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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-02-11
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-02-11
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-02-11

The board of university and school
lands reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Dated at Bismarck, N. d., this 18th
day of January, A. D., 1898.
HUGH ]. WATT,
Land Commissioner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

firms engaged In buying and selling paintings
engravlngs and other objects Of art These deal
crs are located Fifth-ave.. which has always
been the art district OF the city. The value OK
the stock carried by these different houses
ranges from 81. 100000 to $i.OOO.0OO
European dealers soon discovered that in TINS
country they had a most excellent field In winch
70 carry on their business. Vast fortunes were
being made here and the surplus wealth OF the
leading men was easily diverted into the chan-
nels of art patronage. 1t has been shown time
and again that the investment Of money in fine
paintings was one Of the best that could have
been made The private collections OF leading
New York families are estimated to represent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

a value Of $20OOO00O. among some Of the most
noted being those Of the Havemcyers Wander
bilts and Rockefellers.
As an instance OF appreciation Of the value
OF paintings, it may be stated that the works
OF n famous French artist which sold in Parfs
thirty years ago for $500 to $500 are now held
in this city at from $1,000 to $4,000
In 1889 Joseph Jefferson purchased at tho
Wyncoop sale THE Shet pfold." by Mauve. for
500 To-day the work is valued at about Vs.
600. Each year the NewYork dealers travel In
Europe. picking up rare works. and these are
soon disposed of in this country. and New.
York is fast becoming the leading art emporium
in the world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

the Russian Paris Is to the French. London to
the Engsh--an object OF constant solictude
and OF civic prjde Preserve its honor: uphold
It's independence: develop its greatness!'
The patronage Of the Mayor includes about
to $4,000
The following is n tabular statement OF the
population OF the leading cities OF the United
States as estimated by the Mayors OF the cities
enumerated on January |. 1898 The estimates
for the fifteen leading cities are here given In
their order. and also their population in 1896
according to the United States census:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

comment on this table points out that an
examination OF the increases in the Greater
New-York territory between 1880 and 1880
develops the fact that what now consti-
tutes NewYork City increased in round
numbers about Cos Geo in the ten years.
or 1900 more than the great gain shown
by Chicago II include such towns as
Jersey City. Hoboken and Newark, all prac-
tcally belonging to one centre OF popula alton the
total Increase Of this entire urban district is
found to exceed 10000. nearly twice as much
as the great city OF London increased In the
same period. with all its vast area But with
out these New-Jersey adjuncts it will be per-
ceived that New-York City is making greater
strides than any other city in the world. ard.
considering the more serious effect OF the recent
depression in the West. ii is entirely probable
that New York will show greater gross gains
than Chicago when the census Of 1900 is taken
The population Of the leading cities OF the
world outside Of the United states is found In
the following table.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24
Art DEALING.

The progress Of art dealing in TIE United
States has Leon rapid and remarkable during
the latter part Of this century. and New ork
has been the centre Of the movement From
lS45. when the first representative Of a Euro
pean dealer came to locate in this city. there
has been a steady increase in the sales Of pct-
ures from the sudos Of the Old and modern
masters. To-day tSerc about twenty-five
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

Partially estimated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
CONSOLIDATION OF CITIES AND TOWNS
INTO THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Cl' NENNMENT-SrATISTICS RELATING TO
POPULATION AND RECENT GROWTH
COMMENTS ON THE CHARTER
The municipality Of the city OF New-York
a"der the charter granted by act OF Legislature
In 1897 unitcs in one vast Commonwealth all
the cities. towns. villages and school districts
included in Kings Qu,,ns and Richmond coun-
ties, Lorg Island City, Newtown. Flushing and
jamaica The greater city Is divided into five
oroughs. TO wit Manhattan. The Bronx
brooklyn. Queens and Richmond. The corporate
ti:le OF the municipality is the city Of New York
Al not Greater New-Yorl, or the Greater City.
1Hc last names arc used. however quite ex-
tcnsiyely. Tho election Of officers for the en-
larScd municipality took place in November
wv. and the successful candidates for Office
cr'"red upon their duties January l. 1898. The
FIST year under the new order Of things is just
:Aout at end The present Mayor Robert
Van Wyck holds office until January |. 1905. at
salary Of $4,000 year. The members Of he
Council and Board Of Aldermen which bodies
form the Legislative branch OF the city govern
respectively. CounCilmen receive 81 800 year;
Aldermen $1,000 There are twenty nre mem
lc,s Of the Council. and ono Alderman from each
Assembly district
The different administrative derartmenis of
the city follows:
The herald., 1898-10-16
Women in Kansas Politics

