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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-10-04
corps LAND REVIEW.

The Chinese question is just at pres
ent the all-absoIbing topic Of public and
political discussion, and bill prohib-
iting the immigration into this country
Of Chinese persons has been passed by
congress, and is now before the presi-
dent, who will probably sign it now that
official information of the rejection by
the Chinese government of the treaty re-
Gently proposed, has been received.
Quite fufter of excitement was Gre
ated few days ago by the announce
ment in the public prints that Assistant
Commissioner Anderson, of the general
land Office, had rendered a decision to
the effect that Chinaman who in 1887
declared his intention to become a citi-
zen of the United States could legally
initiate homestead entry.
1t is quite certain, however, that what
ever may have been the foundation upon
which the rumor was based, and what
ever may have been the opinion of the
assistant commissioner upon the SUBJ
ject at the time of the publication, no
such decision was promulgated, and that
officer is now firmly of the opinion that
unless a Chinaman can conclusively show
that he had declared his intention to be-
come citizen of the United States prior
to the amendment of the naturalization
laws in 1875, he can never become quail
fled to make an entry of public lands
under any of the laws where citizenship
is prerequisite.
1t appears that the district land officers
in one of the territories permitted three
Cinnamon, who had filed their declara-
tons of citizenship in 1888, to make a
mineral land entry, and the case came
before the assistant commissioner for
consideration. His Judgment was en-
phatically recorded against the legality
of such an entry, and an order of cancel
lation was made at once; no holding for
cancellation with privilege of appeal, was
made, but The entry was cancelled out
right, without word in the decision
about the right of appeal, on the
ground that only citizens of the United
States and those who have legally de-
clared their intentions to become such,
can make entry for mineral lands, and
that as the revised statutes as amended
by the act of 1875 excluded Mongolians
from the privilege of becoming citizens,
the entry was illegal and utterly void.
Very few Cinnamon have ever become
citizens of the United States. / am in
formed that out of the thousands that
have come here only sixteen were ever
nHuralized. If this be true, and no
change occurs in our naturalization laws,
the public domain will not be absorbed
to any great extent by Cinnamon unless
those sixteen prove unusually prolific in
offspring.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-10-04

w. T. Coad received yesterday let
ter from Delegate Clifford in which it is
stated that the municipal bill giving TO
municipalities within the territory author
ity to exceed tue four per cent limit will
become a law, but that the alien bill in
which many feel an interest, owing to
pending negotiations with English capt
talists, is doubtful of passage at this ses-
sion of congress. Republican.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-10-04
HENRY N. Corr.

Ii permitted to make. a suggestion to
our democratic friends, it would be that
they endorse R. H. Driscoll for auditor
and Miss Sue Neill for superintendent of
schools. They will be compelled to en-
dorse them after the election, and why
not do the graceful thing now?-Pio-
neer.
Our democratic friends will have to
endorse the whole republican ticket after
the election.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-10-04

The STURGIs ADVERTISER CONSTITUTES
the opposition of the Hills delegates of
Lawrence county to the valley candi-
dates as an admission that division Of
the county is inevitable. This is chart
table to say the least. Jouanal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-10-04

DR.. W. G. Smith cheerfully answers
calls day or night Office on First-st.,
east Of the bank.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-10-04

Parties desiring to sell real estate can
advertise the same all over the United
States by applying to W. @ Buderua
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24
SHOT AND KILLED.
A Foot Pad Meets His Death in
San Francisco.
PRowLING AROUND MRS, FAIN's HOME

