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•H. VOI VII.-NO. 49. MARSHALL McCLUKE J. O. WABNOOK. Propnetoi Editor Tw) yeais ago the legislature of Mich igan enacted a law which provtd'd for trie probate of wills during Iho life of the testator. The supreme court of that sialo lias rcr.cnIIv rendered a decision in ii case arising under thai la in which they declare the law unconstitutional on the ground that the wife may by its op ei-Jtion be divested of her rights in property she has co-operated with her husband in accumulating without the right of being heard or of presenting facts to defeat it. THE Mandan 1'ioneer, which only a few weeks ago was a strenuous advocate of extending the elective franchise to women, now falls in with Prof. Swing's idea of restricting this franchise to a property qualification of #500. The Pio necr does not explain the intellectual virtue in the $500 worth of property that endows its possessor with more discretion in casting an intelligent and patriotic ballot than one who may not possess that amount, nor how a person who may have lieen a voter for years arid by misfortune or otherwise lost all of his property is as suddenly divested of his intellectual qual ifications to vote. THE late reports from the England and ltussian diplomatic sparring match, if re liable, would seem to indicate that the dove of peace is not hovering very near ihe scene. If not reliable the manipu lated news is probably in the interest of grain speculators who would find pecu niary benefl'. in a sudden stimulation of prices. It is probable that the more the people on this fide of the water hear of he negotiations between those two pow ers tlie less tbry will know of the, true tuation of affairs. About all we cer tainly know of the situation is that there is a dispute between thcoi over the Af ghan frontier and that Russia has made no reply to England's proposal for a coca promise, which as usual is fair—for Eng land. THE (ederal authorities are making it decidedly interesting for the polygamists in Utah Occasionally an unsophisticated second or third wife Inadvertantly gives her interest in her liege lord away bile oti tne witness stand. In t!.e extremity of the situation the church organ rails upon the Lord of hosts to deliver the saints and palcts the mooured for their adversaries in the following ancientstyle: "Should a deaf ear be turned to the en treaties of this innocent people, the Lord of hosts will listen to the cry of the op pressed and make an adjustment that will make the ears of millions tingle. In tbe mean time the saints must do the best they can under the circumstances, stand ing firm in their integrity, patiently awaiting developments that are at our very doors, and Anally, after seasons of more or less gloom, see the salvation of the God of Israel." THE Kiel rebellion h»s collapsed sooner than was cxprcted, the capture of the half breed leader last* Friday having vir tually ended the fo«Ihnrdy and hopeless insurrection 1 he clinging cowardice he maniiested through fear of being shot on being bicugLt into the camp of tbe Dominion forcea shows that be was want ing in tbe courage of a leader in such a hazardous undertaking as that in which he engaged. Piobably tbe safest place he could find is in the hands of the gv ornment for his own people whom he has deceived would probably kill .him if they hud the opportunity. Asthisislhc sec ond time he has made war upon tbe gov ernment, and as he has abused the len irncy that spared his life some fifteen years ago it is not likely that he will es cape this time. If tried by court martial he will be shot and if tried by the civil court be will be huug, so that the result will be practically the same IT IS concerted a truism that revolution* never go bnckwards, but. it cannot be ills puled iliut civilisation sometimes appears to proceed like a crawfish. In corruhor ation of the latter notion it id stated that eleven Indian churches in Dakota last year gave $700 for foreign missions while twenty-four pale face churches gave $192 for the same purpose. The statement is a little indefinite, it is true, bill it was evidently made for the purpose of coin parison, and with the view that this fund is designed to lie used as a civilizing agent among other than Indians in for eign lands it seems that the red man is more than three times as solicitous in civ ilizing and christianizing the while man as the white man is himself. At least the earnestness of each in '.he work measured by the amount of contributions for flic purpose would so indicate. There are at least two sides to every question. There is no question in a pro position upon which all agree. The Steele Herald says president Cleveland could with as much propriety revoke Liticoln's proclamation and remand the negroes into slayeiy as revoke Aithur's proclamation opening the Winnebago reservation. The llerald is very much mistaken in this. Tbe negroes do not hold their freedom by virtue of Lincoln's proclamation but by amendment to the constitution of the United States. Lin coln's proclamation only applied to those states and parts of stales that were in armed rebellion against tbe government on the first day of January, 1863. It only liberated the slaves in those designated states and parts of states and did not pro bibit slavery. But for the constitutional amendment slavery would now ex'st in ifie states tbe same as before the war so far as the emancipation procl mation is concerned. The Winnebago proclamation by pres ldei.t Arthur was quite differei except in name. A proclamation of the presi dent is not law unWsi speci lly provide! for by law, for the reason that the execu tive has no power io make laws. The emancipation proclamation is not a law, it