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A THE YOLUKTEEfi WJ5S. The First of the International Tacht Races Bcsnlts in a Glorious Victory for the Yankee Sloop. The first of the races for the America's cup, between the Scotch cutter Thistle and the American sloop Volunteer was sailed the 27th, over thai.nslde course of the New York Yacht club, as required by the deed of gift o\ermns tho possession ol the cup. and the Yankee sloop won in fine style. The dis tance sailed was thirty-eight miles. There was not wind enough to start the boats until two hours after the time announced in the official programme. When it came it na light, hut there was enough to en able the \achts to complete the course well within the time limitedin fact with two hours to spare. It was just the kind of weather which admirers of the Thistle had predicted would mean victory for the Scotch boat. It was iusb the sort of weather which admirers of the Volunteer most dreaded. Under these circum stances nobody would have been surpris ed had the Thistle won. Everybody ex pected at least a close race. Bub after the first twenty minutes it was no race at all. it became a procession with the Thistle falling further and further astern. From start to finsih the Thistle stood no chance of winning. The Volunteer went over the ourse in 4h. 53 min. 18 sec. The Thistle's time was 5 h. 12 min. 4G sec. Thus the Thistle was beaten by 19 tmn. 2S sec. or, after crediting her with the five seconds time allowance due her, by 19 min. 29 sec The Volunteer beat the foreigner so badly "that the letter's most enthusiastic cham pions ha\e only to say that something in explicable is the matter with the Thistle. It was a great day. The people who went down on the 300 steamships, river steamboats, tugs, steam yachts and boats imjrovise for the occasion, numbered easily 50,000, and ihe scene presented by the heterogen ous mass of crart before, at and after the start, cannot be described. They covered an area of fifty or more acres on the wa ter, and they kept up a noise throughout the race that startled the people who came from Europe to see th eevent. The yacht race at New York excited but little interest in London, except in the city proper, where a large crowd assembled early in the evening around the bulletins at the cable offices, dispersing, however, before the result was known. Yachting men are interested, but the public naid no special attention to the race. The next trial is set for the 29th. What a Bright American Abroad. lie I ntern Thinks of Things Hon. Chauncey M. Depew of New York has just returned from Europe. Applying the journalistic pump, he was induced to say, "how am I?" he said, in response to the first question. "Well, now, I have been in England so long I have caught some of their expressions, so thatlcananswerthat I went abroad in beastly good health and have returned in even better health." Yes, I've had a glorious trip, but, really, I am glad to eet back again. An American only and truly appreciates his own coun tr after he has been abroad for a time. After he has been once he never looks for anything that is less than 500 years old. Everything else wo have here in ever so much better than they have there, but in old things they excel us. They are away be hind us in everything but age. Why, look at the English newspapers, for instance. They are not newspapers at all. They don't know what news is over there. Whv, -do you know that Blaine, Simon Cameron, Gov. Alger, Gen. Hawley and Murat Hal stead were all in London at the same time and not a newspaper in London knew of it. and with the exception of Mr. Blaine, they did not know who the distinguished visitors were? Fancy Glad tone, Lord Sali-bury, Hartington and Parnell coming over here and the news papers taking no note of them." Mr. Depew said he had not the pleasure of meeting Mr. Gladstone this trip. He was invited to a dinner on purpose to meet him, but the old statesman was tak en ill and could not come. Talking of the prospect of war between France and Germany Mr. Depew sail that both countries were as fully equipped for war as they could be, and fighting spirit had not only seized the soldiers but even the masses ot the people, who were backing up the soldiers. An Anarchist Sent to State Prison. Oscar Neebe, the only one of the con demned anarchists nhose life is spared was taken to Jobet prison, he was suddenly cariied away without being given a chance to bid his friends farewell. At 8 o'clock Monday even ng the 26th inst., a couple driven by a deputy sheriff stopped in the shadow of the cuminal court building, and Deputy Sheriffs Gleason, Spears and Hubbard alighted and went into jail. Ben Price, the jail clerk unlocked the inner