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.3LKV-0*»HL -aoJatoH n*-5' .VJ i. if 1 .3. un A OIK year.......... M.eO| Three months...... .TS Si* Mpnths......... 1.551 Singlecopies 8 BotmrlpttoBi payable Invariably in advance. AJDVEKTISING BATES. Geo. N. Jackson, Deputy U. Collector at Louis ville, suicided last week. Ha waa start $46,000. Oen. Wlnslow has beeirsppoUited Receiver of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids Minnesota ratooad. One hundred and thirty-two ricruits were receiv ed at TorfRandall for the 20th Infantry last week. The Duluth region is suffering for want ofrain, an eight weeks' drouth being complained Of by the Her ald. Geo. D. Perkins is now the sole proprietor of the Sionx City Journal, H. A. having gone to Des Moines as State binder. The editor of the Bralnerd Tribune realized 80 acres of land from the ticket he held in the St. CloVid hotel gift enterprise.: Charles Douglas Is now sole proprietor of the Su perior Times—Pryor. hi former partner, having been "frose out" by the hard times. U. Dennisoa, on duty at West Point, has been re lieved and ordered to join his regiment at Its proper station Surgeon Ainsworth is also relieved* J. D. Lee. 6ne of the Mountain Meadow murder ers, has made a confession completely exhoneratlng Brigham Touqg fromall complicity In the massacre. Prof. Donaldson and a Journal reporter west up in a balloon from Chicago one day last week, and seem' to have been swept Into Lake Michigan by a atom.- An attache of the Cheyenne Leader, now In the Black Hills, writes a friend to cetoe ?n, and says.be and hto party 4rfe taking out gold at the rate of $12 per day each. Cel. Benteen has gone to the Black Hills, with or ders to place on the east side of the Missouri all the miners In the Black Hills. Gol.Beateen will have his bands foil. A Bhsaarek bey, upon being promised five cents by his mother if be wool* take adoee of caster oil, obtained the money, and told bis parent that she might castor oil Hi the street. Since the poortacce* of the Irish Team In compe thta with toe American, It Is stated that Tiiton thinks of hiring himself to them far a target. He has nothing to do and must live. James ^erhen, a Siotuc Oily boy, a lad of 16, was bitten by rattlesnake a few days ago.. The reptile fasteaed.it»ffcnptotbe fore finger, and the lad took and axe and chopped tt off just above the wound, thus saving his life. The Bhmx and Crows are reiMrted ftghting on the Little Kocky. A Lleatenaat aiao nine mmaent ost from Carroll In search of mulee staapedOd a-few day* before, are missing, *nd It is feared something serious bas befallen them/ The postmaster at Slean. fowa, was killed by a tlash et lightning fretn a cloudless sky a few days ago. Every particle of clothing, including hlf .boots, was stripped from Mm, and a alter watch he had in bts poeket was eoa^letely melted. Copy was out. TKedevU picked up a p^er and said: "Here's something about *A Woman nay I cnt lftontf "RoV thdndred the .editor, "the first distorbaace ever created In thevrndvas oeearioned by the devil fooling about a woman.** Tankton dispatch sayst Harvest will commence this week and promises an abundant yield—fully 25 baskets per acre, or about 7,000,000 oushels in the territory. This will, be 150 bushels to each Inhabit ant. Cent, oats, potates and oth^r vegetables are promising. Red Cloud, Spotted Tall, Lone Hdrn, The Kan afraid-of hls-Ho«ee, and 3 the rest of the red chiefs are invited-to attend a grand peace tournament at CaldweH, .Ohio, in September next, at which the Blue and Uie Gray, the Norfolk Guards, Hew York Seventh, and Maryland fifth, together with noted negyoee, and many others are expected to be prea. enti As a rseuH of the councU atRed Cloud on the, 154h thaae*. S.D. Hlnman, ofthb ipMhl SUmrCesaile. sio^.telnrapha that an agrssment has boen.ssade with thevruee ahfOgalallasto hold a gsneralcounr cil at Shadron Cre*k,'mldway wtwieen the Bed Cloud and •potted TaH ageneles, on the first of September. Young Man-afraid-of-hle-Horsee has gone with fifty ofhisbeet men to bring in the Northern Stout. Red Dog and ethers aeoosspany the commission to the Mwwurt to influence the Indians there. aid TiAMiBftr.—1 square, 1 time, $1. Additional in KA 1 Historical Socie HT.^O r.. -r-—r ||k$ ^isttwrtK J^rUinnf. An Independent Newspaper puhHibed by THE BIS|fARCK TRIBUHE CO. suBsemrno* r*ica: A 1 tune, ttf.ev MdltloDM loaeraoni z*du. une*i»u colamn, 1 time, $6 additional Insertions $4. One eolumn, ltime, $10 additional insertions $6. COMTRAOT BATSB,—One square 1 year, $1#. One eighth colamn, 1 year, $25. One-fourth column,! year, $40. One-half column, 1 year, $70. One column, $125. LBQ.IL1year, ADVBKTISKXKXTS, per square, (ten lines nonpareil, or 250 ems of type used, making one square,)one insertion, $1.50 additional insertions 75 cents. The space occupied by displayed lines will be measured as solid type of the size used in the body of the advertisement. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers finding an following their names will understand that the -A. term for which they have paid their subscriptions will expire with the next number, and unless the subscription is renewed the paper will be discontinued. This rule applies to all, and is adopted, not because we are afraid to trust our subscribers, but because it is found to be the plan most satisfrctory to the general subscriber, and more convenient for us. Postmasters are authorised to act as oar agents, retaining a commission of 124 Per cent.—or 25 cents for each yearly subscription. NOTES AND NEWS. Lady Franklin Is dead New potatoes sell in Yankton'at 30 cts. a bushel. Indian agent Forbes died at Fort Totten last week. The Duluth machine shops are abopt to be rebuilt. The Baltimore American has a $60,000 libel suit its hands. Mrs. Tiiton has filed a suit for divorce from Sir Marmaduke. An exchange says Mallet builds in Corinthian and swears in Gothic. Gen. Adam Badeau succeeds J. Russell Jenes as minister at Brusseils. The Blue and the Gray united to do honor to the memory of Frank Blair. A Connecticut legislative committee has reported in favor of women suffrage. Eighteen murders are reported" in the Indian Ter ritory within the past sixty days. South Carolina has secured judgment for $75,000 against her defaulting treasurer. Mrs. Nellie's progeny is called an international baby. It was born at Long Branch. London, with a population of 8,000,009, does not ewe one-hair as much as Philadelphia. -AifpAw of Mtomwti have b««n found against menroera of the whisky ring in St. Louis. A bttl of particulars haabeen granted on the de mand of the attorney of Wm. M. Tweed. A Mebraska man has Issued a prospectus for* the Black Hills Tribune. That is a good name. r«j THE KOXTAXA MURDERERS. iw CIvauMtowpi e**m*ekmA with &eave of ftal»r-8e«tea«e «f WkfMttlj and Stears, 'Below will be found the sentence of Judge Wade in: disposing of Wheatly and QUars, the: «ssocifttes of Shaffer in th^ nmrder of Franz Warl, near Helena some months ago. Both of these men are well known at Bismarck, Stears hav ing atone time worked in one of our barber shops,while Wheatly was known as a banjo-picker in connection with our dance houses. Shaffer, who was al so connected with the murder, escaped and came to Bismarck where he was rec oguized by several Montanians who re garded him as an innocent sort of a fellow, some of -them vouching for his good character. After he had been here a few days a man named Pierce came here with a warrant for his arrest. Whereupon He Was arrested and thrown jnto jail, and by the.:advice of parties here Pierce was about taking him aboard the boat to return him to Montana with out awaiting the proper papers but in this he W8S frustrated through the ac tion of the jailor, (who has since jump ed the country) who caused his arrest for kidnapping. In this the jailor was sustained by some of Shaffer's Montana acquaintances and others, but Pierce was discharged, and Shaffer was again arrested and the hearing of his case was set for 9 A. ii. the next morn ing. At 7 A. M. Pierce took the train for the east, and took the warrant with him, leaving no one to appear against Shaff er. The hearing came on about ten o'clock, and as no one appeared against him of course Shaffer was discharged, but that afternoon telegrams came for his arrest from the proper authorities at Helena, ard then every effort by our of ficers was put forth to re-arrest him. The country was scoured for miles, a Deputy was sent 3own the river to Tankton, another to Fargo, and every thing done to repair the loss, but it was too late Shaffer had escaped, but has since been arrested at Fort Oarry,where he is held for a requisition. This much is due our city in explana tion, for our people have been misrepre sented and misunderstood in connection With this case. The fault was in Pierce, who was simply the agent of a Deputy. He came here without credentials, and manifested so little interest in the case, particularly after being headed off in his kidnapping efforts, as to create a doubt iri the minds of many in relation to the propriety of holding Shaffer, and it was not until telegrams came from Helena directing that he be held at all hazards that our authorities took hold of this matter in good earnest, but it was then too late. Had Pierce been true to his trust, Shaffer's friends, or pals, could not have secured his release. WHKATLY'S SENTENCE. William Wheatly, you may stand up. At this term of the court the Grand Jury found and presented an indict ment against you charging you with the crime of murder, in killing Franz Warl. Upon this charge you were arraigned and tried before an impartial jury, de fended by able counsel, who left noth ing fft»8aid or undone in your behalf, and a verdict of murder (in the first de gree as chaiged, was returned into court. Ton are now here for judgmont and sentence. Have you anything to say why the same should not be pronounc- Wheatley.