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Brand on left side
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Earmark square
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Southern hranded
cattle have but one
brand on left side
Native cattle have
throat wattle
ItaiiKe on Gordon and Snake Creeks
Horses havo same brandfon left thigh
A Ilctcartl of KHt will be paid to any
person for information leading to the arrest and
final conviction of any person or persons steal
ting cattle with above brand
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IF WAR SHOULD COME
If war should be declared by the
United States against Spain the Chi
cago Dispatch asserts that there would
be some litrhtnimr changes in the cabi
and Assistant Secretary Day would
probably stop into Shermans shoes
and he would find them useful before
long in following in Shermans foot
steps The hucplic Day is not the man
to hold the helm of state in the wild
fury of the storm of -war
And the Secretary of the Treasury
Certainly no man anxious to retire the
greenbacks and a persistent foe to sil
ver could long continue to preside over
the treasury with the demands of war
clamoring to be met Bonds would
have to be issued and silver would
have to be coined nor would the bonds
be gold bonds and the silver coined
would not be token money Secretary
Gage would have to change his ideas
on the money question or change his
occupation
As for Secretary Long War devel
ops character and the exigencies of the
case might show that Secretary Long
has the necessary vigor and grasp to
hold his position with credit to himself
and benefit to his country but there is
a lack of evidence to prove this propo
sition General Alger is a good Secre
tary of War when there is no war but
his record made during the struggle
between the States is not so brilliant
as to suggest his fitness to conduct af
fadrs successfully in case of conflict
with Spain
Aoout the only man in the cabinet
who could rise to the occasion is the
Secretary of Agriculture Lie could go
right on experimenting with new va
rieties of catnip without endangering
the safety of the nation But war
would require strong men in the cabi
net No wonder the administration is
anxious to preserve the peace
Yields to the 3Iouey Power
From the first the administration
press has tried to make the De Lome
incident appear of small importance
It is plain that the hand of the money
power is back of all this The Spanish
bondholders fear that the patience of
the American people will at last be ex
hausted and the gold bought trust-ridden
Republican administration forced
to redeem its broken and dishonored
platform pledge in behalf of Cuba
Senor De Base has been recognied as
charge daffaires by this government in
spite of allegations that such a course
would not be pursued
Hrhc Washington Times in discussing
this fact says We do not know why
the administration view should have
changed but we greatly fear that it
was on account of views communicated
by Messrs Rothschild Hirsch Bleich
roeder T F Morgan and August Bel
mont If those representative magnates
decide that the great and holy integrity
of Spanish bonds will be best subserved
by truckling lo Spain nobody need
doubt that it will be done There is lit
tle doubt that the surmise of the Times
explains the situation The money
power has spoken and tlie Republican
administration has obeyed
Where Is John Sherman
There is notable absence of the name
of John Sherman in the current dis
patches through the counsel and action
of the head of tthe State Department are
now of more moment than at any time
since the inauguration of the Presi
dent who placed him at the head of
that department The work is done by
the first assistant Diplomat Day and
not well done Joliu Sherman is super
annuated and incapable But that was
known when he was appointed and he
was appointed only to make room for
the money backer of the administra
tion in the Senate of the United States
That at this important juncture the
State Department is without a capable
head is the result of McKinleys effort
to pay his debt to Mark Hauna Chi
cago Chronicle
Patronage an Edged Tool
Ex Senator DilLwisely said that too
much patronage is sometimes a danger
ous thing This is the same truth that
the late Gen Butler had in mind when
he said that every time a President or
other appointing officer gives a man a
place he makes one ingrate and twen
ty enemies There is no possible doubt
that patronage makes more enemies
than friends for the man who has it at
disposal The disappointed always out
number the appointed and besides that
the appointing officer is always held in
some degree responsible for the inca
pacity and the errors of his appointees
-New York World
Jefferson Trusted the People
Thomas Jefferson in his time saw
that toryism had not been crushed In
America by the revolution and solemn
ly warned his- followers to never lose
faith in the people To keep that faith
is the first duty of Democracy Ignore
it and every victory won since 177 will
be lost That is why the Republican
party the tory orgauizatiou of Amer
ica is a serious menace to popular in
stitutions Its leaders distrust the peo
ple Waukegau Democrat
Secretary Sherman Ignored
It is known at the national capital
that the Secretary presumably holding
his place merely iu order that Mr
Hanna may occupy a seat in the Senate
