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Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

The new speaker of the house of rep
resentatives is thus photographed by
the Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times: He is tall man with
a slight stoopin the shoulders. He
has very large head, high above the
ears, with tremendous indication OF
strength in his square, smooth-shaven
jaws. His complexion is sallow-the
dead pallor of a close studdnt His
eyes are keen blue, deeply set under
bushy eyebrows. His nose is cross
between the Grecian and Roman His
mouth is large and firm in its Lies.
His hair is dark-brown and is just be-
ginning to be thin upon the crown.
He wears the conventional loose-tit-
ting broadcloth suit worn 10y the aver
age public man. He apparently new
er gives - single thought of What he
has on, but his appearance is always
neat and the very reverse of careless.
He is very simple and democratic in
| his manners, but Is never FAMILIAR
with anyone. No one would ever
dream of taking a liberty with Carlisle,
| while the kumblest would feel at ease
in his presence. He is a profound
student of all political questions, and
is nearly always at his desk. At his
rooms, when not engaged in his active
duties in congress, he has none of the
arts of the politician, and he has won
the speakership solely upon his own
merits and the general recognition OF
his bright qualities as statesman. He
is As years old and possessesa modest
fortune, although not sufficient to sup
port him without the income from his
law practice, which is considerable.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Pioneer Press: A personal inspec-
ton of the whole line of the Northern
Pacific convinces Vice President Cakes
that everything is in most satisfac-
tory condition. The future prospects
of the road, he says, judging from the
results thus far obtained, are highly
encouraging. During the month of
November the earnings averaged
$1OO, 800 a week; and he is of the opin-
ion that, with its present equipment,
at least SO per cent more business
could be done. The policy of retrench-
ment, he says, will only be followed
in regard to operating expenses, con-
struction work and improvements
being continued as time and the needs
of business will warrant. The COM
pany has been surprised at the am
CUNT of local business, and finds-what
every one acquainted with the North
west long ago predicted-th new
districts are continually opening up
and becoming factors in the business
interests of the country.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Ben Butler has big scheme on
hand. The publication of an appeal
to workingmen to organize for the
Presidential campaign signed by r.
III. Kinney shows the "old mans
hand. A prominent republican says
Buffers programme is to work up
the national labor movement; call the
labor convention to meet some time
before the democratic convention and
get the presidential nomination with q
whoop and hurrah and then go before
the democratic convention and de-
mand the regular nomination. He
will tell the democratic convention
that'he proposes to run as an indepen-
dent labor candidate in any event and
that John Kelly in New York and
Malone in Virginia will join their
forces with his with possibility that
Chalmers of Mississippi will wheel his
party into line.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

nication with every part of the North
west, unfolding plans for the enlarge
ment of business here and making
known the wonderful Developments
that have already been made. There
has been no idling nor listless waiting
for something to turn up. The BUSH
ness enterprise that now makes Du-
luth such an important factor to the
entire Northwest has accomplished
wonderful results in brief
period: it has prepared the means of
doing business here, has gone out to
every corner of the Northwest and in
vited business to come, and has inau-
gurated system of enlargement that
will develop yet more wonderfully
within the next two years. The same
number of men could have done more
than has been done. The same
amount of capital could not have
been better applied, nor been more ef-
fective in meeting the requirements
resting upon Duluth. Our namesake
is either misinformed or misunder-
stands the condition of affairs at
Duluth. Certainly Duluth is ne
cessityn TO the Northwest, that is a
lake port is necessity and Duluth is
the port. Every man in Duluth rea-
Lies the fact and every man wi o is
resident in Duluth is straining every
nerve to help meet the demands that
are made upon the place by all other
places having business relations with
the port. See the warehouses, the
decks, elevators, storehouses, spurs,
tracks and slips that have been con-
structed, and then turn to others that
are already undertaken for next year
succeeding! Vastly more has been
! done here and is being done than in
many cities five times the size and
population of Duluth. Already Duluth
mas three of the largest elevators in
the entire Northwest, and within the
year that is to come she will have
more and larger elevators than any
place in the West outside of Chicago,
st. Louis and Toledo. Will the Tri-
bune make note of this? These huge
repositories and transfers of wheat
have not grown: they have been built
by Duluth pluck, enterprise and
money. The same enterprise and en-
ergy have been shown throughout the
entire range of business relations.
Building has been pushed forward
with wonderful impetus in order to
accommodate every class of business
that men may come to found. More
than that Duluth has indGstriously
prosecuted every legitimate means OF
making known to the country the adj
vantages, yes the pressing need OF
men and capital at this point to
facilitate the transaction Of business
that is already doing with the wide
range of the Northwest.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

