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stocks ample. We quote: Prints, la6c: Geor-
gla Drown shlrtlng, ga. $40; rs do 4s[c: a.
brown sheeung, 534c' WINE osnaburgs TlSa
SIC; cnccSs. 6a61Sc; warns, S5c. for best
makes brown drillings, 615a71Se.
rIsH;-Me quote ruu weights: Mackerai-
NO. j. nal! Dds, 81 25aS 50; No. 2, "a 50a5 so.
Ne az L sc; scaled 25c; cod. base;
Flour. = Market firm; demand mod
ste oxtTa p CSs o. s iaPeT S soss M
choice patent. Sc 0Oa6 80: family. ) gOa5 %
Ts.-Lemons-Stock Hand demand
imp ovlus;$ O.. quiet;
gooc stock arm: no Floridas coming Ia;
Valenc "a, $ as % per case; So 00a4 per box.
APP Northern 50 81 g ,er bib.
GRAIN.-Corn' Market eedy: demand
n,ght; We.qaote; White corn, Job lots c; car
ioa1 lots, SIC; mixed corn. job lots, Gle; car
loadlots, C. Oatssteady: good demand. We
quote: Mixed oats. tc; carload lots, 4ic.
Bran,$l Meal. d C. G nrgia grist, per bnl,
" 20; rlst, per bushel, &c.
.hAY.-Market dulI, with a fair demand;
s 8 OK ample. We quote lob lots; Western,
No ~; car.oaa lots. 500; Eastern. none;
HIDES. Wool. ETC. - Hides: Market
J.; receipts IL dry flint. ] &c;
salted, y C; dry butcher. &c. Wool: Mar
Het nominal; prime, 20c; bury, sal2c. Wax,
1sc l mo, g. Deer Skins, dint, lSc; salted.
Ioc, outer skins. 25ca$
sL ds31N;IMarket hrm; sWede, H<aSo; re-
LA2D.-Fhe market is dull; in tierces and
tubs, % C: So n tins, &c.
LIME. CALcINED PLASTER AND CEMENT
Alabama lump lime is in fair demand and Is
selling at 81 30 per barrel; Georgia, 81 50; CAL
clned plaser. 81 10 per boz hair. SC;
Georgia cement, 81; Rosendale cement, s. 50a
lb1: Portland cement, SO So
- LIQUORs.-full stock: steady demand;
$Ial So. Ales unchanged and in good dem and.
NAILs.-MarkeJ Sd, 81 8; 4d and sd So o.;
Cd, 50 8; 50, s. 0; 10d to6Od. 50 50 per keG-
NUTs.--Almonds, Tarragona, l6}fc; lvlcas,
= ulrHaF
lOc: Brazil. Sc; dlberts. 10. Cocoanuts-
Baracoa. SO 70 Der 100.
,OtLS. - niarket stetdy; moderate delnan I;
signal 5Oa6oc: West Virginia black, lc;
ncatsfoot, Csc; machinery. soc; linseed-
raw iSc, boiled sic; mineral seal, lSc; fire.
proo, zoe; home light, zoe.
ONIONS. Northern, per bbl, 81 ooa4 80; per
PE1s.-Demand good; stock small; COW
pea. 81 251l 50 mixed, 81 259l 40; clay. 81 50a
! s.; nlack-rYe 81 IS: crowders, 81 %.
P0TATOEs.-Stock light. with TAR demand.
: ortDern. per barrel, 81 Oa2 Is.
PRUNES.-Turklsh. SIC; French. &c.
RAISINs,-Demand quiet. market STEADY:
loose new Muscatel. 81 50; layers S275 per
box: London LAYERS. 50 25 per box
SALl.-rne demand is moderate and tho
sbcaSl
sUGARs.-Market duh and declining; cut
loaf, G; standard A, &c; extra G, SIC; c,
yellow. &c: graduated. 74c; pow
dered. &C.
SYRUP.-Flortda ana Georgia syrups in bet
er demand. WequOte: 30a35c; the market IS
quiet for sugar house at s5a40c; CUBA straight
goods, $50 In hogsheads; sugar house mo-
lasses. 20c
ToBAooo.-Market dulI: demand moderate,
Wequ0te; Smoking, 25ca$l 30; chewing COM
mon, sound. 2Sa3'c; taIr. 35 tiSc.; medium.
40a55c: bright 50a75c; fine fancy, S5a90c; ex-
ira fine, 9Oa$l 10; bright navles. 4ba57c; dark
IrWeER emano stpadg pricas firm
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Sbippilta 9ntrIliaritrr,

