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The Butler weekly times., 1893-03-23

It is said that Col }. l.. Pace is
succeeding remarkably well as war
den. He is kind, courteous and
affiable, but firm and decided. His
dlrectorsh,p of the pen viii prove a
marked credit to the administration
as we'll as hiinself.-Lamar Demo
crat.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21

Counterfeit Columbian half dollars
ara IN eirenlak kinn a. fysa.1l -. a :
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
of Interest to Wholesalers.

One of the most important cases to
come before the United States court
is the action brought by Griggs,
Cooper & Co., wholesale groccrs, of
ST. Paul, for a permanent injunction
restraining certain counties from SELL
ing goods seized by them i'm payment
of taxes. A state law allows local
assessors to assess goods sent to this
state in carload lots for distribution
TO points in the state. The law was
passed for the protection of local
wholesalers and at their instance.
The plaintiffs shipped to this state
several carloads of sugar for dis
tribution to smaller towns from
Sioux Falls, Aberdeen and Water
town. The sugar was seized by
assessors and sold for the tax, which
averaged S24.3 81 per car. The plaintiffs
resisted the payment of the tax and
have applied to the court for per-
manent Injunction restraining the
sale. The case is of large interest
both to outside wholesalers and to
those located in the state. The
plaintiffs in this action claim that
the law is not constitutional and
hope to get the United States court
to knock it out.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
Had a Narrow Escane.

II. c. Davis. assistant to President
Oakes, of the Northern Pacific, and a
party of Wisconsin lumbermen had a
miraculous escape from a dreadful
death. When their train was near
Wolf Point, in eastern Montana, it
jumped the track and Davis private
car was overturned, landing on it's
side in the water filled with ice. The
entire party was asleep. Davis was the
first out and it was thirty minutes be-
fore the others were rescued, remain
ing in the water up to their arm pits
all the time, and the flood gradually
rising. The party escaped only
with the clothes they had on, and
left in the car about $4,000 in cash
and watches. The party included
O. H. Ingham, William Carson, Il.
X. Long and A. w. Pettibone, of Eau
Clairs, Wis; George and James Du-
laney, Dubuque, 10.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
The Right Material.

Esther Danburg, young woman of
some eighteen years, drove a young
colt from Buffalo county, some
twenty-five miles, Sunday, leaving
there at 3 p. m., arriving at Wessing-
ton Springs at Z. She started back
the next day at 4 to make her way
alone over the long, lonesome, road
facing a wind almost equal to the
long remembered End day of April,
1880, when the prairie fires swept
over So much territory. The cause of
this extra effort on the part of the
young lady was the appearance of
diphtheria sore throat with two of
her little sisters, and there was no
one else to come for medical help. 1t
is supposed the disease was COM
municated to the children by some
lumber brought on the place from a
house in which two children had died
of diphtheria. Esther has been a
faithful student in the seminary,
teaching during vacations to enable
her to acquire an education. But
such girls are not scarce in this
country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
THE OFFICE pLucKED.
The New Law Give. United state. Deputy
Marshals a Poor show.

Marsllals Poor Show.
United States Deputy Marshal
Gunkle, of Sioux City, in CONVEX
sation with a reporter, said: s'The
enactment of the law recently passed
by congress requiring a United States
marshal to take persons accused of
crime against the government before
the nearest justice of the peace for a
hearing will make the position of
deputy marshal and United States
commissioner almost worthless. The
offices have never paid very much and
the allowance for mileage has always
been the best paying feature of the
marshal's Office. This law will knock
mileage out entirely, while the CON-
missioners will not be in it. I do not
expect to make my salt during the
remainder Of my term in office.
have feeling OF compassion for my
successor in Office, should there be
one. I put it that way because
have serious doubts If anybody will
want the place under the circum-
stances. A person cannot make it
pay unless he is a deputy sheriff or
has some other official position in
connection with the deputy marshall
ship"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
Rushing the Cruiser.

Work is being carried on night and
day at Cramps ship yard in order
that the American cruiser New
York, the fastest warship in the
world, may be in condition to appear
in line at the great naval review in
New York bay. Secretary of the
Navy Herbert is particularly anxious
that the cruiser shall participate in
the event in order that the naval
representatives of other countries
may be afforded an idea of what this
country is accomplishing in the way
OF naval ornaments. President
Cramp says he will have the cruiser
ready to have the American flag
'loisted over her and go into COM
mission inside Of ten days, and,
although one of her guns and some
other features of her armament may
be lacking, the ship will appear com.
plete 0utwardly to the eye.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
win BE Prosecuted.

