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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
He Smuggled.

"What q good chance you would
have to smuggle," was observed the
other day to gentleman who resides
in Detroit but does business in Windsor
and crosses the border three or four
times per day.
"Ah! was his dry and non-committal
exclamation.
Aren't you sometimes temptedp"
mo, sir! At least not now.'
''Then you were once?'
''See here! Ill tell you story to get
rid of you. Years ago l did smugglc
ten yards Of silk across. My wife want
ed shade we couldn't find in Detroit
and l consented to smuggle it over.
When got ready to start for Detroit
the silk was under my suspenders, with
vest and coat buttoned over it. knew
all the custom officers well and there
wasn't one chance in q million of nv
being detected"
''And you weren't afraid, thcn?''
''Not until reached the ferry wharf.
The officials on the other side had moth
ing to do with the matter, of course, but
my guilty conscience was on the alert.
One of them called to me and detained
me ten minutes while he related the
particulars of man being trapped for
smuggling shawl. I felt myself turn
all sorts Of colors, and l declare that
my knees seemed to give right OUT
'Yes-I've been there.
'fOn the boat saw stranger watch
ing me very closely and l made up my
mind he was spotter. I'd have thrown
the silk away then, but there was no op-
portunity. When l reached the Amer
lean side felt like prisoner about to
be sentenced. Ididn't know whether to
land at once and hurry of, or to take
my time and affect coolness was
mighty far from feeling"
Exactly. felt the same way
''Well. two women were arrested
right in front Of me for smuggling
straw-bra:d, and the second officer came.
up and slapped me on the back and
called out:
Hello! Jim; got anything OH you
that ought to pay duty?'
He was in fun, Of course, but INV
heart jumped up into my mouth and
choked me. and I came near willing.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
News of Foreign Lands.

In the house OF commons. Right II =.
Robert Bourke. under foreign secretary,
stated that Sir Horace Rumbold had not
been ordered to inform the Greek govern
ment that England w:,s prepared to send
fleet to prevent an attack upon Turkey by
sea.
Lord Salisbury and his ministry have re-
signed. Their decision was communicated
to tho queen. Ii her majesty should decline
to accept the designations, dissolution Of
parliament would be the only way out of
the difficulty. The marquis OF Salisbury
sent special messenger to Osborne to in
form the queenoi the decision OF the cabinet.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
miscellaneous News Notes.

Nevada paid last year s54, 900 for tho
rent Of armories for the militia.
Ex-Gov. Warmoth OF lower Louisiana
says the late sharp frost did not injure tho
sugar cane much, and the orange trees were
not materially injured.
The latest reports Of reliable nature
state that stock Of all kinds on the north
Yellowstone ranges is all right, notwith-
standing the late protracted cold spell.
A st. Louis paper publishes series Of
interviews with merchants on the eight
hour Law. The employers state that it will
inevitably tend to lower wages and the
piece system.
Fully 5000 people, headed by brass
bands, marched to the depot at Hastings,
Neb., to witness the simultaneous arrival
Of delayed trains. Twenty-nine passenger
trains pulled into the union depot inside
OF thirty minutes. The blockade had
lasted ten days.
Tho total values OF the exports of mer.
chandise for the twelve months ended Dec.
81. 1885, wero s8ss, ,s46, $50. and for the
twelve months ended Dec. 81, 1884, $749,-
365, ,42s, decrease Of $50, o,519,s72. The
values Of the imports OF merchandise for
1885 were $5s7, ,551 ,5O6, and for 1884
1923, 261 $50, decrease OF $41 1,71O,35
Judge Brewer in the United States cir
cult court Mt Denver, filed an opinion in
the Maxwell land grant case. The decision
was for the defendants. The suit was
brought by the government to cancel the
land patents claimed to have been oh.
taind by Maxwell and Others by fraud, and
involved 1, ,7OO, 900 acres in Colorado and
New Mexico.
w. s. King OF Minneapolis said in Chica.
60 the otaer day: I'VE have not taken
another census since last summer, but we
have two wonderful cities up there, let me
tell you. Although the boundaries OF the
two touch now, don't think that there is
any more prospect OF their merging into
one city than there is Of Chicago and Mil.
waukee growing together.
The land grants to wagon road COM
panies in Oregon and elsewhere will soon
be made subject OF public inquiry. The
Oregon Central military wagon road re-
ceived a grant OF 361, ,337 acres in 1864.
The wagon road line from Corvallis to
Taquama received 7G.ss5 acres in 1866;
the Willamette and Cascades wagon road
got 1O7 ,S93 acres in 1866; the Dallas mill.
tary road received 12G, $40 acres in 1867.
and the Coos bay wagon road 1OA OsO
making total in all OF 777,O9G acr.s.
or territory nearly as large as the state
OF Rhode Island. 1t is said that none of
these roads were completed according to
the requirements Of tho grant. and that
some OF them were hardly begun.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
LIFE STUDIES.
BY LICE BROWN.

