The herald., August 03, 1883, Image 3

About The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890

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Il!a*ajfr' churns of the nationality of all
'ah-iif j^cH«oldiers in the late war show
i'.acliine'^Jative Americans numbered
'.a- leather" 74.48 per cent, of the whole,
se shanci darters as nearly as may be
in.. rai]LA ln8 170,806, or 8.76 per cent
steam el if 44,200, or 7.14 per cent. Brit
"'ftana 5l»,500, or 2.t" per cent.
j«. %50iX), or 2.26 per cent. all
'"^fcners 6',900, or !!.71 per cent.
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"|rv is full of weal her cranks,
•§eighborhooi is exempt from
®|n.. They are disturbers of
'1! On the other hand there
'^reful weather observers and
fmeterology, who, by the aid
|eter and other instruments,
I to Ve of service to the pub
f)logical studies are interest
'%ld be encoarag 1
f.
fjhate for t!xe cotton crop of
laces the yield at 7,100,000
gh is 1,600,(XX) more bales than
'|§ced the preceding year.
Me is made in spite of the
acreage of this year's plant
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••yi-'iu'|han that of the year before.
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Si in a great measure from
ip the plantation system, di-
»large tracts into small faims,
i'iai, i, are much better culti\nirii,
billed
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a!:.j
UWicial Chronicle prints .some
out railroad earnings during
ix months ot the vear which,
fa$y go, indicate general pros
n a long list, including nearly
incipal roads of the country,
peats, with only twelve excep
,|xi«r^ase of gross earnings as
wiih the aamo period last
&of the gain is, of cour se, due
lipase, but most of it must be
to the absenre .d' railroad wars
K.:
•ear re
liitn^,
Alness of last vear's crops.
u
Bomeofthe government fur ti e
.year was $:i'.«8,:{:58,520 or near
§4ul for every inhabitant of th•.*
Stites. The expenditures
$ to $205,568,'87, an increase* oi
30 over the gular expenses ol
Mug the surplus revenue $1.°2,
It is very clear that the reve
it to be redvu -d and the expen
ded, but tilt-e is not mueh dis
among politicians to grapple
i tubject with view to radical
There is nothing that inspires a
with moiv jubilant feelings,
rhftps, the success of his own
lan an overtl vving treasury. He
have a hand in its depletion,
it be for public or private bcii-
teted that Senator Kdmunds re
%Bses from railroads during his
ourney to the Pacific coast and
via the Northern Pacific. Wheth
statementis ai»so!utely truthful,
is authorized sav, Imt it is cer
it on his dejKii taireeastward from
I the ticket agents were surprised
lim pay for ti kets like other
instead of pu ting a pass on them
whole party, as manv other dis
ced statesmen are in the habit of
-and occasionally judges of the
state and federal courts. It lis
i and in many cases, truthfully,
e acceptance of passes by such
s cannot bias their judgments in
at, but the people would be better
if they would, in all cases,
the appearance of evil."
tendency to exaggeration in re
3f storms, cyclones, ami kindred
ences, is almost universal, espeo*
vhen these reports are written or
fed by witnesses to those who did
ie what is described. The ac
of terrifying scenes may bestrici
true, but when it ironies
tal damagos they may be mon
exaggeratious as was tbt lase in
clone of a week ago. Under a
'kv and bright sunshine a careful
eration of personal casualties and
property, showed a wonderful
Poctff
i-ve
ppeefi.
nia: a
ttinned
tW)
•rd.iy.»
von »'f
lid slit'
c*8e
dc«:
from estimates ma«le amidst
jn rrors of the scene or immediately
And this is almost univer
ji* r.i! the case. Of course the actual loss
von
and injuries to person and prop-
ire
to deplored,but exaggeration
nothing but harm to all concerned.
nicfi '4
v'VhoSi? i" king in Pennsylvania and ev
ssising is madei stibsidary to that in
i tuiD $ During 1882 Pen n s
v
1
van ia pro
tbcffijl 2,449,256 tons of pig iron, 1,123.
i,ni
n8
lt
of rolled iron and S50,IK)S tons
nan !'nand steel rails, which was a little
ight hs"1-^
an
half of the product of the en.
I'd k 'ountry. Tlie rise and growth of
p/lf® twiness in that state is a mat
a.