Sioux City Journal: Humane Otii-
Ger Patten said yesterday that ship
pers who send in mixed consignments
of live stock with the cars not proper
ly partitioned will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law. The PEN
atty for shipping live stock in this
condition is flne not to exceed $50
for the first offensc and 800 for the
second. There is hardly a day that
a carload of mixed cattle and hogs
are not received ut the stock yards
In which there are more or less Grip
pies caused by the cattle tramping on
the hogs. And 1t is to prevent this
cruelty that the humane society has
taken the matter in hand.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21

in the Argus-Leader of statement
signed by 80 students and addressed
to the citizens of the state. The
students charge that the recent re-
mova!s have been a gross breach of
faith and a serious injury to the col
lege. Ed Hewitt, they say. was made
secretary of the college in cnnsidera-
tion of his vote as Il regent. DrCormack,
they claim. is ignorant, and is simply
an ordinary horse doctor. Prof. Chill
cott, they say, knows less about bot
any than his most ignorant pupil
and the students say they make the
statementdeliberately. Mr.. Wheaton
they call "an ignorant man and un-
scrupulous politicians" who is re-
garded with contempt by the students.
They say that President McLouth is
cause of allthe trouble and that he has
threatened to expel students if they
fail to keep still.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21

In no part Of the world are SO many
mushrooms raised for the market as
in the vicinity Of Paris, where they
are cultivated in the long subter-
ranean qusrries which produce the
stone Of which the better houses in
Paris are built, and probably nowhere
else is 20 much skill and intelligence
shown in the management of the
Mushroom beds.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF
South DAKOTA,
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUB-
GENERAL ORDERS
No. 10.
ABERDEEN. April 10. 1893

ABERDEEN, April 10, 1893.
I. Chapter s, Article IA, of the
Rules and Regulations Of the Grand
Army enjoin upon every Post and
Comrade the duty of observing
Memorial Day, and it is a part of the
obligation he assumes.
Therefore recommend that every
Post in this Department make early
and ample preparation for the proper
observance of Memorial Day, Tues
day, May 30th, A. D., 1893, and that
our auxiliaries, the Woman's Relief
Corps, Sons of Veterans, the military
and loyal citizens, be cordially in
vited to participate and take a prom
inent part in the exercises.
Also on this day the national flag
should be hoisted at half mast on
every school house, and the pupils,
accompanied by their teachers,
should be especially invited to lend
their presence to the occasion.
Let us loyalty devote the day to the
memories of our Comrades and search
out the green mounds that wrap their
clay, in order that no grave of a
Union soldier or sailor be missed
not one that willing hearts and ready
hands do not unite to strew with
bright flowers in the May time of ma
ture, upon whose impress the sun
light will have painted something of
rarest beauty. Let us. for those Com
rades who dedicated their lives
to liberty and immortalized
their devotion to the Union by their
deaths, and who sleep in graves un-
known, especially prepare some tribute
of love and remembrance: and may
youth and age alike esteem it privi-
lege to join in erecting a cross to their
memories.
III. The Sunday preceding Me-
mortal Day should be observed by the
members of the Posts, in full uniform,
atsome place of Divine worship, in
accordance with the we'll established
custom.
Ill. The Post Commander will or
der his Adjutant to read General Or
der No. from National Headquar-
tiers, also this Order, at the opening
of the public exercises on Memorial
Day. BY command of
JAMES q. HOIT.
JOHN AcKLEY, Department. Com.
Assistant Adjutant General.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
ARBoR DAY.
Governor sheldon Names Day for South
Dakotans to Plant Trees.

