text: 4^ A 1 *"tr j' H*4 I •Vf T* S/K- L' ^sis^-" $§?** fc*:-7, s&V<-- %'^V' j£fl I wsp?*? -'V J4' Emmons County Record. D. R. STREETER, Editor and Publisher. WILLIAMSPORT, DAKOTA. EYFATHERS OF THE DAY A Major General. The president on the 31st sent to the Senate the name of Brig.-Gen. Alfred E. Lee to be Major General, vice William Scott Hancock, deceased. Gen. Terry has a native of Connecticut, and is 59 years of age. He went into the war of the rebellion in 1861 as Colonel of the SS immediately, and was promoted Brig.-Gen. Volunteers in 1865. In August 1865 he was brevetted Major General, and after the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865, he was mustered out of the service, and was mustered out of the service, since which time he has been promoted to be Major General and re-enlisted. At the close of the war he was made a Brigadier General, the regular army, since which time he has been mustered out of the service. He has been in command of the department of Virginia, the South, and Dakota, most of the time the latter, with headquarters at Fort Swelling, adjoining St. Paul. Great Sale of Running Horses. On the 27th, at the Racine stock farm, Johnstown, N.Y., the entire stable of race horses belonging to Pierre Lorillard, were sold at public auction. There was a large attendance and the bidding was lively. A total of twenty-five head were sold for $140.00. The largest price for a single animal was paid by the Unyer Bros., from the three-year-old Ally. Bondrop, $150.00. The same parties also secured the old bay horse, Pontine, for $17,000, and the chestnut colt, W infield for $13,000. The Chinese. President Cleveland sent a special message to Congress on the 2nd, in relation to the war on the Chinese in Wyoming and Washington territories, in which he recited the treaty stipulations of this country, and the wrongs that had been perpetrated, and urged legislative action to punish the perpetrators, compensate the sufferers for the losses they had sustained, and preserve the good name and integrity of the country. Strike of Street Car Drivers. The strike of street car drivers in New York and Brooklyn assumed formidable proportions on the 4th, many of the lines being unable to run at all and others being badly interfered with by obstructions on the track, tearing up the track, etc. Avery large special police force was on duty, and there were a number of slight collisions, but nothing approaching a riot. Favorably Reported. The House committee on the 5th, favorably reported the Reagan interstate commerce bill, 9 to 4. The bill is virtually the same as that passed by the House at the last session, though the penalties for violation of its provisions have been increased, and it is amended to apply to the district or Columbia, and also to reach the Grand Trunk road. Storm at the East. Advices from different points in the extreme Eastern states, the 1st, report the worse snow storm for many years. The storm was accompanied by high winds and extreme cold, and it is feared there were many wrecks along the Atlantic coast accompanied by loss of life. Public Debt Statement. The public debt statement for March shows a reduction for the month of $2,702,153.81, and total cash in the treasury available for reduction of $2,613,755.11. The total cash in the treasury is $4,494,489.53. FORIGES A FAIR. Emperor William Injured, A Berlin cablegram of 27th, the Official Gazette states that the emperor William is confined to his room, suffering from acoustics of the left hip. Although the injury is not regarded as at all serious, the court physicians deemed it necessary to advise his majesty to observe absolute quiet for a while. His injury was used by a tall received at a court ball Thursday, Feb. 25th. How They Do It, in England. A London cablegram of the 27th, says: Judges Dicheaume, Nicolle and Do Gruh, of the Island of Jersey, directors of the Jersey Banking company, have been arrested for having fraudulent deposits, knowing the bank to be insolvent. They were bailed in £500 each. They will lose their judgeships. Treaty Signed. A treaty of peace was signed between Serbia and Bulgaria on the 2nd inst. XXIXth. CONGRESS. Saturday, Feb. 31. SENATE—Not in session. House—Immediately upon assembling, the House went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, and the session was taken up in discussion of the silver question. Monday, March 1. SENATE—The time of the Senate was largely taken up in listening to and acting upon a message of the president and in executive session. The message of the president In reference to the demand of the Senate for papers relating to certain appointments, he refusing to furnish the papers and justifying his course at length. After a lengthy remarks by Senator Edmunds, which the president was severely censured for his course, the message was ordered referred to the judiciary committee and ordered printed. In executive session, the nominations of Charles Chase and Eben P. Pillsbury, collectors of internal revenue and customs, respectively, of Maine, were rejected. HOUSE,—Among the bills introduced was one by Mr. Kutterworth to create a depart ment of industry aud a bureau of labor. Mr. Brown asked unanimous consent to have printed a memorial signed by J. P. Brigham and others, asking the iii.peach ment of Daniel Manuing, secretary of the treasury,for high crimes and misdemeanors in the execution of the silver law, bti'. ob ction was made