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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
Relics of the Red Men

st. John, N. r. Dot. 24--Relics of th,
extinct race of red Indians, who wer,
the aboriginal inhabitants OF New
foundland were recently discovered OF
Pilley's island, Notre Dame bay. VERY
few remains of the vanished race o,
Bethuks or Boethies have been pre-
served. There are few in private hands
and the New Foundiand museum CON
taIns small collection, including n
sknll and skeletoni some arrow heads,
gouges, and other stons implements.
In recent excavated one or two graves
opened, contained the skull of an admit
IN an excellent state of preservation. II
has the characteristics of the skull of a
savage, but is well shaped and pretty
well developed in the intellectual region
one that proves conclusively that the
Bethuks were by no means of q low type.
In the other grave q skeleton was found.
which, with the exception of the YER
zebra OF the neck is perfect. Apparently
1t is the skeleton of young Boethie.
nine or ten Years old. The body had
been wrapped in birch bark, doubled
together, laid on its side and covered
with heap OF stones. The form was
perfectly preserved when the wrappipcs
OF birch bark were removed, and it has
somewhat the appearance of q mummy
In addition there are in the collection
several specimens of beautifully finished
stone arrow heads. hatchets, and various
articles made from birch bark. such as
small models OF canoes, drinking yesselg.
etc., and curiously shaped bone orna.
mants
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
a APostmaster's Predicament.

Washington, Oct. 24.-An Ohio post.
master who runs dry goods business in
connection with his office has gotten
hinnself into trouble. He is comp planned
OF by rival merchant. The postmaster
had quantity of small envelopes OF q
neat pattern printed with an advertise.
ment OF the bargains for sale at his store.
Every purchaser of stamps at she post.
office gets them enclosed In one of these
envelopes, and as any one buying a
quantity wants something in which to
Keep them the envelope is an advertise.
ment of the ingenious postmaster's
private buainess. The department has
decided that this form Of aoffensiye
partisanship" must stop and will 40 in.
form the offender. 81 believe that every.
body entering postoffice should be on
an equal footing" says Third Assistant
Postmaster General Hazen. aA post-
master should not make display ia his
Office during Office hours of politics,
religion or any other subject on which
diverse opinions might exist among his
community in the shape of posters an
riouncing political meetings or placarde
setting forth the fact that 'I love Jesue,
After office hours he may 20 to ward
meeting or to church as he plesses. In
the same way he should not make use &;
MS Office as postmaster to influence or
increase his private business"
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

Senator Edmunds, prior to his re
election, was formally requested to file
an agreement to give active support &c
the next republican presidential can
didate. This step was taken because O,
his inactivity during the last presiden.
tial campaign. In reply Senator Ed
munds gave his lnterlocutors long
discourse bristling with generalItles.
hue containing nothing which can be
boiled down to promise to take of his
coat two years hence. He was never.
theless elected by very nearly the unap.
lmous vote of the Vermont legislature,
Senator Edmunds is probably waiting
for the republican party to recover from
its debilitatlng Blaine craze before
committing himself to campaign work.
LII the convention puts forward fresh
man the Vermont senator will undoubt-
edly be on deck for action. He can be ex-
cused for not coarting the opportunity
to assist his party in the commission of
political suicide,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
Died with Their Roots ON.

