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Show Cteh UlUuulte Lends. Washington, March 7. The Indian appropriation bill as amended in the Senate will be called up in the House this week and sent to conference. The bill came to the house from the Senate with seventy-fiv- e amendments, many of them important, and including the free homes provision, the disposition of the gilsonite lands of Utah and the ratification of several Indian treaties. The House Indian committee, without opposition, have agreed to disagree to all Senate amendments except the clause, which is to be concurred in with an amendment, and the Seminole Indian's agreement is to be amended by adding the Kiowa agreement. Representative Eddy of Minnesota has given notice to the committee that when the bill is called up in the House he will move to concur In the Senate amendments for the free homestead legislation. This will be stubbornly fought, as the committee has decisively voted it down. dreds of men are parading our streets daily, looking for work, and many of them disgusted with their fruitless THE BEST THE COLDBUGS CAN search, are leaving the city to drift Into the ranks of the criminal class. ReGIVE US. member, the average worker is not four weeks removed from the despised Kuurhsiwitta from ths Wuhlnftoa and Hobo. from tha Massachusetts Btandpolnl "A of how fierce Tha Breakdown of tha Tariff Pro- Is thestriking example for a living is that struggle gram la Other New England State. shown by the employes and would-b- e employes of the Traction Co. All exAll the New England Industrie! of tra men who hare not got a regular any great magnitude or Importance are trip have to report each morning at proiperlng at this moment Senator 5 oclock and remain two hours In Hoar, of Massachusetts, In the senate case they may be needed. Again, they must be on hand from 12 to 2 January 26. 1898. "While Senators Lodge and Hoar of and 5 to 7 at night Six hours a day. our state, writes Levi R. Pierce, of wet or shine, and perhaps weeks of Lynn, Masa, are extolling the beau- this, for the chance to earn 91.50 for ties of the gold standard on the floor thirteen hours labor. And such labor! of the senate, and castigating the sil- Fixed like a sentinel to his post to ver men, for the edification of their face the winters blast unprotected." plutocratic masters, It Is Interesting Almost half the people In the town to observe from day to day how beautifully the gold standard continues Its of Newcastle, Delaware, are on the work among the business men and brink of starvation. Newcastle has workingmen of their own state. The 6,000 Inhabitants, nearly annexed clippings from our two local of whom depend on the Delaware Iron papers, published almost within sight mills for a living. Two weeks preof Hr. Lodge's home, are worth read-ln- g vious to Christmas the works shut perhaps he has not seen them:" down, leaving the families of 800 men without employment The situation Is "Mark J. Worthley, shoe manufacbecoming alarming, as the Idle men turer, Alley street, has made a reduc- D1NGLEY PROSPERITY. - three-fourt- gil-aoni- te hs Onion of Arid Lands. Washington, March 6 Senator War-ruhas introduced two billB, providing for the cession of the arid public lands to tbd various states in which they are situated. One of the bills cedes all the lands unconditionally, and the other provides for cession after certain preparations shall have been made by the states to redeem the lands, such as the division of each state into irrigstiuu districts, the construction of reservoirs, etc. ' The bill is preceded by a large preamble, Betting forth the fact that the remaining public lands are practically arid and can be reclaimed by irriga tion on an extensive scale, which is only possible by state enterprises. This bill conveys all the lands west of the 99th meridian, except miners lands and forest and Indian reserve tions, to the state in which they are The Seneca Glass Company, at Morgantown, W. Va., Monday, reduced the wages of Its 250 hands from 15 to 20 per cent The men are still at work, but are threatening to strike. The company declared- a 25 per cent dividend Just before the first of the year. The management says a pool of other manufacturers of tumblers which the cepted. The following is from the Lynn Seneca refused to join, has cut prices (Masa) Evening News, a gold standard to drive It out of the market and to meet this competition wages were cut. paper, of the same date: "Four failures within a comparativePerhaps the workingmen of Delaly brief period of time by some of Lynns heretofore most successful busi- ware and West Vlnglnla, a majority ness men, the abandonment of busl-n- of whom voted for McKinley, are now to consider Populistic by two others for reasons that are more willing apparent, and the rumors of more to ideas. come, Is the situation which confronts Protectionist Dlngley admits that the the people of this city today, and make the future of the local merchant look one string on his musical instrument anything but bright. The News Is will not sound a chord of peace and not going to howl calamity. It will plenty for the working classes in the leave that work to be performed by United States. Heretofore It has been other agencies, but In the carrying thought that It would, because Dlngley out of Its mission, to present the news said It would, and McKinley said It accurately and