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The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
A Cree War Threatened.

Col. Ilges has received information
that the Cree Indians are preparing for
a general war. Three hundred lodges,
under Big Bear, Lucky Man and Little
Pine, are camped within twenty.fye
miles of Fort Walsh, preparatory to
crossing into Montana to avenge the loss
of Crees in the late horse stealing raids.
Col. llges' informants are scouts who
have been in the camp. 1lres imme-
diately on learning of the pro. yosed raid
dispatched couriers to Fort Walsh to
demand Of the British authorities to
take immediate action to prevent the
Indians from crossing the line, if pos
sible. He thinks the first attack will be
ma ie ON the Gros entire and Assinni-
boine Indians, and that it will cause a
general war. In which case the stock
interests of Northern Montana are sure
to suffer, and no white mans life will be
safe on the prairies. A party of Cree
raiders a few days ago stole forty horses
from the Benton & st. Louis Cattle COM
pany, and are being pursued by two
companies of Fort Assinniboine cavalry,
under Capt. McAdams, making day and
night marches. A fight will probably
result.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19

The exclusion Of American pork from
Germany on the pretext that it abounds
in trichnia, if continued, will probably
lead to retaliatory legislation which may
be extremely injurious to German in
dustry. There is no more trlchnia in
American than in German, or French,
or English pork, and the object of ex-
Guiding American pork from Germany
is simply to protect the hog producerso
that country, and If the action of the
government were placed on that ground,
our people would have no right to COM
plain, as we reserve and exercise the
privilege of protecting home industries.
But if We should lay a duty on a leading
German product, or prohibit it, as Ger
many has done, on the ground that it
was not fit to he used, and was dangerous
to the life of the people, then we would
be guilty of an unfriendly and unjustifi-
able act. The matter is eliciting q great
deal of discussion both in this country
and in Germany, and will be likely to
impair our hitherto cordial relations
with that country.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Cooks Large Contract,

The battle in Sonora, in which the
Mexican forces were victorious, has fully
established the fact that the number Of
renegade Apaches is more than three
times greater than Heretofore believed.
Gen. Garcia places the number of In
dams encountered on the west side of
the Sierra Madre mountains at from $50
to 200 warriors. From the best infor-
nation at hand the number of hostiles
in the mountains and eastern slope will
not fall short of 100 or a total of not less
than 300 warriors. The present cam
paign has brought out this information.
1t is anything but encouraging to the
people of Arizona. The Sierra Madres
are the most abrupt, precipitous, extern
sive and lofty chain of mountains in
Northern Mexico. 1t is almost impos-
sible to penetrate this vast mountain
range, and when the area, which is as
large as the state of Ohio, is taken into
consideration, every one who has the
least knowledge of such a country and
the fighting propensities of the Apaches,
will readily realize the magnitude of the
undertaking. The Modoc war was but a
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
KANSAS CITY CYCLONE.
A Path of Destruction Two Miles
Long Swept Through the Heart of
the City but Only Three Lives Lost

A Path Of Destruction Two Miles
Long Swept Through the Heart of
the City but Only Three Lives Lost
A destructive cyclone swept across the
southern part of Kansas City on the 18th
inst, u%nrooing or demolishing buildings
for a distance of two miles, the track OF the
storm ranging FROM half a block to two
blocks in width. A number of persons
were injured handsome fatalities are reported,
but the loss of life will probably not
be so great as might be expected in
view of the extent of the destruction.
AT the stock yards the exchange was I'M
rooted and other buildings damaged or de-
stroyed. Then passing on it struck the sum-
init ofthe bluff which marks the westera
line OF the city proper, at the corner of
Dripps and Sixteenth treets. Moving south
erly 1T passed along between Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets, veeriny slightly at times
until it reached Main street. Then the
course changed somewhat oward the north
east, swerving gradually until it reached
Olive street, near the eastern limits. when it
had travelled as far northward as Seventh
s checked, Here and Its as ADVANCE far was as
known now its force seems to have been
spent at this point. The storm from the
beginning of the first to the end of the
third cloud, occupied about half an hour.
Three deaths had been reported and as
many more not likely to recover. Many
persons were more or less injured, hut, as
reported, only q few dangerously so. The
loss of property is now roughly estimated at
100000. While some of the finest residen-
c-s ofthe 'ity suffered, yet many of well-to-
do citizens are RACED, aud cottages and shan
ties innumerable shaken to pieces. The es-
cape of those in he path of destruction was
marvellous, and stories of almost miraculous
delivery are beyond number.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Union Pacific Railway.

