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ST. PAUL, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1885.
i3f~ The Chicago office of the Globe is at
No. 11 Times Building.
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at xo. 257 First Avenue South.
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THE MARKETS.
The stock market was a little more active
yesterday than it was the day previous, and
yet was very dull from the opening to the
dosing. The extreme fluctuations were gen
erally less than 1 per cent.. It was asserted
and denied that President Smith of the Ore
gon Railway & Navigation company, aud of the
Oregon Transcontinental company is to be suc
ceeded by Mt.Bka.TTOH IVES,a member of the
stock exchange. The -wheat market in Chi
cago yesterday was a lively one. It opened
stroug\declined %c, then rallied and advanced
1 ] „c over the lowest of the morning, then be
came weak until the close, which was 4 c
below the close of the preceding day. and %c
below the opening. At Minneapolis the quo
tations of the preceding day were maintained.
At Duluth the market was quiet and firm.
In St. Paul wheat was quoted lc higher.
I* IB OF THE NEWS,
The Grand Temple of Honor elected officers.
Five hundred soldiers are en route to St.
Paul.
Lord Hastings' bay colt, Melton, won the
English Derby.
Patsey Cardiff is in training for his fight
with Billy Wilson.
Directors of the St. Paul & Northern Pacific
road were elected.
The Northern Pacific laud sales for May
were 46,700 acres.
There were no new developments in the
militia controversy.
The larger flour mills in Minneapolis may
shut down Saturday.
The Minneapolis city council disposed of
much routine business.
AH of the Western glass factories will shut
down in about two weeks.
The passenger conductors ai*e expected
back from the Yellowstone to-day.
- John T. Davenport, the New York election
boss, has mysteriously disappeared.
Samuel Shafer, arrested on complaint of
John R. Richards for assault, was discharged.
Car-load rates to St. Paul and Minneapolis
will not be abolished by Northwestern rail
roads.
-
\f illiam Tuohey has begun a suit against
the executors of C. C. Washburn's estate for
£16,300.
Rev. R. R. Riddell was formally deposed
from the Christian ministry and expelled from
the chinch.
Attempts were made at the Tammany hall
meeting to supplant John Kelly as grand
sachem.
A statement from the New Orleans exposi
tion manager shows - that the concern is
heavily in debt.
It is believed that several lives were lost on
the lake at Chicago during the big storm
Tuesday night.
.' An explosion of fire-damp in a colliery near
Durham, Eug., set the mine on fire and caused
the loss of many lives.
Preparations are being mad? at Moorherd
to entertain the Dairymen's association,
which meets there June 24.
Secretary Bayard received a royal welcome
in St. Louis, and he assured the people his
friendship for their interests.
Minister Phelps was very cordially received
at London, and was the guest of the evening
at the lord mayor's banquet.
The Wisconsin supreme court decides that
taxes cannot be levied on property of rail
roads not terminating in the state.
Mr. Dnrant of Stillwater says he declined a
consulate and Is sure that the Democrats of
Minnesota are pleased with Cleveland.
Bie Bear, fearing early death, has given or
ders to his men to raid all stores and kill all
whites, enjoying themselves as much as pos
sible.
The great strike of iron and steel workers
affects about 100,000. One hundred iron mills
and thirty-four nail mills have been shut
down.
Dr. E. E. Loy, who shot his brother-in-law
at Cincinnati, was acquitted on the charge of
murder, it being decided that he shot him in
self-defense.
William Jones, a section foreman, struck
James Murray on the head with a pop-bottle
in a Superior, Wis., saloon, from the effects
of -which he died.
John G. Bergquist of Moorhead was bound
over to the next term of court, charged with
having set fire to his building to defraud the
insurance companies.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago has issued
orders to close up all gambling houses and to
enforce the laws rega ding the sale of liquor
to minors and drunkards.
LAND GRABBING.
A correspondent writing from Blue Earth
City in to-day's Gi,obe gives an interesting
account of the methods employed by rail
road corporations in circumventing the de
cisions of the courts in relation to railroad
grants and the assistance they received from
the land bureau under former administra
tions in filching large slices of the public
domain to which they are not entitled. -
While the wisdom of granting subsidies in
the nature of land grants to railway com
panies is denied by a great many people, it
must be admitted that the railroad com
panies have made some returns to the peo
ple. It looked like an extravagant policy
for the government to induce the building
of railroads through the undeveloped sec
tions of the country by making grants of
the public lands to companies, and then
furnishing the corporations with money to
build the roads. At the same time, if this
policy had not been adopted, all this region
of the great West would have remained un
developed for years and peals to
come. It was to the interest of
the railroad companies when their
lines were completed to have the territory
through which they passed settled up. They
wanted settlers to till the lands that the
rich soil might yield abundantly of products
that should increase the revenues of tha
company. As a consequence they have set
tied up trackless wastes. The aoHttKleaftbe
desert lias been made to rejoice with the
busy activities of trade and the content of a
prosperous people. Commercial marts have
been filled with opulence. The farmer
and the merchant alike have been enriched
and the aggregate wealth of the community
and the state has been enlarged. The pub
lic is willing to concede to the railroad com
panies all the credit that is due them. The
railroad corporations have not beeu content
with the prodigal and lavish gifts re
ceived from the nation. While the
judgment of the American people condemns
this wanton w:\Ae of the public domain,
still, the compensating advantages derived
from the construction of the roads would
have reconciled the people to the waste of
their patrimony which the Republican party
gave away to these great
They were not content with what was given
them, but have entered upon a systematic
course of swindling and chicanery that has
so outraged public sentiment as to make it
no longer endurable. It is not necessary to
recall the history of watered stocks, of the
stupendous frauds in construction, of the
immense salaries, all going to swell the
capital and expense of operating the roads,
nor of the outrage upon shippers by fixing
a schedule of tariff rates sufliciently high to
meet the dividends on watered stocks and
the extraordinary expenses thus created.
