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•&r rfi4 I" £5 Hi i- PS® Over in England the railway com panies, or at least one of them, put up in the station placards bearing the names of passengers ^who had violated rules of the road, with addresses, the nature of the offense and fines impos ed. The offenders tool$ the matter Into court, and now the placards show only the words opposite the offense, "A passenger." It frequently happens that names given to villains and ridiculous charac ters in fiction will duplicate in real life. A certain English novel had Its scene laid on the west coast of Africa, and the villain of the book was a major in the army, supposed to be stationed there. To the novelist's dismay there appeared one day out of the unknown a real major, bearing the name of the villain of the novel, who also had been stationed on the west coast of Africa. In vain the unhappy author protested in the consequent action that he had never seen or heard of the plaintiff. A verdict for the latter was given, with substantial damages. A Birmingham lawyer held that one could libel a man effectually eifough by leaving out his name. He brought an action against a local paper for persistently omitting his name from its reports of cases in which he pro fessionally was engaged. Presumably he imagined that the loss of the ad vertisement he would have obtained by his name repeatedly appearing was damage enough. He was nonsuited, however. Fol»on Proof Animals. Neither differences of organization In juilmals nor In the constitution of the jpoisonous substance generally afford *ny clew for interpreting, an exception jftl want of effect. Unaccountable is |th© Immunity of rabbits against bella donna leaves (Atropa belladonna, dead ly nightshade). You"may feed them [with belladonna for weeks without ob serving the least toxic symptoms. The meat of such animals, however, proves poisonous to any one who eats it, pro ducing the same symptoms as the plant. Pigeons and various other tieribivora are also to some degree safe, from the jeffects of this poison, while inV warm blooded, carnivora it causes paralysis and asphyxia. In frogs the effect Is a different one, Consisting of spasms. The meat of goats which had fed on hemlock has' sometimes occasioned poisonous effects. Chickens are near ly hardy against nux vomica and the extremely dangerous alkaloid,. strych nine, contained in it, while in the smallest imount it is a fatal poison to rodents. More remarkable yet in this respect is tKe Immunity of Choloepus hoffman nl, a kind of sloth living on the island of Ceylon, which, when given ten grains of strychnine, was not much af fected. Pigeons are possessed of high immunity from morphine, the chief al kaloid of opium, as well as from bella donna. Eight grains were required to kill a pigeon, not much less than the mortal dose for a man. Oats are ex tremely sensitive to foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), which on the contrary may be given to rabbits and various birds in pretty large doses. Fined For Death on Board, "The only place, as far as law is con cerned, where it costs money to die from natural causes is aboard a steam ship," remarked a vessel owner.1 "The purpose of the law was excellent enough. There was a time when etol grants were being brought to this country in very large numbers or /by the shipload.' as it was termed. There ls oo doubt that there was crowding in the ships that brought them, and to prevent this a law was passed impos ing upon the ship a fine of $10 for every death that occurred during the passage from natural causes of per sons over 8 years of age. Thie put a stop to overcrowding, at least, it is supposed that it did, which is about the same thing. Ships do not .fancy having to pay fines of this kind. "Of course, in comparison with the great antiy of persons who are brought across the ocean from month to month, there are very few deaths, for the stat isticians have been kind enough to show beyond a doubt tliat the steam ship is the safest means of transpor tation in existence, but, just the same, there are ft considerable number In th? course of a year."wWashington Star. A-h tt sometimes 'easier to 9t«p into ^another man's shoes than It la to walk them,™ohic&so** I3& fy :YK,' A 4 *4%, Aft TWENTY-FIRST YEAR. LIBEL IN ENGLAND. Hot For Hard. There to Glre Game Actions at law. England's libel law Is a terror to .the defendants. A short time ago a young playwright sold a piece to a London manager and drew a small royalty each week, which was paid by check. One week when the playwright pre sented the check to the bank for cash ing it was returned td him marked "No funds." The playwright had the check framed and hung conspicuously1 in his study. He took pleasure in pointing it out to visitors and making biting comments until one day the manager's lawyer called and told the young man that he was committing a serious libel on the manager, where upon the check was taken down at once. |3ioiuitrcU WEALTH IN LANDS. Richness 'of the ^Endowment Of State Schools Will Be Realized Lands are Sold. Probably a Hundred Thousand Acres of Common School Lands to be Sold This Year. Deputy Land Commissioner