Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 September 1894 — Page 2
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SATl'KDAY, SETTEMUKU 1894.
Yotkks should remember it is only about fortv-eiglit ilays until tlio November election. The law requires sixty days' resilience in the township and thirty days' resilience in the precinct in which the voter offers his vote. It is. therefore, too late to change 'townships without losing- the right to vote, anil but little time remains to change precincts. Voters who nesire the right to vote must observe the law or tliev cannot vote.
Tiiky are going to have civil service reform in New York with a vengeance •if the work of the constitutional eonvention it. ratified by the people as in all probability it will be. The pro posed constitution provides that no appointments to otlice shall be made in any civil division of the State, meaning cities, towns, villages, counties and townships, without a competitive examination. However politicians may dislike it civil service reform is inevitable anil will finally be ps universal as the spoils system was a few years ago.
Wk can make goods cheaper in this country than anywhere else on earth and we intend to do it. American genius and industry and .snap don't care a lig for all the pauper labor of Europe or anywhere else.—Arijit---Xcw*.
The gymnastics of the beats a monkey on a pole. It has not been two years since every Democratic paper in America said we could not make tin-plate in this country, that we did not have the "genius" anil the "skill."' lint they all lived to see the industry planted by McKinley grow to be one of our greatest labor furnishing institutions and on account of it they see the steady decline in the price of tinware. Where they will jump to next, no one can tell, but we predict now. that in less than a'year the Deiuocratie press will be claiming that it never was a free trade party, and that all it ever asked was that we be allowed to import a few raw materials.
I.v his speech in the Senate against the (iorman tariff law Senator Hill said: "A tax the imposition of which will drive New York. New Jersey and I Connecticut [_into the Republican column, there to rempin permanently: a lax the individual feature of which has not been recommended by any
Democratic President or Secretary of the Treasury or Commissioner of Internal revenue: but a tax suggested, advocated and persistently pushed by a majority which is temporarily "in the saddle" in this Congress, and is driving the Democratic party with reckless and headlong speed into the abyss of of political ruin." The conditions have not changed since the Senator uttered these remarks except that Vermont and Maine have given emphasis to the truthful prediction. All the indica" lions point to the fact that the Democratic party is being driven with reckless and headlong speed into the abyss of political ruin.
IIKNKI'H IAI.TO KN(il.AM). Mr. Wilson, the author of the Wilson bill, and a free trader, is visiting in England. He no sooner landed on Hritish soil than a public dinner was tendered him in the London by the Chamber of Commerce, which came oil' on the 20th inst. The Chairman of the meeting in introducing Mr. Wilson made a very indiscreet speech for this side of the great waters. Here is what lie said respecting the late tariff legislation by the Democratic party, in this country: lienefits had already been experienced in England. Kurnaces had been re-opened in Wales and Yorkshire, and an impetus had been given to the textile industries.
Mr. Wilson must liarc listened to the words with some degree of pain, if he is a true American: for he must know now. if he never knew before, that he and his party have been legislating fur tiie benefit of English manufacturers and against the manufacturers of trs (iwn country. He knows now that he has been engaged in closing furnaces in his own 'country and opening them in Wales and Yorkshire. He has been making work for English workmen and taking it away from his own countrymen and sending them to public soup houses to keep soul and body together. After this speech by the
Chairman, Mr. Wilson should have returned to America at once and publicly confessed that he had been engaged in the foolish jind unpatriotic business of ruining the industries of his own country and building up the industries of a rival nation. The McKinley bill elot.ed factories in England and opened them in our own country. The McKinley bill gave employment to American workmen. The liorman-liviee tariff takes work away from American workmen and gives it to British workmen. It is meet that Mr. Wilson should be greeted with applause in England, for sure enough, as the Chairman who presided at the banquet said, lie has opened the furnaces of Wales and
Yorkshire. This no doubt would be a great thing if he had not at the same time closed the furnaces of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Hut who will greet Mr. Wilson when he comes home except those who wish to see furnaces closed in America and opened in England.
TWO PIECES OF SILVER.
How They Savod tho Life Mino Manager.
of
"Muerto a los gringos'." Black Kdsh's small, angular form shook with rage. Her black face grew blacker than its natural hue, if that were possible. Trembling in every nerve, she glared viciously, anil shook a long, bony linger in the faces of tho group of miners who with jests and jeers had met her supplications for charity. "Get out of this, you black devil!" one shouted. "We have had enough of you." "She's got plenty of money," cried another. "Wears diamonds in the city," sneered a third. "Get out! No beggars allowed!" they all shouted. "Muerte a los gringos!" repeated the woman, with a shriek which would have chilled the blood of men unused to her vicious ways. ^Manager France, of the Bull Domingo, lu-ard the disturbance between the miners aud the miseraole old woman as he came up the gulch "Here, iny good woman." said he, "here are two silver dollars. You bad better not stay around here," he added, kindly, as she took the money and called the blessings of the saints upon his generous soul. "The men are not used to giving alms, and they will only treat you unkindly." "lle'd better be sarin' them two dollars to help out the payroll of the Bull
Domingo who has been keeping a slate for nearly three months for the accommodation of workmen on that property."
