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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Further Particulars Of the Devils
Lake Tragedy.

Lake Tragedy.
The result of the inquest held Wednesday
is given below:
"That said Charles Wards death was pro-
'duced from wound in the neck, inflicted
by rifle bullet feloniously fired from gun
the hands of some person to this jury uu-
known, members of vanton's assembly
consisting of the following persons. Fred
Wards death was produced from wound
in the back in the regions Of the kidneys,
inflicted by shot gun loaded with about
80 B B shot. Said gun wss discharged at
short range; and also a shot
from revolver in the top of the right
shoulder. The slid weapons were fired fell
oniously, by parties unknown to this jury,
members of an armed mob, most of whom
are men hired by the Creel City Townsite
company, and consisting, so far as we are
able to ascertain, of q. s. Uline.-
The documents ending abruptly.
The names of the parties arrested are Cal
vim s. Uline, William G. Harrington, Hugh
Malarkey, Patrick McHenry, William Led
ford, Dennis Maloy, GEORGE Carpenter,
Thomas Burns Brickham Liar, Ric hard
Turpin, John Bell, and Charles Cole.
In default OF bail for appearance at the
next term of the district court at Grand
Forks, in the sum of So, 900 each. they were
committed to the officers, who took them to
the United States military garrison at Fort
Totten for Imprisonment.
The boz, les of the Wards have been sent to
their friends in Chicago.
Col. Calvin s. Uline is an old citizen of st.
Paul, and stands we'll in the community,
having been county treasurer
for several years. He went into the war as
a private in the second regiment and came
out Lieut.. Colonel. William G. Harrington
is the son of John Harrington one Of the
proprietors of the Metropolitan hotel and
president of the board of public works. He
is q young man of good character and was
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Both prohibition and local option
were killed by the Michigan legis-
lature,

The tragedy at Devils Lake by which
two young men lost their lives is greatly
to be regretted. Many lives have been
lost in striving for valuable claims at the
west, and therefore this tragedy has
often its counterpart, but it is no less
sad ON that account. The dead are at
rest but the living participants will be
subject through life to remorseful pangs,
and it will be strange indeed if they are
not followed by such misfortnnes as will
render them ''of all men most miser-
able" Law and custom may shield
them to certain extent, but there is q
higher law.that is not always taken into
account.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
The Irish Emigration Scheme

The Irish Emigration Scheme
The offers relative to the Irish Emil
grafton that tho government favorably
entertained, are from the Canadian Pa
cific railway and land companies inter-
ested in the opening of the Canadian
Northwestern. The proposal is to settle
5000 families, %, 900 persons, on govern
ment lands under homestead laws,
which give each family 100 acres free.
promoters of the scheme would become
security for 81, 100000, advanced with
out interest by Great Britain for ten
years, to be devoted to loans sufficient to
start each family, or they would become
security for e., 500, 600, with which they
would relieve the crowded districts of
Ireland of $4,000 persons. Three hum
dred laborers from Spalding, England
have sailed for America.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
DIR. Tanner Far Out(lone,

New York, Special Telegram.-John
E. Perry, aged eighty-one years, died at
his home in Bayville yesterday of con-
sumption of the bowels, after an illness
of seventy-one days. DR.. Edwin Fray,
who attended Mr.. Perry, states that he
partook ONO food during sixty-eight days
preceding his death. The only nourish-
ment taken by him during that time was
a pint of brandy made into punches,
and few teaspoonfuls of water. Mr..
Perry was from o'clock in the MORN
ing until in the afternoon dying, SO re-
markable was his vitality. When in
health Mr.. Perry weighed 100 pounds;
at the time of his decease his weight was
a trifle over thirty pounds. During his
long life, Mr.. Perry never used tobacco
nor liquor until during his last sickness.
Said DR.. Fray: Il have been practicing
physician for thirty years, and this is
the most wonderful case of living with
out food on record"
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
The Late Iowa Cyclone.

Des Moines, Special.-Advices from
Napoleon give fuller particulars of the
ravages of Saturdays cyclone in that
part of the state. The dispatches say:
At Mapleton serious effects were wrought
Six miles east of here farm house, oc-
cupied by Charles Spencer, containing
some five or six occupants, was lifted
bodily from the foundation where it
rested on . high eminence and carried
nearly seventy-five feet away, being
completely demolished, leaving the oc-
cupants in an injured condition on the
floor. OF the number hurt were Mr..
Spencer. who was bruised about the
head. Mrs. Spencer was hurt about the
head, face and back, receiving mum
Der Of painful injuries.
Further on il the track Of the storm.
the sheep sheds Of the White ranch
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Arrest of Premier Macdonald.

