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4 DRUG CLERKS ss,ooo,oOo CLAIM.

btEuI buyu y H4HTBt HFHCE VI HHHu IN FTOTIuh
Was Granted to His Grandrnther's brother.
Antonio Segui. q Maspeth drug clerk, believes
that he Is the heir to an estate in Florida valued
at $4,000 600. The land is known. he says. as
the Segui grant. and was given to Father
Antonio Segui, n Spanish priest, by the Spanish
Government in consideration OF his labors
among the Seminole Indians.
The priests brother. Segui says, was his
grandfather. 10 says the Spanish Consul, be-
fore whom he laid the claim. is convinced Of It's
validity.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
BiE Deficiency In the Appropriation Nr the Pay
Of the Array.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-There will be a big
deficiency in the appropriation for the pay Of
the army this year. 1t is estimated that 1t will
be as much as $3.50, 900 by June 80, when the
fiscal year ends. The deficiency IL due TO sew.
eral causes. the main one being that Congress
failed, TO appropriate ~ much money as MAS
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
II TITLE UNDER sURVE1L1ANCE
The Treasury Department Advised That She 10
Suspected OF Being n FiIibustsr.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The Treasury Depart
ment has received information that the steamer
Tillie, hailing from New London. Conn, is at
South Amboy. N. j.. under suspicious circum-
stances. 1t is believed that she is connected
with an intended hlibustering expedition.
Instructions were sent this afternoon to the
Collector of Customs in Perth Amboy to keep
the vessel under surveillance and to forward to
the department any further information that
may be Obtained. The Tllie was built In New
Haven in 1862. She has a gross tonnage Of All
tons and is 147 feet long.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
ATHLETICS
Games OF the Lone Island schooiboSs May be
Held In the ThIrieenth's ArmorS.

Games OF the Long Island schooiboys May BE
Held In the Thirieenth's ArmorS.
The annual meeting Of the Long Island Inter-
scholastic A. L. was held at Adelphi Academy.
Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon. The delegates
present were:
Pell and Langdon. Adelphl Academy; Ludiam ana
Cregan, Brooklyn Latin school; Waller, Graves ana
Parsons, Brooklyn High School; Chipp. Tilney, and
Bowie, Pratt Institute: Brown and Chase, st; raul
School; c. rockingham. L. rockingham anu Gill;
"Poly Prep school.
There seems to be a great deal Of trouble IN So.
curing an armory to hold the annual indoor
games. The only place available is the old Thir-
teenth Regiment building, but this the league
does not want, owing to its limited capacity.
The orders issued from Albany some time ago
prohibiting games in armories other than regi-
mental contests is a great handicap TO inc
league, and at one time It looked as II no games
would be held this winter. The reportofthe Track
Committee yesterday, however, Sheered TIE ne
The new Thirteenth Regiment Armory could be
secured If the games were held underth the auspices
of a company Of the regiment, and that some of
the events be open to the members OF the same.
After some discussion IL was voted to accept the
report of the committee.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
,t.,,n 1.lana HOCKEY Players Easily defeated.

Tho second team of the Hockey Club OF Now
York defeated the Staten Island Cricket and
Baseball Club at the Ice Palace last night by
a score Of 6 to l. The victory seemed TO DC a
popular one with the crowd, and the winning
team was cheered to the echo. The goals were
made by Leo. Russell. and Laing, and the puck
was kent. in tho visitors territory throughout.
The only one OF tho Staten Island players who
appeared in the game TO any advantage WAS
johnson. who made several line runs. Tho
line-up:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
Staten Island
c.. aud II. BIC


Refereo-De Casanova.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
TO DREDeE THE STREAMS
Syndicate Buys the Right to Work Rivers
in the Klondike District.

