Weekly Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - February 9, 1884, Reno, Nevada WEEKLY NEVADA STATE JOURNAL Malice toward none with Charity to all and with Firmness in the VOL 13 RENO WASHOE COUNTY NEVADA SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9 1884 NO 61 I I WEEKLY f Every Saturday Morning C C PUBLISHER PROPRIETOR by 30 ill months 1 25 by Carrier in Beno at 50 cento per month Mo paper forwarded by mail paid for advance A Decretory Boldly the Her Own Secretary Folger in a letter to the In- spector of Steam Vessels reviews the plication of Mary A Miller who seeks to be licensed as Master of a steam vessel on inland waters Be I know nothing imperative in the reason of things in natural law in policy or in good morals why a woman if she is skilled honest and prudent enough may not have com- mand of a vessel and navigate it and manage and conduct the business ned on with it To do Ibis is to be the Master of a vessel The tary in quoting the common law and statute on the subject Any person whether mule or female may paddle his or her own or steer his or her own vessel I see no reason in the unwritten or written law Mrs Miller may not lawfully demand an examination and if she prove self duly qualified have a vessel Nor is there need of talk pro or con en the status of woman's so called Having been put on God's stool by Him she has a right to win her bread in any moral decent way which is opon to any of his toiling creatures If she to do no as the master of a steam vessel it is an honest calling If she is fitted for it though clothed in skirts rather than breeches she has the right to follow it and no man should say her nay The Secretary Let the Local Inspectors putting behind them all thought of her sex without nism and without make gent inquiry as to her character ine the as to her capacity her experience her habits of life and if satisfied that she can be safely in- trusted with the duties of a master of steam vessel let them grant her a license An Ohio paper says it is claimed by apologists for the disgraceful Payne election at Columbus that Payne's son did it the old man being ignorant of the methods employed by the young one 01 course when the old man finds out how the thing was done he will take the young Payne out behind the barn and whip him black and bine with a standard oil barrel stove Very few who received the Beno political circular have replied to it 80 the Tribune is in- formed by some of the most prominent Republicans in the Tri- bune It's a Truckee Eiver trout to a chunk of sawdust that those who want to go to the National Convention will be beard from before their cates are given to them It is said for two of Nevada's nent officials the of the State and of the Insane Asylum that they are strictly temperance men drinking no bind of intoxicating liquor Editors take a little drink occasionally bat at the same time think that Wardens and Asylum Superintendents are ter without it rate of taxation State and county will be about 80 this 90 cents for the State and 90 for county purpose Boss first in war bat first in taxable property not first in peace bat first in low taxation not first in the hearts of ker men but would be first if it had its Qov S C Wright and Dr Lee have been named as good men to to the Chicago Convention We move that the nominations con Appeal Nevada is entitled to six delegates The nominations ought not to close un- til Canon has named the other three The House Committee on Lands has decided to report a de- claring the forfeiture of the land grants of the Oregon and California road ex- wept as have been patented The land is rained at from to per acre The terms of the contract expired on January is suggested as the place for holding the competitive ex- amination for the West Point is Terr centrally located and as its drinks are few and far between we the suggestion will be favorably acted The Plane el and Morrison Congress has been in session about two months and the promises of the revenue reformers to promptly report a for the revision of the tariff are un- fulfilled Mr Morrison's friends say will introduce a tariff on day bat a member of the Ways and Means Committee said to-night that he did not believe the Chairman wonld be ready to move in the matter for several days to come There are two objects to be accomplished by the Democrats The first is to get a which all the Democratic representatives will support the second object is to bring in a ure that will put the Republican upon the defensive and give opponents much better ing ground in Presidential campaign than they now occupy Mr Hewitt says the Republican party was com- mitted to a revision of the tariff and in pursuance of its pledges to the people the tariff commission was and it made a report which was supposed to be the basis of legislation in the last Congress A Republican House brought in a and a Republican Senate passed a that became a law The differences between lae Houses were settled in a conference committee of Republicans Mr Hewitt says that tbe act of March 3d last is a shame that it only reduced duties as a whole about three