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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
PLANTED.
Devils Lake Celebrates Its FIRST
Arbor Day.
From Fridays Daily Inter-Ocean.

From Fridays Daily Inter-Ocean.
The very disagreeable nature of the
weather today was a dampener upon
the enthusiasm that had been wrought
up over Arbor Day, but the ladies went
about the work Of preparing the lunch
and hoped for the best. When at noon
the sky did not clear away and the rain
continued to come down, the wind the
while blowing a gale, it was decided to
forego the ceremony of speechifying
and singing and plant the trees in the
ordinary way without pomp or parade.
At 2:15 Major Benham, captain of the
spade brigade, moved at the head of his
handsome command, which was armed
with spades decorated with ribbons,
through the principal streets, and Sam
Dodd and Nurseryman Bergh drove the
tree wagon to the Presbyterian and
Episcopal church lots. In the brief
time required to distribute the trees at
this place the rain ceased and clear sky
began to show itself. This brought the
ladies and children from the
lunch room near by and
in five minutes about two hundred
persons had collect ed to witness the
proceedings. Forty-fve minutes later
the last tree had been planted ut the
engine house and the sun was shining
brightly. The ladies and children fol-
lowed in carriages and on foot.
Whatever of interest there may have
been lacking in the informal business
of this afternoon will be made up at the
6 o'clock lunch this evening. The ladies
have prepared a splendid spread, and
everyone should be on hand for supper.
The cost is but rs cents, the proceeds
to 60 toward defraying the expense of
the trees and their protection.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
Almost Fatal,
Earro DanlnCrlt

The ISTER-OcEANh has 1t from good authority that
Judge Bennett is now in Washington and has strong
backing for Judge Hudson's place. This Is no joke
Devils Lake Intcr-Occan.
We We're Just about rolling back in
our chair, expectorating over our left
shoulder and issuing q loud haw !! haw !
when our eyes caught the last four words
OF the above item. Jerusalem! the
sudden damming up Of IN OVERLOOKING
laugh nearly resulted in the rupture Of
a blood vessel. Hansbrough, please be
more careful; we have a family depend
ent upon our labors.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
Killing Chickens,

The attention of the S]portsmen's
club is called to the fact that prairie
chickens are being killed out Of season
and at a very important time of the
year. Old hunters say the chickens
were never so plenty in the spring as
they are this year.. This indicates thai
the fall shooting will be excellent, pro.
vided the birds are permitted to nest
this spring. Men who kill chickens
now should be punished severely. 1t is
a serious violation of law,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
School Director, Bartlett Town
A Citizens COMPLAINT.

Pasqual De F1ore says if the city coun.
Gil had done him justice they would
have laid down a crosswalk over Far.
rington e on the south side OF
Fourth street, and that the want of it
affects his business materially; also that
a great many visitors in going to exam
Inc the school house remark that there
should be sidewalks all the way up 50
that they could travel with more COM
fort and sleanlinsss in wet weather,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

In its provisions for taking the semi
decennial census by the territory itself,
the United States allows to Dakota the
sum of $36,778; to Wisconsin, $34,3l6;
to Minnesota, 8 1,497.' The amounts
are allowed according to the increase OF
population, and Dakota, having the
greatest increase, gets the most money.
The items to be scheduled as required
by the government are as follows: Pop
u~lation, productions of agriculture, pro-
auctions of industry, mortality.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

train yesterday to meet their sister, and
got a card saying she would arrive by
the afternoon train today.
Our local sportsmen are busy now
shooting (at) ducks; Of course each one
has the best gun, but why are they SO
willing to trade it off,? But, to tell the
truth, the boys have killed a few fine
ducks, and we know it by the taste.
The ducks are nice and fat this spring
and we hope to have the pleasure of
sam ping a few more of them.
The lumber has arrived for the school
houses and work will commence at once.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
Mark Twain's Favorite Style of Re.
ception.

