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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-09
CHAPTER ".

Sleeping unintcrruptedly. once we had gotten to sleep, and ''holding our bed down. as Bogus expressed it till nearly ten o'clock next day, 1t is not surprising that we awokc little dull and thick-hcaded.
 So very dull and so very ythick-headed were we both that as if by tacit con- sent we avoided all direct reference to tho strange and unaccountablc exploit of MT. Hunter Smith, and the wonder full revelations of the cavern of the iron-banded chest. In fact, Buck,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-09


 jungle. dead and leafless as 1t is, still capable of hiding me from all but g direct search. And so I sit still and listen. ''It won't do. Bogus." the judge was saying. In drowning remonstrance. ''You arc, as you say, backed by 6 large popularity hero. But you must not venture upon dsring-even a crazy speculation like this. It is too risky. Far too risky. You had better go right along in the easy, safe line that you have heretofore prospered flu. and that have backed you in"
 But don't you see whut pile I'll lose ef don't take holt uy ntP Why ho r1votrvo,,n.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Some Unanswered Questions.

Whether there are more great or small people in the world.
 At what precise point in life man ceases to be middle-aged.
 Whether a hundred years hence George Washington or some base ball hero will appear the more glo- rious character.
 How Shakespeare could have been so we'll informed without taking a newspaper.
 How so many people can be sat- isfed with themselves when they are entirely different from us.
 When you made your first, your greatest and your last mistake in life.
 Who sows the seed, and what sort of seed is sown, for that prolific crop, ripening late in June in the Northern States, known as honorary degrees.
 Who is the most important and who the least important person in your neighborhood.
 Why there are not even more of the famous theological critics, see- ing it is so easy to become a famous theological critic.-Syracuse Chris tian Advocate.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Skeleton Cave.

A Yankton, Dakota, dispatch of a recent date, says The little vil- lage of St. Helena, on the Nebraska side of the Missouri, ten miles be- low Yankton, is in state of excite ment over a ghastly discovery made their yesterday. Parties who were prospecting in the chalk cliffs of that neighborhood for material for manufacturers of cement came up- on a small opening in the Missouri River face of the rock. It was found to be large apartment carved by nature in the soft, chalky substance, but the startling feature of the in- cident was the discovery within this cave of eight human skeletons. These were lying about the cavern in such disorder as to discredit the theory that the cave might be an ancient burial place, The age of fthe bones can not be determined, but they have undoubtedly been there a long time. The beliefprevails that these are the skeletons of early set tiers who sought the shelter of the cave when attacked by Indians years ago, and that they were either kill ed in a body or starved to death.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
\ Question of Honesty.

Washington, July 24.-Among the papers which President Harri- son has before him, and upon which he may take action while at Deer Park, is a statement from Secretary Blaine reporting the noted Well and La Abra claims, upon, which the Government of Mexico has paid several hundred thousand dollars under the judgment of a commits sion before whom they were tried. After Mexico had paid a portion of the sum agreed upon, further pay ment was stopped in the time of Cieveland's Administration, and the matter was taken up by Con- gress upon the plea that testimony before the Claims Commission was perjured and unreliable, and the claims themselves unjust and un- founded. A long investigation by by the Senate Committee on For eign Relations followed, resulting in a report, being made just before the Fiftieth Congress- adjourned, sus- taining the plea and recommending the passage of a bill to secure re- trial. The facts in the case have been submitted to President Harri- son by Secretary Blaine, who awaits instructions as to the disposition of the money paid by the Government of Mexico. The claimants have made demand for 1t under iudg- ment awarded by the commission. The amount involved is nearly $7OO,OOO.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Exploring the Colorado.

