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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
MORE FRAUDULENT WARRANTy

Con. Beadle. superintendent Of Public In
structlon In Dakota, Says tho Plan OF 10.
suing School Orders or Wnrrants Is Beins
Worked. and Warns the Bankers.
From the Pioneer Press, 2Oth.
From Gen. W. a. Beadle, who is superip.
tendent of public instruction for Dakota, and
was in St Paul yesterday on his return te
Yankton, from long trip visiting many coua.
ties, the news was obtained that frauds eim,la,
to those tried in Douglas county, are attempted
in other spnrsely settled regions by pretended
school districts. Tho plan pursued is the old
one of organizing district by. a few men, who
camp there long enough under tents, or wac.
one, or.hoards, aud make contract to erect
and furnish schtol house, and issue the
"orders" or warrants of the district to the
amount Of from 81, 500 TO So, 900, and imme.
d,ately deliver them to tho contractor. Fr,m
tain, i, seem. that tho district is formally or
ganizsd under tho law and the officers duly
qualify. Up to this time there is 10th
ing to specially draw suspicion upon
the acts. All the rest is done at a siuglo meet.
Ing held os few dag, no Later They The follow the
legality for the whole iesus. Nevertheless
such acts are fraudulent and illegal, and Gen.
Beadle says that in his opinion the warrants
are wholly void. The district as public
SCHOOL corporation III noG autnOllZeu W create
debt In that way Warrants or "urders" can
only be drawn against fund in the treasurer's
hands. or one TO be raised by tax already
legally levied. An act limits the raising Of
funds for building school house on credit to
the issue of regular coupon bonds. The orders
referred to as fraudulent are 10 large amounts,
usually, and are endorsed as presented TO the
treasurer ':and not paid for want Of funds,''
after which legal orler runs at 8 per cent
interest until paid Bankers and others are
advised to report all large orders, and to in
quire Of county superintendents Of the proper
counties. In case of smaller orders, care is
also necessary if they aggregate any consider
able sum. Supt Beaale declined to specify
the locality of this work, as it might unneces-
sarily affect credit where found in only rare
exception He also added that by the new
school law the tow Skip is made the school
corporation, in pace Of the district in about
three quarters Of the counties, and in these
fraud is nearly impossible, particularly in
issuing bonds Bankers should insist on bonds
instead Of orders. Large orders always now
mean danger. The superintendent said that
he greatly regretted the necessity of this public
notice, and assured tho reporter that it meant
no general danger at all, but simply prudent
watching.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27

Pension Commissioner Dudley be-
ieves that the great increase in the
number of claims entered is due largely
to the Increased number of
pension agents who want the
ten dollar fees. The number of attor-
neys who practice before the depart
ment has increased from 1000 to 16 900
since the last law was passed. 1t is inn
possible that the increase in the num-
Der of claimants is partly due to their
increasing age. There are many men
who suffered more or less disability
from service in the army, and many
widows who have been able hitherto to
care for themselves, but who find with
increasing age, that a little help from
the government, if it can be obtained,
would be comfort. While We must
resist fraud to the utmost, there is no
reason why these sufferers should not
be dealt with equitably if they want
help.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
--latest Northwestern Patents.
The following patents were issued the

