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The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
Entered at the postoficc at Dickinson, Stark
County, Dakota as second class matter.
OFFICIAL PAPER FsTARK COUNTY
Saturday, April 5, 1880.

WITH this issue the Press enters
upon its eighth volume. For seven
years it has made regular weekly Wis.
its to hundreds of homes and during
that time many improvements have
been made and our efforts in that di-
rection have been fully appreciated
as is shown by the increased %circula.
ton and business of the OFF, e. The
PRESS was the pioneer newspaper of
Stark county and will in the future,
as in the past, lead all competitors.
Our readers are reminded that with
the close of the last volume a large
number of subscriptions expired and
we will be pleased to have them pay
up as promptly a IS possible without
too much inconvenience to them.
selves. We thank you all for your
liberal patronage and support during
the year just closed and hope to merit
a continuance of the same by giving
you the only readable and newsy
paper published in this section.
The rumor that has gained wide
circulation that the PRESS had been
sold is wholly false.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05

GOVERNOR MILLER, by vetolng
senate bill No. 300, has deprived the
citizens of unorganized counties of
the right of suffrage. His objections
to the bill are mainly that it is i'm
possible to provide adequate safe
guards against fraud in the conduct
of elections and the sparsely settled
condition of the unorganized counties.
That it would be difficult to deter.
mine who were legal voters and
other reasons Of a similar nature.
We do not believe the Governors
objections are sustained by the facts
and he has deprived a large number
of respected and honorable citizens
the right to cast their votes by this
veto. He has made a serious mis-.
take. These people would willingly
pay a state tax if allowed the privi-
lege of voting; but they will not be
taxed and deprived of the right of
suffrage. Taxation without repre-
s~entation kicked up a little rumpus
in this country once.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
PERcHEo ON HousEToPs.
The Terrible Condition of Thousands
People in Arkansas Portrayed.

The Terrible Condition of Thousands of
People in Arkansas Portrayed.
ST. LOUIS, NO., March 31.-Mr. j. j.
Hogan, of The Memphis Commercial, has
arrived here direct from the flooded dis
trict along the Mississippi river. He
says the situation is alarming and that
in his opinion the flood has not reached
its highest notch. In the Laconia circle,
which is situated in Desha county, Ark,
and comprises about 10000 acres, the
scene is a heartrending one. This strip
of country is now inundated to a depth
of five to twenty feet and the inhabit-
ants, numbering between 1900 and 5000
people-whites and negroes, women and
children-are perched on housetops and
haystacks and in the trees. Live stock
not already drowned, are maintaining q
precarious existence with their wretched
owners in some instances on the roofs of
residences and elsewhere on improvised
platforms of wreckage. Starvation is
telling on the cattle, while the human
victims are in scarcely less deplorable
condition as to food. From Helena the
entire delta country reaching from
Vicksburg west to Shreveport and down
to New Orleans seems doomed to de-
struction. Mr.. Hogan reports that all
the people in the wide district threat
ened, who realize the true situation, are
fleeing for their lives.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
HEAVY LOSS AROUND PRINCETON.
FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
Hundreds of Houses Have Been Swept
Away by Wind and Water.

Hundreds of Houses Have Been Swept
Away by Wind and Water.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, April lover
100 houses in the bottom lands between
this city and Mount Vernon, Ind, were
swept away by the wind and water in
the recent storm, the farmers losing all
their household goods and stock and
barely escaping with their lives. One
entire family who were living in a small
farm house between Fair Play and West
Franklin, Ind, are reported to have
been carried off in their home. The Of
ticers of the steamer John s.. Hopkins
report gseat damage in the vicinity Of
Bayou Mills, where the tornado swept
through that portion of Illinois, reduce
ing dwellings and barns in its track into
kindlingwood. Before crossing the
Ohio river it picked up a frame school
house, and carrying it bodily across the
river dashed it to pieces against the
timbers on the Kentucky shore. Addi-
tional particulars of the storms ravages
in Webster, C%rittendon, and Union
counties, Kentucky, are coming in. The
list of the dead and injured is greatly
increased. Scores of residences in the
vicinity of Blackfort and barns and out
houses were destroyed and many people
were badly injured.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05

