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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23
GENTLEMEN'S GOODS.

FAIL Srock
OF FOREIGN coATINos, vEsTINos.
gUITIH6s. OyERCOATINGs AND TRoUs-
EklEGs RECEIVED. GENTLEMEN WHO
ADMIRE FIRST-CLAssT AILokISG ARE IN
vITED 10 INsP6cT. ALL GARMENTS CUT
By b. d. BAtzk. III PA. AVE. AXE GUAR-
ANTEED Az - O< xzs Cul.t-A<I STYLE
oil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23
AUCTION SALES.
TOMORROW,

DUNcANsoN BROS. Auctionesrs.
PARLoR, DINING ROOM. CHAMBER AND II.
gkAKY FURNITURE, CoUNTERs, SHOW.
CASES. BE-. AT AUCTION.
ON TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY TWENTY.
yWH}TTHTH. iS(; CoMnENctNG AT Ten O'CLOCK,
STREETS NORTHWEST. WE WILL SELL FINE
W uHI4nIfiiSI NY OF HOlsEHSLp ukAI URh, IL
BILE FOR FURNISHING HOUSES.
ALSO
Lot OF STORE FIXTURES, INCLUDING COUNT
EhS, IhON SAFES, SHOWCASES, &c.
u DUNCANSoN BROS, Auctioneers-
r ATcLIFTK. DARR CO.. Auc,ioneers.
E>O Pennsyivsnia ave. n.
REGULAR WEEKLY SALE By AUCTION AT oUa
BALES AND SHOW ROOMS.
x20 PA. AVE.
rrsS1GHHssaF 3 Ts sSiSHThisPRSttkErz
TEN O'CLOCK AN OF
EgRNITURE AND EFFECTs,-
INCLUDING ALMOST EVERYTHING REQUIRED
FOR HOUSEKEEPING.
LOT GOLD AND sILfER.aEAp EBONY CANES.
2 MAHOGANY MIRRoR-FRoNT FOLDING BEDS.
The furniture is well kept and Desirable, Of II
being quite as good as new.
N.B-Havins unquestionably the largest and nness
sales and show ot tire Kind the city alons
rooms No postponelnent therefore account Of the
weather.
Ss.es Of Horses Carriages &C. every Saturday At
" . clock ~ the nart. 93O st. nv. IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23
WHAT COLLEGE WOMEN DO.
Some Interesting Paper. Read to the yass.r
Graduates

TEE PROPORTION OF COLLEGE WOVEN WHO MARRY
TEACHING AND OTHER PRoFEssIoSs-A WOMAN
FARMER AND HER ADvIcE-THE WORK OF THE
NEW ENGLAND KITCHEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23
'ckusTEEs, SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
l. kEAl ESTATE ON NINTH sTREEI NORTH
LAST BETMEEN II AND SThEETS
!, ". NoRDLlNGER.l r-,....
Z. h. KNIGHT. trustees
- THOMAS BOWLING.

'HoMAs DoMLING, AUCTIONEER.-Of
OF the Commissioner District Columbia WASH
, hs,on fsprasrE IL lsslrNS,se is hereby given
EIGHTH, 1871. the lease OF te MS. wharf and fish
stalls IN the cities OF Washington Georgetown will
pe sold py pubic auction Tor the from
March 1, lSyl, as ioiiOws: At IMO O'CLOCK p M
upon the premises. -Four Fish Stalls the Georyetown
market house. to the high bidder Terms assn in
adyanee Also, at THREE O'CLOCK p. NJ, tine
ssille day, on Is street between 9Th and Sch
northwest, in front the sh stalls OF epte) NASH
inston Market all rights and privileges granted OF
allowed BY the Laws OF the corporation Washington
10 establish harv-s docks the landing, ceanng
and sale Of hsl in the city OF WASHINGTON, and no
wharf or dock SHAH be deemed eligible unless situated
At some point on the north side the Potomac river
pstween lith street east and 4th street the
highest bidder Terms: $lUO 10 be on the say Of
the sale and the residue TO lie paid within live Gays
from the day OF til. sale. By order Of the loard of
Commissioner. District of Columbia J. W DOUG
LASS. j. ". ROSS, HENRY NJ. ROBERT, Com
inissioners. s.I., ,tT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23

