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VOL. IX. A TERRIBLE TALE. , Five Damaging Letters Alleged to Have Been Written by Dr, Bradley, *» Implicated in the Celebrated High land-Hughes Abortion Case at Lisbon Dark Hints Thrown Out of Mon strous Crimes Committed by Various People. Miss Highland Urged Not to Get the Doctor Into Trouble and 'Thus Euin Herself. Hughes Denounced as a Scoundrel, and the Threat Made That He "Will be Brought to Time. "I Did My Work and Did It Well, But You Have Both Used Me in a Shameful Manner." A Reference to the Stories in "Which the Girl is Said to Have De nounced the Doctor. •«Just Stop to Remember the .Many Promises We Have Exchanged Regarding This Affair." Three of These Letters Said to Be in Bradley's Handwriting and the Others in Typewriter. Special to the- Globe. Fabgo, Jan. 1). — The letters which the prosecution endeavored to introduce in the Hughes abortion case, and which were ruled out by the court upon the ground that they consisted of admissions by Dr. Bradley, made alter the consummation of the alleged conspiracy, and, therefore, not binding on Hughes, are given below. The following letter is said to have been given by Dr. Bradley to a messenger to be delivered to I Sol Robinson, hotelkeeper in Lisbon, and by the messenger delivered to Prosecuting Attorney Buttz, in whose possession this, as well as all the other so-called Bradley letters, are at present. A REFERENCE JO "ADA." Milnor, Dak,, Dec. 13. 1884.— 5. Robinson, Esq., Lisbon, Dak. Dear Sir: Will you please post the within inclosed letters for me? I could not pet thorn off in the mail, and I am anxious to hare them delivered. Drop mo v letter and give me all the news. I am, re spectfully. Ada. P. S. You remember "Ada," do you not? In this letter was inclosed the following epistles; the first in a sealed envelope, ad dressed TO K. M. DAVIS, LISBON, DAK. Milnor, Dak.. Dec. 12, 1884.— Dear Sir: Your bill Of $185 remains unpaid. A few days since I wrote you a letter, but on pur pose addressed it to your wife. I expected you would take that letter »from the otlice, read it und destroy it. You very likely did co. That was merely a warning-. The next one I wrote after this one will get there. I as sure you. if I have to carry it myself. You and Hughes have both played me for a sucker and I will admit succeeded very well so far, but the table will change. You will pay me lor my services, and soon, too, or I will wage you such an aggressive warfare that you will wish you had heeded my warning. 1 mean business, and I think you know me well enough to know better than to dare me on. If you for one moment kuew of the plot' I have in view you would settle with me at once and have everything go off smoothly rattier than to wage me a warfare which cannot but end some one in. .be penitentiary. Furthermore, this is the last appeal I make to you by let ter. At my earliest opportunity I shall begin proceedings that will break up your family and end ■ou in the penitentiary. I gave an order on J. J. Hughes and told the man that he did not know what I meant by it. as he never owed me anything. As I told you be fore, I shall hold you responsible for Hughes' bill. IJill for services rendoroci you 375 00 Hill for services rendered li 60 00 Making a total of $135 00 As soon as I can start for Lisbon I mean to do so, and the tirst tiling I do after my ar rival there will be to go directly to your wife and deliver a little bit of news, but in the meantime 1 shall prepare her lor its recep tion by sending her a letter by a sure mes senger. I considered you my friend! ! and a man! ! but you have done me cue of the dirtiest tricks that could be conceived of. But by the powers of the eternal ( oi! I you shall right it or I will be avetigeu! ! ! l have been at you now for more than two months, and if this thing is carried a little too far to suit you, you will have no oue to blame but yourself ! ! Thus far I have received only 875 and have paid out more than that In expenses. The next letter your wife receives from mo ■will not be so easily explained by you as the first one was. Perhaps she will not bo as willing to- you to pay other ladies' bills as her own ! I : I have said enough! 1 will never appeal to you again by letter ! 1 1 cannot any longer consider you my friend ! ! Pay me or look to your laurels ! ! Without tear or favor — I am Determined to the death ! !" TO MISS IIIOIILAN'D. With this letter is inclosed one addressed to Miss ■ Sarah Highland, Lisbon, Dak., reading as follows: Milnor, Dak.. Dec. 12, '84.— Dear Friend: 1 have heard to-day that either you or one of your sisters told to some girl in Lisbon that I produced an abortion ou you, and I also heard that my enemies were determined to have both you and me arrested as soon as some certain person in Lisbon that has been visiting you goes home. Perhaps the person told was young Mrs. Ellsworth. I rather think so, at least. .Now. 1 hope that neither you nor your sister will tell such a thing. You must not be scared into telling- such a etory us that, about either you or myself. Perhaps you don't know what the conse quence, will be. If such a thing as an arrest is made you can't tell where it will stop, and it may result in both of us going to the peni tentiary, and that though we both may be in nocent. I have some enemies who are bound to ruin me, either by foul or fair play, and they would not care if they ruined an innocent girl, so long as they got me in their power. 1 understand they have been making offers to certain young ladies in jLis'oon that if they would tell them of a ease where 1 have produced an abortion they ■would give them £-00. Now, any young lady wl o would do that, even if it were so, would be ruined for life. She would have to face the course of the courts for several months anyway, and mii/lit go Jo the penitentiary iv the bargain, though innocent. 1 would like So have gone to Lisbon to-night, but could jiot get away. I mean to come and see you, if 5 can pet away. 1 hope you are quite well. 3 heard you were sick. ] am very sorry, in deed. 1 have enemies in this country who are bending every energy to ruin me, and they are making everything of your sick ness that they can do to do it, so be careful and not get me into trouble and ruin \o;irself. I told you 1 would write to you when J. J. liu.hes settled with me. and '<?