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PINE LAND FRAUDS.
The Wdya Nice Little Game is Worl.ea U,2
in Wisconsin.

The Waya Nice Little Game Is Worlsea u,
in Wisconsin,.
To the Editor of the Globe:
RICE LAKE, Wis, April 19.-Haying be-
fore me an article on the subject of Land
Presumption Frauds" in Dakota and Min
nesota, contained in your issue of the 18th
inst, cannot but think that you would
place your Wisconsin readers under great
obligations to you could you spare som
of the valuable space in your paper, SO
muni1cently surrendered to the discussion
of these minor frauds, for the exposure Of
far more vicious and systematic abuse
which continues to be perpetrated in our
midst, in our own dear, unimpeached state
of Wisconsin. 1t may be, however, by
Minnesota men. l allude to the extensive
and renumerative theft Of pine timber from
the Court d. Oreilles Indian reservation.
The "modus operandi" may be briefly de-
scribed as follows: The Interpreter and
sub-agent in council having selected
for treatment favorable tract of pine
land within the reservation, the former, at
the instigation of the latter, prevails
upon an Indian to pitch his wigwam
upon eighty acres of it.
The sub-agent procures for the
Indian permit to remove and dispose of
such timber as is necessary for his clearing
and cultivation.
The Indian, always assisted By the expe-
rlence and "disinterested advice" Of the
sub-agent, Immediately proceeds to cut the
pine from the whole tract, for which the
| same presiding genius considerably finds
him market at probably $1.00 per thous-
and-paid in -four at 1919 cents per pound,
pork at 30 cents per pound, and other sup
plies at proportlonate rates. The logger
| takes from 100000 to 100000 feet of logs
from the Indians claim, employs his own
scaler, and pays for from 100000 to 100000
feet, at the rate of 81 in trade to the
Indian, and so cents to the sub-agent and
interpreter for their influence: total stump
age, $1.50; cost of cutting and haul ng,
$3.50; making a total cost of $500 per
thousand on the river bank, where the logs
| readily sell for SIS or 50.
Little short of 20,100,00O feet of pine
has been taken from the reservation upon
| this principle during the past winter alone,
and is now, or Immediately will be, in
transit to manufacturing or market points.
Now, am willing to admit that man can
see farther on level prairie than in heavy
pine timber, but the principle involved is
not, therefore, less vital In the latter ca Sc.
l have tried both. 1t seems to me that
even the Washburn bill, seeing it has
served no other purpose, might have OBJ
! talned cheap distinction by some simple
| clause affecting so palpable an evil.
VERAsC.
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THE RETOLVER ROUTE.
Indian Joe Sewers the Thread Of Life by
Means of a Six-Shnntar

~ ooo sewers Che Thread Of Life by
Means of a Six-Shooter.
Lately the city of st. Paul has been
rather neglected by the revolver. That il to
say some time ago this festive little piece
of furniture was ID the habit of furnishing
nearly every week a corpse for Messrs.
Mccarthy d Donnelly to wash up. patch
up and prepare for the cemetery.
Lately, however. this handy little life
destroyer, this pompous, noisy little
! 1isi prius Judge, that declares a dissolu-
ton of the bonds of life, without reouir-
ing much testimony, or allowing an ap-
peal, has been neglecting It's daty, and has
failed to supply the customary bodies for
the coroner to sit upon. Yesterday, how
ever, he returned to business and furnished
a body for the coroner. Peter Burnell,
known as Indian Joe," a gambler, about
1:30 yesterday afternoon went into Billy
Sands saloon on Jackson street, near Sew
enth, passing right through the front room
to the one in the rear. He said nothing to
anyone, and soon after he got into the
back room pistol shot was heard and
everybody rushed in to find Indian joe"
lying on the floor with a revolver by his
side, and a small hole in the right temple.
de was dead. Word was sent to the city
hall, the coroner and Messrs. Nc
Carthy DonnelIy, and soon after the
body was taken to the rooms of the latter
hrm. Deceased was worthless sort of a
1elloW and has recently returned from the
hoI Springs. He was about twenty-five or
thirty years of age. An inquest will be
nelo tnls morning at 10 O'clock.
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Literally Frightened to Death.
London Daily News i


