Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

* hii lue IOllOW1ng day it
wac announced that the House Committee
was about ready to report the hin for -
revision of the tariff laws ="
Inc Senate Committee on Agriculture
and Forestry has agreed upoa and ra1
ported a bill for the encouragement NJ
the cultivation of the sugar thare-
from. The bill proposes a bounty Of 81
for every ton of beets r ised in the Unjted
STATES, delivered to q factory and made
INTO ~merchantable sugar; and a bounty of
81 1or every lOO pounds of sugar manu-.
Iactureo from beets raised in this country
~ also proposes to admit free of duty for
w Sears all machinery imported for
Paddock in a long report -accomnanr;na
the bill gives a history of the rise and
prosperity OF the beet u industry in
France, Austria, Hungary and Germany-
under a system of protection and boupty'
Senator Sawyer is a widower. and n
very rich one. This fact. together viii a
very complimentary sketch of the Sena-
tor was recently published by q CORE
spohoent OF a w~ell-known METROPOLITAN
dally, and ever since that time the ladies'
nave been making life a burden for the
Wisconsin statesman. His mail has been
hlled with kindly offers of marriage, a
large number of them ACCOMPANIED nv
photographs. The other day senator
Sawyer tied the whole bundle of e~pistles
together and sent them t. Senator Ali
son-alsoa a widower-with a request for
the latter to kindly look over the bunch
and take his pick" The wealthy widower
is nothing if not generous.
A petition signed by the professors
OF Oberlin College has been presented to
Congress, setting forth that the present
American photography, though much i'm
proved within the past century, is still
cumbersome, illogical, unhistorical, and
misleading; that millions of dollars are
wasted every. year in writing and printing
Unnecessary letters, while the progress Of
children in their education is greatly re-.
tarded by their difficulties in the way of
learning how to spell. Changes in the writ
ten language must be made by gradual
steps, and notifications herein suggested
have the Endorsement of the highest
scholarship in the land, and. if adopted,
would seem as an entering wedge for the
introduction of other reforms. The pe-
titioners think these changes should be
made first in the printing done for the
Government, and indorse the bill intro
duced by Congressman Lawler for that
purpose. Representatives. of the leading
educational, publishing and printing in
situations appeared before the House
Committee on Printing on Friday, the
2Sth, in support of the bill.
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
is one of the sharpest men to drive a
bargain in the West, and is reckoned one
of the shrewdest wire pullers in the
United States Senate. A good story is
told of him, which occurred some year
ago. He was under 80 years Of age, and
comparatively little known, He had in
vested every cent he could raise in a half
section OF land on which the city of Sioux
Falls, 5. D., now stands. After the pur-
chase the title was found to be weak,
and a suit was brought against him.
There was a mystery attached to
the suit, for Pettigrew could no
for a long time discover in whose interest
it was really brought. If he went to trial
he was almost sure to lose his case. He
found that the title to the property really
rested in the name of one Jones, who
lived a short distance from Minneapolis
and who was not aware that he was the
owner of any property in Dakota. Petit.
grew started for Minnesota, and with the
aid of ex-Judge Sanders, of Minneapolis
succeeded in getting a deed for tn
ground. Pettigrew's enemies, guessing
the cause of his visit to Minnesota, alst
went to the man Jones and got
another deed, and the Senator started
home on the same train with a strange
aboard who had the second deed. The
South Dakota Senator got an inkling OF
the fact, and made up his mind to outwit
him, as he knew that unless his deed was
filed for record first he would lose his
land. He approached the stranger and
entered into conversation with him, and
soon became convinced that his sus-
picions were correct. The stranger
got off the train several times to
send kilograms. knowing the distance
of the depot at Sioux Falls from
the Recorders Office, Pettigrew made up
his mind that the other chap had tele-
graphed for a conveyance to meet him
upon his arrival; SO he tookthe conductor
aside and after a few minutes confab
left the passenger coach and went forward.
When within about three miles of Sioux
Falls the train Stacked up and soon came
to a stand-still. The passeng6rs re-
NAMED patiently in their seats for about
fifteen minutes, thinking the engine
had just gone forward on a side-track
to take water. Pettigrew was on the
engine. and had gone on into the city and
leisurely proceeded to the Recorders
othce n placed his deed on record, his
opponents not discovering the trick until
long after, but wondering how it was he
got there first. 1t cost the Senator $500
to detach that engine, but then, he is one
of those game Westerners who will spend
a dollar at any time to a himself from
being robbed of another dollar.
Since the defeat Of his beloved educa-
tional bill Senator Blair has been very
much disheartened, but is slowly recov-
ering his usual energy. He still has hopes
of getting the bill through the Senate,
and at the first opportunity will move a
reconsideration. He has it in for a num-
Der of Senators who worked against his
pet measure, especially those who on
former occasions were friendly to it.
JAS. C. MOODY.
He Escaped the Mob.
The lawyer had been badgering the
witness for some time, and finally