Mark Twain, it seems, is a very con.
genial, moderate fellow, and likes q
convivial time with friends. A few
years ago, when he was here, a com.
mittee Of newspaper men waited upon
him and rendered some sort of enter.
tainment in his behalf.
"Well," said he, with his customary
colloquial limp, 1--we had a good deal
of this sort of marble palace and gilded
chandelier business and I don't want
any more, but if could get together
with the boys in a quiet, cozy place,
where a fellow might smoke a cob pipe
and put his feet on the table if he
wanted to, then l don't know but what
I'd enjoy it." .
The place was procured and the hu.
morist sat with the pipe and tobacco
beside him and his hat on his head and
related yarns the whole night through
to the %edifcation of a score of fellow
scribblers.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
VERMONT,
Its Representatives Visit the Great
Western CITY.
From Fridays Daily Intcr.Oceau.

w eSGerQ Guy.
From Fridays Daily Intcr-Ocean.
At 6 o'clock yesterday evening a Man
itoba special rolled into the city bearing
the Vermont committee Of five and
eight or ten other gentleman, all being
the guests Of Passenger Agent Warren.
The names of the party appeared in our
last issue. A number of carriages we're
at the depot and the committee we're
driven through the city and out toward
Grand Harbor to the high hill this side
of that village. A splendid view of the
surrounding country was attained from
the top of the hill. Both ends of the
lake could he seen very distinctly, and
the black patches of cultivated land
stretching in every direction as far as
the eye could reach made a picture for
an artist,
Returning to the city, the visitors met
and became acquainted with many of
our citizens, and at half past 7 went
aboard their special and left for the east.
One of the visitors remarked, just as the
train pulled out, "The people Of Devils
Lake don't show so much of the swine
rs the chaps who drove us out at Lake.
ia. There we were to have just an
hour, and they kept us out two hours;
here we were to have an hour, and
they brought us back in that time"
WHAT THEY SAID.
In the short time the Vermontcrs
were here they saw a great deal; the
Vermonter always sees everything.
Here are some of the remarks they
made:
"Yourtown is beautifully situated and
commands a fine view of the lake."
'The soil is very black and rich look
ing. What a pity there is so much
wasted in streets and roads,"
In one of the local markets: swell, 1
declare: what's these? Fish out of tn e
lake? Why Lakota fellows told us that
the lake was only IN alkali swamp and
nothing could live in it. What liars the
Lakota fellows must be-"
"Hello! Daily paper with latest var
news? Well, we've got towns with 1000
inhabitants and no daily. Say, l want
ten copies of them INrER-OcEANs. Tele-
grams from London and St. Petersburg
We've got no such enterprise as that in
Vermont"
"Hello! Fire apparatus, and graded
streets and sidewalks, and churches,
ard schools, and brick buildings"
"Say, merchant, what's that worth!
Why that's Is cheap as in Vermont"
"Just look at that black mud! What
a pity to waste so much in streets and
roads,"
Conductor Aires ran the Vermont
special. He's as good a boy as ever
punched a ticket or pulled q bell cord.
Fred Hughes of Arvilla accompanied
the e~xcursionists yesterday. He came
up to find "the hole in the bottom of
the sea-"
Mayor Roach, Of Larimore, was one
of MI. Warren's guests yesterday.
D. w. Ensign went down the road last
night with the Vermonters.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

The fight between Kelly and Doran
on the one side and Ignatius Donnelly
on the other is opening to the view
some political transactions and political
figures that make Minnesota but little
better than Dakota in the matter OF
political honesty. Donnelly is begin
ming to get mad. Kelly and Doran
ought to know that it Is bad policy to
tease the animals.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
A Bevy of Beauties.
Forman Item.

