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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-10-15
I)uIUtll.
Duluth.
Duluth, Mimi, Special. Oct. /.

Duluth, Mimi, Special, Oct. 12.-
The United States court op.ned its fall term
here to-day and il trying the personal injury
care o! Moses Elliott against the Northern Pa
ciiic railroad for SlOOD0.
j. &. Jones and H lurge party OF railroad men
connected with the Columbus. Shawnee l. Hook
ing and the Sandusky & Columbus Short Line
have purchased the Williams Daugherty & Up
ham docks her. for s. l5O,UDO. aud Will establish
coal docks OF the Pennsylvania & Ohio Coal
company to handle coal i:ext year. They will
expend $40. 900 i'll repairs and establish the
headquarters Of the company here. They have
docks at Ashland and Manitowoc. They have
2,4UU feet dock frontage.
ID. e. Den. Las been elected captain OF Com
pany q. of Duluth, NJ. y. &.
The steiison block was sold to-day to i. A.
Whitney OF Lowell Mass, for 100000. This
is nt the rate oil 81 900 per front foot.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-10-15
Suit for Libel Dnma.e. Dismissed

Algona, Iowa. Special, Oct. 1O.-Tlie case
of DR.. Hathaway of Sioux city against he
Algona Republican. claiming SlOWn for
libel. was taken from the jury to-day aud
dismissed by Judge Thc;nas.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-10-15

Emmanuel church OH Order Out of
Chaos" Tn the chanccl were Bishop
Clark of Rhod. Island. Bishop Watson
of East G.: rolina diocese Rev. Mr.. Cole
of Oregon. Canon Jacobs of England and
otLpr liyinpS
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-10-15

Lieut.. Cd. Niilcrs. deputy adjutant gen.
cral OF Winnipeg has been suspended by
Maj. Gen. Herbert for absence from bis
pos: without .,.,c. He is now On his
we'd j:,. tnuc.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-10-15
Noville-Arrived: Archora. New Yors.

Moville-Arrived: Archoria New iorS.
Observation-Disclosures: Saae, New YorE.
Fastnet-sighted: Tentonic, from New York
lade!rhia--Arrved: British Princess, Liv
erpco!.
New Yo.k-Arrived: WaeSanl. Antwerp.
Soutnamrton-Arrive,l: Lain. New York
Judge f. S. Sampson has just died at his
home in Sigo,irney. Iowa. after IL long i'll
ness. lie was district Judge for eight years
and had been IL member of the state SELL
ate and also n member of congress.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-10-15

Pueblo, Colo. Oct. 12.-Byron A.
Dalton of Independence, Kan, hiss ar
rived in Pueblo to visit his married
daughter MIR. Dalton is the father of
tins Dalton boys who We're killed last
week while attempting to rob bank,
al Il whose daring cscapades have made
them famous in bandit history. My
daughter, said MIR. Dalton. "is as pure
as snow. and had been able to control
the boys they would have kept in the
straight and narrow path. Novel read
ing and the work of the james boys
caused the curse TO fall OF the fumily.
! don't care to talk much about the kill
ing of the boys. yet will say that I
do not think they had fair show Yon
can understand IL fathers feelings. The
Younger and James boys went crooked.
My oldest SONS were always steady and
industrious, but the other boys took to
bad ways. They would not go to school:
would not work. and Jagged Mt anything
that seemed to be honest. Mother and
tried to keep them straight, hut it is
the Judgment of heaven that has fallen
gree. but they desired IL life of luxury
and would not III ike it honestly. i can
not say whether they hid any money
they have taken. They stole good
deal, but spent more. do not know why
they went to Coffcyville unless they
had gru'lgc against the place My
sons had many enemies in that town.
| wish You would say. in writing this
Up. that the Dalton boys. outlaws though
they We're, We're good to their parents.
Ii mother and | needed anything they
gave it to lis. We trir, to bring them up
right. but it seems we fniled They w ,re
not towards. My heart is broken ind
So is mothers. You cunt expect us to
boys did wrong. but they have passed
beyond this range and Gods will he
done" Mr.. Dalton is II plainly dressed.
gray bearded man. He is of slight build
and his face shows lines of care
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1892-10-15
Forged NOtes.

