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W AROUND THfe STATE. Lftrimore hasa Bryan and Stevenson club**' It is lonesome. —o~~ ,v 4 J,. y* A A bifilding for the "st&w'wpnan's home society is nearly completed at, Fargo, "ft has all cOnv^nienees and 1s thoroughly up to date, and a credit to the city and the state. —o— Mandan people are endeavoring to get Governor Roosevelt to stop over for the first day 01 the staite fair, but ,^owing to the demands upon tihe gov- 'Mountaineer: Tom Lee, one of the 'pioneer farmers of Numendaihl, while coming to WaLhalla recently, met a large black bear in the coulee, and killed it. The animal weighed aibout four hundred pounds. IWra 4V- ^.V Foley Bros., contractors, have qom ^yjt^pleted the grade for the extension of t-~ ^the N. P. road from Milnor to Oakes, and the roadbed is now ready for track laying.. The company is putting in a 'C jrsidetrafck 1,800 feet long at Milnor. & £&i~ Louis Dudrey of Cass county will sue ^frf'•c'i^the Piano company for damages for '^'VV^false imprisonment. They arrested Y^iV7' ^im f°r moving mortgaged property 'v J^f rom the state and when the case came ,IPv 'it was dismussed.'^ ?Dudrey wants 0y^isome balm, *v- s—o— 1 1 A call has been issued fpr the Tenth ^'p^^legislative district republican coriven which will be held at Mapleton, .VSept. 39. The convention is called for ''rvl9%S% the nomination of a candidate to take ,^i| the place of T. Twiohell, who has re signed his seat in tine upper house.' A gentleman reports to the Steele cJ^^Ozon« that the other day he noticed a flock of snipe near Ms buildings lying fjlf' ei°n their' backs during a hail storm. T-lThe birds had their heads tucked un ijder tiieir widgs and were thought to be dead. After the storm they "got up fieSto-*dnstea /1 reported from Sheyenne, following the ip|| path, of the former storm. Reliable $|witnesses state hailstones were as large as base bolls bushels~the size of hen's eggs and they lay on the'ground in "Sheyenne until the streets were white. The storm^cov.ered,, fifteen miles along the track.'' ~-V- Ed H&nson, a farm'laborer^n 'Ihe employ of Hans Sandvold of Anselm, Ransom county, has- had a preliminary examination on the charge of inde cently assaulting Louisa Gotteniberg, a girl said to be less than 16 years of age, and formerly in: the employ of "Mrs.: Sanborn, wife of State. Senator San born, of Ligbon. He was bound over for trial, and In default of neavy bail he is incarcerated In the county jail. Jamestown Alert: States Attorney R. W. S. Blackwell of LaJMoure county was here yesterday to consult the dis trlet court regarding injunctions served on three druggists and three blindpiggers at Kulm. This is said to be the first time an attempt has been made to suppress the liquor traffic at Kulm. It is the first time Kulm has been dry for years! The people in that portion of" It^Jfope ^unty.dojn't v' mi-- McDonald of GfifiKl Foi'Ks^nas just received lettefrs from his brother, A. H, McDonald, anfl Win Boulter, both of .whom .are at Oape Nome. They -describe man^'of the hardships which miners must- endure. Many of thean are working, in water waist deep wash 6xg gold fnwn the sanUp|-|The weather has been very warm, ..but" the water of the Arctic oceap is at all times some whalt ohltly, and work under these con ditions is anything but comfortable '11 ,' On' complaint of A. C. IWaVfield of Melville, & w&rraait has been issued for the axrest of_ Frank Smith of this place. Mayfield recites t^&t Smith threatened to shoot him. It eeems that Smith anxi a Minneapalie man, •were put Bhodt 1 ing chickens md ""drove over on Ifoy fleid's land. Mlayfleld claimed dam and the Minneapolis man settled with him. After the settlement had b#en made Mayfleld alleges tha^t Smitb, who was enraged over the incident, procured his gun and advanced on the complainant saying that .he would shoot htm and that his friend was a fool to settle with Majrfie3d.