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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29

Various Items of News Given Brief
Mention.

Various Items of News Given Brief
Mention.
The 7th Regiment of New York will
present silver bell to the United States
cruiser New York. ...
Samuel Foitz. Conewago, Pa, was
killed by unknown persons and his
body placed on the railroad track.
Professor Whitman, of Clark Uni
versity, Wis, has accepted the chair
of biology in Chicago University.
The British house of commous
rejected-I75 to l52-a bill extending
the franchise to unmarried women.
Walker d. Hobart, the California
capitalist and mining operator, is living
at deaths door at his home in San
Francisco.
Nat Woodwin, the actor, and his wife
have substantially agreed to articles of
separation, and Mrs. Goodwin will
secure divorce.
A settlement Of the difference be-
tween the American board of the
ancient Order OK Hibernias and the
board of Erin has been reached.
1t turns out that the Worlds Fair
management has had quite as much to
do in bringing about the present move-
ment against ticket scalpers as did the
railroads.
The fourteenth annual Conference of
the American Library Association will
be held at the Laurel House. Lake
wood, m. j., May l6 TO 30; ut Baltimore
May 30, and Washington May 81
The treasury department has decided
that customs officers ere not authorized
to permit the original entry Of Chinese
persons on submission at naturalization
papers issued by another government.
Officials of the state department place
no credence in the report that Canadian
sealers propose to enter Behring sea un.
der the protection of governments other
than dreat Britain and the United
States.
The Burlington was sele.red by the
Charities and Corrections xociety of
New York, Boston and other Eastern
cities as the official route over which
delegates will trave. between Chicago
and Denver to attend the convention in
the latter city in june.
The annual fortiacatians apy~opria-
tion bill has been practically agreed
upon by the forti6cafi0ns skb eoEnmit-
t0e OF the h0z26e cCmmitese on xppro-
pfIationA A cut amounting to moro
than Is par cent has bssn mads from
the bin Of last ysar.
gspr.eptatize Hl.sd tatrodueed :
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29

resolution IN the house insr<ucIing rne
committee on ways aud means to re-
pert bill imposing an income tax suf-
ficient to meet all the expenditures for
pensions; and also bill to repeal all
taxes imposed upon carrency issued by
authority Of the states. ss ~. .......
The Great Northern has begun rum
ming trains from Sand Point east to
Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. It b about 70
miles from Bonner's Ferry to Ka1ispei,
Mont. This gap viii be closed In q
few weeks, as men are at work night
and day, laying from two to three
miles of track per day. The gap be-
tween Kalispel and Spokane. it is estz-
mated, will be filled by May 90.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29
Attempted Bank Robbery.

PENNINGTON. Minn., April 90. An
attempt was made at robbing the Ex-
change bank here. An entrance was
made through AZ window. The vault
door was drilled and the lock blown off
the safe. The inside vault was drilled.
the front blown off and the safe badly
shattered, but not opened. About $50
in pennies and nickcls were taken
which We're in bag on top of the safe.
The telephone wires are cut on both
sides of the town. Two barns were
entered and team of ponies and a
buggy belonging to w. II. Farquhar
were stolen, with which the robbers are
supposed to have driven to st. Paul.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29

Major william Warner Nominated for
Governor by Missouri Repnb1icans.
4 JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, April 2s.-
The Republican convention to nominate
state officers was called to order at 10
O'Clock. After the adoption of the
platform, the convention by a rising
vote, and without q dissenting voice,
nominated Major William Warner, of
kansas City, to head the state ticket.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29
Indian Contracts.

WASHINGTON, d. G.. April 20. The
Indian bureau has awarded to Joseph
Roach, OF Mortified, the contract OF
furnishing 10 stations to the Big Sandy
Indian reservation at $29S.95 each,
also 500 cows to Ft. Berthold at SIC. 90
each. The contract was awarded Han
key Brothers, st. Paul, to furnish 10
bulls to Ft. Bethoh at $34 each.
Arthur F. Jeffres, Dickinson, N. D.,
furnishes 80 brood mares with colts to
TT. Bethold at $1l5 each and 50 without
colts at $10O each.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29
LATEST MARKET REPORT.
st. Paul Union stock Yards.