Rumors Thursday, which are apparently au-
thentic say that the United States delegates will
make a proposition to the Pan-American confer
ence for absolute reciprocity between the coun-
tries represented in the conference. The propo-
sition is said to involve the surrender by the
United States Of the duties upon sugar and carpet
woods imported from the countries Of Central
and South America in exchange for similar con-
cessions from the government of those countries
as to merchandise imported from the United
States including all farm products, refined pc
troleum, lumber agricultural implements and
some other articles. It is asserted that such an
exchange of concessions would increase the ex-
ports from the United States to South American
countries from e, 1000, 600 to $6,o 0o, 600 q year.
An amendment to the worlds fair bill was in.
troduced Friday by Senator Daniel, that the
opening celebration of the 40oth anniversary of
the discovery Of America shall be held in Wash
ington, instead Of Chicago, in October, 1872.
The tariff bill was completed Saturday by the
Republican members Of the ways and means
committee, and will be reported at once to the
full committee. Avery important change in the
bill was made at the last meeting, when, after q
long discussion, it was decided to change tho
sugar schedule SO that sugar, including No. lG
and below, should pay duty at the rate of IS per
cent, and all above No. IL at d. per cent. Thi.
puts the sugar tariff back to nearly the existing
rate.
NO OInclal lnlOrnaLOn regarding the findings
of the McCalla inquiry is obtainable but it is un.
derstood that a c%ourtmartial will be instituted
against Commander McCalla and Lieut.. Inger.
soil.
The new tariff bill was Monday submitted to
the full ways and means committee. The minor.
ity were given ten days to prepare amendments
in committee and to prepare their views on the
bill. It is estimated that the bill makes a total
annual reduction in the revenues of about $50
100000. The sugar and tobacco schedules are
greatly changed. The duty on the FORMER is
greatly reduced. The duty on leaf tobacco suit
able for cigar wrappers, stemmed and un-
stemmed, is considerably increased.
Wednesday the ssect committee of the house
on the election of the president, vice president
and representatives in congress, completed the
the consideration Of the bill to regulate in part
the time and manner of holding elections of rep
resentatives in congress. Several amendments
were adopted strengthening the bill. The bill
will probably be reported favorably to the house
at the next meeting of the committee.
The Pan.American conference adopted Wednes.
day, with slight amendments, the report
of the committee on monetary convention. It
provides for the meeting in Washington, within
a year, of a commission composed of one or more
delegates from each nation represented in the
conference, which shall consider the quantity,
the kind of currency, the use it shall have, and
the value and proportion of the international
silver coins and their relation to gold.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
NEWS BREvlTIES.

The freedom of the city of Augsburg
has been conferred upon Prince Bis
marck.
The London Telegraph's correspondent
at st. Petersburg says the zar has been
taken suddenly i'll.
The reported betrothal of Princess
Victoria to Albert Of Saxe-Altenburg is
denied by The Berlin Post.
Baron Mareschel Bieberstein, accord
ing to The Reichan-Zeiger, has been APP
pointed secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs.
The title of excellency has been con-
ferred upon Count Berechen, under
secretary for foreign affairs, by the
emperor.
The invitation extended by England to
the German government to send dele
gates to the international fishery confer
ence has been accepted.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
The London Times denies that the disor-
orders participated in by the students
were in any way due to the indignation
aroused by the outrages in Siberia.
The English authorities have decided
not to.bring forward another Irish liquor
bill during the present session of parlia-
ment. This action has been taken be-
cause of the rejection of Russells bill.
The Danish parliament was prorogued
by the king Tuesday. In the absence of
a budget he empowered the government
to levy existing taxes in order to provide
funds for the expenses of the govern
menu.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
II SENATE.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The senate
passed house bill to amend the census
act of March 8, 1889, the effect of it be-
ing to allow special agents So per day
for subsistence while travelling; house
bill appropriating $4,000 for the pur-
chase of tents for the use of flood suffer-
ers in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisi-
ana; senate bill %suspending for year
h statutes that requires steamer to be
provided with certain life saving ap-
planes, guns for throwing lines, etc.
reported from the committee of the
whole, was then considered. After some
discussion Mr.. Walthall moved to refer
the bill and amendments to the judic-
larry committee, with instructions to re-
port back within twenty days. The mo-
ton was agreedt to, yeas 81, nays %.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-In the SEN
ate after routine business, Mr.. Dolph ad-
dressed the senate on the resolution
offered by Mr.. Voorhees, relative to agri-
cultural depression.
Mr.. Dolph entered into a general dis
cussion of the tariff, ~contending that the
present agricultural depression was not
due to a protective tariff. He predicted
that before the adjournment of the pres
ent session, a tariff measure not dissimi-
lar to the senate bill of last session would
become a law.
Bills were passed appropriating So, 1885,
900 for the improvement of St. Mary's
river, Michigan, and 81, 1884, 900 for the
improvement of Hay lake channel,
Michigan.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-The senate has
passed the house bill authorizing the
Mississippi river commission to pur-
chase or hire such boats as may be i'm
mediately necessary to rescue inhabi-
tants of the overlooked districts, and to
use the boats for that purpose.
At 1890 the senate went into secret
session, and at 6 p. m. adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Mr. Edmunds.
from the judiciary committee, reported
back to the senate the antitrust bill in
the form of a substitute. The bill was
read and Mr.. Edmunds said that the bill
would be called up as soon as the Mon
tana election cases were disposed of.
Mr.. Hale's resolution to rescind the
resolution fixing the hour of meeting of
the senate at II a.. M, was agreed to, to
take effect on Monday next.
After the conference report on the ur-
gent deficiency bill was presented and
agreed to the senate proceeded to the
consideration of the Montana election
cases, the majority report being in favor
of Wilbur F. Sanders and Thomas
Power, and the minority being in favor
of William A. Clarke and Martin Ma
ginnis.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
ALMOST A
Ninety-three Fatalities Have Thus Far
Resulted from the Louisville Cyclone.