Senora Rosalina Ortiz once enjoyed a happy home in the City of Mexico, her birthplace. She had all the opportunities of education, both in Spanish aud English, and in her early married life had tiv.7cled much. But mis'ortune came to her In the death of her husband and two of their three children, after the loss of all the property I they possessed. They had for several I years made their home in the United
States, where Senor Ortiz had died, leaving his widow penniless. Poverty and sin were her undoing, and when 1 the Colorado mining fever tilled the mountains with fortune seekers of high and low degree Senora Ortiz drifted to Durangu. She had sunk so low in vice and crime that she was accounted well fitted for anything from begging to petty thieving, even to the cutting of a throat.
She was living as his mistress with a hardened character known as "Itobber Pan." ail American, whose life both in and out of the penitentiary was a series of misdeeds. He had earned his title as she had earned hers. They were well matched in theircriminal careers. although the woman had thus far known no more of prison life than is afforded by county jails. Her only chilli, a boy of twelve years, ha.l. like his mother, became a professional beggar and thief.
The ill treatment she had received at the hands and tongues -of the miners at Rico had burned into her soul like a hot Iron, though the wound was largely healed by the soft words and the silver so kindly bestowed by John France. But, since she was not likely ever to be able to carry out her »tireat of death to all save her own race and equally incapacitated to in sure the blessings of the saints which she had Invoked, neither her curses nor her prayers were heeded. However, iiono who knew her had any faith in Black Rosa's possession of goodwill toward any one of American or European blood.
Eveu Robber Dan and his male com panions in crime—who formed the most notorious and daring band of robbers in southern Colorado—did not escape the vindictive spirit, of Black Rosa. But the woman was useful to them, and when plentifully supplied with drink there was no crime too black for her wicked heart nor scheme too deep for her cunning brain. If she possessed a single redeeming trait no one had been able to discover it.
Durango had been ablaze with the glory of frontier life—a glory which comes but once in the lifetime of a new town. But there was then little regard felt for tho future by the fortune hunters who swarmed the streets and filled up the hotels and held high revelry in the saloons and dance halls of that camp.
Honest men with capital, seeking to double their investments in a fortnight. stood on the same level of as sociation with the horse thief anil the road agent. Mine promoters and gamblers drank over the same bar. The crack of the stage driver's whip was but the echo of the pistol shot. Business conversations and ribald songs, laughter and curses intermingled in a wild hurrah chorus. "Going back to the mine in the morn ing?" asked the clerk of the hotel a minute later, as France approached the desk and asked for writing material. "Yes, sure!" "Stage leaves ot two o'clock." "Well, call me a half hour earlier, and don't, for your head, let me miss the- KtacTA must be at the mine tomorrow by all means, liy the way, I have lost a white silk hankerchief with a black border. Look out for it."
A few mimrtes later, while France was still busy writing. Sheriff Barney approached him and presented a little Mexican chap in whose possession had been found the fcilk handkerchief. "What shall I do with him?" asked the sheriff. "Lock him up," said the manager of the Bull Domingo hotel, "lock him up! That is the little rascal who came to mo a few minutes ago begging for money. I gave him two bits and he shows his gratitude by stealing my handkerchief."
The attention of the loungers about tho hotel office was attracted by these loudly spoken words of John France but they did not hear what he said in a hurried undertone to the sheriff, so there was a murmur of indignation against the man who would seek the punishment of a child for stealing a silk handkerchief—and that after it had been returned.
John France laughed and went to his roi.m, while the sheriff smiled, as he always smiled in danger and out, and lad the boy away. The crowd looked puzzled. "He had my boy locked up, did he?" shrieked Black Rosa, when the details of this little episode were related to her. The black face of the little Mexican woman seemed ablaze with indignation. "He shall Dav for thisl"
"Senora forgot* the two silver dollars," taunted Robber Dan "I thought the senora might feel sorry that wo had planned to rob this tine Americano. But it's all right now—is it, dearest?" he added, mockingly. "Rob him! murder him!" yelled Black Rosa, and she staggered from her chair, as if she would carry out her own command, but fell on the floor in a heap.
Dan and his pals lifted the woman to a bed, and the leader remarked that •lie would sleep till morning, and be neither help nor hindrance. It had been known for twenty-four hours that the money—some ten thousand dollars —for the Bull Dimlngo pay roll had been received, but until announced by Manager France it was not known when that gentleman would start for the mine.
At twelve o'clock that night four men, heavily armed, rode out of Durango.
Two hours later the stage followed them, with one occupant on the inside aud the driver alone on the front boot. Bloomer, the driver, might as well have been unaccompanied so far as the inside occupant of the coach was concerned. But he was used to these lonely rides, and when a passenger preferred to be exclusive it simply exhibited to Bloomer the poor taste of the passenger. So he talked to his horse* and sang to them and passed the lonely hours as comfortably as if ho had been surrounded by a half dozen passengers, and soon forgot the fellow on the inside.