doors, and followed bv Gleason and Spe irs. tramped up the iron stairway to the second jjallerv where the condemned anarchist are. "tvtebe's cell door was unlocked, and Spears told him he wanted to talk with him in the jail office. The Darty then went quietly down stairs put aboard for a cairiage. and whisked aboard the train for Johet and was afc once hurried to tho pris on Itis stated that thesheriff had thought best to have Neebe taken to Jobet secretly lor leur ol an outbreak and an attempt to Tescue. children Said the wife of Cap"t.U Black the anarch ast to a repot ter., If these men are hanged A thei ki W lve -7 i co m'nit suicide. Nina A"K"* Spies, goes to the an Ziandt had frequently assured me that hu8 ban scaffold she will die by her own hand at the same hour. The other womn tell me the same thine. To lot the men live will not result so disastrously as some people pretend to believe, but if thev are handed Grinnell, Bonfield and Judge Gary are not safe. As Citizen Train says. "There will be sheol to pay." Workingmen regard the con demned men as hostage*, and if they don't get them back there will be oerious trouble. The Socialists Vil Abandon Force. A Chicago socialist leader is reported as making the following statement regarding tho sitimtioir i tionalists, under1 the leaderb ship of Burnet G. Haskell of Denver, form erly of San Fi a ncisco, have iorv ears steadi ly opposed all the work and methods of the Socialist Labor party. They held that the only method by which the present so cial system could be overthrown was by force. Iheirgreateststrength is on the Pa cific coast and inDenver.and they are Ameri cans almost toc b different a man. The Socialist Labor .party for the purpose of bring Rfi. iUorganized 6 8 1 all *H hJ n"" -.u Th ume abated by Haskell th,,8 .-and his followers. Their plan iseducation and pol ticnl action. The first thing that will be done will be to establish a first- rclnsH English daily paper ir#,irv larun city the United States. Tk^VpaSa will form a press association, iie ir own. Uar plan of campai-n from will be education. The money \a(( he?n .spent inthe pascon politic erthisbe evote to scholastic lit*, e. Ml talk of a revolution will be atonpea. The ma jority of us recognize the fact that revolu tions can not be made to order, but are of rspontaneous growth." Jk Boan4 ftjr Sin* Staff. J1"1?"Sharp 16 *n the ease of Jacob Sharp. the Broadwaf railroad briber, hat* been -J^^ tt8 JJ*egeneral term of firfflle the New York supreme oourt and* unless something extraordinary happens- the boodler will be- jin Sing Sing. soon. The leading opinion is written by Judge Danr iels. The bench is unanimous. Chief Jus tice Van Brant delivered* verbally theophii ion of the coarfe as follows: The court, after a careful examination of the records presenred'in the oase, and of the questions raised, upoiu-jhese appeals, have unanimously come to the oonclusion that no error, prejudicial to.fthedefendant, appears therein, and' that) the j'ury waajus tified, on the evidence, in arriving afc the result which they didw. Sbanp, will' go. to Sing Sing. 1 i Bandits in the Xeltbwron- Chicago Special to Kew York World: During the recent trip* to Yellowstone Park of Elliott Shepard of Sew York and family in a special train, a bold scheme was concocted by a party of outlaws to steal Mr. Shepard's youngest child and de mand a large sum of money for its ran som. The story, as told by a gentleman in thiB city who received it from the conductor of Mr. Shepard's* train, that the outlaws were organized and ready to waylay the train at a lonely spot and abduct the child. The plot by some means leaked out and came to the knowledge of an officer of She Third United States cav alry, who told it to Mr. Shepard. As a consequence a detachment of the troops accompanied the Shepard party until they left the confines of danger and emerged in to civilization. Failure in Still Water, Minn. The Matt Clark Transportation com pany at Stillwater and Matt Clark, the president, treasurer and manager of the company, have each just assigned to Will iam G. Bronson. The liabilities of the company, as stated by Mr. Clnrk without having figured them up, are about $80,- 000 and the assets about $50,000. Both assignments were voluntary and no credi tors are preferred. The assets of the com pany consist principally of seven stern wheel raft towing steamboats, awl barges, all tied uonow at Staples' foundry afc Stillwater. The steamers are: David Bronson, Isaac Staples. J. K. Graves, Menomonie, Evansville, Jennie Hayes and Bun Hersey. The liabilities by items can not be learned at present, but, as stated by Mr. Clark, there are about $20,000 of them in Stillwater, and the remainder are