the De Smet Leader. | PUBLISHED SATURDAYS BY THE Leader Publishing Co. M. A. BROWN, Editor. TICK MS: One \>ar $1 50 Six Mon'lts 75 Threw Mouths 40 The real out ate boom in St. Raul ami Minneapolis beats all other previous ac* tivities in that line, as well it may, for the basis is far better than ever before known in the history of those cities. The United States census of IKBO shows that there were 440,202pe0p1e o Scandinavian birth in this country in June of that year, of whom 181,720 were from Norway. 104,307 from Sweden, and 04,100 from I>emnark. Generally, the Scandinavians make excellent American citizens, conforming to the habits, cus toms and institutions of the country more readily than most other nationali ties. It is probable thut the number of Scandinavians in this country has in creased since lsso to at least 500,000, and “still they come”—a hardy, industri ous and thriftv race. Much to the surpri so of the people who a year ago doubted whether an ex hibition ol railway apphancei could he made very successful, the National Rail wav Exposition to be held in the bear of (’hicago from Mav 24 to June 23 isex citingtlie keenest interest, and although the Interstate Exposition buildings are the largest of their kind in the country t has been necessary to erect an annex to provide space for all the exhibits. The collection of the most primitive railway appliances is a special feature of the enterprise, and it will he both in structive and amusing to compare the railway facilities of the past w ith those of the present. The first locomotive ever built, George Stephenson’s “Rock et, will, of course, be the center of at traction during the exposition. Whatever may he thought ofMotmor ism or of any of its adherents, w ill not invalidate the fact that it has assumed considerable proportions and is growing with remarkable rapidity. It is vital in propogamlism and defiant in strength. Its missionaries find abundant recruits in Europe and proselytes are numerous in the t inted St,tea. The leaders are frequently men of education and re markable skill in allairs, and the devo tion of the members of the church re sists all the influence of knowledge, the enlightmeiit of the age, and the force of public opinion. The history of tin* Mor mon church is perhaps, all things con sidered, the most remarkable event of the age and is a perpetual mizzle to all reasonable understanding. What the outcome will be no one can tell, but one tiling is certain, it can never he crushed by anything that savois of persecution. Thut thing lias been tried. The revolution in I lay 11, of which only brief particulars have come to hand, is an uprising of the mulattoes, who compii-e about one-third of the popula tion, and its most intelligent and pro gressive class, against the intolerable ty rannies of President Solomon, repre senting the black domination. Their property has bee?' confiscated, and hun dreds have been shot without trial, while others have been imprisoned or banished. It is said that they have formed an alliance with black leaders, rivals of Solomon, w ho have some popu lar following of their own race, and are aided by the revolt against the general tyranny and burdensome taxation of bis administration. Whether they will suc ceed or not is a matter about w hich no reason ible conjecture ran he formed, front the lack of definite information, but success is generally deemed improb able. llayti is a black nation of the puri st type, full of barbarism and feroc ity. If is an ungrateful fact for tbos who h >pc h»r the native irnprovemen of the negro race. Cooper Institute. New York, is a line an«i enduring monument to the memory of the lute l’eter Cooper. Thousands now living and yet to rome will always bear in grateful remembrance the name of the, benefactor who helped them to educate themselves and lay the founda tion of their success and happiness. Karlv in lile Mr. Cooper felt the dillicul ties that young people meet in seeking education in art and science. He de termined to aid those who should come after him hy placing within the reach of any one in his native city the means of getting such education as each person might most need. The building for the Cooper union was begun in I son, on its present site at the junction of Third and Fourth C.Y 0, ’ , V"’ ;»?»d F»<*hth ■♦root Tlui first cost amounting to more than SOOO,- 000—and all the expenses of the Union, have been defrayed by Mr. Cooper. The plan of the Union is based largely upon the working of tin* Polytechnic school of Paris. There are free schools for instruction in the e sthetic and in dust rtal arts and in scientific depart ments beyond the teaching given in the public schools. There are regular courses of lectures on subjects of art, science, political and social economy, and literature, and more than twenty professors and instructors are employed at an annual expense of fuO,ooo. This great expense is met hy the endowment bestowed by Mr. Cooper and by the rental of business stores in the budding, which is, of eours *, equally his gift, A Hail Man in Hayes Town. George J. Krebs, |*>stmaster at Treniont, <)., is ilet cient in his accounts to the amount of s4o,otN). Steps have been taken to re move him. Difficulties in settlement led to an investigation by the government in spector, with tbe above remit. The depart ment at Washington will not say yet whether criminal proceedings will be insti tuted. General Jo. Hhelbv having been men tioned us a democratic candidate for gov ernor of Missouri, decline* in favor of John S. Marma