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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-04-24
GlOAcOe.
dence of the RECORD.

Correspondence of the RECORD.
The farmers around this part of the
country are as happy as clans in high
water this spring over the bright pros
poets of big crop. Wheat Is coming up
IN fine shape and vegetation is away ahead
of last year. There will be more grain
sown around here this year than last
and there will be big crop of corn
planted, as corn is a sure crop and pay.
ing one. We hear OF more breaking that
is going to be done this year than for the
last four years. The griplet has not
left this part of the country yet. We
hear of number of new cases. Our P.
M. is just getting around, and his many
friends hope he will get along all right,
which he will no doubt do if he docs not
get a relapse. 90. The Smith tribe up near
the church are coming out Of the grip all
o. K....Tommy Sanders bought a very
fine colt the other day to match the one
he had, and now he has the finest span
Of colts of their age in Burleigh or En-
mons counties. Stock of all kinds in
this part Of the country has come through
the winter In fine shape. The school in
District No. 2 of Harris school township
started up on the Goth for slx-menths'
term, with Mr.. A. J. Hanks as teacher.
....There IS a good deal of property
changing hands about here this spring In
the shape of horses, cattle and land. /.
Mr.. w. J. Brown drove to the city the
other day with his new team and buggy.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-04-24
TEACHERS, EXAMINATION.

I1NuERE will be a special examination for
Il teachers, who wish to commence their sum-
mer term of school before the regular May ex-
animation, at Williamspnrt, Tuesday, April 7,
ing at $3.50 a. m.
Applicants will please provide themselves
with stationery.
cant.
Tho regular examination will occur at Will
ianlspart, Tuesday, May s.; at Winchester,
Wednesday, May 9; at Westfeld, Thursday,
Nay7; and at Winona, Friday. Mays.
Teachers will come to their nearest oint for
examination.
education are cordially invited 10 be present.
w. B. ANDRUs,.
Superintendent of Schools.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-04-24
EMM0NS COUNTY RECORD.
By D. R. STREETER.
WILL1AMsPoRT, NORTH DAKOTA
Pioneer Journal of the County.

1Re RECORD is entered at the Williamsport
Post0d7ce as second class matter.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-04-24
FRANCIS & BARNES,
Attorneys at Law.

Associated with r. G. Dubois, Washing
ton. D.. c., in patent cases. Office over
tho Bismarck Bank, corner Third and
Main streets, BISMARCK, N. ID.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-04-24
SEEDS.
1891 PRICE LIST. 1891
SEEDS BY PACKET, POSTAGE PAID

SEEDS BY PACKET, POSTAGE PAID.
Beans, Black Wax, per packet. ........s ,o5
Beets, Eclipse, per packet O5
Cabbage, Winingstadt and Filderkrout, pkt O5
Carrots, Oxheart per packet.......... ........ O5
Sweet Corn, Early Minnesota, qrt Zoe pkt.. 05
Cucumber, Early White Spine, per packet .o5
Lettuce, Simpson and Red Leaf, per packet 05
MMuskmelon, N Early Nutmeg, per packet....... 05
Watermelon, Peerless per packet......... O5
Onion, Wetliersfeld Red, OF l5c; packet.. 05
tomatoes, Acme, per packet Observation-Disclosures. O5
Kadish, Summer and Winter, per packet 05
Squash, Hubbard, per packet............ .O5
Pumpkin, Connecticut Field, per packet.... .O5
Peas, McLean's Little Gem, qrt soc packet. .05
hiiubarb Roots per ................ lao
Lilac Roots, each. .... 25
Asparagus Roots per dozen 1.2O
mulberry Roots, each .................... ,25
Popcorn, Rice and Golden, per pack ..... 05
Potatoes, EARLY Ohio, peck Soc halEbu....... so
Seed Corn, peck 40c bushel. 150
Black barley, lb 30c peck Soc packet...... .05
Black currant bushes, 15c each per doz-n... 15O
Horseradish roots, per dozen ........... 80
Diamond-willow cuttings per 1,000........"... lao
Plum trees cents apiece per lOO.. 500
Purchasers pay freight on trees and seeds by
the pound, quart, peck and bushel.
F.H.K.PlTCHER, Glencoe, n. D.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31

