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The Lamar register., 1897-02-06

Nt-AAAAAh7ls
s.; $50; 500 loaned at banking
rates without publicity.
A Z CRAWFORD.
Call and see the uea,est line of
einhroideries ever shown in the town.
W ]. JOHNSTON.
The members of Lamar Lodge No.
50, L o. O F., are respectfully re-
quested TO he present al the next reg
ular meeting February 10 torspeciul
work
A social and Saint yalentirelunch
viii be given at the NJ E, Church
FRIDAY evening, February -, from
$50 to . o'clock. Lunch Is cents,
Come aud receive souvenir valcu.
tine
A party OF gold hunters from Kio-
va county, including {. Frost Lig-
gets OF the Press, passed through
Lamar this week enroutc to Carriso
Springs Gfthere + ssy gold there
Hell bssc, Fsost sads it.
Judging from tho number of
strnngers constantly coming in to
look at lands under our bitches,
Prowers county Is undoubtedly at
sracting great deal Of attention
from the home seekers and investors.
a social was given on tho evening
of the Bird by Mrs. j. H. Frisbie in
honor Of her father T. 4. Walton, OF
Clay, oklahoma. who is visiting her.
Oysters, cake and other refreshments
were served, and all seemed to enjoy
themselves and dispersed ut a late
houe
Vol /. No. / OF the Holly Chief
tain reached us this morning. The
editor is H W. Milford, formerly OF
Greeley county, Kansas. 1t does not
announce any politics but is bright
newsy local paper. All the Other
towns Of the county have at some
time had papers. but this is the frsl
venture at Holly. We welcome tbt
newcomer and wish him unbounded
success.
A large majority of the water righ'
holders under the La Junta and La
mar Canal having signed the contrac
between that company and the Grea
Plains Water Storage Company, th'
matter is now up for final hearing
before Judge Northcutt at Trinidad
Ii was called up on Wednesday, bu
| I. @. Henry wns on hand as usna
to try to prevent anything beinI
done with the canal, and a legal figh
has been waged ever since whiel
may not be completed until mex
week. The vast Importance of thi
deal to this section will make eyery
nna hone for a favorable conclusion
To the Public.
The Lamar register., 1897-02-06
Highest Leavening Powes --latest U. S Govt Report
H!l!All! q! RskiIeg Rskdsi:
ABSOLUTELY PUEE

Farmers and workingmen should
go to n. n. McLean's for their shoes,
gloves, overalls, etc. Best line in
town at lowest prices.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
People Talked About.

John 7. Dowdall Of st. Louis, the
oldest Odd Fellow in Missouri, and the
second oldest in the United States, is
dead.
David ]. Hennessy's will was filed
at Dubuque. His estate, consisting
largely of st. Paul real estate, is given
to his brother, Archbishop Henncssy,
except that he makes small bcquests
to his other brothers and sisters.
David P. Plumb, father of the late
Senator H. B. Plumb, died of pneumo-
mia at the home of his daughter, few
miles northwest of Emporia, Kan. He
was born in Delaware county, Ohio, in
1912. He was among the early pio-
neeers to Kansas, going there in 1856.
Dennis B. eastman, co-laborer in
the Irish cause with the late John
Boyle O'Rielly, is dead in Boston.
eastman and O'Rielly together were
sentenced to the British penal colony
in Australia in the early '60s. Cash
man made his escape about two years
after O'Reilly had gained his freedom.
He came to Boston and was associated
with Mr.. O'Reilly on the latter's news
paper.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

The most remarkable election bet yet
recorded has been paid by John Ray
mond, a farmer living at Winthrop,
Conn. The bet was that the loser should
drink fifty dippers of hard cider a day
for ten consecutive days. His adversary
supplied the dipper and got the largest
to be found. Winthrop got along fairly
we'll for the first three days. After that
he showed evidences of a large-sized
jag, which constantly accumulated in
size and strength. Later on his friends
had to keep him at home by force to
keep him from being arrested. But he
persevered with determination worthy
Of a better cause and completed the
wager by drinking sixty gallons of
hard cider. Uncle John says that after
getting thirty or forty gallons down he
saw green faces and many very strange
things. The Good Templars of Win
throp now have him on their list.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
A LOST MINE.
Much Time Spent in Seeking for Secret
Treasures.