Arrest of Premier Macdonald.
Toronto Special: Considerable ex-
element was caused here by the arrest
Of Sir John A. Macdonald, premier OF
Dominion, on charge of perjury. He
arrived in this city from Ottawa, in CON-
pany with Lady Macdonald, to attend
the wedding of his son Hugh, a Winni-
peg barrister to local belle. The war;
rant was served by a policeman as Sir
John was leaving the church. The pc
lice officer was ignorant of the identity
of his man, and insisted upon holding
him until some of Sir Johns friends
came to his rescue. The warrant was
ssued on complaint of Gen. Built Hemp
sen, formerly editor of the Irish Cana
dian, land league paper. He claims
that Sir John promised him govern
ment appointment here and not get
ting it he entered suit, and in an affida-
Wit filled in reply it is alleged the PERU
ry took place.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
History of a Washington Lot.

History OF a washington Lot.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: Henry. Clay
once owned the lot opposite the White
house, in Washington, and Commodore
John Rogers wanted it, but the old wing
persistently refused to dispose of it.
On his return from the Mediterranean
the commodore brought in one of Ills
vessels fine Andalusian jackass which
Clay wanted for his Kentucky stock
farm. All his offers were rejected until
one day the commodore said: "You
can have him for your lot opposite the
white house." "Done," was Clay's re-
ply, and the animal was shipped off to
Kentucky. The commodore now built
the historic house which Secretary Sew
ard occupied during the war. Here
Payne endeavored to assassinate him on
the night when Lincoln was shot. The
lot is now valued at SO, 900.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Alarm About Seed Corn.

A telegram from Milwaukee says: s.
c. Enos, postmaster at Good Hope, Mil
waukee county, has discovered what has
been known elsewhere in the state for
weeks, that seed corn planted in Wis
consin and Minnesota will not germin-
ate, owing to the effect of the severe
frosts of last winter, which have killed
the germs. They refuse to sprout and
are rotting. County Treasurer Foley
has investigated and believes that Mr..
Enos is right. Deputy County Treasur:
er Everts tested carefully, and found
that only forty or forty-tive ears of corn
out of fifty would sprout. Seeding usual
ly begins about May 10, but work began
earlier this season, and seed has been
in the ground for a week or more. Seed
from Southern Illinois will not mature
in Wisconsin because it is not easily &C.
climated, and the corn crop will be set
back very materially, perhaps so late
that frosts next fall will damage the en-
tire yield. Enos feels confident Of the
truth of his statements. The great dan
ger seems to be that farmers won't dis
cover the worthlessness of the seed til
too late to plant new. 1t is feared, too
that seed which will mature in this eli
mate, and is of the same isothermal line
has been subjected to the saWe conditions
will be found worthless also.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Hard Fare of Regulators in
United States Court.

In the United States circuit court at
Jefferson City, Mo-, James w. Harrison
presiding justice. J. A. Lockhard and
J. A. Prather, judges of the Lafayette
county court, were ordered to Jail for
contempt in refusing to obey the man
date of the court directing them to levee
special tax of s., 600 to pay an INSTALL
ment on judgment obtained in suit
for county bonds. The county offered
to compromise the bonds at 80 cents on
the dollar, atwhich rate $l,700,00O of
it's bonded debt had already been COM
promised, but the holder of this judg-
ment refuses to take less than 100 cents.
The court orders the judges confined in
the iailuntil they obey the mandate.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

were completely destroyed. Here were
feeding nearly 100 head Of cattle. Here
the storm spent its fury, and . number
were killed and others injured in almost
every conceivable manner. The storm
which was quite plainly seen, when 1t
first set in, soon merged into a cyclone,
taking the regular funnel shape, at first
swaying from one side to the other,
then ascending and descending after the
usual manner. Finally fairly balanced,
it shot out on the work of destruction.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Disagreement on One Of the AS
sasSinatiOn Cases.

DAShSr001n0uG Oh O10 VI Gu0 ASe
sassinatiOn Cases.
At the trial of Timothy Kelly in Dub
lin, Saturday, the defense called four
friends of Kelly, all of whom swore
the prisoner was in their company at the
time Cavindish and Burke we're assas-
sinated. One of the witnesses called by
the defense to prove an alibi testified
that he went to Phoenix park with Kel-
ly on Sunday, May 7. and both made
an examination of the blood stains on
on the ground. The submission of EVIL
dence having been concluded, McInervy
made the closing argument in defense
of Kelly, and at 5:25 p. m. the jury re-
tired. The jury, after remaining out
some little time, returned and announ-
ced themselves'unable to agree. Kelly
will be retired on Monday. One juror
aid he wanted more proof of Kelly's
essence in Phoenix park. When the
disagreement of the jury became known
the crowds around the court cheered
Kelly and the jurors.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
The Woes of Newspaper Men.
Talmage Sermon.

