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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

An accident resulting in the death Of J.
e. McElrath occurred at New York Mills,
MINI, on the I'd. McElrath was lum-
herman. and had lodeed in the crotch Of
another tree. He then started to cut
down the obstructipg pine, when the tree
first cut fell, breaking bis spine and crush
ing his skull, killing him instantly.
A west bound express on the Wabash
road on the LIST inst. struck wagon near
Napoleon, o., containing five young men,
killing Frank Long, and William Rogers,
and badly injuring George Arps. Long
leaves wife. The others were unmarried.
A freight train on side track concealed
the approach of the train. -
A fire at Jacksonville, Florida, destroyed
FIVE business houses-The postofice ard
all records, mails, money and stamps were
destroyed. A small hotel:was also destroyed.
One man had an arm broken and another
broke his leg by jumping from the second
story of the hotel. .s,s~E :
The record of 1883 for crime I'd casualty
is indeed terrible. There were in the past
Inflated twelve months, LOO murders,
775 deaths by railroad accidents; IL Is in
ju-ed in the same manner. and 1,250 ma
rine disasters. ~, X = ~ y-E
Alice Major and Sarah Marxden of Forty
Fort, Pa, highly connected, were drowned
while skating.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10
Tho law which CONGRESSMAN Hopkins

The law which Congressman Hopkins,
Of Pennsylvania. proposes. restricting
the quantity of public land which may
be acquired by an alien to 1000 acres,
unless he declares his intention to be-
come citizen, is needed. Few people
are aware how rapidly the public domain
is being taken up by foreign landlords.
One English earl owns tract of 10000
acres and another 100000, while an En-
glish company has bought 5000, 900
acres in Texas alone. 1t is bad thing
for the country t at such vast domains
should fall into the hands Of men who
never expect to become Americans, In
residentsor in sympathy, and the system
ought to go no further.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

The sunset glories of the skies at the
sast are frequently mentioned in the
newspapers "a more lurid and gorgeous
than anything Of the kind ever before
seen the,e. A Troy paper says that the
sunset sky looked lasif vast conflagra-
ton was devastating the entire western
hemisphere. And the sunset over the
Pacific waves, as viewed at San Francis
90 are described as even more gorgeous
than on the continent. The theories Of
the scientist in regard to this beautiful
phenomena are not entirely satisfactory
They are widely divergent in the first
place, and also have too much the op.
pearance of guess work 10 which every
one Is at liberty to engage.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10
Railroad News.

New York, Special: Wall street has wit
messed the last year great shrinkage in
the value of the railroad stocks quoted at
the New York exchange. The total net de-
rreciation OF thirty-four stocks is 1929. $3.50,
1s1. The three Willard stocks lead the list
with a depreciation of $3.50, 768. The
Eve stocks known as Gould stocks come
next, with $38, 800. The union and
Central Pacifics and Denver aggregate $36.
042,927. The Vanderbilt stocks have de-
preciated $25, 1887, 597. The roads center.
ing at Chicago show depreciation of $685.
279 715. The coal stocks present much
better showing than expected, and the total
net depreciation of the four roads was only
Sd. 1856, 422. Miscellaneous railroads and
the Pacific Mail make up the balance OF
$34,O17.882. How much the leading rail
road operators and stockholders, such as
Vanderbilt, Gould, Willard and other, have
lost by the depreciation will probably never
be accurately known; cut, from the hold
ings they have frequently said they pos
sessed, an estimate can be made by the read
er OF their losses.
The Minnesota & Northwestern railroad,
alias the Illinois Central, has secured right
of way In West St. Paul, and will soon con-
struct the line from Mora, Iowa. It is re-
ported that other lines are pointing towards
St. Paul, and the people are greatly elated.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

A vigorous effort will be made In this
congress to see what legislation can 1 o
towards restoring American shipping.
Some of the causes of its decline are
clearly beyond relief by statute, but that
Is no reason why the obsolete and
oppressive la vs now in force on
this subject should not be repealed
In favor of others in accord with modern
requirements. The division of the COM
MERGE committee will enable bills to en-
courage shipping 10 get attention, and
action in committee will be enforced
by Jealous work on the floor of both
houses by members of the ability and
influence of congressman Dingley, who
leads off in the matter.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10
The Fashionable Girls of New
York.


