law to new roads, thtfapnn and branches buflc tax laws ortfie action or those who admlnurferj plainly thai wFateverls to be dons'In tils di- nl jGov. McGiH's Inaugural. will not disappoint the reasonable expectations The Great Isanti Stanford for the old roads, as a direct part of their systems them, although he may have paid his tax in full rection most be done promptly. It ssust be of the people. Yon are here as their trusted representatives, and regularly operated with them as apart and wifhin the statutory time. I advance no done, not as a charity, but as onoof the many and whatever legislation is needed of one property or railroad, are as a rule built by censure of tbe court, and find no good reason for obligations resting upon us as citizens of a common to conserve and protect their interests they new corporations for tbe sake of the exemption doubting the sincerity, high motive and lofty country for which these men did valient have aright to expect you will freely grant. In extended to new roads. In this way it happens Washington Letter. of independence of the judges. The provisions service in the dark days of the rebellion. The now governor of Minnesota delivered all matteis pertaining to their welfare and to that while the gross earnings in the state for the The senator had Francis A. Walker the statute are intricate, and there is too much However generously we may deal with them, the prosperity of our beloved state, I pledge yon I the following inaugural address to the two past year increased $258,095.81, the taxes, or room for division and doubt. The law should be our country will still be beyond calculation and Frederick Law Oimstead with percentage in lieu of taxes, decreased $6,530,- my heartiest co-operation. In the expenditure houses of the legislature in joint session: made so plain and simple as to exclude all unc-rtainty. their debtor. And while I would not recommend 82. In view of these facts, and of the large of the public money you will pardon me for him in California this summer, looking INAUGURAL ADDRESS. extravagance even in this direction, I do When a property owner promptly pays amount of property held by the railroad companies cautioning yon to the most rigid economy consistent Senators and ^Representatives: In assuming over the ground, and is now engaged recommend such reasonable expenditure as will iuto the hands of a public officer who has bsen exempt from taxation, I recommend that with the public needs. Extravagance he duties of the office of eovercor, to which I secure a home and comforts to these old veterans, chosen by the people or duly appointed to collect the law be amended so as to compel all railroad should receive no encouragement at our hands. with them in the preparation of plans lave been duly chosen by the electors of the leaving the details of the measure to your the revenue the taxes due on his property, lines hereafter to be built and operated|to pay The people have confided to us great and important for the buildings that are to b,e erected tate, it becomes my duty, in accordance with a judgment. that act ousht to relieve him at once and forever to the state the full three per centum on their trusts. Let us so administer them that at ell established custom, to address you on such gross earnings, in lien of taxes, from the start. from all the consequences attaching to delinquency. for the accommodation of the university. 1 the close of our official terms each one can bear BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS. latters of public concern as appear to me When the citizen has done his lull away at least the reward of an approving conscience. Everything will ba as fine as-, I take pleasure in recommending the creation TAXATION OF RAILROAD LANDS. orthy your attention and consideration. But parthas borne the burden which the state has and establishment by suitable legislation of a rst I desire to bear testimony to tne abilitv and money and experience can make it,y The large quantities of lands held by the various imposed upon himhis financial ruin by the state bureau of labor statistics. This measure (fidelity with which the duties of tbe position railroad companies free from taxation is a blunder or criminal connivance of public officer, and the institution will be the most A New Sort of Swindle. ^ove been administered during tbe last five was promised by both of the leading political subject which has attracted the attention of the the inanuer made possible under our tax PARIS, Jan. 4.Two English adventuresses ears by my predecessor, Gov. Hubbard. His parties of the state in the late campaign, and, liberally endowed of any in the world. people of the state. There is an evident impression laws. Hhould be put beyond a possibility. It is have been arrested here charged with an message, to which you have just listened, is tbe as a matter of good faith now, if for no other in the minds of manv that some action true that by a decision made in a more recent It is the intention of Mr. Stanfoid to, gclosins: act of an administration that- honors reason, should be carried out. Bnt there are original form of swindling. The prisoners can or ought to be taken looking to the taxation case, the repeal of that clause of the tax law gather under the title- ot the Leland' Ifalike himself and our great state which he has other reasons sufficient in themselves to justify give the names of Mra Linsay and Miss of such lands. They lie largely in the more which provides that notice ot the sale of his Ijjso faithfully served, and entitles him to the it.. It is important to the whole state, and Stanford university a group of thirteen Evelyne Bappy. The latter is a beautiful sparsely settled portions of the state, where the property for delinquent taxes shall be served fphanks of a grateful people. especially to the laboring men, that there should people are struggling against great odds to woman and about twenty-five years of age. upon the owner before the time of redemption or more colleges, where all the be some instrumentality through which accurate make homes for themselves and their posterity. shall begin to run was held to be ip contravention POLITICAL PLATFORMS AND PLEDGES. Mrs. Linsay is older, not so comely, and statistical information could be obtained liberal as well as the useful arts and By reading the platforms of the two leading Court houses and other county buildings are to of the constitution, and therefore void. easilV passed as Miss Happy's mother or touching all those questions which concern political parties of this state, adopted in their be erected and paid for school houses built and Yet personal notice is not required by that section sciences will be taught to both young guardian, as occasion required. The women the welfare of the producing classes. This conventions held in September last, it will be schools maintained roads opened and worked of the law in all cases, and may be safely men and young women, and where the caused to be published