Denver, July 22.-A party ofsur- veyors, headed by Frank M. Brown, left, here May 23 for the purpose of exploring the Colorado River, with the view of building a railroad by that route to the Pacific Coast.
 To-day the following telegram was received from the expedition:
 Kanab, Utah, July p, 1889.
 Frank NJ. Brown was drowned in the Colorado River in Marble Can- on July 10 by boat being capsized while running the rapids. He was thrown into a whirlpool, ,- and was unable to get out of if, while the other man in the boat was thrown into the current and carried down about 600 feet and landed. All of the other boats of the expedition went through the rapids safely, and my boat reached a point where Brown was drowned, one half min ute after the accident happened, and less than five seconds after he sank for the last time. Five days after, while working our way down, anoth- CT boat was driven againsta cliff, and in pushing it off it was capsized, and two boatmen, Peter Hasbor- ough and Henry c. Richards, were drowned before assistance could reach them. It is impossible to re- cover any of the bodies.
 R. B. STANTON, Chief Engineer.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Willard Reaching Out.

Winnipeg (Manitoba), July "A - It has become known that as re- suit of Villard's recent visit here the Northern Pacific officers are about to secure control ofthe Mani toba Northwestern Railway. This road is 205 miles long and has 26 miles of branches. It extends in a northwesterly direction from Por- tage la Prairie sixty miles west oi Winnipeg, and taps magnificent agricultural country. The objective point is Prince Albert, at the forks of the two Saskatchewan rivers. Ii is a most important key to vast Saskatchewan country and will lrove an important feeder to the N Irthern Pacific.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
NUMBER 38
AphOriSmS.

Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in your 1 self by the gentle reproof-Sprat.
 Avoid him who, from mere curl osity, asks three questions running about thing that cannot interest him.-Lavater.
 Any one may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows it is part of the tenn perament.-Sterne.
 Afectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous and often end in being vicious.-Blair.
 Nothing more impairs authority than too frequent or indiscreet use of 1t. If thunder itself was to be continual, it would excite no more terror than the noise of mill. |-Colton.s
 Great talents for conversation versation should be attended with great politeness. He who eclipses others owes them great civilities; and whatever a mistaken vanity may tell us, 1t is better to please in conversation than to shine in it, Swift.
 Cato, being scurrilously treated by low and vicious fellow quietly said to him: "a contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; and with me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it."
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08

At San Buena Ventura, Cal, a we'll was sunk to the depth of 143 feet, and the water spouted thirty feet high and was utilized. One day the men around the we'll noticed fish in the waste water, and on ex- animation the we'll was found to be filled with young trout, thousagds of them being thrown out at every jet. These trout were all the same same size (about two inches long) and perfectly developed. The eyes were found perfect. There is no stream nearer than the Santa Clara river, several miles distant. Could these fish, then, it is asked, have come from it's head waters by some subterranean outlet? There are no trout i'll the lower portions of the stream. The temperature of the we'll water is 64 degrees Fah.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08

Our noted American economist, Edward Atkinson, recently states that new and very important dis covery has been made in rendering wood fire proof. It is cheap meth cd of dissolving zinc by combining it with hydrogen and producing a solution called zinc water. This liquid, applied to certain woods notably white wood-makes it ab- solutely fire proof at low cost. Atkinson regards this discovery as one of the most important of the age-one that will surely revolu- tionize fire insurance, as we'll as inn mensely decrease the loss by fire.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Southern Negro SuperStitiOnS.

Women in the North have trouble enough over the servant-girl ques- ton, but their ways are paths of pleasantness compared with those Of Southern women-except that the Southern woman is less disturb ed over the more serious situation. When a Virginia woman wants to change girls she is compelled to go at least three days without any girl at all. The kitchen help is black, of course, and superstitious. No color ed girl will go into a house until three days after the retiring heip has vanished, flor fear of being ''tricked'' in other words, hoodooed, placed under a spell-by the dismissed help. Whatever the colored person doesn't understand he fears. He is full of superstitions-believes in good luck from a rabbit foot when in his own possession, and in bad luck when it is put on him." Not long ago large number of colored people were on Virginia railroad platform waiting for train to take them to a picnic. A Boston drum mer, with face as serious as a parsons, took piece of chalk and a rabbit foot, and in the most busi- ness-like way began to make cross es on the backs of the colored peo- pie and touch them with the rabbit foot. The crowd broke for the woods in panic, and there was no picnic that day.-Milwaukee Senti- mel.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Troops for the Border.