p Girls never dressed more becomingly
than they do now. The tailor-made
dresses, copied after the English models
show their figures in most bewitching
way, and bring out all the good points
with an emphasis truly salts factory to
the eye of man. The Newmarket coats
are particularly attractive as they are
now cut. Take tall, shapely girl, boil
her down and mold her down into a tai
lorfnade Newmarket coat, which will
fit her as snugly as stretched rubber,
and she looks about as jolly as it is poss-
lille 10 make her. Our American girls
knock their English cousins out in this
sort of dress, because they have got
such pretty little feet to stand on. Many
of the English girls now in town have a
very stylish, and from the waist up very
voluptuous and wholesome; but when
they are looked at as all entirety, they
are found to be VI ring. For instance,
the distance fronF the wai>t-belt down
to the feet is usually too Short the breadth
Of the hips too great, and the
size of the feet beneath the Newmarket
coat is invariably monstrous. 1t would
not be so bad, after all, if these English
girls would wear big, but well-flting
shoes. The trouble is they try to fit
there feet into little shoes, and the re-
suit is they Top over at the side and
bulge out at the joints, giving unfnistak-
able indications of corns and bun,ons.
But the 5right-eyed American girls, with
their easy carriage and graceful swing,
rather profit by the Newmarket coat, as
the skirts are cut short, and their per-
feet feet well displayed. It is great
thing to see our girls in the afternoons
parading up and down Fifth avenue,
dressed in these tigtlt-ftting costumes
with little square-toed boots, silver
Langtry irlngss OF hair under them.
wearing bright clusters Of flowers at the
belt or on the shoulder. They walk
very brisklv, and it is not often they are
accompanied by young men. AS a rule
they prefer to walk alone.-Letter to
san Francisco Argonaut.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10
away from Hollis purple cravat. looked

away from Hollis purple cravat, looked
up suddenly in his faoe, and sighed. "I
must go in at ten; is it ten yeti" No,
dear" said he. no ing at his watch,
sit is only ten minutes Of ten." A soft,
restfnl expression spread over Rosalie's
face at these words, and she said: ''Then
We may stay here ten minutes more;
ten precious minutes here together in
the beautiful moonlight" and her head
again returned to q point not a thousand
miles iistant from Hollis purple cravat.
Then poor Hollis, just as if the whole
affair was a purely business transac-
ton, blurted out. "But my watch is ten
minutes SLOW" Poor, prosaic Hollis lost
by slip Of the tongue the sweetest girl
this side of Cambridgport.-Harvard
Iampoon.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10
Singular Contests of Strength.

Apropos of Sullivan's claim that he
can knock bull down with one blow OF
his fist, Arthur Chambers says that
some years ago he saw Bauer.the wrest-
Ter, force a bear off platform after
three hugs. and he saw two men in
Manchester, each in pen with bellie.
erent bull, each strivingto win wager
they had made of G10 as to who could
stay in the pen the longer. Both we're
to fight the bull at the same time. If
the animal rushed at one of the meg the
other man was to come to his defense.
Thus they we're to continue until one Of
the men had to jump the fence. The
pen was about five feet high and thirty
feet square. The bull took corner.
When he came out the men struck him
in the neck and behind the ear and upon
the ribs. The bull could not dodge,
while the men could. He fought John
L. sullivan fight. At last the bull ran
a horn through the cheek of one OF the
men. The other fellow jumped the
fence. The injured man was repeatedly
butted down and gored, and died of his
Injuries. His widow got the el0.-New
York Journal. -.Fs
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

Awellto-do tradesman committed suicide
in the Dis de Boulogne, Paris. He placed
around bis neck flexible iron tube filed
with explosives and was liter lly blown tt,
pieces. A leg aud arm were thro wn great
distance. Shreds of Ssh were found hang
ing on trees. The report was heard all over
Neuilly.
The Gladstone government is at last cor.
nered en- The Egyptian question. The real
ties shirked SO long have to be facet. The
ministry has been SO thoroughly awakened
to the emergency of the hour that the men,
bers of the c1blnet were summoned to Lon.
don by telegraph, and Sir Challes Duke,
who had gone to the South of France, could
not reach Downing street in time. It
is now clear that the Mahdi must be
fought, and by English troops, or Egypt
mnst be comp ltely end immediately eYac-
5uated.
Gilbert g. sullivan's new Opera, The
Princess Ids, was produced on the night Of
the 9TH In the Bavory theater London, which
was crowded. The audience was the most
brilliant 81. the season, and the performances
Is triumph for the authors and management.
The muslc dialogue and scenery were raptr
:tur0usly aurls uded. Critics pronounced
the music % fine % anything that Sullivan
shAs composed. The principal artists and
Gilbert Sullivan and G' Oyley Carts Mers:
called before D cnrlsin &C the Close o: the
pefformancs and reCeiy ed IN ovatt a
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objections for seed grain fund .