TOPEKA-Year by year the women Of
Kansas are edging their way deeper into
politics There is one county office which
is we'll adapted for the women-that Of su-
perintendent of schools-and there is q
growing disposition to let the women have
that. There are more women candidates
for county superintendent on the Repub-
lican ticket throughout the state this year
than were ever known before. At the rate
the disease" is spreading 1t will not be
over five years until the women will claim
that office as their exclusively. Two years
ago there were fewer than a dozen women
nominated for county superintendent over
the state, and not many Of them were
elected. The Republican state committee
has received returns from sixty Republi-
can county conventions, and they show
that women have captured fifteen county
superintendent nominations. There are
forty-five counties yet to hear from, and 1t
Is estimated that the women will get ten
out Of them at least. This will bring the
total up to twenty-five. or about one
fourth a growth Of 100 per cent in two
years.-Kansas Journal.
The herald., 1898-10-16

about for the first day or two. The tyro
often stood paralyzed before the steady
wh!zz and buzz of birds that rose almost
close enough to hit with the old-time RAM
rcd. But all at once this used to stop,
though it was certain that all the birds
had not flown. If you would leave that bit
Of ground for half an hour, and often
longer, and then return to it you could
which you had kicked before. At first they
began to lie much as the woodcock or
ruffed grouse lies. Then they began to hide
more closely. ending up with lying al close
ly as young prairie chickens in long grass.
At that point If you had good dog. per-
fectiy fresh, he would point many bird
on which you must almost have trodden a
little while before. But the trouble used to
be that every man that had dog allowed
him 10 become spent with heat and running
before that time arrived. Nothing seems
mere idiotc than TO use a dog mp in this
way; yet the average man VIII allow the
dog to plunge in full gallop to retrieve a
bird that has fallen stone dead on open
ground and les directly IN the course he
Is gong, when he could as we'll pick 1t up
h himself and keep the dog at heel Over
twenty years ago 1t was plain enough that
a dog could be used on these birds to great
if kept IN proper condition for
hunting when the time came. 1t is just
as certain today as it was then that dog
cannot be used to advantage unless he S
in some way held down and kept cool. There
are some salamanders m the dog family
that can sta nd heat and dry air and want of
water combined. with plenty Of racing. and
still retain fair nose. But they are very
rare and would be far better If kept quiet
and cool until most needed.
Both these tricks Of running at first and
The herald., 1898-10-16

With October the law against shooting
quail expires in the greater part or the
state, but no one cam tell about the exact
date without learning what the supervi-
sors Of each county have done They have
jurisdiction to restrict the general game
law In any case, and there are few coun-
ties in which they do not use this power
as the making Of a good general law for the
whole Of such a state as California Is i'm
possible In such matter.
The valley quail Of California Is now gen.
orally known to the world of sportsmen as
the most abundant and the most gamy OF
all the quail family and It well deserves this
reputation. There never was another game
bird that one was so certain to find IN such
large quantities on almost any day during
the season; never another on which one
who understood them we'll was so certain
to keep his gun hot and fill his pockets with
birds. Yet there never was another that
rewarded the novice with so few feathers
t., so many birds, and nome that ever so
made the skillful stranger wonder whether
he ever did hit anything. This quail has
consequently become one Of the attractions
of the coast, and every year adds to the
number Of sportsmen who winter on the
coast, mainly on account Of the amusement
The herald., 1898-10-16

