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The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24

Register Of deeds, Dan Williams of Will
ton; Judge Of probate George Doherty:
treasurer, Joseph N. Roop; surveyor.
y. r. Rupert; superintendent o fschools,
~. H. Worst; assessor, joseph Tape;
coroner, Henry Hedgkinson; Justice Of
the peace, John Kutz and A. T.. Couch
Of Williamport, and A. M. Weller and
p. s. McMesser of Emmonsburg. The
county seat was located at Williamport.
A Swede couple who live near Sioux
Falls, have four children. two of them
as perfect specimens of the albino az
were ever seen, and the other pair are
ordinary fair-haired children. The al
binos are of opposite gender, and the
little girl, Notwithstanding her of.color,
is pretty as a picture. Her hair is as
white as the driven snow and kinky as
the wool of the most thorough.bred
African.
Kate Gray, keeper ola house of ILL
fame at Grand Forks, was fued $500,
but skipped out OF court and over the
line into Minnesota just ahead of the
sheriff.
Redfeld, OAK, Special: The sensa-
ton of the hour here wa caused yes
terday by the arrest of II. 4. Rising. ed
ltor of the Sun, charged with criminal
~ Ibaling G. 81. Myers, one of the capt.
tol commissioners, two weeks ago.. Ris-
ing publicly charged Myers with attempt
IN: to defraud the people out of $1,000.
This arose from the fact that Myers was
instrumental in raising this amount by
OF 800 acres of land which the Milwau-
kee & st. Paul company and it's officials
own here, the latter agreeing to pay $40
per acre for land and the citizens to
subscribe the amount over this necessary
to purchase the tract. Rising accused
Myers of misappropriating the money
subscribed, %whereupon the latter had
him arranged before q magistrate, who
bound him over in 81, 600 to appear be-
fore the next term of district court.
The Sioux Valley line of the North
western now reaches Watertown.
The official convass of the Hand coun-
ty vote gives $40 for the constitution and
80 against.
F.. The Minnesota mine, located on Silver
Creek, twenty miles south of Lead City,
has been sold to Alexander Majors, rep.
resenting.a Scotch syndicate, for $65 900.
The first marriage, the first birth and
the first death in Pierre occurred on the
same day-the 18th of July, 1883.
The Chamberlain Register predicts
the building of a railway along the river
from Yankton to Bismarck.
It is claimed that 5000, 900 worth of
buildings have been erected in Pierre in
| six weeks.
John B. Moore, furniture dealer at
Aberdeen, has made an assignment of
his stock to George ". jenkins, of that
place. Certain Of Moore's creditors
were pressing him, and to prevent their
getting out an attachment Moore made
an assignment. The assignee will the
first of next week be in a condition
to inform all the creditors of Moore's as
sets and liabilities:
4, On warrants issued, the baggage of
Laura Allen, of divorce notoriety in Lis.
bon, was searched, and all manner of
articles, from a hand saw to several bot
ties of whiskey, were found and identi-
fed by Mr.. Bartlett, the complainant, as
his property.
J X. johnson g. Co., dry goods, of
Grand Forks, have assigned to M. j.
Mendleson of the same place.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Tho Dakota .Judeeship,

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Nov. 15.-
GOV. Ordway, of Dakota, arrived in the city
to-day. He says he is not taking any active
part in the appointment of the Territorial
judge. He is known to be a good friend OF
Judge Shannon, but seems to have a. good Tea-
son for not pushing him for the appointment
Mr.. Burrows Of Michigan is also q candidate,
and is regarded with favor by the president.
Mr.. Palmer Of Vermont is strongly urged by
Senator Edmunds; and Gen. Cuburn Of Indian
spolis. q former representative, is very warmly
spoken Of for the place.. Postmaster General
Gresham is said to have strongly endorsed
him. Mr.. Fuller of Illinois is also a candi-
date. While Gov. Ordway did not say
which one of these gentlemen he would
prefer, he does not dispsragesthe appointment
of any one of them. 1t is understood that he
will, of course, favor the appointment of the
one that agrees with him on the capital remov-
al question. The new judge will be on the
bench which will try the constitutionality Of the
appointment and acts of the commission, and
hence Mr.. Ordway is more deeply interested
in the result than he seems willing to &C.
knowledge. He will also probably have some
thing to do and say about the confirmation of
Mccoy to the Aberdeen land Office. The
papers now on file in the interior department
against Mccoy will be put in the hands
Of the senate committee in charge OF
the nominations. Mr.. Ordway says those
papers are very damaging, charging him with
fraud in the issuing and selling Of certain
county bonds. He further says McCoy's ap-
pointment was in pursuance of Al bargain
between Pettigrew and Raymond, by which
the latter received the TO %7ination 70,
Territorial delegate. TIL. cent election
to ratify the new constitution brought out but
little more than 25 per cent of the vote, and
only secured three-ffths of that. He thought
that congress would authorize the holding of q
convention for the whole State, when one o.
two constitutions could be brought in, and the
people by a fair vote allowed to say what they
wanted.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Personal News Paragraphs.

