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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-16
VIII Roosevelt Aeceptq

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May g.
Commissioner Lyman told reporter to-day
that he was much pleased with the appoint
ees, Messrs Roosevelt and Thompson. He
said the matter of electing a chairman of the
commission would be settled when the COM
mission organized, and he did not know
whether he would be honored with the place
or not Mr.. Thompson is in the city and
ready to go to work as soon as he receives
his commission. He said he believed in civil
service reform, and in his frs. inaugural ad-
Gress as governor of South Carolina in 1882
he so expressed himself. He claims TO nave
been the first to use the words "A pubic
Office is a public trust" in that address 1t
was his record civil service reformer
he thought that led Cleveland to appoint him
assistant secretary of the treasury In New
York interview Theodore Roosevelt said, as
be had not been officially informed of his ap-
point ment, he could not say whether he
would accept or not He had heard some
talk several days ago in reference to the
office in which his name had been men,
toned, and had been in a ouandary ever
since, trying TO decide whether he could sac
rifice the time from his literary work to prop
erly perform the duties of the Office.
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LOngshOremen Strike.

ASHLAND, Special Telegram, May 8.-Every
coal HEAVIER in Ashland is on a strike, the
commpanies having refused to pay the men
so cents an hour for unloading vessels This
price prevailed last year, and when the
steane er Everett and schooner Mencn arrived
to-day the union decided to order strike
until the amount was paid. The coal com
panles argue that the men at Duluth aud
Superior receive only 40 cents, and have an
nounced their willingness to pay rates pre-
vailing at those ports. 'Longshoremen con-
tend that 10 cents more could be paid here
because the work is not as steady as at Du.
luIh The union has taken decisive stand
ana will permit no one to go to work if they
can prevent IL. There are three vessels in
port now. waiting crews to unload coal
Everett, Minch and Spokane-5he lat er be-
ing at the Ohio company's dock and the first
two at the Columbus and Hooking docks
Mayor Beaser was called upon by the coal
companies for police protection when new
men are put at work 1t is thought that there
may be trouble before ;he strike is settled 1t
was learned tonight that one hundred Ital-
ian miners will be imported from the Goge-
bic range to-day to take the place of the
strikers Should this be doue Lb sre will
surely be trouble at the docks to-mc rrow.
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REDWOOD FALLS, Special, May 13.-rhe
May term of court will commence to-mor-
row. There are Uhirty-two cases on the civi
list William Rose, in whose case the jury
disagreed ut the last November term, will be
again tried for the murder of Moses Lufkin.
Erwin & Wellington of st. Paul will defend
him. Clifton Holden, now in Jail on the
charge OF numbering his cousin, Frank
Dodge, in this place last November, will nlso
be tried. Attorney General Clapp will assist
the county attorney in the trial of these
cases
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WnrafEH GnnIla

WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, May 13-
Collector Ehrhart having sustained the rul-
ing of his appraiser that worsted goods must
pay the same duty as woolens, the import
ers will take an appeal, and the case will
come before tho treasury for decision. As
sistant Secretary Tichenor says notice of ap-
peal is expected from the New York i'm
porters in Jay or Two. The question il al
ready before the department in case from
the Philadelphia custom house. and the two
c1ses will be considered together. Col
Tichenor, who is the representative and as
sistunt counsel for the manufacturers in the
department., seems to think the New York
collector will be sustained, as he probably
will be- though the final decision rests with
Mr. Window
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Personal Mention,

James II. Baker of Goshen, Ind, will not
act on the Cherokee commission lie has
notified the Indian bureau to that effect
Secretary Noble was asked whether the re-
port that Baker had refused to serve was
true and evasively stated that the Cherokee
commission would be made upin a few days
In the Indian department it was announced
that Baker would not accept the place
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A Possible Murder.

