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THE MAN WITH A FAILING.

SAo w SCAhCS OuO bAtCG60 SAuA1s
ETY. Were Not Appreciated.
It was 1890 o'clock at night, and the
rain and wind and darkness made it q
wild one, when the train suddenly came
to a halt. Some one had swung a Ian.
tern on the track about a quarter of q
mile from the bridge spanning Shady
creek. Those of us who turned out to
learn what was up saw a farmer-looking
man come back to the smoking car with
the conductor, and when in out Of the
storm the latter asked:
Nov, then, you say there's trouble
ahead. What is it9 Talk fast, for | am
now twelve minutes behind time"
The man was about forty years old,
dressed in oarse clothing and was wet
to the skin. The lantern was an old
fashioned one, made OF tin, and the light
was furnished by a piece of candle about
three'inches long.
"Look a-here, gineral," he replied to
the conductor in a nervous way, Ego
sorter slow on me or | can't tell yo' the
story"
what do you meanT'
"rve-I've got a failin. If yo' git me
excited III stut-stut-stutter till yo' can't
understand a word | say"
Very well; you stopped usT'
"Yes; | felt called to do it. Hold on.
now! Don't push mel"
"TIl give you time. You live near
here, don't your
Right up by the branch thar. Lived
thar goin on twenty years. Keep cool,
gineral, and don't git me narvous. I'm
a-doin all right SO fur"
"Well, you felt called upon to stop
us?"
Il did. It's been rainin purity steady
fur about a week"
YES"
1.-The branch has jest been a-humpin
of herself fur the last two days"
Eyes, the water has been rising"
Hold IN, ginerall Don't chip in too
fast. I'm a-holdin Of myself as hard as
| kin, but | feel my tongue wobblin
around. This noon | seen the water
risin mighty. fast and | felt it my duty
to watch it. | went up agin about dark
and then agin an hour ago. l knowed
when you was due here, and"-
And you stopped us. Good heavens,
mani but the bridge is goner'
Hold on, ginerall You are goin too
fast! t-ttold you if you g-g-got me
ex-ex"-
''Take it easy" replied the conductor.
'.Just think what you want to say and
then speak very slow. Great lands! but
what an escaped"
General, ! reckoned yo'd worry about
the bridge"
Eyes, I've been very anxious about it"
"Yo' knowed the water was risin way
up"
Eyes,"
Il told the old woman you'd worry
about it, and that I'd best git the lantern
and stop the t-t-train a-a-and trt-tell-
tell'-
Take it easy, man, there's no hurry.
You got your lantern and stopped the
train to tell us that the bridge had been
aoated off by the freshet. l understand
and l a promise you
"Gineral"
Eyes,"
1.-THE bridge is all right! I reckoned
yo'd worry over it, and so ! got the Ian
tern and stopped the train to tell you
that the water had gone down four feet
and the bridge hadn't suffered a ha'rl"
l don't remember all the conductor
said when he got at the facts, nor how
many passengers helped throw the man
down among the bushes, but when the
train moved on he was banging the old
tin lantern around and calling:
"G-G-Gineral, I'll be Unchanged if ]
don't see this old r-r-road in T-T-Texas
before l ever do it another fa-fa- favor!"
New York World.
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ID, SHELLEY.
Register.

Notice-Timber Culture.
U, S, Land Office,
Devils Lake N, d.
April 25th, 1892,
Complaint having been entered at thi,
Office by Charles D Milloy against Henry
johnson for failure to comply with law as to
Timber Culture Entry No, 34Sl dated
April ~, 1889 upon the North East
quarter, Section II, Township 1911, Range
=, in Bottihsau County, N, D, with q view
to the cancellation of said entry; contestant
allies ing that the said johnson has
Jailed to cultivate said land since spring OF
1890 and has failed to put out seeds or trees
As required by law the said parties are
hereby summoned to appear before L., D,
Dana. Notary Public, at his office in Botti-
nesu N. D, on tho 18th day Of June, 1892,
at II o'clock A, NJ; to respond and fur" ish
testimony concerning said alleged failu,s ..
Hearing At this Office June 22nd 1892,
/, E, Shelley.
Register.
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Yellowstone Park Route