|. ^e man who accompanied Smltif interfered -M'f w&iSfi ESTIMATES TOO HIGH •Vh tfvt Commissioner of Agriculiure "Thoinas Says North Dakota's Wheat Yield b«-r4v»#ot Over 20,000,000. ¥W:i4 Figures on a Total Acreage Sown of Less Than 4,000,000—Yield About KSfiSI FiTe Bv9he,s Commissioner of Agriculture Thom as, from reports of the aicreage made to him by nearly all the counties in the state and personal Investigation of the crops through the state, does not be lieve the state of North Dakota will produce over 20,000,000 bushels of Wheat this year, with the probability that the yield will be reduced to 18, 000,000. He bases his estimate upon a careful study of.: the crop conditions in the state and supports it with the only figures that are obtainable as to the acreage, the reports made to the assessors of the crop sown in the spring an*^ the evident condition of the crops^ through the state, Mr. Thomas takes decided issue with: the estimators who have placed the acreage of crop in the state at nearly 5,000,000 for wheat, and the average yield at six or seven bushels, The re ports from all the counties in the state, with the exception of a few of. the smaller ones, says Mr. Thomas,, show that the wheat acreage sown in the state this spring was practically the same as last year, about 3,700,000, and the average yield for the acreage sown will not be over five bushels. This would make a total .wheat yield this year of 18,500,000, and this Mr. Thom as States will be approximately the crop raised this year of wheat. "You cannot raise wheat on a-crea®e that is not in crop," said Mr. Thomas, "and. the total 'acreage of wheat this year is nowhere near the estimates. One reason is that the flax acreage in the staite was doubled. ti^is spring. At least half a million acres that is ordin arily planted in wheat was last spring sown in flax.\'_ Farmers were led by the high price and the proven good qualities of North Dakota soil to plajit flax on much of their wheat acreage. Last year the flax acreage in the state was about aalf a million acres. This year it is over a million acres. 'Last year the fl$x average in the state, as shown by the returns to the office .of the commissioner of agriculture was about 12 bushels. This year 1 do not believe it will be over 5 bushels—^about the same as wheat. The total fhtX crop in the state this year will there fore be about the same as last, count ing the doubled acreage. I look for a yield of about five or six million bushels of flax this year." Notwithstanding the falling off in the state this year, Mr. Thomas says there will be no particular distress in any part of the state. Reports have been sent out that some Russians in McHsnry county are starving, because of the failure of uheir first year's crop, and because they had staked their all on this. "There is no reasc-a tor such a condition «anywhere in the state,-1 said Mr. Thomas, "and I do not 'brieve •it: exists."^' There is plenty^ of work everywhere in the state. Fanners in" the valley want men and there is no xarticular curtailing of business. Merchants are Pitting out goods, and while sales of farm machinery and implements have been out off somewhat, other business is being done and there is no discour agement as to the future and continued prosperity of North Dakota. Dairy ing is picking up, and there has been a lajge increase In the cattle business the past year Wool sales, while slow and at lower prices than expected, have helped out the sneepmen in the TWENTIETH YEAH. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1900. i¥ •AW€Wl Flax Average Doubled, But Average Much Less That That of Last. Year. --*M. mmww yreet,- ern part of fch« state. Th^ late rains have helped the prairie grass and the question of fall iiaa been solvcd. New' grass is springing up, and a second catp of {lay will be, cut hi September in many place*. lag® RIOTS AT AMOYf WashingtcMi, Aug.^#.—Consul John Mn at Amoy vires that^ rioting has broken out there and serious trouble is threatened. Marines have i^en. landed JTawwes* TO D5ATH1 Aug. 34.—LieuE Cordua, the Burgher convicted of instigation of plot to kidney Lord %berte, w$« sentenced to. d«ath, Lord Roberts ap proving. &mr pM'CUMBER'S VIEWS. CORRECTS MISREPRESENTATIONS OF HIS RECENT SPEECH AT GRAND FORKS. Wahpeton, Aug. 24—Senator Mc Cumber, referring to the criticisms and misrepresentations of his speech at Grand Forks, says: "I stand by and hold myself respons ible for any statement I may make bu't of course cannot assume resppnsibility for wilful misrepresentation. That I am in hearty accord with the idea of American commerce and influence is well known. I believe in tne growth and development of our country as a great world power and that it shouTd adapt itself to every advanced condi tion. I maintain that we should hold the Philippines. They came into our hands the result of a war unsought. In. receiving, them from Spain we as sumed grave duties and responsibili ties and to shirk either would be na tional dishonor. "Many democratic statesmen, admit this, and we differ only in the degree of the control which we ought to exer cise. They say our relation should be that of a protector only. But