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ID transient sdyertlsements must b. Vaii (
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
OUTPUT oE GOLD.
Predicted That 1t VIII Reach 4lO.,N,U,-
NNlO This Winter tn the klonAike

Predicted That 1t Will Reach 1lO.ltDlD,.
tAsO This Winter in the klonalke.
Tacoma, WASH, Dec. 21.-The steam
er Farallon arrived Sunday, bringing
news that John Mcpherson and three
others arrived ut Skaguay direct from
Dawson City November. Matters were
then quiet i'll the Klondaikc, and prepara-
tions for al active winters work and
consequent large gold production were
in progress. Supplies were being hauled
from the Dawson City warehouse to the
mines, though much snow was needed
10 make hauling easy. Prospects were
never better along Bonanza, Hunker.
Bear and other creeks, and an output
of $1o,OOO,ooo in gold this winter was
considered certain in spite of the food
shortage. McPherson's party says there
will be no starvation there. Some fore
sighted miners have large food supplies.
and will share with the others before
starvation occurs.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
!. BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Holiday Trade ls Large and the Dee
naAd for Products lnaReaaea.

nand for Products Increases.
New York, Dec. 25.-R. G. Dun & Co.,
in their weekly review of trade, say:
"The weekly reports show a remarkably
large holiday trade at many points the larg-
est for hve years. Moreover.. at the season
when wholesale business usually shrinke.
the pressure OF demands for immediate de-
ltveries. which results from unprecedented
distribution to consumers. keeps many es-
adjustments at work that usually begin
their yearly rest spell somewhat earlier
Instead OF decreasing, the demand for prod
ucts shows an unexpected increase in sew
eral important branches. Foreign trade
continues satisfactory, even in compari-
son with the remarkable record OF year
ago. when exports exceeded $l17. 900 900 In
December. Bank failures at Philadelphia.
due to individual operations, cause no dis
turbance. and commercial failures for the
month have been less than half last years
to the same date.
''The outgoing flood of grain is not
checked by Chicago speculation, though
more corn than wheat has been moving
Last years corn movement was by far the
greatest ever known, and this years wheat
movement for the half year nearly endcd
has been close to the maximum reached In
1891. Wheat has varied little, closing :
cents higher for the week. after deliveries
OF surprising magnitude at Chicago. and
corn closes nearly a cent higher. Cotton
has also been moving largely and has risen
a sixteenth.
Failures for the week have been c9s
in the United States, against 297 last year,
and SO in Canada, against A. last YEAR,
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
News la Brief.


Grafton has 1856 children of school
age.
Pembina county has So, 900 head of
live stock.
Fifteen farmers from Iowa have
purchased sixteen quarters sections of
land near Darlington. Quarter section
farmers build up country.
Frederick Kraac:s of Cass county,
who was committed to the insane asy-
lu1n some time since. has escaped from
that institution.
Judge Lauder has denied petition
for grand jury in Sargent county.
Heavy frost took down telegraph
wires between. Fargo and Jamestown.
Mrs. S. Finnson of Cavalier county
dropped dead while walking from her
home to that of her brother-in-law.
Peter Rodal,,:thc Norwegian whose
well-devcloped case Of leprosy at Cali
donia has been before mentioned, will
probab bly, be returned to Norway. Ro.
dal's father died of laprosy some years
ago, and his 2-year-old son has recent
shown signs of being affiliated in o
similar manner.
In the district court Fred Bastlitt,
the alleged Enfocements lesgue detec-
tive, was found guilty at Devils Lake
of extortion and sentenced tosa.year in
the penitentiary. The grand jury ad-
journcd after being in session two
weeks. They returned twenty-four
indictments.
A banquet was given at Fargo by
Judge and Mrs. Charles A. Pollock to
the governor, the judges of the su-
prcmc court and federal courts and the
members of the bar of the third judi
cal district of the state of North Dako-
ia celebrating the sixty-sixth birthday
of Hon. John L. Dillon. L. L. D.. of
New York city.
Great Indignation has been caused
has been caused at Fessenden by tho
discovery that the county has made
contract with q Fargo attorney by
which 1t is to give him $40. 900 If he
wins in full in the Northern Pacific tax
cases.
Black Hawk is said to express q
contrition for the crime committed in
the murder of the Spicer family.
Bert Lucas, Benson county blind
pigger, has been released on q written
pledge to appear at the May term Of
court.
Stockmen in the western part of the
state report favorable winter, and
say that cattle will pull through all
right. since the early part of the win.
ter has been SO mild, and the range
clear of snow 30 that the stock could
find sustenance.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
HISTORIC FORT, CUSTER.
The War Department. Has Ordered
Its Abandonment.
its Troops TO ne sent to More, co.-
venient 1POtnts-ln lts Days.lt
Has served several Useful
~ purp0ses.