luke, another ex-confed erate general. William Ott of •''t. Paul, while on a spree blew out bis i rain with a gun. The De Smet Leader. VOLUME I. NEWS CONDENSED. Gossip from Washington. Pension Commisiinner Dudley has issued a circular requesting special examiners to give public notice that they are authorized to collect money for lees or expenses from pensioners or applicants for pensioner; also that all special examiners are provided with certificates signed by the commissioners of pensions and secretary of the interior, and nearing the seal of the interior department. Without such certificates, all personsclaim ing to he pensions examiners are frauds. This circular has been brought out by com p aints reaching the pension ofllce of swin dles perpetrated by persons having no authority to act for the pension office. The commissioners asks that some res|Minsihle person report to his office all suqiedted cases of the afxtve nature, with a description of the alleged examiner. Rostoffice established, Butterfield, Minn.; ofllces discontinued, New Prairie, Minn.; mail to Cyrus. (Jttincy, Wis; mail to Brotliertown. Postmaster* commissioned, Thomas E. Edwards, bead City, Dak; Al fred D. Eldridge, Clear Lake, Iowa; Wil liam W. River, Greene, Iowa; William. W. Worth, Indianola, lowa. Mrs. Sarah Case, Soldier Valley lowa. James Connor, lam don, Minn.; Benjamin F. Davison, Homer, Wis.; John Remple, Butterfield, Minn. The commissioner of internal revenue has decided to redeem stamps, and return fo owners with tfie word “redeemed” imprint ed upon ea ah check. All check and drafts hearing two-cent internal revenue stamps which remain unused on July 1 can he used in the regular course of business. Second Controller l"(don has rendered a decision on the question of longevity pay allowances in the army, which is in effect that tVese allowances are t> be computed from the date of acceptance of appointments, and not from the date of ap|*ointmenta. After July 1 the general land office will print its decisions every sixty or ninety days. Itnil anil Itiver News. The old superstructure of the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul bridge over the Min nesota m ar Ft. Knelling has been entirely re placed with new timbers and iron, and the draw rest piers have also h *en rebuilt, so that the bridge is now as good or better than ever before. The estimated railroad mileage of the world on Jan, 1,1883, was as follows: United States, 113, 000,. Europe, 1011 000; Asia, B,non; South America, 7,000; Canada, 8,500. Aus tralia, 3,‘Jon; Africa, 2,2fM, Mexico, 2,loo; Grand total; 253,000. The Manitoba road took 2,oooimmigrants out of St. Paul on the 21st, on their way northward. Salmon fishing has began in Nova Scoti t The St. Lawrence is open from (Quebec to the gulf. Ihe winds on the 21st and 22d delayed railroading very seriously in the north west. ftumuiary of General News. A conflict between the real and the ideal has arisen in the midst of those charming songsters the Boston Ideals. Mr. Foster, the advance agent, engaged Miss. Beebe, as she says, with the expectation that lie could cal* on her in her room. Mr. Wheeler, the business manager, however, was the recip ient of this privilege. Disappointment em bittered Foster's good intentions, and Miss Beebe and Mr. Wheeler were both discharged and Foster made tmstness manager. As Mis-- Beebe has a husband lingering in the hack ground, a divor esuit is rc'ied on to give the Ideals some free and unsavory ad vertising. When T. 11. Keogh succeeded Robert M. Douglass a 9 United States marshal for the Western district of North Carolina, Doug lass refused to turn over to his successor certain official records, alleging that they were necessary to the settlement of his ac counts with the department of j i-tiee. Thereupon, the attorney general directed tfie United States attorney or that district to make ati effort to have Douglass indicted on a charge of abstracting government pro perty. The presiding judge of the circuit is father-in-law of Douglass. An attempt is being made to bring about a aett.cuient of the difficulty. The long contested auit of O’Neil vs. the ('bieago and Northwestern railway has been tried before a jury in the United States su preme court three times. The last trial was concluded Friday by a verdict in f.ivor of the plaintiff - for $15,000, the full amount prayed for. O’Neil is a young man who lost a leg while in the employ of the North western company at Dubuque. He was run over by a switch engine through the carelessness of the engineer. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury French, in speaking of the tarilThill, said it was evident th t the government would he involved in a large number of suits on ac count of the doubted meaning of some of the provisions of the bill. Within a few days questions have been bro. ght to Die at tention of the department w • ich will most certainly lesult in numerous law suits un less the decisions are altogeiner in favor of the importers, wi.ich is not at all probable. Mayor Kdson of New York made an argu nient recently before thecomudttee on cities of the legislature at Albany in favor of his hill clothing toe mayor willi {tower to *q*- point chiefs of departments and commission ers, ami depriving the board of aldermen of the right to confirm nominations of the may or. He said the present system was demor alizing ami dangerous to public interests. The statue of the late Prof. Henry, the first secretary and director of the Smithso. Ilian institute which has been erected on the Smithsonian