Karl Mari, a young Milwaukee artist,
brother of Mr.. Mari, the st. Paul engrayer,
has been given a medal of honor at the
Munich Royal academy for the best design
of a subject given out by the directors. 1t
Napoleon. Mari took a medal of merit in
1878 and a grand medal in 1880.
Gen. ". D. Washburn has placed a beau
tiful memorial window in the Church of
the Redeemer, Minneapolis, in memery of
his deceased son. The window is the han
diwork Of Messrs. Young e Robinson, of
New HYork, and is one Of the most elegant
specimens of its kind in the northwest.
Charles. D. Thompson, a son of ex-secre-
tary of the Navy Thompson, died at Indi-
annapolis of paralysis of the brain. He was
found in the bathroom in a stupor, from
which he never reused. He was thirty
eightyears old.
Major Julius Lovelle, secretary to the
United States consul at Panama, died after
2 brief illness. Major Lovelle was a long
time acting assistant adjutant general of the
army of the Gulf, under General Conley.
Col. Jerome Bonaparte, who is now in
Baltimore, will in an few days take up his
residence in Washington for the season.
Twenty French servants have recently ar
rived from Paris for the Washington house.
Richard Walker, the inventor of the first
power Bloom for knitting undergarments,
died at Cambridge.
Mary oiddons, a New York actress, re-
joices in the freedom of a brand new
| divorce.
Sir Charles Dixie is making himself per-
sonally acquainted with the London slums.
John T. jenkins. an old.time Illinois pol
itician, is dead at Lincoln.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Another Dakota Murder.

Milbank, Dakota Special: Albert F.
Wolf, a farmer aged about %thirty-one, was
discovered on election day in bed in his
house three miles northeast of here covered
with blood and marks of hesyy blows on
his head. He lay in a ~semi-conscious con
dition until the 14th when he died. A cor
ner's inquest is being held. A post NOR
NJ revealed the fact that t hole as large as
a finger had been punched through the
skull two inches above the right eye, the
inner n lining Of the ns s .ka s slivered of, and
CLOTHING. There is no positive trace vet of
the murderer. Wolf has lived on his form
four years, and came from Iowa. But lit
tie is known of his life previous to coming
here.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
The Casualties OF the Week.

Prairie fires swept over a portion of Rock
coanty, Mimi, the 18th the greater part of
the central portion OF Springwater town
ship being burned over, and that much
property was destroyed. Among the losses
were: M. H. Haibert's stable, contents and
a fine grove of trees; Halver Benson's stable
and barn; g.. Persons barn; stables OF
Dewitt F%ullington; several other farmers
losing ou%thuildings and stocks.
On the 18th inst, a wagon containing a
farmer named John Carrie, Mrs. Carrie and
Milton Holmes was struck by a Northwest
Mrs. Carrie and Holmes were killed, and
John Carrie had a leg broken and was 9th.
erwise hurt!
The bodies of John Kingston, mate; John
Babbitt, steward; Charles Hurts, Philadel-
phia; Charles Esmeet, Chicago, a deckhand,
were washed ashore on the 18th, ten miles
north of South Haven, Michigan.
A fire at Hunter 8 Point, L. l., On the
night of the 10Th Destroyed Futiver's feed
store, Hughes pottery, and several smaller
buildings. Loss, $25,0OO.
Adam Go.zian of ST. Paul was killed in a
railroad accident at Jamesport Mo-. on the
18th inst, n several other St. Paulites
were wounded.
Over a dozen business places in Laclede,
Me-, were burned on the night of the 18th.
Loss, $2O, COO; insurance about half the
SUM,
Coroner FairnbAirn of Minneapolis finds
that Joe Walsh's death was not due to the
freman's lack of courage.
Emile Hollis, seven years old, was Grip
pied for life by falling in a manhole. She
sues st. Paul for $12, 600.
Another of Richlieu & Co.'s Montreal
steamers, the Abyssinia, has sunk, valued
at $50, 600.
The Palmer family of Akron, Ohio, were
all poisoned by head cheese on the 18th
inst.
Mr.. Tyler of Marion, Iowa, dropped dead
of heart disease recently.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
More About Land Frauds.