■:■> 1 will, but he has proven himself a scoun drel. But 1 will bring- him to time- in a way be doesn't think of. If lam put to trouble, balf of Lisbon will be brought ■ into it, for I have friends there as well as enemies. My enemies there have started various stories about me, and said that I said this and that — solely for the purpose of making enemies or (ny friends, and gettinz certain ones to sup press their acts. lam working at my end. >'or instance, 1 hi* '«» ieard that I said I siept i with your sister wane there in Lisbon. Now, | I can't believe for one moment that you will (five any credit to auy such story, and the ones who are circulating any such s.ory are offering dne<-t insult to you. and besides that, they lie. Please write mo at once and let me know how things stand. Accept my regards for >ourself and sister. Believe me true till you know yourself that lam false. 1 have a ns^»^^^^ / \^j^, S_.tA *v v. "o^* ***^ m s - 4 higher sim in this life than to ruin an inno- 1 cent girl. 1 am, respectfully yours, i Jennie. i another TO DAVIS. ! The discovery of these letters led to the ! disclosure of the following letter, alleged to , be from Bradley to Davis: Milnor. Dak., Dec. 5, 1884.— It. M. Davis, Esq., Lisbon, Dak.; Sir— l am surprised to receive no money from you in to-day's mail, i You know what I wrote you. 1 meant it. ■ There are two accounts 1 shall hold you for. ! One was for vices rendered" to a certain party on and alter Oct. 8, ISS4. Balance of * chat account is $75, and the other one is for j services rendered lately to one* Hughes. Bal- , unco of that account is $60. You gave me to understand that said Hjg-hes was all right. ! Now he has t served me in tbe same manner i that you have. 1 wrote you both that I should start forthwith to Lisbon if I i did not ..receive the money in to- I day's mail. Neither of you has paid any attention to ray demands. Now, ! business keeps me here at present, but shortly I shall appear in Lisbon, and if I do before those two accounts are paid I'll prom- : iso you I'll raise particular hell in your fami ties if Ido not in the courts. I mean busi- i ness, as I have said before. If you can afford ' it, all right; I can and will. Neither of you j has acted like men with me. I did my work, and did it well, but you have both used me in a shameful manner. Now unless you both I want this thins ventilated in the courts and j families, just persist in your course. You 1 should know that you are deal in not with a boy, with a desperate man, and < n • who will i have his rights respected even though he has ! to resort to desperate means. As soon as I j can get away I shall start for Lisbon, and i you will pay my expenses on the trip, unless 1 I receive my pay before. Gr t. P. S. — You are responsible for Hughes' bill, as you sent lor me. and also said Hughes was good. To balance both accounts, $135. AX APPEAL TO MrSS HIGHLAND. The prosecution also have in their posses sion the following letter written to Miss Sarah Highland: Barnes County, Dakota, Aug. 21, 1385.— Dear Friend: . I came here to your father's Thursday, soon after you had left, and have ! waited patiently till now; but, as my time is I very much needed elsewhere. I cuuuot stay ' longer. . I shall go away very much disap- { pointed at not seeing you, as I have driven all the way from Milnor to: that purpose. You know I told you last spring: 1 would come down to see you before court convened. I • have kept my word. I presume you have heard that I was convicted at Fargo on that election case. Woll, I was, but the verdict of the jury WILL, BE SET ABIDE by the judge beyond a doubt, and if it is not I shall carry the case to the supreme court and there it (the decision) would be reversed. Do not think for one moment that my ene mies have conquered mo, for they hay c not. I received a telegram from my attor ney, W. W. Ei-wiu, of St. Paul, just before I came down here and he said he would come to Lisbon on receipt of a telegram from me stating that I was in dicted. Now, Sarah, if you do not turn against me on the grand jury stand, we will not be indicted. I have seen the list of jurors, and I am sure that we will not be indicted unless you testify against us. If you are summoned before the grand jury, perhaps I you had better go, but, for God's sake, do not answer any questions or make any state ments whatever. You need not, if you do not want to. They could havo the same right to make me go and TELL WHAT I KNOW as they have to make you do it. Keep quiet; say nothing; trust to those who have the same interests at stake as you have, and not to those who are trying to ruin you. In regard to that paper Hyman had containing your statement, let mo say that ho has not got it now, and even though he had 1 would take caro of it. I will not be convicted in case I am indicted. Can you turn against me and not injure Mary In ease you turn against mo you will have Ersvin, of St. Paul, tiring dirty questions at you for days, for that is | just the kind of a man he is. You do not want Erwin against you; nor do you want me against you. Sarah, just stop to remem ber the many promises we have exchanged in regard to this affair. How many times we have pledged our words of honor to be true to each other. . Were those promises mere idle talk, or were they words spoken in sincerity and to be kept? As I have said, be true to me and I will clear you. I have ; HEARD STRANGE STORIES you have told j_ about me, how you ?.iave damned me and said you did not want me vto come near yon again. But stop. Perhaps, these stories were not true, and acting upon that belief I have come again. Shall I come down after you and take you up to Lisbon to attend court? I will if you will let mo. If you say so I will come down one week from to-morrow (Sunday) after you. Write me at once and let mo know. Be true to yourself and to me, and 1 will defend you and clear you or share the same fate as yours. As I said, say nothing before the grand jury and wo will not even be indicted. Hoping to meet you oftener and with my best wishes for your happiness, lam very truly j ours, W. W. Bradley. THE LETTERS IDENTIFIED. Of these letters, all but the first ones to Sarah Highland and K. M. Davis, given above, are in a handwriting alleged to be that of Bradley, and were identified on the witness stand by Dr. Lucas, of Lisbon. The first two are in typewriter print and were in the sealed envelope in which the letter to Sol Robinson signed "Ada" was found, the handwriting of "Ada" being identified as that of Dr. Bradley. aSI'CII AS OF OLD. Farjjo as Seen by a Globe Man Who Used to !,s ye There. Special Correspondence of the (llobe. Ex route to Bismarck, Fargo, Jan. 0. — The arrival of the Northern Pacific j train in Fargo creates just as much excite- | ment now as it did four years ago when 1 was here dividing my time between keeping jumpers off ICO .'