Bismarck Weekly Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • Page 5

I 1 i. A 1 THE ARENA. "The Session the and Peace is the Throne. Members On 8 benes Daring: the Closiner Honrs of the Seventeenth tive Assembly. Closing Scenes.

Let the rogues' march be played. It den little late, but the echoes of the music as it reverberates through the gladdened air of Dak will catch the ears of the and schemers, the wire pullers and combination makers who are now ing empty handed And unmoumed to their 'various homes. The members of the legislature, or at least a good working majority, have now ahe respect of those who have observed their conduct, and all admit that the legisJative body was far abbve the dime museum aggregations that have gathered in the past. The assembly was no discredit to Dakota and did much less harm than was Anticipated. Many of the solons are men good and talent and a few won of an enviable order.

The scene Saturday night was brilliant interesting. The spacious halls and were brightly illuminated, the galleries were crowded with curious and spectators who gathered to see the session close. The members were ting and shying about like bees about a and did more good work in three hours than they had accomplished during week of the session. Oi course, all interest centered in the grand and imposing fight which tative Shook made in the interest of his tail bill. With his gopher tail bill in one hand and the American flag in the Mr.

Shook marched up and down the center aisle demanding the immediate of his bill providing a bounty on the tails of gophers. The cruel instead of treating the great measure with profound respect, tacked an on its coat tail and sent it limping back to the house for tion. At a late hour Mr. Shook secured the final passage of his bill and tiie house turned its attention to the appropriation bills, railroad legislation and other light and minor issues. And the gopher tail bill now graces the governor's waste ket.

Of course Tom Elliott occupied a seat in the northeastern corner of the building where a group of gayly attired ladies filled the air with the perfume of cologne and new mown hay, as a neutralizing element for the perfumery which was carried up from the basement in generous loads and breathed out freely on the legislative air. Squatter Governor Haunittn was the most figure in the gallery and shaking his antagonistic goatee briskly lie cast a withering glance of contempt upon the scene of peace and harmony below. Donald Stewart, the gallant old highlander and high flyer, in his seat, and with a cigar iu nis mouth and an air of sweet serenity on his face iie appeared to be thanking God that the time lor the repentance and cleansing of his sociates had arrived. Representatives Burnham, of Fargo, and Stewart of Hot kept their seats, and with their feet on the desks and blood in their eyes were ready to knock the daylight through and every measure that came up. Their Dills had been vetoed.

They were -among the best members of the body, and the boys rather enjoyed their exhibition of wrath. The scene was one of brilliancy and terest, and although no blood was shed, the order was better than that of any session's close for many years, the interest manifested by the groups in the lobby ana room was evidence of the rent of excitement which went with many of the bills as they went from house to house, and were placed upon the scales of the final vote. John Hobart, the grand old jumper from Moody, never to better advantage, and with his tom-toms laid away for the summer he presented the most peaceful and friendly front of any in the house the exception, perhaps, of the ous Patten, of Miner, who says he will not where a lady is not welcome, but who jn his younger days was one of the boys. In the council chamber a shade of order had settled upon the usually dignified scene and the classical Hibernian, Senator O'llarstad, puffed big curls of smoke from -a cigar while Senator Cain looked wistfully into the future to catch some small faint glimpse of a divided double-headed Dakota. The rosy Washabaugh tripped lightly about the room, his sensitive aud eloquent complexion bespeaking a changeful humor.

Senator Matthews was slashing around on the floor vvnile the mirthful Dodge held down the president's chair with a pleasing grace. Senator YVeiser gazed nervously about the room as it' searching for the ghost of his grain and warehouse bill, and the aggressive and cyclonic Grigsby marched to and fro in search of scalps and newer fields to conquer. It was a great night for a wind-up. Colonel magnificent old Hambletouian colt from Sully, who will ever be remembered with pleasure and affection, whisked about as skittishly as ever, and as the flickering lights fell from the chandaliers upon his broad, unbroken sweep of mirrored pate he was the pride of the jockeys and the joy of the sports. Major Ensign, who will to-day return to Devils Lake to wonder why the name of the lake was not given to the legislature, behaved himself with his usual dignity and eclat and elicited as many ments from the "gang" as any man in the house.

