Oakes weekly Republican., May 09, 1890, Image 7

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MADE BIG PROFITS.
Some of the Bulls Who Have Been
on the Right Side of Wheat.
When it is realized that wheat up
to the cloBe of the market on the 3d
mat. had advanced 20 cents a bushel
in the last ninety days one naturally
would suppose that it would be easy
to pick out those who had made es"
sential winnings. With out few ex
ceptions, however, one finds it impos
sible to decide beyond question where
the big money has gone in this extra
ordinary advance. There iB no doubt
that Mr. Hutchinson easily heads the
list of winners. Bome very sensation
al estimates have been placed on his
profits. Nobody puts him under
$500,000. He has been talking $1
wheat since the price was 80 cents,
and through all that time has been
the commanding bull influence. He
had been out of the market two or
three times appaiently, getting out
for the
Bole
loBt
purpose of testing its sta­
bility. Conservative estimates of his
average are 5,000,000 bushels. If his
average profit has been only 10 cents
a bushel, that brings the aggregate up
to the popular guess. Next to Hutch
inson the big winner in the local trade
is W. T« Baker, the president on the
board. Nobody
PLAYS A BULL MARKET
so tenaciously. It is of the opinion
that if Hutchinson had 5,000,000
bushels oi wheat Baker had about 1,
000,000, and, while Hutchinson has
lost $200,000 of his paper profit in
getting out and back again, Baker has
rested quietly on his line. William
Young and all his old pull contingent,
including his brother, Aleck Young,
Charles A. Marr and E. A. Driver,
have got back ail the money they ev
er
to the big bears, and possibly
a good deal more. M. C. Mitchell
went into the market with such dash
as to make a very handsome winning.
A Hebrew coterie which trades through
Dunham & Co., made a big turn. Wil
liam Dunn was a winner. Some of
the biggest money was made down in
St. Louis by a crowd down there
known as "The Art club." It was
steered right by Logan & Co. and has
at times been a very substantial influ
ence. The big aggregate of the money
has gone into the pOcketa of the coun
trymen. They knew no moderation,
and bet their money savagely, be
cause they imagined wheat over the
whoh country was as completely gone
as it was in their own fields. One lit
tle trader, starting with $200, landed
a profit of $10,000. There must
have been many such.
VII!LARD'S DREAM REALIZED.
The Northern Paciflo's Combine
Formsa Transcontinental Route.
The Chicago Journal of the 3d inst.
says: The Northern Pacific railroad
company has completed a measure by
which it will take possession of the
properties of the Chicago & Great
Western railroad company, and the
Calumet terminal company. The Chi
cago & Great Western is simply a ter
minal company with lines inside Chi
cago and with valuable terminal
facilities at Harrison street and
fifth avenue in the business part of
the city'. It is over this company's
tracks that the Wisconsin Central haB
secured entrance to Chicago, and the
Northern Pacific will come in over the
Wisconsin Central line. The Calumet
Terminal company has docks on the
lake shore at Calumet just south of
the city, and a belt line connecting
them with the Great Western tracks.
The Northern Pacific will, it is said,
issue a new series of bonds to the
amount of $30,000 on these proper
ties. It is said the circumstances
point to a close alliance between this
system and the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, thus realizing Henry Villard's
dream of the transcontinental great
route.
There is now no doubt the general
offices of the Northern Pacific are to
be removed to Chicago. As soon as
the new depot on Fifth avenue is fin'
ished the traffic department of the
company will be taken there and
quartered in tnat building. Traffic
Manager Hanniford, has already se
lected his offices and will probably
occupy them in July. The Cnicago
Times says that the report ot the
purchase of the Calumet Terminal
railroad is premature. President Tor
rence says positively no such deal has
been made. Four offers for the prop
erty have been received, one from
Henry Villard. The impression pre
vails, however, that the Caulmet will
soon go into the hands of the North
ern Pacific.
IRISH LAND PURCHASE.
The Cieat English Statesman Op
posed to the Principle.