..acres of land that Iliad filed on and monkeying with the confidence of the business men of the town. W hen the train pulls up at the depot the door swings open just as it used to, and from the cloud of steam that puffs out from the hot room the same figure, muffled from heel to chin, in a shaggy coat of fur, pops out like an evil spirit summoned up front some dark region by the magic wand of a geni; the same faces stare at you imperti nently as you step from the train and follow your form until you disappear in the crowd or through the doors of the depot. There have been but few changes in the people and in the appearance of Fargo during the past four years, but it holds its own splendidly; there is the same ruddy glow on its cheek and the same healthy appearance that it wore in its balmiest days, when the boom was on and fortunes were made and lost in a day. A DRY A.TMOSPITEBE. Just as 1 was boarding the train for Bis marck this morning 1 beard somebody say, "It's d- — d cold," and turning round.' l found that the words had come from the lips of a pale-faced tenderfoot., whose shoulders were humped up until you could see nothing but his ears above his coat col lar. A remark like this is a direct chal lenge to the full-blooded Dakota citizen. and this tenderfoot had no sooner uttered the words than a tall, broad-shouldered, deep-chested Dakotan standing near, with his shirt collar unbuttoned and turned over, baring his brown breast to the crisp air, replied: "Yaas, it's cold, but it's dry. d d dry, you know. I believe this is the dryest at mosphere in the world. It gits so aliired dry up here sometimes that it ain't safe ter light ; er match out doors fur fear the at mosphere'll ketch lire and burn ther wliul country up. I've seen it in July when this atmosphere wus so dry that er feller hed ter breath through his nose contiuerally; ef be didn't, ther shingles on ther roof of his mouth would catch fire and burn ther whul d d business up." The tenderfoot's brow wrinkled a trifle. and he escaped into a passenger coach just as the old settler said: "Speaking about dry atmospheres.' I—he1 — he saw he bad no au dience and he strolled into the bar-room and said, "Don't care ef 1 do." AT THE HEADQUARTERS. I walked into the Headquarters hotel with a familiar stride and sin led coquett ishly on the brocaded clerk belli. .d the regis ter. " I didn't know him. He'd been culti vated since 1 was a harassed citizen of Fargo, arid I had reason to believa that I could secure an upholstered room and a few victuals without going through the formula of paying in advance. He inquired if 1 had any baggage and I told him yes. ST. PAUL, MONDAY MORNING. JANUARY 10, 1887. He asked if lie should send the porter for for it and I told him not to mind it, as it was in St. Paul and it would be pretty tough to send the porter after it such a night as that. I penned my name glibly on the face of the register and submitted it to the inspection of the clerk, Lie glanced haughtily. over it and with more or less hectic flush on his cheek said: : I'es, sir; heard of you before. . We have kept your name on tap for the past four years. We collect in advance of all our cus tomers whose baa-gage is in St. Paul. lam sorry to say that I paid on the terms suggested by the clerk. I was given a room on the Grand Forks side of the house, with a window opening towards Sitka. I selected this room on account of its superior facilities for escape in case of fire. ■ There was a clear, uninterrupted jump of 150 feet before the face of the earth could possibly be reached, and then there was a galvanized wire clothesline and a maroon woodpile to let you down easy. The room was near the railroad and some time in the night I woke up with the hor rible sensation of ringing bells and escaping steam in my ears. 1 informed my wife that somehow a locomotive had got into the room. She uttered a piercing scream and I jumped out of bed and pounded around the room with an unoccupied shawl strap a few minutes. i returned to the bed aud informed my wife that 1 had driven the locomotive out and locked the door. She grew calm in about an hour and said she had been bitten by a locomotive once when she was a small girl, and ever since that time she had been afraid of them. ESWABOS' BA.TII TIB. Maj. A. W. Edwards, editor and pro prietor of the Fargo Daily Arams, has built a new three-story block of red brick on the site of the moth-eaten establishment that burned down several months ago. I was was conducted through the new establish ment last night by Managing Editor Plum ley, and 1 found that in point of conven ience and elaborateness of finish it was superior to any newspaper office in St. Paul or Minneapolis now occupied. In the old building the major's private office looked out on a livery stable : with the front yard usually full of mules. This bothered the major considerably, especially when he wanted to write poetry. It sort of knocked the inspiration out of the major when toy ing with the muse to have his attention di verted by the oratory of a full-blooded Plymouth Kock mule, in the new build ing he has his office as far as possible from the livery stable. It is so arranged that he has an unobstructed view of Mr. Plumley, who is as much of a poetical inspiration as the ordinary run of green trees, waving fields and meandering rivers. The most interesting feature of the new Argus building is Maj. Edwards' bath tub, which was built especially for him. It is what is called a noiseless tub, has buttons up around the neck and has a hoe attach ment. The tub when in good condition has about three hundred gallons capacity. This affords the major ample room to dis port himself without slopping the water through' the armholes. The tub was put in by the Northern Pacific Refrigerator Car company, and is the only one of that pecu liar breed now extant. It was put in for the major's use during the inflamed season of the year, to enable him to keep perfectly cool, calm and collected while be ing interviewed by heated citizens who have figured in his personal column. Once in the bath-tub, with it buttoned closely around his chin, he is quite safe from in sulted citizens who are idiotic enough to think that they must object to an editor saying what he has a mind to about them. The major will not represent his paper at Bismarck during this session of the legis lature, a fact that is greatly regretted by the readers of the Argus. At the last session he was on deck with all sail set, and the letters that he wrote to the Argus were considered very clever in the journalistic world. This year Mr. Plum ley, his managing editor, will do the legis lature, and some good work, trimmed with Dakota breeziness, may beiooked.tor in the columns of tim Argus. FAP.fio's KEPKESEXTATIVE. Fargo