--latest northwestern Patents.
The following patents were issued the
II:
Charles S. Beebe, Racine, two-wheeled
vehicle; Henry Bienhof st. Paul; corner
plate for wagon boxes; Edmund R. Bristol
Madison. Wis, car brake; Viii.
liam Conner. Missouri Valley, low
sash holder, Samuel Dewall, River
Sioux, Iowa, geodometer; Casper
9. Eber, St. Paul, car coupling; Charles W.
Ferguson, GAINESVILLE, Wis, car coupling;
James A. Fillmore, Minnee polls, spring
balance shade; Henry Keller, Sank
Center, MIMI. sled; Frederick Kiekenapp,
FsiRbault, Mimi, supplemental pocket for
WOO, and billiard tables; Charles Kevitts.
Bellvue, Iowa, carrying can and jacket;
Christian LANCE, Black Earth, Wis, hame;
William Mack, Sheboygan. Wis, fire escape;
Charles 81. Roberts and c. ]. Stevens Mon
tour, Iowa, spring caster: Oby Arsturang,
Rothsay, Mimi, clod crusher; William d.
Secor, Faragut, Iowa, combined corn har-
vester and husker: Charles n. Smith, Eau
Glare, Wis., setter; Moody A. Stevens,
Anoka, MIMI, three-wheeled vehicle;
George F. Thompson, Oshkosh, Wis, thill
coupling; Thomas L. Vaught, :Maderlia,
Mimi, press 70: corn stalks, ETC.; Francis
81. West, Milwaukee, steam trap.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27

The lists of failures LOT some months
past have been quite large, compared
with those of the preceding years, but
one-fourth as many business failures
have occurred in Canada as in the
United States. In proportion to the
population of the two countries, fnan-
cial wrecks were three times as numer-
GUS in the dominion as on this side of
the border. It is gratifying to know
that failures are decreasing at the pres
ent time on both sides. The boom of
business leads to extravaganza and the
contraction of debts. These things are
infectious, and often the most conserva-
tive are insensibly led beyond thei r
depth. The recent business refuses
are simply the results of too much
confidence in the future, end will have
a wholesome effect in preventing gen.
eral revulsion.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27

Wales has forwarded q memorial to Earl
Derby, secretary for the colonies, urging
the government to reconsider its decision to
forbid the annexation of New Guinea to
Queenland, and inviting them to take
steps to provide federal government for
Australia. Ee4'I;t
A proclamation will soon be issued by
the dominion government regarding the
quarantine of vessels from the Mediterran-
can coming to Canadian ports. This is rem.
dered necessary on account OF the spread of
cholera in Egyptian ports.
A grand fete was given in London recent
ly, in support OF the fisheries exhibition aid
fund, for building an English church at
Berlin. The wife OF Minister Lowell pre-
sided, and the prince and princess OF Wales
were present.
tits settle d that Father Hyacinthe VIII
come to America. He has purchased his
tickets, will sail from France in the Arizo-
ma during the tlatter part OF next month,
and will land in New York about Sept. I.
zenning, the German-American student
who killed q fellow-student in q duel near
Wurzbu-g. has been arrested in Switzer-
land.
France will make Waddington her min
lister at Berlin.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
The SUCCESSFUL Man.

When the successful man was boy, and
lived in manufacturing village Of Now
Hampshire, widows son, the greatest lux
ury he knew was to eat apples, so he told
us the other day when We fell into CONVEX.
sation about old times.
YES" said he, when was ten years
old, I used to think that IL ever was rich
enough to have as many apples as want
ed, all the year round, I should be perfect
~ happy. And now!"
He went oh to say that he had one Of the
finest orchards, on small scale, to be
found anywhere in Massachusetts,, which
produced last year ninety-four barrels Of
apples Of the best varieties yet produced.
But he did not eat two apples per annum.
He could not; for while he was making his
foltune he worked go hard, and confined
himself Sc closely. as to contract a chronic
weakness of digestion. With all the lsxur-
les at his command, he was obliged to live
principally on oatmeal and milk.
Later in his youth his ambition scared
above apples. he was begin
nlng to get little more money than
he; absolutely needed, and vas
able occasionally to indulge in ride. He
then Thought that If he ever owned horse
fast enough to pass everything on the road,
and take no mans dust, he should be the
proudest and happiest Of men.
"Well. he continued, II have horse
that think is the fastest in the county,
but never drive him. I gave him to my
son last summer, and for my own use I
keep an old plug that joys along six miles
an hour, without troubling myself about
him."
At this point our poor successful man
YEARLY took out his watch to see how time
was getting on and we observed that the
watch was peculiar pattern rarely seen in
this country.
"This watch, said he, lis another case in
point. One of my young ambitions was to
possess as good watch as mortal man could
make. I have one. Igave $500 in gold for
it at q time when gold was more expensive
article than it is now. But knocking about
the world in sleeping cars and Mediterra-
mean steamboats, was always little an1-
ious about my watch, and. besides, the pos
session Of so costly an article by a traveller
is temptation to robbers. One day in
Paris noticed this curious little watch
marked twenty five francs. A SIS watch
was novelty, and Thought it. deposited
my 5000 timekeeper with my banker, and
it has been there ever since in an iron safe.
| find this little watch keeps time as we'll
for all tie ordinary purposes of life, az the
other, and have carried it ever SINCE"
The successful man said these things with
what we may call good humored despair.
He made no complaint, but at the age when
he ought to be at the full tide Of cheerful
activity, he appeared to have exhausted
life,
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
Political Honors in China.