seem the most natural thing in the
world that any one farmer, finding
that one crop was being cultivated at
a waste of time and money, could and
would change to other products; and
if one farm. could do this, all the
farmers in the country could do the
same. But the fact is that compare
tivSly few of the farmers are in posi-
ton to take this Independent stand.
In the days when cotton was worth
something they plunged into the all
cotton system, and got fair return
for their labor. But every year
has marked decrease in the returns
from this crop, which still costs just
as much to raise as in the times when
it sold for a great deal more. The
consequence was that the margin IN
the hands of the local merchant grew
smaller, year by year, until it finally
began to represent margin ON the
wrong side of the books. The farmer
found himself eating his cotton crop
and wearing it before it was raised.
From that time on he has been help
less. He could not stop if he would.
His labor belongs to the merchant
who has furnished him supplies, and
he cannot take time to raise the food
products he needs on his farm. He
must raise cotton to pay his debt to
the merchant, because the merchant
can readily turn this crop into money,
and so save himself. Neither is
the merchant to be blamed. He
has merely sold his supplies,
and has taken cotton in exchange,
which he had right to do. But if
any class of men should welcome the
country's release from an all-cotto
system it should be the merchants.
This system has hurried on the i'm
of the farming class,
and it is impossible for them to grow
poorer without affecting the mer-
chants cash balance. Many a mer-
chant has been forced to the wall,
many another is involved in difficult
ties because the farmers have trusted
to cotton as the only crop, and the
price of the staple is too low to pay for
the actual cost of raising. The Record |
is right. Factors, commission mer-
chants, bankers, business men every
where should join together and help
the farmers throw off this yoke of all
cotton slavery.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
THE ALLEGATION SYSTEM.

The Manufacturers Record, COM
menting on the necessity of securing a
decrease in the acreage of cotton
planting, alludes to the meaus by
which this end could be accomplished
and says:
zone way is for every planter to
raise his own foodstuffs, and one way
to secure this is for every banker,
every factor and commission merch.
ant, and, in fact, for every business
man, to exert his personal and financ-
ial influence to aid in this great work.
The whole South is vitality interested
in this subject, and it can be accomp-
lished if the business men will act,
and not simply talk. Will they do
it?n
1t is singular thing that
this evil of overproduction should
have become so pronounced that
cotton planters have been forced
to hold state meetings and seri-
ously consider the problem, and &C
knowledge among themselves that
overproduction of cotton was about to
plunge the cotton raising states into
bankruptcy. 1t is still more singular
that there should be any difficulty in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
HARML E,SS LEMATLCS.

The tradegy in which the superin-
tendent of the insane asylum lost his
life yesterday emphasizes the asser-
ton so frequently made, that the au-
thorities are too lax in discharging
lunatics as "cured." This adds anoth-
er to long list of tradegies recently
enacted in the United States, and in
nearly every case the killing has been
done by man who has at one time
been an inmate of an asylum, and
whom asylum managers and physi-
clans have united in pronouncing
cured. In this case, the man who
killed DR.. Reeves has been confined
in the asylum number of times, but
has again and again been liberated as
well man. This terrible calamity
would seem to show that he never has
been "cured At the best of times
he was known to be Cranky" and
he was always doing queer things,
which made people smile and refer 10
him pityingly as a lunatic, but harm
less-oh yes, perfectly harmless! 1t
really seems time for Medical men to
discover that people who are plainly
not right mentally, even though
they may seem harmless, are the peo-
pie who may turn in some unexpected
moment to the most harmful al dan
gerous of manacs. THE STATESMAN
repeats the assertion it made a few
days ago, that the asylum is the place
for lunatics, harmless or otherwise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
ii SIdIES;nIIIdM,
pRETENDED TARIFF REFORM.