Washington, Dot, 23.-To.day Robert
Aston, a clerk in the sixth auditors
office, committed suicide at his desk by
shooting himself. He was about
twenty-eight years old, unmarried, and
a son of Col. "Bob" Alston, who was
shot and killed at Atlanta six years ago
by prison contractor named Coz.
Young Aston was man OF fine phys.
ique, handsome and o fayorite with the
ladies. de went occasionally on sprees,
and 1t is Said on such occasions drunk
very deeply. He had recently been on
such spree, and was still suffering
from the effects of it. Alston's fellow
clerks know of no reason for the fatal
act except the depression due
to the effects of the debauch.
1t is said, however. that he was wildly
IN love With young lady who would
not receive his attentions. A strange
fatality seems to run through the male
members of the Afstoa family. They
have always been ready to fight, aad
but few of them have died with their
boots of. Three uncIes of the young
man fell ia duels, after they killed one
or more men each in similar encounters,
His grand uncle killed three mon in
duels in Florida, and the governor of
that state offered reward of $4,000 for
him. One day there rode up to the hotel
at Valley Forge, Ga, man on horse
back, who coolly read the offer
posted on the door, and went
in and got his dinner. There
were about fifty men in front OF
the hotel. When the stranger came
from the dining room he found himself
and the reward the subjects of congeIsa-
tion. Several Of them expressed q wish
that they could meet Robert Alston,
saying that ii they did that So, 500 would
be theirs. Walking coolly mp to them
with two drawn derringers, Alston told
who he was and asked any one who
wanted the reward to take him.. No one
moved. Alston mounted his horse and
rode away.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27


Secratary McPhersou, OF the republi.
can congressional committee, has been
compiling some figures relative to the
forolole suppression of the colored vote
IN the south and has reached some In.
teresting conclusions. Including Dele
ware, Maryland and West Virginia with
the northern states, We ha@e this res,:!!
as to the slave states: In 1876 their
average district vote on congress was
24,5O4. In 1884 the average was 22.990
This leaves decrease in the vote In the
eight years OF even eight per cent. In
the other states of the union there was
during this period an increase in the
vote of about eleven per cent, Thus
seventeen per cent represents
the average suppression. In {. Gull
states the wrong is more marked. Take
for instance, Alabama, Mississippi and
South Carolina. The average fall in
these stateH is from 2s,121 in 1876, to 49,.
o96 in 1884, or within fraction OF 80 pe,
cent. Itrequires in the north an average
OF 1888 votes to carry district. II re-
quires in the gulf states as named an
average OF 8,699, A vote in these states
has thus double the electoral and repre-
sentative power OF vote in the northern
states as direct result tSia suppres.
sion Of the vote.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
Cuttings Claims.

Ak. Cutting, the gentleman who
came near running Mr.. Bayard's reputa.
tion as diplomat. has forced his way
again before the state department
Yesterday voluminous bundle OF
papers came to Assistant Secretary
Porter, of that department., containing
MIR. Cuttings claim against the govern
ment OF Mexico and state OF Chihuahu ue
for $4,000 primitive and exemplary
damages. The state department. vii
give the matter very mature considera
tion before 1t will press this claim, Tht
department does not deny Msxico'l
right to punish Cutting or any othel
man for violation OF Mexican law upor
Mexican soil, and IT will first decide from
the facts secured by Mr.. Sedgwick and
the claims OF the state authorities il
chihuahua whether Mr.. Cutting hal
any claim whatever.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
Cincinnati onicIuI Croo,,canes..

Cincinnati, Oct, 25-- George T. Setter,
ex-cierk OF the board OF public works,
was bound over TO the grand jury to-day
in the sum of $4,000. This morning he
gave some startling testimony at the ex-
animation of James Morgan, of the
board of the public affairs, who is
charged with certifying to fraudulent
vouchers. He said that he got his
nephew, Joseph Peters. to personate
Joseph Myers & o., and draw money
on false bills; that Peters gave the
money to him snd he paid three-fifths
OF it to James Morgan. He mentioned
specifically where a,r5ss xhen he paid the
money to Morgan on two or three bills
for $500 each. The case of Morgan wat
submitted without argument and Judge
FITZGERALD held Morgan to answer to the
grand jury in the sum OF $4,000, which
was given. This testimony by Seitel
was wholly unexpected at this time
although it had been thought he would
expose all he knew before the trials
we're ended.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
a.nnd slnice Deeisian.

