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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-27
Contest Notices.

q. Y. Land Office Mitchell Oak. June 18th 1884.
Complaint having been entered at this office by
Foley against Rubin StoneY for abandon
ing his Homestead entry No. 25767 dated Sept.
18th 1883 upon the NE y Sec. II, TIP. 105, r.. IS,
in hrule county d. 7. with q view to the cancel
lation of said entry the said parties are hereby
ordered to appear at the office of A. Fl. Stuart
ut kimhall D.. I. on the 9th day of August 1884
ut 10 O'Clock n. m. to respond and furnish all the
testimony concerning said alleged abandonment.
Geo. d. Eyeritt Register,
A.. H; Smart of Mmball d. I. is hereby APP
pointed II commissioner to take the testimony
in the above case. lie will ut once return all the
papers duly certifea &, this office when and
where they will be examined by this office and
decision rendered thereon Aug. 18th 1884 10 a. IN.
S-l1z Geo. B. Everitt Register.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

According to deductions from the lat.
est statistics the length of generation
is now thirty-four years. All who adj
.Fance beyond that period get beyond
this average, and getting beyond these
fatal numbers, the probabilities are that
they will live another thirty four years
or more. Just where the dead line is
in life has always been mooted ques-
ton. 1t varies with different constitu-
tions and the habits of persons. But
generally in long life there are two or
three dates, pretty wide apart, when the
keel of the bark begins to CRATE on the
bottom. If these rough and hard places
can be tided over successfully, the years
are pretty we'll rounded out, on condi-
ton that temperate living has been OBJ
served.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

The farmers are everywhere reminde d
that all other things are as low in COM
parison as wheat and corn-sugar 8
cents lower than usual, coffee 5 cents
lower, and cotton and woollen goods,
clothing, shoes, blankets, hardware,
tools, harness and farm implements Is
to % per Cent. lower-so that the low
priced crop this year will go almost as
lar in purchasing the low priced neces-
saries that he requires as the high
priced crop Of 1880 did. This is some
what of an exaggeration, but not alto
gether. There are things, however.
that are not affected, and they are debts
and mortgages. There is no reduction
IN these things, which abound in newly
settled communities, and the moral is,
to dispense with them in the future, as
far as possible.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

Every now and them" says the Lon
don Graphic, "the question is raised
by well-meaning persons whether our
method of carrying out the death pen
atty is the most humane which could be
adopted. A similar discussion lately
arose concerning the guillotine in
France. Some persons propose that
both systems could be advantageously
replaced by poison, others are in favor
of an electric shock as being the most
painless death which could be admins
tered. So long as capital punishment
Is considered necessary, by all means
let it be carried out in humane man.
ner, but would it not be robbed of half
its horrors if it were understood to be
painless? The lash would lose its ter
rors if criminals were cloroformed be-
fore being logged"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
Will Of the Dead millionaire.

Cincinnati Special: "Wednesday afternoon
Charles W. Vests will was admitted to pro-
bate. The will directs that the funeral expen-
ses shall first be paid, and wills to the children
of Samuel G. West-Emma w. Brown or he,
heirs, O,oOO; Mary A. Hazard, or her heirs.
$25, GOO; Edward G. West, or his heirs, $40.
600; the Philadelphia Safe Deposit and Insur-
ance company, SAC, COO in trust for George w.
and Rebecca West, children of Samuel c. West,
to be invested by the company, in accordance
with the laws Of Pennsylvania, the net income
to be paid in equal amounts quarterly,
and at their death the principal is devised
to their respective heirs, less the
legal charges of the company; to the children
Of George West, or their heirs, $20, coo each;
to Ida Graham, neice of the testator, and
Charles W. Lathbury, 81, 60U each; Children's
Home, $4,000; Cincinnati Orphan asylum,
$4,000; German Protestant Orphan asylum,
$40, COO; Catholic Orphans, Cumminsville, &c.
GOO; Sisters of the Good Shepard, Bank street,
IS. COO; Little Sisters of the Poor, Baum street,
5000; Widows Home, Walnut Hills, 10000;
Old Men. home, Walnut Hills, $50, 600. There
are three executors, of which John T. West and
Henry Lewis are two, and each of them are to
receive $25, 600 The public requests are all
to Cincinnati institutions. Mr.. Vests neph-
ew, Jehn T. West of Minneapolis, receives the
balance of the estate. Tho aggregate value Of
the entire estate is in the vicini'v Of ~ 0O0 COO
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
Crimes and Criminals.