The Northern Pacific r. r. In the raiiline 70
Yellowstone Park; the popular line to Cali.
fornia and Alaska; and its trains pass
through the grandest scenery of seven states.
THROUGH TICKETS.
Are sold atall coupon offices of the NortA~
ern Pacific Railroad to points North, East,
South and West, In the united States ana
Canada.
TIME SCHEDULE
Jamestown, Bismarck, Cakes, Fargo, %.
Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and all Easter anA
Western points.
Lv. Leeds. Ar Leeds, *
$40 a. m. 6:06 p. N.
Trains run daily except Sunday.
For Rates. Maps, Time Tables :or spssael
information, apply to Agent Northern Paaihs
r. r. or r r.
CHAS g. FEE.
Gsnl Pass, and Ticket Aesat
81 Paul, Min.
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LEGAL ROTI0ES.
Nottce.-Timber Culture.
u. S. Land Office.
Devils Lake ND.
Aprfl 1lSt 1899

u. s.. Land Of1ce.}
Devils Lake N. D.}
April 2lst 1892. ~ ~
Complaint having been entered At this
ONCE by Nicol Mack against William Christie
for failure to comply with]aw Is to Timter-
Culture Entry No. 343S dated April 18th, 1889
upon the w n w Il andS w ANWH and
Lot4 section 2, Township 1Gl Range II, In
Bottinsau County North Dakota, with view
to the cancellation of said entry; contestant
alleging that The said William Christie has
failed to sow seeds or to plant any trees on
the. said described claim or to cultivate said
land during the yea 1891 the said parties are
hereby summoned to appear at Bottineau
N. u. before the Clerk of the District Court
OF the 18th, day Of June 1897, atll o'clock A.
M, to respond and furnish testimony con-
corning said alleged failure. Hearing at this
office Juns rs 1891. 50" .
I. T.. SHELLEY.
Register.
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Tne DIAIne ca

Dining Cars are run between Chicago, u.
Paul, Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Helena, Butte
Tacoma, Seattle and Portland.
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State Of North Dakota
I'm County Court.
Of OTTILIA

Yin County Court.
County Of Bottinsau
In the matter of the Estate of OTTILIA
WICKS deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of
LENA WICKS praying for letters of
Administration with the will annexed on the
1T IS ORDERED, That Monday, second
day of May, A. D. 1892, at one O'Clock P. NJ.
Of that day, being a day of regular term, TO-
wit: OF the May term, A. D. 1892 of this
Court House in the Village of Bottineau,
County of Bottineau, State of North Da-
kota, DO and the same Is hereby fixed and
Ing said petition; and that due notice there
of be given according to law.
OWEN SCHOONOvER,
County JUG &c.
Dated at Bottineau this 18th, day of April
1892.
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Minnesota deleg ties are for Harri.
son, but rot instructed.

The republicans madea clean sweep
sof things down at St. Paul this year.
and are now enthroned in the fat
places, if not il the public confidence.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-05-07
PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR ROUTE.

Pullman service daily between Chicago, %.
Paul, Montans and the Pacific Northwest
and between st. Paul, Minneapolis and Min.
nesota, North Dakota and Manitoba poiDtA
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vEsI!ByLt LIMITED gRAallEsa CARVING Carr Inc a r.;
Wagner Slice pers, between Minneapolis. ST.
Paul and Milwaukee,, and Chicago Daily,
leaving Minneapolis $50 p. INST. Paul 1850
n. m. arriving Chicago 300 d. m. making
connections with all trains out OF Chicago
for the East and South.
FAST eAy IAN! I IfPafEs 81. r InaIn, ,,s .sa !. e.
daily, for MlLwAUKEE and CHICAGO, OF.
irving CHICAGO 9:35 p. m. making conn0o.
lions with late trains out OF CHICAGO 70
the East. =,
PULLMAN PALACE SLIPPING GAPS between
MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL ana OMAHA, VIA
SIOUX CRY. and between
ST. PAUL, Kansas CITY, via SIOUX CITY
and COUNCIL BLUFFS. g. @z=
PULLMAN PALACE ,slpseplHs gag between zen
between MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL and
SIOUX CITY.
PULLMAN PALACE sl5EEII9s cars between sT.
perior, and Duluth. and MINNEAPOLIS, ST.
PAUL and ASHLAND.
D1nUTH. sGPPERiofR, CH1PPEwA FALLS
and CHICAGO.
Rtts Ws.n ssA.a safs y y. O f1u 1EsAssnsdf 81.
PERIoR, DULUTH and ASHLAND. -. &
PARL0R CARS on nav TRAINS between MN
ST. PAUL and sioux CITY.
TAKE THIS LINE WHEN you TRAvEl.
For tickets at lowest rates and full infO<-
nation call on or address
M. N. CAREY. AaENT. 9. N. r. \.
or r. w. TEASDALE, y
" Genl Pass. Agent, st. Paul, Mimi.
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The Popular Line.

