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The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

Bismarck. Alexander Mckenzie has
offered to furnish 5000 bushels Of seed
wheat for this county at his own ex-
pense, to be furnished at rs cents q
bushel and 6per cent. interest, with Sc
curity on the crop.
Observation-Disclosures to the provi-
sions of the Walsh revenue law the
county commissioners met and APP
pointed three assessors, one for each
commissioner district. Assessor Flint,
whom the law legislated out of office,
was appointed for the largest district.
Bismarck. - County Commissioners
Eklnnd and Healy have commenced
suits against E. II. Bly,, proprietor of tne
Sheridan house, charging libel. This is
an outgrowth of the suit begun last Mon
day against the commissioners, charging
them with fraud and corruption, in
which Bly, was complainant.
Fargo.-The renting of the school
lands in this county by auction has COM
menced. Seventy-six quarters were Of
fered. The cultivated land rented at
from $25 to $1S5 per annum for two
years, averaging about 800. The meadow
and pasture land brought from 81 to
$3.50 per parcel. The annual rental of
liieSe ldIius Is 9o,s0o, DelnS an average OF
%6S per quarter section. This is not
quite one-third of the lands to he
rented. The others will be offered dur
ing the rest of the week. 1t is thought
the annual rental will reach about
$1,000
Fargo.-From Minot it has been re-
ported that Fred Medhurst, who was
cashier of the First National bank,
had left with $4,000 of the banks
funds. L. A. Mears, of this city, is
president of that bank 81 well as the Ma
tional Bank of North Dakota, here.
He was seen and reported that Medhurst
had left for parts unknown, but took
$4,000 instead of the sum named, and
Mears has sent his personal check to
Minot to cover the d%efalcation, and
would not endeavor to follow Medhurst.
who is supposed to be in Canada. Med
hurst was highly esteemed,
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
GEN. CROOKS SUCCESSOR.

Gen.. Miles Made a Major General by the
President-Grant Appointed Assistant
Secretary Of War.
WASHINGTON, April THE president
sent to the senate the following nomina-
tons: Brig. Gen. Nelson A. Miles to be
major general; Col. Benjamin H. Grier-
son, Tenth cavalry, to be brigadier gen.
eral; Henry F. Ladd, of Missouri, civil
engineer, to be a member of the Missis-
sippi river commission; Robert Mills, of
New York, to be surveyor of customs
for the port of Patchogue, N.
Y; Lewis A. Grant, of Minnesota,
to be assistant secretary of war.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
STEELE IN CONFINEMENT,

The Lieutenant Reprimanded and Som
fenced to imprisonment Within the
Limits of His Post.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE finding
of the court martial which tried Lieut..
Steele was approved by the secretary of
war. Lieut.. Steele is reprimanded and
sentenced to confinement for three
months within the limit of his post.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

An international conference ON fishery
questions will be held in London next
August. 1t has been called by the Brit
ish government, and the invitations to
the various European powers have al
ready been issued: The conference will
deal mainly with questions Of interna-
tonal boundaries in deep sea fishing.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
N

Friday Representative Hansbrough introduced
a bill making the land commissioner the final
auditing officer of all public lands accounts in
stead of the first comptroller.
1t is probable that Gen. L. A. Grant, of Mime
apolis, will be appointed assistant secretary of
war.
Representative Hall, of Minnesota, arranged
Friday for a hearing upon the Sisseton and
Wahpeton bill, which is before the committee on
Indian affairs, but Gen. Pease, of Watertown,
who has been left in charge of the bill. did not
appear. Mr.. Hall said the committee was nearly
paralyzed by the size Of the appropriations called
for in the bill, and the members will be slow to
vote for q favorable report unless it is quite fully
explained.
President Harrison Friday signed the urgent
deficiency bill and the joint resolution for the re-
lief of the flood sufferers in the Mississippi valley.
Reciprocity treaties with South American
countries are said to be a very probably outcome
of the Pan-American congress.
The house. Saturday, passed with unimpor-
tant amendments) the senate joint resolution for
the removal Of the powder magazine from Ellis
station at that point.
The house committee on pensions Monday
authorized a favorable report on the bill intro
duced by Mr.. Brookshire, of Indiana, granting a
pension to Mrs. Della 7. Parnen.
Monday the house committee on railways and
canals ordered Q favorable report on Representa-
tive Payne's bill providing for the construction
by the United States Of . ship canal around
Niagara falls. According to the plans submitted
the canal is to cost $28, 600, 600, which will be
really less than the cost of the Welland canal,
with its thirteen feet depth, while the new canal
Is to have q depth Of twenty and one.half feet.
The route is abouttwenty-three miles in length.
Hon. Charles Upper, Canadian minister of
marine and fisheries, has gone to Washington.
He will assist Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
minister, in the Behring sea negotiations, which
are this week to be resumed at the federal
capital.
Tuesday Chairman Funston, of the house com
mittee on agriculture, submitted q report recon-
mending the passage Of the Butterworth bill, to
prevent dealings in options and futures by i'm
posing special taxes on dealers In them. The re-
port IL signed by the full committee.
Tuesday, the house committee on Indian affairs
instructed Congressman Hall. OF Minnesota, to
report favorably the Sisseton and Wahpeton
Indian bill. Several amendments we're made.
Settlers are required to pay % 50 instead Of II. sb
per acre for the land. The rate of interest Is re-
duced from s to3 per cent. The state is also
allowed to sell the tract reserved for school
lands.
Wednesday the commissioner of the general
land office issued instructions to the land Offices
at Bismarck, Huron, Pierre. Chamberlain and
Rapid City, giving full information of the laws
under which the lands In the Sioux reservation
may be disposed Of, and the INSTRUCTIONS have
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
CAUGHT in THE WRECK.