And they have made continued efforts to grab
lands never intended to be conveyed by the
government by pursuing methods such as
are described by our Blue Earth
correspondent and in the manner recently
exposed by the interior department in con
nection with the Southern Pacific line.
There is a very fruitful reform field for
Secretary Lamar to work in while uncov
ering all the land swindles perpetrated by
the railroad companies, through the conniv
ance of former heads of the land bureau.
The beginning that he and Commissioner
Spakks have made is encouraging. The
.splendid patiimony of the public domain
was acquired by our Democratic fathers.
Much of it has been wasted by the liepub
licau party. It has been granted to railroad
corporations, and millions of acres of it have
been transferred to syndicates and foreign
holdings, whose avowed object is to hold
the lands as close corporations and not for
settlement or for use and cultivation in
small tracts. Under Republican adminis
trations cattle companies have gone on to
the public domain and fenced the lands
in without so much as asking permission.
They have shut up United States mail routes
and enclosed the homes of the settlers, for
bidding them free ingress to and egress
from the lands claimed in 100-acre tracts by
them. Against this wretched policy this
outrageous parceling of the public domain
to a few corporations and syndicates of
titled foreigners the people have sent up an
earnest protest and the Democratic admin
istration is expected to heed their voice in
this matter. The time has fully come when
the rascals must go. The secretary of the
interior should at once make a thorough in
vestigation of every land grant that has
been issued by the government. Much of
it can be recovered and much can be done
toward preserving what remains. Every
foot of land claimed or occupied by corpo
rations and syndicates to which they have
not a clear and absolute title should at once
be taken possession of by the government
and held for the use of the people. A policy
of this kind cannot be entered upon too
soon by the interior department or pushed
too vigorously.
A FEMALE PAGAX.
Miss Helen Gardner is to the female
world what Ingersoll is to the male cre
ation. She is a feminine infidel who is
going around lecturing to women, telling
them reasons why they should not believe
in a God. She is described as being a very
]>retty little woman, with dark hair and
eyes and very white beringed hands. There
is one serious detect in Miss Gardner's
oratory which destroys the effect of her
rhetoric and will doubtless cripple her efforts
to destroy the Creator of the universe. She
talks through her nose. No woman with a
nasal accent to her speech was ever known
to be a favorite with her sex. When one
woman sets out to persuade another woman
that her belief in anything is wrong, she
must do her talking in a clear, sweet voice,
free from hesitation and without a
snoring accompaniment. Miss Gardner
is also afflicted with another serious
hindrance to success as a lecturess. She is
exceedingly nervous and stops to complain
of every passing street car or growl at the
noise made by fast-driving vehicles. A
woman who expects to compete with the
clergy and relies upon her ability to tear
down the fabric of a religious system which
has stood the test of ages, ought to have
the nerves of a locomotive.
Miss Gabdskb, however, is original in
her reasons for disbelieving the Bible. She
doesn't soar to the scientific ground of in
fidelity occupied by Darwin and Beecher
and base her opposition to the sacred word
vi ton evolution or any such theories. Nor
does she follow in the footsteps of Ixger-
SOIX and reject the inspiration of Scripture
because Mose* is imagined to have made
some mistakes in the holy record. She
branches off into an entirely new field, and
it must bo said to Miss Gardner's credit
she presents the most practical
view <>f infidelity that lias yet
been held by any of the great
leaders of the Liberal league. She doesn't
stop to higgle over the whale tradition, the
walking on the sea, the apple story, and many
others that are dwelt on by Mr. Ingersoll.
but she goes directly to a principle that she
knows will reach every woman's heart.
The reason she disbelieves in the Bible, as
she alleges, is because it belittles women.
She thinks that a book that will hold
woman responsible for a Kansas grasshop
per plague ought to be rejected. In her at
tempt to convert her sex from the faith of
the Bible Miss Gardner has shown some
skill in the selection of her argument, »and
if she could succeed in allaying her nervous
ness, or could remove the impediment from
her speech by drawing her palate up so
that she wouldn't have to talk through her
nose, it is probable that she could succeed
in making considerable headway with her
infidel crusade. Until she is relieved of
these physical difficulties, the Liberal
league would do well to retire Miss Gard
ner from the lecture platform. A veteran
Liberal leaguer who heard her in Philadel
phia the other night remarked to a Times
reporter as he left the hall: "The cause is
getting pretty sick when it has to have
champions like her. She is most enough to
make me believe there is a God."
YOUNG AMERICA'S VICTORY.
The boys are on top in Wisconsin. It is
so seldom that the rights of the boys are
recognized by a state that the juveniles of
the whole country will unite with the Wis
consin youngsters in celebrating their great
victory. It lias been a memorable contest,
and its history wiil rill the brightest page j
of Badger annals. It has been a cus
tom of long standing in that state wher
ever school was taught to compel the boys
to cany all the wood for the school-room
stove. This lias been a hardship that
young Wisconsinites have long protested
against, and in some instances have even
gone so far as to rise in rebellion. There.
are people living in Wisconsin to-day, old
people whose heads are whitened and
whose forms are bent with age
and Wiscoitsin rheumatism combined,
who can remember that some thirty
years ago a school-boy's rebellion
which lasted a week, and all growing out
of this same tyranny on the part of the
school officers. At iirst the boys assembled
in caucus and drew up resolutions in which
they expressed the opinion that, compulsory
wood-carrying was an infringement upon
the inherent rights of young Americans, and
THE ST. PAUL DAILT* uLOBE, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1885.