'^rgeneral interest. The tirst iron
n.u^t
were established in 17hi, but at
outbreak of the revolution there
for Only about sixty blast furnaces and
in that state. After the Mar for
^Wndence the growth was more rap-
Water-power was the only motive
i until about
.fifty years ago, when
t-power was introduced into gener-
Not many years after another
change in the industry was ed'ect
'th# substitution of anthracite and
^aom coal for charcoal, the bitu
oabeing now generally preferred
l»t ftirnat *s.
MPMSang to read some of the
ers which assumes to be
guardians of "society."
nothing but sugared words
MdHpolous capitalists they can
..JfP
endure stock watering the contin
uous extensions of a gigantic monopoly,
frequent reductions of the pay of
men ami women who depend upon
labor requiring untiring industry for
the support of themselves and fain
ties without murmuring 'HI* when
these people driven desperate by heart
less corporations, thieuten to strike,
they are informed, that if they strike
for an advance of pay and a reduction
of hours of labor they "must accept
what society at large always gives to
those who defy or rob it." If ''society"
entertains these views and purposes, so
cietv is peculiarly stupid and selfish.
But "society" is not composed of those
only who have the power and disposi
tion oppress others, but vast num
bers of good men and wemen, children
of a common Father, who recognize to
some extent the claims of human broth
t-riioo I.
Tin- :eduction in letter postage from
three '.i two cents will take place Oc
tober i. The impression prevails to
some extent that three-cent postal stamps
will be without value after that date,
but sui-ii is not- the tact. 1' .-unasters
hav i n instructed that as the two
and three-cent stamps and envelopes of
the present issue will continue to be
valid after that date, they must be ac
cepted in payment of postage when of
fered in proper amounts and that the
threi-i-,-:.t stamps an l-e used
in ombination it'ier
denominations on letters requiring
more than one rate of po-tajp* and on
parcels of third and fourth class-matter.
It will be w
.-il,
late an iin
however, n accumu­
KM
3sary amount »f three
cent stamps and envelopes, as no ar
rangements have yet been made for the
redemption of the three-centstamps and
envelopes in the hands of postmasters.
o: for the exchange by postmasters
thosi* stumps ani eir- ,n the bun is
of private holders.
A €otn|)lii'ut'"il
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Wisconsin Case.
Wis.,
i
.'-•Jji'i'Uvi, JlliV Utj.— Oli .Muli-
i\ one Fred P. Hunter, employed in Cody's
igU" niili at tiiis jilae", ma le an assault upon
tin- pi-ixjii Mrs. ft. Ji. Brown, who, with
her husband, was hoarding tlio hand-" working
at the null. Hunter Had been di-nM.nrged from
the bearding liou.su by Mr. Brown tl v Til
ing f'ir not eonduetiug luniself ]iro]
when, later ui the dav. in- went to v
after h\S t- .• ..
alone tli* s. !i i I.
toi .v a-ia.oiiu i i iniu
bun- -. «l.. h« :#eis-- i i.ir an! -nvew
her and at' i.l to :u-r.
She managed to eiuae hi- isp.
rushed to another room and stood at !o.,r
e a i n i o e o u s e n e a w i a a
ritle. sh« ma le aa a'tempt to take the gun
down, when h* threw a large hmeli-T kn.fe at
her, which she dmlge '. Mrs. Druwn then took
aim,
a revolver from a bun-: e.
again commanding him
wliitrh le1 !, OMeatt'iii:.^ u... i.ia
npjioitiuii\v 'lesilay morning, w
Urowu wa- n !,er way to the postoit.
a letter, «he met lluu'i on the street, and
lie pause.! her he said, "(i.aid niurinxig,"
which salutation she did not notice,
l'his ang-'rt'il Hunter, wh-\ with an
insulting remark, picked up a club
as though to strike her, whereupon she drew a
revolver and shut him, the bail entering his
arm and making a had, but not ilangeroiia
wound, lie had her arrested and she was
placed under bail to appear at the September
t.ii'iii of the circuit court at Neillsville. ller
husband obtained bail f"r her and oftici-rs are
now after Hunter, who went to Kau Claire, to
airest him for the criminal asaauh witli the iu
e111 to cv umnit raue.
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Grand Army of the Ilcpublic.