now broken up into smaller flocks than
formerly and are scattered higher up In
the hills. Once they went only to the
tops of the hills to nest, coming down into
the valleys afterwards, where the seeds IF
the alfileria and burr clover were SO much
more plenty. There they used to run to-
gether into immense bands ard stay in the
valleys and around the edges until the next
nesting time, from which they took the
name Of valley quail. But now they stay
far up the hillsides. where the scrubby live
oak mods from the crags of granite around
which the sell is perhaps too thin to raise
smile on the ever happy mimulus. And
even where the mealy stem of the cotyledon
bows over bare, glistening rocks, an the
Turks head cactus rivals even the stone
crop family in living on nothing, you may
frd ba nd Of quail keeping watch on the
approaches from below.
Years ago you left him noisy bird. with
CHEEKY call ringing ever from the canyon
side or the valleys carpet of alfler!a. 1t
was a common thing to hear large flock
q quarter Of mile away, and often the
The herald., 1898-10-16

sharp whit, whit, whit. of alarm or the
muffled wook-wo0k-woow-wo okook! that
showed danger still nearer could be heard
ever hundred yards. You hear little of this
now. ard raise many flock with no sign
of their existence till you hear the sharp
whzz Of soft wings. One Of the pro blems
used to be to break and scatter one Of the
big flocks. for as long as they kept TO-
gether it was impossible to make them hide,
50 as to give good single shots on the wing.
Unless the fiock was chased up rapidly
the BIRDS would soon get together after
alighting and be running again. Some of
this trouble yet remains and sometimes IS
even worse on account of the wilder risiu &
of the birds. But quite often they solve
the problem for you at the start by radat
ing for half the horizon at the first rise
When you see flock spread out like a
fan, with the center Of the line aimed for
th4 top Of robust hill, you can sometimes
find new flock with less swearing than you
can by running after these aspiring chaps.
the valley qua. IS master Of the art today
Ore used to be aston!shed to find a whole
The herald., 1898-10-16
Lightning on Washington Monument

One of the best evidences of the value OF
lightning rods up to date has been afforded
by the Washington monument. 1t Is capped
by small four-sided pyramid of alumni
um, which metal. SO cheap today, was very
costly at the time of the building of the
greatest obelisk that the world has ever
known. This aluminium tip is come cted
with the ground by four copper rods which
go down deep into the earth. On April g.,
1885. Ave immense bolts of electricity were
seen to flash between the monument and q
thundercloud overhanging In the course of
twenty minutes, In otherw ords, the mon
ument was struck fiercely five times, but it
suffered no damage whatever On June 18th
of the same year a more tremendous as
sault was made upon the monument from
the heavens, and the result was the frac-
ture of one Of the topmost stones. The
crack still remains to show what nature
can do in the way of an electrical shock
but the slightness. of the damage is evil
dence Of mans power to protect himself
from such attacks. The obelisk IL Ideally
located for attracting electrical assaults
from the skies and yet while many times
hit. It has suffered only once, and that time
to trifling extent-Boston Transcript
The herald., 1898-10-16