Spokane, Wash. Oct. 1..-Wiiam A.
Myrirk. of the firm of Myrick 4 Co..
marble and granite works here. is Il de
fnultcr to the amount of $4,000 His
victims not only include three national
banks, but almost Il score of private i'll
dividunls in this city. Myrick left Spo-
kane about ten days ago with his wife.
saving that he was going to the Palouse
country for his health. as he was coll
sumpivc. The story was generally be-
licved Within ninety days Myrick has
forged farmers names to notes ranging
in value from $500 to $4,000. When
these affairs came to light the police were
notified. and he was traced to Denver.
Colo, where he was found living lux
uriously in Il hotel there. AS soon as he
found his game was up. he started for
New Mexico. but took a heinmorrhage
and was unable to proceed farther than
a few miles from Denver. Attorney
Stone of this city left for Denver last
night to effect Il settlement with Myrick.
if possible: nihcrwis" the law will take
its course. Many of his victims are op--
posed to prosecuting him on account of
his ill health
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
MAKING THEMSELVES SOLID.
Railroads Offer Free Rides to New Hamp-
shire Politicians.

Boston, Mass, March pa Concord,
Joint official notices have been issued by
the Concord and Montreal and the Bos-
ton and Maine railroads in relation to the
coming national political conventions to
be held at Chicago and Minneapolis, from
which it appears that all differences be-
tween the two corporations as to the
division of delegates has been amicably
adjusted by the agreement that the
former shall have one-half and one
fourth of them respectively, and the lat
ter the remainder, and the members of
the two state committees who may
attend the national conventions are to be
similarly divided. Notice is also given
that active Republicans, and Democrats
in the various towns and wards who are
willing to cooperate in the election of
delegates and Committeeman as agreed
upon are expected to correspond i'm
mediately with specified officials of the
two railroad corporations, and ii they
desire to visit Concord or Boston for con-
ference prior to the holding of caucuses
or the state conventions, they will be
furnished with free transportation, and
delegates to the state conventions will be
given free tickets each way. To out
siders these official promulgations offer
ing free passage upon application to all
active men in both parties in New Hamp-
shire, to go to Concord or Boston and re-
turn; as well as free tickets to all dele
gates to the state conventions and return,
have a rather significant look. The
question naturally arises if the two great
railroad systems are not attempting to
make themselves solid with the politi-
clans in view Of the asking for legislation
in the near future.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
PLAYING POKER WITH UNCLE SAM.
The System of Mail Contracts Mr.. Ding
ley Hopes to End.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-The petition
which Representative Dingley of Maine
has presented in the House against spec
ulative bidding for carrying the mails is
of special interest in this city, where the
mail contractors generally have their
headquarters. The petition bears 5000
names and aims at preventing the suba
letting of mail contracts. "Under the
law" said Governor Dingley, ''the Post
Office Department is forced to award the
contract for carrying the mails to the
lowest bidder The consequence of this
is that a lot of speculators, some residing
here and some in other places, formed a
combination to bid on hundreds of
routes They bid trifie lower on each
route than the last bid, and they got the
contract. They go into the business just
as men go into a game of poker. They
may be nipped here and there and have
routs put on them which they have tax
en- at too low figure, but they trust to
the general result to bring them out at a
profit.o
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
HALF "A CENTURY UNDER WATER.
Now the Schooner james A. Fisher
Wrecked in 1s43 VIII Be F1oated.

NEW YORK, March 23.-The two-mast-
ed schooner James A. Fisher, which
sunk off Cape May inlet 40 years ago,
will soon be floated. This is the result
of the two fierce storms which have
swept the Jersey coast since March 1.
When the Fisher went down she set
tied so that not even the main truck was
visible above the sand. The high tides
and heavy surf ate away the sand, and
where the beach was formerly covered
only at the highest tides, the water is
now about ten fathoms deep. This
leaves the Fisher entirely clear Of the
sand and she is now being hghtened, and
within week will be foated.
When she sank she carried with her
her cargo of corn and everything aboard.
Capt. Andrews, who commanded her,
and several of the crew were frozen to
death, and the steward was drowned in
an attempt to reach the shore. She is
in remarkable state of preservation,
not even bulwark being crushed in.
The watches, shoes and clothing Of the
crew are still on board.
The corn, although turned black, pre-
serves the shape of the kernel, but it is
now decomposing under the action of
water and light. A watch, which has
been found on board of her, was stopped
at 2.27 and was in a fair condition.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
SELECTED BY THE GOVERNOR.
Isaac L. Elder, Esq, of Deering Nomin-
ated for Municipal Judge.