Thirty Girls in The Debris of . Norwalk,
Ohio, Factory Killed-Many In
jured.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April GA cy-
clone struck Norwalk, Ohio, about s
O'Clock p. m. The storm came from the
Northwest and swept a track about half
a mile wide from the eastern limits of
the city quite a long distance in the
country. The umbrella factory of
Sprague & French was in the path of
the cyclone. A part of the building, in
which about thirty young women were
employed, was crushed like an egg shell.
Many of the girls escaped, but others
were caught in the falling building.
Dora Palmer, aged 10, received fatal in
juries and died in a short time. Her
skull was crushed. Nellie Harding was
seriously injured about the head and up
per part of the body. Miss Brush had
her collar bone broken and was other
wise injured. Several other girls,
whose names cannot be learned. received
injuries.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

TIE Washington Reporter voices
the sentiments of a majority of the
people in the following editorial: A
civil service law that invites so much
and SO severe criticism as that under
which the government is supposed to
be administered at present, can hard.
ly commend itself to the favorable
judgment of the lovers of good gov.
eminent. When the stlcklers for
having an era of simon-pure civil SER
vice reform are found among the first
to ignore all the provisions of the
law that requires civil service minis.
trations, it is a demonstration to the
popular mind that the law was not
intended to interfere with or inter.
rupt the usual routine of political
methods. So long as there are politi-
cal friends to reward Or political enc.
mics to punish, there will be but lit.
tie use for invoking the aid of any
civil service law to ward off the iney.
AeoOAO OAoS4uOlSCo VI pdIUlSdl VIC.
tory after a hard fought political
campaign. The natural outcome of
any attempt to enforce the provisions
of a law that is obnoxious to so many
Of those to whom is entrusted the
distribution of political rewards, is
found now in an almost universal de.
1000 a.. H. 1--l--- 80
great political parties for an absolute
and unconditional repeal of the law
which neither party cares to enforce
and which both have never observed
If the present congress does not re
peal the law. it will be for the reason
that it does not conceive that the
general public has had sufficient ex'
perience with its operations.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
II HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, April 5.-The house
considered and passed five private pen
sion bills coming over from last Friday
nights session, and then went into COM
mittee Of the whole on the civil calen-
dar. The bill for the allowance of GER
tain claims for stores and supplies used
by the United States army under the
provisions of the Bowman act, was dis
cussed at length, mainly on points of
order. Pending action on the bill, the
committee rose and the house, at 5 p. M,
took a recess until 8 o'clock, the night
session to be a consideration of private
pension bills.
WASHINGTON, April 8.-Mr. Morrill,, of
Kansas, moved to suspend the rules and
pass with a substitute) the senate bill
granting pensions to soldiers and sailors
who are incapacitated from the perform
ance of labor and providing for pensions
to widows and minor children and de-
pendent parents. It was estimated that
the senate bill would require an annual
expenditure of $36, 600, 900 and the house
substitute would require S39, 000, 900 an
nually. The house refused to suspend
the rules and pass the senate bill with a
house substitute therefor. The vote
stood-yeas 100, nays 81, not the neces-
sary two-thirds vote in the affirmative.
A motion to suspend the rules and
pass a bill increasing Surgeon General
Hamilton's salary from $4,000 to $4,000
was lost.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the naval appropriation
bill, and pending consideration adj
iourned.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The house
passed with amendments the bill to pre-
vent the enlistment of aliens in the naval
service of the United States.
The house r~econsidered the vote by
which the bill making appropriation to
supply the deficiency caused by the Sill
colt defalcation was defeated and the
bill was passed.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the naval appropriation
bill.
WASHINGTON, April 10.-In the house
the senate amendment was non-con-
CURED in to house bill providing for
townsite entries of land in Oklahoma.
The speaker laid before the house the
senate bill for the improvement and
maintenance of the National Geological
park, with house amendment (providine
that the District Of Columbia shall pay
half the expense) with a request from
the senate for a conference. A lengthy
debate ensued. Mr.. McComas' motion
finally was defeated-18 to 1876. The
house insisted on the amendment and 6
conference was ordered.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the naval appropriation
bill, but no vote was reached prior tx
adjournment.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

