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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
REPUBLICAN READING.
GOOD RESULTS FROM THE
M'KINLEY BILL.

Better Prices for Farm Produce, Lower
Prices for What Farmers Buy Gov.
Campbelrs speech-Our Foreign Trade
Under the Mckinley Tariff Polit cal
Comment and Tariff Pictures.
There was no Mckinley bill June 10,
1890, as all the IFtbltne's farmer readers
know. They also know that Democratic
papers predicted that If the Mckinley
bill became law 1t would cheaper
prices on everything the farmer raised
and increase prices on all he bought.
Time proves all things. Last June
the Mckinley bill was not law, and
this June it is. Here are eight articles
Of produce most raised by farmers of st.
Joseph County and of Indiana generally,
on every one of which the Mckinley bill
increased the duty to keep Canadian
farmers from shipping into the United
States to compete with our home farm
ers. The amounts paid in South Bend
for these articles June 10, 1890, are
given in the first column, and the
amounts paid June 13, 1891, under the
Mckinley law, are given in the second
cnIumn.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Result OF Denounclng the mckinley Bin

Result OF DenouncinS the Mckinley Bill.
Iowa Democracy have said without
reserve-"Wa denounce the Mckinley
bill" This, if it means anything, de-
nounces
l. Giving 20 pounds of sugar to the
consumer instead of 12 for ST..
2. The large reductions which the bill
makes in nearly all articles of iron and
steel in common use.
8. The large increase that bill makes
in the free list
4. Placing on the free list all the fibers
from which binding Irvine is made
s. The reduction of binding Irvine
from IS per cent to ITO of / cent per
pound.
6. The increased duties on farm prod
ucts, which must favor the farmers of
this nation.
z. The duty which Is now clearly
giving poultry raisers 2 and cents ex-
ira per dozen for their eggs.
8. Reciprocity, which is opening up
new and rich markets for the products
OF our farms and manufactures, and
breaking down barriers which nations
In Europe have erected against Ameri-
can pork and beef
BY going into detail this list of things
denounced" could be extended into
columns. The general facts are enough
to show that the Democracy of Iowa are
against the measures and principles
which work for the prosperity of the
people. Il DEBORAH Republican.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
The Prohibftory Law Appeal.

ATTORNEY GENERAL DoLLARD was re-
Gently at Yankton on business connect
ed with the appeal from the decision
from Judge White in the liquor cases
recently before the county court. He
does not think it possible that case can
be heard at the September term of the
supreme court, owing to large amount
of business that must first be cleared up.
He further believes that the decision Of
Judge White will be reversed, and that
argument will be heard only upon those
points argued in the lower court.
The opinion Of Judge White that the
prohibitory law contains eighteen sub
jects will not be passed upon on this ap-
peal. During the September session of
the supreme court case almost iden-
tical with the Yankton county case will
be heard. This is a case from Lake
county, and it is possible that the de-
cision in this case will bring about a set
Element in the Yankton county appeal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA,
Events Great and Small of Interest Al
Around the State.

Events Great and Small of Interest All
Around the State.
THE governor has appointed Judge O.
P. Mason, of Lincoln, as labor commits
sioner, Samuel S. Blanchard, of Ar
lington, as chief grain inspector for
Douglas county, and Robert R. Greer,
of Kearney, as commissioner general
for the worlds fair. The following are
the worlds fair commissioners: First
congressional district, A. l.. Strang,
Omaha, republican; J. Sterling Morton,
Nebraska City, democrat. Second dis
trict, Samuel J. Brass, Juniata, demo-
crat; j. I'll. Powers, Cornell, independ-
ent. Third district, Seth B. Mobley,
Grand Island, republican,; w. B. Mil
Ter, Wayne county, independent. The
alternates are: First district, Charles
E. Casey, Pawnee City, republican; A.
j. Sawyer, Lincoln, democrat Second
district, John S. Henderson, Seward,
democrat; Eric johnson, Osceola, inde-
pendent. Third district, Job Hatha-
way, Hemingford, republican,; J. Fl.
Edmiston, Lexington, independent. The
governor has also issued a proclamation
declaring Boyd county organized and
naming Butte City as the temporary
county seat.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
THE SOUTHERN SUMMARY.