MILWACKEU, Special Telegram, July li7.—
Special to the Sentinel from Denver, Colo.: At
a business meeting of the Grand Army of the
liepublic this aftcrno.e.i, it was decided to hold
the next encampment and reunion,
1884, at Minneapolis, Miuti. It is a
victory for '.ho railways leading to
tlie Northwest, especially the C!:ieagj, l
waukee V St. Panl and Northwestern, mas
much as the various railway .systems of the
country have b"en working to have the place
at some terminal paint ou their respective
lilies, tho busings to be deiived therefrom
lieint well woithy of a cotcest. Iti the
present encampment the Union Pacific
railway has compelled Eastern roads to pay
Mich tiibute as it saw lit to name, thero being
no necessity of its cuttin rates.
A Clergyman Knocked Down and
Mobbed.
On Thursday night Rev. Dr. E. Thomas,
rector of St. Paul's church, Paul, was
going to his residence, Eighth and Jacksou,
about 10 o'clock, when he was knocked
down and robbed by two highwaymen.
Ht had been visiting at Samuel Maya'd's,
on Dayton's Bluff. When he reached John
street, between Eighth and Ninth, two men
jumped on him and rob
oed him of a gold watcli and chain, $3
and some railroad tickets. Tlie thieves
choked him very severely, and also kic ed
him. He furnished the police a description
of the men immediately. Oapt. Bressett
and Roundsman Han ft at otice settled on
John Horan and I'eter Brown, alias Pe
ter Hansen, as the tnieves, and they were
arrested and identified. When Dr. Thonies
identified the man Horan was in the city
hail, standing withagtoun of men. Dr.
Thomas enteied and loosed at him two or
three times, and then, without knowing any
one present, called out, "That is the man
who robbed me." Hansen had been out
side, and then entered, and Chief Clarke
asked Dr. Thomas if he had ever seen him.
He said yes. The man denied it, and then
Dr Thomas said, "Yes, 1 saw you last night
when you knocked me dewn and choked
me."
One of the Hi?? Rascals Convicted.
In the trial of M. T. Polk, late treasurer
of Tennessee, at Nashville the jury, having
been out forty-eight hours, brought
in a verdict of guilty fixing the sen
«nce at twenty years in the penitentiary—
he full extent of the law—and assessing a
fine of $300,540.10. The verdict was un
animous
OH
the first ballot. Counsel for
the defense entered a motion for a
new trial on the ground of the i )in|etency
of the jury. The atli iavitd of two witnesses
were submitted to the eilect
that Taylor Alford, one of the
jury, stated to theiu on the dav we was sum
moned that, if selected as a juror, he was
in favor o! Landing the prisoner but the
aflidavit also stated that this wessaid in a
jesting way. Poik, was state treasurer of
Tennessee for two terms. His defalcation
aiue to lUht on the 5th of January last,
and caused cons'derabie of a sensation. His
peculations had been going on for a year or
more but so adroitly did be doctor the
hook of his oflice that the committee of
the legislature which exun ei the affairs
of tlie treasury early in H*- deceived,
and reported everything proper shape.
The legislative investigating committee
found that the shortage amounted to $270,
oeo 1'.) k immediately lied to Texas, but
was sho y captured and taken bark "i
essee.
Death of Hon. Montgomery Biatr.
Montgomery Blair died at his residence
at Silver Springs near Washington on the
27 inst. He wa* a son of Francis Preston
Blair, was born in Frauk'in county, Md.,
May 10,1313. He was educated at West
Point, graduated in 183), and served in the
artillery arm of the service in the Seminole
war. Me resigned May 10, 1S W a i4 »g»u
the practice ot law n St. Louis. He was
United Slates attorney for the district of
Missouri from 1 to 1S1.5, mayor of St.
Louis in
18-12,
and from lS4i5to 1849 was
judge oi the court of common pleas. Re
moving to Maryland in 1S.32, he was three
years later appointed solicitor of the United
States in the court of claims. Previous to
the repeal of the Mijsouri compromise he
had been a democrat: but afterward he iden
tified himself with the republican party,
and was, in consequence, removed from of
fice bv Buchanan in 1858. In 1857 he was
counsel for the plaintiff in the famous J)red
Scott case. In ISO') he WPS chairman ot the
Maryland republican state convention, and I
President Lincoln appointed him postntas
ter-general in 1S01, which position he held
until 1S04 Since then Mr. Blair has oeen
a
democrat of the most pronounced type,
I.ATI. MARKET LLEPORI.