Merrick is preparing bonds for several school dis tricts that have sold bonds to the state board of university and school laiids. There is a comfortable balance in the permanent fund which will be largely augmented when the sales of land are made this fall under authority granted by the last session of the legislature. Probably 100,000 acres of the common school lands will be sold. There is a great demand for this land and it said that two or three times the amount au thorized could be sold if put on the market. The minimum price for the land is $10 an acre so that a minimum value for the land to be sold would bring at least a million dollars. Much of the land sold, however, will be sold at a fig above the minimum. The richness of the endowment of the school fund of the state is not realized until it is converted into figures upon the occasion of these land sales. The last legislature also authorized the sale of institution lands and some of these will be advertised and sqjd. The money gotes into a trust fund and the in terest and income alone is available, to the institutions. Some of the income is already pledged to the payment of bonds and other bonds have been authorized for other institutions, notably the agri cultural college, the state university and state reform school. N. D. STATE. OFFICIALS. North Dakota State Officers Looking After Affairs in the Twin Cities. Minneapolis Journal: Governor White of North Dakota believes that all of the western states will profit by a creditable display at the Buffalo exposition. The time is ripe to attract people from the east, and also eastern money for invest ment. North Dakota did not feel finan cially able to- go intp the exhibition enterprise on a large scale, but her ap propriation will be carefully handled and, with the aid of the large element of public spirit in that state, the exhibit will be made a creditable one. Wheat will be king, of course, but the other grains and vegetables will be given a prominent pl^ce. A lignite coal exhibit will be a prominent feature. The cap tains of all classes of flickertail industry will be called upon for aid in making the exhibit. State Insurance Commissioner Leutz of North Dakota is shipping a large number of cows to the Missouri slope this week. The slope country has made a success of creameries and the number is increasing. Lieutenant Governor Bartlett of North Dakota is here to begin the work of the Dakota commission on the exhibit for the Buffalo exposition. He believes that a great many from his state will attend the big show. "All that we need," said Mr. Bartlett, "in North Dakota, to make the people well satisfied this year, is a fair crop." No Unusual Weather. The monthly weather bulletin publish ed by Director Bronson of the Bisiparck station, says: February was about an average month, by comparison with .the same month in former yeart. The mean temperature was slightly above the nor mal, and there was a slight deficiency in precipitation. The coldest weather of the month occurred during the first week, the lowest temperatures at nearly ail stations being recorded at about this time. At the beginning of the second week there was considerable moderation in temperature, and mild weather pre vailed for about ten .days during which period most of the maximum tempera tures were recorded. A moderate cold wave followed this period, which was in turn followed by generally mild weather for this time of the year, and the month closed warm and pleasant. The most of the precipitation for the month fell be tween the 15th and 20th, but was, as a general thing, light, only a_ few stations reporting anything like heavy snow, and at the clqpe of the month only a little snowwas reported on the ground. High winds were off requeutoccurftnce during the month, but while very unpleasant to be out in, no damage from them has been heard of,. The monthly mean tem perature was 7.1 degrees, which is less than one degree above the state normal. The departures of the monthly mean at the several stations from the respective station normals, are only slight, at some ,• M-wW^y H4'r*l}p JUti r* 5 fr)*Vfe WON HIS CLAIM. Soldiers' Homestead Case Decided by the General Land Office. Devils Lake, March 21.—A decision of much importance to the volunteer sol diers of the late war, which has just been made by the commissioner general of the land office at Washington, reached hero today in the matter of the home stead of Nels E. Peterson, who filed on a homestead prior to enlisting for service in the Spanish war. Peterson left the states and went to the Philippine islands without making any improvements on the land. He served in the army about fifteen months and after his return built a small house on the land. He then submitted a com mutation proof on the land after liv ing thereon only two or three days. The register and receiver of the Grand Porks land office rejected the proof. Peterson, through his attorney, John W. Maher of this city, appealed the case to the commissioner at Washington, who says the register and receiver were in error in holding that Peterson's term of service in the army should not be allowed as residence and cultivation of the land