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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05
LAND POLICY OF THE NORTH
ENN PACIFIC,

From tho Portland Oregonian, May nth.
During the trip recently made by Mr..
Willard, from Pendleton to Walla Walla,
several questions we're asked him and
Land Commissioner Lamborn by farmers
living upon land withdrawn for the n. p.
r. r. Co., concerning the future policy
Of the company in relation to these set
tiers. We give below the substance Of
the answers made to some of the most
important of the questions, which may
be considered as an authorized expression
Of the policy which will be pursued by
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
toward the settlers on railroad lands in
the agricultural districts Of Oregon and
Washington.
The company gives assurance that it
will deal with all bona fide settlers on its
lands with fairness and libcrality, and that
the same disposition to recognize the
equities and interests of the community,
which has always characterized the man
agement Of the eompasies under Mr.
Wizards control, wlIl be shown towards
settlers on railroad lands. 1t is manifest.
ly to the interest of the railroad company
to have the country settled up, and it
will endcavor to do nothing to retard such
settlement In regard to settlement on
the so-called "unearned lands" which
have been Withdrawn for the company
along the lines Of road not yet construct
ed, and to which the company will be en-
titled so soon as these lines are built, it is
the purpose of the company as far as pos
shlc to secure the right of purchase to
the bona tide settlers who may have gone
upon the agricultural lands and made
thereon good and substantial improve
ments. As these line. are constructed,
the lands will be carefully examined and
fair and reasonable valuation will be
placed upon them. This valuation will
be made by the settlers on such lands as
are occupied and improved
In cases where in past years settler
has gone on railroad land and in good
faith resided upon and improved it for q
home, the company propose to allow such
actual settler the privilege of purchasing
the quarter section of land on which Iii
buildings and improvements have been
made, at the minimum price of 49, 60 pc
acre cash, or 81 per acre on time. 1t il
int nded that the privilege to make pur
ciascs a these minimum prices shall, st
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05
CROP FAILURES,

The Tacoma Ledger says: "Crop
failures are the rule rather than the ex-
ception in California. This is unfortu-
nate for the country. 1t is, however, none
the less true. But month ago and the
people and the press Of that State were
jubilant over the promise Of harvest
almost unprecedented in the bountiiul-
ness, and now the cry is reversed That
vile climate has worked the whole mis-
chief and made the rule read the ether
way.
On Puget Sound crop failure is 80
very rare, that solitary sample cannot
be found 70 do the duty Of an exception
and ''prove the rule" We are blessed
here with a climate to which cyclones
'biting northers,' and such-iike uniesir.
able phenomena, are unknown. The
oldest inhabitant docs not remember any
elemental commotion in crop season, more
serious than cup-full of wind, and, if
there were no other casualties to record
on land or sea, than those due to human
recklessness, it would be cold day fol
the item-hunter of the press"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05

far as practicable, be confirmed BY the
company to the actual settler, wLether
any application for the purchase Of the
land may have been made by him or not.
The lands Of the company contiguous
to the constructed line Of road are now
being carefully examined and valued, and
are now being sold at prices and On terms
prescribed by the company. 1t is the
announced policy Of the company to open
to sale and settlement ali of its ag.icu!-
tural lands as fast as possib!,, aud to s,im-
ulate the settlement Of such lsals in every
way in It's power.
| Mr.. Willard stated in his speech a,
The Dalles that the railroad company will
soon make a definite decision regarding
the construction Of the road down tn,
Columbia river, and the line across th
Cascade range; that if the construction
Of these lines is not decided upon With
q reasonable time, it will be TO the intel
est Of the company to put an end, at Il,
earliest possible moment, Of the holdin
under lock and key, 30 to speak, whic
has now been continued for twelve year
to the titles TO the vast areas Of land
Washington Territory and Oregon. I'll
railroad company recognizes that its pro
perity will depend more upon the deve
opmcnt of traffic by the settltmes {
these lands than upoa their contingel
ownership. Whatever can be done |
the company consistently with its tru
obligations to the holders of its first NOR
gage bonds and with fair treatment {
bona 6de settlers, to open these lands
general settlement, will be done witho'
unreasonable delay.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05
lITORY. THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1883.
A DREAM.
FROM STORY RELATED BY MR. MOODY IN
ADDRESS At KxAIBiTtON PALACE DUBLIN.