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Capito!
IJaktTs'. X\X.\. ^1: in harte!*,
.'. 50e per bb! ies«, ae
i ies, (tg.oO. Jtye
.. caUatn, £.V.s3.g5 yet
and a fair ii.,iui:y
Wiir r--T!a m
Laid wheats, the *prt ynees of which have
uaae increased, allowing slight advaneu for the
week. have bei-n lui.ite 1 and :n'1\v:i." ts
tffiieratlj -»e«u liijht, thus hcinina to sustam
viini'-j a .ire-enre of iniiirn' ed er-ip r»iorrs.
Prices v en resulted taaitily by
merits of trie market, irrespective of on
tlueiices. Tlii1 in ir!i*t on '1 u 'Silay wasr.it
cmsuie at th-» tiv'iowuii: No. 1 hard,
AiitriM. ijsl.tiS Spptetnher. ^1.05 Oct
vear. #1.0-1 No. 1 .s|iiit,.*l.uH No.
Nil No i. SJ.'ic N-i. 1,
al
!i» a-
#111
and
hard, #1.0^
.1 \»1*
th- .l.-mand
Colts -The market has been ctnii.
ija\ 11• fallen otT sU) e a we-ek atfo. have
beer, moderate. Buyer* and si-Il-»ra luve be»a
wide apart, ami sales have ius'' ia':r.:iy ih.tijired.
Cloning tikfures: No. 44e hid, 4*c ask«d for spot
and Au'.'ii-t yi-ar, I h:1. 17( a-ke1. No. U, 10c
I'L L. 11 1'JI aski'd: P'OM ICIJ, Jo, ask«d.
OA'!- '1!O» ih ii.a'id ti: o:i-i:i:!i|ition ha-s been
fairly active, but the feeling is weaker, price* clos
mjr iower after a s
and betthsi^r
week aao.
r»ui'irur a tiait'if tho wi-'ck there was en::*-..Wat
a-iivity. On Tu»»(J:iv morning reports from Chi
cuij.i uf l.jwer ouot.itioii.s for j*.u madf hiiy.*rs
weak here. The market, ciosi'd with fair demaudat
easy fijrurw. No. 'J mixed, !!'_'• bid, ask«'d: Au
gust. o'J.usked Sf|:.nib-r, iM.h:
tii11, ask" ,iiher. 'Js. .] a-^ked year,
'J7c h:d, iit»c .liked No noxt-d. tiOc h.d, li'Jc
asked No. 2 white, !54e bid, ooc asked: No. 3
white, :s:U" askej rejected, its.- bid. Tuesday'*
sale*: 1 car No. white, 3."K" f.o.h. -cars No. 2
nii.\"d, 34c 2 cars do do. 33c: 1 car K" 2 whit»,
tile: 1 car No 2 ni:x'd, :!'.»c sacked.
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MINNEAPOLIS.
7.2."t
WHEAT—The chief events of yesterdav were an
advance of lc u No. 1 hard and on No. 2 hard
with no offeriugs, and an advance of
by the Miheii' a-sm-i itiun. On "ciiarinc
fre»» bid for No. 1 hard, and gil.os for N-.'. 2 hard
The only s:ih- w-u,* of No. 2 northern, at s-1,02.
Quotations: No. 1 hard, spot. $1.12 sclier the
vear, $1.01 seller December, $1 .ol: seller Feb
ruary, $1.0- No. 2 hard, $1.0S: No. 1 Northern,
$1.00 No. 2 Nonhern, $1.02 No. 1, $l.o:i No.
2, No. 3. tCc: TdiJtrs'
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'aali 2scJuly 27
1
'_"7 ».jc August:
THE CAPITAL COMMISSION.
Col. W. VII:is s pong Argullieilt
lor the Do!ens« in tli« Conrt at Yankton.
Yankton, Specinl Telegram July 2'»
This morning Judge Edg?rton, in the quo
warranto case against the capital commis
sioner. denied the motion of the defendant
to strike the case from the calendar, on the
ground of being a proper case for jury trial.