THURSDAY. May IS. 1886.
ARRIVED AT QUAR- ANrINE YESTER-
DAY.
Bark Garibaldi NOR, Zakariasen, Buenos
Ayres, in ballast, to A K Salas n Co.
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Conmrrcin!.
sAVANNAM MANAEr.
OFFICE OF TIE MORNING NE'vS,l
SAVANNAH. NV y. 1851 5 2. NJ.

SAvASNAI. My p 1856, P. n.
CorroN.-The market was quiet, steady and
,ncbaugcd. There was fail inquiry, which
,.,.s,,te,l in more business being done than for
,,.ral days past The stock, however. con
=, res small and holiers exact full figures on
srcthirg like a standard gra e. Tue total
cole. for the day were 76s bales. On Change at
tb, midday car The market was reported
5,,li and unchanged. The following are the
o0icial spot quotations Of the Cotton Ex-
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NAVAL STORES

NEW YORK. Nav 70. noon Spirits turpen-
tine steady al 36g3Glsc. Rosln steady at 81 o.
al 10.
$500 p. m.-Spirts turpeDtine duh at 36c
ROsin dun ~ 81 O5(0l 10.
CHARLESTON. May l3.-Spirits turpentine
quiet 40 3i1ac. hosir quiet; 9090Jc for good
strained.
WILMINGTON, MAY l2.-Spirits turnenrne
steady AZ 32ISo. Rosin steady; strained 17lSc,
good straiue SOC. Tar firm AZ 81 20. Crude
turpenuue Grm, hard 81, yellow dip 81 70,
virgin ~.
RICE.
NEW YORK, May i2.-Rice steady.
CHARLESTON, MAY i2.--Market steady: fair
b Hslac, good 4Oi1Sc. prime 5lg51Sc; sales
30 nhs.
NEW ORLEANS. May l2.-Market quiet:
fair "a asA<c, good 1860, prime nominal;
sales 8ll bb-.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19
A NEW OASIS.
Converting the Oxus Desert Into a Fertile
Province.

Converting the Oxus Desert Into a Fertile
Province.
The Russians, who are singularly sls-
ceptible to new ideas, and display an
audacity in engineering which has re-
peatedly led them to act as pioneers in
reducing theory to practice, have fixed
their minds on a new enterprise, well
calculated to set on edge the teeth of
the English and Indian statesmen. This
is no other than the formation of a
new oasis, Is large as that of Merv,
along the new frontier to the Oxus,
which the Afghan Delimitation Com
mission will delineate, as soon as the
weather enables it to quit it's quarters at
Tchansham}r. Briefly, the scheme.
which, by the way, is not 4 mere news
paper project, but a sober engineering
design, complete in all details, and
drawn up on the spot by the sur
veys of General Annenkoff, the con-
%structor of the Transcaspian rail-
way, provides for cutting the bank of
the Oxus ncnr Tchardzhni, and allow
ing the water to run afresh through
some ancient channels running in the
direction of Merv. There is no par
tic,ilar novelty in the idea, the oasis
of Khiya being formed entirely of coun-
try irrigated by an elaborate system
Of canals" running out from the
Oxus near its entrance into
the Aral Sea. while the
Merry oasis is of Il similar character, and
uses up all the water of the Murghab.
The channels, we have said, already
run into the desert near Tchardzhni,
and a careful series of levels taken dur
ing the autumn show that if the bank of
the river be cut, and the channels cleared
of drift in one or two places. the water
will run freely for sixty or seventy miles.
The nomads can then be left to manage
the rest of the business themselves, foe
the natives of Merv and Khiva are eX-
tremely clever in making irrigation
canals, and they would speedily estab-
fish a network, and convert the clayey
cxpanse-now devoid of vegitation-
central Asia. All that is really needed
is to withdraw from the OXus a sufficient
quantity of water (and Annenkotf's cal
culations show that abundance can be
sparcd), and a year would be sufficient to
create an oasis capable of supportinga
quarter of n million people. In that
case Russia could march troops from
Askabad and Merv to the furthest parts
of Turkestan, and despatch the lash
kent and Samarcard forces through
Bokhara to Mcrv and Sarakhs in return,
without having any desert to traverse,
and the communications along the new
frontier would be perfect. No doubt
whatever is entertained in Russia that
Annenkotf's proposal will be accepted.
London Engineering.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19

