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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
MOUNT ARAFAT, ARMENIA.

about 10000 tons displacement each, to
cost, exclusive of armament, not exceed
ing $4,000,000 each, and twelve torpedo
boats of from 100 to 300 tons each, at the
discretion of the Secretary. to cost not
exceeding an average of $4,000.
Since his last report five splendid ships
have been added to the naval list, three
of which are capable of speed in excess
of tw%enty-one knots, while two of them
are the ~fieetest cruisers in the world.
The five vessels are the Marblehead,
1874 knots: Columbia. 22.S0; Olympia,
21.69; Montgomery. 1906; and Mime
apolis, 23.O7G. One important change of
naval policy is noted in connection with
the advertisements for three new torpedo
boats soon to be issued. The Secretary
says that no speed premiums will be al
lowed on these boats; that the premium
system undoubtedly had its advantages
when adopted, but the department is now
convinced that the time has come when,
with the experience gained, it may with
profit be abandoned.
The report shows the number of torpe-
do boats now on hand in foreign coun-
tries is 1,2S3, and the number building
1872 Great Britain has 10 on hand and
81 building, while France is even better
off with pa on hand and II building. OF
seventeen countries enumerated not one
has less than % of these boats, while the
United States, with more coasts and
ports thar any nation, has but six, count
ing those yet to be built.
On the point of preparation for war in
time of peace the Secretary makes this
very significant comment: The latest
and one of the most impressive lessons in
all history is now being taught by China
and Japan. a nation, the most populous
in the world, able to put millions of fight
ing men into the field. is now, after suffer-
ing many disasters, securing Europe and
America for munitions of war. 1t relied
upon its numbers. Now it is buying dis
carded guns and discarded ammunition,
whatever it can get, to aid it in repelling
the assaults of Il people vastly inferior to
it in numbers
After calling attention to the urgent
need Of legislation for the relief of the
personnel of the navy the Secretary
recommends that the enlisted force be in
creased by 1000 men. In conclusion the
Secretary submits estimates for the mex
year ag%gregating %21, SSJ,914, exceeding
the current appropriation by $3.50, 1913,
caused mainly by the necessity of paying
for vessels now under contract. 1t is
stated that after this year the a%pprOpria-
ions on this score will rapidly diminish,
falling from $~13.2J9.393 next year to
S7J0,0O0 in the following year.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

sacking of a church, the Dissertation of an
altar n the most fiendish treatment OF
women are every day affairs, and only at.
tract the attention of the civilized world
when, as now, great numbers of people
are murdered. 1t is a matter of daily oc-
%currence, says an American who has
travelled in Armenia, to have funeral pro-
c~essions mobbed, the mourners dispersed,
the dead taken out of the coffin and
thrown to the dogs in the streets. We'd
ding festivities are stopped by means of
revolvers, and the bride is dishonored.
The young Armenian wife and the blush
ing maiden are entirely ut the mercy of
the unbridled Moslcms; while horses, cat
tie, crops, merchandise, furniture, and
even houses are coolly appropriated by
the cruel, ferocious Kurds and Circas-
slams, with the tacit sanction of corrupt
Turkish officials. Armenian Christians
are not permitted to carry arms. while
the Circassians and Kurds are armed and
are encouraged to hun them. The Chris
tan Armenians generally live in the val
leys and cultivate the soil, while the
Kurds and Circassians are nOmadic peo-
pie and live high up on the mountains
where they tend their flocks. Whenever
they desire they swOop down upOn the
valleys, gathering in the fruits of the
peaceful Armenians' labors and carrying
away fiocks and herds.
There is no justice and no law for the
Armenian. An Armenian is not allowed
to testify against Il Turk and the latter
hardly ever thinks of carrying out any OBJ
legation he may owe the Armenian. The
tax collectors travel in bands and swOop
down upon the villages like harpies, col
lecting all that is possible to get without
regard to rate or value. If the farmer has
no money. off he goes to prison until he
pays, and the prisons are now full to over
flowing with u~nfortunates such as these.
And the shame of these awful outrages
lies at the doc of England which fails to
carry out her obligations to protect Chris
tians in Turkey.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
READY TO QUIT
WILL OPEN PEACE NEGOT,A.
TiONS DIRECTLY WITH JAPAN.
China Said to Be Willing to Pay an
Indemnity of One Hundred Million
Taels Besides All Japan's Expenses
Special Envoy Dispatched.
Bears an Olive Branch.