and one-half per cent and that the Republicans dodged thew ise to reform the tariff He therefore proposes to pass a fixing the rates of duties at tbe lowest figure to be found either in the report of the Tariff Commission Senate House or Conference Committee's son alsa wauls to put the Republican party in a and makes the nll tariff of March 2 1861 as the basis of bis horizontal reduction of twenty per cent Whenever the twenty per cent cuts under tbe rates fixed by the tariff there Morrison stops but tie also fixes the top limit on certain schedules On tbe woolen schedule example he fixes sixty per cent as the top limit of protection on cottonn fifty per cent The silk schedule will neither be reduced nor increased but metals will be given fully twenty per cent reduction No toy limit is fixed on this schedule Mr Morrison does not think the Republicans can go before the country and defend their opposition to a that will fix the rates of duties below the war tariff The study of the two rival plans will show that there is considerable difference between the views of Mr Hewitt and those of Mr Morrison Can these divergent opinions be reconciled The opinion of a of members of the Committee is that they can be and that a measure to both will be ultimately brought forth Tbe Committee The House Committee on Pacific Railways decided Thursday that it would rush bills now before it through as promptly as possible There are several propositions of great pending before the committee along with which are about half a dozen bills requiring railroads to have their lands surveyed aud listed tothe States wherein they are located so that they can be made to pay taxes Another lot of bills proposes to increase tbe fund of the Pacific railroads under the Funding Aet from 5 to 20 per cent It turns out that 5 per cent of their ings is not enough to pay the interest on their debts Should the Reagan Jill get through after all it wonld cover the point in the Humner atid Belford rills in regaid to lowering freights and passages on the Pacific railroads In cose there is any great danger of the of the Reagan or something to take its place the Pacific Railroad Committee will present a covering the points and the ideas of Samner and Belford and insist on its passage as a separate measure The friends of the bills regulating railroads intend to an- all appropriation bills withstanding they ordinarily have in consideration until the House makes a good record of some kind on these measures so that the country can see where tbe blame lies A national Bankruptcy Law The Senate Committee on Judiciary lias ordered the Lowell bankruptcy to be favorably reported with ments It preserves State exemptions and authorises proceedings only against persons whose debts amount to more than and only against traders It diminishes the ber of Commissioners in Bankruptcy one-half Many of tbe amendments suggested by the Bankruptcy tion which met few days since have been incorporated in the biU ator Hoar will report it on Monday Among some of the features are those contended for by the Western Senators at last session of Congress and their adoption greatly increases the of its WENDELL A Brief Ilk etch of tbe Croat Orator anil BOSTON Feb Phillips be- gan to show signs of dissolution at p M and died at 6 p M He was conscious up to within an hour of his death He had been ill juat one week but not until Thursday was his dition considered dangerous by his physicians On he failed rapidly bat rallied slightly and passed a fairly comfortable night This after- noon his illness took a critical turn and he gradually passed quietly away in the presence of his wife and niece Arrangements for the funeral are not yet completed It will probably not be held for several days Wendell Phillips was born in Boston on the of November 1811 His father John Phillips was the first Mayor of Boston Young Phillips was graduated at Harvard College iu 1331 aud at the Cambridge law school two years later He was admitted to the bar in 1831 It at this time that through the agitation of William Lloyd Garrison and others tbe excitement in regard to the slavery question was spreading throughout the land and filially culminated in tbe attack upon a meeting of the female anti-slavery society by the Club This set the ball of abolitionism fairly rolling and Phillips joined the ment and he put into it all tbe vigor and persistent energy of his impulsive nature In 1839 be relinquished his Attorney's oath to uphold and tain the constitution of the United States In December 1837 in Faneuil Hall at a meeting of the citizens of Boston to notice in a suitable manner tue recent murder in the city of Alton Illinois of the Rev P Lovejoy a native of new England and a citizen of tbe free State of Illinois who fell in defense of freedom of the Phillips attended the meeting and at a moment when it seemed that its pose was likely to be defeated he sprang upon a seat in tbe body of tbe hall and poured forth such an outburst of indignant eloquence that he bis the resolution was adopted by a restless vote and from that Wendell Phillips was placed in the very front tank