for the same time he served, even though he had no house on the land. Peterson was a corporal in the First North Dakota volunteers. The claim is in the northern part of this county, located not far from the extension of the Great Northern railway, and is quite a valuable piece of land. BACK FBOM MANILA. Bismarck Boy Who Enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Is Back from the Phil ippines. Clyde Townsend, who enlisted at Fargo in September, 1899, for service in the Philippines, returned to the city last night, the regiment having returned from Manila about three Weeks ago and being mustered out several days ago at San Francisco. The Thirty-sixth has been doing duty in the north end of the island, where the principal duty is gar rison duty, and the fighting, except with scattered bands of Ladrones, is about over. Several of. the Bismarck boys re mained there. Swett is in the quarter master's department, having a civilian position, and Glassley is in the pack train service. Wilson, a former Bis marcker, suicided by shooting himself. He had been in some trouble, and killed himself with a rifle one day when the guard brought him to dinner. Lieut. Smith remained in the islands. SELLING COAL. Results of the Efforts to Introduce the North Dakota Product Into South Dakota. Col. J. W. Morrow of Fargo, state agent for North and South Dakota for the Washburn coal, reports a rapidly in creasing trade. He has sold over 360 cars in South Dakota, most of it in Ab erdeen. He is also sending lignite stoves to Grand For^s and Aberdeen to show the value and cheapness of the fuel when combustion is properly obtained. A large increase in the output of the mines is contemplated in order to sup ply the demand- The active efforts of the coal men of the state to introduce this native coal are beginning to produce results. FOURTEEN DROWNED. British and Australian Steamers Collide and Both Are Sunk, London, March 21.—The British steamer Tay collided with the Australian steamer. Chemnitz last night off Flush ing. They went down, and fourteen, in cluding the captain and three women, were drowned. Experiments at'the Series observato ry have led to certain results on the heat of the stars that may be summa rized as follows: The apparatus em ployed waB sensitive enough to reglstei the heat received from a candle 15 miles distant The heat received from Arcturus. was equivalent td the heat received from a candle at a distance of about six mile*. 1 w* mMs$t j~f BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2J, 1901. there being a slight deficiency and at others an excess .of temperature. The temperatures over the western part of state were somewhat higher'than those over the eastern^ which is similar to the conditions which prevailed during Jan uary. The highest temperature recorded during the month was 60 degrees, at Berthold Agency on the 13th, and the lowest, 31 degrees below zero at Portal on the 4th. The greates daily range of temperature at any station was 51 de rees, at Power, on the 12th, and the great est monthly range, 77 degrees at Berth old Agency, Medora and University. ARE MONEY MAKERS Increase in the Cresmery Business South Dakota and the Wealth it Brings. Steady Source of Income lor Farmers and the Product Always in Demand. The increase'in the creamery business in South Dakota is worthy of note, and of emulation in this state. The "Sioux Falls Argus-Leader,-in speaking of the butter making industry in South Dakota says: There is scarcely a creamery or cheese factory in the state that will not increase its capacity the coming spring, and a dozen or more new plants will be started whose wealth producing facilities will be added to the 185 or more similiar fac tories now in operation. A gratifying feature of the business is that a very large per cent of the creameries have continued in operation during the win ter, something quite unusual except in the larger towns. As the benefits of those industries become known their patrons increased, and now scores of farmers are giving special attention to dairying in this portion of the state where three years ago it was difficult to find half a dozen farmers who kept cows except for family use or for a little but ter for market. Those more directly in terested are improving the quality of stock kept and each season witnessed marked strides in this direction. A farmer who does not keep from half a dozen to thirty dairy cows is hard to find in this locality. The creamery in this city is one of the largest and best in the state, and dis tributes thousands of dollars to farmers each month it has saved many a settler his home and put him in comfortable circumstances: the plant will be much improved this spring. Other creameries in the county enjoy liberal patronage and are doing fine business a new creamery will be in operation at Hitch cock early in April. The cheese factories have done an increased business during the past year. The output of the Clover Hill factory was fifty tons of cheese last year. A new creamery has just been estab lished at Esmond and is doing a fair amount of business. Machinery for the new plant at Bancroft has been ordered and will soon be put in