and sale ofpublic lands and the right
of way to railroad companies; the bill
for the payment of the Sioux claims,
and the bill to repeal the presumption
laws.
Maj. Strait will reintroduce the bills
to equalise the rights of settlers under
the homestead laws; to amend the
statues recognizing the militia, and
for the relief of settlers on railroad
lands.
With an early start, aud with the
experience and energy o: our delega-
ton, we should not be surprised to see
these measures all get through at this
session. The house is democratic, to
be sure, and our delegation is solidly
republican, but the measures they pro-
pose are not political, and the Mime
sofa men are not SO bitterly partiZai
as to make needless antagonisms.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Pail Mall Gazette: Life in the ST.
berian mines is not such an altogether
unmitigated curse as popular imagin-
alton pictures it From some of the
greatest evils which men elsewhere
have to suffer, the convicts of Eastern
Siberia are happily delivered. There
is indeed marriage but there is no
courtship, nor need any man com
plain that he is ''mated to savage"
or shrew. When prisoner wishes TO
get married, all he has to do is to send
in an application to the overseer, who
straightway allots him wife. Three
days probation is then allowed, and
if any incompatibility of temper seems
likely to arise the man receives twem-
ty five lashes and another wife and so
on until he is contented.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

The Northern Pacific has issued
a circular announcing that on Dec. 1f
the new standard time will be gen.
orally adopted along the line. The
st. Paul. Minnesota and Wisconsin
divisions and branches, and Dakota
divisions and branches will adopt the
central time: the Missouri division,
Yellowstone division and branches,
and the Rocky Mountain division
mountain or 1O5th meridian time:
the Idaho division and branches, and
Pacific, or 10th meridian time. The
st. Paul, Minnesota and Wiconsin
divisions and branches adopted the
new time on the 18th ultimo, so nc
change will be made by the employees
of those divisions.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

In answer to our remarks of two
weeks ago, berating Duluth for devel-
oping SO slowly and her business men
for lack of progressive energy the
Duluth Tribune says:
If that paper which is usually fair
minded and correct, will send repre-
sentative to Duluth, he will be shown
in very little time what Duluth has
accomplished within two years past,
and there is enough to prove to the
Tribune that its censorous criticism
is wrong. Duluth has not been idly
waiting for the Northwest to come to
it as the only lake port, but has been
alive to every business enterprise and
has been actively engaged in reach
ing out and placing itself in commu-
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12


Wright, the noted writer on political
economy, in paper contributed to
the New York Sun, protests quite Wig
orously against further congressional
appropriation for the benefit of Mime
apolis lumbermen, in the guise of
making number of reservoirs to hold
back the water in the wet season for
the benefit of navigation whom the
water should otherwise become too
low. Mr.. Wright calls attention to
the fact that there has already been
appropriated $525, 900 without any ex-
perimental evidence that the dams
will do anything whatever, except to
facilitate the floating of saw logs from
larger area of forest to the mills in
Minneapolis and higher up the river.
He points out that in the specifications
for all the dams, are sluice ways for
the passage of logs. These cannot be
used without liberating good deal of
water, which will refuse to run back
into the reservoir for the benefit of the
future navigation below st. Paul.
The lumbermen having the benefit of
the impounded water of the lakes
and streams, will be sure to use it as
soon as the ice melts in the spring,
and the practical problem of how
much will be left to help navigation in
the month of August remains unde-
termined and most presumably insig-
nificant. Continuing he very peril
nently remarks;
Whether it was constitutional or not
congress has been very kind and gen.
erous to the millers of Minneapolis in
helping them since 1870 to the amount
of over $500, OOO-$20O, 900 of which was
wasted in useless work-to prevent
their magnificent water power from
going up stream out of their reach.
Is that a good reason why congress
should spend as much more to aid
the lumber manufacturers? They do
not need, or to any great extent use,
water power to convert logs into
boards. Steam raised by the debris of
the logs themselves, does it. Not a
log needs to be foated further down
the Mississippi than to the Northern
Pacific railroad before it is sawed.
And if Congress is not foolishly, not
to say unconstitutioually, generous,
the lumbermen themselves will build
all the dams they need without the
danger of destroying by overflow liv-
ing trees, hay and wild rice, and crea-
ting malaria that will destroy them
selves. The limit which congress set
in the appropriation bills to the sums
to be paid out of the appropriations
for damages by overflow not being
more than 10per cent of the same,
should have prevented the expendi-
ture of single dollar In construction.
If the Leech Lake Indian reservation
were the property of white proprietors
the right of fiowage of the two reser-
voirs on that tract could not be pur-
chased of them for less than twice the
cost Of the dams. Besides destroying
the hay meadows and the wild rice, a
most excellent and nutritious food
which grows spontaneously on hun-
dreds of acres, the reservoirs must
drown and kill hundreds of acres of
hard wood growing on the fertile low
lands, causing by malaria the whole
territory to be worthless except for
human graves.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