LOANS AND INTEREST ON DEPOSITS
The State loans, represented by bonds, now
consist Of 81 ,27O, 600 railroad adjustment
bonds, OF which the permanent school fund
holds 1,247, the permanent university 241
and the internal Improvement land fund 321
bonds Of 81 900 each; and :Bb246, 900 revenue
bonds loan Of 1888, all Of which Is held by
the permanent school fund This makes the
entire bonded indebtedness of the State
81 SIG, 900. The: amount received from in.
terests on deposits for the eight months end.
ing July 81 1888, the end OF the fiscal year,
was So, 21Sl6.
MINNESOTA RAILROAD BONDS.
The following bonds have been redeemed:
Three bonds issued to Transit Railroad CON-
pany; five bonds issued to Minneapolis &
Cedar Valley Railroad company; one bond
issued to Minnesota & Pacific Railroad com.
pany. Seventeen new bonds were issued In
lieu Of the above bonds.
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
A statement of receipts from railroad CON-
panies, stumpage on State lands, insurance
companies, telegraph companies and 1niscel-
laneous sources, shows the following totals,
From railroad companies: Receipts, $3.50,
294. SO: for state institutions, $479, 69S. 20;
permanent school, $4S3. 80; internal Inn
provement land fund $113.3O. From
stumpage on State lands: Revenue, $25;
permanent a:os school, $3l,320: o.; general
",
So, 53S. 81; general university, $1144O; in,
te1nal Improvement land fund and interest,
$5, $780,; internal improvement land
fund interest, $352:2O; swamp land,
$50. Total, Sal ,761.6e. From in
revenue fund, $5s, 3d. IS From t telegrapb
companies: State institutions, 81, $50. SO.
From miscellaneous sources: Revenue,
$196,91S. 4S; permanent school, S48 600:
general school, $114, O69. So general uni
vers1ty, $22, 845; attorney Twelfth district
81 1906 total, 1855, 1872. From county
255.79. 49,.
EXPENDITURES.
The statement Of expenditures, in detail,
paid from revenue, State institutions and
i,ternal Improvement funds, shows total OF
g ;7,9l3.74;, from various other funds,
OF the principal items are as fellows:
Sinking fund, 25 bonds, loan 1873, redeemed.
S25, 900; permanent school fund, PA State rail
road adjustment' bonds bought, 1914, 900; per.
bought, $3.50, 1000; general school fund, appor.
sundfy variants paid, $S7,2iS.5l; internal i@
adustment bonds paid IS ii internal i
provement land interest fund, interest on State
railroad adjustment bonds paid, $50, 1893. 25:
23e.97; insane support, first hospital $751;
219. 10; reform school support, S23, 600; deaf
prison support, So, 700, A.; Winona Normal
school support, $io,3i2.4s; Legislative ex.
penses, $72,64O.s5; impeachment court def.
cheney, $12,532.3O; finishing and furnishing
capitol, $163,O27.6S printing, advertising anc
db DID $50, printing laws. newspapers
$$26, 1881 60; judges supreme court, salaries
1920. SO: enlarging university grounds. 1880,
$1,000; First hospital insane, north wing,
1881, $lO,O 900; interest on railroad adjustment
ponds, 1882, $59, 76O; Second hospital insane,
building east wing, 1882, SIC, 163. 10. -. !.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10
Crimes and Criminals,


Herman Goldsmith, of the wealthy firm
of Goldsmith & Kuhn, diamond broker.
No. IS 10 N street, New York, called at po-
lice headquarters and reported the disap-
pearance. with $35,OOO worth of diamonds,
1T Leon CrohsOn, their commercial travel
Ter. Mr. Goldsmith told Inspector Byrnes
that check for St, 900 waited the person
who could produce Oronson and the prop
erty. rs. -
Thejury in the case Of William McHugb,
on trial in Cincinnati, the third time for the
murder of his wife brought in ver.iict 81
guilty ofmurder in the first degree. McHugh
received the result unmoved, but his molh-
er was 80 overwhelmed that she had to be
carried from the court roo.
Beside Jablouski, who took part in the
murder Of Lieut.. Col. Sudelken and nephew
ia st. Petersburg, two men the actual muir
derers, are arrested. Important papers re-
latiDg to the Nihiliss we're found at the
late residence OF the Sudeiken.
James L. Rollins and A. J. Rogers. con.
ductors of che Pennsylvania railroad, and
William B. Petttit, Pullman Palace car
conductor, were arrested upon charges OF
cub "a Jog rickets and moneys OF those
corporations.
Lson Cranson, travelling salesman for q
New York diamond house, closed this year
by running away with Detroit girl and
$a5. 600 worth otjewels.
At Denver, a fsurteen-year. old white girl
welded negro.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