—I have thiB to say: That I am innocent of the murder of Franz Warl, except as stated in my'testimony before the jury. The verdict is the natural legitimate result of the evidence in the case. From the testimony the conclusion is irresist ible, that you helped to. murder Franz Warl, as charged in the iadictment and as found by the jury, and with th4t ver dict Tim satisfied. There is nothing in the oase upon which to rest even a sus picion of (your innocence. .. Your own testimony excludesevery conclusion but that of guilt, while the other proof in the case is tquany conclusive. Con victed by Tour oihi testimony,and over whelmingly convicted by the evidence for tlM prosecution* the jury, regarding their oaths, the law and the proof, ren dered the only verdict possible in the case. The request of the jury, that your sentence be commuted to imprisonment for life, in consideration thai your con fession revealed, the perpetrators of the crime, is request that cannot be acted on. Neither the Court, the Governor nor any other authority under the law, has the-power to commute, nor is there any reason why the sentence should be commuted. You do not stand in any toositiop to ask it. Tour so-cftlled oQh Mission is ho oonf&sion at all. Ydctf Statement was only intended to impli cate others, and to shield yourself. It was tbe dictate of contemptible coward ice, and you hoped thereby to cause 8haffer and Stears to suffer for the mur T"' ~, -jrr-ts rr-Tr -v.r **c--r "5- to*** I to ao5iq:».j2 Ik «es* '. •. **. A, •g .-m, i. :5 *i:r,q Wt'.Ui,- der that you were equally guilty of with themselves, and to save yourself from the consequences of your icrime. And yourstatement ofyour jconnection with the crime is not true. JBrppj circum stance in the case cjisproves/it. That you were present and saw 8haffer and Stears murder Franz Warl,bt^t that you were there by compulsion, is the most weak and transparent pretense ever set up in a court of justice. Nothing but your own wickedness, and depravity compelled your presence, and naught but your own fiendish heart and the dev ilish promptings thereof compelled your strong arm to deal death to your victim, as the testimony conclusively shows that you did. And because you have added the crime of perjury to that of foul murder, should your sentence be commuted Not for any sorrow of the bloody deed, or from any fee?ing of re pentence did you make any revelations, but you hoped to cause Shaffer and Stears to be hung for your crime and their own, thereby to cause your own escape, and you framed your statement rith this sole intention. Does this con duct entiiJe you to any considerations of mercy But if a commutation of the sentence were proper, there is no pow er under the law to cause it to take place. Actuated by my own feelings and un controlled by any other considerations, if I had the power so to do, undoubted ly I should yield to the dictates of sym pathy and save your life. But the ma jestic scale ofjustice must be held with a firm steady hand. Sympathy for one in distress must not blind us to the fact that his bloody hand showed no mercy to his innocent, unoffending victim. The law says you must die, and the law is supreme it is strong and power ful it moves slowly, calmly, aDd stead ily it protects the rich and the poor the lonely cabin in the mountains, ,the elegant home in the town, the unfortu nate and the weak as well as the strong and powerful its shield is oyer all, and the court, the prosecuting attorney, the sheriff, and the jury, are but the instru ments to assert and maintain its abso lute supremacy, to the end^that human life may be protected, liberty' enjoyed, and property made secure. This su premacy of the law must be upheld and maintained, let the consequences fall where they may. The law administered with a firm, steaidy, unyielding purpose, to see its authority vindicated and re spected, is the only bulwark of safety. All the hopes of civilization all the dearest interests of man all the hopes of progress and enlightenment, depend upon the uniform and steady and cer tain enforcement of the law, and the law in its majesty and power must be vindicated human life must be protect ed murderers must be hung. If you deplore the fate that has be fallen you, remember that it is because of. the law that was enacted that you might enjoy your life in peace and safe ty remember that this dismal ruin is the consequence of your own act re member that if you had kept away from tbe dens of vice and crime,and.had been content to have earned an honest living by honest, labor, you might now have been a respected citizen of this commu nity. What your history was before your arrival in .this Territory, I know not but it could not have been in your favor, for, seemingly by intuition, upon your arrival, here, you sought the society of those whose inevitable destination is debauchery and crime. You early grad* uated in. the school of infamy and yice, and you have now reached the legiti mate end of the race. You are near the close of an ill-spent life. In this dread moment I can give you no hope and no consolation. Re fleet that life is eternal, and the time f0r reformation is short. Sincerely do I implore you to repent of your sins. Seek- the counsel of those noly men whose