ADSAASS Al iAAAibiiloN PALACE DUBLIN.
In dream Of the night evil .pirits held
A region ii q darkness II. pl... 1of their greet
ing;
Through the awe Of that vision my soul
seemed to know.
TheyShsd walked through the earth TO and
fro, to andsfro.
Dark Lucifsr, Son Of the Morning was there
The mien Of 4 king, yet the brew Of despair;
And tends with deep counsel their mou-
arch drew near
Hsw souls to drag dows to those regions oI
fear.
Far away. far away. did the angels rejoice
Ger sinners arising to hear Jssus's voice
But tn. sladness that songs Of the sersph'
Was wailiug aud woe 70 the ds.ons Of hell
One said, LET me 60 forth their hope t,
deny.
To tell them Nc Heavs. waits for them o,
high,
No hell 10 torment a.d no Christ to rscsivs;
But sullsn the answer, They will not bs
Lsvs."
No." csunssllsd another, "I'll tell thsa
tbs true;
Yet to help Christ's atoasmsat is left then
to do;
To work =. part payment, t. struggle sa'
But sull.n tn. .a,w.r. "rA.y will not bs
ievs."
''Lst me turn" cried another Gods trstl
to lie,
And whisper that mercy for al wait. .,
High;
As an angel Of light will such teaching. Dc
ccive!"
But yet Satan answered, "TAey will not be
lievs."
Then spake one dark 6sad, NAY I'll min
gle my voice
With the tale that makes earth's fallen chill
drcn rejoice:
But Ill muttsr, 'Notyet; till Tomorrow
For Christ ever stands ready to throw wid'
the gate
"Asd fears win grow fainter. a.d h..ds viii
grew Geld,
Earth cares aAl earth snarss will each spisi
snfold;
AHd hell will b. pssplsd With these who oAe'
cried,
Tomorrow. 0 savisxr. l ssns to Thy eide ,
Eyes, e forth and prosper" - rank my darl
dream,
And hell with lsst spirits s'erAowing did esen
And walked with gasp to the light Of tb,
morning,
And l prayed for vsies to give sinners
warning.
Tomorrow t. morrow the death -knsll o
hopc.
AZ when the lost mariner lets 20 tho rope;
He may aoat for awhile Or the waves t. hi
doom,
But thsy'l bear him down yet t. their fatb ON
| less gloom. NC.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05

Secretary Teller, it is reported, \ d.
sirous of distinguishing his admiaistsa-
tion In tho interior department, BY tho
general establishments Of industsial
schools among the Indians. His inAu-
cnce has already been felt in increased
appropriations for the schools nov IN op-
Grafton. That education, 10 tAiakas
which weans the Indians from tAer sa-
ly surroundings aad makes him anh1.
tious to live among the whites and which
gives him the means of making . living
and the Industrial disciple to apply them,
is that which Mr.. Teller believes viii b.
most etfactual. He has small faith il
the system which proposes to send the
educated Isdian back to his tribe y
teacher A recent report from the In
terror Office gives some interesting infor-
nation. There are now so-called co.
900 civilized Indians, who live upon tho
charity Of the government. From 1856
to 1868 govermenment spent for indians
s49, 9,000,0e0; from 1869 to 1883 there
was spent for Indians SOL ,000,0O0 The
excess is about sia,OOo,OO0. There b
spent now annually about $4,000, 900,
on Indians, or about $3.50 per capita,
counting Indian women and children.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05
40
DEATH OF .. q. sx1DMonn

Early yesterday morning the wira
brought the news Of the death of Steph-
en- G. Skidmorc at San Rafael, Califm-
MIA, last Monday night. fThe announce
nent in yesterdays Oregonian Of his
fatal illness made the news les unexpect-
ed, but no less shocking 70. his 'ftiedns
His age was "A years He came 70
Portland in the fall of 1850, = poor boy,
and earned about his first money = car
rier for the Weekly Oregonian. Thia
went to the support Of his mother. ooes
Afterwards he catered the employ oT ~
drug house Of Suith 4 Davis, aad by
his application and honesty he won II
way to the foremost place anosg ~ en-
Iployees. In 1867 be began business q.
his owa sceoant and accumulated H.
tune estimated At $l5O,OO0. He Lave.
two sisters, Mrs. Preston Of vaaoouyer.
asd another living. in tha east. To tAs
city he rendered good service = meu-
Der Of the common council and of TIA
board Of police commissioner II I
: small circle, who enjoyed his warm-heart.
ed friendship As win Be sadly niassd
and there are many to rcvcrse his nem,
ory for numerous acts Of charity. Il
9 his death Portland losses good and Ne
full citizen.
y The remains will be brought to III
i city BY the steamer Columbia, wAicl
! sails to-day, and the funeral viii tak
! place Sunday-Oregonian.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05

