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The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

Some very funny mistakes of the printers often occur in the make up" of forms for the press, the fun fest of aIl'is from the Putnam Coun- ty Sentinel, which Foa.e time since expatiatcd on a herd of short-horn- ed cattle and the same week puffed up in flowing language a concert given by the ladies. In the make up" the items got mixed, and ima- zine the editors consternation when he picked up the paper and read |: "The concert given by sixteen of Ottawa's most beautiful and inter esting young ladies was highly ap- preciated. They were elegantly dressedand sang in the most charm ing manner, winning the plaudits of the entire audience, who pro- nounced them the finest shortholns in the country. A few of them are a rich brown color, but majority are spotted brown and white. Several of the heifers weigh as much as 1,5CO pounds, fine bodied and tight limbed animals. They are said to be excellent milkers, and as high as twenty-five pounds of butter have been made from one in a single week"
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

The News-Register hereby files a caveat on a plan by which New Mexico can be boomed. Let Gov ernor Prince issue a proclamation stating that no immigration shall be allowed to enter the boundaries of the territory hereafter under penalty of death to the offending immigrant, and one million people would force their way in during the next year, as they are doing now in klahoma,-News-Register.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

There is a significance in the in- ordinate pressure to secure home steads in Oklahoma which should not be overlooked. It means that the available lands for entry in the public domain e,nearly exhausted while the demand for them contin- ues. The record of the last Ad- ministration in the matter of check ing the waste of the remnant was good one, and some 80,000,000 acres-much of the area worthless, however-were restored to the peo- pie through railroad forfeitures, proof of illegal title, etc. There are 65,OO0,00O still recommended for recoYery.-N. Y. World.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02
Liquor Problem.

Constitutions, to be stable and
 effective, must reflect the character
 of the people living under them,
 otherwise they are but paper con- stitutions, and consequently of but
 little worth. Here, then, the tenn perance problem is thrown back up-
 on first principles. If the liquor traffic is to be destroyed, if the man. ufacture of intoxicants is to be un- known in our land, then let the temperance folk make total absti- hence a characteristic of the Amer ican people and their work will be accomplished, and 1t will ther mat ter but little whether the sale and manufacture of liquor are inhib- ited in the constitutions of the sev- eral States or not. On the other hand, prohibition may be written in the constitution of every State, but unless it has its foundation in the characteristic practices of the people the law forbidding the man. ufacture and use of liquor in the written constitution of State, will be as impotent as when written in the ordinary statue-book. Consti- tutions and laws do much, very much for society. Laws on this very subject of the liquor evil. by limiting it's production and sale to those paying for the necessary li- censes to engage in the business, accomplish much good, and it may be posslbleto make laws do more good. But while constitutions and laws do very much for society, they can not do everything. Some things have to be left to moral forces and agencies that operate in society-to the schools, to the lec- ture platform, to public sentiment, to the family, to the church; and among the things that have to be turned over to these forces to deal with is, we think, this evil of in- temperance, those moral and spirit ual forces we have named being supported by such law as we may have some reasonable hope of en- forcing.-Salt Lake Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

It is generally known that par ties bave been buying range steers in this part of New Mexico for some time past, says the Silver City Sentinel. It is said they have bought all which was offered for sale at prices ranging from $1.80 to $2.00 per cwt delivered at some shipping point on the railroad and that they are now buying all they can get at $225
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

It is reported that Sevenoaks was arrested in Harqua Hala this week and taken to Yuma on a charge of defrauding the men who had been putting up money for his operations, Another report is to the offect thet Sevenoaks has gone crazy. A man who arrived from there says he has been on a great spree and has been trying to bulldoze everybody in the camp.-Tucson Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

The Mexicans deal sensibly with the question of food adulterations. The Penal Code of Mexico makes the sale of adulterated medicines or food a fraud, punishable, if the ven dor knows of the adulteration, and this even if the adulteration Is not harmful But where the article is rightly described so that the pur- chaser knows what he is buying the law does not interfere. For exam pie, the Board of Health of the City of Mexico recently, by analysis, discovered that an American arti- cle imported under the name of refined lard' Is not lard rendered from pork, but contains cottonseed oil as a substitute for the oliene in pork lard, declared that this article comes under the head of adulter- ated foods. They did not, however, forbid the importation of the sub stance. but required that if import ed and sold it shall be under it's proper name, as preparation of cottonseed oil and not as "lard." " That seems to be all right, and sets a good example to some of our own authorities.-N. Y. Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

The prediction was made this week by two of the most successful cattlemen in the western range country that prices for range cattle would be higher in 1891 than at any time during the past ten years. It was also predicted that the big four would not have the control of the beef producing industry after the year 1890. These are not Mother Shipton's prophecies.-Las Vegas Stock Grower.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02
Force and Energy.