distributedamongdownMississippi points. They are for loans, repairs an. boats, fuel, supplies, labor, etc. I. D. Forrest, the deserted Billings, Mont., hotelkeeper, recovers his wife at Philadelphia. The Matt Clark Transportation com pany and Matt Clark, its general manager, assign at Stillwater, Minn., with 80,000 liabilities and $50,000 assets. One more case of cholera developed among the Italians in quarantine who re cently arrived from Naples. The president has issued a proclamation suspending tonnage duties on vessels and produce of Spain. The secretary of the interior has reversed the decision of the commissioner of the general land office, canceling G. ft. Coles' entry of the southeast quarter, nection 24, township 133, range 56, Fargo district. At Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, W. Va., Mrs. Louise Eld ridge, wife of a promi nent citizen, was mysteriously assassinated at her own door by some unknown person, who fired a bullet from a Winchester rifle through her heart. At New York, the j'ury in the case of Dan Lyons, who was tried for killing Joseph Quinn, the athlete, returned a verdict of guilty of murdpr in the first degree. Riddleberger writes from Virginia that he has no purpose except to act with the Republicans in the senate next winter. The president appointed Whitaker Grant of Iowa to be attorney of the Unit ed States for the District of Alaska, and Charles M. Force of Kentucky to be re ceiver of public moneys at Lewiston, Idaho. The Minnesota Railroad commission has issued its first sharp and definite or der for a specific reduction of freight rates. It is made upon the complaint of citizens and, commercial, bodies representing towns on the Iowa and Minnesota line of the Mil waukee road, and orders a reduction of rates of freight between St. Paul and those cities ranging from 5 to 25 per cent. A woman who gives the name of Mrs. Jennie Thorley was arrested in the Nation al Exchange bank at Lynchburg, Va., while attempting to have a check on the New Orleans National bank for 515,000 cashed. The check is either raised or a forgery. Howard Douglass of Cincinnati, supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, ap pointed Hon. R. L. C. White of Lebanon, Tenn., supreme keeper of record and seal of the Knights of Pythias to fill the va cancy occasioned by the decease of Hon. R. E. Cowan of St. Louis. At Philadelphia, the Enterprise Brewing company has made an assignment. Lia bilities, $203,000, assets, $350,000. Judge Colt of the United States district court at Boston has dismissed the suit to annul the Bell telephone patent on a de murrer, holding that congress has not giv en the go vein ment by specific legislation power to bring a suit to annul a patent. This leaves the main question of the validi ty of the Bell telephone patent unadjudi cated. It will probably come up again un der some suit for infringement. Chaplain Macomber. late of Ft. Custer now of Ft Sherman, Idaho, is delighted with his new field of labor. He was kindly received by the people of the garrison, and has entered upon his work with zeal and great encouragement. Cardinal Gibbon, accompanied by Rev Dr P. L. Chapelle of Washington, left Baltimore on the Pennsylvania railroad for the \Y est. Portland, Or., is the cardi nal objective point, where he will confer the pallium upon Archbishop GrosR but he will stop en route at Chicago. Mil waukee and St. Paul. The government expelled from Rouma a Bulgarian agitator who was making a libelous attack upon Prince Ferdinand. It is reported that M. Grevy will (shortly resign the presidency of France. A telegram from Santa Fe to the associ ated press says: The reported Apache out break Arizona is not confirmed at mil itary headquarters here. On the contrary everything is reported quite upon the Southwestern Indian reservation. The treasury department haa received from United States Marshal Banks of Mas sachusetts vouchers showing the expendi ture of over $33,000 by his office. It was the marshal's delay in sending in his ac counts that made the treasury officials somewhat apprehensive, and ae the amount for which he may now be liable is brought within the limit of his bonds by the vouchers sent in, the department hon ored his draft for about $4,100. Madrid Dispatch: Riots have been caused on the island of Ponapi, one of the Caroline group, in consequence of expul sion of the Protestant mixstonaries. One man has already been killed. Reinforce ments have b?en sent from Manilla to re store order. Later advices sav that the Spanish governor of Ponape has been kill ed and that many wounded have taken refuge on a Spanish pontoon. The insnr gents are masters of the island. Two war hipg have been sent to the scene. The foiling pensions have been granted Wisconsin: J. M. Lewis, Muscoda H. Mc- Donald, Star Prairie^. O. FieldsrChe%e C. M. Osraan^Ba/ron., Minnesota:"JE$ j). I NanoarrowT Albert LeafR'^Mdnft, *i5ienfp H. Sankin, Browntonxv.