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A GOOD horse-meat dinner can now
,b3 had in Berlin for five cents. Amer
icans will find no fault with the price.
A WELL-KNOWN countess in England
recently paid a board bill for herself
and twenty-three cats, over forty goats,
two dogs and a monkey.
THE photographic newspaper is the
next thing in journalism. -Paris
already has one which deals with
all s^rts of subjects in the most thor
ough manner. London is likely to have
one very soon.
IN Austria the hangman is a man
named Seigfried, who wears a black
uniform, with a cocked hat and white
gloves. He has never had to hang a
woman, for the Emperor thinks stran
gulation, is a punishment which should
be reserved for males.
To HANDICAP the activity of some of
the members of the British Parliament
who are noted for the presentation of
bills for the reformation of everything,
it is proposed that hereafter all bills
shall be printed, before intoduction, at
the expense of the members who intro
duce them.
IT is a risky thing to receive into the
bosom of the family a long lost son who
has no strawberry mark to identify him.
A Pennsylvania farmer has been vic
timized by a clever sharper, who per
sonated the returned prodigal long
enough to eat the fatted calf and secure
$5,000 in cash. Then he lost himself
again.
THE only female company of regular
State militia in the United States is lo
cated at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The
company was organized to celebrate
the date of Wyoming's Statehood, and
met with such great approval that it
was decided to make the organization
permanent, and the young ladies were
mustered into the regular service of
the State.
A STRANGE case, which has enlisted
the attention of medical men, is that of
James Melville, of Concord, Mass. For
twelve years he haa^ lain., upon a bed
without changing Ms position. The
bony portions of his body have united
into one .piece, and from the crown of
his head, to the soles of his feet there
is not a joint responsive to his will.
IN the province of Perm, in Bussia,
there has just passed away a remark
able person, Stefen Aberjew by name,
in his one hundred and tenth year.
The village priest, who has known the
vold
mar^for the last thirty years, states
that he had never seen him sober since
his eightieth birthday. Toward the end
of his life he drank over a quart of corn
brandy a day. He was never ill in his
life.
AMONG the veterans who attended
the Grand Army reunion atBoston was
John F. Chase of Augusta, Me., who
received forty-eight wounds by the ex
plosion of a shell at Gettysburg. His
right arm was blown oft, and his left
eye torn from its socket, and he lay on
the field two days before it was discov
ered that he was alive. He is now in
oomforable health, and receives a pen
sion of $46 a month.
IT is said that no worm or insect is
ever found upon the eucalyptus tree,
or in the earth where the roots pene
trate. A row of trees planted through
an orchard or vineyard will cause in
sects, worms, or caterpillars to vacate
ithat region. The branched of the euca:
lyptus used in the rooms or windows, or
as decorations in dwelling-rooms, will
cause mosquitoes, moths, fleas, and flies
to leave the premises.
JONATHAN HART, of Hillsboro, 111.,
put a loaded gun into the hands of his
twelve-yeiar-old son and told him to
shoot anybody that entered the melon
patch and stole melons. Then he dis
guised himself, entered the patch and
began to cut a melon, just to see if the
boy would do as told. The boy did,
and Jonathan got the contents of both
barrels and may die. His idea was that
a miserable melon was worth more than
a human life, and fate seems to agree
with him.
SPEAKING of South Africa, a traveler
lately returned from there makes the
assertion that' it isoneof the best coun
tries in the world tor profitable real
estate investments. It already
beautiful and thriving towms,~and it'• is
deatioedto be the aeatef a .great and
progressive English-speaking sace.
When he was ihe.re some
nye^rs
ago he-
was tarpriw^at the extensive improve
ments, at the «nejgjr of the people,
and the natural reseurcea of the land.
It is tike place of places to put away a
few thousand dollars Ae let them grow.
IN visiting the foreign cathedrals and
art galleries one is often struck with the
utter disregard at .time And truth that
the masters displayed. At the Cathe
dral of Blanbenoen, in Wurtemlberg,
there is a rich canvas portraying the im
pending saeri&ee «f Isaac bjr his father.
The picture, in its tones and tints, is
perfect. Isaac seems endowed with
life, so natural is the effect, .and Abrsr
,ham, the patriarch, is a masterpiece.
But the father has reached forward in
civilization several thousand years, ai\d
is aboot to blow out his boy's brains
with .« flint-look pistol. It is easy to
imagine the incongruity of the effect.