The assertion of the conservative
organs that Mr. Gladstones speech in
the house of oommons last Thursday
shows him to have materially chang
ed his views within the last few years
regording Irish land purchase is not
well founded, in view of his other
speeches on the same subject. It is
altogether a mistake to suppose that
Mr. Gladstone is or ever has been a
strong supporter of the principle of
land purchase. While he has been the
author or the advocate of more than
one land purchase bill, he has always
been careful to insist upon the necessi
ty of certain well-defined conditions
being complied with before any exten
sive operations of land purchase
could with safety be Mt in mo
tion through the direct intervention
of the state. When Mr. Gladstone
moved for leave to introduce a bili to
make amended provision for the sale
and purchase ot land in Ireland in
1886, he took occasion to indicate
what he regarded as a blot in the ex
isting land purchase acts. "I consid
or," he said, "that these acts present
an extremely bad and dangerous form
of dealing with this obligation, and I
do do on the ground that their bases
are to place the British treasury in
contact with the individual occupier
and farmer in Ireland. In my opinion
this is not a wise policy. I do not en
tertain mistrust of the. Irishman's
disposition to liquidate his pecuniary
engagements. I believe that he may
very well, excepting under circum
stances jof peculiar exasperation, bear
comparison with his class in other
countries in that matter. But it is a
dangerous thing for a state which
the course
ot
policy and the condition
of lteislation have lead the people
to regard as essentially a foreignptate,
to make those people in great num
bers individually its debtors danger
ous because tempting to the debtor
dangerous because extremely unsafe
tor the state. considered as the credi
tor." Notwithstanding the sate
guards in Mr. Gladstone's bill tor land
purchase, forty members of the pre
sent unionist party in parliament op
posed the measure, a number intimat
ing that they would have supported
the literal leader's home rule bill if he
had not saddled upon them his land
purchase bill, the latter causing their
secession. Yet the majority, if not all,
of these same members now propose
to support Mr. Balfour's land pur
chase scheme, which, if it had been
introduced by Mr. Gladstone in 1886,
would not have left him a dozen fol
lowers. It is hardly necessary to
mention the fact that in 1886 the
conservative party to a man opposed
Mr. Gladstone's Irish land purchase
bill.
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
Editorial Machinery Sometimes
Cets Confoundedly Out: of Gear.
The Detroit Free Press extracts the
following from the last issue of the
Arizona Kicker, which came out on a
half-sheet:
Explanatory—We owe our readers
an apology for the half-sheet we were
obliged to issue this week. Monday
morning, as we entered the postoffice
after our mail—which, by the way, is
five times as large as that of any oth
er establishment in Arizona—Mr.
Wanamaker's man Friday, who was
appointed postmaster against the
protests of nine-tenths of our people,
came out into the corridor and de
manded a personal apology for what
the Kicker said aoout him last
week. In our pioneer days, when
we lived on roots, and hadn't a
second shirt to our back, we used to
get down and crawl whenever request
ed. We felt that we had to. We were
a tenderfoot and lacked sand. A
change came. We haven't been doing
any creeping for the last two years.
On the contrary, we have had the re
volver and the other man has done
the four-legged act. Therefore, when
Wanamaker's Friday demanded an
apology and took us by the ear to en
force obedience we lit onto him with a
weight of two tons, and had him hol
lering for mercy inside of two minutes.
Before letting him up we,took his gun
away, and in some manner it was dis
charged and the bullet went through
the palm of our right hand. The
wound will prevent our using the pen
for some weeks and we must dictate
our copy.
More Explanatory.—Wanamaker's
man Friday has a brother named Jim,
who is a loafer and a cur from way
back. We stated last week that we
believe he stole monev letters from
the mails and the statement seems to
have put some "git" into him. After
we had licked his brother and got
back to the office Jim came sneaking
down the street and fired at us through
a window. He had a shotgun, but he
fired so high that no one was touched,
and he was out of sieht before we got
to the door. In a few days we are
going on a hunt for Jim. We shall toe
cate him and walk in on him and slice
off his ear and nail it on our office
door. Let him accept this as fair
warning of our intentions. While he
didn't hit us with any of his buck
shot, the idea of such a chuckaloo fir
ing at us with intent to kill rattled
our nerves and sent us to bed when
we ought to have been getting out
copy.