SAN FRANCISCO, Gala, January 22.-tSpe-
cial. l-Police Officer Duff, at o'clock this
morning shot and killed footpad in this city
who resisted arrest.
For several weeks complaints have reached
the police of people being garroted and rob
bed i'll Pine street, almost i'll front of tho hand
some residence of Mrs. Fain, ON Mob Hill, so
the officer was placed ON smaller beat, with
orders to keep strict watch for the garoter.
The officer last night saw man come along
soon after midnight, and turn off the GAS in
the lamp Ton the block where the robberies
have occurred, He followed the fellow who
suspected he was being watched and took
round about course. Finally, tho man
returned to Pine street, and loitered around in
the doorway.
The officer steppedup and said:
''Throw up your hands"
In response the man drew his hand from his
pocket and with it pistol which he fired, the
hnllet striking Duff in the thigh. The officer
who had his revolver drawn, fred and put a
ball through the mans head, killing him i'll
st3ntly. The officers wound, though painful
is not dangerous
AT first the police thought the robber was
an ex-conVict, but later they discovered he
was Albert Peterson, q young Swede who came
here about four years ago, then disappeared
and came back only few weeks ago lie
roomed with fellow Swede named Imhorst
Imhorst said Peterson had a mania for reading
dime novels and stories about hishwaymen.
He spent his days in his room devouring
this literature, and when night came he
dressed in rough clothes, and went out, saying
he had night job at Menloe park. That lie
wasn't idle is shown by the fact that within
! two weeks no less than five rohberes in the
c3p, IL. I,
criminal tallying with him. The dead mans
body was viewed by thousands today at the
morgue but no one knew him except his room
| male.
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THE WEEK In CONGRESS.
a Programme Which Seems to be Deficient
in Incident.

WASHINGTON, January 22.The senate has
no programme of work for the coming week
beyond the consideration, and if possible, the
passage of the deficiency bill, and the eduea-
ton bill. Should there be any time 10 spare,
it is likely to be consumed in consideration of
miscellaneous matters ON the calendar. Aside
FROM the eXtradition treaties, the senate has
little to do i'll secret session, and as Senator
Sherman, chairman of the foreign relations
committee, is to he absent after Wednesday, it
is thought probable that the treaties viii not
be considered at any length, if at all, during
the week.
The Thocbe-Carlisle contest is expected to
take precedence of all other bushes in the
house of representatives., since it is the present
determination OF Mr.. Crisp, who has charge of
the report of the elections committee, to insist
that it shall be disposed of before anything
else is done. Should the republican minority
persist in refusing to vote, it is doubtful
whether quorum can be secured and the
indications are that several days will elapse
before the matter is finally settled. The pen
sion appropriation bill has already been re-
ported, and Tie appropriations committe will
endeayor to have it considered before the end
of the week.
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KILLED IN a EAGNTO.
Where His Wlfes Goes to Find His he
BODY,

Body.
BIRMINGHAM, January Especial. II.
i. Vincent proprietor of disreputable sa-
loon, was shot and fatally wounded about
seven o'clock tonight, by a man named John
Baily. The shooting was done at house of
i'll fame, kept by Mary Guy, and in trying to
prevent it she received severe wound in the
left breast. The men We're friends, and both
frequent visitors at the house. They quarrel
ed about some trivial matter and Vincent
drew a knife
Baily shot him three times twice through
the breast and lungs aud once through the
arm. He then blew out the lights in the
room and made his escape from the house
Vincent lived long enough to tell the officers
who did the shooting. lie was q married man.
and his wife, who was i'll delicate condition.
was brought to the house in a carriage Her
screams were heartrending and she soon OK
hausted her strength, and was carried from
the house i'll q critical condition. Bailey
killed a man several years ago while he was
serving on the police force Of Chattanooga,
Tenn.
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And Yet Fourteen EIsn Were Burned t
Death.