and it went over. VVhile debate was processing upu a motion to suspend the rules and pass the Mexican peusiou bill, a motion to adjourn was car ried. Tuesday, Feb. 2. SENATE—The pension committee favor ably reported the House bill increasing the pensions of widows and dependent relatives, with an amendment inciensiug the pensions of minor children from 82 to $4 ner month. The e|ucatiou bill was again taken up aud occupied the time until aojournment. HOUSE—The bill extending the arrears of pensions act to July 1, ISs'ti, was favorably reported from the committee, after which the House weut iuto committee of the whole on the pensions appropriation bill, the dis cussion taking up the entire time of the session. V. Wednesday, March'8. SkxATE—Among the bills introduced was one to allow the sale of goods by •ample in any state and territory, and one for the appointment jf a commission to investigate the declared discovery of inoculation for yellow fever. The education bill was again taken up and discussed at length, the matter dually being laid aside for the day, pending a call for tne yeas and nays on an amendment by Mr. Pol oh that the measure shall oniy. go 1-^SWhilUgheu accepte^ by two-thirds of iiiiinfniiniii in connection with agricultural colleges, riie pension approbation bill was again taken up and several memlMTS iniptoved theapportunity to mak4 political speeches. Thursday, March 4lli. SENATE—In reply to a resolution, the secretary of the treasury reported of the $10,000 (Kill bonds called in April 1, $6,350 are held by National banks. The House bill for the relief of Kitz John Porter was reported from the committee without amendment. Senators Sewell and Cameron, Republicans, joining the Democratic members of the committee. The everlasting educational law was taken up, and the amendment of Senator Dollinger inquiring two-thirds of the states to ratify the law before it should become operative as required. An amendment to the House proposing $5,000 for building school houses in sparsely settled communities was adopted and the debate closed for the day. Adjourned. HOUSE—After refusing by a vote of 103 to 14-5 to take up the urgency deficiency bill, discussion of the pension appropriation bill was resumed, and after several buncombe political speeches by members of both political parties, Mr. Randall moved the previous question on the passage of the bill and was passed with but one given vote, Mr. Bennett of North Carolina. Adjourned. Friday, Feb. 8. SENATE—After the adoption of a resolution calling In the secretary of the navy for information concerning the frigates Dolphin, Host on, Atlanta and Chicago, the commercial bid, and after being amended in several cases in matters of detail, it was passed, says Mr. Edmunds, to the result of the attorney general to furnish papers in the case of certain specified appointments, was taken up to give it precedence, when, after some unimportant business adjourned to Monday. HOUSE—This body spent most of the session in committee of the whole on the urgency deficiency bill, which was favorably considered and passed when the committee rose. Two bills on the private calendar were also passed. MINNESOTA. Dobbie shooting in St. Paul. The Astoria hotel, Wabasha street, St. Paul, kept by John Baugh, was the scene of a double shooting the evening of Saturday, the 11th. The shooting was done by Theodore P. Rich, of Cobleskill, N.Y., and his wife was his wife, Mrs. Fannie Rich, who had deserted him. Mrs. Rich and Dr. H. S. Gale, a married man, left Cobleskill, N.J., Jan. 2, coming west, and first going to Bismarck, Dak where proceedings were instituted for divorce by both Gale and Mrs. Rich. They then returned to St. Paul and took rooms at the Astoria, awaiting, it is claimed, their respective divorces when they were to marry. It is also claimed by Dr. Gale that Rich had consented to this for a divorce. But if this was so, Rich changed his mind and on the morning of Saturday, the 27th, he put in an appearance in St. Paul, in search of his wife and Gale, finding them at the hotel as above. His first appearance on the scene was as the parties were at supper. After a little conversation, They left the dining room and repaired to the room occupied by Gale and Miss Rich, No. 20 Here at the request of Rich Dr. (rule) withdrew to allow a conversation between man and wife. The conversation was quite lengthy. What was said here is unknown, but at shortly before 9 o'clock the occupants of the hotel were startled by two pistol shots in rapid succession. Hurrying to the room, Mrs. Rich, the right side and fired, both shots causing death almost instantly. Rich was a man of 40 years of age, without any particular business, and though not a dissipated man, it is claimed had not provided for his wife properly. Mr. Rich was about 35 years of age, a daughter of Henry Smith, one of the most prominent lawyers of New York state, and a man of wealth and social standing. He died about a year ago, leaving a large estate not divisible among the heirs. Her mother also died about two months ago, and she was wearing mourning for her at the time the awful tragedy occurred. Dr. Gage, for whom she deserted her husband, is a prominent physician of Coblesville, 40 years of age, and deserted his family when he fled with Mrs. Rich. An Eventful Engagement. Commencing Monday, March 8th, every evening during the week and matinee Saturday, the comedians, Robson & Cmue, will appear