w. FwH.Fr "
Syndicate Buys the Right to Work Rivers
in the Klondike District.
MONTREAL, Feb. 22.-Joseph A. Mer.
cier, brother of the late premier, backed,
by immense capital, has just concluded
q deal with the government, by which
he has the sole right to dredge $50
miles Of river in the heart of the Klon.
dixie district. The arrangement covers
from 8 to 80 miles on eachrof the rivers
in the Klondike district. An immense
sum of money has been paid for the
privileges, but the present owners Of
these concessions have no intention of
operating for themselves. The idea is
simply to launch the scheme on the
London and American markets, and
MIR. MERCER says that while for the
present the names Of the men . inter.
ested are not to be made public, they
are mostly Of New York, and it will
undoubtedly be mostly New York
money that will handle the deal for the
present.
A cable from London says that Lon.
doners approve the scheme, as it is
known there that gold lies in the beds
of all the rivers, but the English re.
quire further particulars before invest
ing their money.
"That MEANS" said Mr.. MERCER,
shat American capital will control
fully two.thirds of the undertaking."
1t is estimated that between $500, 900
and 5000, 600 will be paid for the leases
before tho actual dredging is com.
menced. III
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25

country, 10 true and wise patriotism.
Then followed the ION to Ri 'hmond'
cry. The president and the command
ers Of u army were cartooned in an in
famous manner. This is true history.
Abraham Lincoln was as much embar-
assed by the criticism in the north az by
the, army of the south. Many Of the
critics lived to regret their hasty, and in
many cases, cruel and disl,yal utter
ances. Many died by reason of it.
So today, We have another president,
cabinet, congress, army and navy, many
Of. whom knew Lincoln, served in the
Union army and navy end IN congress.
Cannot we keep cool? Cannot we trust
these officials? Cannot we render, our
country better service by loyal trust in
cur official heads, than in rash, uDwise,
unpatriotic ~denunciations and ssyells for
warp
The nation weeps today over the loss
of $50 of her navy and a single vessel.
The war Of 81 carried a million Ameri-
can to premature graves, under the
old-style warfare. But under the new
methods, you judge, by this one
calamity, the loss of life and vessel-so
quick-without warning. Measure the
cost of war, and the grief, suffering and
ruin to countless thousands of our u
trymen.
l appeal to you to be patient-have
confidence in II president and those at
the seat Of government. This will be
real patriotism, which, in time, you will
rejoice in possessing and exercising.
If this is thought to be too sIow-or
cowardly-or the feeble utturances of a
poor old man--opeu yuur hash cutters
and yell-make the most of your oppor-
tunity to barass our government at a
critical time. I'll await results, with
faith in our political heads.
FARMER WALLACE.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
New Point Raised.

The prohibitionists of Iraill county
have raised and won a peculiar point in
connection with the state prohibition
law. The conviction of A. r. Swanson,
agent of the Great Northern Railway
company, at Buston, who was tried at
Hillsboro last week, is a result which
the state enforcement leagne has long
been trying to achieve. One of the
methods by which the prohibition law
has been evaded is the shipment of
packages of beer o r liquor c. o. d.
Sometimes the shipments were bona
fide, the goods having previously been
ordered by the person to whom tho
shipments were made. Frequently,
however, packages were shipped, with
out orders, to fictitious persons. and in
stances could be named where. in small
country stations, a dozen or more jugs
of liquor, Grated have been stored at one
time, addressed to "John Smith," "Ole
Olson" etc, which We're given to the
first m who would pay the charges
and sign the name of the imaginary con-
signee. The otfense charged against
MIR. Swanson was that, ''in November,
1896, at Buxton, Traill county, he will
fully and unlawfully sold to one Lars X.
Fine, Intoxicating liquors, to-wit: one
gallon of alcohol, as a beverage. The
actual transaction was not d%enied,lviz.:
that Swanson had delivered to Fine,
after the latter had paid the charges, a
package, the nature of whose contents
he did not know, but which proved to
contain alcohol. It was claimed, in de-
Tense, that ignorance of the, contents of
the package relieved the agent of any
responsibility in the matter; that the
defendant was an agent, and not a prin-
cipal in the transaction, and that he
was the agent Of the buyer, and not of
the seller. Judge Pollock, in his charge
to the jury, said that all persons con-
cerned in the commission of a crime,
whether they directly committed the
act, or aided'or allotted in it's commits
sion, are principals in any crime so com
mitted; that the question as t1whether
the defendant was the agent of the
buyer or the shipper depends on
whether the title to the property passed
to the witness, Fine, before the delivery
OF the goods to him or not; and that
s'every person or corporation who as
sumes to act for another as its agent in
the transmission Of Intoxicating liquors,
and who receives the same by the
method known as packages, G. 3D., is
bound to know, at his peril, the contents
of such package" Interpreting the
evidence in accordance with the instruc-
tions laid down by the court, the jury
found the prisoner guilty. The decision
il one of the most ~far-reaching ever rem
dered in the history of cases under the
prohibition law, and if it is sustained by
the supreme court, it will deal a sweep
ing blow at the liquor trade that is now
on in the state.
Upon receiving notice of the action of
the jury convicting the agent, the Great
road has closed the express
Office at Buxton and has made the town
a flag station, SO that the matter thus
far appears to be horse and horse.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
THE soBRAL T
Officials Investigating Remarks of the
Spanish Naval Attache.