THE quantity of meat thrown over
board into the Atlantic is very great,
Englfah paper. Out of 185 ear-
goes of animals sent to British ports in
one year from Canada, consisting of
61,092 head of cattle, 61,382 sheep and
seventy-five pigs, 658 cattle, 1,170
sheep and one pig were consigned to the
deep' during the voyage. Of the 342
cargoes imported from the United
States to this country, comprising 138,
661. head of cattle, 30,317 sheep and
seventeen, pigs, 1,570 of the fir^t and
857 of the second class of this live stock
were thrown overboard during the voy
age, thus numbering 4,856 animals
which were pitched into the sea for the
the year.
IN the rear room of one of the most
celebrated burial shops in New York
there has met for years one of the jolli
est social organizations in that city. It
is known as the Midnight Club, and is
composed of preachers, undertakers,
men about town, embalmers, and men
of business, with a newspaper man for
president. There are Caskets and cof
fins of every size in the huge cases that
line the walls, and 'usually several
corpses are awaiting shipment or-burial.
but the surroundings have no stifling
effects upon the spirits of the midnight
gathering, and if anything they add,
zest to the jokes that bubble up to the
surface the intervals of more solid
conversation.
PERHAPS the most valuable fad patro
nized by London society is the system,
of ragged schools which has for its aim
and object the education of the poor,
and neglected little boys and girls of'
the East End. Under the promise of
shoes, jackets, dresses, hats and wraps
the half-savage and more than half
starved children are allured to theso
schools, taught a number of useful
things and trained in the use of books,
clothes, money,'soap and water. Four
thousand teachers are regularly em
ployed, most of whom give their serv
ices gratuitously. Special features o{
the system are the penny savings
banks, which have a fund of about
£5,000 collectively, and circulating
libraries with a total of 34,917 books.
THEBE are two opinions as to im
peachment in the United States, aris
ing out of the vague wording of the
Constitution: 1. That an impeachment
can be ordered only forcrimes on which
the defendant is also liable to indict
ment and 2, that it can be ordered
whenever the House thinks that a high
officer has been guilty of acts which,
though not criminal, should cause his
removal from and disqualification for
office. These questions are yet unset
tled. Only two of, the seven persons
impeached before the Senate have been
convicted of these Judge Pickering
was convicted on March 12, 1803, by a
strict party vote. Judge Humphreys,
who had not resigned his office to be
come a Confederate judge, was convict
ed on June 26, 1862, unanimously but
this impeachment was merely formal,
that his office might be declared vacant.
Our system of impeachment is-ont date,
and probably will fa&be usledinore fre
quently in the fature than in the past.
Typewriting.
Many authors find the typewriter
useful for copying but anything that
is to have the literary touch must be
carefully worked out with the pen.
And that is not simply a matter of
practice—though to be sure it is pos
sible that it may be. That is, if one
were trained from a child to use the
typewriter instead of the pen or pencil,
the art of composition might come
naturally to him when fingering the
keys. But I greatly doubt whether it
can be learned late in life. The type
writer, like many other inventions, is
notdtn unmixed blessing at the same
time, every manuscript offered for pub
lication ought to be typewritten.
Would-be authors would find it to their
advantage to go to the small expense
which "the copying of their efforts by
the typewriter would entail. Editors
are much more willing to examine
such manuscripts than those which
are written in uneven, scrawling and
orabbed hands,' even if there be some
individuality about these. It is not
individuality that the average editor
is looking for it iB something fresh,
striking and original, and he is loath
to take the trouble to decipher bad
ehirography on the bare chance of
finding something worth his while. So
my advioe to the young men and young
women who add so much to the Gov
ernment's postal receipts year after
year is to bave their productions type
written. They will save postage, too,
as a typewritten manuscript is less
bulky than one done by hand.
N«w Way of Doing: It.
The two men who had been sitting
^together in the seat near the door of
the car became engaged in an animated
conversation, and their loud voices at
tracted the attention of all the other
passengers. Suddenly one of them
rose up and said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I appeal to
you to decide a disputed point. My
friend here insists that not more than
threepersonsoutof five believe that they
have Souls. I take a more cheerful
view of humanity than that. Will all
of you who believe you have souls raise
your right hands
Every hand in the car went up.
"Thank you," he said with a smile.
"Keep them up just a moment. Now,
will all of you who believe in a here
after please raise your left hands
also."