a pro tectorate which with' army and navy guards from all foreign and outside in terference, while it permits every sacred Tight of life, liberty and prop erty to be .trampled upon and anarchy to usurp the reign of law within, would be a sorry spectacle, no less disreput K^le than dishonorable. Ipp'W'e should not only protect them from without invasion but internal dis orders and convulsions. The duty to interfere In tih6 internal affairs of the island for the enforcement of law. and order, carries with it the authority to govern and control. The greatest lati tude in self-government consistent with the protection of these rights, and the enforcement of just laws should and wiH be accorded these islands. "In the address referred to I spoke of the great efforts of the commercial countries of the world to extend their domains and .spheres of influence for the purpose of expanding their com merce—of securing exclusive control of new flelds for the consumption of their products. And I asserted that the greatest and the most prosperous country of tihe future would, be tftnt country whose commercial powers to the greatest extent compassed the world and that our duty remanded the utmost exercise of our influence to guard our own commercial interests and to protect our treaty rights. I' "Instead otf advocating the partition of China or any other part of the world as falsely stated in that article, I consider it the paramount duty of this country to use its utmost en deavors, and to go as far as diplomacy can go, to prevent tne disruption of the Chinese empire^ We neither want any portion of Its territory for our selves nor uo we wish it divided among the great powers of Europe. »^'What we do want is its future trade —a free land and. opportunity to de velop trade relations without hin drance or interference of other powers. We have but one ocean to llatlti «p|' -.Mi vj CITISB, rm Jif and Possessing the Philippine islands we are, brought to -the very gateway of a vast commercial field to„t}e ideveloped in the future.'' Si •. NARROW ESCAPE. if FARGO LINEMAN RTJ^S" UP AGAINST A, UVE. WIRE AT S^PLp.ig^Plg^ ",:^v Fargo, Aug. 24.—Paul Bolin, who lives on Ninth street south, met with a painful accident at. Staples yesterday and had a narrow escape from a vio lent death." Mr. Bolln is engaged by the North western Telephone Exchange Co., as a line repairer. Yesterday he was work ing near Staples and while at the top of a pole laid his hand on a live wire. 'Fortunately for him he had not grasped the wire and the current was not strong enough to hold him. He was tum bled to the ground, a distance of twen ty-five feet. He was considerably Bruised ahd stunned by the fall, but was able to make the trip home last night. His hand is quite badly burned and it will be several days before he resumes work again. Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance, taken IQ. connection with the crank he forced into the Kansas City platform, entitles him to be known as the Em peror of Evasion. Inilii PEKIR IS fiDIET! mm 1 -7, xr Reports from Shanghai Say Everything is Quiet at the Chinese Capital City. Whereabouts of Refuges is Unknown— If Prince Tuan's House Has Been Burned. Chinese Repulsed in an Engagement Near Tien Tsin—Hancock's .. Soldiers Landed 7^-' r. Shanghai, May 24.—Pekinis reported quiet. The whereabouts of refugees and wlio are left at the capitol is un known. It is reported the allies have burned Prince Tuan's house. REPULSED. Cheffoo, Aug. 24.—The Chinese tried to cut the communications near Tien Tsin but were repulsed Ay the allies, whose loss is slight. LANDED. Washington, Aug. 24.—Remey cables from Taku that all troops of tne Han cock are landed.' The '.marines have gone to Tien Tsin. Private Arthur Woods of the marine corps was acci dentally drowned at Taku. WHEAT YIELDS. SOME LARGER YIELDS REPORTED FROM THE VALLEY THAN WERE EXPECTED. Grand Forks, Aug. 24.