There seems to be disposition on the part of the government to move a portion of the troops now in the interior to points near the border. The post at El Paso is to be increased. Old Fort Duncan, al Eagle Pass, long since abandoned is to be re-established. Reports state that posts will be established at a point south of Deming, one between there and Nogales, one at Nogales, and one between Nogales and Yuma. The Indian question in the United States is about set tied forever, and only a few troops are necessary in the interior; hence this move to place them along the border, not only to quell disturb ances that might arise but as a pre- ventive, better protection to the lives and property Of those citizens who live along the border and con sequently are exposed to danger from rowing Indians, etc.-Nogales Record.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Attacked by a Bear.

Marysville, July 25.-On last Sunday Miss Susie Feney of Straw berry Valley, and Miss Jennie Mar tin, of Oroville, who was visiting her, accompanied by an English mastiff, went into an adjacent wood in search of ferns. While seated on a log in an isolated part of the for est, quite a distance from their home, they were approached by a cinnamon bear. At the sight of their visitor the young ladies start ed to run toward home, screaming at the top of their voices and fol- lowed by the bear. The mastiff caught the bear by the neck and a desperate struggle ensued until two of Miss Feney's brothers arrived and shot it. The dog was so bad ly mangled that he will probably die.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08

Myriads of ages have elapsed while the rushing waters have been cutting those tremendous ravines in the hard rock, known as canons ot Mexico, Texas, Colorado and the Rocky mountains. The Grand Canon of the Colorado river is 29S miles long and in some places the walls rise perpendicularly above the water a night of 6,000 feet Tombstone Epitaph.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Apparent and Actual.

Cattle continue to go to the Chi cago market as though the world were full of them, and as though the owners of them were the most prod igal people in the world. During two consecutive weeks in June 120,- 900 head were received there, giving color to the belief obtaining in some quarters that the supply is mex haustible. Referring to these re- ceipts, it is little wonder we find in a Union Stock yards paper this sentence: "There appears to be practically no limit to the number of fat cattle ready to be dumped upon the market at days notice, and the time when we may confi- dently count upon steady and per manent dwindling of the receipts, and a steady and permanent en- hancement of values seems as re- mote as ever."
 Appearances are certainly that way. and if the beef supply candle is being burned at both ends does not matter as to the present effects. Various causes have operated to ef- feet constant decrease in what may be called the legitimate con sumpti In of beef, and consequent lessening in the demand, while at the same time other causes have forced holders to market with every kind of cattle that could be made to return even little money. With these causes at work and in such varying degrees as could not in the nature of things be calculated upon, and their being of such character and altogether abnormal that it can only be question of time when the course must change, has been reason enough for throwing off the most careful calculations. The com plexion of an industry that covers so wide an area of country and so many diverse methods cannot change suddenly; but how it could continue on the decline so long IS something unaccounted for One ling is positi e, and that is that production Las been enor- mously decreased. Millions of COWS, heifers and calves have gone to the sha m bles, and while these have so far had little or no effect in lessening the supply of aged steers, they have aided vastly in creating false impressions as to the actual supply. A fewer number of real beef cattle were marketed last year than the year preceding. It will not be possible to send forward this season as many ripe steer cattle as last, and next year there must be a decrease in the number of such cat tie that the most pronounced over prodution theorists must be com pelled to see the shortage. We be- lieve now that the whole question of market values is one as to the continued shipment of she cattle and the extent of such shipment. For several months the market de- pression has continued simply from Chicago appearances, and because of lack of statistical information that would have given confidence to prolucers.-Cheyennc Live Stock Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08

A physician says: "Girls in fee ble health should take tramp through the woods or fields every day" But suppose the tramp ob- jected to being taken through the woods or fields every day by girls in feeble health.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08

A South Carolina convict who made break and knew the dogs would take his trail used two pounds of strong snuff to sprinkle in his tracks, and the dogs let go and returned in disgust. A dog nose when he's got enough.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Odds and Ends.

