The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
Miscellaneous Items.

/ A. B. Stickney. president Of the Chicago,
st. Paul Kansas City railroad, has com
pletrd plans for building a railroad into his
recent purchase of 3 600 acres of land near
ChiragO Work will begin in sixty DAYS
Great improvements are to follow. 1t is
claimed that some of the lands will he used
as Il storage for railroads. Several big fac
torres will also be erected and stock yards
are not improbable.
The state railroad commissioners officially
notified the attorney general of the State of
Minnesota, that the St Paul Minneapolis 4
Manitoba railroad refused to pay taxes ut
the rate of3 per cent on the gross earnings on
tine branch of railroad running from VIII
mar TO Sioux Fails, and inStructing him. in
case he found the Manitoba road owned the
property specified, to bring suit against the
road to recover the amount due.
Louis H. Nepbe Of Chcago is securing the
Signatures Of members Of the Illinois general
assembly to petition for the pardon of his
brother Oscar W. Nepbc, who is serving a
ii teen wears sentence in Joliet for cOmulici-
ty in the noted HaNmurket massacre. The
petitions which he will present by Gov. Fiter
are unusually strong. being signed by some of
the best known lawyers. ministers and other
public men OF the state. Among he nltpd
States senator FaFwpil, Congressman Man
son, Mayor Roche and ex Mayor Harrison.
! There are over six thousand signatures in all.
! 1t is not unlikely that the Indian bureau
will protest to some extennt the appoint
ments as Indian agents OF men residing in
the same state or territory wherein the re- err
! walton is located 1t is claimed that no
! agent can do tull justice to the Indians who
live in the vicinity of the people lie may know
/ The experience Of the interior depart m"nt
with agents in Oregon and other states
where sheep are raised has demonstrated
/ this fact. 1t is claimed that agents at those
, places favored their neighbours allowing
them to Craze their stock and cut hay upon
the reservations without making any com
pcnsutiOnS.
The secret order of the Golden Field was
Of Selling Lower California; making it an in
dependent republic and then getting admis-
! sion to the United States The founder is
: said to he an ex-COntpdRTate officer who has
! been working secretly on the scheme tor over
! n year. The order has many members in
| Southern California, Texas and Arizona. The
| plan is to gradually Introduce members into
! Lower California. have them become Mcxi-
can citizens and then declare a republic. As
the order will have many influential men in
this country, admission to the MON viii lie
a repetition Of the annexation Of Texas.
! Twenty thousand men threaten to quit the
employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
! company and tie up it's trains. Every en-
plove in the service Of the company, and
! there are 20, 900 ofthem, has been given to
| understand that he must sign the INSURANCE
contract or be discharged. The contrct which
! employees are asked to sign Ontains clause,
making the insurance release on all claims
for damages against the company tor injury
~. l..
! an employee in he company s shops at Gar
rett, Ind. reported that fifty seven machinists
| had been laid off for refusing to sign. "A lay
| off to staPve EN- into subsection" cried o
voice The feeling among the men seemed
very bitter One engineer shouted as the
meeting was adjourning: We'll make it
another case OF the y.
Among the latest items from the Indian
Territory is one, a bloody tragedy, afewdays
ago in the western part of the Oklahoma be-
tween two men from kiowa, Kan, and two
| men from Texas for the possession of q
claim. Guns we're used freely, and one of
| the KioWa men was killed and Texan NOR
tally wounded. The other two called u truce,
and placing their wounded comrades in u
wagon started for a neighbOrng ranch.
Be ore they reached it the fight was renewed,
and the entire part was discovered later by
| some cowboys stretched cut on the prairie.
The Topeka & Santa Fe railroad now has
4S7 freight ears on their side tracks at the
yards at Arkanas City, Kan. which are being
loaded with implements, household good, 8
merchandise and houses, framed and ready
to be put up. The agent at that point said
to4daYs'I can move l 900 cars offreight and
5000 passengers in twelve hours" Gen.
Merritt, at Fort Leavenworth, has issued. -
orders to the military officers in the ter
1ftory to permit boomers to cross the Chero-
kee outlet in time to reach the Oklahoma
line on the 22nd, the date set for the open
ing of the territory by the presidents proc
Iaimation.