at the St. Paul Opera house at their great benefit of Shakespeare's "Conquering Errors." Mr. Stuart will appear at the Opera house. II. Crane as Dominio of Ephesus Exceeding in splendor, beauty, and artistic worth any production ever placed on the American or European stage. Under the management of Mr. Joseph Brooks, Magnificent scenic pictures, excursion acts of charreters, entrancing ballet, gorgeous procession. Over 150 people are engaged in the grand representation. Parties desiring good seats for this eventful engagement will do well to apply early to Manager Scott of the Grand Opera House of St. Paul. Sentences Commuted. Gov. Hubburd, the 4th, commuted the sentences of George Lauteuschluger, Frank Rupp, and his wife Sophia, to 15 years. The parties were sent to the penitentiary for life about 1815, for the murder in St. Paul in 1875 of Mrs. Joseph L'ck. With the usual allowance of six days each month for good behavior, the parties will have about two years to serve under the action of the Governor. Heavy Land Suit Decided. The long pending suit between the Northern Pacific and St. Paul & Manitoba railroads, as to priority of grant for some 50,000 acres of land near Glyndon, Minn., where the town roads cross, Mich., found sitting in a chair, with a pistol bill through her head, and a rifle on the floor, the body was dead from the same cause. An examination of the bodies showed that, Rich. had first placed his pistol to the left arm of his wife, and fired, she rushed to prevent him, and then he put the pistol to his head. On the day of the trial, he decided the case was decided the 3rd in the U.S. circuit court at St. Paul, in favor of the Northern Pacific company. The value of the land involved is $84,000. Buried to Death. Near Cedar Mills, Meeker county, Noah Felt, in trying to rescue some horses from a burning straw stable, was caught by falling debris and burned to death. Mr. J. Johnson, Felt's Inother-in-law, in efforts to aid him, was badly burned about the head and arms. More Trouble for Campbell. A Washington telegram of the 4th says the President, by request, has returned to the Senate the nomination of W. M. Campbell to be Marshal of Minnesota, and the judiciary committee will now investigate the charges against him. Model Farm for Indians. Among the bills introduced in the Senate the 4th, was one by Senator McMillan appropriating $20,000 for a model farm for Indians in northern Minnesota. Voted Bonds. At an election the 5th, Madison, Dak., voted 209 to 3 to issue $25,000 bonds to rebuild the recently burned normal school building. Pies, fistulas, rupture, and other diseases radically cured. Book of particular 10 cents in stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y. Last year in England, over 1,500,000 cases were reported. PRESIDENT AND SENATE. A Square-Toed Issue Made on the Subject of Appointments. On the 1st inst., the President created something of a sensation by sending the following message to the Senate: To the Senate of the United States: Ever since the beginning of the present session of the Senate, the different heads of the departments attached to the executive branch of the government have been plied with various requests and demands from committees of the Senate, from members of both committees, and at last from the Senate itself, requiring the transmission of reports for the President of certain officials during the recent session, or for the papers touching the conduct of such officials, or for all papers and documents relating to such appointments, or for all documents and documents relating to such appointments, or for all documents and papers filed in the department in relation to the management and conduct of the offices held by such officers, and the fact that when made by the Senate, the resolution for that purpose was passed in executive session, have led to a presumption, the correctness of which will, I suppose, by candidly admitted, that from first to last the information thus sought and the papers thus demanded were... desired for use by the senate and its committees in considering the propriety of the suspension referred to. Though these suspension are my executive acts, based upon considerations addressed to me alone, and for which I am wholly responsible, I have had no invitation from the senate to state the position which I have felt constrained to assume in relation to the same, or to interpret for myself my acts and motives in the present. In this condition of affairs, I have before borne addressing the senate on the subject, deem it my duty to be accused of threatening myself unbidden upon the attention of that body. But the report of the committee of the judiciary of the senate, lately presented and published, which censures the attorney general of the United States for his refusal to transmit certain papers relating to a suspension from office, and which also, if correctly interpreted, evinces a misapprehension of the position of the executive upon the question of such suspension, will, I hope, justify this communication. The Senate of the United States, in its recent session, referred to the resolution of the Senate calling for the dusting papers and the reply of the attorney general thereto, and says: "Up to this resolution and the answer thereto, the issue is thus stated by the committee on judiciary at the outset of the report: "The important question then, is whether it is within the constitutional