The game of bluff which Sidney Dill
Ion is playing sug sests an outcome of the
relations between the Union Pacific and
the government, which is not altogether
improbable. From 1894 to 1898, the
whole burden of Indebtedness resting
On the Union and Central Pacific COM
panies falls due. The bonds issued by
the government to help build the Union
Pacific reach $50, 1872, now amounting
with unpaid interest, te $751; us, 754.
The Central Pacific debt on the same
account aggregates $40, 46G, 100. 1t will
be impossible for either road to pay this
enormous debt. If they fail, the gov
eminent has the right to foreclose. The
companies will probably ask congress to
pass an act by which the government
will take up these bonds, and issue
others in their stead, to provide for
which the present contributions of one
fourth of the net earnings will be con-
tinued. Ifthis is not done, the roads
will be given up. The owners of the
Union Pacific already control Il parallel
line to Ogden by the Atchison and Rio
Grande roads, and a connection to the
Pacific can be easily made. The govern
ment surely docs not want the road on
its hands, and some arrangement is like
ly to be made before the bonds are due,
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Mead's Alleged Murder.

Judge Stewart, of Portage City, Wis,
will hold court for Judge Park at Wau-
paca, commencing May %. The Vandc-
car-Mead murder case will then be
tried, and the excitement preceding the
event is becoming apparent. a strong
effort or the part of the Mooney Il Ba-
land detective agency who arrested
Vandecar, aided by others interested,
will he made to convict the alleged MUIR
derer. Many who think Vandercar in
nocent say they will see fair play. The
case will be one of the most important
ever tried in the state. Mead, it will
be remembered, WAS an eccentric and
rich old banker living in Waupaca. His
bank was robbed and he was murdered
on the night of Oct. I, last. Nandecar
was arrested early in January as the
perpetrator of the crime, and has been
in Jail at Waupaca ever since his arrest.
There is a division of sentiment as to his
guilt.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
gives it his opinion that the girls story is
true. 1t is feared that Noxon will get
out Of town before he can be arrested.
A Female

A jury at Cloquet Mimi, on the 18th
nst., to investigate the burning of the
Knife Falls Lumber company's store at
that place several weeks ago have found
a verdict charging NJ. Z. Whitmore and
Mrs. Kate Mcdonald with setting the
fire. The woman is now in Carlton
county Jail serving a sentence for as
saulting a lady. Two criminal warrants
are now in the hands of the Sheriff for
her arrest, one for blackmail with q
view to extorting money from H. sBrad-
enburg of the lumber company, and an
other for burning the store. The pros
poets are that she will 90 to Saltwater.
She is II of the worst characters even
in the vicinity. Whetmore, who has
been her right bower, collected consid-
cradle money from his friends to use for
bailing Mrs. Mcdonald, but skipped out
with it.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
An Army Paymaster Defaults.

San Antonio (Tex.,) telegram: Quite
a sensation was created recently, by the
confession of Maj. WATSON, paymaster,
alleged to have been robbed of 1924, 900,
on q train near Fort Worth, that the
whole transaction is q fraud to cover his
short accounts with the government.
WATSON is now here at headquarters
under arrest, having failed to obtain a
clue of the robbers. WATSON was Or
dered to turn over the balance OF the
funds in his hands to Chief Paymaster
Terrell and settle accounts. An exam
nation by Col. Terrell exhibited short
ages of about $500. WATSON confessed
this deficit, but claimed to have made
up the amount and been robbed of S24,-
600. Further questioned, he made a
clean breast of the whole affair, that he
had put up the job to cover his evil do
ings. He was Immediately placed under
arrest at headquarters, with scanty sup
plies of necessaries and heavily guarded
by soldiers. 1t is said that his Iowa
bondsmen are good for the indebted
ness to the government, s., 800. He has
designated the hiding place of the re-
naming Sl0,500 and officers went for it.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
The Logging Season,

The Superior Lumber company have
started their mill, the largest in the
country, for the season. The com pany
has 100000 o feet of lumber to cut.
AT Ontonagon, a fine rain has given a
fresh impetus to the lumber drives on
the river, and will add millions of feet
to the receipts of the season. About
6O,NOO,O00 feet are now RATED at the
Beef Slough boom, and they are turning
out not less than 4.000,O 900 feet per day,
and the consignments are about the
same. AS high as 100000 feet per day
will be RATED, providing the owners of
logs willtake themawaya as fast as RATED.
One-half of the logs now RATED are
new logs, banked during the winter of
1928. There are about AGO men at
work now on the slough, say from Round
Hill to the mouth of the slough. There
was not less than 300, 000, 600 feet banked
on the Chippewa river and tributaries
last winter, probably 500, 0oo, 0o0of which
will be manufactured on the Mississippi
river, and the rest on the Chippewa and
tributaries.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
The Coming Railroad War.