Every left hand in the car went up.
"Thank you, again," he said. "Now
while all of you have your hands
raised," he continued, drawing a pair
of revolvers and leveling them, "my
friend here will go down the aisle ancl
relieve you of whatever valuables you
may happen to have. Livelv, now.
Jim."
THE test of a man is not whether he
can govern a kingdom single-handed,
but whether he can govern himself, and
thus have his private life tender kud
considerate so as to make his wife and
children happy.
ANTI-RECIPROCITY SENATORS
ON A STRIKE.
Our Washington Correspondent's Obser
vations on the Effects of Blaine'H Sooth
ing Syrup.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 27, 18,90.
The Republican papers in many
places are still exulting over the tem
porary escape of their party, from the
dilcmima into which the tariff ques
tion had thrown them,, by Mr.
Blaine's adroit quibble with the
word "reciprocity."
-It now looks, however, jis though
their rejoicing might be some
what premature. It is true that Mr.
Blaine has enabled the leaders of the
party to get together, but what at
first promised to be a permanent
peace now shows signs of being only
a temporary truce, the terms of
which may be broken, at any time.
When the word—and it is a- word
only, in an economic sense,—not an
idea,—was first flashed across the
dazzled vision of the members of
'congress, the Republicans at first
refused to touch it, many of them
shouting free trade at the suggestion
but under the "magnetic" expla
nation offered by Mr. Blaine they
began to examine it more closely, and
then (lie belief seized them that it
'n.'i'iM-etl a way of getting together
again at the same time and of holding
sonic ot the voters to them who had
been clamoring for a reduction of
our enormous tariff. Since then they
have been grabbing for it as a
drowning man clutches at a straw.
The Democrats, who had been
dazed equally With their Republican
brethern by the sudden advent of
this cometary visitor from the neb
ulosity of Mr. Blaine's brain, first
claimed a convert to free trade and
rejoiced greatly, but a little reflec
tion showed them the error Of this,
and the rejoicing ceased as suddenly
almost as it had begun. The Repub
licans were the first to recover from
their bewilderment, and some of the
cooler headed western senators be
gan to suspect a trick and insisted
that the "sounding brass and tinkl
ing cymbals," eVer though sounded
by the secretary of state, are not sat
isfying enough for the, western
granger, accustomed though-he is to
bare husks, only and they further
insisted that while "reciprocity"
might do for their eastern colleagues,
ana venr likely would, as they wanted
things left as they are, but they said
western people winted something
done besides passing high sounding
resolutions that the voters.of certain
western states were tired of being
dupea upon all hands, and that
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a
small concession might satisfy them,
and besides it would do the 'moneyed
friends of their eastern colleagues
less harm than would
a
concession on
any other point which the .west de
manded that concessions fehould be
made. They (the western senators)
had no objections to '•'reciprocity"
but in order to hold certain senator
ial seats longer it was absolutely nec
essary that a "few small crumbs should
be thrown to the western farmer
along with the many stones which he
was certain to get any way, and they
asked that this crumb should be
given In the shape of the removal of
the duty on binding twin&. now 40
percent, ad valorem. To traL .affier
considerable persuasion, tne'&stern
senators agreed, and the reductfon
went through the senate, but Speaker
Beed flatly informed those uneasy
gentlemen that such a measure could
not go through that he would order
its strangulation by the conference
committee.
In order to preserve their senator
ial seats from the rampant hosts of
Democrats and Independents, ten
of tbe western senators entered into
a solemn compact to vote solidly
against the bill, unless their demand
was complied with. Ihe names of
the senators who have thrown the
red rag in the face of Speaker Reed
are Fettigrew, Paddock, Plumb,
Ingalls, Wilson, Davis, Washburn,
Casey, Pierce and Powers.
What the outcome of this senator
ial strike will be, is as yet hard to tell
but if neither 6ide yields the outlook
is that the bill will be killed fqr lack
of support. But in-as-much as its
passage in the present form would
not materially change things, the
present struggle between the strik
ing senators and the boss of the
house is interesting only as showing
the power of a strike against the
party machine by Republican legis
lators. X. T.
Straight Work.
All this bluster and blow by*parti
san papers about the Alliance or the
Independents affilliating with the old
parties is the veriest kind of bosh.