Officials Investigating Remarks Of the
Spanish Naval Attache.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-When Score.
tary Longs attention was called to re.
ports that he had taken official coRni-
zance of Captain Sobral's (the Spanish
naval attache) criticisms of the Amer.
lean navy, the secretary said he had
called the subject to the attention of
the state department with a view of
having an inquiry made by that
branch. However, Mr.. Long did not
treat the Sobral matter as profoundly
serious.
Assistant Secretary Day received no
dispatches from Havana during the
early part of the day. He would not
discuss the Sobral matter. 1t is under
stood, however, that the state depart.
ment does not attach deep significance
to the reported remarks of Sobral, ow.
ing to his minor position. At the same
time it is felt that he should not be
making such remarks as are attrib.
uted,tO aim.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
oA8ToRIA
60; e; .ZmM7Nzzzzsx IL! !: !;

The Washington correspondent of the
Minneapolis Journal has discoveredthat
thes'gang" is worried over the prospec-
tive candidacy of Congressman johnson
and that Congressman johnson is Sc.
rene and confident. The nature Of this
statement is such as to lead to the i'm
preston that it emanated from the con
gresham, in the same manner as the
statement recently sent out that John.
would be a candidate and that the rail
roads would be arrayed against him
which recalled memories of Jim Hills
lieu bill-soinduslriously favored by the
congressman.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25

Total premium income...... $50, $3.50, $3.50
Total income............... 41.793, 1854
Paid policy holders ......... 19,4O9, 449
Total disbursements ....... 27,8Ol, 939
Income over disbursements. 1882. 145
Total admitted assets 2OO.694 .44O
Increase of assets in 1897. 1858, O34
Surplus on policy holders
account ............... 17,17G, 1o5
Reserve fund over 4 per cent
requirements ............ 1886, 1926
New business paid for in 1897 135. 555, 794
Outstanding insurance paid
Observation-Disclosures. s77,o2o,92 2
Gain in insurance during the
year ..................... 5o,2o4,2 77
In six years the New York
Life has gained in assets. 74,74, $50
Gained in income .......... 9,938, 800
Gained in number of policy
holders ................. 15o,155
Gained in paid insurance. 301 3331, 276
This is the result of a virile, f%orceful,
and independent management. Critics
may carp, but ''the proof of the pudding
is in the eating.' The New York Life
pudding seems to be quite t%oothsome.
e. D. EDIck, Agent.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
CENSUS A N IDEA.
Robert Porter Says the Maine Was Blown
Up From without.

Robert Porter Says the Maine Was Blown
Up From Without.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.-The En-.
quirer prints under Washington date
a lengthy dispatch from Robert Porter,
ex.superintendent of census, giving
what he believes to be the policy of the
administration regarding Cuba. Mr..
Porter thinks that Spain will be asked
to allow the Cubans to purchase their
liberty by the issuance OF Cuban bonds,
this government to the respon-
sibillty of collecting the customs duties,
and thus see that the revenues Of the
government are applied to the payment
Of interest on the bonds.
Concerning the Maine disaster Mr..
Porter says there is little doubt that
she was blown up from without, but it
will be difficult to fasten the guilt upon
the Spanish authorities. He concludes
that the situation is critical, and that
the coming week may bring about q
crisis.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
THE DREADED
CONSUMPTION