SOUTH ST. PAUL April 20. 1879.
HoGS-Steady. Good demand and yards
will be cleaned. .a.r
CATTLE-Slow. Some demand for butcher
stuff, but buyers taking their time Fair do
mand for stockers saS feeders
Prime steers, $3.5oD375: good steers,
S2.751333; prime cows, s253zt2.85 good
cows, S2.0olD2.45; common TO fA4x cows. 81
@2.oD; light veal calves, S3nau5.75: heavy
calves, $2.y1l301; stockers, S2.o0sss. ~ feeders
$2.ik92.15: bulls, stays and oxen. Sl.25aS!.225.
SHEEP-Steady. Woolens muttons and
lambs, $5.0Qds5.69; mixed. S4.7505.35; short
muttons, $450lS5.Oo.
Receipts: Hogs, 1,0o); cattle, 1.5; calves, Co.,
sheep, 10:
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29
a Relic % For. Don.l.on.

GAINESVILLE, Tex. April 20. w. d.
TURNKEY, of this city, has picture
frame Of oak made from .ne last re-
manning piece Of wood from the fortifi-
cation Ut Fort Dcnelson on Cumberland
river. The frame had two bullet holes
in 1t. made by federal Mimic balls when
General Grant charged and captured
that rorS neariy tnsrSy -sE-= XXI
Tor AfinSster to France.
q WAsfzlMGroN. April ~. = rho president
sent to the senate the nomination OF
Jeferson Coolidg of Massachusetts. to
be envoy extraordinary and ninister
plenip ipotsntiary Of the United States TO
ErAnnA
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-04-29
E4inneano,Is p,.u.

MISNEAPoLtS, April 70, 1899.
WHEAT-April closing, Ts1%c; May opened
ut 7al4c, highest 79t4c; lowest lS5se,
closing, 7S14c; July opening sc. highest.
62lac, lowest Sic; CLOSING, Sll6e. On track,
No. hard, Sc; No. l Northern. s914c, No. 2
Northern, 7I0ITSc. @
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
Blue-Eyed, Lighs- Haired Indians.

st. Louis sGlobe-Democrat "Do you
know that in Mexico there are several
thousand Indians who have fair skins,
blue eyes and light hair?" asked Pey-
ton Brown as he put fresh cigar into
an apple wood holder and turned the
atmosphere OF the Laclede rotunda a
beautiful curulean hue. "Well, its a
fact. The Mayas, inhabiting the
Sierra Madre mountains, in the lower
part OF Sonora, are supposed to be the
descendants of the crew and passen-
gers of a Swedish vessel wrecked on
the Mexican coast long centuries be-
fore the birth OF Columbus. They
have a tradition that their ancestors
came in a great canoe over the big salt
water many hundred moons ago.
They have never been conquered by
the Mexicans. They a'e nominally
under Mexican rule, but al g in reality
governed by their own chiefs. When
ever the Mexican government inter-
feres with them they take up arms,
and they have got the best of every
scrimmage SO far. The Yaquis are
their neighbors and these two warlike
tribes have reciprocity reduced to a
science.
whenever the government inter-
feres with the Yaquis the Mayas come
to their assistance, and vice versa.
Mexican troops cannot stand before
the Mayas. or white Indians. They
are the most desperate fighters on the
North American continent. Like their
neighbors, the Yaquis. they are mostly
Catholics. Although quite primitive,
almost savage in their mode of life,
the standard of morality is high.
They live principally by the chase, but
cultivate some corn and garden truck
in the valleys. The men are large, well
formed, and some OF the women re-
markably handsome blondes. They
all retain traces of their Swedish ances
try, and the linguists say that their
language evidences North European
ancestry"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
BENJAMINs SARCASM.
The Truth in the Presidents Message Makes
the Blood of the Democrat Boil.