Gilbert and Sullivan were as rollicking as in their palmiest Mikado days and haved with the gaiety and jollity of two little maids from long ways from home. At midnight the house went hopelessly insane and organized itself into the third house. Fortunately for all present after several vain attempts to secure a ble and worthy speaker, E. W. Caldwell was discovered in the crowd and having been elected to the chair he expedited iness with remarkable grace and iasm.

Among the bills introduced in the third house was one appropriating money for the payment of mileage and incidental expenses of the defeated candidates for office, and the members whose bills had been vetoed introduced a bill to abolish the office of governor. At midnight the hands of the clqck were turned back and given a new start at the hour of 9:30 and at 2:80 yesterday morning by the stars but at midnight by the obliging legislative chronometer the motion to adjourn vailed. A general congratulation was dulged in the letter heads and paper ters were carefully packed in the grips of the members, a few of the old time songs were warbled in the basement and Donald Stewart favored the crowd with a clog dance which won vastly more applause than did many of the speeches delivered during the session. AU REVOI.BE. During the forenoon yesterday the city was quiet Legislators, citizens, visitors and lobbyists were not upon the streets, but owing to the all night session they were filling the corridors and hallways of the hotels aud boarding houses with sweet nocturnal lays and dreaming of the hopes that had beeu blasted and the bii Is not passed as well as of those unpaid.

At noon the familiar faces of the legislative crowd began to and during the afternoon the defeated and the victorious compared notes, indulged in jests, songs and stories and at five o'clock the throng departed for the east Much has been said of the villiany and unwashed rascality, of legislators as a rule, but many of the gentlemen who left ismarck on the special'train last evening took with them the esteem and hearty friendship of the people of Bismarck. They were reasonable and creditable resentatives and it is hoped that they will return to the capital as private citizens, if not as public men. Scattering Shots. IF the governor's- waste basket had the power of speech, what a pathetic story jt could have told yesterday morning. BY the way, what has become of our Indian war in the Turtle mountains? And where is Adjutant General Tyner? And where are those reports that he was to send every fifteen minutes from the field of battle.

The TRIBUNE is opposed to gies, but cannot refrain from remarking that its printers are weary and some them sicK, and the staff is ditto. After a few hours' first in sixty daysapologies will not be necessary. WHEN the Hon. J. S.

Stewart, of the Black Hills, whose soldiers' home bill was vetoed, was last heard from, he was ing briskly across the prairie iu a southerly direction, with an empty grip sack in his hand and a large Black Hills oath on his expressive lips. AMONG the newspaper men who did good work during the session and who left for the east last evening are Tom Holmes of the St. Paul Globe, A. C. Jordan of the Fargo Republican, W.

E. Troy of the Wahpeton Globe and R. A. Buchanan of the Sioux Falls Leader. Mr.

Lawrence county, ing sccured the passage of his county sion bill over the governor's veto, returned to the Black Hills as happy as a boy with a pair of red-topped boots, aud we believe that he will now forgive the governor and support the administration. THIS man, Colonel Uline, is one of the few lobbyists who return home with faction and contentment. The colonel secured the passage of every measure in which he was interested, and if we were to seek the favor of a legislature we would want the colonel as a friend. MAJOK GIFFORD, of the Ft Berthold dian agency, denies that he was in the plot inaugurated by Chairman Jones, of the committee on Indian affairs, to have the warriors take possession of the legislature before its adjournment, but this does not remove the public regret that the scheme was not carried into effect. SENATORS DONOVAN and McCuniber left for their homes last evening, and, unless we have been misinformed, they returned as sacredly unmarried as when they rived.

It is learned, however, that along row of ladies crowded about the train to bid them a reluctant farewell, and that numerous were the pathetic good-bye glances of the bachelor statesmen. TnE St. Paui Globe interviewed Senator Grigsby when he was in that city, on his way home from the legislature, and its him with making a vigorous kick against the legislature of which he was a member. We should think that the bers would be satisfied to permit the people to do the kicking, while they put in their time for the next six months dodging the clubs and devising some means of defense. JOHN MCDOXALD, of Sioux City, who is general rustler for the Chicago.

kee St. Paul road, left for his home last evening with every reason to be proud. His work in the lobby was such as is rarely witnessed and neither the kee road nor the people of Dakota lost anything by his presence. McDonald is known tne entire length of the Missouri river and many of the pioneers of marck knew hiin in the olden days. GOVERNOR CHURCH is an iconoclast.