Another meeting has been held to
settle the differences relating to freight
rates to upper Mississippi river points.
The idea of establishing three kinds of
rates has been Abandoned: 1t was
agreed that the roads in the Northwest
ern Traffic association should quote on
this business the regular tariff rates and
make no rates in connection with the
water lines. Another meeting will be
held Monday to take further action. 1t
is generally believed that a war on Up
per Mississippi river business cannot be
avoided. 1t is stated that contracts have
been made in connection with the water
line on st. Paul business that cannot be
abrogated and which will force the rail
lines to reduce their rates also. In or
der not to break up the traffic associa-
ton it is probable that the roads next
Thursday will agree upon special rates
to st. Paul and other points affected by
the water competition, to prevail dur
ing the summer.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Down on Commissioner Loripy.

Washington special:-President Will
liams, ofthe National New York Cane
Growers association, has written a let
ter protesting against DIR. Golfers re-
moval, and requesting his reinstatement
and the removal of Commissioner Lor-
ing. The present Importance and the
prospective magnitude and value of the
sorghum industry are set forth. Presi-
dent Williams then goes on to complain
at Commissioner Loring's ineficiency
and to declare that he has done nothing
worthy of appreciation since he became
the head of the department. He has at
tempted to crush the sorghum industry,
etc. The president is therefore asked to
remove him. Commissioner Lorine
does not appear in the least disturbed
by the accusations against him or the
strong opposition shown to his admin
stration of the department.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Weakening of Gladstone.

Bradlanghism has nearly proved the
undoing Of the Gladstone party in par
lament. The issue on the affirmation
bill was simply to give the intidel a
chance to take his seat in tho commons
on a compromise Qualification, which
wholly avoids the time-honored oath.
The anti radlaugh campaign was vigor-
GUS and its arguments decidedly taking,
while the Liberals did not undertake to
wage their side of the contest with my
thing like seriousness or purpose. The
result has been a defeat of the ministe-
rial party in spite of its considerable ma,
jority on all partisan issues. The Glad.
stone ministry will not reign. although
the tories are in high glee yer their vic
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Senator Fair i'm self-Defense.

Senator Fair in conversation with a
press representative regretted bitterly
and keenly the notoriety given matters
SO exclusively concerning himself and
wife. He said: II am the man, and |
an willing to bear all the odium which
the public, in ignorance of the real facts,
may choose to cast upon me; but my re-
greet is for my wife, whose name should
be associated and Incorporated in dis
patches transmitted all over the country.
Now, as always, my desire has been to
do that which would contribute to the
happiness of my wife and children. If
my wife thinks separation will contribute
to her further happiness, then her mind
and mine are alike. l have done moth
ing to merit the obloq ~ cast upon me.
God has blessed me with wealth. l
have never used it for any mean or un
manly purpose. My heart and hand
have always been open to those in dis
tress, and will continue to he to those
.ho seek or require my help. l will
shield my wife's name by every means
Ill my power,
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19

The rigid measures enacted by con-
gress for the exclusion of adulterated
and spurious teas will not protect the
country from tea adulteration without
vigilant supervision of the trade in the
United States. The importation Of inn
pure tea will hereafter be very difficult.
not wholly impossible, but there is a
danger of adulteration after
importation. 1t has been found that the
manufacturer of spurious coffee berries
from dough baked in moulds has be-
come an extensive business, and the in
experienced shopper may purchase as
pure coffee an article containing one
fourth part of such spurious berries. 1t
is probable that INSCRIPTIONS dealers
will resort to similar practices for the
adulteration of tea. Dried leaves of va
rious sorts and vile concoctions of indie
scribable character may be mixed with
good tea, unless provision is made to
prevent that result.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Dynamite N1eZzerOf.