IC6 udlly UurluS US very Drl6I not season.
 There are over S0O,OOO more wid- ows than widowers in England, In France for every 100 widowers there are 194 widows.
 The antiquity of dolls has been fully proven at Rome, where there was found in a sarcophagus con- taining the skeleton ofa young girl, a wooden doll with jointed arms and legs.
 The possessions of Trinity Church, in New York, foot up to S14O,OOO,- 900. Rev. pr. Morgan Dix, it's pastor, has anominal salary of S12,- 900, but really receives just as much as he wants.
 The fastest ,egular express trains in the United States run between Philadelphia and Washington. They maintain an average speed of forty-nve miles an hour during the entire distance.
 The first maps of Africa publish ed gave that continent seventeen rivers where not one single stre am existed. Geographers probably reasoned that the natives required a great deal of water to keep clean.
 Strawberries as large as teacups grow wild in Africa, and when a boy wants to knock a dog over he grabs for and hits him with straw berry. But for this the boys and dogs of Africa couldn't have any fun.
 There won't be much change in the old flag when the additional four stars are added, and this is a wise thing. A good share of the American people, especilly on holi- days, can hardly make out the em- blem now.
 Charleston druggist advertised that the milk of cocoanut would re- move freckles, and 4,000 of the nuts were solid at retail in two days to women folks. He got commis- sion on all sales. The freckles still abide.
 "Judge," said a dude who was a witness in a New York court, "that fellah knocked me down with his ungloved fist, sah, and I want him punished for his impertinence, sah. l am used to being struck with a kid glove"
 An Alabama woman heard a ghost in the house. Her husband heard nothing but rats. She stuck to ghost and he to rats and they began a suit for divorce the next day on the grounds of incompata- bility of temper.
 The Indian population, since placed on reservations, has in- creased faster than the black or white, while the rate of mortality has steadily decreased. Old "Lo" isn't going to let go half as easily as was thought for.
 A Michigan father commanded his grown up daughter not to go to a picnic, but she decided that she was old enough to be her own boss, and she not only gamboled under the greenwood trees, but got mar ried and went to housekeeping be- fore night.
 Those earthquakes about Char leston heaved a rock out of the ocean fifteen miles off the outer bar which is estimated to cover four acres of ground. When an earth quake gets a lever under anything smaller than a continent it has got to lift.
 According to Peter Henderson, ordinarv ctah1a noanura ic vot o1-
The St. Johns herald., 1889-08-08
Stock and Range.