feet, we went bravcly, b,avelv! Mo-
ments were hours, butryet we went on.
The most horrid fancies crept into Ii
minds. yet we went on. We were
burned. blackened, suffering in body
and mind, yet before us was the wagon
in flames, and in that wagon our flesh
and blood. Is it a wonder: that we went
on?
And we found our treasures. Every
child entrusted to the care Of the
stranger was safe, and the stranger HIM
self breathing his last. When the flames
took hold of the wagon, he had taken
the children out, and placing them in a
group in the middle of the road, had
fought the fire for their protection.
With the strength Of a hero he had torn
the scurf in the vicinity away with his
hands: Then he had watched the fall
ing cinders, and bringing the moist
sand from the roadside, had extin-
guished tie flame as often as it
caught in the clothing of his charges.
And so RAPIDLY fell the fire, that it was
only by thq most h%erculean efforts that
he was able to protect the dear ones,
giving him not a moment to protect
himself. SO the sparks caught in his
clothing, and burned his own flesh to a
crisp, while he labored for the flesh of
others. Noble soul! His efforts were
too much fol- his strength. 1t was not
the fire that killed him, though he was
shockingly burned, but the work he did
in the heat of that terrible day.
He died calmly and peacefully, with
out a groan or a murmur. He did not
even speak. But he dropped quietly into
the sea of a wondrous future, with the
group of children for the jewels of his
dying chamber, and we, the fathers of
those children, as sincere mourncrs as
ever stood around a corpse.
And so we erected Il monument over
the spot where he died, with the single
inscription ''The Stranger Martyr
Charles C~attcrfeld, IN Ballou's Maga-
zine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19
AN UGLY SPIDER.
A Specimen of the Mygale Family Which
Kills Fair-SiZed Birds.

A traveller named Bates, in a walk in
the neighborhood of Camcta, in Para
noted for it's ''Brazil nuts'-chanced to
verify a fact relating to the habits of a
large, hairy spider, of the genus my
gale, in a manner worth recording. 1t
was the bird-killing spider, or one very
closely allied to it. The individual was
nearly two inches in length of body, but
the legs expanded seven inches, and the
entire body and legs were covered with
coarse gray and reddish hairs. Mr..
Bates tells us that he was attracted by a
movement of the monster on 4
tree trunk; it was close beneath
a deep crevice in a tree, across which
was stretched a dense white web.
The lower part of the web was broken,
and two small birds, 1inches, were en-
tangled in the pieces. One of these was
quite dead; the other lay under the body
Of the spider, not quite dead, and was
smeared with the filthy liquor or saliva
exuded by the monster. Mr.. Bates drove
away the spider and took the birds, but
the second soon died.
The fact of a species of mygale sally
ing forth at night and sucking the eggs
and young of humming birds has been
recorded long ago by Mime. Merriam and
Palisot de B~eauvois; but, in the absence
of any confirmation, it had come to be
discredited. From the way the fact has
been related it would appear that it had
been merely derived from the report OF
the natives, and had not been witnessed
nv the narratOrs. Count LanpSdOrtf, in
his Expedition into the Interior OF Bra.
zil," states that he totally disbelieyea tho
story.-N. 7. World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19

"The man never answered. q wordu
but Just turned down the collar of his
cloak, lifted his hat about an inch off
his head, and looked me full in thet
face.
Talk of being hit by athunder-bolti
Ii half a dozen thunder-bolts had gonet
down my throat, one after the other, I
~couldn'thave been more utterly tloored..
This man whom I'd been contradict
ing, and bullying and asking what he
knew about Waterloo, was the Duke
of Wellington himself!
Give lever been positive since that
day, and, what's more, l don't think L
eve shall again."-Dau1d Kerr im Har-
per's Young People.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19
TUE LAND OF THE IDEAL.

