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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
SPORTING.

Ex GOVERNOR STANFORD, of Califor-
MIA, has about 500 head of choice trot-
ting stock on his great farm at Palo Alto.
EDWIN B1BBY and John Connors have
posted 5000 each with Richard K. Fox
to w1estle at catch-as-c catch. can for
1.000, at Scranton, Pa.
The Empire City Curling Clubs sill
yer medal was competed for on the 9th,
at New York, and after some excellent
play, was won by a new member, Mr..
James Holmes.
IT is reported that Master George
Nash, the youngest member of the
Springfield Bicycle Club, recently rode
on one wheel entirely around the Hamp.
den Park track, distance of one mile.
GEORGE WRIGHT, Tim Murnane and
Tom Bond, all old Boston Red Stocking
play ars. will be members of the new
Union Club of Boston. An application
has been filed with Warren White for
admission in the Union Association.
JOHN TEEMER, the oarsman, has &C.
cepted the challenge of P. q. Conley, of
Portland, Me-, to row three, four, or
five mile race, for from $500 to 81, 900
side. Teemer is willing to row at
Pullman or at the Point of Pine.
In race on the Shrewsbury River at
Red Bank. for the championship pen
nalj of the Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club.
the Dreadnaught, owned by Charles
Throckmorton, won, with the Scud,
owned by Games Weaver, second. The
course was sailed over three times. max
ing twenty miles in all.
CURLING, the national Scotch sport, is
with every incoming winter increasing
in popularity among Americans. The
establishment of the new American
Curling Club, which was recently ad-
mitted to membership of the National
Curling Association of the United States,
is one proof of the fact.
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard Col
lege, says that inter. collegiate contests
in athletic sports are degrading to both
players and spectators if conducted with
brutality or in jockeying spirit. Col
lege authorities are in favar of forbid
ding college Clubs or crews from en-
ploying trainers, Or competing with
professionals.
The swimming match between Willie
Beckwith and J. Finney, for $500 a
| side, took place at the Royal Aquarium,
Westminster, London, on December
| 10Th. Finney led for less than half q
mile, when Beckwith closed with him
and eventually beat him by twenty sec.
onds. Subsequently Finney's friends
offered to back their favorite against
Beckwith for three races, in open water,
J at the same distance.
! The boat club of the University o1
Pennsylvania challenges any college O,
university to row an eight.oared shell
race, with coxswains, for the champion.
ship, over any distance and water, an6
at such time and place as may be mutu
ally agreed upon. Failing to receive ar
affirmative answer to this general chal.
lenge within sixty days the club proposes
to claim the championship of American
colleges in eight cared shell rowing, anc
will call upon public opinion to sustain
them, having challenged Yale in 1873;
and Howard twice in 1883.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
ASKING FOR RECOGNITION.
The Grand Orient Of France Appeals to
All Free Masons.

New YORK, January 14.-The men,
bers of the Masonic order in this city
are very much interested in q cable dis
patch from Paris stating that the Grand
Orient of France had issued an appeal
to all the lodges of Free Masons in the
world requesting the renewal of the OFF,
cial relations between that body and all
the other branches of that order. The
Grand Orient wa dropped from most of
the other branches of the M mic 1ite
which exist throughout the world in
1878 because it departed from the fund
amental principle of Masonry, which is
belief in the existence of Supreme
Deity and in the Immortality Of the
soul. The American lodges of Masonry
had refused to recognize the Grand
Orient since 1869, when that body in
fringed upon the territory of the Grand
Chapter Of the State of Louisiana by
establishing a branch of the Grand
Orient in that state and attempting to
found lodges there under the iurisdic-
ton of the French body.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23

