Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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Both ^Editors Will Recover.
McKinney, Texas, March 7.—
These,fire two very much suipriseu
newspaper men1 in McKinney.
To-day’s, mail brought to the edi-
itdr of the Gazette a money order
for $2\4S which the quill pusher
can hot.account for.. There is no
statement with the remittance to
show, what it is for . and the
booked against the remitter.
The
show, what it is for and the re--
cipient is unable to find anything
1 against the remitter.
of ttib McKinley
Democrat received a letter by the
same mail with the statement that
the author was indebted to that
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Init n<
up. .n
laws,
and
er ini
the n
large
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ith in advance ot the portions
of the city outside of the influence
of the artesian water.
On streets not travelled enough
to kill the grass the sod just above
the mains is as it will be in April Gallagher took the
elsewhere. Peach and phltn treeS --
On<
' i, late e
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Profit of trust every year (based
on average of- 1 cent a pound,
$24,000,000.
■Coffee.—Total output ci. coffee,
650,000,000 pounds; amount con-
trolled by Coffee Trust (compris-
ing the Arbuckle company of
.■_ j New York, the McLatfghlin mills
aawrtise *1 Chicago, and the Woolson Spice
a ve I*—before the latter com-
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' In the Kansas house the ex-Con-
federate franchise bill was defeated
by a vote of 71 to 37—13 short of
« the necessary two-thirds. >
Ek-President Harrison is said to
be a greater advocate than ever be-
fore' of the great doctrine of pro-
tection to the infant industry.
Hanna, the dispatchs say, smiled
when informed that he would be
appointed senator. Now,.the ques-
tion is, did he ask' Bushnell and
.Foraker’to have a smile with him.
Until this question is answered the
situation in the Buekeye State will
not be known to outsiders.
1 it was explained that Dt. Ruiz,
the distinguished and highly edu-
cated American physician, was
murdered according; to the latest
to spec
cial fa
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carefu
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vested
purpot
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of th*
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and p
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of the
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peculiar blow. ' ■
The government of Japan has
decided to wdopt the gold standard
at a rhtio of 32 1-2 to 1. The
smallest gold piece will be of the
value of five yin. The silver ven
will graually be withdrawn.
new sytem will go into operation
‘1
•in. the interior, and, benefittipg
.by the rains from the Caribbean
sea, the colonists made a crop
double that of last year. Their
exports will? reach One million
pounds. United States Minister
Baker, who supplied the state de-
nartment^frith the above figures,
□as much to say in his report of
the condition of the American col-
ony.
He has received hundreds Of
lettefs from persons in the United
StHtFtfvwhn hfl-VR hfifln attracted by
the stories of the fortunes to be, court, the" federal bench and in
HI emmi-i officers
grating. As the best means of
answering questions fronf these
people Mr. Baker submits a state-
ment from one of the leading col-
onists, giving a fair iffba of the
wants of the community, the pros-
pects for the future and some gen-
eral information as to coffee grow-
ing. One point is emphatically
stated t' ~ • *■• "* **
brattotr’ofdHe tcif coffiniandnieiits. j hRcwse Of the cotantetH,-there fa fe
room in the business for people
life without money-—Washington Cor.
id- in Chicago Ipter-Ocean. .
Owing to many unreasonable
complaints a postoffice officikl'Eas
found it neccessary to gravely an-
nounce ithat the United States
fa indifferent to lovers and that
delayed letters are not withheld
out of malice.
A^his training quarters Corbett
is said to have discovered a new
blow—a cross between a hook find expired, not acted
an undercut, and whichJie can eas-
ily land. When he faces the Au- more wil
te judiciary com-
the bill favor-
Wat
dent J
the off
nation
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Remarkable far What It Has
AceompHah.
Washington, March 4.—The
54th congress, which expires at
noon today, will be held remarka-
lor whart it has
1. In the num-
ber of bills and" resolutions intro-
duced it fa a record breaker.' In
iy, private secretary to the sec- the house alone over 10,400 bills
ityry ottho trenunry,"and thfa {51 and H,loo reeolirtiene were tateo-
-t--11 ' duced and referred to various
committees. Only a fraction of .
these passed the house and fewer
stiff became laws.
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The principal business of the
congress, aside from the passage
of the arpropriation bills, was ■-
limited to the first session, the net
’ ^Mresults of which were the enact-
> 0 ment into law of the bills creating
' the commission to determine the
OENEKAL DEFICIENCY BILL.
March 4.—The
1 appropriation
iJiilte, the general deficiency, has r
been repotted to tljewuate. The ,7' ’
senate committee adbed to it- .