As far as we know at present, the
 simplest forms of matter-the ele-
 ment-are distinct entities and in
 capable of being transformed into
 one another. They unite among
 themselves 10 form all the innum-
 erable substances of which the uni
 verse Is made up, but in themselves are unchangeable and indestruct- ible. A piece of iron, for instance, can never be changed into a piece of copper, or grain of hydrogen gas into oxygen; neither can we destroy or annihilate a single atom of these elements. There is just exactly as much hydrogen, oxygen iron, copper, etc, in the universe as there has been in all the past ages, and exactly the same amount will continue to exist to all eternity although their combinations with themselves and other elements may be altered an infinite number of times. Until some future investi- gator, in following certain clues at present but dimly perceived by us, discovers that the elements are but notifications of one primal form of matter, we must continue to believe that they are unchange- able. When, however, we turn to the different form of force CT ener- gy by which, with matter, the uni verse reveals itsself to our senses, we find a very different state of af- fairs. Heat, light, electricity, chem ical action, magnetism, force or work, are all readily changed from one to the other with the greatest ease. A pound of coal or pure carbon will, when oxidized or burnt always produce exactly so many units of heat. From this heat just so much power or work can be ob- tained and no more; this power will produce an inyariable number of units of electricity or magnetism and the electricity when transform ed into chemical action, will de- compose a definite weight of a chemical compound. Every pound of coal, every ounce of food repre- sents a certain amount of energy, and by no possibility can a greater amount be obtained from it. It is the legitimate field of the inventor to endeavor to utilize all this ener- gy i'll the form in which 1t is desired and prevent the enormous waste by its transformation into undesired forms, which at present occurs even with our best and most economical machinery, Any attempt to do more is as sure to end in failure as would an attempt to prove that two and two added together make five Popular Science Monthly.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

The Arizonan says fully twenty. five per cent more land is under cul. tivation in the Tempe country the present year than ever before, and the crops are looking fine. The area of grain is but little greater, and the increase is ipally in alfalfa.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

The steers of the J. c. Lea and Fl Capitan cattle companies on the Pecos, which were contracted to ". E. Hawk, of Soda Springs, Wyo- ming, some time ago, will shortly be shipped north. The available steer stock of New Mexico is fast being bought up.-Stock Grower.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02
A Great Newspaper.

It was my good fortune to spend portion of last Saturday night in The World building, and under in- telligent guidance 1 was permitted to witness the process whereby tons of white paper are, almost by mag ic, transformed into huge volumes of reading matter. The composing room is on the fourth floor, where 132 compositors were busy setting type and sending the forms to the press-room below as fast as com pleted. For their use on the Sun day edition over ten tons of type are required. The editorial staff proof-readers, artists, engravers, re- porters, etc., occupy various rooms throughout the building, and were all intensely busy and seemingly uncomfortably crowded. But the most interesting place to a novice like myself, as we'll as the noisest one, is the press-room in the base ment.
 The World has twelve large print ing presses in operation every night.
 The greatest of these is the new quadruple press, which is regarded as a mechanical wonder, and is said to be the largest, fastest, costliest and most perfect newspaper ma chine ever constructed. It will print, fold and count out in fifties 4S,000 eight-page papers an hour. In addition to this it will print four, six, ten, twelve or sixteen page newspapers when desired. It is a model piece of mechanism, has fully met the expectations 1t awakened and would seem to be the croWning glory of inventive genius in it's line.
 The World has on it's payroll about 1,200 names-among them 30 editors and sub-editors, 104 re- portcrs and contributors, 46S cor respondents in other cities, 275 in the composing and proof-rooms, T in the press-room, etc.
 The Worlds Sunday edition is a wonderful thing, and taxes the ut most resources of the vast estab- lishment to bring it out promptly on time-a task that no other news paper plant in the country is equal to. It may, perhaps, aid the reader to understand its dimensions when l state that it uses up over 75 tons of paper, from 500 to GOO pounds of ink, and when printed each Sun day edition is of such magnitude as to make library, if printed in book manner and bound in books of the average size, that would be twice as large as the largest library in the world That is, it is the equivalent ot 100000 volumes, while the largest library in the world is the National Library at Paris and con- tains only 2,OOO,OOO volumes, while the next in size is at London and contains 1,SO0,O00 volumes. And yet, notwithstanding the huge pro- portions of these Sunday editions, the time allotted for their construc- ton is the almost incredulously period of a little over ten hours N. Y. Courier.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02
Al Historical Event.