Judge Kdgerton said, however, that there
might during argument ariie a question of
i fact, when he might see his way clear to
award the case to a jury,
but lie thought the necessity
did not now appear. Argunipnt was then
begun by Judge Moody, who occupied a
greater part of the day. He held, first, that
the governor and last legislature had no
power under the organic act, to change the
seat o! government, that the first legislature
located the capital on section 18, Yankton,
and the revised code adopte 1 in 1S77 located
tlie capital at the citv of Yankton This
having been done, permanent change having
been made, the power of the governor and
legislature became exhausted. Secondly,
Judge Moody cla'uued, anyway, there was
no authority for the governor and legisla
ture to "delegate their power to
make a change. Congress
had bestowed power up.in tlie governor and
legislature, and thev bad n« authority to de
legate to otheis. This afternoon Mr. Tripp
argued the question concerning the appoint
ment of the commission. The organic act
provides that all otlicers with certain excep
tions shall he nominated by the governor
and continued by the council, but the com
missioners were named in a bill which was
approved by the governor hence conies a
plain violation of the organic law render
ing the capital bill void. 15oth gentlemen
went fully into the question and cited a
long list of cases which they deemed nerii
nent, Yankton people seem well pleased
with the presentment of their side of the
rase.
YAXKTOX, .Special Telegram, July 27.—-In
tho hearing of the quo warranto caso against
the capital cotmnisfdonera to-day, Col. Vilas
first took up Judge Moody's point, that tlie
right of the governor and legislature to change
the capital had been exhausted, be
aau'eo iti adopting the revised code,
the words, describing the location
were changed from "Section 18" to "the City
of Yankton," Yi a* aimed to show
could not be called a change, becausi
the fiiwt location Yankton really had
mee, it afterwaid covered al! of Section 18.
Secondly, the power of repealing the change
was vested the governor and legislature and
this power could not beci iui xliausted. On
the subject of delegation power by the
legislature to the commissions n.Coh Vilai weut
fully into the constitutional vijw of the ease
He aimed to show that it was a common prac
tice of legislative bodies to delegate power.
He cited many instances where congress,
which derives its power from tho peo
ple, had delegated its legislative power
to tho president Legislatures frequently
appoint commissioners to peiform certain acts
which the legislature has power but could not
well do. Thus, commissioners were appointed
in matters of eminent domain, to build bridges,
canals, buildings and for mativ other purposes,
with full power to do that which the legislat
ures might themselves da He drew a distinc
tion between the delegation of legisla
tive rower and administrative -power, aud
showed that the duties of tho capital commis
sion were purely administrative. Then, taking
.. uti the matter of precedence, he showed that
dUrv»?„L«e w-e
trket.
l-'Lont—Nothing has occurr-d during w --k
to hreak tho dull monotony of the
Miiiie-sota natents are quoted in New
:fr.UO/'
York at
and in Chicago at $5.30a?».00.
Lnca i]ii»iutiuns are Paten's. $0.75 straights,
$5.40 clears, 10 ow grades,
.*!. *Cn '.'}.
MII.I.STTFF—Has been flrss, with a: tmwarcl
tendon' y. tmt iu early lireak in nr.ot pre
ihcted. Quotatinns Bran in huik, atJ.7."t'i7
-acked. .+s.."Oi'' 0. Fine shorts, .+0.,"»0 i 10 coarse,
t»^'t."Jo. Mixed l-ed. 17j20.r», uccjrhiiif to
u'lality. Coarse corn meal, #20.
pri.'es: No.
1 hard,-"fl. 1 O No, 2 hard, $1.05: No. 1 regular,
$1.03 No. 2, $1 No. 3, !»Oc No. 4. *0c.
t'OKN—Has been very dull all the week, quotable
it 47c for No. 2 spot coi'-deniaed. 41ii40c, by
atnple.
OATS—Have been in the sain» ndi! ion A, corn
Juriue the week. Tim hiirlo-st bid Tuesday was
25c for No. 2 mixed. Quotable nominally a: 31c
for N 2 mixi.nl: white, 33c rejected, 2S'^c I'Oc,
bv sample.
Ciiii'Aoo M.UtKKT—Flour imrhanjfed. Wheat
is in fair ilemand and closed easier a! $1.01,^S
1.01
J4
July: $1.01 i.'£t OI W AUGUST $1.O3
1.03"* S"p*emher: $1.0O|M1«'• 1.05'I October
$1.00 1 .lM»is November $1 the year: No. 2
slir.uif, $1 No. 3 sprinif, H7C NO. 2 red winter,
•stic. Corn, quiet and easier: 5o "'ilc casli and
July: 5I»14-.I,-,O!S(. Aiii'u^', Sipteinher and Oct
her: 4.V?iiC tho year. Oat* du i and easier 27U
27'hc
,+(.