Daily Express Trains carry elegant PaIk
man Sleeping Cars, Dining Cars, Day Cosshsa
Pullman Tourist sleepers and Free ColonisS
SleepingC Cars. Z
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G. E. Beckett; overseer.
In the grid Com. Dist, 5th Road Dist,
S. G. Haugen was appointed overseer.
vice Nels Sivertson, declined.
A petition was received from Syvert
Gullikson, and others, asking that a bridge
be built over Willow River in T. 100 R. "a
which was referred to Com. Grassie, with
authority to furnish such timber for said
bridge as he deemed necessary.
The following resolutions were adopted
in answer to Syvert Gullikson, and others,
asking for the opening of new road.
Whereas the State law declares that all
section lines are public highways.
Resolved that any action by this Board
in relation to opening the sane is unnec-
essary.
Resolved that road and bridge work
: done on any section line is legally expend-
| ed.
An irrigation petition was received from
James Cudhie, and others, which was laid
over until the next meeting of the Board.
A petition was received from John Cam
eron asking that the interest and penalty
on his taxes be abated, on account of loss
of crops. The request was refused on
the ground that the Board had no author
ity in the case.
A petition was received from NJ. Man
ming, and others, asking for a bridge. or
ferry, over the Mouse River on the Ant
ler's route. On motion consideration of
said petition was indefinitely postponed.
The following bills were allowed:
G. w. Dixon, services as road ov-
erseer in 1890 1900
Arnt Noun, refund of road tax
paid twice IA
!. H. Bacon,
paid twice zoo
Lewis Raab, labor or highways 4.57
Peter King. destroying ~noxious
weeds 1890
T. F. Woods. supplies for court
house 35.2c
Jacob P. Hager, printing 2o.oc
The Herald, books a. &C
J. J. E. Guertin, postage and sta
tionery 1875
H. R. Russell, service as Co. COM
missioner, and mileage $50
J. X Lackie. service as Co.. COM .
missioner, and mileage &C
VIM. Grassie, service as Co. COM
missioner, and. mileage 4.5c
Ed Bignell, service as Co. COM
missioner. and mileage SOC
Hugh McKinnon, service as Co.
commissioner, and mileage 4.oc
The Board then adjourned sine die.
" ]. G. THOMPSON.
Co. Auditor
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T
u. q. Land Ofice,)
Devils Lake n; Dr.

Complaint having been entered ut this
Office by Otto Christensen against John A.
Lusty for abandoning his Homestead Entry
70: isS4, dated necember q, 1887, upon the
Bottineau County, North Dakota, with a
view to the cancellation Of said entry; the
said parties are hereby summoned to appear
1882. at 2 O'Clock p. M, before the Clerk Of
the District Court, to respond and furnish
testimony concerning said alleged abandon.
I. II. Shelley,
Register.
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NORTHERN
NPACIFICR.R
II

GREAT T%RAESC0ITMEITAL ROUTE,
PASSES through Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
Dakota, Manitoba, Montana, Idaho, Oregon
and Warrington. 5
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or less, according to the Government survey
thereof.
Dated March LIST 1892.
North Dakota Loan and Trust Company.
Assignee Of Mortgages.
R. A. Bill, Attorney for assignee of mort.
gagee, J amestown, N. Oak.
FIRST publication March 18th, 1892.
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NOtico-Timber Culture.

First Issue May 7th.
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JOY IN GODS HOUSE.
LESSON VI, SECOND QUARTER, INTER.
NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 8.

Text Of the Lesson. Ps. lxxxiv. l-l2-Mem
'ory Verses, O-l2-Golden Text, Ps. lxxxtv.
A. Commentary by the Rev. y. n.
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County Commissioners.

Proceedings of the Board of County
Commissioners of Bottineau Co.. N. D.,
at a special meeting held on the goth day
Of April. 1892.
The Board met at z p. m. and was
called to order by the chairman. The
full Board was present.
The following road districts were estab-
lished and overseers appointed.
1st Road Dist. M T. 162, R. 76.
]. l.. Gorder, overseer.
end 81 T. 162. RIG,
Alex. Anderson,
grid " 7. 1862. r. 77&7S
Hugh Nichol.
4th Il" " all the remainder of said
2nd Com Dist.
T. D
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]. wv Bennett,
Attorney for Mortgages
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-09
A Room FOR NIKE.