He has shattered many of the idols of the past, and capped the climax by killing Mr. O'Shook's gopher tail bill, which has tracted the attention of the civilized world. It is said that when Mr. O'Shook heard of the fate of his bill he immediately graphed to Queen Victoria informing her of the governor's action and informing her that she need not longer support the Church administration, on his account. PRESIDENT MATTHEWS and Speaker Close made many friends by their fair and impartial rulings and manly conduct ing the session.

Of course Speaker Crose was a little the more popular of the two among the yoilng ladies who knew that he was a single man. The report that the Elliott railroad bill was packed carefully away in Senator Collins' trunk Saturday evening gave proof of the faithful manner in which Mr. Collins performed his duty to tlp people. WE HAD the greatest respect for presentative Mentzer until he waltzed far out of his way in debate to strike ernor Ordway in the back. It is to be gretted that Mr.

Mentzer should have thus injured the otherwise good record that lie made and itjs also to be deplored that the ninnies who applauded did not realize the undignified procedure to which they stooped. Ex-Governor Ordway did not enter into the legislative contests of the past winter but we have distinct remembrance that when he was in the territory the making orators were willing to dance when he pulled the string. SOMEHOW (we don't know how) the lin- Sistrict ression gained ground in Senator Weiser's that when he voted against ell he forsook his friends, and since his turn home Sitting Bull has sent the UNE the following letter, which he says he received from the senator: Mr DEAR SITTING BULL: I wish you had come home with me. I could show you something that would surprise you. You may think you have seen a great many tom-toms and a large amount of war paint, but there are more being used in my trict siuce my return from the legislature than can be found at all the Indian cies in the country.

The warriors have not caught sight of me yet, but are ing me on every train. I am safely hidden at present, but the noise of the tom-toms almost drives me wild. If you can send me aid, do so at once. WEISER. REPRESENTATIVE O'SHOOK, whose pher tail bill died in the governor's waste basket, has beeu heard from indirectly aud the news that comes sobbing down from his Minnewaukeu home is pathetic indeed.

When the great gopher tail bill passed, he telegraphed the result to his constituents, who immediately started out on the chase, and notwithstanding the fact that the ground was covered with snow, they ralled a large number of gophers by ing hot water iutp the holes. It is learned that the entire populace of the district, ing on the instruction of the gallant father of the bill, abandoned their homes and struck out to make a fortune from the bounty on the tails of gophers provided in his famous bill. The hews that the bill had been Killed reached them while they were still in the thick of the ficrht, and just as many of them had their trusty jack-knives sunk deep into the tails of the struggling gophers. This was too much. Their representative had formed them that the bill had passed.

They had expended all their funds in a bonfire aud procession in his honor: for a week they had been facing the raw March winds in search of the grain destroying game, and now, just as they were on the verge of coming in with their prey and reaping their fortunes in bounties, the news that the bill had been killed went forth. The jack-knives and tail-clippers DEAR FRIEND: Send tne a mask and a shotgun. If I can get into town alive I will explain all. No one feels the loss of our gopher tail bill more than I. I was an old soldier and fought for my country, and I hope that the people will give me a ing.

F. M. SHOOK. SIOUY CITY is an dented boom. And still we wonder at the increase of crime.

WE CAN now inform the public that the only thing left of the recent legislature in is the variety theatre band. THE price of in Philadelphia has been reduced to $1.60 per thousand feet If the citizens of Philadelphia had spoken before the legislature adjourned they could have secured miles and miles of it for nothing. A MEMBER of tlje signal corps in ington has died of softening of the brain. If he is one of the men responsible for the reports that have been received during the past winter his next bulletin will read: "Indications for entire country: Hot winds, followed by flames no water in sight" "A MALE child was found on a door step at Moorhead, wrapped in a copy of the Devils Lake News," says an exchange. As an editor is supposed to father ever appears in ins paper we expect that no attempt will be made by the detectives to hide the facts with the shroud of mvstery.