impartially, it Is forced would, and Hanna said It would; but to declare, after talking with many of now Dlngley says It wont He now dethe local tradesmen, that the latter clares that competition between the are experiencing considerable difficulty Northern and Southern mills in AmerIn tiding over their affairs until the ica means continued low wages for promised wave of prosperity shall have the hands in both sections, and admits arrived. that the protective tariff will not help the condition. And thus the mirage All the striking mill operatives In of high wages on the protective desert New England are beginning to feel fades away and leaves the workingprivation sharply. At New Bedford a men with parched lips and weary larger number applied for aid at the bodies, gazing blankly at the offices of the overseers of the poor plains ahead. Friday than at any time since the strike began. The severe cold weather There Is no possibility of any percauses great suffering among the more manent or general revival of prosperpoorly provided familltles. ity so long as an appreciating money standard depreciates labor values. A workingman of Bridgeport, Conn., has addressed an open letter to the emFree laid for Free Feople. ployes of Langdon, Batcheller ft Co., God for .the sunshine, the air, Thank of that city, from which we clip the and the sea, following: For the rain and' the dew, ever free to "Fellow .Workers I see by the free! dally papers that a reduction has been No landlords can parcel them out, or made In your wages of from 10 to IS conspire per cent. Permit me to draw your at- To sell them, or tax them, or let them tention to an incident of which this reon hire. duction Is only the sequel the natural, And close up with barriers, what Nainevitable sequel. ture design'd If you take your minds back to and love for the needs of In mercy Prosthe time when the High Priest of mankind! and reperity McKinley was elected, ' which took demonstration the call will Theres a break In the clouds, there's of honor his in you election, place a gleam in the sky, remember that you figured prominenta beautiful star, brightly shinTheres ly In that parade and shouted lustily, on high, ing Hurrah for McKinley and Prosperthe dawn of the heralds That ity!" I ask you now. Is this the prosday, perity you expected? If you expected When right, shall be might, and shall any other It showed your Ignorance flourish for aye: teachand suicidal adherence In false When man on the strength of his man--ers and leaders. hood shall stand. "Though you have seen reductions To and possess and replenish enjoy taking place throughout the land; the land! the though you see machines taking ' places of men; then women displac- With our faces to heaven and our feet dising the men; and, finally, women on the sod, placed by children when you see that, We swear by the faith that we cherish do not think that there Is no prosperin God, ity. No! For McKinley Is indeed the By the breeze of the sky, by the light agent of prosperity; only, the prosper-lt- y of the sun. Is of Is the the agent that he shall be ours, and that that comes by exploiting you That the land be done.-Heashall right more and more, and that goes only to It, ye that hold us in tyrants your natural economic enemies the thrall! capitalist clasa God the great giver gives freely to all! "When you voted for McKinley yon CHARLES MACKAY. voted prosperity to the capitalist class and want suffering and more misery, Direct Legislation. to your own class, because you failed Direct legislation will knock out pluto realize the truth that the Interests tocracy In the first round. It will reof McKinley and all his hangers-o- n It will were bound up In the capitalist class store America to Americana and thus the power handed over to make It a free and happy nation once them would be used In their class In- more. It will help to destroy partylsm, which is the bane of American politics, terests against your class Interests. will wipe out bosslsm. Therefore, "Look at the evidence of It In your and us study let Representative. at own your own city. Here, right bestial are the of marks threshold The lint Feasible Money. capitalism plain to be seen. 'The Board best money ever created or that The were of Charities reports that there can created. Is that money be ever last destitution summer of cases more than could be relieved, and that if they which la full legal tender for all purare to relieve the suffering this winter poses, and of a sufficient volume to of prices Silver they will need twice the amount of maintain stability Hun money appropriated heretofore. This reduction la said to amount to nearly 20 per cent In some departments. The help In this factory. It is said, is not affiliated with any labor organisation, and on that account no resistance will be offered to the which has already been ac- 20. cut-dow- n, ss sun-scorch- ed 'the 1 ; , . . . ; long-promis- pros-peri- ty it Knight-Watchma- n. ed OLORADO canon Is ff on Its stopped brink, with Its Immeasurable wealth of divinely colored and sculptured buildings before you and beneath you. No matter how far you may have wandered hitherto, or how many famous gorges and valleys you have seen, this ne, the Grand Canon of the Colorado, will seem as novel to you, as unearthly In the color and grandeur and quantity of Its architecture, as If you had found it after death on some other star; so Incomparably lovely and grand and supreme is it above all the other delightearthquaful canons In our fire-mould- ke-shaken, rain-washe- wave-washe- d, d, river and world. It Is about 6,000 feet deep where you first see It, and from rim to rim ten to fifteen miles wide. And Instead of being dependent for Interest on waterfalls, depth, wall sculpture and floor, like most beauty of park-lik- a other great canyons no waterfalls are In sight, and no appreciable floor space. The big river has Just room ar obscurely, enough to flow and here and there groping its way as best it can like a weary, murmuring, overladen traveler trying to escape from the tremendous bewildering labyrinth-!