Washington, Oct. 24-The secretary OF
the interior has allowed the appeal of q.
u, Hall in his contest against Frederick
happ tor the southeast quarter section
Ia, township lac, north range, 81 west,
Bismarck, OAK, land district. The secre-
tary believes that Knapp, who was o
bookkeoper ct 81, l50 per year for firm
OF cattle raisers about forty miles from
jamestown, WAS holding down the land
tor that firm; that he had his residence
tn jamestown, keeping his wife and
family there. He believes that Hall has
the first right to the land, and if the
tenor of the secretary's letter can be
taken as an indication, he will reverse
the action OF the commissioner Of the
general land Office and give Hall the
land on the appeal. He has Affirmed
the decision OF the commissioner in the
case of Aaron A. Joline, commutea
homestead of the southeast quarter
section 6, township lilo north, range 63.
and OF e. Beyson's claim to the north
east quarter, section IA. township l12,
range GA, north, in the Huron land dis
trict,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

standing that he was second cousin to
the presidents wife. 1t has been gem
orally understood that Folsom was Mrs.
Cleyeiand's cousin, but it is now an
nounced that he is but second cousin.
1t Is also. said that he is forty years Of
age. de did not look to be day over
thirty when he Was in Washington last
spring, and has always been claseed
here as quite young man and there
fore inexperienced. II is understood
that the line of nepotism to which the
president objects is not drawn on any-
thing beyond first cousins Second
cousins of high officials according to the
precedent Just established, will not bs
barred from appointment.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
Only 3. SECOND Cousin,

An official explanation is giveE out
concerning the appointment OF Rsn-
lamin Folsom. 1t appears that Folsom
has been o candidate for the Sheffield
consulate for ten years. He worked
hard for Tilden in 1876. He felt conf.
dent that if Tilden had become preai,
dent he would have had the consulate
he worked for the democratic ticket ir
1880 with the belief that General Han.
co'sk wouid give him this consulate i
he were elgcted. He. too, worked hari
for Grover Cleveland and thought ht
ahould be given this consulate notwith-
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

Much surprise is expressed at Marshal
Maratta informing Judge Clifford that
he would support him in the present
race for congress instead of the demo-
cratic nominee. tits rending the demo-
cratic party in twain.
The foregoing comes in the form Of a
Fargo special to st. Paul newspaper.
1t may be true and it may not. Fargo
is not always reliable source Of po-
litical information,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

An act of the last legislature provided
that the registers of deeds and treasurers
of Grand Forks, Brown and Bon Homme
counties should be paid stated salaries
in lieu of fees, as is provided in the cases
OF such officials in other counties. The
matter has been taken into the courts
by the register OF deeds of Brown county
and he says he will take il to the highest
court OF the land if necessary.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

Senator John O. Spooner, of Wiscon.
sin, is acquainted with Delegate Clifford
and knowing him can only commend
him. He writes to Sioux Falls friend
"Mr. Clifford is an able man, thor.
oughly acquainted with the wants of his
people, and devoted to- the service he
gives Dakota. He ought to have a
splendid endorsement"
He will be endorsed next Tuesday.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

political parties, and such expression
being adverse to their admission as q
Whole scheme, must create some other
organization to fall back upon in their
light for division. The newly fiedged
Fargo combination OF sore heads will.
perhaps, suit their uses. Beyond this
1t will have no standing as an organizs-
tim
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

immigration Commissioner Dunlap
tells st. Paul interviewer that the
bulk of frecent settlement in Dakota has
gone into the Huron and Aberdeen re.
gion. This may be given as one reason
for the removal of the immigration office
from Huron to Bismarck. The "certer
of population" is badly in need of peo-
pla
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

The headquarters of the department
of Dakota will be removed from Fort
Smelling to st. Paul November 1st as
announced by General Ruger IN gen.
eral order. The garrison at Fort Smell.
ling is to be largely increased.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

The war department has decided to
refuse permits to land liquor In the ter
ritory of Alaska and nothing stronger
than ice water is now permitted within.
that governmental dependency.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

Sioux City is making another effort to
close its saloons and hall dozen more
Injunction cases have been instituted
1t is predicted that all the ipjunctions
granted will be made perpetual.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
The Lincoln Extens,a..