That part of the presidents mes
sage which has stirred up the Demo-
cratic press, and to which they allude
as sarcasm, is the following:
"If a system Of customs duties can
be framed that will set the idle wheels
and looms OF Europe in motion and
crowd our warehouses with foreign
made goods and at the same time keep
our own mills busy; that will give in
creased participation in the markets
of the world of greater value than the
home market We surrender; that will
give increased work to foreign work
men upon the products to be con-
sumed by our people without dimin-
ishing the amount OF work to be done
here; that will enable the American
manufacturer to pay his workmen
from so to 100 per cent more in wages
than is paid in the foreign mill and
yet to compete in our market and IN
foreign markets with the foreign pro-
ducer; that will further reduce the cost
of articles of wear and food without
reducing the wages of those who pro
duce them; that can be celebrated
after it's effects have been realized, a.
its expectation has been, in European
as well as American cities, the authors
or promoters OF it will be entitled to
the highest praise"
1t is the logic OF that paragraph
which makes it SO sarcastic to thu
| Democratic press, and the reason it l:
so irritating is beause they all see tn,
point and cannot explain it away
River Press.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
ME. sPRINaER's FORECAST.
What ths Democratic Legislators May Do
and the Effects or Their so-Doing.

Chairman Springer, of the Ways and
Means committee gives the most def
mite, as it is also the most authorita-
tive forecast OF Democratic tariff legis,
lation. Answering the objection that
it would be inexpedient to pass the
free trade measures now pending in
congress because public revenues will
not suffer reduction, he says:
''The passage OF the free wool bill
would cut off about S6,0O0,0O0 an.
nually in wool duties, but the reduc
ton of the compensatory duties upon
manufactured woolens would largely
increase importations, and conse'
quently the revenues"
This means that the Democratic
increased importations will make good
the loss in reyS1 ne caused by additions
to the free list. That it is a policy ol
disaster to American industry can be-
demonstrated with mathematical
accuracy.
Take the free wool bill alone. In
1891 the duties on raw wool furnished
SO, 100000 revenue. That would be
cut off by the proposed measure. 1t
reduces the duties on wooden to an
average of 36 per cent, which means
an additional loss of the revenues, on
the importations of 1891, as a basis
of S19, 100000. Ii importations
should remain the same as in 1891,
the total loss in revenue would be
S26, 100000. This is the sum which
Mr.. Springer said would be made good
by increased importations in wooler
goods.
1t would require the importation o.
foreign wool manufacturers to the
value of S72, 100000 in addition tc
the S43, 900, 900 imported in 1892, oil
Sis, 100000 in the aggregate to dc
this.
On the assumption that importa
tions OF raw woods remained the sam,
this would mean a total importation
of foreign wool in all forms equivalent
to AGA, 100000 pounds of raw wool
'lhe total consumption of the United
States amounts to about 600, 900, ,00(
pounds. The difference between thi.
and the total imports of wool would
represent the utmost demand fol
American wool under Mr.. Springer
bill. American wool growers could
find a market for only about l SO, 900,
600 pounds of wool. But they raise
annually more than 800, 100000
pounds. They would therefore have
upward of 167 100000 pounds o.
product left on their hands with
no market for it, and would be Obliged
to reduce their production by that
amount, an annual loss to them o
S35, 100000 at least. Besides tn,
farmers loss the S72, ,OoO, 900 increas'
in imports of wool manufacture
would throw 10000 wool workers ou
of employment, a direct annual los
to them OF from S25, 100000 to $50,
600, 900 in wages. This is the pros
pect which Democracy offers the Amer
lean workingman and farmer.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
The Wizard of Wall Street.

A master of fnance.-Detroit Jour
nal.
His career cannot be deemed a sue
cess.-Toledo Blade.
The greatest financial genius of the
age.-Buffalo Enquirer.
The deceased financier was bold,
and indeed a desperate OPERATOR
New York World.
He was an animated antithesis, the
like of which the world may never see
again.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
For more than twenty years the
most potent figure in the worlds finan-
cial affairs.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
The greatest money-maker ever
known, was the least known money
maker that ever lived CT died.-Brook
lyn Eagle.
1t may be that the world has never
done Justice to him, who is now, ma
terially, as poor as the poorest
Washington Star.
So long as he is remembered it will
be only as the sharpest and most sue
cessful "speculato of the century
Philadelphia Bulletin.
His will was indomitable; his cour-
age was lllimitable; his energy was
tireless; his knowledge of human
nature was perfect.-Rochester Union.
From first to last the business ca
reer of Jay Gould was an unparalleled
story of successful and wonderfully
endowed avarice.-Cleveland Leader.
Mr.. Gould's death simply removes a
disturbing element in the financial
world-an element whose influence
was far reaching, powerful and also
used selfshly.-Wheeling Register.
We say that the late Mr.. Gould can
not be entirely condemned for becom-
ing rich. II his faults need expiation
it can be given by the balance in favor
of the prosperity his railroad inn
provements created.-Columbus Dis
patch.
Jay Gould is dead, but there are
plenty of others to shear the lamb for
the untempered wind. - Buffalo Ex-
press.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
Beats the Eiffel Tower.