In Texas noW-a-OdIS WueH tne boys learn that one of their number has sent forward a shipment of cat tie they go at once to offer condo lence.-Cheyenne Live. Stock Jour- nal.
 The Texas Live Stock Journal thinks that nothing but an earth quake or flood can prevent next spring from being the biggest grass beef season ever known in Texas.
 Cattle traders claim that business is unusually dull, and that trans fers amount to nothing at all. These are vacation months in the range trade, and the dullness is not un- usual.-Furt Worth Journal.
 MT. H. H. Metcalf, a large stock raiser of Colorado, is reported as saying: "This year, the first time in five years, will the cattle on our eastern ranges lay on an abundance of flesh. We will have fat cattle from the Sandy and Republican river ranges"
 Sam Thomas, an old LX cowboy, was arrested to-day for complicity in the cattle thief case against John Stahl, and was also tried and placed under bond. These cases are ex- citing some interest, on account oi the general honest character of the men Stahl and Thomas.-Amarlllo (Tex. Northwest.
 A week or so ago D. l.. Denny'S cattle, numbering 2,0O0 head, were seized by the Creek authorities with in the domain of that nation for taxes. An action, so it is reported, has also been begun against MT. Denny in the United States court for the unlawful introduction of cattle upon Indian lands.-Vlnita Chieftain.
 The San Simon Cattle Company, in the southern part of this Terri tory, declared a dividend of fifty cents per share, q short time since. There are very few cattle compa- nies that have been able to do this in the last few years. A majority of them have been declaring Irish dividends.
 The grass is very short and the ranchmen are very blue. Hay will be scarce and therefore high in price. A great many ranchmen will not have enough hay to feed their own stock next winter without buying. Where to buy and where to get money with which to buy is a se- rious question with some. A light winter is their only salvation.-Hot Sulphur Springs (Col. Times.
 A dispatch from Wellington, Ka., says arrivals from the Cherokee strip report the Texas fever playing havoc with cattle there. Forty head were seen dead in one pasture and in othere from seven to twenty-five carcasses were lying around. Hun dreds of cattle are dying in Okla homa, and they predict that not a hoof will be taken from there to the north for some months.
 Reese Evans, whose herds roam from McDermit to Bull Run, and from Little Humboldt to the Juni- pers, reports cattle up north in prime condition, in fact much fat ter than they were a year ago at this time. Water is scarcer and feed dryer than usual at this season of the year, but stock never looked better. The northern part of the county and the adjoining ranges in Oregon and Idaho will furnish con- siderable many beeves this fall.- Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State.
 All movements inaugurated by the cattlemen to improve the con- dition of the cattle industry have seemingly failed, and all that re-
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1889-09-12
Mortgage Sale.

John McDermott mortgagor executed and de.
Hvered certain mortgage In favor ef the Colonial
and United States Mortgage Company lAnitedl
mort2agee, and which mortgage was dated the
18th day of January, 1894, and recorded In the
Office of the Register OF Deeds OF the County OF
Hand and Territory of Dakota, in book OF mort
cages, on page 1872 Oh the 22d day Of March Isssl
an6 upon certain premises situated ia the County
OF Hand i'll the Territory Of Dakota, and described
az follows. to-wit: The northeast quarter Of sec
tien twenty four in township one hundred four
teen north of range sixty six of the 9TH pria-
eipal meridian and containing 100 acres according
to government survey.
No action or proceedings at Law or otherwise
have been Instituted to recover the debt secured
by said mortgage or any part thereof
Default having been made In the payment Of the
principal aud interest due upon said mortgage
when due.
The amount claimed to he due upon said mort
gage. al The date of this notice. is the of three
hundred eighty uhe dollars and twenty six cents
principal and interest and ten dollars necessarily
paid by the mortgage in pertecting the title OF
SAID iohn McDermott TO said real estate which WAS
also secured by said mortgage, making in all the
sum OF three hundred ninety one and nj 100 dol
lars. aud ALSO the further OF thirty dollars at
torneys' fees stipulated for IN sud mortruso a
Now, therefore. notice Is hereby given that ~
virtue OF the power of sale contained IN said mort
gage. and duly recorded az aforesaid aud In pur.
suance OF the statutes in such case made and pro-
Nded, the said mortgage viii he foreelosed by
sale OF the mortgaged premises therein described
az public auction TO the highest bidder for cash at
the front door OF the couIt house, in the town of
Miller and county of HanG and Territory OF Dakota
on the 10th day Of September, 1889 at o'clock
in the afternoon Of that day.
Dated ills lst day of August, ID. 1850.
THE COLONIAL UNITED STATES MoETGAGE Con-
PAsY. LIMITED. Mortgage.
l.. H. Hole, Alya Z. Taylor and John L. Pyle at.
terneys for nortgagee, Huron, Dakota AugSt7