-—Notwi'th standing the wet weather of the past few weeks farmers have made good prgress With their harvest, all things considered, and in many places thresh ing is nearly over. A traveler from the north brings in the following crop reports: J. L. Cashel of Grafton,'threshed 100 bushels of wheal from 100 acres. I^he yield of 400 acres on the Stockey farm, Walsh county, was 300 bushels. The best crop near Grafton is on a field belonging to James Dangerfield, which will go twenty-flve bushels. S£r. Dangerfield's crop will average thir teen bushels. John Haicrow, Bowermont, haB 250 acres that averaged five bushels. He has one field from which he expects fifteen bushels. G. A. McCrea, of Drayton, threshed 137 acres on his Pittsburg farm, which averaged 27 bushels.' A. Ansett, of Manvei, was in the city yesterday, and said that his neighbor hood would -average 15 bushels. His farm is in an exceptionally favored lo cality, however, being in what is known as the Brule, a triangular dis trict bounded by Red river, Turtle river and the Marias, and containing several thousand acres. This is the brush land, well protected by timber, and it almost invariably yields 'heavy crops. FILED. PETITION FOR CLEMENCY IN THE CASE OF IRA 0. JENKINS FILED WITH THE GOVERNOR. The petition for commutation of sen tence in the case of Ira O. Jenkins has been filed with the governor and Gov ernor Fancher is considering the peti tion in connection With the .testimony in the case. He is giving the matter careful consideration and will probably announce a is decision in'the matter in time for Sheriff Bogue to make all necessary arrangements, in case the pe- RAISE GOOD CORN. ,) Jamestown Alert :#|Tfce best crop seen on the farms, outside of some flax fields is the corn crop. It is the big gest and best crop of corn the county ever, raised and some uelds remind one of Iowa or "Southern Minnesota. The weather has been just right and as a 'good deal J"of corn was sowed late for feedy the amount will be much in creased. Com makes excellent wheat ground, and in several cases has been cultivated properly, showing the value of cultivating corn, a crop that has never been sufficiently or propeiiy cul tivated in this sftate. A great deal of feed will be hau urom the corn crop this year. 1 H. She^pard of Casselton had a gobbler who wanted to assume duties generally conceded to the other sex— and set.. He was given some eggs and ^tuck to his job faithfully for tbree six chickens. His clumsy efforts in caring for his young brood resulted in their early death. FLEE FROM SMALLPOX. INDIANS FROM THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS ROUNDED UP AT FORT BERTHOLD. Fort Berthold, Aug. 24.—Last week five prairie schooners loaded with Tur tle Mountain Chippewas arrived here. They were fleeing from, the smallpox and thought they had. reached a safe retreat. Dr. Norris with an* Indian policeman met them before they had time to pitch their tents. After giving them a careful examination be es corted them outside the lines and warned them to keep -pff the reserva tion. There is no trace of the disease here yet, and there will be no smallpox on this reservation if efforts on the part of Dr. Norris and an able company of government and mission matrons and nurses can keep it away.' WINDY PTJGS, BOTH FITZSIMMONS AND SHARK EY CLAIM TO BE IN GILT EDGE CONDITION. New York, Aug. 24.—Both Fitz and Sharkey this morning claimed they were in the best possible condition for tonight's great batitle. All was quiet at training headquarters, the men hav ing completed their work yesterday. Fitz was emphatic in the opinion that Sharkey will last .only ten rounds. Sharkey claims if Fitz fights as he did Ruhlin he will settle the Cornisbiman in "jig time." Ruhlin picks Fitz as the winner and betting favors him 8 to 5. RESCUED. BADEN-POWELL RESERVES PRIS ONERS IN AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE B6ERS. London, Aug. 24.—'Lord Roberts re ports that Baden-Powell in yesterday's engagement resreued a hundred Brit ish prisoners and captured twenty-five Boers, including Captain Vamderoerne of the German artillery and Field Cor net Zeitleeh. Bullets casualties on the 21st were 7 killed and 22 wounded, 5 missing. Kitchener yesterday drove a force of Boers to Koomalh Valley, los ing 8 men. HUNTINGTON'S WILL. WILL OF THE LATE CALIFORNIA MAGNATE MADE PUBLIC TODAY. New York, Aug. 24.—The will of the late C. P. Huntington was made public at noon. The Value of the estate was not giv?en but that which goes to the widow. She also receives the Fifth avenue mansion, and all the late mil lionaire's personal property. The only charity 'bequests are to the Hampton Normal Agricultural Insti tute of Hampton, Va., $100,000. Chapel for the aged, New York, $25,000. CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS. Tihe republican 'headquarters have been opened at Grand Forks, and the democratic Plaindealer gives up fh*g "jolly": "Republican headquarters at the Dako tah, and those in charge, are a pleasant combination. The central committee has engaged a suite of two rooms, well lighted, and within a few days another room, a political library will 'be opened. If there was nothing more obnoxious in the party a-han a cool suite of apartments, a good demo crat might be prevailed upon to vdte tne ticket.