Bartlett Sinclair, is not good. Neither the Governor nor Sinclair had the right to violate the law. And General Mer riam knew it, or should have known it "Although the governor of Idaho has for a year and more been governing Shoshone county by martial law, he has never called the legislature togeth er the laws of Idaho provide that a session of the Legislature can be called on twenty days' notice." The minority hold that the President Is not justified in keeping United States soldiers in definitely in Shoshone county at the mere will of one man. when the legis lature, representatives, of the people, could have and ought to fiave been mm- -mgr 1 -Sr- H' ^1 'Ar XAMRS OP WHITE HOUSE LADIES. Only ii Single Mary Found Anionic tlie Wive* of Prenlilenti*. It is an interesting study in nomen clature to run over the names of the presidents' wives. There has been but one Mary—Mary Todd Lincoln. There were two Marthas—Martha Dandridge Washington and Martha Wayles Jeff erson two Abagails—Abigail Powei-s Fillmore and Abagail Smith Adams. Another maiden, possessed of the com mon place name of Smith, became the wife of a president—Margaret Smith, who married Zachary Taylor. There were also two Elizas—Eliza Kartwright Monroe and Eliza McCardle Johnson. There was a second Todd—Dolly Todd Madison. After Dolly, which was perhaps the most fanciful name, sav oring more of a nickname, there were the two rather high-sounding names, Letitia and Lucretia—Letitia Christ ian Tyler and Lucretia Rudolph Gar field. Julia Dent Grant, Lucy Webb Hayes and Louisa Catharine Adams had christian names more modern and less sedate than Jane Appleton Pierce, Hannah Hoes Van Buren, Rachel Don elson Jackson, Sarah Childress Polk and Annie Symmes Harrison. Frances Folsom Cleveland, Caroline Scott Har rison and Ida Saxton McKinley are familiar to all. MAKES MOXEY RAISING CORX. W. S. .Ioiipm of South Dakota Han Cleared Up *70,000 i,y Fannin*. Twenty years on a South Dakota farm and $70,000 to show for it is the experience of W. S. Jones, commonly called "Corn Jones," of Parker. Mr. Jones is naturally an enthusiast on the subject of South Dakota, and tells with much gusto the story of his ojvn suc "ess since leaving Wisconsin in 1869. For a year after leaving his own state he wandered over the Northwest, and finally made up his mind that South eastern Dakota was the most likely place to yield a competence. He re lates his experience as follows: "In the summer of 1870 I took up a claim, built a sod house, put on a dirt roof, and started to break up the prairie. The next summer was very dry, and in the fall the weeds were so high on my dirt oof that when on the roof I could not reach the tops. The fact that these weeds would grow so luxuriantly in so dry and hot a season on a roof with no water, and a fire to cook the under side, impressed me. I came to the onclusion that the soil and climate would produce corn. "As soon as I could get the soil in condition I commenced trying to raise corn. I sent south and got some big horse-tooth seed and planted eighteen acres. It grew luxuriantly, and prom ised a big yield, but frost in the last day of August nipped it in-the. milk, and that season's crop was a, failure. N#t year JLgftt^earlleii »i $ ever had wag thirty-five bushel^ to-the acre, and I have raised as high as eighty bushels. Last year I had three pieces planted to corn. The poorest yielded forty-one, the second fifty-six and the third sixty-six bushels to the acre. This is shelled corn. There is no trouble almost any year in getting from thirty-five to fifty bushels with good farming. I admit that we cannot aise quite such large ears here as in southern Illinois, Missouri and Kan sas, but we can raise a better ear, one which contains more fatty matter than theirs, and will put more fat on a hog. The average length of an ear here will run from seven to twelve inches, and from twelve to sixteen rows of corn. "I have described the ability of this country to raise corn. As corn is the basis of hog raising, where the one is successful the other is likely to be. Now this country has particular ad vantages for the raising of hogs. In the first place, the corn is more fatten ing and can be raised very cheaply, at about 8 cents per bushel. The climate is especially healthy for hogs, and the meat of a very fine quality. Our pork always sells at the top notch. The farmers who have gone into corn and hog raising with energy and intelli gence have made money rapidly. Being the first man in this part of the coun try to advocate this plan, I have gone by the name of 'Corn Jones' for years, and in the early days was the butt of any amount of ridicule. But I will say my success was mainly due to corn and hog raising. I came here twenty eight years ago with a team and wagon and $60 in money. Today I am rated as worth $70,000."