was a military measure which president Lincoln as commander in chief, 1 a^ked bv public sentiment, had the pow er to enforce Without justifying or ob jecting to president Cleveland's procla mation withdrawing the Winnebago res ervation from settlement we thiuk it safe O assuue til.i ii has as much foiceas that of president Arthur, no inore, no less- Both ale based upon the treaty with tho lodlaup, and il'at treat} is the test of validity with both. It was to say the least bad taste for Arthur to issue such a proclamation in the last days of his administration, if not a discour.esy to the incoming administra tion Air. Arthur was not accused of any very fervent feeling of friendship for Da kota after the Chicago convention in which the delegates from this territory supported Blaine, lie wholly ignored the national republican platform in mak ing appointments, and the lateness of the day at which he madethi Winnebago proclamation together with the circum stances surrounding, not bring to its support that weight of propriety winch such a document should have. IK the difficulty between England and liussia was left, to the mediation or Da kota tlmy would probably bo advised to tight it out. They have plenty of men to spare and we will have plenty of wheat to sell. It requires men to do war service ar.d wheat to feed them. Self preserva tion is the first law of nature and self in terest is the first law of commeice. We do not particularly desire to hear of bloodshed but if it must be done we like to bear of just about that distance away. We had a little family row of our own about a quarter of a century ago and nothing much short of England engaging in a struggle with Russia would enable our government to get even with her on that old score. Perhaps some of our merchant vessels would like to try their hand at running Eu jland's blockade. The United States has reserved allopathic doses of England's own medicine to give her whenever the diagnosis of lier case suggests the treatment. THE Brown county constituents of Dr. Kennedy, member of the late territorial council, are making life weigh heavily upon bin by reviewing Ins legislative rccord on tbe county division bill. The doctor is giving them rejoindeis in allo pathic doses through the columns c' the Columbia Dispatch, aud intimites in strong if not explicit terms that some of his accusers approached bin: with the ar gument of bribes duiing tbe scssiou to in' duce him to change the location of the uniyeisity from Ordway to Columbia, and that as he did not accept them he is in a better positi to talk about bribery than they arc. The doctor makes out a pretty clear case in his defense against tie charges made againsi him but still his adversaries continue to besmirch him with insinuations, a mode of attack which carries a damaging impression without imposing the burden of proof upon the character assassin who makes the indirect charge hroiigh the ambush of insinua tion. TIM: Sioux Falls Leader in discuss ingthe progressive firinciples that should be in ike bow r»Anotit utinn o'l vocates compulsory education and oppo. ses prohibition of the liquor traffic. It assumes that prohibition does not pro hibit but does not inform its readers how compulsion compels. Its reason for as serting that prohibition will not prohibit is that public sentiment will not. sustain such a law, which is a very good reason and will aiply with equal force io ac m pulsory education law. Public sentiment is the supreme law of tbe land and uo statute law can stand against it. The time may come when public sentiinenr will enforce compulsory education and liquor prohibition laws but until that public sentiment is developed statute laws for these purposes will nc a dead letter. Neither of thee properly belong in a stale constituti-in as specific provis ions Itisenougb that the constitution authorizes such legislation and then when public sentiment is ready for such an ad vance step the people will elect members of the legislature who will enact such statutes. In our ippreseniative form oT government there is no danger that legis lation vill be far behind public- senti ment. It is to say the iast unfortunate ll al the management of the North Dakota Univeisiiy at Grand Forks is such* mudule and the cause of a bitterness of feeling th.it must militate against tbe success of fie institution. It is one of the educational institutions fostered by the legislature and supported from tha public funds, and is therefore a subject of personal interest to every citizen and tax payer of the territory. 1-, has only been in operation one year, and that uu der the presidency of Dr. Blackburn, who gave up a lucrative position in Ciucin nati to respond to the wishes of the for mer board of regents that he come and trke charge of the institution Tae new board of regents it appears made it to un pleasant for him that, out of self rcspect, he resigned upon which the citizens of the city, who, .t would seem, ought to be reasonably well acquainted with the cir cumstances, became almost unanimously indignant at the action of the majority the new board of regents in the premises aud held an indignation meeting in which they gave strong expression to their feelings. The governor, who is an ex-offlcio member of the b"ard, has been appealed to, and it is to be hoped, for tin good ol the institution, that his good judgment and conscientious discrimina tion may right the wrongs and h- rmonize the difficulties. THE opposition of central Dakota to division on the 46ih parallel is beginning to take tangible shape in the form sub stitution. I he Aberdeen News advocates division the Missouri river up to where it intersects the 101st meridian and from there north on that meridian to the boun