Geo. ". Crane, of Manchester, N. H.,
has been stopping in Colfax for several
days. He contemplates purchasing rail-
road land and will also take Government
claims. He states that as soon as tho N.
2. railroad is completed many families
will emigrate from New Hampshire to
Washington Territory. Mr.. Crane is we'll
pleased with the country. He says that
our gently undulating and slightly roll
ing hills remind him of home Vidcfte.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-07-05

The San Francisco Examiner Of tho
18th has the following:
"A melonchonly story Of domestic n
felicity comes from the last steamer from
Oregon. On that steamer was an old
German and his wife, comparisons Il !
lifetime. There was also jolly drum
laer, who made it habit Of going 70 bed
drunk every night. The .d1umnef's
state room was next to that Of tAs old
German couple. One night the German
was attacked BY his chronic conplaiut,
lumbago, and the wife went to the kitsh-,
en-, where she made an old lashioAed
mustard poulticc. She returned to 10
upper de,k, and by mistake went into
the drummcr's room. The drumner
WIS lying upon the bed . his usual stu-
por, and the good wife, supposiag Him
to be her husband, slapped the pouliioe
on his back. Then she discovered her
mistake and rctrcated. An hour after-
wards the ship was aroused by dreadful
cries of "Fire! 6re! proceeding fkon
the 'ilumm,r's room, and upon every 90
rushing there they beheld the poor nan
wrishing in uncarthly torments md
shrieking, sMy back is ~ tire Pour
water on it! Turn the ship upsids
down." After considerable trouble the
plaster on his back was removed, but IL
old couple never spoke on that subject
any more"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
TOWN TALK.

/ had occasion to interview several of
IL leading merchants on the paving
question and was much struck with the
tone of their answers to my questions.
The expressions of indignation against
the course of the council we're unanimous
and the opposition to sandstone universal
along the streets which have been order
ed paved with that material. But with
very few exceptions, heavyshippers begged
that their names should not be given as
opponents of the Colorado stone. Don't
quote me-" was the ending of at least q
dozen interviews. Said one of our heavi.
est wholesale merchants: SIT is a gigantic
scheme for swindling our PEG,
pie which is being forced through
by open bribery and corruption, but
dare not denounce it publicly, and scores
of merchants in Omaha are in the sam,
boat. Why Because we do not care t,
be ruined in business by mourning tn,
enmity of the Union Pacific officials VIII,
are engineering the job. l refused I,
sign for sandstone in the first place, al
though | was very much pressed to do s.
by Horace Newman; but i cannot, mucl
as l would like to, take an open hand il
these injunction proceedings. / hav
seen too many men broken up by fight
ing the railroads. But don't quote me.
Another shipper said to me, EVERY pei
sonal and business influence possibl
has been brought by the railroad official
to bear upon our merchants on this paw
) ing matter. Shelby and Newman an
the principal railroad bulldozers and the
, have been cracking their whips over on
heads for the last six weeks. | refuse
! to sign for their miserable stuff but tina
is as far as / dare to go. Failing in bull
: DOING themerchants, the railroad official
, trained their shot guns on the couno
! and brought down nine men while Mayo
Chase was captured by threats of imp,
achment if he dares to refuse his ~signatur
to the paving ordinances
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24

ing so thoroughly broken. They had been
having a dry spell in Manitoba up to the
middle of this month, but rains have set
in and the season promises a very large
crop of spring wheat, which is the prin-
cipal grain raised, The spring wheat har-
vest does not commence until the latter
part of August.
Sixty miles west of Winnipeg there is
a large Mennonite settlement, which is
reported as having very fine and extensive
farms, and rs fast becoming very wealthy.
The country, between st. Paul and St.
Vincent, on the boundary line between
the United States and the British possess
sions, is a very magnificent wheat-grow-
ing district. There are wheat fields there
thousands of acres in extent.
Mr.. Wishart, with his wife, spent a
day on Lake M~innetonka. There is quite
a number of st. Louis people at the diff
ferent hotels on thelakc, but the weather
so far has been too cool to be very enjoy
able. Large preparations are being made
by the h~otel-keepers for a big business.
Mr.. Wishart found the passenger travel
very heavy IN all the roads he went over
while north, being principally excursion
and emigration business. MI. Wishart
has been absent just two weeks, and had
a very pleasant and interesting trip.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
The Greatest Need of the Working Class.

