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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1900-12-11
DECISION AGAINST INDIANS.
Opinion by the supreme Court Involving
Much Territory.

Opinion by the supreme Court Involving
Much Territory.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE United
States supreme court has rendered
decision III the claim OF the Wichita,
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians IN
connection with the old Wichita rese-.
walton, Justice Harlan handing down
the opinion. The claim is u compli.
Gated one and involved an investiga-
tlon of Indian claims to title going
back as far as 1915 The Indians made
a treaty with the United States
government in 1871 ceding the Wichita
reservation aud agreeing to take lt'
acres in severalty They then claimed
that they were entitled to the proceeds
Of the sale Of the surplus land and by
net OF congress were allowed TO bring
in the court Of claims. That court sus.
tanned the contention Of the Indians,
but the supreme court reverses that pc.
sition, holding that III the treaty OF
leU6 the Choctaws made an absolute
cession Of the land included III the res
eryation. The court also remanded the
case to the court of claims. with direc'
tions to dismiss the claims OF the Caoc'
taws and the Chickasaws.
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PRESENT TIE NOTE.
N.,t Important step In the settlement
~ the (htnsse situation.

NJ, Important step in the settlement
of the Chinese situation.
T. NA~uI>GToN. Dec. 1.-THE next
im, RANT step III the Chinese situation
w..l Il. the formal presentation to the
t,a.ne,e plenipotentlarie OF the agree.
u.4t arrived at between the represent
ally,s >: the powers at Peklng for rep
.arsu n for the Boxer outrages. In Just
aim, manner this Will be- done Mr..
f,u.,er has not informed the state de.
,ar,nen,. although the probability is
ta., H. document Will Le handed 10
the Chinese by the dean Of the diplo.
matte corps. The agreement is simply
! statement OF the terms upon which
The powers will negotiate for final
se;,.cmcnt. and Is laid before the Chi
ue,c ot,icials ns matter Of form. The
ae.otlations for final settlement will
come later, after the Chinese have
teen gwen u reasonable opportunity
for tie con s,deration of the conditions
aid down. The complete agreement
declpncrcd from code Is now III the
hanas Of the president He declines 10
maAc the contents public. although IL :
aay.ces which have heretofore CONE
from Mr.. Congcr leave no doubt that
tn, III be tho case.
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FEDERATION PRINCIPLES.


mo Report Of tho Resolu
tt"nS Committee.
~. .is'iI.LE, Dec. ll.-Immediatclv
.o'4o"ihg the call to order the resolu.
''ons committee of the American Fed.
n.a'ioh ~, OF Labor submitted it's rcport
ne frst resolution commended hv tbo
A.n'''ee was one reaflirming its ia.
'oIaplc position on the initiative and
seierehdum. which was adopted by tho
convention by vote Of 81 to 56. after
considerable debate.
Iol!owlng IN rapid succession were
recommended and adopted resolutions
iequesuhs support 10y congress of "a
niii ior the higher education, of the
Dill IN favor Of an S.hour biu fer all
postolllce employees. to be introduced 1T
Tue coming session of congress. and IN
favor OF municipal ownership Of pubic
utilities.
Inc executive committee reported
uHiaVolahiy Oh resolution for the Is.
'atlisi!men; of department of com.
hieTce and industry and Its action was
sustained. The report Of the auditin 9
eoiahilttcc was then presented and ac.
cepted.
Special committees were appointed
on the o-hour day. compulsory ar5ltr
uoh and Oh organization III Porto Rico
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Han johnson Organizes Circuit i"c'""'
ing the Twin Cities

l,hp.on Organizes n Circuit Includ.
ing the Twi" Cities
DETROIT. Mich. Dec. IA new
baseball league has been organized by
Hun Johnso president Of the Ameri'
can league, says The Evening News
The following cities will make up H.
circuit: Detroit. Grand Rapids. To-
lcdo. Louisville. Minneapolis. st. paul'
Kansas City and either Indianapolis or
buffalo. Papers were signed here ~
Mcssrs. Burns and S,allings. owners !
tho Detroit American league teahi'
leasing both their downtown and sun
dny ball parks for three years 10 Az
torncy I. J. Navin, who represents 'h"
owners of the local franchise III 'h'
new league. In order to use ines"
,,arl,s the schedule OF the new leas'.
m,u he made up SO that tn" De1fo'
,'a, vii bc at home when the Amer
o,, ,eacue team is on the ROAD. .nu,
,,n,ng Detroit continuous baseball an
euillner.
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TOWNE SWORN IN
New Minnesota Senator Takes the
Oath of Office as Successor
to c. X. Davis.
Mr.. Chandler Calls Attention to
a "SureriluOus Clause" in
tie Credentials.
Appointed to the Vacancy Until
His successor Is Elected
and Qualified"