Much Time Spent in Seeking for Secret
Treasures.
An usual feature is that particular
Indian sometimes with companion or
two) used to return from the west every
year at certain moon, ostensibly for
the purpose of honoring the graves of
his fathers and to use again his ances-
trail right of hunting the deer and bear
among the wild but verdurous hills,
says Lippincott's; yet gossiping tar
heels hold that really the visits were
for the purpose of opening. again the
concealed mine of lead or silver, whose
rich spoil the sons of the forest have
been seen bearing off in their packs.
Another form of the story relates that
certain hunter always won't tell"
or now dead" or moved west') got
all the lead for his bullets from the foot
of mountain above cove on a certain
creek; or an old counterfeiter now "in
the penitentiary" or fled" into parts
unknown) used to coin quarters and
halves of good silver (still seen in cir
culation), yet was never known to buy
silver in any form. Weeks and months
were spent each year in searching for
these secret treasures. Occasionally
the enthusiasm would mount to the
height of sending far off somewhere to
fetch back the "old hunter" More
than once such a one has been per-
suaded that there was more richness in
his bullets than he had supposed; and,
regretting vainly the many pounds of
good silver lead that he had shot away
at deer, coons, geese and other game,
he has been brought back to his old
haunts. Then, with many a keen eye
tracking his goings with his persuading
friend, weeks would be spent in BUSH
beating, cliff climbing and laborious
search along rocky shores, about caver-
nous hills in fens, boys, and dismal
dens in the deep woods. bu. only to the
utter disappointment of all their fond
anticipations. The "old hunter" finds
that time has obliterated his way
marks; bush and tree and rock and rill
lack the familiar aspect, and he whose
confused recollections formed the basis
of vast schemes of gain returns to his
distant home .dispirited and dishon-
ored.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

Boston has prodigy in the shape of
an 11-year-old colored girl who is a
wonderful preacher. She is child OF
little or no education, but speaks with
all the style, intonation, delivery and
gesture of a polished and experienced
pulpit preacher. Her speech is fluent
and easy and her voice musical. This
little girl was born in Washington, D.
c., in September, 1885. Her father was
a preacher. She began preaching when
she was about years old. She has come
north to help to raise funds to build an
industrial school for colored girls in
Charleston.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
Remarkable Instinct of Birds.

DR.. Williams, an English naturalist,
tells of two interesting cases of birds
profiting by experience. One OF his
neighbours, whose fruit suffered from
the raids of blackbirds and thrushes,
planned and executed a number of
raids on their nests in an adjoining
woods. After the birds had been dis
turbed few times they built their
nests on the ground instead of in the
bushes and small fir trees, as had
been their custom. The other case was
of some sandpipers that were nesting
near DR.. Williams house. These birds,
after their nests had twice been de-
stroyed by water, continued for three
seasons to build their nests on high
ground, inaccessible to the water.
Their usual custom is to build their
nest near the water on the gravel and
sand washed up by the river.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

Down on the lower east side of New
York city lives man who makes a
fair subsistence by specializing in
funerals. A funeral is about to take
place. He goes to the undertaken, with
whom he is in close touch, and offers
to pay cash for the same. AS most Of
the funerals in the poorer sections of
the city are paid for by installments,
the undertaken Is glad to accept the
proposition, and gives a liberal dis
count. The undertaken gets cash, the
Spectator makes Is per cent on his in
vestment and the family Of the dead are
put to no inconvenience.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

: G. F. Adams Of Derry, N. H., belongs
to large family. There were twelve
persons present last Thanksgiving who
bore the following relation to one an
other: Great-grandfather. great-grand-
mothers, five daughters, two sons. five
sisters, five grandchildren, two great
grandchildren, two brothers, three
aunts, one uncle, one great-uncle, one
niece, two great-aunts, three husbands,
two fathers, three mothers, four wives.
and grandniece, one grandnephew, two
sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law.
that came later.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
Crimes and Crimfnnls.