So far as we have been able to find
out this year, and we believe, we are
in a position to keep a pretty good
run of matters in that line, there has
not been a single instance of selling
out. Not a single instance can be
pointed out in the northwest In
which the reform movement has
sacrificed the first iota of its grand
principles. Its conventions have
been held and good, straight, strong
tickets put in the field. There are
instances where apart of those pick
ets have been endorsed by one or the
other or both of the old parties. But
in every case of which we have any
knowledge it has been the old parties
that have been forced into support
ing the Independent. nominees and
never the lndepenpent conven
tion into nominating candidates be
cause the old parties wanted them.
It is the worst kind of foolishness
to say that the Independents do not
want their candidates supported and
they could not prevent being endorsed
if they wanted to. We venture the
assertion that an Independent can
not be found who would object to
both the old parties staying out of
the field entirely and allowing the
Independent candidates to have a
"clean sweep." They are nominated
to be elected if they can secure votes
enough the more votes they can get
the better.
The fact is the Independent
movement is gaining ground in a
manner €hat in many casefc makes
the old parties, especially the one in
the minority, often afraid to show
their real strength and rather than
come i& on the tail end of tbe race
they endorse the Independent candi
dates.
Papers, speakers and button-holers
who have an old party string tied to
them, argue early and late that the
wye wan
Alliance should not go into politics
but stay in the old parties ana force
the nomination of men who will sup
port their principles. But. when the
farmers have learned that this kind
of talk is mere chaff to hold them
into party lines, when they have de
cided to go it alone and have accord
ingly held large, enthusiastic conven
tions and nominated good straight
tickets, these same old party wire
pullers lift their hands in holy hor
ror at, the idea of the candidates who
are nominated on Alliance principles,
independent of the old parties, being
indorsed. Oh, how wise! Beside
their statesmanship the reputed wis
dom of Solomon fades into utter in
significance!
But the people are not to be caught
by such chaff. Because the rank and
file of the old parties are honest and
occasionally wake up to their inter
ests enough to send delegates to their
conventions who will endorse the
Independent candidates the money
power leeches all over the country
must try to divide the people against
themselves.
No time should be wasted upon
men so hard up for argument as to
resort to such tactics. Papers who
persist in insulting the people in this
manner should be taught a lesson
and that right quick, too.
The Independent movement is
straight goods, all wool and a yard
wide, from beginning to end. No
further proof is necessary than to
hold up the tickets, state, congres
sional-and county.
Cix ':o the lies down the liars
throats.—Sioux City Liberty Bell.
Facts About the Money Crop.
Sioux CITY, la., Sept. 13,'90.
During the reign of King David
pver Israel the little country known
as Palestine had become very prosper
ous. His son Solomon built a great
temple and a palace for his own resi
dence, collecting the gold and silver,
the only money known at that time,
from the people to use in decorating
the temple and palace. Here is one
of the early instances, of contraction
of the currency. Read the history of
the transactions in the book of Kings
which followed, and note the disas
trous results.
History repeats itself. That is to
say a cause always produces an effect.
A decreasing money circulation al
ways brings increasing poverty and
misery to the poof because it in
creases the value of money and makes
it harder to get. It makes a vast dif
ference to the .laboring .man whether
he exchanges two days' work for one
dollar or one day's work' for two dol
lars, especially if he have debts to
pay. It is strange that so many peo
ple do not see, that the
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amQunt
of
money in circulation fixes its value.
It is an article of merchandise. Its
quantity fixes its value, the same as
corn or wheat or potatoes. Any one
can understand that then where is
but half a crop of either of these the
price will be high. But when a lot of
scheeming pirates get together in
New York, Washington and London
and demonetize silver and reduce the
money circulation until there is not
half a crop of that, and all values de
crease nearly one-half in consequence,
the people, many of them, do not un
derstand what the trouble is, but be
lieve the lying g. o. p. papers which
tell them it is "overproduction."
Weill will give here a quotation
.from the statements ot M. "V^olowski,
and Baron' Rothschilds, before a
French monetary convention in 1869,
bearifig on the subject and perhaps
they knew as much about the matter
as our interested g. o. p. editors and
candidates.
M. Wolowski said "The sum total
or the precious metals is reckoned at
fifty millions, one-half gold and one
half silver. If, by a stroke ot the pen,
they suppress one of these metals .in
the monetary service, they double the
demand for the other metal to the
debtors."