De Ting, the chief of the imperial GUS
toms at Tien Tsin, who was recently sum-
moned to Pekin in order to confer with
the government as to ways and means for
raising money for the war, has left for
Japan in order to arrange terms of peace.
(he departure Of the Chinese customs
chief for Japan is regarded by officials in
washington as the result of Japan's de-
mand for a direct offer from China. The
DE ling mentioned in the cable is said
to be DIFFERING. a German, who occupies
the position of commissioner of GUS
toms. That he should be sent as the
peace envoy is accounted for by officials
on the ground that an indemnity would
probably be secured on the customs re-
ceipts. 1t has been one of Japan's con-
tentions that she would expect to receive
the customs receipts Of the big Chinese
ports in case an indemnity was arranged.
1t is said that the Chinese envoy will
probably be the guest of United States
Minister Dun at Toxic. japanese officials
have been accorded every courtesy.
Although Japan shows no signs of exc
haustion, fiscal or military, her Govern.
ment and people ought to be satisfied
with the magnificent progress already
achieved in humbling a power ten times
more formidable as to numbers and allied
with the most aggressive imperial SOY,
e%reignties of Europe and Asia. Eng.
land interests are implicated with Chi.
mas; Russia's are complicated with Chi.
mas. If Japan can arrange peace which,
first, shall completely detach Corea from
China; which, secondly, shall give no
new footing to Russia on the northeast
nor to England in the ports and mines
of Corea, Japan will prove herself not
only a war power of distinguished rank;
Notwithstanding her insular ~insignii.
canoe and her comparatively small num-
bers, but she will have outwitted the
entire array of European diplomatists
who have been lowering over the con-
test like vultures expecting to prey ON
both contestants.
China will bear watching in all states
of negotiation for peace. Shameless in
treachery, recreant to pledges, savage to
captives, barbarous in all respects in
which she has not been partially civilized
by force, her diplomats will not hesitate
to cheat even their own agent in the ne
gotiations.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

full of famous cities of the dead as
Greece or Italy, but the fame belongs to
n remoter and less familiar past. There is
Bayazed, paved with fragments of sculp-
ture, fashioned when Moses was a boy
in the house of the Pharaohs: Ami, the
city of colossal ruins, in which the
treasures of the King of Kings were pre-
served; Takhti-SOliman, the reputed birth
place of Zoroaster, where burned the holy
fire descended from heaven, and visited
forages by the Magi in quest of light for
their torches, which kindled all the fires
that blazed within the great empire of
Persia. Petrifying lakes occupy the sites
Of other populous cities which fourished
when this earth was young, and new cit
los flourish on the beds of exhausted
axes.
Mgr. Krimian, the head of the Ar
menian Church, bears the title Of Cathol-
kos. He resides at Etchmiadzin, a
monastery near Erivan, said to be the old
est monastic institution in the world. He
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
MINT REPORT.
Shows the Volume of Cold and Silver
Purchased and Coined.

Purchased ana (Olneus
X. L.. Preston, the director of the MINT
has submitted to the Secretary OF the
Treasury his report of the Mint and As
say Offices for the fiscal year 1891. Ihe
value of the gold deposited is stated as
$40, 942. 545; $3S. 69S,951 was OF ZONES
tic production, S2S, 1925 foreign bullion
and coin, S3,11S,421 old material, S2,o93'-
60 worn and uncurrent United states
gold coin deposited for r~ecoinage.
The deposits and purchases OF SILVER
during the year were 22,1!6,66l me
ounces. the coming value of the same Ill
silver dollars being . 9,409,S25. Nine
teen million seven hundred and seventy
seven thousand and seven hundred DOL
lars was of domestic production, Sl,"oa',
500 foreign bullion and coin, S6,4Sl,io4
worn and uncurrent United States CON-
and the remainder, $SO5,O36, old mate
rial. The amount of silver bullion pup-
chased under the act of July ii, Io9o.
was II, 500 fine ounces, at a COST Vi
So, / 1921; the average cost per me
ounce being SO.7313. The total amount
of silver purchased under the act OF July
II, 1890, from Aug. ID, 1880, the date the
law went into effect, to Nov. i, 1885, the
date of the repeal of the purchasing
clause of that act, was 16S,6I4,0oz me
ounces, costing $155,031,OO2; the average
price per fine ounce being $O.92+.
The total coinage of silver dollars under
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