Gov. BUCHANAN, of Tennessee, has
decided to call the legislature to con-
vene in extra session August II to con-
slider the convict lease system and other
matters of interest, including amend
ments of the election laws, the repre-
sentation of the state at the worlds
fair, and increasing the power of the
governor to suppress riots in calling out
the militia. The prison question in
cludes the regulation of the peniten-
tiary, it's management by lesSees, the
question of removal of the main prison
from the City of Nashville, building
new penitentiary and the regulation of
convict labor. Gov. Buchanan said he
was in favor of taking definite, steps to-
wards finally doing away with the whole
lease system. He was in favor of going
as far as could be done constitutionally.
The labor unions throughout the state
will bring strong pressure to bear upon
the legislature. They will meet and by
resolution ask that the lease system be
done away with and free labor be 10
longer interfered with by convict labor.
A JUSTICE of the peace at Houston,
Tex, has bound over Gus Santer and
John Roessler, two saloonists, charged
with rotten-egging the Sam Jones meet
ing, for their appearance before the
criminal court. The trial lasted three
days, and instead of feeling being
allayed it is intensfying. The predic-
tion is that some of the gentlemen who
had eggs thrown in the facas of their
wives and other female relatives will
not allow the insult to go unpublished,
and it is only question of time when
= I,o.pa xUr.n hnh oh NI1n off 10
not considered so much an insult to Sam
Jones as to the ladies, although the egg
throWers intended 1T just the other way.
DISTRICT UNITED STATES JUDGE
HAMMOND has handed down, at Mem
phis, Tenn, his decision in the now
famous case of r. M. King, the Seventh
Day Adventist, who was convicted a
year ago of Sabbath breaking by plow-
:, ing on Sunday. The state supreme
court affirmed the sentence and then
the Adventists and the National Sec
ular association took up the case, en-
gaging Don Dickinson as counsel to
argue it before the federal court. By
Judge Hammond's decision the defend
ant is remanded back to tho custody Of
the sheriff to serve his sentence.
THE latest returns show that the dem
ocratic state ticket In Kentucky was
carried by about $4,000. The peoples
state ticket will probably not show so
heavy vote as was expected. So far
as reported the alliance has elected can
didates against the democrats or repub-
licans I'M ten districts. A majority of
the legislature is however composed Of
farmers.
A DESPERATE fight occurred at Lake
Charles, La, between cattlemen and an
old band Of robbers. The last account
stated that fourteen men were killed
and two are missing. 1t was free-for-
all fight between Red Bones'' and
whites" The latestreport places the
number OF wounded cit sixteen.
JoHN GRAYsoN, who died Of La
grange, Ark, . few days ago, confessed
to having murdered three men during
bis life.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
IN THE EAST.

DURING the taking of testimony at
Washington, In the Rock Creek park
appraisement real estate expert,
John e. Beall, testified to the profit
made by ex-President Cleveland on his
venture. He said that Mr.. Cleveland
bought his Oakview place for $40, 900
and sold it for $140, 900, thus realizing
$114;00O.
DISPATCHES to Washington from the
United States immigration commission
now in Europe to the treasury depart
ment state that the chairman, Col.
Weber. and DR.. Kempster have gone to
Russia by way of Germany, where they
are now prosecuting their inquiries.
Commissioners Cross, Powderly and
Schultz will carry on their inquiries in
Great Britain and the southern portion
of the continent. The dispatches indi-
cate that large amount of valuable in
formation is being collected, no obsta-
cles being interposed officially or other
wise to the Investigations which are
being made.
PENSION COMMISSIONER RAUM says
that the amount of SIG, 900, 900 will be
expended for pensions during the fiscal
year. The number of pensions now
upon the rolls and the amount paid by
the government for pensions during the
present fiscal year summarized is as fol-
lows: Pensioners on the rolls May 81.
1891-Army inyalids, 415,615; widows
105,759 navy invalids, 5,439; widows.
233. Act of June ~, 189O--Army in
yaiids, 56,4l7; widows, STA; navy in
valids. 1855; widows, Ills. Mexican
VIZ IN a. xuiH
War of 1S12-Survivors, 295; widows
7,753. Total, $50, 1914.
THE fields adjoining the Indiana and
Ohio boundary line are alive with grass
hoppers, which are doing an inesti-
mable amountuof damage to the crops.
Grain is being harvested earlier than
usual In order to save it from the raw
ages of the insects, but in the majority
OF cases so much damage has been done
as to render the crops of but little
value. The grasshoppers have only
appeared within the last few days, and
they have been the source of no little
CONSERVATION among the farmers, many
of whose crops will be short fully a
half. The hoppers seem to be travelling
eastward, and, while not much grain is
being devoured, they ruin it by cutting
off the stalk.
r. G. Dun g. Co. g weekly review of
trade says: Business continues dragging
and dull. In commercial circles there
seems to be general and growing con-
fidence that the business Of the fall will
be large and profitable. and some i'm.
prOyemenf ii seen. but not enough as
yet to justify sanguine views. Tradesat
the south il peculiarly depressed be-
cause there ID too much cotton. Again,
la parts Of the west where crops failed
last year, trade BIAS not yet recovered
from the great depl essiesa fesAIt Ting, and
ia long al the corn crop il in doubt
compiefe rex very y not 70 be expected.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Republicans and Silver,