dary line between Dakota and Manitoba. Tbe News urges this line of division on the grounds that the river is a natural di vision line and for political reasons, as suming that the eastern portion would he the foundation of a republican state an the westerp part would tie the nucleus of a democratic sute. These arguments have all been repeat edly presented by tbe Mandan. Pioneer, wb'-eh at the time was al ne in open ad roeacy of such a di ision but it is sug gestiyc of the sentiment in central Dako ta tbat tbe Aberdeen News takes up the question and advocates tbe same plan of division from the sa.nc standpoint. The peoi le of central Dakota are but human in opposing a line of division that would place them in the outskirts of one or the other of the territories and futuie states, as division on the 46th parallel would do, and they are not to be blamed for doing what any ther people would do under like circumstances. They would natur ally prefer division on the Missouri river or that the territory remain undivided. They would naturally prefer to bo in the central part of an immense territory or state to being on the outskirts of one or the otl er of two smaller territories or states. They may cot be strong enough secure division on the Missouri riyer, but they can perhaps exert influence enough upon congress to defeat division on the 46th parallel. It is not good policy for the people of either North or South Dakota who desire an east and west di vision to ignore tbe wishes and feelings of the central Dakotamns who have such a Strong hold uponjlhc key to the. situa tion. IT was a fitting and merited lebuke which Judge Allen in a Boston court the othei^day gave a minister who performed the marriage ceremony which, as the case before the court showed, joined a girl child of fifteen years in wedlock for woe the balance of her life lie said it was no wonder that the court dockets were filled with divorce cases when such reck less disregard of common sense and pro priety was sanctioned by the partici pation of the ministry in its solemnization The sensible words of the judge in this case expresses the almost uiuvcrsnl senti ment of the judiciary upon tbe subject aCd should at least be suggestive of nec essary legislation in that direction. Those of either sex who assume the duties of either lord or queen of a home while yrt physically, mentally or practically incom petent to till them are building upon tho sand and sooner or later they will discov er the mistake, become dissatisfied with their lot, and seek to uue'o what cannot be undone ly appeal to the courts for di vorce. They may be divorced but they cannot be restored, and at best their lives arc a wreck. For tbe mistake tin J- are not so much to blame as those who are older and know better who aid instead of discouiaging aud preventing them, and if ministers and others authorized to sol emnize marriages will not exercise dis cretion and batter judgineut in the prem ises the laws ought to be made a correct ing agency that would administer tbe punishment where it belongs. THE leadiug prohibitionists in South Dakota are coming to the front with a determination to be heard for their cause in the forthcoming constitutional conven tion, and if defeated in this they propose to defeat the constitution at flic polls when it comes before the people for rati fication or rejection. They were muzzled in iue e-oiiaiituii^uui wu.U.jiuirui by the cry of expediency and policy, but they will have nj more of it. They de clare they would rather remain out of the union than be admitted with a eon stitution that does not contain a.prohibi tion clause. They claim to hold the bal ance of power in South Dakota and dcclare they will use it to turn the ma jority cither for or tgainst the constiulion lion that may be loimed al Sioux Falls in September as may seem best for the spccial cause they represent. In view of this condition of things the Press and Dakotaian proposes a compro mise in the proposition to submit a prohi bition clause to be voted upon separately at the same time and a*- the same poll the constitution shall be voted upon. Iliis seems a very fair proposition and is a fair one for obtaining an expression of the people ou the question of prohibition upon its mails, and it should stand or fall by its own merits. Even if this clause should cany and the body of the constitution should be rejected it would lie a reliable indication of public s.nitinient upon the question '.hough it would have no force standing alone. Neither would ilie constitution with or without the clause have any force, co mailer what the unanimity with which it might bt ratified by fhe people, until ac cepted by congress and the territory whose boundaries il may prescribe be admitted into the union as a stale. Tbe death of Airs. Vanderbtlt, which is assumed to have resulted from rccent exposure at thegrave of a near relative, made the text cf an argument by cremationisls in favor of incineration in stead ol burial. It matters not that the death of Mrs Vanderbilt was no more than an average calamity io the human lace, ?r prominence in aristocratic cir cles, which the Uss wealthy classes mimic as as possible and farther thai profitable or justifiable, makes her death, from the cause assumed, a more than or dinarily forcible one with the ansto cratic classes.. If they-can be persuaded la adopt this plan of disposing of the dead so far as lo i..ake it fashionable there is no doubt but tbat the lower classes in the scale of wealth will sojn follow. It is urged that cremation would work a reform in the evil of extravagant fune rals, but the force of this argument is only fell by those who cannot afford an aristocratic burial of their riea-i. The argument, however, that