Baron Rothschild said: "The sim
ultaneous use of the two precious
metals is satisfactory and gives rise
to no complaint. Whether gold or.
silver dominates for the time being it
is always true that the two metals
concur together in forming the mone
tary circulation of the world and it is
the general mass of the two metals
combined which serves as the measure
of the value of things. The suppres
sion of silver would amount to a verit
able destruction of values without
any compensation."
The pro-slavery Democrats of the
south before the war held the theory
that there could be no high civiliza
tion without the virtual enslave
ment of the masses. The aristocracy
of Europe bold tbe same theory, and
the demonetising of silver by Euro
pean governments was a deliberate
move to help accomplish that result.
Why did our Republican congress Join
with them in that conspiracy against
the laboring people of the world? It
is not. this country alone. Why? Be
cause they were owned body and boots
by the Bankers Association and if we
elect either Democrats or Republicans
now they will wear the same brand.
INDEPENDENT.
WHY grant the functions of our
government to corporations to enable
them to make immense profits out of
the people by doing public admin
stration, which is government work?
Thereby we simply abdicate and con
fess the failure of Republicanism.
We try to supplement the old. savage
form of competition, when it hope
lessly fails to do the work of. a high
civilization, by the industrial feudal
system of corporations in the shape
of money, land, railroad, and coal
lords and barons. The' true way
under the laws of evolution and
sociology is for the organized com
munity itself to meet the demands
of increasing civilization, and to
lake the business of the subistence'
and material welfare of the people a
matter of its organized corporation,
instead of handing the people over
to the rapacity of a feudal power.—
Hon. T.. B. WaJceman.
IF a murderer deprives one of his
life the law hangs him. If the polit
icians deprive the farmer, mechanic
and laborer. of the possibilities to
live—they are re-elected to serve
another term, and their parties ten
der them receptions, ovations and
point with pride to their hirelings.—
Tacoma WasA.) Northern Light.
TKK stream of lava flowing down the
southeastern side of Vesuvius advances
slowly and majestically, and is said to be
a beautiful spectacle from the observa
tory at Pompeii.
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THE BLAINE BANKING RECIPROC
ITY SCHEME.
For Vllllany it Surpasses the Credit Mo.
holier and Kindred Steals.—W'l° will
Vote to Endorse it?
MB. EDITOR:—By referance to the
associated press dispatches of .about
May 27 to June 5, 1890, the key is
found which unlocks the mystery
of Jas. G. Blaine's recent conversion
to the "free trade" theory, (for his
own business only) now better known
as "reciprocity." As usual IT IS A
BANKING SCHEME. It is to be called
"The International American Bank,
and its articles of incorporation say
that fhe principle office shall be at
Washington or New York, with
power to open branch olttces in the
United States, Mexico, South Amer
ica and Central America, The cap
ital stock to be twenty-flve million
dollars."
On- May 27, Mr. Blaine writes a
letter to President Harrison urging
the necessity for granting special
priviliges, among which was. a mon
opoly franchise. A bill was prepared
by Mr. Hlaine giving, among other
favors, the financial backing of this
government in these words: "The
corporation may be designated by the
secretary of the treasury as a depos
itory of public money and may be
employed as a financial agent of the
government."
Mr. Blaine, in his letter to the
president used this remarkable lan
guage: "The 'merchants of this
country," says he, "are as dependent
upon the bankers of''Europe in their
financial transactions with their
American neighbors as they are
upon the ship owners of Great
Britian for transportation facilities,
and will continue to labor under
these embarrassments until direct
banking systems are established."
In accordance with Blaine's ideas
President Harrison brought the
matter officially before congress with
his endorsement, in these words:
"The subject is submitted to congress
in the belief that it will be found
possible to promote the end desired,
by legislation."
This remarkable man Jas. G.
Blaine, whose remarkable skill and
loyalty it is said enabled him to pock
et the bounty rightfully belonging
to his Substitute in the late war, ana
which has increased his earthly
riches until the starving miners
of Hocking Valley are forced to bow
to him as their master and owner,
until his name or that of some mem
ber of his family appears as stock
holder on the private books of nearly
every great wealth acctammu
lating corporation in this country,
has again cast his sail to wind ana,
associated' wi£h others high in power
and with the money lords of Wall
Street, he becomes one of the twenty
five required to constitute the stock
holders and board of directors of this
gigantic fraud—a fraud comparpd
with which the Dresent national
banking system is a "fly dot. Having,
as secretary of the Untied States, got
his banking scheme before a million
aire congress it becomes necessary
only to adopt the Oak Ames plan of
of placing the profits "where it will
do the most good" in order to secure
its immediate passage.