The tendency Of the Republican party
on the silver question, which is coming
into prominence as an issue In the West
and South, is very clearly foreshadoWed
by the platforms of the Republicans of
Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky, which are the
only declarations made this year by rep
resentative Republican gatherings The
Republican party has record for sound
financial policy that is unimpeachable.
1t has always stood for sound money
the honest dollar shat is worth a hun
dred cents on the dollar. In spite of the
pressure Of fiat money advocates in the
sections named, the party is still true to
its traditions and patriotic in it's stand
for the best money that can be put in
circulation The three planks mentioned
are as follows:
Ohio-Thoroughly believing that gold
and silver should form the basis of all cir
culating mediums, we indorse the amended
coinage act of the last Republican Congress
by which the entire production of the silver
mines OF the United States is added to the
currency of the people
Iowa--We approve the coinage act by
which the entire product of the silver
mines OF the United States Is added to the
currency of the people, and out of which
experiment may come wise adjustment of
hnancial questions liberal toward Western
interests.
Kentucky-The Republicans of Kentucky
in convention assembled are OPP
posed to the free and unrestricted coinage
of silver.
The Eastern Republicans are a unit
for the doctrines set forth in these
planks. 1t is creditable to the courage
of the Republicans In the great central
State Of the Union, in the great agricul-
tural State of Iowa and the semi-South-
ern "dark and bloody ground" that they
have not been intimidated by the threats
OF the third party men into yielding to
demands for "cheap money an plenty
of it. The printing presses can turn out
such money, but intrinsic value makes
the money that is sound currency, and
that is the kind of money that is advo-
Gated by the Republican party. Outside
of three or four States in which silver is
leading product the Republicans of the
entire country indorse the position taken
by the Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky con-
ventions.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Terrible Heat of the SUN.

Sunday, August 9, was the hottest for two
years in Chicago. The signal service Their
mometer reached the maximum tempera-
ture of 96, and various private ~thermome-
ters in different parts of the city registered
over hundred. A number of sunstrokes
resulted, two fatal and had it been work.
ing day the casualty list would undoubtedly
have been very large. Reports from Kan
sas City, Pittsburg, st. Louis, Sioux Falls,
Cincinnati and New York, and various
North Dakota and Minnesota points show
the hot wave to have been general.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Nebraska Prohibitionists.

THE Nebraska prohibition party made
the following nominations at Lincoln:
For regents of the state university, Rev.
William Gorst, Neigh; Mrs. Caroline M.
Woodward, Seward; justice of the SUI
preme court, r. w. Richardson. The
platform, which is lengthy, indorses the
national prohibition party, not its plat
form; demands the government con-
troll of telegraph and railroad COM
panies; more unrestricted coinage of
the metals, and the total humiliation
of the liquor traffic. The obnoxious
feature of the national platform is sup
posed to be the tariff plank.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
.Neao York Press.
Foreign Trade Under the Mckinley Tariff


Returns are at hand for eleven months
of the fiscal year, and for eight of these
months we have been under the McKin-
ley tariff, which free traders menda-
ciously said was intended to destroy our
foreign trade. Comparing the eleven
months of this year with the same period
in the last fiscal year, we have:
Eleven months. 189O-91 1sS0-sO Per cent
Imports Free. 327,342,749 2s397I23l Inc 81
Imports, duti-
able. ....... 444,1I2 1853 49, 500 1856 Dec ga
Total imports. TIL 455O02 S.S75. 467 Inc 81
Exports, do
mestic 1853. S16, 217.297 1893 22l 564 Inc 3
Exports for
eign. ........ 10,674,465 II ,4e5.770 Dec. IL
Total exports. 500, 891 ,7s2 804717,394 Inc. OF
Total trade. 1886, BAG, 7s4 801 Inc. ga
But they will continue to say not only
that the Mckinley bill was intended to de-
stroy our commences; they will say it has.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
IA SECOND JESSE JAMES.
DARING DEED OF Al DESPERATE
IN OHIO.