Frank Frisbie, the defaultng exchange teller
of the First National bank of Portland, Or, has
received his sentence-one years imprison-
ment, the very lowest penalty under the stat
ute.
At Darlington, Ga, last Thursday, Homer
Perry, boy of fifteen, was sentenced to hang
Nov. z for criminal assault At Canton, Ga ,
George Hill was sentenced to hang Oct. 81 for
chopping his rival to pieces.
negro named Short seized well-known
lady at Carthage, Ala, and dragging her into
clump of bushes ravished her. She gave the
alarm anda posse of one hundred hunted the
negro down and riddled him with bullets.
Darwin N. Gardner, ex-police clerk of Cleve-
land O.. shot his wife, who, before marriage,
was known as Alice Phillips, or Tucker, and
then shot himself. Gardner is fatally wound
ed The wife is wounded in the temple, but
will probably recover
Black Hank Adams, the negro who betrayed
and abducted Amanda Ayres, the daughter of
ne of Sussex eounty's On J) wealthiest farm
rs, has been found guilty at Newton, N. j., Of
rape and abduction, and sentenced to the state
prison for fifteen years.
J.. l. Danford, the defaulting president of
the bank at Cheney, Wash, who absconded
some days ago to British Columbia, has fed
from Victoria in consequence ofAmerican detec-
tives being there to capture him. The avowed
purpose of these officers is to bring Danford
back to American soil
Frand Bernier and Frank Reed, both old
residents of Toledo, Wash, engaged in quar-
rel over very trivial affair Blows were ex-
changed, when both drew knives and made a
mutual attack. Berner was stabbed five times
from the effects of which he died almost in
stanty. Reed received very slight injuries.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

Gen. Francis A. Walker, of the Mas.
saehusetts Institute of Technology, pro-
nounces development, not crammlng,
the central idea of education, and he
recommends industrial education for it's
mental, moral and physical benefits.
He distinguishes the industrial schools
designed for ordinary pupils from those
designed for the training of mechanics
and members of the scientific profess
sions, and lays down the doctrine that
"just as much of the elements of physics
and mechanics should be given to a
child as he will take" Indeed, he says
lit is always safe to offer MIN little
more than he will take" The problem
of industrial education in the public
schools of cities and the larger towns is
attracting the earnest attention of many
of our leading educators and deserves
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

A Shanghai dispatch to the London Tinea
states the Franco rnssian alliance means the
disintegraticn Of China and it's partition be-
tween those two countries; France taking the
three southern provinces and Russia, having
China as a recruiting ground for her armies,
the two countries being connected by railways.
The alliance also means Franco Russian pre-
ponderence in Europe, and therefore fraught
with danger to Germany. 1t also means the ex-
tinction of the China trade, and imperils all
the English possessions in the east
Apropos of the popular agitation in favor of
the franchise bill London Truth says: The
cabinet is greatly impressed by the attitude Of
the country, and has resolved to create fresh
peers if small majority Of the house of lords
rejects the franchise bill a second time. If,
however, the bill is rejected by large mojori-
ty, parliament will be asked to express til
views regarding the future constitutional posi-
ton of the house of lords, either by resolution
or address to the crown. If the resolution OF
parliament is brought about this autumn, the
country will be consulted, not regarding the
commons but regarding the lords. This policy
has been consented to by the queen, and the
royal dukes will vote with the Liberals when
the franchise bill is brought before the house
Of lords again.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
On Top Of the Washington Monu-
ment.


