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NOTES AND NEWS.
Jeff. Davis is in Paris.
The southern flood is th* worst ever known.
Ten inches of snow ftll last week in Central iowa.
St. Paul proposes to treat its dead cats to crema*
tion.
Wintermute is at last indicted for the murder of
McCook.
E.
0. B. Porter ia-the Clerk of the Minnesota Rail­
road Commission.
James Whitehead has been appointed Agent for the
Leech Lake lndianB.
Cofcimiseioner Dr*imnond reufgned because of the
inadequate salary.
The crop reports this spring are almost snivel sally
favorable for winter wheat.
^The military contracts awarded at 8t. Paul on the
48d inst., aggregate $6SO,GOd.
In Indiana the saloon men are prosecuting the cru­
saders for interfering with their business.
Red wiug WHS the first boat to arrive at Et.
Pi® this reason, and arrived on the 24th inst.
It is probable that the Sanborn investigations will
force Secretary Richardson out of the Cabinet.
A meeting oil producers, held at Patrolia last
week, resolved to stop production for ninety days.
Hugh O'Donneli haB been appointed Master of
Transportation for the English Boundary Commis­
sion.
The change in the management of the Lake Supe­
rior Mississippi Road will take place the 1st of
May.
Col. Coffee, an Arkamas' planter, was killed at
Duval's Bluff, a few days ago, in a jaairel with a
neighbor.
A Quebec dispatch of the' 2lst speaks of a heavy
mow storm, and drifts equal to anything daring the
winter.
Hon. J. V. Blower h#s received
the
appointment
•f Receiver At the :"t. Cloud Land Office. He is a
good boy,too.
1 car wheel manufactory is beiag establWied in
Mtoneapjofb by Dan. C. jHoward, Oh a?. G. Men*el
and 6w» lienwri.
It is generally conceded now thUtbeiiBpe^uesity
»t Col. Kosa brought OP the bloodshed at little Rock,
mentioned last week.
The Mctrhead saw and flooring millis to be com­
pleted at once. Including machinery and buildings,
it will cost t25,GQ0.
Our information relating to the Brame. branch,
published two w«eks ago, is pronounced erroneous
by those Wbo ought to know.
The Daluth
Tribune
has commenced early to
whoo\ up lecqt polit cs, and. trots out four columns
bearing on this subject for 9 starter.
The Red fiWer
Star
can thank its lusky stars that
Little KHappen has gone. There would be music in
the air were Knappen in reMh of Niokles.
The Arkansas war has ended, and Brooks seems to
lave the inside track, thong# Baxter has called, or
tried to call, an extra session of the Legislature,
Coal has been discovered In Freeborne County,
^Minnesota. Whe coal dlS6oveJed is on the premises
of Hon.'B. D.
Bodjjeti,
and1 the bed teste feet thick.
Maj. Burrell, ofHohofcen, after taking the 1st de­
gree to Masonry, and .being debarred from the sec
•nJ, has sued the Lodge to recover the juuount paid.
Gen. BurnsMe's chances seem to be good for the TT.
19. Senatorship from Rhode Island. The Democrats,
and a large faction of the Republican! party favor
him..
Ool. L. R. Weod, of Springfield, Dakota, ias con­
cluded togt west. Hd has beext!appbtnted Collector
at Onnalaska, Akutid Islands, lKtOtoilis west of 8it
ka,'Alaska. b."
ikes* Ponteroy, a lad of fifteen,-***ffltly mardered
a child of four near Dorchester, Mass., nearly eever
Isg bis hefcd from fee body, afterward stabbing the
body, thirty tiroes. J-
A Kew York member of the Legislature hasiatro
ifeiced a bill to compeJ newifrkp*** publisii every
thing sent the|n i)j iorel|ttdf M' Others. Tltte is in
or to iv id of if
The
Prets
and
DUpdfch
report tliat-David M«k«fr
feas accepted the mattKfcwnent of the
St. P^ul Ptopneer.
»f he has It will he difficult toWrcf»« toflbe-Wo-
is one of the best newspapers patflfched.
tx-President Bruce wae recenliy Stacked and bru-
tain^'ibaltreated
M*yi
by a p^ if haW-breed^it1
Jto^ Osiri^ iter .Writing the Newspapers. Other
ycopte thaTi'BRTCFE have
ttHtertji
"forwriting ",r'
ttxh.