office it is to point out the road to salvation. May they cleanse your soul and prepare it for great eternity. Now, therefore, it is the sentence of tbe court: That you, William Wheat ly, be removed from the court room,and detained in close custody in the jail.of this county, and thence taken on Fri day, the thirteenth day of August, An no Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, to the place fixed by law for execution, and then and there between the hours of eleven o'clock A. M. and three o'clock P. M. of said day, be hung by the neck until you are dead. And may God have mercy on your soul. SKNTSRCB OF STEEBS. William H. Steers, you may stand up. The jurors of the Grand Jury ..at thia term of the court presented an indict ment charging you.with the murder of frrfcnV War!, Jtrte of tbe county of liewia and Clarke ana Territory of Montana. Upon this indictment you were arraign ed and plead not guilty. Thereupon able counsel were assigned to make your defense. A trial before an honest, im JSj L':' jta.fr ,« rah BISMARCK, D. T., WEDNESDAY, JULY, 28, 1875, NO. 3 VB:V:-•• Jlv A .' gjafli partial jury ensued. Nothing in- your behalf was left undone, and a verdict of guilty, charged in the indictment, of Of murder in the first degree, was re turned into court. You are now at the bar of the court for sentence. Have you anything to say for your life anything to say why you should not be hanged by the neck until dead, that your crime may be punished and the law vindicated and enforced Stears—Nothing. Except a request that you give me all the time you can. With the verdict of the jury I am con tent. It is the inevitable, unavoidable result of the evidence in the case. Franz Warl is dead, and you, with delibera tion and malice, helped to kill him. Be lieving thus beyond a doubt, I go for ward unfalteringly to my duty. If life to you is sweet, and you look forward with terror and alarm to the dread hour when it shall be taken from you, you must remember the kind, unoffending old man whom you so savagely murder ed remember that to him the pleasures of living an honest, useful life, serving and obeying the commands of the God whom he loved, brought with it joy and bliss unspeakable remember that he was an honest man that he earned his bread by the sweat of his brow that he feared not to labor, and had, by his in dustry and toil accumulated a little for tune for those he loved that he tres passed not on the rights of his fellow men, and least of all had never injured you remember that he had friends far away who even now are looking for his return to the old home after along ab sence in a foreign land perhaps his children are there, fondly waiting to embrace and to bless him perhaps the wife of his youth and his love, is still clinging to the hope that soon she will see the father of her children and the husband of her heart, and remembering all this, behold the ruin your bloody hand has wrought! Franz Warl is dead. He to whom the Almighty Lord gave an immortal soul, and a hab itation and a dwelling place upon this earth of His, you have brutally and wickedly murdered for his gold. The hills and valleys that surround the hum blp home of your victim will n§ver again echo to thb souqd of his manly voice. The two agonizing cries that he uttered, when you with the fatal slung shot fractured his 6kull, were his last. The smoke curling from his cabin will no longer admonish the^passer by that he lives. No more will he bring upon the streets the products of his toil. He is dead, and you killed him. This life, so precious, so priceless, so sacred, given and bestowed as the bounty of Love and Omnipotence, to fulfill the designs of a kind Providence, you, lost to every feel ing of humanity, disregarding every dictate of right, reason and justice— dead to every impulse of kindness, mer cy and honesty, and actuated only by your fiendish love of money, have sav agely destroyed, and even now the blood ofyour Victim is dripping from your un holy bands. For this crime you must die. Human life is not secure and safe while you live. You have forfeited your right tojife and must suffer the penalty that a wise and just law affires to your crime. And it is better thus. The remembrance of your crime would render all* your future life a living agony, where the pricks and stings of an upbraiding conscience would be the gnawing of the worm that never dies. With this terrible burden resting on your soul, haunting the hours when you wake and when you sleep, polluting the very air you breathe, burdening ev ery breath, giving you not a moment's peace or rest, rendering every joy a des olation, listening eyer to the pitiful cry of yotar victim, hearing it ever in the light of day and darkness of night, be ing reminded of it by every sound,hear ing it in the air when all else was still, -and as each recurring day brought with it the hour when the fatal deed was done, recalling more vividly than ever the'form and the pleading features of liim you so wickedly murdered, you would soon welcome death as a happy deliverance from the jterrors of