will be represented in the council by Dr. 11. Galloway, one of the oldest and most respected citizens in Cass county. The doctor is a Democrat of the old iron bound style, and while cot a politician is a | man who thoroughly understands the laws of political economy, and will represent his district honorably and with a great deal of credit to the people who elected him. Dr. Galloway has been located in Fargo for years, and though he has not practiced widely the past three years, he is the widest-known member of the medical fra ternity in the lied River country, and he is consulted as a sort of a divine oracle by the younger members of the profession. Rather ■ eccentric in his ways, a modest dresser aud : a man of advanced years, he will make a ; conspicuous figure in the council. The of- { lice was thrust upon him. He did not want it. but the people wanted him and they got him. His wife is now in Europe visiting her daughter, the wife of Dr. J. 11. Spald ing. a leading dentist, who formerly prac ticed in Fanro, but chanced two years ago to Berlin, Germany, where he is making a wide reputation for himself as an expert tooth carpenter. Til*. UNLUCKY MAX. At Rice's Station a tall man, with one leg shorter than the other, climbed aboard j the train and sat down in the seat opposite me. He wore a sad look and in his face was a frightened expression. We soon be came acquainted, as Northwestern travelers do, and the tide of conversation turned on the cyclone of last summer that swept through St. Cloud and Sank Rapids with such fatal results. "I was in that cyclone," he abruptly re marked, "an' my leg was broke. It's healed up now, but ther d— — d thing- is shorter'n ther other one and makes me appear foolish when I walk. Ynas, sir; I wus in thet cyclone out on the perm-it? erbout twenty-five miles, mean* my wife an' darter an' Kip. Rip wus my do?. He was thcr best setter dog in the Nor' west and I wouldn't her sold him fur his weight in gold. He wus 'er dandy on ther bird question, wus Kip; an' he know'd tnore'n Bun wbul farnerlies. Waal, ther cyclone cum an' knocked our house an' barn into or cocked hat, sort ov tore me up. but u;y wife and darter didn't git 'er scratch." ••Lucky man," I remarked. "Lucky:" he repeated, looking: at me in surprise. "Lucky! Maybe I wus, but 'tis terribul hard ter look at it thet way, when I think thet Rip, the best setter dog In Xor' west WU9 blowed clnen out er sight an' I haint seen hide nor hair ov him seuce. Maybe you think I'm awful lucky, but 1 can't see it in the: light." Turning his back on me with a contempt uous air, he worked his lean jaws on his to bacco quid and became interested in the passing .landscape. _ Tee Aitch. „ ••,"-.'*.".■ : ,-/ • '.arise-; ihopa. .summary of their Condition in ■'•' • .".".' JSlany States. Chicago. Jan. 9.— The following crop summary will appear in this week's edition of the Farmers' Review, of this city: Re ports from correspondents show that fields of winter wheat 'in Ohio, Michigan. Indi ana, Illinois. Wisconsin and Missouri are very generally well protected with snow. In Atchison. Dickinson, Lincoln, Neosho and Sedgwick counties, in Kansas, the fields are reported bare and the ground dry, with the crop looking poorly. There is a free movement of corn to market re ported in Illinois and Nebraska. There is very little movement of corn in lowa, and one-fourth of the counties of the state are importing corn from adjoining states. There are serious reports of cholera among the hogs from fuily one- third of the coun ties in Illinois, with more or less prevalence of the disease in Indiana, lowa and Mis souri. In Adams and Mason counties, in Illinois, the disease is inflicting serious loss. ,:\ : V'!V' .. Seriously Injured. Caxton-, Dak.. Dec. 9.— Cyrus Quinn. a brakeinau on the Sioux City & Dakota, fell from a moving train while crossing the bridge at Beloit yesterday. He was dragged several lengths and then fell to the ice. . Although seriously injured he will re cover. ' •;; SCHEMING SOLONS. Dakota's Legislators Vigorously- Putting Their Heads Together »at Bismarck. ■ ; ■ . . - ■ P. J, McCumber, of Wahpeton, Ei pected to be Elected President of Council, While J. H. Fletcher, of Columbia, Is Likely to Preside Over the House, Got. Pierce Preparing; to Crush the People With a Thirty- Ffre Page Minion Message. Judge Church's Clerks Give Him a Splen did Banquet on His Leaving Huron, And Make the Affair Binding By Pre- | senting the New Governor an Elegant Silver Service. Gov. Church to be Confirmed as Soon as His Case Is Keaehed by the Senate. The Statement Made That Day Is to be Auditor Under the New Regime? Maj. Rowley to Succeed Gen. Dennis --Other Matters of Interest to Dakota People. ■ Special to the Globe. Bismarck, Dale, Jan. 9.— The train from the East to-day was two hours late owing: to an engine that died several miles east of this city from pulmonary troubles, but when it did come it unloaded a horde of legislators and newspaper men that filled the rotunda of the Sheridan house to overflowing. The new arrivals minded familiarly with the men who had reached the battle-ground before them, and after storing away a cargo of victuals, they bunched their heads and be gan the preliminary work that always pre cedes conventions of this kind, i. c., schem ing and bargaining. Like the champion athletes of Greece and Koine, who fought single-handed to settle differences of their peoples, so champions of opposing factions from North. South and Central Dakota met in a room and made pledges and promises and trades and bargains ; that are liable to be kept and liable to be broken. It all de pends on how the wind blows. Nearly all the members of the legislature are on the ground now. There are a few scattering who will be in on to-morrow's train. The men here are the ones who have hold of the wires, however, and can lay them to be pulled when others come in. As claimed two days ago by the Globe, P. J. Me- Cumber, of Wahpeton, stands the best show for the presidency of the council. A new candidate for speaker of the house BOBBED UP AT MIDNIGHT last night in the person of J. 11. Fletcher, of Columbia, Brown county. Brown county is the principal county in Central Dakota. Mr. Fletcher is a fanner and ex-newspap*er man, and is at the present time interested in mines in Colo rado. He is a member of the Farmers' alliance and announces that he is here to protect their interests. South Dakota seems well -pleased with his can didacy, and unless tat tide takes a new turn to-morrow, and it is probable it will not, Mr. Fletcher will preside over the lower house. There is no question as to his ability. He is a graduate from a Can adian