-Dakota: JL. S.-vBed- field, Canton. 4 The war department has bean aware* for some time of threatened trouble at the San Carlos Indian reservation in Arizona. The situation there bears, a resem blance to that which existed at the Ute reservation* before Colorovx',s de parture last summer, and in both cases the trouble appears to have ^arisen from attempts by the state and territorial offi cials to enforce, cavil processes the In dians. Fourth-class postmasters appointed: Dakota: Rohey J. S. Raupe Iowa: Pleasant Valley, B. W. Brown. Wisconsin Beaver. W. M. Bishop Elmdalov W. T. Harwood. The presideiitthas grantsd at pardon in the case of William Brooks, Jlaunes Fitz gerald, Thomas Jackson, William Hender son, John Palmer, Reuben Goius and George Hornesr, who were convicted in, the United States, court for the Western dis-. trict of As&ansas last ASnenst of man slaughter) ad whose sentence was sus pended. Tlbe pardon is granted on the ground that the convicts bad reason ip apprehendi bodily harm from the me,n,wj&o they killed. Proposals were opened at the navjr de parbmaaA for furnishing twenty-two sets, of steel ft9gings for six-inch breech-loeuing rifle guiBs, oil-treated, and annealed^ aggre gating., about 136 tons, and of domestic manufacture. The Mid vale Iron company of Philadelphia was the only bidder. Its. proposal was for supplying the forcings, rough-bored and turned annealed, $123,- 284 with tubes, Jackets and tronions, to b rough-bored and turned, by tie navy de partment and the other work by the con tractor, $108^799^ No award has been aaade. The following derails, have* been received i at Paris concerning the shooting incident on the French-German frontier: A Darty of five sportsmen and ou-beaters were fol lowing a path on French territory seven yards from the frontier, when a pezjson standing behind a clump of trees on the German side, eighty yards from the front ier, fired three- shots at thenu The first bullet did not hit anyone,, but jthe second killed one ot the boaters^ named Brignon, and the third severely wounded a gentle man named Wanger, a pupil at the Saum ur cavalry school. The German officials declare that a German soldier named Kauf man n, who was detailed to assist'the for est guards in preventing poaching, fired the shots. Kaufmann affirms that he shouted three times to the partr to halt before filing at them. He believed that they were on German territory. The sports men declare that they heard nothing. It has been authentically learned that Kauf mann fired at the men under the belief that they were poachers, who are numer ous in that locality, owing to the abund ance of large game. J. F. Martaini, night operator at Rice's Point station, near Duluth, was arrested and locked up for robbing the money drawer of about $75. The acting secretary of the interior de nies the application of the Northern Pacific for a reversal of the order restoring its in demnity lands to the public domain. At Redwood Falls, Minn., H. D. Chollnr died from the effects of inj'uries received by a fall down the river embankment. Mr. Ghollar was president of the village board of education, and a director in the Citizen's bank and Building and Loan Association of Redwood Falls. He was a member of the well known lumbering firm of Laird, Norton & Chollar, with yards at Redwood Falls, North Redwood and Madison, be sides the individual owner of a valuable stock farm. The official statement shows that 20.- 090 people entered the gates at the state fair grounds on St. Paul's day. Afc Montevideo.Minn. Albert Hassenyager was brought before Justice ShaVlow, charged with grand larceny. W. B. Kitch eli's store was burglarized May 5, and an attempt made to burn the building. Part of the goode have been found in Has senyager's possession. At the September term of court at Ben son, Minnesota, the Lac qui Parle covtntv contempt cases came up William Ely o"f Bramham appearing for the relator an Browning Nichols and ex-Attorney Gener al Wilson for the defendant. The judge held the county official! in contempt for moving the court housg Jjjul records to Madison after his in junction had been served on them and ordered them to move back at one to Lac qui Parle and the commissioners to at once provide accommodations for them, holding further sentence in abeyance to give them an opportunity to comply with the order. An army officer said recently: We can not deny the possibility of an outbreak, and will not be able to until every Apache is dead orle8s ar ten i ndian tha in prison. We can not depend