that it was a species of tyranny that their
sense of youthful independence would not
submit to. The teacher refused to give a
respectful hearing to the petitioners and
flogged the committee which waited upon
him with the resolutions. The next morn
ing when he appeared at the school house
he found himself barred out. The rural
youngsters had arrived on the ground early,
and fortifying themselves iuside the school
room had barricaded the door by piling up
benches against it and had all the windows
securely nailed down. After vain attempts
to break the blockade the tutor was com
pelled at last to beat a retreat, bearing on
his head and face the scars of battle, in
flicted by sundry missiles which had been
hurled through the window panes by the
assaulted garrison. A meeting of
the school board was called, and
the result of a consultation be
tween it and the teacher was that a regu
lar siege should be established in order to
starve the boys out. This plan proved
futile, as there was a sufficient number of
people in the neighborhood in sympathy
with the rebels to keep them supplied with
provisions. Each night some blockade run
ner would succeed in passing the school
board sentinels and carry the besieged gar
rison food enough to last it twenty-four
hours. At the end of a week an honorable
capitulation of the garrison was secured by
a promise that the wood-carrying ordinance
should be repealed. It is to the disgrace of
the school board when it is told that the
terms of the surrender were never carried
out by the victors, and that until the pres
ent year the same section of school law has
continued to be a blot on the jurisprudence
of the state. Last winter a number of boys
banded together, and, with the aid of a
few sympathetic adults, brought this
feature of the law before the courts. In
order to have a foundation for a case
one of the young heroes refused to obey the
order which required each pupil upon re
turning from play to bring a stick of wood
to keep the fire going, and in consequence
of his refusal was suspended. The ques
tion of the right of the board of education
to suspend him for this cause was raised
and has been followed from court to court
until the supreme court gave a final de
cision sustaining the boy. The court held
that carrying wood is not a legitimate fea
ture of a system of public instruction. "The
requirement that school children shall bring
up wood," it says, "has nothing to do with
the education of the child. It is nothing
but manual labor, pure and simple, and lias
no relation to mental development. If a
child dan be compelled to bring up wood, he
can be made to saw and split it before it is
brought up; he can be compelled to bring it
to the school yard and throw it in the base
ment; can be made to clear the sidewalk of
snow, wash the windows or do any other
menial work about the school house and
grounds." Now it will be in order for all
the boys in the land to give three cheers
for the supreme court of Wisconsin.
The selfishness of Chicago and St. Louis re
ceived a fitting rebuke from the convention
of general traffic managers at Denver yester
day, when that body refused to abolish car
load rates. Jealous of the successful rivalry
of St. Paul and Minneapolis jobbers, the
merchants of Chicago and St. Louis have for
some time been seeking to rope the railroads
into some sort of a scheme whereby the job
bing business of the Northwest could be dis
criminated against. They thought they had
a fat thing in the proposition to have the rail
roads abolish car-load rates on all the princi
pal commodities, a scheme ■which, if it had
been accomplished would have worked bene
ficially to the interests of Chicago and St.
Louis and injuriously to the wholesale trade of
the Northwest. The traffic managers had
wisdom enough to discern the selfishness of the
sohemers and accordingly gave it a black
eye.
The decision rendered by the supreme
court of Wisconsin yesterday, in relation to
the power of the state in taxing railroads,
adds a new feature to the multitudinous per
plexities of the railroad problem. If the de
cision of the Wisconsin court is to become a
precedent to be quoted as authority by other
states then the effort to tax railroads had as
well be abandoned. If there is any such
thing as state sovereignty and the right of
eminent domain it is very difficult to under
stand how the court arrived at the conclusion
announced in its decision. Our Madison spe
cial informs us that the decision has created
a sensation in that city. It is not surprising
that it does. It occurs to us that such a de
cision as that would create a sensation in any
community.
The Winnipeg Sun is apparently out of
humor because the United States government
doesn't lay claim to Rieij as an American
citizen and draw him out of the clutches of
the Canadian authorities. This government
is not in the elephant business this season,
and while we would like to accommodate our
Canadian friends in every reasonable way,
still we must insist that they are entitled to
hold RnsL., as we cannot take him off their
hands.
A new element is introduced into Ohio pol
itics this year. Taxpayers are beginning to
move, ostensibly without respect to party, in
all of the counties of the state, and are or
ganizing- a reform movement to relieve them
selves of unnecessary taxation and of "boss
rule" at the county seats. It is not yet known
what effect it will have on the politics of the
state.
Senator Vest's explanation of his recent
profanity when speaking of newspapers is
entirely satisfactory to the press of the coun
try. He says that at the time the profane
language escaped his lips he was settling a
hotel bill. Any man who doesn't swear when
settling a hotel bill in St. Louis is too good
for this world of original sin.
Mr. BTjAine's partisans in Vermont are
already setting up the pins to defeat Mr.
Edmunds for re-election to the senate. This
indicates that the Plumed Knight is really in
the ring for the Republican nomination in
1888. Mr. Blame is commencing a little
early to kill off his rivals, and unless he is un
usually vigorous he will be out of wind by the
time the next convention meets.
In Arizona and New Mexico experiments
are being made with the castor bean for the
manufacture of oil. The estimates give 1,500
plants to the acre, which produce 600 pounds
of beans worth $ 180. An oil factory is con
templated at Tucson, Ariz., provided suf
ficient beans can be contracted for.
\v,jten Chicago and St. Louis have attained
sufficient importance as railroad centers to
enter intojivulry with St. Paul it will be
time enough for them to put up jobs to injure
our jobbing trade. In the meantime the more
modesty they display the better they will fare.
Miss Cleveland is announced to write an
other letter. The frequency with which she
appears before the public as a letter writer
suggests that possibly she may bo trying to
elucidate some hidden technicality of the
Minnesota militia law.
The United States and Germany have about
the same number of war vessels, yet onr navy
cost us $17,292,001 during 1884, while the Ger
mans expended on theirs but $6,742,094.