BY LICE BROWN.
The man who whistles is the silent
partner of the gods.
The man who is chronically hard-up
is generally down at the heel.
The man who chases bubbles will be
sure to bark his shins, sooner or later.
The trouble with the administration
has been explained. The President
likes hard-boiled eggs.
II begins to look as though the book
agent would have to go. Somebody
has invented artificial eggs.
An eastern physician has published a
work telling how to prevent scars. A
treatise on minding ones own business,
most likely.
A New Yorker was fined thousand
dollars the other day for nearly killing
q woman. It may be taken for granted
that she was not his wife.
1t is said that Chinaman never goes
crazy. There is no reason why he
should. Millinery bills are unknown in
the Flowcry Kingdom.
The average length of life is said to
be OH the increase, but the man who is
waiting for somebody's old shoes don't
seem to find much comfort in the dis
covery.
"Colorcd jewels are to be all the
rage this season." says fashion item.
What's the odds whether the cook is
white or black SO long Us she under-
stands her business.
"All men are ruled by trifcs,' SAYS
an essayist, but Bliggins afiirms that
any man who calls his wife trife don't
know what he is talking about. She
weighs over two hundred.
A scientist somewhere has been try
ing to prove that sunlight is blue. He
will find the present an excellent time
to push his theory. The holiday bills
arc beginning to come in.
If there is anywhere in life o silver
fringed. 18-karat, full-jewcled moment,
it is the diamond-bespanglcd instant
when the young husband first discovers
that his wife knows how to cook.
DR.. Mary Walker was forcibly eject
ed from one of the departments at
Washington the other day, on account
of impcrtinent conduct. If she wants
to be treated as a gentleman she should
behave Us such.
The blissful elasticity of spirit which
sclf-made man is supposed to possess,
is despondcncy itself compared to that
ecstatic buoyancy of soul which per-
mcates the being of the street arab
who has learned to play tune OH the
mouth organ.-Chicago Ledger.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
Washington Gossip.


A. Plum,ner has been appointed post.
master at Ewald, Mimi. vice Ewald, re-
signed.
Anaval officer at Washington says there
is such dilly-dallying over the new cruis
ers that the Chicago will not be ready for
seq until 1887.
The president recently nominatedW Will
lam H. Parker OF the District Of Columbia
to be minister resident and counsul general
Of the United States to Corea.
Assistant Secretary Fairchild has in
rtructed the collector OF customs at New
York to admit free Of duty portrait Of
the late Gen. Grant, painted in Paris by
Mr.. Nealy, an American artist, and inn
ported by Mrs. U. S. Grant.
Col. William Shelley, we'll known from
carly pioneer days in Minnesota, il prob.
ably on his death bed ut his temporary
home in Washington city. He has been
threatened for year past with an aggra-
waited form Of dropsy, to which chronic
asthma adds acute suffering.
The house committee on military affairs
instructed Mr.. Wheeler to report favorably
the bill introduced by him to authorize the
president to restore officers to the army in
certain cases. The bill is intended to cover
the case Of Fitz John Porter. Only two
members OF the committee disagreed to tho
report.
H. A.P. Carter. the Hawaiian minister,
has recently returned from Europe, where
he went upon an important mission with
the cordial endorsement Of the president
OF the United States. It was to secure the
consent OF the European powers to the
independence and neutrality OF all the Pa.
cific islands.
The house committee on railroads has
decided to report iavorably Mr.. Dunn's
bill extending the Thurman sinking fund
act to the Kansas Pacific, Sioux City &
Pacific and Central Pacific roads. BY this
measure the secretary Of the treasury is
to invest the sinking funds of these com.
panies in first mortgage bonds, or in securi-
ties OF the United State, and apply them
to the extinguishment OF the interest OF the
subsidy bonds OF those roads.
In the case 81 the Wisconsin Railway
Company vs.. Michael Stinka the secretary
Of the interior has decided that patent can.
not issue under the first section of the act
Of April 81, 1876, to one who comes within
it's provisions when pat mt had previously
issued to the railroad company. This re.
vernes the rule laid down by Secretary
Schurz, who held that it WAS mandatory,
and that patent must issue to the settler,
notwithstanding previous issue OF patent
to the railroad company.
quiet poll among the House Dakotn
committee develops the fact that they have
decided to report adversely ON the Har.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
Personal Gossip.

