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RED MEN PROTEST THEY DO NOT WANT PINE ON THE RESERVATIONS SOLD MAY IO A COUNCIL AT WALKER I'laUiioiit h i're.sules Over the Body The Indians Claim Not to Have 1 nderstood the Nelson Treaty—— A Telegram Sent to the Depart ment of the Interior Vrglns the Postponement of the Sale. - WAL.KBB, Minn., March 28.— (Special.) —The chiefs and head men from the vari ous tribes on the reservation held a coun cil yesterday afternoon with Capt. Mer cer, Indian agent, to protest against the sale of the reservation pine on the stand ing estimate scheduled for May 10. Flat mouth presided over the council, and Wil liam Bungo acted as interpreter. Repre sentatives wera present from the Winne bagoshish. Leech lake. Bear Island, Pine point and Cuss lake tribes. Flatmouth said the Indians never understood, when they ratified the Nelson treaty that they wtre to lose their land when the timber was sold. They told of the cutting of green timber by the lumber companies on dead and down permits, and asked Cant. Mercer to use his influence to have the sale postponed and also to put a stop to cutting green timber on the reserva tion. A telegram was sent by Flatmouth to the department of the Interior, urging the postponement of the sale, stating that further remonstrances would follow by mail. STILLWATER. Interstate Park \nvlßntlon Com pany Adjusts Differences. STILL WATER, Minn.. March 28.— The Inter-State Park Navigation company of this city, has succeeded In adjusting Its differences with the St. Croix Dam and Boom company, relative to the use of water in the St. Crolx. Capt. Kent, of the navigation company, said today that they have been seriously incon venienced for several years by reason of the shutting down of Never's dam, causing such low water in the river between this city and Taylor's Falls, that it whs impossible for them to navigate the.stream with their boats. It has now boen agreed that the dam company Is to have the use of the water two days In each week, and the navigation com pany will have the use of the water the remaining five days. By this system Capt Kent hopes to have water enough to enable his boats to make regular trips between Stillwater and Taylor's Tails all summer. Another boat will be put on the coming season, giving tour ists daily trips. The new boat added to the service is the City of Hudson, for ?* I* , Comet - l 3 now bems roomlt at the South Stillwater dock yards »l iv *" Th b b ead / for business early in May. The Vernie Mac. another of the company s boats, will enter the excur ™ eSS ° n the Mlnn esota river, early in the season. R. H. McCoy, of Lakeland, has prac he w^^lf arran^°WtS whereby Ink? , a 6aw mUI on th « Red Lake river (he coming season. The mill and will cost in the neighborhood of $S0 - 000. Mr. McCoy has also purchased 100, --000,000 feet of standing pine, which will be sufficient to keep the mill in operation for several years. He also owns a saw mill at Lakeland, which has been in operation for many years, but there Is a question as to whether or not the mill will run this year. Mr. McCoy said to day that he hoped to make arrangements to continue sawing at Lakeland, but would be unable to determine just what he would do for a week or two. R. H. McCoy has pnld 2.000,000 feet of logs to the Hudson Saw Mill company. The logs sold are those hauled here by rail this winter from Mantowa, on the St. Paul & Duluth line. At the Stillwater club reorganization meeting last evening it was decided to incorporate the club, and the following committee was appointed to draft arti cles of incorporation to be submitted at another meeting to be held next Monday evening: John O'Brien, L. L. Man war ing, J. D. Bronson, P. E. Burke Jr., and Dr. T. C. Clark. The club will be placed upon a strong financial footing and a commercial feature will be added to the social features now in existance. Judge Crosby, of Hastings, held a spe cial term of the district court In this city today. A motion was argued in the case of Susanna Thelan vs. Bernard Thelan and one other case on the calen dar was continued until the next special term day. George Lammers returned this morning from his logging camps at Eau Claire lakea, Wis., having completed the sea son s work. Mr. Lammers said his cut will amount to 21,000,000 feet. His horses will arrive here tomorrow morning Jackson Rogers, residing near Maple Island, is in a serious condition from the effect of an injury sustained some time ago. The attending physician had decided to amputate one of his limbs, but another physician called in consulta tion considered Rogers too weak to with stand the operation. Hugh and Charles Hall, sons of Mr and Mrs Hugh Hall, were arraigned before Judge Doe, of the municipal court, this morning, charged with lncorrlgibil l£oo?lt\T w Z aent to the reform Cattle lor the Hang-on. &TURGIS. 8. D.. March 28.-Represent canv Ffvin S /v m the VVV CatUe conl panj, Flying V company and Franklin com Pany. have returned from the West cattl? ° U Th« a "^rchasing big herd,,'! T?nrt -n-PVL^y^ com Pany purchased at bring in about 6,000 head from Arizona The first consignment will arrive on the range May 12, and later shipments wHI be made in June The price paid for the cattle was high, but not out of the reach of cattlemen with good ranges. Iel "-" Body Is Identified. of Swift s refrigerator cars of the body of a man whom they believe to be IF Ldinger, a member of the society, who disappeared from here about two momha ago. Edinger was formerly a wealthy farmer. He lost most of his money, went to Chicago, accepted a position as a pack ing house employe, and recently grew so dependent as to give rise to a suspicion that he was insane. About that time he disappeared. The descriptions i of the Chicago find lead to the belief that he la the missing man. Bond* for Princeton. PRINCETON, Minn., March 28.