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The Dickinson press., 1890-02-22
C0NCISEl:Y @CHR0NICLED.
HAPPENINGS OF, A WEEK CON-
'DENSED AND CLASSIFIED.

Friday Louis Rubenstein, the champion
fancy skater Of America, won the championship
OF the world. in st. Petersburg, In the combeti--
ton under the auspices Of the st. Petersburg
Amateur Skating club. The contest took place
on open air ice, and among the countries which
bad representatives competing were Austria,
Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia.
Miss Amy Fowler, the young English
woman, who is going to devote her life to the
care of the lepers Of Molokai, was rendered q
reception Thursday evening at the residence OF
Richard F. Downing, in Brooklyn.
Robert Garrett, ex-president of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. has been removed
from his country seat, near Baltimore, but to
what place is not known. He was taken away
Thursday afternoon in charge Of two physicians.
A syndicate Saturday acquired a FIVE
sixths interest in Mackey s Floods bank at San
Francisco, the Bank of Nevada" The capital
stock is ss.OoO,ooo
Projectiles for the new trial of the
Vesuvius arrived at Newport on Saturday. They
will be filled with 30 pounds Of explosive each.
which must DO thrown one mile to comply with
the provisions Of the contract. The final trial
will take place in a few weeks.
j. s. Hartman, of Boston, and j. w.
Mcdonald, OF New York, Saturday made a wager
by which the former is required to walk 5000
miles in sixty days, starting from some town in
Indiana and walking to San Francisco. The stake
is 5000. Hartman will start the latter part of
April.
Monday the Western Freight associa-
tion, by a vote of II to ii, authorized a reduc-
ton in freight rates to Missouri river points to
correspond with the recent cut by the Illinois
Central on Sioux City bushes The reduction
amounts to about IS per cent. The new rates
will become effective Feb. q.
Dispatches from several points in the
Sierras show that another heavy snow storm wa
raging Monday, and another railroad blockade is
threatend. At Summit the snow is eighteen feet
deep, and at Emigrant Gap twelve feet. An
east-bound train has been abandoned near Cas-
cade, while several west-bound trains are stuck
in huge drifts.
Tuesday the Wisconsin Central road
served q thirty days notice Of withdrawal from
will still further disorgenize the ''Gentlemen's
association, " the usefulness of which had already
been seriously impaired by the Withdrawals of
the Northwestern and Union Pacific roads.
A synopsis of the proposed school
changes in Manitoba was published Tuesday. 1t
provides that oil public schools shall be free
schools, separate Catholic schools being abol-
ished.
The first Pasteur institute in the
United States was opened Tuesday at 178 West
Tenth street, New York, under the presidency of
DIR. Paul Gibier.
The New York legislature Wednesday
approved the conference report on the worlds
fair bill, and the bill passed.
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THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 13.-The Walsh
revenue bill was defeated in the senate.
The farmers and business men got into a
dispute over assessments and the latter
voted against the bill in sufficient num-
bers to defeat it. The principal debate
was on the following section:
Every person, company or corporation
in listing the personal property of such
person, company or corporation, may
deduct actual debts from the actual
credits and the balance shall be taxed as
other personal property is taxed, but in
no case shall any person, company or
corporation be allowed to deduct any
Indebtedness from the assessed valuation
of any goods, chattels or effects of any
nature whatsoever.
Various interesting questions arose in
the house. Roney's bribery investigat-
ing committee reported that they had
not sufficient power under the resolution
and asked to be discharged. On motion
of Stevens the committee was continued
and empowered to send for papers and
persons. McDonald's bill establishing O
normal school at Valley City passed.
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 14.-The house
passed sixteen bills, among them a bill
providing that the salaries Of all officers
shall be fixed before election; a bill au.
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MAY Be NO WORLDS FAIR
A Washington COrresu Ondent
Says That Impression Is
Gaining Strength.
Important Presidential Nomi.
nations-Four Cities to Get
New Public Buildings.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-As the fight
for the worlds fair becomes more and
more intense and the strife between the
rival cities more bitter, the impression
gains ground that there will be no
worlds fair. The Southern Democrats
are opposed to it, and many Democrats
say they will vote against any bill that
proposes to appropriate money from the
national treasury. New York's chances
for uccess have visibly increased during
the past few days, there being a bitter
hostility to Chicago among all Southern.
ers. Many members of congress do not
feel more than a passing inte'est in the
scheme, preferring to attend to their
legitimate duties and the passing of their
own local bills. The sentiment created
for the fair is traced to the cities which
want to make money out of it rather
than a general patriotic move on the
part of the people. Columbus may not
have a fair.
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CnAuNcEY M. DEPEw says that the
worlds fair so far as New York is
concerned, is ga goner." He says
that even if the bill could be got
through the legislature arranging the
worlds fair commissioners to the
liking of the republicans, the demo.
cratic congressman from New York
would vote to locate the fair at Chi.
cago. Unless the democrats can have
the advantage, so as to control the
immense expenditures of the funds
of the worlds fair in the year of a
presidential election, they will defeat
New York in congress. And unless
the republicans can have the advan.
tage they will defeat the bill in the
legislature. The worlds. fair move.
ment in New York is probably be.
tween the devil and deep blue sea-.
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Two seed wheat laws have passed
the legislature, one AUTHORIZING coun.
ties to issue bonds for the purpose of
procuring seed wheat for needy farm
ers and the other authorizing farmers
to procure seed wheat from private
parties OF corporations. The laws
both require the person desiring seed
grain to file a sworn statement with
the county clerk and a blank form is
provided for that purpose. All debts
contracted for seed grain are made a
lien OH the crop and if not paid with.
in the time specified said debt is
taxed against the property of the Dor.
rower.' Applications are to he made
to the county clerk OH OF before the
first day of March.
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leveled it at the one who held his wife and shot
him through the heart. The other then fed.
Ftengle had about s2,ND cash in the house.
Monday a Newton, Conn.,, man was
lashed to a telegraph, pole and beaten into insen
sibility by his %ncighbors for iendish treatment
Of his young wife. -'.'
The defalcation of Davies the agent
for Bryan, Porvis and Bryant Lumber company
at Quebec is now estimated to be fully a quarter
OF a million.
A jury to try the indicted jury bribers,
O'Donnell and KavanauGh, vas secured Monday,
in Judge Wattsrson's court, In Chicago. The
trial was then begun.
A printer named Cherry had an inter
tsting experience in Texas last week. The night
he arrived at Alvarado a safe was robbed of $50.
He was arrested, but, there being no evidence
against him, he WIS released. He went to Nor.
gan, and while there a SEQ robbery took place.
He was arrested but released again. Returning
to Alvarado, he was again arrested on suspicion.
A mob took him from Jail and strung him up to
extort a confession from hin. He stoutly main.
tanned his innocence, and, after having been
nearly cho&ed to death several times was re.
leased. He then made decidedly big tracks out
Of the state.
Officers made an arrest Tuesday at
st. Louis in connection with the Cronin case
The man is supposed to he Smith, who took DR.
Cronin to the Carlson cottage.
Ellison Mounts, the Hatfield who mur-
dered Affair Mccoy and her brother was hanged
Tuesday. After the execution it was discovered
that the cook had been bribed the day before to
poison the guards and sheriff's family and then
give q signal, when the Hatfield's would have
rushed in and rescued their %accomplice. The
cook hadn't the nerve to carry out her part.
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WASHINGTON