in responsible papers information is especially valuable as a basis for "Wbsexved that liberal promises' were made in in short, all the necessary adjuncts to a thriving said to be the exception in practice. Nor should needed legislation from time to time affecting genteelly written and cleverly constructed most ample opportunities will be afforded both. On a number of subjects they seem to community are to bo called into being bv the the property owner who has paid his tax be required these interests, and the dissemination and discussion advertisements making it known that a nave been in full accord. For instance, in respect efforts and money cf the hardy pioneer. Every to watch everv step in the intricate proceedings advanced students for research of the reports of the bnreau concerning young widow with a million sterling in her to establishing a home for disabled and other section.or more, perhaps, of the land in the by which payment of delinquent taxes wages, cost of living, profits of different industries, and investigation. The chairs needy survivors of the Union army in our state: county or district in which he has settled belongs own right, or a rich young girl, who had is enforced, to make sure that he be not devoured degree of prosperity or poverty among the the abolishing wherethe of contract system off prison to some one of these giant corporations, of instruction will be filled with earnest, by the tax title shark, or his propertv made a false step, was desirous of forming a laws, needed, to secure relie to the people, and similar questions, would prove of /labor the amendment of our railroad aul ware- and is held by it freed from any liability to contribute confiscated by the state. Immediate steps marital alliance with a gentleman of the nm ambitious, and progressive great interest and value. In creating this new a farthing to the improvement which is should be taken to make it impossible to commit right stamp who would appreciate the situation bureau, I would suggest and recommend that young men who will have all the facilties agricultural classes the establishment of a constantly and rapidly enhancing the value of the wrong which the law now sanctions. and who has means sufficient to warrant the present state statistical bureau be merged in state bureau of labor statistics*, and in other its holdings. The question of the taxability of The main features of our tax laws, so far as 1 for study and investigation at it, except as regards the gathering of vital statistics, that on his side the marriage was not matters, there appears to have been no division these lands has been in a number of cases and am informed, are well understood and satisfactory and that in the future this latter duty be their command, and who will not be entirely a speculation. Several Frenchmen in different forms before our supreme court. In in their operation. I doubt not you of sentiment. I am bound to believe that both transferred to the state board of health, where were in turn introduced to Evelyne Kappy .conventions were sincereia their declarations almost everv such instance the state has been embarrassed by too many duties or fully appreciate tbe importance of a law which such information could be made of real value. thatnyou, the aplatfor,m representativesioof of one the other of Pe thefaith people, met with the provisions contained in the charters as a result of these advertisements, and she insures the prompt collection of the revenues, ote weighed down by the necessity of i Brea parties are here good to I of these companies, which grant immunity and that, in remedying the wrong comDlained was put forth as the young widow, or the INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL. tw teaching for their sustenance. They 1 Hl from tavation until a sale or convevance of &ucii of, you will keep this fact in view. & My attention has been called, by resolutions rich young girl, according to the inclination 1 ^redeem the pledges made. I believe that the lands. It is for you to thoroughly investigate will be liberally paid and encouraged to of the B-uluth chamber of commerce, and also of of the suitor. She engaged herself to a people have a rieht to expect from us a strict the status ot such lands, and see if there is anv the Duluth Engineer association, to the question number of these, managing to keep alive win reputation for themselves as well THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. __ inurnment of these declarations, and for one I way bv which you can obtain relief to the people of the location of a state industrial ana art their ardor until she had exhausted You will be called upon at this session to consider tand ready to do my part to carry them out in in this matter. as for the institution that fosters them. school, in connection with a school of mines, at their ability to make presents, and measures looking to the turther regulation good faith. If it has been customary heretofore the head of Lake Superior, for the purpose of According to the plan submitted and GRAIN STORAGE BY RAILROAD COMPANIES. of the liquor business in this state. The people successively married several of the J5 legislatures to disregard the issues on which fostering and perpetuating our manufacturing now under consideration the university have pronounced in tavor of "high license, local In connection with the legislation proposed by ney were elected, let the custom be broken, more wealthy, eecunng the best interests, encouraging the development of our option and the rigid enforcement of the laws relating the railroad and warehouse commission, I would ^guonesiy and good fath in a political partv are settlement possible and managing to escape is to be divided into twelve colleges, natural resources, and supplying the demand for to the liquor traffic." and now turn to you suggest for your consideration whether it is uot %a much to be admired as like attubutes in an with all the wedding presents and other an institution whereby our young workingmen asfollows: 1, administration 2, in the hope and expectation that you will, in tne botn right and practicable that the railway 'Individual. and women can obtain a training and a technical personal property obtainable within a few form uf. suitable legislation, give effect to the companies, which handle nearly all of the grain chemistry 3, mechanical engineering education that will fit them to become good BAH,BOAtransportationof tof TRANSPORTATION.reasonable hours after the ceremony. It has transpired *'l ro, verdict which they have found. Outside of the raised for market in the state, should not be required,'when citizens, instead of vagrants and a public charge, eub 4, the mechanic arts 5, civil engineering i that Miss Bappy played this marriage trick limited number engaged in the liquor traffic in not receiving the same into cars thus resulting in great benefit socially and intellectually. xanir rates on our railroadsis of supreme interest with great financial success on