-(Spe cial.)—Bonds to the amount of $16, C00 were voted here today to establish water works and electrlo lights In this village. Livery Baxn Burns. ROCK RAPID 3, 10., March 28.— Barran Brc-B. large livery barn -was entirely destroyed by fire at 1 o'clock thlfl xnorn in*. Twelve horses perished in the flames. i g fl 3 ST. PAUL U£,O&B, WEDNESDAY, MARCH £9, 1899. A large amount of grain and hay burned. The adjoining buildings were saved only by the heroic efforts of the volunteer fire department. The loss is $3,000; insurance, $SOO on building. ■War Veteran at Fifteen. WINONA, Minn., March 28.— (Special.) Winona will shortly be able to boast of the youngest war veteran in the United States in the person of Albert Elmore Vance, who was yesterday mustered out of service with Company G, of the Fif teenth regiment, at Augusta, Ga. Young Vance is fifteen years of age, and is so large that when he applied as a volunteer he was accepted and no ques tions asked on that point. He enlisted on July 9, and has served out his full time, so that he is in every sense of the word a veteran. Olil Soldier Adjudged Insane. UNION, To., March 28.— Jerome Sea bury, an old soldier of the Civil war, was adjudged insan9 and taken to the asylum. The peculiarity of this case is that he is kind and good natured with his family and neighbors, but imagines he has no right to live unless he can well support his family. He had an attack of insanity last summer and tried to take his life by cutting- his throat. Mary Knlila Case. RED WING. Minn., March 28.—(Spe cial.)—The case of Mary Kahla, charged with the murder of her Infant, went to the jury at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The general impression among citizens Is that the jury will disagree or acquit Hotel I.iike«'.tlc Leased. RED WING, Minn., March 28.—(Spe cial.)—Hotel Lakeside, at Frontenac, has been leased for five years by J. K. Hall, late manager of Hotel St. Louis, Lake Minnetonka. Previous to occupancy ex tensive improvements will be made. Burns Oau.se Death. WASHBURN, Wls., March 28.— Arthur Gelsert, oldest son of Louis Geisert, died last night from the effects of burns re ceived on Sunday. Will Rebuild the Churchy MENOMONIE, Wis., March 28.— The Roman Catholics have decided to erect a $20,000 church on the site of the one re cently burned. Work will begin as soon as the weather permits. Hold-Up Artists Captured. OWATONNA, Minn., March 28.— E. Ma liney was held up last evening by two men and robbed of a gold watch and a fey/ dollars. The men were captured this morning and gave the names of Thomas Caldwell and Joseph Devlin, Dropped Dead. PARKER S. D., March 28.— "Zeb" Stout, chief of police and proprietor of the Wentworth and Parker House liv eries, dropped dead while hitching up a team in the Parker house livery to take a drive. -♦» STILL IN DISPUTE. American Sailors Fl e lit Over the New York's Part at Santiago. KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 28.— The crews of the American fleet on shore leave started rioting among themselves last night over an old feud about the flagship New York's absence at the fight ing of Santiago de Cuba. The trouble lasted over two hours before the officers and police succeeded in suppressing It, Several men were slightly wounded and Green and Armstead, of the Texas, ■were most seriously Injured, The former had his bowels ripped, and the latte? was twice stabbed in the side. Both men are In the hospital, where they are pro nounced to be In ft dangerous condition The" wounds were inflicted by a colored man, named Johnson, also of the Texas, who is a Jamaican born. He was sur rendered by the police and is now In double Irons on board his shlo. All is quiet todajr. ** ■ STREAM OF EARTH. Snld to Be Moving: Down a Steep Val ley in India. New York Sun. Cnpt. Roberts, of the British army, writes to Sir Martin Conway, the ex plorer of the Himalayas, of a curious phenomenon he has seen among the mountains of the extreme northwestern part of India, not far from the Upper Indus. There is a very narrow valley or nullah among these mountain's, the head of which is about feet and the foot about 5,000 feet above the sea level. The earth on the floor of this nullah is moving down toward the foot of the valley at the rate of a,hout 600 feet a year. This estimate of the rate of movement is made from the "position of trees that are 'growing on the surface, and every year are nearer tfae foot of the valley. The surface of the moving mass fills the bottom of the nullah and is about 600 feet wide. As. far as he is able to ascertain there is no' ice or snow above or within the moving mass. The surface is undulating and looks like a mountain-covered glacier, except that the grass is growing upon it. The neighbor ing villagers have made a fe,w cultiva tion terraces upon the moving mass. In depressions on both sides of It the streams flow between the mass and the hillsides. The natives say there Is nothing new about the phenomenon, that the mass is always In very gradual motion, and, though they till a part of the surface, they have given up attempts to build houses on it, because they always tum ble down. Though this Information Is made pub lic without comment by so high an au thority as Sir Martin Conway, the ed itor of Nature, in which it appears, seems Inclined to regard it as a fish story and