academy and a whilom school teacher. If Fletcher is made speaker of the house P. J. McCumber, of Wahpeton. will insist on being given the chair of the council, and it is given out that he can have it if he courts it, as Fletcher's friends will help him out if he will reciprocate. With this understanding it is qnite certain that McCumber will rule the upper house. Gov. Church is expected here to morrow evening. Owing to his Jate arrival it is a question whether the legislature will De organized Tuesday or not. The probabilities are it will be post poned a day or so. Gov. Pierce has pre pared a lengthy message, which is being put into type. It will be iiuished in a few days. It is printed in minion type, and will fill about thirty-live pages 12 mo. BOIX..VVI HSMi.IKtK. Cold Weather--* <lneer Character— The Irrepressible StaniUsh--Alex ander Mcl&euzic. Special Correspondence of the Globe. Bismakck, Jan. 7. — Just no<v a few re marks about the weather roaming round this part of the country will not be out of place, and people living a few' hundred miles nearer the torrid zone, after reading them, may shake hands with themselves and thank their stars that fate or circum stances did not locate them in Bismarck this winter. This morning the sun rose clear and bright over the Eastern horizon, and found the mercury away down 50 s below zero. Water in wells sixty feet deep was frozen, and frost decorated the nickel trimmings of base-burners and gathered within three inches of hissing steam pipes. Trains from the East and West have been from three to eight hours late the past two days, and consequently there has been nothing to divert the ambitious mind of the Bismarckian but the seductive game of "sinch," for which the citizens of this country manifest a devotion wonderful to behold. "Silica"' is a game of cards much like draw poker and about as dis astrous to a player's expectations and nuances. But I wander from this weather. As I write a No. '24 coal burner looks down on me and on three sides are hot steam registers, and yet lam colder than I would be eating ice cream in the north wing of the St. Paul Ice palace. The citizens here acknowledge that it is cold, and the gray headed, thin-skinned, deep-voiced terri torial veteran, who has lived here since the days when he was obliged to feed on wasted muskrats and sleep on the banks of the river with a restless planet for a bed and a chinook wind for a coverlid, comes to the front with solemn face and with his left hand buried deep down in the capricious pocket of his fur coat, extends the long, horny index linger of his right hand and says: "This is the coldest winter I ever knew in Dakota." This man is old, and round shouldered, and thin formed, but it is hardly safe to suggest that he is a . liar, for there are fires and there is a strength in that thin and crooked frame that you } little dream of. It is a noticeable fact that the old settlers in this Dakota climate are hardy and capable of wonderful endurance, and when they come to go down to their graves they go with a resignation and willingness that says to the occasion. "Other people have done this for many years. we must be in the fashion at any cost." A DAKOTA CHARACTER. I met, the other day, a character. He was a Frenchman, and his name is Amos Kobidow. For many years Amos has been a dweller in the Missouri valley, and he was here when he hunted bear and deer on the ground that is now occupied by the principal streets of Bismarck. Amos is well along in years, but he appears to be in the prime of life. Over his broad chest flows a heavy beard traced with streaks of gray. From under shaggy brows a pair of dark eyes look out with a shrewd twinkle, and a suit of gray corduroy covers a form as straight as an arrow, and as full and as splendidly developed as the form of a Bus sinn athlete. There is nothing Frenchy I about Amos but his speech. lie has the pleasing accent of his native tongue, and he is always a pleasing and instructive conver sationalist. During the years that he has ! lived here he has not been idle, and now I he has a comfortable bank account, j besides being a sort of ruler in the little j French settlement on the bottoms just South of the city. This is called the Fourth ward, and the interest the people have shown in local politics has won for it ! the appelation of the "Bloody Fourth." Here Amos reigns supreme, and when he j wants to so to the city council he signifies j his wish ami the people place him there, j and woe to the man who essays to fight him. ! Amos is the weather prophet of the Mis- | souri valley, and whoa lie sits out in front of his modest little home, after 10 o'clock in the evening, and holds close communica- I tion with the moon, the following day the t people of Bismarck look for a prophecy re garding the weather of the future that they can always rely on. This cold "snap" was prophecied by Amos, and yesterday he told me that it would be warm to-morrow, and we should have splendid weather until the 20th. Said he; "la depen' alia togezzer on a ze moon, la like ze moon. Ef shea control ze tida. why a not ze wezzer." "With this, to him. satisfactory argument, Amos laughed a hysterical French laugh, and strolled towards the bar. DON'T "WANT to WALK. Representative Dodds, of Dakota, is here, and he is looked upon as the Apollo Belvi dere of the lower house, but considerable fault is found with the way in which he wears his clothes. lie only buttons the top button of his vest, and the other morning rumor had it that he strolled into the bar room with his pants on "hind-side afore." Absent-mindedness is the verdict the other members of the house have brought in against him. and the verdict has cost him many dollars, He has tried to bribe the other members into silence with various kinds of liquois, but he isn't mak ing mucn headway. The Dakotian walks up to the bar. empties the bribe into his throat, smacks his lips and waits for an other just like it. When you take a con tract to drown out a Dakotian with malt liquors you have undertaken a job that is liable to keep you busy for a long time. Mr, Dodds comes here with a bill in his vest pocket, drawn by W. H. Standish, a Lakota citizen, whose ambition only stops at the United States presidential chair. Standish asks that the chairmen of the two houses appoint a committee to apply to the Northern Pacific and Manitoba roads for passes for him between Lalcota and Bismarck, to enable him to visit the legislature and explain to that body how the millionaires of Minnesota got their money through scullduggery in hand ling pine lands, and to suggest a remedy for this wholesale method of stealing that will greatly