The senate, in secret session Friday,
confirmed the nominations Of Charles Emory
Smith, minister to Russia; ]. F. Lee, of Mary
land, secretary Of legation ut Rio de Janerio;
George W. Irvine, marshal for Montana.
Congressman Randall's health is still
very feeble. Thursday no received a private let
ter enclosing newspaper clippings regarding his
critical condition. Although he had been i'm.
proving, these articles SO worried him that he
became very respondent and IL required consid-
cradle assurance from his physicians to relieve
his mind.
Saturday the senate committee on
privileges and elections begun its investigation of
the credentials of the four claimants for seats in
the senate from Montana. Counsel for both sides
presented their arguments and the committee
adjourned till March /.
The senate special committee on Pacific
railroads. have finally accepted the reports Of
Senator Frye on tho Union Pacific and Senator
Davis on the Central Pacific, and agreed to a
bill providing for a refunding of their debts. The
time to be given is fifty years, and the govern
ment will be amply secured.
Secretary Tracy was at the navy de-
partment Monday mornings for the first time
since the dreadful calamity at his home two
weeks ago. He at once entered upon the active
discharge of his duties and dispatched consider.
able business, much of which has been held up
during his absence.
Monday Senator Blair presented to
the senate a petition signed by $4,000 citizens
praying for the pensioning Of army n,Yses.
On Tuesday the president issued a
proclamation saying the cattle owners must va
cate the Cherokee strip by Oct. 1.
Postmaster General Wanamaker and
President A. B. Chandler, of the Postal Tele-
graph company, were again before the house
committee on post roads Tuesday. Mr.. Wanna
maker further elaborated his project for postal
telegraph. President Chandler said his company
stood ready to make a contract with the govern
ment for such q service, though it could not be
done within the maximum rates fixed by the bill.
He did not think the government had a right to
establish a new telegraph company and thus de-
preciate the value of companies already in tho
field.
The senate committee on commerce
Tuesday agreed to report favorably the resolu-
ton a%ppropriating money for the construction Of
q deep water harbor at Galveston, Tex. The bill
a%ppropriates s6,a)0,00o.
The investigation of the civil service
commission by the select committee of the house
on reform Of the civil service commenced
Wednesday.
By a strictly party vote Wednesday
the house committee decided favorably on the
admission of Idaho and Wyoming, Democrats
admission.
A charter was issued Wednesday for
the First National Bank Of Fort Pierre, capital
$4,000. This is the first National bank OH tho
Sioux reservation.
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FUEL FOR DAK01ANS.
Incxhaustiblc supply Of Coal
Reported Found ON the Sioux
Reservation.
Boomers Establish a Town Six
Miles Down the River From
Chamberlain.
Scrip Cannot Be Used in Locating
Lands on the Reserve-Land Off.
GERS Confirmed,

CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., Feb. ia gen.
tleman named 7. G. Sherman has just
returned from twenty miles in the in
terror, bringing with him a number of
fine samples of coal, which he reports to
have found with the assistance of the In
dams in ~inexhaustible quantities. An
other crowd of boomers have settled on
a tract of land six miles north of this
city on the west side of the river, a spot
commonly known as Brule bottom, and
intend to start a rival townsite to the
one at Lower Brule. The principal OBJ
lection to the new town, however, is that
q railroad cannot be built up to the prai-
rie from it. At Lower Brule is the only
outlet as far as railroad building is con-
cerned to the prairie above for a dis
lance of thirty miles on each side of
Chamberlain. The troops have not yet
taken aggressive action regarding the
removable the houses from the lands now
claimed by the Indians at Lower
Brule. The officials of the land
office and the force of clerks sent from
Washington to furnish all necessary as
sistance in getting the office ready for
business, have arrived and were rendered
a royal reception by the citizens. A
grand banquet was held in their honor in
the evening. 1t is expected that the Of
flee will be ready to receive filings by
the last of this week.
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TO MAKE A BIGGER BID.

Rumor That Another Lottery Bill Will
Come BEFORE North Dakota Legisla-
ture.
ST. PAUL, Feb. IA Pioneer Press
special from Bismarck says: The rumor
is current that the friends of the lottery
bill will introduce a new measure. This
bill, according to report, will providef for
the payment to the state $250,00O per
year, instead of $4,000, as in the old
one. One of the strongest opponents of
the measure said he thought the report
of the new bill was correct, and he
feared the result, as he did not think the
lottery people would make another at
tempt unless absolutely sure of their
ground. Others think there is nothing
in the rumor. Among these is SEN
ator Winship, who confidently pre-
diets that no further attempt will
be made to pass a lottery
bill. It seems pretty certain
however, that some scheme is being
planned by those who voted for the bill,
1t may, however, be nothing but an ef-
fort to square themselves with their con-
stituents, preparatory to the next cleo
ton. 1t has been discovered that peti-
tions are now being circulated all over
the state to get the signatures Of those
who are favorable to the lottery. Some
think this is. preparatory to a bill sub
hitting the question to q vote Of the
people.
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The bill subdividing the sixth judi
cial district has become a law. The
ninth division consists of the counties
of Stark, Wallace. Dunn, Hettinger,
Bowman, Mckenzie, Alfred and all of
that portion of the Sioux reservation
south of Hettinger in North Dakota.
The district court is to be held at
Dickinson on the first Tuesday in
April and the second Tuesday of Sep.
TENDER in each year. All court bust
ness originating in the unorganized
counties above named will now come
to Dickinson which is more convent.
ent than heretofore when the people
were compelled to pass through Dick.
inson and then travel over one hun.
dred miles to Mandan.
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DONATE THEIR SALARIES.