Some Of the newspaper correspondents
East are booming Mike DeYoung, Of the
Chronicle, for the Vice Presidency. They
want him placed on the ticket along with
Blaine. We have seen it stated, perhaps
in derision, that Mike won't play second
fiddle to anybody. not ever to the mar
from Maine. He wants the first place or
nothing. That is right. Mike. There
is only one other gall on earth that is
bigger than yours. and in the absence of
brains q gall is about the handiest thing
a fellow can have. Now, what is the
matter with the whole Coast getting up
on its hind legs and shouting for Mike
to become the standard bearer of the
Republican party in the approaching
race. 1t has been intimated that he pre-.
fers q Senatorial training before making
a direct move on the White House, but
that is all nonsense. He is as competent
now for the Presidency as he ever will
be. His modesty should not be allowed
to stand in the way Of the great material
interests Of the Pacific Coast. We are
distinctly and sincerely in favor Of Mike
as the Republican candidate for the
Presidency. and. beg to say that If we can
do aught to promote so desirable an end
we will be only too happy to waltz into
the breach.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-09
A GREAT MINERAL SECTION.

Eastern Nevada is the best unappro.
priated portion Of the mineral domain Of
the United States, if not Of the world.
What we mean by u~nappropriated is the
vast number Of meritorious properties
that have not yet passed into the hands
of strong companies. Practically every
thing is still in first hands, or not located
at all. There are hundreds Of good
mines in Eastern Nevada that are still
open to location. The two wants Of this
region are free coinage and q competing
railroad. With these there would be no
such mining country in the world. The
Central Pacific railroad passes from one
hundred to q hundred and fifty miles north
of the mineral heart of Nevada. 1t is
not within striking distance of the great
mass OF our mines. The great bodies OF
low grade ores will not bear the cost Of
wagon freight to the railroad and leave q
margin of profit. People get rich in
California by working ores that do not
yield more than six dollars to the ton.
There are millions Of tons of thirty and
forty dollar rock in Eastern Nevada that
is absolutely worthless under present
conditions. We can have no prosperity
under these cir cumstances. The out.
look now is that we will have to wait
still another year, or until after another
election. We have been waiting 3 good
while, but we cf.n, and will wait st~illlonger.
We realize, all Of us, that we are DWELL
ing in 3 rich country, and few Of us feel
like trying the experiment Of trading it
for another, knowing that in time our
great resources must attract attention
and ultimately become generally prosper
oua
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-09
T MONEY,

The Salt Lake Tribune asks: How
many Americans realize that we are pay.
Jog to foreign ships every year $3.50, 0OO..
900 in freight money. When added to
that is the passage money, and the
money spent by Americans in the Old
World it is not very strange that il takes
a good deal of money to carry this little
old country along. What is strange, is,
first. that the Congress does not fix
things SO that American ships could col
lect part Of that money at least; and
that they do not fix 81 er on q status
which will give to the country, in legiti-
mate money. about sixty million dollars
more per annum There never was any
thing stanger than the way the Congress
Of the United States for the last eight
cen years has treated the silver interests
and the shipping interests of this coun-
try. There seems TO be a class OF men
there who are the abject tools Of the
moneyed men across the sea, and the
monsyed men of New York City who
negotiate foreign securities in this coun-
try. 1t seems as though nothing would
break the spell that is upon them, except
a great war. And if that war could
come, we believe even at the expense of
life and treasure it would cost, il would,
after all, be q good thing for this Repub-
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-09
THE WoRLD,s PEOPLE

The London Times has got out esti-
mates Of the present population Of the
earth, given by the well.known geo
graphical establishment OF Perthes oil
Gotha. The last estimates are $50, 600,
900 souls in China, which is a reduction
OF 10000, 900; and the total population
of the earth is put down at l.4s0, 900,
900, showing an increase of 46, 900, 600
over the estimate Of 1882, being at the
rate OF $3.50, 900 per annum.
A gain of that much per annum is not
very much considering that it means all
the world; but the most careless person
will realize that with that gain, il will
only be q question Of time when
the whole earth will be peopled.
OF course there will be wars and pes
tilences, of courss there will be cata.
clysms, but il man is steadily gaining at
the rate of nearly six millions per an
mum. after q while he will need more ter.
ritory.
IL is a curious study to think what
men will be doing in the later years,
when they will have to utilize every acre
OF land and every acre Of fresh water to
raise food; when the domestic animals
will all be reduced to those which sup
ply food. and Of these the only breeds
chosen will be those which make the
most food; when the work Of the world
will be done by electric or by some other
motors; when the world will be lighted
and warmed by the power of the rivers
working on dynamos or some other
machines to produce light and heat.
Then how the strong races will tyran-
nize over the weak, and one by one de-
stroy them, unless the grace of God
comes to man and makes the whole race
one brotherhood. And then the old
earth will be drying up, too; the rivers
will begin to lose their springs; the evap-
GRAFTON will be less from the ocean; the
land that can be cultivated will be re.
duced in area, there will be a drawing in
from all sides. until possibly the vision
Of the learned geologist may come to
pass. where he pictures the last man
shivering over the last embers Of fuel in
a dead world. The most of us ought to
be glad that our existence was NOT put
Oh three or four millions Of years.-Sslt
Lake Tribune.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-09