—Ex. ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE. Sir William McCormac is in the unique position of being the greatest shotwound specialist in the world, but he has not allowed his interest in this special subject to interfere with his progress in general surgery, as witness his marvelously successful though dar ing treatment of the Prince of Wales' knee accident, a treatment which re sulted In a complete cure—a rare result as regards this type of accident. Sir Robert Biddulph, who will relin quish the governorship of Gibrantar to be taken over by Sir George White, is a British general who has achieved a great reputation as an administrator, but who has not seen much fighting. He was appointed to the command of "The Rock" in 1893. He has been in spector general and director of military education—high administrative posts which he has filled with every satisfac tiOn. fc,, General Sir Arthur Power Palmer, who has been appointed commander-in chief in India in succession to the late Sir William Lockhart, has been con nected with the Indian army since 1857, and served in the Indian mutiny with Hodgson's horse. After a distinguished fighting career he commahded the Chin ^Jhills expedition of 18?2-'93, and was latterly o^the staff In coqraufcndt .of the j--'m tm '^\/«Sr A 1 ST. LMJIS MffKME HOMESTEAD A I) IIASSELTOX PALE IXTO IXSIGXIFICAXCE. Street Car Men From a Pleiiie Murdered l»y Kutnruinn Home Cruelly Sliot and I'oHne of Deputy SlierlffN—DeliH' StroiiK Letter—Says No Strike In Ever Loaf—The Lex »on In Worth the Cost. The St. Louis street car strike is still on and will be, perhaps, for some time, as the St. Louis Transit Co. have pos itively refused to accept any proposi tion for arbitration, whatever. Since then the St. Louis Central Labor Union has determined to fight the street car comoany to the bitter end, and adopt ed the following proposition for the election of a committee of 50 to form immediate organization and proceed to raise a fund of at least $100,000 to carry on the strike until it is won, the fund to be raised by an appeal to organ ized labor throughout the world, by personal appeals to every kind of or ganized bodies in St. Louis, and by such other means as may be deemed proper, closing with an appeal to the people of St. Louis to refrain from riding on the Transit cars, and to or ganizations, societies and associations of every kind in St. Louis, in sympathy with the movement, to make the street railway strike a special order of bus iness at all their meetings, and to ap point committees to raise funds and continue to maintain an iron-clad boy cott until the victory is won. Mr. E. V. Debs was requested to come to St. Louis, but on account of ill ness was unable to do so. He however sent a very strong letter, which sums up the situation in a true light. The following from his letter will not be without interest: "The turbulance incident to the St. Louis strike has excited the usual flow of capitalistic comment. Of course they claim that the strikers are respon sible for all the trouble. It is so easy for people who live out of the labor of others to talk about law and order. If only they were compelled to run a street car through crowded streets for nine or ten weary hours, for a paltry wage, they would not wonder why hon est and peaceable men are driven to extremities, in which fine points of law as to what their conduct should be, is simply a mockery. As a matter of fact, they are not striking for their rights, but against tyranny and ex ploitation, and as the struggle involves not only their means of living but their very lives, and the lives of their wives and babies, it would be strange indeed, and far more to their discredit, than ac^s lof yiolence incident to av strike,•„ degradation. "The St. Louis strike is an impor tant battle in-the great warfare for the liberation of the working class from the oppression and robbery of capital ism. Whatever may be the outcome, it will be a victory for labor, for no strike is ever lost. "I do not doubt this strike has open ed the eyes of many of the working class to the power of capitalism in such crisis. All departments of govern ment are subjected to the orders of the class which owns the means of produc tion. Only the capitalistic class can secure the issuance of injunctions, call into action the posse comitates, swear