WASHINGTON. Dec. ll.-When the
senate vened Mr.. Chandler (N. H.,
Mr.. Bate (Tenn.) and Mr.. Turley
tIenn.) who, heretofore, during the
Present session had not been III attend.
ance, We're in their seats
MIR. Charles a. Towne, appointed to
succeed the late Senator c. X. Davis of
minnesota, also was in attendance.
MIR. Nelson (Minn. at once presented
the credentials Of Mr. Towne and they
were read.
MIR. Chandler n II J, chairman OF
the committee on privileges and elec.
lions. called attention TO the last clause
OF the credentials which was that Mr..
Iowne should hold his seat until "his
successor was elected and qualified. !"
lie SAID the Constitution provided sim.
ply that the appolntee should hold
office until the legislature had met.
In the credentials presented" said
Mr.. Chandler, "the governor has un-
| dertaken TO prescribe the length of the
new senator's term. The added clause
OF the credentials Of course are super
fiuous. desire simply 10 call atten.
tion 10 this fact and have 40 intention
| TO object 10 the swearing III Of Mr..
| Towne' -
he new senator was conducted to
the desk by Mr.. Nelson and the oath OF
office was administered by Mr.. Frye,
! the president pro tenn. Mr.. Iowne
was congratulated warmly by many OF
| his colleagues as he took his seat Oh
the Democratic side of the chamber.
Mr. Hanna CO.. offered resolution
| that committee of three senators be
appointed by the president pro tenn. =
make the necessary arrangements IL.
| the Inauguration Of the president OF the
| United States on March i, next. I'm
der the rules the resolution Went over
| The senate, after the transaction 0,
| some routine business. at 1880. on mo-
| ton Of Mr.. Lodge, went into executive
session.
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MINORITY'S PROPOSITION.

Urged . Reduction of S7O.OOO.OOO in the
War Revenues.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE minority
members of the ways and means com
mittee have completed their report on
the revenue reduction bill. 1t urges q
reduction of the revenues OF about
SO. 900, 900, or about $50. 100000 more
than that proposed by the majority OF
the committee. 1t also proposes an in-
come tax, with view of again bring
ing the subject in modified form before
the United States supreme court for
final adjudication. When the bill is
taken up by the house the expectation
is to move that the measure be recom'
mitted to the committee to make the
changes suggested.
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,.,.ut;, >orlluud t:shendcd.

WESTERNS. Sweden, Dee. ll.-fh'',ip
Nardlund who. on My last, a> the
,.,,,a. prins Carl. On which he was a
passenger. was pass N ~, w., Gra
',,,rd,red seven men and wouhue" i'e
n,hers. a woman and II boy. sup'e'
ouently escaping III boat TO hopina,
,.h, vns convicted and sentenced
,,.,h IN June last, was bchea"e"
~ =, 80 ,,v Tne condemned man chant
ca the verses OF a psalm rs no law "
head upon the block,
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LONDON, Dec. 1.-The detachment
Of the Royal Canadian regiment which
reached England about fortnight ago
on its return home from South Africa.
left London during the morning 70.
Liverpool. The Scots Guards band ac'
companied the men to the railway sta.
ton where Lord Strathcona and Mount
Royal, high commissioner for Canada
aud other prominent personages bade
them farewell
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Emperor Waiting Cntil tie Can DO so
With Dignity aud safety.

Emperor Waiting Until tie Can DO 80
With Dignity aud safety.
PEklN6. Dec. li.-Prince Ching say 8
Emperor kwang Su Is ready 10 return
as ,oea rs assured that the negotiations
VII. allow him 70 come under cond.-
lions consonunt with his dignity and
.a;e'y
Tho removal OF General Tung In
iI,lany from the command Of the Chi
ne,e forces surrounding the court Is
Considered by the foreign ENJOYS to be
avery important step. as showing the
Yea. desire OF the government TO com
u terms His banishmcnt indicates
that the court recognizes the expedicncy
u obeylng the demands OF the powers
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LEGISLATIVE BILL PASSES.
First Of the Appropriation Measures Gets
Through The House.