THE STAR Is the LA,gesf paper
published in Washington, with a
general equipment and printing faeil-
tiles three-fold greater and better than
those of any other Washington paper;
and. having the full Day Reports
of both the New York Associated
Press and the United Press, supple
mented by an unequaled service Of
Exclusive Special Dispatches from al:
prominent points in America and
Europe, it prints more and fresher
Telegraphic News than any other
Washington paper can possibly sup
ply, furnishing at the same time .
greater amount and better quality Of
Local, Domestic and General Intelli-
gence, and a larger quantity aid
higher grade of Original and Selected
Literary Miscellany than any papa
in the District
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23

THE STARS circulation in the City
of Washington is more than three
times larger than that of any Other
newspaper, and the number of its
readers more than FIVE times as many.
1t is therefore in that (or even greater
proportion the Best advertising med
ium in the District. On this point
there is no ground for argument %
doubt, even. II is the common testi-
mony of the business community, and
generally admitted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23
Oldest!
LARGEST!
Cheapest!
Best!

The Evening Star
is the Oldest and most firmly estab-
lished newspaper published in the
District Of Columbia, having won the
high position it holds in the conf
dence of the people Of Washingtop by
forty years Of faithful and answering
devotion to their interests, without
regard to any other influence or con-
sideration whatsoever.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23

Now at noon each day . constant procession
OF pitchers. pals and cans, brought by men,
women and children Of many nationalities for
pea soup or beef stew, bear witness that q really
good food n appreciated and will be- purchased.
Here at last Is a possible rival to the saloon On
january "a, 1880. the kitchen was opened The
dishes offered wore beef broth, vegetable SOUP.
corn mush, boiled hominy, oatmeal mush,
CRACKED wheat and spiced beef. To these have
been added beef stew, fish chovder. tomato
soup. Indian pudding. rice pudding, oatmeal
and cones The requirements that given dish
had TO meet were not few. First the cost of
material must not so beyond . certain limit;
second, the labor Of making must not be too
great: third. it must be really nutritious and
healthfal; fourth, il must be in form easily to
be served and kept hot without loss Of flavor;
Afth, il must suit the popular taste enough 10
be salable- These requirements met make .
standard dish.
The soups made at the kitchen are not like
those served a. q FIRST course at dinner, but
they are timex and SO full Of nutriment that
one quart (at cost of twelve cents) sufhces for
quite u stable family. The extension Of the
dsassnd for the kitchen products 10 made in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-23
MISS HULrIN APPEARS,

MISS HULrIN APPEARS.
BY this time Miss Hultin had made her an
pearance and explained that she had been do
tanned, not by a woman's failure to keep her
appointment. but by the stupidity of a man.
coachman, who did not know the way to A.
baugh's Opera House.
Miss Hultin announced as her texts. 1.-THE
earth bringeth forth fruit of itself, first the
blade, then the ear and then the fall corn in the
ear" and the other And saw new n new
heaven and a new earth"
She said in the course Of her sermon: 1--WE
are in universe with changeless laws. Life
in man the savage and man divine these in
their Development shows the truth Of this. In
the idea OF evolution there is the thought, not
always recognized, OF the kinship Of all crea-
tion-the oneness Of the whole universe. All
life is divine and all life is one. Isnot this the
rounded whole Of life, where there are differ
ences Of degree rather than of kind. You say
1t was the germ OF the cactus that made IL u
cactus and that no rose can grow up lily; but
what is this germ? The germ called to itself
kindred germs and tho atoms came from all
parts OF the universe; but how did that germ
know that there was one atom that would give
it fragrance and another beautyY II IL the God
in all seeking perfection. There In no isolation.
Individual forces are eternally moving into
visible forms and visible forms back into invis-
ible forces. The oak Of today may have been
the maple of . century ago. Each after its
kind, you say; but in tho universe the atoms
are moyirI back and forth and what 10 the de-
cay Of the fall may be the flower Of the fall
Apply this theory OF Development OF life and
humanity and there 10 nothing miraculous save
the miracle OF life itself. The story Of the
making Of the earth from nothing has become
myth. rsleeated to tho childhood Of humanity;
something has never come from Aothine,
though al Was not perfect ct first II Il . long
way from the grunt Of savage to tbs symphony
Of bssthevsn, but through I'll The dinoultes
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02