Governor sheldon Names a Day for South
Dakotans to Plant Trees.
Governor Sheldon has issued a
proclamation, designating April p as
Arbor day, as follows:
In keeping with custom, and for
the purpose of stimulating the peo-
pie to beautify and adorn their homes
by the planting Of trees and shrubs,
I, Charles H. Sheldon, governor of
the state of South Dakota, do hereby
designate Friday, the 2lst day of
April, 1893, as Arbor day. l advise
its general observance throughout
the state for the purpose indicated.
He who plants tree or shrub or vine
and nurtures it to healthy growth is
a public benefactor. Our people are
greatly encouraged with the prospect
of an abundant reward for their labor.
Let them add to the happiness of
themselves and their children by
each planting tree to live after
them. Teachers and scholars in our
schools are a1monished to observe
this day. Let the ground surround
ing all our public institutions be
beautified and made more attractive
by planting and caring for such trees
as shall furnish friendly shade to
coming generations.
The Harvey Peak Mystery.
Hill City Tin Miner: We are
accustomed to hear much of the
inscrItable ways of providence, and
are early taught to wait, with what
patience we may, the course of events;
but for ways that are utterly mys-
terious and past finding out commend
us to a close corporation like the
Harney Peak company. 1t is known
throughout the world that this COM
pany was organized with immense
capital, purchased large tracts of
mining ground, secured desired legis-
larion, erected the best mining and
milling plants supplied with the best
modern machinery, proceeded to
thoroughly develop, to the depth
attained, some of their. mines, made
ample and frequent tests which
satisfied all parties of the existence
bodies of tin ore, which could be prof
itably mined. All this had taken
time and great expense. Then for
the purpose of arriving ut the best
means of separating the mineral from
the rock many experiments had been
made, the result of which was com-
hination of machines forming one of
the finest mills in the world, costing
$3.50. 900 and which did it's work to the
publicly expressed satisfaction of all
parties. Railroads were built con-
nccting mines and mill. And when
tue facts had been demonstrated to
the interested parties and to the
commercial world that the company
has extensive bodies of tin ore. that
it can be mined and milled at good
profit and apparently the business
had reached point where the long
drain of constant expenses which has
all these years been promptly met
should cease, and the tide begin to
return with protit-suddenly-with
the startling effect of an earthquake,
comes the order from away back in
some remote board of directors, to
stop operations and discharge the
and the gaping world is
quietly informed that there is trouble
at headquarters and the work will
remain idle until the trouble is
settled.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.

NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Gov. Sheldon has appointed II. r.
Turner Judge of Marshall county,
vice Mccoy resigned.
The North Dakota conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church will
open at Fargo April 1s.
An unsuccessful attempt has been
made by the Bismarck city council
to take from the mayor the right to
appoint committees.
The state board of university and
school lands has appointed NJ. D..
Williams land commissioners, to sue
ceed j. B. Power, resigned.
Hon. L. e. Booker, of Pembina.
sent thirteen large boxes of taxider-
mist specimens of his own collecting
and mostly his own shooting to the
Worlds Fair, at the request of the
commissioner.
The board of education Of Devils
Lake has selected a school site for a
new high school. Plans of Archi-
tects Miller & Joy, of st. Paul, were
adopted. The building is to cost
$4,000.
Rev. Sam 3. Mahoney, of Lari-
more, has withdrawn from the
ministry and membership of the
Methodist Episcopal church under
impending charges for gross i'm
morality. The church conference has
demanded the surrender of his parch-
ment as minister.
Fargo now seems to be the divorce
Mecca for the unhappy married
couples. Eighteen aspirants for the
dissolution of their marriage vows
have recently arrived there, five of
the number from Sioux Falls. In
North Dakota an effort was made to
increase the length of residence re-
quired before a suit could be COM
menced, but it failed and the law
remains as of old.
The presbytery of Pembina covers
the northern half of North Dakota,
an area of about 81, 900 square miles.
1t has upon its roll more than fifty
churches and score of ministers and
licentiates. Its churches enroll ], 900
communicates and 1,40O Sabbath
school scholars. They extended some
$50, 600 last year in work at home and
abroad. They have erected many
comfortable churches and elegant
manses. 1t is body of men of un-
swerving loyalty to the Presbyterian
church. They ask the next general
assembly to stop the work of re-
vision, prepare brief supplemental
creed for popular use, and they have
elected commissioners to the WASH
ington assembly pledged to stand by
the doctrine of the plenaly inspira-
tion of the word of God.
Foster County independents: Two
years ago Il. ii. Holcomb captured a
wild goose alive, tanned it and kept it
until fall when the geese began to go
south, it disappeared one day having
gone south with the others. One
year ago the goose returned and re-
maincd at Mr.. Holcomb's place for
some time but again disappeared and
it was thought it had fallen victim
to some sportsman's unerring aim.
Judge of Mr.. Holcomb's surprise
when on going out to the barn to at
tend to the chores last Sunday MORN
ing he found that the goose had
again returned and was making itself
as much at home as though it had
never been away. The return of this
goose each spring is pretty conclusive
proof that geese in emigrating each
wear take tIp Same rn,lta
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21