The scene from the top soon to be
familiar one to the citizens of Washing
ton and visitors to that city, is truly
magnificent. and no attempt at descrip-
ton would come anywhere near to con-
veying true idea of it. 1t is as novel
as lovely. The city is spread out below
you with its beautiful streets, avenues
and parks clearly outlined, and tho
grand public buildings and other prom
inent structures, dwarfed in their dimen-
sions, until they look like toy houses
The agricultural grounds, and further
on the Smithsonian park and grounds,
backed by the capitol, make, perhaps
the most striking near picture of this
grand panorama; but the view of the
White House, Treasury and State de-
partment buildings to the north, and
the picturesque city of Georgetown to
the northwest, with the bold architect
ure of the college building, are hardly
less beautiful, while the winding river
to the west and south, and the amphi-
theater of hills to the north and west of
the CITY are transformed 10y this view
from mid-air so as to be hardly recog-
nizable.
Look down to the ground below"
said the colonel.
The elevated scribe looked down
through the netting. and for the first
time had realizing sense of his dizzy
altitude.
81 am now looking down from
height of nearly 500 feet?" he family
queried.
More than that" responded the col
onel THE floor of the monument is
on the pile of stonework seventeen feet
above the ground. The shaft is now
400 feet above that, making 507 feet,
and to that add your own height, and
YOU have it exactly"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

Anna Young White, to run OF with him. I IN
poor white man, and hope all well disposed
persons will help me to recover my daughter
and punish the william. William 7. Whita."
Judge Field at San Francisco, in Chinese
habeus corpus case on argument before him.
expressed the verbal opinion that the intention
Of congress IN passing the Chinese act of 1854,
was excluded from the pale of evidence, thus
shutting out all Chinese who left the United
States previous to the passage Of the act OF
1SS2 Judges Sawyer, Hoffman, and Sabin, had
previously ruled otherwise
The 81 Louis Malleable Iron company as.
signed recently to John 7. Davis. A NJ Elles
is president Of the company, and r. G. Farras
secretary The assets are sl11,0l0, and liabi1.
tiles nearly $f5,00O, The principal creditori
are the Third National bank of st Louis, $780,
900, and d. M. Tilley $4,000. The cause Of
the assignment is the refusal Of banks to 40
commodate the company.
Two years ago Bishop Gilmour, Of the Cleve.
land diocese, published communication in his
paper, the Catholic Universe, and in the Penny
Press, in which he charged Edwin Cowles,
editor Of the Leader, with having treated
daughter in so brutal q manner as to cause hel
to become an invalid. Mr.. Cowles had the Bish
op and editor Of the Universe arrested for
criminal libel, and instituted suits against the
bishop, the Universe, and the Penny Press foI
$25, 600 each Owing to the continued illness OF
Mr. Cowles' daughter her deposition could not
be taken, and tho cases were continued from
time to time. Last Thursday the bishop pub
ished card, making q retraction of his libel
GUS charges he published, and the suit will bt
withdrawn.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

The estate of the late Senator Anthony is
worth $6OO, 200.
Ben Butter smokes fifteen cigars day, for
which he pays g.
Ned Gilmore, Of Niblo's Garden, N. Y, has
just fallen heir to $10O, Goo
Couldock will soon celebrate in Boston his
fftieth year on the stage and his SEVENTEEN
birthday anniversary
William Mead, the young man who eloped
with Miss Roma Sickles, was formerly Wes-
tern Union telegraph operator in Indianapo-
lis.
At Cincinnati the sister of the late Lieut.
prominent attorney, for refusing to account
for money collected
William Beach Hazelton, q we'll known jour-
nalist, heretofore connected with various pa
pers in Baltimore and Washington, has been
sent to the insane asylum.
The parents of Sarah Schuer, the New York
Jewess, who clipped with r. E. Friedman, have
concluded to refuse to have anything more to
do with her or her husband.
Robert Toombs said recently, in his emphat-
&c way, that the late Bishop Pierce was physi
cally Intellectually and morally the most SYM
metrical man of the nineteenth century.
dispatch from Deer Park, Md, states that
John W. Garrett is sinking rapidly and his
death is expected any moment He is passing
away quietly without suffering, surrounded by
members of his family.
Mrs. s. H. Clark, a charitable lady of Balti-
more, who was buried on Wednesday, weighed
$50 pounds. No Eearse sufficiently large
to hold the casket could be obtained, and a
special vehicle was provided.
Nellie Hubbard, daughter of an ex-governor
Of Connecticut, having secured divorce from
the coachman with whom she eloped five years
ago, was on Thursday married to Clark l.
Smedley, q well-known citizen of New Haven.
Alexander Mitchell has telegraphed to two
friends in New York that the rumors concern
ing his resignation of the presidency Of the st.
Paul road are false. This puts an end to the
speculation caused by the report which origi-
mated in the fertile brain of newspaper CORES
pondents.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
Governor Waller on Blaine,