place. The Lake Preston creamery is rapidly gain ing in favor and its patrons are fully satisfied with what it is doing for them. For December the Iroquois creamery received nearly 200,000 pounds of milk, the highest receipts for the year, for which it paid 87 cents per 100 pounds. The ©eSmet creamery which always makes a fine showing, distributed nearly $68,000 athong its patrons last year. The one at Willow Lakes, although not a large institution, is one of the most suc cessful in this part of the state. It re ceived more than 18,000 pounds of milk during December although butter that month was lower in price many of the patrons of this creamery drew snug sums at the close of business for the month. The published report shows that for nine months' milk eight patrons received from $200 to $300 seven received from $150 to $200 fifteen received from $100 to $150 and forty-six received less than $100, making a total for the nine months of about $8,000. The Salem creamery comes to the front with a showing that will prompt farmers in that locality to increase their dairy herds. J. V. Jessen of the Doland creamery will be the buttermaker at the Salem plant the coming season, and his brother, who haa been operating the Conde creamery, a very successful little plant, will take charge of the Doland creamery. C. S. McCrath, who operated the Salem creamery for the past year, will take' charge of the creamery at Mandan, N. D. There is demand for good buttermakers all over the state, but they must be sober, industrious and thoroughly competent. Such men can find plenty of work at good wages. One who has done some figuring, says that the milk received at the DeSmet creamery during 1900„if hauled by rail, would require twenty trains of twenty cars each, allowing 2C,000 pounds per car it would take 104,993 eighty-pound cans to hold the milk, and if these cans .were set side by side they would reach twenty-one miles, or, if stood on end would make a mountain forty-three miles high it would require twenty cars of 20,000 pounds capacity to transport the butter from this milk to market. This gives a faint idea of the magnitude of the business of the nearly 200 cream eries now in successful operation in South Dakota. N. P. Extensions Into McLean County. Bowden Guardian: The N. P's. sur veyors came in on Friday's train and are camped' about sixteen miles west of Bowden. They are running preliminary lines now and find that the best route lies about a half mile south of the old survey. The railroad will be extended about SO miles this summer which will take it into the second valley* and will tap two of the most fertile valleys in this part of the state. Thfe townsight is already lo cated and the new town is to be named Shaw. The first valley west of Bowden is now thickly settled with prosperous farmers and a large amount of govern^ ment land has been filed on in the sec ond valley. The hills that border these two valleys are fine grazing lands with good grass and plenty of hay and water' and some of the largest sheep and cattle ranches in the state are located in these hills. Let the good tfork go on. COMPROMISE. Proposed That South Dakota Shall Have Headquarters and Collector and North Dakota Name the Clerks. Washington, March 21.—Although no decision has been reached as to the lo cation of the headquarters of the new North and South Dakota iuternal rev enue district, a proposition to end the controversy has been submitted to all parties interested, which will, it is ex pected, be accepted. This provides that the headquarters of the district shall be located at Aberdeen, a concession to Senator Kyle. It further provides that the collector shall be named by Senator Gamble and Representatives Martin and Burke, and that the North Dakota sen ators shall name the clerks who are to be employed at headquarters. The North Dakota senators make con cessions on two points because their state yields only one-third of the revenue of the entire district, and allowing Sen ator Kyle to have the district head quarters located in his home town ought, in the opinion of some of the other parties, to satisfy him, while Sen ator Gamble and his colleagues ought certainly to be contented to name the collector. Of course this solution has not beep accepted .by any of the parties con cerned, but it is simply put forward as a compromise that will end the trouble and permit the treasury department to go ahead and establish the new district. BOTHA'S BROTHER. Brother of the Boer Commandant Is Killed—Btitish Garrison Besieged. Capetown, March 21.—Commandant Phillipp Botha, a brother of the Boer general, has been killed in a fight with the British near Lydenburgh, Transvaal. His two sons were wounded. The Boers have beseiged the British garrison of Vrede, the extreme northeast of Orange Free State. Gen. Campbell with a con siderable force went to their relief but was forced to retreat after evacuating Vrede, with two hundred sick and wounded. SUICIDE. Strange Suicide of a Trusted Employe of a Chicago Bank. Chicago, March 21.