III all the dishonest clerks would
follow the example of A. G. Ayers, the
defaulting ticket agent of the pincin-
natl Northern railroad, the commune
ty might be filed with nothing but
straight men. Ayers, when locked up
In. his cell was SO overcome with the
disgrace that had befallen him that he
made desperate attempt to commit
suicide, piercing his throat with lead
pencil, saving hia neck with the teeth
of pooket--comb, and hacking at his
wrist with a piece of broken glass.
Such praiseworthy conduct as this
on the part of crooked employees
should be encouraged - Chicago News
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Joaquin Miller is not claiming the
credit for electing Robinson in Massa-
chusetts, but his enemies claim it for
him. They say that Buffers chances
were tip-top until Miller began sing
ing his praises in wild, Byronic verse.
That killed him. 1t would kill a
tougher old herring than Butler.
When Joaquin Miller stoops his muse
to "kiss the brown -toe-nail'' of any
politician it finishes him.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12
HARD ON SENATOR SABIN.

New York World: We are rolling
on toward Roman extravaganza and
decay. 1T is bad omen for the re-
public founded by our simple fathers
when 1T requires as many costly
flowers to induct a member of con,
gress as 1t does to inter popular
prize-fighter or burglar in New York
city.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Congressman Washburn will renew
his effort to repeal the presumption
law. We believe this distinguished
gentleman is making mistake. LII
would be we'll to except ali timber and
mineral lands from the operation OF
the act, but the law itself should be
unchanged.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12


following upon the Minnesota's con-
gressmen:
Our state has three men in the
present congress who promise to be
active and useful and to take promi-
nent part in its proceedings. They are
Gen. Washburn, Maj. Strait and
Knute Nelson. The first two are old
members, Gen. Washburn having al
ready served two terms and Maj.
Strait three or four. Mr.. Nelson is a
new member, now entering upon his
first term, but he is wide awake
sort ofchap, and representing as he
does so large and important a district
in which new questions are constant
ly arising by reason of its rapid de-
velopment, he can scarcely fail to
have more to say than usually falls to
the lot of q new member. Both the
other Minnesota congressman are al
so new men. Mr.. Wakefield is man
of good ability, but whether he will
push himself forward much at this
session remains to be seen. Milo
White, of the First district, is a
nonentity, and will simply count one
on the call of the house.
The congressman first named
have already in readiness important
bills which will be pushed with all
the energy of which they are capable.
Mr.. Nelson introduced to-day bill
for the extinguishment of the Indian
title to the Red Lake Indian reser-
walton and the opening of the lands
to settlement. This is a measure in
which all the people of the Northwest
are greatly interested. The reserva-
ton contains 200, 900 acres, of which
probably a million and half are
tillable, and among the rest are fine
timber and grazing lands. This vast
tract of land is monopolized by less
than l 200 Indians, who put IT to no
good use, and the sooner it is thrown
open to settlement and civilization,
the better. Mr.. Nelson's bill provides
that the Secretary of the interior may
allot tillable lands to the Indians in
severalty as follows; To each head
of family, one-quartes section; to
each single person, over twenty years
of age, one-eight ola section: TO each
orphan child, under twenty years of
age, one-eight of section, and to each
other person now living, or who may
be hereafter born, when he or she has
attained the age of twenty years, ene-
eight Of a section. The lands SO al
lotted to the Indians to be in a BODY
by themselves 80 as not to intermix
the redskins with the whites, and
the Indians title to be inaiienable
for thirty years from the date of pat
ent; that is to say, the Indians are
not to be allowed to sell or mortgage
their lands, as they would be certain
to do for little or nothing ifpermitted.
This is good measure and ought to
to pass.
Gen. Wahburn will re-introduce all
his important bills which failed to
pass at the last congress, viz: the bill
for the removal ofall the Chippewas
Of Minnesota and Dakota to the White
Earth reservation, and the opening to |
settlement of the reservations from
which they are removed; the bill con-
frming the grants of swamp lands
made by the state of Minnesota for
The construction ofrailroads and other
improvements; the bill for the entry |
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Secretary Folger estimates the ex-
pense of the government for the com
ing year, at 1888, 125, 305. This amount
is so, 1913, 80 less than the aggregate
appropriations for the present fiscal
year, and $57, 154,S57 less than the
sums called for in the estimates sub
mitted last year.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12
A Case OF Fowl PLAY.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-William Sexton re-
Gently removed from Short Beach to Baby
lon, L. l.. taking with him fifty tame ducks,
ten of which were old birds. The ducks were
brought off in close box. They remained
about their new quarters for one day, and
then disappeared. The following morning
the ducks were found at their old home on
the beach, waiting to be fed. As their wings
were clipped, they must have swan the en-
tire distance, nearly nine miles, in heavy
sea and ON dark night.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

