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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
VISIT THE INDIANS.
Senator Dawes and Indian Commissions
Morgan visit the Reservations.

Senator Dawes and Indian COMMISSIONS
Morgan visit the Reservations.
Thomas j. Morgan, commissioner
Of the Indian bureau, has been visit.
ing the reservations in the Dakotas
and Nebraska. In an interview he
says there has been a very large
increase in the business Of his Office
during the past three years as com
pared with the first three years of the
Cleveland administration. IN these
three years the commission has paid
out millions of dollars without loss TO
the government or to the Indians.
"That which distinguishes the
present administration of Indian
affairs more than any M thing" he
adds, sis the policy of reducing the
Indian reservations and allotting
lands to the Indians in seyeralty.
During the first three years OF
Harrison's administration more than
"a. 900. 900 acres of Indian lands have
been restored to the public domain ts
become the residence of pioIeer
settlers. During the first three years
of the last administration there
were Alps individual allOtments OF
lands made to Indians, while during
the three years of Harrison's admin
istration 1928 Indian allotments
were made. The object of making
Indians successful farmers has been
kept constantly and prominently
in view for the last four years and
the results have been very gratifying"
Commissioner Morgan was but one
of a party making this tour.
Accompanying him were Senator H.
L. Dawes, Mrs. and Miss Dawes Of
Massachusetts,, Mrs. Q. NJ. Dawes Of
| Chicago, Charles \ COtterell Of
Washington, private secretary to
Commissioner Morgan: VIM. II.
Darlington, secretary of the senate
committee on Indian affairs, and
Kimball E. Valentine, clerk of the
sergeant-at-arms. As chairman OF
the senate committee on Indian
affairs Senator Dawes has been
instrumental In notwithstanding the
entire policy of the government in
its dealings with the Indians. He
secured the first appropriation from
the public treasury of $4,000 for
Indian education in 1876, and has
persistently pressed the work until
the annual appropriation now exceeds
s. go, 900. There are under
instruction more than 10000 pupils.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
sam Jones and the Pastors.

Rev. Sam Jones addressed the
Baptist pastors Monday at their
weekly conference at the tabernacle,
Second avenue and Tenth street,
New York, and he was no more
sparing of their feelings than he
would be of those of the toughest col
lection of sinners that could be got
together. They listened TO him with
the keenest interest, laughed heartily
at his odd or witty sayings and
applauded warmly telling shots, ever
though they were aimed at them
| selves.
"Sin," said he, sis a disease and
Christ is the healer. But not one in
a hundred of the ministers know how
to use Christ's medicine. If the
doctors practiced medicine with as
little knowledge of what they are
doing as the ministers practice
spiritual healing | would hate to see
an epidemic strike this town. The
doctors and the preachers are behind
all other professions and the people
don't believe much in what either OF
them say. / was in EdisOn's factory,
and as he was showing me around he
said: Don't touch that wire. |
didn't touch it.. ! didn't want to be
made an angel quite so suddenly.
But if a doctor tells you Don't drink
whisky, it will poison you you keep
on drinking it and shrug your
shoulders. If a minister says III
you don't believe in this you will be
damned you will say, Oh, that's a
chestnut There is a divine specific
in the bible for every disease, but you
have got to feel the mans pulse and
find out what ails him before you
know what TO give him and then you
have got to get him to take it,"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

fireman. they know by = cart,

>, fireman, they know by a certa
deathly chill that prevailed
that the ghost has taken posi-
of the cab; and almost immel I
after it is seen upon top Of th
car following the engine and Il M
disappcarin the air. 1t is sud ,osed
to be signaling a warning Of some
unseen danger, and there are those
who say that some awful accident il
a to ecu near this village. The
usual place of the visions first
appearance is in the rock cut lust
east of the village. 1t appears To
rise right from the face of the solid
Fock
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

Professor Brown-Sequard has said
that In condensing the watery vapor
coming from the human lungs, he
obtained a poisonous liquid capable
OF producing almost immediate
death. This poison is an organic
alkali, and not a microbe, or series of
microbes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