Further Explanatory—Some three
weeks ago a wild-eyed guyasticutus
entered this town bv the dirt toad
and
Btruck
-^*2^ -S-.
us for a "sit." He gave
the name of J. Melville Graham, and
claimed to have furnished all the
brain fodder for most ol the New
York papers for the last ten years.
As he offered to work for $4 per week
and buy his crackers and cheese from
our grocery, we didn't question him
as closely as we otherwise might. He
had worked two days when we got
hurt, and what did the lop-eared
brother of a hyena do but go off and
get drunk and lay down just where
Col. Haven's drove of mules would
run over him in going to water! He
was trampled out of sight, into the
sand, and on top of our other troubles
we had to hire him dug out and bur
ried. But tor his kick-over we could
have issued a full sheet and got it out
on time. We've had him carted off
to one corner of our private burying
ground, and shall mark his grave
but we don't moura.
The Latest—If our readers are not
satisfied with the above explanation
we have another to fire at them. O
ing to our wounded hand we could
not do a stroke of writing. We could
dictate, however, and we hired young
Bill Ellis,
Bon
of old reprobate Ellis,
to act as our amanuensis. We had
dictated about half a column when he
differed with us on how to spell "cor
dial." He insisted that it was "cor
jul," and rather than see the English
language knocked out we stopped dic
tating, fired Bill out, and gave an old
tramp printer $10 and told him to go
ahead and run out half a sheet. Its
all we eould do under the circumstanc
es, and we beg the indulgence of our
subscribers. Next week we shall be
all right, and we promise an issue of
tbe Kicker which will make the sand
fly in fifty directions.
THE MoKINLEY TARIFF BILL.
It Has Many Friends and Is Likely
to Pass Congress During the
Present Session.
A dispatch from Washington dated
the 28th inst., says the men froin the
Paeific Northweet favor tbe McLinley
tariff bill in the following Philadelphia
Press interviews:
Representative Carter—Substantial
ly I favor the McKinley tariff bill.
The Republicans in earnest desire to
pass the bili, and I believe it will pass
promptly and without material
amendment.
Senator Squire—I am not prepared
to speak definitely about the McKin
ley bill. I certainly think that the
Republicans are in earnest in their
purpose to revise the tariff,* and that
it will be done upon a sound protect
ive basis. Everybody may not be
satisfied with the new duties, but that
is inevitable.
Senator Allen—In many of its fea
tures I favor the McKinley bill. I am
not satisfied, however, but that the
products of tbe farms, such as general
productions, may not be more effectu
ally protected than they are by the
McKinley bill. I think the Republican
party is most earnestly in favor of
prompt legislation upon the tariff and
is desirous of bringing it on for speedy
and decisive action by congress. I do
not think the Republican members
will allow the present session of con
gress to adjourn without passing a
tariff act.
Representative Wilson—The McKin
ley bill in its xresent form will receive
my support and vote. I would seri
ously object to any amendment which
would change the lead schedule as now
proposed in the bill.
HAS MANY FRIENDS.
The interviews with members of
congress published in the Philadelphia
PresB indicate that the McKinley bill
has a great many friends in congress
and with some amendments will be
come a law. The WeBt, in spite of the
increase of duties on wool, seems to
be satisfied with the free sugar and
reductions made on other articles.
The Northwestern members expressed
themselves as follows:
Representative Comstock—If the
bill as it stands is the best tariff we
can get, I will vote tor it. We in the
Northwest want free binding twine as
well as free sugar, and we do not want
any increase in the woolen schedule.
We would also prefer that the intern
al revenue tax on tobacco remain. I
believe that the Republicans are thor
oughly in earnest in their determina
tion to pass a sound bill revising the
tariff.