grounds lias been unv.iled with appropriate ceremonies, in the presence of a large number of s|>ectatnis, including many persons distinguiseed in the social, political, literary ar.d scientific world. The constitutional prohibitory amend ment was defeated in the Pennsylvania hou«t on third re.ding. A motion to re consider was made, but was r ejected hy a vote of 57 to 151. In the senate a hill pro hibiting “treating” passed to its third read ing. The site for the new Macalester college buildings a: Kt. Paul, were located last week near Summit and knelling Avenues. The Indianapolis telephone manufactory is to tie removed to Chicago. Crime* and Criminal*. A party hy the name of Welsh, who lives thirty miles weal of Mitchell, Dak., and who has held a pre-emption over thirtv hree months, the time the la v allows eaeh pre-empt or, shot a man fm tiling a contest on the same. The settler was j 'owing when the contestant caiue upon the lend to post th* con teat notice. He advised him not to post it or he would ahoot’him. The contest ant piid no heed to the warning, hut went ahead and stuck up the notice, whereupon WeUh pulled a revolver and shot him dead. James Williams, of the firm of Williams BE SMET, KINGSBURY COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1883. A McCauley, lumber dealers, of Big Creek, Tenn., has been arrested for euibezzCng $20,000 from a New York firm in 1870. Williams escajasl to Mexico, hut returned to this country. He failed last week lor $50,000, owing $35 in*) in this city. It seems the true name of Williams is Lathrop. He was cashier of his father’s bunking house in New York city- The robbery was commit ted in August last. WiMiam T. Church, Jr., the outgoing comptroller of the village of Hyde Park. 111., arranged to meet the treasurer, for the pur pose of having his accounts verified, prepar atory to turning the office over to his sue ce-sor. He failed to keep his apiKjintment, and the authorities have broke open thesa'e in his office. Examination of his accounts showed a shortage of $7,700. A warrant has been issued or his arrest. He has al ways borne a good reputation. Smuggling is being extensively practiced on the Rio Grande river, and the district attorney for the southern district ol Texas, ami the collector of customs at Brownville, disagree as to the authority of the latter to arrest smugglers. The solicitor of the treasury saxsthat officers have the same le gal right to arrest offenders that they have to l eize smuggled goods, provided arrests are not made on Mexican territory. At Munfordsville. Ky., Booth Edwards (colored), sentenced to he hanged May 18, for the murder of Arch Long last December, attempted to break jail recently. Calling the jailor to bring him a tub of water for a bath, fie rushed out on that officer with (lis t'd in hand, and would Imve escaped Mad not the jailer’s wife locked the outer ‘tors. Finding escaia? cut off Edwards returned to his cell, shot himself through the head kill ing himself instantly. Burglars have been plying their vocation at Chaska. A ew nights ago they broke into the furniture store of Burkhart Bros, and blew open the safe, securing about SUM) cash. On tne same night they (tried open the front door of Linenfelser & Faber's store, hut as there w:is a large watch dog inside it is supposed they became alarmed and ran off. Dr. George H. Marshall, charged with an attempt to blackmail Mary Anderson, had a preliminary he trine before United States Commissioner McCandless in Pittsburg a f‘W days ago, and was held for trial in the United States court May 7. He was after wards released on SI,OOO kail. Joseph C, Jones a wife murderer, has been convicted in Atlanta, Ga. He was married when fits wife was eleven yearsold. He assaulted his niMher- in-law and tied from the country. He returned not long ago. HD wile refused to'live with him, ami he mur. ered her. Edwanl .lamp, a caricaturist who is well known in nearly every large city in the United States, and who drew many of the pictures in Chapin Si Gore’s saloon in Chi ( ago, shot himself in John B. Jeffry’s print ing office in Chicago recently. Sylvester Cosgrove, financial agent of the Siemens-Anderson Steel company, Pitts burg, which failed a year airo, has been con victed ef false pretense. He fraudulently procured a 55,000 loan from the Manufact urers' National hank. Arrangements have been completed in New York fora light between Mitchell, ihe English champion, and Herbert A. Slade Sept. 11. witi.in 200 miles of Kansas City, for $2,5* *» a side. At (’l)icago the case cf Jt-rre Dunn, charged w ith the murder of Janu s Elliott, the pugil'st was rallied in the criminal court and Dunn got a change ol venue. The Casualty and Fire Record. A fire at Huntington, W. Va. recently de stroyed $40,000 worth of property, render ing homeless fi teen or twenty faruilesand leaving hut four buildings in a block 420 feet square, The insurance is about one-naif. A man named Ray was seriously injured by the fall of a building. A pil»-driving car, while at work on a br dge crossing a creek eighteen miles from Helena, Ark., on the iron Mountain rail way, recently, fell through the bridge car rying with it fourteen men. Four men were badly injured, one of them, iht- engi neer, Fitzgerald, it is feared, fatally. A tire on the 22 1 burned live hams, two dwellings, at did some damage toadjoining buildings at Fast Saginaw. Mich. The principal losers are F. Hobart, P. Heller, G. W. Hill and C. Gunsmith. Loss, 40.000. 