PRETENDED TARIFF REFORM'
The Chicago Herald, though always
a fine paper, and generally sensible
one, jubilates over the appointment oil
Springer to the craftsmanship OF the
ways and means committee IN a
manner that was to have been ex-
pected perhaps, but is nevertheless
distinctly odious. 1t recapitulates
those worn-out arguments, that Mills
temper made him unfit for the place,
that it was necessary to have some
man who was in perfect accord Win
the speaker, and that Mills had
plainly shown a disposition to an@ago-
nize the speaker. But the argument
with which it closes shows very con-
clusively what is expected of this con-
eress. 1t runs in this fashion:
His name is associated inseparably
with a tariff bill which, however
good in some respects, was so far sec.
tioual in its character that it was fatal
to the party which was saddled with
it's support. Furthermore, MIR. NILS
is a Southern man, and it was party
necessity in the organization OF the
present House that the chairman OF
WAYS and means should not be
Southern man. The tariff is to be
the issue in the presidential election
next year, and the Democratic party
can not afford to go into the contest
with another Mills bill or any bill
intnraeta itq
platform.
The tariff is to be the issue!
And the Democratic party, while
attempting to placate the people by
making an cutlery for tariff reform,
will yet not antagOnize Northern
monopolis5s who demand the pro-
lection of the tariff for their Infant
industries" The sacrifice of Mills and
the principles he has advocated so
fsarlessly constitutes the sop to this
Cerberus of monopoly. The Demo
cratic party, instead of preparing for
a fair and open fight, is entering upon
campaign of trimming, and Mills,
who does not know what it is to trim,
is put out of the way. The appoint
ments are made and there is no time
for repentance, but in the opinion of
THE STATESMAN the fight should
have been open and straightforward.
Tariff reform should have meant
tariff reform, and not mere empty
ry, a mockery of the thing it pre-
tends to represent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
DIR. ". w. Rec YES.

Austin was startled yesterday
shortly after noon by the intelligence
of the assassination Of DR.. w. w.
Reeves, uperintendent of the Lunatic
Asylum. 1t came as bolt from a
clear sky and a proud, elegant gentle
man lay stricken in death. 1t was the
work of a mad man, one who but
lately was an inmate of the asylum.
But this fact takes nothing from the
terrible shock to his family and the
community. DR.. Reeves was in the
very prime of a useful life. He was
born in Grayson county, Virginia,
June 23d, l847. Furnished with a
good preliminary education he after
wards studied medicine at Creston, NJ
c., and at the medical universities in
Baltimore and Philadelphia, gradual
idg from the former university in 1879.
He first came to Texas in 1870, locat-
ing at Cedar Grove, but he afterwards
made Wills Point his home, whence
he came last January to accept the
appointment of superintendent of the
Lunatic Asylum here in Austin. He
was universally liked and respected.
He was favorite in his profession.
lie has been twice married, the first
time in 1873, the last time in 1879 to
his present wife who was Miss Mar
garet Knotzsch. What fearful end
ing of such a bright and glorious
morning to her and the tal herless
children! How terrible is life afte,
sail! Call it fate, or the wild act of in
sanity, but how humanity shoulders
at such a sudden taking off! The
ympathy of all Texas is with the
wittow and the fifth arless little ones.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
DEAD CERTAINTIEs FOREToLD.
What Climate, Neglect and Want of the
Proper Medicine Will Do.


There are some things which are as
sure as fate and can be relied on to oc-
cur to at least one-half of the human
family unless means are taken to pre-
vent: First, the climate of winter is
sure to bring colds; second, colds not
promptly cured are sure to cause Ca
tarrh; third, catarrh, improperly
and miserable. Catarrh spares no Oh
gan or furctiIA of the body. 1t is ca
pable Of destroying sight, taste, smell,
hearing, digestion, secretion, assimi-
lation and eXcretion. 1t pervades
every part of the human body-head,
throat, stomach, bowels, bronchial
tubes, lungs, liver, kidneys, bladder
and sexual organs. Catarrh is the
cause of at least one-half of the ills to
which the human family is subject.
Is there no way to escape from
it? There is. Pe-ru-na never
fails to cure cold. Peru
ma never fails to cure catarrh in the
first stage. Pe-ru-na cures catarrh in
the second stage in nine cases out of
ten. Pe-ru-na cures catarrh in its last
and worst stages in the majority If
cases, and never fails to benefit every
case, however lad. Peru ma also
cures la grippe with unfailing GER
tainty. A book on the cure of la
grippe and catarrh in all stages and
varieties sent free to any address by
the Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing
company of Columbus, Ohio.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
In. REEVES KlLLED.
DELIBERATELY SHOT DOWN WITHOUT
WARNING BY A MADMAN.
His Slayer Was Henry Purnell, Recently
Discharged Inmate-statement of an
Eye Witness and an Interview
With the Prisoner.