In order to secure even the first fruits
OF political emolument, a mode of pro-
cedure Numerically opposite to that
which obtains in most nations, and es-
pecially in the United States, is required.
Instead of money or its equivalent in
"backers" and "heelers," brain is there
required, and an exceedingly well bal
anced and disciplined brain at that. In
40 other nation upon the earth are pol
itical honors based upon scientific attain
ments Of all branches of study as they
are in China, wherein are illustrated the
true principles by which talent and wis
dom are honored and rewarded. liter
AZURE, science, morals and philosophy
encouraged, and nations happiness
and prosperity secured. The avenues
to station and power are open alike to
all. Therea are no distinctions save those
ofeducation; none relative to nationality,
color or previous condition of servitude.
All are alike free to seek, and, i %
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27

Frenchmen in France and in other
countries, celebrated with great enthu-
siasm on the 14th, the fall of the Bastile,
one Of the most important and stirring
events of the Revolution. For period
of four hundred years the prison had
received within its gloomy walls prison.
ers sometimes committed without trial
and guiltless. On the l4th of July, 1889,
the French mob attacked it il the name
of elderly and equality" 1t had long
been looked upon as symbol and haunt
of despotism, and there was a rejoicing
throughout Europe at its fall. A few
like Due de la Rochefoucault felt that
lit is difficult to enter into true liberty
by such gateway" but the majority
saw IN the destruction of the Bastile the
dawn of freedom to the French and a
national deliverance. In most of the
larger cities of the United States, there
were professions with tableaux repre-
senting scenes in the Revolution, and
singing of the Marseilaise, with literary
exercises and banquets.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
RAILROAD BUILDINGS.

Work upon the Northern PACING is rap
idly progressing. It is expected that the
track layers will cross the Biackfoot some
time in . few days. Beyond that track
half miles day. The junction will be
m ade between Sept. and at the mouth
Of the Little Blackfoot river, where the
Utah Northern intersects the Northern Pa
ci6c.
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul road for the second week in July
were SAL, 900. against $685., 600 for the cor
responding time In 1882, an increase of $780,
600.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
LANGTRY AND HER FAC,
low the Notorious Palr We're Hooted
on the Coney Island Road.