No amount of experience will teach
fools that guns should not be pointed at
people in play, and that to brighten" a
woman By way of joke may mean com
hitting homicide. A girl of eighteen
named Harriet Etherington has just been
frightened to death at Brockley. She was
walking on a lonely road beside GENE
terry, when a man with something white
round his face SLEW out at her." Proba-
bly, the neighborhood of the graves may
have disposed her to be readily alarmed.
She went home, told her story, and fell
down dead at her fathers table. There
is class of idiots who think it anus
ing to play on the nerves Of
women in this manner. To be fright
ened terribly by a person IN hideou;
disguise who leaps out suddenly in the
dark, girl need not be superstitious, OF
inclined to believe in churchyard spectres
The suddenness of the attack NIGH
startle even a man of strong nerve for 6
moment. To girl, still more to child
such an attack may simply mean murder
When other children are guilty of this
peculiarly cruel and senseless joke thei
ignorance is their excuse. They car
hardly be expected, with their limited
knowledge and dormant Imagination, t.
foresee the dangerous results of theil
amusement. When a man is the joker /
is ardently TO be hoped that he may fal
into the hands of a stronger than he
armed with a sufficient stick and skillet
in its use. Such a one should assured.
not spare for the crying of the hardenet
fool who makes himself nuisance to
neighborhood, and who in this case ha
brought grief to respectable family.
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Miscellaneous.

The pacing mare, Buffalo Girl, is in the
is reported to be in fine form.
Mill Boy, that trotted to the pole with
Blondine in 2:2215, will he campaigned
again this season. Jenny Golden has
him in charge.
w. II. Crawford is giving Hambletonian
Bashaw, 2:224, easy work over the Lex
ington track, and may trot him several
races this season.
All the talk about Piedmont being
trained this season and started to beat the
stallion record, 2:15I, is nonsense. The
horse will remain in the stud. So says the
Breeders Gazette.
Darby, 2:161a, who was retired two
years ago on account of a bad leg, is being
logged again, and if he stands the grand
preparation, will be driven by Dan Mace,
who will also have Rosa Wilkes.
The twenty third annual fair of the ST..
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical associa-
ton will be held from October 1 to in
elusive. Fifty thousand dollars is ap-
propriated for premiums on horses and
other exhibits.
Mr.. Edwin Thorne, of Thorndale, N. Y,
owner of the chestnut gelding Edwin
Thorne, Daisydale, and others, writes John
Turner to enter Daisydale in the class for
2:19 horses, adding: II will foot all the ex-
penses if she fails to win."
Mr.. G. 81. Raymond, owner of the 5-year
old colt Phil Thompson, 3-year old record
of 2:21, in note to Dunton's Spirit of the
Turf, says he is doing nicely in the hands
of John Murphy, who has been giving him
road work for the past two months.
Mystic park, Boston, offers as a sensation
purse of $4,000 for the 2:21 class, entire;
by subscription, not naming the horses, tc
close May q, when $125 is to be paid
| $125 additional July 81, and $125 addi-
tional August q, when the horses are to be
named, and $125 the night before the race
Subscribers are held only for the amount
actually paid in, and horses eligible May
u are eligible for the race.
Some big prices have been paid for trot
ting stations. Col. II. S. Russell was re.
ported to have paid $4,000 for Smuggler
which at the time of purchase had shown
but 2.19S4 in private trial. Ex-Governor
| Sanford, of California, paid $4,000 fol
Piedmont, tho fastest of Almont's get
with record of 2.1714 in the fourth heat
of race, and Jerome Eddy was recently
/ purchased by the Jewett Brothers fol
| $4,000.
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many inferior ones at fabulous
prices. In consequence many dealers
ask more than the horses are worth at
home, and We will be obliged to pay their
demand before the season is over. There
have been sales made at $4,000 to Ameri-
can buyers. He will ship from London
twenty-one head, all over three years, per
steamer Denmark, April 4th. Has cross
ed twice in her, and also made last ship
ment of 1882, and November shipment of
1880 when caught in a cyclone and was out
eighteen days, proving her a seaworthy
and frst-class steamer for horses. The
weather has been cold and stormy, cold
winds and considerable snow, the mercury
down to two degrees below. Had the best
trip over he ever experienced, something
remarkable for February.
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Gone the Brav of Men,ento.