Through The House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. II The day, TN
der the rules of the house, belonged ~
the District OF Co.LElria committee,
but owing to the desire oi tile leaders
to proceed with tie legislative. eAecu.
tive and juulcial appropriation b.-l D->-
trict day was postponed. The ieSls.a'
tive bull Was immediately taken up.
Mr.. Bingham tp..), who was III
charge Of the measure, made lreAm.
mary statement Of lis contents after
which, there being no desire to speak
from either side OF the house, general
debate was closed ami the bill was
read for amendment, under the 5.min.
ute rule.
The bill was passed and at 3:l5 p. m.
the house adjourned.
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WITHOUT OPPOSITION.
De e'achmcnss oG Allied Troops occ upy 9
Chtueee Town.

Chtueoc Town.
LERLIN, Dec. IL. - Field Marshal
Count Won Waldersee tciegraphs from
PeAiug under dato Of Saturday. Dee. ,,
that the two detachments of troops
from Tein Tsiu commanded by Colonel
.ohschcidt aud Major Falkenheyn,
wh!ea had been proceeding against u
Considerable force Of Chinese regulars
who had taken up position at lsang
Chou, % XII ,mctcrs southwark OF lien
Ism, have occupied the place without
opposltiou aud that the columns are re-
turning TO Tion Tsin.
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:oodnow IL Coming Home.

SHANGHAI, Dec ll.-Pao Ho Men,
Voll Of Chu Chau Fu. in the province
" 0he Kan, who was rcspohsioio ~
The July massacre and who abscohae"'
AaS becl I" turcd near Sn eha" ''
'cnt 'nt TO l,ng Chau Flu. Mr.. 'o''n
uoodnow, United States cons"i sen,i'
q. .. IN Shanghai. is nbvut starting 'o' '
united States on leave OF Abscncc'
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MERELY TEMPORARY.

Disposition oG Allied Troops ." tue s"s"
Had Khan hallway.
LONDON. Dec. lin the house OF
commons. replying TO question: ~
The subject the under secretary OF 'nc
'orelen office. Lord Cranbornc. said the
government had been notified ina! 'lc
Present. disposition of the troops Oh 'he
allies on tho Shan Hal Khan raliroa"
was Of a purely temporary ch"r"c'r,
1he government. he added, was wa'cA'
MS british interests.
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Il lung Chang's Secretary Ar
rested by Order Of Count
Won Waldersee.
Charge Made Against Him Is That
He Was III Communication
With the Boxers.
Next Step in the Chinese Pro
glammc Is the Presentation
Of Allied Note.

IoxpoS, Dec. IA special dispatch
.-nn Shanghai announces that Ii
upng Changs Manchu secretary, Yiko.
ia. been arrested by order of Field
MARSHAL Count Won Waldcrsce on tho
charge Of communicating with the
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noxcr. Auprmr.ng In Korea.

LONDON, Dec. Il.-"The Boxers are
disturbing Northern and "es'''" !"
Aorca, says the st. Petersp"'s W.
'.espondent Of The Daily Mail. an :
."e hnsslan troops arc prepai'ns
",',. :......."
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RIG MILLS FOR DULUTH.
A Philadelphia Corporation (" spend
$4,000. 900 There.

A PhilndeIPht" t"FV"r"t'O" :" 'P"
A5,ooo.Ooo There.
DlIyTu. Dec. 1.-The Charles u.
Have Consumers Flour Milling COM
Many of Philadelphia is the name OF a
cornoration which i'll its prospectus
,,l.ns 70 build mills OF an aggregate
r,racity of $4,000 barrels day AT tie
Mad If the lakes. The capital is s., ooo.-
900 and the proposed mills are estl'
,a.,ei TO cost 50, 100000. The com
r,,v Will also handle provisions ex'
tauslNGlN.
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DENVER. Dec. ll.-Adnah Adams
Tro,. alei here during the day. agen
,o3 wears and months. lie had lon-
heen me oldest living Mason Ill point
~ age and the secoad oidest Mason III
,,nt of ti,le connected with the orde..
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as those which we cannot see without a
| telescope
There are two remarkable cases of
this kind Canopus, in the constellation
Argo, is, next to Sirius, the brightest
star in the sky. But its distance is i'm
measurably great. so that astronomers
have not been able to learn anything
certain about it. The most interesting
conclusion from this is that Campus,
although 1t is only star in the sky, 10
really thousands of times brighter than
| the sun.
| Campus is not the only star of which
this is true. Rigel, in the constellation
Orion, is star of the first magniture;
yet its distance is beyond all that the
| most powerful instruments Of astrono-
my can fathom. There may be yet
other stars ten thousand times as bright
as the sun, and yet so far away that we
do not see them as very bright stars.
There are now about sixty stars Of
whose distance astronomers have been
able to get some idea. The distances of
a few Of the nearest Of these have been
measurd with some approach to exact
ness, but the further a star is, the hard
err it becomes to secure exactness in
Euch measurements. But astronomers
are always trying to improve their in
struments, and every year they are
finding out more and more about the
arrangement OF the stars
Perhaps before the twentieth century
shall be half gone they will know how
far off the Milky Way is-something
they have as yet no certain way of
earning-Professor Simon Newcomb
in the YOUTHS Companion.
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TROOPS UNFIT FOR THE FIRING
LINE

