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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

Rev. J. J. Axtell. the Michigan preacher
who two weeks ago had boxing contest
with Saloonkeeper Dondero because of the
formers attacks on the whisky traffic,
has now laid up three more fights to his
credit. His congregation not only APP
proves of his fistic arguments. but has
raised his salary and given him vote
OF confidence and esteem. So far, how
ever, no ffteen-foot ring has been erected
in the church basement for the conven-
fence of the preachers pugiiistic exhorta-
lions TO paths of sobriety.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

AT a Christmas entertainment in Cleve-
land the other day Senator Hanna made
a little speech, during the course of which
he said that the first Christmas gift he
ever got was a sugar dog. which cost prob
ably five cents; and no gift since that
time, he declared, had ever given him so
much pleasure. With that statement as a
basis New York paper figures out that
Senator Hanna is now able 20 buy one
hundred and twenty millions of sugar
dogs at five cents each-enough to give
four sugar dogs 10 every child in the Unit
ed States and the colonies. But what is
The purpose of the calculation; to suggest
that Senator Hanna shall on next Christ
mas invest the whole of his fortune in su-
gar dogs, and make the juvenile popua-
ton under the Stars and Stripes happy by
giving them four dogs each?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

The fund for the benefit of the family
of the late Gen. Lawton is growing in a
very gratifying manner; and 1t is to be
noted that among the first subscribers to
il are persons of large wealth. who have
put their names down for liberal sums.
Many incidents have occurred during the
past two years to show that the posses
sion Of wealth does not diminish patriot
An
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

A society for the suppression of discord-
ant music has been organized in Chicago.
Just how the society proposes to break
into homes and nail up the pianos and
smash the comets is not known; but every
one who has been tortured by those omni-
present instruments will wish godspeed to
the movement.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

The Mohneaux trial in New York has
already lasted six weeks, with the prob
abilities favorable to its continuance al
most if not quite as much longer. 1t will
thus be one of the longest murder trials
ever held in this country, If not indeed the
record breaker. Besides being very long,
the Moiineaux trial is going to prove very
costly. The biggest item of expense will
be the fees of handwriting experts 1t is
understood that one of the experts has
been retained for nearly year at S25
per day
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27
CURRENT COMMENT.

The New Orleans Picayune (Dem) says:
although our population has greatly in
creased in recent years, and the commerce
of the country has augmented on an enor-
nous scale, tine supply of currency, or,
more properly speaking, money, has not
Increased in anything ike the same ratio.
As a result. even aside from scares and
panics, mere business expansion has suf-
feed to harden money rates materially 1t
Is TO be hoped that the Senate, in amend
ing the House financial bill, as 1t GER
tanly will. will take steps to provide a
more elastic currency"
The Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem)
says: THE thoughtless Americans who
are shouting for the Beers and wishing
their success have not the slightest COM
prehension of the fact that next to de-
feat OF the United States, the greatest
calamity TO the United States would be
the defeat of Great Britain by the
Beers"
The Nashville American Dem) says:
IF our war against Spain was justlfable
because OF Spanish oppression. the war
waged now by Great Britain against the
Beers and burghers is equally justhable
for che oppression exercised by the Beers
was similarly intolerant TO the Uitland-
ers."
The Memphis Commorcial-Appeal Dem
says. "When in doubt the congressional
biacksuaris generally take a swipe al
your Uncle Grover Cleveland. This en-
abies them 70 show Hnat they are, ana
what he b. not"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

Much doubt is now being expressed in
Washington that Quay win be given a seat
in the Senate; and the longer the settle
ment of the affair is delayed, the greater
becomes the doubt.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

If there is to be an International yacht
race next year. for the Americas cup,
the challenge win have to come this week.
or mighty shortly thereafter. Under the
terms of the deed of gift the challenger
must give ten months notice. The time
for the notice, if the race is to be sailed
upon the usual dates, Will expire about
next Friday. Should notification be
received a few days later, however the
agreement of both clubs would be sufi-
cient 10 bridge the short time intervening.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27
JOHN c. BUTLER,