The practice of forcing yearling trotters
to the point of pulling sulkey and driver
full mile better than 800, will result in a
large majority of cases IN the ruin of the
animal. The following furnishes another
opportunity of repeating our 81 told you
sou "The bay or brown FLY, Pride, by
Buccaneer, dam Lightfoot, by Flaxtail,
owned by DR.. NJ. W. Hicks, of California,
died few days ago. She was but three
years old, and was very promising, having
a two-year-old record of 1881 in the
third heat of the Embryo stakes, and it
was said that she could have beaten 2:3O
that day. She had a yearling record of
2:441hn
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entry OF the little stranger into the world
was under peculiar circumstances. He was
dropped in snow six inches deep and was
Immediately rolled over into a blanket,car-
rled into the mares stall, and in an hour
after was capering about Horsemen are
not the least superstitious of humanity,
and some noteworthy incident at the birth
of blood colt to them presages great
things on the turf. It is related of the
mare Matilda, whose st. Leger victory over
Mameluke is immortalized in Sir Francis
Doyle's verses, that when she was foaled
John Scott mistook her for colt when he
first saw her that dark May morning. 1t
was 4 o'clock; but the early hour
did not deter the good landladY
of the Stirrup Tavern from running out to
see the foal in her shift. 1t won John
SCOTS heart, and, with true gallantry, he
offered to ''stand you a new quarter piece,
ma'am, if this Comus FLY wins the Leger,"
which was accepted, and was paid, when,
three years after, ''the bold, bay marc"
headed the Derby winner at the post.
When Wild Dayrell was foaled it was mid
night, but the butler scratched out of bed
In his night-cap, and, as it was necessary
to remove the little one to warmer box,
he got e wheelbarrow and insisted upon
wheeling the winner of the Derby once in
my life" When the stud groom got home
to his cottage, about 5, on that April morn
ing, he assured his wife there must be
something remarkable for good or evil
about the colt, for he had just seen the
strange sight of wild duck and drake
sitting on the hedge by the high road. 1t
is nA6dIass tn roDoind raad,.rs that tho colt
won the Derby of 1886. If there is any
thing in such omens, Governor Bowie's
snow-baptized colt has a great future.
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which had already announced a meeting
for July Sd and 4th. The revised pro-
gramme at Rochester is as follows: July 8
-Gentlemen's roadsters, $40; four-year-
olds and under, $3.50; half-mile running
race, $50; foot race, $40, open to all stall
lions, $500. July Mule race, $25; two
year-olds. $3.50; 2:29 class, $500; 2:4O class,
5000. These purses aggregate S1,355,
which makes a very liberal programme
for a country meeting, and ought to at
tract large attendance.
OF the string of eighteen 2 and 3-year
olds from Erdenheim (Com. Kittson) sent
to Monmouth Park three weeks ago, in
care of Midgely to be trained, quite num-
Der have already been let up in their work.
'Vigilant," in Post and Paddock in the
Spirit Of the Times, says: 'The promising
filly Rance, by Reform-Sue Ryder, has
been turned out, as have been Donald, Key
stone and Aileen. They will be taken up be-
fore fall and trained. Erasure, Bedotte,
and Temptation by Great Tom, have also
been turned out. Erasure and Temptation
will be bred to Reform. Bedotte will be
bred to Alarm, as will Miss Easton, the
tw0-year-old, by Soapstone."
Another young pilgrim has arrived at
Midway. The brood mare Picture, daugh-
ter of Ironsides, son of Administrator, and
Heloise, by Clifton Pilot, dropped brown
filly foal by this promising young stallion,
on the 18th inst. 1t fully fills the expecta-
tions promised by the superior form and
action of the one foaled two weeks ago out
of Sister, by Swigert, sired by the same
horse.
In giving the breeding of
the stallion, Swigert, in last
Mondays issue, we neglected to men
ton that the GLOBE was indebte d to the
united efforts of Col. Clark Chambers, of
Owatonna, and Secretary Judson,of Farm
ington for successfully tracing the horse
to his breeder, and verifying his pedigree.
By putting their heads together many a
tangled web has been heretofore.
The North Branch Prince Arthur, now
owned by Mr.. Long, has been wintered at
Minneapolis, and having been given regu-
lar road work all winter long, is said to be
in superfne condition this spring, and
trotting faster than ever.
Commodore Kittson's racing colors have
been decided on, and will be blue with
gold stripes, blue cap, blue visor; Sec
ond colors, blue cap with gold visor. He
has apromising lot of youngsters to bear
them.
A pointer from Owatonna says that Col.
Clark Chambers stallion, Bashaw Mambri-
no, BY Woodford Mambrino, has wintered
finely, and is sure to trot fast this season.
1t is stated that Col. King of Minneapo-
Lis, is to send several choicely-bred brood,
mar es to Erdenheim to be bred to Alarm
and Reform.
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The Trotting-Bred Stallion Theseus by
"Veteran''-Visit of Traveller" to the
Trotting Stable of Stephen Bull. Racine
Wis.-The Northwestern Circuit-LeOn-
ard johnson in France-Mr. G. A. IL,
Shave Explains-The $4,000 Race at
Charter Oak Park-Newsy Minnesota
Mentions-MisceIlaneou Notes.
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AMONG THE HORSES.