The next step all important is to
open up free trade with Mexico,
North and South America—at the
same time protecting his "infant"
banking industry by placing a pro
hibition tariff oh the commerce of all
toher countries.
Hence comes "reciprocity."
On June 19, U. S. Senator Hale,
of Maine, in the senate introduced
the reciprocity measure in these
words: "There never was a time more
fitted to try the plan or experiment
than now."
On Sept. 2, U. S. Senator Allison, of
Iowa,'speaking on this question on
the floor of the senate, said: "I also,
am in favor of a further extension of
reciprocal trade, but 1 hope that in
any such arrangement it would be
seen that the United States had its
just share of the bargain." Query:
Who does Wm. B. Allison consider
tbe United States?
Senator Sherman, of Ohio, discuss
ing the matter in debate, said, "it
authorized the president, without
further legislation, to declare* the
the United States ports open free to
all products of any nation south of us
on the American hemisphere but it
did not include Canada on the
north." To this Senator Hale, of
Maine, replied: "If there is nothing to
make a bargain upon that settles the
question."
J. G. Blaine is for "reciprocity" be
cause there is millions in it for him
and his twenty-four associates—hav
ing clinched his International Amer
ican bank in such manner that no
competition can invade their vested
rights and so arrange the laws that
the revenue coming into the. United
States treasury by way of duties will,
through their bank exchange system,
flow into private pockets direct. It
takes men of daring spirit to conceive
and execute a work of such magni
tude, but not necessarily statesmen.
It is high time the people were
awake to the dangers that threaten
them. It is time the people should
know that a vote for old party
means approval of this, the climax of
all monopolies ever concocted by man
—a plan to convert the treasury of
our country, the mass of wealth
wrung from the earnings of the toil
ers by taxation, into one huge ma
chine to skin the people. Such laws
once on our statute books, with the
federal election law giving the party
in power absolute authority to con
trol elections and turn as elected
whom they may see (It, with the
names so returned placed on the roll
and entitled to a vote in congress—
can they ever be repealed?
We have had our credit mobiliers:
we have had our back paj salarv
grabbers: we have had our niirli
officials who took their price for otlico
appointments: we have had our best
money burned up and silver demone
tized we have had time and again
our treasury vaults thrown open to
relieve Wall Street brokers—all this
and much more, but for damnable
villainy the Blaine-Hale-Perkins
"international banking reciprocity
free trade with South America"
beats the. record. Q. A.
Knowlege of the markets, frugality
and unremitting work avail nothing
against a rival who, by favor of the
railways, secures an advantage of five
or ten per cent, on the price of his
commodities in the cost of transpor
tation.—Farmer's Voice.
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—KejfarUlne the Xevyi"B
News lii Short Meter. „t|
WolMy'i Artesian Wellt
The Wolsey artesian well
a depth of 900 feet and has alftl
140 pounds per square iwgt^^_.
known whether-or not drilling^^r^jK-*
tinue, as the drill has struck t^vSWard
formation of C9pper quartz—-s6 hard, in
deed, that it batters the finely tempered
drill points and renders them u»el^s
only after a few hours' use. Although,
this fulfils* the contract, which only
called for a pressure of sixty pounds,
yet it was hoped that -a much grca ter
force would be obtained. The watt is,
perfectly clear and is splendid for dfink-'
ing purposes.
Items in Brief.
ARTICLES of incorporation for THE
Madison Chautauqua association has-,
been filed with the secretary.
IN a friendly scuffle at the Pierie
a W W So re so ad on
of his collar bones broken.
Gen. Erickson, of Traill county, is uii-i
der bonds for assault with intent to com
mit rape upon a 13-year-old girh
MBS. OLIVER JENSEN, of 1'ionv,
dropped dead of heart disease while m~
engaged in her household dutios.
Deadwood is overrun with footpads.
One evening last week a woman
home was made to deliver up her .pot I
book. uf I
The Homestake mine at-^^U^'ood
pays its ebiploycs the 20th of Is.
About $35,000 is the amount^^^ffm-d
e?„ch month.
A 2-YEAR-OLD Pierre child^wallowcd
a bottle of liniment and for a while suf
fered terrible torture, but a doctor soon
averted all danger.