Single Handed He Robs a Bank I'm Broad
Daylight at Columbus Grove and Made
His Escape with Drawn Revolvers-A
Farmer who Tnterfered Shot.
One OF the boldest bank robberies and
murders ever perpetrated in that section OF
the country occurred at Columbus Grove,
a town of about two thousand people twelve
miles north of Lima, o. Cashier Maple had
just opened the Exchange bank and laid
out So, 600 near the cashiers window. About
$3.50 o'clock man appeared in the door
with revolver in each hand. He immedi-
ately began shooting. The cashier was
struck twice, once in the arm and once in
the right side. AS he fell to the floor an
old farmer, VIM Vandebarke, aged 60, en-
tered the door, having come to get money
for some hogs he had just sold. The robber
turned and shot him. inaicting a wound
from which he afterwards died. A third
man sat in the lobby of the bank paralyzed
with fear. He was not molested. The des-
perado then grabbed the money ON the
counter, showed it into the pockets OF his
coat, and started out of the door, shouting;
I'm q second Jesse James,
Quite crowd had been attracted by the
shooting, but there was a scattering when
the wild eyed murderer appeared on the
street having gun in each hand and shoot
ing Unfortunately. One bystander was
struck down by q bullet from the revolver.
The fellow ran to the outskirts Of town, no
one daring to obstruct him, and disappeared.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
without a Governor.

SOME excitement was caused In Ne
braska by the report that both Gov.
Thayer and Lieut.. Gov. Majors were
out of the state. Gov. Thayer went to
Detroit to the G.. A. r. encampment and
wired the lieutenant governor to assume
his place. For time Majors where
abouts were unknown and q sensation
was produced by w, A. POINTER, the
alliance president of the senate, threat
ening to assume the functions of the ex-
ecutive Office and call an extra session
of the legislature.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Incompatible.e

"And now, my dear madam" said
the polite tramp as she handed slice
of bread to him, couldn't you give me-
spoonful of preserves or something Of
that sort to lend character and zest to-
this bountiful repast r.
WAL, mister" answered the good
woman innocently, 4I've got some pres
serves, but ! don't guess they'd agree
with you.
aPreservesl Not agree with mo A
And, pray. madam, why not 7"
Waal, YOU see, they've worked q
IeetIe. n
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
More Elections to Be Made.

Orders have been received from Washing
ton to resume the work of ejecting the in
truders from the Choctaw nation, Indian
territory. During the suspension of the
removal numbers of old residents have
married into the tribe. The white men
thus intermarrying become adopted citizens
and cannot be removed.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
LOWER CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKES.
Thrilling Stories Told by Some of the
Survivors.

Reports continue to come in from the re-
cent earthquake region in Lower California.
Two Cocopah Indians of the tribe that live
near there arrived at Yuma, A. 7. They
tell a thrilling story. Early in the morning
hundreds Of mud volcanoes thirty miles off
burst into violent eruptions. The air grew
SO dense that many infants suffocated.
Finally q violent thunderstorm cleared the
air, only to show the tidal wave approach
ing. The waters rose rapidly, drowning the
stock. running the grain fields and driving
the inhabitants to the hills. The earthquake
shocks then began. Their force threw every
one down, injuring many. The frightened In
dians fed wildly up the river. Other per-
sons report that the tidal wave was fully a
hundred feet high and that q river of blue
ish purple fire was seen flowing into the
Colorado river. This was undoubtedly from
the Sulphur mountains, set on fire by the
prIlntinn
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Alliance and AntI-Lottery Fusion.

A conference between the Louisiana Far
mers' Alliance and the anti-lottery demo-
Gratis has resulted in an agreement by which
a joint ticket will be nominated. The alli-
ance will name the governor, treasurer and
superintendent of public education, and the
anti-Iottery league the lieutenant governor,
auditor, attorney general and secretary OF
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
a Distinction and { DllIerence.