K A few days ago the order was issued
from Washington for the abandonment
of, Fort Custer, Mont: Contrary to the
usual custom on such occasions there
was, no vigorous protest by any large
number of indignant citizens" and no
political wires of. any strength were
pulled to prevent this action of the war
department.. The troops will march
quietly away to other posts and Fort
Custer will be wiped off the military
map of the United States without noise
OF ceremony.
The reason for this Indifference is
found in the fact that Fort Custer is
located near the center of the great
Crow Indian reservation in Montana
and no other town has benefited largely
by its existence.
There has been a well-defined policy
in the war department for several years
past to concentrate as fast as possible
all the troops in the west Mt central
railroad points. The expense to the
government of keeping up one large
post is much smaller in proportion than
keeping the same number of troops at
theree or four posts.
The real motive for the abandonment
of Fort Custer is this gradual conccn-
tration of troops, though the public
sees nothing of this in the reasons as
signed. 1t is now said to bc poorly To-
Gated, difficult of access with bad SAN
itary conditions. and. in fact, more
abuse has been heaped upon poor old
Fort Custer than it's founder, Gen. Phil
Sheridan. ever thought possible when
he selected the site and pronounced it
ideal-thc finest he had ever seen. Well
he might say so, for it is undoubtedly
one of the most slightly locations for
many hundreds of miles in that section
of the country. ...
The Big Horn river. large and dan
gcrous stream. here flows in north
casterly direction. The Little big
Horn, a smaller river of kindlicr dis.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31

position, comes from the south and emp
ties into the Big Horn. Where the two
come together and on the point of land
thus formed high bluff rises from the
banks of either stream and the upland
plateau rolls back in great and broad
cning waves up to the: foothills of the
mountains to the south.
Fort Custer, says the Kansas City
Star, was ten-company post. That
was thousand or thcrcabouts. This
constitutes what has been considered q
large post. A little ferry, when the wa
ter was high, carried the freight teams
and the stage across the river to the
beach at the foot of the bluff. A steep
road was cut through gully up the
face of the blutf. The guard stood at
the top of this hill and the military
reservation commenced at the waters
edge below. 10 the right far out along
the edge of the hill above the Big Horn
stood the officers quarters.
The post was always full Of blanketed
Indians, for it was in the center of the
great Grow reservation and they lent
n frontier air to the settlement long
after they had abandoned the war path
for the plow-, furrow and the trail to
the agents store on ration day. Twelve
miles up the valley of the Little Big
Horn can be seen the Crow agency,
which is like a little village with its
stores, schools and churches. Two
miles further and far up on top of a
high hill across the river can be seen
the Custer monument, marking the
place where Gen. Custer made his final
stand and fell surrounded by but II few
of the 300 who had fought by his side
up the long ridge from the river bottom
below. This happened in 1876 and was
one of the reasons for the establish
ment. short time later, of the fort
which bears his name.
The military history of Fort Custer
is not sensational, but it played IN inn
portant part in the subsequent Indian
campaigns as point of concentration
and a basis of supplies and operations.
Troops have been sent from Custer to
take part in every Indian campaign in
the northwest since that of Gen. Crook
in 1877. In 1856 it witnessed the gath
ering of thousands of Indians, soldiers
and whites to observe the tenth ami
versary of Custcr's death. In 1877 it
was the scene of the Medicine Man
campaign. the greatest gathering of
soldiers since the 1000 cavalry, infan-
try and artillery faced q like number
of Indians for over two weeks in n
game of bluff and the soldiers won, for
they were confident and the Indians
were not. This was but the overture to
the great Sioux campaign to follow.
The scene of the action of this war, in
which Sitting Bull met death and the
battle of Wounded Knee was fought,
was q few hundred miles to the east,
but Fort Custer witnessed its inception
and furnished many of the active SOL
dicrs and scouts.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31

ago that she would be the sponsor for
the new ship. She claimed the priv
ilegc because of q. promise made her
by Secretary Herbert when that gen.
tleman was in Office. Miss Richard
son met Mr.. Herbert in Washington,
and the secretary was very much inn
pressed with the fair Kentucky girls
beauty. He suggested that she be the
sponsor of the ship, and even wrote
to her about it. Miss Richardson then
sent to Secretary Herbert u bottle of
very fine 45-year-o.d whisky. Mr.. Her
bert replied with IL very pretty note in
which he promised to drink the whisky,
and to give some of it to President
Cleveland. The secretary stated SUBJ
sequently that he was jesting when he
suggested that Miss Richardson christ
eli the battle ship. This sassertion made
the young woman indignant, and she
retorted by quoting from his letters,
and referred to him as ''an old widower
in his dotagc." Miss Richardson's de-
sire was to break bottle of
whiskey instead Of champagne
on the prov Of the Kentucky.
All this led to infinite contention, when
Gov. Bradley suggested that his daugh-
ter be sponsor instead of Miss Richard-
son. The friends of that young lady
became furious, and Gov. Bradley has
made no end of enemies for thus inter-
fering with the anticipations of the
very popular beauty and her set. Miss
Bradley will not christen the Kentucky
with whisky.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
civlL.sERv,cE REFORM.
Carl schurx Reelected High Priest oi
the Movement.