- c abyss, while Its roar serves only to mellow and deepen the silence. Instead of being filled only with air, the vast space between the walls is crowded with natures grandest buildings a sublime city of them, painted In every color of the rainbow and adorned with richly fretted cornice and battlement spire and tower In endless variety of style and architecture. Every archilocated. tectural Invention of man has been anticipated and far more In this grandest Pension Swindler Arrested. of Gods terrestrial cities." Topeka, Kansas, March 7. George The first man who journeyed through Cralle, a notorious and clever pension this terrible gorge did so Involuntarily. swindler, has been brought here for The following Is the story of his jourtrial after being arrested at Holton by ney: a government inspector. Cralle is A few years after the civil war, wanted, it is said, in Iowa, Missouri, CapL Baker, who had won his title Nebraska and other states, ne has In the confederate army, induced James White and a young German named sailed nnder several aliases. Cralle claimed to be a pension exam- Henry Strole, to go on a prospecting iner. He would hunt up ignorant pen- tour with him to the then uninhabited counsioners and tell them that he had been and but little known San Juan in southwestern Colorado. try sent west to examine their cases. After weeks of privation the prosAmong others he would claim that the pectors reached the promised land, to persons pension was in bad shape and the west of the Sierra Mad re. They was likely to be cut off; but for a cer- at once went to work, and rich gold tain amount of money he would fix finds confirmed Bakers judgment The men worked for nearly a month things all right in the pension office. He is said to have operated exten- with great success, and were begln- sively in the states above mentioned and has reaped a considerable sum. The government inspectors have been on his trail for six months. glacier-sculpture- d - . . . . Promises a Sensation. Key West, Fla., March 7. Captain Marix, before sailing on the Mangrove with the Maine board of inquiry, re- outside. Thats all bosh,' he said. Why cant they stop theorizing until , we get ready to report? Then I assure you we shall have some reading for the American people that will be inn Will it mean war?" was asked. Tat's a question I cant answer now. DANTE, FAITH AND DOCTRINE. a Devoted Bon of ths Church. It may be declared at once that there Is not the very smallest ground for claiming Dante as a reformer before the reformation," says the Fortnightly Review. There Is no trace In his writreings of doubt or dissatisfaction specting any part of the teaching of the church in matters of doctrine. He would probably have considered any such feeling as most presumptuous, and Indeed, as little short of blasphemous.' A great deal has betn written about his supposed defense of the right of "private judgment, of his alleged sympathy with free thinking, or with1 philosophic doubt aind so forth. Of this also it appears to me that no evidence can be found. There seems every reason to believe him to have been an' entirely firm, faithful and devoted son of the' church without any misgiving as to her teaching or as to her indefeasible right to teach. All this is per- -' fectly consistent with the most scathing denunciation of abuses In practice part of the popes, cardinals and the members of religious orders. Dante' himself quaintly expresses the distinction In his letter addressed to the 'Italian cardinals. He Imagines them retorting upon him that by so Interfering he is repeating the sin of Uzzah. Truly (he replies) I am one of the most Insignificant of the sheep of the flock of Jesus Christ, and certainly I do not abuse any pastoral office because I have no wealth! (Note the caustlo irony of that because.) Nor am I guilty of the presumption of Uzzah, because he Interfered with the ark, I with the refractory oxen (bovea that are dragging it out of the path. Nor, Indeed, is the language of Dante respecting such abuses a whit mors severe than what may be found In the writings of many canonized saints, such as St Peter Damian, St. Bonaventura, SL Bernard and many others. Again, that Dante would have joined Luther In his denunciation of the sale of pardons and indulgences, and such like abuses, we cannot for a moment doubt. He has, in fact, anticipated him here. In Par. xxvli., 52, he makes SL Peter say that he never thought to have become the figure on a seal attached to venal and mendacious privileges, which ofttlmes makes him to blush and glow with Indignation even In heaven. But there Is no evidence, but very much the reverse, that Dante would ever have dared to lay his hand upon the ark of