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St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
IN THE LEGISLATURE.

Resolutions Adopted by Both
Houses and an Adjournment
Taken.
The grief felt by the people of Mime
sofa at the death of the common
weaith's first governor. Gen. II. Il.
Sibley, reached the state house and
found expression in series of resolu-
tiOns introduced by Senator Stevens
shortly after the opening exercises yes
terday morning. These resolutions, in
fitting language, enumerate the great
services of the deceased in behalf
of his adopted state, and authorize the
appointment of JOINT committee to
prepare suitable resolutions. They
follow in full:
Resolved, By the senate, the house concur
ring;
Minnesota has learned with profound sorrow
of the death of Hon. Henry H. Sibley, which
occurred in this city at an early hour this
morning; therefore
Resolved, That in the decease Of this dis
tnguished soldier, patriot and statesman,
who was the first governor of the state. and
has ever been foremost in the hearts of its
citizens. the state of Minnesota has sustained
great and irreparable loss.
Resolved, That joint committee of three
on the part of the senate and six on the part
of the house, be appointed by the presiding
officers thereof respectively, to draft and
present suitable joint resolutions upon this
melancholy event;
Resolved, That joint committee of three
on the part of the senate and six on the part
of the house be likewise appointed to at
tend the funeral exercises on behalf of the
legislature of this state.
Resolved. That from and after the adoption
of this resolution, and until after the funeral
exercises are ended, the flag upon the capitol
be displayed at half-mast.
Resolved, That out of respect to the mem
ory of our distinguished fellow citizen the
legislature do adjourn at IL 80 o'clock.
Mr. Capser feelingly announced the
death of Gen. Slbley in the house, al
luding to him as the "pioneer statesman
Of the North Star state" Resolutions
were at once drafted by members of the
house, but they were subsequently laid
aside and the resolutions from the sem
ate concured In. Out of respect to the
memory of the deceased, the house ad-
1ourned for the day shortly after IL
O'Clock.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
THE SIBLEY ANCESTRY.
The Race From Which the Great
Pioneer Sprung.

IlOHoof . SpfunSs
If DR.. Vests book is open to adverse
criticism at all, the only criticism that
can be considered well founded would
relate to the amount of space devoted to
the ancestry OF the Sibleys. 1t makes
but little difference to the general
reader whether a mans ancestors
reached back to the Norman conquest.
or not, so long as the man himself per-
formed his duty and enShrined his mem
Still, blood will tell, and it is a matter
that the man whose chivalrous bearing
has ever been the pride of his fellow
citizens can trace his ancestral line
back to brave old Saxon family who
resisted Norman invasion eight centu-
ries ago. Henry Hastings Sibley, the
hero of Minnesota, and the subject Of
DR.. Vests we'll written sketch, was
born in Detroit, Feb. 90, 1911. He was
born the fourth child and second son on
of an honorable sire, Chief Justice Sol
omon Sibley, of Detroit, whose wife,
Sarah Whipple Sproat, was the only
daughter of Col. Ebenezer Sproat, an
accomplished officer in the Continental
army, and granddaughter of Commo-
dOre Abraham Whipple, of the Cont
mental navy. The Sibleys were origi-
ually Massachusetts people, whose all
cestors were among the earliest Ameri-
can pioneers, and from them have de-
scended multitude of men and women
of high distinction, adorning the annals
of the nation in all the various walks of
private and public life. Gen. Sibley
came of equally good stock by his
mothers side. Dr.. West relates the fol-
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
ANOTHER GHOST LAID.
Capital Removal Shelved at Bis
marck.
SPECIAL to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK, N. D.. Feb. 18.-This.was
the day set for the consideration of the
capital removal resolution in the house.
Short work was made of it, MeSsrs.
Brown, Brooke, Burke, Oliver. Gill,
Douglass and Obers making speeches
in favor of its indefinite postponement
in committee of the whole. Brown said
he had lived in Grand Forks fourteen
years, and to say that Grand Forks
wanted the capital was false. She
wanted manufactures, something that
would give emplOymentthe year around
instead of for sixty DAYS every two
years. Others opposed on the ground
that removal would iniure the develop
ment of the state, and was not de-
sired by the people. They did
not want a repetition of the
curse and wrangle had in South DakO-
ia. The resolution was indefinitely
postponed by vote of SO to 7-MeSsrS.
Bjornson, Burton, bennett, Haight,
Hanson, Holte. Peterson. This ends
the capital ghost for this season. To-
morrow the appropriation bills come up
and the discussion is likely to be ami
mated. Majority and minority reports
are in OH all appropriations for new
institutions. To-day the senate bill APP
propriating $1,000 annually for militia
passed; also clerk hire bill. In the SEN
ate a bill regulating the deposit of
county funds was considered and after
much discussion was laid over. A bill
was passed encouraging the construc-
ton of artesian wells for irrigatlng pur-
poses. The bill to amend the present
bank law, which has created SO much
comment, was made special order for
Tuesday next. Bills relating to bonds
for seed grain and salary OF county
judges passed the senate.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
PROCLAMATION.N
The Governors Tribute to an
Illustrious and Honored Citizen.