The Commonwealth urges demo.
Gratis to shake off their Rip Van Win.
kle sleep if they wish to carry North
Dakota. Might as we'll let them
have the benefit of the sleep; that
will be better than nothing.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

THE people must swallow the ap-
pointments of Close and Wilson. Nc.
Gillivray and Jopp will force them
into office regardless of the wishes of
the people. How long will the pub
lie submit to this high handed auto.
cratic rule without Il protest.? The
ballots will tell next fall,
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

MCGILL1vRAY had more shame
than anyone ever gave him credit for.
After making the appointments of
assessor for the first district and reg.
lister of deeds, he took the first train
for the east to avoid meeting his dis.
guSted constituents
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

THERE are farmers in Stark county
who have seed oats to sell; but the
McGilliv:ay Jopp administration
seem to prefer st. Paul or Minneap-
oils and send the money out of the
county. The Stark county farmers
who have seed oats to sell should re.
member this.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

St. Paul Republican Ticket.

ST. PAUL, April 9.-The Republican
municipal convention was held at the
Newmarket theatre, and the following
ticket was nominated: For mayor, A. r.
Kiefer; for comptroller, Samuel Nichols;
for treasurer, Conrad w. Miller; NUM-
cipal judges, Walter 7. Burr and G. l..
Lomen. Six aldermen at large and one
from each ward were also nominated.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Harper's Ferry Demolished.

LOUISVILLE, KY, April St is just
learned here that Harper's Ferry, Henry
county, was almost completely destroyed
by the tornado. The village, composed
of less than two dozen houses, is a con.
siderable distance from any railroad.
The houses were not far apart and every
one of them directly in the course of the
tornado. Men, women and children
were buried beneath the ruins. Not a
house remained standing, and the whole
surrounding country vas covered with
wreckage. Three people were killed
and seven or eight were badly injured,
but none fatally.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Houses Swallowed En-.

CARBoNDALE, Pa, April 1.-Two
houses in Mayville were swallowed up
by a cave-in in one of the mines under
the village, and it is feared that the
cave-in will spread and do great damage
In the place.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
MANITOBA CABINET.

Sifton, of Brandon, Has Accepted the
Attorney Generalship.
WINNIPEG, Man., April 11.-Clifton
Sifton, of Brandon, has been offered the
attorney g%eneralship, and has accepted
it, providing he car arrange s~atisfactor-
lily for the conduct of his private bus
s %hs.o as It to his chances for reelection.
s Shd5s m ia = sseri of pd dfsiin Td tast OF sif met
Lean, provincial secretary, will retire
from the cabinet, in order to get the
present difficulty patched up to please
the government supporters in the legis.
lature.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
OAKLAND cRANks.

'.Doom sealers" Have Fled to the Noun.
tains to Escape the Threatened Destruc-
ton.
SAN FRANCISCO, April ia large
number of white and colored doom
sealers have left Oakland in order to es-
cape the terrible things which are pre-
dicted to happen on the 18th inst. The
negroes while at the depot sang halle
iujah hymns. Many people left this vicin-
itv Wednesday, the exodus bore more
the form of an exodus than ever before.
1t is estimated that 300 persons have left
their homes.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

Roanoke, Va. visited-Four Fatalities.
ROANOKE, Va, April 10.-The greatest
tornado for many years passed over the
city during the evening. The cast house
at the Crozier iron furnace was blown
down and three laborers were killed and
n MORALLY wounded. Loss to the fur
mace company $4,000. Nearly one hun
dred dwelling in course of erection were
demolished. The Salem furnace was
blown down and a heavy loss is reported
and buildings in that vicinity were re-
duced to ruins. The loss in. city and
neighborhood is $4,000.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
MARKET PRICES.
St. Paul Union Stock Yards.