South Dakota Legislators Will Give Half
Their Per Diem for Seed Grain for
Needy Farmers.
PIERRE, S. D., Feb. 19.-An amend
ment to the constitution making it nec-
essary for any person to be capable of
reading any article of the constitution or
any section of compiled laws before be-
ing a legal voter was introduced in the
senate. The following resolution, which
originated in and was adopted by the
house came up on final passage and was
carried unanimously:
Owing to the constitutional provisions
prohibiting the state from making ar
rengements to supply seed grain to the
needy farmers Of the state, therefore
be it
Resolved, That the members of this
Legislature donate one-half of their per
diem, making S23,350, to be placed in the
hands of the governor for the proper
distribution.
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DISASTERS.

Mrs. Bradley, a Dubuque lady satur-
day broke an arm, and the doctors gave her
chloroform while they were setting it. She
never recovered consciousness. A similar case
occurred ut Thomastown, Mich, the same day,
Mrs. Patrick Callaghan dying from the effects Of
chloroform, q lministered during an operation.
The Duluth Iron company's rolling
mill was destroyed by fire Saturday night. Loss.
$4,000.
News was received Tuesday of the
sinking of the schooner Mary Hoyle, Jan. IL, by
the steamer Manhattan. Only one of the crew
survived.
The Chicago limited at Johnstown, Pa,
Tuesday, struck and killed three men who were
walking on the track.
T~uesdaya launch wasreported to have
been capsized in the Solway Firth and six persons
lost.
Tuesday q serious colliery explosion
took place near Decize, France. Thirty-four
bodies have thus far been recovered. The total
number of victims is not known.
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CRIME.

Thursday Miss Ida Goss, of Crawfords-
vile, Ind, was shot. George Corvett, a farm
laborer, confessed the murder. Neighbors took
Corvett to the scene of the murder, and with an
AK cut off his legs and arms and severed the head
fro IN the body.
1he Mammoth Farwell block in Chi
cago was Thursday badly damaged by fire. One
section was burned and the stock OF three firms
destroyed. The total loss foots Up $4s5,00o.
Thursday morning the boiler of a
locomotive on the Pittsburg, McKeesport and
-Yo%ughiogheny railroad exploded at Douglass
Pa, killing a fiagman, fatally injuring the en-
gineer and seriously injuring three others.
A street car on Union street, Newark,
Ohio, was struck by the engine of a passenger
train. Two occupants were fatally injured.
For the first time in the history of
Denver all the liquor saloons were closed Sunday.
This was In accordance with the recent decision
Of the supreme court.
Big Head, a leading Sioux Indian
chieftain, attempted suicide Saturday. He was
found hanging from a tree with a cracker box
kicked from beneath him. After restOrativeS had
been applied he regained consciousness He said
the recent loss of his grandchildren made him
feel bad and he wanted to join them In the happy
hunting grounds. He has been placed in charge
of officers until his troubles are forgotten. This
is an unparalleled case. No Sioux Indian wa
ever before known to take his own life.
Oscar Roberts and Arthur Butcher
were arrested at Denver Saturday on a charge Of
conspiracy to kidnap ex-senator Tabor and hold
him for q ransom. The conspiracy was discov-
cred by q letter sent by Roberts to Butcher,
Mrs. Sawtelle, Saturday, identified the
headless body found at South Lebanon, n. Y, a,
| that Of her husband. Isaac Sawteile has made q
confession duplicating ''Dr." Blood and one Ed
Russell, q Boston criminal.
Sunday night an aged farmer named
Frengle, near Crestline. Ohis. was visited by twt
desperados who attacked him and his wife
throwing them both to the floor to bind them
The farmer managed to draw a revolver, but, be
! ing unable to use 1t on the man who held him
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SENATE bill 1872, introduced by
Worst, of Emmons county, should
become a law. 1t is to regulate the
holding of caucuses for the election
of delegates to conventions. The
party or association calling a caucus
shall give public notice in two sue
cessive issues of any weekly news.
paper published in said county, desig-
nate the day, hour and place where
such caucus shall be held, provides
that said caucus shall be opened at
least two hours; that all delegates
shall he chosen by ballot.
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TIE p~ostotfice department has ad.
vertised for proposals for carrying
the mail between Dickinson and Oak
dale once IL week to leave Dickinson
on Fridays, and return OH Saturdays.
This is a poor time in the week and
should be changed to Mondays and
Tuesdays, which would suit the peo.
pie better.
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TIE Christian World thus charac-
terizes DR.. Lyman Abbott: In his sue.
cessor they have one who is animal.
ed by the true Beecher spirit of frank
~fearlessness and tender human SYM
pathies, one who persists in thinking
good things of God, and refuses to be-
lieve that honest thought and free
speech can injure religion.
The Dickinson press., 1890-02-22
FOREIGN.