disclaims any responsibility for It. If the information is correct. It would seem that the slope of the rock underlying the alluvial mass is sufficiently steep to over come the friction to a considerable ex tent, permitting a slow movement of the earth down the valley, as glaciers move to lower levels. This phenomenon appears to be mid way between the landslides that are fre quent in mountain regions when the lower part of the earth mass becomes saturat ed with water, making the rock slope on which It rests slippery, and the very thick, black mud avalanches that Sir Martin Conway and other explorers have described as rushing down the steep nul lahs in the Himalayas at the rate of sev> eral miles an hour. . -«- TAME WILDCAT. Qneer Pet That Gambols About a Tennessee Home. Nashville Banner. The oddest pet ever heard of probably may be found at Gallatln. It Is a wild cat, owned by Charles Mitchell, a clerk for John Fry, The animal was captured in the Cumberland mountains and brought to Gallatin by some deer hunters not long since. It i$ not fully grown, but is quite large for its age, being about four feet long, twenty-one Inches nigh and weighing forty pounds. It Is the color of a tiger. Mr. Mitchell has suc ceeded in domesticating this vicious ani mal and values him very highly as a pet. The house cats and dogs stand in perfect awe of the newcomer, although it never shows' fight Unless antagonized. The wildcat gambols about the house in a frolicsome way and Is quite fond of Mb, Mitchell, It spends a greater part of the time in the house, lying before the fire, but readily obeys when ordered out of the room. Although the ca? has a house "built to order," it has been per mitted, tg remain in Mr, Mitchell's bed room during this gold ipoH, remaining in a corner of the room all night and never making any disturbance. The cat Is a great deal more active than the domestic cats and enjoys jump ing from limb to limb of the trees, from the housetop to the ground, etc. It has a peculiarly sounding voice, which can be^heard a great distance. It was apt in learning several tricks which Its own er taught it. Another strange thing about this cat is that it has no inclina tion to rove around— one of the peculiar ities of the wildcat — and is never seen out of the yard only when following Mr. Mitchell, which is often the case. This is the only Instance known where a wildcat has been tamed, and Mr. Mit chell Is very proud of the achievement. GERMAN LAWS Relating; to the Collection of Debts aud Costa. From the New York Times. In response to inquiries formulated by the director of the Philadelphia Mu seums, Mr. Ernest L. Harris, the United States consular agent at Eibenstock, has prepared, and the state department at Washington has published, an interest ing and useful summary of German laws relating to the collection of debts, with especial view, of course, to giving the information needed by foreign creditors. The facts presented show that in this, as in several other matters of detail, Germans are mor,e fortunate than the Americans, who, with entire propriety, congratulate themselves on the super iority of their legal and governmental systems over those manipulated by the kaiser and his ministers. In Germany suits for sums less than $75 are decided In the amstgericht, or__ordlnary court of justice, usually by a~~slngle judge, and the employment of a lawyer Is unneces sary. Suits for all larger amounts go before the landgerlcht, or provincial court of several judges, with a presi dent, and the services of a lawyer are obligatory. In the landgerlcht, too, the plaintiff must deposit before beginning action a sum sufficient to cover the cost In case the decision Is against him. An American or other alien to whom money Is due from a citizen of Germany may, if ha has no acquaintances in the city where the debt exists, address himself di rectly to the amtsgerichter. That of ficial. If the amount is less than $75, will take charge of and adjust the matter himself, while larger debts he will turn over to the reichtsanwalt or attorney for the prosecution before the landgerlcht. In either case the creditor knows exactly what the collection of his debt will cost him, for the law prescribes the fees In exact proportion to the sum involved. The lowest Is fifty cents for debts under $5. From $3 to $15 the fee Is seventy-five cents, and so they go up by short steps to $6 for debts between $112 and $155, and then by slightly larger ones to $16 for those between $1,850 and $2,380. After that the lawyer gets an extra dollar for every additional $476 up to $11,900, and then the fee increases, first by seventy-five cents and next by fifty cents for each addition of th« same sum till $28,800 is reached. These fees do not cover certain court charges or extra expense for traveling which the attorney may incur, but even these are carefully regulated, and In no case is the expense unreasonably large. Compared with the American method, or lack of it, rather, this system is admira ble Indeed. CAT'S BAD HABITS. William Thompson, of Glenwood, Pa., has the most remarkable cat in Pennsyl vania. The cat came to Mr. Thompson"* house one stormy night % year ago. He looked so forlorn that he was taken into ' the house. The cat was so affectionate that he was adopted. 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To remove this Mr. Thompson had a wooden cigar holder made for Thomas, and now he is able to indulge his taste for tobacco. Another accomplishment of tho cat Is his ability to drink beer without disagree able effects. Beer now forms one of tlif chief article* of the cat's diet.