September: 2"mj October 2*)'i "2i Sc the year
I lye uuchan^ed at 50 ^jc. Flax seed, quiet at
$1.31. Barley is in fair demand at 701a*£« 77c bid
for Sep ember. Pork is fair demand, but un
settled and lower $13.50'»«13.02'TJ casn:
$13.45 July and August $13.(i2l- September
$13.75 October: $12.0ov'i 12.05 the year. Lard
in fair demand, but unsettled and lower: $
w
.00^
S. 02^ cash, Julv and Aueust $"*.72 lo't Septem
ber $^.00•.72'-a October $^.
»o:t8.321-j
the
y^ar. Bulk meats in fair demand shoulders,
$0.50: short ribs, $7.40: short clear, $j, Etrgs
firm at 17c. Butter and whisky, unchanged.
Corn to Buffalo. 2:%'"3c. Ileceipts—Flour, 10,
OOObbls wheat, 40.0(H) hu corn, 202,000 bu
oats, 154,oo0 bu: rye, 7,5oo hu: barle.-, 540 bu.
bu: barley, 20,000.
aiTi.w.UJKFK MAIIKET.—Flour, fjuiet but steadv.
Wheat, quiet bin stead ll.OP. cash !flOO"j
August: sf I.o f1•_ September: $1.0514 October'
Corn, iower,at iO'tc for No. 2 41?4c for re
jected. Oats, dull aud lower 27:s4C for the best
bid 3:o for No. 2 white iu si ore. Rye. no trad
ing. at 57c for No. 1. Barley, doll and lower noth
ing done. Provisions, weaker mess pork. ^1U.70
1418.73 cash and August: $13.90 September.
Lard, prime steam, if8 so cash and August
$8.90 September. Butter, nominally un
changed. Cheese, steady. Eggs, unsettled. Re
ceipts—Flour. 20,000 hbis wheat, 12,000 bu
barley, 500 bu. Shipments—Flour, 3,000 bbls
wheat, 800 bu barley, none.
Rev. Mr. Johnson, who has had pastoral
charge of the Episcopal church at Madeiia
for some tinip past, preached his farewell
sermon on the 29 th inst. He will remove
with his family to Missouri. No appoint
ment has yet been made to fill the vacancy.
St. Cloud is to have a chamber of com
merce with a capital of
Shipments—r lour, 8,000 bbU: wheat, 0« .000 bu i draft a constitution for the sail proposed State,
corn, 1
si 1,000bti oats, 3*,000 bu: rye, 04,000
$10,000.
count-v seats had frequently been local-d by
Stocks on "hand are commissioners named in Icg.slative enact
ni'.nta. and that the couits had la id e»nch laws
constitutional. In this way a majority of the
county seats Illinois were localtd, some
twenty in Iowa, and fifteen or more iu Mis
souri, and manv elsewhere.
CITATIONS IN ABUNDANCE.
Relative to State and Territorials capital, ho
cited Montana, where the legislature had dele
gat" its power to tlie people, who changed it
from Yirginia City to Hel-na bvvote Colorado
Territory, where the legislature st-leeted a
township and then passed an enactment naming
three commissioners to select a site within nix
square miles Illinois Territory, where bills
were twice passed appointing commissioners to
make a change Iiwa Territory, whosn legisla
ture passed a bill, naming a commissioner to
locate the Territorial capital in Johnson coun
ty, and later appointed a commission to select
the sits at Dos Monies Nebraska, where the
State legislature named the commission that
selected Lincoln and finally tin location of
tho national capital at Wa-hinuton by power
congress delegated to a commi-sioti which
was also authorized to purchase or accept
lands for the public use. Col. Yilas then took
3c all around up Ti ipp's argument about tho illegality of
ik'e_$l,12 was uamiug the commissioners in the bill, Tripp
having claimed that under the organic act,
such oflicers must be nominated by the gover
nor and continued by the council. Yiuis
argued that while the conimiHSioueis wore
oflicers such as were referred to the
organic act, their permanent coutinmng as
otlicers were tin ant witti regular aud
fixed dates. Here a commission was ap
pointed to do particular work. It was the
right of the legislature to name tho commis
sion, since, if loft to the governor alone, the
legislature would be deprived of the power
given it by organic act. Vilas pro
duced many precedents supporting his
theory. Moody occupied the afternoon is reply.