Ninety-three Fatalities Have Thus Far
Resulted from the Louisville Cyclone.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 1.-The heavy
snow has interrupted the work of repair,
and has otherwise inflicted hardships on
the homeless and destitute. Meantime
the relief committees are doing all in
their power to render aid to the stricken.
A water famine is now threatened in
serious earnest. The river, already at
such a high stage that the injury to the
pumping station at the water works
could not be repaired, is going up, and
80 long as this continues nothing can be
done. President Long has issued another
warning to consumers and estimates
that the reservoirs now barely hold a
three days supply for the city. The
total number Killed is ninety-three. So
far about $50 badly injured have been
discovered. The majority of those who
were worst hurt are at the city hospitals,
and several of these are not expected to
live
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
CRIME,

Monday Kemmler was sentenced to die at Au-
burn prison, as prescribed by law, during the
week beginning April q.
Ex-Sherin Flack was sentenced Monday to two
months imprisonment and fined $500 for con-
spiracy In obtaininga fraudulent divorce from
his wife,
Tuesday . gang Of safe blowers were captured
by . sheri6s' posse on q train bound for Dubuque.
Ten miles from town q posse of six, with drawn
reyolvers, threw open the door of the crowded
passenger car and the leader cried, Throw up
your hands," There was q panic among the pas
sengers, b feared train robbers. The blowers
were handcufed and searched. Booty which
they had secured from . raid the night before on
a Mt. Carroll bushes house was found on their
persons.
Apackage containing slo.o 900 disappeared from
the Chicago ofce OF the United States Express
company. Responsibility for its loss has not yet
been fxad.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
pAkoTANs ARE HOPEFUL

Soil Is in Retter Condition This Spriue
Than at Any Time in the Past Seven
Years.
ABERDEEN, s. D., April g. The dis
tribution of seed grain to the needy
farmers of Brown county, under the
County aid loan provision is
in progress here. Eighteen humid
red bushels in seventy-fve bushel
lots have been distributed so far. The
county commissioners will supcrintend
the distribution at Groton, Hecla and
other elevator points. Farmers in the
city are cheerful and declare the condi-
ton of the soil better than any year
since 1888.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
NORTH DAKOTA. NEWS.