in deputy sheriffs, call out the militia, and command the federal troops to commit the crowning acts of despot ism. The working class have only to submit, or to be either jailed or shot down. But, surely, such object lessons are not in vain. The Transit company in its blind cupidity, is hastening its own doom. Collective ownership is the lesson taught, and the demand for it will spring spontaneously from such a situation. "I wish to tender my profound sym pathy to President Mahon in this try ing hour. I know him well, and there is not a more able nor more courag eous leader of the working class.: I have seen him tried, and he has proven himself worthy of the confidence and esteem of all men. Under his leader ship the men at St. Louis have made and are making a brave fight, and most heartily do I wish that complete victory will crown their struggle. The Central Labor Uilion, and the organ ized workers of St. Louis generally, can not be too highly commended for their loyal support of the strike. They have given to the country an exhibi tion of devotion to the' cause of labor worthy of universal emulation. "Mrs. Debs, who is writing this for me,'and all our family, unite in the earnest wish that victory may come to the striking comrades. "Yours fraternally, "EUGENE V. DEBS." The crowning dastardly act of the strike occurred last Sunday evening, when a body of street car men were returning from a picnic, and were peaceably marching homeward, when they reached a point opposite a tem porary barracks in which were a pos^e of deputies. Here they were attacked by a band of deputies there stationed and several of the union men were be ing roughly handled when a sergeant dropped' his pistol, causing its dis charge. It served as a signal to the posse,! and from the guns of those face to face with the strikers and from the doors, and even the second-story windows of the barracks a deadly volley was poured Into the ranks of the union men killing two outright, fatally .wounding two and inflicting dangerous injuries Upon three others, from the effects of which they may die. A dozen or more, werf also wounded, but fearing great-? er slaughter ran.from the scene before. the details of their injuries could b®Jin~*an 'tm- _JL !, W^ .... H..C 9feW« Vd^. a '!r-£-«« -i a jf se 4 DULUTH AND SUPERIOR, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1900. TRUNKS OLD AND NEW. Flr»t One Made in TIiIn Country—Im provement liy Woman. "Yes, I've been sixty-three years manufacturing trunks in New York city," said a veteran in the trade. "That's a long time, but I never real ize it until I look at this article," and he gently pulled an oilcloth covering off a small, dark box, which/ when ta ken out into the light, revealed what was acknowledged at the time of its manufacture to be the finest trunk in New York city. It looked like a veri table antique, the shriveled little ob ject omitting a niusty odor, which for the moment carried one away to the New York of sixty-three years ago. "I keep it always^ here with me," its owner said, stroking it thoughtfully and almost fondly—"just to watch the evolution of the trunk in my own fac tory." The old-fashioned trunk is covered with leather four times as thick as the article now commonly used to cover the wooden frame. It is strapped round and round with iron bands fastened with big, black-headed nails, and inside the two trays, neatly papered,, have bot toms of latticed tape. The trunk fits easily in one half the trunks of mod ern make surrounding it. The little trunk stood beside the la test sent out by one of the leading fac tories in New York—the "bureau" trunk, so called because of its resem blance when opened to that piece of furniture. The trays are in the form of drawers of graduated depths, an upper one sufficiently deep to contain large hats. The top tray, however, which turns up against the lid in the ordinary way, has various small com partments, and the inside of the lid is similarly equipped on a narrower scale. When this trunk first came out of the factory a year ago a Chicago wom an purchased one, and asked for per mission to take out a patent on a pro posed improvement, which was grant ed her. She fitted the fall of the top tray, which, when dropped on its hinges, exteded a few inches over the tiers of drawers or trays below, as a writing table, and pigeon-holed the lid of the trunk for letters, writing ma terial, etc., until it resembled the face of a writing desk. She received the patent and presented trunks to vari ous friends, who find them useful as traveling secretaries and trunks com