Senator Vest proposes to enlarge Vel
lowstone Park to 9.675 square miles and
make tia portion of Montana Territory.
At present it is part of three territor-
les, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming
but much the greater portion of it is in
Wyoming The parks present area is
1875 square miles, being fifty-dve miles
east and west. by sixty-five north and
south. Vests bill proposes to extend
its eastern and southern limits each
way forty miles, which would make the
park little larger thanthe state of Yer
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

81. II. Young, secretary Of the state
board of immigration, and @. D. Strong, for
some yeas connected With the newspaper
press of the northwest, have entered into
Al, alliance for the purpose OF publishing
immigration pamptlets descriptive If the
various counties Of this state. The PAM
phlets will contain industrial, AGRICULTURAL
and vital statistics, ta physio- geslogical ac-
count Ct each section, together with large
amount Of matter pertaining to their undev.
eloped resources, pro iuctiveness OF sod and
manufacturing facilities.
Dr. Arthur NJ. e astman Of st. Paul and
Miss Emma Wellea, the youngest daughter
Of Hon. b. T. Welle,, Of n annapolis, were
MARI ed ct the residence Of the brides par
ents on the Sd inst Only the family friends
were present, and 81 hough the Wedding
was % elegant Is befits the fortune OF the
BRIDES parents, Il. wss On exceedingly quiet
one. Dc. and Mn. Eastman VIII reside IN
st. Paul. 81
Tho funeral Of Hon. ]. 1Viswel& ct
Ma a occurred q 81. ohn's church on
the s0th. NJ. Wisxsll had .besn cora ned
g ~ home with Whist - idsrea ~
nfmsetts1d trisnds = only q temporary
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10

attorney and q member Of the bDaYd of ed.
ucatisn. Mr.Wiswel WAS the first mayor
NJ ,nkato after the act Of Incorporation,
an j was twice re- elected to the same Office.
He was graduate Of Union college, New
York, class of 1858. Admitted to practice
law in 1856 he followed his profes sion in
New Y * and Wisconsin; coming to Man
kato IA 1864,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-10
A Puritan Love Letter.

Perhaps the odlest, Neutrality-suspicious.,
and with the single exception Of Sam Well
lcrs ''Walentine," most uncouth low,
letter ever written was one from John
Winthrop to his third wife q short time
before they were married. He was q
Puritan of the straish' est sect; SO was
she; the two were equally matched SO
far, and he accordingly addresses her in
the stranyest adaptation Of Scripture lam
guage to the purposes Of coartship ever
seen: He begins:
"Grace, mercy and peace, etc. My
own beloved spouse, my most sweet
friend and faithful companion of my pill
griraage, the happy and hopeful supply,
next Christ Jesus, of my greatest losses
Che had lost two wives). wish thee a
d most plentiful increase Of all true COM
fort in the love of Christ, with large
and prosperous addition Of whatsoever
happiness the sweet estate of holy we'd
lock, in the kintlest society of a loving
husband, may afford thee.
Being filed with the joy of thy love.
and wanting opportunity OF more 1am!l-
lar communion with thee which my
strained to ease the burden of my mind
|. by this poor help of my scribbling pen,
being sufficiently assured that, though
my presence is that which thou desirest,
yet in the want thereof these lines shall
not be unfruitful to comfort thee.
"And now, my sweet love, let me a
| while solace myself in remembrance of
! our love, Of which this springtime of our
| acquaintance can put forth as yet no
| -nore but the leaves and blossoms, while
| the fruit lies wrapped up in the tender
! bud of hope; little more patience will
disclose this good fruit and bring it to
sure maturity. Let it be our care and
labor to preserve these hopeful buds
from the beasts of the field and from
| frosts and other injuries of the air, lest
our fruit fall off ere it is ripe or lose
| aught in the beauty and pleasantness
| thereof. Let us pluck up such nettles
and thorns as would dejraud our plants
| of their true nourishment; let us prune
| off superauous branches; let us not stick
| them; the plenty and goodness of cur
| fruit shall reco,npense us abundantly.
"Our trees are planted in a fruitful
soil; the ground and pattern of our love
is no other but that between Christ and
His dear spouse, Of whom she speaks as
she finds him. "My we'll beloved is
mine and | am His" Love was their
banqueting house, love was their wine,
love was these ensign, love was His in
vitings, love was her taintlngs: love was
His apples, love was her comforts; love
was His embracings, love was her re-
treshings: love made Him seek her, love
love made her seek Him; love made
Him wed her., love made her follow
made her His servant. Love bred our
fellowship, let love continue it, and love
shall increase it until death shall dis
solve it. Amen"
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WADENA,