This column Will appear in the GLOBE every
Monday morning. Pertinent correspondence
viii be thankfully received, and should be adj
dressed TURF EDITOR. GLOBE Office.
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Il Horse Note.

A horse thief in Western prison com
plains bitterly that the chaplain is Pres
byterian, while he was brought up Metho
dist. He feels that his theological ''horse
sense" Is sufferinp
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OFFICIAL.
Proceedings Of The Board Of Health.
Special Meeting.

Special Meeting.
SAINT PAUL, April 3, 1888.
President Wheaton in the chair.
Present: Aid. O'Connor and Starkey, City
Engineer Somers, Mr.. President.
Minutes of previous meeting read and
approved.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
Of Health Oficer-Mortuary Report for
March 1899
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The Northeastern Circuit.

The proposed Northwestern trotting cir
cult materialized very slowly. So far only
Minneapolis and Winnipeg have claimed
dates, the latter for June %, 30 and 80 and
July ., and the former for July 3,
4 and 5. It is understood, however,
that Saltwater proposes to come in with
three days meeting, the week proceed
ing Winnipeg, June 20, 81 and %. Winnipeg
is the only one that has yet announced
its classes, given in the GLOBE
two weeks ago, the purses aggregating &c.
900. To enable horsemen to get back to
Minneapolis in good time, the last day of
their meeting is exclusively for Manitoba
horses. Minneapolis will hang up $4,000
and will announce their classes soon.
There will probably be six trots for $500
each and two RAINING races for $3.50 each,
entrance free. It was expected that Hast
ings would join the circuit, but up to the
present time no move to that end has been
made. We would like to sug-
gest that st. Paul take a
hand in the dance. While
not authorized to make the tender we feel
confident that if parties here would take
hold of the matter Com. Kittson would al
low them the use of the Midway track and
stabling for the horses during the meeting.
Either the week before Saltwater
or following Minneapolis could be
taken, either of which could be made to
pay. Will not some of our local horsemen
take hold of this matter and arrange for a
meeting. With foar meetings in the cir
cult, and the good purses announced by
Winnipeg and Minneapolis, there is no
question the classes would fill we'll and the
circuit prove success.
Leonard johnson 4crOSS the Big Bring.
The Hastings Gazette publishes the con-
tents of letter from Leonard johnson OF
East Castle Rock, Dakota county, who is in
France purchasing Norman Percheron
| horses for the Northwestern market. Mr.
Johnson'S letter is datei Paris, March Is
and states that he arrived on the 28th OF
February, having remained one day tc
attend the cart horse show of all England
and found it to be the best draft horse
exhibition he had ever had the pleasure o.
attending. They were of all ages, from
one year upwards, and remarkably even
| strong boned, together with tbs
characteristics of the shire
bred horse, making an IN
usually fiue show. The more he sees O
these horses the more he is impressed witt
their good qualities and usefulness, boil
in crossing with the common mares a
home and the pure breds for heavy work
although not superior to the Percheror
Nornans, which have successfully stool
he test. Mr. Johnson bought 119 head IL
two weeks mos u young. Found the sta
bies filed, uucn fetter and more of thea
than ever before. The breeders nave been
stimulated By The increased demand aud
large prices paid by the American buyers
which has taken every fit horse ant
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Academy of Natural Sciences. 554 Waba.
shaw Street.

u
There will be free lecture upon Draw
ing aid how to draw, and its Importance
as and aid to the acquisition of knowI-
edge" by President Sweeny, Monday even
ing, at the Academy. The subject will be
copiously illustrated by drawings upon the
blackboard as the lecture proceeds. Doors
open at 7:30; lecture begins at o'clock.
The public are invited.
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Horse Onaens.