^: But alas and alack it is not so. Major Hamilton occupies one cornier of one of the rooms. Secretary Jewell occupies another, and Chairman Budge still another. Mrs. Kent, who has lately accepted a stenographic position at headquarters, lias a pleasant corner, and will shortly have an assistant, as the contemplated work mapped out -by the committee is of mammoth propor tions. W. r-v i" .« In the smaller room,1 that Is' to be, may be found campaign literature ga- IOT^. Yellow covered pampftlets, with yellow stuff between the covers, wiiH burden the shelving to be arranged for its occupancy this week. MessTs. Bacon and Wood look after the office fore© in a dandy manner. If they want ice water they touch the button and the uniformed ice-pitcher jugglers do the rest. Touch tbe button for anything and everything and you get it—see, all out of the same button. Hon. Tom Marshall sent the chil dren's home people «t Fargo a snug check for the benefit of the little onsa. FIVE CENTS Imperial Government in China Proven to be Demoralized and Broken Reported that Dowager, Etiiprlk'B att& the Emperor Have Been Captured ^W#|*tChinFn It 1 LL Hung* 1 Chang •W- Recognizes the moralized Conditions, and Promiseays Immediate Reform. Shanghai, Aug. 24.—Finding none responsible in Pekin the allies are forming a provisional government. A Chin Fu telegram reports that Prince Tuan and the dowager empress were captured. After proceeding one.day's journey from Pekin and finding Tun Fuh Siang"s troops uncontrollable, burning and ravaging the country tfiey became terrified and turned back. Li Hung Chang confirms the report re garding the demoralized condition of the imierial troops. He recognizes the futility of resisting the foreigners and proffere conversion to reform prin ciples. The allies still surround thei||i imperial city but will not enter till the govemmentls are heard from. Chaf-^ fee believes there will be no mora fighting. 1 BODY FOUND.' DISPATCH SAYS BODY OF VON KETTELESR, THE GERMAN MIN ISTER, HAS BEEN FOUND. Berlin, Aug. 24.—Lekel Anzeigetr publishes a Pekin dispatch saying the body of Minister Von Ketteler haw been found buried in a Chinese burying ground the place where he was assas sinated. There were bullet wounds in his body and head. He will be in terned in the Christian cemetery at Pekin. NEEDS CARE. YOUTSEY, SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TRIAL REQUIRES CONSTANT CARE Georgetown, Ky., Aug. 24.—Henry Youtsey, the next scheduled for trial in the Goebel murder, is so seriously alarmed as to cause constant attend ance of officials. Caleb Powers, shack eled hand and foot, was taken t» Louis ville today. He complained bitterly at the ironing. INDIANAPOLIS. WasiMngton, Aug. 24.—The census for Indianapolis shows 1(59,104. The increase is 44 per cent. You will never find any other pills so prompt and so pleasant as DeWitt's Little Early Risers. E. S. Beardsley, Fourth street. The reports of the assessors shows a substantial increase in the value of New York farm lands. Here is an other populist argument destroyer. Millions will be spent in politics this year. We can't keep the campaign without money any more than we can keep the body vigorous without food. Dyspeptics used to starve themselves Now Kodal Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and allows you to eat all the food you want. It radically cures stomach troubles. E. S. Beardsley, Fourth street. Mothers endorse it, children like it, old folks use it. We refer to One Minute COugh Cure. It will quickly cure all throat and lung troubles. E. S. Beardsley, Fourth street •s.i 1 mf W :4 •."CrVjVAs. a Prosperous railways indicate a pros perous country. No nation can thrive when its commercial arteries are clogged. 'A, T% ,, .'! Pblllppiae Cattle. The enterprise of the American breeder has again been exemplified by a western live stock enthusiast import ing some cattle from the Philippine In lands, says The National Stockman. As no specially. valuable features have been found In the breed of cattle found dn these islands it is doubtful whether importations of this kind will prove profitable or popular. It shows enter prise, bowever, and demonstrates that there ate but few things beyond the reach of the wide awake breeder. It will be a long time before a classifica tion will be made for Philippine cattle at our fairs, but they might be a valua ble adjunct to our cattle sfeowdqr of comparison and as curioslftea. way