The approaching trial trip nf the Charleston is an event of more thar local importance. It is awaited with intense interest by shipbuild, CTS and naval experts, not only in the East, but throughout the world It's success will mean nothing less than that this port is to be the great center of naval construction for the whole Pacific ocean. It will be a warning to England, to Germany, to China and to Chile, for it will show that instead 9f San Francis co being a rich, unguarded prize, to be seized by the first Power, small or great, that chooses to swoop down upon it, it will be an armory upon which the Union can draw for weapons to dominate the Western hemisphere. The Charleston, if suc- cessful, will be the first of a mighty fleet.
 We owe to the courage and ener- gy of the Union Iron Works the brilliant prospects that are opening before the shipbuilding industry of San Francisco. It was no light thing to venture upon a bid for what amounted to the naturalization of a new industry among Us. Consid- ering that the materials had to be brought across the continent, and that wages were so much higher here than in the East, it took mar velously close figuring to bring the terms below those offered by the old-established shipyards of the Delaware.
 So far everything has been bril- liantly successful. The great cast ings for the stem and stern posts were made here, and made without a flaw, while corresponding work in the East has met with difficulties. The construction of the Charleston has kept ahead of that of the Bal timore, which was begun at Phila delphia at the same time. If the officers are to be trusted, every plate and rivet is just what and where it ought to be.
 The trial trip will show whether everything has been done as we'll as we think it has. If the horse pow CT comes up to the contract amount, if the speed is what it should be, if the waves develop no evidences of weakness, we may expect that several of the fourteen con- tracts soon 10 be let will come to San Francisco. Otherwise, instead of favoring us when our bids are a little higher than that Of Eastern establishments, the Department may act on the opposite principle.
 We wish the Union Iron Works every success. There is no reason why they should not be employing coco men, like some of the estab- ments on the Clyde, and it is need less to say what that would mean to San Francisco.-San Francisco Examiner.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02
An Ocean Greyhound.

With her handsome fgure-head badly battered by the angry waves and the moulded head boards on
 either bow ruthlessly ripped away, the new Inman line twin-screw racer
 the City of Paris, sister-ship of
 the City of New York, glided grace
 fully by Sandy Hook Lightship at
 5.37 Thursday morning, after com
 pleting one of the most remarkable
 maiden voyages on record, her cor
 rected time from Roche's Point to
 Sandy Hook being 6 days, IS hours,
 B minutes. The ship came up to
 the expectations of her agents and
 builders. The speed attained by the
 City of Paris on this tripis consid
 cred by the Inman people a signal triumph for the twin screw.
 Leaving Queenstown with nearly seven hundred passengers on the afternoon of Thursday, April 4, the new liner left Fastnct Rock abeam few minutes past o'clock the same day. At noon, April 5, her log registered 37S miles. The next two days the steamer accomplished 415 and 402 miles respectively. On the morning of the fourth day out it became necessary to stop the port engine, one of her pistons becom- ing heated. This occasioned de- lay of nearly six hours. Only 390 miles were covered that day, butthe following day she made a run of 40 miles, notwithstanding that for eight hours her engines were slowed down on account of a dense fog.
 The most remarkable run was made on the fifth day of the voyage. Everything was favorable, and from Tuesday noon until noon of We'd nesday she logged off 498 miles, or 204 miles an hour. This is only five miles behind the best daily run the Etruria ever made. When Sandy Hook Lightship was abeam at 5.37 o'clock yesterday morning, the last run of 344 miles was completed.
 All the passengers spoke highly of the sailing qualities of the new ship, She is remarkably steady. Although she encountered very high seas her decks were ever tree from water, and she shipped but very lit tie over her bows. Her tigurehead and the fancy-work on her bows were shattered by the seas. Except this trivial damage everything was intact aboard the steamer, and she will be ready 10 sail again Wednes- day morning with big passenger list of prominent people. To give the general public an opportunity to view the interior of the new ocean leviathan the company will this af- ternoon and Saturday allow any one to go abonrd.-N. Y World.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