it would obviate the necessary exposure to inclement weather which so often occurs on funeral occasions, by which the tender lilies of aristocritic parlors and dressing rooms contract fatal ailments, is one which will reach this class with force and effect. The power tbat rules the elements seems to make no distinction nor exception in the weather to favor the burial of a mil lionaire over that for interring a pauper, und as there is no way by which the for mer class can obtain special privileges of weatlur over the lower, they will have to adapt themselves to circumstances a6 best they can. The plan of ceremonial mourning and parapbernalian grief for the departed, the intensity of which is measured by tbe skill of the dressmaker and milliner and ability of the bead of the mourning house hold to pay the expense, wbich so largely prevails in the east, may have robbed ath of some of its sting—to the living— bat it makes the funerals of the day a W JAMESTOWN WEEKLY ^, ,»j THK Alert has from the first opposed the proposition for holding a convention to form a constitution for Bonlb iakot» for the reason that it would not in any event accelerate division but rather, by its seeming contempt of federal author ity l.i the premises, retard it. The Alert stood almost alone in its opposition to the apj roprialion of $20,000 from the ter ritorial treasury by the legislature last winter to pay ihe expenses of this colos sal farce. The bill was put through the legislature as quietly as possible and un der the false pietense that the expenses of the convention were to be paid by South Dakota. If this had been tiue the bill would still have been an imposition upon the taxpayers of that section, for it is a .-ubject matter over which congress has exclusive controf, but when tribute was levied upon Ihe taxpayers of North Dakota, who have no part nor voice in the farcc, the appropriation lo that ex tent became a plundering raid upon the public trust fund, Every day public sentiment is growing against the scheme anil threatens to be come a boomerang lint will not only de feat division of the territory ami the ad mission of South Dakota, but will create a sentiment in favor of admission of the entire territory as a single state strong enough to accomplish it with the aid of a favorable congress. There is a point where extremes inec-t and work together for diametrically opposite purposes and the South Dakota constitutional conven tion bill in the legislature last winter was a case in point. It was a scene to make angels weep for millennial joy to see the rabiJ divisionists of Sbtilli Dakota and the opponents of division in Bisparck working hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder for the constitutional conven tion bill when at the same time Senator Vest in Washington had in his porket a remonstrance against division Mgncd ly those self same Bismarckers, JAMESTOWN. DAK. THURSDAY. MAT 21, 1885. nurlesqne upon the name of "last sad the supply tjte rites" of respect and the climax of mourn- «al value is reached In the itn It is more like a jubilee. ing for tbe dead *The thought of the dying man that his burial is to be made the occasion of a ceremonial holiday and dress parade, ir which he will be forgotten in tbe excite ment of carrying out a systematic pro gramme, cannot be a very comforting one. The rule of requests made by dying persons regarding their funerals is that no display be made, and In this request the dying person usually exhibits more sense or propriety than the co'mbined neighborhood of the liying who survive to take part in his funeral ceremonies. Anything that- will reform the prevailing tendency to jubilee funerals and grave yard aristocracy should be encouraged, and if cremation will reform this evil it should be welcomed as an advance step in civilization. and came distressingly near giying their names away in one of his tirades igainst Dakota Yankton ami Bismarck were as inscp arable as Ihe Siamese twins in favor of the constitutional convention bill, and yet the one did it to secure division and the other did it to defeat (fivision, and the Indications are that Bismarck will as usu al come out ahead and ought to send the Yanktonites a leather medal as the champion suckers of the nineteenth cen tury. V.re have frequently noted the opposi tion to division lately developed in South Dakota, among the latest of wbibh is the following from the Sioux Falls Argus, a paper published in tbe hot bed the southern confederacy and place appointed for holding the constitutional convention: "The scheme for dividing Dakota on the 46th parallel teems now a forlorn hope. Every argument has been exhausted and the people have taken up the question for consideration. It is found that the reasons for the division of Dakota are no better than could be presented for tbe division of Texas, California, and other stales, and if division is to be made at all the 40ih parallel is no longer tbe favorite line. It is seen that the east and west are quite as strong as the north and south and there is a strong sentiment being devel oped favorable to three states if a division be made. Th.s being a fact the coming constitutional convention has more and more the appearance of boy's play, and no one who lilks what he believes has any idea that it is to be a serious matter. A job lot of political children from vari ous parts of the territory will gather here to effervesce and save a rupture by an ebb-ti !e of eloquence which has been gathering lor two years. Tbo whole af fair means simply this and nothing more." IT is a good omen for the future of Da kota in other respects than tbat of agri culture tbat the farmers are steadily and yearly reducing their business more and a-.ore to a