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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
DOINGS OF CONGRESS-.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF THE
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
Reports OF the Measures Introduced and
the Action Taken Thereon i'm Both Sem
ate and House.


Consideration OF the tariff bill was re-
sumed in the House on the goth. the pend
ing amendment being that of Mr.. Hender-
son OF Iowa. to Substitute the existing
rates on agricultural schedule Of the Will
son bill. The amendment lost. ZIG to 63,
after some discussion. Mr.. McRae of Ar
kansas gave notice that he would offer an
amendment to strike out the sugar bounty.
During the reading OF the Presidents let
teg OF transmittal and the Hawaiian corre-
s~pondence, party lines were strictly drawn.
The Democrats applauded Willis letters,
and the Republicans did the same when
Dole's letters were read. Then cOnsidera-
ton of the tariff bill was resumed. but Ha-
waiia was the chief topic OF conversation
during the afternoon. Mr.. Grain of Texas
offered an amendment to reduce the duty
on wooden goods from 40045 per cent. to rs
per cent. jerry Simpson offered an amend
ment to place all cotton and wooden goods
on the free list. A long debate followed.
Both the Simpson and Grain amendments
were easily defeated, without division. At
$3.50 the committee rose and the House re-
cessed until s o'clock, with an important
amendment by Hit pending, the subject
OF which was to force Canada to admit our
coal free in return for the free admission
OF Canadian coal into the United States.
When the House resumed It's session Mr..
Talbot. Democrat, spoke in favor of the
tariff bill and was followed by c.. w. Stone
~ opPC'itiOH' WI CtIOuS Spoht III ODpDSl-
lion to the bill. as did Mr.. Wheeler of Illi-
Dis, after which the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 22d a bill to codify
and arrange all pension laws was presented
by senator Palmer. Senator Lodge pre-
sented Il resolution directing the Civil Ser
vice Commission to report the number
and character of cases it has considered
since March 4. in which it is alleged that
the civil service regulations were violated
by heads of departments or bureaus or any
officers in the United States. The matter
went over. The credentials of Senator
elect Thomas Martin. Democrat, of Vir-
ginia, whose term of Office begins March 4,
1895. were presented by Senator Daniel.
A resolution Of Senator PETER questioning
the authority of the President and Secre-
tary OF the Treasury to issue bonds then
came up. Senator PETER said that if it
can be true that the Secretary of the
Treasury, in cooperation with the Presi-
dent, were making II new law, it was "A vi0-
lation of the Constitution of the United
States. At the conclusion of Senator
PETERS remarks the debate reverted to the
silver question, in which Senators Allison,
Teller, German and others all took part.
The resolution went over to Il future date,
when Senator Stewart will make some re-
marks on the subject. At 4:20 p. M, on
motisn of Senator German, the Senate went
into executive session, and at 1870 ad-
iourned.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
THE GRIP.


= Description OF the Disease by One Who
Has Suffered.
Ever had the grip? asks the Winona
Herald. will give you a few point
crs. You will imagine you have a
bad cold and can wear it out, but you
need not try it. The grip has fast
ened his fangS on to you and will not
let so. You have got to give up, go
home and go to bed. In a short time
you will feel like that Chicago drum
mer who took the Keely cure at
Dwight, Ill. You will feel like an
anarchist and want to bomb. You
will realize Beecher's dream Of hell.
You will think your head has been
removed and an old beehive, with
the empty comb, left in its place
Your mouth will taste like a pail Of
sour krout. You have the grip.
The doctor comes, looks you over.
puts his thermometer in your mouth,
finds your temperature l04 in the
shade, your pulse going at the rate Of
two miles and three laps to the Sec
Ond. He orders you to stay in bed
and gives you medicine that is so
strong and sour that simply setting
the bottle on the clock shelf stopped
the clock. He will tell your wife that
she may give you warm drinks and
try to get you to sweat, and take his
leave. Now all wives are family doc
tors by right of their position in the
house, and as you have gone to sleep,
delirious and exhausted, she begins
her treatment by putting a BELLA
donna plaster across your lunas, a
tlaXseed poultice on one side and a
mustard poultice on the other, a hot
flatirOn and a jug Of hot water to
your feet, and a sack of boiled corn in
the ear, piping hot, to your back.
You sleep and dream of being away
to the far North in search of the
north pole, or out in the center Of
some beautiful sheet of water like
Lake Superior, or the lawn tennis
Hati--S-rink, helpless and alone, with
~.c ice breaking all around you, and
you slowly sinking. You finally
awake, burnt, blistered, and baked.
The doctor calls, finds your tempera-
ture about eighty degrees at the
porth side of the house and your pulse
8Ormal, not needing a pace-maker.
lie pronounces YOU better, %convalesc-
ing. Orders beef tea, chicken soup,
:ruel and toast as a diet. You taks
the big rUc.singg-chair exhausted,
tired, discouraged and ugly; you feel
like licking your wife, kicking the
dog, and breaking up the furniture,
but you won't do anything but sit
there, day after day, weak, helpless
and tired.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
FIRE IN A q
Terrible Holocaust at the Bconc County
UOwa) Poor Farm.