Col. DOMAIN has an estate of several
hundred acres, beautifully located on
the border Of the picturesque Devils
Lake, upon which he has expended
nearly $4,000. He is now making ar
engagements for the accommodation of a
number of tourists and friends from the
south and east the coming summer. A
company of some thirty young ladies
from St. Louis, Baltimore and other
cities compose one of the parties.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
ArbOr Dav I,nnch

The Benham House sample room was
crowded Saturday evening with gentle
men, ladies and children to partake of
the splendid lunch that concluded the
Arbor Day exercises. The long table
was three or four times filled and every
body went away happy. The quartetts
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
CHRISTIAN P
Rev. Mr.. Converse's Sunday Morn
ing Sermon.

Ab0fs IL SOAtO1o0 . ouAAO0N "OA
ing Sermon.
Philippians iii-17.2o. ..
In this passage Paul recognizes the
initiative nature of men. They love to
do as they see others doing. Now and
then we find nj who, through pride or
obstinacy, delights in being singular,
but in general men like to be led along.
Accordingly, Christianity provides not
only doctrine and precepts, but ex-
ample.
The Lord Jesus is the great example.
| Here we find the spotless man; the per-
feet standard to which the Christian
should yer strive to attain. No allow
ance has to be made for human weak
ness or imperfection, but we can rely
implicitly on all he said and did. But
men need examples present before their
eyes. The Lord Jesus can be studied
only through books, and many men are
not sufficiently studious to get the bene-
fit; hence Paul bids his converts note his
own actions and initiate him. But he
claims no infalibility. "Be ye followers
of me, even as I also am of Christi only
so far as the Christ spirit shines through
my actions.
But the apostle, too, must be studied
in books. Ourtex goes further: "Mark
them which walk so as We have us for
an ensample." In all the ages of the
church earnest, godly men and women
may be found who illustrate religion by
their lives. Seek them out and profit by
their example,
But the greatest pains must be taken
not to adopt false standards. There is a
widespread tendency to worship
and wealth. 1t will not do to take every
protesting Christian even, as many of
them are black sheep in the flock, whose
end is destruction. (Paul's description
of false professo rs in u e x is IL of
the most vigorous and tersc descriptive
passages in the English language-a
mode Of its style.) a false choic e Of an
example to he followed nay he fatal.
| Again care must be taken to initiate
only the good traits-not the weaknesses
and follies.
"Follow us, for our conversation is in
heaven Such is the substance of the
apostles arguments. The Greek word
rendered conversation is, more accu-
rately, ~"citizenship," (as in the revised
version). The citizen Of II foreign land
is easily recognized. His appearance,
conversation, actions speedily toll the
secret. So in the choice of examples
| only those Christians whose lives readily
proclaim thom citizens of heaven arc
to be chosen. Beware Of indulging in
that mental laziness and Incidence
| which promotes Il false choice,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
A Good Idea.

Mr.. Lord has sent for 1000 willow cut.
tings and will set them out about his
farm near this city. This will make two
miles of trees, three cuttings being
planted to each rod. In three or four
years he will have good wind-break all
about his place. The 1000 cuttings cost
IS. Every farmer in the county should
do likewise.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

ENGLAND is withdrawing its troops
from Egypt. This has an ominous look.
1t means that she needs her armies for
service at other points. England is per-
fectly safe in this summer-fallowing of
Egypt. If any other nation thinks she
can cultivate Ell Mahdi's fields, let that
nation come forward,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
Planting Trees.

J. L. Davenport is showing a good
example by planting trees in front of
his restaurant, and L. r. Achenback
has also planted some in front of his
place. They will in a few years make a
nice shade for their buildings and en-
nance the value Of the property. All
property owners should follow their ex-
ample,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

Recently at Lincolnton, Ca, the
postage stamp on the envelope of an
apparently innocent epistle was acct
dentally removed, and under it was
discovered a warmly a%flectionate mes
sage written in very small characters.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
Made a Mistake.

James Mccormick has been at his
old home in Davenport, Iowa, on a visit
during the winter months, but says he
made a great mistake when he went
there to improve his climatic condition,
as the winter has been much more
severe there than here and spring not
nearly so far advanced. lie expects a
large emigration from there in June, il
the seeding is done by that time.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
O Testimony.

