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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
BUSINESS OF THE ATCHISON.
Report for the Year 1S88-An Estimated
Deficit of 81 ,4O9,OO1.

Report for the Year lSSS-An Estlhateu
Deficit of 81 ,4O9,OO1.
Joseph W. Reinhart, Comptroller and
General Auditor of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Road, has submitted adj
vance sheets of the full report for eleven
months ending Nov. 80, 1885, which show
the following results:
Mileage. Atchison system proper, 3,01978
miles; gross earnings, $14.297. 46S: expenses.
GIT per cent. $9.673.725; net earnings,
81, 623, 693; receipts from interest on bonds
of railroads owned by Atchison and used
as collateral. $508. 1892; total net earnings.
5,132,5S5; direct fixed charges. interest on
requirements. $4.513.246; net profit, $685.,
339; receipts from other sources, SAG. $3.50;
total profit, 81. 065. 1899; dividends $2625, 600;
deficiency, $1.559.O01; gross debt original
ing In the period. $8.643. 304; offsets, $3.457,-
412: net floating debt. $5,1S5,S9O supplies
on hand as an Offset to future operating ex-
penses, $1.523.1ls.97. OF the debt above
shown Sc. 183.S91 was due and payable prior
to July l. 1889.
Of guaranty notes subscribed for. in
amount $7.000.000, there had been called to
Nov 80. 1883, 100000, leaving Sc, 100000 not
called nor paid in. The total income sur
plus Dec. 81. 1885, was $7,940.622. The de-
ficiency for the eleven months ending Nov.
80. 1888. made the net general income sur
plus to that date $6,3S1. 622, but the addition
OF various Sundry surplus accounts SWelled
this mount SO that the total general sur
plus Nov. 80 was $9.5O9.633. The estimated
net profit from operations, after all charges
for the month of December. is $150.000.
The total net deficiency of the company for
the period of twelve months to Dec. 81. in
Guiding actual figures of Nov. 80 and De-
cember estimated, is 81, 100000.
From actual statements to Nov. 80 and
approximates for December the auxiliary
roads of the Atchison system. inclusive Of
those owned jointly. will show that they
have failed to earn fixed charges of all de-
scriptions by about $3,O0O.000. of this they
have contributed about ST. 100000. the re-
mainder having been advanced by the Atch-
isOn company.
The Boston Advertiser says regarding the
report, that it is unsatisfactory because out
Of a mileage of about 7,104 miles the report
only covers about 1920 miles; also that the
statement varies from that published Jan. g.
1889, in that gross earnings for the eleven
months are 1852 larger. expenses 1851
larger, and net earnings $18,357 smaller.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

In 1887 the mails of this country
were first carried on the trains over
974 miles of road at the annual cost
per mile of $1,714, amounting to some.
thing over 100000 per year. To-day
the mails are carried over 1879
miles of road at an annual cost of ST..
528, 500. In 1887 the annual cost per
mile of railroad transportation was
$1,714. The cost has been greatly re.
duced since, and to-day the cost per
mile per annum is $1,052. In 1645 we
had the first railroad mail route agents,
the number being 43 They are called
postal clerks now, and the number re-
quired to work the mails on the trains
is 1904, and their pay amounts to $4,-
981,365. During the year 1888 these
1904 postal clerks distributed $685.
876,2 O2 pieces of mail and made
1,765,821 errors in distribution. In
the past twelve months there were
24S accidents to trains on which postal
clerks were employed. In the wrecks
4 clerks were killed, 63 seriously and
As slightly injured.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

A SAN FRANCISCO newspaper offered
5000 to the one who could correctly
guess the number of types in jar, ex-
hibited in the Exposition there. Two
men were successful, naming the COR
rect number, "a, 200. How they came
to hit on that number is interesting.
One of them once guessed the number
of shot in jar about the same size as
the one containing the type. There
were $4,000, He thought there were
one-third as many type as shot, and SO
divided $4,000 by three, and, as he
said, added little, to make it even. F."
The other man saw crowd around the
jar, and felt in his pocket for pencil
with which to write number. He
couldn't find one, and moved on; but
afterward, feeling strongly impelled to
make a guess, felt again for a pencil,
and found an old lottery ticket, on
which was the number 81, 200. He Dor.
rowed pencil, put down the number,
and won 500,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
A Strange Story.