Representative Dunnell—The Re
publican party is terribly in earnest
regarding the McKinley tariff bill, and
ic will certainly be passed. I am, on
tbe whole, ihuch pleased with the bill
and will vote tor it, although if I had
my way the tobacco clause would not
be inserted, and the increased tariff
on woolen goods would not be exact
ed. 1 represent a farming constituen
cy in the West, which fact influences
me in forming my opinions.
Senator Washburn—Free sugar will
delight the people ot the Northwest.
The reduction of the duty on binding
twine will also give general satisfac
tion in the wheat raising districts. I
shall doubtless, propose some changes
in the bill.gThere is a positive pur
pose to pass a tariff bill this session.
I shall support the measure.
Representative Snider—I shall sup
port any bill that the ways and means
committee report. Any bill cannot
fail to be a great improvement over
the present one.
Representative Hall—There are
some minor suggestions that I shall
make, but they are ot such slight im
portance that I will vote for the bill
whether they are adopted or not.
Senator Pettigrew—I favor the Mc
Kinley tariff bill substantially as it
stands. I would suggest, however, a
tariff on pig tin. I believe that Re
publicans are in earnest in their depire
to pass the tariff bill and that it will
be passed.
Senator Moody—The McKinley bill
suits me very well, but I think it ought
to have a duty on metallic tin. The
Black Hills can furnish all the tin that
the tin plate industry can use, and it
is that industry that will be at the
mercy of the foreign syndicate that
now controls the entire product otthe
world outside of the United States. I
shall try to have a duty put on me
tallic tin when the bill reaches tbe
senate. I am sure that we shall pass
a tariff bill this season, and, indeed,
consider it necessary for the Republi
can party to do eo.
Representative Pickler—I shall sup
port the McKinley bill in all its gener
al provisions. I also approve of its
reduction of duty on binding twine. I
have no doubt that a tariff measure
will pass this congress.
Representative Hansbrough—I will
support the McKinley tariff bill and I
believe it will pass at this session of
congress.
Senator Pierce—Representing as I
do an agricultural state, I am natur
ally in favor of the McKinley bill be
cause it increases protection where it
is moBt needed. In the products of
the fields under it the farmer will re
ceive more direct protection than
he has ever done before. The fact
is, the imports of agricultural pro
ducts'into this country which could
just as well be produced here, are, rel
atively speaking, as large as tbe im
ports of manufactured! products that
might as well be produced in America
by American labor. The make-up of
the McKinley bill will bring the facts
out. Free sugar will reduce the cost
of this article of general consumption
to the people and will be particularly
a boon to the farmers of North Dako
ta. The general tendency of the bill
,,
is right and I have no doubt of its ul
timate passage.
Representative Carter has received
a petition trom many citizens ot Mar
tinsdale, some of them leading Demo
crats, asking for the immediate pas
sage of tbe McKinley bill.
Sharks Exposed.
It is reported from Washington by
special telegraph that congress will
unearth and abolish a bold scheme
nowjbemg practiced by some sharpers
in Washington, who are swindling
thousands of settlers on public lands
in Minnesota, Dakota and other
Northwestern states. There are some
200,000 undelivered land patents on
file in the general land office.^ These
are cases where claims have been
proved up, patents allowed and reg
istered, but the patents never called
for. Some patents bear date prior to
the war and their owners have prob
ably forgotten their existence. A firm
of land attorneys having gained access
to the files in the land office are secur
ing the names of patentees and loca
tions of lands. They then send to the
owners, reciting the absence of the
patent and falsely alleging an invali
dite title, offering at the same time to
Becure and forward title for $5. In
many cases they Intimidate patentees
by threats of loss of lands. It is esti
mated this firm has cleared $100,000
up to date. Their scheme has been
discovered, however, and a resolution
has been offered in the house calling
upon the secretary of the interior for
the facts in the case. An investiga
tion will probably show "crooked"
work somewhere in the land office and
several officials' heads may drop.
The Vanderbllt Deal.