The following stations ON the Lincoln
extenion OF the Fremont, Elkhorn and
Missouri Valley railroad was opened
for business Monday. October, 25, 1885:
Cedar Bluffs, Colon, Wahoo. Sweden.
Ceresco, Davey, Little Salt, Lincoln.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
New Photograph Studio,
JUST OPENED,

Nearly opposite the postofice in the Norris
Block. Yankton. d. T.
NVEBYBODY is invited to call ard see the
~ pictures displayed. No trouble to show you
what VIC have and can do for here.
We guarantee everything in our line. and
eslicit every variety of work, from copying to
tholargest size portraits Ont door views, DO
A. A. ROUNDS. Prop
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27
gallg 2n'esiEss alrtl 1akutaialt

THE DAILY PRESS AND DaKoTs,.N
Is Is published every evening. excepting Sun
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION My carriers. ner
month, g 0oi per year, S12 90; by mail, per
month, ss cents; per year, $40 90. ~
ommscesa,PREss me- Z, AND DAkoTA1AN block corner of
Telephone number 5.
BOWEN KINGsBURY. Prop'trs.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-27

Yankton County Nomin stions.
For County Commissioners:
LIST distriot-OLE KJELDSETH.
9th district-ANTON PEIFFER.
For Register of Deeds.
PETER ROYEM.
For County Clerk:
CHRIS HAGE.
For Treasurer:
HERMAN ELLERMAN.
For Sheriff:
FRED KINCEL,
For Superintendent of Schools:
N. M. HILLS.
For Assessor:
E. h. DUNN.
For Surveyor:
ED. PALMER.
For Coroner:
.. Is. McGLUMPHY, NJ. D.
For DISTRICT Attorney:
L.. b. FRENCH.
For Probate Judge:
l.. CONGLETON.
For Justices of the Peace:
A. s. DUNNING,
ANDREW SAGSTAD,
j. e. HARDIN,
For Constables:
MATTHIAS KLINKNER.
OLE p. Peterson.
JOHN ROBINSON,
GEORGE BAUMANN.
, 1886-04-22
The Great Labor Strikes.

Recent experiences with the
knights of Labor in their great
strikes have fully demonstrated that
two wrongs never yet made one right;
also, that strike involving 100000
loss to the public, over one discharg-
ed employee, IS rather going to ex-
tremes The knights not only re
fused to work, but they forclbly pre-
vented others from working Final
ly, threatening letter from Pow
derly to Gould has called forth an
answer from the latter in which,
after reviewing the whole case. he
says: .'In the face Of all this, you
notify me that unless by 5 O'clock l
personally consent to do something,
precisely what [ do not see, then per
sonal consequences of u sort vaguely
expressed, but not hard to under
stand, will. at the hand of your order
be visited upon me. Let me again
remind you that it is an American
citizen whom you and your order
propose to destroy. The contest is
is not between your order and ne
but between your order and the laws
of the land. Your order has already
defied those laws IN preventing by
violence this company from operating
its roads. You held then that this
company should not operate its roads
under the conditions prescribed by
law, but only under conditions pres
cribed by you. You now declare in
effect that | hold my individual prop
erty and rights, not as other men
hold them, but only at the peril of
your letting loose irrevocably after 5
o'clock your order upon me. If this
be true of this company and OF me,
it is true of other men and compan-
les. If so, you and your order are
the law, and an American citizen is
such only in name. Already for
weeks your order has, in your attack
upon this company, not hesitated to
disable it by violence from rendering
its duty to the public, and from do
ing work and paying wages to men of
at least three times your own number,
who, working as they were by your
side, We're at least deserving of your
sympathy. Having pushed this vio-
lence beyond even the great forbear-
ance of the public, snd found in this
direction cause to hesitate, you now
turn upon me and propose that the
wrongs you have hitherto inflicted on
the public shall now culminate in an
attack upon an individual. In this,
as have said. the real issue is be-
| tween you and the laws of the land.
1t may be, before you are through,
that those laws viii efficiently advise
you that even [, as an individual citi
zen, am not beyond their care.
Very Respectfully,
JAY GOULD.
, 1886-04-22
The Seattle Idea Again.