benefit the people of North ern Minnesota and Dakota. Standish is a man well known to the people of North Dakota as an erratic individual. Several years ago he pestered the managing editors of the Fargo papers with yards of manu script, painted red, fighting, as he claimed, the pine land ring. He has made the ques tion, whatever it is, a study for years, and claims to be the only man in the world who can eat a cord of good pine wood, digest it and spit it out a recognizable mass inside of an hcur. It is probable if Siandish gets down here loaded with pine tree bark he will have to walk, and it is also probable, if the legislature word that he is coming, that it will adjourn till he is chloroformed. ABOUT ALEX M'KEXZIE. Something has been said by the Eastern press about Alex McKenzie — for ten years sheriff of Stutsman county and a resident of Bismarck — giving up his home here and lo cating in St. Paul. This is a rumor with out foundation. Alex is now in the East, but his confidential friends say that his in terests in this county are too great for him to remove, and that he lias no intention of doing so. Speaking of Alex recalls a con versation that I had with a Bismarck citi zen yesterday, in which he told me that Mac walked into this town twelve years ago without money or prestige, and now he pays one-tenth of all the taxes paid in the city of Bismarck. A big rise in twelve years, and he has done it by his own efforts. Out here Alex McKenzie is looked upon as a sort of prince. The people almost ■worship him, and I hear that it is all on account of his great heart that throbs in sympathy with suffering humanity. He is the poor man's friend, and his purse is always open to the wants of the needy. Whenever there is a movement on foot with a charitable object Alex is consulted first, and ho always puts his shouider to the wheel, and when he does the "vehicle do move." He is as much at home at a church fair as he is in a political caucus, and whenever he visits the former he spends his money with a lavish hand. He is a shrewd business man and a man of sterling principles. He is not a particular admirer of art, but he does enjoy a good, long-eared game of "draw," and when he buries himself in a pastime of this sort he makes it exceedingly interesting for those who happen to be mixed up in the same affair. Many rock-ribbed games have been played between Maj. A. W. Edwards, Jud La Moure, of Pembina, and Alex, and it is considered a stand-off as to who is the best man. One instance is remembered, however, when Maj. Edwards made the others lay down with a bob-tailed flush, and drew in a neat little pot containing about 52.500. Alex ownes valuable prop erty in this city and throughout the county, and it would be inconsistent for him to move away and trust his business to other hands. There is one thing certain, if the people can have their way. Alex McKenzie will not leave Bismarck. It would virtually knock the backbone out of the town. Tee Aitch. CHURCH'S CLERKS Give the Judge a Banquet Before His Departure to Bismarck. Special to the Globe. Hubon, Dak., Jan. 9. — Judge Louis Church, who has recently been appointed by President Cleveland governor of this territory, and who is to leave here for Bis marck to-day, was tendered a farewell ban quet at the new Wright house in this city last evening and presented with an elegant solid silver tea service by his clerks in this, the Fifth, judicial district. The district has twenty-three clerks, and every one was present, either in person or by letter. The banquet was an elaborate and successful affair. The menu was complete in every particular, and its service a credit to the proprietor of the new Wright. E. K. Lo dewU-k, of Brown county, was the govern or's right hand man. and filled the position with credit to himself and his brother clerks. L. Q. Jeffries, of Hyde county, made the presentation speech, and turned over the service to the governor, who replied in an eloquent and affecting manner. The governor evi dently has won the respect and love of all his clerks, who are as fine and intelli gent a lot of officials as could be found in any state or territory in the whole country. They are all Democrats, and the governor is proud of them and of the fact that they are Democrats. There is nothing mealy mouthed about the governor, lie calls things by their right names, is a whole souled, liberal and thoroughly honest Dem ocrat, and will give this territory a Demo cratic administration as broad and pure as the principles of Jefferson, and completely in harmony with the administration at Washington. He has made a most suc cessful, impartial and satisfactory judge, but is able to distinguish between the duties of a judicial and executive office, and when he assumes the duties of governor he will lay aside the ermine completely, and un less your correspondent is mistaken it is in this latter position he will show to the best advantage. The president was fortunate in his choice of the judge for governor. Mr. Miller, receiver of the land office, and Gov. Church's intimate friend, N. T. ! Smith, were present as invited guests. The Northern Pacific Railway coinuany very kindly tendered Gov. Church a private pal ace car for the use of himself and family to Bismarck, which the governor respectfully declined. XV ill be Confirmed Promptly. Special to the Globe. C Washington, Jan. 9.— As long as Sen ator Harrison is absent in Indiana, looking : after his political fences, the senate com mittee on territories will not take up or re port any Dakota nominations, with the i single exception of liov. Church. Senator Harrison expressed himself without hesita tion or reservation, before his departure for I Indiana, as fully committed to the con ; tinuation of Gov. Church. The report will be made in a few days, and there is no prospect of opposition to Church. He will be confirmed promptly. Senator Mander i son. of Nebraska, is acting chairman of 1 the committee in Harrison's absence, and he says Church will be confirmed as soon as the committee can get to his case in due course of business. Acm need Beforehand. ■ Special to the Globe. .-.;'; Washington. Jan. 9.