Death.
TOWER, Mimi, January 22.--Fourteen men
persisted in the boarding house fire of Saturday
morning. Seven bodies have been taken from
the ruins and seven persons in addition are
missing No names additional to those of pre-
vious dispatches are given. Extreme cold at
the time, the thermometer indicating forty de-
grecs below zero, made the surferings of those
who escaped very great, and also made it al
most impossible TO do effective work in sup
pressing the flames. The bodies of all the men
taken out are burned to an unrecognizable
mass.
CHICAGO, H., January 22.-About forty PEG
pie barely escaped being burned to death this
morning in fire that destroyed the greater
part of a building apartment and store build
ing on the southwest corner of Oakworth
boulevard and Cottage Grove avenue. Not
one of the forty had time to give slightest at
tention to dress, and many, including several
the frosty air unconscious. Miss Abbie Bird
sail "a teacher, was found lying in foot of
water in a cellar two hours after the fire start
ed. She had become suifocated and lost her
way in the smoke. Her recovery is net
expected.
J. ID. McKellip, a gentleman rooming in the
building, is also in a precarious condition. the
result OF injuries received while making his
escape. A few of the people had to be taken
out of the upper windows by ladders. Wallace
L. Uewolf LAWYER, owned the building. His
loss is 1000, fully insured. About $4,000
worth OF furniture and clothing, half insured,
belonging to nine families, was destroyed, ana
$4,000 additional damage, also party insured,
was inflicted on the stock OF several store
keepers occupying the ground floor.
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George Hunter, alike by name and occupa-
ton, OF Ekonhockhatche country, expects to
receive Sl4 600 back pensions from the Unite States
government lie is on Indian soldier, and also
claims to Lave hauled the frs lumber tor the first
house in Orlando.
Captain w. S. Pitts, of Orlando, well
known sluliln hunter OF South Florida, has gone
INTO the culture OF tobacco and will set out several
acres near orlando. the captain says that in 1870,
i'll the Poyntz he raised fine tobacco and made il
into cigars, which he sold readily at s. per hun
bred.
There is considerable excitement in suburb,
some five miles out, over the death of A. d.
Smith. Last Monday he died, to all appear
ences, after calmly bidding adieu 10 his heart
broken wife. He was then prepared for the
grave anu Tuesday preparations were made for
the burial
III the midst of the services a humping in
the coffin was heard. Its cover was burst off
and Mr.. Smith sat up, causing great eonsterna-
ton and dismay. He was at once removed to
his bed at home, and in few hours he seemed
none the worse for his strange experience. lie
says lie went to heaven and saw many
white spirits, some Of them friends whom he
had known on earth
They shook their heads in answer to his
questions and pointed to big book
lying open He looked at it, and saw
written there the names of his wife,
himself, and his children who were alive. His
name, he said. seemed partially erased. He
told d wondrous story Of his other experience
in that strange world, and its recital drew
scores of curiosity seekers to his home,
Wednesday night he suddenly called out, ri
see them, and fell back dead. His wife was
completely ,prostrated at this terrible ending
to her hopes. Medical aid was summoned, and
finally decided that the man was indeed dead
this time.
Last night the grief stricken wife left for her
old Georgia home near Atlanta with the body.
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in which Newbeme- avenue residence and q
congressman's daughter figure. The resi-
denco belonged to q gentleman who was for
years the secretary OF the democratic state ex-
ecativc committee. About twenty years ago
his wife died, and it is said that her spirit
haunts the house. Finally his family moved
away, not caring to undergo the trial. Other
families lived there, and all the members of
each saw tho CHEST or apparition-SGw fiery
balls here and there like Ghostly incandeScent
lights. These families left also. Then the
cOngressmans daughter dWelJ there. The ap-
paritioE-a womar's figure clad in q white
garment with an old-fashioned waist, with
Hght-brown hair, and always with both hands
held over the face-has been seen scores of
times by every member of the family walking
in the rooas or sitting on the stairs. Not only
have persons alone seen it, but il is visible TO
all the family. Very queer and wholly unac-
countable noises are Heard and lights are seen.
Now the conSreSsman's daughter has gone,
The house. neat residence, not at all old
fashioned, is tenantless. All here stated IS
vouched for openly and plainly by all who
have dwelled in the house. Ii is the best au-
thenticated ghost story on record. Fully
twenty-five persons vouch for all above stated.
People living near by see the lights and hear
the noises. There is no alarm aboat the mat
ter--the feeling on the part of those who left
was simply that OF annoyance. Such a story
is quite out OF place in this day and place, but
lovers OF tue marvellous can get all the evil
dence Il o. desire direct from the parties who
vouch for it,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24