!*e'Mdlrdad:sohedul^lWa
tiirongh iii Hehjpg
A'ten million doHar been coWnenced
against Jay Gould and oth^f stockhol jet 8 of the'lT,
P, road, to cootj^l them fuiy iitibsci-tptionB -foV
stctck, in order that the %o' the creditors
ef the conoern.
lt'
5
The Minnesota railroad com^ntes are^iletermined
td comply with ttie ^ecent ratl^ laW of tWtf Stale,'
asd will prepife Aeir 'Schednifes \ui%er Wid into
The ^yirdaft4 UoAi^sio^rs frill.
^re^at« tbe^r ilu^^ltt/ailn^ W^doubt,
"ittiebtn^es^1iiit&<£]art
i&bi^GffcM l-- -P7
6«6ilon jyr s^te ^iVsld:
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TELEGRAMS.
Reported Specially for tlie Bis­
marck Tribune.
GENERAL HEWS.
Bismarck Land District Officers
Appointed.
The Vetoed Currency Bill and
oilier Washington News.
BELIGIOUS EI0T IN RUSSIA.
Louisiana Floods and Arkansas
Troubles.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES-HAPS
AND MISHAPS.
Great Snowstorm In Ohio—
Carry the news to Hazen.
BISMARCK LAND OFFICK.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—The Presi­
dent nominated Ex-Gov. Stephen Mil­
ler, of Minnesota, Register, and Edward
Brown, Receiver, of the Land Office at
Bismarck to-daj.
ARKANSAS.
Both parties in the Arkansas difficul­
ty are represented here by attorney^
and will submit to the President's*-de­
cision in t^e -casc^.
W3C VETOED BILL.
A rancorous debate was had in the
Senate Tuesday on the vetoed finance
bill, but it failed to pass over the Pres-
-M til 3'
TFFIS- DELDGBD SOUTH.
NEW OKLEANS, Aprif ^S.—The water
is slowly receding. Liberal relief ^oon
tributions are coming in irom «*ery
quarter. Committees are busy sending
out supplies,
CJttRV THE NEWS To HAZEN.
FORT WATNE,
Ind.J April
heaviest snow storm for a year occurred
Monday night, extending from Central
'Pennsylvania over Ohio and Indiana,
with fill of eight to twelve inches of
snow.
WINTEHMCTE.
YANKTON,
April
•M
28.—The
28.—Winterm«te,
who murdered Oen. McCook, was Ar­
raigned yesterday, and plead not guilty.
His trial is set for May 5th.
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Both" .houses of Congress eulogized
Sumner Monday.
Dr. Schoefie gets three years
in
penitentiary^
The Globe :theatre, .Chicago, was
burned on Monday. if.
Attorney General Williams loses his
»rriage appropriation'.
Brooks declines Baxter's offeirs to ar­
bitrate in the Ark'inSias difficulties.
The body of H. H. Hooden, who sui
cided by drowning, was. recovered at.
St. Cloud Monday!. ,,
The,inflationists bave issued ad?
drsss, criticising the President's yeto ol
ibe currepcy. bill-
the
ij
A bill aboiiabing the moiety ?$ystem,
and reforming the revenue/jcollection
has been agreed upon.
Half ft million acrefe of cotton and
sugat land^ *re reported' overflowed in
LouisiaM, and fifty thousand people are
destitute.
The Minneajiolfs Tribune, of Tuesday,
pubises tb'e
Tfepdrt
of Wiridotri's ti-ans
portatioii cbitiinittfee.
vrHe
elaborate ittd th'fc%Ug^siioHfe
BISMARCK, T., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1874.
Ftve children from Wisconsrti," namei.
Schuler, were capsized on the Missis­
sippi, at "VTinona, Monday, and* one gUI
17 and one 18 years old, were drowned
Great excitement exists at Topeka,
Kansas, over th,e arrest of the Bendei
family. The old man and his wife J»re
there. Crowds surround the jail con­
stantly.
It is reported that the House curren­
cy bill will be amended so as to author­
ize free banking, as in vetoed bill, in
which shape it will pass both houses
and be approved by the President.
Milwaukee 'dispatches state that the
new tariffs made by .the railways do
not conform to the laws, t^e roads be­
ing determined to contest the matter.
The same is true of Iowa railways.
In the Reil investigation it transpires
that Col. Woolsey, who had command
of the Red River expedition sent.out by
the Dominion Government, gaye Reil,
Lepine and others money, in considera­
tion of their leaving the country until
the government would dare issue am­
nesty.
James E. Caldwell, a Philadelphia
merchant, makes damaging disclosures
in the moiety matter. His book keep­
er gave Jayne invoices on which1 the
latter claimed eighty thousand for the
the Government, and compromised for
fifty.