T. II. Brown, secretary Of the Sout'.
Dakota commission, requests that al
soE Emuntcati0ns In regard to South
Dakota w0rld's fair matters be ad-
dressed to South Dakota Building,
Jackson park, Chicago, nl.l State
papers please COPY.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-21

he has been offered and refused $40
for. 1t is the first penny ever issued
by the government of the United
States, and was coined in 1857. On
one side is stamped the sun blazing
on a sun dial, fugio and date. On the
other side are thirteen links repre-
senting the colonies and in the center
the words 1--WE are one," AT the bot
tom are the words "NIind your busi-
Lness.n The piece is a great curiosity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-01
MEMORIAL DAY.
Vanished Workers of the Lords
Vineyard COMMUNICATED at
Red Rock.
Numerous Addresses on the Vir-
tues of the Dead-Fire on
the Grounds.

Yesterday was Memorial day at Red
Rock, and it was celebrated in fitting
manner. Morning and evening there
were the usual sermons, but the after
noon was given over entirely to the
memorial services.
The Bible reading by DR.. Murray
opened the day, the service being fol-
lowed ut 1920 by sermon by Rev. DR..
Chatfee, presiding elder of the Winona
district. In the evening revival ser
vices were conducted by the revivaiist.
The exercises OF the afternoon were
held in the big auditorium and it was
especially decorated with flowers fer
the occasion
The programme of the afternoon SER
vice consisted of memorial addresses
delivered as follows:
DR.. w. W. Satterlee, Dr.. William
Mckinley and Rev. j. F. Powell: on
NJ. Lampher, secretary of the camp
meeting. association, Rev. Frank Doran
and j. T. Tostevin; Mrs. Stanton, Revs.
George Galpin and Frank Doran, and
}. f. Tosteyin; Mrs. Berris, Rev. Thomas
McCleary; w. Hartman, Rev. w. r.
Moore; john Lottomeyer, Rev. j, +.
Powell; Mrs. Arneil, Rev. William
Moore, and Mis-. underwood, Rev. f. ii.
Hinkley. A song written for the oc-
casion by Dr.. Murray and sung as
duet by DR. and Mrs. Murray, formed a
pleasing part of the exercises.
Red Rock experienced it's first fire
yesterday, the sufferers being Rev. and
Mrs. j. F. Powell. Their tent and
nearly all its furnishings was destroyed,
but fortunately no one was injured.
The fire originated from the tlaring up
Of kerosene stove.
The social side of the camp meeting
life has not been lost sight of amid
religious excitement. Thursday evening
party of the younger brethren and
sisters, under the care of DIR. and Mrs.
Murray, enjoyed moonlight excursion
on the river. The occasion proved a
merry one, the return being made by
the late Kansas City motor.
DR.. Murray and Mrs. Murray, who
have have had charge of the music dur
ing the meetings, have won many
friends during their stay. Yesterday
afternoon they received a testimonial
from their choir i'll the shape of two
beautifully engraved souvenir spooEs.
The presentation of the spoons was ac-
companied by the reading of some very
clever verses written by one of the
members of the choir, Miss Quinby.
TOday's programme includes the last
reading In DR.. Murray'S excellent Bible
studies, and sermons morning and aft
ernoon by Rev. G. b. Wilcox and 'rhom-
as Harrison. This evening will be de-
voted to an address by Rev. A. w. Ru-
disill OF Madras, India.
Tomorrow morning the boy preacher,
Thomas Harrison, is to deliver one of
his most sensational sermons. The
subject will be Sudden Manifestations
of Power" III the afternoon DR.. Muir
ray is announced to give his experience,
and tell how he turned from Roman
ism to Methodism."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-01
WAS OLE OBSCENE =?
A DisreputabIe Epistle to a Girl
Lands the Alleged Writer
in Court.
Previous Bad Conduct Charged o
the Defendant by Some
Witnesses.

