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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
SOUTHERN COAL.
A Test to BE Made by the United State,
Cruiser Montgomery.

A Test to BE Made by the United States
Cruiser Montgomery.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Orders have
been issued to the Montgomery, direct
ing that vessel to reach Mobile, Ala.
on the Goth Of November. She will
afterwards cruise in the waters of the
gulf for the purpose Of making tests of
coal mined in the Southern states. The
department intends to make Key West
coaling station sufficiently large to
accommodate the ships cruising in the
vicinity. Coaling in the Caribbean
sea is expensive and it is Secretary Her
bert's intention, hereafter, to have our,
ships take coal as far as possible at Key
West. He has notified the Southern
coal men that that tests Of all coal that
may be delivered free at Mobile, Pensa-
cola or Key West in quantities of not
less than 100 tons, will be made by the
Montgomery. The Montgomery will
be occupied for some months with this
duty. She is now at the Norfolk navy
yard, having cylinder put in place.
This work will be completed by the 18th
Of next month, and she will leave for
Mobile, where she will be presented by
the citizens of Montgomery with sill
yer service When the presentation
has taken place, she will begin the tests
of coal
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
SOUTH DAKOTA DIVORCES.
Their Legality Will Be Tested in the Fed
eral Courts.

Their Legality Will Be Tested in the Fed
eral Courts.
Sioux FALLS, S. d., Oct. 24.-Judge
Andrews has granted divorce to DR..
Abraham Korn from Julia Korn on the
charge of desertion. They were mar
ried in January, 1891, and lived to-
gether until June 1893, when she took
the children and servants and went to
her parents, name Rotholz, at 1874 West
One Hundred and Thirtieth street.
New York. At that time the plain
tiff was health inspector of New
York city. Korn charges his mother
in-law with causing the separation.
Mrs. Korn has suit pending in New
York for separation and custody of the
children. The South Dakota divorce
gives the doctor custody of the chill
dren. New Yorks courts will probably
not recognize this latter decree, and
DR.. Korn will appeal, throwing the
question into the federal courts. This
case will bring to a test for the first
time the validity of South Dakota di-
vorces. On several occasions DEGREES
of divorce obtained in this state have
been voided by Eastern courts.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
JAPAN's COMMERCE.
An Interesting Report Transmitted by
Consul Germain.

An Interesting Report Transmitted by
Consul Germain.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Eugene Ger
main, United States consul at Zurich,
has transmitted to the department of
state all elaborate report upon
the commerce and Industries of
Japan, made up by the Swiss vice consul
at Yokohama. The total imports
Japan for 1898 amounted in value to
$SS,257, III, or $17, 100000 in excess of
1892. The exports of 1898 were $780,
712,S64, as against $91, 102, 754 in 1892
an excess over imports of $1,455, 693.
The principal exports outside of silk
were rice and tea.
The cotton industry is making great
strides. In 1887 there were 80 mills
with 1901 spindles and in 1898 there
were AZ mills with 387,834 spindles.
Manual labor being cheap, the spinners
can meet all outside competition and
the foreign imports of cotton have
fallen off considerably since 1888.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
A NORWEGIAN COLONY.
Something About Rev. Simon Saagstadt's
British Columbia Scheme.

Something About Rev. Simon Saagstadt's
British Columbia Scheme.
VICTORIA, B. c., Oct. 24.-Rev.
Simon Saagstadt, pioneer minister of
the Lutheran church in Minnesota,
with a little band of 80 Norwegian
farmers, has gotten thus far on their
way to Bella Coola, where they, with
about 5000 of their countrymen, pro-
pose establishing new Norway among
the British Columbia mountains and
fjords, so like to those of their native
lands. The Norwegians propose engag-
ing in diversified farming and develop
ment Of deep sea fishing. They are the
first to take advantage Of the British
Columbia governments new terms to
settlers. These Norwegians are a
sturdy lot of men and promise to make
good settlers. Their families and
friends will follow as soon as they have
completed the houses whose construc-
ton will be their first duties. Rev.
Saagstadt says that in all his settle
ment will have a population Of 5000
souls and will have capital of $780,
900.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
HELPS THE MExICANs.
The New Tariff Law Improves Trade at
Matamoras.