John White, of Bear Gulch, recently
took a gold nugget from one of the
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A iarge and enthusiastic edfi',^^
citizens was held at Aberdoeprto ask the"
county commissioners to submit to a vote
of the county at orice a proposition to
bond the county in a sum sufficient to
sink before another year not less than
100 wells,Jjpayment of bonds to bo, pro
vided for from rental of water rather.
than by taxation. A committee was also:
appointed to confer with other counties
of the state in the appointment of a
committee to lay before congress the
present needs of Dakota and the evi
dences of the artesian basin possibilities,
as a source' for irrigation by artesian
wells, ask aid to sink experimental wells
or the use of machinery furnished by
the government for the peo
down their own wells. Tho
sian well, near Aberdeen,
1,050 feet, throws water fivi
the surface through a 6-incl
•put,
,arte-
makes thi
Attorney-General Dollard
following statement in regard to the duty
of the county boards in relation to the
levy of taxes for the ensuing year: "The
state board of equalization having in-
creased the assessed value of property
for the purpose of collecting sufficient^
revenue by a. 2-mill tax, to meet the-:.-.'-ii'^'^j
state's running expenses, and county?
boards having levied taxes, except fo^$$g§
state purposes, on tho value of property -VC
as equalized by them, it appears to me
to be the imperative duty of such boards,
to the end that no more taxes shall be
collected than the public necessities re
quire, to convene and conform their levy
to such requirements. Soqie of the
county boards have simplifiedmattcrs by
using the valuation of the stflKhoai-d an
a basis for. the state's levy ^oMftjpaving
the county board's equalizatio1H(tiff levy
undisturbed." W
Vote of tbe Unorganised Counties.
Settlers in from Nowlin county
press themselves in no uncertain Ian
guage regarding the attempt to have tlie --.
supreme .court declare void the action of
Hughes county in. making possible for
them to take part in the coining elec
tion. Many of the settlers of these un
organized counties are former residents
of the eastern part of tho state—or east,
of the river—and they feel that it is no-.
more than* right that they be given
chance to cast a free ballot at the com
ing important election. These counties
were attached to Hughes for judicial
purposes, and the commissioners in mak
ing it' possible for them to have a vote,
it is understood,- were advised' by Gov.
Mellette andK Attorney-General Dollard
that they were complying with the law
in establishing precincts and naming
clerks, etc. Therefore, tho decision of.
the supremo court regarding the •mat
is watched with interest.
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cer claims in that district that weighed
forty-nine pennyweights and six grams.
DEADWOOD sports acknowledge
have been taken in by the fake wrestling
match between Prof. Will Willie and the
unknown. It is asserted that Willie
an imposter.
HEAVY timber fires have been raging
in the carbonate district of the Black:
Hills. The fire on Richmond Hill was
four miles square and the one at Squaw
creek was one mile square.
A COMMERCIAL man by the name of
Gordon was robbed the other evening at.
Mayville of a mileage ticket, gold watch
and $85 in currency. It is believed that,
the guilty party is under arrest.
FBED NEWTON, .TO., member of the
mercantile firm of Newton & Son. Woi
sey,' is dead. He had been in very poor
health for over two months and there
fore his death was not a surprise to a ny
one.
THE west-bound freight one day last
week set fire to the prairie grass west of
Brookings. Before the fire was gotten
under control it destroyed two^Afralin
stacks belonging to Jens Kjolf£l^Hft:t
sioning quiet a loss. The iraifcpRRBii:
pany is said to be willing wiriaKe'an
amieable settlement.
The third trial of John Woods, indicted
for the murder of John McLeod, will be
gin in Deadwood on October 1. Two
trials have resulted in a disagreement of
the jury. The case has cost several thou
sand dollars, and has been the most ex
pensive murder case ever tried in il«
county.
WHILE working on excavations for the
Homestake Mining company's new off
ces at Deadwood, Michael Strobell was
caught by a caving in, and buried be
neath several hundred pounds of wet
clay. His companions extricatcd him in
a few moments,. and his injuries wore
found to be painful but not dangerous.
THE state veterinary surgeon, exam
ined several horses in LaRoche township,
Charles Mix county, said to bo affected
With glanders.* One team of ponies and
one colt belonging to Wm. Haviland
were condemned and shot. Other's are
likely to be condemned A purse is be
ing made up by neighbors to indemnify
Mr. Haviland for his loss.