THE coroner's jury on the 18th, in the Brinton
disaster, censured the Pennsylvania Railroad
company for not exercising more care in pro-
tecting laborers.
In New York, on the 10th, johnson & Aus
TIN, Lumber dealers, with liabilities of $75 600,
and James Bisland, dry goods, with liabilities
of $50, 1000. assigned.
A COMMITTEE representing the cattle inter-
ests laid their claims before congressional
committee on the 10th, and requested legisla-
ton that would aid in the detection and stamp
ing out of pleuro pneumonia and other cattle
diseases,
BUCKLEY d Co., dry goods, Utica, N. Y,
failed Oh the 10th. Liabilities 100000.
A FIGHT between the Pottawattomie and
Chippewa tribes of Indians is reported to have
occurred recently. Two horses of the Chippewas
strayed away and were shot and the fight re-
suited. Five were killed.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23

bound newspapers will be kept and may
be consulted, and a bindery with an area
of 2,50O square feet. The other three
stories will be finished of uniform
height of fifteen feet.
On the first floor, fronting on Dar-
mouth Street, will be two rooms, of an
area of not Jess than $500 square feet
each, one for the patents and the other
for the English and American public
documents. On the second floor will be
the hall, containing. the delivery desk
and reading room, with an area of $500
square feet; the public card catalogue
room, with an area of $3.50 feet, rooms
for the trustees aud librarians, and
dressing rooms and other accommoda-
tions for persons employed in the
library. The third floor will be mainly
used by cataloguers and other persons
engaged in the regular work of the
library, but it will also contain an art
room, with an area of 5000 square feet.
Rooms will also be provided for the
special libraries. The book stack is to
be seven stories in height, ard is to be
built throughout of iron, and to have 8
shelving capacity for 700, 900 volumes.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
Boston's New Library Building.

The city council having appropriated
10000 for premiums for the best four
plans for new building for the public
library, the trustees have issued a pre-
liminary description of the building as
it should be. The trustees decide that
the building shall be of brick, three
stories in height above the basement,
with brownstone trimmings. The cost
is not to exceed $450, 900. In the base
ment, which will have three quarters of
it's height above the level of the side
walk, there will be, in addition to the
apartments Of the janito1 and other
rooms for special purposes, room with
an area Of 5000 square feet, where the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
RIOTING RAILROAD MEN,
They Take Possession Of a Train and
Defy the Authorities.

PORTLAND, Ore,, January 12.-Over
200 recently discharged railroaders
boarded a west bound passenger and
mail train at Pendleton, Ore yesterday
and demanded to be taken to Portland
free. The railroad officials declined and
ordered the crowd to leave the train.
The latter ipsolently refused to pay fare
or get off. The state authorities were
called on, but the sheriff, with
large posse, was unable to as.
sist, as the tram was on the Umatilla
Indian reservation and the state au-
thorities were without jurisdiction. The
crowd then took possession of the train
and defied t,,e officials. Gen. Miles was
telegraphed for aid. He Immediately
ordered two companies from Fort Walla
Walla 10 the scene. The troops reached
the place last evening. The rioters still
refused to yield. About 800 roughs
from Pendletol came to the assistance
ofthe rioters, overpowering the soldiers.
The crowd numbers over 500. Very
serious trouble is feared. There has
been no b]oodshed yet, but the result is
difficult to foretell.
PENDLEToN, Oregon, January 12.-At
the beginning of the week two hundred
railroad men were d scharged, and spent
their wages for whisky and in riotous
living. They came here two days ago
and demanded free ride to Portland.
They we're refused and yesterday board.
ed the regular west-bound train
and held possession. The authorities
appealed to Gen. Miles who ordered
a company of infantry from Walla
Walla. When the troops arrived the
mob still refused 10 leave the train, but
permitted the mail car to leave. The
situation is perilous, as 500 more dis.
charged men are expected to arrive to.
morrow.
LATER No outbreak has yet occur
red. The men are holding a meeting
and the citizens are doing their best tc
provide for those who are perfectly des-
titute. No serious disturbance is now
anticipated.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
DAKOTA,