LAST Sunday morning all the churches at Milbank were emptied of their gations during the sermon by the burning of a residence of a prominent citizen. Of course we are not acquainted with the town, but it seems as though the same amount of relief might have been secured at much less expense. LET US pray that the Rev. Mr. Patten, who represented Miner county in the lature, will satisfactorily explain to nis constituents and congregation the less confession which he publicly made to the effect that in his younger days he was one of the boys, and visited "bad places." Nothing in all our experience has so sorely grieved ns, and we are anxious to see the matter explained away to the tion of Mr.

Patten's neighbors and friends. It is hoped that the matter will be treated with silence by the press, and this is the reason that we have refrained from tioning it in print. A MAN was seen skulking through the alleys near the union depot, St. Paul. It was evident that he was attempting to cape notice.

Suspicion at once became aroused. Suddenly an officer who was ing in wait sprang upon him, and bing him by the collar, exclaimed: "Halt! "i ou're my prisoner." "1 knew.it—ah, gods, 1 knew it would be found out: I suppose you know all about it," gasped the stranger as he fell in a faint upon his empty gripsack. "Certainly 1 know. Come with me, sir," demanded the officer, who was now vinced that the man was escaping from justice. "But won't you let me explain I pray you give me time to write to my wife, sobbed tne man, as he drew a pencil and paper from his pocket.

He was given permission to write, upon he penned with trembling hand the following: MY DEAR WIFE: I am gone. The cers now have me under arrest. While passing through St. Paul it was discovered that I was a member of the Dakota lature. Good bye.

JOHN. CALLED BACK. Oh dear legislator come back to us now, Why flee from the palace of-fame? We miss thy seductive and musical "How" And speeches all mangled and lame. A dull, solemn silence has crept o'er the scene. And death's in the law making hall We miss thy Boft voice and thy manner serene And all thy immaculate gall.

The girls in the theatre boxes now weep, (Variety damsels we mean About them the winds of despondency creep. Their cheeks have grown pallid and lean. The bartender mournfully walks the saloon. The "fakir" indulges a sigh: Thon'rt missed by the joker and e'en the buffoon Who shouted "Get on to the guy To MY FRIENDS, THE DRUGGISTS: A law was passed at the last session of the lature requiring all parties desiring to ter the drug business to qualify before a lioard of pharmacy. The bill also provides that those already engaged in the ness shall register within ninety days, failing to do which they must also pass an examination and qualify.

Now. a large number of the druggists of the territory are my personal friends and as a majority of them can write I trust that they will register at the earliest possible moment. Many of them are not aware of the provisions of the law and but for this notice might go on selling drugs at fifteen cents per glass until after the ninety days have expired, and then be dragged before an examining board that don't know Tennessee bourbon from fy's Best," and through the sheer ance of the board be compelled to go out of the business without visible means of port. I therefore call upon my friends now engaged in the drug business to ter at once and avoid disaster. Walk up and write your name, and forever settle any doubt that may exist as to your fications to assist in adding to the value of the real estate laid out in cemetery lots throughout the territory.

Do not wait until you are called up for a pharmaceutical, cerebro-spinal men-cheatus examination. Procrastination is the horse-thief of time- get tlieeto the book and register thy name, or you will be supplanted by youths and lings who nave frittered away their years in college instead of learning the science of the flush or analyzing the depths ot the paint that is red. The local option bill has become a law. and I may go into the drug business self. IRA SWAIN.

DURING the past winter Lauren Dunlap, the spontaneous vocal athlete, who blew himself out of the office of commissioner of immigration, has suffered more agony of emotion, more laceration of feelings and more mental pain than any man in Dakota territory, with the exception, Derhaps, of the member of the -legislature whose bill was vetoed by the governor. Dunlap is an impulsive enthusiast. When he goes into an enterprise he dives in with his whole soul if he enters into conversation he shakes the rafters, and wiien he swears he hurls out the dashes and exclamation points with the rapidity of a gattling gun. There was a time in the early part of the session when Dunlap was positive that he would retain the office of commissioner. Then he was as gentle aud mellow as a cooing babe, and smiled and dilated like a boy at a circus.