_ $l,8»2,’000, being made up prind- .,
, pally rtf claims against the gov- —
_a ernment. The bill now carries a
total of $10,334,939.
CONSULTED WEBSTER.
What Doe* Drug Stora Hrant l> What la
Agitating the Mind.
Waco, Texas, March 6.—Judge
J. N. Gallagher s|«nt the entire
day in the county court hearing
the habeas cbfpiis pro'<-tfedings Ih
which J. B. Daniel ls the relator.
The courtroom was crowded with
retailers personally interested in
the result of the hearing. A feat-
ure of the case was the arguments
on the meaning of the teym “drug
store.” Dictionaries were con- .
suited without number, and,, in no
case ffas the, term found either ah v.
a hyphenated word or as two
words coming together, and some
of the lawyers argued that the
term, “drug store!’ had no mean-
ing-* The law exempts the “keeper
of a drug store” from;its opera-"'
tion and Idaves that class of- trades-
n»nn frafi tn fill MytttBg tfay ___
have in stock onjSunday as well as
on btfier^Iays.’ County "Attorney'”
'Thomas stood up to hfa first prop-
. , ‘ "*; a keejier of a ,drug
it warms the. soil and forces vege- store meant a druggist, and that
law was to permit a druggfat to
blossoms and showing young fruit.
The- gardeners are discussing
methods of applying water from the
hot. wells to practical use in pro-
moting early vegetable*. •. •
Tbe Galveston city council has
pasfaxl a curfew ordinance.
to Kansas but it seems not. Other- PRESIDENTIAL PATRONAGE.
■■■1 eT® a Li & vta
Federal Ofllces Over Which Civil S0rvie«
Has Net Bwajr*
Washington, March 4.—Presi-
dent McKinley hasimaiiy lucrative
offices to bestow upon the -men
First in importance are the three
embassies—Great Britain, France
and Germany—with their salaries
of $17,500 per annum; the Mexi-
U-AM IIIIOOIUU, l'“J luM
and the Italian embassy; fixed at
probably be substituted- for the $12,IKK). Equal to thie latter in,
salary, though slightly Jess in
diplomatic standing/are. Die 1BB7“
sions tw-Austro Hungary, Brazil,
China, Japan and Spain. ♦ "■ ~
' There are eight nice missions,
with salaries of $10,0Q0 per annum,
'?> Argentine, Belgium,
Chili, Columbia, Guatemala,
dlohduras, Niearauga, Costa Rica
Salvador, Peru and Turkey. At
$7500 per annum are .rated the
mikEions to Denmark,' ~ IlaAaii,
Corea, the Netherlands, Paraguay
and Praguay, Portugal,—Sweden
and Norway, Switzerland and Ven-
ezuela, nine in all. One salary is
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money
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the tn
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which,
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K a pfen
presen
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their 1
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now desired to pay the bill 'with-
interest at 8 percent tor ten years.
Artesian Vegetation.
Waco, March 8.—The effect of
„v me pi/ov water from the hot wells oh vege-
that, notwithstanding the ?oh;pw ,m,l go iiimi of these 6ti 0.00 tation is noticeable on some of the-
nf the cirtonfatHr there is Sr - -jbT^treets faiheath which the mains of
the waterworks are laid, and when-
ever the mains pass beneath gar-
dens the result is striking. The
•artesian-water is emitted at a, temp-..
erature of IQ1 degrees Fahrenheit.
It falls about 10 degrees after get-
' 1 that
weTls, but at 93 degrees in the pipes osition, that
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disposal of Mr. McKinley during tation forward from two weeks to a the intention 6f the framers of the
law was to permit a druggfat to
sell drugs on Sunday, but to bring
him under the operation of the
law as to all other lines of goods x
he might have in stock. Judge
-----— r„M_ --J case under ad-. j
visement and told the lawyers that - 4
having rootg In contact with the he wOuld furnish a written uplnlon
city water mains are shedding their -aS soon as he had time to write It
' ' " * out
A movement fa on foot to de-
crease the city limits of Wa
charter amendment by som
near 1,000 acres. The prese
i limits include a large acrei
■ _ , *
;y with Great Britain has not
tieen considered in committee.
Nicaraguan canal v bill,
debated for several
on the point of final
' passage'with a comfortable majori- , .