— The astounding statement is made here, and by a gentle man of well-known credibility in Dakota political movements, that M. H. Day will positively be appointed territorial auditor by Gov. Church, and that this was the ar rangement when Church was appointed governor. Day's candidacy, according to this gentleman, was not so unsuccessful as has been reported, and the president was convinced that Day ought to be recognized in some way and suggested that he accept the auditorship. Mr. Day considered the president's suggestion twenty-four hours, and decided to acquiesce in it. He accord ingly called on Mr. Cleveland, " withdrew from the contest for the governorship, and left the White house assured that he would be called into Gov. Church's cabinet in due time. Gov. Church, on his recent visit to Washington, went all over this agreement and discussed it in all its relations to terri torial politics and the dispatch of public business, Mr. Day's iitness for the place was admitted by Gov. Church, and both he and the president felt especially friendly toward him on account of his ready deci sion to withdraw in Church's favor, just at a time when the president might have been obliged to throw up both names and look about for a third candidate. Gov. Church left Washington, it is said, fully determined to carry out the president's agreement with Day. although it was made without his knowledge and would not have been made by him alone if he had had anything to say or do about it. itlarattn. and Rowley. Special to the Globs. ankton. Dak., Jan. 9.— Gen. John B. Dennis, deputy collector of internal revenue for South Dakota, speaking to-day to a Globe reporter in reference to the report that Maj. M. H. Rowiey, of Mitchell, had been appointed as his successor, said that the appointment had not yet been made, but that Maj. Rowley would succeed him when the president got ready to make the change, which, he thought, would be about Feb. 15. In regard to his candidacy for chief clerk of the council, the general said that he had withdrawn from the fight, and this, in connection with the fact that he has signified his intention of leaving for Bis marck about Tuesday, gives the impression that he is after something better. In the event that he does seek an oftice under the new executive, he will have the indorse ment of Gov. Pierce and other leading poli ticians, both Republican and Democratic. Foreordained. Special to the Globe. "Washington, Jan. 9. Judge Church was offered the Dakota governorship a year ago, he says. The president was not wholly pleased with the Democrats of the territory, and he wanted Church to take hold as soon as Gil Pierce could conveniently step down. Church told the president he didn't want that place. "I want salary, not honors. I am poor, Mr. President," said the young lawyer, when the president first told him that he need not bo surprised if he should suddenly hear he had been appointed. The matter was left in this v/ay. Church went on with his duties on the bench. When the president thought it was time to let Pierce go he had a commission made out for Church. M. H. Day's candidacy, Church's friends say, did not amount to a ripple in the whole affair. Church was foreordained in the president*, mind to be governor of Dakota and all the Day's in time and eternity would not have chamred the result. It is said Gov, Church does not like Mr. Day, but may ask him into his cabinet all the same. IV 2 1, L. Til I : DO IT? The Sioux: May hot Be Willing to Halve a Treaty. Special to the Globe. Washington. Jan. 9.— There is consid erable doubt if the Dawes bill, when passed, will be approved by the Sioux. There is a great deal of confidence among Missouri river people in the adoption of the treaty when congress once favors the bill, and they speak of the task of getting a majority or two- thirds of the male Indians to sign a ratification as a matter of no particular doubt or difficulty whatever. Advices re ceived here at the Indian office do not reas sure this rosy view of the final outcome of the Dawes bill. The Indians are not feel ing as well disposed toward ■ the . Great Father as they were three years ago, when the Edmunds commission went among them. At that time hundreds of fictitious signa tures were taken, even little children at the agency schools being roped in to put their marks to the treaty. Starting with misrepresentations, it .is not strange that there should be undue expectations in regard to what the Sioux will do now. The Pine Ridge Sioux are discontented with the reductions of their rations under the new census, which shows their number to be something like 30 per cent, less than was supposed. The Missouri river Indians at the Cheyenne and Crow Creek agencies do not take kindly to the bill, because it is likely to take from their tribe much valuable land. It is possible that with careful man agement, by a commission carefully selected, the objections of the Sioux may be met and overcome. It is understood that Bishop Marty, of Yankton, and probably M. H. Day, will go on that commission. Bishop Marty is an excellent man for a work of this kind. Mr. Day has a thorough acquain tance with Indian character, and his well known practical ability in business matters commends him for this trust. / lie lire-water Library. Special to the Globe. Washington, Jan. 9.— lt is whispered about here thai there is a job on foot in connection with the purchase of the Brews ter library for the territory of Dakota. It is known that Mr. Brewster offered this libiary to an Eastern city not many months ago for $20,000, and that is believed to be the figure at which he now holds it. But Attorney General Engle and Gov. Ordway, who have the matter in charge, say it will take §30.000 to buy it. It is barely possi ble they are acting through third parties, J who expect to get a handsome commission on the sale. But to all who know what a direct, simple-hearted old gentleman Mr. Brewster is it seems wholly unnecessary that any other course should be followed than to go right to him and buy his books for just what he offers them for. .He de- I sires that they should be kept together and that his name should be associated with them. . • . Farm House ISitrncd. Special to the Globe. Manuan, Dak. Jan. 9.