DEALER IN
Paints, Oils and Glass Sash, Doors, Blinds
and Builders Supplies Plain and Decora-
tive Wall Paper, Foreign and Domesuc
Clements, Lime, Plaster and Hair. Sole
Agent for Abestine Cold Water Paint.
20 Congress street, west, and 10 St. Juilan
street. west
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27
The MORNING NEWS Is published

Registered at the POstOmce In Savannah.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

Everybody in official life in Washington
knows that the Presidents official resi-
dence is ill-suite1 70 its purpos s. besides
being too small, and altogether antlquated;
nevertheless it is not likely that bill Will
be passed by the current Congress TO
make the needed improvements. There
has been talk previous to every session
for the past twenty years Of the introduce
ton of such a bill. and every President
spoken to has favored the improvements;
but not one of them has ever had the
courage to recommend officially that an
appropriation be made The other day
President Mckinley requested Senator
Cullom not to introduce the bill he had
prepared. The occupants of the White
House are probably afraid that public
opinion viii charge them with too great
a leaning towards luxury
The New York World publishes a state
ment showing that there have been incor-
porated under the corporation laws of
New Jersey 1874 trusts, having a total cap
ital stock of s4,403, 10000. and that since
March 10, 1899, there have been organized
in Delaware under that states new laws
sixty-three trusts, having a total capital
stock of SAFE, 100000 Some of the corpora
tons, the World has no hesitation in say
ing, were organized purely for stock-job-
bing purposes. about the only prerequisite
to securing a charter being the ability to
pay the fee charged
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-27

City of Savannah, Office Clerk of Coun-
Gil, Savannah Ga, Dec. is, 1899.
The following applications to retail LIQUOR
during the year 1900 were read at meet
ing of Council Dec. 10, 1899, and referred
to the Committee of the Whole
WILLIAM P BAILEY
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13
IN ITS INFANCY,
Possibilities of North Dakota,s Arri.
cultural Interests an I'm.
know Quantity.
STATES CLAIM TO GREATNESS.
Not Confined to It's Celebrated
Wheat-Peculinr Adaptability
for Mixed Farming,

The foundation of the wealth and
prosperity of North Dakota is in it's ag-
ricultural products, the development of
which is still in its infancy, and the
possibilities of II agricultural inter-
ests are an unknown quantity. So rap
Id has been the growth of North Dako-
tn and so marvellous the yield of cere-
ais that the great trade centers have
not ceased to wonder at the new factor
IN food productions. 1t will be seen
that in 1897 there were over 4,6O7 ,333377
acres under cultivation, out Of a total
of 4I,3GO,OOO acres of land in the state,
producing nearly 81 100000 bushels of
small grains, not including divers other
products of the soil.
North Dakota has attracted attention
BY producing a wheat that is a grade
II t itsclf-No. ] hard-famous all over
the civilized world us making the best
flour ever known. North Dakota not
only produced bread for it's own people,
but sends millions of bushels of the
bread-making cereal every year to feed
the hungry people of other lands.
North Dakota's claims to agricultural
greatness is not confined solely to the
growth Of wheat. 1t produces corn,
oats, flax, barley and rye in gracious
abundance and Of splendid quality.
The growing Of wheat has been en-
gagged In by the farmers Of North Da-
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13
THRIFT, PROSPERITY, MORALITY
AND INTELLIGENCE.