ut has been tie practice of the territor-
ial treasurer to keep an account with each
county for each years taxes, but owing to
imperfect reports from county officers
these accounts have become so intermin-.
gled that few II any Of them are correcs,
authorizing and instructing county audit
ors to make a complete list of all taxes re-
naming unpaid in their respective
counties: that all illegal and unbelievable
taxes be stricken from the list by the
county commissioners, and a full report of
and the amount still due and collectable,
be furnished the state auditor; and that
when approved by him the states account
with each county be balanced to agree
with this report; that the county. auditor
De required to open an account with each
fund for which taxes are to be levied, CIV
ing each credit for the balance so deter
mined due; that all delinquent taxes levied
prior to- 1890 be credited to the several
funds in one amount. to be termed the
consolidated tax and that the state and
school fund should receive a certain per-
centage OF this tax as fast as collected, the
balance to be distributed to the funds for
this kline must eventually be made, and
delay but increases the difficulty of making
it properly"
"If the state and the counties can once
get all accurate account of their resources,
it will be easy to keep their accounts
straight in the future. An examination of
the quarterly reports made and published
by auditors y treasurers, under the pro
visions of chapter 1871, laws of 1890, dis
closes the fact that but few if any Of them
give an accurate report of the delinquent
county taxes. Some report them as esti-
mated; others evidently include all delin.
quent taxes, state, county, school and town,
and class them as resources of the county,
while many leave them out entirely, prOba-
Div not knowing the amount. IT they can
be compelled to start these counts right
once, they will probably be kept right in
the future
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02

who had been captured while serving in
tho south ind been released on their parole
of honor not to bear arms against the
southern cOnfederacy. They were then
sent out to build forts along the Missouri
river. and to almost certain death in that
hazardous WORK. So long as the fort was
kept as a military station their graves
were inferred having been cOnsecrated by
a Catholic priest who had braved the
dangers of the wilderness to minister to
the spiritual wants of these brave men, who
were in daily peril of their lives in
their lonely camp among the cOttonwoOds
on the banks of the river, cut down the
trees and hewed the logs of which the fort
was at first constructed. Each grave was
neatly marked with a head board bearing
the name and number of the regiment of
each man, and nearly all, as l remember,
bore the legend, KILLED by Indians"
Here, too, were inferred the bodies of Lieu
tenants Affair and Crosby, who were killed
there by the Indians in 1872, both of whom
had served in the wal OF the rebellion, the
latter having lost an arm in the service.
When the fort was abandoned in 1878, this
cemetery was left to neglect II deStruc-
ton. and the head-boards. fences, etc were
soon after destroyed by prairie fi!e, but as
shown by the enclosures, the records of
identificatiOnS still exist.
W. VllOlI w uuNS GtliS CCIlStOtS oVt ASluC
as a national cemetery and to have the
graves cared for by the government, in
which l had the warm support of General
Sheridan, failed because the land in the
Fort Rice military reservation. upon which
it is located, had not been surveyed anu no
description of the ground could then be
gotten in either the war or interior depart
ment at Washington, and as we were then
working under The assumption that q
special act Of congress was necessary TO
condemn the land, We were compelled TO
await the opening OF the reservation to
settlement.
The letters of the surveyor-general and
of the register OF the United States land
office at Bismarck show the present status
and true description of the land, and the
letter OF the quartermaster-gentral, United
States army, states that it is the intention
of the government 'tu remove the remain S
OF the officers and soldiers buried in the
abandoned post cemetery at Fort Rice to
to the Custer battlefield, national cemetery
in Montana"
Dear comrades, | can do no more in the
case without a personal visit to Washing
ton, which l cannot now undertake.. Can
l not transfer the whole matter to you,
trusting that you in yOur greater wisdom
may accomplish the object so sacred TO
both our organizations, viz: the preserva.
ton OF these last resting places of brave
men from dissertation and neglect? The
removal of their remains from the soil of
the state in which they were the first and
faithful pioneers should not be permitted,
and l ask you. comrades, to complete the
work l have begun in seeking to establish
in North Dakota a national cemetery, con-
trolled by the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. Yours in +. c. and L.,
LINDA w. SLAUGHTER,
Past National Aide, Womans Relief
Corps, Auxiliary to the g. A.. r.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
A Train Murder.