—.. ---- - ty in frontTifit when the protest
----- When the of the minister representing the
Munich, j 8Upre.n)e zfiitjrt declared in the Greater Central American Jiepub-
Halifax, j state bank cages that the power of ‘lies was received.
iiu.f'ou.u, .uoouo, jionwiuiiu,; congress to tax was
Montreal, Nottingham, Ottawa, ! destroy, it delegated
L‘i Washington,
iowuvvuisuxi 1 za*avz«->va I r ’
ft hands the means 4p great
to» I hills, the general <
Sidney, Toronto, Victorio, Winni-1 in
peg, Yarmouth, Florence, Genoa,
Leghorn, Messina, Milan, Naples,
Rome, Nagasaki Mexico, Nogales,
Ntievo, Laredo, Passo del Norte,
Vbra Cruz, Amsterdam, Rotter-
dam, Callao, St. Petersburg, Apia,
" intiago de . Cuba,
Stockholm, Basel,
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, controller of the treasury, register
. of the treasury, controller of the
> currency, commissioner of internal
revenue, general superintendent of
life-saving service, commissioner
of nfkrigation, director of the
mint, supervising surgeon general boon today, will be I
of Marine hospital, supervising hie principally xfor
inspector, generi^of steam vessels, failed to accomplish,
commissioner general of immigra-
tion, superintendent of coast sur-
vey, private secretary to the “*
TW7;— —*
not nearly, all.
INGALLS ON,TRUSTS. -
The TUIiUla Tbey Must Go-
The People Already Have The Powar.
“ A New York paper contains a
letter from ex Senator Ingalls on
“Trusts,” in which he says:
“The exasperations against,
trusts'1 and monopolies does not'
arise from hostility to capital, ha- commi8ei6n to detormine the '
eviUble eir«l »( H.«e wmbta- »“& ST
t inns wniHiwr int-pniied or not. - •-_____
to1 restrain com^titio^ impair the ’
dignity of lalior, ifestroy the inde-i(T . 'a- nZwk,1
f residence jn a territo^ nec-
> of the fe e^arj, for a tlivorce_
*• noy.., I - - . ' the National Society of the Daugb-
and Egypt, wherA^® -te^-eftbe RevwhrtW defining the
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voluntarily. They will protest, at th^)n and 8ul^tuting 9ai££ /
consular SERVICE. Th?Th«v to Cn‘te<l States marshals
"The fixed salaries of the more wip denounce all inquiry’as fai- and district attorneys. ; |
imi>ortant consuls generally aver-1 quitous, inquisitorial and inspired ' , the senate’s work.
. " V»-v t~---—;—r ~-J In the senate Cuban resolutions 1
fees retained by the incumbent to will not deceive the people. They have been introduced and pressed . J
an unknown amount. ’want the truth. Jhe object efljor action, but nothing has been
Some of the most^ attractive of Lexow committees ‘is to ^lisdoSel accompiished? ? ..JB
. ----- .— [■ A treaty with Japah has l>ee_n M
rauoi-rjwpcF-,—^-•~xTtne. <TW'sptracies:'tfr^ frnidiy^rRHtinrlmte --Hrunfldiate-^
ITSthTGuiF^ery "year;* at Ar-! ■
JrnHi ^nlthn.a£wa’ G^^a, Havana, Shanghai, IOptejon"w'iii;do“th,e~rMfi
pront 01 tne,.. . Lyons. Marseilles -Bar-1
Give Texas top of column,
wise the state could not have pro-
duced such men as John J. Ingalls
and Mary Ellen Lease The Kan-
sas legislature is populist by, a big
majority,' and of course when the
Mosaic law is brought Up for adop-
tion it will be amended so as to be who helped to elect hiih.
in accord with the Ocalla demands 7’-—■*-
and the Omaha platfonij'. ’ The
original draft of the command-
ments which Moses threw down
and bfbke Wheifi'Wsa^ the people JUkii mlbldOn, piiylug thdSkme tVage,
worshipping the golden calf will —->*»--tx_ij —2.—j .
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latex addition on the supposition
that it was more favorable to-silver.
It will be a rare opportunity for
Kansan pops.—Dallas Record.
The Profits of Three Trusts.