Hogs-Light s4.oo04.25, mixed s40o@4.a5,
heavy $4.0o@S4.25.
Cattle-Good to choice fat native steers 1896 q
1915, cows 22.2513.00, common cows and mixel
$1.b002.00, bulls II. %, mich cows xle. 0On
5000. calves *2.5003.50, stockers s2.25@2.T,
feeders $2.5903.0O, butcher steers IS. OO03.2.
Sheep-Good to choice native muttons $5.0O@.
$50, good to choice lambs IS. OO@5.60 feeder,
&4.OO04.75.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Sioux Fal,s' Big Packing House.

oI0u1 FHIt8 Dig FacKlnH HOUSE.
Sioux FALLS, s. D., April 9.-The
contract for the erection of Sioux Falls
monster packing house has been awarded
to F. A. Fisher & Co., of Minneapolis.
When completed it will be the third larg-
est institution of this kind in the IL
try. 1t will kill $500 hogs per day and
require a force of 500 men to run it. The
work already arranged for will cost over
S500,000, and the allied industries will
require $500, 900 for completion of the en-
tire plant.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

The bill repeating the timber cul.
ture law, which passed the house.
provides for the payment of $l.25 an
acre for the land after claimant has
for four years faithfully complied
with the timber culture law.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

TIE new brand law requires all
stockmen to have their brands re.
corded with the secretary of state
and provides a fee of three dollars
for the same. 1t is also made the
duty of any person taking up a brand
ed estray to notify the secretary of
state by registered letter, describing
the brands and marks on the animal.
The law is designed to protect the
stockmen of the state and is a great
improvement over the old law. 1t
embraces the best features of the
Montana brand law. Stockmen now
owning brands have prior right in
the order in which their brands are
recorded in any county, provided
they are filed with the secretary of
state within four months after the
passage of the law, which was March
10. Stockmen should not neglect to
have their brands properly recorded.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Another Boat for Chamberlain

CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., April Capt.
II. J.. King, owner of the steam transfer
boat Last Chance, has commenced work
upon a new boat, which will also be used
to transfer settlers and teams to the
Sioux reservation, the Last Chance being
unable to care for the crowd.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

ST. IGNAcE, Mich, April 9.-The
steam barge Sachem, from Cleveland for
ice, arrived at 1 p. M, Monday, via the
north passage. She is the first boat to
get through.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Chicago Live Stock.

dogs-Packing and mixed s4.1o@4.so, light
&4.40@4.50, heavy x4.25@4.A0. skips So. 40a4.oO
Cattle-Beeves ,33o05.15, steers $3.4j04.7s
stockers and feeders 3s.5003.9O cows, bulls and
mixed S1.40133, grassers ae.5003.G0.
sheep-Muttons s5.0oG6.15, lambs SIS. 5o07 90.
corn fed Westerns $5.5006.OO, Texans 81. 2om
$50.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
PRoPHETsToWN's CYCLONE.
The Damage Proves to BE Slight in Com.

The Damage Proves to BE Slight in Com
parison with First Reports.
PRoPHETsTowN, Ills, April 9.-The
cyclone which struck this village
wrecked a large amount of property and
injured a number of persons. The Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy depot was
moved from its foundation and tile large
elevator near by destroyed. Cars were
blown from the track, one being sent
through a switch three miles with brakes
set. Several houses were blown down
and a few persons seriously hurt.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
BUTTER N EGGS.
St. Paul.

Butter -Creamery LIST 210s3c, creamery ID
l00l2c asked. dairy LIST l60lSc asked, dairy ~
s0l0c asked, roll and prints 60l0e, paoinS
stock 3,o4c.
Eggs-Fresh a3.150l.E.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
OFFICIAL PAPER OFSTARK COUNTY
Saturday, April -, 1880.