1 Frank Heyland, an engineer on the Bur lington, Cedar Rapids A Northern railway, whs killed at Cedar Rapids on the 20 iust., by being run over by the train. A number of prairie fires are rejwirted throughout Manitoba. Considerable dam age to railway property has been done. A pa|>er mill at Catowissa, Pa., owned and operated hy MeCready oo. Insured. Personal Mention. Itiv. David R. Breed, of the house of Hope, St. Paul, was found Thursday by the janitor lying in the aisle of one of the tran septs, suffering from severe injuries, which he had sustained in a fall from a ladder. He had been adjusting electrical apparatus tor lighting to a reflector in the roof, and it is believed he fell ttie wiioie distance 'rotii the top of the ladder—about twenty-four leet. Mr. Breed was unconscious, and if was supposed that his it juries wr re of a very serious nature, as his limbs and sides were badly contused. In the evening Drs. Hand, Lee ami Metcalf made an examination of his injuries and found as the result, however, that no bones hail been broken. They were also of the opinion that he had re ceived no internal injuries. Lieut. Robert T. Antes, Fight infantry, hat been ordered to acconqiany a detach* ment of recruits to Francisco. Second Lieut. John H. Beacon, at his own request, has een transferred from the Eighteenth to the Third infantry, and will join his com pany at Fort Howe, Montana. The suj*er intendent of the general recruiting service has been directed to forward 175 recr its to Fort Snelling for assignment, as follows: Seventy-five to the fifth infantry, fifty to the Fighteenth and one-hundred for assign ment, fifty to the Fifteenth infantry, and titty to the Twelfth infantry. The fumes are still rising from the Sprague divorcement. The governor ex plains how he bed to the Virginia parson who spliced him and his picked-up wife by saying that he never withdrew the uncom fortable charges he made against Kate Chase, and they were not expunged from the record. The records impeach this state ment. Msj. Ben Perlev Poore, who has been in Washington lon w than any other living corespondent has left the Boston Journal, for which paper he has written f«r more than forty years He has accepted an editorial position on the Sun day Budget, a thriving weekly pa{>ei in Boston. Speaking of the late Leonard B. Hodges the Rochester, N. Y. Democrat and Chroui. cle says: Western New York may well lie proud ol the great service of one ol her sons in the northwest. His work is one that will endure to bless the people of that region. He was a pioneer in orest culture, where forests were greatly needed. Francis S. Street, one of the publishers ot the New York Weekly, story pa(*er, died recently in Brooklyn. He made $2,000,000 out ot tiis own hlood-and-thunder business, and was a good church member all the while. James Park, Jr., one of the oldest iron and steel manufacturers of Pittsburg, and a strong protectionist, died recently of apo plexy. His estate is x allied at over s3,<**>.- 000, while his life was insured for S3oo,UUO Leave of absence for six months, on surgeon's certificate of disability, with (ad mission to leave the department of Dakota, is granted Maj. Eugene M. Baker, Stroud cavalry. Alex tnder Stephens aid in his will: “My property, I think, on a fair valuation is worth $12,000.” The servants are all re membered and his relative* are his heirs. Col. Higginson says Harvard had mjr t » drunk*-nne-s when he was a student than at present, and has always been better ill that Ilian German universities. Win. Knight, veteran of the war of 1812, died in Borin. Ala., aged 101) years, leaving 205 children and grand children. Cardinal Luigi Intici Mattei is dead, aged seventy-two years. He was created cardi nal priest in 1875. The wife of solictor General Pnilips died recently, of apoplexy, while making her toilet. Foreign News Summary. Timothy Kelly, charged with participa ting in the murders of Cavendish and Burke, was placed on trial on the lOthinst., and Sullivan and Mclnnery were appointed to conduct the defense. Judge O'Brien complied with the lequest of Dr. Wehh and Adams to be relieved from further duty in defending the accused men, A jury was then sworn in, one of whom was a l’arnel ite, and >ons«quently it D exjiected that the jury will fail to agree. The evidence of wit nesses for the crown was mostly a repetition of that i iven in the cases of James Brady and Daniel Curley. James Carey swore that ttie conspirators had resolved to mur der Col. Hiller amt Burke in const quenceof an article that appeared in the Freeman’s Journal speaking of the desirability ot a thorough change of officials at Dublin cas tle, which had become an Augean stable. This same statement was made by Carey at the preliminary examination of the prison ers. and was then declared by the Fr email's Journal to he due to the fact that E Dwyer Gray, owner of that paper, when Chairman of tiie munic'pa* commission, had charged C rey, who was town counselor, with con spiracy. Brady said, the other day, it is reported, that lie had in his possession facts that would afford basis for indictments, similar to that against Kellogg, against a number of congressmen who secured expedition for star ro..te contracts, Htid were paid for it by contributions from the contractors to their campaign funds. That was the way in which Kellog got his SI,OOO from Brice. It is barely possible that other congressmen may he indicted on similar grounds. The trial of eighteen more prominent nihilists at St. Petersburg resulted in the conviction of all. Six were condemned to death, t vo to life servitude, and