/ .H. i rIr-
There l. a spirit OF bitterness ting
cd with malice very manifest, on the
part OF the Republican press Of the
Territory. toward Seattle. The bat
tie cry seems to- be- anything or any
one, but the seattle Idea or Seat
tie man. We aTe not prepared to say
that some Of tina = not UIeTited. while
and fairmiudcd man viii admit that
ii l. beng carried too far to be Just
and right The voters Of King
County must plead guilty to the Cp
proprious epith~t Of "holter." Bolt
iug" l. one Of the most reasonable
crimes il the decalogUo OF political
faith. Subsequent events have shown
that many Of our Wei meaning peo
pie made some very bad hlunders.
This resulted from drawing con
clusions from reasoning based on on
ly probable promises. The probabil
tiles did not prove realities. One of
these premises WAS that The Northern
Pacific railroad company would never
complete the Cascade Branch; and
another was that Delegate Voorhees,
would have its land grant forfeited
No one can fail 10 see how untenable
the former position Is, as there can no
longer be a doubt that The Cascade
Branch will be completed. As to the
latter Delegate Voorhees, has not sue
ceeded in having anything forfeited.
If Seattle hopes for any respect at the
hands Of the Republican Territorial
convention she must make the show,
at least, of candOr. As the Port
Townsend ARGUS has well said, these
old issues are dead and it is not wise
nor proper for King county to boast
of her importance to the Republican
party of the Territory" 1t Is not
best that such a movement should be
even seriously discussed. The small
margin by which Voorhees, was
elected would suggest discretion.
Again there Is another point bearing
on this same subject which it would
be we'll to consider. This election
carried by intiaminS the masses
against the Government as foster
parent of land steals and timber
frauds and "boon companion" of
corporate greed and grasping mon
opoly. This was carried to such eX-
tremes under cover Of land grant for
feiture that mole hills were magnified
into mountains. Our late troubles
might be expected as natural result.
Their malignant form could have
been avoided by moderation in
preaching the crusade, and much
violence, ayerted. The same end
could have been reached by milder
means. Railroads became the i'm
personation of all evil and the willing
tool of 'Old Beelzebub" himself,
Such abuses need reformation.
, 1886-04-22

tested and seized every separate bar
rel. We then made 4 general search,
but found only the fourteen barrels,
which we took on board the cutter
and carried to Port Townsend. On
the trip down we unpacked the
opium, weighed and marked it. and
numbered each barrel with white
paint. There were BOIL pounds,
6O23 half pound tins. The opium
was placed in the custom house, and
a watch has been kept over it ever
since. The barrels were OF different
shapes and sizes, some small and
some large The heads We're painted
red, and the paint was fresh around
the chimes Six of the barrels were
lined with burlap. We found two
white men at Cassan bay They We're
Swede5 or Germans. When landed
the men came to the beach. l asked
them where we could find water.
Then | asked if the Idaho had been
there. One said no, not for two
months. He then asked what steamer
that was We came on, and [ told him.
| then asked what the Idaho landed
on her up trip. One said only some
sugar and bread. The other said.
Yes, on the down trip the ship
landed some barrels of furs; Captain
Carroll said they We're furs, and told
rs TO be careful of them. as he would
land some more next trip" The
Idaho was at Victoria when the cut
ter went by on to Gassan bay. The
opium found in the Idaho at Port
Townsend was 629 pounds, valued at
Sl1 per pound. The opium in the
ldado was valued at $500. and that
at Cassan bay at about $4,000.
Continued on Second PareD