0. A. Lane is in from the Moose river
and is very enthusiastic over the posi-.
bilites, actual and apparent, of that
country. Mr. Lane has travelled through
Nebraska and other cattle-raising states
and pronounces the Moose river region
superior to anything he has seen. The
cattle that wintered there on hay are in
better condition than the granted stock
were in Nebraska last spring,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

THE. war in Europe will boost the
price of; wheat, and create a demand for
our great staple. The Saskatchewan
instruction will send people from the
north into our No. l hard belt. Dako-
to should have an extra thanksgiving
day this wear,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
MI. E. R, Hoyt. mechanical enpinee

Mr.. E. R. Hoyt, a mechanical engineer
at the New Orleans Exposition, was
severely injured by a huge derrick pole
falling on his foot. He wa conveyed to
his residence, and after three applica-
tons of St. Jacobs Oil, all the swelling
and pain disappeared, aud he resumed
his duties.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

The constantly tired.out" feeling so
often experienced is the result of
impoverished blood, and consequent
enfeebled vitality. Ayers Sarsaparilla
feeds and enriches the blood, increases
the appetite, and promotes digestion Of
the food, and the assimilation of its
Strengthening qualities. The system
thus deing invigorated the feeling
rapidly changes to a grateful sense Of
strength and energy.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

Asiatic power in the beginning Of the:
fifteenth century. The date of the i'm
perial progress and pageant is not yet
fixed, but it is mot expected to occur
during the present year.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1885.
DUNsE1TH and st. John are preparing
for war over the county seat of Rolette.

The News account of the Arbor Day
exercises reads like a report of y poker
game, and was otherwise about as silly
afthing as that sheet ever did.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02
The WAY to Do It.

John Kahn arrived Friday from
Montague, Mich, bringing three car
loads of stock and four families of his
old neighbors. Mr.. Kahn has spent two
years in Dakota and knows how to ap-
preciate it, If every old resident would
go east and bring out four families the
country would soon be settled up.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-02

Plans and Specifications furnished oil short notice.
odd Size Sa.sh and Doors made to orler. Store
fronts a speciality. Repairing of all kinds
done with neatueSs and dispatch. I
have put in machinery for do.
ing all kinds of work.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-14
FLORID A.


Pensacola has petItiOned the Legislature to
abrogate her city charter.
hlsslmmee's public school opened last Mon
day with AN attendance of so scholars.
The Pensacola Gas Company has taken
steps 10 stop the complaints Of its patrons bv
furnishing a better quality Of gas.
There has not been sufficient frost in Mi
canopy TINS winter 20 kill tomato vines, many
Of which have ripe tomatoes on them now.
Three men were arrested at Gainesville
thursday afternoon, for playing the conf =
dence game and also for rObbing a man Of
Capt. L. :. Dawes, long a resident Of Cedar
he1s ls preparing for q removal t. Tampa.
where he designs establishing a machine
shop.
The Gainesvi le Variety Works is the name
OF a new company organized i'm that city for
lne manufacture Of doors, sash, blinds etc
Inc necessary machinery has already arrived
anu VIII be IN operation in a few days.
At Pensacola SATURDAY. night an Old man in
the employ Of the MuscOgee Lumber Com
pauE. was paid OF at MuscOgee. AMI when lie
lett the Office 10 20 home he was followed by
some one VINO stealthlly crcpt up behind him
iu the darb ness, and struck him with q sCant-
Ing, fractuTlng his skull. but did not Kill
h-1- lie cried Tor nelp. which fortunately
was near at hand, and the assassin ran OF
ana escaped without getting the old mans
money, which was his object. Suspicion
points TO weil-kuOwn negro who was seen
lurking around the premises, and was be-
Heved 20 be watching the old man when he
got his money.
In 1874 the total amount of personal
and real property assessed in Manatee
county was Sj0l ,2sS, the total amount OF taxes
collected for state purposes was 81, l06 60, and
the total amount for county purposes was
s2,1ji ~ In lS59 i've years later, the tax
books show that the increase in taxable value
OF property I'M TINS county was very small,
the total amount assessed be ng only S6i1, ,ll6,
the total amount Of taxes collected for state
purposes was Sl.5j1 gS, and the total amount
collected Tor county purposes was $5,49i 30.
In lsS4 the whole amount OF property assessed
was $l.5ts $50, the total amount Of taxes col
ledted for state purposes was S6,34O 32, and
the total amount collected for county pur-
moses was 80 3E5 qS
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-14
BARGAINING FOR ST. JOHN.
A Kansas Mans Assertion that He
Gould Buy Him on.