—While counting several thousand in currency in a rear room of the Union Trust bank this morn ing, Charles Linville, for years a trusted employe, suddenly grabbed a revolver from the desk and sent a bullet through his temple, dying instantly. Officials say his accounts are correct and know of no unpleasant domestic relations. NOT IN POLITICS. Andrew Carnegie Says the Suggestion of His Nomination as Mayor of New York Is Unworthy of Reply. Southampton, March 21.—With the aid of steamship and railway authorities, Millionaire Carnegie, who arrived from America this morning, evaded the hosts of applicants for financial assistance and started for London. To reporters, he said he wouldn't be guided in giving by requests, no matter how persistently made, and he treated as unworthy of re ply the suggestion of his nomination for mayor of New York. FANCHER MAY RETURN. Said the Former Governor Will Re turn to Jamestown if Certain Plans Materialize. Jamestown, N. D., March 21.—Should certain business arrangements bo satis factorily negotiated, ex-Governor Fan cher will return to Jamestown in a few months. It is probable he will secure an interest in a leading Jamestown busi ness institution. He is a shrewd busi ness man and his return will be wel comed. DUNKERS COMING. Two Trainloads on Their Way to North Dakota. Kansas City, March 21.—Two trains loaded with members of the Dunker seot and their personal effects left Kansas City today for North Dakota. The two trains were composed of twelve passenger coaches and thirty-three cars, which contained their household effects. Many Dunkers are heaving the middle west to settle along the Great Northern, line in the Dakotas, Hitchcock Not to Resign. Washington, March 21.—The story emanating from Colorado that Secre tary of the Interior Hitchcock is to re sign, to be succeeded by Senator Wol cott, is denied at the White house. 8^1A -I ^VJf. •)!, MSA" ^•sy StJ% OUTLINING THE TRIP Secretary Cortelyou Outlining the Itin erary of the President's Trip Through the West. California Will Be Visited and a Few Days Spent in the Yellowstone National Park. Train Will Consist of Six Pullmans and Party Will Visit Natural Sights and Scenery. Washington, March 21. Secretary Cortelyou is busy outlining the itinerary of President McKinley's western tour. "We will attempt to take in as many of the country's natural sights as possible," he said this morning. "The-big trees of California will be one of the objects vis ited. Several days will probably be spent at Yellowstone park. A steamer ride down the great lakes from Duluth will be a pleasant feature." The presi dent's special will be limited to six cars, all Pullmans, three of them compart ment cars. NORTH DAKOTA .BANES. Showing Made by North Dakota Banks From the Report of the National Comptroller. Washington, March 21.—The abstract for the thirty-one national banks in North Dakota has been out. It shows that since Dec. 13 the total resources advanced from $8,459,364 to $8,829,706, loans and discounts increased from $5, 137,815 to $5,204,057 and *cash reserve declined from $501,086 to $475,720, of which gold holdings declined from $180, 372 to $173,327 individual deposits ad vanced from $5,330,606 to $5,598,312 and average reserve held fell from 27.35 to 25.66 per cent. EXAGGERATED. Russian Note Says the British Press Exaggerated the Chinese Incident. St. Petersburg, March 21.—A semi official note issued today says: -'A commonplace incident has been terribly exaggerated by the British press until it almost assumed the gravity of a casus belli. It was entirely due to the forcible manner in which the British tried to obtain possession of disputed land that the Russian government found it neces sary to order energetic action taken. The matter is manifestly a question for diplomatic treatment and the govern ment has no doubt it will be amicably settled between London and St. Peters burg." SETTLED. A FIVE CENTS A*2 y| ii j-c.£i ii 1 v'l Si In Russia and England Controversy China Is Temporarily Settled. London, March 21.—The official an nouncement that the Russia-British dis pute had been settled was made today by Lord Lansdowne. Russia and Eng land agreed to withdraw troops from the disputed territory at Tien Tsin and re serve the question as who has the right to title of the land to subsequent exam ination. HARRISON'S WILL. Mrs. Harrison's Legal Adviser Refuses To Discuss Rumors Regarding Her Intentions. Indianapolis, Ind., March 21.—W. H. Miller, legal adviser of Mrs. Harrison, refuses to discuss the rumor that the widow of the general will not abide by the will of her late husband, as under the law she would receive more. Close friends give it no credence. I Conductor Fatally Injured. Summittville, Ind., March 21.—The failure of an air brake on an interurban electric car curve near here this morn ing caused the car to leave the track, fatally injuring Conductor Trueblood of Marion and injuring six passengers. Fire at Washington. Washington, March 21.—Fir& last night caused $80,000 damage to Dyren forth & Co., clothiers, and Droops & Sons, music house. Disbanded. Capetown, March 21.—-Kitchener re ports the Boers in Orange Free Stats disbanded. DeWet is reported to be near Heildbron. 1 nchan« Tien Tsin, March. 2l.—The sitttatiop is unchanged this morning, except tha$ British outpoet&have beon calfod in. S