Prominent railroad men say that
it is more than probable that the
Vanderbilt interest will obtain con
trol of the Great Northern at the
election in a few days. The Vander
bilts now reach the Pacific coast by
New York Central, Michigan Central
to Chicago, Chicago & Northwestern
to Omaha and a traffic arrangement
with the Union Pacific to San Fran
cisco. 'This is not satisfactory and
the Vanderbilts contemplated extend
ing the Dakota division of the Chica
go & Northwestern to the coast.
Recently Hill found difficulty in ob
taining money to extend his road to
the coast owing to the fact that since
the road has been built through
Northern Dakota and Helena it has
not paid. Negotiations were entered
into with the Vanderbilts and they
will raise the money needed to com
plete the Great Northern to Puget
sound. The route from Chicago will
be via tbe Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha,
tbence by tbe Great Northern to Spo
kane Falls, thence by the Seattle,
Lake Snore & Eastern, on which road
the Great Northern has now ninety
days' option of purchase. The Chica
go & Northwestern will be extended to
San Francisco, connections being
made at Spokane Falls with the Great
Northern by the line from Southern
Idaho. This would be carrying out
the plan of extending Hill's lines to
both Puget sound and San Francisco.
Public Land Surveys-
Senator Casey of North Dakota and
Senator Power of Montana have in
troduced bills providing for the sur
vey of public lands in their states.
Senator Casey's bill calls for an ap
propriation of $300,000. Tbe com
pensation is to be $9 for standard
and meander lines per mile $1 per
mile for township lines $5 for section
lines. Provision is made that in the
mountains or especially difficult coun
try to traverse these rates may be in
creased to $13, $11 and $7, respec
tively. For tbe Montana service
$250,000 are asked, and the price to
be paid surveyors are $9 for standard
lines, $7 for township lineB and $5 for
section lines per mile. As the country
is especially mountainous and rocky
in large tracts of the Montana public
lands, a provision is made that the
rates may be increased to $18. 15,
and $10, respectively.
A Sad Casualty.
Marengo, a little town twenty miles
distant from Ashland, Wis., was the
scene of three singular fatalities a few
days ago. Anton Foraker was chop
ping at the base of a tall pine tree.
As it toppled and fell to the earth his
two boys, aged 5 and 7 respectively,
ran directly under it and were crushed
to death. This was in tha morning.
In the afternoon a little dwelling oc
cupied by Ole Hanson, a Swede chop
per. was found to be ablaze. The
mother was nowhere about the house.
The father at work near by rushed in
through the burning door and grabbed
up the cradle in which he supposed
his 6-months-old babe was lying. He
got outside again, but was very badly
burned. He set the cradle down" and
began examining his wounds. When
the house was a"mass of smoking ru
ins he turned to take the baby from
the cradle, but the cradle was empty.
The babe had been burned to death
in the house.
The Irrigation Commission.
Several parties interested in irriga
tion went to Huron, South Dakota,
on the 28th inst., to meet the United
States irrigation commission and to
confer with them relative to the
adoption of a system of irrigation by
means of artesian wella that will prove
practical in South Dakota. Tbe
members of the commission are Col.
Edward S. Nettleton of Washington,
superintending engineer of the United
States irrigation survey in the field,
ProL Robert Hay of Junction City,
Kan., chief field geologist Prof. E. 6.
Culver, of the South Dakota state
university at Vermillion, geologist of
North and South Dakota Prof. S. G.
Updyke, of the state agricultural col
leg
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The two arbitration committees of
new boss carpenters association and
strikers met at the Grand Pacific ho
tel with judges Driggs, McConnell and
Tuley, and after a session of three
hours length, settled the last detail.
The journeymen achieved an almost
•weeping victory. They made con
cessions on but two points
and every journeyman carpenter
throughout the city was jubilant
over the result. The only disappoint
ment was that the stubbornness of
the old association has left its mem
bers wholly out of the final deal. It
is reliably stated the document signed
in the presence of three judges provides
that eight hours shall constitute a
days work, to begin at S a. m. and
end at 5 p. m. The noon hour may
be curtailed by special arrangement
between the foreman and a majority
of the workmen, but not in such a
way as to permit more than eight
hours work between the hours named.