of American orators From that time on- ward he gave bis time means aad talents to achieve the overthrow of the slave power For a quarter of a century he labored in this his chosen work and never ceased to raise his tongue or wield his pen in the cause of the oppressed In addition to his efforts in tbe cause of abolition Wendell Phillips was largely identified with the progress of temperance ant was an earnest advocate of female suffrage He has also been one of the most popular of speakers and has charmed and entertained vast audiences in different sections of the country Since the close of the war Mr Phillipps has been somewhat erratic in his political coarse He was an earnest of the workingman and during the straggle of General Butler for supremacy in the Bay State Mr Phillips was counted as one of his most ardent supporters Mr Phillips was by instinct a was in his element when leading a forlorn hope Like some other great laborers in tbe cause of the oppressed he always shone with a clearer lustre in the hour of defeat than in the day of victory Hungarian Imported Labor A Washington dispatch of the 2d W F Barclay of Pennsylvania representing the coke interests said that only about five per cent of the could read Their earnings average 25 per day and they work from two to five days a week beginning at 1 aud continuing until 7 p x The Hungarians Barclay says are most filthy A number of representatives of labor organizations appeared before tbe House Committee on Labor to-day and against tbe of foreign laborers under contract T V Powderly ex- Mayor of Scranton said he represented the Knights of Labor organization numbering over This tion desires an eight-hour law tion preventing foreigners purchasing large tracts of public land in this try and preventing the importation of foreigners under contract He spoke of the importation of Hungarians and said they returned home after saving comparatively small sums of money One family of nine persons lived on a month Their diet is said to be mush and water on six days of the week with meat on Sunday Tbe Hungarians be said were becoming as obnoxious in the East as the Chinese are in tbe West In some eases ten live in a single room Only Mam W Can At a recent conference of Tilden men j New York it was agreed that R P of the Flower is tbe only man that can carry bis State against Arthur The name of Baton of Connecticut was mentioned as that of an exceptionally strong The Commerce Bills A meeting of the House Committee on Commerce was held Friday morning at which a was appointed to prepare rules to regulate the con sideration of commerce bills before the main Committee The Committee will report this week when all measures will be taken up For some days it has been under- stood that Reagan's will not receive a favorable report and it is now stated that a sufficient number of members o the Committee have declared themselves to justify the the measure establishing a railroad drawn by Charles Francis Adams will ultimately be favorably considered Reagan does not however intend to give up his which he succeeded in passing through the House some years ago but will bring iu a minority report Adams Railroad Commission is drawn on the plan of the Massachusetts commission and in it is very careful not to place power in hands where it may be used to injure tbe tion interests Under it commissioners are by tbe President whose principal duty is to inquire and report This bus been indorsed by a large number of representative merchants of New York Philadelphia and other cities and for this will probably be favorably reported Mrs Sillier On Saturday afternoon when Mrs McElroy took her position at the dent's reception at the White Housa she invited Mrs Carlisle the Speaker's wife to stand next Mrs Frelinghuysen was to have stood third but as she was not present the third place was assigned to Mrs Miller of the senior lice of the Supreme Court When she in and saw Mis Carlisle standing first very cool and self-possessed her indignation was so great that she burst Forth into a violent speech She began by saying that she bad iu the White House since Mr Lincoln's time and in all that period had never been ranked by the wife of a Speaker and she thought it was pretty late in the day for anything of that sort These remarks were addressed to Mrs Elroy a modest timid lady Mra lisle remained quiet looking straight ahead of her and utterly ignored what was said This appeared to add fuel to Mrs Miller's rage She caught the hand of the wife of the Secretary of War and said Come Mary Lincoln yon come here and stand between me and Mrs Carlisle for I will never stand next to her Mrs Lincoln could do nothing but submit to this imperious display of temper the Colorado River J F Ryan now engaged in mining at Total Wreck A T writes that last December he left Pioche for Arizona to try bis luck in the mines He over a very rough road until he grew tired of that and he then with a cc rade constructed a raft to Colorado which rushes through a nai row canyon He had a sail formed ou of a blanket He sailed over lapids and had a rough time of it After sailing