Coming to a bend in the road, whero the ascent of the first steep mountain is begun, Bloomer fell into a reflective mood and remarked to the nigh wheel er that the fellow on the inside might possibly "rise to an appreciation o' the society of a stage driver and his hosses if the muzzle of a double-barreled shotgun should hap pen to appear at the window of the coach."
Of course Bloomer was not really ex pecting such a surprise for his unsociable passenger so when the shotgun appeared, with three others, and accompanied by an order to "throw down them ribbons and throw up them hands," he was himself so completely surprised that he obeyed without a word of protest.
If he was surprised at this sudden appearance of road agents, he was really dumfounded at what followed. For five minutes there was a rattle of shotguns as if a miniature battle were being fought. When it was all over, two stage robbers were fatally wounded and the other two surren dered to Sheriff Barney—and the man of straw on the inside was literally shot to pieces. And this is the way it all happened, as Bloomer himself was fond of telling it:
You see, they didn't put me on. Never seen a sheriff yet that thought a stage driver had nerve enough to play out his hand in a game like that an' I don't know but a feller would git a little bit rattled a-wonderin' how he's a-goin' to come out at the end o' the game. It's purty ticklish bizness to be a-sittin' on a stage through the long, dark hours o' the night 'n' a-guessin' whether yer goin' ter drive back er ride in a box. But the way it all happened was like this:
You see that kid what stole the handkerchief done that for a blind. Ilis ol' woman she put him on. She writes a note ter France 'n'tell the kid tor drop it in his pocket 'n' steal Ilia liandkerchor, er anythin' else he could git his hands on, 'n' then kinder loiter roun' so's to git caught. Well sir, that ol' Black Rssa was a corker. She gives the whole snap away in the note, n' she tells France ter have the boy put in jail, 'n' that'd be a tip for her that he gets the note. Then she sets up a howl 'n' throws the gang off, an' liavin' bin drinkin' considerable an* feelin' a leetle bit skeerud that her play wouldn't win, she was knocked clean out—excited—'n' fainted on the dead square. "So France, w'en be gits the ol' woman's note, he just quietly lets Harney in. 'n' Barney he tells him his system, 'n' they plays It to win. W'n France he goes up to his room, Barney he goes 'n' gits his team 'n' meets France at the back door 'n' they goeB out 'n' lays for the gang. 'S only one place on the road where a job o' stage robbin' could be done 'n' the robbers git away, an' Barney he knows the place, an' that's where they camps 'n' waits for the gang—an' they gits 'em dead to rights. "That inside passenger 's w'at knocked me cold. They puts the stage agent onto the plaj-, 'n' he fixes up a straw man—w'atye calls a dummy—'n he loads him into the stage so's to fool mo 'n' the road agents both. "I reckon Black Rosa didn't know how near she was a-callin' the turn w'en She prescribed death for gringos,
She didn't git the ones she was after in tho fust place, but I reckon the death of her ol' man 'n' Pete Johnson suited her notions better, w'en she come to size up the job, fer they was both gringos—one was American 'n' t'other a Swede. "They say the ". Mexicans has al ways got a grudge ag somebody, but never remembers a kindness but the way that play was made it looks like oi' Black Rosa didn't fergit John France's kind words to her w'en tho miners was a-joshin' her. "Yes perhaps the two silver dollars did have somethiu' to do with it silver was a great power 'n Colorado 'n them days."—Lewis Eddy, in N. Y. Advertiser.
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Admission 25 nts Tickets on sale al i'onuousvY Laeey's.
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Brick
IN ANY QUANTITY.
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Ot the, latest pattern purtles need not hesitate leave their Watehes. Jewelry, Silverwur* and Hpeetaeles for repair a* they will bo well taken eareol.
WatclicB. Cloeks and Jewelry lor sale al the lowest cash nrieea at lJJJi south (.»reeii Street, opposite Mule Hall.
Eugene Wilson.
tl
that lr. Miles* K'«
3A3HIIHIM0
your inspection.
Blip
the rush for Bargains in Our
There remains but a
days to get the
Linen Bargains, Handkerchief Bargains, Wash Goods
Domestic
5c Lot, 7£ Lot, IOC Lot, 15c Lot. 29c Lot
VVill be packed away after the selling is over Saturday
from past and present indications there will be but
every department.
Xnjuap f|dsipa QOAVU
jLodsX xnjA.^
cause they are melting away like snow betore a warm Spring
sunshine. Some of the best styles yet remain and are worthy
It Pays to Trade at the Big Store.
LOUIS BISCHOF.
"The Big Store." 127-129 E. Main St.
P. S. New Fall and Winter Goods are arriving daily in
Great Discount Sale,
few more
Bargains, Bargains,
Dress Goods Bargains.
We must have the room our Wash Goods occupy, so all
that remains of the
evening,
but
few left, be-