He said tho defendant had failed to touch the
main points at is-uie, that the governor and
legislature, having derived power from con
gress, could not di'legato it. Moody seemed to
regard the management of affairs in Dakota in
tolerably bad and could not n sist the tempta
tion to so state in uncomplimentary terms
Gamble will close tho argument to-night
PKOTF.ST AUA1NST DIVISION
Sioi'I FALLS, Special Telegram, July 27.—
At a meeting of the Democrats of Minnehaha
county, Dak., to-night, the following resolu
tions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The admission of the Territory of Da
kota as a State into the union of States, also the
division of the Territory on the Forty-sixth
parallel, aud admission of that portion of it
south of aaid Imo as a State, are Ques
tions now occupying public attention and
are of great interest to the inhabitants of Dakota:
and whereas, arrangements are being made by
some citizens to secure a division of the Territory
on the liue indicated, and also to hold
a convention, the object of which is to
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and to elect State officers and whereas, the citi
zens opposed to said sctieme huv« had no oppor
tunity to lie heard on these questions,
as only tho e that, artj favorable to tue
said projects have been invited to take part
in any meetings heretofore held, or the convention
to be held iu Sio il Falls, Sept. 4, and beliering. as
we do, that a good portion of the citizens of this
Territory are opposed to a division of the «ame,
and also to a convention styled the constitutional
convention, to be held in Sioux Falls
iu September, because the said convention wit I
have no legal existence, aud will not be a represen
tative body, but a faction we, the citizens of Sioux
Falls ain
1 iunenaha county, and members of the
Democratic party, fuel it incumbent upon our
selves to enunciate our views upon the above ques
tions and submit them to the favorable considera
tion of ail Democrats and other citizens of the Ter
ritory in sympathy wPti us.
Resolved, That we are ooposed to a division of
the Territory of Dakota.
Resolved, That we are opposed to the self-con
stiruted convention called to meet iu Sioux Falls in
September, as it will not be a representative body,
and will have uo legal existence.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the admission
o! the Tertitory of Dakota into the Uniou as a
State, just as soon as it can oe legally accom­
plished, and for this purpose we will use our
best efforts to have the federal con
gress pa«s an act next winter, empowering
the ci'izens to elect delegates to a constitutional
convention to frame a constitution to tie submitte i
to consire*s, waich wi.l enable the Ter Porv to
promptly admitted as '. State iu the Fedar.il
Uldou.
li»soived. That the Democrats here assembled
are opposed to any member of the party acceptinj
the posiiio'i of deletrat« to t''!" so-called C'MlStPu
t' I v 'Utiou.
Another View 01 tue »toriu Track.
TKACEY, Special Tdgram, July 25.— V
careful survey of field along tho line of the
Northwestern road, between Iledtield, Dak,
and this place, made by the special represent
ative of the ITONEEK 1'KKSS, who bits just I V
Inrned from the tiip, due* not throw much
new light upon the situation in addition to the
facts already wired Beginning at a point be
tween Redtiold and Crandou, on tho Huron
branch road, tho ftonn went eouth about
twenty miles. Then, before reaching Huron,
it veered to the 4-a«t and pas-ied through a
•lection of country betwoen tho road from
Tracey to Huron, aud from Tracev to Iledtield.
Being some distance from the railroad and tel
egraph stations full details have ti it
been obtained, but enough is knowu
to make certain that the principal amount
damage was to crops, no lives being lost ex
cept near Hitchcock, Dak. and but few sui
stantial buildings being blown down at any
point. The towns seems to have escaped as
a rule, the storm going through rural distrie s.
While crops have suffered veiy severely iu tho
track of the storm, in many places being en
tirely wiped out of exist Miee, lato reports are
of a more favorable character, and rumors
prevalent at tirst were undoubtedly exagger
ated. Tho losses will assume large propor
tions in tho aggregate, to be sure, but
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that this
while at
uo exist-
A I KI:AT MISTAKE
i. .-up Mi.!' the crops over all the section
vinbtao'ii in the course of the storm have beou
destroyed. Many acres that at first seemed
ruined have h-gnu to rise up to some extent,
and in a go xl many instance farmers will be
able to realize considerably from tho crops they
supposed would be worthb ss but even in its
most favorable aspects, tho storm may b» set
down as very severe. Tho damage, however,
was not as great as was first suppojod. North
of Red field and west of Huron there are no re
ports of any storm nothiug laitlu 1 than a tol
erably high wind and sonn n 11 is heard of.