His majesty the Emperor of China has
Aeon memorialized by over one hundred
: the highest officials in his empire for
=, impeachment Of General Ii Hunr
nag. Advices from Shanghai say the
important memorial has caused a pro.
found sensation. The disgraced prime
minister is charged with corruption, pecu.
ls,ion and deception. The memorial also
declares that Ii Hung Chang has openly
reioiced at the successive important VIC
tories by land and sea of the country's
enemies. the Japanese, and that by his dc.
liberate action he virtually prevented the
Chinese from achieving success. The
nrimc minister is said by the memorial to
nave represented that China was fully
equipped and well prepared for war when
he was well aware of the fact that the
country was lily able to contend against
the forces of Japan.
1t is further charged that he has been
implicated with Prince Kung, the uncle
Of the Chinese Emperor and President of
he Tsung Ii Yamen and of the Admiral
". who was recently appointed to the po-
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

DR.. L. T. Holder was found dead at a
hotel in Memphis, Mo. He had taken an
overdose of nerve medicine.
Frederick C~ronenberger was crushed
to death by a block Of stone that fell from
the new Chamber of Commerce Building
at Toledo, Ohio.
Judge J. T. Terrill was shot and killed
at Jonesboro, Ark, BY Amey Seymour, q
stock raiser. Before falling a corpse Ter
rill knocked Seymour down with a club,
inficting serious wounds.
Mrs. Blanche Kaufman, a French &C,
tress, was sentenced at Cincinnati, Ohio,
to three months Imprisonment and to pay
5000 fine and costs for shooting her husf
hand several months ago.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

was previously Archbishop of Jerusalem,
and has been Patriarch of Constantine
pie, but was banished from the Turkish
capital and deprived of his rights as an
Ottoman subject on account of his patri-
otic views. He was chosen Catholikos in
1892.
The Oldest People.
According to their own annals, the Ar
menians are the oldest people in the
world and the earliest Christian nation.
They trace their origin back to Haig, the
grandson of Noah, who, 1000 years be-
fore the Christian era, established a dy-
nasty of sovereigns that continued to ule
until Vahe, the siXtieth in succession, fell
in battle against Alexander the Great.
In their earlier history they were a con-
quering nation and their empire once
stretched from the Caspian Sea, on the
east, to Cecilia, on the Mediterranean, on
the west, and from the borders OF Pontus,
on the north. to the confines of Assyria,
on the south. Then the population was
$4,000, 900 souls.
Though the Armenians are brave and
seem to have all the elements OF a mill
tary people, they have been held under
subsection most of the time for 5000
years. After being made at different
times, away back in the dim past, part of
the Assyrian, Medean and Persian en-
pires, Armenia fell under the Greek kings
of Syria, about 200 b. c.. Since then the
land has been conquered or overrun in
turn by Romans, Parthians, Saracens,
Mongols, Russians, and, last and worst,
Turks, who first established their SUI
remacy nearly five hundred years ago.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

The country is now parceled out among
the three nations-Turkey, Russia and
Persia.
Through all their vicissitudes the Ar
menians have preserved their faith in
tact. They profess to have been convert
ed Just after the ascension of the Savior
by st. Thaddeus, the apostle.
The Dead Fed to Dogs.
Since the Turk has asserted his sway
over part of Armenia, atrocities almost
beyond belief have been ommon The
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

ly picturesque but
unfor t u II Il t e and
most UNHAPPY region
of the earth. Ar
menia j IN s the
honor of being the
of the human
race. According to
tradition, the Garden
of Eden was within
her bounds, and .af-
ter Noah left the ark
on Mount Ararat he
made his home in the
midst of her terri
tory. Armenia is rs
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

VALUABLE BOOKS in medisva times
always had iron clamps, to which
chains were attached. for the purJ ose
of securing the book to the stand or
pillar where it was kept for use. The
clamps were put on b. q blacksmith.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

THE Car, by n means Or another.
manages to squeeze out Of his people
about $500, 600, 900 a year. This does
not include his private income, which
is estimated at about Sl0,00J,000.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
ASKS FOR MORE SHIPS.