:. Won been to the land that is over the
bordsndcrfu border where real things
md the fair land with its infinite
Older ~ oror Gonna troorino To
hHnH, II is imperfect, but nothing Is
here ntuE"' 10
Teai,,;f,l land Of the pure ideal?
mat land, and fairer than ever
IAN ~ in his carthward vision heholds;
qht ru.t n ar blight comes over it never,
pr p!fma,, cloud DER it's blue sky rolls
Foi me ,', Of mans spirit, supreme, but I'M.
T'.,it it,l land of the true ideal.
ao,aerful land! where the poets go
,L It "c.%ihiiildhood gets ever its beautiful
maidcn and lover get all the fair
. F"1.s so sweetly their roseate skies;
IhaIl 70 thy blessingsl albeit unreal,
"m h@,4autitul land of the sweet ideal.
,,omen are fair as the stars in the
J sloaming,,
And lB PHye - u
|nr ]cihiiren, bright visions of Joy that go
o,or woodland and meadow with laughter
MIN, N is wrong, where nil is unreal,
IoF @nMe~autiful land of Ii bright ideal.
rn, men are all noble, the bravest, the
r,,., nocsv's fancy ever has dreamed:
Er ,icIas are the i%airest, thy skies are the
INV liuht is the clearest that ever has
-, ro mod
from tine fountains of glory, fictitious or
wonderful land of the high ideal.
hest of the earth are turning forever
,wsy from the faults of material things,
,sn. Il in thy forest, or by thy still river,
IN mat which nnught earthly or definite
rho iCy of perfection. the glory unreal,
r i. lives in thy land, o perfect ideal.
III, poets and painters. and happy.eyed
-errs,
Who bring us the vision3of perfect delight,
SHOW Ms. o how US the land that is yours
The land of no sorrow, the INT OF no night,
rhe lnnd of high blessing, where nothing 10
real
Tho wonderful land Of the pure ideal.
The Edrih0mite.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19
A D FOR THE YOUNG,
DR.. CARL.

Little Carl thought ho
A doctor would ue;
So, out III the hall,
He made his first call
On his pet, Molly,
With her wax dolly.
He wore Il tall hat,
His papa 8 cravat,
Ted in Il large bow,
Three inches, or so;
He had Il book. too,
Pill-boXoS. ufew.
He 1elt very grand
With cane in his hand,
And glasses on nose.
Upon his tiptoes
Go make himself talD
He squeaked through the hall.
Then he made 4 low bow,
Saying: madame, just how
does your young child appear2
The sweet, little dear"
And i'll his small fist
He took the dolls wrist;
Sad: pulse is a going!
That's bad! There 5 NO knowing
What next it Will do:
Don'tlet it come through"
He studied his book
Shut it up, and then took
From the mother, her child;
He twisted and smiled;
Said: "A great man am I,
My dear, she won t die"
Then he sad: II must sec
Now her tongue-dearle, mel
Just put her to bed.
Her tongue is all red!
When peoples are right,
Their tongue is all white.
Here's q pill-nOw take 1t
In nice jelly make it
All mashed out Of sight.
Take them ull, dear, tonight
Tastes good, you can say,
For that Is the way
The doctors all do.
I've heard thcm-hnve you?"
Then Carl turned AWAY,
But cumc back to say:
"Ten dollars to-day
Is what you must pay.
Shall charge more next time
A bright silver dime"
Then the boy he went out
With IL jump and II shout.
A bright dime, found we
For this little NJ. d.
tits worth it," said Molly,
For he weld my dolly"
Great doctor was he,
Our little Carl Lee!
Sophia L.. Bar1OWs. in N. Y. Tribun
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19