of the United States is physically in
firm that age and long service have
abated his vigor and his interest in
fairs and this has been permitted for
so many months that it excites little or
no comment when great concerns of
state are not even communicated to
him It is both melancholy and scan
dalous Honorable service should not
be so requited and it seems almost in-
net Secretary Sherman would resignV credible that a high minded executive
should so calmly disregard the disap
proval not loud but deep with which
such indifference to public opinion is
observed New York Times
The Arni3 Doinj Police Duty
For years it has been tactily admitted
by the Federal authorities that the
army was maintained chiefly if not
wholly as a safeguard against the
American people that is as a force
filled with latent antagonism to the
very people who give it being author
ity and support That this has been
the theory of the army authorities is
manifested by the maintenance of
large bodies of troops near large cities
by the constant practice of street form
ations riot drills and the like and by
innumerable indiscreet utterances of
army officers among whom Genera
Miles is easily first in loquacity New
York Journal
Benefiting the Bondholders
The aVlministrations dealing with
the Kansas Pacific having agreed to
settle a 13000000 debt for half that
sum is regarded as a great victory for
the jobbers and the corporation At
the last moment after having stood out
for full payment the Attorney General
telegraphed from Washington to ac
cept the half pay proposition The ef
fect of this is seen in the advance of
Kansas Facific bonds from below par
in ten days to 115 Pittsburg Post
Trusts and Unemployed
American farm and American mills
and factories could produce very much
more than the entire population could
consume if all the workers were em
ployed at good wages But as long as
the trust regime continues which
means periodical stoppage of produc
tion and consumption the solution ot
the problem of the unemployed will not
be brought about St Louis Post-Dispatch
The Bindley Tariff at Work
During the present month the Gov
ernment has paid out about 1000000
a day more than it has taken in The
revenue from customs has not been
equal to the disbursements for the sin
gle item of pensions The deficit is
piling up every day In short the Ding
ley tariff seems to work at all points
for the confusion of its advocates and
supporters Boston Post
Senator Hanna an Incubus
The most intimate political friends
of Mr Hauna do not seem to be proud
of his election They do not want to
publish the means by which it was at
tained They seem desirous of allow
ing the matter to fade aAvay They
have the bird and want to stop the
discharge of firearms Cincinati En
quirer
The Trusts Holding Their Own p
The Attorney General of the United
States who has always been theriend
of trusts has been promoted to the
Supreme bench and another Attorney
General appointed who exactly fills his
place The trusts are losing no ground
under this administration Columbus
O Press
Thurston and McKinlcy at Odds
While Mr Thurston is telling us that
every dollar is as good as the best dol
lar ever coined Mr McKinley is tell
ing us that the bonds will be paid in
the dollars that are the best at the
time of payment It seems that the
Senator and the President are drifting
apart Omaha World Herald
Only a Negative Answer Possiblef
Can any honest man in Ohio believe
that either Allen G Thurman Benja
min F Wade George H Pendleton or
Thomas Ewing would have taken his
seat in the United States Senate while
an investigation was under way to test
his title Columbus O Press-
Hanna May Reform
It is said that the constitution of a
man changes every seven years That
being the case and Mark Hanna being
elected for seven years who knows
that he will not at the end of his term
be a strong anti corruptionist Peoria
Herald
Disrupted from the Inside
It hardly seems necessary for the
Democrats to go to very much trouble
to disrupt the Republican party There
seem to be men enough on the inside
who cant stand prosperity to attend to
that part of it Baltimore News
Iiiicky Uncle Sam
One may easily imagine the condition
the country would have been in at this
time had it not been for the great for
eign grain shortage If Providence
helps anyone it certainly looks after
Uncle Sam St Louis Dispatch
Only United on a Failure
The Republican party has proved to
be united upon no important measures
of public policy under this administra
tion except that of the tariff and its
tariff policy has brought it failure and
discomfiture Boston nerald
Heinrich Heine the poet -was terri
bly jealous One day he poisoned a
parrot belonging to his lady love for
fnr it should claim too much of her
attention
After four days of consideration the
House on Saturday passed the bankrupt
cy bill reported by the House Committee
on Judiciary as a substitute for the Nel
son bill passed by the Senate at the extra
session last summer The bill is known
as the Henderson bill and contains both
voluntary and involuntary features It
is considered less drastic than the meas
ure passed by the last House by a vote
of 157 to 87 The involuntary feature
however had but 16 majority On Sat
urday a motion to strike out the involun
tary feature was defeated by a majority
of 19 and the bill was passed by a major
ity of 23 the vote standing yeas 158