Gen. Lew Wallace admits he was too
previous in his attack ON Halleck.
Miss Berenice Morrison, ono OF the richest
girls in st. Louis, worth more than 81. .OO0,-
600, will marry Mr.. ]. P. Fuller in June.
The venerable Simon Cameron will 20 to
Florida next month, and will there cels-
brate his eighty-seventh birthday anniver.
sary.
Capt. William Harwood Parker, nomi.
mated minister to Corea, was for number
OF years prior to 1883 the president OF the
Maryland agricu ltural college and q resi-
dent Mt one time of Nori ok, but now lives
in Georgetown. He was for many years an
officer ofthe navy, serving with distinction
during the Mexican war, part Of the time
with his naval brigade ashore at Vera Cruz.
At the outbreak OF tho war he resigned,
went With the confederacy, and became su-
perintendent OF the confederate naval acad-
cmy. At the close OF tho war he was in com.
mand OF the naval brigade which guarded
the retreat Of the confederate govern ment
from Richmond.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05

Pennsylvanians think there is No doubt
about this being hapiH New Year. The leg
islaturc will not meet ut ALL
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05

.'i$t,etoe boughs for kissing purposes are
~ $'lll 10 New Yorl, from Flori:!a, post paid
= !. cost Of 10 cents each, being thus much
cheaper than the imported article.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05

During a practice trial at Santa Rosa, Cal, .
catfish astonsaed tnc tire brigade by getting
into thr nozzle and stopping the stream
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05

1t is said in California that the eucalyptus
and pepper tree. intcrspcrsed. tn oughout an
orchard, Is an effectual remedy for the scale.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05

Hartford now prevents the sale Of Sunday
newspapers on the streets after 10 A. NJ.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
Rn.ur.. ~ Co.,,olt,...

ResorI of Casualties.
Henry Fulmer's school slate factory at
Slatinston, Pa, burned down. Loss, $45,.
900; insurance, $25,
The Grasshopper mill at youngstown,
Ohio. was burned through the carelessness
OF lad, who dropped lamp into an oil
pan while at work. Loss, $4,000.
A fire occurred at Robinson Bros dry
goods house At Wichita, Kan. In is one Of
the largest establishments In the city. The
stock. valued at $4,000 was completely
ruined. The insurance 10 about $50, 900.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05

rison and Clifford bill for the admission Of
South Dakota, and are debating between
the bill to divide on the Missouri river and
the Butler substitute to admit as a whole.
The Butler bill is simply Senator Harri.
sons bill OF last year. with the simple in
sertion Of the boundaries Of tho whole ter.
ritory. Mr.. pringer is disposed to vote
for Missouri liver division. The idea OF
continuing the reservations under the terri.
torial government proves . taking argu.
ment.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05

Ss"A1E.-A resolution was introduced
o.iling for the constie ti"I ofexccutive
nomination. i'll open session. The bill to
was discussed.
Mr.. Logan said that il his iMr. Losan's)
proposition Of ten years ago in this senate
had been agreed to there would haze been
no Indian wars after that time. Ills prop
osition then was that it made it u penal
o}tense for anybody to sell a gun or powder
d.bullets to m Indian. That was what
Yss the trouble in our Indian affairs
Mr. Vest OF Mo-. madu long speech on
the Dakota bill, in which he paid his re.
spccts to Dakota editors and others for nj.
legged abuse OF him. Mr.. Vest said he would
hereafter submit q proposition to divide
the territory by IL line running north and
south on the 1O1st parallel Of longitude,
30 as to provide Tor the keeping OF the un.
settled western side in q territorial contlj-
ton.
Senator Ingalls, introduced a bill in the
senate to amend the Revised Statutes 80
as to make the Eighth judicial circuit Of
the United States consist OF the States Of
Nebraska, Kansas. Arkansas, and Color.
ado, instead Of Minnesota, Iowa and Mis-
souri.as Mt present. and to make the latter
states compose the Ninth circuit. Ad.
journed to Monday.
HoUsE.-The day was devoted to the con.
sideration OF bills on the private calendar,
and an evening session was held, at which
several private pension bills were passed..
Adjourned till Monday.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-05
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