Gen. Logan's friends chiim that the
great mistake the Republican party made was
in putting Logan at the tail of the ticket. A
greater mistake was made when he was put on
the ticket at all.
The Cincinnati papers report an unusually
large strawberry crop in that section. . Five
cents per quart is the retail price in Cincin
nati. - i»-V>''
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Philadelphia has a bison boom. Three 1
baby buffaloes made their appearance in the
zoological garden in one day. .
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Fearless and Independent.
Spirit Lake (la.) Democrat. - ,
The St. Paul Globe takes rank as the lead
ing daily of the great Northwest, and is laid
before its readers bright and ; early every
morning, containing all the news cf. interest
of both hemispheres. It :is appropriately
named the Globe, for nothing of I interest
transpiring: on this globe of \ ours escapes its .
newsy columns. It is a power : at home as
well as abroad; in proof of which we point to '
tho splendid victory won by the cause it ad
vocated in th > late municipal ', election in at.
Paul. It- is bert'ectly earless and independ
ent, attacking 1 wrong wherever it •■ shows
itself, whether in its own party or in the op
position rank?. i . ,
Purchasable Legislatures.
From Sam, tip Scaramouch.
The Now fork legislature has just been
purchased byrho consolidated gas companies
of the metropolis. Presently the people will
discover that he real use of the legislature
is to be bough ;. Tho only place in the Union
Where , the legislature is unpurchasable is in
the District o Columbia. . There' they have
none. .
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How ' 'lie y Arc Known.
Bill Arp. 'f ,
"The Georgians still lead in all the regions,
I have found; One man told me that there
was one good s jn that spotted the Georgians.
When a man i 1 tho cars wanted to draw the
cork from his little and couldn't, he rose up
and said: •Art! there any Georgians in this
car?' And when a modest fellow rose up and
said, 'Yes, sir lam a Georgian,' tho man
said: 'Well, lenl me your corkscrew.' "
Triuk Aptly Spoken.
Minneapolis Tribune.
When the Pioieer Press (a St. Paul paper)
is neatly scoope I by its wide-awake contem
poraries it repr. its the item ; and labels it
"From yesterday's second edition " If St.
Paul had to defend upon the Pioneer Press
for its news it yould be a benighted town in
deed. I
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An Eastern IComance.
New York Tribune.
A man about to | visit St. Paul can put a
letter in a lamp-box directed to St. Paul, just
before he gets on the train, announcing his
arrival, and the letter will get there about
twenty-four homk before be does. At least
that is what is clamed for the fast mail.
ABOUT GIRLS UNDER TWENTY.
From the Boston Courier. '■/}, ;
My eyes are blue i id my cheeks are pink
And I'm the belle if the skating rink;
The young men pi lise my graceful air
And say my face i > wondrous fair,
But alack-a-dayl in under twenty;
And though I've Attentive beaux in plenty
It seems that I cannot go with them
To the rink to sktjte after 5 p.m.
It appears that sune horrid legislator,
With the soul of i Florida alligator,
Proposes at once by hook or crook,
To place a law on 1 the statute book
That will cause a world of grief and tears
Concerning girls under twenty years,
A law, in short, forbidding them
To go to the rink after 5 p. m.
Now-there's that horrid girl, Miss— ay-
She's 26 if she's aday.
But says she's not quite —
How glad the envious thing will be!
Every night to the rink she'll go
And skate with Harry Jones, I know; *>
While I must knit, or stitch, or hem,
In tears at home after 5 p. m.
How would these legislators feel,
Who are chosen to guard the common weal,
If we, the girls whose liberties
They seek to crush by laws like these
Against the harmless roller skate,
Possessed the power to legislate,
And passed a law forbidding them
To take a drink after 5 p. m.?
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VOIOE OP THE PEOPLE,
Land Grant Steals.
To the Editor oj the Globe:
Your article \in the Globe of the 29th
inst., entitled, \ "Is It a Laud Steal?" can
; undoubtedly be answered yes, upon general
principles; that whatever is the subject of
theft and can be utilized by a railroad cor
poration will be taken, especially land; and
what makes the "heft more reprehensible,
upon conviction tiey refuse to return the
stolen goods, but iefy not only individuals
who may be the tide owners but state and
national government. Knowing nothing
specially with refeience to the case cited by
your article, the Writer does know that a
number of thousand acres of land in Fari
bault county have bten unlawfully seized by
a certain railroad corporation by means
more censurable than outright theft. And
what is true of this county is also true of
every county from Texas to Manitoba
wherever a land-grant vailroad traverses the
country. By reference to the provisions
of the various acts passel by congress grant
ing lands to aid in the construction of rail
roads it will be found liat odd-numbered
sections, for ten miles oij each side of the
line of road, are usually granted; that to in
demnify the company for lands that may
have been sold or otherwise disposed of,
or upon which a hon.estead or pre
emption right or claim may have at
tached at date of giant or definite
location of its line of road, the limit may
be extended to twenty miles, giving a tract
of country.forty miles in width from which
to take their quota of lands. .
It is a fact, that prior to the various land
grant acts, settlers had advanced into the
countries through which tie grants were
afterwards located, that many of the lands
embraced in odd-numbered sections had
been entered under the homestead and pre
emption laws; that during the mutations of
the early settlers much of this land so en
tered was abandomed, yet the entries re
mained of record at the laud department.
Had the cancelation of these entries by the
department been made prior to the definite
location of the line of road, they would un
doubtedlyjiave been subjectto the giant, but
the facts are, that most of these entries
were canceled long after and generally at
tiie instance or by the procurement of the
companies; that when these entries were
canceled they did not revert to the grant as
was supposed by the railroad companies,
but became public laud subject to entries
by settlers.