Secretary Herbert Is of the Opinion
that the Navy Should BE Increased.
The most important recommendation
made by Secretary Herbert in his annual
report is that Congress authorize the con-
struction of three great battle ships of
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
NJ NUMEROUS TURK.
HORRORS SUFFERED AT HIS
HANDS BY CHRISTIANS,
Unparalleled Indignities Offered the
Armenians by Cruel and Eerocious
Kurds and Circassians-Land Where
There's No Justice and No Law.
Cling to Their Faith.

Christians by the Turks in Armenia.
Asia Minor, draws attention to that high
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

ECRETARY CAR
Isle has acted in the
matter of the allot-
ment of the $50.0O0,-
600 oper cent. bonds,
bids for which were
opened at the Treas
ury Department. He
accepted the pro-
posal submitted by
the syndicate repre-
scented by John A.
Stewart, of theUnit-
ed States Trust Com
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

Martin Lee, aged ii years, fell 2OO rect
down a coal mine shaft at Farmersburg,
Ind, and was instantly killed.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
is CHARGED.
= HUNG CHANG ACCUSED OF
BETRAYING CHINA.

said TO Have Favored Japan and to
Have Sold Her War Secrets and Am.
r,unition Organized Attack on the
Great ViccrOy.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
BONDS ARE

Secretary Carlisle AIlOts Entire Issue
to the United States Trust Co.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06

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The evening world., 1894-09-12
GETTING ALONG RAPIDLY.

Applegate, the star witness now before
the Lexow Committee. is 4 thorough
scamp and n self-confessed criminal.
But there does not seem to be any rea-
son why he should do wholesale lying
against the police.
If the stories he tells are true. Detec-
tive-Sergt. Hanley, Capt. Meakim. the
whole Detective Bureau and several 9TH
ers are In bad box. But they all
make the usual denlals and denounce
Applegate as whole-cloth falsiher.
Which will the people believe?
This green-goods business Is getting
interesting. What a pity McNally and
Parmeley Jones cannot be produced be-
fore the Committee.
The testimony against individual men,
bers OF the force Ia too strong, direct
and overwhelming to leave any doubt
of their guilt even II the people had not
been satisfied OF the existence OF cor
ruption long before the Lexow Commit
tee was created, What better method OF
remedying the evil can be devised than
the prompt removal OF the men proved
to be guiltyH why should not the prac-
teal work OF the Police Board and
Prosecutor Wellman continue?
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AMPHIRIoUs IN HER CAPABILITIES

woman jumped into the East River
from one OF the piers last night. and
when policeman went to her rescue
her husband, who was sitting calmly on
stringpieCe with their fve-year-old
son, said Let her alone! She can
swim" And so the woman could, but
STE was under the influence Of liquor and
would have drowned had not the police
man lassooed and pulled her out of the
water, She is now locked up for at
tempted suicide,
The woman as the drink habit Her
husband says that she's "a holy terror"
pawns everything in the house to get
liquor and makes him dance around
very lively when she is full OF II. Now
he is wondering what she will do to him
when she gets out, Evidently he ex-
poets three-ply trouncing. II he could
only arrange with Edison to train his
kaleidoscope on the encounter he might
make some money out OF his misery. As
1t is he will have to sit In suspense wait,
Ing for his punishment, and INDUCING al
kinds Of conjectures concerning its posi-,
bilitles. He will likewise probably in
dulge in some lurid remarks about tbs
person who Invented swimming.
The evening world., 1894-09-12
DISAPPOINTING THE SHARKS.