At grand Cleveland and Hendricks banner
in his own town, New London, Conn, Cover
nor Thomas w. Waller made his opening cam
paign speech. Among other things he said:
Governor Cleveland's great competitor may
be as eloquent as Robert Ingersoll, who dubbed
him knight and as brilliant historian as
Macaulay, to whom Gen. Hawley takes pleas
ure in comparing him. But there is one thing
that he lacketh, without which he cannot COM
mand the respect of the people of America.
Proof of this weakness does not depend upon
others He has within a week confessed it
himself. In the late election, in the State of
Maine, the Prohibitory amendment was sub
mitted to the vote of its people. The country
was watchful of the action of Citizen Blaine on
the question. He was at the polls with Eyes"
and ''no" ballot in his right and left hand In
pity behold him as he stands confronting that
dilemma [Laughter.1 If he votes mo- he will
lose, he Thinks the support of political sinners.
IT he votes yes the support of political sin
ners. Laughter He hesitates and he is lost
other, and he votes upon neither Laughter. ]
The orator, the statesman and historian, has
ANONYMOUSLY lodged [Applause.] He tried
to sail betwean Scylla and Charybdis, and
touched neither rock, but he struck upon both.
The image that some Republicans have wor.
shpied is broken-Mr. Blaine, the Plumed
Knight of Maine, has shown the white feather.
The act of weakness in the presence of the
nation shows the character of the man, and
it will, in my judgment do him more harm at
the ballot box IN November than could the
Mulligan letters, if there were dose of them
every day in the week" [Laughter.1
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02

A legal Chicago journal says that
Westerners think that most of the energy
is west of the Alleghenies, and Eastern
folks feel that really true enterprise is
only to be found in their cities, but all
of us must learn to appreciate the
strides Of progress now making in Eu-
rope. The growth of Glasgow and Ber-
lin has been as rapid as that Of Chicago,
while the advance in London has been
commensurate with the Overwhelming
greatness of the worlds metropolis.
Last week The Chicago Current quoted
the testimony of a traveller, published
in the Boston Commercial Bulletin,
showing that England was by no means
stagnant and rusty. The Baltimore
Sun, in the same line of observation, re-
cites the experience of Mr.. d. L. Bart
lett, Of that city, VIII o saw in Berlin and
Vienna evidences of enterprise and
hard work which set him a-thinkinp
that the New World must mend it's pace
il progress. Even the Italians are
learning to labor. In London Mr.. Bart
lett saw miles of splendid houses in Tho
West End as new as the great resi-.
dences in Chicago and ten times as nu
merous.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


The appointment Of Judge Gresham to be
secretary of the treasury is regarded both in
political and financial circles rs altogether a
fitting One
Postoffice established: Dakota-Hoskins, Nc
Intosh county. Postof1ice discontinued: Min
nesota-Lisbon, Yellow Medicine county, mail
to Granite Falls.
The capstone Of the Washington monument
is now being cut in the shed in the monument
grounds, and it is expected that it will be COM
pleted during the present week
investigators from the railroad bureau Of
the interior department report that the North
ern Pacific is to be one Of the best Of the trans
continental routes, that the Union Pacific is
earning over $12, 900 per month ON its main
line, and that the Central Pacific is good-pay-
ing property: They say there are too many
railroads in the West for the population.
Postofices Observation-Disclosures: Ober-
weis, Richland county; mail to Wahpeton.
Montana-Crcw Agency, Yellowstone county;
psil - Saltwater. Washington territory-Har-
flston, Whitman county; mail to Sprague.
Wisconsin-North La Crosse; mail to La
Crosse. Postmasters Commissioned
son, Etter, MINI. Ira W. Bradshaw, Bon, Wis.
Mr.. De Merolta, late Italian consul at Balti
more, who disappeared few days ago, is said
to have victimized several persons prominent
in diplomatic circles in Washington. The ag-
gregate debts he has left behind him unpaid
in Washington, it is said, are $75, 600 One of
his creditors in this city says he seems to have
lived on loans from his friends for a long time
past, and he names among others who have
been taken in by him for large sums, Robert
Garrett of the Burlington & Ohio railroad, and
Mr. knabe, of the piano manufacturing firm.
The secretary of the navy has issued = gem
eral order approving the court martial SEN
tence of two years suspension on furlough
pay of Past Assistant Surgeon A. G. Cobell, for
drunkenness and absence without leave, at
Tien Tsin, China, in February last The sec
rotary severely reprimands the officer, and
says: "Any naval officer whose use of intoxi-
eating liquors becomes so excessive that his
super1ors cause him to be tried and convicted
of drunkenness, should be sentenced to dis
missal, and the sentence should be inexorably
carried into execution. Whatever charity or
assistance that may be extended to such officers
should be given when they reach some other
walk of life than the naval service. They are
worthless members of their profession, and
should in every case be forced of the active
list of the navy"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
The Chicago MARK -.