Prof. M~ezzeroff, the alleged instructor
of the dynamite school, i'll New York
said, addressing a meeting:
In allthere are over 10000, 900 soldiers
who are supported by laboring men of
the old world, yet when l propose to
use a bomb costing $1,000 in place of Il
Krupp gun costing Sl,o0o,ooo, 1 am
called a fiend. If we want to kill each
other let us do it on principle. Gum
powder flies at the rate of 1000 feet a
minute; dynamite at 100000. Ifyou use
my explosive you can defend yourself
against all the armies of the world. l
have the same right to educate men in
chemistry that Chandler has, and l won't
stop until every w%orkingman in Europe
and America knows how to use explo-
sives against autocrattc governments and
grasping monopolists.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
The Great Earthquake in Persia.

Tabriz, the city lately destroyed by an
earthquake, with the loss o~fseveral hum
dred lives, is the capital of the Persian
province of A%zerbijan, and isa walled
city near the river All, with a popula-
ton of 100000. 1t is situated on a wide
plain, 4,644 feet above the sea. The
streets are narrow and t%ortuous, the
houses low and flat. The most remark
able structures are the citadel, a lofty
building of brick, the blue mosque,
built in the seventeenth century by ABB
Dos the Great, and the villa of the heir
apparent to the Persian throne, who re-
sides there as governor of the province.
1t is one of the most important CONNER
cial cities of Persia, and is on the cara :
van route between the interior and
T,ebizond and Tiflls. 1t has been fire.
quently captured by the Turks, and sew
eral times nearly destroyed bv earth
quakes. AT present it contains less than
100 European inhabitants,
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Suicide of a Cleveland Million.
aire,

The people of Cleveland, Ohio, were
startled Friday evening by the announce
ment that Amasa Stone, the well-known
railroad man, capitalist and p%hilanthro-
pist, hadshot and killed himself. Since
last November,. Mr.. Stone has been af-
tiicted by insomnia, brought about by
indigestion, and of late his condition has
been so much worse that he was unable
to obtain more than an hour or two of
sleep in a night. He did not leave his
bed Friday morning, and at noon COM
planned that he was feeling more de-
pressed than usual, At 9 o'clock he was
consulted by his secretary on a matter
OF business, conversing at that time in q
perfectly rational manner. About 2:3O
o'clock Mrs. Stone, who had been in her
husbands ROOF all day, went away for a
short time, as he had expressed a
desire to sleep, About t o'clock she
had again visited the room and dis
covered that Mr.. Stone had arisen from
his bed. She went to the bathroom,
but found the door locked. A servant
climbed up through the transom and dis.
covered MIR. Stone already dead, and
partly dressed. 1t issupposed that after
bathing he was seized with a sudden i'm
pulse and fired a.bullet through his heart
with accurate aim, Death must have
been instantaneous. He leaves a widow
and two daughters, one the wife of Col
John Hay, recently assistant secretary
of state, aud the other the wife of Sam.
uel Lather. Col. and Mrs. Hay sailed
Thursday from Liverpool after 81 protrac
ted absence abroad.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
The Civil Service Commission.

Randolph B. Keim having declined to
send a letter of withdrawal to the civil
service commission, did transmit one to
the president Thursday after an extend
ed interview. He is reported to have
handed it to him with the remark: 81
have brought you the death warrant of
the civil service commission MIR.
Keim says he relinquishes the place
with less regret because the power Of
the commission has been contracted to
simple examination by pedagogues
through the emasculation ofthe rules
by the cabinet. Mr.. Lyman, who has
the place and was commissioned is q
prominent civil service advocate. 1t is
expected that his appointment will give
satisfaction.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Rich Women of the Country.