One of natures strangest freaks, one
OF the greatest wonders of the world,
is the DEVILS tower, or, as the Sioux
Indians call it, the Matee Tepee, or the
Bears lodge, which stands on the
banks OF the Belle Fourche river in a
northeastern county OF Wyoming.
The country for miles around consists
of high table lands, deep canyons and
narrow, fertile valleys-nothing to in
dicate the possible existeIce of any
such freak OF nature.
The tower is a gigantic column, a
monster obelisk of lava, which rises to
height of 1,727 feet, almost twice
the height of the Eiffel tower. At the
base the huge shaft measures 326 feet
through in one direction. Huge crys-
tails of the volcanic rock, measuring
one to three feet through, start at the
base and run unbroken to the top,
giving to the column peculiar fibrous
appearance, even when viewed from
the table lands forty miles away.
How did it get there? How was it
made? Once in awhile in the present
age we have heard of how portions OF
the bottom OF one of the oceans have
been pushed up by volcanic forces and
even a new island added to the charts.
Ages on ages ago similar volcanic
forces started a jet of lava from the
bottom of the ancient geological ocean
that covered all the enorthwest at that
time. The squirt of molten rock evi'
IDENTIFY did not break through it into
the waters above, but froze, as the
iron man would say, in the hole it had
made. The slow cooling off, the grad
ual loss of its frey energy, probably
lasted for many long years and gave
time for the particles to arrange them
selves in the huge crystals that arouse
all of our astonishment to-day
Portland Oregonian.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
WHEN SILVER GOES TO rs.
The General Effect in Montana Will Not Be
SO Disastrous as in Col
orado.
Sales of Silver Properties Are Greatly Re-
tarded, But Gold Producers
Booming.

There are a number OF mines in
Montana that cannot be worked at a
profit if silver is selling under 80 cents
an ounce, but fortunately Montana
has not suffered as severely as her
neighbors during the silver depression.
A number OF small silver producers
have shut down in Montana, but OF
the big silver mining companies, but
one, the Helcia, of Glendale, has closed
down on account of the low price of
the white metal. Ia Colorado, Idaho,
and Nevada the depression in the
price of silver has been most disas-
trous, according to the reports sent
out from those states, and in many
cases mining camps have been entirely
depopulated. While Montana is a
great silver producer, unlike the three
states mentioned her mines also pro-
duce gold and copper. In fact the
greatest output of the biggest mining
camp in the state, Butte, is copper.
Naturally the low price of sill er has
resulted, in a number OF cases, in the
breaking OFF of negotiations looking to
the sale OF silver properties, and has
ment work in number OF instances.
But on che other hand renewed atten-
tion has been directed to gold proper
ties, and gold mines that have lain
idle for years are now being opened up
and within year these properties will
give employment to as many men as
have been forced into idleness by the
stagnation in silver properties. OF
course, the lower silver is the smaller
the profits of the owners of silver
mines, and the more economical they
are forced to be. If silver goes to rs
it is doubtful if q silver mine in the
state will be worked. But that will
not close down all the mines in Mon
tana, as will be the case in Colorado
and Nevada, according to the reports
from those states. In 1898 there will
be more gold quartz mines turning out
the yellow metal in Montana than
there ever has been, and the gross
value of the mineral output OF the
state, including gold, copper, silver
and lead, will equal that OF any year
in its history.
The capital which is refused for sill
yer mining ventures is looking for
other fields, and other enterprises are
getting a large proportion OF it. In
the next ninety days more than a mil
| lion dollars will so into irrigation pro-
jects in Montana, and the result will
be that within two years the residents
OF this state, instead OF importing, as
| they now do, grain, hay, feed and veg.
etables will raise enough to meet the
home demand and have a surplus for
export.
Every resident of Montana wants
| to see silver go to 81 an ounce, but II
it droI S to rs cents they feel the state
has other resources and will not
abound in deserted cities, as the re-
ports from Colorado and Nevada in
dicate will be theresult in those states.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
Was 1t an Earthquake.