The census shows that there are
nearly 2i.500,00 0 school children in
the United States-that is, persons
from I've to twenty-one years of age.
OF the youths included in the ages
named a little more than one-eighth
are colored. Our school population
IN this young country therefore
constitutes more than a third of the
total inhabitants. But they are not
nearly all in school.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

A freak of nature, a large tree,
which possesses the characteristics
OF a pine and an oak, may be seen
near Ashburnham, Mass. In the
fali OF the year pine burs fall on one
side and acorns on the other.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

The highest place in the world
regularly inhabited is the Buddhist
OF Haine, in Thibet, which is 5000
1eet above sea level, The highest
inhabited place in the Americas is
at Galera, Peru, 1885 feet above the
sea level
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

The effectiveness of the quarantine
established by New York city must
De satisfaction TO the whole country.
1t will give the United States the
reputation of having the best sanitary
quarantine in the world.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

a statistical item of interest TO
women is that women today are two
inches taller, on an average, than
they were twenty-five years ago.
1he cause is found in the exchange
OF the embroidery needle for the
tennis racket, a and the gymnastic
apparatus of the school and college.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

In this country the fall of rain
ranges from three inches TO 123 inches
in a single year, the maximum being
redched in the state of Washington.
while in one part of India there is
said to be an annual rainfall of 6lo
inches. 1t is not, however, this
unequal distribution which produces
floods, but the concentration OF rain
in brief intervals of time. In France
thirty-one inches of rain have been
observed to fall within twenty-fouI
hours.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

In Milford, Mass, it is claimed
that Improvements have been made
In the storage battery street car
system which make this kind OF
electric car cheaper than horse cars.
This news will be welcomed in cities
where the overhead trolley system is
not practicable. One of the improve
ments made consists in an arrange
ment enabling the car to run farther
without a change or recharging OF
batteries.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

If the world had too much cotton
last year, what will it do this year
with an increase of Is per cent. in
the cotton crop of Egypt and an
increase of over 300, 700 bales in
American
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

Pennsylvania appropriates s6,000,-
600 a year for her excellent public
schools. Meantime the labor troubles
at Homestead, which began early in
July, will cost the state not less than
s325.O 600.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
WEBSTER, : SOUTH DAKOTA

A man named Boston Corbett killed
Wilkes Booth in 1865. In 1892
another Corbett whips the mar from
Boston and gains as great fame as the
first Corbett did.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
Barbara Frietchie.

ST. Louis Glooe-DemOcrat: The
death of Whittier has revived the
controversy with regard to the
incident celebrated in his ballad OF
barbara Frietchie." 1t is certain
that he believed the story to be true
when the poem was written, but
there are now good reasons for saying
that the thing never happened. Old
Barara herself was a reality, md
quite capable of any patriotic action.
but the most that she did, according
to the best evidence, was to drive two
or three confederate soldiers from
her cottage porch with her uplifted
crutch. If not true however, the
legend is well imagined, and it VIII
survive for that reason. 1t is a facb
of sentiment, and such facts have far
more vitality than we are apt 10
realize. History contains many OF
them and the world persistsi in credit
ing them, Notwithstanding the proofs
of their unreliabilty. They appeaito
the imagination in a way that keeps
them alive, and they serve a saiutars
purpose. The deeds of humanity q"
not with dry and cold facts, but In
clude a certain measure of fiction
When the literal truth does no'
touch all the chords of Thought ans
feeling, it is pieced out with plausipf'
inventions, and cftentimes W.
inventions are worth more than ln'
substantial matter that they supVc-
ment and illuminate. Rus&in say
that "a lovely legend is all the mo'.
~prescious when it has no foundatiou'
which is putting it rather strongly {
perhaps, but it is at least ~undenlaois
that these illusions are cherispe'
with comparatively little concerh a.
to their absolute validity, ana tna'
we are influenced by them ina distihos
and continuous sense.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