Encourage newspaper men, for you
know what annoyances they go through.
Their most deliberately prepared articles
sometimes thrown out because Of pres
sure on the columns; expected to make
accurate report of some speaker who ID
so indistinct of utterance the entire dis
course is one long Topographic guess;
the midnight that finds you asleep, de-
manding that they be wide-awake; their
most careful work DETAINED by one care.
less type setter; their lives ground out
between the wheels Of our great
brain manufactures; sickened with
the approaches of those who
want a newspaper commendA-
ton or retraction; now called on TO
sketch funeral; now a pngilist encoun-
ter; shifted from place to place by the
sudden revolutions any day liable to
come in any journalistic establishment;
precarious life becoming more and more
prscaFioqs, Be afsable 70 them when
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Winter Wheat Prospects.

Winter Wheat Prospects.
8. w. Talmadge of this city is to-day in
receipt of official information from the
agricultural departments Of Kentucky,
Illinois, Ohio and Indiana in relation to
the present condition of the winter
wheat crop. Mr.. Talmadge in speaking
of the general outlook, says: Notwith-
standing so much has been said of late
about the improvements of
the winter wheat crop and
the. probable increase in acreage
throughout the spring wheat states
which from the latest and most reliable
information I fail to see, still adhere
to my estimate made April Is: Our crop
of wheat will fall short 20 per cent. of
last year, and that the United States will
not provide over 4O0, 000, 600 bushels of
wheat, or sc, 000, 600 bushels short of the
average crop of the past five years.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

Won have no axe to sharpen on their
prindgtpne. Discuss in. your own mind
what the nineteenth century would be
without the newspaper, and learn that
every opportunity to cheer all who have
ANYTHING to do with this great interest,
from the chief of the editorial staff down
to the boy who throws in the morning
and evening paper on your basement
window.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
An Iowa Post Office Crook

Post-ofice Inspector Pulsifer tele-
graphs that-he has arrested James Cut.
sin, postmaster at Worthington, Iowa,
on the charge Of OBTAINING mail. and had
\ found in his Office twenty registered
letters besides a large quantity Of ordi-
nary mail, which had been detained In
transit fron one to eight weeks. He
chaEscterisss the emsnt of the "a,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Some of the Queer Fancies of
Conductors, Engineers, and
Brakemon.

From the Bradford Star.
eyes, read that article on stage peo-
pie and their superstitlons," said an Erie
conductor, land 1 must confess that we
railroadmen as class are equally su'
perstitious. am not speaking about
thatl superstition that clings to one after
an accident, but of that possessed by
regular railroad men. I know conduc-
tor who wears long face the whole trip,
if the first ticket he should take up would
be that of colored man. He has never
had serious accident, but is always
afraid of one, when such occurrence hap
pens. I have known him to carry it to
1uch an extent that if a colored man
should happen to be his first passenger
he would sit down and not gather up the
tickets until the next station was reached.
That's a mild instance, however. A
horse shoe is a railroad mans universal
insignia of safety. You will scarcely
find a freight train on any of the roads
without a horse shoe in the caboose.
Brakemen sometimes larry whole one
in their pockets. Engineers are scarce
ly ever without one in their cab. If
anything happens to delay a train on
the first four or FIVE miles of its trip an
engineer is always superstitious of bad
luck all the way through. Ihave known
one of them enter a way telegraph Office
for orders and anticipate an answer to
"lay over" just because it was his off
night. Some engineers get to believing
that certain portions of the road are
against them, and no matter how nicely
their train glides over it; they are ap-
prehensive of danger or of being late.
conductors are tainted with the dis
ease, but not 80 seriously. If the first
pasteboard handed a certain one know
when he starts on trip should be a pass,
he il cetrain that he will have bad luck
during the whole run. Brakemen do
not show the symptoms SO plainly, be-
cause they have less to do will, the man
agement Of the train, but even they do
not escape it. Should q brake-head fly
off, an evil omen is conveyed to the
mind of some of the craft. A train of
thirteen cars often gives them the blues,
! have known one to miss trip because
the train he was TO run with had that
uumblr III ON,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