eENAfE.-The bill to divide the great
Sioux reservation in Dakota and secure tho
selinquishment oi the Indian title to por.
lion Of the same WAS discussed without &C.
ion. Mr.. Harrison spoke in support OF
The bill for the admission OF Dakota.
Said against the recent organization OF
statehood when he said that it could not
be seen or known how state could be or.
sanized except by the procedure taken, and
without the consent of congress. He dis.
proved by documents and letters furnished
BY the leading Democrats Of the territory
that the statehood movement was q party
one. Hon. Bartlett Tripp, lately appoint
cd CHIEF justice of the supreme court Of the
territory, and one OF the most influential
Democrats OF the Northwest, has been and is
now, he said, foremost in the work for state.
hood, having been one OF those who signed
the original call for a constitutional con.
vention, being president OF it when in ses.
sion, and having been foremost in petition.
ing tho legislature to authorize the convcn-
ton which framed the constitution now be.
lore congress. Other prominent Demo.
Gratis in the territory-men Of the highest
standing as good citizens, able lawyers,
stc.-endorsed the constitution, and many
were among the trainers Of it.
The senate confirmed the following nom.
nations:
United States attorneys, Daniel o. Finch,
Southern district OF Iowa; R. C. Smith for
Montana: United States marshal, Ed.
ward Campbell, Jr., Southern district
Of Iowa; registers Of land Offices,
u. Pefiey, Boise City, Idaho; A. 8. Aus.
tin. Vancouver, Wash: R. C. Mcfarland,
Ceur d Alene, idaho; E. Horan, Eau Claire,
Wis; 8. Z. Thayer, Wausau, Wis; receivers
Of public moneys. j. 0. Keans, Vancouver,
Wo II n okol1av p.>;., C:<r, IJ,L.>.
8. 8. Kepler, Eau Claire, Wis; O. c. Halls,
La Crosse, Wis; NJ. d. McHenry, Des
Moines Iowa; postmasters, George Craw.
lord, Mineral Point, Wis; John Pepper,
Boscobel, Wis.
when the chaplain, in his opening prayer,
returned thanks that 'our silver and gold
had been multiplied" and the silver men
pretended to see in the fact that silver had
been placed before gold an indication that
the religious portion OF the community was
in favor OF a double standard.
Mr.. Boutelle arose to aquestion OF privi-
lega in connection with the debate on the
Norfolk navy yard matter few days ago,
and much time was consums Cd in discussing
the point as to whether or not it was a
Boutelle should be allowed to proceed.
The speaker finally decided against lin.
Sever al bills and resolutions were report
ed from committees. The bill Tor the vol
untary retirement OF certain naval officers
was debated. The bill declaring forfeited
certain railway land grnnts in Mississippi,
Alabama and Louisiana passed.
Mr.. Viele, committee ON military affairs,
reported q bill to aid in the erection oi a
monument to Gen. Grant in New York city.
The bill appropriates 100000 for the
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SENATE.-The bill Tor the admission Oi
Dakota carne up in the senate. Mr.. But
ler's substitute for the committees bill
was read. 1t is an "ena bling net, provid-
ing for the admission of the Territory Of
Dakota as whole us q state Of the Union
when an election shall have been held under
this net and 81 constitution, Repabican
in form shall have been adopted by the peo-
pie OF such territory. The substitute also
prescribes in detail conditions to be observ.
ed t>y the proposed state as to public lands,
schools, etc. MIR. Butler took the floor in
support of his substitute, which was IN
enabling net under certain conditions. He
was followed in very able speech from
MIR. Wilson OF Iowa.
Bills were introduced for the discontinue.
ton OF the coinage Of silver dollars and the
purchase OF bullion; to forfeit certain rail-
road land grants in Michigan. Eulogics
were pronounced on the late Representative
Elwood oi Illinois.
The sensation in the senate was thegilver
bill introduced by Mr.. Sherman, which was
AZ follows:
Be it enacted, etc., that the coinage Of the
silver dollar provided for by the first Sec
tion OF the act to which this is an amend
ment, be discontinued from and after the
passage Of this act.
Sec. 2. That the hesccretary OF the TREASURY
is authorized and directed to purchase
from time to time silver bullion in bars
not less than $40 fine at the market price
thereof, not less than 100000 ounces
troy per month, and shall issue in
payment therefor coin certificates of the
United States in denominations Of not less
than $40 each. corresponding with the de.
nominations OF the United States notes,
and the bullion purchased shall be retained
in the treasury for the security and for the
payment Of the same, and the amount OF
such certificates at any time outstanding
s':all not exceed the cost OF the bullion
purchased by such certificates, and the Ger.
tificates thus Issued shall be receivable for
customs, taxes and all public dues,
and when SO received may be rcis.
sued; and the secretary of the treasury
shall redeem in coin the same certifi.
Gates on presentation for redemption Mt
the office OF the assistant treasurer OF the
United States, in the city OF New York, in
sums OF not less than $50.
Sec. 3. That any holder OF standard sill
yer dollars or gold coin OF the United
States or gold bullion at the mint value,
may deposit the same with the treasurer
or any assistant treasurer OF the United
States in sums not less than SO and re-
ceive coin certiicate tes therefor similar in de-
nomination md legal effect to thccertiE.
Gates provided for in the preceding section.
The coin deposited for or representing the
certificates shall be retained in the treasury
for the payment Of the same on demand.
HousE.-A hill was introduced for tie or.
ganization OF the Territory Of Oklahoma.
Representative Elwood
New-York tribune., 1886-01-05
BRINGING IN sHIpwREcKED CREWS.