The Arctic cranks are hard to kill.
They haunt the halls of congress and the
white house, soliciting encouragement
and financial aid for more fool-hardy ex-
peditions-but relief for Capt. Greedy
il the only scheme that is likely to be
aida6
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OFFICIALLY COUNTED.
The Vote by Counties OH State Officers and
Judges Nov. 6, 1SS3-An Analysis of the
Scandinavian, Vofo

The Vote by Counties OIL State Officers and
Judges Nov. 6, 1SS3-An Analysis Of the
Scandinavian Vote.
from the Pioneer Press, Jan. t.
The official canvass of the votes cast at the
election Nov 6, took place at the clerk of the
supreme courts Office at the capitol yester-
day. The canvass shows the majoritles to be
rs follows: Hubbard, 9,149; Gilman, Ia $50;
Won Baumbach, "a, O45; Kittelson, % ,O35;
Hahn, %, 295; Baker, %, 1852 The amend
ments received an average majority OF 3d.
O72. The total vote cast for governor
was 1885, IT'S, Of which Hubbard received
~, 462; Bierman So, 251, and Holt, the pro-
hibition candidate, 1924 For lieutenant
governor, 1885, 52, Of which Gilman re-
ceived 75,O21; Frazee, So, 56l, and Shove,
5,OO1. For secretary of state, l25. S75, Of
Green, 81, OPT, and Paine, 4,795 For state
treasurer, 1865, Of which Kittelson re-
ceived 9,365; Ludwig, 81 ,27O, and Ander-
son, 1928. For attorney general, 135, 353,
Of which Hahn received z9, 1874; Willis, o.;
commissioner, 1873 pos, of WHICH Baker
Meeker 4, SG1. Won Bau1nbach received the
largest majority and Hubbard the smallest:
Gilman led the governor about 5000, but
fell 5000 behind the rest Of the ticket In
several Oh uuG COuuu4CS JULIUS we've OoCluIcO
illegal on account of incorrect spelling of the
name Of candidate, and 3, 1914 ballots were
thrown out on this account, as follows:
Anoka, c. f. Paine, for secretary of state,
l76; Becker, John Ludwig, for treasurer,
81; Cass, Charles Ludwig, for state treasurer,
~; Crow Wing, A. T. Lindhol, for
railroad commissioner, ,,576; Murray
p Lindholm, for railroad commas
sioner, $50; Murray, $: Meek, for railroad
commissioner, II; Mobiles, p. Lindholm, fo1
railroad commissioner, 2l5; Otter Tail, 7l7.
Polk, John w. Wilius, for attorney general
| $685. Iiudholnn, for railroad commissioner:
63s. Stevens, ?: Lindholm,, for railroad
| commissioner, 8; Wadena, 234: M. B: Koon
| was elected Judge in the Fourth district, re.
ceiving Is, OO5 out Of 1901. L. Y. Collins
| in the Seventh district, received 13,9OS out
| Of 1898. j. l. Macdonald, in the Eighth
district, received 9,O34, to a. fol- NJ. A Little
and 81 scattering.
| THE VOTE FOR JUDGES.
Following is the abstract of the vote pollet
In the Fourth Seventh and Eighth Judicia
districts for Judges:
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A Blaze sc breckenridge, MINI.


At Breckenridge: MIMI, Tuesday, the
1st., the north sids of Minnesota avenue, be-
tween Fifth aud Sixth streets, was totally
destroyed by fire, except the corner build
ing, belonging to P. Hanson, and occupied
by him as general store aid postoffice.
The losses are as follows:
A. W. Goats, two stores, s., 600.
F. Sherman, saloon and dwelling, loss
$1,000.
Hartford & Harff Bros, loss 50, 500.
A. w. Col g dwelling.
Ransom Phelps, four stores; loss. Sc, 500.
r. L. Smith, general store; loss, 81, 200 to
$14 900.
A. B, Matthews. lawyer, loss 81. 200.
County Offices, Ransom Phelps Office.
A. w. Coats, drugs and stationery, loss
So 900.
Sherman house, owned by D. wilmot
Smith. loss $1,8OO.
Mr.. HaAson's loss from damage to stock
by removal is COD siderable; covered by in
surance in several companies.
The most serious matter is the loss of the
county records. Tee insurance in some
cases nearly covered the losses.