A Washington Special says: As a
result oitse special service appointed to in
vestigate cases of illegal and fraudulent en-
tries any appropriation of the public lands,
since Nov. 1, 10S entries under the pre-emp.
ton, homestead and timber culture laws
have been held for cancellation. The ma.
jority ofthese entries were in Minnesota
and Dakota. Within the last three DAYS
there have been twenty-one cancellations.
Most OF the pre- emption laws, the lands
having been entered by persons hired by
the land spectators. Since the organizi.
ton of this service, which took place in
March last, 1,5OO cases of fraudulent entry
were reported, 500 of which were complete.
~ examined; over $50 cases were cancelled
or held for cancellation, II lwenty-six
suits recommended to set aside patents
fraudulently procured.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
DAOKTA NEWS NOTES,
PROSPECTIVE TROUBLE.

a Force Of Red Polioe to Be sent Against
the Squatters ON the Pipestone Reserya.
tion.
W. NJ. RedpAth, agent for the Yanktons, who
are located on the Missouri river in South ern
Dakota, and DE. J. I. Taylor Of Canton were in
Sioux Falls yesterday, says the Press, on their
return from q visit to the seat Of the impend-
ing Indian war, and in . brief conversation
with the doctor we gathered a few points re-
garding the trouble which will prove of inter
made pilgrimages to the reservation in question,
Of Sioux Falls, have been rendering frequent
complaints TO their agents regarding
the Pipestone reservation. The matter
was finally referred to the secretary of the in
terror, who lately ordered Mai Redpath to in
were found on the landto dispossess them. He
was in the city on his return from Q compliance
with this order. He found the. reservation
covered with four settlers but he didn't dis
possess them. They wouldn't have it that way,
but of course they have got to go eventually.
the old man, who is at the head of the inter
lopers, seems to be . Thoroughbred" He in.
formed the agent that he had come there
to stay, and when he was asked BY
the representative OF the government
il he understood the consequences OF his en-
croachment upon the lands set apart for the
Indians, he allowed that he had a sort of q
notion Of what would come. But when the
agent informed the old squstter that he would
send his Indian police up to forcibly dispossess
him and his family Of their claims and i'm
provements, the old man showed the stun that
was in him. He assured the agent that be had
fought Indians all over the country bordering
on the upper Missouri and Yellowstone rivers,
and was anxious to get at them once more
before he passed in his checks. He
further remarked that he would be
delighted to see q squad of Indian police ap-
proach his house with the torch and scalping
knife. That the very thought of such a picnic
The old man was full of sand but lacked dis.
erection. There is no question, even in the
mind of the agent, but that he would fight to
the death; yet it is foolish for the gamest man
in the world to attempt to stand off The United
States. The old man and his family must go,
but if the government sends an Indian guard
there. as the agent threatened to do, it will be
necessary to also send a company of soldiers to
protect the reds. Tn old man Is hostile, and
it is said that there are many whites in that
section who will not tolerate any monkeying
from the reformed scalp lifters. These squat
ters have made extensive and expensive I'M
p~rovements. One of the old mans Sons has
100 acres under fence, and has q $1,000
dwelling and a $500 barn, a half -mile graded
race track and other substantial improvements
on his claim. The others are equally well
heeled in this respectful OF which they will,
without doubt. loose in case they do not re-
move them.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24

Nels starkson of Forest River, lost his
way, unyoked his cattle from the wagon,
and in his endeavoring to reach some
shanties inhabited by Jews, wandered
into a slough, and died from exposure
and cold. He leaves a wife and four
children.
Blair's livery stable, worth $500,
burned to the ground at Aberdeen.
Emmons county, bounding Burleigh
on the south, has been organized, and
and William L. Yester and R. s. Whit
ney of Williamsport. and j. B. Clayton
of Clayton were qualified as a beard of
county commissioners. who proceeded
to appoint the following sub.oficers:
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Dakota hea Receiuts,

President Barnes, OF the Northern Pacific
Elevator company, says: The wheat receipts
at our Dakota elevators are already equal to
all we received last year from the same terri
tory. aud there must be q large per cent not
marketed yet. To be sure, the weather has been
threshing, aud has fastened the grain along;
but, at the same time, the size and num-
Der Of private elevators and grauaries have
been largely increased, and q large. amount Of
grain will undoubtedly be kept in, these, for
some time before being marketed. With these
features to enter into the problem tits hard to
say just what the quantity unmarketed will
amount to. Farmers are also keeping much
more wheat this season for seed than ever be-
fore. Where farmers have sowed the hard
variety of wheat the grade is better. than usual,
and on the low lands there is hardly q bushel
being No. 1 hard. In localities where cultiva-
tors OF he soil have tried to increase their
yields by raising softer wheat instead of more
carefully cultivating the soil, the wheat has
graded down, and the soft wheat also brings
smut with it. and thus lowers the grade.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Another Call for Bonds.