Ex-Gov. Davis Of Maine is thought
to have committed suicide.
A GAINESVILLE, Wis, man killed his
wife, son and himself
A mail pouch robbery was committed
at West Superior.
F. E. Williams, agent of the Omaha
road at West Superior, has committed
suicide.
Patrick Donohue, who was married a
week ago. has been arrested for the
Murder Of his wife.
William Roe was hanged at Napa.
Cal. for the crime of numbering Mrs.
John I. Greenwood in February, 1891.
Col. Wright Of Newark, N. j., was in
jured in a runaway at st. Paul while
driving withsThomas Cochran.
The filibuster Shere Annie run out Of
the harbor at Jacksonville, Fla, and
was chased in vain by the cutter Col
fax.
The grand jury at Jefferson, Iowa,
has found an indictment against Louis
Thorpburg, the alleged wholesale forg-
err for amounts exceeding $4,000.
General Traffic Manager Hanlcy, Of
the Santa Fe, has been acquitted of
the charge of violating the interstate
law.
Elmer Sutton broke jail at Spirit
Lake, Iowa, cutting his way out with
q fine saw. Other prisoners objected,
but he kept them at bay with knife.
Louis Levy, the alleged Pittsburs
perjurer, was ordered to be eXtradited
at Montreal. He has ten days in which
to appeal.
Martin Braasch, a middle-aged labor
er, was found in the river at Milwau-
kee, having been murdered. When last
seen he had 5000 on his person. He
disappeared on Nov. q.
The Rev. DR.. Kirkpatrick, pastor of
the Second Eniversalist Church of
Rochester, n. Y, who was arrested
some day ago charged with impcrson.
ating an officer, has been unanimously
acquitted by jury trial.
Ebenezer Morgan entered a plea OF
guilty at Fond du Lac, Wis. Of improp'
er relations with Mrs. Jane Adams,
and was sentenced to two years at
J Waupun.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
Accidental HabpeninRs.

John Gordon, aged ID, went skating
"a Lake Winnebago, near Fond du
D.c, Wis, and was drowned.
Mrs. Esther Poole, GO years Of age,
and her son. Charles ]. Poole, "a years
old, of Chicago, were suffocated by
coal gas from a stove.
George A. Abel, chief grain inspector
of the produce exchange of San Fran
cisco, is dead, having been asphyxiated
by gas.
Crather & Haverhill's heavy goods
warehouses at Montreal were de-
stroyed by fire. The stock carried was
said to be worth fully 100000; insured
for about 100000.
In the Adit Mining company's tun-
mel. near Ward, Colo, John w. Glover
and Harry Glover, contractors, and T..
A. Edgermo and John w. Schreiver,
were killed by an explosion Of giant
powder.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

TRANSFORMATION Of convicts and insane
patients, fugltivcs from Justice, S:D,-
COO; other, expenses, S1OO,OOO, making
total of S477,OO0 required for fixed
appropriations.
Bismarck, N. d., Jan. 2l.-Thc lcgis-
lature, in joint session. officially an
nounced the election of II. q. Hans-
brough to the United States senate.
After the house was called to order
Hankinson moved that the chief clerk
notify the senate that the house was
ready to receive then In joint session.
In few minutes the senators filed III,
taking seats In the center OF the hall.
Lieut.. Gov. Dcvine presided, and an
nounced that the object Of the joint
session was to determine by COMPARE
son Of journals il any one had re-
ceived majority of the total vote for
senator. The journals Of yesterday
yesterday We're read, showing Hans
broughs total vote, 67; Bentley's, "a
Hansbrough was declared elected and
his certificate Of election read. Speaker
Williams, Senator Rourke and Repre-
sentative Francis were appointed a
committee to escort Hansbrough be-
fore the joint assembly for the purpose
of making an address. The committee
reported that owing to i'll health the
senator would be unable to make an
address. The same committee was ap-
pointed to notify Hansbrough of his
election. Murphy of Ward proposed
three Cheers for Hansbrough, which
were given and the joint assembly dis
solved.
The senate passed the following
bills: Haggart's anti-convict labor law;
Marshall, repeating law creating Rus
sian cactus commissions; Valentine,
amending election law relating to prep
aration of ballot and arrangement of
names of candidates; Mansfield, COM
polling railroads to pillow strip four
feet wide OH each side of track before
June 50 each year to prevent prairie
fires. t..
Senate bills introduced: Green, pre-
scribing duties Of district veterinari-
ans; Gordon, appropriating $106,52O
for Grand Forks university; Tufts, pro-
viding for attorneys fees in foreclos-
ure proceedings; Mansfield, makes Nc
Lean, Ward and Williams counties
Twenty-ninth legislative district. La
INQUIRE, chairman railroads committee,
reported back Creers reducing salaries
of railroad commissioners, with recon-
mendation that it do not pass. Green's
bill compelling butchers to license was
recommittcd to stock committee for
amendment. Va.
In the house Hurley of Trail was
appointed speaker pro tenn. Porter re-
Porter resigned from joint committee
to visit state institutions and Peoples
was appointed.
Bills introGuced: Howard, amending
banking laws, making director who
concurs in loan to officer or director
of bank guilty of misdemeanor; Syvert-
son, providing for costs in foreclosure
proceedings; Porter, compelling all
state and county officials except JUS
tees of peace, constables and coroner
to give bonds in some fidelity insur-
ance company; Mitchell, provides for
payment of witness and who have
been in Jail and testify on behalf of
state; Mitchell, amending law relating
to liens on crops. Both houses adj
iourned until Jan. 26.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
The Nation,s Capitol.