Yesterday about l o'clock tho entire
city of Austin was startled and shock
ed by the news that superintendent
Reeves, of the Lunatic Asylum had
been shot and killed by discharged
lunatic named Henry Purnell, a son
of Mr.. Thomas f. Purnell, of this city.
The news was first telephoned to the
offices of Drs. I'yner and Lewright
and to Sheriff White, and from those
points it spread with incredible rap
idity and in few moments it was
known all over the city, and doctors
officers and friends of the family were
hurrying to the asylum to learn the
full particulars of the madmans act.
A STATESMAN reporter was soon on
the ground and found there--a scene of
wild and fearful excitement. In the
office was found Governor Hogg,
Comptroller Mccall, Commissioner
Hollingsworth, Sheriff White, Capt,
Lucy and a crowd of officers, doctors
and attendants discussing the details
of the terrible deed. In the excite
ment the following particulars were
learned:
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
AUyTTNS CHANCE TO PhOVE HER,

A few of our most resolute citizens
have taken hold of the WOODEN mill
project in earnest. Around them are
clustering others with influence and
capital. Unquestionably this wooden
mill will be a great thing in itself; 1t
will prove money-saving institution
for all our people, merchants and con-
sumers; it will be money-producer
In that it will create new values here
at home; it will prove a fine invest
ment for all who buy stock. 1t will
of itself and in it's results be splen-
did thing for Austin, but it is especi-
ally important as being the initiatory
step in Austin's securing manufac-
tories. We are being watched as to
the way we handle this first
proposition that is made US. Just in
proportion as we are DuslnessllKe.
vigorous and liberal now, just in that
proportion will we demonstrate to our
selves and the world our determine
ton to succeed along the line we have
marked out for ourselves. Every
business man, and especially every
merchant, as it is in his line, should
be interested in this factory move
ment. The meeting of this afternoon
should be crowded one, and every
dollar of the $4,000 capital stock left
should be taken, that Austin may an
nounce to the world she is ready and
anxious for business. Be there prompt
ly at 4 o. clock this afternoon
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31

SCOTS Emulsion of cod
liver oil is an easy food-it is
more than food, if you please;
bat it is a food-to bring
back plumpness to those who
have lost it.
DO you know what it is to
be plump?
Thinness is poverty, living
from hand to mouth. To be
plump is to have a little more
than enough, a reserve.
DO you want a reserve Of
health? Let us send you a
book on CAREFUL LIVING ;
fee.
5corT & BowNE. Chemists, r3a South sth Avenue,
Nca York.
,our druggist keeps Scotts Emulsion of cod-lver
o;!-uli druggists everywhere do. 81.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31

The man who has no new leaf left
which he can turn over will he in a
bad condition in two or three days.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
B D ERTPI IN NICK
sorely Afflicted Nearly Three Years,
Used Prescriptions from Three
Doctors Without Any Benefit.
After Using Cutioura Two DAYS. the
Scabs all Dropped Of Cure wcs
Quick and Complete.

ron on my neck, and used preScriptions frohn
three doctors during that time W, ich did me no
tS l purchased CUTIcuRA REMEDIES, and
n yne o. after using it the scabs all drop
IRE used up the second set of CUTIcURA INV
meek meek was entirely well and has been well ever
whereas was sorely afflicted / am now we'll
ana all from the use of CUTIcuRA REMEDIES.
N. w. SMITH
Lynchwood p o., Kershaw City, S. C.
oorla MS Is TO certify that the above testimony is
VtorTect as purchased the CUTICURA and saw
itS eHects while using it. W. s. SMITH
Notary Public for the State of South Caroiina
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
ANOTHER INSTANCE.

Mr.. John E. Thornton, Austin cor
respondent for the Galveston News,
states that on Christmas day he met
Puinell in Gammel's book store and
inquired how he was, to which Pur-
nell replied:
81 am getting along poorly.
should still be at the asylum. l am
afraid l will hurt some one yet"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
THE DEAD SUPERINTENDENT.