HURON claims to have erected $780,
$40 worth of buildings last year.
A PETITION asking for the removal of
Gov. Ordway failed to secure signatures
in Mitchell.
GR1swoLD and party have abandoned
all further mining enterprises at Lisbon
until spring.
NE1s LARSON, of Cooperstovn, started
for home, about eighty 1ods distant, on
the night of December 22d, and has not
been seen since. It is Lelleved he wan
dered off and perished.
CITIZENS of Mitchell, who have inter-
ested themselves in the proposed
sshomestead monument" have ar
ranged to send James Davis, the origi-
nator of the project, to Washington, to
ask donation of land and funds from
congress-.
On the 29th ult, the Sheidley Com
pany purchased Grimes interest in the
Grimes & Thornton herd, Black Hills,
which numbers about 5000 cattle, to.
gether with ranches, range privileges,
etc., the price being between 900
and $175, 900.
Mr.. AND MRS. G. D. THOMAS were
found at their residence at Valley City,
Dak., in state of asphyxiation from
coal gas. Although under the influence
of the gaseous inhalation for ten hours,
they will recover.
JOSEPH @. FAIRFIELD, judge of the
probate court of Douglas County, has
been arrested On charge of willful and
corrupt perjury, alleged to have been
committed before United States Com
missioner Kongabe in the contest of q
homestead claim. He is the same party
that prosecutes the proprietor of the
Chronicle for libel.
The territorial judges hold that under
the United States laws they have right
to appoint the clerks of the district
courts for term during good behavior.
At the last session of the territorial as
sembly an act WAS passed making the
Office elective. Chief Justice Edgerton
holds that the act under which the clerks
we're appointed is paramount and that
the appointed clerks hold over. On the
other hand the people will elect parties
to the clerkships and it is now warmly
contested by some of the ablest attor-
neys that the election of all ministerial
territorial officers, including clerks of
the district courts, is reserved to the
people by the organic act creating the
territory.
NoTw1THsTANDNa the fact that busi-
ness was not very brisk in the Red River
Valley. last season, Fargo, the, metropo'
lis of Dakota, makes good showing in
her resume of the year. According to
the Argus the Improvements aggregate
81, ,1OO, 1000, including very substantial
brick blocks and number of elegant
residences. The Northern Pacific plant
cost nearly 100000 The Fargo gas
works are now in successful operation.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23

A YOUNG and handsome bachelor of
Sulphur Spr1ugs, Tex, received dainty
box on Christmas Day. containing a
turkeys foot with the motto: 81 offer
thee this hand of mine." It is very
probable that he will not accept "gob-
bier" 's.a til: :#.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
MINNESOTA.

The railroad passenger business at
Duluth in 1883 showed an increase of
$4,000 over the preceding year.
NEARLY all the towns in southern
Minnesota are making determined war
against the saloons and club rooms.
Mr.. LOUIS D. MoNU1T, of Minne-
apolls, has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the Winona Street
Railway Company.
j. K. MOORE, of the st. Peter
Tribune, refuses to sell his paper to
parties who wish to purchase and make
prohibition organ of it.
A ST PETER gentleman has offered to
give pair of boots each to three diff
ferent parties providing they will ab-
stain from the use of intoxicating drinks
elring the year 1884.
PETER Cz1zRK, late city treasurer of
Moorhead, has been arrested charged
with embezzlement of city funds. The
amount of the defalcation is said to be
$14, ,O23, ,05O. Czizek is very sick at his
house, where he remains under sur
| veillance.
A. M. MARTENS, of New Prague, sold
two car loads of pork to the Van Haven
Live Stock Company of st. Paul, and in
the settlement the latter maintained it
was three car loads, and persisted in
payment for the same, drawing their
check for $500 more than was actually
| due.
| COUNTY TREASURER G. A. FR1ZzELL,
Of Olmstead County, refuses to relin-
| quish the Office until March next.
Treasurer elect Lull appeared to take
possession of the Office, but was met by
a refusal by Mr.. Frizzell. 1t is s'under-
stood that this will be made test case,
and will be carried to the courts for
settlement.
Mr.. J. N. DONALDSON, ex-register of
deeds, of Faribault, while driving from
his home to the court house, was thrown
from his sleigh and the bone of his leg
broken. The limb had been amputated
several years ago, and the bone of the
remaining stump was broken about two
inches from the end; the hip joint was
also badly sprained.
ANOTHER case of troubled conscience
has come to light. +. l.. Hanson, a
resident of Mankato, in 1874, while work.
ing in New Ulm, found pocketbook
containing $24y in money besides other
papers. he burned the pocketbook and
papers and appropriated the money to
his own use. After ten years he gives
himself up to the police and asks to be
Or osecuted for the crime that had
weighed on his mind for years, and ex-
pressed a sincere wish to find an owner
for the stolen money. Mr.. Hanson had
an examination and was sent to the
asylum for the insane at st. Peter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23

SABLE is the most fashionable fur in
England among those who can afford it.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
Why They Parted Company.