Carl Schurx Reelected High Priest of
the Movement.
The National Civil Service Reform
league, at its recent ANNUAL session at
Cincinnati, reelected Carl Schurz pres
ident by acclamation. Mr.. Schurz was
born at Liblar, near Cologne, Prussia,
March 2, 1929. He studied at the uni
versity at Bonn from 1876 to 1s4s, and in
1s49 took part in the insurrection in
the Palestinate and Baden, on the re-
preston Of which he was arrested, but
escaped to Switzerland. He went to
the United States in 1852, and, became
a prominent member Of the republican
party. He was appointed United States
minister to Spain in 1861, but resigned
on the outbreak Of the civil war in
order to enter the union army. He
served at the second battle of Bull Run,
Characteristic, Gettysburg and Chat
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
EEDisoN's BRIGHT iii SON.
10 ls Developing q Rivalry to Hia
4 1austrious Parent.
sse.t Forth to SHIFT for ni...elr, II.
.>Ssna0r Wizard" Astonfshes His
Father ,aad Other Elee.
trical Expcrts., ~ = :. "a,

Thomas A. Edison has need to look
TO his laurels. His son and nsinesake..
|. .eent forth from the shelter of, the pa
tcrnai roof and beyond the influence Of
paternal guidance, expects to make
things ,varm for his father in the line
s.of electrical research and invention.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr.. is something
of q wizard" himself. He is 81 years
old, and many men of twice his ago
have learned in the last few months to
watch him with much interest.
Thousands of persons to whom the
name of Edison is familiar have never
heard Of this youthful scientist, yet he
has had large part in experiments and
discoveries that have startled the world
For years he has spent most of his wax
ing and many of his sleeping hours in
! the laboratories of his father, those in
scubators of mysterious things born to
amaze. All these matters he has known
from his youth up, and enters upon his
manhood with a wonderful equipment
Of kEowledge. But why did he not stay
with his father? Why not be partner
s1nstead of a rival?
A0 SAHidhotIOA SlAt1S up sL CuTlOuS
Ticture. Figuratively speaking. one
bright morning last August Edison
called the young man to him and spake
i thus:
Thomas. my son. you know almost
ms much as your father, but what you
know will never be of use to you until
4 you know men. Get out, Thomas. and
study men. Brush up against the
world for awhile, and let us see what
B you are made of. You have good ideas.
Work them. Good morning."
So the young man started out. several
months ngo, with a head full of ideas
and n lusty desire to make himself
heard in the worlds noisy traffic. To
day. says the New York Herald, he
has On office in big Broadway build
ing, and ! the big electrical manufactur-
ing companies with the long titles and
the capital of many millions are study
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
Beetle. That save Lumber.

. Prof. A. D. Hopkins. the entomolo-
gist at the West Virginia agricultural
experiment station, is well pleased will,
the result of his recent trip to the
Black Forests, in Germany, where he
studied the insects to be found there,
and returned to West Virginia with
millions of little beetles, which he
turned loose in the pine forests to
make war on the pine-dcstroying in
sects which are killing the trees. BY
the introduction of this little insect.
millions of feet of lumber were saved
and the destructive insect was almost
eXterminated.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31

(EufCN0SeO IN l(30 Oy I1e seventh LAY sap
tista)
It is wholly Of wood, except those parts
where the use of iron was necessary to
prevent wear and impart strength, such
as the bar, the hooks Of the p,aten,
the iron or steel ribs over which the
bed and "coffin" pass to and fro in
the process of working off impressions.
In this ancient press a vacant aper-
ture. large enough to receive the stone
or other substance forming the bed, is
shaped by a surrounding wooden struc-
ture, technically called the ''coffin." :"
The stone is about the size of seven
column newspaper page.
The earliest record of the press is its
purchased in or about the year 1745, by
the Seventh Day Baptists of Ephrata.
Upon it was printed an edition of the
German Book of Martyrs" together
with other cheerful works in similar
character. During the revolution the dec1
laration of independence issued from
this press in five different languages, the
translations being supplied by Rev,
Peter Miller. When the continental
congress met at Lancaster the currency
of the new republic was printed upon
the machine.
Later the Ephrata press became the
property of Joseph Baumann, and aft
erward of the senior Heitler, who used
it for many years.
In October, 1874, the press was loaned
to exhibitors at the memorable Frank
lin institute semi-centennial exhibi-
ton, where it was operated in contrast
with modern steam presses, by vet
eran printer dressed to a close resem-
blance of Benjamin Franklin. This was
the last time the old press was used:
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Hiucky People.