Soon the clouds appeared and he was asked for his resignation. Then did his heart beat low and his rage run high. Upon tendering.his nation he learned that his friend P. F. McClure, of Pierre, would be appointed in his place and he came out of the executive office the picture of hope and joy.

"My God!" exclaimed he to his friend Joseph, "It's all' right! It's all "What's all right?" queried his friend. "My cessor! Why, McClure will get it! Great God, An elegant gentleman! Why, MY God. Joseph, when I think of what a splendid fellow is to succeed me, I BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1887. were hDried to the earth, the gopher tails were thrown to the winds, and the howl of indignation that was raised reached the ears of Mi'. O'Shook, who stopped two miles outside ot the limits of Minnewaukan and sent the following letter to the itor of the Sittings: like an Intruder to ask to remain.

Why, it. he's just the and then Isoto he will not qualify, but will allow ine to remain until June or July to execute my plans and draw the salary. Beats how these things come around. My God, this is good." The Dunlap remained in this mood for a day and until there was a delay in McClure's confirmation. Then he met Joseph, but in a very different mood.

"Great God!" he shouted, "this is awful! Why, it they may not confirm McClureF' "What of that asked Joseph. it my nation is in the hands of the governor! If I hadn't given him pay resignation I could have held over! In a few days McClure was confirmed, and the spontaneous Dunlap was again in smiles to secure the passage of his statistical bill. He was looking joyfully forward to his several months incumbency and his tical bill until the last night in the session, when the bill was killed, and on the lowing day when McClure qualified and the impulsive Dunlap found himself ing upon the outer doorstep of the political his emotions underwent another change, more cyclonic, more wrathful and more pathetic than all the others bined, and it is understood that he has moved to reconsider his glowing eulogies upon the administration. IT IS announced that John Sherman has started out on' his presidential boom for 1888. This accounts for the cold wave which has swept over the country during the past few days.

A WASHINGTON paper, in speaking of peltry Ward Beecher's death, referred to him sarcastically as a mugwump. The Washington paper is taking the proper course to build up a very large and able mugwnmp party. As WILL be seen by a notice iu another column, the Scandinavians of Bismarck are to hold a temperance meeting this evening. We have seen ings that looked bad for whisky and beer, but this is the first time in the history of the country that we have seen a direct blow at King Alcohol. As AN evidence of how this country comes to the front in a ease of emergency, one week has elapsed since the local tion temperance bill became a law, and the water in the Missouri river is flowing its banks to a depth of eight feet.

At this rate, if an unqualified prohibition bill had passed, the entire country would have been inundated. DAKOTA now has a democratic sioner of immigration and his name is P. F. McClure. We insist that if Mr.

McClure is to work faithfully in the interest of his party and intends to wipe out the whelming republican majority by bringing in the proper class of citizens, he must drop the Yankee subterfuge and sign his full Finerty Clure. "Oi phat the divil does it mane whin Ole Olson, the Norwagian merchant, an' Ilans Baumgartner. the brewer, an' Alderman Smith, the blue-bellied Yankee, go swaggerin' around wid shamrocks an' grane ribbons on their brists this blissed St. Patrick's day "Ara, Jamie, yez make me toired. Do yez not know that the city elickhin is almost here "You're might.

Begorra, Pat, ye're a born statesman!" SHE LEARNED HIS NAME. Mrs. Wideawake, a widow of the olden school, had a very high opinion of a certain unmarried gentleman of Bismarck. In fact she was a little jealous of the smiles that he bestowed upon Miss Propriety, and when she heard that her rival's picture was hanging upon the wa 11 of the man's room she was shocked. She said she would believe it until she saw it with her own eyes, and rushing away to the gentleman's office she exclaimed: "Why, Mr.

Slyboy. do you tell me that you keen Miss Propriety's picture in your room?" "Yes," replied Slyboy, as he opened the door between his office and bed room, "there it is." "Oh, my!" exclaimed Mis. Wideawake, her eyes snapping with jealousy, "what will her Chicago fellow say "What do I care for him His name is 'pants'," replied Slyboy, who is something of a wag. "What's that? Pants? Pants? Well, now, do you believe me, I've been trying to find out his name for moaths Wheeling about, Mrs. Widewake rushed to Miss Propriety's, where a number of ladies and gentlemen had gathered for a social chat, and exclaimed: "Aha, ana, Miss Propriety! IIow is Mr.

