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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-05

-. nsaAL OPINION. District Attor-
si, hyde, OF Spokane county. has
ss.s sssa tne County Assessor IN afficial
Ioa mat the law passed by cur last
h,s.snsive Assembly. pruviding for the
es.s.sn OF all railr,ad property ac-
us 70 gross earninee of the road.
is snonohstltntional and vuid, fcr b. iag
-. S1nlct With section 1924 of the Re
~ SsAintes OF the United States.
sssn secsian provides that "all taxes
t;s.sa os equal aud uniform. and no dis.
.'e.'on shall be made in the asses.
e,,s % oetween different kinds OF prop.
ea,'a. w. ths assessments shalt be 40.
e'uk 70 the value of the property.o
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
The Forfeited Land Grants.

Washington Special: The house COM
mittee on public lands held an important
meeting the 31st. 1t finally decided, with
out a dissenting vote, to recommend the
passage of a bill to forfeit the entire land
grant of the Oregon Central Railroad COM
pany. This road is $50 miles long, and the
grant embraces nearly 2,000,0 600 acres. In
taking this action the committee adopted
the principle that congress has the right to
declare any railroad grant forfeited, where
the road was not completed within the time
required by law. Applied to the Northern
Pacific, il would take from the company
$4,000, 000 acses of its best lands. The COM
mite will take up the matter of the North
ern Pacific grant as soon as it has disposed
of the pending measures, which will be in
two or three days.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
Minnesota Swamp Lands.

Senator Mcmillan has introduced a bill
providing that:
In the adjustment of the grants of swamp
lands to the State of Minnesota under the
act of March II, 1860, If it shall appear that
any of the lands granted have been entered
or filed for under the presumption, home
stead, or timber culture acts of the United
States, then the State of Minnesota, upon a
proper REIMBURSEMENT of the land so en-
tered or filed for, shall be entitled to and
may select an equal quantity of other lands
in lieu thereof from any of the public lands
not mineral within said state, not otherwise
appropriated at date OF selection, to which
1t shall receive title the same as though or
iginally granted, and any such entries or
filings thus relieved from CONFLICT may be
perfected INTO complete title as it such lands
had not been granted; provided that the
provisions of this act shall not be applica-
Bile to entries or filings made Subsequent to
Jan. l, 1883.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
General News Gossip.

Hon. Rensselaer, R. Nelson, judge of the
United States district court, has issued the
following order: Gall bankrupts who have
not paid the costs properly taxable against
them, respectively, in order to entitle them
to a discharge and who have not taken tn
final oath must pay such costs and take such
final oath on or before the first d y OF May
next, or a discharge will be denied for I'M
due delay in such pIocee dings, and the
cases declared,closed SO far as the banklupt's
right to a discharge is concerned.
James Dunlap, range rider and detective
for the Northern Montana Stock association,
Benton, reports that the stock is doing
splendidly. They have scattered and not
much punched, as usual, which is a good
sign. He says Indians live on cattle, but
cannot be caught killing them. There are
hundreds of head OF stolen horses on the
Blackfoot reservation, but white men are
not allowed close enough to identify them.
Citizens OF Duluth met in adjourned
mass meeting to form a chamber If cora
merce. Articles of Incorporation were
agreed upon and the following officers
ltcted: President. .. "A. Slmonds, of
Little, Slmonds q Co.; vice president,
George SpeHcer, OF George Spencer q Co.;
directors, W. G.. Peck, n. II Hsnford, o.
h. g ayes, f. w. Eaton, P. M. Graf, H.
W. Pearson, ]. H. Lavsque.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, William Bennett
was arrested while claiming a trunk at the
Pennsylvania depot. Officers compelled
him to open the trunk on account OF a
strong odor, and the body of nude white
men was disclosed. Bennett is q medical
student. He satisfied the Officers that he
obtained the body at Lima. OHIO, in a legiti-
mate manner, and was released.
K. W. Fellows of Cleveland, after expert.
mentipg for Two years, has succeeded in in
venting a way to take Instantaneous and
almost permanent photographs upon any
substance having q smooth surface, by the
action of electricity. The expense is less
than one cent for each picture. The inn
portance OF this discovery can hardly be es
timRted.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
Foreign News ossin.