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The New York Journal presents namely,
these ’ suggestive figures oq the
profits of three trusts:
Coal.—Total amountmined, 53,-
750,000 tons; amount mined by the
trust,'43,000,000 tons; Profit of
trust every year (estifiiated at $1 55
a tun, the difference between what,
---------- the-trust pays for it and. the price
' . ' improved methods ot the Spanish afrwhich it sells it, the only ex- ___„
_—authorities. UL Cubai Which expla- yf txauapor-. $ti.jOUr that of the minister to j1*31
nation was perfectly satisfactory to tation) $71,(150^090. Greece and Servia. Seven places
Sugar—Total yearly output dT* pay $5000 per annum, Bolivia, | , hkx-*
refined sugar, 3;000,000,000 San, Dimingo, Equador, Hayti, many, ‘(>r
r^..n,U. »mnnnt rim«1n«wl bv thn P^rCiuS „n,l „h„2 .Hre nOTCompatible.
we aw represented by~an-agent)
and consul general in the same)
[>erson. every step. Ttfey will stand
more 1 wjH denounce all inquiry
j. * aver- k..:;—n I-h---—— — —t----
age about $5QoO, with unofficial' by partisan malignity. ; But this
fattu Vntuin‘o/1 hv ♦ ho- innnmluint fo L___4. J___pQQplo
H. The object
feome of the niobt Httroi’tiv© of! lx?xow coniniittccs *is to ______
the consular places, from thepomt^be existence and the methods of I
“7.V’At ii’’ n't------xivtry-wmirCT piiwr. wiige.-.^,(|leralfon the clause <7the treaty
TunstallySheffield, I alermo. KSff-; and strangle competition. Public of commerce and navigation two ” T
! orvxxro f^cotru l~Ia«’uvwu tthan/whai I !_ • cl „ CHF ’ '
- -----j ------ rmst pvorv \™r 111 Air riavemev-1 j,. _*ons, Marseilles, Bar- ‘ ,lThe problem fa not insolvable; The general treaty af arbritra-
* is the way great enterprises are ‘ f ., / 1)0Und 'nen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, h™nk- the power of the people to sup- tion with Great Britain, after be-
bttilt up, and it is the way to put 1 1 ’ B,u*,,Myg» Leipsic, Belfast, press injurious trusts and monopi- ling fruitlessly considered for two .
Texas before the eyes of the world. ‘ ’• -1--11----------—— x ienna, .Calcutta,-_Glasgow; Hong i;e8. j8 ani^ile already. The states weeks, went over mjtil the next
■ ~ ' 1 Nicarngua’s American Colony. • ThTddeTSficld, 1 luvnu<r- “cafToutTiiw them ds pdlflll" ttdenJee, * session,. The Alaskan boundary -
Mr. Aldrich, oi Illinois, has in-1 The Nicaraguan coffee cron for f ^yres> “rague, Trieste, Antwerp* {.and through the courts, forfeit treaty with Great Britain has not
ational house a I lg9(._? ow.^m08t compiete, was ^russefa Ghent, Liege, Para Rio their powers, annul their fran- oven .
not a full one owimr to drought iftant2?.’ ' alyiaraiso, Amoy, Can- chises and declare them against The
in the west. The quality has alsb T,ente'fo Colon, BarraqpuiUa, public policy and void in 'accord- which was
suffered in a slight degree The La“a"‘a’. Ja n^’gn™’ anco wlth th« precedents of-many weeks, was
planting of young frees barf, gone \ v'u r'l, ° 1/ \ ' centunes. -■ , pussag
right along from year to year, so .^lenne, Aix le t.hap|>elleA Anna-. “But the nation can wield a ; ty in
that, with a good season and full
crop, Nicaragua would this ^ear
the‘late administration,
however, is stiff dead.
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.. ._ Tfa- 'Riirb^peau powers have cbine
together in a demand that Greece
keep out of Crete. A short time ago
these same powers were talking of
sending a new. map of Europe to
t. the engraver, with Turkey blotted
ptt—- out. Now they seem to be siding
with the barbarous Turk against
, the Christian Greek.
The movement to -----*“1comnanv
w; au4 hcwnatch^a l^rces
way to advertise Texas. nn er s , ^)Uc^|e>8 figUre8 of onp cent
*T”- • dve Texas top of column, j $4950,000. profit of lno. .
• iohowed by. reaming ma r t trU8t every year ttt Mr. Havemey- Chemni
bfolt upland 8kfa the way to put; 3 ce°ts a P°und’f fort,’Hamburg,' Leipsic,’ Be If ast,) prZss injuriutfa truata’and monupi-
Texas before the eyes of the world. I \ I..... J-L.------------— ienna, Calcutta,- Glasgow, Hong ije8 a j8 anmld already.