Yet thousands of acres, probably reaching
to many millions of acres of the class re
ferred, to havejbeen wrongfully and corruptly
certified to the different states through
which these lines or giants lie, and by the
state authorities without question deeded
to the railroad companies. The settlers occu
pying these lands under new entries allowed
by the department— in a spasm of decency
under the famous Boycl decision — have
nearly all been driven off by threats of legal
proceedings, and the railroads have taken
possession and sold the same lands to other
parties. The only redress any of these set
tlers have been able to obtain for the money
payed the government for these entries was
a rilling from Commissioner Drummond
that they would receive credit for the money
and would be allowed to enter some
other lands. And now comes the supreme
court of the United States at its October
term, 1884, in a long and able decision ren
dered by Justice Miller in a case appealed
by the Kansas Pacific Kailroad company
from the supreme court of Kansas, wherein
the whole question of the right of the rail
road companies to these lands was under
consideration, and decides against the rail
roads. The court holds that upon the can
celation of the original entries the lands
covefed thereby tlid not inure to the grant,
but became public lands; that the railroad
companies had no interest reversionery or
otherwise, that these lands were not ex
pressly or by implication granted. Not
withstanding this decision of the highest
court in the land, and knowing that their
deed to the settler conveyed no
title, they still propose to hang on.
The facts are that the railroad
corporations for many years have run the
land department. Its various offices have
been filled with railroad clerks and em
ployes or by persons directly or indirectly
under their control. Whenever a railroad
company kad a grant to be adjusted it was
done as they desired, no matter how many
settlers were ruined. At every change of
administration there would be a feeble
effort at justice, but the power of the rail
roads whenever their interest svvere likely to
suffer by some ruling of the department,
would be speedily brought to bear and the
offensive ruling modified to suit. The sub
stantial benefits of the Boyd decision (so
called) covering the same ground of the
recent decision of the United .States su
preme court, was frittered away and so
modified by the vacillating ruling of the
department that nothing was left of the
original decision, and all at the behests of
the railroad companies. Such has been the
corruption of the land department at
Washington that our magnificent inherit
ance, the public lands, are largely in the
hands of a few corporations whose control
admits of neither justice or mercy.
If Secretary Lamar can correct the
abuses of the land department and recover
our stolen lands, he will have earned the
gratitude of the people. J. E.
Blue Earth City, May 30, 1885.
TAXING THE PULLMANS
A Supreme Oourt Decision will Practically
Kill the Eailway License Sys
tem in Wisconsini
Action Taken to Present the St. Paul
and Northern Pacific from En
tering Minneapolis.
Increase in Northern Pacific Land
Sales—Reduced Rates to Patri
archal Members.
A Resolution Passed Not to Abolish
Car-load Hates to St. Paul--
Annual Meetings.
A Decision on Car Taxation.
Special to the Globe.
Madison, Wis., June 3. — The decision
of a majority Of the supreme court declaring
that a law flxing a license fee on the Pull
man palace car business refers only to busi
ness between points wholly within the state
and to busijiuss from some point without
the state to some point within, or vice
versa, or to business carried across the state
between points without, created a decided
sensation among state officers and lawyers
here. In closing its decision the court held
that it was doubtful if the legislature could
constitutionally enact laws taxing transpor
tation companies on any species of inter
state business in any of its stages of pro
gress. This general principle, if
held in future test cases, would knock
in the head all railroad license
laws of the state for taxes, and the tax
would be very slight indeed if levied only
on business conducted wholly within the
state. It is informally claimed by several
state officers that this opinion practically
kills the railway license system, and that
the legislature will have to be convened in
an extra session to devise some different
system of taxation. Justice Cassaday's
minority opinion was given to the press to
day. It is brief and takes a directly oppo
site view to that of the majority. Judge
Cassaday considers that both the letter and
spirit of the statute permit taxation on he
entire amount of gross earnings made by
the Pullman company by the use of its cars
within the state, and not on a mere fraction
originating and culminating with borders of
the commonwealth. As to the constitu
tionality of the statute he reserves his de
cision.
A Right of Way Controversy.
The St. Paul & Northern Pacific Rail
way company some time ago filed an appli
cation for the appointment of commissioners
to appraise the value of property required
for its line between St. Paul and Minneap
olis, in the county of Hennepin. Notice
was published and ample time given for the
appearance of all interested parties, and
commissioners were to have been appointed
on Saturday last, but the Hon. J. P. Gil
fillan of Minneapolis appeared ostensibly on
the part of the state university and re
quested further delay. The district court of
Hennepin county, before which the appli
cation for commissioners was made, ex
tended the time for making answer to said
petition until Wednesday of this week, and
at the same time extended the time for
argument to Saturday of this week. Yes
terday there were two or three
answers filed, one being by Attorney Gen
eral Hahn to the effect that the contem
plated line of the St. Paul & Northern Pa
cific is not a public necessity, and that it
would be a detriment to the state of Minne
sota and to the interests of the state should
it pass in close proximity to the university
grounds. The attorney general further
protests against the granting of the petition
on the grounds that the St. Paul & North
ern Pacific had not filed' proofs of its
amended articles of incorporation.
These, it is claimed, are purely technical
grounds. It is argued on behalf of the
company that it has complied with all the
necessary provisions of the law; that it is
employing 1,000 men in the state of Minne
sota; that it is now expending the last
$5,000,000 of Eastern capital, and
is entitled to something better than tech
nical opposition to expenditure of this vast
sum of money, and the employment of this
army of men. It has done much for the
. state of Minnesota and the city of Minne
! apolis, and does not feel that it should be
barred from its legitimate terminal, the
head of navigation on the Mississippi river,
by any consideration of local jealousies.
Encampment Rates.