Terrible Holocaust ut the Boone County
UOwa) Poor Farm.
Eight incurably insane paupers were
crematcd alive by the burning of the
asylum at the Boone County Iowa
poor farm the other night. Only one
of the inmates escaped. The dead are:
Mary Tucker, Johanna Sniggs. Anna
Sonderberg, Christine Anderson, Chris
tine Peterson, Mrs. Scott. Thomas
Leaser, Joseph Craig. Mrs. Hubbard.
q half.witted woman. escaped from the
burning building and gave the alarm
to Steward Hoicomb, who was in the
main building adjacent. 1t was tn n
too late to save the people, and the
main building a saved only by great
effort. The steward says he banked
the fires in the furnace about 9 clock
and does not know how the fire origi-
mated, unless from a defective hue.
The institution is situated in an i-o-
lated place and II of reach of even
such apparatus as the town of Boom
could afford. By the time the alarm
was given there was no time to do any
thing. The inmates could not help
themselves, and waited for death, cry
ing wildly as the fire burned in up n
them. The building burned rapidly,
and almost as soon as it was known in
the city that there was a fire the whole
place was consumed. Immediately a
party hurried to the Gene. but too late
to afford any assistance whatever.
The search for the bodies was begun
as O as the ruins had cooled suffi.
%ciently to permit of it, and the hopes
of those who had thought that perhaps
some OF the inmates had escaped to the
fa1l. IN ~, n- l-l
concealed themselves were found to be
baseless. All the bodies were either
found or evidences we're discovered tC
show that they were in the smoldering
ruins. If there had been somebody in
the place able to force the inmates &c
leave it is likely that they would have
escaped without serious injury, but no
body was at hand.
The building burned was an old two
story frame structure, which was as
dry as finder. To add to the inflam-
mab.e nature of the place many of the
partition walls we're padded with cot
ton. and some Ct the bedclCthing was
of cotton batting three inches thick.
This was because only the i%ncurable
insane. who had b1en returned from
the State Asylum. were kept there.
These patients were nearly all violent,
and the great amOunt of cotton batting
was to prevent them iniuring them
selves. The building was heated by q
furnace, which was condemned last
summer by a local expert as unsafe,
but no attention had apparently been
paid to this warning. 1t is thought to
be certain that the fire started from a
defect in the furnace, as there were
no stoves in any of the rooms,
and great care was exercised that
ut matches should be allowed in
the building.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
Cost of British Defenses.

the British empire spends as a
rule upon defense from $3.50, coo, 900
to $3.50, 600, 900 a year, of which the
military expenditure of India, with
the indirect expenditure for the sake
of India on mobile land forces at
home, forms the largest item. Almost
the whole of this vast sum is eXpend-
ed out of British loans or taxes under
the control of the Parliament of the
United Kingdom. and out Of Indian
taxes under the direct control of the
House Of Commons through the Sec
rotary of State, who is a member Of
the government of the day. This tx
penditure, although vast, although
open to the reprOach that it does not
do more than maintain a fleet slight
~ superior to that of France, and an
army of very small numbers, is a
tleahite as compared (in its i'll effect
upon the wealth Of the n@ation) with
the military expenditure of Italy, or,
in Il less degree, with other continent
tai powers. The evidences of the
OverpreSSure of taxation in India it,
self, many as they are. are slight in
comparison with those which are
present in the Ease OF Italy, and it
may be assumed, therefore, that,
while the taxpayers of the United
Kingdom and Of India may make
their voices heard in insisting upon
better value for their money, the ex-
pcnditure will not in itself be brought
to an end by bankruptcy.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
Nautical Mile and Knot.