upon and an outbreak in that lr^hfthem, ei? which 500 Sioux Indians in Dakota are in volved. The condition of the countrv is against us. A sheriff is endeavoring to make arrest* among those Indians, and if this complication comes in it ma.V mate tihincs worse for us. It is a little 'late in thes5agon but so far south the Indiana may make" a great deal of trouble before extreme weather. The President had decided to intefere in the case of Seaborn Kalijah, a Creek In dian, convicted of murder andsentencedto be hanged at Fort Smith Ark., on the 7th proximo. Nine of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Indians arrived at CaBtle Garden on the steamer Wyoming. They could not stand theLon don fogs. Judge Hoffman, of the United States court at San FranciBco, diBsents from the opinion of his associates that the Pacific railway commission has not the power to compel Leland Stanford to prdduce his books and papers. Owing to the failure of a signal man to go back far enought in the fog near North Graft on, Mass.. a through freight train ran into a local near there, smashing 15 cars and killing Joseph Lohn, a brakeman. Baron von Schlaeher presented to the pope a jubilee gift from the German em press. The present consisted of a set of ecclesiastical vestments, the empress' own handiwork. Sir Bernard Samuelson, the president of the chamber of commerce, in his annual address in London, said the currency and tariff arrangements of the United States are in so peculiar a condition that Eng land, France and Germany are living in apprehension of a monetary panic. There wa consolation, however, that the cash t-ystem of the English trade was extending. Privates William Cosgrove and James Borke, of Company B. Twentieth infantrr. f-?I*I ,_ who have been in camp at Sweet Grass P, Hills near Fort Asseniboine since last Spring, became involved in a quarrel re cently, which resulted in Burke being hit on the head with a stone inthe hands of Cosgrove and being seriously wounded. Uu*kuU was rrsctured and brain lacerated. vTbe following patent have, heen issued WisconsinJ. Ballard, Wassan, ax a Hansen and J. Brandt, Marinette, straw cutter B.B. Helming, Milwaukee, horse collar. MinnesotaG. A-and J. K. Col lins, and M. C. Bomside. Sleepv Eye, exca vatini snow shovel T. Coo|^r. Winona, reflector for henrHighV efd,\ P.*Fetch? Minneapolis, dumping car A.% Weeks, Min neapolu, ventilatingboater. DakotaC.I. Paine, Wakonda. ore concentrator: W. *T Spillane, Casselton, grain ear door. j^Si^Pfgigamw&, A coanpronaiSfris Jikiely to^ be^elftfefr- *& in the Yankfcoaasylnm muddle and :he work, allowed .tagptjan. The controller oi'the aurrensy has a-pppoved th Waterfcown, NaHoBal oaok oi Dakota a ^jeservft^igantu Bsoston,J.camal: T-h. ma,wrtae of Ma, Winthircqi) ,E. Searritfc- oil Wa*er fcown,, artd, Miss^ Lerria. Taarfeell, aaiaghter ol iJupt, barbell, otifae-Ptov idfcnce public schools, was-solemnized Providence. Mr. and Mfca. Saoarritt *ill residein WfttWtown* Dakota? Pensions granted* Widow af T. & Free, StouXvF-alls. Ofciginal: W. Cook. Westport L. Sutter, Wil low Lake. Montana: ij: Bruce, Butta City A\ Battles, Billings, At5ran Forks.GeoigeCtuikshank's child was killed by the- fehiling of a threshing enguaa-'s stack. At a- special election held at Devil's Lake-it was-votedfee.incorporate as a city undeir-generai laws. Gv. and Mrs. Cfeturch spent some fcinae alABig Stone City on their way bo, Favg$ and Mitchell. *V At Bisra-arck, liauren Dunlap, ex G^namissSoneff immigration, was. 'ranted a divorce from his wife on the ground ofi cruelty and desertion. Mr. Dunlap is now on the Chicago Intsr Ocean. M*s Lunlap is supposed to, bs-ia Huron. Secretary Muldrow has approved fcha cancellation of Charles Qood. enough's entry of tbe southeast quar ter of section 8, township 111,, range The largest outfit of railroad grad ers that ever entered Dakota Terri. tory in one body arrived at Sioux Falls recently from Hastings, Neb., by special train. They began work on the Illinois Central depot grounds. W. H. Maees of Brookings died at Aberdeen from hemorrhage of the bowels at the residence of J. G. Clell and. The deceased was a prominent citizen of Brookings. He was largely interested in blooded stock, and was also proprietor of the Brookines roll er mills. Hot Springs (Dak.) Special: Mrs. Emma J. Reid, a "cattle queen" from New York, well known in Omaha, got on what the cow-boys call a "high lonesome" about the 1st of September, and caused the arrest of a young col ored man whom she charged with an assault with a deadly weapon with in tent to commit the crime of rape. After a prolonged examination of five days avid two nights the defendant was discharged. The latter at once commenced an action against the