on the Coney Island Road.
A New York letter says: Speaking of
pei sonal attractiveness, Mrs. Langtry is
not out Of sight of New Workers., though
she may have dropped out of mind with
other people. She rides down to the
races of the Coney Island Jockey Club
atop O. Freddie Gcbhardt's four.in- hand
coach. and sits no less conspicuously in
his box after they get to the course. A
close observation of the pair together
on arace day convinced me that Fred
was very deeply in love with her, and
that she didn't care flip for him. She
looked, more nearly beautiful, as COM
pared with the women about her, than
| had ever seen her on the stage, fer
her wondrously smooth skin and del
icate complexion suffered nothing from
the glare of midday sunlight. She wore
3 becoming dress Of brown China
silk, SO female expert in.
formed me, made up with
figured material of the same texture.
On her head was 4 turban of like shade
in straw, trimmed with null to match.
Her gloves were tin-colored, undressed
kid. her fan and parasol were like the
figured portion of her dress, and alto.
gether she had a much more tasteful ap-
pearance than is often achieved by an
English woman. She might readily.
have been mistaken for Partisan or
New Yorker. Freddie had horses in
the races, but her interest did not seem
to be confined to them, and her man
ner Of watching the contests, as we'll as
her comments upon them, proved that
under favoring circumstances slow,
rural clergyman's daughter may acquire
exact knowledge about the rapid diver
sions of the wicked world. Freddie Was
handsome. too, in a gray suit and a
white high hat. He looked younger
than lis sweetheart, and is so, believe,
by nine years.
A man with q back like turtle and
9 face like boiled lobster Joined her in
the box, during Freddie's absence, and
chatted with her. He locke | a. though he
ought to be turfman, but recognised
him as theatrical spectator.
Their talk was mainly shout
her next seasons tour, and what she
said was unsentimental enough, for it
revealed her overweening vanity in the
prediction that she would make as much
money as in last winters tour. When
Freddie returned and she showed n,
disposition to dismiss this fat man in q
hurry, he got SO jealousy angry that his
state Of mind was plainly visible in his
face. Mrs. Langtry smiled coyertly,
and seemed to enjoy his discontinue
greatly. ~ o.-t
But the Lily had her own turn at an
ger. After the races were over Freddie
took her to his coach, and on the way
bad to pass close by the crowd in the
field. The couple wore recognized, as
they had Immediate good reason to real.
ize. Such shouting, yelling, and whist
ling, mingled with disrespectful utter
ances, they had never encountered in
all their varied public experience to-.
gether. The scrutiny of thousands of
eyes while in the stand, though many of
them looked straight at her through
field glasses, but she wilted under this
rude treatment, chung to Freddie's arm,
and hastened away.
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potent, to obtain, positions Of honor,
from that Of petty magistrate of q village
to grand imperial secretary-an office
second only to that of Emperor. Few
there are, It is true, who possess the
fortitude to undergo the necessary edu-.
cational training consequent to, and
upon which depends, his sole hope Of
success. OF his studies there is no end.
To diligence he must add patience. and
to patience continuity, else will he fail
to secure the coveted prize. Wong Chin
Foo in Harpers' for July.
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Accident TO Chief Justice Waite.


Livingston, Mont, special-A party con-
sisting of Gen. A. n. Terry, Senator Ed
munds, Chief Justice Waite, Lieut.. Arthur
and Surgeon J. c. MCGUIRE, who were horse.
back riding in the National park around
Mount Washburn when the pony ridden by
Chief Justice Waite, annoyed by the loos-
eaing Of the saddle girth, bucked and threw
and injuring bis rib. The army surgeon
thought, after examination, that no rib had
been fractured. Another physician from
Salt Lake who happened with the party
thought differently. The chief Justice
seemed to suffer little Inconvenience from
it while there. A special car was sent down
to the end of the Park Branch track and
brought the party to Livingston. Chief Jus.
tice Waite will not go on with the party,
but will return east, and it is understood
that Gen. Terry will accompany him.
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PERSONAL FARAGRAPHs.