Over time shall only be allowed be
tween certain stipulated hours at
night.
A minimum rate of wages has been
fixed that thirty-five cents per hour
up to August 1st and thereafter at
thirty-two and one-half cents per
hour. Overtime is to be rated at
time and a halt, and Sunday time as
doubia time. In tbe matter ot ap
prentices concessions were made by
both parties. Employers agree to
employ only union men, even for fore
men required to work with non-union
men.
The Anderson Tragedy.
The Anderson tragedy at Minneap
olis a few days ago has aroused the
greatest possible interest at Carthage,
N. D., where the murdered man and
his wife ate so well known. It seems
that the two became acquainted as
far back as 1881, wh6n both lived in
Britt, Hancock county, Iowa. Mrs
Anderson was then Miss Lucy Sloper
and the acquaintance
Boon
ripened
into an engagement, Not long after
Anderson went to Carthage and took
a place as clerk in the general store of
his half brother, Gunder Lerm, who
now lives on a farm two miles east of
there. Miss Sloper went there in 1883
to teach school, bringing with her
good references. In the spring of 1884
Anderson and Miss Sloper were mar
ried and lived together at Caithage
tor nearly two years before removing
to Minneapolis*
Anderson bore a good name and
everyone who knew him speaks in
terms of the highest praise of his char
acter and actions. His father and
mother, who are aged peopis, live
near Carthage now, and are highly
respected people. His mother is now
prostrated by the shock of her son's
sad end, and is not expected to sur
vive. Her illness is the reason why
none of Anderson's relatives have
gone '.o Minneapolis to take charge of
his remains.
The Race Problem.
Gov. Gordon of Georgia, recently
addressed a convention of representa
tive colored men from different states.
The convention had previously pass
ed resolutions reciting the injustice
done their race, and asking the gover
nors and legislators of the Southern
states to protect them, and express
ing their disbelief that there is any so
lution of the race problem in emigra
tion. Gov. Gordon reviewed the leg
islation gince the war in order to
show that the whole purpose of
the radical party in dealing with
the negroes had been political and
not humanitarian or philanthropic.
He took up the statistics which show
ed the real increase in the education
of colored children since tbe Southern
white people came into power and the
increase of property hem by negroes
and then asked them it there was a
sensible man among them who thought
they could do better^n another coun
try. While he felt that it would be a
grave error for the colored men, still if
they desired to emigrate he should
erect no barrier but by all means at
his command would facilitate their
going. He did not wish them to leave
this country, for he felt an abiding aB'
eurance that if wise counsel prevailed
it would be found better for both rac
es that they should remain peaceably
in their Southern homes.
Lands Released.
The United States Senate has favor
ably reported a bill which recently
passed the bouse restoring to the pub
lie domain for settlement under the
homestead laws 65,000 acres ot land
in the St. Cloud land district, Minne
sota, and 135,000 acres in the Eau
Claire, Ashland and Warsaw districts,
Wisconsin. This land was withdrawn
from the market in 1880, that the
government might use it for flowage
and for building a system of dams for
the purpose of assisting navigation
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in the low water season. This system
'8 found to be impracticable, and
scheme was abandoned. The seo
ary of war recommended these
ids be restored the secretary of
interior favors restoration, and
3 land is wanted for actual settle
int by people living in the vicinity,
it is necessary for the dev elopmen
the country.
WHERE IS HE.
ashlngton Quinlan Suddenly
eaves Home—Finances in Bad
Shape.
About 10,000 shares of stock were
the 5th inst. bought in for tbe ac
unt of Washington Quinlan, amem
ir of the stock exchange of New York
cy. Secretary Ely, of the stock ex
lange, was notified by Quintan's
mily that he had disappeared under
rcumstances which compelled them
believe that bis mind is deranged,
otice was given in order that those
aving contracts with him might pro
ict themselves. Friends of Wash
ington Quinlan weie more amazed
than anyone. Also at his disap
pearance one of them said that
his family on Sunday night be
came alarmed and requested the
police to search for him. His family
is a very wealthy one, one brother be
ing at present cashier of tbe Chemical
National bank, and it is claimed they
could easily have settled all claims
against him if they knew what was
necessary for them to do.