BOSTON, Dec. 1l-Hackett has appended
his name to contract made with the Bostons
This comprehensive personnel of the Boston
League base ball club for 1884, fifteen men
now being under engagement. The catchers
are Hines, Hackett, Cunning and Barrett,
and the pitchers, Whitney, Burlington and
Moriarty. Morrell is h., Burdock 2b., SUIT
ton 3d., Wise S. S., Hornung l. f., Annis C.
f., Crowley r. f., Manning substitute. Nor
rell declined an offer of Sc, 600 from the new
st. Louis team, and Hackett of s., 800
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12
Arrested for Phoebe PaullIn.s Muraer
Pope and Fyeaeh Republic.

ROME, Dec, ILL Qsseryatore Romano,
speaking Of the proposed visit Of the crown
prince, Frederick William, to Rome, says
that he will be received at the vatican with
the consideration and courtesy due to dis
tinguished visitor from q friendly country,
without regard to any interpretation which
may be put upon the visit by France The
article, which has semi-official appearance
ends by saying: That if the papal govern
ment has nothing to hope for, it has Ger.
tainly nothing to fear from the FrenoL. re-
public"
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

The national Republican committee
meets in Washington to-day for the
purpose of naming the place at which
the next Republican national con-
vention shall be held, and for the
transaction of such other business as
NAV come before it.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12
The Egyptians Defeated Aea;n,

CAIRO, Dec. 11.-News is received of an
other disaster to the Egyptian army, in
which a force of Bashi- Bazouks and Blacks,
about 600 strong were nearly annihilated by El
Mahdiss army. Accounts are conflicting
some saying that the Blacks fought bravely
and the Bashi-Bazouks ran away, and others
that the Blacks threw down their arms and
fraternized with the Prophets soldiers
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12
ordered q Fine Picture.

LONDON, Dec. u.-Mr. William Fl. Van
derbilt has commissioned M. Meissonier to
paint for him great military picture, and
the expectation is that the distinguished artist
will produce work that will rival, if it does
not exceed, his famous 't1S07," for which the
late Mr.. A. 7. Stewart paid $50, 600, and
which is now the most important picture in
Mr.. Stewards gallery ON Fifth avenue, New
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Loring & Flemming the fraudulent
"brokers" of Chicago have been con-
yicted of the crime of using the U.
S. mails for unlawful purposes. There
is some virtue in United States court
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12
SlCoppto GriGu,,e.

Work upon the Fargo 4 st. Louis
Air Line has been suspended for the
winter.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Do not repeal the presumption law.
Why! even we, ourself, have not yet
used our presumption right.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

Minneapolis has an organized base
ball club for next year and St. Paul
will have in short time.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

The Minnesota Tribune is afraid OF
President Arthur's influence with the
national Republican committee.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12
Murder Conspirac,

SLIGO Dec. 11.-Nine persons have
pleaded guilty Of conspiracy to murder Mar
tin Leyden. Of Connemara.
Morris tribune., 1883-12-12

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We supposed that every possible "cure
for rheumatism had been suggested ere
this, but German paper announces the
discovery of new one. A woman near
Prague suffered so severely from gout in
the arm that she could not obtain rest or
sleep, and the limb in which the disease
had settled was rendered entirely use
less. Her husband, having heard OF
couutryman who had been completely
cured of rheumatism after having been
accidentally stung by bee, persuaded
her to try the disagreeable remedy which,
as he pointed out, could hardly prove SO
painful as the disease. She consented,
and allowed three bees to be placed on
her arm, and to sting her in several
places. Surprising results ensued; the
patient soon after fell into a long aud
deep sleep, the first real sleep she had
enjoyed for six months, after which the
acute pain disappeared; and when the
swelling produced by the stings subsided
the arm recovered the power OF motion
Il Boston Journal of Chemistry.
A number OF cases cured have been re-
ported to us. The cures are well au.
! thenticated. One OF them was lady
who could scarcely use one OF her arm,
and was unable to sleep at night on ac'
count OF the intensity OF the pain, Her
husband, who is bee keeper, learning
of the virtue OF bee.stings in rheumatism
applied about half dozen bees to the
affected arm and in two days she was
almost entirely cured. Shortly afterward
she was well and has had no return OF the
disease. We do not believe this rem
edy will cure in all cases Of rheumatism,
but there is no doubt that for many it i
a specific. It isa very easy remedy aP
piled, and viii do no harm il il should
happen not TO be the specific. -lWesterl
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