A nautical mile, otherwise known
as an admiralty mile or a knot, is
$3.50 feet; it is one-siXtieth of a de-
gree of latitude. 1t is called a knot
tor this reason: The old log of a
ship was composed of a float of wood,
to which was attached a cord coiled
on an easy-running spindle. The
float was thrown overheard and a
half minute sand glass was turned.
The cord, which was divided into
sections by knots of different cOlOred
rope, ran free until the half minute
was up, when the spindle was stopped
and the cord hauled inboard. The
cord was so divided by knots that
tllS proportion existed: AS one half
minute is to n hour, so is the num-
Der of knots paid out in half a min
ute to the number Of miles sailed in
an hour. So as each knot on the log
line represented a mile, it came about
easily that the mile should be called
a knot; and so it is.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
A PICTURESQUE OUTLAW.
Chris Evan, One of the Most Daring Ban.
dts of the West.

The most audacious bandit III Cali
fornia is Chris Evans, who has recent
~ escaped from the Fresno State
prison, whore he was serving a life
sentence for train robbery. murder and
other crimes. Evans is one of the pie
turesque class of outlaws of whom
Bret Hartc delights to tell in his sto-
ries. For some years Evans has been
at the head of a gang of bandits who
roamed through the mountains and
valleys of the Golden State, commit
ting depredation- Of all kinds. Their
most daring exploit was the robbery of
a train in the san Joaquin valley. On
the night of August ;, 1892, thee of
the gang. Evans and George and John
Sontag, boarded an express train at
Calls, Il little station out on the plains,
blew open the express a with dyna-
mite bombs and then, after seriously
W%ounding the messenger, escaped. with
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
A PECULIAR PEOPLE,,
The Goajiri Indians, II Tribe Living in
South America.

The northeast corner OF Columbia
terminates in a peninsula extending 120
miles into the Caribbean Sea. Here
dwell a peculiar people who We're little
known until a comparatively recent
period. when Mr.. Simons was commits
stoned to make q tour of exploration.
The enterprise was attended with great
danger, owing to the peculiar institu-
tions Of the country, but Mr.. Simons
secured an escort under the direction Of
one of the principal chiefs, and to him
We are indebted for about all hat is
known of this singular people.
The entire population is divided up
into castles or divisions, and when any
net Of violence or injustice is commit
ted the whole caste to which the Offend
er belongs is held responsible for his
individual act; and the method OF Sc
curing satisfaction is to visit the PEN
atty upon any member of the offending
elan who may chance te be caught. In
the eyes Of these people all white peo-
pie are regarded as favoring one single
elan; hence, if an indian should chance
to be injured by a white man, the PEN
atty would be exacted from any other
white man who CHANGED to fall into
their hands. The most enthusiastic
tAPlOlc I'D Iuitc Hopiiuiiy uloNoUioSCb
by this, lest his appearance should
revive the recollectiOns of some unre-
dressed grievance of the distant past.
A recent instance of Goajira vengeance
Is reported in which three white men
were roasted to death because they We're
detected in stealing young native girls
for the puspose of selling them into
slavery.
The lust for gold has, however. led a
few traders to establish themselves IN
the outskirts of the country, though
none have ventured into the interior.
1t is only the passion for strong drink,
which the traders have the means of
gratifying, which leads the natives to
tolerate them. And yet these remarka-
BILE people have n regulation WHICH
would delight the most ardent member
of a temperance society. He who sells
the run is held responsible for all dam
age that may arise from its use. This
invests the business with such grave
risk that most traders are deferred from
making the experiment.
The country, although of limited ex-
tent, affords lnany objects Of interest,
and any competent person, who has the
requisite courage, can no doubt, by fol-
lowing up Mr.. Simons' work, learn
much more conce ming this strange pop
ulatiOn.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01