The commissioners to the worlds
fair, from twenty foreign countries,
and speaking sixteen different Ian
guages, took a look Mt the farming
districts of Minnesota and North Da-
kOta during the harvest Of thai year,
as guests of the Great Northern rail
way. They were not only surprised at
the agricultural thrift and prosperity,
but equally wondered at the great pro-
portion Of educated and cultivated
men and women everywhere in the
city, village and household, a most
favorable comparison against country
life in European countries. The secret
of this is that the w portions of
the American Northwest have been
largely made up of t%ransplanted COM
munities. The railways have taken
the people there by the wholesale. The
Red River valley and other sections
of the Northwest country know but
little of the frontier life that lasted for
a generation in the valleys of the Ohio
and Mississippi before the era of rail-
ways. The new Northwest has been
occupied by people who have come
from the centerS of civilization and
have brought their civilization with
them. Then again they are more re-
spective to the latest developments of
that civilization than are many COM
munities in the East rs evidenced by
daily papers, water works, electric
lights, ETC., in towns much smaller
than any in the east where these COM
forts are enjoyed.
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13
PRAIRIE HAY,

BY this is meant all wild hay that
has not been cultivated, and represents
the chief product of the state, as but
comparatively little tame hay is grown,
and shows n Of the great resources
OF the state for stoc %kpurposes. While
that is true, and most of our wild
meadows seem ineXhaustible, yet it is
not good policy to overtax nature too
far. Some Of our wiser heads have
been casting about to find a substitute
that could be depended upon in all
kinds of seasons to take the place Of
the nutritious wild grass that now
grows 20 luxuriantly. After several
years Of careful experiments made in
those parts Of the state where the pre-
cipitation is not as great as in others,
and where a more hardy and rugged
forage plant than the red clover and
timothy Is required, have come to the
conclusion that in the perennial known
as Hungarian Bronze grass they
have found a forage plant that will
add untold wealth to the state.
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13
ARE WELL SUPPORTED,
Excellent Arrangement for Main.
tenance of North Dakota
Public Schools.

The area Of the State of North Da-
kota is 74,312 square miles. One-eight-
eenth Of this vast domain was granted
to the state by congress for the sup
port Of public schools. This would
amount, in round figures, to 1,13O
square miles, aggregating over $4,000
acres. These lands cannot be sold for
less than $40 per acre. Those sold
have averaged upwards of $50, being
those in the settled portion Of the Red
River valley, largely. The principal
arising from the sale Of these lands al
never be depleted. Only the income
a be used. The funds arising from
their sale is invested in state, county,
city, district and United States bonds,
principally, and, to a limited extent, in
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13

kota largely to the exclusion Of all 9TH
er means of making money from the
soil. This was natural, because it took
very little capital to raise wheat, and
the returns were speedy and profitable.
OF late years, however, farmers find
that mixed or diversified farming pays
better in the long run. The adaptable
ity Of North Dakota to successful
stock raising in connection with mixed
farming is becoming better understood.
The success in raising live stock has be-
come so satisfactory that every farmer
is providing himself with as many cat
tie, horses, sheep and hogs as he can
obtain. While wheat is the principal
harvest crop, oats flax, barley rye, corn,
potatoes and all kinds of roots are
largely and probably raised, yet the
climate has proved most favorable for
the rapid and healthful growth Of cat
tie, horses, sheep and hogs, and the ma
tive grasses are so plentiful and nutrl
tious that the live stock industry, both
with farmers and with stock raisers
who make it a speciality, is growing lii
Importance.
There Is no more desirable part of the
republic to engage in the stock-growing
Industry than is offered on the broad
and open grazing ranges of North Da-
kota. The coteaus, a chain of low,
grassy hills running through a portion
of the state east Of the Missouri river,
and also the wide extent Of rolling prai-
ries west Of the Missouri, afford unsur-
passed advantages for the profitable
raising of sheep, cattle and horses as a
business. Sheep, wherever tried, have
done remarkably well, the dry atmo-
sphere giving exemption from diseases
peculiar to them, which has always
formed so formidable an enemy to
sheep-raising in sections of the East.
Why should not this state, with her
unlimited domain, her perfect climatic
conditions, her fertile hills, luxuriant
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13