Washington Quinlan is said to have
been worth $100,000 a year ago and
his friends say his losses will not
amount to more than $100,000. Be
fore the close of exchange 12,600
shares of various stocks were bought
in under the rule for his account, but
this is understood to be only about
one-third of his outstanding
contracts.
Brokers say he sold 5,000 on Friday
last and put out large lines in other
stocks at the same time.
Killed by a Negro.
John Thomas, of Richmond, Va., a
young white man, who was tearfully
cut by an unknown negro man, died
on the 29th inst. from the wound.
Thomas and another white man were
together at the time of the cutting.
Thomas had in his had a bottle of
whisky, the cork of which he desired
to remove. Not being able to get it
out, Thomas stopped a negro man on
the street and offered to give him a
nickle if he would draw the stopper
out. The colored man accepted the
offer, and after complying with the re
quest demanded the promised reward.
Thomas cursed him, whereupon the
negro slashed Thomas across the ab
domen with tbe knife he had used in
taking the cork from the whisky bot
tle, inflicting a wound from which th
intestines protruded.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
Tbe president has sent to the senate the
nomination ol Henry L. Whiting of New
York, member of Mississippi river commis
sion.
The house committee on public buildings
has favorably reported the bill for a build"
ing at Butte City, Mont., the amount o'
appropriation being (150,000.
African dispatches report that a dispute
over the boundary line led to a conflict
between Tripoians and Tunisans on the
frontier recently, and both sides lost sev
eral, killed and wounded.
The senate has passed the senate bill to
amend the pre-emption and homestead
laws providing for the selection of lands
for educational purposes in lieu of those
appropriated to other purposes.
1 Senator Pettigrew has introduced bills
looking to the increase of salary of the
commissioner of Indian affairs and hii as
sistant and financial clerk. They ara
placed at (5,000, $4,00# and $2,500 re
spectively. He aUo introduced a bill fixing
the salary ot the librarian ol the senate at
$1,800.
The Paris Temps says that the liquida
tor of the Panama Canal company has
appointed M. B. Wyse to conduct negotia
tions looking to the formation of a new
company, and that Mr. Wyse goes on a
mission to the government of Columbia to
obtain an extension ol the time of the con
cession in the interests of the new organi
zation.
The senate has passed a bill introduced
by Mr. Pettigrew two months ago for an
Indian training echool at Pietre, S. D.
The secretary of the interior is authorized
by this bill to expend $5,000 in the par
chase ot not more than one hundred acres
of farming land near the Indian training
school as an industrial farm to be ran in
connection with the sohool.
Acting secretary Ramsey has issued or
ders for the squadron of evolution last re.
ported at Malta to prooeed to Braiil tor
duty on the South Atlantic station.
While no explanation ot the transfer ,is
given, it is generally accepted to mean a
desire on the part ot the administration
to foster and cement friendly relations
with the South American republios.
At Weimart near Berlin, on the 3d inst.,
a rich citizen named Doebringer was sen
tenced by the courts to nine months' im
prisonment tor insulting Miss Lemner, an
American lady. The lady has been pur
sued for some time with anonymous let
ters accusing her of immorality and tneir
authorship was finally traced to Doebring
er. The offender was not indicted, despite
the attempts ot the friends ol Miss Leta
mer to prosecute him, until the American
consul took the matter in hand and in
sisted upon his prosecution,
A communication trom the scone ol war
in Dahomey describes the Dahomians as
fighting with incredible tenacity, andehatg-'
ing time after time upon the defense ol Ko
tonow, in face of a deadly and mowing fits
from the French ortillery. One ot the
bravest ol the Amazons, or female warri
ors, of t.he king ot Dahomey
some girl of sixteen, who surprised at
sr. stabbed and beheaded him. The 1
allies ol the
Whydah, Dihomey, on April S» and 80.
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