AllO ~ sSAA
Illustrious and Honored Citizen.
Gov. Merriam yesterday afternoon is
sued the following proclamation:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF HENRY H. sIBLEY.
State OF Minnesota. Executive Department
1t becomes my sorrowful duty TO announce
the death of Hon. Henry III. Sipley the first
governor of the state OF Minnesota.
A long and useful public career, involving
positions Of trust of the highest order is
brought to close in the demise of this Illus
trious and honored citizen. The greater por
Iion OF his life has been spent within the
borders of the state he loved so well and to
whose service he devoted so much unseltish
labor
All the people of our commonwealth will
cherish the memory of his noble nature and
generous deeds. His pure and spotless char
acter, his eminent civil and military services
his magnanimous conduct and his many
private acts of charity have endeared him to
all good citizens.
Now. therefore. as a token of public grief
and veneration. do designate and appoint
the following citizens of the state to attend
the funeral ceremonies: John s. Pllsbury,
James Gilillan, William Lochren, Thomas
Wilson William Dawson, G. s. Ives, Z. T.
Champlin and E. M. Pope.
As a further manifestation OF the sorrow
felt by all and as q mark of respect l direct
that on the day appointed for the funeral all
state offices be closed to public business; that
tne natlOnal lag be ulSp1ayed at matt InasC Oh
the capitol until sundoWn; and l further
direct that the building be draped with
emblems Of mourning for the period OF thirty
days.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the great seal Of the
state of Minnesota to be affixed.
Done at the capitol in the city of St. Paul
this eighteenth day of February, i'll the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
nineIy one. WILLIAM r. MERRIAM.
By the governor.
E. p. BROWN, Secretary of State.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19

faithfully managed. and her three amia.
.ble daughters, whose society beguiIed
fhe loneliness Of his evening hours, and
i'm some measure compensated for the
loss of home. young Slbley, with half
dozen adventurous youths, embarked
for Mackinac in small schooner, poorly
Supplied, descending the river st.
Mary, and eDceuntering in Lake George
"a large field of ice, in the middle of
which, to the infinite disgust and an
noyance of all, the frail craft was
wedged and imbedded for no less than
eight days. The marine larder soon
exhausted, the gay. youths were COM
PEELED, in order to escape absolute
starvation, to make for the shore and
shoot rabbits, a providential abundance
being near. "This," said Mr.. Sibley,
in his notes of those times, was my
first adventure in the hardshipS and
exposures incident to the wild life upon
which had entered, and it was luxury
8compared with the priYatiOns L was
compelled to endure many long years
thereafter"
During his five years. service as
clerk with the fur company young Sib-
siey was appointed justice of the peace
for the county of Mackinac, obtaining
lliis commission before he was of age.
tThe fourth step in his career, and the
zone which decided the tenor of his
sHhofe subsequent life, was when, in
1854, he became a partner in the fur
taompany. and was placed at the head of
all its affairs in the far Northwest. He
was in his twenly-third year when he
left Mackinac in the late fall on the long
tourney to Mendoza, 1.-The meeting of the
fWaters,n where he established his head
quarters. The impression made upon
Mr.. Sibley when his eyes first looked
ION the scenes in the midst Of which his
home was to be long years, and really
for life, is best told in his own words:
i 'When reached the brink of the hill
overlooking the surrounding country. l
was struck with the picturesque beauty
sOf the scene. From that outlook, the
course of the Mississippi river from the
north was seen suddenly turning east
ward, to where st. Paul now:stands-th
Minnesota river from the west,t prin-
clpal tributary of the main Stream-and
at the junction of the two was the mill
tary post of Fort Smelling, perched on
high and commanding point, with its
stone walls and block houses. bidding
defiance to any attempt at capture by
the poorly-armed savages, should such
be made. There was also visible wide
expanse of prairie in the rest of the
fort. But when l descended into the
amphitheatre, where the hamlet was
situated, was disappointed to find only
a group of log huts, the most preten-
tiOus of which was the home of my fel-
low traveller, Mr.. Bailly, in whose FAM
lily l became an inmate for the next six
months"
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
lowing anecdote of his maternal great