4 car load of bulls was shipped from here on Wednesday to Dun- can, Arizona, by Peter Rufane.- Las Cruces Democrat.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

Grain in Upper Salt River Val ley, Gila county, is four feet high and heading. The crop promises to be unusually large and fine this season.-Globe Silver Belt.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-05-02

The Enterprise says that a rail- road from a point on the Southern Pacific to Florence is among the possibilities of the near future.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17
PERSONAL.

August Schmidt, the Ortonville
butcher. was in town to-day.
ReY. Battey and wife, who have
both been on the sick roll are again
able to be around.
Emil Johnson was confined to the
house with sore throat last week,
and his little daughter is troubled in
the same way.
Miss Sophia Tobin leaves this week
for Milbank. Our young ladies are
scarce and we do not like to part with
them, but our loss is Milbank's s gam.
-Andover Gazette.
Prof Prevey returned Thursday
from Nebraska, panied by Mrs
prevey, who although not entirely
recovered from her recent illness, is
much improved.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17
WEST VERNON.
December. I4th

December. l4th.
Jas. Farnham, of Appleton, Mimi
nephew of Il. Farnham of this place,
visited friends here last week during
a vacation in his school.
school No, 8, in charge Of Geo. IL.
Plant, is large and prosperous, twenty
six pupils being enrolled.
1t is reported that indications OF Oil
and coal have been found IN a we'll on
the farm of ii. Kruger.
Miss Addie Warning has finished
her school in Stevens county, Mime
sofa, and returned home.
The infant daughter of So!. John
son was formally christened last FIJI
day, Rev. A. Engdahl officiating.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17
Double Track and all steel Rails.
Delightful Excursion.

The following "t~ain order No. T.
has been issued by Sedgwick Division,
No. 5l3, B. of l.. L. for a terpsichor-
can trip New Years eve:
To YOURSELF AND LADIES' kun
from your home to opera ouse extra,
dance between $50 y. N. ard o:OO "a.
m, 70 music by SlaWson's or.
chestra: meet at the old Durham no.
tel for refreshments at 1900 p. ~
Flag against long trains; approach
crossings with caution, and look out
for another party following next year.
Be particular to enjoy yourself.
The tralnmen on this run are: IL
S. Volkmar, j. j. Ryan, Henry Port
Mike Don r, Ed. Dore, Harry Hol
lands, John Bohan. JAS. Lauebl'n
Geo. Mlddlebrook, Thos. KING com.
mittee on invitations and ii. +. Com
fort, Ch.s. Matthews, Wm. Eddlng
ton, committee Oh arrangements.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17
ALBEE.
Dec. 10Th, 1889.

Alfred Tennyson leaves Tuesday
for Minneapolis, where he VIII remain
until spring.
Mrs. Plimpton has returned from
Minneapolis.
The average Of our population IS
kept up if some people do leave. 1t
is IA girl at Gus. Sonnomores tins TIME
There will be school exhibition at
Revillo, Friday evening, Dec. ~, and
a kind of soldiers reunion and Il
general good time Friday Dec. =, and
a show Tuesday evening Dec. l'th.
The country is coming to lite again
+. $. Devine has gone 1east bu. eA-
poets to return soon.
We will say again for the benefit OF
those who are in doubt about 1t, that
the dance here will be Christmas
night, not Christmas eve.
The dance at Geo. Fridays turned
out pleasantly and an immense time
was enjoyed by all.
While well diggers were drilling =
we'll on L. Hoxsey's farm about .
miles north west of this place. they
struck what seems to he VEN OF
coal at "a depth Of 264 feet. \ sample
of il has been sent away to be analsl-
ed. All indications are that II -
genuine coal.
boo join.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17

