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
pleted plans for building railroad into his
recent purchase of 3, 500 acres of land near
Chicago. Work will begin in sixty days
Great improvements are to follow 1t is
claimed that some of the lands will be used
as q 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 &
Manitoba railroad refused to pay taxes at
the rate of3 per cent on the gross earnings on
the branch of railroad running from WIZ
mar to Sioux Falls, 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. Neebe of Chicago is securing the
Signatures of members Of the Illinois general
assembly to petition for the pardon of his
brother, Oscar w. Neebe, who is serving q
fl teen years sentence in Joliet for comDlici-
ty in the noted Haymarket massacre. The
petitions which he will present by Gov. Fiier
are unusually strong, being signed by some of
the best known lawyers, ministers and other
public men of the state. Among the United
States Senator FaFwell, Congressman Man
son, Mayor Roche and ex-Mayor Harrison.
! There are over six thousand signaturesi 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 reSer-
walton is located. 1t is claimed that no
! agent can do full justice to the Indians who
| live in the vicinity of the people he may know.
| %ho-
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 Deighbors allowing
them to Craze their stock and cut hay upon
the reservations without making any COM
pensations.
The secret order of the Golden Field was
formed. in Los Angeles, Cal, with the OBJ ect
| of seizing Lower California, making it an in
dependent republic and then getting admis.
| sion to the United States. The founder is
| said to be an ex-Confederate officer who has
i been working secretly on the scheme for over
! q 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 Mexi.
| can citizens and then declare republic. As
| the order will have many influential men in
this country, admission to the Union will be
| 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-
| ploye in the service of the company, and
| there are 20, 900 ofthem, has been given tt
understand that he must sign the insurance
! contract or bedischarged. Thecontret which
| employese are asked to sign ontains q clause,
making the insurance q release on all claims
! for damages against the company for injury
| or DEATH At the meeting in South Chicago
| an employee in the companys shops at Gar
| rett, Ind. reported that fifty seven machnists
| had been laid off for refusing to sign. "A lay
| off to staPye 'em into subieation," cried {
/ voice. The feeling among the men seemed
very bitter One engineer shouted as this
meeting was adjournng: We'll make il
another case OF the u.
Among the latest items from the Indian
Territory is one, bloody tragedy, afcwdays
| ago in the western part of the Oklahoma be.
tween two men from kiowa, Kan, and two
4 men from Texas for the possession OF q
claim. Guns were used freely, and one o
/ the Kiowa men was killed and Texan NOR
4 tally wounded. The other two called atruce
| and placing their wounded comrades in c
wagon started for neighboring 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 cars on their side tracks at til,
yards at Arkanas City. KAN, which are beint
II loaded with implements, household good, j
| merchandise and houses, framed and ready
to be put up. The agent at that point sale
tosdaEsT can move / 1,000cars offreight anC
5000 passengers in twelve hours. Gen
Merritt, at Fort Leavenworth, has issued.
i ordoFs to the military officers in the ter
ritory 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
laimation.