A shipment of $50 barrels of Yank-
ton Portland cement has been sent to
Chicago to be used with Sioux Falls
granite in making the yeneering for
the South Dakota building of the
worlds fair.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29

deny life membership in the encamp-
ment to past grand officers and past
department commanders.
The following additional officers
were elected: r. IL. Warfeld, of San
Francisco, senior yice-commander;
P. B. Ayers, of Delaware, junior vice.
commander; DR.. w. c. Weyl, OF
Danbury, Conn.,, encouragement and
Lowell, of Kansas, chaplain-in-chief.
Capt. Weissert was born in Canton.
O., Aug. I, 1914. He vas graduated
at Racine high school and the Uni
versity of Michigan, the last con-
ferring upon him the degree of LII. b.
AS a member of the legal profession
early in September, 1861, he enlisted
in the Sth Wisconsin live Eagle.
and participated in all the battles
that the regiment took part in to the
time of his being severely wounded at
the battle of Nashville, Tenn. Serv-
ing over four years, he was brevetted
for m~eritorious conduct in battle, his
commission reading: "He is ap-
pointed captain by brevet, to date
from June 6, 1864, in recognition OF
his extraordinary courage during the
Red river expedition, and for his gal
lantry at Lake Chicol, Ark, June 6,
1864, and at Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 10,
when he was seriously wounded while
in the foremost rank of the column
of assault"
He was appointed a cadet at West
Point Military Academy, but on ac,
count of his wound was prevented
from accepting the same. Through
all the years since the wal he has suf'
fered, and is still suffering, from an
open wound received in battle. He
rejoined his regiment on crutches,
and returned home with it. He
Joined the order at Madison, Wis, in
1866, and has represented his post and
department at department and ma
tional encampments. He was elected
department commander of Wisconsin
in February, 1888. He is a member
of Z. B. Wolcott post, Milwaukee
and was chosen chairman of the ex,
ecutive council of the citizens com
mittee having in charge the prepare
tions for the 23d national encamp
ment at Milwaukee, and at that
encampment was elected senior vice
commander-in-chief. In his oficia,
capacity he visited all of the New
England and many other department:
with Commandments r. A. AL
ger. He is devoted to the organiza
ton, seldom missing post meetings
Comrade Weissert was a candidate al
Detroitlast year, receiving the second
highest number of votes for comman
der-in-chief.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
TIL RELIEF r

The convention met in New York
Avenue church. The report of Presi-
dent Sanders showed that during the
year $34, 1873 had been turned owe to
posts; cash for relief, SCI, 463; relief
other than money, 1891; balance
in the relief funds of the corps, ST.
SIT; general fund, Sl22,535.sl. The
assets showed a decrease since the
date of the last report of nearly so
per cent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-29
RESOLUTIONS, ETC,

bA@oOhS AlO-NCs IiS'
After a night of unusual heavy
rains and thunder storms which Sc
yerely tried the water tight capaci-
ties of the temporary buildings
erected for the veterans occupation,
the sun in the morning made a well
come rift in the clouds and gave
promise of more agreeable weather.
This was especially welcome, mas
much as the program for the fifth day
of the reunion was mainly made up Of
excursions. Excursions to all the
neighboring battlefields, excursions to
pleasure resorts both up and down
the Potomac river, to Glen Echo and
Riverside, half hour trips to Mount
Vernon and a parade of the Sons OF
Veterans with a collation. at the
Schuetzen park were among the in
cidents scheduled.
At the business session, the COM
mittee of seniority of departments
was discharged from further consid-
Grafton of the matter at its own re-
quest and the subject referred to a
new committee, consisting of Com
rades Beath of Pennsylvania, Bowling
of Ohio and Freeman of New York,
for report at the next encampment.
The committee on resolutions re-
ported to the encampment a large
number of resolutions and PROPOSE
tions which have been referred to
them, recommending thai a large
majority of them be laid on the table,
which was done. Among the resolu-
tions reported favorably by the COM
mittee and adopted were the follow
ing;
Asking congress to pass a law Civ
ing the same right of precedence in
appointments to all ~honorably dis
charged soldiers that is now given by
law to soldiers that were discharged
for disabilities; recommending that
the edition of the official records of
the Rebellion published by congress
be increased from 1000 to so, 600;
commencing the orderof Commander
in-Chief Palmer forbidding any G. A.
r. post to march under the Confeder-
ate flag; declaring it to be inexpe-
dent for the national encampment
e.. A. r. to express an opinion on the
subject of opening the worlds fair on
Sunday: favoring the establishment
of a soldiers home in the marine hos
pital building at New Orleans; re-
questing that the census of veterans
of the war and their p~ostoffice address
be published Immediately; asking
congress to provide for the erection of
a monument to the private soldiers of
the army: advising the council of
administration to call the meeting of
the next annual encampment not
later than the first week Of Septem-
Der, 1893.
New officers were then installed.
Commander-in-Chief Weissert an
nounced the appointment of E. d.
Gray, of Milwaukee, adjutant gen.
eral. Among the members of the
council Of administration are G. G.
Edwards, of st. Paul; It. S. Wilson,
Bozeman, Mont; E. S. Miller, of
jamestown, N. D.; S. IL. Jumper, OF
Aberdeen, S. d., and r. S Smith, of
Marion, Wis.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
ABBREVIATED KILOGRAMS.