AUGUSTA, March 23.-The following
nominations have been made by the
governor:
Judge of the Municipal Court for the City of
Deering-Isaac L. Elder, Deering.
Commissioner of Pharmacy-Frank r. Part
ridge, Augusta.
State Assayer-E Edwin s. Drake, Portland.
Public Administrators. w. Guptill, Old
Orchard.
Private Detective Thomas F. Allen. Bangor.
Coroners-F. H. Bartlett, RumfOrd; Roscoe E.
Wood, Richmond; II. Lancaster. Oldtown.
Trial JuStice-Charles j. CARL, Winn; James
G. Googins, Steuben; w. Fl. Stevens, New Port
land.
Notary Public-Kerwin w. Riggs, George
town; Henry H. Clark. fremont; j. Willis
Crosby, Dexter; w. F. Moody Kennebunkport;
George F. Plaisted, York; W. D. Mnssenden.
Bath.
Justices of the Peace and Quorum-J. S. Har-
rirhan, Belfast; Franklin Skillings, Portland;
Eben M. Tibbetts, Dexter; Geo. M. B. Sprague,
Vanceboro; James Johnston, Houlton; Frank
L. Noble, Lewiston; Ci1aS J. Dunn, Orono; !;
Reuben Sargent, Madrid E, G. Dudley, Angus
ia; Edward w. Jepson CascO; Martin ". Bah
bidge, fremont; Samuel w. Junkins, York; f.
L. Palmer, Monroe: w. w. Johnson, Madison
Charles F. Kilbreth HalsoWell; Lewis @. Put
nam, Franklin Plantation; Hollis L. Jackson,
MontvilIe; David CargflI EaAsss Liverfnore; Gil
bert I. Hadlock, Cranberry Isles.
Governor Burleigh has also nominated
Mrs. Jennie R. Smith of Litchfield trus-
tee of the Maine Insane Hospital.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
in HARD LUCK.
Bath vessels in Distress-Notes from the
shipyards.
rsnecial to, the Press.]

Especial to the Press.1
BATH, March 23.-Intelligence has
been received that the schooner Tecum-
sch of Taunton, Mass, bound from Bal
timore to Boston with cargo of coal, is
missing. 1t is feared that she has been
lost. The Tecumseh is one of a number
of mammoth four-masters built by the
New England Company for Taunton par
ties two OF three years ago. Bath yes
sells seem to be in rather dangerous sit
uations just at present. The Dickey
Bird's S whereabouts still remain a mys-
terry. The King Philip has reached port
in a damaged condition. This is another
of the four-masted giants owed by syn
dictate, of which Captain J. M. Phillips is
managing owner.
The Alice Archer arrived today with
hard pine for A. Sewall & Co., and work
will soon be resumed on the big ship
Roanoke. President Sewall is spending
a week at San Francisco.
Workmen have begun to remove the
stagings from the Frank Jones and prep
arations for her launching are going
merrily on.
William T. Donnells schooner will
probably be launched the middle of
April.
The beak of the harbor defense ram is
in position and gives her formidable
appearance.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
FISHING FOR MACKEREL.
How Canadians May Take Advantage of
the Yankees.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, March 23.-Con-
siderable indignation is felt here over
the report which comes from Dfgby, N.
S., that o. D. Daley and W. o. Melanson,
owners of the schooner Pard E. Small
intend to fit out that vessel for a south
ern mackerel voyage. 1t is the intention
to despatch the craft as far south as the
Delaware breakwater and follow up the
coast shore until the Nova Scotia shore
is again reached in June.
The close season is in operation which
debars United States vessels from catch
ing until after that date. This law, how
ever, does not apply to foreign crafts,
therefore it is possible for Nova Scotia
vessels to engage in this business, land
ing their fish athome and eventually dis
posing of them in the United States.
This would be rank injustice to our
fleet who are debarred from catching the
fish until after June.
1t is felt here that the American and
Canadian governments should get to-
gether and arrive at an agreement which
would debar the vessels of both coun-
tries from catching mackerel until after
June.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
Bodies Found After MANY months.

DUNBAR Pa, March 23.-Great ex-
citement was caused this morning by the
report that the bodies of % of the 81
miners entombed in the Hill Farm mine
June 16, 1890, were recovered and that
one of the bodies was identified. The
mine officials deny this. From other
really found, but the mine officials do not
want it known until all are found. 1t is
further stated that the bodies are un-
recognizable and can only be identified
by the clothing.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
Boston s. Maine Doing Big Business.