Ole Ostrum, Of Elbow Lake, was tried
yesterday In the federal court on an in
dictment charging him with sending an
obscene and threatening lettor through
the mails to Miss Elsie Pauison. The
evidence was all presented and the case
argued TO the jury. Judge Nelson will
deliver his charge this morning. The
evidence was interesting and was di-
rected toward showing that Ostrom is a
demoraliZed character. County Attor-
ney Schofeld, of Grant county. when
OH the witness stand, stated that about
year ago he had instituted proceed
ings against Ostrom for alleged incest,
but had not pushed the prosecution be-
cause of lameness in the law.
Ostrum has family of ten children,
three of whom are girls ranging in age
from ten to fifteen years. In his letter
to Elsie the charge was made that sew
eral persons had improper relations
with her. The girl denied any unchaste
conduct on the stand, and said that
Ostrum had stated that he would pay
$1,000 to keep her father in jail. A son
of the accused man testified that the
letter in question was not in the hand
writing of his father. The penmanship
is fair, and indicates that it was not the
work of the illiterate defendant. The
spelling and composition in the letter
show that the writer was very deficient
in education. The case was hotiy con-
tested. An effort was made 10 show
anmus Oh the pareof the complaining
witnesses. and that there is bad feeling
between the OStrum and the Pauison
families.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-01
HEADS CUT OFF.
An Economical Streak Stirs the
Joint City Hall anu Court
House Commission.
An Engineer, Fireman and a
atchman Dropped From
the Pay Roll.

The joint court house and city hall
committee determined at yesterday aft
ernoon'S meeting that retrenchment
would have to be applied to its depart
ment, and after a whispered confer
ence between Mayor Wright, Commits
sioner Seng, and Assemblymen Daily
and Zimmerman, two resolutions were
drawn up and subsequently passed that
cut the custodian's pay roll 1905 per
month. The custodian and engineer Of
the building were also in the confer
ence held by the persons named, and
seemed to agree with the proposition
which cut off the heads of three men
and reduced the salary of one.
By resolution OF Mr.. Daily Ira E.
EgleSLOn, an assistant engineer who
drew S75 per month; Edward Mullaney,
a fireman at salary of $50 per month,
and Peter D0herty. the night watch
man. who drew S55 per month, had their
heads cut off. and their services will
cease July l. The salary of Michael
Sch0rn, who was on the pay roll as a
carpenter, bat who has been doing jani-
tor work, was cut from sos to $50 per
month. Sch0rn was appointed as a
janiJ0r, anG was given a raise of S15 per
month three months ago. His salary
will now be the same as that OF the 9TH
er janitors.
The custodian's pay roll before the
cut included the following: Custodian,
500 per mouth; engineer, 500 per
month; two assistant engineers at SIS
per month; two firemen at $50 each; four
elevator men at $50 each; ten janitors
n S'11 each Onp iapitOr n SfS.
man at SO; a gardener at $50, and a
Scrubwoman at $40.
Before these resolutions were adopted
there was general discussion as to the
state OF the finances at the disposal of
the joint committee. County Auditor
Burns made statement to the effect
that there is So, 900 allowed the COM
mittee foFsalaries and maintenance of
buildings for the entire year. For the
first six months, including the bills al
lowed yesterday, there has been eX-
pended S25, 253.7l, leaving balance Tor
the remaining six mouths of S7,746.29.
The committee discussed the practical
bllity Of dra wing on next years funds
to let them out, but the general view
was that enough could not be provided
TO continue the present rate of eXpend-
itureS, and retrenchment was agreed
upon
County Commissioner DAILY advised
against cutting Off the heads of any of
the workingmen and favored reducing
the pay of all temporarily and making
up full pay when times get better. His
proposition was not considered with
any favor, however.
The committee allowed the custo-
dams pay roll for June. amounting to
$3.50, and besides directed the pay
ment of other bills amounting to ST.
$3.50. Commissioner DAILY voted MOI
on the passage of the bills and ex-
plaiued that he objected to bill for re-
pairs, but afterward changed his vote
to the affirmative.