frst-class farm mortgages. The lands
are sold on time when it Is desired, the
interest being paid into the school fund,
All fines for violation of any law of the
state are paid into the school fund, and
these with the interest on the perman.
ent school fund and a 2-mill tax on all
property in the state constitutes a fund
which twice a year is apportioned to
the several districts according to the
number of pupils in the public schools.
The fund now pays a considerable por.
ton of the expense of maintaining the
public schools. The remainder is pro.
vided for by special taxes levied by the
people of the district at their school
township meetings. The amount ex.
pended for the support of schools in
1897 was $3.50, The value of school
property in the state is $SO,4SS,5 500, in.
Guiding the value of the land granted
to the state for school purposes.
The school system of the state EN-.
braces the high school, the normal
schools and the university. Pupils are
prepared for the university in the high
schools. Teachers are prepared in the
normal schools at Valley City and May.
Vile, and the state university is at
Grand Forks. The agricultural col.
lege, related to the school system of
the state. is at Fargo. The agricultur.
al college receives its principal sup.
port from the United States. which
grants it $4,000 per annum. and $4,000
additional for experimental purposes.
1t also has a land grant of 10000 acres,
and is further sustained by state ap-
preparations. The normal schools and
the university. the school Of mines, con-
nected with the university, the school
for the deaf ut Devils Lake, all have
grants of land from the general govern.
ment and state appropriations.
The state lands in North Dakota az
gregate 3,OOO,O 900 acres, and as they can
not be sold for less than $40 per acre,
this means $3O,OOO,OOO. The lands
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13

valleys, boundless plains and her intel
ligent people, stand second to none in
the republic as a live stock producing
state. The question is, in my opinion,
unanswerable. AS the table found else.
where in this report will show, the
stock raisers Of this state shipped, in
1897, cattle and sheep to the Eastern
markets amounting to over $4,000. 900,
Which goes to show that stock raising
IN North Dakota is a profitable bust
ness.
Grain raising, Of course, will never be
abandoned, because the conditions here
avo the production of the finest wheat
IN the world, the heaviest oats, the
brightest barley and the oiliest fax.
ana III the near future the agriculturist
Will produce everything on his farm
except groceries and clothing. The
wooden mills, now in successful opera.
ton at Grand Forks. n. d., will, to n
great extent, furnish the North Dako-
tan with clothing made from wool Clip
ped in this state. The industrious and
persistent man who will steer clear of
whisky and ) per cent chattel mort
cages. can become independent. His
experience during the first years, If he
starts without means, will be no fairy
existence; but in the brilliant sunshine
ana stimulating atmosphere, much can
be endured and accomplished. The PEG,
pie OF the state feel proud of their ac-
c0mnlfShmentS. No culal agricultural
population will show a greater, quick
er and more substantial development in
material and moral things-schools-
churches, banks. benevolent institu-
lions, railroads, etc.,-and fewer Grim
1nals and incompetents, and they I'LL.
selflshlessly urge the landless poor of
the older states and Of foreign lands to
come and share the present facilities
and aid in getting more. The chances
were never better than now for ener-
getic men to open up farms. Land is
still vacant in sight Of moving trains
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13

and more of which each year remains
with us. In and of ourselves we have
urbounded wealth which we have lust
begun to realize now.
Inc large farms taken up and pur.
chased by the early settlers when land
was a drug, r becoming divided and
suhdivided; families are growing up
which require a division of the lands,
ard as Il result the country is becom.
ing mere and more densely settled;
and. us prosperity increases, immense
barns and comfortable and elegant
homes are springing up everywhere.
People who were heretofore required
to live frugally have become opulent,
ard new desires and necessities are be-
ing created each day and each year, to
supply which calls for an immense in
crease in our mercantile business,
Upon the return of general good
times we find our citizens in a new posi-
ton, with their own money in their
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13

pockets and searching carefully for
business investments for it. With such
a condition of things in a country with
such unprecedented fertility and re-
sources, what are the possibilities of
development? We are just beginning
to realize them, and the state which
has never had a citizen millionaire will
find, before the expiration Of the next
decade, within its borders many men
with large fortunes, and what is far
preferable. the general condition of the
whole people in comfortable and pros
Ferrous circumstances, which will, in
this respect, be far superior to the gen.
eral condition of any Of the older
states. F. B. FEETHAM,
Grand Forks.
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13
HORACE HANCE.
Fargo, n. D.