The London Times lately contained
an advertisement for a smart-looking
second footman, who must have unex-
ceptionable character and be active, an
early riser and speak French and
English. The inducements held out to
this paragon are eighty dollars a year.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-19

1t is said that Isabella, ex-Queen, Of
Spain, owns considerable real estate in
Philadelphia, and, furthermore, is q
shareholder in the Keel motor.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06

Commissioner Dunlap makes predic-
tion that there will be large immigra-
tion to Dakota the coming summer.
Most of these new comers will seek for
dssded lands, IS the public domain has
been selected from SO closely that there
is little left to choose from. Under the
presumption and timber culture acts o
considerable area within our territory has
passed into the hands of non residents
and non-producers aud if this could be
turned over to new comers IN search OF
homes 1t would aid materially in the
development of dormant resources. 1t
is the prenicious effect of these yet nnre-
pealed laws that Dakota is now called
upon to combat and it should be the
part of every resident to aid in turning
over to the producing class the idle
lands of speculative owners who seek to
profit by the mistaken liberallty OF the
land system OF the general government
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06
PoIIed Angus Stock,

: +. d
ssssa. sAhHGe and srlsss. ss'.s
one thoroughbred s-year old
Bull, $500.
One thoroughbred Is months
old Bull $3.50.
Eighteen four yearTOld Cowsiin
calf, to the 3-year thorough
bred bull, the bunch for $40.
The Calves are worth the money at 8 weeks oil
Twelve three quarter blood
youIs bulls for $625,
taken soon--offerinK one of the best chances
tic starter q Poiled Angus herd.
ads ss .gsr BoHp co. sss Ds
| Moines, Iowa.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06

Yesterdays municipal election did
not bring sweeping republican victory,
the democrats electing the head of their
ticket, Mayor Harris, and two aldermen,
Balmat and Noonan. The republicans
secured two aldermen, Gilman and
Max, and three places on the general
tlcket-Blatt for treasurer, Baumann
for marshal and Congleton
for justice. The aemo-
Gratis elected three and the republicans
five of their candidates. The recon.
structed city council will contain five
democrats and three republicans, with
democratic presiding officer. 1t ls o
matter of notoriety that yesterday s
contest was not o political contest. In
| theory it divided itself upon Liquor
and an antl-liquor issue, with the
saloons on one SHE and the citizens
League on the other. Bnt in its actual
results there was no such division
| While the defeated republican candl
date was alleged to be the man possess
ing the saloon backing, the vlctnriou
democratic candidate is the man who re
celyed the most votes from that element
Whether this was the outcome OF al
eleventh hour change OF helrt o. OF
preeoncerted plan is not easy TO state
bat it stands as an axiom evolved iron
an analysis OF Sne vote and the element
which gave complexion to the resul
IOat of total vote of T93, the demo
cratic mayor received q majority OF %,
Had the contest been closely drawn uE
on saloon and an anti-saloon issu
the victory would have been achieved ;
go slight a majority for eth
8 side that neither would have oeen ce
tain of it until an accurate count hf
Ibeen made. So the vote of yssterds
r was not fair test of the much dlscuss'
= issue.
t Mayor Harris has served our ci
inearly year and served it ably aI
Il faithfully and there can be
reasonable objection to hlm
the ground of politics. He will doul
less continue to represent all OF Yar
ton as generously and freeiy as he b
MS n IN tbs past.
'ie The democratic preponderance in !
city council will doubtless have so
effect upon the administration OF affai
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06