The New Tariff Law Improves Trade at
Matamoras.
WASHINGTON, Oct 24.-In a report to
the department of state United States
Consul German at Matamoras says the
effect of the new American tariff is be-
ing felt in increased trade with North
ern Mexico. Large expectations of
dressed hides, mules, horses, etc., have
been added to the usual exports hereto
fore made, and the prospects for
large spring business is most
bright. Under the operation of the
Mckinley act, all livestock ceased to be
exported, the tariff on horses and mules
being $50 each, from two to three times
the selling value of the animals in Mex
leo. This amounted to a total prohibi-
ton, and until Sept. 1 not live animal
of any kind had been exported. Large
expectations of dressed hides and
leather show another new feature that
shares the benefit Of the Wilson shced-
u1e
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Found the Lost Money.

ST. CLOUD, Mimi, Oct. 24.-The
mysterious robbery of $4,000 from A.
T. PETERS shoe store several days ago,
which forced him to assign, has been
solved. The assignee and his assistants
began the inventory of the stock and
Were startled to find the money PETER
got from the banks Thursday afternoon
stored away in an empty shoe box on
the shelf. 1t now appears that PETER,
in the rush of business, placed the
money there himself, but afterwards
forgot the place and thought he had
placed it in the cash drawer
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Work of Brigands.

TEPETETLAN, Mex, Oct. PA band
of brigands led by the notorious outlaw,
Julio Longorio, visited the ranch Of
Francesca Perez, near the village of
Jalositlan, tsis district, and killed Mr..
Perez and four of the employees of the
ranch. Vincente Diaz, captain of a
force Of rural guards, started immedi-
ately in pursuit of the brigands, and
advices have just been received here
that the bandits We're followed into the
mountains and three of them captured,
including Longorio All Of them will
be shot
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Czar May Live Some Time,

PARIS, Oct. 24.-A dispatch to The
Figaro from Livadia says that the dis
ease from which the czar is suffering
recently reached a terrible crisis, whicn
lasted 13 hours. The dispatch adds that
at present his majesty is slightly better,
and his encourage is more hopeful. The
imperial physicians, though treating
the situation as serious, are less pessim-
istic.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
REQUEST FOR TROOPS.
Secretary Smith Asks the War De-
partment to Wipe Out Law
less Gangs
IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY.
Neither Life Nor Property Safe---An
Express officials Opinion Of the
Situation.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Secretary
Hoke Smith has requested the secretary
Of war to send troops to the Indian
Territory to suppress the lawless hands
which have been operating there and in
the adjacent country. Accompanying
the request was the communication
Secretary Smith received from the
Indian Territory, detailing che deplor-
able condition of affairs there.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
TOO EXPENSIVE.
Pacific Express Company Will Not Do
Business in Indian Territory.