system. It require* as much forethought, as much business tact, as much judgment, as much financial ability to make farming profitable as to make any other business successful. The idea that farming is a haphazard business in whL-li ote person is as likely to succoed as another is an exploded mis take. Brain work is as important in ag ricultural pursuits as in any other. There is a seed time and haivist. Eich must receive attention at the proper time, and it requires forethought to prepare for it in advance. The farmer, to te successful, must ac quaint himself with the commerce of the world to intelliget tly decide upon the most profitable crop to grow. A shortage of any given cercal in the markets of tbe world admonishes the judgment of tie farmer tbat tbe demand for that particu lar kind of grain will seek a supply tron the next crop, and this stimulated de mand wilt enhance tbe pi ice. If the forthcoming crop is likely to be more than sufficient to supply the demand the logic of the situation is that the first into mar ket will realize the best price. II, on the other band, there will be a shortage in tbe supply the late market will be the best. There are two general and great ruling condition^ upon which tbe price of -com modities depend, namely, supply and de mand. When the supply exceeds tbe de mand the price recedes below the medium or real value when tbe demand exceeds opposite extreme above C»etbe farmer jg a ,oser t)( 6 ,Jlt. 'hat Hm0UDt *£r®eives for his produce less than its value, and in the latter he is the Irtinir by as much as he receives above Uje aptual value of his products, ^t follows that the farmer who changes jmttops soas most of tbe time to have product WJet which is worth in ra°re ,,lan its real VB,ue is ,lke Midmost of the tune gaining, while the irtier who blindly sticks to one princi Pi trop year after year will find in tbe when he come* to make up his bal nceslieet that his profits and losses neu each other and that his average »nemoro than the real value of his pro uetwhich barely affords him a living. Lait year, with an overplus on hand, verjbody the wheat growing sections when and generally obtained a o^dfield. The consequence was the uPpr far exceeded the demand and the •^proportionately receded twlow the value ewers became disgusted with the busi as because of the legitimate and inc-v ibe result of their owu bad judgment. Beo|le go to extremes just like the pen duli.ii of a clock in every department of comaerce. Disgusted wheal raisers will nowgivc their aiteution to some othQr prouci and in a f-w ye irs at mos the demand will excce.1 the supply andtlie price will advance as far bejond thcreal value as it his fallen below. 'lie bottom has been reached and the prio of wheat has turned upon the as cendng scale towards the other extreme, andfor several years to come Dakota farters will make money- on wheat. The the corn producing stales will rush inte the wheat raising business again, ovestock the market and down to the othir extreme wiil go the price. When tha time comes again Dakota farmers shoild be in position to grow other crops thai wheat Tlii Juke lliat Re-elected John A. Lo gan United Slates Senator. Perhaps the grimmest conceived and slickest executed joke ev known in the history of American politics is that just consummated in the re-election of John A Login United States senator by the leg islature of Illinois. It is of national lu terest now that a national result has been accomplished by it. It will be remembered by those who kept track of political events that in the early part of April Hon. J. Henry Shaw, one of the democratic members of the lower house ol the legislature for the 34th district was found dead in his bed at the hotel one morning having died of sup posed heart disease during the night. The election of a United States senator wa8 llien pending upon a tie vote between the two parties. Tbe governor called an election to fill the vaeancy. in knm I lio intimately acquainted for the past fifteen years, who was tbe successful candidate and whose genius conceivcd the plan by wbich suc cess was accomplished, now lives at Pe tersburg, the county seat of Menard coun ty, and pursues the business of auction eer and tornado insurmce. His place of residence is on the Sangamon river only two miles below the site of Old Salem where the immortal Abraham Lincoln made his start in 1832 as a pioneer store keeper and postmaster under Gen. Jack son's administration. There is also an other coir .idency. Lincoln was the best story teller in the state in his day aud Weaver is tbe best in that lien now. Cant. Weaver is now a bigger man than Logan, and the following is the way it was done as told by Weaver himself to a newspaper reporlei: "On Thursday night before the elec tion," said he, "the matter was first broached. When tite candidate fell to Menard, a caucus of the leaders here de cided to.offer me the place. But only on the most urgent soliciting did 1 consent to fun. But after 1 was once in tor it, 1 did my best. Only two or three in a town ship were made acquainted with the plan, and they the most, trusty ones, A day or two just before the election 1 rode into one section of the county, and did some of the biggest work in insurance tbat ever did in my life. My partner, Mr. Wifeon, worked another part, while a stock man here went through another corter, with his cattle whip thrown ov-jr hisilioulder, and a plasterer with his trow el diligently worked other places, if a mat had ever voted anything but the re publican tickel, be was pasted bv. Men were pulled out of their beds al dead of niglt and labored with. One township ovei here has twenty democrats to one republican. Tue question arose, Who will We take into the scheme over there-? I told them we had better give that place the go-by, for ir the democrats got on to it they would swarm out aod bury us. No votei were to be cast till nearly night, and so successful I j? was the plan carried out, that in many places the democrats didn't know any Weaver ballots had been casi till they began to count them. 