The decision OF the New York Court
Of Appeals, the highest court OF that
State, defeats the Republican attempt to
keep control Of the State Senate and
aives the Democrats a majority in that
body. This makes the State Govern
ment Democratic in the Legislature as
we'll as the executive department.
The effect will be far-resShiDg both on
State and national politics. Not only
have the Republican partisans OF the
Senate refused to confirm Democratic
nominations, thereby keeping hold
overs " in office, but they have so gerry
wandered the State that though the
Democrats have repeatedly carried 1t on
the general vote by a large pluralities,
the Legislature has been held against
them by the gerrymander, through which
the Republicans have repeatedly elected
United States Senators to whom they
were not entitled by their vote in the
minority.
Under this decision, affirming the
rights Of the Democratic majority, 1t
| will be represented by a Democrat to
| succeed Hiscock in the United States
Senate. The Republican gerrymander
will be corrected, and the influence
which that party has been enabled to
| exert through such fraudulent methods
| will b nullifed. Holding both the ex-
| ~ecutive and the Legislative departments
| the Democratic party has a greater
advantage than it has had in many years.
Executive appointments will now be
confirmed, and the Democratic organiza'
| ton will be so strengthened that the Re.
publicsns will be at a much greater dis
advantage thar they have been hereto
| fore in their attempts to control what
on a fair poll is certainly a Democratic
State.
Any good Western man can carry New
York as the Democratic Presidential can
didate. This was certain enough before,
but this decision so changes the situation
that all that ia now needed to assur,
Democratic victory in New York mex,
year is the nomination OF a sound ant
earnest Democrat who is acceptable Il
the party. II the party cannot find
New Yorker to carry New York, it cal
easily find a Western Democrat who will
carry it and three good Western State
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-01-09
SILVER THE WORLDS SALIVA.
IOS

Four.6fths of the people of the world,
says the Denver Mining Elk. Journal,
depends entirely Upon silver as mony.
The British government and the German
government have repudiated silver.
France clings to it. The United States
has repudiated silver as money. Now
Tor any one to say that should our coun-
try join with France and give full re-
cognition to silver as against Germany
and Great Britain, with four-ffths of
the rest of the world using no money
except silver, would put our nation on a
silver basis, Is to talk like an idiot; it 10
to talk like a knave; it is worse. The
commerce Of the world is so closely
blended; the money Of the world is SO
bard put upon by the business Of the
world that the price of gold and silver
must, in the every nature of things. be
the same in every country CT the world.
So we saw when silver advanced from
81 cents to 81 81 a year ago because of
the prospect that the four millions and
a half per month which our Government
undertook to absorb would bring silver
to par, that the advance was exactly the
same in London that it was in the United
States; that just so soon as the telegraph
could fash the news it was at the same
advance in far.off India. And we say
that it is a perfectly plain proposition,
that If the United States to-day were to
declare for unlimited coinage, silver
would be ct par tomorrow morning, and
no power on earth could break it down.
Because with silver at par ii would be
worth just as much as gold, there would
be no object except on the part Of q few
interested gatheres to try to change the
relation. and they could not by oombin-
ing ell their capital break it down one
penny. Silver has never yet been broken
lown as compared with gold except
through legislation. The old law OF
supply and demand has never Influenced
it ct all; the two metals were on an ex-
act parity according to the European
standard up to the time silver was de-
monetized; and because we put a little
more silver in . dollar than Europe did,
our silver was worth q small percentage
more than gold; and all we need to have
that return. is to wipe out that legisla-
tion which caused the two metals to draw
apart in the first place. There would
not be q panic. there would not be any
silver standard. there would not be any
trouble, but rather there would be such
a change in the business Of the country,
and in the hopes Of the people, as would
within six months amount well-nigh to a
Transformation.