Secretary Folger h called in $40, ZOO, 600
of 3 per cent. bonds numbered as follows.
original numbers, both inclusive:
$50. Nos. s47 to 1877; 800, Nos. SAT- to G..
$40; $500, Nos. 2 1885, to 1854; $1,000, Nos,
16,451, to II ,40i, and %, GAG to 22,665; So
600, Nos. "a, 726 to %, e58.
This call makes the SUN of the calls for
the current fiscal year a trife over $71, 600,
600. There is q batch of SIS, 0Oo, 600 called
for Dec. 1, another for the sane amount
Ded. 10, p this one for $1O,OOO,O 600 for
Feb. l. There are, therefore, no payments
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
Dako,a,s Light Vote.

Returns from the Dakota precincts voting
for or against the Sioux Falls constitution are
slow in being reported. As far as heard from,
the vote for adoption is over 5000 greater
than that against it. OF the sixty-nine counties
south Of the forty-sixth parallel that voted on
the question returns are had up to date from
but thirty-two. These give 1907 votes for
and 1856 against the proposed" constitution.
Following are the returns as far as had.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24

selves: Unless they get what they ask, the
req men threaten to tear out the dams. OF
the savages would be the easiest condition
ofthings to deal with. Nobody expects It
to come to that, however. 1t is a familiar
stroke OF Indian diplomacy to ask ten times
as much as they expect to get.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
An Extortionate Indian Claim

The Leech Lake and winnebagoshish In.
dams have put in a claim of $500, 600 an
nusl damage to them in the loss OF wild
rice aud the white fish, whose spawning
grounds will be ruined by the rise Of water
caused by the dams. The Indians have
once refused to accept $15,O for the dam.
age caused them. The estimate thew now
put upon their injuries appears to be In
spired by an ally more civilized in the
matter of claims than the claimants them,
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24
b Criminal RECORD

r. P. Pickert has been arrested in Boston
on an indictment found against him in St.
Louis for operating a ''gift enterprise es.
Enlistment, and held in 81, 500 to awaitth h
arrival Of e~xtradition papers. The bust
ness is said TO be in connection with BIC
Consolidated Tea company, which has Just
opened 9 large store in Boston, and offers
great Inducements in the shape of prizes to
customers.
Prietz and Mccullough, arrested in Mil.
waukee Tor shooting the car driver (Grotde)
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24

contemplated for January. In addition to
these three calls of 8 per cents, amounting
to $50, 1000, O0o, was withiM this fiscal year.
Treasury officials think the debt reductions
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-24

The total personal tax to be collected in
st. Cloud for all purposes is So, 1861. 93, and
the real estate tax is $33, 499.57, making the
total taxation $42, S6l. so.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-13
WIND AND WAVES.
Terrible Velocity or North Carolina and
Thirteen Vessels shore or Sunk