three sacks of gold coin. George Son
tag a speedily captured: but it took
nine months to arrest the other two
during which time railroad, United
States, State and county detectives,
Pinkertons. Moiave Indians and anna
teur man hunters were actively en-
gagged in the hunt.
\. deputy United States marshal and
posse finally surrounded the two men
in a cabin near Nisalia. The usual
desperate battle followed. and during
it Sontag was wounded SO that he could
not move, and Evans so badly that he
could only crawl. When darkness
came on the bandits still held their
position. and Evans saw a chance to
crawl away. Sontag begged his com
panion to kill him before leaving. but
Evans refused. The posse then cap
tured Sontag, but Evans escaped. He
managed to reach the house of woman
he believed to be a sympathiZer, but
was there betrayed. SOntag died.
When the time came for Evans trial
there was no money for his defense.
However, his wife and lG-year-old
daughter interested theatrical srecu-
latOr, a play was written in which her
husband 5 career was depicted. and this
the mother and daughter presented
throughout California. They drew
immense houses. and made money
enough to procure for Evans the best
legal talent in the State, with the re-
suit that he secured a life sentence,
instead of death which he so richly
deserved. His wife and a waiter SNUG
gled revolvers into the prison at
Fresno, and got them into Evans hands.
The latter Immediately held up the
taller and escaped.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01
A Good Thing for the Railroads.

The fair was undeniably a good thing
for the railroads. 1t is estimated that
they carried between New York and
Chicago not less than l37, 900 passen-
gers, and the total receipts are put
down by experts as probably close to
$4,5l0,0OO.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01

A man who is in a situation to speak
from the card says that the PennsyL
vania Rail- Dad Company burns over
1000 tons of coal q day between Pitts
burg and Jersey City at a cost CT con-
siderably over $4,000 This is for
making steam only and does not in
clude the coal used for heating, run
ming pumping engines, elevators, air
compressors and electric light genera
tors, or for the many tugs and ferry
boats employed bv this line.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01

Now that s. counterfeit bills are
afloat, it is plain that the man who
habitually wants to borrow s. will
have to make it either 81 or S. to
avoid the risk of getting left.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01

THAT hen is kicking up a great
cackle." She has just laid an egg"
That all? 1 thought perhaps she
had laid a Delmonico omelette
s)ufie. Puck.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01

ENGINEER BRIGGS, Fireman Coils
ton .John Rich. Thomas Gould, Frank
Hart. proprietor of the Cazadero Hotel,
William Brahmer, station agent al
Sabine, were killed on the Narrow
Gauge road at Cazadero, Cal.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01

HARRY H. HUNT, Of Chicago, q
former law student, who was suspended
for not attending to his work in De-
cember, was arrested at Ann Arbor,
Mich. for stealing a pair OF panta'
looms.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-02-01

A PHILOSOPHER is a man who does
not try to argue with Others until he
knows he eau down them.
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Emmet,s wife secures a Divorce.
DROVE HER HAIRPINS IN.
Mrs. Mary Smock Falls Out of a Window
on Her Head.

Mrs. Mary Smock, aged thirty-six years,
is lying at her home. No. 2391a West WASH
ington street, lowering between life and
death. Sunday night, about 8 o'clock, while
sitting in a ~second-story window talking to
a friend, she lost her balance and fell to
the hard cement sidewalk below. a distance
of twenty-five feet. A number who saw
the accident and who heard her scream as
she was falling hurried to her rescue. She
was found to be unconscious, and in sew
eral places was bleeding profusely. Patrol
men KurtZ and Recer carried her to her
room and summoned DIR. Carey. Three
hairpins had been driven into the unfortu-
nate woman's head with such force that
they were removed with difficulty. Both
hips were dislocated and three ribs broker.
she remained unconscious until yesterday
afternoon. DR.. Carey has Slight hopes Of
her recovery, and believes that if she re-
covers her mind will be affected on ac-
count of the injuries to her spine and
head.
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A CRY FOR STATE AID
wALkERTON UNABLE TO BEAR Ex-
PENsE OF SMALLPOX QUARANTINE.
ST. Joseph County Refuses to Help the
Town-The Governor TO Take
action To-day.