An editorial in the July Century says:
cit would seem that the working classes,
in their endeavor to improve their lot in
life, have largely INSTRUCTED their eff
forts, by seeking too exclusively to in
crease their income instead of trying to
get more happiness out of the income
they now receive.
For generation past, the workingmen
of all civilized countries have striven by
every means they could devise to raise
their wages, in the evident belief that
wages could be raised even in opposition
to economic forces and natural laws, and
in the further belief that a sufficient in
crease was the one thing needful tomake
them happy. In these endeavors, too,
they have had the sympathy, and, so far
as possible, the assistance of their friends
i'll the higher ranks of society; and so ex-
clusively have the efforts of both been
turned in this direction that the labor
question has come to be almost synony.
nous with the question of raising wages.
SNOW it is certainly desirable that the
incomes of the mass of men should be in
creased wherever an increase Is possible,
and it is specially desirable in the case of
manual laborers, whose present incomes
are so small. But it is clear to all in
structed minds that the machinery of
trades unions and strikes, and schemes
for state aid to industry, andall the other
devices that have been proposed to in
crease the laborer's earnings can do com
paratively little toward accomplishing
their purpose, and the history of the past
thirty years shows very clearly that they
have done but little"
In the course of the article the editor
remarks as follows: SIT seems to us that
what the workingmen most need, for the
present at least, is to learn better how to
use the income they now receive OF
course, if a man only earns enough to
furnish himself and family the bare ne.
cessaries of life, he can do little toward
improving his lot till he has more pecun.
larry means. But many workingmen
earn more than the necessaries of life,
and are able to procure some of the com
forts and even luxuries also. But in
choosing the kind of comforts and lux.
uries they will enjoy, the mass of work.
ingmen show little wisdom: and it is here
that the greatest improvement in their
affairs is to be looked for. They are apt,
especially the more ignorant of them, to
prefer the coarser pleasures to the more
refined, and the transient to the enduring;
and it seems to us that by the choice OF
higher and more enduring pleasures, and
by greater wisdom in using the means
they have to ecure such pleasures, their
happiness can best be promoted"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
PERSONALITIES.

Admiral Porter is said to be a naval dude.
Dennis Kearney admires George Francis
Train. SO does George.
Senator ]. Brown, Of Georgia, drinks out OF
a pitcher instead of a glass.
DIR. Mary Walker says she expects to live
long enough to get elected to congress-.
DIR. Greene s. Apple lives in Wisconsin.
Sour is supposed to be his middle name.
NJ. De Lesseps wants to dig one more canal
before he dies. He always bets on spades.
Charles Wyndham, the actor, was not
laughed at in San Francisco. Hence these
tears.
Elko, New, has a Chinese bloated monop-
oily. Hop Sing has purchased the water
works.
Another postofice which ached to be
called Hatton has had to be content with
"Hatoff."
"Ouida," the authoress, is suffering from
overwork. She probably tried to write more
than one novel a day.
Daniel O'Connell's birthplace is a neglected
ruin. 1t must look something like q once
prosperous mining town.
Mayor Carter Harrison, Of Chicago, has
boon called n buffoon by Henry Waterson.
Carter has not yet challenged Henry.
John Arsenal Knox, of Texas, will hereafter
fight all his duels with a paste pot and a pair
of scissors, says the Philadelphia Press.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is q bitter opponent
of superstition, but he carries q horse chestnut
in his pocket as a protection from rheuma-
tism.
Mrs. Carlisle, wife of the Kentucky con.
gresham, is taller thar her husband, with a
reddish complexion and Scotch Irish type oi
features.
Tabor, of Colorado, is president at last-oi
the Denver Exposition. He will exhibit q
copy of his record in congress and one of his
$3.50 night shirts.
Henry James is spoken of by a London news.
paper as "a cultivated Yankee, without imag'
nation" When MIR. James read that he felt
rs if he had the Jams"
Proctor Knott, candidate for governor OF
Kentucky, has a fiery red face, snowy white
hair and mustache, and beautiful blue eyes.
The national colors are all there.
The Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovitcf
has been arrested for interference with the du'
ties of the governor of Turkestan. Part of his
name got away in the excitement.
The Marquis of Landsdown will sail fol
Canada in October, and assume the duties OF
encouragement. He will bring with him his
heavy under-clothing and ear-lnutfiers.
Mrs. Charles A. Dana is a charming lady,
past the middle age, with gray hair and fan
skin. She has fine, expressive eyes, dresse:
with taste, and is an excellent conversation
alist.
Henry Ward Beecher has taken the wings
of morning and will try to lose himself in the
continuous woods where rolls the Oregon and
hear no sound save the murmur of his owl
lectures.
Duke di Pipaldi, who has just died in Rome
| u,hara ha ,,y,,al tba Enrnao;nn Dolooa harar
life as q ~scullion in Marshal Narvaez's kitchen
He then became a barber, and then u lover o
the vulgar Queen Christina, who made him
Duke.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
LITERARY NOTES.
THE AGE.