The Mandan Pioneer gives particulars Of
a fatal shooting ARRAY in which d. A.
Shannon, a one.armed news agent, was
killed. Shannon is known somewhat by
the boys in Bismarck, where he formerly
quite frequently stopped a day or so while
off duty. The Pioneer says: ID. A. Shan
non, a one.armed newsbOy who runs be-
tween Dickinson and Helena, was shot by
Lewis q. Buss yesterday afternoon on
train No. l while in transit west, between
Andrews and Little Missouri in Billings
county. The ball entered the brain back
Of the left ear. Buss, who is from Sac
City, Iowa, on his way to Seattle, jumped
from the train and ran as soon as the act
was committed. The train was stopped
and the passengers gave chase. Buss
showed fight and was handled roughly and
may be seriously injured. Shannon, who
is from Mason City, Iowa, died shortly
after the shooting, Buss is in Jail in Dick:
inson. He is said to be about 80 years of
age, and there is q rumor to the effect that
he is half witted. The report is that there
was some dispute between Shannon and
Buss relating to a mattress that the pas
senger had had, and that Buss stuck a
knife into an orange belonging to shan
non. After demonstrating with Buss,
Shannon turned to walk away, when Buss
drew a revolver and shot him. It Is need
less to say that the utmost indignation
prevails on the part of all who saw or
heard OF the occurrence, against Buss..'
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
A Wife's Devotion,

Mrs. Linda W. Slaughter made the fol-
lowing statement to a TRIBUNE represent
alive in relation to the publication in Sun
days TRIBUNE of the matter relating to
her marriage with Dr.. Slaughter:
81 suppose my attorney would say,
Don't talk about the case but l lave moth
ing to conceal. The truth cannot harm us,
and these are the facts: The divorce
1883, we then believed to be a valid one
and we lived apart during the next year,
DR.. Slaughter at the Pacific hotel and l at
Villula with our children. In the fall of
1884 our little daughter was stricken with
typhoid fever and lay for weeks at the
point of death. Her father, being a skill
full physician, came out every day to visit
her, but she grew worse, and, thinking
only of the safety of my child, l implored
him to come home and stay with us con-
%tinuously until she recovered.
"But more thoughtful than l, he ex-
planned that he could not come to live in
the same house with me without exposing
me to unjust aspersiOns, unless we were
first remarked, and under these circum-
stances and at, as we believed, the death
bed of our child, the marriage in dispute
was contracted.
"In December, 1885, on the date of the
note in litigation, l went east, where l
spent the winter I'M also the two follow
ing winters.
"Our eastern friends then learned for the
first time something of my sorrows, and
they promptly interfered and obtained for
me a divorce and a lucrative position to
travel with my children for two years in
Europe, as the correspondent of leading
papers.
"But when the time came to 20 abroad,
| just could not 90 and leave Dr. Slaughter
so far behind in his feeble state of health,
so | came back to Dakota.
"In the spring of 1883. we were again in
the east. and, prompted by both love and
duty, l was married to him again and am
his lawful wife to-day
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02

S64,694 81

0UtSOpf y q
Under a constitutional provision the sal.
aries Of the judges Of the supreme and
district courts are payable quarterly.
The state law provides that the reporter
of the supreme court shall receive his sal
airy quarterly.
Ali these officials were paid to Septem-
Der 30, Inclusive.
The sum OF S2,566.67 being the salaries
OF the supreme and district judges, and the
charge for the fiscal year ending October
81, 1890.
The salary of the lieutenant governor
is fixed by the constitution at $1,000 per
annnm, payable quarterly, consequently
the sum Of $50 30, the proportional sum due
against the ti.cal year ending October 81
1850.
The attorney general has not as yet
drawn his salary for October, amounting
tn $l6b.G7, and this sum is an xpens for
the fiscal year ending October 81, 1890,
Section eighty-four (4) Of the constitu-
ton prtScribes that the commissioners OF
railroads shall each receive a salary of
$1,000 per annum. In the absence of any
state statute providing when this sal 4ry is
payable, recourse must be had to section
q of chapter ITO of the laws of 1885, which
provides that the salaries shall be payable
as other territorial officers are paid. All
Therefore, the sun of $500 and the addi-
tional sum of 5000 due David Bartlett,
commissioner tor services rendered for
the quarter ending September 80, 1890, are
proper charges against the fiscal year end
ing October 81, 1890.
The unpaid salary obligations due state
officials tor the fiscal year are therefore
the sum of S3,S16.67.
Abstract showing the total amount of
delinquent taxes due the state OF North
Dakota by the respective counties on the
first day Of November, 1890:
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
Kendrick vs.. Slaughter.