Attendants at the Court opera at Vienna,
head strange noises ! ear the emperor's box
IN the opera honse. 1t was quite dark, but
they thought they saw a man in the house.
and Immediately lighted the gas. Police
~sttendalts finally discovered a stranger in
the toilet chamber adjoining the imperial
box. He had barred the door, and would
not let anybody. in, but after a short struggle
was arrestad. He said the previous nights
performance was so dull that he had fallen
asleep, and when he woke up found him
struments, tape measures, wires, etc., were
found on him. He is in the engineers of
Bavaria; the police pretend TO have evidence
to show that he was accommodating, in rom
nection with plot, to assassinate the kaiser.
The opera house is now strongly guarded by
soldiers ana police, and there is much ex-
riteH emf
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
a Ria One Gem snit-

Fargo Special:-The jury on the 3lst
bought in a yer dict for the plaintiff in the
suit of Edwards VS.. The Republican Com.
pany, the amount of damages allowed be.
ing n cent. The friends of Edwards A..
jubilant, as the counsel ofthe plaintiff an.
nounced in court that all they desired WINS
a Judgment. A large reception was held N
the editorial rooms of the Argus on Tbnrz-
day evening. The republican people 10 not
regard this as a decisive defeat, and Il i
probable that the newspaper fight win On
on with as much vigor as ever, the RI.
publican published an article accusing Ia.
wards of having ruined the Protection com.
pany of Chicago by his knavery, and de.
n%ouncing him as a despoiler of widows and
orphans, and an unfit person TO be a public
f~unctionary. The Republican also printed
a forcible article from the Chicago Tribune.
condemn ng Edwards in harsh terms. on
the day before election the same article was
printed in circular form, IN four languages
English, German, French, Scandinavian
and scattered broadcast. Edwards who was
a candidate fer the legislature, was defeated.
and brought salt with the result indicated
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
Gambling and DefaIcation.

At Sioux Falls, Dakota, A. M. Flagg was
arrested and lodged ia the county Jail,
charged with embezzlement. He has been
a prominent attorney at Sioux Falls and
for a term held the position of district attor-
ney. 1t is claimed tuat there has been
crookedness in his business affairs for a long
ii e.. He has stood of the grip of the law
for a long time by continually taking from
"Peter to pay Paul" At the
time of his arrest he had a loaded
revolver in his coat, and it was only
through the dexterity of St eriff Dixon that
he was prevented from carrying out his pre-
concerted plan of avoiding calamity by sui
eide. MI. Flagg is a young man of rare
literary and classical ability and a few
years ago enjoyed a large and promising
practice, hut wasted his opportunities over
the gambling table. In default of So, O00
bail he was held to appear before the grand
jury at the April term of court.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
An Acnnittal ofMnrder.

Batavia, N. Y, Special: The trial of E.
Newton Rowell for the murder of Johnston
L. Lynch ended on the 31st inst, with a
verdict of mot guilty." on the ground of
self-defense. The verdict was received with
wild enthusiasm. Rowell was given sn
ovation at the court house and at the Wash
burn house. In the latter place he re-
ceived the congratulations of friends. Bon
ires were lighted along Main street. At a
late hour Palmer, who had figured in the
trial, was hanged in efigy in ull view OF
his place OF business and in full view OF the
st. James hoIel. On a board fastened to the
figure were the words, ''Sreak Palmer.
author OF crime" Palmer escaped being
mobbed by getting nto the hotel through a
back window while the crowd was in front
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
Railroad Rumblings.

ern Pacific officials received by telegraph
the resignation of E. Z. johnson, the COM
pany's agent at Ainsworth, a station on the
main line, seventeen miles east of Wallula
Junction. Shortly after the receipt of this,
iLformation was received that the Northern
Pacific express was short q money package,
containing $1S, 784. The package was des.
tined for Ainsworth, and the officials at st.
Paul concluded that Johnsoh's resignation
had something to do with its disappear
ance.
President Winslow says the West Shore
needs but So 900, 900.
The shrinkage of Northern Pacific assets
has been nearly $40, coo. 900.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

This is the richest country in the
world, the total wealth, according to
Bradstreets', amounting to forty-three
billion dollars. The total for Great Brit.
ian is thirty-eight billions. We have, in
our public lands, go much unproductive
property, however, that England's in.
come exceeds ours. The largest item in
Uncle Sans inventory Of wealth is his
farming land, as he is credited with ten
billion dollars worth Of this class of prop.
erty. Improved real estate comes mex
and railroad property third. According
to this authority, there were in the Dis.
trict of Columbia, in 1880, $22, 1881 900 in.
vested in business by 1858 traders, OF
an average Of $500 of capital invested
by each trader. The failures were one
in l94.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
kindergarten Nuprtals.