Pacific Express Company Will Not Do
Business in Indian Territory.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24.-Bankers and
business men living in the towns in the
Indian territory as well as those living
outside the territory, but doing bust
ness with territorial firms, are greatly
worked up over the condition of affairs
which has made it necessary for the
Pacific Express company to refuse
money shipments either into or out of
the territory. So far as the express
company is concerned, however, they
take philosophical view of the situa-
ton and not complaint has been reg
istered.
''The situation in the Indian territory
today" said Superintendent o. W.
Case of the Pacific company, ais worse
than it ever was. There is absolutely
no protection for life OF property
except as we furnish it our.
selves. This continual carrying of
such an armed force makes the business
too expensive to be profitable.
Only One Way to Stop 1t.
'There is only one way to stop this
lawlessness; that is to make state out
of the Indian Territory. Of course, if
the federal government would send a
few regiments of soldiers down there,
instead of keeping them in barracks
and in those Eastern military stations,
it might do some good. A war of ex.
termination such as Governor Critten.
den waged against the James gang in
Missouri is what is needed. This can
only be properly done by admitting the
territory to statehood.
This order of ours does not greatly
affect st. Louis, as most Of the money
is shipped to those banks in the terri
tory from Little Rock or nearer points.
Quite good deal of money in payment
for goods comes out of the territory by
expires, but this systems can be tempo.
rarily changed
General Superintendent L. A. Fuller
and General Superintendent Peck of
the Iron Mountain have gone to Wag.
goner and will spend several days in
the territory in an attempt to have the
Cook gang, which perpetrated the last
robbery, captured.
Desperadoes For Notoriety.
The information received here is that
Bill Cook is young man not yet q
years Of age, and Cherokee Bill his
chief lieutenant, is but IL. Superin.
tendent Case says they are desperadoes
simply for the notoriety, and not fol
the money they get. The gang which
effected the robbery at Claremore q
short tine ago, was the Means gang
headed by Columbus Means. This is 8
bad gang, as is also the Bill Doolan
gang, which is said to have sprung
from the ashes of the Dalton gang.
Superintendent Simpson of the
Wells-Fargo is now in thh territory,
also looking into the condition of the
country in which his company operates
It is stated by some who are familiar
with the situation there that the trouble
is largely due to the character of the
deputy United States marshals. It is
well known fact that they are largely
recruited from the Desperate class and
it is often char ged that they stand il
with the train robbers
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Followed the Apostle Paul.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 20-Professor Will
lam M. Ramsay, A. M, professor of
humanity at the University of Aber-
deem, will deliver course of lectures
at the Johns Hopkins university on the
results of his observations and studies
in Asia Minor, when he followed the
routes taken by the Apostle Paul.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
SCARCITY OF WATER.
New Orleans People Will Suffer Unless 1t
Rains Very Soon.

ne" orleans feOple VIII SuHer UnIeSS 1C
Rains Very Soon.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. PA serious
problem is confronting the citizens of
this city and suburban towns. They do
not know where to get drinking water
unless it rains very soon. The drought
has lasted now about two months. The
cisterns are nearly all empty and the
wells dry. The people depend almost
entirely upon the supply of water
caught off the roofs of houses in cis-
terms. There is considerable suffering
in the rear Of the sixth district, and the
people have to go six and seven blocks
to the fire plugs. The cisterns are in
danger of falling to pieces, owing to be-
ing empty and standing out in the sun.
Vegetables have become scarce and
are pretty well burned up. The dust in
the city is almost intolerable.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
ROBBED EVERY STORE.

The Village of Wateva, Near Fort Smith,
vtsited-A Reign of Terror.
FORT SMITH, Ark, Oct 24.-Four
men robbed every store and the post
Office in the village Of Wateva, station
OH the Kansas and Arkansas Valley, II
miles west of here A holdup at Tallala,
six miles this side of Wateva, was
looked for, but did not occur. John
Vann. who held the horses of the rob.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
BURIED ALIVE.
Floors of st. Paul Building Cave in
Carrying Down Eight Men.

Floors of st. Paul Building Cave in,
Carrying Down Eight Men.
ST. PAUL, Oct. 24-Three floors of
the ancient McClung building, over
looking the river at the corner of
Wabasha and West Third streets, fell
during the afternoon and eight work
men fell with them into the deep base
ment, distance of nearly 80 feet.
Strange to say, not one Of the men was
killed, and the physicians at the city
hospital, where six of them were taken,
do not deem any of them fatally in.
jured.
The building had been condemned
for some time and about 20 men were
at work tearing it down when the acci-
dent occurred. The majority of these
heard the noise of crumbling walls in
time to escape to place of safety.
Officer Cowan, who was standing a
accident,
Heard q Loud Crash
and at the same time saw clouds of
dust rising over the eastern end of the
old 2story stone block. The officer
turned in an alarm instantly, to which
two patrol wagons and a hook and ladder
company responded promptly. The
work of rescue began at once. Five of
the workmen were extricated in less
than Is minutes, but several hours
elapsed before the others were rescued.
The building was the property of the
Pabst Brewing company, who pur-
chased it several months ago with the
intention Of erecting new structure
ON the site
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Continued Improvement

BALTIMORE, Oct. 20.-Special reports
to The Manufacturers Record covering
the industrial interests of the South,
reports that there is continued i'm
provement in bank clearings and rail-
road earnings as compared with the
corresponding time last year.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
MAYOR Shot bv Footpads.