ST. CLOUD, Special, May 13.-Matthew
Dobranz was found yesterd ~ few rods
from his house dead. He was a well-to-do
bachelor farmer of the town of Brockway
1t was the custom of neighbors to call for
him Sunday mornings to go to church, and
going to his home yesterday found he was
absent and the house opeu. Investio alton
showed the house in disorder and Dubranz's
Sunday clothes hanging in their accustomed
place The neighbors thereupon made
search, finding his body about four rods
from the house in a brush thicket with his
hands, face and part of his clothing burned
1t is not thought that his death was the re-
suit of these burns, and it il thought by his
neighbors that he was murdered He was
last seen Friday.
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Reports have reached Washington that
settlers were already going into the Sioux
reservation in anticipation of the early open :
ing. They were brought to the attention OF
officials in the interior department., and it
was stated that the govern ment would not
interfere with these SOU alters providing they
made no disturbance so as to cause COM
plants, as it was only q question of time
when the lands would be ceded and thrown
open.
The Iowa supreme court confirms the sen.
teuce of Chester Turney, the young burglar,
who must remain in the penitentiary. This
Is one of the most noted criminal cases the
state ever had,
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WAsmNGToN, Special Telegram, May 13.-
An official of the Indian bureau, referring to
the objections made by people near Red
wood Falls, Mimi. to tho purchase of lands
by the government for Indians III that vlcin-
ity, says:
The agent has been at work since last summer
buying these lands and in ad tition to the 2oO
acres already secured, it is the intention to buy
about $50 acres more. These Indians have
always lived in the vicinity and have got l'V-
ing by begging and stealing. They are now 10
plements and an attempt made to let them work
for themselves. No objection has yet been made
to the department of this method of taking care
Of them
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George Martin, Iver X syse, alias Tver Knudson.
Frederick Smith, Joseph Plsbach; increase: John
Russell, Sylvester l. Griffis Frederick Purget,
Henry f. Carter, William n. Gibbs, Daniel Aid
rich Chester @. Whitney, Charles II. Rohinsol'
liver jacobson: original widows, etc.: Emily,
widow of John II. Suvdam. Dakota-Original
invalid: Benjamin s. Wheeler, MArsena l.. MAI
tin deceased: increase, Alexander c. Morrison
Michael Sandal: reissue and increase: Lyman l.
Webster.
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I'm 4 NJ Milannn

WASHINGTON, May S.-The interstate COM
merce commission devoted q session to-day
to hearing representatives of Western rail
roads in the matter of mileage allowances on
different cars furnished by shippers, car
companies, individuals or connecting lines,
the manner of conducting this business etc.
There were between forty and fifty railroad
men present when the hearing was
opened The testimony showed that
the railroad companies generally are
paying a mileage allowance Of three-fifths of
cent per mile on all cars of connecting lines
and ON many cars furnished by shippers
owning their own cars. It was also de-
veioped that for a short time back con-
tracts have been entered into by q number
OF Western railroad companies with Armour
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MADISON, Wis, Special Telegram, May l3
During the absence of E. Ellis and wife at
church yesterday their thirteeu-year-olds son
playfully pointed q gun at his ten-year-old
brother. or course it was loaded. The top
OF the head of the younger boy was blown
off, producing instantaneous death. the
Ellises are farmers living in the town ut
Westport, this county.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-16
The sharon Terry Case

WASHINGTON, May 13.-The Judgment in
Sharon vs. Terry and wife was to-day
affirmed by the United States supreme court
unanimously. The court holds;
In the original case, the citizenship of parties
being in different states and the object of the
SUIT The cancellation of forged instrument
being oneof the oldest heads of equity jurisdic-
tion, the case presented was one of prima facie
Jurisdiction and If there were any errors in the
original decision they must be presented on
appeal from the decree in that case and cannot
be considered in this case. which is an appeal
from decision reviving the action in the name
of the executor Of the deceased Sharon. and that
tine objections urged to that decree Of revivor
are frivolous.
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Regardless of Refamau

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May s.
Officials of the Indian bureau are as much
interested In the early opening OF the Sioux
reservation as it it is possible for people to
be at this distance. Ii is believed tv tbs,n
that IN case the commission fails to secure
the signatures of the Indians thai the set
tiers who have been waiting for the opening
will take the matter into their own hands
enter upon ths lands, taking their chances
that the Indians title will be extinputshed hv
congress. It is doubtful If the Indian bu
reau will make any complaint il settlers
should go on the reservation before a new
treaty ia made.
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Preference to Ola Men.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May s.
j. Lowrie Bell, superintendent of the railway
mail service, says that the departm ant will
call on the civil service commission in a Few
days for men to appoint in the servicA Men
who have passed q oivi! service examination
and vino were formerly in the service will ba
given preference
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Ordains an investigation.