a life that could no longer be endured. There is no rest for the wicked there is no peace for the murderer. If the law fails to administer justice for the crime, the criminal himself will be his own execu tioner. Self destruction is often the si lent concession of murder. And so it is better that you die, and thereby escape the agony of life, for in the wise econ omy of Providence if you could live to ripe old age, you could never live anoth er happy moment. It is better that you answer the demands' of the law than to die to satisfy your own conscience. What adverse circumstances have so surrounded your life as to bring upon you this otetthaddwing raint I cannot conjecture. Dark and dismal must have been your pathway. Terrible indeed must be the road that leads to murder, and it is only reached by slow approach es. There is a regular progression in crime. Idleness, intemperance, and a :,r— •.=__-.. desire to get money without honest la bor, must have been the commencements of your career,and where you how stand is the legitimate end. Your one year of life in this city has but illustrated this truth. You have spent your time and your money at the gaming table, at the vestibule to the temple of crime,and the insatiable greed for money engen dered there has led you on to murder. In this awful 'moment I know not how to comfort or to console you. I can give you no hope. You must die, and I. can only bid you to hasten and repent' of your sins, and to implore a God of mercy to forgive you. It only remains for me to pronounce the dread sentence that inexorable law and even handed justice demands. On ly the infinite Lord knows how gladly I would escape the responsibility of ut tering these fatal words. But duty com mands, and though the hardest task of my life, I unflinchingly, obey. Now, therefore the sentence of the court is: That you, William H. Stears, alias "Red," be removed from the court room and detained in close custody in thejail of this county, and thence taken on Fri day, the thirteenth day of August, An no Domini, one thousand eight hundred and seventy five, to the place fixed by law for execution, and then and there, between the hours of 11 o'clock A. M., and 3 o'clock P. M. of said day, be hung by the neck until you are dead. And may God in His infinite goodness have mercy on your soul. Wheat brought $1.15 in St. Paul on the 23d inst. Isaac'M. Singer, of sewing machine fame, is dead. Damaging floods are reported in Vir ginia, Ohio and Kentucky. Fifty-two Milwaukee crooked whisky dealers have been indicted. The Mormons have packed the jury, it is stated, for the trial of J. D. Lee. The Manitoba, recently sunk on the Red River, is making regular trips again. .The convention of bankers resolved in favQr of immediate resumption of payments. Simeon Randall, of Eau Claire, Wis., was accidentally shot by some boys on Wednesday last. Gordon has been sent from the guard house at Camp Sherridan to Omaha on a writ of habeas corpus. The leading Liberal Republicans of New York show a disposition to return to the Republican fold. Sensible. In a family feud near Montgomery, Ala.,- resulting in a fight, five men were killed and one seriously wounded. Another Peshtigo affair was feared at Superior, Wis,, a few days ago. The woods were in flames for many miles. The daily papers are unusually full with accounts of murders, rapes, lynch ing, &o.f but a dearth of other news ex ists. John McNamaradied alone in a drunk en fit, near Jackson, Nebraska, a few days ago, and his body was half eaten by hogs before discovered. TheMoorhead Star nominates S. G. Comstock for representative, and claims to be backed by the unanimous voice Of the voters of that county. What does Finkle say? It is stated that a strong and well equipped body of Unkpapas are on the war path in the Black Hills, and in two engagements killed 7 miners in one and S in the other.] G. G. Sanborn, General Ticket Agent of the N. P. R. R.i has been appointed General Superintendent of the Nashua, Acton & Boston R. R., with headquar ters at Nashua, N. HM his boyhood home. A gentleman who arrived at Omaha from Cheyenne on Sunday gays ninety ounces of gold were brought into that place on Saturday from the Black Hilto by two men. Letters confirming the statement have since been received in Omaha. Secretary Bristow decides that' an alien cannot under any circumstances be licensed as master of an American vessel, but he may be licensed as/fin engineer or pilot provided rhe. has an nounced his intention to become a citi zen of the United States. The substance of John D. Lee's con fession is that thirty (Mormons with the assistance of a large number of In* dians decoyed the emigrants from their entrenchments by a flag of truce that, all were murdered except 17 children that the deed wis done under orders from the leader of the Mormon cburch that he. took the news of the massacre to Brigham Young, who deplored the transaction, and said it *ould bring disaster on the Mormon people. The statement of Lee, so far as known, only confirms the previous reports of the massacre.