CONCORD, N. H., March 23.-Ths
freighting business the last few months
over the Northern Railroad division of
the Boston & Maine system has been i'm
mense, much largor than during any cor
responding period in the history of the
line. The freight has been largely Cana
dian and Western, and has flowed with
remarkable steadiness; The road has
been obliged to run nine regular freight
trains daily each way between Concord
and West Lebanon, together with local
between Concord and Franklin, and
from five to eight extra trains between
West Lebanon and Canaan Summit.
From February 90 to March 20 thirty-one
extras and double-headers were run out
of Concord northward. For four months
the average number of cars moved both
waysper day, not including Sundays,
was from 500 to $50, and on quite num-
Der of days from 625 to $50. On Sundays
from eight to ten extra trains were run
from West Lebanon southwark.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
WRONG RIGHTED.
Democratic Gerrymander of Wisconsin
Declared Unconstitutional.

! MILWAUKEE, March 23.-The Wiscon-
sin Supreme Court has fired shot which
will be heard throughout the nation. 1t
holds that the Democratic gerrymander
of the senate and assembly districts is
unconstitutional and therefore void.
The opinion handed down says the ap-
portionment by the Democratic legisla-
ture violates and destroys one of the
highest and most sacred rights and priv
ileges of the people of the state. The
gerrymander is broken at every point,
and the whole act is sweepingly con-
demned by unanimous court, consist
ing of three Democrats and two Repub-
licans.
There is rejoicing all over the state,
and ex-senator John G. Spooner, who
conceived the fight and made one of the
most memorable arguments on the ques-
ton ever delivered before the court, is
being showered with congratulations
from all sections.
The decision of the court is based on
the provision of the Constitution which
requires that in combining two or more
countries to form an assembly district,
the county lines shall be followed. The
gerrymander dismembered 20 counties.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
WILL SOON BE FREE.
Ferdinand Wards Residence at Sing Sing
Nearly Over.

NEW YORK, March %. - Ferdinand
Ward, the erring partner of the firm of
Grant & Ward, will be free in less than
six weeks. April 80 has been fixed as
the date, and he will then walk from the
gates of Sing Sing prison free man. He
will probably go to Brooklyn and en-
deavor to find a home in his old abode
in the Immediate vicinity Of DR.. Storrs's
church, of which he was member, and
of whose Sunday school he was treasur-
er In addition to making him sadder
and wiser man, five years and six
months of prison life have left their
mark upon him. His behavior as a con-
vict has been of the best, and not a sin
gle mark has been placed against his rec
ord in the books of the penitentiary. 1t
was only the other day that a keeper had
for the first time to reprove him. Late
ly Ward has worked himself into a state
of nervousness thinking over his release.
He failed to keep the lockstep in the
convicts' line while in the yard, and re-
ceived a tap of the keepers cane. Ward
instantly became the same attentive pris-
oner as before. For his good conduct,
four years and six months have been
been struck off his sentence.
Wards crime was in having in the
summer of 1884 committed grand larce-
ny in getting the certiication by the Ma
rine Bank of a $4,000 check, on false
pretences. He was member OF the
brokerage firm of Grant & Ward, the
former being the son of the late General
Grant. The Generals name gave the
firm unlimited reputation, and it was
claimed that only Ward knew of the
narrow margin on which they were do
ing business. They did business in the
Marine Bank, of which Ferdinand Fish,
to whom Ward had been introduced by
Sydney Green, his father-in-law, was
director. Fish told Ward one Saturday
night that there was not enough money
in the bank to cash 100000 check the
latter passed. Ward made clean breast
of the firms difficulties to his partners
father, and the latter procured check
for $3.50, 1000 from W. Fl. Vanderbilt. This
was not enough, and the firm assigned
the Monday following. Wards crooked
ness then came out. He lived for year
in Ludlow street jail on the best board,
for which $40 a week was supplied by
some mysterious friend. 1t is said that
when Ward comes out he will not be a
poor man, as, in a most recent case, lots
of the missing cash has not been ac-
counted for
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
WOKE THE NEleHBoRs UP.
The Auxiliary Fire Alarm in the Bur.
rowes Factory Eas Little JOllifcation.