A Chattanooga (Tenn.) special says:
About g O'Clock this morning decided
shock was felt in the section extending
from Hill City to the summit of Mis-
sionary Ridge, an are of about two
and half miles square. The shock
was apparently from north to south.
Doors in houses flew open, piles OF
lumber were upset, coal at the shutes
rolled down and water vibrated. The
residents assert that the shock was
caused by the breaking down OF some
enormous caves which honeycomb the
geological formation here. No casu-
allties are reported.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
ONE ELEcToR FOR EACH.
Clevelan1, Harrison and Weaver all Win in
North Dakota.

BISMARCK, n. D., Dec. 1.-THE state
board of canvassers met here and is
sued certificates ofelection. No ochange
given. For presidential electors Har-
rison has one, Wamburg, who pulls
through by eight majority. The fusion
ticket elects two members, although
it is claimed one of them, Rondesvedt,
will vote for Cleveland. Should such
prove to be the fact, Harrison, Cleve-
land and Weaver will secure a vote
from North Dakota. The legislative
returns show a Republican majority
of six on joint ballot, if all elected as
Republicans can be held in line.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
Valuable Pieces Of Money.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16.-The first
$4,000 of the Worlds Fair souvenier
halt dollars were shipped to Chicago
today by express, in care of the United
States sub-treasurer. They occupied
FIVE kegs and include ali OF the first
$4,000 minted, except No. 1, for which
theexposition company is to get S1O,-
900, and three others numbered 400,
1892 and 1892. These, on account
OF their extra value, estimated to ag-
gregate $4,000, were carefully put
up in separate packages and packed
in special keg by themselves. They
60 forward by United States express.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
History Repeats Itself.

After Henry Clay was defeated by
Polk Wing said to a Democrat: "Now
you have won | hope you will carry
out your principles to the letter"
The Democrat replied: THAT'S the
way with you id Wings. You
want to ruin the country. The DEM
ocrats Of today are right when they
say they never change.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
wooL-sroRINc FACILITIES.

Large Warehouse the bank with
Judith and Wolf Creek
point to haul their wool whether
desiring sell or ship
Others seeking locations will find the
kinds BED ROCK PRICES Also, blacksmith shop
sSrORDERS MAIL GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
The Difference.

A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter- Ocean defines the difference be-
tween P. ID. Armour and Jay Gould
as follows: 1.-The one is a man who
deals in hogs, and the other was a
hog who dealt in men.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-12-29
Definite.

Irate caller-Is the editor in?
Office boy-No.
Caller-How soon will he come in
Boy-As soon as you go out.-Puck.
The National tribune., 1892-05-19

THE PENSION BUREAU INVESTIGATION.
1t is a fitting comment upon the proceed
ings of the Committee which is investigating
the Pension Bureau that last week, by
unanimous vote, it decided TO strike from the
record, as unworthy of consideration, great
lot of stuff which had been given as testl-
mony by Rhodes, DeArnaud, and others OF
similar character 1t showed that, in Its
eagerness to get hold of something damag-
ing to the Bureau, it had encouraged every
scandal-monger to tell all that his malig-
nancy and inventiveness could suggest
The consequence was quantity OF evil
imaginings too rank and improbable even
for the strong stomachs of the majority OF
the committee.
Any committee which starts out to col
lect the gossip of tho Washington saloons,
hotel Corridors and other loafing places /;
the vicious tales of discharged employees,
frustrated lobbyists, and unsuccessful claim
agents, will not lack for material, especially
if it is not particular rs to the quality OF
the stuff Every man who has been dis
charged from the Government employ for
good cause is full of hatred for those who
ousted him. Every man who has failed to
impose dishonest claim upon the Govern
ment has his walls full of wrath against
those who frustrated him. If he is en-
couraged to talk, and given the stimulus OF
Of publication, he will exert himself to get
revenge on those to whom he feels hostile.
Anyone one knows what a mass of scandal
Gus rubbish could be brought to light by
similar process in any community in the
United States.
This is virtually all that the 1nvestiga-
ting Committee has developt so far. In
spite of the most determined efforts it has
found absolutely nothing to base single
one of the serious charges against the Bureau,
which have filled the hating papers
for SO long time. 1t has not even developt
enough Of the inevitable gossip and scandal
to distract the public from its failure to find
any thing of Importance.