A case of smallpox was yesterday report
ed to the State Board of Health from Steu-
ben county. DR.. w. II. Lane, county health
officer, wired the board Of the appearance
of the disease near the village of Pleasant
Lake, and asked instructions as to quar-
antine measures. A Chicago woman visit
ing a family near Pleasant Lake was
found suffering with the disease on Sunday.
DIR. H. W.. Denaut, secretary of the
Board of Health of St. Joseph county.
and G. K. Ross, member of the board,
came to indianapolis yesterday to confer
with Governor Matthews and the secretary
Of the State Board of Health. The physl-
clans report the condition of four smallpox
patients at walkerton as being serious.
There have been eighteen cases of the
plague in all, two of the patients having
died. DR.. Denaut says the town of Walker
ton is compelled to bear the expense of
maintaining a quarantine alone, the county
refusing to assist the work. The disease
has already cost the town $500, and the
treasury is almost exhausted. Last week
the secretary OF the Health Board wrote
TO Governor Matthews asking for assist
ance from the State. AS yet the Governor
has taken no official action in the matter.
He will meet the Walkerton physicians
this morning with members OF the State
Board of Health.
1t is insisted that the situation at Wal
nurses and attendants, who have worked
night and day since the appearance of the
plague in the county, refuse TO continue
longer in the service of the board without
pay. DR.. Dowd has partly recovered, anc
threatens to leave the house and go about
the town. He declares that there Is ne
state law to prevent him from SO doing
and defies the health officers to keep hin
longer confined. AS in Steuben county, the
disease was brought to Walkerton from
| Chicago. DIR. Dowd, a physician of the
town, attended a woman who was stop
| ping at a clubhouse on the lake. She wa:
| afflicted with smallpox, and the physician
| without taking precautionary measures, i
is said, called on other patients.
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isDryGOO CO
GIANTS WON THE LAST
DEFEATED THE BALTIMORE ORI
OLEs BY A SCORE OF 16 TO 3.
New York,s Ball Club VIII Take N
Temple Cup and $4,000 of the $751;
600 Paid by Spectators.

NEW YORK, Oct. s.-The Temple cup
has been won by the Giants" Four WELL
contested games have been played for its
possession, the final one at the Polo grounds
this afternoon. 1t is said the receipts for
the four games will amount to about s25,-
600. OF this the Giants will get SIG, 900.
AS the expenses are not heavy, each Of
the sixteen New York players will receive
as his share nearly $1,000. The Baltimores
will have about 5000 to divide up among
fourteen players after their expenses are
paid.
There were 1900 people present to-day.
In the sixth inning Van Haltren met with
an accident which caused him to retire
from the game. He collided with Jennings
while trying to steal second base and was
Knocked unconscious. When he recovered
his nose appeared to be broken. but later
1t was found to be only an abrasion. On
account Of darkness hostilities were ended
at the eighth inning Score-
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Ellsworth second, Farewell third. Tine,
Lilly. Mollie b.. Miss Mary finished as
named.
Second Race-Seven furlongs. Clementine
won: DIR. Parke second, Clinty q. third.
Time, 1:zsz. Rhett Goode, Respondent and
Merry Monarch finished as named.
Third Race-One mile. Ida Piekwick won;
St. Ma kim second. Brendoo third. Time.
1:s01z. Chant also ran.
Fourth Observation-Disclosures OF a mile.
Katherine won; Blanche Kinney second.
Martha Griffin third. Time. 1:07A. Elano,
Brevity, Eliz, Buckfy, Whit and Jack
Frey finished as named.
Fifth Race-One mile. Clara Bauer won;
Penniless second, Aloha Allen third. Time,
1:4l%. Fred Gardner, Long Ago and Ad-
yocate finished as named.