The Adventists of Battle Creek, Mich, are
in a state Of great religious excitement They be-
lieve that the final contamination of all earthly
matters is close at hand. They have discarded oil
their eiYelry Recently at meeting 5000 was
turned into the church in cash ana $1,000 in jew
elry The latter will be sold to the ungodly and
the money given 10 the establishing Of missions In
switzerland, Norway, England, South Africa and
Australia. On several occasions before these people
have sold their homes for triling sums, and given
the money TO the church, with nli other personal
property. The craze bids fair to g. to as great an
extent as have previous ones
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24
A LETTER FROM BAILEY EROS

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$3.50 IN GOLD FOR YOU.

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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24

Bishop Garrett, Of Texas, has been telling
the wonen's Episcopal Missionary society Of Wash
ing,on that they should quit spending 90 much
money on South Sea islanders and send Il few mif-
sonaries TO the lone arstate. I'VE want pioneers"
he gays-"Incn who know how TO take case Of Them
selves nlong the frontiers. Brave, sturdy fellows
not afraid Of the open mouth Of n revolver nor Of
the yell OF a drunken cowboy. Mon with MUSCLES
Of steel, who can, any Of them, throw yearing
steer over n wire fence as easily os he can jerk
lawless coyote out Of religious meeting if he at
tc1nptg TO make q disturbance"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24

Twenty odd years ago kind-hearted Phla-
delphia merchant caught the Office boy pil!eiag
lie talked to him, prayed with him, gave him an
other cESnce, and in time the boy was promoted
step by step until he became the most trusted en-
ploye few days ago 1t was discovered that the
yoEng man had been appropriating $40 day for
twenty ychrs Some true stories don't seem TO have
any moral. This one hasn't
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24
Total agents prizes for january, 1910
Tho Ethics Of Trade.

From the Omaha World.
Young Doctor--Say, my friend, can't you
lend me a dime TO get something 30 eat2
Young Mechanic-Iyo got no dime. Haven't
worked for u month. The union ordered Us out
"Ordered you out eh, ordered you ou? And here
you are without O cent Why don't you snap your
1ugers at the union aud 60 to work."
"Tho other mechanics would coll me "sca5."
Why don't you go to work yoursclf?"
u can't get patients. Nobody knows me here"
"Why don't you advertiser
"The other doctors would al me a 'quaek"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24
who Were the Puritans.

A. teacher correcting the history cxamina-
ton papers Of her class:
question. "Tel who the puritans were, and why
they came 70 America"
Answer 1.-THE PGritans were a religious sect who
left England because they were prosecuted they
first went to Holland but left there ond came to
merica, because they did not want their children
brought up Dutchmen.p
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river has been entirely destroyed by the severe

frost.
the recent blizzard are slowly coming in, al
though every ranchman admits a heavy loss,
Sheep men report the loss OF from two to
twelve head out OF every flock. The Brazos
and Colorado rivers are frozen solid, something
never known before. The failure of crops last
year reduced the supply of feed for cattle, so
that during the cold spell the herds were with
ont water or food. Reports from the grazing
district of the state say that cattle on the
southwestern ranges weathered the great biz
zard i'll very good shape. The loss was confined
entirely to the sic1ly and poorly fed stock. A
great many large herds, however, were FROST
bitten about the legs, and since the weather
has moderated their legs have swollen to al
most twice the natural size.
ARKANSAS.
Prohibition will rule in all but about dozen
towns in ArkAnsNs MS wear.
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Consumption Surely Cured.

10 thc ENitDf;
Please inform your readers that have q positive
remedy for tue above named disease by Us timely
nenty cured ! shall be glad to send two bottles Of
my remedy FREE to any Of your readers who have
conumption IL they WIN send their express and
pOgtofice address Respectfully
T. a. BLOCUM N. c.. 1Bl Pearl g., New York.