the remain der to imprisonment for fifteen to twenty yea is. The Dominion government has awarded a French compan« S4OO 000 a year lor a month ly line between Havre and Montreal. Oxenburg Russians are preparing to try cotton raising in Central Asia. Senator Wm. IMtt. Kellogg Indicted in Washington. Washington Special: Ex-Sen at or Wil liam Pitt Kellogg was quite confident up to Wednesday afternoon that none of the pcrs« ntruents made against him by the grand jury of the district a few weeks ago would ever bear fruit in indictments. Nevertheless, the grand jury came into court this afternoon ami reported an in dictment against Kellogg and another against Brady. Kello gis charged with having re ceived five instalments of $1,5».0 each in lawfal money as a consideration for using his influence, while in the United Slates senate, with Brady, to secure the expedition ot * certain routes, the following is a statement of what the gov ernment's counsels believe to be tlie facts in the ease: Price had at tent pled without succ ss to get an allowance for an expedition in con nection with these two routes. He then took the papers to Kellogg and promised to give him $31,000 if he would procure expedition of the routes. Kellogg told him to leave the papers ami to call in two days. At the ap|Hiinted time he returned and Kellogg told him it was all right; that exj»edition would be grated. Brice thereupon sat down ami drew five dralta upon the auditor of the treasury tor a total of sls;otiO, against his pay for service on the San An tonio and Shreveport routes. For the re maining $5,000 he gave a note, in domed by another mail cont-actor which was paid at maturity. The drafts were to be paid on April lit. Jnty 14, t»ct. is. is*u. ami Jan. 14. ami April 27, IHSI. Kellogg gave him to Walsh, ami requested him to collect them, pay him (Kellogg). $1,500 tor each draft, ami 0 Ted it Brady, who owed money to Walsh, with the same amount. Walsh collected the drHft« as they matured, ami, ii|*on the collection of each draft, paid Kellogg $1,500 ami credited Brady with $1,500. - - Sunt hern Lumber Resources, It in computed that the forests of fex as will supply the whole coiintiy with ti in tier for 100 years. North Carolina has in acreage of grow ing ti nber amounting to about 75 per cent, of her territory. The yellow pine forests of Florida ex tend over throe-fifths of the sixe unities of Butman, Marion, Sumter, Bulk, Ilea nando and Hillsborough. Louisiana’s timber lands cover 15,000,- 000 acres. It is said that the lumber business of Maine and Michigan will ul timately be transferred to ..Florida and Louisiana. A great pine belt stretches across Southern Georgia and Alabama to the rivers that How into Mobile Hay. The pine forests of Georgia alone cover an ur« a of al>out 11,500,000 acres. There are immense tracts of cotton woods along the Mississippi and its tributaries. The cottonwood tree reach es the height of seventy feet, and planks from four to six feci wide are easily cut from it. It is perfectly free from knots and pitch. DAKOTA NEWS. A sHs,oiio hotel is to be built immedi ately at White Loke. Several brick blocks are to be built at Elk Point this season. Races will he given at the Mitchell driving park July IS and 4. Ten dollars has been subscribed by citizens of Watertown for tin* purpose of erecting a $15,000 hotel in that city. Rufus Trowbridge was killed near Huron, while stoning up a well, by a rock tailing and crushing his skull. John W. Turner, of Turner county, an ing for the same i l *,otkt in cash. The recent law passed in Dakota ex acting a deposit front all the insurance companies in that territory is being se verely eriticis* d by the companies r« p resented in Chicago. The firm oft). G. Meachurn & Co., has been organized to do a general hanking business at Carrington, Dak., on the Jamestown branch ot the Northern Ra cific, with a capital ol $25 ,<**). Anson J. RmUdill was arrested in Hu ron on the charge of attempting to com mit rap** on the person ol Mary Teuber on the fourth d yof April. The prison er was married h tew days previous. Numerous in iictin ?nt*, foiiu 1 in 1878 against 11. W. Bingham, formerly Indian agent at the Cheyenne River Agency, ami others in Ins emp oy, were finally dismissed at Headword the interior de partment. An immense deposit of coal is said to have been discovered in the coteauß be tween Grade Siding and Summit, in the western part of Grant county. 1 lie vein struck in three icet deep, of genuine quality and promises a rich yield. At lhadwooG during the street-clean ing an old revolver unearthed proved to he that used by the notorious Dead wood Du k in l 87»», when ho killed Texas Charlie. At the time, and until now, the most careful search failed to reveal it. Three other arreuts have been made in the st. Thomas murder case. Archer the victim, and othi rs were in a saloon I nd had a general light, when the de ceased drew a knife and attempted to stab one of the parties. Judge Cox of Grand Forks lias been retained for the defense. Michael Colligan, whose claim is north east of Aurora, is mysteriously missing. IK lelt the residence of Mr. Kelley, a neighbor, for home on t he night of A pril y during the rain storm, ami up to ttie (•resent time of writing has not been found, although dilligc nt search has been made. Mrs. John Hayes ot Si-aix Falls has sued for a divorce from her husband with a division of property, alleging abuse and wicked treatment. Mr. Haves is a zealous Seventh Dav Baptist, worth $50,1 HR), and the trouble arose be cause his