1 bb—— 1 • 1 Nicaragua’s Anierican Colony. ! . Huddersfield, Du^uuus Cft^ outlatV them is public OMUUUh
Mr. Aldrich, oi Illinois,,has in- The Nicaravuan coffee cron fori^ptwerp»..and through the courte, forfoil
■ trodrrced in the national house a |
bill to prohibit the transmission by
, telegraph or mail detailed reports
of prize fights; the bill being aimed
to prevent the broadcast dissemina-
tion of the “sickentfag details and
demoralizing-preliminaries of such
exhibitions of brute -force as the
' Corbett-Fstzsimmons bout, March. have pr^dS“fuiry "five" million
3 rS°U ^orse’| pbunds more coffee than ever be-
who .advocated the bill, as a pro- | ■
ie??^n .t?.JheyjOUt? f The Matagolpa region, in which
, said, he hoped. those two brutes located- the, American colony, is
would kill each other. Gen. Gros- _ 1 1----«2__
« venqr said he might favor prize,
fights, if he lived in a state that had
nothing e^se to recommend it. Mr.
Dockery, while opposed to prize
fighting, under any conditions, said,
the adbption of the - proposed law
' . would'establish a press censorship
and would necessitate the estate
lishmegt of a press bureau, for
— .... which reason he opposed the prop-
osition.\ In the meantime the Ne-
vada* legislators, acting evidently
- on the idea that.jt is as well to be
hung for stealing a horse" as a
sheep, are discussing a bill offering maj0 jn coffee growing and desire
a gorgeous belt of Nevada silver to to learn the facts before emmi-
the victor in the great fugging
match. . The great state of Texas,
. ’ on the other hand is congratulat-
ing herself that Gen. Grosvenor’s
remarks can not be applied to’Her.
. This Happened In Kansas.
' Representative Walters this week
introduced a bill in the Kansas
providing for the incorp-
into the laws of the state. It
is entitled atf“ ‘act to give stati
tory force to the, ten com mam.
menteir---The- bill etrts. off like
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■j. ‘^Whereas, The men of the pres-
, ent generation have become doubt-
’ • ors and scoffers; and
B / “Whereas, They have strayed
from thf religion ef their fathers;
and - .
“Whereas, They no longer live
.in the fear of God; and
“Whereas,. Having no fear of
—punishment beyond .the grave, they
wantonly violate thelaw given to
the world from Moupt Sinrfl;
“Therefore, Be it enacted by th
legislature of the state of Kansas:”
' . Then follow the ten command-
ments, each being a section of the
• proposed law. Th, ’ '
mittee will report
l II wia crenerallv
UI1JI7U VV HI VUV lUOt.
“The problem fa not resolvable;
i>erg, Bremen, -Breslau, Cologne, • mightier weapon still
Dresden, Kehl, Mayence, Munich,1 ——- -■—*■' •’—
Sonneberg, Stuttgart, ” ”*
Kingston, Leeds, Melbourne,, congress to tax was the jiower' to,
Montreal, Nottingham, ' Ottawa, j destroy, it delegated a formidable j
SmgaiJore^Southampton, Swansea, Itveapon to discontent, and placed
Sidney, Toronto, Victorio, Winni-tin every n 'L''
jj>eg, Yarmouth, Florence, Genoa, j cancel his
Rome, Nagasaki Mexico, Nogales,
Nuevo, Laredo, Basso, del Norte,
Vera Cruz, Amsterdam, Rotter-
dam, Callao, St. Petersburg, Apia,
Matanzas, Santiago . de Cuba,
Gothenberg, Stockholm, Basel,
Sri Gall, Zurich, Constantinople^
Sffiyrna and Maracaibo.
LIFE APPOINTMENTS.
' McKinley also has a number of
life appointments at his disposal,
including plaae* on the. supreme
the aripy and navy, which class of
.j are allowed to retire bn
full pay. ,. - • ' . . . . . .
rsz ™
by aspiring candidate^ than the
postal service. There are just.70,-
612 postoffic^s in the country, and
most of thbse change hands with
evehgi administration. Of these,
over 66,500 ate fourth-class post
are mdfiey’ ordef offices, pr ones,
that uay well. The retiring ad-
ministration is the first one to fix
a four year tenure of effice, but
this, of course, j? not binding.
These- fourth-class -Kppm-trtttiente
will be made all through the four
years of the incoming administra-
tion. ' Of the' presidential post
offices, about 250 will be at the
his first month in office. There m.ot.1
are forty cases of presidential
jpostmastejs’ cortfriiissions already
expired, not acted on by the post
•ffice department, and .thirty-eight
..ill expire during March.
discover another Then there are hundreds of good
places in all the departments, all
having comfortable salaries. Take
the treasury as a sample: •
Three assistant secretaries at
$4500 each; six auditors at $4000
yen each; six deputy auditors at $2500
The each; one treasurer at $6000; and
also qn .assistant treasurer, con-
troller of the treasury,, assistant
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