Much to the surprise and qualification of
his friends, Charles T. Clement returned
to his home in Fargo last week, after an
absence of nearly two months. 1t will be
remembered that on December 10th ne
dined with friend in Chicago, and before
leaving him told him that he intended to
take the evening train for his home. He
did not return home, and as far as the
public has known nothing has been heard
from him from that time until he reached
home. 1t is now learned that on the day
he dined with his Chicago friend he went
to the Oh cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
depot with the intention of coming home;
but while waiting for the train to start he
saw Chicago and Alton train that was
about leaving for st. Louis, and yielding
to strange and what afterward appeared
to be an insane impulse he boarded that
train, and few days later found himself
in New Orleans, having wandered there
from st. Louis. He seems. not to have
realized the state of dreadful suspense in
which his family must have been, for he
had been there for some time before writ
ing to them. He has been in or about
New Orleans ever since, and q part of the
time he has been quite ill. His appearance
indicates that he has been thoroughly
Frustrated, and that his physical system
has been badly shattered. There seems
now no reason whatever to doubt that the
mental strain caused by continual brood
ing over financial trouble was. for time.
too much for him, and that his strange
conduct is to be attributed to this fact.
He is now improving, however, and his
friends hope that he will soon be himself
again. Those who are in a position to
know say that he has more than enough
property to settle all claims against him,
and that every debt he may owe will be
pald
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
,arrad thai he Is more proficient in oratory

ferred that he is more proficient In ora'ors
than etymology. -, sod,v
Mr.. Springer's omnibus bill has saaly
failed to meet the Senate's idea OF peis u,
Guilty In language. a committee OF tnat au-
onst body having instructed its chairman
to write a new territorial bill that would 6e
aclear and precise" The objection chieny
urged to the Illinois Congressman g PHI Is
centered In New Mexico. IT being clalmea
that her admission Is sought In the lhLeIes -
of railroads. Not openly. OF course, n pa' he ~
ia ayerred that two railroad men Wouio 10
sent TO the Senate from New Mexico IN case
she were entered among the sisters OF the
Union. al, a
Final vote on the Oklahoma bill was de-
ferred by the adjournment OF Congress IN
respect to Congressman joseph Nelsoa
Burnes Of Missouri, who was stricken "
death so suddenly; and Mr.. Weaver's gooa
looks and filibustering have avaiied MN
nothing 50 far. .ho
auspices of the Woman's National bureau,
to have a portrait Of Mrs. Cleveland hung
In the White House. project that Woulo
receive universal commentator mas peeh
crushed by the following:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
Jan. ID, 1883.
Mrs. NJ d. Lincoln:
DEAR MADAM-Responding for Mrs cleveland
and myself to your note in relation to procur-
ing her portrait for the White House, ana 1uliy
approaching the kindness intended, l have to
say that both of us are SO opposed to the pfolect
that you could not show us greater consldera-
tion in this matter than by an entire ABANDON
ment of the scheme. Yours, very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The menu is out for the inaugural supper;
not so the cabinet selection. Senator ALI
son begins to waver in his resolution not to
accept the Treasury portfolio; while Wanna
makers visit to the President elect upon
the special invitation of the latter seems
susceptible of but one conclusion. It Is said
by Harrison's Indianapolis friends, how
ever. that this may not be indicative that
the Philadelphia merchant has been ten
dered place, in the cabinet. ., Perm Perhaps a3s
contemplated Paris trip to apologize for
having purchased his wardrobe in Chicago;
Morton has rented a house and returned
to New York, Blaine is holdinga continuous
levee at the Normandie. Quay is in Florida
threatening revenge on any intruding poll
tician. and Harrison is at Indianapolis
wrestling with the office seekers. OF whom
he says he never saw SO many. What will
he think when he reaches the White Houser
MORSE
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
Territorial News in Brief.