wife would not ad >pt bis be lief. Miss lteise and Mrs Oskerday hold claims near Highmore. Splatters de molished tin* sliantv of the latter, and Miss Keise, feating similar treatment, secured a pistol, and learned bow to use it. Some men la ing near her sliau tv, hearing a shot tired, went in, and found Miss Kiese dying with a bullet hole in her temple. Charles Mix Chronicle: Quite a sen ation has been created at Fort Randall, over the action taken by the wife of the late Capt. Hooker, who died last Jan uary. It seems that his wife, who has been separated from him over a year, claims that *)»*» euntain was poisoned, and she will have the body exhumed and an examination made. Itiseluimod the cap'ain had s2o,non in cash, which she is making a point to look alter. A branch order of the railway con ductors’ association lias been organized at Fargo. It is named after Col. Greer, the Northern Bacitle yard master. Ihe following are the oflieers for the ensuing vear: J. 11. Phillen, 0. C.; L. 1\ Vin cent, A. C. C.; F. C. Comstock, secretary and treasurer; B. R. Palmatier, Sr. 1.; O. K. l’aine. Jr. €.; S. Newbery, I. S.; P. J. MeWonagle, O. 8. A Mandan dispatch says a round house and railroad shops have been located at that point by the N. P. Company. The improvements, include a round house with twenty-two stalls: a machine shop, 85x100 feet; a l»oiler shop, Hsx«*o feet; a smith shop, f»*x 1 —•> feet; a ear simp, 60x1*24 feet; boiler engine and coal house 24x125 .cot; storehouse, 40x80 feet; oil house, 20x2.4 feet; sand house, 14x42 feet; coal shutes, 4Sx-*iOUO feot, and two 10x24 water tanks. A prisoner in the penitentiary at Sioux Falls, committed suicide in his cell l»y hang ng himself to the upper ventilator by his handkerchief. He was John Fusco, aged about thirty-five, and was one of the men tran>ferred from Detroit last fall. He has been in Hinee October, lHSl.and his term would he up in December, IKS4. The man bad Ikm h partly insane at times, and while at Detroit cut bis throat with a razor. He was an Italian and was sent from Bon Homiue county for grand larceny. NUMBER 13. Washington snocial: Tho celebrated Jackman hint! rase at Bismarck, has been opened hv the secretary of tho interior, ami arguments.have been submitted by the attorneys in the case. Tins case is an old one, having been in contest since Im7 ; '>. Three decisions have heen made in favor of Mr. Jack* man, hut m Jamnry, ImS2, they were overruled hv Secretary Kirkwood, and now Mr. Jackman has succeeded in Be curing a rehearing. Secretary. Teller's decision "ill he rendered in a lew davs. The land involved adjoins Bismarck, and part of it on which a patent has heen is sued, has he. u i ifered for sale and re cently been taken into the city limits. The Dead wood Pioneer, publishes a complete list of stamp mills and works for the reduction ofoie, as distributed throughout the mills, showing that there ale forty-four nulls and ore smelters, ag gregating 1 ~‘V.IS stamps, or an average of J 1 17-22 stamps to each mill. Of this number the smelters and sixteen mills —the latter aggregating Si id stamps—are in operation, the remainder being idle by reason of frozen ditches, impassable roads, enlargement to or repairs of ma chinery, etc The sim stamps crash an average ol 2 2-J tons of ore each, or a to tal of2,tk»o tonsevery twenty four hours, which, estimated at tin* low average of s<» a ton, gives a gross yield of $14,- I'JO. Dakota Capitol Removal Gossip ami * s l icculatlon. [The annexi d te eg rams ami interview* are Iroin the St. Taul Pioneer Press, and are given our reaiers nn ply as current news paper go-sip up >n the most important sub ject now before the people of this territory,] Yankton, Mpcclal Telegram, April 21 —The in dignation meeting called for la*t night, to protest •gainst t e capital removal bill, wa* well attended, but not a great amount of e«ilm«iai»m prevailed. Tills was not because Yankton people are not •gainst the bill, but because the priuciiat speaker was It V. IV tigrcw. Tlmrs were many pres ent vri.o roin. till' red Hat Pe tigrrw, in public Kpeedies, has repeatedly denounced \aiikton as a m'sl of thieves and corrupt and paced out politicians; who r< member tlia' ast fait Pettigrew frequently renewed his old story with the additional charge that Yankton, be cause of ttio in u-i uyrrieut of the debt, was a dis grace and injury to tho Territory, and be expressed u wish that the Missouri river would sweep the town away. Consequently, Pettigrew’s reception wa-. not a regular ovation. Nevertheless, as he had come to denounce the governor and legislature, lie was tnk., The I’et'ijjrew an! Yankton kick*r« held a meeting here last niitht to svrai> lies about ttie capital com* UiiMioti and g"Vernor. The stock wua abundant, but the tn»rket ijtili. They wept upon each other's necks and made loud lamentation* over unfinished lobby jobs and fat Indian contracts soon to be be yond their reach, 'ltna was the first anti-capital removal meeting in which tru* harmony has pre vailed, all others proving dismal failures. N. O. OBDWAT. riERKE'S AMBITION. PIEKUK. Special Telegram, April 21.—At a mass men*mg of the citizens of I'ierre, called bv the united I'lerr-* press, and attended by about 300 people, resolutions were unanimously passed con demning the action of the Hutux Falls meeting, en dorsing thu capita' commission bill and appoiu'lng a delegation of forty representative men to attend a genera! convention for CVn'ral Dikota to take like action. Pierre has already complied with the requirement aof the capital bill, and it Is confi de oily i‘ipec!