The Nations C0p1tOA
The spanish legation at Washington
has received no information regarding
the proposed reforms in Cuba.
Consul General lee is highly indig-
nant at statements which have been
made by Congressman Money since his
return to the United States from Cuba.
The United States supreme court as
signed the Laclede Gaslight company
case for reargument on the second
Mondoy of the next term.
The controller of the currency has
appointed c. H. Springer receiver Of
the Merchants National Bank of Dew
lis Lake, n. D.
A bill fixing the age for the retire
ment from tie classified civil service
was introduced by Representative
Gillett of Massachusetts,.
The house committee on commerce
voted to report favorably bill author
izing the Sierra Madre Construction
company to construct or acquire a
bridge across the Rio Grande at HI
Paso, Tex.
The work on the battleships at the
shipyard Mt New York has been tem-
porarily suspended on account of an
order requiring that all plates used
must be first subjected to the longi-
tudinal and transverse tests. Several
hundred men have been laid off.
The Behring sea commission will
not meet in San Francisco as expected.
Nicholas R. Harris, who has just re-
turned from Victoria, B. c., where lie
had been in attendance Oh the COM
mission, reports that the commission
ers will remain in Victoria.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

A real Trilby made her debut in
New York few days ago at the Spir-
ltual temple. Her name Is Mrs. Ada
Gage, and Though it is declared that
she has never had any education and
that she speaks only English, she sang
win much feeling solo in the Geno-
Csc dialect while under the control Of
a medium. She sang several selections
in the same way and also played on
the piano. selecting the music at the
suggestion Of the medium.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

A baby was born in Chesterfield, Pa,
the day before Christmas which
weighed one ounce less than one pound.
1t was SO tiny that it was dressed in
dolls clothing. A cradle was made
for it from dolls carriage by taking
of the wheels and substituting rock
ers. The baby, which is bright-eyed
little girl, cries and sneezes and
coughs just like other babies.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

1t is human nature to forget to
look back and see what became Of the
person who gave you friendly boost
over the fence when the bull was COM
ing.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

Clergymen in Columbus, Ohio, do not
propose to have themselves overworked
attending funerals on Sunday. They
have served Notice that only in cases
of necessity will they lend themselves
to the pomp and circumstances of fun
erals on tho first day of the week.
Some of them have said to interviewers
that funerals in Columbus have degen-
Grated into parades.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

Geo. v. Cunningham. Jr., of Balti-
more, was so enraged when he saw the
bill for his wife's new bonnet that he
forthwith proceeded to destroy both
bonnet and bill. His wife promptly hal
him arrested, but his father, promi:
nent builder, gave bail for him.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

Leisure will always be found by per.
sons who know how to employ their
time; those who want time are the
people who do nothing.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

Women are apt to consider them
selves neglected when they do not feel
that they are putting some man to in
convenience.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

London, Jan. ola Times dispatch
from Teheran, Persia, says al carth-
quake occurred on the island Of kisil-
ma, in the Persian gulf, on Jan. H.
attended by enormous loss OF life.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
THE NEWS RESUME.
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD

Comprehensive Review OF the
Important Happenings of the
Past Week Culled From the Tel
eEraph Rcports-The Notable
Events at Home and Abroad That
Have Attracted Attention.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

A vast amount of curiosity comes
from the vanity of desiring to know
something that somebody else does not.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28
There would be more harmony in
families If brothers did not know each
other so we'll.
People who treat themselves with
due respect are seldom worried by i'm
pertinences from others.