VNCNS III
Wayne township, Harrison county. talks
of organizing.
Several new business ventures are talked
of at Beresford.
Deadwood wants a society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals.
Villas wants harness shop and shoe
maker.
The Brule county district court will be in
session March IL.
A new hack line Is among the contem-
plated enterprises at Aberdeen.
The Aberdeen Press club has decided to
give grand concert February Is.
Mrs. Adeline A. White, of White Lake,
died last week of apoplexy, aged 81 Yeas.
The Chronicle urges the citizens of Gus
ter to organize and build a Touring mill.
The Pioneer proposes big celebration
Central road for traffic. which event will
occur shortly.
The board of trade which was organized
at Whitewood last week contemplates the
erection of Touring mill, canning fac
tory and other enterprises.
couple of professional pool players
are causing great commotion among the
sports of Aberdeen. A big game for big
money is booked for the near future.
The Gettysburg Musical association has
been formed. An initiatory fee of 5 1for
gentlemen and so cents for ladies is
charged, the society being open to all low
cas- Of music.
The Brule County Farmers Manufac-
turing and Trading association has receiv-
ed articles of incorporation, and is now
busy soliciting subscriptions for stock at
$40 per share.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
THE GREAT "STRIKE WARS"

Statistics of 1888 Show a Decided Falling
Ofin the Number of Employees Affected.
During 1883 there were reported to
Bradstreets 679 strikes and lockouts, an
average of more than two each working
day, involving I'll, S4l industrial en-
ployes, as against 1884 strikes and lockouts,
an average of nearly three each working
day, involving 345, 5s4 employees, in 1881,
and $50 strikes and lockouts, involv-
ing 44S,00O employees, in 1886. These
figures would seem to show that the high
est point of the so-called strike wave"
was reached in 1886, and that since that
time the decline in the number of en-
ployes involved, at least, has been steady
and of considerable volume. The de-
cline in the number of men involved in
strikes in 1883 from the totals of 1886 was
236, 1853, or over 81 per cent, while the de-
cline last year from the figures of 1887 was
134,0l3, or So per cent. Comparing the
number of strikes reported in 1888 with
those of 1886, 679 against $50, there is
apparentNsan increase of "a per cent. in
two wears.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

be passed re-estab1ishing the board but making
the office elective. 1t is conceded that there 8
FOOD lazy and wholesome regulation in the law
il ID proposed to repeal. The council passed the
notary public fee bill. The house defeated on q
Tie vote resolution inviting Mr.. Loucks to adj
dress the legislature on the needs of the farm
ers. The resolution was introduced by Mr..
Morris and was voted down by alliance mem
bers. The council passed the bill of Mr.. Atkin
repeating the struck jury law; also Mr.. Burn
application for divorce can be made. At the
close of the session caucus of the south Dako-
ta members was held, all being present. at
which q telegram was read from Washington
asking for an expression from them as to
whether the capital question in south Dakota
should be resubmitted. disposition was
shown to yield anything and everything rather
than jeopardze the bill, but it WAS urged that
square expression and a truthful answer was
wanted SO the question was put follows :
Resolved, that we do not favor resubmitting the
capital location. This was adopted-yeas IS ;
nayS III,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
Enthusiastic Statehood Meeting.

The citizens of Mitchell held an enthusi-
astic statehood meeting in Mitchell Satur-
day night, which was addressed by Senator
Elect Edgerton, recently returned from
Washington, where he has been diligently
working for the best interest of south Da-
kota and it's early admission in q way most
satisfactory to majority of Its people.
The gathering unanimously adopted the
following resolutions:
Resolved by the people of the city of Mitchell,
That are in favor of such legislation by con-
gress rs will secure the speediest admission Of
south Dakota into the union, and TO that end
we favor admission under the Sioux Falls or
any other constitution satisfactory to the peo-
pie of South Dakota, as provided for in the
Platt bill, including vote upon all propositions
originally submitted to the people by the con-
sttutional convention
Resolved, That our thanks are hereby ten
dered to Hon. A J. Edgerton an Endorsement
of his patriotic and unsefsh labors in behalf of
the admission of south Dakota into the union,
and we request him to return to Washington as
the representative of the people of Mitchell and
Dawson county before congress in all matters
relating to statehood.
Resolved That copy of these resolutions be
transmitted to Senator A. H. Platt, Delegate
Clifford, Delegate Elect Matthews and Senator
Elect Moody. and that they be published in the
napers OF the county
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
GOSSIP AT THE CAPITAL
WISDOM OF WASHINGTON WISE
ACRES AND SOCIETY CHATTER.