La Moure.-La Moure county has is
sued 81, 900 worth of bonds, the proceeds
of which will be used to buy seed grain
at something less than a dollar a bushel.
Grand Forks.-The Business Mems
association is actively agitating the To-
cation of government building at
Grand Forks. kilograms have been sent
to Senator Pierce and Representative
H~ansbrough, at Washington, and signed
by representative citizens.
st. Paul.-Governor Miller, of North
Dakota, when notified of st. Paul's sub
scription of $l06, 900 to the seed wheat
guarantee fund, wrote a letter of thanks
merce, which was read at the meeting Of
that body Monday morning.
Washington.-The senate judiciary
committee favorably reported the bill
which has already passed the house es-
tablishing districts for the United States
court in North Dakota and fixing Bis.
marck, Fargo, Grand Forks and Devils
Lake as places for holding the court.
Forman.-A. F. Price, register of deeds
of Sargent county, has resigned to &C.
cept the duties of United States marshal
in North Dakota. w. E. Hodgeson,
present deputy register, has resigned to
become deputy United States marshal
and chief clerk under Marshal Price.
Bismarck.-E. II. Bly, has served
papers in an action against County Com
missioners Eckland and Healy, charging
them with corruption in Office and many
other misdoings. The case is claimed to
be the outcome of dissatisfaction over
recent appointments to the county board.
Forman.-Henry L. Ode, who escaped
from Jail at Wahpeton, where he was
held to await trial in the county has
been captured by Sheriff Bartlett, at
Alexandria, MINI. He is held on the
charge of falsely obtaining a large SUM
of money on chattel security OF w. E.
Patterson, of this place.
Grand Forks.-The people of Gilby, a
small town twenty miles west of this
city, are greatly excited over the mystic
rious disappearance of John May, a
young man. He went to the barn in the
evening to look after the stock, and has
not been seen since. He did not have
hat or coat. and it 10 feared he has been
foully dealt with.
Ellendale.-The Leader says it is re-
ported that the owner of Box 20 or a
certain postof1ice not more than a thous-
and miles from Glendale, is very anx-
ious to take unto himself a wife, having
advertised in some of the matrimonial
papers; and tits further stated that his il
n of the few cases where advertising
did not pay"
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
NO METROPOLIS NOW.
More Than cot Houses Demolished-The
Death List Very Large.

More Than 200 Houses Demolished-Tho
Death List Very Large.
CAIRO, March 29.-The cyclone struck
the town of Metropolis, Ills, some
twenty-five miles above here on the Hi
nois side of the Ohio river and cut a
clean swath about a quarter of a mile
wide clear across the town, wrecking
property of all descriptions and burying
men women and children in the debris
OF falling buildings. The number of vic
tins could not be ascertained but it is
reported that several persons were killed
or wounded and between 200 and 800
houses were swept from their founda-
tions and dashed to pieces.
HAVOC AT GRAND TOWER.
CARBoNDALE, Ills, March GA dis
astrous cyclone passed through Jackson
county. At Grand Tower q coach on
the Grand Tower and Carbonate rail-
road was blown from the track. A
number of houses were leveled to the
ground and three lives are reported lost.
NeaE Murphysboro, Mr.. Linsley's dwell
ing wal literally blown to pieces, his
child killed and his wife dangerously in
lured. The banking house Of William
Wilkes was unroofed and several houses
more or less damaged.
BLooMSDALE A MASS OF RUINS.
ST. GENEv1EvE, Mo-, March 31.-About
8 p. NJ, Thursday, q terrible cyclone
struck the little town of Bloomsdale, in
the northwestern part of this county.
and in an instant it was transformed
into a mass of ruins. Five dwelling
houses were literally blown to pieces
' but by good fortune the inmates Of foul
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05

Will Be q Late Openins

MAcKINAw CITY, April 2.-The ice is
as solid at this point and for ten or
twelve miles below as at any time dur
ing the winter. Light teams loaded
with lumber crossed the straits to Mack
NAV island Saturday and Sunday. Three
teams went from eros Cape to Waugo-
shance. The weather for the last three
or four days has been freezing, and
three inches of solid ice has formed. with
not q chance in a thousand of the straits
opening before the 18th.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05

THE Boston Herald says: "'The
Kansas immigration bureau is gather.
ing names of eastern people by scores
of thousands and sending them circu.
lars filled with glowing accounts"
While Kansas is booming her inter-
ests and advantages for settlers,
North Dakota's governor is in St.
Paul and Minneapolis advertising
our state by tales of restitution and
starvation, in an effort to secure seed
wheat at a dollar a bushel. Behold
the two pictures then ask how your
representative voted on the lottery
bill.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
To BE Servants Of the State.