The reports appearing in the medical
journals with respect to the condition
of the troops now being landed in South
Africa are unsatisfactory, Here is what
the special correspondent of The British
Medical Journal, writing from Cape
Town under date of Feb. 7, has to say:
1T is becoming evident that the re-
serves and militia are, from a physical
point of view, somewhat disappoint-
ing. One has always held the view that,
whatever might be the case with regard
to the militia, the reservist would be
of superior physique to the man with
the coors. Transport after transport
tells us a different tale. 1t is perfect
ly true that the average reservist is a
better-developed man than his comrade
with the colors, but it is unfortunately
true that both reservists and militia
men contain large number Of lame
ducks, hopelessly incapable of going to
the front. The percentage who
are being landed here and sent to the
station hospital, with the immediate re-
suit of being marked for redraftinS to
England, is far greater than would have
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Our old and esteemed friend Anthony
Carroll knows New Haven pretty well,
and he is running for office. He is run
ming picturesquely and Independently,
but of course he wants to reach the
goal, and is doing whatever he legiti-
mately can to get there. So in one of
his speeches he has casually mentioned
the fact that he bears name that is
quite as distinguished as the name of
any of the town-born, or imported
1.-TWO gentlemen said he, whose
name 1 am proud to bear-Charles Car
roll of Carrollton, a signer of the Con-
stitution, and Daniel Carroll of Mary
land, one of those who ratified it for
his State-were intimately associated
with the origin of free government in
this land
This is legitimate, as things go. and
we cannot deny that it is we'll calculat-
ed to influence the New Haveners to
whom Mr.. Carroll is appealing. But as
we know that our sturdy old friend isn't
in the habit of travelling on his name
and doesn't base his hopes of heaven on
his long descent, we wish that he hadn't
alluded to his coat-of-arms. 1t may
help elect him, but it is out of character
Plain Anthony Carroll, the Friend OF
paor,Ia pf
ment, is all right as he is. Everybody
knows it, and though his shrewd con-
cession to one of New iHaven's pet no.
tons may bring him votes it will bring
pain to many who would rather see him
proudly consistent than decorating him
self with an ancestral halo in an at
tempt to please and impress the aristo-
Gratis of the Third ward.
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THE CURIOUS WHEAT PROBLEM.
If Sir William Crokes is to be be-
leved, scarcity of food is not by any
means remote; it may come within
sight Of persons now alive, and these
not very young. The case may be very
easily stated. AT present the deficien-
cies of the wheat-eating countries are
supplied by North America. especially
by the United States. In 1878 the
wheat crop of the United States was
about five hundred and forty million
bushels. OF this quantity two hundred
and seventeen million bushels were ex-
ported to Europe, where no country, ex-
cepting Russia and Turkey, grows
enough for it's own population. The
States are able to do this without
trenching on the home supply because
the total population is not more than
seventy-five million, In 1881, If the in
crease of population goes on at the
same rate as that of the last thirty
years, the seventy-five million will have
increased to one hundred and thirty
million, and the surplus for export will
be no longer available.
Whence, therefore, will the wants of
the world be supplied? Russia at pres
ent exports largely, the total being
something more than two-fifths of that
from the States But it cannot be
hoped that Russia will come to the res
cue of a hungry world. 1t is already
hungry itself, exporting food while it's
own people are starving. Any change
here must be in the way of distribution
This change will be the more speedy
because the Russian population, in spite
Of it's sufferings, increases. Indeed, the
difficulty of the general problem Is ag-
gravated by the TACT that. up 10 the
point of actual starvation, scarcity not
only does not check, but actually slim
ulates, the rate of increase. A perfect
ly well-fed well-educated, and general
ly comfortable population has tenden-
cy to diminish rather than to grow.
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SUBWAY, II TOU PLEASE.