bined, and, although one of the larg est trunks manufactured, it weighs only a little over fifty pounds. The trunk is covered with the new canvas, which is almost as durable as leather, and inside it is a model of neatness and strength in its fine linen linings and fittings. "All our finest leather for trunks comes from England," said the manu facturer of trunks, "because the Am erican is in too great, a hurry to make ood leath^^Qulck chemlcal jirocesseaj As, a consequence,? America produces! no such sole leather as England, where the old methods of tanning are still employed. In fact, canvas, which is now especially manufactured for the purpose and paited and treated until it is as strong or stronger than the split leather used on trunks, is taking the place of leather for reasons of economy and saving of weight. The ideal trunk today weighs from forty eight to sixty pounds. It must be strong and it must be light. We, have tried aluminum, but it becomes in dented if not made so thick that it is too heavy and too expensive at its present market price. The frame for an average trunk of this metal cost $16."—New York Evening Post. STUMP SPEAKERS' PRICES. Pay, a Dishonor In 1872. Now a Reg ular Campaign Expense. 'Campaign orators in the service of the national committees are well paid for their work. This is not generally understood, and it was not the case, until comparatively recent years. In the earlier days they usually rendered volunteer service. So universal was the. custom that discredit attached in the public mind to a political speaker who received compensation. In the cam paign of 1872 Carl Schurz, then a sen ator from Missouri, was charged with having been paid $200 a speech for his advocacy of the election of Horace Greeley. The charge made something o£ a scandal at the time, and although Schurz denied the payment of this specific sum, he was never able wholly to clear himself of the taint which was supposed to attach to receiving any pay whatever. He had a bitter contro versy with Roscoe Conkling in the sen ate about it, during' which Conkling, in his supercilious way, expressed his con tempt of the practice of which he thought Schurz had been guilty. Now adays campaign speaking has become a matter of regular employment, al though, of course, payment is by no 'means universal, and the most con spicuous orators—especially those who hold a high place in the party—render volunteer service, and will accept noth ing beyond their traveling and hotel expenses.. The men in charge of a presidential campaign prefer to pay on the spot for what they get. This is f«r better than to leave obligations out standing to be satisfied in the distri bution of offices after the election. "The ordinary campaign speaker re ceives $50 a speech and his expenses. It is said that in the campaign of 1896 one very effective and brilliant gold-. Democratic orator was paid $300 a speech by the Republican national com mittee. This represents the high water mark in payments iof this kind. In some cases those who do not receive a stipulated price ^expect 'honorariums,' which really amount to the same thing, and which sometimes reach high fig ures. The day of volunteer work for national" committees seems to have passed. The men. employed at head luartera of any party are paid-as reg ularljr and generally as If they were otlw MACHINE IS BROKEN WILCIJTS, GETTY, COOK, ET AL. ARE CLEARLY OUTDONE. One LiiMt Desperate Effort Wax Made to Save Their Bacon, Hut With out Avail Outnumbered in Delegates, They Brasenly Endea vor to Thwart the Will of the Majority. "Desperate deeds require desperate chances." This seemed to be the spirit that prompted Chairman A. P. Cook, of the late St. Louis County Republi can committee to endeavor to thwart the will of the majority of the dele gates, in the election of a chairman of the Republican county convention on Thursday. Beaten back in every fray the old machine made one last desperate chance to keep control of the organi zation. Every aspirant for a county office was sacrificed in order that the Wilcuts, Getty, Cook gang might still hold their power. Their idea was to name the chairman of the convention, so that they could name the delegates to the state convention and the next county committee, and thus keep con trol of the organization. The names of Senator Hawkins and E. L. Millar were presented for chairman of the conven tion. The former by the machine, and the later by the anti-machine element. A standing vote was taken, and it was clear to any observer that Mr. Millar secured the greater number of votes, but without even