Many people regret the fact that the
treasures of foreign literature are mac
cessible to them because they have not
mastered foreign languages sufficiently to
be able to read in the original. To such
people The Modern Age particularly re-
commends itself, as its able translations
are opening up rich stores of fact and tic-
ton which have hitherto lain UNEMPLOYED
by the great mass of American readers.
The August number, for instance, con-
tains translations from the French of AL
fred de Musset and Ernest Legouve, from
the Italian of Edmondo d. Amicis and
Giacomo Leopard, from the German of
Rudolph Lindau, and from the Russian
of Ivan Tourgenieff, besides the cream of
the English monthlies, and editorial
comment on many interesting subjects,
grouped under the heads of Sayings and
Doings," Books and Rook Men," and
Stage and Studio" All this is present
ed hin attractive form, and at the low
price of $I.6 go per year. The magazine
has ~deservedly met with a success which
is accorded to few periodicals in the first
year of their existence The Modern
Age Publishing Co., New York City.
II NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
for August opens with a very spirited
discussion of the subject of "Moral In
struction in the Public Schools" by the
Rev. DIR. II. Heber Newton, who offers
a practical scheme for converting ethical
instruction without reference to religious
%tenents, and the Rev. DIR. Francis l..
Patton, who maintains that the Bible
must be made the basis Of all moral teach
ing. Henry ID. Lloyd exposes the tricks
and frauds of speculation in grain, which
operate to make bread dear, and main
tains that they should be repressed by
law, as being ~tlagrantly in opposition to
public policy. woman in Politics" by
ex-Surgeon-G General VIM. A. Hammond,
is a caustic discussion of certain facts of
nervous organization which in his opin-
ion render the female sex untitled for
participation in public affairs. Hon,
Francis A, Walker reviews ''Henry
Georges Social Fallacies, +" criticizing in
particular his doctrines regarding land
B tenure and rent. The evils resulting
from "Crude Methods of Legislation, =
, both national and state, are pointed out
by Simon Sterne, who advocates the
+ adoption of certain rules of Legislative
procedure which, in English practice,
, have been found TO serve as an effectual
barrier, both against lobbying and against
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
The Philadelphia Times has sized u,

The Philadelphia Times has sized UP
correctly the situation at Greystone in
the following language: 81. Mr.. TIlden
will gladly accept the nomination for the
presidency-if he can get it. 2. He will
write N of the best of political epis-
ties, to be read in convention, declining
the nomination-if he can't get it. 8. He
will continue to maintain his proclaimed
indifference about the presidential nomi-
nation, and prove that he doesn't care a
button about it by-doing his level best
to bunch a Tilden majority in convention.
The foregoing three points cover the
whole ground of Mr. Tilden's attitude on
the presidency, and all other reports are
bogus. Copyright not applied for"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-24
StOut's Influence.

York Democrat.
'"Boss' Stout is credited with having
powerful influence in the republican state
convention" says The OMAHA BEE.
Well, Boss Stout ought to have powerful
influence in the council chambers of the
good republican party. He has just been
awarded the contract for building a wing
to the Capitol building at over $41, OOO
more than the other fellows bid, and
$41,OOO always has a powerful influence
in a republican state convention in Ne
braska. 1t does not go towards electing
the ticket, but it insures the nomination.
Yes, Stout has the influence.