JoPr's boosted independence is a
myth. When McGillivray takes
snuff Jopp sneeZes.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
WORLDS FAIR ORGANIZED

Certificate of Incorporation Issued at
Springfield.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 1o.-The re-
port of the commissioners licensed to
organize the corporation, The Worlds
Fair exposition of 1899 has been filed
with the secretary of state and the GER
tificate of incorporation issued. This
will be filed in the recorders Office of
Cook county. The corporation will then
be fully organized.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Ikapsas City Live Stock,

~Cattle-steers sssso@4.eo, COWS s1.soas3l
stockers and feeders s2.60D3.5O.
Hogs-An grades s4.oo@4.1TA. bulk :4.o7k@
40.
sheep--good to choice muttons and lambs :a,so
05.U lockers and feeders s .0o05. e5.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

Hector Hanoteau, the celebrated
French painter, is dead, aged 67 years.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
THE GRAIN

wheat-No i hard April SIC, May So, July
ssAc; on track s116Dssc. No. ! Northern April
eo1fc,May Sic, July ssAc; on track sO34s116c, No.
2 Northern. April Tic, May 7sc, July co., on
track 770;8.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Chicago,

wheat-Cash slNc, May s25sc, July s1k.
Corn-Cash Bic, May $3.50, July saM0sac.
oats-Cash 2Sha2sAc, May 2sA@23Nc, July
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
St, PAul.

wheat-No. 1 hard 79osoc, No. 1 Northsra
&c, No. 2 Northern 76017c.
Corn-No 8 2913lc.
Oats-No 9 mixed 2lh023c, No. 2 white &c.
No. 8 white 23c.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12
Duluth.

Wheat-Active strong and excited, May OPEN
ing at s2Ac, closing at 8sNc. Cash wheat quiet
at size No. l hard 79c, No. l Northern and
No. 2 Northern 76c. Receipts Il cars.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-12

Rye-March 44c.
Prime T~imothy-S1.23 bid.
Nax-Cash $1.49.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-03
1'he Coast and Northwest.

a gameof sevenup resulted IN the murder
of D. w. Lawrence by Stewart Stull at Oak
land, Cal, theothcr day
The salmon pack on the Columbia river in
Oregon has been phenomenal and conse-
Qucntly the marl1atis weak.
a Grand Junction, Col, fruit glOwcrthinks
an acre OF ground in Grand valley can be
made to yield S,OOOqu quarts of strawberries.
a valuable horse was killed the other d ay
at Fresno, Cal, bya catfish which the ami
NAL swallowed whHe drinking at trough.
It Is reported that all the choice vacant
land in the Upper Belt region in Montana
has been taken up and settlers are still
croWdingn.
While Peter Burnett a miner of South
some explosive in his hands, it exploded,
blowing his head nearly off.
A Mathematical Chmamm attempted to
commit suicide in EllSo, New by getting in
between two freight cars, brakeman
pulled him out justin time 10 save his life.
The Bay State cattle company will drive
all OF their breeding stock consisting Of
about two thousand head now rangin & In the
judith country in Montana, back to Big Horn
basin, Wyoming.
a Chinama at Sacramento was charged
with taking aS2OO diamond frOma jewelers.
shirt The Chinaman protested his isinn0cence,
but paid the iowcler Sl5O Now the Mongolim
proposes to sue 70 recover the money
Andrew Springer of Delta Col, who was
arrested some moths ago for kidnapping a
young lady on Surface creek named Miss
Lucas, has made hb second escape The tiTSt
time he was captured at Cisco, Utah, built
Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-03
7FEEI a ERFCAN SI7UIz TTDN.
1t is Discussed at Meeting of the
Colon ial Society.


CoIoGNE July 2.-[Special Cablegmm to
THE BEE. "A meeting ofthe Colonial society
was held here yesterday. Baron WisSman
who was expected to bepresent, was absent
on accOuntof illness.
Major SiebCrt, commissioner for East
Africa, described Germany's military situa-
ton in Africa as brilliant He announced
that Baron WSsman would assume the ad-
ministratiOn OF the German possessions in
that country.
Prof. Eabi made speech in which he
criticised the Anglo-G eman agreement re-
gardmg African territory, particularly the
ccssion of Zanzibar to England and the fail
ure 10y that country to ccde Waltisch bay to
Germany. He predicted that severe
economic stru ggle would ensue which would
wsultin avictOry for Germany.
Herr NohSen said he regretted that the
agreement had been made, but held that
Zanzibar was not az valuable posses sion for
the British as was supposed, as Germany
could parayZe commerce there by diVerting
trade into a new channel
ResOlutlOnS were adopted thanking Baron
W1Ssman, the government and the reichstag
for their efforts for the suppression OF Slavery;
rcgrettin g the conclusion of the AnglOG er
man agreement and expressing a hope that
the gOvernmentw would hcncefOrth maintain a
firm and resolute colonial policy.
Themceting concluded with cheers for the
kaiser