An excellent story is told about a
young man whose attentions to young
lady became the subject of comment.
She was his companion in his daily rides,
and apparently they both enjoyed the
propinquity. Suddenly the rides ceased
and the young fellow was asked the rea-
son. He replied that she had called him
a jackass. and that he would not ask
any girl to ride with him after that.
The lady's friends were shocked and
asked for particulars. This was bis ex-
PLANTATION: "You see, we had been so
much together that I gave out in topics
for conversation, and when I took, her
out last l couldn't think of anything
but the weather, and I said: Il believe
it is going to rain; 1 felt drop on my
ear. She looked at me and carelessly
replied: THAT rain is half mile of.
Now, did not that mean that I was a
jackass with long ears? I have never
been near her since .-.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23
PaWnbrOking in San Francisco.
[ Interview with 2awnbroker in the Alta


Pawnbroking is very different affair
here from what it is IN the east or in
European countries. There people don't
pawn until they can't raise cent IN any
other way, but here they g: e more inde-
pendent, and will sooner pay us for the
use of money they have raised upon
watch or any olher valuable they may
have, than go begging around among
their friends. You can bet it would as
tonish you to learn the names cf people
who have dealt in this shop, for l have
had among my customers some OF the
highest nobs in the town-eepecially so
among the ladies. There are lots Of rich
men who don't think anything of chuck
ing out the dollars on their own fun,
while they scrimp their wives down so
that they can't even dress decent, to say
nothing of having no pocket money for
their outside amusements. Now, that's
just where my chance comes IN, and
mauy's the thousand dollars that l have
loaned on sealskins that had gone to the
furman's for repairs, or jewelry that
had been lent to friend or lost. have
known real tiptop ladies to come in
here many a time and raise enough
money on a ring, fan or some other
trife to pay for lunch down town, and
the matinee tickets afterwards. If they
value the thing because Of the party
who gave it to them, they'll take it out
again on the first chance, but very often
| they say it's lost and let It slide. Very
few of these ladies seem to make many
bones about it, for they walk right IN
the front door and look around as though
they wanted to bay something. until the
chance comes to hand over their pledge,
and take the money as though it were
change from what they'd bought. We
drop on this line of customers very
quick and give 'em the chance just as
soon as possible.
Some of the heavier borrowers come
in through the back door, but the most
of them play the buying racket and step
in back to examine the goods. One
fashionable lady played that game for a
pretty large amount this afternoon. She
said she wanted the money for Christ
mas presents, and guess she did, for
her husband has lots of cash, and he
don't look like one Of the stingy kind.
She said The must get her things out by
Thursday &C lates rs there are some
parties coming on where she wants to
wear them. That's almost sure to be q
true bill, and is one of the chances when
[ turn nv money over quickly.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-01-23

MRS. MARGARET. j. PRESTON
good lellies as we'll as poetry. and h"e
cheeks so fair and rndtlY that they al
most belle her years, betrayed by the
gray in her light hair. She is short ana
an easy talker, "s..5 rs,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-23
|. X. |. CHILL CURE ?

TNHIs Is TO CERTIFY that have never
known 81. \. l.. Chill Curs" to fail IN
single instance. j have used II in Hay family
with delightfal results, and can ch0erfully
recommend 1t to anyone Mnn0sed with HIalA-
ria in any form. especially Ghills and Fever.
Yery respectfully, j. w. CRAWFORD.
Houston, TeGas.
Guaranteed to cure Chills aud Fever, Ague,
MaIarial aud Intermittent feSers. For sale
by NEaG. AI1sYRsAR. Lake Charles, La,
Price $i.0O.
NJ. -. F'O&KI in d CO..
WAoLKsALK DEUGGIsrs
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a HHENDMENI 10 AkIIUI1E I16.
OF the Constitution of the State, 81 Relative
20 the Jurisdiction OF Courts of Appeal fer
the Parish of Orleans
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-23
Amendment NO. a.