The Spirit of the Times says: governor
Bowie's favorite mare, My Maryland,
foaIed an unusually large and handsome
chestnut colt, by Catesby, on Sunday. The
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Skinny Men.

s'Wells' Health Renewer'' restores health and
vigor, cures Dyspepsia, impotence, Sexual De-
h; Ii tv ST.
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BY VETERAN.

The TrOtting Stable Of stephen Bal, RAJ
cine, His.
To the Turf Editor of the Globe:
RACINE, Wis, April 8, 18s3.-Well, here
I am in the beautiful city of Racine.
the second city of the state, with
its 10000 population, its manufactuling
interests, its palatial residences, and its
fine drives, and the home of such men as
Jerome l. Case, Stephen Bull, and others,
whose names are known throughout the
West. After closing up my business that
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-01-19
Electro.Ganerative Fual.

At the recent meeting of the French
Association for the Advancement of
Science, DIR. Brard, of Lii Rochelle.
read paper before the physical Sec
ton. in which he described q new meth
cd of generating electricity by the COM
bustion of peculiar kind of fire-slab.
This slab consists of a brick of carbon
aceous matter and brick Of nitrate of
soda or nitrate of potash, placed to-
gether. but separated by thin sheet of
asbestos paper. and both enveloped in -
wrapper of asbestos. The carbon brick
is formed of about one hundred
grammes of coal-dust kneaded into q
paste with tar or molasses, and shaped
in mold by heat. The mold gives the
brick pitted surface above, and per-
forates it with holes through and
through from the upper to the under
side. Strips of brass or copper are also
imbedded in the under side of the brick
to serve as an electrOde for the carbon
pole of the electro-generative element.
The other brick consists Of q mixture of
three parts ashes and one part nitrate
Of potash or soda, melted together and
poured upon the pitted surface of the
carbon. which. however. is first covered
with layer of asbestos paper. Strips
of brass are also imbedded in this COM
pound TO serve as an electrode. The
slab thus formed constitutes genera
tor of electricity when wrapped in as
bestos and placed in furnace or fierce
fire. In such an element the carbon
forms the negative plate and is oxidized
just as zinc Is oxidized in the ordinary
vOltaic cell, the nitrate of potash being
the oxidizing. substance. The slab be-
comes thermo-chemica battery, and
DR.. Brard states that an electric cur
rent is obtained strong enough to actu-
ate an ordinary electric bell. By con-
Meeting mp several of these elementary
slabs after the manner of a voltaic bat
terry, more powerful current is the re-
suit, three or four cells being sufficient
to decompOse water.
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At first she thought she would hunt
up Mrs. Volney and speak her mind to
her, but the ride.h0ms and the soothing
purr Of the old cat. which lay In the no
longer tabooed arm chair. claimed Pol
". and sober second Thought prevailed.
She did her own fal! blowing; it kept
her at home three weeks, ard when next
she met Mrs. Volne,, who had heard of
her disappointment through the Super.
intendent, neither If them made any
reference to the HoasoS Farmer
But rs the Fd,1nr came to her reUu-
larly, she gradually learned to look for
it, and felt new Importance TO have
some mail for her at the post Office.
From reading current prices. weather
notes and prospec' of crops, she began
to care for other things; 30 that by the
next fair she pres ented herself at the
Office with another loaf. and to the smil-
ing Superintendent lMiss Gorden, If
you get the blue ribbon, remember it is
only the Weekly .Iansas Farmer for one
year from date We can give you," she
was able to repl, with a return smile.
IL don't want any otlir. This is the
best kind for me-" j.
However. in Mrs. Vols. : house. the
inquiry Is made weekly ,..Has Polly's
educator come yet?" art-,; always ere.
ates ripple OF laughter among the
young folks.