Pauts Tiie gentlemen fell back, paralyzed, and the ladies wondered what was meqnt. "Oh, you needn't look astonished. You needn't be so innocent I mean your cago PantsP "What do you mean?" queried the tounded Miss Propriety. "1 don't know this man of whom you speak." "Oh. yes you shouted Mrs.

awake victoriously. "I've just been down to see your picture in Mr. Slyboy's room, and he toid me that your Chicago fellow's name is Pants. Pants! Miss Propriety, Pants! and I suppose we'll be calling you Mrs. Pants pretty soon.

Aha, you can't fool me!" And with a whisk of her skirts and an elevation of her nose, Mrs. awake departed with ttie air of a queror. The meaning of the word as used by Mr. Slyboy has since been explained to Mrs. Wideawake, and now it requires three streets to pei mit the once loved wag and the two ladies to go down town at the same time.

HOW IT WORKS. DEAR "CONSTANT Iu answer to your inquiry as to the exact meaning and effect of the inter-state commerce bill, I am happy to inform you that I have made a careful study of the question. I have read the press of the entire country on the question and find: 1. It prevents railroads from charging more for long hauls than for short hauls. 2.

It prevents them from charging more for short hauls than for long hauls. 3. It will kill Chicago and make St Paul and Minneapolis great commercial ters. 4. It will compel all wholesaling to be done in Chicago and will wipe St Paul and Minneapolis from the face of the mercial map.

5. It will work a great benefit to the west by-preventing discrimination in favor of the large cities. 6. It will kill the west by compelling roads to charge for freight in proportion to the number ot in the haul. 7.

It is a God-send to the people. 8. There is no doubt but that it was passed in the interests of the railroads and is a death blow to the welfare of the people. In addition to the above plain and nite facts, I see by the St. Paul papers that it will kill Duluth, while the Duluth papers hold that it will make Duluth the greatest city in the west.

I think this is a correct and unbiased statement. With reference to thq question of passes, I am unable to answer at preseut I hope you will excuse me for not giving you a rect answer to the inquiry, but I am a lit tie sensitive on this point 1 have written several very flattering letters to the eral passenger agents of the various roads, and desire not to commit myself until they reply. I am also pulliug the wires for a position as official representative of the Farmer's Alliance, aud if I succeed in this I think I will be all right with the roads. If I were in your place, a plain. tr.

everyday minister of the gospel, I would establish an inter-state commerce fund aside from salary and chickens, and call upon the congregation each Sabbath to throw in sufficient for railroad fare. With a good rustler to pass the contribution box this scheme might buy you a forty-mile pass once in two years. If this does not "work" you should make a candid business proposition to the roads to stop all dents aud disasters on their lines through your influence with Providence. This would make you their agent and under the law they must give passes to all ployes of the roads, IRA SWAIN. 8JCNSAT10KS AT CROFTS.

The Town Wild With Kxcitfmeut and a Special Artist on the Ground. CROFTK, D. March Wm. Keeler has taken charge of the Nichols cattle ranch, and will spend the remainder of the winter aud spring in the northern part of the county. Mr.

Frank Little employed the pleasant weather of the past week in hauling wood from Wogansport. Master David Keeler (aged 12 years) mined coal sufficient for the family use, and also several loads for sale, during the month of February. Wm. Mcllafferty, of Sterling, who has been employed during the winter in ing an incline at the Hawlev coal mine, lost a mule recently. Mr.

Clarence Hanley has sold and is livering in Bismarck a large quantity of hay, which was cut and stacked in Ecklund tewnship, 80 miles from Bismarck. Mr. Chas. Peterson and sister, of Ecklund township, are visiting in Crofte. Miss Lillian Wilcox is convalescent from her recent illness.

Mail Carrier lleber still makes his ly trips on time. Messrs. Kemn and Mattison, of Francis, are hauling coal from the Keeler mine, making two or three trips weekly. Mrs. Lucy Kenyon leaves for the east April 1.

ltobt. O'Brien, who has a stock ranch on Apple Creek, passed through Crofte on his way to Bismarck. Mr. O'Brien reports his stock as having wintered well. Parties engaged in hauling hay for Mr.