Thursday the colonial conference at
Melbourn, Australia unanimously adopted Sir
Henry Parkes' motion in favor of colonial ,eder-
alton.
In the house of lords Thursday the
Duke of Fife took the oath rendered necessary by
his elevation from the rank OF earl to that Of
duke.
A dispatch received Thursday confirms
a report of the death of the sultan of Zanzibar.
His death was sudden.
The British ship Deeside was sunk in
collision with the steamer Ludgate Hill. which
arrived in London Thursday. Seven OF the crew
were drowned.
The special Parnell commission of
parliament reported Thursday. The report
entirely acquits Mr.. Parnell and the other accused
members of insincerity in their denunciation of
the Phoenix park murders, and finds that the
fac smile letter published in The Times, upon
which the charge was chiefly based as against
MI. Parnell, was a forgery. The judges find that
Mr.. Davitt was q Fenian.
1t is now calculated that the Siberian
railroad will be compl. ted within this decade. It
will be $500 miles long, and is expected to cost
25o, c01,0o0 roubles.
The condition of the unemployed at
| Sydney. Australia, is becoming serious. On a re-
cent night 500 men and women were counted
asleep III Cnc parks OF tnaC Guy. All without
money or homes.
The Paris edition of The Herald states
that President Carnot has decided to pardon the
Due D. Orleans.
The Canadian government Monday
decided to ask parliament to renew the modus
vivendi.
Judge Deake, of the British Columbia
supreme court, has rendered q decision which de-
clares that the government has no jurisdiction
over Belring sen outside of the marine league
limit. The question came before the court on a
civil suit.
News received Monday from Hawaii
says that the recent elections there the natives
came out ahead, ousting the ministry and for
eign element.
Monday, in parliament, Mr.. Parnell
interrogatei the government regarding the re-
port of the Parncll commission. The leader of
government members replied that parliament
would be asked to adopt the report and spread it
on tile records. There were cheers and Kisses
during his speech.
Count Andrassay died Tuesday, the
18th The Hungarian statesman had been i'll for
some time at volosca, near Fiulne where he died.
He Uas 81 years of age.
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speech can injure religion.

IT is a matter of good policy for Il
man who has responsible position
under the government to not allow
certain men, whom he knows to have
been and still are bitter enemies to
himself and his friends. to hang
around inside Of his Office, but keep
them on the outside where the gener.
al public has to remain. By such a
course their well known INSCRIPTIONS
characters and injurious propensities
can have no opportunity to be exer.
cised to IL him trouble in his
official capacity.
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THESE TOWNS ARE LUCKY.

Fargo. Mankato and Burlington Public
Building Appropriations Favored-A
Raise for milwaukee,.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-Senate COM
mittee on public buildings and grounds
has ordered a favorable report on a bill
appropriating S95, 900 for a building at
Fargo, N. D., Burlington, Iowa, and
Mankato, Mimi, $50, 900 each. The bill
increasing the appropriation for the
building at Milwaukee, Wis.,, by $500, 900
was also favorably reported.
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Entered at the postoficc at Dickinson, Star
County, Dakota, as second class matter.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF STARK COUNTY
Saturday, February %, 1880.

THE members of the South Dakota
legislature unanimously passed IL res
olution donating half of their per
diem to the needy of their state,
amounting to about $4,000. Such
generosity is unprecedented in the
history of legislative bodies and
might be followed by our North Oak.
Ota SOlOns.
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Approved by Harrison.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-The president
has approved the joint resolution recog-
nizing the republic of Brazil; the act for
the relief of the sufferers by the wrecks
Of the Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic at
Samoa; an act to constitute Albany, N,
Y. a port of immediate transportation;
an act appropriating $4,000 for Marion
Home for disabled volunteer soldiers,