T. A. Slocum, M. G., the Great Chem
list and Scientist, Will Send Free,
to the Afflicted, Three Bottles of
His Newly Discovered Remedies to
Cure Consumption and All Lung
Troubles.
Nothing could be fairer, more philan-
thropic or carry more Joy to the afflicted,
than the offer of T. A. Slocum, NJ. c.,
of 1873 Pearl street, New York City.
Confident that he has discovered an
absolute cure for consumption and all
pulmonary complaints, and to make it's
great merits known, he will send, free,
three bottles of medicine, to any reader
of the Bismarck TRIBUNE who is suffer-
ing from chest, bronchial, throat and
lung troubles Or consumption.
Already this thew scientific course of
medicine" has permanently cured thou
sands of apparently hopeless cases.
The doctor considers it his religious
duty-a duty which he owes to human
ity-to donate his infallible cure.
Offered freely, is enough to commend
it, and more SO is the perfect confidence
of the great chemist making the propo-
sition.
He has proved, the dreaded consump-
ton to be a durable disease beyond any
loubt.
There will be no mistake in sending
the mistake will be in overlooking the
generous invitation. He has on file in
his American and European laboratories
testimonials of experience from those
cured, in all parts of the world.
Don't delay until it is too late. Adj
dress T. A. Slocum, M. G., SO Pine.
street, New York, and when writing the
doctor, please give express and p~ostofice
address, and mention reading this article
in the Bismarck TRIBUNE
The term OF United States district
attorney Tracy Bangs expires on May
9. and another plum will soon be given
out from Washington.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
=: WARRANT
Money refunded after four weeks
trial if not satisfactory.
Uphold the President.


EDITOR TRIBUNE: Realizing that to
counsel the exercise Of self.control-to
keep cool-at the present time will be an
exposure to the return fire of sold fool,
in his dotage, no fight in him." and all
that sort OF hot headed scensure, I take
the risk and venture to call the atten-
ton Of the readers of the TRIBUNE to a
time in the history OF our country
more exciting, nor war-like and more
unexpected than the loss of theiM Maine
and the large part Of her gallant tars-
be it by design on the part of the Span
ish, or by accident IN the Maine. In
1861, Abraham Lincoln left Springfield
for Washington. AS he passed through
the great cities he repeatedly counseled
peace, and appealed to all to keep cool,
that the government was not seeking
war, and that if it did come it would be
by the act Of those about to secede,
making an attack on the government.
This wise and timely counsel was IN
needed by many aud was replied to by
others, by "Wha does he know about
He is a peaceat any price man."
HE will let the southgo." He reached
Washington. Soon thereafter Sumpter
was fired upon. Many of our citizens
still wildly remember that day. Then
the hot-heads opened: up again "We
told You So" ''Too slow, too sloww
"Cowards."
Lincoln meet that sensure with the
first call to arms-for 5000 troops.
While the hot spurs Of 81 were abusing
Lincoln, he with the cabinet and the
loyal part Of congress were devising ways
and means to proteot the tublic property
and save the Union.
True, he was not trainedto war, but
my friends, he wal trained to love Of
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
BURSTING BOILER THEORY.
Photographs of the Maine Wreck
Strengthen That View.

3~hotographs OF the Maine Wreck
Strengthen That View.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-The news.
paper productions of photographs taken
OF the Maine wreck were studied with
much interest by the naval officers
here. Great surprise was expressed at
the extent of the wreck and the vast
mass of steel and iron heaped in the
forward part of the ship was a particu.
lar object Of attention. The experts
who had first ventured the theory of q
bursting boiler as the cause of the de.
struction claim to find strong reinforce.
ment in the pictures Tor that belief.
The great mass OF metal appears to be
thrown up over the boiler space and
not over the forward magazine. AS to
what caused a boiler to explode, wheth.
or a disguised bomb in the coal, low
water Or faulty construction, they do
not undertake to say.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
Must Keep on the Re,erv,r:on.