Some time last winter the Milwaukee &
St. Paul road submitted a proposition to
members of the Patriarchal Circle in regard
to their trip to St. Paul in July from Chi
cago. The proposition was accepted, con
tracts signed and the money was paid over
to the railroad company. The Chicago &
Northwestern road was not informed of the
excursion, or was not asked what it could
• do in the matter of rates and therefore feels
somewhat hurt and has issued a circular
stating that as it had unfortunately not been
afforded an opportunity to submit, in the
usual way, its rate for members of the Patri
archal Circle upon the occasion of the trip
to St. Paul in July for the annual encamp
ment, it proposes to furnish tickets for the
said event, Chicago to St. Paul and return
at 85. The company expresses its regret
that circumstances have compelled it to
make the announcement by circular, but as
it was entirely ignored in the arrangements
made, and knowing that many temples
would prefer the Northwestern line, the
company says it is disposed to give them
the benefit of an unusually liberal arrange
ment to secure part of the travel. The
Milwaukee rate, it is said, is about §11 per
capita.
A Favorable Reply.
For some time past merchants of Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Louis have been seek
ing to have the railroads abolish car-load
rates on nearly all commodities. This,
were it done, would be greatly against the
interest of the Northwest and benefit the
jobbers of the places stated. Wholesale
merchants of St. Paul and Minneapolis
telegraphed Tuesday to the general traffic
managers in session at Denver to protect
their interests and yesterday the following
answer was received:
A resolution was passed not to abolish
car-load rates, but the right is reserved to
hereafter adjust differences that may exist
in the present classification as between car
load and less than car-load rates.
W. M. Sage,
A. C. Bibk,
J. T. Clark.
Northern Pacific JLand Sales.
The land sales of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company for the month of May
show considerable increase over the sales for
the corresponding month last year. The
land department reports regular and in
creasing inquiries for lands, especially in
Dakota, and all the sales made in small
tracts are to actual settlers. The sales were
as follows:
Total sales May, 1385 46,301
Total sales May, 1884 36,080
Increase In acres 10,221
Amount received 1885 $253,473
Amount received 1884 158,839
$94,633
Of the sales for last month 4,046 acres
were sold in Minnesota, 27,349 in Dakota.
4,(533 in Montana, and 10,^73 in Washing
ton territory.
Minnesota & Northwestern Direc
tors.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota &
Northwestern Railway company was held
in the president's ollice of that company
yesterday. The only business done was the
reinstating of three directors, Messrs. Daw
son, Merriam and Boyle, for a term of four
years each. The following are the direc
tors of the company: A. 13. Slickney, W.
K. Merriam, William Dawson, R. A. Smith,
Morris Auerbach, Crawford Livingston.
Ansel Oppenheim and W. C. Marshall of
St. Paul; William Lewis Boyle, Winnipeg,
and C. P. Benson,, C. W. Benson and K.
D. Dunlop of Sibley, la.
Reduction on Freights. .
Special to the Globe.
Denvek, Col., June 3.— lt is learned
that for two weeks past all of the transcon
tinental lines have been billing California
freight out of New York at a net rate, that
is, 15 cents off per 100 pounds on dry goods
and freights taking similar class, with a
proportionate reduction on other classes,
it has been a very quiet move, and carried
on under cover, and is substituted for the
old system of billing at full rates and grant
ing rebates. The small shippers, who have
been loud in their complaints against the
rebating mode to the favored few, are well
satisfied with a change that puts them on
something of an equality. The managers
of the lines in the Transcontinental associa
tion, now in session at this place, will ar
range this matter so that the heavier ship
pers cannot complain.
St. Paul & Northern Pacific.
Special to the Globe.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the St. Paul & Northern Pacific
Railway company to-day the following di
rectors were elected: Robert Harris, Ed
D. Adams, Frederick Billings, C. H.
Coster, J. B. Williams, New York; Charles
B. Wright, Philadelphia, and T. F. Oakes,
St. Paul. The oilicers elected were: Rob
ert Harris, president; Edward D. Adams,
vice president, and George L. Jones, secre
tary and treasurer.
<-'lci <■::::«>, ICock Island .V Pabific.
Chicago, June 3. — The annual meeting
of the stockholders of the Chicago, Kock
Island & Pacific railway was held here to
day, when 367.000 votes were cast, out of a
total of 4,196,000. The following directors
were elected: David Dows, K. R. Cable,
Hugh Kiddle, 11. B. Bishop and Henry
Dillon. The directors subsequently elected
the following officers: R. R. Cable, presi
dent; David Dows, vice president; A. Kim
ball, second vice president; W. &. Purdy,
secretary and treasurer vice F. H. Tows,
resigned on account of ill health; J. K.
Cowing, assistant secretary and treasurer;
It was decided to remove the office of sec
retary and treasurer from New York to
Chicago.
St. Louis to St. Paul.
A meeting of the officers of the Burling
ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern, the Mil
waukee & St. Paul and the Keokuk &
Northwestern railroads was held at Bur
lington "yesterday* to arrange for the open
inh of the new passenger line between St.
Louis and St. Paul via Quincy, Keokuk,
Burlington and Cedar Rapids, to go into
effect June 14. Passenger trains will be
provided with Pullman cars, and will leave
St. Louis every night and will arrive at
Burlington at 5:20 a. m. and Minneapolis
at 7:20 p. m. The time between these
points and St. Louis will be twenty-three
hours.
Local Items.
The conductors will arrive in from the
National park about noon to-day.
Mr. "W. J. McLean, traveling freight
agent of the Rock Island road, with head
quarters at Montreal, is in the city.
Four hundred and forty head of cattle
were taken from Minnesota Transfer by the
Northern Pacific yesterday, for Montana
parties.
Beginning next Sunday the Manitoba's
Devil's Lake train will depart at 7:30 a.
in. instead of 7 a. in. as at present, and will
arrive at 7:30 a. m. instead of 8:30 a. m.