Nearly every incoming sailing vessel ycstcr-
day reported OF sails spar boats other portions
OF the fittings during the gales Of Christmas week The
German Agnes from PernaInbuco when fifty miles
north Cape attcras January spoke the schooner
Henry Prescott OF New-IIayen. from Brunswick, Ca.
for Boston she short of provisions and supplies
were sent her The Prescott had several days before
rescued Captain Seayy and seven others from the
schooner Horace o. Bright, the latter from Philadelphia
for savannah
1he steamer Saratoga, from Havana, brought from
that port Captain Repcto aud eleven others formerly
OF the Italian bark francesca Padre from Cnpetown,
Cane OF Good Hope for Pensacola. The Padre had CON
tnuuus and heavy gales early In December which drove
her out OF her course and December ID was driven
ON Columbia. Reef about $50 miles FROM Havana, and
became IA wreck. The crew were rescued by small
nshiuY vessel aud taken to Havana. The shpwrecked
ptupe will lbe sent home by the italian Consul The
schoouer Cook Borden from Port Guave, on January
passed dsmas ed and abandoned schooner kahean,
Of Yarmouth y. =.
s.The American ship JnbeZ Howes yesterday finished
the remarkably quick or ninety days from
San Francisco, but did not lower the record The
shortest time ever made by sailing vessel was eighty
days aud the quickest trip made from Newly ork
san Francisco Was by the ship Andrew Jackson IN
elghty-nine days
New-York tribune., 1886-01-05
SAFELY OTER 4 BrRyIyG BR1D0E

PETERSBURG, Va, Jan (SpeciaA Passenger train
No 45 from the South for Richmond Washington and
New York, dde here at 10 m., narrowly escaped dis
aster this morning On nearing the trestle bridge two
miles below Rocky Mount, station the Wilmington
and Weldon Railroad. the engineer discovered that it
was fire aud that portion of had been burned See
ing the danger and knowing that it would be iDposs
Bile for him step the train before reaching The treste
he brayey remained in the cab although that
If the train went through the trestle he would either
be killed seriously hurt well az all the passen
gers As quick fash the thought occurred to him
that the best way to avert the impending accident
for the entire tram to pass that portion OF the
bridge which had been burned rapidly possible.
lie pulled wide open the throttle valve OF the ocomo-
tive and passed over the bridge at the rate of sixty
miles an hour, but so great was the conclusion that
followed that OF the broke from the coupling
and all the i.hts iD the coaches eXiinguished.
The passengers all badly shaken mp and fright
cned The train delayed one hour on It's arrival
here.