At Frankfort, Dak., ten mil *s cast of Rodfield,
there was
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damage and not much of a blow.
Three miles Bouth, however, crops
suffered quite largely, and a farmer
named Myers was injured, though
not seriously. He was out in a field atul was
blown against a wagon with considerable force.
This is the only person who was injured at all
in that section. At Poland, eleven miles
farther east, no traces of tlie storm are Hoen.
The storm pass-nl about eight or ton milos
for $150,000,
possible
for
to
tho eouth, damaging only crops, but them quite
sovero. At Raymond tho Btorni struck
south of tho town. a*id a number of crops
were almost ruined. About eighteen miles
southwest of Clark station tlie worst work was
done by the storm.
IN CLAUK 1 O NI V,
at Kiefton ostoftice, !h- ro-nh nco of Post,
master Farringtou was blown down, but none
of the family were at home. Quite a uumbei
of farmers were in town to-day from that sec
tion. There the path of tlie storm contracted,
not being more than a mile width. Crop»
suffered severely that wire in this stretch
ol
country. South of Henrv, Codington county,
the storm was very violent, and crops sus
tained a large am unt of injury in places.
Several buildings wt re blown down and
number of people injured none fatally. Re
ports as to the killing of u
1 in are pre
valent, but not credited. \t Wat rtowu thert
are reports of disHHiers. 11 s orm reached
fome tweniv miles or more from this place to
the south. Crops, as usual, Buffered to some
extent, but no buiMingo wore blown down
or people injured. CJarv, Deuel county,
just on the Dakota liue, was at
least thirty miles from the storm track, and
no reports of serious results have reached
there. Crops within a radius of twonty-fiv«
miles or more are in a magnificent condition.
Canbv, Yellow Medicine county, the first sta
tion in Minnesota after crossing the Dakota
line, makes tho same report as Gary. Th«
Btorm went some twenty miles south. There
is no trace of the storm at Marshall and no re
ports of violent winds north or ninth in fact,
tho storm
SEEMS TO IIT\L KPEXT ITS FORCE
in that section ca,s 01 the Dakota line, aud
efforts to locate wh
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it -rossed the railroad
track, both Huron and Redtiel I lines coming
together at Tracy, are not successful. The
storm must have lifted about at tho Dakota
line, doing little if any dannge until it struck
again at Lamberton and Klo.»py Eye, jumping
completely over Tracy. After skipping Tracy it
eems to have broadened out, taking io
Redwood Falls on the north and below Man
kota on the south the norih-jrii and southern
boundaries suffering but little damage how
age. Then it contracted agaiti and passed on
east through Waseca and Owatorma, dying oul
in a violent spasm at Elgin and Mantorviile.
The storm, wherever it raged throughout this
entire section from Tracey as far west and north
as Redtield, presented about the same charac
teristics as it did to the east. Thera was consid
erable hail aud rain, and just prior to the tim«
it began at dusk almost approaching darkness
prevailed. The storm clouds were very near
the earth all the time. Crops in tho belt
ol
counties between Redtield and Tracy, through
where the roads rui*» are very promising. The
fear now is that hot weather may do as much
damage to the crops as dul the storm. The
weather is very warm. Should this continue
heads of grain will ha baJlyif not irreparably
damaged.
Ex-Mayor J. C. Chapin of Fargo has
failed
The Bismark Tri­
bune says: Chaplin has been doing bus
iness in the Red River
ever
sio:.i
lias been there on no eapital whatever.
He has begun the construction of scores
of costly buildings without a dollar in
the bank to pay bin carpenters. While
the rush of speculation was
011
it was
him to sell out to some one
seeking investment, and in this way he
has kept his head above water, his more
intimate acquaintances knowing, how
ever, that a grand smash would come
sooner or later. Chapin had a faculty
of obtaining credit that was truly won
derful. It is said that among the credi
tors is a market mau to the tune ot $4,
000.
Mrs. Laura Blair, housekeeper at the
Continental hotel, Fargo, died recently
from an overdose of laudanum, taken to
allay neuralgic paiu.