Wogan, of Wogansport, were caught in the blizzard of Feb. 26. aud took refuge with our hospitable postmaster, G. C. Wainwright.

R. The New Telegraph Company. MINNEAPOLIS, March 15. The New Polar Telegraph company is really a branch of the North American. W.

A. Eustis said to-day: "The Polar company will be under the same management as the North American and they will practically be one company as the North American controls all of the stock. We found it essary to form anew company for several reasons, among which were that we wanted to interest some outside capital and that we wanted to build a line in Canada which the North American company has no authority to do. We will build a line to Winnipeg and thence to Leche where we will connect with the Northern Pacific line. This will give us connection with the Mackay systems an the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

We will then have tion with all parts of the country. A Horrible Murder, SPRINGFIELD, March night a band of armed men went to the house of W. Eaton, thirty miles south of this city, and after breaking down the doors, fired a volley into the house. W. Eaton and Charles Green were killed outright and Eaton's father was seriously injured.

One woman was shot in the head and another in the hand. The murderers then made good their escape. Mrs. Eaton affirms that she recognized two of them. It is alleged that the attacking party are members of the Bald Knobbers, a noted vigilance ganization, and it is supposed that they killed Eaton and Green for being outspoken against them.

The greatest excitement prevails in that section over the affair. Collision on the N. P. FAKCIO, March train No. 1, on he Northern Pacific road, this moruing collided with freight No.

IB four miles west of Wheatland. man Snyder, of the freight, was killed right, and Engineer Ryan, of the ger, had his leg taken off just below the thigh. The brakeman and baggagemaster were alo seriously injured. It is stood no passengers were injured. WHEATLAND, DAK, March quest over the remains of George Snyder, fireman of the freight, resulted in a verdict that he met his death.

through the gence of the conductor of the freight train. I'nttl's Farewell. Patti made her final appearance before a crowded house at to-day's matinee at McVickers. To-night at 8 o'clock her special train will leave for St. Louis, where her niece Carlina Patti, whom she has decided to adopt is in ing for the diva.

Miss Carlina, who is only 16 years old, will travel with the songstress for the remainder of her present tour, after which she will accompany her to London, where formalties of adoption will be gone through with. A Battle of the Light Weights. ST. CLOUD, March Welch, the light-weight champion of the northwest, will meet Doug. Tousley, of DesMoines, in an eight-round glove con test here March 26th for a purse of $100.

After this match, Welch will challenge Dan. Need ham, C. Webber, W. R. field, W.

Clarke or Jerry Murphy for $100 to $500 aside and the light-weight pionship of the northwest. Tne match promises to be an exciting one. Motor Line Transferred. MINNEAPOLIS, March transfer of the motor line to Thos. Lowry was mally executed yesterday afternoon and Mr.

Lowry is in possession to day. "We cai? say nothing about tion paid," said ex-president Small this morning, "but it is safe to say that the pers are not over $800,000 out of the way. It is sufficient to say that the road is sold and that Mr. Lowry is now in possession." Ue Would Speculate. CHICAGO, March Pincoffs, secretary of the Gebain company, a well known firm of French shippers of grain and provisions, it is stated, has contracted indebtedness on board of trade of about $40,000.

Pincoffs is a handsome young Frenchman who looked out for speculation business of the firm on the floor. Gebain Co. stand very high and are not at all volved by irregularity. MoorheadV Mayor. MOORHEAD, March H.

Lamb was to-day elected mayor. A Train IMtelied. EAU CLAIRE, March consin Central train which left here at 8:45 yesterday, ran into an open switch just above the city and the whole train went into the ditch. Many passengers were aboard, but no one was seriously hart. Some fiend had taken the lock ahd turned theswitch.

The engine was badly aged. No clue to the perpatrator has been obtained. A Whole Family Arrested. UIGHMORE, DAK, March Bohemian family named Viten, four in number, living north of Highmore, were' arrested yesterdav on the charge of committing as assault upon and severely injuring one Resarck, a neighbor. One of the sons escaped from the sheriff and is still at large.