Terrible Velocity OF North Carolina and
Thirteen Vessels Ashore or Sunk
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-The Signal
Corps Station at Smithville, N. G., reports
to the Chief Signal Officer that the maxi
mum velocity of the wind yesterday was
93 miles, and that its average velocity for
SIX hours was 70 miles. Thirteen vessels
and pilot boats are ashore and sunk.
w WILMINGTON, n. c., Sept. II, 10P.M.-
1ne wires are still down between here
and Smithville, and the steamers which
run daily between that point and this
city did not leave their wharves here yes
terday. They went down to-day and re-
turned this evening, bringing the first de-
talls OF the ravages of the storm. At
SmthVllle the storm reached the DropOr-
tlOns OF hurricane, the wind reaching a
maximum velocity of ninety-three miles
per hour. For seven hours consecutiveIv
1t averaged eighty-one miles per hour.
Many houses were UnrOOfed, num-
Der OF WharYes were washed
away and the fisheries were
seriously damaged. All the pilot boats
were blown ashore, and one of them was
sunk. There were many vessels in the
harbor, only two Of which held their an
chorages throughout the gale. None of
them, however, were wrecked.
Ihe Norwegian bark SulitZelma, bound
for Liverpool, and the schooner Rover. for
Baltimore, after colliding, went ashore
on Big Rock, and both will return to this
city for repairs. The oldest pilots saw
that i'll duration and violence the storm
at Smithyille exceeds any they ever wit
messed.
The revenue cutter SCHUYLER ColfaX.
although in imminent danger, rode out
the gale in safety.
ST. JOHNS, n. F., Sept. 12.-The
brigantine Natalie, which has lust
arrived here, reports a fishing vessel
wrecked five miles west of st. Shottes.
Her boats, stove to pieces, were seen one
nall mile distant. Captain Tanning be-
Heves the crew were lost.
The steamer Caspian reports a wreck
on the Mizen Bank, including the spars
and sails of large craft.
Reports of additional disasters in the
recent storms have been received from
Placentia. Captain Stephens vessel.
with five men, was swamped near Point
Lance reefs. The MOrelliS, a schooner of
Mlrashen, was wrecked near Cane ST.
Mary's, and all hands perished. Dunn
phys, craft of Red Island sank. with its
living freight, near the Bull and Cow
rocks, off Cape st. Mary's. Two wrecked
vessels were recently passed. one on her
beam ends and the other bottom up.
Ihere are no tidings of the crew OF either
vessel
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-13
FRANCE STILL SILENT.
AND WAR BOTH
YET IN DOUBT.

China Reported to Intend Fighting if
ReinfOreements for the French Con-
tinue to Arrive-The United States
Wanted an Arbitrator by the
French.
PARIS, Sept. 12.-The Rationale SAYS
that should the pending negotiations
between France and China, as is feared
not take favorable turn the French
Cabinet IS disposed to call an extraordi-
nary session of the Chamber of Deputies.
1t is understood that Chalomel LacOur
the Foreign Minister, is in favor of accord
ing large concessions to China in the in.
and of Marine, however, consider it a
matter Of duty and honor to resist the
encrOachments of China in TOnquin.
The papers here state that Prime Minis
ter Ferry, opposes any concession to
China, regarding the Tonquin frontier
question.
lie Figaro states that the Chinese army
is concentrated at PakOi and only awaits
news of the arrival of the French rein
iorcements at Port Said to invade Ton
quin.
LONDON, Sept. ia telegram from
Hong Kong to the British admiralty states
that two British gunboats pre- now at
Canton, and that in conjunction with the
chinese troops on duty on shore.
they furnish forces sufficient to guard
the foreign settlement.
The Secretary Of the Chinese Legation
here has left the city for Walmer Castle
to wait upon Lord Granville. the British
Foreign Secretary. There are signs that
the mediation of England in the Franco
Chinese imbrOgliO will eventually be in
Voked, but no appeal for American media
tiOn is deemed probable.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-13
Average Age of Speakers of the House
of Representatives.


The average age of the Speakers of the
House Of Representatives since the First
congress has been a little over 81 years.
Henry Clay was the youngest Speaker the
House ever had. He was but "a wears of
age when elected to the Speakership the
first time, and but 4S when he left it, af-
ter having served a longer time i'm the
Speakers chair than any man who ever
occupied it before or since. Only one
other man except Clay ever occupied the
chair more than six years. Stevenson. of
Virginia, occupied it eight years. Clay
filled it twelve years. Should Mr.. Ram
dali be chosen Speaker it will give him
longer term in the chair than any
man except Clay and Stevenson. HIS
first term of service was In the
second session of the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, when he succeeded Speaker Kerr.
OF Indiana. Since that he has had two
iull terms, making five years as Speaker.
Three men besides Mr.. Randall have had
three terms each; Blaine, COlfaX and
Macon, OF North Carolina, who came To
the chair in 1901. Six others had two
terms each: Muhlenburg, the Speaker of
the First and Third Congresses; DAYTON,
OF the Fourth and Fifth: Varnum Of the
Tenth and Eleventh; Taylor, of the Six
teenth and Nineteenth; Polk. who was
Speaker of the Twenty-fOurth and Twenty
fifth Congresses, and Boyd. of the Twen
ty-secOnd and Twenty-third. Polk is
the only speaker who was ever elected
President, and Clay, his opponent, was
the only other Speaker ever honored with
nomination. 1t is a singular fact that
New York has never had but one Speaker
of the House, John w. Taylor, who was
Speaker during the second session of the
sixteenth Congress and throughout the
term of the nineteenth. Kentucky has
furnished Speakers for the House for a
greater period of time than any other
State. Blaine, Names only Speaker.
served three terms. lie was 80 years old
When he came to the office. Randall was
is 80 now.