WASHINGTON. May 13-Secretary Noble
has directed that prompt and thorough h in
vestigation be made of the published report
that settlers are now unlawfulIy entering the
Sioux reservation in anticipation of favor
able result of the pending negotiations for
cession to the United States OF part OF the
Sioux lands
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John Muat STAY Out,

WASHINGTON, May 13.-The supreme court
to-day rendered an opinion in the important
case of Chae Chang Ping, appellant, versus
the collector of the port of San Francisco.
This Is suit brought to test the coustitu-
tionality of the Scott Chinese exclusion act.
Shortly after the Scott exclusion act went
into effect Chae Chang Plug returned TO the
United States from China and enGeavored to
secure entrance at the port OF San Francisco.
He had left this country armed with GER
titicate emitting him to return, but the Ger
tiicate was declared invalid by the Scott act.
The collector refused him admittanCe and
suit was then brought in the United States
court for the district of California to test the
cOustitutionality of the Scott act, in accord
ance with the provisions of which the col
lectOr acted. The California court upheld
the constitutionality of the act, and from
this decision the case comes here on appeal
This court at1irms that Judgment II holds:
Congress has the power to abrogate a treaty.
The propriety of such action ls not a matter for
judicial cognIzancP, but is matter for the polit
ical department. Congress has the power to ex-
cude aliens from the country whose ErHsenre is
deemed inimical to our interests
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-16
RaIlrOAd Notes.

At the annual meeting Of the Canada Pa
cific railway at Montreal the Old board of dir-c-
tors was reelected, with the excepJt-n OF Nj.
Grcwfel. who was succeeded by Thomas @ka-
ner.
J. M. Graham, general manager OF the N =
ern Pacific & Manitoba, is in st. PAM.
Walter Wyand. OF the Michigan Central was
in the city yesterday.
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Iheir Homes Pinned to Washburn.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May 13.-
Eugene Hay has returned from New York and
brings the news that Senator Washburn will
be here in few days. This brings comfort
to the other Minnesota o1ficeh oIders, who
are waiting here and who pin their last hope
to the margin of Washburn's personal pres
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Postal Apuointments.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, May l3.-
Two hundred and five fourth-class post
masters were appointed to-day, including
the following: Dakota-E. B. Krott, Bristol,
Day county; p. A. Bliss, Wolsey, BeAdle
county. MlnneSota-David Wetter, Purity,
CarAer county.
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Militia AnnronriatInns.

WASHINGTON, May S.-Fhe war depsrt nent
has Jast completed and published the allot-
ments of the $500, 900 appropriated by con-
gress for the equipmsnt of the militia The
distribution OF the appropriation for Mtnue-
sofa gives the safe SO, GA, North DAKOTA
$2,s47 and South Dakota, $3, ,797.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-16
The Pensioners.

WASHINGTON. special Telegram, May 13.--
The following pension claims were allowed
to-day.
Minnesota Original invalid: John M. Inman,
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THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

Wheat, No. 2, red, S41ac. in store, $500
S6Ac., ahoat No. B, red, 7S1ac.; No. l, red'
9SR@99c.; No. 1, white 9212c. Rye, quiet,
Barley malt, Canada 9Oc@$i.Io: Corn No.
2. 44A@44Ac.; No. 2, white No. 3, 4319e
ungraded mixed 4213@451a.; steamer mixed,
44@45c. Oats, ,No.2, white, 34A@35c.; mixed
Western, 29@32c. white do, 34@391ac No.
2, Chicago, 32c. Eggs, Western, 13A@14.
Butter Western dairy, 9@14c. do creamery
14@1Sc. Elgins 1SK2@19c.
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POSSIBLY A M1SNEApoLrs MAN.

The police in Minneapolis have no idea
who the man Fairburn is Ex-Cty Dectec-
tive Farburn, who Il now living on farm
Ia Hennepin county, had brother in this
city year or so ago, This man was by no
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-16
Learned Of a Lord.