Mrs. Levi NJ. Villas, mother of Senator
Villas, died at Madison, Wis.
The Tooth anniversary of the passage of
he law inaugurating the national militia
IS being celebrated at Omaha by a great
mllitl1 tournament.
Electrical storms of exceptional violence
prevailed in several provinces in Spain. A
number of persons were killed bv light
ming while at divi ne worship. The cathe-
dral at Burg os, enc of the famous old his
torical structures of Spain, was consider
ably damaged.
uniou at Buffalo.
The pension appropriation bill, as
amended by the senate, carries total of
SAG, 49,, $50
William Mcfarland, of Findlay, O., is
in Jail for assault on two girls of and Z
years respectively.
The Greensburg (Pa.) Tribune has re-
ceived threatening letters from proprietors
of "speak-easies at Jeanette. They say
the torch will be ..plied to county and
city property if the war against speak
easies" does not cease.
The scale to be presented to the manu-
facturers by the A A. l. S. w. puts the
price of boiling iron at S. 80 per ton-no
change.
The Republican presidential notification
committee will meet at Washington Mon
day next and perform its duty.
Minister Fred Grant has cabled congrat-
ulations to President Harrison.
The Riverside national bank, of River
side, Cal. capital $780, 900. has been author
lied to begin business
In Russia where the peasants are dying
with hunger the bears are also so starved
that they eat the peasants when they have
an opportunity.
The hemp spinning works at Barmen,
Germany, have been destroyed, causing a
loss of 100000 marks.
The Orangemen of the United States
are in council at Pittsburg
The Mississippi and Missouri river
floods have abated as far south as Mem
phls Farmers in the flooded districts in
Illinois will go back to their farms and
replant their crops, taking the risk of an
unfavorable autumn.
Mrs. Peter McClellaad, of Waco, Tex,
wants a divorce because she says, her
husband plotted with a woman to poison
her and put a loaded shotgun, full cooked
SO that it would 90 off by accident and
kill her. 1t didn't go off
The Maryland statute forbidding the i'm =
portatiOn of oleomargarine has been de-
clared invalid
James +. Quinn, a member of the Illi-
nois legislature from Chicago. is out on
bail on the charge of writing an obscene
letter to dime museum actress in that
city. There are iutimations that Quinn is
insane.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
The Days Doings in Congress.

WASHINGTON, June l4-The senate
transacted no business yesterday. After
the introduction of petitions. memorials,
few reports and fewer bills, PETER made
some remarks on one of his financial
measures and when he had concluded the
senate adjourned.
The house devoted most of its session to
the consideration of measures affecting
the interests of the District of Columbia.
The following bills were passed among
others: To prohibit the use of one-horse
cars in Washington after Jan. l, 1898;
authorizing the entry of lands chiefly val
liable for building stone under the placer
mining laws; to protect settlement rights
where two or more persons settle upon
the same subdivision of agricultural pub
lie lands before the survey thereof.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
Railway Strike in Prospect.

BUFFALO, June 14.-There is likely to
be trouble between the Lehigh Valley
railroad and its switchmen. On May Il a
cut in the wages of switchmen took effect
which reduced salaries between IS and Sc
a month. Grand Master Sweeney, of the
Switchmens' Brotherhood, was summon
ed and arrived Sunday. He held confer
ence with the officers of the local lodge
and will endeavor to reach an AMIGA Bile
settlement. The men say they will use
arbitration as far es possible, but if the
settlement cannot be reached by that
means strike will surely follow
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
shut Out the Chicago Colts.