lowing anecdote of his maternal great
grandfather:
June 10, 1772, the Gaspee, chasing the
Newport packet, grounded by blunder
Of the pilot, the packet escaping cap
ture. Capt. Whipple at once organized
an expedition of eight longboats. and
pulling away from the shore. rowlocks
and oars muff1ed a captain at each til
Ter. himself in the lead, with paving
stones, bOulders, clubs. few muSkets,
some ball and powder-horn or two,
made for his majesty'S vessel at about
half-past 1Oso'clock at night. Silence
was enjoined, and the boats approached
the sloop. When within sixty yards the
sentinel hailed, 'sWho comes .there?"
No answer. Again. "Who comes there?"
No answer. A third time, and now
from the mouth of the British COM
mander himself, who had mounted the
gunwale. 'sWho comes there? Stand
off! You can't come aboard.2 Then
the voice of Whipple rang oHtin stefi-
toriap tones through the stiffness Of
the night, Il am sheriff OF Kent county.
l have warrant to arrest you. Sur
render, OF Pll make you'll" '.Hand me
that musket." said one of the boats
crew to another. and instantly shot
brought the British captain, mortally
wounded. down to the deck. By this
time the beats were alonside, the brave
Rhode Islanders boarded the vessel,
hurled their paving stones, captured
the crew, and, applying the torch to the
vessel, sailed homeward, the bright
flames of the burning sloop spreading
and mounting aioft in vivid contrast
with the blackness of night around
them. History has baptized this first
naval engagement as 1.-The Lexington
of the Seas" Sir James Wallace. loyal,
as a matter of course, to his majesty.
George H., and learning who led the
assault on the Gaspee, sent, as admiral
of his majesty's fleet, the following note
to Capt. Whipple:
You. Abraham Whipple, on the 10th day
of June, l772, burned his majesty's vessel,
the Gaspee, and l will hang you at the yard
arm. JAMES WALLACE.
10 which Whipple promptly replied,
with laconic glee:
Sir James Walace-Sir: Always catch a
man before you hang him.
ABRAHAM WHIPPLE.
This incident shows the kind of stuff
from which Henry Hastings Sibley
came, on his maternal great-grandfath-
er's side. The claim of Capt. Whipple
to the honor of firing the first gun of the
Revolution upon the water is con-
ceded by all critical historians.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
Sketch Of the Life Career Which Is lnseparably
Written Into the History Of Minnesota
and the Northwest

the deceased. The funeral will take
place tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
o'clock from ST. PauPs church, Ninth
and Olive streets, of which Gen. Sibley
was a member. Rev. DR.. Wright, pas
tor of the church, called at the Sibley
mansion yesterday to condole with the
family, and stated that he would at
once see Bishop Gilbert and ask him
to preach the funeral sermon. The
pall-bearerS, whose names are append
ed, were selected yesterday by the gem
tlemen in whose charge the funeral ar
rangements are, and while there may
be change in the list. it is probable
that it will be as follows:
Greenleaf Clark, Prof Folwell, Of Mime
apolis, T. b. Campbell, j. 1. Beaumont, j. D.
Ludden, J. W. Bishop, Gen. G. l.; Becker,
ex-Gov. Ramsey j. S. Prince. Judge Elan
drnu j. S. Pillsbury, Of Minneapolis, Judge
Wilkin. Capt R. Blakeley, A. II. Wilder and
Judge r. r. Nelson.
The Loyal Legion, Minnesota COM
mandery, and Acl1er post, q. A. r., of
which Gen. Sibley was member, will
attend in a body to pay last tribute to
the gallant soldier and honored citizen.
The funeral will probably be semi
military, as Col. Mason, United States
Army commander at Fort Smelling,
when notified yesterday of the death of
Gen. Sibley, stated that while no ar
rangements had been made for the
presence of United States troops, he
would confer this morning with Gen.
Ruger, who is in command of the De-
partment of Dakota, and with the gen.
tlemen of the family of the deceased,
who nave the funeral arrangements in
charge.
1t would be fitting tribute of respect
that volley should be fired and flights
out' sounued by detachment of the
army with which Gen. Sibley was SO
long and hOnorably connected.
The interment will take place at Oak
land cemetery. the deceased general
having some time ago expressed wish
to be buried beside the remains of his
wife.
By a strange coincidence the de-
ceased will be borne to his final resting
place on the eightieth anniversary of
his birthday.
The body of the general lay in the
room in which he died, and was,
during yesterday, embalmed by w.
Dampier, the funeral director. 1t will
not be placed in the casket until to-mor-
row, few hours before the funeral.
The features of the dead were calm and
composed, and showed no trace what
ever of any pain or suffering. 1t seemed
as if the general was sleeping, which,
in fact, was the case-the last long
sleep which comes to all mankind.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
FATHER OF MINNESOTA.
A Sketch of the Brilliant Life
Now Ended in Death.