'AJ^I IV FL WDAOAR I«H)» editor of this paper baa been One old democratic judge up here, a bully good old fell »w, was reading the ballots, lie called "Leeper," "Lceper," pc haps a dozen times, when directly he found a Weaver ballot. lie looked at it from al) sides, and saying he thought there must be some mistake, he laid it aside. His eyes opened bigger and bigger as tbe Weaver ballots piled up beside him, and when finally be strung and counted thcma all and Weayer was twelve votes ahead, tbe old fellow turned loose and cussed worse than "tbe army in Flanders." In townships where the democrats did get onto it, they were nearly terror stricken. In one place you would see one horse standing tied in be fence corner in a field, tbe other one gon- here, two big fellows would come tearing up to tbe polls on one borse there gtes a man across fields afoo% puffing and sweating like a Turk. An old Jew down here, as soon as he got wind of it, mounted a horse, struck down the lane to the poll at break- neck gait, yellng at every demo crat be ceutd see. "Hrre 1 The d— republicans are stealing the senator. it, come and vote." In Pe tersburg even, they knew nothing of it j|ntil telegram came trom a sc«t*d old "f-V» mossback dowu in Cass county, saying 'They are voting for Weaver down here like ." I stood in a store where 1 could watch the poll all day, and when night came I knew we had them. Why, our boys came flocking in like blackDirds along towards nighi, and the democrats were completely paralyzed." 01 V| OXMISSIOMIKS. I'roccedings of the Boaid of Couuty Commissioners in session af 10 o'clock a. m. May 16th, 18S3. Present commissioners Eddv, Buck and Woodbury. Woodbury in the chair. Minutes of Inst meeting read and ap proved. On motion road supervisor Wink was instructed to improve and repair highway on section line between sections 7 and 8 and between section's 17 and 18 in town ship 139 range 64. On motion the county treasurer was of ilar in settlement between said city and the county. Board adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m. Full board in session at 2 o'clock p. m. On motion a road and, bridge order for $1.50 was allowed W. M. Bartholomew road poll tax 1884 erroneously asscsseJ. On motion the county auditor was in structed to forward to First National bank of St. Paul, Minn., $36,500.03 in road and bridge funding bonds with in structions to deliver the same to Mr. Crawford Livingston upon his paying the sum of $36,685.00 said amount to be re turned to county treasurer Oeo 1. Web ster. Clerk of oourt Hills preaeuted receipt from county treasurer for $128.10 turned in from court fees and fines. E. T. Kearney and other*, petitioned for new road district to be created out of road district No. 2. On motion, all that part of road district No. 2 lying east of Pipestem rive-r and north of township 110, ranges 64 and 65 was set off, to be known as road distriet No. 7, and Thoinas Barrett was ap STo. oinied road supervisor or said district 7. The county attorney reported back fa vorably the quarterly report of Justice of tbe Peace llamiltou On motion, report accepted and fees al lowed. On motion, the following bills were al lowed: T. B. VanWyik, goods for pau per 4 :ts D. C. Buck, goods and provisions for paupers and prisoners 70 39 J. M. Bowman, do do 6 06 'Bowman Lyon, do du 2T 61 Hicks, Topliff & Co., fuel for court house 18 25 Hicks, Tophfl & Co., fuel for pau pers 18 88 r» rnnd viewer and livery ..... r::. ~I2 B. F. Broughton, work in district No. 4, 1884 7 50 Win. McFarlane, blacksmithing .'! 70 Drake & Baldwin, books, papers, etc, for county officers no Joe D. Mills, services clerk of court's office 30 00 II. F. Elliott, bailiff April term district court .'52 00 W. A. Smith, witness and mileage district court John Mahoney, do do A. C. PowelJ, do Chas. D. Smith, do do Ralph Hall, do do F. A. Thorold, do Joe Mason, do do Ben Pearsr.n, do do John O. Moore, do do M. Scbmitz, -Jo P. M. Daly, oo A. W. D. Lewis, do D. Baldwin, do Geo. II. WooJbury do Fanclier, petit juror Frank Lenz, II. W. Dewey, D. C. Buck, Wm. Henry, C. E. DeLand, Wm. Wirtz, J. F. Winsbip, C. i- Smith, A. G. hambc-s, F. E. Jones, J. E. Bort, Jcs. Hole, 3 10 5 00 1 00 1 10 13 40 6 00 1 00 13 80 13 50 3 00 6 00 2 00 (J 00 1 00 42 70 42 00 42 25 22 00 42 80 23 90 4 00 37 80 36 50 30 00 42 00 45 00 42 40 42 00 42 00 32 00 22 00 38 00 40 00 42 00 42 00 43 40 do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do «'o do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do dr do do do do do do do do do do do •lo do do do do do do do do do do do do O Wonnenburg, do T. M. Grove, C. F. Brown, do do do do do do do do do do do M. Daly, D. M. Kellehcr, A. M. Howard, Jacob Laux, L. P. B«njamin, Chas. Blorrow, Jes. Mason, Aug. Wiltschke, C. Xoyes, do do do do A. A. Doolitlle, grand juror A. 14. llathorn, do II. G. Anderson, do do S. S, McQuilken, do do S. Whitney, do Chas. Ilensel, do A. W. D. Lewis, do T. S. Collins, do J? 88: 45 50 26 00 26 00 31 20 31 20 26 00 26 00 26 00 26 00 On motion, board adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock a. ra May 19tb, 1885. L. B. MISER, Coun'y \nditor. Proceedings of Board of County Com missioners in session at 10 o'clock a. m. May 19th, 1885. Full board present. Commissioner Woodbury in the chair. Minutes of last meeting read and ap proved. The board pioceeded to canvass tfce vote cast in range 69 this county on the 