Serious riots occurred in Russia Mon-
1.
day, growing out of religiotfcs matters.
The riots extended throughout thirty-six
parishes. In the affair several officers
and soldiers and many peasants were
killed. The prisons of the country are
full of peasants, and men, women and
oh'ildren were lashed, the men receiving
fifty, the women twenty-live and child­
ren ton blows. Some women, violent
in language, received one hundred and
fifty lashes.
J. O. Simmons returned from Pembi­
na Monday.
Dr.( McCausland returns to Duluth
to-morrow. He will come again* in Au­
gust.
E. W. Weed,' Road Master of the N*
P., now runs tbe Head Quarters Hotel*
Brainerd. Good.
Coll BfoWnson and Mrl Singfeer are
now full fledged homesteaders. Both
their families live on claims.
Lt. Gen. Sheridan, Gen. Terry, Col.
Clark and,Capt, Smith visited Fort Lin­
coln !#st Friday, and during their, visit
a review of the Cavalry at the Fort was
had.
John A. Stoyell returned froai Yank­
ton Monday He reports Mr. Ford in­
dicted on the compUin. made against
him, while Chris* GUson and Ojftrke
escaped, without indictment.
G. Brown, Agent for Benz4 Becht
Kt. Piul,
Wholesale
liquor house, one of
the most genial "bummers" on tbe road
is in town and has no reason to regret
his visit he'has taken several Urge
orders.
£apt. Ames and Lieut. Atwood, of
tte fiih Infantry, who have been absent
on leave for the past si\montlis, return­
ed a few days ^gbj' also Lieut.'W^he'r
ell aod family.' Lietit^ Weth'erell1 and
family have jugt returrifed fronl an ex­
tensive tour in Europe.
Lieut. Jphn Carland, 0th. Infantry,
has been ordered on the boundary Sur:
vey with his company. The aJsspnce of
Major
Carimnd-front Fort Lincoln wjll
tie ndted bore than that Of any other
officer. Norieknow Ctftiand but to es­
teem hiitoi
and
The
i-e^ort js
mil®*
to destitute Louisiana sulSerers. .^ Lj^-^ w,^
1£99** Is
erai^Qnfnbu^oAsW^bemz^ent fr^ tjseme»t?7 .j
his quarters area favor7
ite resort for all- who visit Lincoln.
River New.
Fontinelle arrived at 4 p. and
Ste:Uaian/passed: Spriiq#el4P9 tbt
14th, and should be here this
A Coal Enterprise.
D. McCall has entered into a contrac
"with tbe Railroad Company, to furnish
thctn with 200 tons of coal to be de
livered on the banks of the Missouri
from the Big Knife tuines. The coin
pany purpose testing the coal thorough
and if it proves to be as good as it js
believed it will, several thousand tois
will be contracted for. The beds fro^i
which the coal will be taken are on the
the river, sixty miles above Bismarck,
and are ten feet thick. Mr. McCall is
an old and experienced miner and will,
no doubt make the enterprise a success.
The number of Indian scoots at Fort
Lincoln is about to be increased to sev
ty-five. They are found to be very
valuable and on the recent chase did
good service, while the cavalrymen were
somewhat bothered to keep the trail the
Indians when they struck it followed it
as a dog would the scent of game. The
old scouts discharged some time ago
have all re-enlistcd but three. A num­
ber of others have also joined. Bloody
Knife who was of such great value to
Gen Custer last summer, on the expe­
dition, is expected in a day or two to
enlist.
Mrs. Slaughter's Prayer Crusade ar
ticle appears in full this week. Though
long, all will read it. The positions
taken are radical, and are open to criti'
cism but the article is well worth read­
ing, and will be approved by many.
Tree Oaltuw Act.
An Aet to amend tk« Act entitled "An Act to en­
courage the growth of timber on Weetem prai
,riea.
He it enacted by the Senate and Howe of Jiepre
eentatives of the United &Uiten of Americti in Con-
grew assembled, That the act entitled 'An act to
encourage the growth of timber ou Western prairies,"
approved March §,
lSTd,
tt&
be, and thes:-i!.e is hereby
aiuended BO at to read as follows: That any person
who is the head of a family. or who has arrived at the
age of 21' years, and Is a citizen of th« Uuited states,,
or who shvll hfve filed hia' declaration ot intention to
become such as required by the iaturalizauon laws of,
the TJn.ted States, who shall plant, protect or keep in
hcalthy growing cond tton fur eight years, forty
acretf of ttlQber, the trees thereon not btfug inore'thuu
twelve
apidrteafch pay. on any qUarUr sedlon of
any of the pttbBe luwet the United atates, or twenty
acme on any legal stfbdiv'isiqh of eighty acres,' or ten
acres on any legal subdivision of forty acres, or one
fourth part of any fractional 'gktbdi/kaou of land less
than forty acres, shall be cutitl^d to a patent, for the
whole of said quarter sectiob.'or of such itgal sub
division of eighty or forty'.acres, pr. fractioual suh
division of less than forty 'teres, as the case may be,
at the expiration of said eit,l»t yvrf, proot
of such fact by not less than two credible witi^estef.