more than 6, physics and electricity 7, language tnis state, the people, by a very large majority directly upon delivery to them, to furnish The old system of apprenticeship, to the people ofrthe state,attention and I have no one adventurer in England before she sought and without regard to political parties, favor secure you earnest Th storage for it in elevators or gram houses at the and literature 8, geology and which at best only educated the hands, has been iu _4 the mcasui es proposed. I can see no reason why stations where the grain is received for shipment, her new victims in France, and it is said practically abandoned, and the opportunities nent of the legislature to pass laws for the mineralogy 9, history and political the desired legislation should not be promptly free of expense to the shipper. Is theie that all of her numerous dupes in both lor supplying the demand for skilled supervision of railroads has been for a number enacted. It is undoubtedly true that while the any sound reason for making grain an exception science 10, biology 11, industrial design countries have been of such high social or workmen are constantly diminishing. or years well settled. This right was not, however, question of high license does not properly relate to the general rule that common carriers shall political position that they have been 12, architecture. The efficiency of training schools established without a severe and protracted to party politics, it is one of intense interest to receive freight, and, if not shipped at once, shall in other states and countries has met public approval, ashamed to seek redress of any kind. When struggle. I well remember that when in 1870 it the liquor venders of the state, and in our cities furnish storage from the time it is offered for and the establishment of such an institution vas nrst advocated by the then governor of this Miss Rappy was taken into custody she was Each department is to have its own and large towns has become the predominant] shipment until ready to be delivered to* the consignee? in our own state, where not only the Jtate, in a message to the legislature, the proposition at a first-class hotel, living in a grand suite issue at every election. The liquor interests are That such a requirement would involve buildinsi and its own working collections hands but the brains of our youth can be educated, officialshan muccapitalists opposey was received wit doubt. Not onl of rooms in a style befitting a princess, and organized as a compact power for the avowed the companies in much expense and no little railroa seems to be justified on the highest of books and apparatus, and r purpose of combatting all efforts looking to the inconvenience at first must be admitted and if was on the point of being married to a man grounds. It would also he well, in my judgment, at, out a large majority of the lawyers of the there are to be in addition a library, turther regulation ot the liquor traffic. The effect the system should be inaugurated a reasonable who had already paid right royally for the if the system of industrial education estate antagonized it as in conflict with the of such on organization in such a case can time should certainly be given the companies betrothal, and had invested a snug' fortune museum, laboratory, reading room, could be generally adopted in our pub lc schools *nanamental law of the land, and opposed to the not be otherwise than harmful. All questions to furnish suitable storage structures. The in wedding presents. When Miss Rappy but until such time as that may become practicable, cenius of our institutions. However, in the fol^owina.year art gallery, and gymnasium in separate are made secondary to that of high license, and proposed plan might, ta a limited extent, displace similar passedlegislatiolegislature, was cnigna I believe it would be good policy to establish realized that she was a prisoner ehe broke a bililmwas by the everv man who stands for officeand more particularly elevators and grain houses now employed buildings. There is to be a chapel such a school as is asked bv the Duluth with the approval of the governor became a down and made a complete confession, giving a legislative officeis required to by other companies or persons, but I doubt if *a sam for devotional exercises and religious chamber of commerce, if for no other purpose iiK *g rates, both freight and passenger. the details of all her exploits, with mention pledge himself against it, or stand the its effect in this direction would be material. The th than to educate the public to the needs of such "i of dates, sums and names. She throws instruction. As there is plenty of brunt of their united opposition, in greater part of the grain now received by such educational work. Duluth lying in close proximity 'xSP'pa. several other Northwestern states. many cases eaning utter defeat from the outset. all the blame for her conduct upon Mra houses is not delivered for transportation, but ground, the plan is to make each of to the mining industries of the state, were instituted inethis othestatef, in Illinois, es, under the so-calle In all candor I submit to you if this is not hap in som the North is either sold for cash or receipts are taken by Linsay, who she says completely controlled stat Per would materially aid in the development of the the fifteen or sixteen buildings that a a pernicious influence on the legislation of the the producer with intent to sell at a future her. eT s" against various railroad vast mineral resources known to exist in that *fS^ law state. Two years ago a high license bill was before day and without shipping from the receiving aie contemplated only one story in eer regiop. I commend the subject to your thoughtful 4? the legislature, with every prospect of becoming station. Were the plan suggested to be put in height, lighted by roofs oc glass tiles. consideration. companies enactmente lor th violation experimentalthose of a law, but was finally defeated through operation it is not perceived that it would interfere 3^ were and The buildings will be of massive rough the organized efforts of the liquor interests. MOORHEAD NORMAL SCHOOL. with the facilities for buying, receiving or no doubt crude andf ill-adapted controlexigen- to the Under an act ot the legislature approved A Largo Amount of Money Stolen from the legislative Th This organization is much stronger to-day than storing of grain wherever such traffic is or could stone, of picturesque designs, and connected cies or the situation, but they served the purnose March 5, 1885, entitled "An act to establish a it was then, and will no doubt oppose with a zeal be carried on, but it would certainly stimulate Adams Express Company RecoveredWiti securinright of a judicial sanction and vmdicaSl by arcades, some being 110, state normal school at the city of Moorhead, in worthy of abetter cause the measures proposed. railroad companies to provide, as far as possible, courts but in the supreme court of ock's Mother Makes an Apparently Truthful Clay county," a site of six acres of land has been But I trust this legislature, elected on the issue 0 the necessary cars tor the immediate shipment some 90, and the rest 70 feet long. at 1 juaicia,l decisions obtained under them, not only selected by the normal school board, as provided of "high license and local option," is also Statement. of grain as offered. No grain, ot courso, All will have a width of 50 feet, and cneT i? by the terms of the law, and deeded to the stronger on this subject than its predecessor, would be delivered to the companies but such tne United Statesfealegislature, welllaws settledd forever the LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 29.Detectiva state. You will be asked to appropriate money will be of different heights, according and that it has the courage and independence to as the owners desired to have immediately j?pnstltutionality such an counrme uthont ot th Thu was es- S Pinkerton came to this city yesterday in rer.ponseto for the erection of a suitable building on this a refuse to be bound and controlled by the liquor shipped. The most oovious reason for making *he to the purpose for which they are intended site. In considering the necessity of this additional a summons from Mrs. Witrock, dealers. I have no word to utter agaiust these grain an exception to the rule in sections wheie caoiisnecl one of the most important rights ever and the taste of the architect. state institution the fact should be borne menI am willing to concede that many of them "Jim Cammings'" mother, who informed raised in great abundancs is that the bulk of the a secured a free people. The expediency of state in mind that this is the first normal school regard the proposed measures as an infringement They are to be laid out orignally for crop intended for sale is thrown upon the market Tinkerton that she had important information frapervi^oaover riilroad and kindred coiporaMpXg'h'iiS established in the northern half of the state, a on their personal rights and liberty, but in within a lew months alter harvest, and for him. When Pinkerton arrived at the accommodation of 500 students, sometimes been doubted since then, section which, owing to its newness and lack of the name of that great body of our citizens who hence it would be unreasonable to require the "Mrs. Witrock'E house he was handed express Tit the right is no longer questioned. but will be so arranged that they can wealth, needs assistance in this direction believe in sobriety, in law and order, and who companies to provide the necessary transportation I do not take it to be the policy of the state to packages containing $22,000 in currency, much more than the older communities. recognize and deplore !he evils traceable to the to move it in so limited a time, or to store be extended to accommodate 1,500. sedlesslv interfere with or to harass any great which Witrock had sent to his family after Beside, it must be remembered that liquor traffic, I protest against that interest it for want of cars to haul it away. But as the terest, and more especially the railroad interts The cottage sv stem of dormitories is many years ago normal schools were the robbery. The money had not been disturbed being permitted to dominate the legislation ot wheat farmer becomes more forehanded, and is of the commonwealth. That railroads have established in what now are the older the state. It is not only your province but your proposed, each cottage being arranged not compelled to realize on his crop immediately, and was in the original wrappers. It come indispensable to commercial and aariltural sections, when they were new and needed assistance, duty to eliminate as far as practicable these he will largely provide for his own storage, is supposed that Witrock, during one of his tor the occupancy of twenty or twentyfive prosperity, if not to the very existence and it is but fair and just that similar aid evils. It is believed that high license and local and this objection would soon be greatly visits to this city, hid larere sums of the the civilization of the centurv, no one needs students, and they are to be scattered be extended to the newer, but equally deserving option will minimiza them. Sharing in this belief, diminished. In this connection it would be money stolen, and that he will now turn it any longer to be told. To eliminate them would settlements. The schools at Winona, Mankato and de iring to keep faith with the people, to consider whether the objections to the proposed through the park like a village. be to turn back the wheels of progress to the over to the detectives. There have already and St. Cloud are not only too remote troin these I recommend the enactment of suitable and efficient plan are not to some extent founded on a Mr. Stanford takes the most absorbing very porcals of the dark ages. But their supreme newer sections to be of any practical value to been recovered of the stolen money about legislation to carry the proposed measures participation in the elevator profits by some of Importance makes it only the more essential them, but, according to the report of the superintendent interest in all the plans and preparations, into effect. $45,000. Witrock's mother in an interview the officers or managers of the roads, lather than that they should be so judiciously managed and of public instruction, are already full on the plan itself. admitted that Fred had participated in the and his endeavor is to secure controlled as to develop the highest efficiency to overflowing and could be of but little benefit PRISON LABOB. robbery. She said: and usetuluess of which they are capable, not Whether or not these suggestions should be the greatest good to the greatest number to them even if this were not the case. The During the last few yearsand more especially simply as wealth producers to their managers considered by you worthy to be formulated into population of the state at this time exceeds Shortly after the robbery Oscar Cook came possible. during the last year or twothe subject of and proprietors, but as engines powerful for a legal enactment, I have no hesitation in recommending 1,200,000, and at our present rate of growth it to Leavenworth and visited her, and said Fred prison labor and its effect on free labor, when good to the masses of the people as well. such legislation as will make i'. a will be but a few years until it has doubled. In was trouble, that be had made a large sum of brought into competition therewith, has received i 9 9W* penal olfense for any person owning, operating view of all these facts, the inadequacy of existing money on a wheat deal in Chicago and had some A Romance of the War with a The very fact that every city, town and village much earnest considerationjfriot only bv labor or managing a railroad in the state to participate facilities in this line of our educational system difficulty with a broker over the mattf r, which strives for the most ample railroad facilities is a organizations throughout the country, but by Ijong Interlude. in any profits derived from an elevator, becomes strikingly manifest. I commend ended by him shoo.ing the latter that he had tribute to their value which no one can gainsay. thoughtful men in the professions and other grain house, wood or coal yard located on the to you the needs and jnst claims of the normal to flee from the country, and wanted his mother i**ny movement to oppress or cripple these interests, walks of life, whose only interest in the matter line of his road. school at Moorhead. and donbt not they will receive to take care of the mony until she heard from Wash ington Corr. New York Herald. simply to satisfy a popular clamor, would has been one of justice to all parties concerned, your favorable consideration. him further. This she agreed to do, and the WHEAT GRADING. not only be unjust to the roads, but ruinous to A recent copy of an Indiana paper and of good to society. That prisoners should money was left in her possession. Some time the people themselves. There is often a wide THIRD HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. work does not admit of argument. For reasons One of the most frequent and serious complaints contains the following paragraph: after this, another young man who lives in this bat honest divergence of opinion between the of discipline and health, if for no other, thev among wheat producers and dealers in By virture of the provisions of a law passed at city, but whose identity sho refused to divulgi, masses who use and desire to profit by the roads must be kspt employed. But how to do this and grain is the difficulty of procuring anything like the last session of the legislature, a commission MARRIKDOn November 26, by the Rev. called and left another package of money, and, and their managers and owners. They viewmatters not bring the products of tneir labor into competition uniform grades at different times and places appointed by Gov. Hubbard has recently located Dr. Turnbull, George A. Dawson of Louisiana on two other occasions two other young men from different standpoints, and often with those of free workiugmen and mechanics too often, indeed, at the same time and place at Fergus Falls a new hospital for the insane, called at different times and left monev which to Miss Alice Lemon of Washington, bach does the other iujustice. The duty of the is a problem which has engaged the attention ou wheat of the same kind and quality. The and selected a Bite therefor. For the purchasing they said had come from Fred. "When I heard D. C. .State is to find the middle groundthe happy of many earnest and able men, and railroad and warehouse commissioners have of this site, and the erection of a building of Fred's arrest I immediately wrote to the express tnean between the extremesand having found which you will probably be called upon to consider done much to lessen the evil, but there is still or buildings thereon for the housing and treatment This marriage is the sequel to an company telling them of the monev, and It, there to establish, with firm but impartial at this session. I am well convinced that wide room for improveme 11. If possible, the of patients, you will be asked to appropriate requesting them to come to Leavenworth, and unusually ramantic story. George band, the great and often intricate relations between the system of letting the prison labor out bv inspection should be made by persons not only money. In considering the necessity of that is undoubtedly why they are here," the r-iilroads and those who furnish them Dawson, a young captain in the confederate contract to the lowest bidder, now prevailing in disinterested in the result, but without knowledge any action at the present session in this matter, trasine sand pay their dividends. Robert Pinkerton iully exonerated Mrs. this state, is unjust in many ways, and should of tbe ownership of the grain or of the probable it will be well to bear in mind that a postponement aimy, lay seriously injured in be abolished and to this end I recommend such Witrock and family. Baying they had only The policy of this state, after some legislative purchaseror, indeed, of the person or persons will carry it over for a period of two 1864, a prisoner of war, in the United legislation as will prohibit its extension beyond fluctuation, has settled upon a board of comimlssioners done what others would do under interested in commissions on it. Under years, at the end of which time, I am the term of the present contract. The price as the best instrumentality with States hospital at Indianapolis. One conditions of this kind I am satisfied that the informed, at the present rate of increase, the circumstances. He corroborated Mrs. paid by the contractor in Minnesota per convict I which to accomplish this end. Mv judgment surprising and inexplicable differences in official the St. Peter and Rochester Witrock's story. of the ladies who visited the hospital is 4 cents a day, and this labor is utilized in (concurs in this policy, and that safety to both grades of wheat of the same variety and quality hospitals will be nearly if not entirely full and LEAVENWORTH, Dec. 30.Mrs. Witrock, the frequently and ministered alike to the the manufacture of articles which are sold in (sides lies in aboard of able, incorruptible men, would rarely occur. Every avenue to dishonest before new^buildings could then be provided, mother of "Jim Oummings," was seen last the market in competion with like articles wearlessin the discharge of public duty, and practices should be closed bv the law where possible. there would be a long period of overcrowding at wearers of the blue and the gray, was night. She was anxious that the nubhc manufactured by free labor. The inevitable result fyrith ample powers to enforce their decrees, With the door to favoritism lett open, the old hospitals. The great distances which should know the real cause of the robbery. a Mrs. Lemon, the wealthy widow of of this system is to reduce the wages of free jjfhough railroads in this country are not built dissatisfaction will prevail, even in the absence patients from the northwestern portions of the She said: mechanics, and in numbers of cases in with public tunds, they can not be classed as a Union officer. In the3e visits Mrs. of actual fraud- state have to be carried constitute an additional other states has broken down manufacturing private property. They are common earners, reason for your favorable consideration of the She had wondered from the first what Lemon was usually accompanied by WATERING STOCKS. establishments and thrown hundreds of mechanics ^jf and, even under the common law, are under matter at this session. The expenses for transportation prompted the robbery, and the first question she her daughter Alice, then a little miss ,a and other workingmen out of employment. certain obligations and owe certain duties tc the and sheriffs fees are oftentimes I commend to your special consideration the asked her son after he had been brought to his With this state cf things existing it is public. Their franchises area grant from the greater than the support and care of the .patient legislation pioposed by the commissioners to of ten years. A fast friendship sprung home by the detectives was: "Why dia you not to be wondered that the representatives of state, and they possess no essential powers not while in the hospital, and are no inconsiderable prevent the issuing of false, fraudulent and unpaid take the money?" He answered that he was i up between the youn confederate and free labor complain. I confess the fullest sympathy conferred by the state. Therefore it is from the burden to remote frontier counties. On account stock bv railroad companies, and to regulate greatly worried because the time was growing with them. A state can not be greater people that they obtain life and authority, and i the little Union girl, which continued of this heavy cost.commitments during the curable proceedings in the matter of increasing so short when the mortgage on her home to secure than its citizens. Its prosperity is measuied by their accountability to tbe people logically follows. periods are nfevented, and thus tho number of their capital stock. It appears to me that the some months until the former was exchanged $1,700 that she had borrowed and loaned theirs, and whatever contributes to their advantage The public interest in such corporations, chronic cases is continually increased, and for proposed bill is well calculated to suppress the to him, would become due, and he was not making and sent back to his regiment. adds to its greatness. It may be found hough not one of invested capital, is real and the same reason superintendents are prevented evil of watering stocks by railroad corporations, money enough out of his business to pay on investigation that the evils resultant from ubstanrial, and one that the state cannot in its from sending patients home at an early period a trick bv which fictitious capital is created, and her. So, instead of allowing the homestead to the system in this state are not so great as 'uty to the public cease to protect. Tho right of their recovery, for fear of a possible relapse upon which the people are required to pay dividends. Seven years ago Mrs. Lemon died, go to sale, he made up his mind to make a desperate representednevertheless the system is bad, and control on the part of the state is but a fair and return. And what is of still more serious This method of diluting and exoanding effort to save it, and finally decided upon should be abolished. Free labor natuwlly rebels ^J$hrn for the powers and privileges conferred. and Miss Alice, through the efforts of moment, the chances of recovery are greatlv impaired capital, already dangerous to the public irom against competition with the labor of criminals, the plan of robbing the express car. yfitnia right indeed would seem to be inherent and by the mental strain and physical exhaustion its very vastness and its absolute control by a her Republican friends, secured a and who can blame it? It sbonld be the policy Infeasible in the state. It is even to be doubted Specials from Leavenworth and Kansas consequent on these long trips. Considerations few persons,sometimes practically by one clerkship in one of the departments of the state to exalt and dignify labor, and to if the state could divest itself of the duties and City state that Oscar Cook made a confession of mercy, therefore, as well as of expediency, man,costs the producing classes of the conserve in every reasonable and proper way responsibilities implied, were it so disposed. would seem to urge action on your yesterday, in which he stated that Fotheringham, here. Her health gradually failed, country many millions annually. There can exist the interests of its laboring men. In this spirit There is but little or no organization among part looking to the purchase of a new site and the express messenger, knew all no moral claim to dividends on watered and last October she resigned her position I recommend the abrogation of the system in pbe farmers of the state for mutual protection, the erection thereon within the next two years stock, and there should exist no legal right to about the plan to rob his car, and was a willing Minnesota, and commend the matter to you in and went West to reside with relatives. g. knd In the matter of freights and the inspection of Buch buildings for the reception of patients such dividends. victim to the attack of the robber. It the expectation that whatever legislation is j^and grading of grain their interests are specially as will meet the needs of the state. was said that he was promised $10,000 of The announcement of her resignation CHEAP PASSENGER FARES. necessary to bring this about you will freely ^remitted to the railroad and warehouse corntnissioners. the amount stolen as his share of the booty, was printed in one of the THE SECOND STATE PRISON. grant. As a rule, other industries have Cheap passenger fares on our railroads, though and that sum was a part of the money which At the last session of the legislature a law was ST mora complete organization and are muoh betfpter New Orleans papers, where% met the with us of secondary importance as compared Fred Witrock sent to his mother for safe passed providing for the location of a second DRAINAGE qualified to care for themselves. The railroads, with freight charges, are nevertheless of public eye of Capt. Dawson, now a dignified keeping. state prison. A 3tiong sentiment has since as is well known, are under tbe management In July last a delegate convention of residents moment. The territorial limits of the state are arisen in the state in favor of making the prison bachelor of middle age and one of the of able men, capable of protecting them at and property owners of that portion of the Red MONET RECOVERED IN CHICAGO. so greatthe masses of the people so remote a reformatory. At a public meeting held at the every point. It follows that the farmers feel and CHICAGO, Dec. 30.Two thousand dollars river valley lying in Minnesota was held at the richest planters on the lower Mississippi. from our large cities and chief public institutionsthat capitolDec. 22,1886, a resolution was adopted .have a deeper interest in the matter of railroad city of Crookston, to devise means and adopt of the money stolen by the Adams Express travel is ottentimes burdensome to Capt. Dawson immediately without dissent declaring it to be the sense of supervision than any other class of our people, methods for a comprehensive svstem of drainage robbers was recovered here to-day. The them, and that free intercourse between the the meeting that instead of tbe new state prison V&nd it is not only the privilege but the duty of for that fertile section of the state. Tbe action wrote Miss Lemon and asked her if money was obtained from a Chicago printer, people, so much to be desired for many reasons, contemplated bv the law of 1885, a reformatory '/the legislature to make that supervision close, of the convention resulted in the employment of whose name is withheld by tbe detectives. is greatly retarded. Still, it must be remembered 3he was his little sweetheart of former institution should be established. The meeting I j,watchful and effective. competent engineers to make surveys, adopt a He printed the official letter heads of the that the very existence of these magnificent included all of the inspectors of the sta'e prison, years, and if so by what caprice of It is especially desirable in thin state, where plan and report at a subsequent meeting, with distances and the comparatively limited population Adams Express companv, by means of all of the managers of the state reform school, the sthe chief Industry is agriculture, that the transimportation estimates of the cost of the proposed work. The fortune she had been thrown upon her scattered over them render it impracticable which Witrock gained admission to the express niembsrs of the state board of corrections and rates be as low as is consistent with a report has been submitted and, I am informed, that the passenger rates here should be as car. The printer says: own resources. Miss Lemon answered charities, judges of the courts, prosecuting pair return on the actual capital invested in the will be laid before you with a request for legislation low as in the thickly settled communities of tbe attorneys and many leading citizens of the state. treads. Iudeed, it is questionable if the original in furtherance of the enterprise. The the captain, detailing their financial Witrock approached him with the request to East, where the average number of passengers Ten years ago the first reformatory prison was ^fiost of a road fnrnisb.es a certain criterion of scheme is one of great importance, not only to do this work. Witrock explained that it would per mile is many times greater. Commendable losses at the time of the opened at Elmira, N. Y., as an experiment. The ^what it should be allowed to earn, or by which the agriculture of that wide belt of territory, enable him to obtain passes on which he could progress has been made during the past year experiment proved so successful that similar institutions Jay Cooke failure and tbesubsequent tofixits rates. Values of orher kinds of property stretching from tbe mouth of the Bois de Sioux travel all over the country. Suspecting nothing, toward a standard of cheap passenger fares, but have since been established in Michigan, fluctuate, and railroad propertv is no exception river on the south to the Manitoba line on the death of her mother. greater reductions, if practicable, are very much criminal, the printer complied. Shortly afterward Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky to the rule. If railroads can be constructed north, with its deep alluvial soil and' wonderful to be desired. There is, I apprehend, one obstacle he was sent tbe sum mentioned, which he Capt. Dawson thereupon mailed the. and Kansas. Massachusetts remodeled fad equipped at from 30 to 50 per cent less wheat-producing powers, but to every city, in the way which it is within your power to has kept intact, knowing it must have been pt.t the new state prison at Concord at a large expense ow than prior to 1873, does it follow that the town, village and industry within its limits, and lady a check for $1,000, which he remove. I allude to the practice, obtaining of the proceeds of the robbery. The money has for a reformatory, and Pennsylvania, with Id roads should be allowed to charge from 30 indirectly to the state at large. I doubt not that among railroad companies, of issuing free passes. begged her to accept as a slight recompense been a load on his mind ever since he came into the same purpose in view, has recently changed 50 per cent more than the new.ones, contracted you will extend to an enterprise promising such This custom, besides being of questionable policy, possession of it, and be is hanpy to get rid of it. the plan ot a projected penitentiary at Huntingdon. for her mother's kindness to at a much less cost, could reasonably far-reaching results all the aid which the state has become burdensome to tte companies. KANSAS Cni, Dec, 30.Sttpt Damsel, of I therefore recommend that the proposed ^charge? It should be the"policy of tbe state to can render, keeping in view the restrictive provisions him while a prisoner of war. Miss It favors the few at the expense ot the many. the Adams Express company, arrived here new prison in this state be madereformatory for fssecure for its great producing classes the cheapest of sections 5 and 10 of article 9 of the The traveling public who pay fares have reason Lemon returned the check, saying"' criminals convicted of their first offense. In this this morning with Mrs. J. Hoight, on the rates possible with consistency, and .justice constitution. The passage of a well considered to suppose that the amount charged them is connection and in view of the establishment of strength of a confession made by Haight. ,}o the other interests involved. that under no circumstances could*, drainage law, applicable to all sections of the governed more or less by the number who ride an additional prison, I would suggest that the He brought information which Bobert Pinkerton The railroad and warehouse commissioners state, would prove of great utility. The law on free. It is a custom which smacks of favoritism she receive it. board of state prison inspectors be incressea Ibave reported to you certain propdsed legislation acted upon by goinsr to Leavenworth. the subject, now on our statue books, has been on the one side and injustice on the other, and, from the present number (three) to five. Capt. Dawaon then came'north to of great importance, already referred to found inadequate to the necessities and should There he recovered $9,500, which was like many other, would be "more honored in the ^and commented^ on by .Gov. Hubbard, which I* PRIVATE BANES. be radically amended or superseded by an ace fouud buried in sealed cans. Mr. Pinkerton see if he could not personally prevail, breach than in the observance." It may, however, The banking business of the state, as appears doubt not wiil receive y6ur earnest consideraS^kion. much more comprehensive and better adapted returned here to-night It is reported that be safely assumed that the influence of upon the lady to accept his assistance. bv the public examiner's report, is transacted by I am sure you will be glad to adopt any to our wants. MrR. Haight was taken from Leavenworth to free passes on public men is muoh less than is 237 banks, but 107-of which are incorporated "^changes or amendments in---the railroad and He went to Indiana, intending to stop generally supposed, if, indeed, the cases where tchibon this evening. lty'\' A SOLDIFRS' HOME. J-ll eithei under our state or the United States laws. Migrata laws which will contribute to their efliff it swerves them from duty are not too rare to only a couple of days, but he remained MORE MONET RECOVERED. Tbe balance, 130, are owned and operated by I commend to your favorable consideration ciency and to the usefulness of the commission, merit consideration. The custom has become KANSAS flrry, Dec. 29.Bobert Pinkerton a month, and when he returned private individuals and firms, and all but eleven the subject of a soldiers' home: Representatives and shall not trespass 6n your timet call atirttentionto so firmly established that men holding public is engaged in recovering more of the stolen of them have assumed corporate names. In this of several organizations of ex-soldiers in this them in detail. he carried with him a northern bride positions are apt to regard themselves as entitled tbe corporations placing themselves under money. It has been fpund that a considerable state, who have for some time past given this to free passes by virtue of tne offices they to grace his southern home. 1 *"-^v TAXATION OF BAHJRAODS. legal restrictions and surveillance have just subject careful consideration, insist that the amount was distributed here among hold. On the other haud the railroads are subject cause ot complaint. There can be no hardship ,.r It appears plain that new and definite Iegislafcion time has now come when it is necessary for the Cook's friends in sums ranging from $300 to to retaliation in so many ways that it is in insisting that banks which make no application is needed on the subject of railroad i-axation. state to provide a home for the veterans of the $1,000. A lot of bank notes were found doubtful if the practice can be suppressed without to the state for corporate privileges, which The commissioners seem to be' in doubt late war. citizens of Minnesota who are disabled It is related that one dav when t#s legislative interference. Uniess forbidden concealed in beer bottles under the house of concerning the liability of any railroad company conform in no particular to the statutes, and and needy. It has b^en ascerta-ned that more by law, passes will be issued, and with rare exceptions John Cox in the East bottoms, where Cook newspaper manoiexpeiiencesuggested make no disclosures of their affairs either by report which has not formally accepted the. provisions than fifty ex-soldiers are subjects of public those to whom they are issued will accept boarded and Witrock stayed while here. Another or examination, are not entitled to 1 of the law of March, 1873, relating to the taxhtion an evident improvement in a certai.&s charity within onr borders. It is also a notable them. The inn uence of the few who refuse portion was found under a house- op- corporate titles and should be compelled to do of the St. Paul. Stillwater & Taylor's Falls fact that the generous provision made by the department of the Ledger, Mr. Bonner will be so slight in restraining the evil that there business under their personal names, as in other Sailroad company, to even pay aper centum of posite that of Cook's father, and Jack Cook, government nearly twenty years ago in establishing will be but little encouragement to individual said: "It would be a better column, Its earnings, in lieu of tax6s..under existing business. It would be well to thoroughly consider five branch homes in different parts of Oscar's brother, gave up $1,000 that he-had. action. In my judgment the free pass system further whether such corrected legislation legislation. This liability should be so definitely the country have now become entirely inadequate There are rumors of some further arrests to but I wouldn't do it for $1,000. The in its present magnitude amounts to a public should not be-applied as will bring all associaciatious settled that there could be no question to the needs of the ex-soldiers. While it be made. evil, and I recommend the enactment of suitable human eye ia the most conservative seeking to do a banking business under about It in any case. It seems desirable that is unauestionably the duty ot the nation to provide legislation to destroy it. CrscaNNATi, Dec 29.CoL L. Weir, supenntendent either national or state supervision. tbe whole subject be inquired into by the legislature, tot these men suitable homes, the people of thing in the world. It is easily offended. ot the Adams Express company, and a plain and consistent law enacted. Minnesota will never willingly consent that because j, THE TAX LAWS. The proposition of tbe examiner, which would I have often lost subscribers states that the amount stolen last October W93M) law in force is so indefinite and obscure that of inadequate provision made by the general entitle the heads of the several departments to There is no more important subject concerning eral suits have alreadv been carried to the was between $81,000 and $82,00& by improving the Ledgeryes, sir! actually government, any ex-soldier within onr cor- j^, _i.*ii K- ...ri^j i ,i_. v.. u_ Manny certain privileges upon tbe floor ot the legisla- 't^d which I invoke immediate legislation than that ^me court for a construction ot its meaning, CHICAGO. Bee. 29.W. A. Pinkerton tonight by doing something that made dera shall be quartered[ini an alms house. of the amendment of the general tax laws of the v^idifo.'it" is well known that the intention tortbe purposed making brief explanatory stated that he bad Becured information other states, notably Michigan andlllinois. have remarks,or of answering questions pertaining S^^ri nn"k.^SEE.7nXS it better, bnt changed its appearance: state. Under.these laws, as interpreted by our of' the law is being continually &bued ov wm set worthy examples in this direction.. To you as to the whereabouts of all the money to their work, seems to me in tbe line of utilizing supreme court In its decision of the now celebrated railroad companies. I mean that feature of is accorded tne privilege of giving substantial iifs The ey* resents any little change stolen by tbe Frisco train robbers. The portion the experience of those officers, and com* "Chauncey-Wass case," rendered siace which imposes a tax on new roads of expression to the gratitude which the people of meads itself ta my judgment. not captured in Chicago and Leavenworth place and appearance. I looks for the adjournment of tbe last legislature, and one per centum on cress earnings for the Minnesota feel toward the defenders of tbe Gentlemen ot the Legislature: Permit win -was buried in live different states. lately reaffirmed, though by a divided court, rst three years, two per centum daring the the. same lay-out week by week, and Union, whose heroism and valor from 1861 to Each of thelooatioas has been designated by dosing, to express ths hope tfcattbis legjsmiuie any freeholder is liable to be divested of the title 1865 preserved usa nation. seven years, and three per centum thereis it will not do to trifle with it." Witrock. to his real urooertr thxouch the operation of the The death rollout Ow old aoldjera fells na a result oj the favor shown laths-