season to the placer miner, as he can
now depend upon an ample supply of
water.
Work has begun on the $40, 900 brick
hotel at Rapid City. The new hostelry
ID to be called hotel Harney.
Gray wolves render the life of the in
fant Durham quite precarious on the
north side OF the Bear Lodge.
The Rapid City Republican is agita-
ting Black Hills exposition with view
of inducing capitalists to visit the Hills.
More than one million acres of agri-
cultural land still remain unappropriat.
cd in the Dsadwood land district. A
rare chance for few thousand farmers
to find fortunes and found homes.
The shipment OF hides from the Hills
to the states is becoming an industry OF
Importance. Why not establish tanner
les on the Whitewcod and save the
transportation to and from the cast?
Gus. Wood has become one o: the
most prominent stocknaen and farmers
in Lawrence county. Gus. will be re-
membered as one of the early locomo-
tive engineers on the Dakota Southern.
Zach Taylor belongs to tho Rapid
City fire company. This is tue man
of whom Santa Anna, during tho Mexi-
can war, said: "He is whipped, hut the
| ignorant crature ia not slnsible nv it. =
Custer Chronicle: John NJ. King
| prominent member Of the Buffalo Gap
bar, has been recently appointed attor-
ney OF the Black Hills branch and west.
ern extension OF the f. E. & M. v. rail-
road.
George Hearst, who has just been ap-
pointed to the United States senate
| from California, is one OF the principle
owners Of tho Homestake mine and re-
sided in Deadwood in 1883. He will
be. friendly to Dakota interests. Mr..
Hearst takes the place OF Senator Mil
ler, deceased.
The richest silver ore in large bodies
ever discovered in the United States
was struck in the Iron Hill mine, near
Deadwood, last week. Much OF it assays
$4,000 to the ton. A five foot breast
has already been opened. The stock
has gone to $3.50 IN one Jump and ID
steadily advancing.
Rapid City Republican: There IL
gypsum enough within two miles o.
, Rapid City to man uiactnre all the
) plaster of paris that the world
can use as long as any @
q us will live. to say nothing OF its value
i as fertilizer. The gypsum bed il
variable in thickness, being usually from
! ten to forty feet. Charley Moody 0
the Sturgis Record passed through tht
metropolis last evening homeware
bound. He has been down the countr.
purchasing stock of furniture Tor hi
new furniture store at Sturgis. he ha
;, made enough ont of his paper to go ins,
, the mercantile biz I'D. Washabaug
: returned 10 Deadwood last night. d
enjoyed the sights and scenes during hi
several days sojorn in the metropolis
and goes home we'll satisfied with hi
!, visit. Since looking the town over b
" has raised fifty per cent. on the pris
ofthe city lots he owns,here.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06
THE BLACK HILLS.

The School of Mines building at Rapid
city il now completed.
Rapid City has imported adsputy
postmaster, from Chicago.
Rapid City has been organizing ire
department on large scale.
Lawrence county has advertised Tor
proposals In constructing Jail.
Many very important discoveries Of
tin lodes have been made near Caste'
recently.
Heavy SHOWS in the gold bearing
| gulches of the Ellis promise paying
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06

as the council is the power which
creates city clerk ana in this instance
appoints three members of the school
board. Still we have confidence enough
indemocratic wisdom to believe that the
coming council will make satisfactory
selections. 1t is only the political
aspect we are discussing.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06

After sixty-one ballots the Iowa legis-
lature has abandoned the effort to So
leet a location for soldiers home. If
it would afford any comfort to our
neighbors we would advance the sug-
gestlon that it might let Dakota legis-
lature wrestle with the subject for a
time. Some enterprising prairie
townsite would have the home bought
from under the noses of the Legislature
before the first ballet was over.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06

Commissioner Sparks says he has
made no ruling in relation to the Turtle
Mountain Indian reservation and the
Indian ownership to the lands therein.
He says the rumor that he had made
such q decision probably grew out OF
the fact that he instructed the surveyor
general not to close contract with .
certain party fora survey in that region
for the present, as there seems to be
some confusion or disagreement in re-
gard 20 their status, and surveys could
be made elsewhere just as proftably.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-06

The Aberdeen Pioneer, once the
strong supporter of Q. 7. Mccoy, is de-
voting itself to expressive repentance,
and in the process the object of its old
time friendship is made the subject OF
unsparing criticism.