BISMARCK, April 2.-Last Saturday
Governor Miller made the following ap-
pointnents:
Superintendent State Board of Health
DIR. K. G. Millspaugh, of Park River.
State Boiler Inspector-W. j. Ander-
son, of Grand Forks.
Also the following deputy boiler in
spectors:
First Distrtct-F. L. Davis, of Graf
ton.
Second District-o. E. Emerson, of
Devils Lake.
Third District-G. Howard, of Hills
boro.
Fourth District-George Critchfeld, of
Valley City.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05

The Bismarck Tribune is authori-
ty for the statement that the recent
dicision of the United States supreme
court practically nullifies the railroad
legislation of the North Dakota legis-
lature just closed. The Tribune says:
"The court decides practically that
the question of what are reasonable
charges cannot be determined by the
legislature, but it is a judicial ques.
tion to be settled in court on eyi.
ence."
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05

THE attorney general has instruct
ed county commissioners to appoint
a county auditor under the provisions
of the new revenue law. This will
add another burden to the taxpayers
by providing some one with a fat
office and nothing to do, if carried
ont
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
skIPwlTH IS GONE.
Tho Village swept Out of Existence by
the Flood.

The Village swept Out of Existence by
the Flood.
V1cKsBuRa, Miss, April 1.-The
town of Skipwith, eight miles north of
here, vas swept out of sight Saturday
by the waters from a big crevasse at the
south end of Lake Washington. Only
n residence remains, that of ]. A..
Root. The water is from four to ten
feet deep in the stores, and all except the
stone buildings are gone. Efforts to res:
cue stocks of goods proved futile and
abandoned. So sudden was the inunda-
ton that no one had more than time to
make a hasty run for the intact portion
of the dyke north of the crevasse. Few
saved even a full suit of clothes.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
FOREIGN.

It was stated Thursday that Mgrs. BocalH,
6atol, Roteli and Vanuteli. the latter two respec-
lively nuncios at Paris and Lisbon. will be created
cardinals at tbs next consistory.
Thursday $4,000 worAingmen at Barcelona have
struck for shorter hours and increased wages.
A cablegram received Friday by Tellado. Giber
asa s Co., Of Wall street, New York, from st.
Thomas, San Domingo, state that q political rev.
olution has broken out, and that a battle has
been fought in ST. Thomas
Prince Bismarck's departure from Berlin on
Saturday " as the occasion Of the greatest public
demonstration since the return of the victorious
troops after the French war. The emperor sent
a wreath of violcts. The police made no effort
to restrain the enthusiasm of the throng. Prince
Bismarck with difhculty maintained his compo
sure.
It was rlnlored Monday that the betrothal of
Princess Victoria, sister of the emperor, to Prince
Albert Of Saxe-Altenburg, will shortly be an
nounced. Prince Albert is a widower, aged IS.
Princess Victoria is "a.
Prince Bismarck is engaged in the compilation
of a memoir which will comprise q history of the
last twenty-five years Of his official lie.
The government is advised that LOCO Italians
are returning to Italy from Rio Janeiro owing to
their inability to procure employment in Brazil.
London correspondence of a New York paper
Tuesday revives the story that the queen will
soon abdicate in favor of Wales. High authority
for the statement is claimed.
Vienna CORRESPONDENT to a Rome paper Tues
day says that negotiations have been in progress
for several months between the emperor of
Austria and the vatican which may lead to the
ces:ion of the troublesome province of TRENT to
the holy father as q residence. The offer has
been actually made and only awaits an answer
from the vatican.
Herr Won Levetzow, president of the reichstag,
Tuesday formulated an address to tho German
people inviting them to subscribe for the erection
of a national monument in Berlin to Prince Bis
marck. The kaiser will be asked to patronize
the enterprise.
News from Mombassa, under date of Tuesday.
says that Lieut.. Ehlers, who left Pagani for Mt.
Kilima Marc with a detachment Of Mai. Wiss-
mann's troops, has sent a dispatch stating that
DIR. Peters and Lieut.. Tideman, with forty porters
belonging to DR.. Peters party, arc safe. Lieut..
Tidemann, however, the dispatch says, Is suffer-
ing from a slight wound.
The correspondent of The London Telegraph ut
st. Petersburg reported the peasantry in the
government Of Riazan arc revolving and that
bloodshed is imminent. The agitation is spread.
ing to Finland and Russian Poland, and strong
force of gen d'armes and cossacks has been sent
to quel the disorder.
Emin Pacha has accepted the offer made by 1t.
Wissman and is now in the service of Germany.
Wednesday he issued q proclamation disclairling
all sympathy with Stanley in any way or with the
English enterprises. He will start about April Is
with u force of Geo Soudaness for Central Africa.
The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05

SOUTH DAKoTA's capital fight will
be renewed again next fall, when it
will be permanently located. Pierre
scored a victory in the temporary
location last year; but she must do
some good work between now and
fall if she expects to retain the CAPT.
tal.