Wheat, Chicago spring, 75cs7515c; No. 8
Chicago spring, 58c; No 2 red, &c; No. red,
Corn, cash. 7e9<@na
Oats, cash, 25c
Barley, Ssc
Pork, cash, $1675
Lard, cash, $z2o@$zM
milwaukee MARKETS..
Wheat, No. 2, 1870
Corn, No. 2, 65c.
Oats, No. 2 white, 261<c
Rye No. 1, SIC; No. Q 53c
Barley, No. 2, 6oslc: extra, No 8, 46c
Mess Pork, ZIG cash.
Lard-Prime steam, $500
Butter, choice creamery, 24@26c; fair to good
2C@2Sc; best dairy, 17@l9c.
minneapolis MARKETS.
WHEAT, No. hard, 7s1Sc; No 2 hard, 74c;
Corn, No: 2 55c; rejected, 4S@5oc; con.
Oats, No. Gold, white, 25@2ec; No. 2, new,
25Lc; rejected, 22@24c; condemned, 22@23c
Mixed Feed ED Ne. |. slz5o@1s; No. 2, .1e 50
Corn Mea unl,olted, s17@s1s; bolsed. ~
Hay, timothy, 5000 50; wild. choice, ss@
% SO; No. 2 Wild, $65O@$675.
8t. Paul Markets.
WHEAT.-No. hard, new, 79c; No. 2 hard,
75c; No. 2, CSC.
Corn, No. 2, Soc; No 3, 48c.
Oats, No. 2mixed, 24c; No. = white, 25c; No
extra, 24c.
Rye, No. 2, 45c
Barley, No. 2, Soc; No. 8, 40c
Ground Feed, 1880
Baled Hay, %; timothy hay, s10oo@s1o5 So
Flax Seed, u. Is
Timothy seed, e1.2Q
Potatoes, Csc.
Eggs, 141<c.
Butter, dairy fair, 121Sc; choice, 15c; cream.
cry, 16c.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
Sad Death Of q Very Brave Man.

New York Special: Isaac Newton, chief en-
gineer of the Croton water department, com.
mitted suicide by cutting his throat He had
been drinking hard of late. The coroner's
jury decided that Newton took his life wilhelm.
sane. Financial trouble caused the act
The estate left by the elder Newton, who
was Commodore vanderbilts associate in
North river navigation enterprises, has
been diminished lately by failures of debt
ors. Newton was chief engineer of the
aqueduct and forty-five years old. He was
John Ericsson's favorite pupil and planned the
new aqueduct He managed the engine of the
Monitor in her fight with the Merrimac, having
to be brought to the deck three times because
of fainting in the close atmosphere of the en-
CINE room He was ignorant which way the
battle l,9, was going till the victory. was won
When assistant engineer of q frigate i'll the
war he was publicly thanked by the secretary
of the navy for his heroic conduct during
fire on the ship When the crew was inclined
to abandon her he threatened to brain any mar
who attempted to pass him on the gangway
where he stationed himself Newton feared
the depletion of his fathers estate would leave
his mother and sister in want
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
The agricultural department has asA.,

The agricultural department has been
investigating the rels tive positions of
the United States and India as compet-
itors in supplying the grain markets Of
the world. and finds that we have such
advantages over the British dependen.
cy In point of proximity to the European
markets and superiority of facilities
for transportation and cheapness oil
freights, that India will not be able for
long time to come, if ever, to compete
successfully with us. The average cost
OF transporting grain by rail in India is
fifty per cent. higher than in the Unit
ed States, while the Indian railroad
system is yet in its infancy, reaching but
small part of the grain producing ter
ritory.