competence of either house of congress, to have access to the official papers and documents in the various public offices of the United States created by laws enacted by themselves." I do not suppose that the public offices of the United States are regulated or controlled in their relations to either house of congress by the fact that they were "created by laws enacted by themselves." It must be that. These instrumentalities were created for the benefit of the people, and to answer the general purposes of government under the constitution and the laws, and that they are unencumbered by any line in favor of either branch of congress growing out of their construction, and unembarrassed by any obligation to the senate as the price of their creation. The complaint of the committee that acces to official papers in the public office is denied the senate, is met by the statement that at no time has it been the disposition or the intention of the president or any officer in any department of the executive branch of the government to withhold from the senate official documents or papers filed in any of the public offices. While it is by no means conceded that the senate has the right in any case to review the act of the executive in removing or suspending a public officer upon official documents or otherwise, it is considered that documents and papers of that nature should, because they are official, be freely transmitted to the senate upon its demand, trusting the use of the same for proper and legitimate purposes to the good faith of that body and though no such papers or documents have been specifically demanded in any of the numerous requests and demands made upon the departments, yet, as often as they were made in the public offices they have been furnished in answer to such applications. The letter of the attorney general in response to the resolution of the senate in the particular case mentioned in the committee's report, was written at my suggestion and by my direction. There had been no official papers or documents filed in his department relating to the case within the senate. The period specified in the resolution. The letter was intended, by its description of the papers and documents remaining in the custody of the departments, to convey the idea that they were not official, and it was assumed that the resolution called for information, papers and documents of the same character as were required by the requests and demands which preceded it. At the transmission of such papers and documents, I have interposed my advice and direction. This is not been done, as is suggested in the committee's report, upon the assumption on my part that the attorney general or any other head of a department the servant of the president, and is to give or withhold copies of documents in his office according to the will of the executive and not otherwise, but because I regard the papers and documents withheld and addressed to me, or intended for my use and action, purely unofficial and private. Not infrequently confidential, and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine, I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department, but as deposited there for my convenience, remaining still completely under my control. I suppose if I desire to take them into my custody might do so with entire propriety, and if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. The papers and documents that are now the objects of the senate's questions consist of letters of representations addressed to the executive or intended for his inspection. They are voluntarily uritten and presented by private citizens who are not in the least insulted thereto by any official invitation or at all subject to official control. While some of them are entitled to executive consideration, many of them are so irrevalent, or, in the light of other facts, so worthless, that they have not been given the least weight in determining the question to which they are supposed to relate. Are these, simply because they are preserved, to be considered official documents and subject to the inspection of the senate. If not, who is it to determine which belong to this class? Are the motives and purposes of the senate as they are day by day developed, such as would be satisfied with my selection? Are they to be regarded official because they have not only been presented but preserved in the public offices? The nature and character remain the same, whether they are kept in the executive mansion or deposited in the departments. There is no iristerious power of transmutation in departmental custody, nor is there magic in the undefined and sacred solemnity of department files. If the presence of these papers in the public offices is a stumbling block in the way of the performance of social duty, it can be easily removed. The papers and documents which have been designated derive no official character from any constitutional, statutory or other requirement making them necessary to the performance of the official duty. Of the executive. It will not be denied. I suppose, that the president may suspend a public officer in the entire absence of any papers or documents to aid his official judgment and discretion, and I am quite prepared to avow that the cases are not new in which suspensions from office have depended more upon oral representations made to me by citizens of known good repute and by members of the house of