hillside full Of birds suddenly disappear as
II the earth had swallowed them. On warm
still days, in the middle Of the day espec-
.ally, this often happened very soon after
starting the fiock. At other times II was
only after flushing them and firing over
them two or three times or more. Then
you could walk over the ground where
hundreds had settled down en- an acre, yet
could start only three or fatubirds, while
beyond you could see and hear nothing.
though you might have good view Of the
slopes where a few minutes before you
would have seen hundreds running and
making the hills ring with their steady
calling. But If you walked over that acre
again you might start three or four more
and sometimes five or six, and YOU could
often keep on doing this for half or three
quarters of an hour. Here one would whizz
cut of bush but a few feet from your
nose and another would scud away behind
you from one you had just passed. Some
times three or four to dozen would vary
hiding closely afterward this quail VIII
still play to greater perfection than ever,
and a dog is every year becoming more
necessary to find flock IN the first place,
as we'll as to find the scattered quail after
they have begun to hide. But II he is not
properly bred and trained you will do bet
ter without him. California Is new raising
some wonderful dogs, fully able to cope
with this willy bird, and Of great endurance.
But every litter is not composed of them.
and 1t takes great patience, as well as nat
ural and acquired skill in breaking. to bring
them to the right point. But ore who Is not
afraid Of exercise may still find very fair
shooting without dog. Most Of the shoot
Ing all over the southern part Of the state
is still done In that way, even ny the mar
ket shooters, who generally use deg only
The herald., 1898-10-16

milk cans. and wondered II It would be
his lot to attack the villains.
"If 1 only had q calcium light, hip boots
and could shout 'Sdeathr would be right
IN st." murmured Mr.. Gibbon mournfully
as he lifted one foot out of the pansy bed
and set the other down among the sweet
peas. OF a sudden his breath came fast
Just beyond the library window he saw a
STOPPING form. Slowly he 'crspt up: the
figure did not move. except to strH.ghten
up. Nearer still and tnen--
"Ah!" said Officer Moriarity, "an' we're
both disappointed. then!'
The two men lowered their guns and re-
garded each other sadly. The rest Of the
posse came up and they all looked at
Howell. He felt uncomfortable, for they
evidently expected him to say something.
He had been under moral obliga tions to
produce a couple of burglars and he had
failed, and he felt the disgrace keenly.
Gentlemen" he said In a pained voice,
II am sorry to have given you this trip
with no target practice at the end. Might
offer myself as a subst.tute?'
1.-The law makes no allowance for ca-ase
Of this kind" said officer Moriarity, regret
fully, "an' so we are obliged to dacline
your kind invita-ation, but perhaps you
would ride back with us and square us
with the sar-rgeant."
Certainly" said the polite Mr.. Gibbon.
And that Is why his hated rival was BILE
to spread the report through Kenwood and
Hyde Park society that Howell Van REM
selaer Gibbon was taken in charge by SIX
policemen In a dsgracefuf condition late
the other night after creating an awful dis
turbance at the Liliday residence. And he
cannot very we'll go and tell Grace he is in
stead hero and malgned one and there
fore she will never know-unless she reads
this.
Meanwhile the rival is supplying her with
chocolates and Howell is having an en-
forced vacation evenings
The herald., 1898-10-16
A Misunderstood HERO

1t was half-past II when Howell Van
Rensselaer, Gibbon descended from the
Lilday's steps, mounted his wheel and
rode of, says the Chicago News. AS the
gravel on the winding carrageway leading
to the street crunched under his tire he
remarked how dark II was and decided
he must certainly carry his revolver at
night.
Suddenly he saw an ,ndtstinct figure
dart behind lilac bush, and he nearly
stopped pedsling. Another form disap-
peared in the dimness: both were making
for the Lilday house. and their susp.-
cious movements marked them as burglars.
There had been several small robber.es n
the neighborhood and Howell scented a
plot He jumped off his wheel and cons.d-
cred the situation. He could do nothing SIN
gle-handed, for he had no weapon, and,
any how he is a man of peacea BILE !nchna :
tions. If he went back to the house to arouse
the family the burglars would either get
away in the confusion or shoot some one.
and there was Grace TO considerable would
certainly he scared to death. So he mounted
and rode for the Hyde park police station
at breakneck speed, scattered alarm in
that calm headquarters. routed out the
patrol wagon, six officers, d complete ar
senal and all the ammunition at hand. and
| led the warhke procession back 70 the
| Lllidays. The wagon halted dlwn the
street, Howell sta cked his wheel. and the
seven figures crept valiantly up the LiN-
day walk. "Surrourd the house" was the
word.
The posse scattered. tumbling over flow
| er beds and holding rs Individual breaths,
Howell, in the rear of the house, clinched
his fingers about the s.x-shooter he had
captured. swore softly as he fell over the
The herald., 1898-10-16