WINNIPEG, Special Telegram, May 8.-Lord
Lonsdale expects TO leave for New York and
London tomorrow. In an interview speak
ing of the Mackenzie river dIstric5, he said
he considered the climate unfavorable for
mining industries and entirely unsuited to
agriculture A. the mouth of the Mackenzie
he was detained all through June and up to
July 10, stuck between two lcebergs, and at
the latter date there was not a bud out.
Then, after short summer in July and Au-
gust, the frost comes again in September.
A certain portion of the Peace river district
he considered good for cattle ranching, but
absolutely useless for grain on account of
early frosts His lordship strongly denounces
the proposition to make governman in
vestigation respecting the Mackenzie dis
trtct as involving an absolute wast3 of
money. Some of the people examined, he
says, have never been beyond Prince Albert,
and it is as absurd to ask their opinions
about the Mackenzie district as it would be
to examine people in New York about Win
nipeg. REGARDING the gold excitem mt in
Alaska Lord Lonsdale saws chat the gold is
entirely III Canadian soil, and TIKI
Yukon there are no diggiugs worth anrts,n gs .le
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No IoxRSor La


REDWOOD FALLS, Special, May S-There
was large meeting of the citizens of the
townships of Homer Paxton and Sherwin
held last evening for the purpose of consid-
ering the matter of the settlement Of Indians
in the town of Paxton in this county. Thew
first made their appearance here several
years ago, and bought a quarter section of
land, which was divided up in! small tracts.
Their numbers have gradually increased
until there are about $50 men, women ana
children. Lately $50 acres were bought for
them by the government TO be paid for out
Of an appropriation of $4,000 made
to them by the last congress. The farmers
living in this locality do not regard them in
any respect as desirable neighbors Ac.ing
on the belief that if the government
can bring them here it has equal power to
prevent them coming, and would doubtless
be willing to remove them if the wishes of
our people we're known, committees were
appointed from this place and the towns in
terested to meet with Congressman Lind. who
will be here next week, when the matter
will be further discussed aud such action
will be taken as will bring the question to
the consideration of the department TO
which it belongs
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& Co.. Swift & Co. and other shippers of re-
fr.gerator carS, by means of which ii mileage
allowance OF one cent per mile is paid 10
those shippers and not to other shippers.
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CHICAGO.

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour un-
changed. No. 2, spring wheat, S51c; No. 2,
red S514c; No. 2, corn, 351sc; No. 2. oats,
23Kc; No. 2, rye,41K2c.; No. /, fax seed,
$1.53@1.55; mess pork, per, Dbl, $l2; lard,
Qoose), $6.1O; whisky, distillers finished
goods, per gal, $1.O2; sugars cut loaf, 9A@-
9Ac.: granula ted, SAc.; standard a. SIZE
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The Case Of the Late Myra Clark Gaines.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-The United States
supreme court to-day, in an opinion by JUS
tice Bradley, concurred in by the whole
court, awarded the executors of the will of
Mvra Clark Gaines $576, 900, against the
City of New Orleans, for the use of property
sold by the city, but recovered by Mrs
Gaines after long litigation. The Judgment
of the lower court awarding the executor
S1,3OO,OOO for the use of the unimproved
property sold by the city, was not concurred
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This case probably has been the most inter-
esIiug, the hardest contested and the most pro-
lOnged known co the judicial history of this
country The first suit in the case was brought
by Mrs. Gaines, then the wife of Gen. Whitney,
in S34. aud since that time decision has fol-
lowed decision in regard to it until 1t has become
a by-word that there was always Gaines case
pending. This first suit sought to recover the
Evariste Blanc tract IN New Orleans Blanc
bought the tract for about $4,000 from the ex-
ecutors of Gen Daniel Clark prominent citi-
zen of New Orleans. He sold it and some other
land to the city of New Orleans for S45, 900.
The city subdivided the tract and sold it to
number of persons for between $500. 900 and
500, 900, agreeing to defend all questions of
titles, Mrs. Gane having few months
before claimed it Tie grounds on
which Mrs. Gaines set up her
claim were that she was the child Of Gen.
Seulim Carrierr, and that Gen. Clark had left
later will than the one under which the property
was sold. This secret marriage formed the axis
on which the litigation reVOlved. A few years
before the war Mrs Gaines finally declared
to be the legitimate child we'll as the lawful
heir of Gen. Clark. Even then the city of New
Orleans did not surrender. After the war Mrs
Gaines was compelled to bring suit for dam
ageS. In 1881 the circuit court of the United
States for the Louisiana district gave judgment
in her favor for 81 ,92j. 667, and it is appeal
fr m this Judgment that the case to-day was de-
cded. The present case, it is generally con-
Ceded, exhaLst5 all the resources Oi the law, and
is regarded fiual settlement of the litiga-
tion. Mrs. Gaines is dead, and SO it is believed,
are all her Immediate relatives except her
daughter-iu- law, Hattie l.. Whitney. in whose
name as admin istratrix of the estate of Mrs
Gaines the case stands on the court docket
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ST, PAUL.