— This morning the farm house of W. A. Carr was burned. The inmates had a narrow escape. The loss was 31,500, insured in the Continental for $400. NO. 1 0 DONNELLY'S AMBITION His Latest Plop is With the View of Capturing the Sabin Suc cession! The Enormous Amount of Money Which Has Fallen Into the Oil In spector's Clutches. ' { A Joint Caucus To-Morrow to Select the democratic Senatorial Nominee. • ' ; Speaker Merriain Will Announce tb© Committees To-.Morrow--Say ings and Doings. A gentleman who is very close to the confidence of Ignatius Donnelly, and who is pretty well posted in regard to all his plans, gave away a matter, in conversing with a friend a few days ago. which was probably not intended for publication — in fact, to be mentioned to anybody. It is no less than a scheme to have Ignatius Donnelly succeed Senator Sabin. Donnelly has been trimming his sails with this end in view for some time — in fact, it was deter mined when be went over to the Republi cans in the last campaign. His speech at the Davis caucus gave his scheme fresh im petus, and after the cancus adjourned he received assurances of support from several Republicans and a number of fanners. On the night of the caucus, after adjournment. Senators Ward and Daniels, Representa tive Rogers and Donnelly tooK a carriage and went out to Davis' residence to con gratulate him. During this drive the mat ter was casually discussed, and incidental^ Donnelly was led to believe that the Re publican party— and the Davis men es pecially—would remember him in the future. It may be accepted as a : fact, as true as fate itself, that Donnelly will be a farm ers' and Republican candidate for the Sabin succession. All of Donnelly's efforts in the legislature this winter will be directed towards strengthening himself and allaying the prejudice that exists against him in certain directions on account of his vaccil lating course politically in the past, lie will make no effort to conciliate the rail roads, but will make his senatorial tight on the issue of opposition to railroads and monopolies. This is no idle rumor, but a fact that will demonstrate itself. Mr. Donnelly may deny it— because an admis sion on his part at this time would not be politic— but it is true, nonetheless, and can .' easily be confirmed by a score of well- ! posted politicians. FAT OF THE LAND. \ Gov. ZTlcOill Wall Tell To-morrow ' W lio's Coins' to Be Oil Inspector. * "Who's going to be the next oil in- j spector?" was the pertinent query put to Gov. McGill at his rooms in the Ryan last evening. "I will let you know Tuesday," was the slightly evasive reply. He did not deny the rumor about the possibility of 11. B. Willis getting it— he simply said he hadn't heard of any such rumor. Gov. McGill was then shown the figures of Oil Inspector Castle's report for the fiscal year ending July 1, ISS(S. In that year there were 97,700 barrels of oil inspected, the fees of which, at 23 cents per barrel, amounted to $24,449. Of this from 57.000 toSS.OOO may be deducted for deputies' salaries, leaving the remainder to line the • pockets of the inspector, Only sixty bar rels were rejected— the oil or the Pennsyl vania Oil company, which registered 102° . , During the fiscal year ending ' July 1. 1885, there were 81,342 barrels in spected, of which only sixty-three were rejected. The inspectors' fees amounted to $20,385.50. Gov. McGill might have expressed his .wonderment, as would have the learned in dividual in "Meg Merriles," by concentrat ing all his English into the' wbfU-> 'Pro digious!" but. he did not." lie simply said: "i always thought it was too much," and. he gave the information that a move was on foot to pass a bill through the legislature to make the oil inspectorship a salaried office. He did not say anything about the tact that in two years the sum of §44,5:J4.50 was paid into the pockets of the oil inspector, for the rejection of 123 barrels of oil which had failed to come up to the standard. WHO'LL OKCfl *, Five Names Mentioned for me Dem- , ocratic domination ior United' States Senator. To-morrow the Democratic caucus is to \ be held for the purpose of putting into nor- ' inatiou a candidate for United States sen ator. Senator E. W. Durant, of Stillwater. ; is entrusted with the charge of calling the j caucus in the senate, and Representative E. 1 T. Champlin, of Blue Earth, is chairman of a committee of five in the house. After Tuesday's session, and after the disposing of Gov. McG ill's appointments, Senator Durant will confer with Mr. Champlin, and a caucus will be called immediately, to be held in one of the. committee rooms. Sev- j eral gentlemen have been named for the compliment of a nomination, among them E. W. Durant, of Stillwater, Eugene M. Wilson, of Minneapolis, Michael Doran, of LeSueur, Henry Poehler, of Henderson, ) and H. R. Welles, of Preston. Mr. Doran, >at the Merchants last night, displayed a very indifferent spirit. sa>ing that ho "don't care so very much for the compli ment; they can vote for me if they choose to. 1 guess Davis is elected, ain't he?" The names of the Democratic congressmen el ect have also been referred to inadver tantly, but there are a number of gentlemen who believe in dividing the — letting the congressmen tro with what they have, , and leaving Mr. Doran with the chairman- 7 ship of the state committee as sufficient for the present. P. H. Kelly doesn't want it himself; he has simply been working to get the compliment for Mr. Doran. 11. R. Welles has expressed a desire to see the honor conferred upon Mr. Durant in a letter written recently, and Henry Poehler has only been spoken of by one Democratic senator. Henry Keller, of Steams. Sena- ) tor E. A. Child, of Glencoe, is the probable i selection, for the chairman of the caucus. > . t Chaff and Chatter. \ Speaker Merriam will announce his com- ' mittees to-morrow. Tbe important chair- ' niansbips are a matter of mystery. Donnelly ' will {ret the chairmanship or" the railroad com mittee. This is settled. Mattson will get that of agriculture or grain inspection, it is stated: Lee that of banks. The others are matters of surmise. Gov. McQill, it is believed, will announce the oil inspector to-morrow. There is a wood deal of speculation as to who the lucky man will be. H. B. Willis, of St. Paul, and E. P. Freeman, of Mankato, are mentioned more than any others, but somebody yet unnamed is just as likely to {ret it. . It the governor ulflllod a contract by let tin?? out Warden Reed and making: H. G. Stor dock, of Kothsay, the kccp;r of the state con victs, it seems that some ocher promises were broken, for Nfobols and Eli Warner both gave it out that they had been promised tho wardenship. Congressman J. L. Mac Donald has a strong following, who are anxious to see him pot the compliment of the Democratic nomination for United States senator. ■Xim man with tlie apportionment bill has not yet loomed up. There are probably sev eral men in charge of such bills, and each is afraid to show his hand. . There has been no effort as yet to organize the Legislative Toboggan club. Somebody • should move in the matter at once. . i It is not believed that there will be any op- ' position to the bill to build au upper bridge in St. Paul. 6 , The occupation of the two D's —Day and i Dean— is gone, now that McMillan has been 1 laid away. ' . •- \ Odds.are laid that Donnelly will introduce / more bills than any other member durinsr the I session. V :, I Scheffer was opposed to Merriam, and it is f not believed that he was very friendly to Do- i vis. . \ The legislature will convene again to-mor- i row at 3 p.m. X