ART. l35. tfIharesshall basin the
city of .Eaw Orleans itearG City Courts,
one of which shall be located in that
portion of the city on the right bank
of the Mississippi river, presided sossr
by judges having all the qualifications
required for q District Judge, and
shall be elected by the qualified voters
for the term of four years; they shall
have exclusive Jurisdiction e0veF all
sums not exceeding one hundred dol
lars, exclusive of interest, subject TO-
al appeal to the Civil District Court
when the amount claimed exceeds
twenty-five dollars, exclusive. of III
terest. The General Assembly shall
regulate the salaries, territorial sdivi-
sion of Jurisdiction, the manner of
executing their process, the fee bill,
and proceedings winch shall govern
them; they shall have authority to
execute commissions, to take test-
mony, aud shall receive therefor such
fees as may be allowed by law. The
General Assembly may increase the
number of City Courts for the said
parish, not to exceed eight in all, un-
til otherwise provided BY law. Each
Of said Courts shall havc one Clerk, 10
be elected for the term of four wears
by the qualified voters Of the parish,
who shall receive a salary Of twelve
hundred dollars per snnum, and no
more, and whose qualifications, bond
and duties shall be regulated by law"
AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE 100,
OF the Constitution of the State, relative To
the jurisdiction of the Civil District Courts
of the Parish of Orleans"
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7HH1TEyT a 7.
ARA AaaaAGAA1 b 10 inc 6aaAs
sfatUtiOn Of the State
Of Louisiana.

State of Louisiana.
oFFIcRuF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-02-23

lars, exclusive of interest, and shall
not exceed twosthonsand dollars. ex-
elusive IF interest
AMENDMENT TO sARTICE lol.
OF the Constitution of the State Relative TO
TRIAL of Cases IN Courts OF Appeal when
Judges disagree"
~a Amendments NO. 6.
Arr. 10l. 81 Whenever the Judges
composing the Courts of Appeal shall
coacar, their judgement shall be final.
Whenever there shah be -aiissgree.
aent, the two Judges shall appoint q
lawyer having the qualifications for
Judge Of the Court Of Appeals Of their
Circuit, who shall aid in The detsnli-,
nation of the case, a JUDGMENT con
Cured in by any two Of them shall be
final"
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 1as.
OF the Constitution of the State, q Ralatiye
% the Jurisdictioa Of Courts of Appeal fer
the Parish Of Orleans .
Amendments No. @.
ART. l2s. "There shall be in the
Parish of Orleans a Court of Appeals
for said parish, with exclusive appel
late jurisdiction in all natters, civil
and probate, arising in said parish
when the amount in dispute, or fund
to be distributed exceeds one hundred
dollars, exclusive, of interest, and does
not exceed two Thousand dollars, ex-
elusive of interest said court shall he
presided over by two Judges, who
shall be elected BY the General As
scmbly, in JOINT session they shall be
residents and voters of the city of New
Orleans, possessing all the qualilica-
lions necessary for judges of Circuit
Courts of Appeal throughout the
State they shall each receive an an
Rual salary of four thousand dollars,
payable monthly upon their respective
warrants. Said appeals shall be upon
questions of law alone. in all cases In
volving less than five hundred dollars,
exclusive of interest, aud upon the
law and the facts in other cases. II
shall sit in the city Of New Orleans
from the 6rst MoHlay of November
to the last Monday of June In each
year {; it shall have authority to issue
writs of Aas'dGn.~s, Prohibition, Ger
tiorari and HG6eas Corpus in aid of
its appellate Jurisdiction" s.
AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 1876.
OF the Consultation Of the State, creative to
the jurisdiction Of the City Courts of the
paFiah of OrIaADBFi =- =8r z.-E al
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ACT NO. 10.


OF the Regular SassioRsof 1SS2--AmeRdmsnt
to Articles of the State Debt Ordinance OF
the Constitntaen of 1859. sg
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ACT NO. 1l3.

OF the Regular Session Of. observation-disclosures
to Article, LAG of the Consultation of the
stats Relative to Fees and Charges, to be
Paid by Stamps In the. Parish of Orleans.