A. B. Stickney, president of the Minne
sota & Northwestern, left last night for
New York, and his secretary, Mr. Robert
White, will leave to-night forMoorhead.
Assistant General Manager J. T. Odell,of
the Northern Pacific road, was at Superior,
Wis., yesterday, inspecting the Ashland
branch that has been opened to business.
The Omaha passenger department has
got out a new flyer on the new route East,
via Lake Superior from Washburn, saving
twelve hours time over every other lake
route.
Mr. Isaac Richardson of Cleveland. 0.,
one of the promoters of the Cleveland col
ony at Glenullen on the Northern Pacific
road in Dakota, passed through the city
yesterday with several families who will
take up land.
Ex-Gov. John C. Pillsbury, Gen. W. D.
Washburn, J. K. Sidle, H. C. Fletcher and
Maj. George H. Camp, directors of the
Minneapolis, Sault Ste Marie & Atlantic
road, have left to inspect the proposed
route for the extension of the line from
Bruce to Lake Michigan.
Minnetonka, Alexandria and Devil's Lake
is the title of the revised edition of the
Manitoba road's tourist book. It is a vol
ume of thirty-two pages and beside the
many beautiful engravings, contains a
graphic description of the combination of
climatic, natural and artificial advantages
and comforts at the lakes named hi the
title.
An emigrant, who is supposed to have
just arrived in the Red River valley coun
try by the Manitoba road, is sketched on a
flyer issued by the passenger department of
that company. The emigrant has a shot
gun and is looking cross-eyed at a covy of
birds flying from a pool of water. He wears
a Cleveland hat and sideboard collar, and
lias a knapsack well filled with game, and
has the hammer of the gun cocked to add
more to his supply.
General Miscellany.
The report of the St. Paul earnings for
the month of May shows gross earnings
$1,875,000, a decrease as compared with
the same month last year of $110, 707.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., president of
the Union Paciric railway, will arrive at
Portland, Or., to-day. On Friday he and
Senator Sherman will be tendered a re
ception by the Portland board of trade.
A dispatch of yesterday states the de
cision in the Union Pacilic case in tiie court
of claims was subjected to an expert to re
port as to the amount due, and that the ex
pert's reports make the company in debt
$650,000 in addition to the $900,000 already
paid. This was shown to the company's
ofiicials in Boston yesterday, and they say
there is no foundation for the statement
about the expert's report.
The annual meeting of the Canada South
ern Railroad company fctr the year ending
June. ISBS, was held yesterday at St.
Thomas, Out., and resulted as follows:
William H. Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vander
bilt, James Tillingiiast,, A. G. Doeman,
C. F. Cox, Sam F. Barger, Sidney Dillon,
Joseph E. Brown and E. A. Wicks were
elected directors. The boards of the Erie
& Niagara and Sarnia. Chatham & Erie
railroad companies, and the Niagara River
Bridge and the Niagara Island Bridge com
panies were also re-elected.
Navigation Notes.
The river registered 4 feet 10 inches above
low water mark yesterday.
The Sidney of the Joe Reynolds line will
arrive up to-morrow noon.
The Cleon, Capt. Knapp, went out on its
Taylor's Falls trip at 7 a. m. yesterday.
The steamer Dispatch will commence to
make regular trips around White Bear lake
to-day.
The Diamond Jo steamer Mary Morton
departed yesterday morning at i) o'clock for
St. Louis.
The barge Hecla and the tow Redington,
with 3.000 tons of coal, arrived at Duluth
yesterday.
The War Eagle of the White Collar line
cleared at 9 o'clock yesterday morning for
down-river points.
The steamer Stafucca cleared at Duluth
at 6 o'clock yesterday morning with 6,189
barrels of flour for Buffalo.
Another Hibbs Trick.
Special to tho Globe.
Freeport, 111., June 3. — J. W. Hibbs,
the absconding postmaster of Lewiston,
Idaho, attempted to swindle the Freeport
National bank. He wrote some time ago
inclosing postal orders for large amounts of
money. The notes were cashed and placed
to the credit of J. G. Wilson of Pierre City,
Idaho. Afterward he wrote again saying
he could not come here as intended and re
questing that tho amount be sent to him in
a registered letter to Idaho. The bank and
postofflce otticials wrote to the department
at Washington and received word that
among a lot of postal notes issued from
Lewiston and stolen were those to Free
port. The money is still here.
Home Missionary Association.
Saratoga, N. V., June 3.— The twenty
ninth annual meeting of the American Con
gregational Home Missionary association is
in session. The annual report showed total
resources of 8403,183, total liabilities $465,
-103. Rev. Julius H. Seelye of Amherst,
Mass., was chosen president.
LIKE HIS PEEDECESSOR
United States Minister Phelps Very
Cordially Received at London.
He Says a Good Many Pleasant and
Agreeable Things.
London, June 3.— Mr. Phelps was
greeted with a most cordial welcome. The
corporation of London will present ex-
President Arthur an address and a gold
casket upon his expected visit to London,
and the lord mayor will give him a banquet.
Minister Phelps was the principal guest of
the evening at the banquet given to
Lord Mayor Fowler at the Mansion bouse
to-night. The other Americans present
were Consul General Walter, Secretary of
Legation White and Mr. Gillig. The lord
mayor, in proposing the toast to the United
States, stated that he hoped soon to have
the honor of entertaining ex-President
Arthur. Mr. Phelps, in responding to the
toast, said he had no such claims to the hos
pitalities of Englishmen as his predecessor,
Mr. Lowell, and therefore the flattering re
ception that had been accorded to him w;»
all the more gratifying, lie ascribed the
warmth of his welcome to the natural love
between Englishmen and Americans, which
was fostered and constantly broadened and
deepened by their great international inter
course, lie assured his hearers of the
pleasure with which Americans viewed the
settlement of the questions at issue between
England and Eussia, and eulogized the
British judiciary, whose decisions were
revered in America.