about one hundred he abandoned navigation In the time be had seen much wild and bad an unique At the Needles he took the errs for Wreck TO OFF Getting Beady to gates to the Republican tional Convention A Philadelphia dispatch This State was first in the field in tbe fight for and Grant and a third term in 1880 The Republican State Convention to elect delegates to the National Convention was held as early as Feb 4 This year Pennsylvania is likely to lead again Senator Cooper Chairman of tbe State Committee has called bis committee to meet on Jan in Philadelphia for the purpose of fixing a time and place for the meeting of the State Convention Under tbe district system of electing delegates at large will be chosen by the State Convention It is upon the election of these that Senator Cameron and his lieutenants Quay Cooper aad Magee will measure strength with the Garfield Republicans led by Leeds aud Rowan of Philadelphia Stewart of barg Hoyt and General Palmer of ex- Lear Tom Marshall of Senator Mitchell of Tioga Gov of Somerset and Congressman Tom Payne of Pittsburg In the contest at Harrisburg four years ago tbe vote as announced by Secretary of tbe Convention upon tbe resolution instructing for Grant for a third term was 133 yeas to 123 nays As the Convention was limited to 251 delegates and only 243 voted on tbe resolution an error was claimed by fie men and promptly allowed by Russell Errett Chairman of tbe Convention He reduced the minority vote to 113 At that time tbe entire delegation from Philadelphia forty-six in all with Rowan Leeds Lane and Powers on the floor as delegates voted for the third terra resolution It will different at the coming State Convention McManes Leeds Rowan and their adherents will oppose the election of Cameron delegates and with a probability of carrying fifteen of the forty-six delphia delegates with them more than enough io change the result if the rest of tbe State should remain numerically as strong against Cameron as it was in 1880 The four delegates at large in 1880 were James aud M S Quay of Philadelphia Chris Magee of burg and Lin Bartholomew of kill This year the candidates will probably be Cameron Quay Magee and Auditor-General Niles on one side McManes Stewart Marshall and Koontz If the Cameron side should be Quay will be re- warded by allowing n to name self Or Senator Cooper for Collector of Customs of 000 and perquisites and 200 ments From this time on tbe contest be vigorous and interesting A Slew Sheep Distemper Marquis Demeres of St Paul who shipped sheep from Wisconsin and Iowa last July to ranges in Montana reports that fifty-five per cent have died from a strange disease The mals swell up and bleed at the nose be- fore death A post mortem examination disclosed extravasations of blood in the intestines and is an incurable disease heretofore unknown Contest The interest in tbe Senatorial contest is at a white heat and will remain so till a nomination is made With Sweeney withdrawn the deadlock is broken There is much talk of lisle His chances appear better than ever before Sweeney thinks that Blackburn will win The caucus met last night The Sew A Washington dispatch of Jan 9th When Senator Warner Miller came oat of the fight for the reorganization of the Senate with flying colors Senators who stood by him with certain exceptions told him to go ahead and clear the way for the Chicago Con- vention He went ahead beginning with New York The senior New York Senator is one of those who have rever excused for going to Albany to help Although the President has since done much to atone for it they never have forgiven him and are now less disposed to dc it than ever Much skill has been shown iu reviving against Arthur for acts which he has for years prayed might be forgiven For months after his coming the dency the panorama of the Garfield was operated with the cess of the soldier who to deceive the enemy marches and his men so as to causa the few to seem to be many Now the sins of Cockling his com- therewith and the scenes at Albany are rehearsed to frighten those whom Arthur has striven to concilia In this Senator Miller's friends declare he has proved himself the possessor of great powers for leadership In dis- posing of Arthur as they gay he has done in so short a time he has quired a mighty influence To it a of the Republican Senators are submissive in matters relating to tbe Chicago Convention When New York votes for Miller in the Chicago Convention as her favorite said a Republican whom Arthur has especially tried to conciliate the victory over Conkling will be complete and the State's estimate of Ar- thur will be emphasized This is the import of the which baa placed itself in the lead of New York and is equally potent with the Republican Senators who followed Miller in reorganizing tbe Senate Contly nomination County Clerk Keenan has informed a New York Legislative Investigating that he had paid to Tammany Hall for his nomination that he paid else except dental campaign expenses which were less thaa The Directors of tbe Mexican tral Railway announce that the toad will be completed to the United States