WICHITA, Kan, Oct. 23.-J.F March,
mayor of Kinsey, ,and one of the leading
business men, as he was starting for
home late in the evening, was held up
by two footpads, who, upon his show
ing fight, shot him fatally in the abdo-
men and then escaped.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Two Train Wreclsers Caught.

DENVER, Colo, Oct. 24.-Frank Muir
ray and James Bartlett, escaped prison
ers charged with wrecking Santa Fe
train near this city on the night of Oct.
13, and looting several stores in Little
ton, have been captured at Salt Lake
City. 1t is said they have told where
the third fugitive Ted Newell, can be
fOund
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Was Pursuing Her Husband.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, Oct. 2O.-A
tramp arrested here was found to be a
woman named Lucy Vanrasse, who
was pursuing her husband, who had
deserted her, and beating her own way
to Honghton, Mich. Her husbands
name is Joseph V. Vanrasse.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Flimfiammed a Farmer,

ROCHESTER, Mimi, Oct. 2O.-John
James, farmer, is out 5000 by an old
confidence game. He sold his farm for
$lS, 900 to stranger, the latter putting
up $40 to bind the bargain. After
wards he was offered $4,000 more by
another stranger and he bought the
first mans bargain for 5000. He has
seen neither since.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Scalper Sentenced.

FORT WORTH, Tex, Oct. 2O.-The
jury in the district court has found H.
s. Robinson, railway ticket broker,
guilty of forging the destination on a
round trip ticket over the Gulf, Color
ado and Santa Fe. It has fixed the
punishment at two years in prison,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Assaulted an Old Man.

CREsToN, Ia. Oct. 2O-Tom Sullivan
and man named Monahan, while in
toxicated, went to the house of an old
man named Ament, who lives near
Greenfield, Ia.. and beat Ament over
the head with clubs, fracturing his
skull. Ament cannot recover.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Des Moines Street Car Accident

DEs MONIES, Ia, Oct. 2O.-A street
car collided with buggy containing
Mrs. Mary E. Foote and l.. Coy. Mrs.
Foote'S skull was fractured and Mr..
Coy suffered a severe blow on the fore
head from coming in, contact with the
brick pavement.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Illinois postoffice Robbed.

81. LOUIS, Oct. 24.-The secret serv-
ice Office at this point has been notified
that the postoffioe safe at Lebanon,
His, was blown open by burglars and
$500 il money secured.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
Drop in Wheat.

CRooKsToN, Mimi, Oct. 24.-The
floor of the st. Anthony and Dakota
elevator went through and let 1900
bushels of wheat on to the ground and
in the basement.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26

bers Saturday night, has been captured
and is now in Jail. A reign of terror
now prevails along the line from Fort
Gibson to Coffeyville, Kan. Clerks
and merchants in all the towns go well
armed in their places Of business.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
viii Furnish Seed Wheat,

BRYANT, S. D., Oct. 24.-On account
of practical failure of this years crop
the county commissioners have decided
to furnish seed wheat to those who
need it next spring
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26
SAVINGS OF YEARS.
An Iowa Lady and Her Son Round, Gagged
and Robbed.

V1NToN, Ia, Oct. 24.-Albert Spauld-
ing and mother, living two miles and a
half east of here, were bound and
gagged and the house robbed of 81, 600.
Old Mrs Spaulding has been boarding
this money for years,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-26

will discredit the state and will not
amount to picayune in the way of
helping the taxpayers. We believe in
careful business economy, but We also
oelleve this cry of economy on the
part OF the Populists of this state is an
empty campaign hullabaloo to deceive
and prejudice the voter. But those
who seek the truth need not be de-
ceived.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-17
Come To The Scratch.