DR.. w. w. Reeves was a native OF
Virginia, having seen born in Gray
son county, June 90, 1S47, and was
thus only Al years of age. He receiv-
his first education at the Jefferson
High school, and afterwards read
medicine with DR.. J. o. Wilcox at
Creston, Ash county, N. G. In 1874
he emigrated to Cedar Grove, Tex,
where he lived until 1874, and then
moved to Wills Point, at which place
he resided until called to Austin by
Governor Hogg to take charge of the
lunatic asylum.
DR.. Reeves was twice married, the
first time in 1878, when he married
Miss Cora A. Horton. His second
marriage occurred in 1879, his bride
being Miss Margaret Knotzsch. He
leaves five children, all of them being
comparatively young.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
Cuticura Resolvent;

The new Blood and Skin Purifier. internally
and CuTIcURA. the great Skin Cure; and CuTii!
cURA SOAP, an exquisite Skin Beautifier ex-
ternallH, instantly relieves and speedily cures
blood, with loss of hair, from infancy to age,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31

Sold everywhere. Price, CuTIcURA, SOC; SOAR.
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31

ct'txtc trfEco t1u pol
ent Reeves In particular. He claimed
that while an inmate of the asylum
he had been badly treated and on sew
eral occasions brutally assaulted.
Judge Fisher declined to entertain the
complaints, whereupon Purnell became
very much enraged, and after de-
nouncing all Democrats in unreason-
able terms, threatened toreport Judge
Fisher to President Harrison and
have him removed from office.
AS further illustration of his re
gard for President Harrison the fol-
lowing
INTERESTING TELEGRAMS
are mentioned: About month ago
he took to working the telegraph
wires Before he was known he sent
COLLECT" to tn, president message
offering him his assistance here in the
South during the next campaign. The
president paid for this dispatch and
must have been cheered with the in
telligence it conveyed.
a day or two later he brought three
other kilograms to the telegraph Of
flee. One was to the Globe-D Democrat
and ran thus: "What do you think
of the condition of the finances of
the resurTected southern Confed-
eracy?' The other two were
the same in words, one
being to John Jacob Astor, the other
10 VIM. III. Vanderbilt, both sometime
ago deceased; the warning was "Your
life is not in danger but your property
ISL
Purnell was known by this time
and all three of these "collectr dis
patches found their way into the waste
paper basket.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
REFUSED TO TALK.

After examining the game-b bag the
reporter was taken to the Jail by
Jailer John Hornsby in the hope that
Purnell might have some statements
to make public. The following con-
versation was held:
"Mr. Purnell, have you any state
ment to make of the difficulty that
occurred at the lunatic asylum this
morning."
"What paper do you representa-
"THE STATESMAN"
"No; have no statements to make
to the public, and the only thing |
have to request is that you give the
true facts in the case.p
"THE STATESMAN desires to give
the true facts in the case and all of
them, and for that reason L have
called on you to get your side Of the
case"
"Well, repeat that have nothing
to say, but be sure you give the true
details"
Other than the above nothing what
ever could be learned from him.
Shortly before the reporters visit
Sheriff White conducted the aged
father of the prisoner to the Jail to see
his son, and the meeting and inter-
view was touching in the extreme.
Mr.. Purnel, Sr., feelingly remon-
strated with his hoy upon the sorrow
and trouble he had brought upon him
IN his old age and concluded by ask
ing what had led him to his latest
mad act.
The son replied that he was "Iegal-
ly, mentally and mOrallyn responsible
for all his acts and that the true facts
in the case would come out at the
proper time.
CONSIDERED HIMSELF MIsTREATED.
In conversation with Justice Fisher
late yesterday afternoon the reporter
learned that about three weeks ago
Purnell came before him and said
that he wanted to make complaints
against all the attendants and officers
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31

DINA PIES, black heads. red, rough, chapped,
U iiH and oily skin cured by CUTICURA SOAR
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
Skin Diseases 10 Years

rind mat CUTIcURA REMEDIES do all you
cam to Have been suffering with skin disease
until tried CUTIcURA. Very happV over the he
result HENRY NooRE, Lancaster Va
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-12-31
HENRY PURNELL.

Henry Purnell, the author of this
terrible tragedy, is well known in
Austin, where he has spent the great
er part of his life. When just enter
ing into manhood he was deputy
United States marshal under his
father and was a brave and efficient
officer. He was a handsome, dashing
young fellow, genial cOurtly, and
was warmly received in the best So
ciety, where he was q great favorite.
about eight years ago he was kicked
in the head by horse, and from that
time dates his mental trouble.