by tbe middle of March tnd open to through traffic between the 1st and 15th of April Theodore O White is tbe cattle king of Arizona He pastures bis cattle on a range covering 400 square miles Cor farmer and Dealer Genoa Carson Valley valuable paper is a regular visitor to our section In looking over Us columns we find that it is to our interests generally and treats them in- We all hope it will continue to urge upon those having capital that the best opening for investment of a small amount of capital is tbe erection of a first-class flouring mill at tbe outlet of our productive valley Carson City It seems to us that as a business sition for the people of that city to urge the matter forward to an early tion of a mill is the only saving proposition for them at present for there ia no chance for the failure of the grain supply to keep it constantly running Our farmers are making calculation for large crops another year they have put in many acres this tall this however is au experiment with them in this section fearing a dry season but their fears are somewhat dispelled the prospects of storms being now very favorable They are now trying to make preparation for putting in many acres of grain tbe coaling son It seems to us hat the interest of Carson City and that of the parties owning real estate iu the city would be greatly advanced if the men of means and money would make a move and help to build the much needed flaming mill That would be greatly im- proved in Carson there can be no doubt Where the money is is the place to onen a market foi the crops grown iu this section We see another city making strides forward in the right direction and ready to step in and carry off the prize There we see the chant forward to the aid of her enterprises iu many ways Why not Larson do the name? It is a common Baying that if the business men of son City stand by and see this one matter pass from them they vill at some near future see Reno far in he lead We Bee her enterprising men backed by her own capital coming right into our own buying up our gram taking it to Reno aud it into flour which will com- pare with any now made in California WLeat raised in Carson Valley is now selling at cents per and taken to Reno to be made nto flour and returned to ns fur our use There has been several purchased at the above price It has jeen advocated by some of our papers that the farmers themselves should go ahead get up a joint stock company aud build the mill but I must differ that point When the aave raised the grain and are ready to continue and their efforts then others should be ready to purchase nnd tt aud put it upon tbe market paying the farmer the coin that will enable him to pay his expenses and be prepared to continue the work thus each doing his part for it takes money time and bard work to raise grain and make flour for market The farmers are feeling encouraged at the prospect of a good market for their wheat If Carson to come to their aid Reno can be relied on and although our folks would prefer and would do much more for Carson City thr n any other place for the penses of freight will come out of the raiser of the grain di- or yet they are glad to know that there i enterprise near ns If the freight is saved to the ple it in itself would be quite an item I think that if a practical man one who understands the flour mill business would locate in Carson and start the ball rolling be coald in a very short time enlist sufficient capital to go ahead and build a mill with the necessary to handle all the grain of this part of the country It is to be hoped that some one will soon come to tbe front and make the move and save to Carson what now seems certain to go to Reno carrying its certain influence with it and to Carson's do cay and desolation AM OF OTS Applying tor the of Alaska It appears that Carson is not only prepared to furnish candidates for all the State offices as well as delegates to the Republican N tional Convention but that tie patriotic citizens of that burg are ready to sacrifice private con- siderations for the common weal and fill such places as Governor of Alaska and Collector of Customs at the North if an accommodating Congress each There has been a vogue rumor af oat that Congress would possibly provide some kind of a meat for Alaska Tbe Carson people believing ih -t it would be nodled after that of other with a ernor Judiciary Legislature etc tele- graphed Senator Jones by the sale asking for the appointment of Governor TBE LEACHING ing process is one about which but little is known by our Comstock miners and It might prove better than the pan some of our ores particularly such as cairy a large amount of base metals The Reno John Bell has rigged up in a small way at the Englich mill format ing a practical test of tbe practicability of working Pyramid and ores by the leaching process Mr Bell is entirely familiar with the leaching pro he is of the it will be found the best and most economical way of working that class of ores This being the case it would not be much trouble to have small lots of tbe more refractory of oar ores tested by the leaching