Cincinnati Special: Prof. John A. War:
der, the most noted naturalist and horhcu
turalist in the United States, who died on
the 18th, at North Bend, Ind, was buried
in Spring Grove cemetery, in Cincinnati, at
al were features of decidedly sensational
character. The two sons of the deceased at
tempted to have made for their father
slab coffin so that the earth would come in
contact with the body directly and cause it
to decay Immediately. The undertaken re-
fused to make such coffin, and then the
commonest kind of . coffin such as paupers
are buried in, was used. The sons wanted
the burial performed at midnight, and they
had it as near that unreasonable hour as
they could under the circumstances. The
coffin waa hauled to the cemetery in a
wagon and nobody but the two sons and
the undertaken attended tho burial. They
rode in the same wagon that conveyed the
corpse. No services of any kind were held
and the NOBLE gentleman vas dumped into
the ground as though he had died ofsmall
pox. ...il-+. 90,
K. Stevens, Esq, Of Saginaw, Mich,
writes Mr.. II. q. Young, secretary of the
state board of immigration, that a party of
about twenty gentlemen of that city pro-
pose to take sixty days excursion into
Minnesota this season with view to shoot
ing, fishing and prospecting.
Mn. Cougar, the much DETAINED temper
ance speaker of lafayette, Ind, is in hct
water again. At Anderson, Ind, the Pres
byterian deacons would not let her speak in
their church. and she hired a hall and told
their biographies. -
Ex-senator Conkling is expected to arrive
in st. Paul within week, and after brief
stay will 60 out over the Northern Pacific
road, for which he is counselor, visiting
Fargo and points beyond.
Revenue Agent Wagner has investigated
and found false the charges made by Store
keeper .Axton against Collector Grimbaugh
of the second Kentucky district. -.
Abram 8. Hewitt sailed for Europethe
10th on the servia, taking his family with
him. 'r.FT
Edward Spencer, q Baltimore Journalist
and writer, is dead. Ia. eiss'yy. "a
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
FOREIGN NEWg gOssIP.

The report made by De Lesseps at the
meeting at Paris of the Panama canal share
holder says: The cooperation of Ameri-
can contractors has dissipated the preju-
dices existing in certain centers of the
United States against his company con-
structing the canal. The sentiment of equity
prevailing among the Americans causes
them to recognize that those who have I'M
de1taken the great work of building a ca.
nal across the isthmus have no object in
view but the removal of material obstacle
to beneficial intercourse.
The executive council Of New South
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to do, when he was shot at by one Of the
overtaken BY the brothers, who drove him
to his family residence, where he Was forced
to marry Miss Alice Mortinez, whom they
say had been seduced by steinburgr. The
county judge tied the knot, and at the close
of the ceremony Paul Mortimer was arrested
and LODGED in jail. The bride and her sis
ter accompanied Steinberger to the station,
where the groom lodged . charge Of assault
with intent to murder against the brother.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27

James Pomeroy, the Massachusetts
boy murderer, has been devoting all his
spare time at the prison to study. and
has made rapid strides in French and
German. He shows great appetite in
mastering languages.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
DAKOTA

= Vanderbilt has just given 100000 for
the further endowment of Vanderbilt
university in Tennessee, which was an
especial object of his fathers benefit
cence. It was generous gift, but did
not involve much sacrifice-only his in
come for 9 week.
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THE CASUlLTY RECORD.

A Brooklyn dock was the scene on the
10th of large fire, involving heavy loss
ofNroperty, and the death and manning of
number Of persons. A spark set fire to
pile Of jute that was being landed from .
Calcutta ship, and in few moments the
whole dock was in flames. The fire spread
rapidly to the shipping in the vicinity, and
everything seemed to burn like finder. Sew
escape, and others were burned and bruised
by the sudden falling of an adjacent storing
shed. Estimates Of the loss vary from
81, ZOO, 900 to 5000, 600.
A building in New York, occupied by
Bernard 81. Smith, manufactures of piano
castings, ETC., was burned. Loss So, 600.
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Texan Nup,tals Not Yearned For

Texan Nupltals Not Yearned For.
San Antonio Special: Paul Mortinez and
party, supposed to be his brother, droy
up to San Pedro park Thursday evening,
and informed Fritz steinberger that some
ladies in carriage some little distance from
the saloon wanted to see him. Upon reach
ing the vehicle, Mortinez and other party
drew pistols and insisted that steinberger
should enter the carriage. This he refused
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There were 152 appointees to West
Polnt, ofswhom ~ were rejected at the
recent examination.
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Phinney & JAG son, merchants, of Port
land, Mo-, have spended with liabilities.
OF over $500 900. Thew claim assets are du.
from Cuba sufficient TO meet their engage
ments.