At just before one o'clock this morning,
the gongs connected with the auxiliary
fire alarms in the Burrowes screen fac
tories commenced to cry fire. The gongs
when they get well at work can make a
big racket and they rang out in great
shape last night. They soon had all the
neighborhood wide awake, and some
person, to help the gongs along in their
efforts to make people believe that the
big buildings were ablaze, pulled a gen.
eral alarm from box 6, on the corner of
South and Spring streets. This brought
the apparatus and also Chief Engineer
Norton, who took charge yesterday. The
firemen made careful search but could
find no fire and finally, evidently thinking
that their sensation was over, the gongs
ceased their cries Of fire, having succeed
ed in waking up several hundred people,
turning out the department. and causing
the smashing of door which was broken
to let the firemen into the building from
the Centre street side. 80
The auxiliary alarm is so construc ted
that when the temperature in the build
ing reaches certain point, last
night to be 9Oo-the gongs, which are up
on the exterior, begin to ring. At the
same time, an alarm is sounded in the
Machigonne engine house, and an annun-
ciator in the vestibule of the Free street
building of the factory, indicates in what
part of the establishment the rising tenn
perature has caused the gongs to begin
their outcry. Last night, the annuncia-
tor Indicated the fourth floor of the front
section of the new building on Free
street. If box No. had not been pulled,
the hose cart from Machigonne's house
would have alone responded to the aux
iliary alarm and the fact that there was
no fire would have been established with
out calling out the department., the
watchman and the man on the hose cart
making the necessary investigation. just
how the alarm was started last night,
was not learned. An amusing part of
the perform ance was the vision of smoke
coming from the roof and windows. Be-
fore the fact that there was no fire be-
came known, many people saw the smoke.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
TREATED LIKE SLAVES.
Customs Of Siberia Among Camps in
the Adirondacks.
THE TALE OF A PARTY OF RAIL
ROAD CONTRACTORS MEN.

They Say They Were Not Only swindled,
but that the Sick We're Made to Work
at the Revolver's Point, and Those Who
Tried to Escape Were Likely To Be
Shot Down by the Guards.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, March 23.-A del
egation of five laborers has just arrived
in this city, half starved and in a pitiful
state of fatigue after walk of 200 miles
from the Adirondack mountains. Their
names are Patrick Dunn, William Camp
bell, Horace johnson, Hans Bentager
and John Dustinson. They enlisted at
16 Greenwood street, New York, about
two months ago, with gang of 100 men
who were taken from that employment
agency to work upon the new railroad
that DR.. Webb and the Vanderbilts are
constructing through the mountains to
accommodate patrons of the summer re-
sorts in that region. They recite tale
showing the i'll treatment the men were
subjected to and the starvation prices for
labor that have caused so many others to
fee from the employ of the contractors
of that road.
Patrick Dunn said: sWe were lodged
in shanties 43 miles in the mountains.
Each man received only $1.25 for day S
labor and was required to pay $3.50 for a
weeks board. Several
Men Froze to Death,
and they hung their dead bodies over the
limbs of trees for the ravens to devour.
'sThe contractors kept the stores, and
these boots which we have on our feet,
that can be bought in Springfield for
$3.50, we paid S. for. For a common
cotton shirt such as we are wearing, we
we paid 20 cents, and 81 for pair of red
mittens that can be bought anywhere for
25 or so cents. These are only an exam
pie of the high prices we had to pay for
clothing and necessities.
'sThey charged SO much for things that
at the end of the month we were indebt-
ed to the company, while they held our
wages back Is days. When we arrived at
the nearest depot to the scene of work,
the contractors conveyed us to the place
in teams and charged us $1.50 each for
the ride.
ssThe contractors had picket lines out
all the time and if man undertook to
escape he was
In Danger of Being Shot Down.
Two or three men did attempt to escape,
and as we never saw any more of them
we have good reason to believe they were
killed. ~sas s>. @9.s
s'Then again, if we were unable to pay
our bills just on the dock the guards
would keep us at the point of revolver
until we did; there was over four feet OF
show in the mountains at all times and
the suffering among the men was some
thing awful.
sSick men were forced to work, and
if they did not arise right on time in the
morning they were taken out of their
beds by guards and held at the point OF
weapon until they began operations on
the road.''
The men are bound for Hartford, where
they hope to secure employment on the
water works.
The Portland daily press., 1892-03-24
nADEAu ARRESTED.
Marshal Saunders reported to Have Him
in Custody.

BANGOR, March 23.-It is reported
here tonight that United States Marshal
Saunders has arrested George Nadeau,
who shot Deputy Marshal McNally, and
who is wanted for Illegal liquor selling.
The arrest was made near the New
Brunswick line above Fort Kent.