Provided that not tqoi* than ode (JaaYttt of any sec­
tion shftU.be thus granted tiiat ^o person shall iniike
more than one eatty under the provisions if this net.
unlns fractional sub^ivisious of th^u forty acres
are entered wfiich fn thie'aggregate, shiill'not exc ed
one quarter section. ^4l !.« i,'
Sua. i. That the person applying for the benefit of
this act shall/upoh kpiilicatioii to' the register of the
laud district in vMch,be she i% about, to inake such
entry, majce affidaVitheforfe tlie rep^fcr or the receiver
.or some officer authorized, tu-adiuiyister4o uh4siu the
di^rict where tlie label is situatei,'-Who Is required by
lair to pse an oifiicial seal, that such $ntrylis u^Sde for
the cultivation of timber and upon filing said affi­
davit with auM 'register and receive^ and ota'VfeymeQt
Ojf #10, hd or qhe shall ttieceupon be permitted to
Kfiitfei* tne Quantity bi lati'd ifi^d^ -atid the party
malting an entry of. a quarter section uo^er-thc pro.
visions of this act shall be required Vo break ten acres
ofithe land covered thereby the firit year, te» acres
the second year, and twenty acres the third year, and
twenty acres the fourth 'year alter date'of entry. A
.party making an entry of eighty acres shall break and
plant,
fat
the time^ hereint^jfore prescribed, one-half
.of the quantity required of a party who enters a
quarter Section, and'a party entl-rtng forty acres'shall
reiik «pd plaut,. at the times hereinbefojre prescribed
one-quarter of the Quantity required by a narty who
enters a'quartet section, or a proportionate quantity
for any smaller fractional subdivision. Provided, howr
ever. That no final certificate,shall be given'«ir patent
issued for the land so entered until the ^xfriratioii of
eight ^ears from the (fate of such entry and. if at
the e)tpirat.ion of supli time, or ai^y tnn«f vjrit^n five
years hereafter, the person making such «n ry,' or if,
hie at* she'he dead, his or Iwrheirs or legal r«pret«-nta
tives, shall prove by two credible witnesses that he
^or^shtoor they have-planted- 'arid1 lo^!«ot less than
eig^it years, have cultivat^dand^rotected sut^t quan­
tity and character of timber as 'afdresaid. fhey shall
receive'a patent for such quarter-station or leg-^l sub
division of eighty or forty acres of land, or for any
fractional quantity of less thin forty acres, as herein
Kiis:cbmpjled
rovided. And in case of the.death of a person who
with the ptovWiikni of this act for the
period «f tl?ree ye^rs. -hif b«V8 °f leg*! rcpresenti*
tives Ahali have th^ option to comply with tlW pro
^hnons of this ac^apd.recede, at expiration of,, eiglit
years, a patent f«r 160 aor.-s, or receive without delay
ftpatent for forty acres. Klinqufeing all claim to the
remainder.
B«c. H, That if, at any time, after the filing of said
flidavitj ^nd prior to ,the ,isaiiug of the patent for
laid land.^the clkiniant. sna.'I aua'ndah the land, or fai
tp do breaking apd pUnting.r^quirefi by. tMs act
or any part thereof," or sh«lj fail to cultivate, protect
at keep in good eonditi6n such timber^ then, and irt
th^t event, such land shall be subj.-ct to entrj under
the Mme#te6'lWSi or by Jatnef'other' pil-fi -u under
the party
erteftd, set
tlei^or upkler this act, shall .gi ve, at the tiiQu of tiling
%is applicatibn, such notice to thj original claimaut
.asiehall be prescribed by tlte ruK.-s tuli'Jalished by th
Coninjissioner of the Gei eral Land Office, and th
fightaof the pi'rWes shall be determined *as in other
centered cases.