In the district court Saturday morning
the suit Of DR.. knndrick VS.. Linda w.
Slaughter was heard. This was a suit to
recover on a note given by Mrs. Slaughter
some years ago, the note being secured by
a mortgage on Mrs. S%laughter's home
stead. a salient point in the suit was the
question as to whether or not Doctor
Slaughter and Mrs. Slaughter were mar
ried at the time the mortgage was given.
If they were married, the mortgage, signed
by Mrs. Slaughter, was no GOOD; if it was
good, then they were not married.
Mr.. Philbrick. for the plaintiff, sought to
prove that the defendant was qualified to
sign the mortgage, while Mr.. Stoyell, for
defendant, took the opposite position. The
note sued upon was signed on December
l, 1885, and the mortgage the same date.
TO prove that Mrs. Slaughter was mar
ried at the time the note was signed, a
Marriage Contract was introduced in
evidence, which read as follows:
MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
VILLULA, Dakota Territory.
Know all men by these presents, that we
Benz. F. Slaughter and Linda w. Slaugh-
term recognition of the fact that our affec-
tions have not been aIienated by separa-
ton and believing that marriage is 4 Sa-
crament and ordainer of God as we'll as a
civil contract, subject to the consent of the
parties thereto, and especially believing
slowed the blessing of children is indis-
soluble by human laws, do hereby enter
into a solemn covenant with each other
mutually agreeing to live together in the
sacred relations OF husband and wife and
renewing herein our former marriage
vows, do solemnly promise to love and To
honor and to be faithful to each other ul-
Ill death.
lii testimony whereof We subscribe our
names this oath of November, 1884.
BENJAMIN +. SLAUGHTER.
LINDA w. SLAUGHTER.
Ia Following the above, is a document
which reads as below:
do hereby solemnly promise, God help
ing me, that 1 will from this day utterly
renounce the use of all intoxicating liquors
and will hereafter devote myself to my
family and my profession:
BENJAMIN F. SLAUGHTER.
Bismarck, Dakota, Nov. "a, 1884.
Then Mr.. Philbrick introduced a certl-
fed copy from the general land Office at
Washington, of an affidavit made April 2,
1887, in which Mrs. Slaughter, for the pur-
pose OF taking land, swore that she was "a
single woman over q years of age" In
July, 1884, for the purpose of taking a pre-
emption, she had declared, in a declara-
tory statement, that she was a single
woman. MIR. Phllbrlck also introduced a
certified copy Of a presumption proof IN
which DR.. Slaughter swOre. on the 9TH of
October, 1857. that he was a single man.
On this testimony he secured a patent to
land.
Time was given to both sides to put in
written briefs.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
In Favor of q National Cemetery.
The following letter. addressed to tt

The following letter. addressed to the
post adjutant, G. A. R., and presented last
evening, explains itself:
BISMARCK, n. D., Dec. "a, 1890.
To Z. Tibbils, Adjutant, and the members
of James B. Mcpherson Post, No. 2, De-
partment of Dakota, G. A. R.:
DEAR CoMRADEs:-I have the honor to
transmit to you herewith correspondence
relative to a matter in which l ask your
aid and to submit,the following statement
of the facts in the case: ar
In the old post cemetery at Fort Rice, in
the government in 1873, there are some 800
graves, many of them those of soldiers Of
the regular army, but the larger number
are those of volunteer soldiers. chiefly
members Of the Both Wisconsin infantry,
who were killed by the Indians while
building the fort in 1884: These were men
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02

Total IlADlIltleS ........ -.
RESOURCES,
Total 1881 90

The Public Examiner makes some valu-
able suggestions regarding needed changes
in the revenue law to cover present de-
fects and conflictions, whereby much
property escapes taxation and much con-
fusion exists. He recommends that the
banking law be amended, as no amount
of capital is specified now for towns
from 1000 to 1900 inhabitants. He
also advises that no bank be
authorized with q less capital
than $4,000. "Some provisions should be
made" says the Examiner, "for determin-
ing the amount of salary to be paid county
treasurers and providing for its payment
from the general fund" owing to a change
in the law which gave them a percentage
from each fund. In some counties the
officers have had no pay for services ex-
cept from the interest and penalty.
."The new revenue law fails to provide
for the execution of tax deeds, and it will
be necessary to authorize the auditor to
issue deeds, after the time of redemption
expires for the sale of 1890, and l would
suggest that the form of the certificate of
sale be for the future changed so as to
convey the title without a deed after the
notice required has been given, and the
time expired in which property can be re-
deemed" ~
"Having examined the assessment roll
in several of the counties, some made
under the township system n others by
assessors appointed by the county COM
m%lssioners, l am satisfied that the plan of a
county board of assessors Is far preferable
to the system of township assessors, re-
sulting in more equal and uniform valnR-
tons and o saving in expense"