State Dinners, Receptions and Balls-The
Tariff Bill Again in the Hands of the
Mills Committee-The Samoa Trouble
Personal Mention.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. 20.
The social tide has reached its full. and
surges and swells with high teas. dinners,
receptions. and cotillions. To miss single
entertainment now before Lent is suicidal
to the career of a society belle. and already
tagged steps and hollow eyes tell how Sc
verely their strength and time are being
taxed. AS illustrative of this, a Chicago
girl, who sprained her foot ON an icy pave
ment recently. wrenched it back again. ex-
claiming. Il can't take time for a sprafn
now"
The official entertainment Of the week
was the state dinner given by the President
and Mrs. Cleveland to the diplomatic corps,
it being Respondent with all the glamour OF
lights. flowers. and brilliant costumes incl
dental to such an occasion.
Mrs. Don Dickinson rather divides the
honors with Mrs, Whitney as entertainers
of the Cabinet. and their parlors are always
filed whenever the occasion presents.
number of New York ladies in conversation
with the latter recently spoke Of the pleas
ire that New Workers felt in the prospect OF
having Mrs. Whitney once more with them,
"Ah, my DEAR" said she, Il am going to
lead quiet life after I leave Washington.
Easy chairs. hammocks, and horseback rid
ing are to be features of my next years
life. All. dream of it" Yet those who
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

EPITAPH on tombstone in the Island
of Jamaica: Here lieth the body of
Lewis Gladly, Esq, who died the Odd
of September, 1879, aged 80 years. He
was born at Montpelier, in France,
which place he left for his religion, and
settled in this island where, in the
great earthquake in the year 1892, he
was swallowed up, and, by the great
providence of God, by the second
shock was thrown out into the sea,
where he continued swimming till he
was taken up by boat and miracu-
lously preserved. He afterward lived
in great reputation, and was univer-
sally lamented."
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

The greatest calamity that waits
upon the steps of wealth is that it can
never be sure of it's friends. There is
a sad feeling of unreality and even of
mockery pervading all the protesta-
tions of affection for those who hold
high positions. Cali men shall praise
thee when thou doest we'll for thyself,"
said the sarcastic old King of Israel !;
and no wealthy man but is haunted by
the fear that his popularity arises from
the fact of his having done we'll for
himself.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
Delegate Gifford's Future Plans.
washington snecial1

Delegate Clifford. of Dakota, will, when
his term of Office expires, temporarily re-
tire from politics. He will go back to his
home at Canton and there agrin resume
the practice of law. He may, however,
later on, locate at the city where will be
located the capital of south Dakota, in the
event of that territory becoming state in
the union. He says he wants now to de-
vote his time to business and make some
money, having spent four years in con-
gress. This has been, practically, loss,
SO far as making money is concerned. 1t
is not improbable, however, that Mr.. Gift
ford will Shy his castor into the race for the
senatorship at the expiration of the term
Of the new senator whose term expires
first. The judge has his eagle eye set up
on the senate and many times during the
present session he has measured the size
of the seats in that body. He thinks he
would like the seat now held down by
Senator Stanford, of California. 1t is an
easy, comfortable, broad one, where man
can sit with considerable ease. 1t is in a
retiled portion of the chamber, where the
senator is not run over by pages, door
keepers, clerks and other senators.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

A SITE for the proposed mechanical
school for boys, for the establishment
of which,. V. Williamson has promised
$5,0O0,000, has not yet been chosen,
but it is understood that the donor
himself favors the Quaker City. The
labor of carrying out this philanthropic
design has been deputed to board of
trustees. It is understood also that he
will enlarge his already royal gift if
necessary Mr.. Williamson's legal adj
wiser states that no racial or religious
consid 4rations will be regarded in the
admission of scholars.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

Reports reached Aberdeen Monday that
three children named French, living ~ miles
east of Hitchcock, were lost in the storm
last Friday night and were found the next
morning. The two boys were dead, and
the girl, aged about 1S, unconscious and
badly frozen. They waited at the school
hyuse until dark for an older brother to
come for them, and finally started out,
only to lose the road and wander in the
deep snow until overcome by the cold and
exhaustion.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
THE SAMOAN ISLANDS.
Where They Are and What They Produce
Size and Population.