"A sensational wedding took place before
an Eau Claire justice on the 18th, when a
youth OF nineteen was married to a girl of
fifteen after only a few hours acquaintance
without the knowledge of the parents of
either. The girl and her mother were there
visiting Mrs. w. r. Hoyt, a step-sisteT OF
the infant bride. With no knowledge of the
affair or suspicion, the mother accompanied
by the bride of the morning left on the af-
ternoon train for their home in Warren,
MINI. The girls name was Edith Nelson,
and the young man, Joe La Mott, the son
OF q saloon keeper. 1t is expected there
will be something besides a honeymoon
when the old folks are appraised of the facts.
1t is claimed that that the girl is insane, and
that the parents were about to place her in
an asylum.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

The immigration statistics for Deem
Der show a total immigration during the
month of %, 766, making the aggregate
for the year 1883 SD, 1876. This is a con-
siderable falling OF from the figures OF
the twelvemonth previous, the i'm
migration for December, 1882, having
been 25,S6S, and for the year 1882 7l2,-
5i4. OF the December immigrations
England and Wales furnished 1926,
ireland LIZ 4. Scotland 430, Austria 5S7,
Bohemia 302. Belgium Ill, Denmark
252, France 283, Gesmany 7,643, Hun.
gary 2,021, Italy 1,l70, Netherlands 11S,
Norway 207, Russia 796, Poland 3O2,
Sweden 6ls, Switzerland 40S, Dominion
of Canada 4,172, and all other countries
311.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
The CrimlnaI RECORD.

The porte sent Wallace, United States
minister to Turkey, a conciliatory note in
reference TO the treaty OF commerce between
Turkey and the Emitted States. The sultan
assured tn British ambassador to Turkey
that he wishes to come to a friendly under
standing regarding Egypt.
At Pittsburg, the Goth, while 8. Levein,
proprietor of a Sixth street jewelry store,
wss absent, and his wife was
in a room in the rear of the store, a thief
entered and carried off jewelry, valued at
from $12,0 900 to $15,0 00.
At Eagle Rock, Idaho, Wiliam G. Jack
son and Thompson came in from the
Teton basin and gave themselves up for the
murder of Robert Cooper. They claim
that the killing was done in self-defense.
Carl j.. Addison, sentenced to be hung
or Feb. z, for the murder of Andrew Seov-
berg. in Montana, has been respited until
Sept. 1 by President Arthur.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

Tom Ochiltree speaks Tor Texas, in a New
York interview: 1--WE are for Arthur. He's
a safe man. He has kept us out of any
catscJysm or panic. He's made a fair ad-
ministration. Let's let well enough alone
and keep him right along"
Dr.. Elisha Harris, member and honorary
secretary of the New York board of healt.
died on the Goth at the Delvan house, Albany
He was one of the most distiLg uished
members of the board.
Beer brewed in 1888 In New York city,
3,23s 900 bsr1els; IN Philadelphia, 1,O2s, 600;
in Milwaukee, 986. 800; in st. Louis. 943, 600;
in Brooklyn, S36, 600; in Chicago, $780, 00.
Mrs. George W. Bristol, Of Cory, Pa,
died from the result of a druggists blunder,
who put up three-grain capsules of NOR
phine instead OF quini1e.
Mrs. William WhittalI of Rockford, H.,
was found dead in her'bed by her daughter,
who slept with her.
J. @. Clark of Mandan has been attached
for $500, ny H. G. Harrison & Co., of
Minneapolis.
Grant has not smoked a cigar since Dec.
%, which means that he is a very sick man.
The American Jersey club counts 10O,-
600 Jersey cow in the United States.
People of cities along the Ohio river ex-
pect disastrous floods this spring.
Waynesbore. Ca, has a murder trial,
growing out of a base ball row.
Tin in rich leads was found recently at
Rockbridge, Va.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
Timber Depredntora