The boar IS always better if he can
run out to pasture and get grass and
exercise. He will not be in show con-
dition, Of course, but he will be in first
class breeding condition. A little grain
will bring him up in flesh if you want
to take him to the fair.
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13
d to the several institutions are

granted to the several institutions are
as follows: Acres.
State university. ........ 90. $4,000
Agricultural college. ......... $4,000
Reform school,. 900. ...... 10000
School of mines.... 800. ...... 1000
State normal schools. ........ $4,000
Public buildings at state cap
ital.... 80. 80. .......... $4,000
Deaf and dumb school,. g. .. 10000
Institution for feeble-minded.. 10000
Asylum for the blind. ........ 10000
Manual training school. ....... 2O,OO
Soldiers home. $1,000. ...... 10000
School of forestry. .......... 10000
Scientific school,. .......... 10000
public schools. 900
Total.... 90. .3,0OO,o 900
Fargo Record.
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13

and close to markets. North Dakota is
destined to be q region of small farm
ers. Intensive, and not extensive, farm
ing will be the method of the future,
when every mere will be subjected to
use and in diversified form.
II. U. THOMAS,
Com. Of Agriculture and Labor.
The Dickinson press., 1899-05-13

Cheap keeping is the secret of profit.
able pig-raising. No matter how high
pork is, there is no profit in it If it
costs too much to raise it.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-04
A RIGID EXAMINATION
Recruits Must Be Sound il
Every Particular.
EIGHT APPLICATIONS MADE
Lieutenant Heaton Says Enrolment I.
Proceeding at a Satisfactory
Rate-No Married Men
Accepted.

Great Falls, Aug. 3.-For all of those
who are anxious to serve their coun-
try against the bullets of the Flip
mos, the climate and the army ra-
tions, Lieutenant Wilson G. Wheaton
of the 34th volunteer regiment sits
waiting in room II of the Tod build
ing in this city. He is there early in
the morning and remains there until
darkness drives him out
He began this morning, and to-day
entertained eight APPLICANTS, who on
Saturday will be examined by Captain
Detchmendy, and if their examination
is favorable and they succeed in pass
ing the scrutiny of DR.. j. l.. Welt
man later, they will be admitted to
the regiment and sent to Fort Logan,
Col, to await further orders. Prac-
tically, in spite of the name volun-
teer, they will be regulars, and their
term of service will be 20 months.
Among the men who applied this
morning for enlistment were two for
mer members of the 21st Minnesota
who were cooped up at Chickamauga
until all the fighting was over.
Lieutenant Heaton was visited this
afternoon by the Standard reporter
and stated that he left Fort Logan two
weeks ago and at that time. although
recruiting had just begun, there were
between 200 and 300 men enrolled for
the regiment. In fact, the enlisting
was proceeding in a manner that was
satisfactorily rapid. The physical re-
quirements are now very rigid. A re-
cruit must be absolutely sound in
every particular. One man who ap-
piled and who had been a member of
Grigsby's cavalry troop was found to
have bad bunion on his foot, and
he was rejected without further loss
of time. Corns on the bottom of the
feet especially, or if located elsewhere
and very bad, make the applicant in
eligible. Bad teeth is another bar,
and so is marriage, although the lieu
tenant failed to say whether this was
physical or mental deformity. An
other piece of information CLEANED
from the conversation was that here
after Great Falls is to be a regular
recruiting station, and in the future
any man who has a grievance against
himself his sweetheart. the world, or
anything else may accept Uncle Sans
equivalent of the queens shilling and
| gang" to the war.