Now that work of removing the do.
bris from the burned blocks at Grand
Forks has been commenced, the ques.
tion Of rebuilding is .uppermost: 1t is
imperative that q new hotel be erected
to take the place of the. Dacotah, .
score or more commercial men being
compelled : to so to sCrookston and
Fargo for over Sunday accommoda.
tious. = @:
All of the property: is owned by the
Security Trust company, which is now
in the hands of q receiver.
That this company will not rebuild is
settled. Mayor Dime has made IN
offer of 100, 900 brick toward a new
hotel, and If no one can be found will.
ing to erect suitable as an invest.
ment. the work will be taken up. by
leading citizens and hotel built in the
same manner as was the Decotah.
There is much opposition to n five-story
hotel. however. and new one will
probably not be over three stories. but
arranged in such a manner as to afford
as much room as did the building.
The hotel property brought in rental
of about 5000 per month. and it would
appear that that would be q good in.
vestment for some one.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31

ara f1lmSel1.)
IS ing this young man with great care,
while pretending that they are not
aware of his existence.
This is n very hollow pretense, how
own strorsgholds. He has invented a
device which, he says, is only the first
D of q series of improved appliances in
ssrions lines of electrical work. It
is an incam1escent lamp, similar to the
one now in use to the inexperienced eye,
\ but possessing, it is said. many ad-
vantages. He calls it the Edison Ju-
inor," with conscious pride, and claims
for it superiority over all others in the
important details of vacuum and fila
7nent.
s To achieve these results the young
man designed his own pump, and says
\ that with it he can exhaust ten lamps
to . high degree Of perfection in less
time than it requires by the ordinary
y vacuum pump generally used to ex-
1 haust one lamp. The filament is his
own invention also-a chemical combi-
nation carbonized at 1000 degrees Fahr-
enheit, making it as near absolutely
\ pure carbon as it is possible to obtain.
Curiously enough. neither the pump
nor the filament has been patented.
MY fathers experience has taught
me to steer clear of the patent Office.
He has taken out scores of patents, but
he has spent as much money and time
fighting to uphold them, guess, as
they are worth I'm going to keep my
ideas to myself. Secrecy is q better
aateguard than patent any time.''
Personally this young man impresses
ono anost with his earnestness, his
quiet, confidence. and his utter absence
Of ahectation. He is slow of speech,
Z hut does. not weigh his words, and occa-
siona.ly explains his meaning by some
graphic popular phrase.
ssThe fact of the matter is," he said
6on6dently. "Tm out to hustle for my
sell, and 1t won't be my fault if some of
these big fellows don't know I'm here.
We're going to raise-well. we're going
TO prod 'em up alittle."
This young man, who at 81 challenges
Asscienkist of worldwide fame, and his
father ut that. never had any education
in The general sense of the term. When
I he vsas.11 years old his schooling
ceased. and from that time until few
! ! mon tbs ago he practically lived at his
fathers side during working hours.
trough long days and longer nights
I he has watched the "Wizard" at work,
\ bending over tubes until his back ached
and watching flying sparks until his
/ brain whirled. Delicate health prevent
ed close application to books, but his
was suner knowledge. He saw the be-
ginning Of things, and watched the
hysteriOus forces Of nature in every
phase, absorbing the countless causes
ana effects which make the chemists
md tho electrician's work.
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
PRETTY MISS BRADLEY.

Chosea hy Secretary Long to Christ.
en- the Battleship INeat1cky.
Miss Christine Bradley, daughter OF
Gov. Bradley, of kentucky, will christ
en- the new battleship named for the
Blue Grass state. Secretary Long, OF
the, navy, wrote a formal letter to Miss
Bradley requesting her TO do him the
honor. to officiatc us sponsor for the new
ship. The action was taken with the
consent of the governor. Thus is set
tied q matter which has been ,agitating
Kentucky society, especially in Lex
ington, for long. time. Miss Mar
garet B. Richardson. q noted belle Of
that city. announced several months
Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
REMARKABLE RECORD.
Many Costly Fires Occur in Chicago
in Four Days.

III NUWr DuyUe
Chicago, Dec. 27.-From midnight, the
morning of December 90, until six
o'clock Saturday evening, the fire rec
ord of the city was: Number of fire
alarms, 119: total losses, in part esti
mated, $ll,102,5oo; number of people
killed. j; number of people injured. sc.
The city has not equaled this record
since the fire of 1871. OF the Sc injured
persons IA were fircmcn, 12 policemen
and 30 were citizens.
Fire destroyed the Coliseum building
Friday evening, the loss being $780, 900
on the structure and $125 900 ON exhib-
it's contained therein. One man was
burned to death and many other per-
SONS were injured.