There has been much talk in New
York about the Rapid Transit "tun-
nell" That talk has been noticed in
Boston, where they know beans and
have a subway" and there has been
mild wonder in Boston that the people
of New York should be willing to call
their long hole in the ground a tunnel,
when there is a finer name for it. Bos-
toms wonder, or something else, has
made an impression on New York, and
we find Charles Sooysmith, the consult
ing engineer of the Rapid Transit Sub
way Construction company, respectful
ly yet pointedly suggesting that the
newspapers abandon the use of the
word tunnel in describing the under
ground railroad, and call it subway
The latter, he says, is far more ap-
propriate and correct designation, and
is free from the unpleasant suggestions
which go with the word tunnel" "A
tunnel proper is made by wholly under
ground work, never visible from the
surface, except, perhaps, at the .termi-
nj. In common parlance it is hole
in the ground made by sub surface
boring. A railroad subway is a great
trench excavated from the surface and
rooted and built over. Such is the char
acter of nearly all the construction of
our underground railroad. Hence, it is
a subway, and not tunnel. The COM
pany has recognized this fact in call
ing itself the Rapid Transit Subway
company"
Mr.. Sooysmith speaks well. We in
Connecticut, who are quite as high as
the people of Boston or New York, and
who will occasionally go through New
Works hole in the ground when it is
done, may well help call it subway.
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range of fancy shirt waists, simple In
outline, but tucked, stitched, stencilled
and otherwise decorated. The last
grade consists of shirt waists that real
ly are fancy bodices. They are to be
worn with elaborate stocks and are
made to simulate bolero jackets or little
blouse affairs open over under bodices,
but they fit with looseness and a lack
of formality which commends them to
the woman who has decided that she
fjust won't be boned." You must have
some Of all these kinds If you are to
seel that you really have the habit.
The artist puts here new spring
jacket of a sort shirt waist girls will
like 1t is quite a change fro mthose
worn last winter being roomy, but not
so boxy This one was light tan CLOTH
finished with tan velvet pearl buttons
and an abundance of white stitching.
1t is garment Of manly cut, but is not
nearly so pronounced as recent box
coats. Constituting an entirely separ-
ate grade in the showing of spring jack
cts will be the boleros. These will be
in all the good jacket stuffs, usually
with silk faced revers. Just at present
these jackets are not so plentiful as to
appear in the cheap qualities. and the
prices asked for some of them are sur
prising, considering the brevity of the
garments. Still, on examination the
goods proves to be Of very fine quality.
FLORETTE.
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been the case had an efficient system of
| inspection been adopted on your side.
From the object lessons one is
seeing here 1t is quite evident that the
examinations at home have been con-
Quoted either by men who do not un-
derstand military requirements OF by
men who were so pressed for time that
they had to run through the work at q
speed which does not permit thorough
investigation. I"
The long list of very grave diseases
from which the arriving troops are
found to be suffering appears to justify
the correspondents structures. The base
hospitals, indeed, are full of men who
have never been to the front, and of
whom many will never go there. The
fact is that, as far as efficient regular
troops are concerned, we have pretty
well got to the bottom of the baeket.--
London Pail Mall Gazette.
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GENERA JOUBERI'S DEATH.


If the pious Beers are not so certain
as they were that the Lord means to
bring them out victorious they have
good reason to believe that whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth. The death
of their great General Joubert is their
latest misfortune, and it is a large one
1t was General Joubert who did much
of the work of preparation for the war,
work whose excellence has been amply
demonstrated. He was active in the
first days of mobilization, and exercis-
ed constant supervision over the pre-
liminary movements of the invasion of
Natal 1t was he who was in COM
mand of the Beers during Some of the
fiercest assaults made by General Bull
er in the efforts to beat his way through
to Ladysmith. and it is supposed that
he directed the mastery retreat north
wards, without loss Of man or gum at
when the strategy of Lord Roberts
made his position untenable. He was
a great soldier, and an upright and
honorable man. 1t is interesting to
note that the London papers speak of
him with respect and appreciation.
With General Cronje in captivity and
General Joubert dead the Beers will be
deprived of the help of two very eff
Gent leaders.