Minnesota is rich in historic charac-
ters, in the names and deeds of her sons
who won renown in the pioneer days
in the halls of national legislation ard
on the tented field; and yet, Of all the
men of Minnesota who have distin-
guished themselves in the various fields
of public service, there was one who en-
joyed pre-eminent distinction. because
there is no sphere of public usefulness
that he has not filled, and his
memory will be forever insepa-
rably interviewer with the history
of the state he founded. That
man was Henry Hastings Sibley, the
prince of pioneers, the first judicial Off
Ger whose jurisdiction extended west of
the Mississippi. the first delegate in
congress from Wisconsin, the patron of
the bill providing for the creation Of the
territory of Minnesota, the first con-
gressionaI delegate from the territory
which owed its existence to his efforts,
the first governor of the state. the first
commissioned general officer who com.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
Henl2 Hastings sibley is dead.

The sad intelligence had already been
given the world by the special edition
of yesterdays GLOBE, and the North
west, from the great lakes to the chain
of the Rockies, was house of mourn
ing. At 4:3O the change came. There
was no revival. The lamp of his life
gave no brilliant flash before expiring.
Slowly and steadily the stupor intensi-
fed, and longer and longer became the
intervals of respiration. Then came a
futtering, and all was over. Calmly
and without pain the great spirit was
released, and the name Of Gen. Sibley
became but a memory, which is the
treasure of Minnesota and the North
west,
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
BERLIN TO TACOMA.
A Couple Of Amorous Lovers
Are Chased Around the
World.
Fraulien Fredda Determined
to Wed a Gallant
Printer.
Kyle's Senatorial Eligibility
Submitted to q New
Test.
Capital Removal Gets a Body
Blow in North Dakota'S
Legislature.

Special to the Globe.
TACOMA, Wash, Feb. le.-Last July
Fredda Stralher, very pretty and ac-
complished young German girl and an
heiress to a fortune of some S500,000 or
more, while in Berlin became acquaint-
ed with young German who formerly
was employed as printer on a Boston
paper, and fell desperately in love with
him. The girl was engaged to be mar
ried at the time to wealthy German
student, but she determined not to
marry him, but to wed the man of her
choice. Her guardians seriously object
ed, but she was obdurate. She secured
possession of several valuable negOti-
able papers and large amount of jew
elry, which she disposed OF. and by
some means managed to elude detec-
ton and leave the country accompanied
by her lover. The twain went to Lon
don, thence to India. When the fact Of
her fight was discovered by her guar
dams, there commenced
Chase Against Time
almost rivaling in excitement George
Francis Trains journey. An uncle of
the girls and the abandoned lover
followed the twain from London to
India, China and America. The couple
left San Francisco about two months ago
and came to the Sound country. They
registered at an uptown hotel in Tacoma
under an assumed name as man and wife.
From there they moved to house on E
street. They considered themselves
safe from pursuit and were about to
take out marriage license preparatory
to a wedding at an early date. The irate
uncle and the disappointed lover ar
rived in San Francisco few days ago,
got track of the runaways and i'm
medately came to this city, where they
located the wayward couple. But after
all they were doomed to dissappoint-
ment.
Fredda and Her Gallant
acted upon the defensive, and the uncle
was unceremoniously lthrOwn down
stairs as the result of an attack upon their
united forces. He sought an attorney,
but was inform ed the law could not be
appealed to to compel the girl to return
home. He pleaded with her, arguing
that riches and nobility were hers if
she would only forsake her printer and
return to her fatherland. His plead
ings were of no avail, and In the face of
her bewailing uncle and remOnstrat-
ing, deserted lover, the couple took
train for Portland this morning, leav-
ing them standing at the Pacific Avenue
depot sadly thinking over their long
and fruitless chase. The uncle says
that the Stralher family is exceedingly
wealthy, and the girl will be disinher-
tied and lose large part of valuable
estate for her foolish act Chriss Hotf
man is the name of the printer whom
the girl is infatuated with.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
DEEPEST SYMPATHY
Expressed for the Relatives of the
Deceased General.