doctrine. He Was Always ' Wait Woman Starves Herself Into Insanity. Oakland, Cal., March 7 Mrs. Matilda on-th- P. Rich, who recently starved herseli into insanity, went to Napa asylnm a raving maniac, with more than enough gold to have made her comfortable for the rest of her days deposited to her credit in the vaults, of the Hibernia bank in San Franc! sea She was a recluse and a miser, and worked and pinched and saved until her reason fled. At the asylulum the secret was wormed out of her, and now it is known that she is worth several thousand dollars. "HE SAW THE ' YOUNG GERMAN SINKING OUT OF SIGHT. nlng to feel that the Indians would not bother them, when just before daylight one August morning they were startled from sleep by the thunder of rocks from the cliffs above and the shrill yells of the savages. With dawn they saw the Navajos on both sides of the deep gulch, but the horror of the situation was Increased when Capt. Baker fell, with a bullet through his brain. White and Strole saw their only chance for escape was to make their way down the canyon to the west. They took the heavily laden burre along, the Indians following, and hurling rocks from the cliffs. About the middle of the afternoon they came to the canyon of the San Juan where the water flowed from bank to bank. They made a raft of driftwood, which they found lodged In the cleft of the rocks, using their ropes to fasten the logs. They had to abandon the donkey, but they loaded all their food and arms, not forgetting the gold dust, on the raft A more desperate situation It would be difficult to Imagine. Here these men were, at the bottom of a great canyon, flowing through a trackless waste, and through a region at that time unexplored, and but little known even to Gold Strike On Big Salmon. Seattle, Wash., March 7. Thomas Elliott, a recent arrival from Dawson City, says that when he reached Rig Salmon river he found the Canadian police excited over a big gold strike d made on the Big Salmon, A connected with the mounted police sank three holes in different parts of the river bar and dirt averaged 9250 per pan. half-bree- Embesslad Thirty Thousand. Cincinnati, O., March 7. Sherwood S. Cunning, teller of the First National bank, who was arrested last night for embezzling 930,000 of the bank's fund gave himself up late toplglit He had been released on bond lent night, and his bondsmen have shice desired to be released. of rapids ahead. Strole, who had been guiding tha raft with a pole, stood up against that advice of his companion. The ropes parted. The raft spread out like fan. White, who was clinging to the logs, heard an awful cry, and looking through the cloud of spray, he saw thei young German sinking out of sight In the maddened waters. When these rapids were passed White succeeded In making a landing and securing the raft to the narrow strip of shore. The food, the arms .the mining tools were gone, but the buckskin bag full of gold was still fast to the logs. It was now that the hero In White's; nature asserted itself. Alone, without food, at the bottom of a canyon In the heart of a vast desert, with unknown dangers ahead, and no Idea of where the mighty gorge ended, and no knowledge of the abodes of the nearest whites, yet this man did not despair. He thought of his mother and trusted in God. Now and then the raft shot past side canyons, bleak and forbidding, like cells set in the walls of a mighty prison. On went the raft with no living thing In sight, for these profound depths were never stirred by the wlnga of bird, and hitherto no human being had ever gone through them and lived to tell the tale. On the fourth afternoon since ha had had food, the canyon widened out and he saw bushes. He made the shore and ate the leaves and the pods of the mesqulte bean. At length, and after he had been fifteen days in the canyons depths. Whites reason tottered, and he lay. helplessly and hopelessly on the raft Just fourteen days from the time he started on this forced voyage, White heard the splash of oars and encouraging cheers. He was too weak to raise his head. In a short time he saw many bearded faces looking down on him In pity. He had passed through the great canyon, and had drifted to Callvllle, a Mormon settlement at the mouth of the Virgin river. White weighed In health 180 pounds! he weighed less than 90 when he finished the most wonderful trip in the records of adventure and daring. - ferred to the statement that the courts investigation failed to prove that the Maine had been blown up from the teresting. this day, but their lgnoranee of the situation gave them strength and bope.j The raft drifted down with the cur-- ) rent, the black walls rising higher on! either hand, till at last It seemed as if' the far-otops were coming togetherj and must fall In and crush them. They kept on till four days had passed, when the raft was swept Into a deeper and vaster chasm. This was the can- the greatest gorge of Its kind in ths world. A writer thus describes It: "It la abruptly countersunk In the forest plateau, so yon of the Great Colorado. Two more days and nights passed,, that you see nowhen the smooth current became; until of It thing you are suddenly swifter, and they saw the white foam n are becoming desperate. tion In wages In several departments In his factory, says the Lynn (Masa) Evening Item, of Wednesday, January IN COLOBADO CAX0N. I calcit-rante- s) |