«d that the Dakota capital will be lo cated at ihis point. ANOTHER POINT. Th« Hiotix Falls Press prin - s the following dis patch from Yankton, dated the litlh insf., which re veals another p hit of conflict: "'lhe United Htates attorney, on behalf of the people in the quo war ranto case against tlie capital corutnisslor, Ins dis covered that the appointment of the«e officers by legislative enactment is iu direct conflict with that se< tion of the organic act of the Territory which prescribes that officers of this character shall be appointed by tho governor and continue 1 by the legislature. Yanktonites are happy, as thits is be lievetl to set. la the case and prevent tho removal of the capital." Maj. J. li Raymond, Fargo, delegate elect from Dakota, arrived iu the city yesterday, anJ registered at the Metr ipolitan hotel. Last evening a reporter sought and found the gentleman in room No. S. Statins his mission, the reporter was informed that there wua n. tiling new; in fact, an interview w&a out of the question; and theieupon the worthy gentleman proceeded to unbosom himself, the sub stance of his remarks being as follows; The all-important question in Dakota is the matter of location of the capital, and the people in the northern part of the State are animus to see it located iu the southern central part of the Territory, as that would but hasten the division we are alt to snziou* for. The idea that a territory longer than all New England should have but two reprtseiita tivcs in the s*-na*e ts piepoateroua. We are grow ing at an unprecedented rate, aud the close of this y. ar wi I find I.VMHMI inure pe> pie in the Territory than at the present time Of course fhe Democrats oppose division, and I fcai as .ong as they are in a msj >rtt y in the national legislative body we cannot obtain our end- Tcxaa is empowered at any tune by a popular vote to separate into four States. Wby should we not have equal rights and p, !v!!ig,»? The m» .*•♦<**?»? rt. that's not settled yet. I think It will come up again during the next session with redoubled force. Th*' great dtfll ulty is that interests differ. I am a "tariff-for-revenue-only” man, but can readily see where a protective tariff is needed by certain business interest*. 'lhe irl the »ui*erintendent of the line, fearing ho wouldn't have business, refused to carry mailt, except every other day. Now they are run ning two trains per day each way all filled with immigrants end oar* cannot be pro cured in sufficient nanooer* to transport tbe mova ble*. The season has been a most auspicious one for farmer*. Both winter and spring have been all that could be asked for, and seeding has been going on for »<>ine time in all parts of the Territory. I have every reason to believe that the present will be the most auspicisua year tn every respect in the history of the Territory. Yankton, Special Corrospondeuoe, April 10. —lt is uow nearly six weeks einoo the legisla ture adjourned, and by this time tho publio otuht to be well informed in regard to certain measures passed by that b»uly Nevertheless, such do- s not seem to be tbe case. Tbe fif teenth legislative assembly will be known M the one that passed the capitsl commission bill, a measure that ha* boon more commented upon than any other law ever enacted in Dakota This comment is usually la tbs nature of adverse criticism. If tbs crit- icism were fair and hone-t, there could be no fault found. Men have the right to differ, and there are questions connected with the removal of the cap.tal per se, and the removal by a com mission, that adtni' of a diversity of op nion. It ecema to be tmo that a maj >rity ot Terri torial papers ent cisn this measure very harshly; but, to a great extent, this is douo cither ignorantly or d shorn st y. This can be seen from the f&ctthat instead of taking up the provisions of the b:d and discu-sing them upon ti cir m r.ts, the criticism gen* rally takes the form of sbt»*e and vi iiiettion of the governor and legislature. Charges of Jobbery, bribery and corrupted! could uot bo moro freely nor more persistently in .do if the public had tho most positive and conclusive evidence. The assertion of a “big steal” is repeate lly nude, and people in aud outside of the 1 erritorv might r< adiiy bo led to believe that tho moaa uro of wicki dries* is full to overflowing. FORTUNATELY FOB PUBLIC MOnAl.s, aud tho gf geui g in or out c f Yankton ha* become proverbial They claim that n*»w that the whole Tor rib tv is booming that different plaC's would be willing to par the Territory for the honor and tlnuncial benefit derived from the location of the capital, and there Is no av sura to that this will bo the case two years from now. Teat th * capital will, in all prob abiti’y, bocoutially located f'*r Month Dakota, or at .iiiv.ruto at a poiut whore the fotir great rail wav companies can ea i• v roach. They be lieve, *al«<, tlmt the legislature, for some reason the pertinency of which may not folly a) pear, had made up it* mind to vote th© capital away from Yankton, and that the com mission tilan was tho only one that positively gua auteed the Territory any return. Instead of carefully considering these points, there has l>eon published au euornioue amount of the mo-t hai e-faced and SLANDEROUS MISREPHEHCTTATIOIfi. Take for example tlie cry of '*big •teal.’' Scores of papers have reiterated the story startl'd in a Ya ik'im t uper, tha' tho cmniivsioD could rob the i eonle by charging $0 per diem for every day nntil tho next legislature should