A Kansas Mans Assertion that He
Gould Buy Him on.
LEAvENwORTH, KAs., Jan. 13.-Fred-
eriek ". Willard, of the Times of this
city, and nephew of James F. Legate,
publishes a card this morning in which
he says that at Mr.. Legate's request he
wrote and mailed a letter to 5. b. Elkins,
of the Republican National Committee,
before the election saying in substance
that st. John would leave the field if it
was made an object for him to do so, and
that Mr.. Legate was the only one who
could manage him.
Mr.. Legate received a reply, but Mr..
willard did not know its contents. Soon
after Mr.. Willard, at Mr.. Legate's re-
quest. sent 10 Gov. st. John, in New FORK,
a dispatch, the wording of which he did
not fully comprehend, but it was suf1-
cient 10 convince him that Mr.. Legate
telegraphed to Gov. st. John for instruc-
tiOns. Afterwards when he asked Mr..
Legate if he had heard from the dispatch
the latter replied that everything was
lovely.
James +. Legate, upon being questioned
by a reporter to-day concerning st. Johns
reported willingness to sell out during
the recent Presidential campaign, and
his tLegate's) knowledge of a certain
transaction looking thereto, said: "WIth-
in a short time | intend to make full
statement of the whole matter as far as l
know il. Then let those kick hardest who
are hurt most; but / say now that so far
as Gov. st. John is concerned in all those
transactions, the Virgin Mary is not
r,71rar than hpf'
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-14
Az THE STATE CAPIrAL.
Gov. Mcdaniel Protecting the Convict
Death of j. L. Cohen.

Gov. Mcdaniel Protecting the COnvicts
Death of j. L. Cohen.
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. 13.-TO-day Gov.
Mcdaniel issued an executive order au-
thOrizing the abolishment Of the convict
camp of b. q. Lockett, in DOugherty
county, and authorizing Principal Keeper
Nelms TO at once break up the same and
remove the cOnvicts TO the camp of B. G..
LOckett n Co. on the ChattahOOchee
river. The trouble seems to be that
sometime during last summer the State
officials of this department reported that
William LOckett, the superintendent in
charge Of the ChattahOOchee river camp,
was maltreating cOnyicts and was an I'M
MT person TO have charge of them. The
Governor at once instructed B. g..
LOckett & Co. TO emOve William
LOckett from the control Of the cOnvicts
and passed an order prohibiting him from
having anything more to do with the
management of cOnvcts in this State.
After this William LOckett severed his
connection with the camp on the Chatta-
hOOchee river, and, so 10 is charged in the
records Of the Executive Department,
took control Of the cOnVictS at work on
the farm of his father, b. @. LOckett, in
DOugherty county. The discovery of this
by the executive caused the issuance of
the order. Principal Keeper Nelins has
has gone to DOugherty to carry out
the instructions of the Governor.
The cOnvicts, about fifty in num-
ber, viii be removed in the next
day or two to their new quarters, the
brickyard of b. G. LOckett & Co., on the
ChattahOOchee river.
j. l.. Cohen, prominently connected
with the mercantile interests of this city
for wears past as a member of the firm Of
Cohen n SelIg, died at his residence here
this morning.
Taylor McClung and James Lanier, of
Gwinnett county, who in December last
We're arrested, charged with counterfeit
ing and afterwards escaped from Jail,
have been captured again and were to-
day placed in Fulton county Jail.