Where They Are and What They Produce
Size and Population.
Navigator's Tor Samoan) Islands is a
group of thirteen islands, comprising an
area of $50 square miles, situated in the
South Pacific Ocean, on the steamship
line between San Francisco and Mel
bourne. They are about 400 miles north
east of Fiji Islands. They are high, moun-
famous, of volcanic origin, with rich
soil. hot, moist climate and q luxurious
vegetation, forests of palms, breadfruit
trees, cocoanut trees, and bananas cover
ing the mountains. Coffee, sugar, yams
and nutmegs are produced. The inhabit-
ants are Q we'll formed and good-natursd
tribe Of the Polynesian race, and different
Christian missions work with consider
able success among them. The largest
island Is Sawaii; the most fertile and
most peopled is Tutuila.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

AN important decision made re-
Gently in England prevents photogra-
pliers from selling photographs with
out the permission Of the original, The
Judge concluded that person who is
photographed has copyright in his or
her own face.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07
/ PrrrsBuna man is said to have re-

A PITTsBURG man is said to have re-.
ally married a girl under the impress
sion that he was marrying her sister.
His courtship of the other girl was
brief, and the sist RS so closely re-
sembled each other that he proposed
and was accepted before he discovered
his mistake. he has never confessed
that he made this odd error, but the
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

DR.. CHARcoT, Of Paris, an authority
on nervous diseases, is soon to be sum-
moned to st. Petersburg to see the
Emperor and Empress of Russia, who
are both in bad health.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

FROM recent archaeological discoveries
it appears that the Romans, at the
height of their civilization and splen-
dor, had no system Of street lighting.
No trace of anything of the kind has
been discovered.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

IT took James Bailey, an Iowa man,
over eighty-three days to get the last
of the tar off of him after receiving
coat of tar and feathers, but in his case
it was we'll rubbed in, for having mar
ried his second wife two days after the
death of the first.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

The Philadelphia Ledger says that
while Dec. q is, by sort of common
consent, reckoned "the shortest day"
in the year-that is, between sunup
and sundown-it is not so in strict fact.
The 22d is precisely the same in short
ness, for, while sunset is one minute
later on that day, sunrise is also a
minute later, leaving things even at
the close.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

IT is proposed to make new county
for Connecticut from the Sixth and
Twentieth Senatorial District. The
name suggested is Waterbury" Coun-
ty, and it would include eighteen
towns, with an aggregate wealth of
S21. 458. O93-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

"THE WARDEN" is the title of man
in Washington who makes his living
by helping home Government officials
who have taken too much bulge. He
is often presented with heavy tips by
grateful inebriates.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

The foundations of church in San
Luis, CAL, have been shifted seven
inches by the roots of eucalyptus trees,
and the latter are, therefore, to be cut
down. The trees are perfect giants,
their tops reaching thirty feet above
the church's steeple.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

Delegate Clifford writes a territorial
newspaper that he does not know what will
be the outcome of the statehood matter.
He says further: 1--WE can not accept the
Springer bill. 1t is unjust, and under it
we may not get into the union at all
neither divided nor as a whole. 1t is my
candid opinion that if we were to accept
the bill we would be admitted as one
state "
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

GEoRGIA's leading lawyer appears to
be Captain Henry Jackson. The fees
that he recently received are said to
have aggregated $4,000, and his regu-
lar retainers reach $4,000 year. He
has, it is reported Just declined an
offer of $4,000 year to go to New
York City and become counsel for an
insurance company.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

A NEBRASKA man has just died from
the bite Of mule, says the Carthage
(Mo.) Democrat. It adds: This is
the first actual proof we have that the
mules bite is as deadly as his sting.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-02-07

THEY couldn't imagine what allied Ait
tie Johnny Martin, of Sioux City, to
fall ill and die, but post-mortem
showed thirteen marbles in his little
stomach, where he had put them for
safe keeping.