The east bound mixed tram on the
Manitoba railroad was Wrecke last
Tuesday about two miles east OF
South Shore and Just over the line OF
this county, 10y the breaking OF a
nange on the locomotive truck. Ihe
enylne-and 4 number Of cars loaded
with wheat were hurled down the
embankment and crushed into mass
of wreckage. The engineer. James
p. Haines, Of Reading, Pa, fireman
John Kivlaham, of McGregor, Ia,
aud a brakeman named Rooney were
instantly killed and ground into an
unrecognlzable mass. Coroner Kose
and Sheriff Benedict were sent Tor,
but deemed an inquest unnecessary
under the circumstances.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17

The Woman's National Industrial
League, appropos to the late Sllcott
ambezz,amGnt arc oas with / set
Of resolutions recommending that
women be appointed as discussing
officers where large amounts Of public
money are handled. We believe the
recommendation to be good one.
and suggest that the experiment be
tried before all our democratic officials
get over the Canada line with what
there is left of the personal property
Of the American eagle. True, the
first otlense of this kind was commit
ted hy a woman who was too anxious
to 90 into the fruit business on hel
own account. and which resulted in
loading us down with a mortgage We
hayn't been able to lift since, yet II
happened SO long ago. and the ottense
has been SO frequently condoned by
our marrying her daughters and &C
knoWledging a family relationship
that we don't feel like bringing W
this old matter agairst her. Should
the ladies prove no more trustworthy
than the sterner sex, there would still
be an advantage in the fact that be
fore absconding she would ntcessa
rily take the regulation time 70 iii
up for 50 important 4 trip. and th'
coherts Of justice might thus he Ell
abled to swoop down upon her before
she could get across the border witt
/ the Doodle.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17
CITY OFFICERS.

Henry S Volkmar.
n. /. Bouck.
er-Aug, Mittelstaedt
E-R,T Rodgers
s,ce-S. G. Jones
koroey-Thos. L. Bouck :,
eu-lst Ward A Mcbride, l. ~
Sher % Ward-W b Saunders, w J
4 Sd Ward--C A Erlandson, l. W
Srshsl. Street Commissioner, Building
<c,or and Fire Warden--j b Simmons
kau-Charlcs Sutcllise.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17
Tax Sale Certificates.

The following communication To
the Sioux Falls Press introduces i
plan that looks like i practical I'M.
proyemenJ over the n4rtnuuo :iuW u
vogue for selling lands dt t''A sales
The principal features are:
Eust-At the first tssN sale after the
massage Of the bill, lands o. lots
should be sold to the party offering to
pay the taxes for the lowest Iate.ol
lnlertst. the purchaser receiving Il
certificate covering the whole OF ne
land taxed The present lnethod -
TO sell to tie party Offering to pay the
tax Tor the smallest part Of the land
ta>ed. the certificate drawing 30 per
cent interest. Under the proposed
law the rate Of interest Woh4d hot eN-#
Iceed l. per cent IN any county, ana
would be as low as ) pei cent II TINS
county.
serond-At each subsequent sale
the land or lot should be suld ior SUCH
an amount as Woula l5ay the tax 1oE
,il,, ytar and redeem the certificate
ISSUED the pIeNloas Neal. lhla Wo'lla
sin pity lie books, as there Woliiei 10
only one certificate ont stt Any me-
In,r,.-N When t4e accumulated
taxes had reached - high = llgure
that no new bids could be obtalied
then 4 deed should issue to the holueT
ot tie certificate OH his pay ing the
current year S tax.
I-nder such a law no deed would IS.
she uvtll the full value oi TIE land
Il 4aS .4nI iASRrPSf.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-12-17
'coUNrY OFFICERS.

| ,rls, Dist John Martens.
A0D' cd Dist, w T. Burman, Chm.
Sd Dist, WIN. Jennings.
/ John Douglass;
!, naa1s-C. W. Martens.
|.nd Probate JudgeyThos. L Bouek
~ S. Farley.
IL enedict.
Court. l. Lockhar'
tlyls-G. w Prevey
{bt,orney-J. H. Owen.
EDr. Il &. {. Rose.
|suryeyor-W. 5. Crowl.