CHICAGO, June IA row of goose eggs
was all that Chicago got out of its game
with the Brooklyn club. Following
are the League scores yesterday:
At Brooklyn - Chicago 0, Brooklyn
.; at misunderstanding 5, Philadel-
phia II; at Washington-St. Louis Is.
Washington II; at New York-Cleveland
TO- New York 5; at Baltimore-I.ouisville
8, Baltimore 5; at Boston-Cincinnat Z
Boston s.
Western: At Observation-Disclosures
ID, Minneapolis S; at Kansas City-Indi-
annapolis Q, Kan sas City 5; at Omaha
Fort Wayne 2. Omaha l. Illinois-Iowa:
At Rockford-Aurora l, Rockford II; at
Observation-Disclosures Haute Z, Jackson
vile S.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
BOTH SIDES WERE POSTED.
Railway Men Learn Robbers Plans and
Also Vice Versa.

CoNNELLsvILLE, June 14.-An attempt
was made Sunday night to hold up the
New York and Philadelphia Express on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad between
Layton Station and Connellsville The
plans of the train robbers were to flag or
wreck the train, then board it and rob the
mail and express cars. The train carried
Sls6,0 600. The railroad officials in some
way got word that the attempted robbery
was to be made. A telegram was sent to
Robert Sheppard, the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad detective here. He went to
Uniontown and from there special train
took Sheppard, Sheriff Mccormick and
posse to Layton Station. There they
boarded the express and rode through to
Cum berland. But the robbers also got
word, as they always seem to do.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-14
Severely Cut on the Thigh.
DEMOCRATIC WewAM DAMAGED.

The Canvass Roof Goes Riding on the
Storm-Other Destruction.
The great canvass canopy over the wig
wan in which will be held the National
Democratic convention next week, was
torn TO tatters-So utterly ruined that the
contractors determined to have done with
1t and use instead a timber roof 4 num-
Der of columns will be erected TO support
the roof. 1t is feared that this arrange
ment will impair the acoustics of the
amphitheatre, but there is no way to
avoid it.
Was Rough OF Telegraph Poles.
The telephone, telegraph and electric
light systems were almost totally demon
allied. Poles and wires were torn down
and general havoc was caused. Poles fell
across the south side cable tracks and to-
gether with other debris bl ocked the pass
age of the cable trains for over an hour.
Many houses were unroofed and otherwise
damaged.
Circus Tent Laid Low.
The Rentz & Santley circus tent and
poles at the corner Of Twenty eighth street
and Wentworth avenue were RACED TO the
ground and the performers compelled to
seek shelter in ncighboring houses. \
number of small ch.ldren were in the tent
and became panic-striCken, but the at
taches of the show succeeded in getting
them out in safety.
Found BODY in the Ruins.
ArmOur's elevator d, on Morgan street,
was struck by lightning and a portion of
of it destroyed. In he ruins was found
the body of Charles J. Roberts, fireman
who had been at work in the boiler room,
crushed under heavy iron door.
Correct List of Casualties.
The correct list of casualties, fatal and
otherwise, i As follows: Killed or fatally
hurt-Emma Klima % years old, daugh.
ter of Frank and Maggie Klima, crushed
in wreck of house at 1886 Whipple street;
William Lossea, skull crushed by fall
ing stone at 500 Oakl " avenue; John Liell,
skull crushed; Charles l. Roberts, crushed
and suffocateG beneath falling wall If
the Armour elevator three unknown men,
capsized i'll rowboat IN Lake Michigan.
Injured-J. j. p. Odell, bruised and
cut; Charles H. Dow,ll secretary to p. ID.
Armour, left ankle cIt by broken glass
Mrs. Maggie Klima, right hip and foot
badly bruised Anna Klima 4 years old,
daughter of the above collar-bone broken
and right shoulder frlctured James Nc
CHM, left leg fractured; +. Erickson, in
jured internally; Levsring Olsen, serious
ly injured; Gustave Gearing, skull frac-
tured and right arm broken; Mrs Mar
garet Sullivan, spine injured and several
ribs fractured-may prove fatal; Irene Sui
lvan, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Sulli
van, several severe cuts on the head-no
dangerous.