al leged cattle queen for the sum of $20,- 000 damages for defamation of char acter and false imprisonment. Oscar C. Voorhies, after many de lays, was taken before Judge Wilkin at St. Paul, and sentenced to impris onment at Stillwater for a term of two years and ten months. Voorhies can to St. Paul in February last, and representing himself as "R. C. \oorhies. a property owner of Huron, mortgageHuron, rpjith means more than an outbreak in cing law. JS certain belong ing to R. C. Voorhies to Graves & Virioon. receiving therefor $1,000. R. C. Voorhies is a brother of Oscar. The fraud was not detected until ear ly in April, and the criminal was ar- on the rested at wherelands he was prauti- 1 TmvemTn&me itirS^rW*}?,m I The second year of the' Jrimestowfl college opened with flatterlrig pros pects. -Fifty students are in attend ance and one hundred will be at the opening of the next winter terrnV A new brick building, three additional instructors, and five times the num ber of students are advantages pos sessed oyer last year. JThe North Dakota elevator at Wheatland, owned by the North Da kota Elevator company, was burned. The building held 45,000 bushels and was full of wheat. The South Dakota Fair at Mitchell was well attended and very successful in every respect. Delia Houck, an innocent-looking girl fifteen years of age, left Jersey City to join friends at Ludden. While on the Grand Trunk train be tween Windsor and Chicago she met John Shannon, the train news dealer, who "was very friendly," and who completely won over the unsophisti cated girl by his boldness. On arriving she was assaulted and robbed of all her money. A wonderful flow of water was struck in the artesian well at Frank tort at a depth of 900 feet. A four and a half inch stream is beingthrown fifteen feet in the air and it looks like a geyser. Messrs Swan Co., con- lP ract or8 the largest flow Ma they have seen in the territory, water is soft and sweet. Sensntlons d. .Toongb4 ffKilbfiMnriitg Each Breath the LastWhat* Might ASM-Been aiilitarr T*a^ody ATATSBO ibj. Chance*. New YorkfSuw. 62, Huron land district. He has mod-j post was a smart aleak, who ified th3 decision of the commissioner thought to add to his isnnorfeanrp so as to allow O. Thomas, whose en^ try of the southwest quarter of sec tion 32, township 123, range 65, Wa* tertown district, held for cancellation, to file supplementary proofs. The secretary has reinstated H. K. Olesen's entry of the southeast ouarter of sec tion 17, township 123, range 77, Aberdeen district. The story of aaam whtfc is? repriev ed white standing on.the-saafEold with the nocse. about his n&ckmust always thrill. The fact any ne standing in the pysesence offdeath ha& a strange fascination abo*t iu, andl bis feljow men arex-arixioiss- to. know what his thoughts and iaeKngs. ware- us he ex pected&to be ushered inite. eternity. It nas baen jony, iikluok tnslao-k squarely into ishe eyes-aiigrim death on several occasions,, and my good lock so pre- servMia life- against the fate which Beero9ditohvwige tsst% and some of the iacifeate. naay, prove interesting to the general reader* During the siege of Yoifctown fty McCfetlan I was detailed fram.my.caeaipanj todo Pcout work. VXhile my Deputation, no doubt, went ta the coaamander himself, I reported directly hoi a division commander, w,hom I never met without bein^ forced t*note the fact that he wa^s the worst for liquor. Later on in taer war there was chief of scouts, but a.t, fchi$ tisae-there were a half-dozen of as taking orders direct from this general and reporting back to him in person* On third trip I was very neatly captuied by the rebels, and in.tije squeeze I got all my papers, including the pass which gave me entrant and exit to the Federal lines. Therefonev when I finally reached the Inderal jacket post I had nothing by which, to identify myself. The officer in, com mand of the reserve picket by refusing to believe my shory and sending me to the headquarters of the brigade. There I was. regarded as a veritable rebel spy, ac$ the- general in command was extrecaely pompous in his demeanor toward mo. 1 can remember the conversation as vividly as if it took place yesterday. By the time I reached his tenfe my arms had been tied behind m and I was looked upon as a very daagerous fellow. "So you are the. spy captured] down there at the picket?" shouted the general, as I stood before him. "I'm no spy, sir," I replied. "Oh, no, of course not, but don't you talk baek to me, you infernal traitor. Who sent you spying into our camp?" "I'm a Union soldier, sir, and be long too '4 Shu up, you scoundrel! Don't think that you can stand here and lie to me! What rebel command do vou belong to?" "None, sir. 1 am a Union scout,and was