The Attack on G'arthagena.
Nkw York, June 3. — The steamer
which to-day arrived from Panama brings
the following account of the attack on
Carthagena: Late news from Carthagena
confirms the intelligence received by
the Spanish gunboat Ferdinand El
Caticolo and the American flagship
Tennessee. Gaston, on learning of the ap
proach of the government troops nndei
Briceno, and of their junction with the
small force led hy Gen. Vila at Sincelejo,
resolved on making a general attack on
Corthagena, assaulting both by land and by
sea. He paid dearly for his temerity.
Procuring a number of scaling lad
ders, he sent a force by sea to
approach as silently as possible the walls of
the city, and to cover this movement ha
made a most furious attack along his whole
line of siege, particularly at Aleppo. The
assailants from the sea side succeeded in
placing many of their ladders, and a num
ber of men succeeded in
SCALING THE WALLS.
Had a sufficient number, as before.
made a demonstration to attract the atten
tion of the small number of the besieged,
their triumph would be secure: but witli
characteristic enthusiasm, when only about
sixty men had reached the wails, they began
the usual ''viva," which brought upon them
at once the main force of the besieged. The
result was. the attack by sea was repulsed
with frightful loss, the bayonet, machete
and knife doing their deathly hand to hand
work. Every man who reached the sum
mit of the walls was killed or wounded,
and many at their base, who
sought to escape by swimming,
were drowned. The losses of Gaitan's
force were nearly six hundred killed and
wounded, and of the Loyalists fourteen
wounded and nine killed. After the re
pulse Gaitan withdrew his forces and pro
ceeded to Barranquilla to await attack by
the government forces.
INCIDENTS OF WAR.
Panama, May 25.— A dispatch from La
Libertad, San Salvador, dated May 23.
says: '-The natives are flying to the
mountains to avoid being " taken fur
soldiers. Fignerois' army is 7.100 strons.
Stripes were administered to seventy-one
men, who were then tied arm to arm and
inarched in single lile from La Libertad to
Santa Tuia. an advance of seven leagues.
The cries of the men and women were
heartrending.
COLLIERY HORROR.
An Explosion of Fire Damp Causes
the Loss of Many Lives.
London, June 3.— A dispatch received
here this afternoon from Durham says that
fire broke, out in the Philadelphia colliery,
situated near the city, at noon to-day.
Three hundred miners were in the pit and
great excitement ensued. A large force of
men immediately went to work to rescue
them. The tire was caused by an explosion
of lire damp. All but twenty-two of the
miners have since been rescued. Another
dispatch states that the fire oc
curred' in the top seam, of the
Margaret pit. the "Peggy pit."" as it is
known locally, that it was caused by an ex
plosion, and twenty-two men and boys at
work there were killed outright. The ex
plosion was followed by a rush of water in
immense volumes into the Sntton seam.
The miners, men and boys in this seam,
however, were all taken out alive. Work
ing parties are now laboring zealously
to stay the flood of waters rushing into the
Mandlen seam, where a great number of
minors are imprisoned, and whom the re
liefs hope to release and rescue.
The latest advices from Durham state
that twelve more colliers have been rescued
and that only thirteen are now imprisoned
in the mines.
Russia's Next Seizure.
Constantinople, June 3. — Sir Peter
Lxunsden. before his departure from this
city, expressed the opinion that the Mur
ghab valley will be the next object of Rus
sian attack. He thought the dispatch < >!' a
British commission to Cashmere needless,
that country being as thoroughly British as
if incorporated in the empire. The Turko
mans, he said, are splendid fighters, and
would have risen in our favor, if England
had decided to fight.
Americans Driven Out.
London. June S. — Letters from Saigona,
the capital of French Cochin China, state
the Cambodian revolutionists against French
authority have, with the king's secret sup
port, attacked Panemping. the capital of
Cambodia, and driven the European resi
dents from the city. The refugees were
sheltered on board a French ship which lay
in the Mekong river.
Will Practice l"p.
St. Petersburg, June 3.— The Cron
stadt and Baltic squadrons of the Russian
navy have been ordered to unite in a cruise
with the object of executing naval manoett
vers on a grand scale. The united fleet
will consist of eighteen men-of-war, a tor
pedo flotilla, a training squadron and sev
eral gunboats.
Cholera in Valencia.
June 3. — The secretary of
state received to-day from the United States
minister to Madrid a cablegram stating that
a government commission had declared
Asiatic cholera in the Spanish province of
Valencia.
Genuine Cholera.
Madrid, June 3.— The special medical
commission appointed to investigate the
matter, reported that the outbreak of dis
ease which is at present scourging Valencia,
Spain, is cholera. Measures" have been or
dered to prevent the spread of the malady.
Rome, June 3. — A discovery of import
ant archjelogical character has been made
just outside the Porta Salara. It is a mau
soleum, irregular in form and dedicated to
the prefect anil master of the horse named
Lecilioux.
Overpowered by Masked Men.
Melbourne, June 3. — Three masked
robbers to-day attacked and overpowered
the manager and accountant of a branch of
the Nationftl Bank of Australia. After
stealing £1,000 they escaped and have not
beeu captured.
Hilarity For Hendricks.
Special to the Globe.
Fort Wayne, Ind., June 3. — Vice
President Thomas A. Hendricks arrived
here to-day, and attended the Episcopal
state convention mis afternoon. This even
ing he received hfe friends at the Aveline
house, and after 9 o'clock attended Bishop
Knickerbocker's Reception at the Randall
residence. One hundred musicians seren
aded Mr. Hendricjf s this evening.