A "Professor Alexander Winchell,"
has written an article which is published
in the North American Review, favor
ing restriction of popular rights on the
alleged ground Of tendency towards
communism. He declares that new
"grangerism" is among the numerous
communistic tendencies which are ''out-
growths from the deep roots fthe social
fabric.' He thinks that these ten
denotes toward the enforced equality of
individuals and equal distribution of
property (half dozen are enumerated)
will not disappear or grow less; that
they can not be remedied by simple
repressive action at the surface; that mo
egislation:can reach the source of these
evils" Then comes the Fundamental
concept of the professors political creed !:
'There must be constitutional reconx
struction." He declares that the spread
Of communism will continue until some
great changes are made in the basis of
political power. In short, the suffrage
should be restricted, because the basal
axiom of our system of government is
'communistic;" because the distribution
Of political power in this country lis COM
munistic;" because ''America is governed
by the average sentiment of tie mass,
and not by the best sentiment" because
Communism theoretically is only the
voluntary equalization of all, and be-
comes practically the enforced equaliza-
ton of ALL" These old kingly and imperi-
alistic notions have been thousand times
exploded, and as often appear in new
form, and gain adherents principally
among the cultured and refined, who
think themselves above their fellows in
some things, and cannot tolerate the idea
of!eQual politicalrights. The publications
or such doctrines in a leading Amer
cam Review, and this acceptance in
many quarters show the solemn truth
of the axiom-'sexternal vigilance is
the price Of liberty" Relaxation Of
this vigilance for moment, brings TO tn 9
front the aristocratic ideas Of self-style
governing classes ideas which would
be enforced without hesitation, if oppor-
funities were favorable. y
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

Decision i'm South Carolina Cases
A decision was rendered by the United
States Supreme court on Monday, in the
case of L. J. Davis, vs.. the state of South
Carolina. This court holds that q mar
shall of the United States engaged Of
fcially in a lawful attempt to enforce a
revenue law by the arrest of the'persons
accused of offenses against it is an officer
acting under tho authority of that law
and entitled to a trial in federal court.
that the protection which the law furn-
ishes to the marshal and his deputy also
shields all who lawfully assist him in the
performance of his official duties, and
that therefore the case and person of the
plaintiff in error were properly removed
to the circuit court of the United States.
The judgment of the supreme court OF
South Carolina is reversed, with costs.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

Mrs. Carlyle bitterly regretted hav-
ing married an author. Young ladies
who have newspaper reporter on the
string cannot be too cautoQs.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

Commissioner Mcfarland said to-day.
the land Office would probably be located
before the railroads had determined
upon their routes, as it was important to
Lave the Office organized and in opera
ton very soon. He said ex-Congress-
man Lord ana Mr.. Whipple, as already
indicated in these dispatches would be
officers Of the new district, although.
their appointments have not been Off
cially assured. Mr.. Coburn, whose name
was also mentioned in connection with
the location of the Office, will he spe cial
agent to investigate frauds in the district.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
fee as ''diseraceful, and an outrage. o.
the people," s
A Murderous Iowa Editor.

Lemars, Iowa special: John G. Kelly,
editor of the Sioux City Tribune, made
an assault Monday afternoon upon Will
H. Herman, editor of the Democrat at
that place, and attempted to shoot him:
He was prevented by outside interfsr-
ence. Kelly resisted arrest, and tried
to kill an officer. He was arraigned be-
fore 'a Hilbert, charged with at
tempH murder. The defendant
appeafS Ind asked for continuance.
The state il represented by Matt B.
Kelley and G. E. George.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

Mahogany, ebony, rosewood and ce-
sdar are used as fuel by the poorest peo-
pie In some parts Of Mexico.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Last Weeks Fail ures.

Last Weeks Failures.
Bradstreet's balance of failures the
past week ending 18th shows 146, twenty
six more than last week and eighty
more than the same week last year.
Forty-seven occurred in the middle
states, and fifty-two in the West, with
twenty-six in New England and forty
four in the South.
More Fruit on the GallOws Tree.
Dublin dispatch 9th: The trial of MI
chael Fagin for the murder of Under
Secretary Burke was continued recent
ly. The case for the defense having
closed, Judge O'Brien charged the jury
His remarks were to the effect
that the testimony given by the
informers against the prisoner had been
fully confirmed by that of other witness
ess. The Judge having finished his
charge, thejury retired. After short
deliberation, they returned and an
nounced that they had found a verdict
of guilty against the prisoner. On being
asked il he had anything to say why
sentence should not be passed upon him
Fagin protested his innocence. He de:
clared he was Fenian, and would die
one. The Judge then sentenced HIM to
be hung May %. Fitzhams, known as
Skin the Goat, will be placed on trial
next Monday, 3lst as one of the third
principals in the Phoenix park murders.
The trial of Timothy Kelley has been
postponed until Wednesday, May 8.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

The New York University club has
got rich enough to ask for the right to
bold 800, COO worth Of property,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03

. A London dispatch says the MARQUIS
OF Lorne will probably succeed the Mar
auis of Ripon as Viceroy of India.