process In the old burn ing Moscow section of the Comstock is any of ore that is certainly sufficiently base to all the re- of tbe most ardent leacher in the country Tbe trouble with much of it would probably be that it contained nothing but A dispatch from Matamoras Mexico says that Rev Father Cruz has dis- co vend a key to the Aztec writings The political papers in the western portion of the State are inquiring Why wouldn't such a one make a good representative to send to the National One enthusiastic journal has suggested in this manner about thirty names and as Nevada's u only six we aie at a loss to understand bow the editor expects to work all of bis candidates Be view The Reno says that Jerry Schooling and W 3 Weaterfield would like to go as delegates tothe Democratic National Convention from this State ard neither Senator Fair or man Cassidy wonld object to having the honor thrust upon Tbe crats of Nevada will be pretty apt tc take good care that there are no Field delegates rang in on them this year FAVORITISM is a bad thing bat Dr ite Prescription deserves its name It in a certain care for those painful dies and weaknesses embitter tbe lives of so many women Of CH A They Elect the Next the Electoral on New Platform WASHINGTON D C Jan U The programme ia now completely developed to those who have able to penetrate beyond the outer of the temple They have grouped the States by sections and by their supposed views on a tariff for and free trade or as they eu- term U revenue reform As certain tor a protective tariff they put down tbe New England States with their 38 electoral votes New York 36 Pennsylvania 30 New Jersey 9 since tbe election of Mr Payne Ohio 23 AU the 16 Southern States with their 153 electoral votes they class as free is States and therefore safe for the plan To these they add the 14 votes from the Pacific States in- tending to make them solid by some further Chinese legislation Then comes Indiana with its 15 votes Michigan hey say has twice within two years jone Democratic and can be made safe by a little attention to timber iron and copper ore Tbu wonld give them 195 of the 201 votes needed as a majority of tbe Electoral College Then they point to the votes polled for the Democratic candidates for Congress iu Wisconsin and tbe polled for the Republicans and The 11 votes of Wisconsin are safe for us Tbe prohibition Republicans have disgusted the German element aud it will stand by ns for revenue reform There is a majority of the college But this is not all they say Look at Iowa It polled votes for tbe Republican candidates for lie Democratic candidates and or Greenback candidates We can unite all this opposition to the Be- on a orm and even draw from the can ranks So tbat we can say that we lave Iowa Aud Look at the Nebraska vote We intend to give tbe people an plank and that will give ns Nebraska Yon see tbe vote Republican Hero are live more votes which we can carry for revenue reform and oly Said one of Even Illinois and Kansas are doubtful and may be brought into line with us if we can pass a whisky through the House aud it s defeated by Republican votes in the Senate nnd the same influence might give as Ohio though we have enough without either of these last named States Tbe men have adopted the words of Horace Greeley and applied them to New York New Jersey and sisters go in peace As to vania they say it never was Democratic and we want no protection Democrats They are a clog on ns One gentleman who is in the up of the new party The center of the population is now low down on the Ohio past the region of manufacturing interests and is going farther west every day We mast break loose from protection ideas be- cause the vast majority of tbe and thit majority of the people is be- coming greater every are of the West and South As tree traders we can unite them and no longer be dominated in both parties bv the Eastern and Middle States but have a homogeneous party slightly sectional it is true in locality but national in its ideas and policy The programme will be worked up to in Congress and it means McDonald as tbe candidate of the emancipated as they call themselves for President There are several gentlemen lying around loose who are baring their brows to receive the chaplet for the place In the mean time the Republicans are smiling The astute leaden of tbat party see tbat if they can possibly pat aside their own feuds this Democratic attitude assures them four more years of power The only trouble with them is in their own camp They are satisfied with the Democratic situation and are now working to heal some ulcers of their own A known Republican politician said We have everything safe from Maine to the eastern border of Indiana We have only the Northwest to look after So far as I can see these are the present indications AN fitiO DRUGGISTS IT H forXMaatitao S and It temporary a or a It is sn t a eon lib valuable of It arm not Uw or connUr o alar MM It Ox appetite it foot and MM baa abon trada Dart m red linen on wanted for MM all tM Toe jvw soM for lett our price The telling book la All rat It Any OM on become a BOOK HOT