Bismarck, Oak, Special Telegram,
$50 Friday morning, the 31st, the sivn.,
gun.was fred at Fort Lincoln, the troor.
breakfasted hastily and sixty men of ~
Fifteenth infantry under Cspts. Sanger An;
Hartz and Lieuts. Sage, Golfer and Welch
marched to Sibley Island, two miles belo~
and captured hftv.five men and th;rs.
teams. The men have for some time basS
cutting wood on the island, which is on ~
military reservation, and hauling to RI
marck, at least 100 loads daily. On the AZ
proach of the soldiers about one half Of ~.
choppers and teamsters succeeded in oscar.
ing to the main land and made their wav 4
town. About 1900 cords of wood Ta,s
found corded up on the island and a larss
amount on the main land awaiting traTS
portation to Bismarck. Many of the ner
had erected cabins OF the island and w..
living there with their families. The nv
are now being examined at the fort fortS
purpose of ascertainiDg who empIovaS
them, after which a few will be detsissS
as witnesses and the remainder released
Their employers, when discovered, will ks
prosecuted in the United States courts.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
Iowa Corn.

Keokuk, Iowa, Special Telegram, Feb,1.
Secretary Shaffer of the Iowa State
Agricultural society, has been in this
city for the past few days. A CORES
pendent in conversation with him asked
Tor a few items concerning the crop of
last year, yield, condition, etc., and what
steps farmers were ticking to obtain a
supply of good seed corn for 1874. Mr..
Shaffer said:
| estimate Iowa's corr crop for 1888 at
about III 800, 900 bushels, produced from
7,OOO,OOO acres, bat an average yield of
twenty-four and one-half bushels per
acre. This was a loss to the state as COM
pared with the crop of 1880, of los, 534,-
247 bushels. The quality on the whole
Is poorer. Th" scarcity of the crop
may be realized from the fact that there
is considerable importation of corn from
Kansas for seeding purposes. There is
very little old corn on hand. From all
the information | can gather, farmers all
over the state will depend upon home.
grown corn for seed. In the western
and southwestern parts of the state es-
peclally there is a s Efficiency of good
seed corn, and there is hardly a county
in b state that has not more or less.
The farmers of Iowa will Civ, a wide
berth to Kansas and Nebraska seed.
year 1888 will be long remembered
as one OF disasters, resulting from the
use OF foreign seed. We shall have
plenty OF corn for seeG from the crop of
1885, and you may rest assured that it
won't be an experimental season. The
farmers won't indulge in the importa-
tlon OF seed corn this year.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

= A newspaper correspondent has goi
into trouble in Lowell. Massachusetts, by
sending untruthful dispatches to city
newspapers. One of these related to an
elopement from North Chelmsford. g
second to a triple tragedy" in NORTH
Andover, in which a husband. a wife,
and the latter's lover bit the dust; {
third described the deadly encounter o!
an English earl's son with a Maine she.
bear, neither of whom survived. A
fourth gave an account of a meeting be.
tween a physician and an AndoveI
ghost" who now turns out to have
been an insane Frenchman. It will
strike those who know how news is of
ten manufactured, as very singular thai
The young man ''got into trouble
Nothing in the business-with some O
the large sensational papers-is more
common than manufacturing news. /
is done every day in Washington and
nobody dreams thatit is not legitimate
journalism.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

In hunting for the very last revolu-
:ionary centennial, it has been found
That the evacuation OF New York did
got mark the final departure of the
British as their soldiers occupied some
military posts on the Penobscot until
cIong in January, 1884. With the with
drawal of these troops the British occu-
patton of cur soil was terminated, but
no movement looking TO the celebration
Of the event is yet chronicled.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
Personal News Paragrapns.

Capt. William A. Kirkland, commander
OF the receiving ship Colorado, New York,
has volunteered to command the proposed
Greeley relief expedition, and will be as.
signed to that duty.
6 Letter Writer Huntington is a large, rather
hRrd-faced man, weighing $50 pounds, per
haps six feet high, a face without pride in
it, and without much resentment.
Eugene Rouher, the we'll known Bona
partist, died in Paris on the I'd inst, OF
paralysis.
John A. Logan's son stands next to the
lowest in his class OF fifty at West Point.
Wendell Phillips is dangerously i'll OF
heart disease at his residence in Boston.
The belle of New Lisbon, Ohio, puts her
self up at a rattle, chances 81 each.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

The committee Of the New York Legis-
lature on the Adirondack forests will
report against the purchase of wood
lands in bulk. The reasons given are
that all valuable soft timber near the
streams has been cut away, that what
remains is a dense forest, absolutely
unmarketable because too fhr away
from any stream; that the agitation OF
the question of purshsse has already in
saeased the price by an enormous sum,
and that if any effort is made to carry
out the project the price will become
$10O an acre.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
The Casualties or the Week.