convene. Hut the bill dis i'ic iy dec arcs that tlie total amount paid the membriaof tin* com mi-sion for servio should not excel d SIO,OOO. Nevertheless, tho orv still goeeon that the com mission will rob tn'o tax-paying farmer all to Eileen. hi own either that MlO •ditor# ave not carefully retd the bill or that they are grossly unfair. The fact is, as the bill very clearly sta’c-, that the commissioners cannot draw a cent until a capital fund hns been orea'ed from the d matinu of the town selected as tho capital. This will appear from the foU lowing closing extract from Hoc. U: And the commissioner* shall be paid for tbetr service# the turn of six dollar* (#tii each, for each and every dav actually employed, by the warrant of the auditor of the Tefrttorr upon the territorial building fund; prorid-d that in the aggregate they shall not receive aa compensation moro than $lO,- 000. More than this, not one cent of money cat* be paid for any purpose whatever out of the general fund. In ot.»er words, under tho terra* of the bill, tho commissioners are to locate the capita', and er* ct a SIOO,OOO capital building, which, with the 100 acr* s of laud, that ought to y old from *IOO,OOO to $200,000 in cash, it to become the prop* rty of the Territory with out costing the people a ceut. If this is a big st'al—the in *le nntnormis the big «wal« the bettor for the public. But the public object to the method in which the ti l was t a*aed, and th© bribery connected therewith. On tbeae points th* writer hereof has but little to say. He knew a good dexl about the working* of the ls«t legia lature, but he saw nothing to make him believe thata >V member* wore b»u*ht or Otherwise Whipped imo support of tho bill. Vagno Charges to the contrary have boon made; but In a published paper Gov. Ordway has made the following FOSITIVE I>ENIAH: For mvself, as tbs exectriiva of tbe Territory, 1 take this occasion to braflft! as fal*e and Infamous*? miltcious « ach and every acco-atlon put forth by a veual press that there iiua been anv bargain, ar rangement or Improper understanding between the executive anu any member of tho legislative aa tetuhly, in any way connected with tbe passage of the bill for the removal of the seat of government, or of any other bill, or for the confirmation of soy nomination, during the late session, or auy other se-sioD, of tbe legislative assembly aince I aasumed office. Until somebody is shloto produce conclusive evidence to the contrary, fair-mind d people will accept the governor's statement as truth. Ihe charges of “syndicate" “stock certifi cates,” etc., like the o her charges, sre to > indefinite. If at. v person lan decisive information that a syndicate was hero buying up votes, he ought to give the public the benefit of his information. If half the charges mi le against Guv. Ordwav In this o ninection are true, undoubtedly they can l>« ho proveu. If then th* people demand hie removal, as dome p*pors so persistent lr assert, let the evidence be prepared and let it be sent to Washington, and the preside t will assuredly give Dakota a new governor. Unless this can be done it must appear to disinterest ed people that the charges lack foundation. Another objection urged against the bill is that i' is wrong, or at least undignified, for a gr< at Torrit ry to leud ite name to a real es tate speculation, out of which somebody will make money. There are lmudreda of good people in Yankton; but if one-tenth that hae been said against the town fie true, tho moral objection thus set np seems ludi crously incongruous as coming from Ya kton. Rut in regard to the ract that the capital town will be boomed and money made by some one, it may be said that tbe aame thing would havs proveu true to an extent had the capitd bees located at some towu by direot vote of the leg- Mature The possesnon of the capital would b > a big adver isemeot, land wonld assume al most a fictitious value, somebody would make money, and the Territory would nave given its aame to a real estate speculation in one oaas as well as in the other. Mistakes in Newspapers. The Poughkeepsie Eagle in an article on “How Mistakes Happen in Newspa pers,” figures the number of type used iu a newspaper the size of the Eagle at (KM),000; that is the actual number of bits of metal arranged for each newspa per in preparing a newspaper of that size for the press. We suppose few peo ple think of the printing trade as ono of the most exact and particular handicrafts; hut it is. In making type, variations that might be allowed in the finest ma chinery would render type useless. II is very rarely that type furnished bv two separate found tries can be used togeth er without a great deal of trouble, even though they should try to make it aftet the standard. We read once in a while of a wonderful piece of cabinet or mosa ic work containing 10, 20, or 80,000 pieces, the maker of which has spent months or even years of labor in pro ducing it; and the people go to see ft as a curiosity. Hut the most eltborate and carefully fitted piece ot work of this kind ever made does not compare for minute* ness of detail and accuracy of fitting, with that which the printer does everv day The man who doefi the first is looked upon as a marvel of skill, and if a hundred of his piecesare put in wrong side up or tnrred around, it is not no* tieed in the general effect; but if a printer, in fitting ten times as many pieces to* gather in a single day, puts one the wrong wav, everybody sees it and is amazed at the “stupid carelessness of those printers.”