detained "Stop!" he shouted, while his face grew crimson. "While the truth may not help you, I hate to see you stand in the presence of death with a lie on yourlips. Guard, remove him." I was taken away and confined in a guaid-house, but not for long. In about an hour I was taken to anoth er tent in the same encampment, and I entered it to find four or five officers present. It was to be a drum-head court-martial. As I afterward learned a report of my capture had been sent to head quarters, and McClellan had replied: "Try him at drum-head court-mar tial, and, if found guilty, hang him at sunrise/' A drhm head court-martial is a dig nified farce. It is convened to con vict. The idea is that the victim is guilty, but must be disponed oi ac cording to the regulations of the war department. The fact that I openly and boldly approached the Union picket, and thaand"was 5iil I coming fro the rebel lines, carried no weight in my favor. The officer of the picket said that I was certainly a spy, and that settled it. When they finally condescended to hear my explanation name ana Statea that he general to whom 1 made would icIenEuy me. atod The 4jA syndicate with $100,000 capital has been organized in Sioux Falls to boom Oakes as the new cross-road railway town in Dickey county. The following delegates were elected to the National -Stock Breeders' as. 8ociatior by the Dakota association at Mitchell Theodore S. David, C. J. AHoway. E. EL Jacobs, Thomas Taylor, D. T. Newton, E. 8ehKchfr, I. C Wad* a B. Kemp. The annual meeting will be held at Jamestown to, November, my reports entu hie stoo in neither awe nor fear, knowin?fcow could be identified. "Some members of the court opposed to giv ing me this chance for my life, but it was finally decided to dispatch an or derly and adjourn the court for an hour. I was conducted back to the guardhouse to wait and when again taken before the officers I expected to be discnarged without delay. You can, therefore, imagine mj- feelings when I was informed that General utterly repudiated me. My regiment and company were a dozen miles away, and I felt that it would be use less to ask further delav. In ten minutes I was found guilty and sen tenced to execution at sunrise, and before midnight a scaffold had been prepared. Why' had General denied my identity? The only excuse I could offer for them was that he was drunk when the mes senger reached him. This proved to be the case. Roussd from his stupid sleep he had winked and blinked at the communication and made out a portion of it, and then flang it down with the assertion that he knew no one of my name. The gallows were erected near where I was confined. Some beams and boards were taken from an abandoned house and the structure was a very rude affair. I could plainly hear every blow struck, and the fellows engaged in putting it up seemed to want me to overhear their unfeeline remarks. Abont an hour before daylight a curious chance took place in me. I began to wonder if 1 was really the man I claimed to, be, and it was not 15 minutes be fore I had come to the conclusion that I was some one 3&fi3iK-n te This idea took such a firm lodgment in my mind that 1 wonld have honest ly denied my real identity. 1 felt that I had been fairly tried and honestly convicted, and that I ought to suffer death. There was no particular ter ror in the idea. The only thought about hanging which made me cringe was the failing through the trap. It seemed to me, as 1 reflected on it. that the pain would be some- same timsji&b the reflects that it would, sooiashe over. Hal&arihourbe* tore sunrise-I was brdughtitsmt $pd es corted to jtfee gallows. If I remsi&ber right thei was about half a CQHpny of infantry on the ground., Oaly a few soldiers in camp were ouijjiMk witness the* proceedings. They&tal graciously provided me with sp^riisual consolatia& in the pre enceofft. chaplain, bute though the good mam talked to mojt for 20 mini utes, I Aid not hear oneword in 20 ha iittere&i I was all the* time wonder, ma hojUklliMia before it would be oyer, and every minute of delay made me impafeieat. When the*fciroe came-4or me tqujnount the sca&?Jd was ra&lly gladpiiit. There was*nothing in^tbe sighfcioiitbe dangling aope to chills me. I toftk my place on tiW trap, the ohap laisfruttered a prayer, and then, a soldlen- quickly tieda.my elbow-.and ankjte and pulled^a ,cap overt my h$ad It was a scatter of seconds now* and I said to^nyself: "Itscom- H)g.ne.w good-by 6 all. It wjjl,soon b& oiver." They tfcad to cut a ,rope underneath to, spaing the trap. My sans of hearing Was so acuta that 1 ~2i Joaated the manprho stood with an as. ready to do tfee service agfe a given. ^ignal. and 1 herd him wlljsper to, hitaiself: "Why in God's, name