Speaking of rich widows in this coun-
try, the Brooklyn Eagle says: "There is
Mrs. Stewart. worth anywhere from $780,
600, 900 to 100000, 900; Mrs. Stevens,
worth, $4,000 VIC the widow of the late
Commodore Vanderbilt, Mrs. Hicks.
Lord aud half dozen others. In Phil
adelphia are the widow of Thomas A.
Scott, who is worth at least $40, tO1, 900;
Mrs. Bloomfield III. More, worth fully as
much; the widows of the two projectors
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, who
are estimated to be worth about SIS, 900
0Go apiece; Mrs. Borie, worth about tn.
same amount; the widow of the late
George Fales, whose superb art collec-
ton was sold at auction, and the widow
50 900 600 APIECE. Any OF these ladies is
wealthy enough to buy the most prom
inent of foreign potentates."
Boston's richest women and the
amount of their possessions are noted as
follows i'll the assessors list: Mrs. Susan
y. Brooks, 81 ,034 800; Mrs. j. l.. Card
ner. 81 ,293 800; Mrs. James NJ. Beebe.
$500, 200; Mary and Anna Wigglesworth,
1897 800; Isabella p. Hunnewell, 1892
400; Susan s.Williams, 1854, 200; Aida L..
Borland, $4,000; Ellen S. Eldredge,
1871. 500; Caroline A. Brewer and IT,,
$50, 100; Lucinda c. Collamore, $780,
100; Anna G. Lodge. $3.50, 0O0; Alkaline D.
Hooper ct al, $4,000; Charlotte A.
johnson, S3l6. 800; Cora l.. Shaw, $780,
400; Elizabeth L. Eldredge, 1914, 100;
Susan Il. kimhall, $262 ,6,N; Ellen
Brooks. $685., 600; Mary IL. Sigourney,
1924 600; Mary I. Goddard, S23l 200;
Mary T.. Leeds ct al, S2"l ,5to. Mary A.
Ballou. $500, 100; Ann NJ. spaulding,
S2uo, 900; Anna Wirg!esworth. 100000;
Mary WiggleswortL, 100000.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Isaideu by King Cotton.

1t is said that an enterprise is now on
foot that in breadth and bigness is the
largest thing in this decade. 1t is a
plan to get out of the grip of the United
states $l3, 5000, 900, with accumulated in
terest for nearly twenty years. The
money was received for cotton taken
from private individualsand sold by gov
eminent agents. 1t was the intention
of Secretary Chase to hold this money
in trust for the persons to whom the cot
ton belonge !, but for some years no
body has been able to obtain a dollar.
The new combination has brains, courage
and money behind it. so it may win. 1t
will play for a big stake.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
End of the Drive Wen Cases.

The decision of the United States dis
trict court at Des Moines Wednesday
denying the validity Of the Green drive
we'll patent, recalls a group of very no.
table cases, and ends a tedious and holly
contested litigation in Minnesota and
Iowa. The Iowa case is a test for nearly
200 cases in Minnesota, and probably a
larger number in Iowa, which were
brought in local courts two or three
years ago by the proprietors of the
Green patent, to enforce their claims
for royalty upon the users of drive-wells.
The Iowa decision is said to carry with
it all these cases, and to free all users OF
drive-wells from claims for royalty un-
der the Green patent, unless reversed
by the supreme court, to which it will
doubtless be carried.
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
A Sensation Promised in Masonic
Circles,

a special telegram from Milwaukee
says: An unusual stir has been ohserva-
bic for several days among the inner
circles of the Masonic fraternity here.
On inquiry the correspondent was i'll
formed that the stir result, from a prom
Use of important and somewhat sensa-
tional disclosures in connection with the
affairs in the office of grand secretary of
the Masonic Grand lodge at the annual
meeting i'll June. AS the incumbent Of
the office is also grand secretary of all
other grand bodies, the investigation
may prove equally important to them
also, in fact common report says that
enough is known nov to insure a lively
sensation among members of all the
grand bodies and bespeak warm dis
cussion when their annual meetings oc-
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Debauched by a Doctor.

Particulars Off rape case at Inkster, a
posl-otiice about forty miles northeast of
Grand Forks, Oak, has been received.
A man named Noxon, a practicing ply
stefan Of that place, is the rapist. and a
daughter of a man named Malcolm,
fourteen years old, the victim. The
daughter was taking music lessons of
Noxon's wife, and went to the house to
receive her lesson. Noxon's wife being
absent the doctor seized the opportunity,
overpowered the girl and committed the
rape. The girl told her mother and up
on advice of counsel, Malcolm SEM DR.,
Wheeler out To examine the girl, and he
The Dickinson press., 1883-05-19
Texas Defaulting Paymaster.

No definite information has yet been
received at the war department regard
ing the defalcation of Paymaster James
r. WWa:.e m. in Texas. 1t is supposed
that the shortage in his accounts viii
amount to about $500, as shown bv
Col. Ferrel's examination and Watson's
confession. He has been placed under
arrest, but no court martial will be or
dered until the department is fully and
officially informed of all the circum-
stances. He was appointed from Iowa
and commissioned paymaster, with the
rank of major, Sept. IA, 1876. He was,
at the close of the var, a private in
Company B, Thirty-fourth Iowa cavalry.
His bondsmen live in Iowa.