The sugar sharks have had their large
mouths wide open. in the hope OF get
ting a last bite at the Mckinley bounty,
notwithstanding It's repeal by the Will
son law.
They have all along been expecting to
grab the amount OF money claimed to
be payable on the sugar to be produced
during the present fiscal year and to
add this to the other steals the Sen
atorial spectators secured for them I'M
der the new law.
An official decision made yesterday by
Secretary Carlisle, and addressed to
Senator Caffery, OF Louisiana, spoils
this little game. The Secretary points
out that the present law repeats 80
much OF the act OF 1890 as provides for
the payment OF the bounty, and that
Congress made no appropriation for the
payment of an official force to inspect,
weigh and test the sugar to he produced
during the present fiscal year. Hence II
was clearly the intention OF Congress
that no bounty at all should be paid on
sugar after the repeal.
The greedy Trust can do well enough
without the hoped-for last instalment Of
bounty, but 1t will be none the less
vexed at Secretary 'Carlisles action. 1t
covets all 1t can get and would have
liked this extra plum to repay the cost
OF Its recent campaign in the Senate.
The evening world., 1894-09-12
ABOUT SUNDAY LIQUOR LAWS

Judge Lippincott. Of New Jersey. has
some sensible ideas about the Sunday
liquor laws. He calls the attention OF
the Grand Jury to the constant and al
most open violation OF the law prohibit
ing the sale OF intoxicating liquors on
Sunday as a disgrace to the authorities
and as calculated to breed contempt
for all laws.
The Judge is not anxious for the in
Fiction OF severe penalties on violations
of the law. but he Is anxious that the
State should be preserved from the hui
initiating condition OF maintaining
enactments on the statute books which
II neither has the willingness, power
nor decency to enforce.
The entire repeal OF these laws the
Judge says, would be Infinitely prefer
able to the contamination OF the spec
tacle presented and the results arising
from their non-enforcement.
This Is true of New York as well as
OF New Jersey. 1t Is time the absurdity
and injustice of a Sunday prohibitory
law should be made to give way to such
regulatory Sunday law as will con-
cede the poor man a privilege enjoyed
by the rich man, while preserving and
protecting all the respect and good
order due to the day.
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The BibIe and PolyRany.


70 the Editor:
Four In his late utteranees only threshes
over again the old straWs OF his master. Mr.. In
gersoll. These shadowy, slnuous, winding tor
tuous sophlsms and implications. suggestive OF
the sardonic grin Of a lurking Mephlstopheles.
must be met in some way. Here 1t goes: -Four
says the Bible supports poly gamy! II you look
In Genesis H., ~, you will nnd the following
words: Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother. and shall cleave unto his wife
mot wives), and they shall be two in one flesh y
This is the Law in the case. Is It not against
poygamy? This one text Is sufncient to upset
all your talk about the Bible teaching polygamy.
The law you ,uoted from Deuteronomy says MOTH
ing about expressing an opinion on the subject
| OF religion. 1t says III thy brother. thy son,
thy daughter or the wife OF thy bosom
entice thee secretly, saying let us 30 and serve
other gods" 1t seems that there Is something
more here than the mere expression OF an opinion
on the subject Of religion. Again, you quote a
passage from Deuteronomy kill, wherein death
Is decreed against those who entice others to COM
nit idolatry. Now idolatry was treason against
the state. Do you mean by religious liberty the
right TO commit tresson7 II so. religious liberty
is Incompatible with social order. making all
forms OF government impossible. l have a case
In point Major Andre enticed Arnold to commit
treason. Was Washington an enemy OF liberty
because ne hung the spy Idoatry was treason
against the sovereign OF the Jewish state. The
laws OF all nations punish treason with DEATH
and cannot see that It makes any difference
traitor should be removed from the body polite
you would a cancer from your Jaw.
your mawkish sentmentalism to the contrary not
withstandng. l. d. @,
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To Glenn Laccs

Mime. Modjeska cleans delicate white
laces with calcined magnesia, after the
following manner: Sprinkle the lace
thickly on both sides with the mag
nesia. Lay II on a sheet of heavy
writing paper, place a second sheet over
1t, and put 1t away within the leaves
of thick and heavy book for four or
five days Then shake OF the powder
and the lace will be found to be clean.
lIaces are given creamy hue by put
ting small quantities of strained coffee
or powdered saffron In the rinsIng wa
ter until the right cream or ecru color
or shade is produced. TO clean white
silk laces. soak In skinned milk over
night souse In warm soapsuds. care
fully rinse. then pull out and pin down