do jj tthey keep the aaan so lo^g in sus-^ pence?" ThemJ began to apunt one, two, three, antj so on, and .had got up, "s tto nine, when ,1 heard a shouting not Sar away and mingled wth it the $ sounds of horses coming a,t a gallop, $ "Don't cufrthat rope," commanded* the officer i^-eharge and 1 said to my- $ self: "Something ha$ game wrong and there will b. a further d*lay. Perhaps $ I am to be,shot. Tha* would be an easier wayr to die." *]8here was some & loud talk,around me. Two or hhree people caaie up thela^der to the^plat form, an4 directly a, hand pullsd the cap off any head, ancfr a voice said: "Capfcain, there is,some terrUle mis*- h* takehirre. This i&Jtoberts, oe of mv SCOUte." ft} "Bat you did, nsot know him lastf nigh*." "5 know him ndw, and y*u will re* lease him at one*." it was General As he awoke' $ fcjom his druken sleep *t an early hour a dim reanembrance of the mes- 4 sage crept in&o his mintj, and he rolled i out of bed and found the inquiry sent i by the couafc-martial. He could not remember- what word he sent in reply but he jumped into his clothes and 3 then into the saddle, and became just in time- to prevent a military murder. What was the efiect ot this close call? Well, I went to the hospital for two weeks with a fever, and it was a full month beforel was positively certan oV my identity. Hope For Poo Youn Men, President Marvin Hughitt, of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, 11 and President W. B. Strong, of th^ Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the heads of the two great railroads ol the country, started as telegraph op erators. The latter begane asd ator at Milton, WT tbe m? I Western broader, did 't bejn even 61 the as a humble member oTlhe civil en^J geneerlftg corps, He started in on gravel train as A ConJlflctdY. That' was on the old Prairie dti Chien road. }i J. C: Clarke, of the Illinois Central, wBte has just reth-ed from the presid- 'T oper* is. on th ol Mil i waukee and St. Paul Railroad, and the former at a small station on the Chicago and Alton Raiiroad. These are the only two big railroadero out here Avho started on their career from the kevboard. There are a d,osen oiJ the most prominent men h^ th pro fession, railroad presv* nts most pi them, who gradttaled^ from the cjv.il eneineerin^ flepaitm$n President NewgiJ, tf iMe Shore, be?an as a rodman. So did President Robertg, of the Pennsylvania systeTh. "He he"!je carry the chain for the engineers who built the Erie* road. Hugh Riddle, for so many years at the head ot the. Rock Island and now a member of the Executive 11 Committee, grew up from the civil en 5j gineenng department. General Man-^J ager T. J. Potter, of the Union Pacific, was a lineman before he became a Js country station agent on the B. & M.-W Railroad. PresidentT. B. Blackstone, of the Chicago and Alton, began his "J railroading by acting as roadman on the New York & New Haveu ro&d.j The late S. S. Merrill, who was given 4 a higher rank than almost any othei^S of the large number who began as a clerk in the freight of flees. Vice-President Calloway, who has jut left the Union Pacific, was' years ago a height clerk for the Grand Trunk. Elijah Smith, of ^he O. T., began as a clerk lor the chairman oi the Board of Directors of the Chicago, Biuhnaton and Quincy. Genera! Passenger Agent Ruggles graduated from a clerkship in a freight office, and Treasurer Purdy, now vire-presK dent of the Rock Island, years &<c got about $50 a mon*h for keeping books and omwonaUy helping with the freight in the Illinois Central offices. Superintendent Jefivry, of the Illinois Central, started in as an office boy in the '50s. President Jim Hill,- of the Manitoba, was loqal agent for ten years for a httle road at St. Paul. Hannaford, the general freight agent of the Northern Pacific, was one* drawing the salary of a $800-iwyear freight clerk. Commissioner George a^i^^~==^?=5,SuperintendnDivisio.daysdrailroanelsei ent Chamberlain, one of the best liked men on the Rock Island, began hh life on the rail as conductor on tbt New York Third avenue street rail way line. Horace Tucker, now tbt gineral freight a*t of the Illinois Central, and General Manager E. St John of the Rock Wand, both begac by helping in the ticket offices ot small roads,, 1 -M&~ J^ ency, was a fireman on an engine. A. C. Bird, one of the best esteemed men *$| on the St. Paul, began as truckman *Jf in the bageage-room of the St. Louis *s% and Indianapolis Railroad. Com- *M missioner Midglf y, of the Southwest ern pool, the highest priced commis sioner outside ol New York, began his exi erience with railroads as stenog rapher in the Illinois. Central offifces. Commissioner George R. Blanchard, of the Central Traffic pool, is one i