No business that seeks to accumulate
money without creating something OF
value can be called legitimate.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

There is vast amount of difference
between popular clamor and public
sentiment, when the latter is expressed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

Hughes Fawcett, agent in this coun-
try for Stuart & Son, manufacturers OF
linen thread at Lishurn. Ireland, has
been arrested at New York on bench
warrant, accusing him of having vii.
fully and knowingly made Il false dec
laratlon to the collector Of the port.
Julius Hirsch, a young man who
claims to Ike the son Of wealthy parents
In New Orleans, is locked up in the
prison at San Francisco for theft. lie
came here last June and has since
posed as the scion Of wealthy and
illustrious family.
Henry Miller. n middle aged German,
entered gun store Mt Sun Francisco
and asked to sec some pistols. While
fitting cartridge he deliberately shot
himself. At one time he was worth
penniless.
Francis Murphy. student at the
Baptist Theological seminary, was
found dead in his room in that inst'tu-
ton in Louisville, Ky, having commit
ted suicide by taking morphine. 1t is
said his home was 1T Washington. u.
c. No cause for the suicide is known.
The last official act of Gov. Morrill,
of Kansas was the pardoning CT Ander-
son Gray, the Sumner county farmer.
sentenced to death for instigating the
murder of Thomas Patten, a neighbor-
ing farmer, in May, 1894. The murder
murder was committed by Thomas L.
Mcdonald, Gray's farm hand, Gray
having hypnotized Mcdonald and com
PEELED him to do murder. On trial Nc.
Donald was acquitted.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-01-28

transportation Of convicts and insane
patients, fugitivcs from Justice, SS,-
COO; other. expenses, $1OO.OOO, making
total Of S477,OO0 required for hxed
appropriations.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-13

conditions, Mr. Sovereign's term OF office
would not expire until the next meeting.
This. however ii is said makes no differ
ence with the order, whose general officers
during a meeting are always in the hands
Of the assembly and can be chosen and de-
posed at the will of the majority. Along
with Mr.. Sovereign there were three other
officers retired because OF this special
meeting, viz: T. B. Mcclure. general
worthy foreman OF Amsterdam, n. Y;
tin. OF Minneapolis OF the executive COM
nlttee.
Henry A. Hicks OF District 252. New
York city, was chosen 10 iii Mr.. Sover-
eigns place. and I. D. Chamberlain. Of
Pueblo. Colo. was selected as general
worthy foreman. Sanfeld Fitzpatrick, Of
Montreal. and Henry Bostock. Of Assem-
bly, 500. glass workers. were chosen as the
two members Of the executive board, the
third member being Andrew Best.
This decisive change in the corps OF or
f7cers OF the Knights of Labor VIII cause
considerable astonishment in labor circles
throughout the country. Save TO those
who were "on the inside" so TO speak.
for The past three months, there was ab-
eoiutely nothing OF this known. Il IS said
that although the change was sudden and
totally unlocked for, il was done with
the anicable consent OF all. In some
quarters il Is hinted that Il had been
pre-arranged before the delegates gath
cred In this city for the general assembly.
ON good authority Ii Is learned IL was
with Mr.. Sovsreign's approval that he
steps down and ou;- It IS likewise Win
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-13
SEATTLE WASHINGTON. SATURDAY NOVEMBER ls 1897

their territory. Il cannot be controlled out
side OF these boundaries. Many OF the fish
which properly belong within Canadian
waters are those picked up out CT season
By American fishermen Sir wiifrsd L4au-
rser viii ask the United States TO agree to
the protection os these fish during the
breeding season as an esHset fer any seal
concession 10 which Canada may consent.
During the conference seE.ss OF pTopo-
s..foEs vas presented by the American rep
resar "a lives covering the narlosr and nas-
lis Of the seals ard the extent TO which the
seal herds had been reduced during the Ave
years in which t1e Paris award had been
n operation. IT TURF tha Brs.ish-Cana6ian
Representatives presented counter PROPOSE
ions covering their y.ews Of rhs same sub
jecs The propositions differed considera-
bly,, bu. wsre not 50 wide apar- as 10 Lead
10 the belief that they could not 5s recon
cilei
1t Is expected that when the session is
resumed tomorrow. the experts Will be
able TO reach a common understanding.
The proposE5o do ros emboiy any fiptc-
matte features out are solely scientific.
as 10 ;ae number, habits ana destruction o.
the seals. After the experts have recon
eileG their propositions the diplomats will
begin 10 consider the large subject OF PRO
vldlng an adequate remedy against seal
destruction