announcing the re sult of his count Chairman Cook de clared Senator Hawkins elected. There was an immediate uproar. Delegates arose in their chairs, yelled, hissed and uttered other sounds of disaproval It was really an exciting time. All past Populist records for noise and com motion were broken. It was sometime before quiet was restored, and after a lengthy discus sion a ballot was taken and Mr. Millar declared elected by a vote of 87 to 70. All through the hall delegates and visitors gathered in little knots and discussed Mr. Cook's ruling. All seemed of the opinion that Mr. Cook has forever surrendered all chances for any further consideration whatever from the people of St. Louis county. His integrity is questioned. He sac rificed his reputation to save the ma chine, of which he has been a willing cog, from absolute destruction. There may be many underhanded, dishonest schemes in politics, but the people are honest, and will not for a minute tolerate a barefaced, dishonest action if they know it. The machine, which has been so well oiled for_ the past four years, is at last broken. The few persons who constituted it will iji a very short time Came,^ and few peopie7wiil- regret it! But what is- the difference if they are gone? A new machine is already at work, and with the same power and influence will be as tyrannical and just as corrupt as the old one. All machine-ruled conventions teach one lesson at least. They furnish posi tive proof to the voters that there is something radically wrong in our sys tem of nominating candidates for of fice. SO ANXIOUS TO MEET HIM. Appeal Touched the Heart of the Railway Station Gateman. A few minutes before the afternoon train from New York got into the Pennesylvania station the other day a beautiful young creature in a new spring suit wafted herself over to the man stationed at the exit gate and proceeded to hypnotize him. "Will you please let me through^" she said appealingly. "Can't do it, miss, it's against the rules," said the man at the gate. "But I do so want to meet him when he gets off," said the beauteous .young thing, looking into the. man's face searchingly with her imploring violet eyes. "And he will be so disappointed if I am not right at the gate to meet him when 'the train gets in." The man at the gate looked and hesitated. "Please," said the loving young crea ture, rustling her silk skirts nervously, and seeming to hang on the gateman's nod. "Well, maybe I can take a chance," said the gateman, and he pulled the gate open and admitted her. "S'pose s"he's only been married a short time," reflected the gateman, "and her husband's coming back after being away for the first time after they were spliced, and she wants to hand him out the big hug before he's more'n landed, from the car steps. Well, I guess we all have it that bad, once in our lives anyway," and he looked thoughtfully down the siding where the radiant young creature stood impatiently stamping her foot. The train pulled in a couple of min utes after. The young woman ran alongside the baggage car and the baggagemaster handed her out a mis erable little specimen of a stuck-up, hideous-muzzled pug dog, which she took In her arms and loaded down with caresses. As she passed out of the exit gate with the pug in her arms, she bestowed a bewitching smile on the gateman. "And I was come-on enough to pass her through, and to weave pipe tran ces about the reason she wanted to get through," said the gateman disgusted ly to the station cop. Say I don't be long here. I ought to Quit."—Wash ington Post. Secretary Hay figures as a leading American man of letters In a recently published* London interview with the English poet Swinburne,, in which Mr. Swinburne speaks of' £im/a* having great axltinality in his. verse ahd V' *w Pi ^^*\A For the "UNION LABEL"? J. J. Cullen... Strictly Union-made. Oft i'herjB "is REMEMBER THE OLD STAND Try our latest production of Clear Havana Cigars.: «v: 1 JLL .a "•1 ,r If so we have a splendid Spring line of Suits, everyone bearing the Union Label, at $8, $10, $12, $13.50. Some handsome patterns at $18/ $20 and $2S. SPRING OVERCOATS, with Un ion Label, at $8, $10, $12, $15. UNION LABEL HATS, at $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, All the latest Spring blocks REMEMBER, we guarantee each and every article bought of us, so you run no risk whatever, CHA5. W. ERICSON, THE CLOTHIER. 219 WEST SUPERIOR ST. 206 WEST MICHIGAN STREET. Made in three sizes. Manufactured by Store open Saturday Evenings. WHOLESALE CIGARS. Smoke Epicure Cigars. 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