13th day of May 1885, on an act entitled "an act to create and define the bounda ries of the county of Stanton and for other purposes" and declared the resnlt to be as follows. For division "Yes" five votes. For division "No" six votes. Making a majority of one vo:e against division. Nickeus & Baldwin as attorneys for voters ami taxpayers within the said county of Stanton, requested the board to add to their certificate the i?,*U 5- i^^'P "tbat it appearing irom satisfactoiy evi dence that a majority of all tbe yotes cast ii the county of Stanton was for "divmon yea" and tbat said county of Stanton created by the legislature was approved by a majority of all legal voters voting in said new county of Slanton." On motion, tbe request was denied and a certificate was made showing only tbe rotes cast in rango stxty-eine. On mo tion, a county order for $4 32 was issue*) to F. M. Kernan being for erroneous as sessment of personal property in 1884. Adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m. In session at 2 o'clock p. m. Present—Eddy and Woodbury. F. Zimmerman filed bonds and made application for license to retail malt, vin ous and spirituous liquors at Eldridge for of three months from May 15tb, 1885. On motion, bonds approved and license granted. On motion, tbe folio*ing bills were al lowed: iWtokii nTSmtiHi At*. X'DWrT. "TUIIS, 9Cr rvww—— district court 231 95 B. Vessey, witness and mileage district court 3 90 H. W Dewey, do do 1 00 Geo. Joos, petit juror and mileage district court 40 50 A. McKecbnie, sheriff es district court 563 90 A. McKecbnie, dieting prisoners, jailor and janitor for month of April 1885 328 35 On motion board adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock a. m., June 1st, 1885. L. B. MIKEK, County Auditor. The Progress ef MIMUM in Uaketa. In 1872 there were in the Territory 3,946 children of school age, and $34,203 expended for school purposes. 1 be value ot school property was (60,319, and there were 141 men an-1 189 women teaching school. In 1884 there were 77,499 chil dren of school age, 69 graded schools, I,903 ungraded schools value of school property, $1,689,658 spent for school pur poses during the year, $1,306,878, and the number of teachers employrd in the Ter ritory was 863 men and 2,058 women, a total of 2,901. Tbe Pioneer-Express says the people as a rule are alive to the im portance of educating tbeir children, and neat little school houses dot the prairie in every part of the country. The aver age size of a single school district is three miles square. The schools in nearly every instance are furnished with approved modern ap pliances, and in the way of desks, maps, globes, etc., have tbe best, The teachers are efficient and progressive. Well-sus tained institutes and associations show tbeir intelligent interest in their work. Higher education has been liberally pro vided for. In Nortii Dakota there are hich schooljjn all the larger towns, nota bly at Fargo,"Grand Porks and James, town. Graduation from these schools is a preparation for tbe entrance to the uni versities, et which there are two—the Dakota University at Vermillion, and the North Dakota University al Grand Forks. These institutions are*supported by the Territory, and offer free a libert 1 educa tion in literature and the sciences.—Pern bina Pioneer. The Winnebago Reservation. Gov. Pierce has issued the following to all whom it may concern: EXECUTIVE OFFICE, BISMARCK, Dak., Alay I8th, 1885. To the settlers upon the Crow Creek and Winnebago landt: The following communication has been received at this office from tbe President of the United 'States, and is published for tbe information of all con-, cerned: EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 13, 1885.) Hon. Gilbert A. Pierce, Governor, Da kota Teriitory—Dear Sir: Your letter May 6th is leceived, and I tbank you lor the interest you have evinced in the sub ject of tbe Crow Creek and Winnebago reservations. 1 regret exceedingly tbat there are any settlers in good failh upon the reservation lands who will suffer at all by tbe enforcement of the last execu tive proclamation. But it was issued bs cause the laws, justice and a due regard to the treaty obligations of the govern mcnt demanded it. The reasons which operated upon the executive and his ad visors inducing the issuing of the procla mation still exist in full force, and mafat festly rendered it impossible to suspend or modify such proclamation or extend tbe time within which the same may be com plied with. Signed, GKOVEII CLEVELAND. It will be seen from the above, that any expectation of a suspension of tbe nr/^o» i/M« iKf* lusivc, and can only bring disappoint ment. I therefore renew tbe request made in a former paper from this office, and enjoin upon the settlers to comply promptly and quietly with the command of the executive. Let the president se that the settlers on these lands are law abiding, and that whatever tbe personal sacrifice tb^y will interpose no istades to the peaceable execution of tbe order. 1 repeat that nothing is to be gained while much may be lost by a failure to observe this injunction. The same re gard for the moral obligations of the government which inspired this order will insure justice to the innocent suf ferers by it if thev evince that spirit of obcdience to the constituted authorities which becomes American citizens. Signed. GILBERT A. PIERCE, Governor. Mr. F. Larsen who has a homestead near Sanborn, upon which he sunk a shaft last winter for coal, but was com pelled from want of means to suspend operations, will commence next week on the Len ham farm adjoining town, when*, by the aid of a miner's compass, he is' certain be has located a rich vein of coal. Mr. Larsen has had much experience Sweden and Norway in locating ml—, and is sure he is not mistaken in this a* stance, and hopes aoen to claim the bonne offered by the tsrrHety st Pahda -for the dls—vi ry of good coal.