The Newport News has been
terribly worried about the politics
of the LEADER, and goes out of its
way to call il a populist. Now we
have three dares to make the News:
We dare you to point to a single
utterance the LEADER has ever
made that would lead man with
a thimble full of brains to suppose
that 1t was populistic, or name "a
single populist candidate the LEAD
Err is now, or its editor ever has
supported, direct or Indirect.
We dare you to deny that while
the News has the name Of F. M.
Stanton in Its ticket for sheriff,
that now and for the past year the
editor of the News and his entire
voting family have been doing all
in their power to aid and help Geo.
A. lands 10 the election Of sheriff.
We dare yoa % deny that you
are doing everything you can in a
sneaking underhand way to defeat
George Bethers for school superin-
tendent simply because your pet
did not get the nomination.
You are a pretty sort of a mud
cat to be calling other people names.
Don't be traitor. Come out
openly for Lands and Skinner or
quit throwing off on Stanton and
Bethers.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-17
Death Of JOhu Fitzpatrick.

The death of Mr.. John Fitzpat-
rick, of which mention was made
in last weeks issue, occurred at
st. Vinceut's hospital on May g,
at 3 O'Clock p. n. Mr.. Fitzpatrick
was prominent and we'll known
fisherman Of the lower Columbia,
and was also the owner of con-
siderable property i'll Lincoln coun-
ty, among which was the popular
Hotel Monterey, on Big Creek
near Cape Foulweather. Pneu
monia, which he contracted on a
trip down the river a few days ago,
was the cause of his death. Mr..
Fitzpatrick was veteran of TIE
Mexican war, and was a member
Of one OF the armies OF settlers
which arrived in California in $40.
He came to Oregon late in the sos,
and from the time of his arrival un-
til his death was engaged in fishing
He leaves a wife and eight
children, who are residing at pres.
ent at the Hotel Montery, In this
county.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick's death removes
and active and industrious man and
is peculiarly unfortunate to Lin
coin county, as he has had several
projects IN contemplation which
would have materially developed
Our resources and thereby bene-
fitted our people. Among these
were the establishing of cannery
and saw mill on the Siletz, the
initiatory steps looking to which,
we are informed, have already been
taken. What effect his death will
have upon these enterprises is not
known. Mr.. Fitzpatrick was a
Mexican war veteran, being an able
seaman on board the warship Ohio
in IS46, when she was dispatched to
Mexican waters tO assist Eanaro1
Taylor in the capture Of Monterey.
1t was in honor of this famous
victory that Mr.. Fitzpatrick gave
the name to his hotel on Big Creek.
The funeral took place from St.
Patrick's church. Portland, last
Saturday morning, and was attend
ed by body Of Mexican war vet
erans.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-17

In another column W. announce the oafticu.
lars of our special clubbi arrangement with
The Weekly Detroit ',ree Press, paper go we'll
known, By reputati IN at least, that any spec 'al
mention Of is g .eat merit seems scarccly
necessary. Whilfj one OF the funniest ., pa.
pers' II does not'iepend alone on its humorous
features Tor Its opu arityi 1t Is equflly noted
ior Its literarye xcellence. The best writer's Of
America and urope contribute TO its columns
ihdeed' our re' lders will find The Free Press a
perfect cyclop aedia Of the best current ltera-
lure when the great cost ofproduction con
sldered II Is II; after Of wonder how so inter.
estlng and histructiye journal can be furr Dish
eu ior so low price as one dollar u yea "a
handsome remium included.
we know that every one Of our friends will be
oehehtted By reading The Free Press and we
congratu' ate ourselves and them on our abili ty
10 iurnls It with the LEADER for so low pri se
~sf ~. It is certainly an opportunity Of whio b
al snf uld take immediate advantage.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-17
Changed Its Mind.

The Salem Statesman is whoop-
ing it up for the Rev. G. NJ. Irwin,
candidate for state sup
erintendent. 1t is interesting to
read that papers statement Of less
than six months ago. 1t is as fol-
lows: "The leather medal that an
appreciative public failed to bestow
upor the Oregon delegation when
they had the Rev. GeewholIiper
Mutton.head Irwin appointed sup
erintendent Of the Chemawa Indian
school, would be appropriately con-
ferred if they would hasten the ap-
pointment of a competent man to
take his place."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-17
-%N1-%<

A vote cast for Lee Wade for
sheriff is vote for an honest, in
telligent and capable man. His
election would bring to the office of
sheriff man that is fully qualified
to perform the many aud arduous
duties that attach to it. He is
man that is in every way worthy of
the suffrages of the people of Lin
coin county.