3 The Rev. Pennell Coombe, aged seventy
six years, a prominent minister in the
Methodist church conference, was found
dead in his study at Fernwood, Pa.
Lieut.. Warham was killed at Oil City by a
railroad collision an hour before a medal
came to him for being the best marksman
in Pennsylvania.
Gen. Grants son-in-law, A~lgernon Sar-
toris, is back at his old haunts near Green
Bay, Wis.
Fred Vetrer's family of four at Niles,
Mich, are down with tricbinosis. One is
dying.
Atlanta, Ga, has lost $4,000 in damage
to water pipes by the frost last winter.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
INDIANA RAILROAD HORROR.

Six Persons Killed and a Dozen
Wounded. Fire Completing the
Horror, with ACCOUNTING Scenes.
An accommodation train on the Indian
apolis and Chicago Air line, went
through a bridge atBroad Ripple
about seven miles from indianapolis
The wreck was partially submerged, but the
portion above water Immediately took fire
from the stoves. The fireman states that
when he looked back after the locomotive
had reached the south end of the bridge the
cars were on fire and smoke obscuring the
scene. Six persons were killed outright or
burned 10 death. The remains recovered
were burned and char red almost beyond
recognition, being horribly Eutilated, and
the only means of identification was the
find ing Of i~ncombustible trinkets Known to
be the property OF the dead men.
Following IS a list of the dead:
John Brewer, Lafayette, Ind, engineer.
J. E. Ricketts,, baggage master, New Al.
bany.
George Lowry, brakeman, Bueua Vista.
Thomas Parry, bridge foreman, Indian
apolis.
abel t. Smith, American Express agent,
Indianapolis.
John Bray, passenger, a stock dealer of
Deming.
The accident is attributed to a defective
bread on the supporting rods of the brioge,
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

When every member Of the Senate
was allowed q private secretary at the
expense Of the government, it was pre-
dicted that the House would follow suit,
and pay for 800 Secretaries to members
of that body. The scheme was actually
preached but laid over temporarily. In
the meantime the members heard from
the people and hesitated and faltered
about committing themselves to such a
steal, and probably the matter is at rest,
at least for the present.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

Massachusetts, is having another dis
cussion of the Sunday question. The
laws of the Bay State on the subject are
in a curiously chaotic condition, one
dead-letter section still commanding the
long disused Puritan custom of observ-
ing Saturday evening, and imposing pen
alties upon all persons present at "a
game, sport, play or public diversion up
on the evening OF the Lords day or up
on the evening next preceding the
Lords day."
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14
The text of the Fltz John Porter bill, as

h text of the Fitz John Porter bill, as
passed in the house, is as follows:
he 1t enacted by the Senate and House OF
representative OF the United States of America
IN congress assembled: That the president be,
an9 ne Is hereby authorized to nominate and, by
ana with the advice and consent of the senate,
appqlht tltz John Porter, late a major general Of
INC United States volunteers and a breVet brig
auler general and colonel of the army. to the
PosIlon OF colonel in the army of the United
otates' OF the same grade and rank held by him
az the time OF his dismissal from the army by
sentence OF court martial, promulgated Jan. 81,
looo' ana TO place on the retired list of the army
as OF IhaG grade, the retired list being thereby
increased in number to that extent; and all laws
anu parts OF laws in conflict herewith are sus-
pended Tor tins purpose only; but this act shall
ZION OF allowance prior to the passage of this act.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

he nuts on the ends of b rods fitting so
oosely thai the bridge WIS unable to sup
port the weight of g train. The scenes at
the wreck we're extremely distressing. The
dead were in the ruins of the smoking and
baggage cars, and these, one on the top of
the other, were in deep wster. A skif was
used for landing the remains of the de ad.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

Since the Chinese immigration to Cal
ifornia was prohibited by congressional
enactment, the net gain over previous
years in free white immigration has
been very large, and of the best charac-
ter. The people feel a sense Of relief in
getting nd of the monaghan element,
and are more hopeful Of the future than
ever before.
The Mineral argus., 1884-02-14

Buffalo il the third city of New York
which has applied to itself the civil SER
vice provisions of the State act which is
low in operation in the various clerical
departments of the State government.