sign of young bird. Most of them were
high up In the hills, rose in solid mass
and made flights of several hundred yards
at burst. Some of the flocks were slightly
suggestive of the old fiocks of twenty years
ago. and no one need be alarmed about the
birds being exterminated. But young
birds were amazingly scarce, and were
seen only in few blocks along the coast,
where the grass had been little better In
the spring than it was IN the hills.
These conditions will make 1t the best
year we have had for long time for those
who like exercise. There are many sports
men who made the discovery that work
is not an essential element in the pleasure
of the field. am one of them myself. and
II did not take many years or much fine
figuring to reach the conclusion. But this
does not at all settle the question-what is
The herald., 1898-10-16
THE QUAIL SHOOTING SEASON

work. wading through heavy mud and
tearing and swearing through cat-briars
are very different from q run over the Cali
fornia hills when one Is properly dressed
for IT, If one will wear English leggings
and shooting boots and wear a sweater
with regulation coat and other sudorifics.
load himself with a months ammunition
and a lot of snake antidotes. he may pos
sbly find q combination Of hill and sun
shine In which healthy imagination might
discover some of the leading elements Of
work. But II he win forget all about
snakes and dress as lightly as possible he
will find a rapid pace over most Of our hills
will be more like play than work. But
Whatever you may think about 1t, such
pace will generally be necessary, and there
are very few places where you will get
much shooting without plenty of exercise.
For the stra niger the valley quail is one
OF the easiest birds 10 find. requiring aimo st
no knowledge Of Its habits, compared with
such birds as the woodcock or ruffed grouse
and other eastern birds. Wherever there
Is cover enough to cast even network OF
shade on the ground you may often find
the valley quail If 1t has not been shot out;
and the most forbidding looking cactus
the land contained used to be alive with
f,ocks of which one row has little concep-
ton. Anywhere from the coast to four or
FIVE thousand feet above tide the quail
may be found where there Is any cover,
but above three thousand feet he Is not very
abundant. 1t Is one Of the birds that Will
drink water every day, twice day If it can
be conveniently had. or go without entirely
with equal facility II t cannot; so one need
trouble himself little about where it gets
water 1t is. however. most abundant
where water is abundant but the way II
thrives on the edges of the desert, as the
Arizmra quail thrives on the very desert
Itself shows that this is probably due more
to the fact that there IS more feed where
there IS plenty Of water. But the stranger
need not trouble himself about where it
feeds. Like the Arizona quail, It finds seeds
where you can see nothing but bare ground.
ard is fat and lively where the rabbit can
not prosper.
One who has hunted these quail many
years ago would be much perplexed today
to know where they have gone to. Seeking
them In the old haunts around the edges Of
the brush the old rock piles around the
spring or at the neck of some little canyon.
or up IN the bushy heads Of the valleys.
as they were but few years a go, one would
he quite apt to think they were all killed
off Too many Of them have been. but
there are still many left But they are
The herald., 1898-10-16

the entertainment by sprtnging at once and
curling in a dozen ines Of blue around your
head. One Of the interesting sights used
to be the tyro N such q whiri. resolving and
re-resolving to shoot at the next enc, yet
every time being thwarfed by the rising
Of another bird that offered a more tempt
ing shot just as he had raised the gun on
one that a moment before offered a SPLEEN
did chance.
Here was some Of the finest and most
varied open shooting In the world, the
quaIs presenting every variety of twist
and curve that can be executed by any one
bird. Their bewildering numbers often per-
picked even the practiced shot from the
east 50 that he hardly knew what he was