Expressed Tor the Relatives OIL the
Deceased General.
The news of the death of Gen. Sibley
was received with every mark of deep
est sympathy by the members of the e..
A. r. state encampment. which was in
session yesterday at the Newmarket
hall.
A committee to draft resolutions was
appointed, consisting of Gen. j. w.
Bishop, ex-Mayor Babb, of Minneapolis,
and Senator Hixon. The resolutions
will be presented at this mornings
meeting of the encampment.
Commander LOchren, of the Mime
sofa Commandery of the Loyal Legion,
yesterday issued the following an
nouncement to members;
With sorrow the commander announces
the death of our ex commander, Gen. Henry
II. Sibley.
Companions are requested to meet in the
parlors of the Hotel Ryan Friday afternoon,
Feb. 20, promptly at clock, to attend his
funeral, which will be held at st. Paufs
church, corner Ninth and Olive streets, at
2:30.
Companions Hon Alex Ramsey, Hon. H. NJ.
Rice, Hon. j. s. Pillsbury. Gen. W. r. Mar
shall and Gen. j. W. Bishop are appointed a
committee to prepare resolutions, to be re-
ported at the next meeting, March 10.
Henry Willard wired from New York
to Crawford Livingston as follows:
Please convey to Gov. Sibley's family the
assurance of my profound sympathy and
grateful remembrance Of personal kindness
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
TABLES TURNED.
Prince Harrison Given a Dose Of
His Own Medicine

Special to the Globe.
HELENA, Mont. Feb. 1S.-The Herald.
edited by State Senator Hedges, and the
Journal, controlled by Russell Harrison,
are rival Republican papers of Helena.
The Journal has been for some time
reproducing tariff pictures" from Rob
ert p. Porter's New York Press. The
Herald to-day presents presidential
picture" one long line represents
Blaine, a very short one representing
President Harrison. This is the result
of interviews with twenty-nine of the
thirty three Republicans of the legls-
lature. On Il choice for presidential
candidate in '92 of these twenty-eight
are for Blaine and one for Harrison.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
Opium Seizure.

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 18.-A big
seizure of opium was made on the
steamer City of Pueblo by customs Of
ficers last evening. One hundred and
ninety-two tiye-tael cans were captured.
1t was packed In a large box of saw
ps,, FrsEcisno El' AT At Vic Victoria oipp' b C c. the tbe
opium was put into this box. The box
was billed to Rev. Charles Mitchell,
Helena, Mont. The opium is worth
oknuf 60 0n0
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
Lawfully Erected Bridges.

KEoKUK, Ia, Feb. ls.-In the United
States circuit court this morning Judge
Shiras handed down his opinion in the
case of the United States VS.. Ke0kuk &
Hamilton Bridge Company, deciding in
favor of the bridge company, holding
that congress cannot confer upon the
secretary of war the right to declare
that bridges lawfully erected offer any
distractions to navigation, and that they
must be remOdeled or removed,
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
BEAR SHEDS CRIME.
He Wins the Affections ofAnotheR
Indians SquaW.
Snecial to the GlObe.

Special to the Globe.
CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., Feb. 1s.-An
Indian named Bear SHED was arrested
by the Indian police at Lower BruIe
agency yesterday charged with attempt
ing to win the affections of the wife OF
Mexican Tom. another Indian. Mexican
Tom has but recently returned from the
Sioux Falls penitentiary, where he
served term for assault with intent TO
kill member of his tribe, and it was
during his absence that Bear SHED Is
said to have played the gallant to Toms
wife. Bear SHE'D was tried to-day by
the Indian court at Lower Brule and
sentenced to ninety days in the agency
Jail. The affair has caused a great sem
satiOn in the society circles of the Sioux,
as Bear SHED has always borne good
reputation, and was regarded as very
good Indian.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-02-19
LIFE AT MENDOZA.
Early Days and the Part Gen. Sib-
ley Played in Them.

From among the many amusing Incl
dents related of Gen. Sibley's first years
experience at Mendoza, we select the
following: AS the season advanced, and
the lakes near Mendoza were visited by
ducks and geese, the young sportsman
indulged his faYorite desire. On ole
occasion a Sioux indian in the distance
and Mr.. Sibley both discharged their
guns at the same flock of ducks, almost
simultaneously, the indian having only
one barrel, Mr.. Sibley having two, out
of which the shot flew thick among the
birds. With cool impudence, the In
dian stepped to where eight fowls had
fallen, and, one BY one, laced the whole