—Sanbeen Enterprise.- 2 2®^ liv4 £VV* *. 1 a 41 if •Qi' s2:co pfcR year. Jfcaeiial atrrlm. It has beea decided to hold the I .ti»* Md pl«w Kev. J- H. Hartman, ehaplain of Fortgeward oet, tbu city win deliver an addiM an. propriatc to tbe occasion. ThehuUdw comfortable. Tbe exerciies will be m. cmtnoBW, *r|—!-'t|f May 30th, and will, he higblr tntnn^lii Veil as entertaining thlh.l A,er' re9UMt®d to aanouaoe old First National bank comer at 10 clock, a. m., Sunday, May 24th in to* in H',0,iI aotdien Sh?/ '"'dentor »j^rn- y0f C°UDtrY the LightGuards militi. company, and the members of tbe Jamestown fire ("epart mrntare requested lojoin. Fran this station the/ will inarch in military mo cession to tbe Opera nnk when tbe me Jnorial services will -be had at the usual hour for hoMiwg mnrni»» Be viral Meetings. N ever before in the history of our beau tiful city has there been aa deep an in terest manifested in religious matters as there is at the present time. Some four or five weeks ago a revivalist, the "Boy Preacher," by the name of Little, came here and held a series of meetings with marked success, and many found that blessing which God in his Providence has promised for all those who shall seek him. At the conclusion of Mr. Little's meetings, Mr. A. J. Bell, an evangelist of Chicago commeneed a senes of meetings in tbe M. E. church and such was tbe awakening in tbe great work, that this church, although large and commodious, was found to be too small to contain the large crowd tbat nightly flocked there. Tbe Baptist and Presbyterian churches were also employed, and the local minis ters of our town all buckled on their ai mor ana went to work with a will both night and day. But the churches soon failed to hold tbe vast numbers that had been aroused in the Holy cause, and the skating rink was procured in which toe hold these meetings which I am told will'-^ hold nearly a thousand people. And now every night this great room is filled with people from town and the surrounding country for many miles. Up to thia time there has been nearly two hundred con-l^f versions, embracing all clashes fro as the' young to the old and gray beaded, and still tbe noble work goes on .—Fayette County Union, West Union, Iowa. ,t js Off fer tbe Sandwich Islands. Hon. Johnson Nickeus started on the Pacific express yesterday morning for a tour of tbe Pacific coast after which he will sail from San Francisco for Honolu lu, capital of the Sandwich lalards,'*^ where he will visit an old friend who is there engaged in the law business and where Mr. Nickeus msy conclude to Ir cate. The Sandwich Islands area group of| twelve islands in tbe North Pacific ocean! -about-two thniusnri mil— southwest of San Francisco. Eight of tbeae islands-, ..^ are inhabited and four uninhabited. They are situated between latitude 18 and^i 22 north. The temperature is even and%,-"k/# said to be healthful. The average tern perature for the coldest month 2 and%|j. that of tbe warmest 81. Hawaii, tber-V-SS largest island of the group is about one, hundred miles square. Theee ialands m* were discovered by Capt. tiook in 1778. lie estimated the population at but it seems to have decreased rapWly.^^jj^p In 1832 tbe census showed a population!' of 130 313 and that of 1878,57,96ft, among them 883 Americans. The government jS, 7? is a constitutional monarchy. Kalakaua is the reigning monarch, and his lister, who is heir to the throne, is married to an American. The legislative depart. }^jjhS ment of the government is composed of^/vJ^J? 20 nobles appointed by tbe king for life.**""'"!!? acd 28 representatives elected biennially by the people. ... year while Dakota produces two crops in one every year and consequently cm square. Tbeae ialands "V- vJ| Ihe editor of the Mason City (III) Journal, our old contemporary in tbe 'V. -tQ days gone by but neyer to be forgotten, .'x is evidently a diligent readerofthe Alert. Bro. Corey is just now searching heathen: mythology for a parallel by which to off set tbe attractions the Alert offers in ther* great northwest the people of the states. He has hit upon Plato's fabled Atlantis, a mythical island in the Atlan tic ocean, pictured by the famous Athe nian philosopher and baldheaded bachelor as a veritable paradise bet in tbe zenithfi^s of its great prosperity was visited by t®r-^'**-i»8 nadoes and floods and in a single night disappeared from the tace of the earth^fe' to be seen no more. Tbe parallel good' with two exceptions. The fabled Atlan OD- tains the same results with half tbo work. In the second place t-jrnadoea and floods are unknown in this country, and Dakota will still be tbe paradise of earth whan the "WTeck of matter and crash of worlds" come, and even then our enter prising real estate agent* will be "caught up" with plats in tbeir pockets of souse' choice sections of wbeot lands for sale, and will offer St. Peter aa iatereat in a new townsite for an early ads through the petrly galea so aa to and open a real estate office on Fifth ave nue in the New Jerusalem befsre tha tide of immigration sweeps in. There Is noth ing slow about Dakota boomers. son'atolesleed US hipta* visleu, while Steele's te«ewM 1ST fvaad 7 against. A- mafarity 'f tame as Mtefl naweaswtyef ttanMa. A lata In am* M'''' The Bismarck Tribune of yeeterJay^ morning contained tbo foUowmg mm- S, cialed press dispatch regasd ta the Sua ton county election: The fall turns of the election yeaterdny for tfee, formation af Stanton lions of Kidder and resnlt seventy-one ssajecity fcr At Crystal spriags, range W.tMM tie' and Medina, ranfs 9,