The victim is in a precarious condition with little hope of recovery. A Murderer Released. DEADWOOD, March Casey, who killed Daniel Doren a year ago, was to-day discharged from custody on the ground of previous jeopardy, A Sioux Falls Flood. Sioux FALLS, March are yet appreltensions of a serious flood here. Two bridges went out yesterday a few miles north of the city and the ice has gorged above the city.

The water is very high, and when it gives away several more bridges must go. The Aurora Mine. ASHLAND, March Capt Nat. Moore was in New York recently he was offered $100,000 for tiie interests in the Aurora mine. "No," he said, "the Aurora is worth five times that sum, and more, 1 do not feel like disposing of an terest in a mine that myself and others have bought at such a large figure." Cuban Outlaws.

KEY WEST, March Cuban outlaws arrived from Tampa last night by steamer Whitney. They were ately waited on by a committee of citizens and requested to leave town at once. It is claimed they are agitators of the worst kind and are in telegraphic communication with other desperadoes whose mission is to ferment strife. Gen. Bragg Going Blind.

MILWAUKEE, March is confined to his home in Fond du Lac by blindness. His eyes failed him while he was out driving. Partial paralysis has completely blinded one eye. The general thinks the loss of sight is not permanent. Postmasters Appointed.

WASHINGTON, March following Dakota postmasters were appointed to-day: Thos. Qaigg, Brainerd, Brown county, vice Bracy, resigned Emll Copps, Vandervoort, Clark county, vice ander vort, resigned. The Blockade Raised. WINONA, March ade on the Winona and St Peter raiiroad was raised last night on the main line and all branches. The road is all clear to-day for the first time in four months.

Robins and bluebirds made their ance here to-day. Indicted for Gambling. CANTON, March grand jury has returned indictments against a large ber of Canton business men for ing in gambling and card playing. Many sensational developments are promised. W.

F. Steele's Good Record. STEELE, March dent of the Pioneer Press says: I have talked with numerous citizens to-day and fail to find one who days that Bauker W. P. Steele has wronged him or that he does not pay every dollar he honestly owes.

A Night Clerk Suicides, BRAINERD, March II. Irelaud, night clerk at the Commercial hotel, mitted suicide in his room this morning by shooting himself through the heart He was about fifty years ot age and married. No cause is assigned for the act. The l.ake Front Case. CHICAGO March JudgeBlodgett to-day informally assumed jurisdiction of the lake front case involving the claim of the Illinois Central railroad to nearly the entire harbor front of Chicago.

The property is worth $100,000,000. The Colored llase Ballists. BALTIMORE. March 15. The Colored National Base Ball league completed its labors in this city to-day by adopting a schedule of forty games to be played by each of the six clubs River Notes.

FT. BUFORD, March ice in the Missouri below the Yellowstone broke yesterday. No damag from gorges here. YANKTON, March river broke here at 10 last night. Shot Himself.

FERGUS FALLS, March ry Buse, a German laborer, fatally shot himself to-day. No cause known. XK WS SUMMARY. The duchess of Otranto committed cide by blowing her brains out. Vincent, the defaulting state treasurer of Alabama, has been arrested in Texas.

Rapid City is excited aud encouraged bjr a rich silver find a short distance from the town. C. A. Prescott, manager of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation company, has signed. Raleigh, N.

was visited by a $100,000 fire. Twenty-three business houses were burned. The suspended Cential. City bank, of Deadwood, is to be revived by the addition of local capital. The loss on the Campbell sheep ranch, near Armstrong, Emmons county, for the winter, up to March 6th, was only six head.

W. L. Sackett the absconding aitizen of Lead City, has been brought back, and was to have a second examination Monday, on charge of rape. The repeal of the capital punishment law in Maine has been effected, and prisonment for life is substituted in alt cases of murder in the first degree. Walter Jordan, of Fort Buford, has been appointed appraiser of the right of way of the St.

Paul, Minneapolis Manitoba way through the Fort Berthold ana Blackfeet Indian reservation. His appointment comes from Washington. The Deadwood Times appears to have labored under au impression that the lature accomplished nothing practical. It was as much mistaken in that as it was in its report that Washabaugh and Patten failed in their county division ing. hiB first trial on the charge of manslaughter having been dismissed on the ground that the evf dence demanded an indictment for murder or nothing..