nays 125 Eighteen Republicans voted
against the bill and twelve Democrats for
it The Populists with one exception
voted against it
Monday was private bill day in the
House The feature of the day was a
spirited contest over the bill to pay New
berry College a Lutheran institution in
South Carolina 15000 for damages by
Federal troops It was finally passed
On motion of Mr Bailey the Democratic
leader the House voted 5S to 35 to ob
serve Washingtons birthday by adjourn
ing over until Wednesday but Mr Ding
ley raised the point of no quorum and
before further action could be taken the
House recessed For three hours the
Senate had under discussion the bill pro
viding for the taking of the twelfth and
subsequent censuses It was amended
so as to place the census bureau under
the Secretary of the Interior but the ex
tended discussion which followed disclos
ed so wide a divergence of views as to
the various features of the measure that
no further action was taken A resolu
tion offered by Mr Allen directing the
Committee on Naval Affairs to make an
investigation of the Maine disaster wjmi
adopted without debate
In the House on Tuesday Mr Johnson
of Indiana made a sensational speech op
posing the annexation of Hawaii Polit
ical speeches occupied the rest of the day
The sundry civil bill was before the
House The debatewas finished In the
Senate a bill was passed increasing the
army by two artillery regiments In ex
exutive session the Cuban question was
discussed
On Wednesday a variety of subjects
occupied the attention of the House dur
ing the consideration of the sundry civil
bill Mr Mahany of New York made an
attack on the patriotism of some of the
social leaders of New York who he said
held high revel while the nation was
bowed down with grief over the loss of
life resulting from the Maine explosion
The Southern members who have for
years been lighting the appropriation for
informers on illicit distilleries succeed
ed in killing the appropriation in commit
tee of the whole but Chairman Cannon
gave notice that he would demand a yea
and nay vote in the House A resolution
was adopted inquiring of the Treasury
Department what has been done by the
United States to prevent the conveyance
to the Cubans of articles produced in tho
United States also as to the prevention
of filibustering In the Senate the entire
day was devoted to debate on the Cuban
question By a vote of 51 to 5 Mr Al
lens proposition to add a belligerency rid
er to the consular and diplomatic appro
priation bill was rejected
The House disposed of thirty additional
pages of the sundry civil appropriation
bill on Thursday The fact that the Gov
ernment is preparing for contingencies
was recognized when Chairman Cannon
who has been laboring to keep down ap
propriations accepted without a word of
protest an amendment to increase the ap
propriation to care for the unused machin
ery at the Springfield arsenal Resolu
tions which were objected to a few weeks
ago for the appointment of two extra
naval cadets to positions in the engineer
corps of the navy were also adopted One
of them will fill a vacancy caused by the
death of Lieut Merritt of the Maine A
feature of the Senates session was the
speech of Mr Spooner Wisconsin on the
right of W Corbett to a seat in
the Senate from Oregon under appoint
ment of the Governor Mr Spooner made
a constitutional argument in favor of seat
ing Mr Corbett An effort was made to
obtain consideration of the Alaskan home
stead and railway right of way bill but
on a parliamentary technicality it went
over The resolution offered on Wednes
day by Mr Allen Nebraska to appoint a
committee of five Senators to investigate
the Cuban situation was withdrawn by
its author when it was laid before the
Senate
In the House on Friday a long and
somewhat exciting debate over the ques
tion of river and harbor appropriations
was precipitated during the consideration
of the sundry civil appropriation bill It
was practically agreed by all those who
participated that there would be no river
and harbor bill at this session of Con
gress The item appropriating 400000
for San Pedro harbor California was
passed and the Oakland harbor appro
priation remains in the bill by a vote of
IIS to 10 An unsuccessful effort was
made to secure consideration of the bill
passed by the Senate for two additional
regiments or artillery but on objection
from Mr Cox Dem Tennit went
over In the Senate Henry W Corbetts
right to a seat in the Senate from Oregon
was under consideration for five hours
A bill permitting the building of a dam
between Coon Rapids and the north lim
its of Minneapolis across the Mississippi
River was passed Early in the session
an attempt was made to get up the Alas
kan bill but it failed
News of Minor Note
Artificially spotted tobacco raised in
Connecticut is said to be on the market
A bill has been introduced in the Ken
tucky Legislature which fixes daily rates
in first class hotels in the State at 150
boarding houses 50c and restaurant
meals 2oc
The handsome farm house of Alvin
Feagans near Knobnoster Mo was de
stroyed by fire and an infant child wa5
rescued from the burning building after
its clothing had caught fire
Hearing the cries of an angry mob
outside the jail in which he was confined
at Richmond Ark Alexander Johnson
j a negre hoy charged with grand larceny
drew a razor uuu uis uiroac
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