'&ect4. Th»t ea^h Srtni'everv person who under the
provisions of the act^entitled, "An, i*cv fco SCCUM,
homesteads to actual settlers o.i the |ubiic domain,
approved May th, 1882, or jinynmendmentg thereto
having a homesteiul on said publ dotuaiu. who, ai
any time-After theend bf oKher lesJ
duuee hrey», shallf|in a,lditi"a hcv Cttlenient aid
impTOrefhetife ribw requ'r^d by fr.w, 'have Kad mult
Cf^UVa4ioB, fof two ^eafS, «|n: acr^rfff t)mh«tr, thy
tree's thereon not being than' twelve leet apan
the,provisions of this act: Provided, that
kaaking'rAafrri to said'land eitiier as a home
He •qeilMHill »hefefw»j' ir. ?i
Sac. 6. That Uie Commissioner of the General
Land Office is hereby required to pr^»fti# and taue1
1
:^i'a
IsO. 42.
iuch rules and reflations consistent with this act,
-hail be necessary nmi proper to carry its provisions
into effect and. that tiiu registers and receivers ot
•he several land offices shall each be entitled to rc
ive two dollars at the time of entry, and the same
-um when tbe ctaitn is finally establidied and Yip final
certificate Issued.
SKC. 7. 'Li.at the fifth section of the act er titled,
"An Act in addition to the act to puiish crimes against
the United States, and f.,r other
Approved 3fareh
purposes,"approved
March 3d, 1857, shall extend tall oaths, *ffirmations
and affidavits required or author.zed by this act.
SEC. 8. That parties who ha v» already made ehtrie."
under the act approved March 3d, IbiS, of which this
is amendatory, sha I be permitted to ci mplete the
fame upon fqll compliance with the provisions of this
act.
14,18T4.
New Advertisements
Yankton & St. Louis.
THE NEW PASSENGER STEAMER
will leave Bismarck and Ft. Lincoln
3,
'74
for Yankton and St. Louis. Those wishing a speedv
and i.leasant trip down the river, will lake passage
aboard of her.
GRANT MAftSH, Capt.
JOS. TODD, Clerk. 4*wl
JOHN A. STOYELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
l-«y!
Bismarck, D. T,
MARK Your LINEN.
GAVITT & BERKLEY,
Stencil Cutters, Bismarck, D. T.
All styles and descriptions of teucila cut and fur­
nished to ord' Brass Alphabets and Fiuures, Door
Plates, Ac. Ink warranted indellible. All work war­
ranted. Samples free. 1
INOTICB.
TBRRITORT OP DAKOTA,
0 tJBTY OP Bb-RLBIUH.
Carrie L. Hinkley, 1'1'ff,
v»
Herbert 8 Hi-kley, Del't.
In 2d Judicial Dist. Court.
Summons.
To" Herbert S. Hinkley, Defendant above named.
You are hereby summoned and required to answer
the complaint in this action which is died in the offict
of the Clerk of the District Uourt for the County of
Burleigh and Territory of Dakota, and serve a copy
of your answer upon tl.e subscriber, at his office in
tfismarck,in said County, on or bafore the morning of
tlie (*2d) second day of the next term of the i.istrict
Court Tor the said Codhty of Kurltigh. If you fail to
answer the complaint' within that time the Plaintiff
-Will Apply to the Court tiff the relief demanded in this
complaint. Dated ^ismafck^ March'6th A. D. 1874.
JOHN A. bTuTKLi,, PL'FFS Att'y*
1
-4*2—4t flismarck, D. T«
Third Street Wtw*n Main and Thayer.
Good Accomodations,
And' First Class Fare.
,1 #2--ant JOHN O'CQNNOK, Proprie or.
DISSOLUTION AOTlOii.
7 rt
The co-partnership heretofore existing under the
Arm n«me of Marshall Jt'Hul'owbush is this day dis­
solved by mutual consent. Aii debts and liabilities
will be settled by lr, Hollowbush.
L. T. MARSHALL,
WM. HOLLOWBDSH.
The business will be contluued at the old stand by
W. T. Hollowbush, who will be happy to see his
friendd and pairohs as formerly.
Bivmarck, ci,{1^, 'April i2, 1874. 1-42—4t
DXJ1T1T CO.,
PB0HT STBEET, BISMAE0K,
AND DEALERS IN
Perfumery,
Paints, Oils,
GLASS AND PUTTY.
IIAlIt AM) TOOTH BRUSHES,
Fancy Articles,
Cigars and Tobacco.
Prescriptiors Accurately CoBpo^ei
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Jhoice ytva^ft tiquo^s & Cigars,
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FoHi'tli!^treet,
i*F ,lf $ 3hi *91
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