GREAT FALLS, Mon., Feb. 23.-Major
Fuller, agent Of the Blackfeet Indians,
has issued an order prohibiting Mrs.
Garrett White from living on the re-
serve. Mrs. White is the white woman
who. a month ago, while a teacher in
the Fort Shaw Indian school, eloped
with and married White, a full blood
Piegan Indian. She is a sister of Rev.
Q. 9. Bateman. army chaplain at Fort
Belknap.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
The New York Life.

olThe announcement issued by the New
York Life Insurance Co. pertaining to
it's business for the year 1897 is found to
be particularly interesting reading.
Nothing succeeds like success, and Mr..
Mccall seems to have had plenty of it.
The new business written amounts to
sl34,ooo!0o0,. IN increase of s14, 100000,
compared with the business of 1896, and
an addition to the business in force ex-
ceeding s49O0O,OoO The policy holders
received nearly sl9,OO0,OO during the
year on account of matured claims and
other cash benefits, and the dividends
paid amounted to 50, 100000 a consider
able increase over the dividends of 1896.
The New York Life has resolved to
base the reserve upon its policies at 3
per cent, and to do this has voluntarily
set aside a fund from the surplus
amounting to s16,195, 926. Had the
company not made this addition to the
reserve as an element of safety, the
reserve would have amounted to over
s333,OOO,OOO. The main points of the
years business are here succinctly
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
THE SAILS.

Members of the Naval Court on the Way
to Havana.
KEY WEST, Fla, Feb. 22.-The
Mangrove left for Havana ut 4 p. m.
She carries the members of the court of
inquiry into the Maine disaster. The
Mangrove will stop at the Tortugas to
take on board Captain Henry @. Taylor
OF the Indiana. She carries also air
pumps, electric lamps for divers and
other diving apparatus.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
President ut phnadelph,..

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.-President
Mckinley, accompanied by his secre.
tary, arrived here during the afternoon
in the private carof President Thorn.
son Of the Pennsylvania railway. The
presisss3 delivered an Grafton at the
Washington's birthday exercises Of the
University of PENNSYLVANIA.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
Requiem Service in Berlin.

BERLIN, Feb. 20. United States Am
bassador White and the American col.
1ony in Berlin were present at the
American church at the requiem sew.
ice for the victims of the Maine. A
commemorative discourse was deliv-
cred by the Rev. Mr.. Qickia.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-25
Explosion Of the Magazine Not
the Cause Of the Terri
BILE Disaster.
Naval Investigating Board En-
Route From Key West
to Havana.

HAVANA, Feb. 22.-Lieutenant Com.
mander Barnett Of the survey boat
Bache said to q correspondent of the
Associated Press:
"You want the facts. can tell you
there arc 95 chances out Of 100 that the
investigation will show that the for.
ward magazine Of the Maine did not
blow up first, if it exploded at all, and
that it was not the cause Of the terrific
consequences that followed. The cor.
dition of the wreck when first studied
and a later careful scrutiny make this
an almost absolute certainty"
The Dickinson press., 1898-02-12
THE WONDERS or SCIENCE
49, Ii
Lung Troubles and Consumption Can be
Cured.
An Eminent New York Chemist and Sci.
enlist Makes a Free Offer
to Our Readers.

The distinguished New York chemist,
T, A. Slocum, demonstrating his discov-
cry of a reliable and absolute cure for
Consumption pulmonary Tuberculosis)
and all bronchial, throat, lung and chest
diseases, stubborn coughs, catarrhal
affections, general decline and weakness,
loss of flesh and all conditions of vast
ing away, will send three free bottles (all
differently of his New Discoveries to any
afflicted reader of the PRESS writing for
them. His New Scientific treatment has
cured thousands permanently by its
timely use, and he considers it a simple
professional duty to suffering humanity
to donate atrial of his infallible cure.
Science daily develops new wonders, and
this great chemist, patiently experiment
ing for years, has produced results as
beneficial to humanity as can be claimed
by any modern genius. His assertion
that lung troubles and consumption can
be cured in any climate is proven by
heartfelt letters of gratitude, filed in his
American and European laboratories in
thousands from those cured in all parts
of the world. Medical experts concede
that bronchial, chest and lung troubles
lead to consumption, which, uninterrupt-
ed, means speedy and certain death
Simply write tot. A. Slocum, M. C., %
Pine St, New York, giving postofice and
express address, and the free medicine
will be promptly sent. Sufferers should
take instant advantage of his generous
proposition. Please tell the DR.. that YOU
saw his offer In the PRESS. 6-36-ly.