Prices on incoming trains only: Wheat
No. hard, 96@9Sc; No. 1 Northern. $780,
9nc; No. 2 Northern, 7S@79c. Corn-No. 2,
33c; sample, 32@34c. Oats-No,2 mixed,
22c bid; No. white, 25@261ac; May, 26l4c
No.3, 19@22c. Rye-No. 2, Ale. Barley
No. 2, soc bid; No. 3. 35@45c; No. 4, 35@-
Ace Ground Feed-$1 2@12.5O Corn Meal
-UnboIted, $11.5O. Bran-$7 5O@s. so
Hay-No.1 upland prairie. $5@5.5O; No. 1,
$3.50@4.5O; timothy, $3.50. Eggs-$3. .45-
@3.75 per case; ice house, 81.
Flour-Patents. $5.15@5.3 straights,
$4.60@4.75; bakers, $3.50@3.75; rye,
$2,70@3, 20; buckwheat, So. Butter-Quiet;
choice creamery, 1T@19c; extra dairy, 49,
Ollie; roll and print, choice, 10@13c; pack
ingstock, 5@7c; grease, 3@4c. Cheese-A fair
demand for fancy at SGl10c; fine, 10c; SKIM
6@7Ac. Honey-Choice white clover, 15@-
1Sc; buckwheat, 13@15c; California IN 2-lb
combs, zoe per ID. Maple syrup-Per gal,
$I15@1.25. Maple Sugar-12c. Nuts
Peanuts (baked), S@9c; walnuts, 13c; pecans,
1Oc; filberts, 1o@11c; almonds, 1Sc Brazils,
71aGDSc. 0nions-30 per bu.
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OF the decrease in gross earnings amounting
Is 4-lOp per cent, $9O1. .OOS is on passenger"and
~ ,054 800 Is freight business. Passengers
carried one mile. ]. .92s, 799; decrease, 21O 824
Average received per passenger per mile 2,27I
cents against 1857 cents in 1887. Had the
PASSENGER rate been the same in 1888 as in 1887
there would still have been a decrease of $685.
S6S ON passenger business. Tons of freight car
ried one mile, SIC, 500, sos: decrease, 9S S574O37
tons. Average rate per ton per mile, 1858
cents, against 1.347 cents in 1887. If the rate
had remained unchanged freight earnings would
still show a decrease of 81, ,332. S72. These
losses on freight and passenger business are, in
spite of the additional traffic. derived from re-
cent extensions. The decrease would have been
still greater but for the business furnished by
these new lines. The reduction of business Is
attributed to: First, unusually light crops for
two years. and consequent depression of busi-
ness in the territory traversed: second, the con-
struction of new lines in Kansas by other COM
panies, tapping nearly G-e-y place of conse-
quence on the Atchison lines. and dividing the
business formerly controlled by the Archison.
I his and prohibition of arrangements to divide
business have caused large losses.
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Wheat, No. hard, May 99c. July, 99c.
on track 99c.; No. 1 northe rn, May 9012c ;
July, 9Oc.; on track, 9O@91. No. 2northern,
May, Soc; July Sic; on track Soc, Four
Patents, sacks to local dealers, So .30@5. 60,
patents to ship, sacks, car lots, $5.1O@5.35.
in barrels, $5.35@5.6 So; delivered at New
England points, $5.S5@6.1O; New York
points, $5.75@6; delivered at Phiid5elp lp hia
$3.35@44 40; superfne, $1.75@3; red dog,
sacks, 81 1901 So; red dog, bbs $1.4O@1.
so. Bran and shorts. $7.5O@7.75: corn,
32@34c. Oats, 1S@26c.; Barley, weak and
dull. Flax quoted at $149; Chicago 81 SO;
Hay, wild. $3@6.; timothy $5.5O@S. Feed
$12@13.
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means industrious and did not seem 10 have
any particular business. Just when he left
here and where he is now is not known.
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The Atchison Annual Renorr

Boston, May 8.-The annual report of the
directors of the Atchison & Santa Fe Rail-
road company for the year ended Dec. 81, ,
1888, as compared with the year 1887,
shows: