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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-10

THE dirt-eater of Patagonia KISSED his
wife fondly. "And whatl" he checrily
asked, has my little girl for supper to-
nightl'' Il thought Id surprise you,' she
exclaimed, $50 | bought a nice corner OF,
high and dry and only three minutes walk
from the post Office. detroit Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-10


Robert Browning,
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
General sherman,
Rev. Phillips Brooks,
Haydn,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexandra Dumas, perez
Alexandra Dumas, Ills,
Alexander III, late Czar Of Ru
President Cleveland,
Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
Handel,
Governor Mckinley,
william T.. Gladstone,
Earl of Rosebery
Henry Irving,
Ellen Terry,
Henry w. LongfeIiow,
Henry NJ. Stanley,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-10

Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
was in Washington during the two
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-01-10

Herbert Spencer,
Edwin Booth,
Henry w ard Beecher,
Paderewskt.
Harriet Eteecher Stowe,
Count Leo TOIstof,
General Grant,
General Sheridan,
Ia Joseph Jefferson,
Lucy Stone,
Napoleon Bonaparte,
Empress Josephine,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Henrik Ibsen,
Bach,
Phoebe Cary,
Alice Cary,
Thomas A. Edison.
The advocate., 1895-06-26
CHAPTER V.

THE PRISONER INsTRUCTs HIS LAWYER
Il was sight for sin and wrong
And slaVish tyranny to see;
sight to make our faith more pure and strong
In high humanity.
LOWELL.
And things can never go badly wrong
II the heart be true and the love be strong.
ANONYMOUS.
'I saw your father, last night, my boy" said
BresdmongSter to Sydney at the jail, sand the old
man told me to say he is On antiFederslist and is
coming in to see sir. That is what came of my
going out there, sir"
''Your news sounds too good to be credited. My
faith or coming to see me? And an ant-FedeEal
The advocate., 1895-06-26

manifested her remarkable power or EeaulnB Gn0
memory Of rocks, Gertrude was thinking Of that
pocket-bOok, when Reuben, who had been to Bread
mOngsters office, returned with serious face and,
upon being urged, reluctantly explained:
'They have found more evidence against us. A
farmer says that he went home along that road on
the afternoon of the murder, and saw Sydney Stone
sitting on q stump in the wood from which HotCh-
kiss must have been shot, and right opposite the
place where the body was found, Says he is not sure
Sydney had gun, but thinks he had. Sydney says
he oOGs sitting there few minutes waiting for q
friend but that he had no gun and that 1t quite
early in the afternoon. This evidence makes me
tTiAe blue. We hope Sydney'S friend, when we see
him, may be able to fix the time, bat, STILL the fact
that he was there at all that afternoon may help
confirm suspicion"
Gertrude's heart sank. Soon, however, she glanced
up at Reuben with such look of positive assurance
that her words made him hope.
"Uncle Reuben, am certain that every circum.
stance against Sydney will vanish before the clear
proof that another did the deed. am as certain Of
it as that stand here this minute We known Sgd
ney did not murder Mr.. HotChkiss. But he was
murdered, and so somebody else must have MUIR
dered him. Find who that somebody else Was and
what will circumstances amount to against an in
nocent man?"
"Your logic is perfection, Gerty, but--how are we
going to find your Mr.. Somebody elseY There's the
rub"
"The somebody else is going to be found"
"Who is going to find himP"
"I will find him."
'You?"
ayes, l. Women know more than you think they
do"
"To tell the TRUTH have intended to experiment
when we go to The Hermitage. propose to have
Miss Iillburn try to read that-but no, must keep
that to myself till we try it,"
"Oh, tell u.s. Uncle Reuben. Please do"
"Quit teasing. l am immovable. 1t would put
the result of the experiment in doubt. No use. 1
shall not tell. When we try the experiment you
will appreciate it all the Though you torture
me in witch boots, shall not reveal it,"
"Wen, then, keep it to yourself. Who csresP But
what time tomorrow are we going to The Hermit
sgeH'i
"We cannot go tomorrow because your sweet
heart-your future lord-the loveable Dobbins, Is
coming"
"ReallyH am truly delighted. Actually am"
"Why SOP This is a remarkable change. But
women are fckle Why are you so glad he is COM
ing just at this particular timer
"'Though you torture me with tch.boOts, / shall
not reveal it. You will appreciate it all the more
when you find OUT"
ga shrewd move, Gerty You wish to exchange
secrets with me, suppose. Shrewd, but shall not
reveal Keep your old secret Who caresP
Loretta expressed her delight at the prospective
early opportunity of meeting and inspecting Dob
bins, while Gertrude pretended great anxiety, born
of jealousy, lest Loretta might become infatuated
with him.
But, although they remained at home all day ex-
pecting him. Dobbins did not come; and for the first
time since their acquaintance, Gertrude was vexed
at not seeing him; and Reuben was greatly puzzled
by her remarkable mood.
CHAPTER V.
The advocate., 1895-06-26

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The advocate., 1895-06-26
cause this new piece Of evidence had made it abso
lutey essential that he should do something to work
off surplus enthusiasm.
CHAPTER Nv.

GERTRUDE THINKS OF SOMETHING.
woman's head is usually over ears in the heart
The advocate., 1895-09-04
AM Academy for Colored peonla.

An attempt is being made to organ
iZe q school in this city in which to
teach cOlored children kindergarten
work and useful trades. The proposed
location is at Sixteenth and Chandler,
where ample ground on which is a cot
tage can be obtained. +. S. Stevens, Q
colored man of education and refine
ment, and who founded o similar school
at AshVille, N. c., backed by a num-
Der of wealthy philanthropists, is at
the head of the institution. He will
personally attend o.the training work
and will be assisted by Miss Cora Red.
ding, graduate of Eastern kinder
garten schools. This school can be
made to be of great value to the city
and surrounding country if it will re-
suit In elevsting the colored race and
make them more self-reliant and self.
sustaining.
The advocate., 1895-09-04

An Italian named Maria Barberi is
to be electrocuted In New York be-
cause she shot and killed the man who
seduced her but afterwards refused to
marry her. The daughter of an
United States admiral, shot and killed
In the city Of Washington, a "nigger"
who was reaching over the fence that
surrounds her fathers garden to take
some fruit, and was not even arrested,
the coronerS jury acquitted her in sd-
vance although she not only acknowl.
edged but bossted of the act. Our
"Law and Order" leagues have not
been heard from yet on this matter
such triheS are beneath their notice. -
Pittsburg Kanssn, August 22.
The advocate., 1895-09-04

Our DOLLAR LIBRARY is q good thing
to put into the hands Of people who
have not beon reading reform literature.
It goes free with three u subscribers 70
ths ADVOCATE.
The advocate., 1895-09-04
DAWES FOOL OPINION.
Another BIunder Added to His Growing
COlleetion

1t is very evident to anyone familiar
with the history of the Kansas militia
that the opinion of the attorney gen
ersl in which he holds that the ex-
penses of the proposed encsmpment to
be held at Emporis, can be paid out of
the fund appropriated for "Active SER
vice." has been made to order, is
neither based on good sense nor law.
Section 16, article 3, chapter 142,
laws of 1885, which the attorney gen.
eral fails to quote in his opinion reads
as follows: "The military forces of
this state when in the actual service of
the state, in time of war, insurrection,
invasion or imminent danger thereof,
shall, during their time of service, be
entitled to-" etc.
This section clearly defines what
actual service means, and that the leg
islature intended to make the proper
distinction between actual service and
encampment duties, is shown in the
fact that section II of the same law
provides that when the militia goes
into encampment they shall receive
pay on different basis than when in
actual service.
NoproVision has been made by any
legislature since 1885 for the purpose
Of holding a militia encampment not
withstanding that every adjutant gen.
eral has persistently urged them to do
so, and the ways and means committee
rooms have been beseiged at each ses-
sion by other interested parties with
this object in view, but the different
legislatures have absolutely refused to
make an appropriation for this pur-
pose.
In 1888 the difficulty in Stevens
county was considered sufficiently seri-
GUS to warrant the governor in send
ing troops to that county for the pur-
pose of preserving the peace. The
"actusl service" performed at that
time cost the state $13,7 l.23. There
was only $4,000 at the disposal of the
governor to meet these bills, and the
militia had to wait until the session of
the legislature in 1889 before they re-
ceived the balance of their pay, and it
was at this session that in order to pro-
vide for such contingency in case it
should arise in the future, that the leg
islature appropriated an amount to
meet the expenses of the militia when
called into active service.
Each legislature since that time has
followed the precedent, and using the
same language has made an sppropri-
alton for "Pay of the militia when
called into active service"
The legislature of 1889 appropriated
for the year 1890 $1O,O 900 and the unex.
pended balance at the close of the
year was $40, ,124.3l. Why did not the
governor order the Kansas militia into
camp and pay the expense out of this
$l0,OO0p Simply because he knew that
it was appropriated for specified pur-
pose and could not be used for any
other, and it was left for the redeemers
to so construe the law as to permit the
expenditure of at least $4,000 of the
peoples money in getting up an i'm
menSe jamboree and picnic for the ben
The advocate., 1895-09-04

I
ton settlers. 1t twas point that, By
not passing upon it, the court admitted
could not be decided against the United
States. What, then, could be more un
Just than the stubborn silence Of the
supreme court on the matter of juris
dlction, thereby denying the United
States and the pre-emption set
tiers the benefit of fsvora
BILE decision that its silence sd
mitted was dueP If this silence or
the part of the supreme justices ID
not q violation Of their oaths of office
it certainly is wrong.doing; and this
wrong doing, resulting, as it neces
sarily does, from some powerful undue
influence, and being greatly injurious
to the United States and the pre.emp
tion settlers, is quite evidently wrong
doing of the criminal sort.
"FULL FORCE"
before the opinion of the supreme
court in the Maxwell grant case was
rendered / sprsng before the depart
ment of the interior thepoint that Mr.
Secretary Cox's decision in the said
case was final. Commissioner Sparks
reported that it was "Hnal" under the
rules governing the practice of the In.
terror department In its administration
of the laws; that the refusal Of Secre.
tary Delano to reverse it rendered that
decision res .judicatG so far as execu-
tive action was concerned. This final.
ity, according to the supreme court,
means: Excludes all further inquiry
in that department" But Commits
sioner Williamson could not resist the
temptation to inquire. Commissioner
Sparks, with the supreme court to back
him, says Williamson had no business
to inquire. "This grant was not be.
fore him for a review of the secre.
tary's decision; he had no duty to per-
form IN regard to 1t; but he proceeded
upon his own motion, apparently, to
order new survey"
"UNDER THE INFLUENCE"
What, then, led the land Office
to order a new survey of public
land as Maxwell grant when the final
decision OF Secretary Cox told that
office not to do itP The supreme court
pretends to know. 1t says:
The land office having afterwards, under the
influence Of the decision OF the supreme
court in Tameling vs. US. Freehold Co.. supra,
determined that It was its duty to ascertain
the extent.of this grant and to issue q patent
for It,"
According to the rules governing the
practice of the interior department it
was not, as Commissioner Sparks re.
ports, the duty of the land office to
ascertain the extent Of the alleged
Maxwell grant, as it had already been
finally ascertsined by Secretary Cox.
But when the land office got "under
the influence" of the unlawful deci.
sion of the supreme court in the cor
rupt Tsmeling case, said office saw that
it was its "duty" to pay no attention
to the finslity Of the secrstary's deci.
sion under the rules governing the
practice of the interior department In
its administration of the laws.
Now, while l agree with the supreme
court that the land office was under an
"infuence" when 1t sscertained that 1t
The advocate., 1895-09-04
himself with the thought that Kansas
is again In the hands of its friends.
SUPREME COURT CRIME.
The Representation of the Court That 1t
Has Decided the Maxwell Grant
Case is False.
NO. XII,

Case Is False.
NO. XII.
The only point before the supreme
court in the Maxwell case of interest
to the settlers Is stated by Assistant
Attorney General Maury as follows:
In conclusion we would call attention to
the point made in the brief Of the special at.
tornsy that there was no jurisdiction in the
land office to order the Elkins and Marmon
survey, the decision Of Mr.. Secretary Cox, on
this very grant, that it must be restricted to
twenty-five square leagues, being then in full
force. (Brief, p. 4O)
UNLAWFUL DECISION.
Shortly after the so-called decision
of the supreme court in the Maxwell
grant case, / was again in Washington
and was informed by the reporter of
the New York Sun, who knew the set
tiers point perfectly, that Justice Mil
Ter had decided that the action taken
by the land Office in view of the deci-
sion of that court in the Tameling
case, "must be construed as revoca-
tion of the decision of Secretary Cox. +"
The Sun reporter, whom this decision
"astounded," subsequently asked sew
eral lawyers who were present what
they thought Of it. They shook their
heads, he said, and replied: "That will
not do"
When the decision was printed in
pamphlet form Commissioner Sparks
loaned me his copy. / was notsurprised
to find that the court had not dared
to put in calm, perpetuating type the
monstrous opinion that its decision in
the Tameling case had somehow oper-
ated as revocation of the decision of
Secretary Cox in the Maxwell case. BY
not, however, putting this monstrous
opinion in print the court certainly sd-
mitted that 1t was monstrous; that 1t
would not do; that it was the worst
sort of illegal rot, and would only be.
foul the court that made it without
benefting the unduly influential par
ties whom it was intended to benefit.
NO DECISION.
Hence, the supreme court has not
passed, in print, upon the all-important
point that "there was no jurisdiction in
the land Office to order the Elkins and
Marmon survey" If there was no
jurisdiction In the land Office to order
the Elkins survey of 1877, that survey
is void. When, therefore, the settlers
now set up this point, and the grant
man comes at them with his supreme
court racket, the settlers have a right
to make this reply:
The supreme court has not passed upon this
point OF jurisdiction. 1t could not In print
decide against us, and for some bad reason 1t
was determined not to decide for us, and II
therefore concluded on the point Of jurisdic-
tion to make no decision at all
The fact, then, that the supreme
court claims to have decided the Max
well grant case without passing upon
the point Of jurisdiction is false pre-
ense-deceptiye, misleading, fraudu-
lent.
CRIMINAL SILENCE.
l must trust to memory as to the
oath taken by the supreme court JUS.
tices. When Secretary Lamar took
the oath have a somewhat indistinct
recollection that, according to the
he swore to "do Justice"
and then followed something, think,
The advocate., 1895-09-04

gressman Elkins did, by a personal
interview" hypnotize that Office
"under the deposit system" and that
it was under this influence and not
"under the influence" of the Tameling
decision, that the land office saw that
It was its "duty" to survey to Max.
we'll alias Elkins nearly million
acres Of lawfully.surveyed public land
as "a private land claim"
The advocate., 1895-09-04
CoNDoNING CRIME.

The official report of Commissioner
Sparks In the Maxwell grant case not
having been impeached by the Grim.
insl silence Of the supreme court In
said case as to the validity of the deci-
sion of Secretary Cox, it follows that
officers of the land department ordered
the Elkins survey to be made In viola
tion Of section 5498 of the revised stat
utes. / therefore charge that the su-
preme court of the United States did,
in its alleged decision in the Maxwell
grant case, uphold public officers In
violating said section 5498 of the re-
vised statutes. 0. p. MoMAINs.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-24
GAME COCK VS.. CANINE.
A Battle Royal in Which the
Dog Is Killed.

Cincinnati, O., May IS. An
unexpected combat occurred in the
BARNARD of William Fox, at Law
renceburg Ind, last Friday. Fox
had a game cock that had seen
service in the pit, and he wanted
to show some Of his friends how
the bird fought He fastened the
steel gaffs upon its legs and pro
cured another rooster as its antag-
onist. The rooster, however, de
clined to fight, and few away. The
game cock thereupon picked 4
quarrel with the house dog. The
dog resented the attack, and a bat
tie royal followed. One of the
fowls wings was broken carly in
the fight, but it fought on and
finally drove the gait into the'doS' S
eye to the brain, killing il instant
~.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-24
The Great Southw est.

FARMING LANDS Yielding abun--
lanty all the cereals, corn and cotton,
ami especially adapted tothe cultiva-
hon of small fruits, and early vegeta-
BEES
GRAZING LANDS-Allording excel.
lent pastura-e dnring Almost the entire
year, and comparatively close to the
great mars cts.
TIMBER LANDS-Covered with al
NOSE jneXuaustible forests Of yellow
pine, cypress and the hard woods com
mon to Arkansas and Eastern Texas,
Fan be procured on reasonable and ad-
ahiageous terms.
al lines connect With and have tickets
on tnln via
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-24

The New York World recently
printed Il list of about 100 stocks
sold on Wall street. with their
lowest and highest selling prices,
since 1st of january.Fron his list
it appears that on the whole, these
stocks have appreciated in that
time something like $500, 1000, 900
or about topper cent. That doesn't
look as though the industries OF
the country We're going to the
ode nnition bow-wows. "
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-24
Wages Raised 10 Per Cent.

Findlay, O., May 1S.-The en-
ployes of the Salem Wire Nail
Company and the Findiay Compa-
ny have had their wages increased.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-24
STORY OF THE SOUTHERN
FLAG.
HOW 1T WAS DESIGNED AND ADOPT.
I'D BY CONFEDERATES.
MAJ. Rogers Of the Confederate States Ar
tillery Planned the Emblem of the
Short-Lived Observation-Disclosures
Men Who Approved 1t.


longer the symbol of a struggling
people. But its memory is vet
alive, and is brought out fresh at
times like the present when the
remnant Of those who followed it
through four years are about to
meet IN annual reunion.
The author of the new design
adopted by the Confederate con
gress was Maj. A. L. Rogers, Con-
federate States artillery, who,
while disabled from active service
devoted some Of his leisure hours
to improving the national emblem.
Alter much attention to the subject
and a the laws of heraldry, Major
Rogers, i'll January, 1865, submit
ted his design to congress; and on
the 18th Of that month, Mr..
oemmes, OF Louisiana, submitted
the following bill in the senate:
A Bill 10 Establish the Flag Of the Con-
federate States:
The congress of the Confederate
States OF America do enact, That the
flag of the Confederate States shall be
as follows: The width two-thirds of its
length, with the union NOW used as
the battle fiag) to be in width three
fifths of the width of the flag, and so
prsportloned as to leave the length of
the field Oh the side of the union twice
the width Of the field below it; to have
the ground red. and blue saltier there
on, bordered with white, and emblazon-
ed with mullets or tive-pointed stars,
corresponding in number to that of the
Confederate States; the field to be
white, except the outer half, from the
union, to be a red bar extending the
width of the flag.
Before offering the bill, Mr..
Semmes addressed a letter to Gen.
Lee, commanding the army of
Northern Virginia, and requested
his views on the proposed altera-
ton. Gen. Lee replied that he
thought it every pretty, and that
it certainly added distinctness to
the hag;'but, with his usual mod.
esty, said he mistrusted his own
judgment in such matters. and
that the naval committee were the
proper gentlemen to be consulted.
The bill was accordingly referred
to THE committee on naval affairs,
and after various plans had been
submitted, and the opinions of
leading officers Of the navy obtain
ed, said committee unanimously
recommended its adoption.
Among the distinguished Con-
federate officers who approved the
design of Maj. Rogers, and recon-
mended his proposed alteration in
the national symbol of the Confed-
crate States, were Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston, Gen. S. Cooper, Lieut. :
u ,,., hWeil' A'eu a,',, n M!
r - =: n'Ipe''Tl e"ea"' ~ a.
of cavalry; Brig. Gen. Wharton,
Col. S. S. Mosbv 9nd many other
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The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-24
TWO for So.

For the advantage of those
who desire to- take The DU-
RANT HERALD and the Kosci-
usko Star'we offer both pa
pers for Two Dollars, which
is only 50 cents more than
the subscription price of each.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-05-24
4 Lovers Politics.

Her golden hair. her silvery voice,
All, me-, who could resist
'Tis easy quite to MAKE my choice,
I'm q bimetallist.
Washington Star.