representatives, and senators of the United States than upon any letters and documents presented for my examination. I have not felt justified in asserting the veracity, integrity and patriotism of the senators or ignoring their representatives because they were not in party affiliation with the majority of their associates and I recall a few suspensions which bear the approval of individual members identified politically with the majority in the senate. While, therefore, I am constrained to deny the right of the Senate to the papers and documents described, so far as the right to the same is based upon the claim that they are in any view of the subject official, I am also led unequivocally to dispute the right of the Senate to the papers and documents described, so far as the right to the same is vested in the president alone by the constitution, which in express terms provides that "the executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America, and that the president shall be vested in the president of the United States of America." shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. The government shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. duct in office or crime, or when incapable or disqualified to perform their duties, and that within twenty days after the next meeting of the senate it should be THE DUTY OF THE PRESIDENT "to report to the senate such suspensions, with the evidence and reasons for his action in the case." This statute, passed in 1887, when congress was overwhelmingly and bitterly opposed to the president, may be regarded as an indication that even then it was thought necessary by a congress determined upon the submission of the executive to legislate at will to furnish itself a law for that purpose, instead of attempting to reach the object intended by an Invocation of any pretended constitutional right. The law which thus found its way to our statute book was plain in its terms, and its intent needed no avowal. If valid and now in operation, it would justify the present course of the senate, and command the obedience of the executive to its demand, it may, however, be remarked in passing, that, under this law the president had the privilege of presenting to the body which assumed to review his executive acts his reasons therefor, instead of being excluded from explanation or by papers found in the departments. Two years after the law of 1867 was passed, and within less than five weeks after the inauguration of a president in political accord with both branches of congress, the elections of the act regulating suspensions from office during the recess of the senate were entirely repealed, and in their place were substituted provisions which, instead of limiting the crimes of suspensions to misconduct, error, disability, and disqualification, expressly permitted such suspension by the president "in his discretion," and completely abandoned the requirements obliging him to report to the senate "the evidence and reasons" for his action. With these modifications, and with all branches of the government in political harmony, and in the absence of partisan incentive to captious obstruction, the law as it was left by the amendment of 1880 was much less destructive to executive discretion and yet the great general and patriotic citizen who, on the 4th day of March, 1868, assumed the duties of chief executive, and for whose freer administration of his high office the most hateful restraints of the law of 1867 were, on the 5th day of April, 1869, removed, mindful of his obligation to defend and protect every prerogative of his great trust, and apprehensive of the public service in the continued operation of these statutes, even in their modified form, in his first message to congress advised their repeal and set forth their unconstitutional character and hurtful tendencies. I am unable to state whether or not this recommendation for a repeal of these laws has been since repeated. If it has not, the reason can probably be found in the experience which demonstrated the fact that the necessities of the political situation but rarely developed their vicious character and so it happens that after an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth, apparently the repealed as well as the unrepealed, and then put in the way of an executive who is willing, if permitted, to attempt an improvement in the methods of administration. The constitutionality of these laws is by no means admitted. But why should the provisions of the repealed law, which required specific cause for suspension and a report to the senate of "evidence and reason," be now in effect applied to the present executive, instead of the law afterward passed and unrepealed, which distinctly permits suspensions by the president "in his discretion," and carefully omit the requirement that "evidence and reasons for his action in the case" shall be reported to the senate? The requests and demands which by the score have for nearly three months been presented to the different departments of the government, whatever may be their form, have but one complexion. They assume the right of the senate to sit in judgment upon the exercise of my exclusive discretion and the executive function, for which I am solely responsible to the people, from whom I have so lately received the sacred trust of office. My oath to support and defend the constitution, my duty to the people, who have chosen me to execute the powers of the great office and not to relinquish them, and my duty to the chief magistracy, which I must preserve. Impaired in all its dignity and vigor, compel me to refuse to comply with these demands. To the end that the service may be improved, the senate is invited to the fullest scrutiny of the persons submitted to them for public office, in recognition of the constitutional power of that body to advise and consent to their appointment. I WILL CONTINUE, as I have thus far done, to furnish, at the request of the confirming body, all the information I possess touching the fitness of the nominees placed before them for their action, both when they are proposed to fill vacancies and to take the place of suspended officials. Upon a refusal to confirm, I shall not assume the right to ask the reasons for the action of the senate, nor question its determination. I cannot think that anything more is required to secure worthy incumbents in public office than a careful and independent discharge of our respective duties within their well-defined limits. Though the propriety of suspensions might be better assured if the action of the president was subject to review by the senate, yet if the constitution and the laws have placed this responsibility on the executive branch of the government it should not be disturbed, nor the discretion which it involved relinquished. It has been claimed that, the present executive having pledged himself not to move officials except for cause, the fact of the suspension implies such misconduct on the part of the suspended officer as injures his character and reputation, and therefore the senate should review the case for his vindication. I have said that certain officials should not, in my opinion, be removed during the continuance of the term for which they were appointed solely for the purpose of putting in their places those in political affiliation with the appointing power, and this declaration was immediately followed by a description of official partisanship which ought not to entitle those in whom it was exhibited to consideration. It is not apparent, however, whether the course thus announced. Grades with it the consequences described. If in any degree the suggestion is worthy of consideration, it is to be hoped that there may be a defense against unjust suspension in the justice of the executive. THE PLEDGE WHICH I HAVE MADE, by which I have placed a limitation upon my exercise of executive power, has been faithfully redeemed. Of course, the pretense is not put forth that no mistakes have been committed, but not a suspension has been made except it appeared to my satisfaction that the public welfare would be improved thereby. Many applications for suspensions have been denied, and the adherence to the rule laid down to govern my action as to such suspensions has caused much irritation and impatience on the part of those who have insisted upon more changes in the offices. The pledges I have made were made to the people, and to them I am responsible for the manner in which they have been redeemed, I am not responsible to the senate, and I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for judgment. There are no grounds for an allegation that the fear of being found false to my professions influences me in declining to submit to the demands of the senate. I have not constantly refused to suspend officials and thus incurred the displeasure of political friends, and have not yet wilfully broken faith with the people for the sake of being false to them. Neither the discontent of party friends nor the allurements constantly offered of contributions of appointments concluded upon the avowal that suspensions have been made on party grounds alone, nor the threat proposed by the resolutions now before the senate, that no confirmation will be made unless the demands of that body be complied with, are sufficient and clear. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1886. When the message had been read, Senator Harris of Tennessee moved that it lie on the table and be ordered printed. Senator Edmunds of Vermont, with considerable excitement, objected to this and said: It reminded him of the communications of King Charles the First to parliament, and that the president unintentionally, no doubt, had entirely misstated the question involved by himself and the senate. I think I am safe in saying that it is the first time in the history of the republic that any president of the United States has undertaken to interfere with the deliberations of either house of congress or questions pending before them otherwise than by message on the state of the Union, which the constitution commands him to make from time to time. This message is devoted solely to a question for the senate itself, in regard to itself, that it has under consideration. It is a singularity. I think it will strike reflective people in this country as somewhat extraordinary, if, in these days of reform, anything at all can be thought extraordinary. The senate of the United States, in its communications to the heads of departments, not his heads of departments, but the heads of departments, created by law, directed them to transmit certain official papers, and that is all. The president of the United States undertakes to change the question into a consideration by the senate of his reasons or motives for putting a civil officer, as he might be called, "under arrest," with which the senate has not under a law in any way to make any question at all. By every message he has sent to this body, and they are... All published, he has asked the senate to advise and consent to the removal of one officer and the appointment of another. That is what he has done, and the senate in calling for those papers—to say nothing of the wider considerations about any deficiencies in the departments of justice—is asked to remove these officers without knowing the condition of the administration of their officers. After a little sparring between the Democrats and Republicans, a motion made by Senator Edmunds to refer to the judiciary committee prevailed. THE MARKET. ST. PAUL. WHEAT—NO. 1 hard. $6.50 bid May 92c, bid, No.  cities. Four persons sit at each table, and at the end of each course change positions, in the manner of progressive euchre. Progressive lunches have long been the fashion in Chicago, but every partaker is expected to take and pay for something at the bar, or he is liable to be tired out. Once we—but never mind, it wasn't very funny, anyway. Betsey, an old colored cook, was mooring around the kitchen one day, when mistress asked her if she was ill. Sir: No. 3 Northern, 78c bid. Flour—Patent, $5.00@5.25 straight $4.50@4.75 bakers', $4.25@4.50 asked by $3.25@3.50. Corn So. 2, 32c asked. May, 35c bid. Oats No. 2 mixed. May, 30c bid. Barley No. 2, 55c bid. Rye No. 3, 18c bid. Flax Seed—$93. Baled hay, $1.50 asked timothy $9.51. Dressed beef, choice steers, 7@8c. Butter, extra 25c bid. Cheese, 9c. Eggs, extra 16@18c. asked. Potatoes, 65c per bushel. Live Stock—Sales of steers ranged $2.50@3.00 per 100 lbs. Sheep sold at $3.60 per 100 lbs. Hogs $3.60. MINNEAPOLIS. WHEAT.—No. 1 hard cash, 87c bid for February May, 91c No. 1 Northern, cash. No. 2 Northern. 78c bid. FIXING—Patents in sacks held at $4.75 @ 4.90. In barrels, $4.85@5.10 @ 5.70 delivered at New Bugland points @ 5.40@5.70 delivered at New York and Pennsylvania points bakers' $4.00@4.30. Wheat Feb 79 5½ May, 4½c. Oats, cash 29½c May 32½c. Flax seed No 1, $1.10. Pork,  M.D., THE GREAT HIM AT DRUGGISTS LUMBER CO., BAVILION, ED. The Town of Williamsport The County Seat EMMONS COUNTY, DELAWARE It is situated in one of the prettiest and most fertile regions of the Territory. The County is being rapidly settled by an enterprising and intelligent class of people, principally Americans but there yet remain thousands of acres of the very finest quality of Government Land unentered within a few miles of Williamsport. There are also many excellent business openings in town. The county about Williamsport was settled only two years ago, and there have been but two crops raised. Last year's yield it was thought could not be excelled but this season's crops (especially wheat, oats, and barley) have averaged even better than those of '84. Everything common to the Northern and Western States has been raised here—such as corn, flax, millet, buckwheat, etc. Potatoes, turnips, carrots, and other root crops have given a remarkable yield per acre. A acre, grow to prodigious size, and are of good quality. Another favorable point possessed by this neighborhood is the fact of our having an established society. We have four schoolhouses within a radius of six miles, a Sabbath school, and regular church services. A glance at the map will show that one or more of the railroads pointing to Bismarck, and already built into Central Dakota, must pass through this region. There is wood for fuel purposes to be found within a few miles of town, and the whole county possesses beds of lignite coal. Those desiring information as to government and railroad lands and Williamsport town lots should address D. R. STREET, Williamsport. R. B. MELLON, G. N. MELLON, D. W. DICKEY, Cashier. MELLON BROTHERS, Bankers, S. A. DAKOTA. Transact a General Banking Business. Collections made in all parts of the United States and Canada. Accounts of Merchants and others solicited. CORRESPONDENTS—Bank of America, New York Continental, Chicago Capital Bank, St. Paul Mellon & Sons' Bank, Pittsburgh. L. D. JUDKINS, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Old Pictures enlarged to any size! Third Street, ap-stairs, BISMAH C. D. 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The Chicago, Milwaukee Railway Company owns and operates nearly 5,000 miles of thoroughly equipped road in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Dakota. It is the all-important line and best route between all principal points in the Northwest and Far West. For maps, time tables, rates of passage and freight, etc., apply to the nearest station agent of the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY, or to any railroad agent anywhere in the United States or Canada. R. MILLER, A. Y. H. CARPENTER, General Manager, Gen. Pass, and Tkt. Agt. J.F. TUCKER, GEO. H. HEAFFORD, Ast. Gen. Manager, Ast. Gen. Pass. and Tkt. Agt. For notices in reference to Special Excursions, changes of time, and other items of interest in condition with the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to the local columns of this paper. EMMONS COUNTY. Free Homes in a Fruitful Land. Emmons County is situated south of Burleigh county, west of Logan and McIntosh, north of Campbell, and is bounded on the west by the Missouri River. A small portion of the county lies south of the forty-sixth parallel. The county is about forty-eight miles in length, north and south, by thirty-two in width, and is very nearly in the center of all Dakota. Williamsport, the County seat, is in the midst of a thriving agricultural region. Winchester, Glencoe, Winona, Livonia, Gayton, Eminonsburg, Buchanan, and Roup are post offices, and several of them important villages. The population, as shown by the territorial census taken in June, 1835, was 1,045. In 1830 there were but thirty people in the county. The settlements, made prior to 1883 were confined to the immediate vicinity of the river but, during the last and the following year, extensive settlements were effected throughout the northern half of the county. Although Emmons county is quite new, it has, nevertheless, made rapid growth, and is last being settled by all energetic and enterprising class of people. The soil is remarkably free from alkali and sand, and its fertility is indisputable, as has been shown by the crops raised. Wheat has yielded from 20 to 25 bushels per acre, and oats from 45 to 70 bushels. Corn, barley, flax, buckwheat, millet, potatoes, turnips, cabbages, and all varieties of garden and field vegetables, have proven remarkably profitable, potatoes on sod in some instances yielding over 400 bushels per acre. The greater portion of the county is well adapted to agriculture, with but a small portion of the choicest lands taken and much railroad land still for sale. Emmons County, therefore, holds in reserve thousands of excellent homes for future settlers, and will bid them welcome. In the hilly portions of the county there is abundance of pasturage and generally living water, which renders stock-raising highly remunerative, with no great labor. Upon the whole, Emmons County ranks among the first of the Missouri Slope for fertility, smoothness of surface, and excellent water and, but for its recent settlement, it would stand among the foremost in grain, dairy and stock production. The several railroads already projected from Central Dakota to Bismarck will traverse Em mons County. Certainly no part of Dakota offers more substantial inducements to settlers. By looking at a map it will be seen that all railroad* Iroiu the south and southeast to the Capital (35 miles northwest of Williamsport) must necessa rily pas* through Etnmous County. Timber^* plentiful on the Missouri river, aud there is also considerable to be fonud in the coulees (ravines) aud along the creeks. Besides, lignite coal ha* been discovered in many places throughout the county, and a cherfp, permanent fuel supply )s tbms assured. THE LAND LAWS. Mow to Obtain Government Land In tbe Bismarck District. UOXNTIAB. This law gives the head of a family (male or female) the right to enter a quarter section (160 acres) of vucitnt land, if he or she is a native born cilizcn of the United States, or, if foreign born, has taken out first "papers." A single roan or single wom^n over 81 years old is given the same chance. Within six months aftc4**VBle ol entry the party must build a house on the land taken and begin living in it. If lie lives on and farms it for five years, title is acquired by proving thesei facts and paying the land-offloe fees (84 or B8-tlie latter the higheet figure). If at any tiiha^. before the five years run out the homesteaddPP wants to pay for his land he can do so. The nriie per acre is 81.S5 and 82.50. The cheaper price rHjea.?l!.lani8 forty mi|esfrom TOIBBB CULTURE. Under this law, 160 acres is allowed the qualified woman, resident of non-resident, who, during the second year, breaks five wires, and plan and cultivates the third and fourth years. When he gets his ten acres, he will have a new one. Two for the price of one. The Northwestern Farmer and Breeder (Fargo) is now in its third year, and is the only agricultural journal in North Dakota. It should be in the hands of every farmer. We have made arrangements by which we can furnish it with the RECORD. Anyone who pays up to date what he owes to this paper and a year in advance, or any new subscriber paying for a year in advance, will receive the RECORD and the Farmer one year for $3, which the price of the RECORD alone. Now the time to settle up or subscribe. EMMONS COUNTY RECORDER The paper of the county. Full of local news and county correspondence. Every resident and non-resident owner of Bonnion county land, and the Northern Pacific railroad, and the higher (52.50) within that time. A federal soldier or sailor who served in the war of the rebellion more than ninety days, died. discharged for disability, the whole time for which he enlisted, deducted from the five years. His army or naval service, to the extent of four years, counsel residence. The original fees at the land office are $14 and $18—the former for $1.25 and the latter for $2.30 land. PRE-EMPTION - This law requires some net of improvement by the applicant himself and a filing (costing $82) as first step. Then actual residence, cultivation of the soil, and payment of $81.25 or $82.50 per acre, according to location. This payment is not required before two years and nine months. Any time, however, after six months' residence and cultivation, the payment can be made and title had thereafter breaks or flows five acres. The second year, and free from the third. Plans to keep the tree growing condition for four years. From the date of his entry, time he can show 6,750 healthy trees he will be granted title on paying $14 in land-of-fice. JOHN A. RE United States Land Office. 