10 the Editor OF the Press
SIR-Why not give the Kansas farmer
who Is starving bounty on corn as well
as the Southerner bounty on sugar?
REPUBLICAN,.
Because we produce as much corn al
ready as we consume, sometimes more,
whereas we produce only about one
ninth OF the sugar we consume TT is
desirable for the good OF the whole pub
lie mot TOR the good Of the fellow who
gets the bounty that we should produce
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
watson Changes HIS Mind.

CHAIRMAN WATSON, of the Nebraska
republican state central committee, has
abandoned the project of electing gov
ernor this year. He has come to the
conclusion that such a proceeding would
not be legal, and so has decided not to
call special meeting OF the republican
state central COMMITTEES
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Eight Hour strikes.

Al STRAINED situation resulted from
the attempt to enforce the eight-hour
law Aug. 1, passed by the last legislat-
ure. Many establishments refused to
permit the change and strikes ensued In
Omaha and elsewhere in the state. The
end ID not yet,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Nebraska Assessments and Taxes,

THE state board of equalization has
completed the tax levy for 1891. The
total assessed valuation for the state Is
SlS3, l59, 300. 4s, as against $lS4,770,-
3O4.54 Of last year. The levy this year
sit 81, POT, OS2.41, as against 81, II, 1874. 4s
I'm 1890.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
THE LATEST NEWS OF GENERAL
INTEREST.

Small Items OF Crime and Casualty in
South Dakota = Improvement Notes
Throughout the Commonwealth--ya-
rious Events of More Than Usual I'M
pOrtance.
A STATEMENT shows the amount of
business transacted at the different
South Dakota land offices during the
fiscal year just closed, which shows that
a considerable amount of business has
been done. The following entries were
made: Presumption filings, SAT; home
stead entries, 1866; timber culture en-
tries, 723: cash entry proofs, 632; home
stead proofs, 1,845; timber culture
proofs, 1886. The number of entries
acted on and allowed by each Office is as
follows: Rapid City, 1,424; Huron, 1918;
Mitchell, 1898; Aberdeen, Lore; Yank-
ton, 759; Pierre, $40; Chamberlain, All.
The number of acres newly filed on is:
Pierre, LA, 473; Chamberlain, $4,000;
Rapid City, 100, 499; Aberdeen, 80, 3O7;
Mitchell, GA, 134; Yankton, 3d.. 307; HUI
ron, 1884. The number of acres ac-
quired by final proof is: Pierre, II, 760;
Chamberlain, 2s,6S9; Rapid City, 32,O94;
Aberdeen, SO,272; Mitchell, 1911, 800;
Huron, 1876, 965; Yankton, "a, 4ss The
business shows slight decrease from
the previous year, although the Rapid
City office shows an increase in the num-
Der of timber culture final proofs, over
one-third of all such proofs taken in the
state being made within the Mitchell
district.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
The Bank Exchanges.

The total gross exchanges for the last
week in the principal cities of the United
States and Canada is $1,000, 246,2 1867, q net
decrease of 1915 per cent. as compared with
the corresponding week last year.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
IA Dollar, Vet Not q Dollar.

Hawkins Have you q dollar that
you could lend me
Roberts MY dear boy, I haven't.
Hawkins Haven't dollar?
Roberts Oh, yes but not that 4
could lend You. Brook lyas Life,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-08-13
Children of squaw Men Citizens.

CONSIDERABLE comment has been
aroused over the recent decision of the
United States court in regard to the
status of children born of Indian women
and white or citizen husbands. The
case in question was that of the United
States VS.. Ward on the charge of selling
liquor to half-breed. The evidence
was that the half-breed in question had
a negro father, who was a citizen, and
an Indian mother. The decision of the
court was that the children of these
parents follow the status of their father
and hence are citizens of the United
States and amenable only to it's laws.
If the decision holds good it will affect
the ownership of the greatest part of
the land taken up in the vicinity of Fort
Pierre and Stanley, across the river
from Pierre, as it is nearly all held by
squawmen's children or their wives. The
department officials at Washington have
always held to the contrary of this
opinion, and the allotting agents, who
have been and are now at work per-
forming their duties, proceed under
these instructions, which give all people
of Indian blood preference for lands
under the allotment act.