M* I *-*-NEWS IN BMEE. The Northwestern Architect' ab Minnr COJ est trips which had ever'been at thai LTVTNG IN THE COUNTRY. -J IW apolis makes an assignment. Thfr Trail To Death. time. The stages ran between- Atchi- 7M Mrs. R. CWilkins, of Northfield, committed We Had been following tte^load son, Kan., and Salt Lake Gity, Holladay suicide by shooting. She' was inr Bfow a Newspaper Man Tried to Bnrgallze One woman, in furs and velvety 'Deports Concerning the Great- Drouth Bast of trail left by four or five immigrant sane. receiving $250,000 for carrying the Another in squalid rags the Mississippi. ^.t- His Own House. wagons for many w^ary mileswhen the, mail between, those two points*. The One rolled by in her stately carriage At Winona, 30 saloons have taken out &. Chicago paper summing op the reportsreceived A journalist, who has been in the ^The other stood on the flasrs. #,1 the $1,000 license. La stages were the thorough-brace Concord guide suddenly halted. What )f a year, with a $100 by it of drouth, prairie fires, ruined $& a rabit of sending his family to the seaihore license, there were ninety saloons, bringing coaches, invariably painted a crops, etc., says there is an area perhaps One woman, alone her carriage wagon trail lending across the great in a revenue to the city of $9,000. each summer to be loaded up with 75,000 square miles.in the northwest By the other a little child bright red, thoroughly equipped for* prairie ocean towards sunset? The Who, watching the prancing horses, where the duat lies heavy upon the earth. A well was sunk near the residence of Ii/. service and drawn by four spanking aialaria and eaten up by mosquitoes, wheels had crushed flower and blossom Looked up in her face and smiled. The district is bounded by Madison on the F.Scott at Albert Lea, and when afe a horses, the whole making an imposing ietermined this year to try the country north, Bloomington on the south. Lake depth of ninety-five feet gas enough escaped with their iron tiresthe iron-shod feet She stooped to her boy and kissed.hirn'. spectacle. Michigan on the east, and the Mississippi to produce a flame? and soon it had increased orands of these articles, and consemently And crave him a hoarded crust had turn up the creeping vines The accommodations of stage travel river on the west. It is within the limits of so that a blaze over a foot in took a house in the suburbs, The other had just left costly blooms and sweet grassesthe wagons had these boundaries that the vegetation has offered by Mr. Holladay were of the height was made. A pipe was run into Where her one son lay in dust. where city taxes and country roads lost its normal color and the earth its Mr. Scott's house and a rqom brilliantly very best. The horses" were without groaned and complained as they ascended -t4 moisture. In southern Wisconsin there lighted with the gas. This was the first ^One, back to her darkened mansion, iielp to keep the inhabitants from being exception fine, spirited animals, and and descended the sharp swells $$j Wealth can not hold death at bay? are thousands of acres where corn will not house in the state to be lighted with natu the stages were the .best that could be JOO blissfully happy. He moved out One, back to the hut wueie labor yield a ueck to the acre. Wells have run That was all. But no! Itf^ !|l ral gas. procured. The stages were run on Brought bread for the coming day* last week, and for three days he made dry, and in some towns water famines are At Hasting, Lewis Van Inwegen & Son What of the peoplethe'brave men ifM uniform time. The end of the route imminent. Typhoid is- becoming more ihe bulk of his friends weary with his Perhaps, as over the sands of lite, have made an assignment to L. S. Follett ft prevalent and dysentary and other stomach was Placerviile. Nevada, and it was to acci-s who were daring hunger, thirst, Time's great tide ebbs and flows, for the benefit of their creditors. rhapsodies on the beauties of life in the disturbances are so common in some this point that Horace Greeley was More fates among us are equal dent and the Indian's thirst for blood Mr, Blaine has gone to Cork, whence ha places as to be almost epidsmic. Dnlsssrain jountry where the grass grows green Than their outward seeming shows. hastening to deliver his lecture when will return to Dublin. to reach new homes under the shadow sip falls before many days, the suffering All the Tear Bound. and the birds and bullfrogs make the Hank Monk, the famous- stage-dr.ver will be greatly augmented. Hundreds of I. Seligman of East Saginaw, Mich it of the Rockies? What of the stouthearted of western romance, who was driving lir musical day and night where the cows are being killed and shipped to market worth $5,000,000. Recently he went tc wives who were clinging to 1 THE LATE BEN HOLLADAY. along a fearful precipice at an alarm" for a mere pittance. Added to all the miseries the Long Branch races with* $50 and. cam* sherryu trees tempt the wayfarer and rii icnip in wayiare an a them through perilot the children IK attending the heat and drouth is the them through perilo the children ingly rapid gait, called to the affrighted back with $618. the bulldogs warn him against falling whose eyes opened wondronsly wide at %V constant fear of tires. The tall grass of the Incidents of Early Stage-Coach Days journalist, who had stuck his head Mrs. Harvey Willis, of Oswego, N. YM nto temntatSOn.. temptatson Alll Al this and niucH prairie is dead, the fields are ready to burst the immensity to t tho prairie ^oiVin!? Wa though ntO nnrl ronMi Hm Imwinn^tx, tt W Knl, -C^ In Colorado. out of the window to protest: "Keep beat her mother Mrs. Raulinson. so badly more has been discoursed until his into flame, and leaves he inheapsinthe of them with a chill as we halted Here ^^fM that she died. your seat, Mr. Greely, I'll get you to There is much that is remarkable in forest. In some towns the people are friends girded up their loins and fled at the wagons had halted as well. A halt Placerviile in time!" Forest fires broke out in the vicinity oi often called on three or four times a day Ben Holladay's history, says a Denver his approach. To-day. however, he two hours before sunset, without wood NeiUsville, Wis., and are causing eonsidera to hght the flames. Destrnctive firea have Holladay ran the stage from 1861 same to the office and his usual budget paper, and a great deal that is of interest or water at hand meantdanger. What -$& ble damage. been raging for many days at Kenosha,. until 1867. When the Union Pacific of country news was not opened on the danger? The horses had pawed the Racine and Walwoith counties, in Wisconsin. to Coloradoans. as Mr. Holladay is Gen. George Curtis Lee. president' of th road was finished to Cheyenne he found Thousands of acres have been swept Dontrary, he sat down at his desk and ground in a nervous way as they stood Washington and Lee university of Virginia, the man who brought the first stagecoach himself out of business, so he took a by the flamub, ind the loss* to farmers-in neve neverr a word snnlrpe spok he to nnwrtTio. anyone The the oldest son of the late Gen. Robert E, there. The five or si :x men ha-d assembled a word hfit.r* TI,o -U great deal of his money and began Tu X, UJ to Denver and occupied very hay, grain, fencing and buildings is vory Lee, is dangerously ill. Bity editor, fearing that something had together on a knoll for consultation. building a railroad from San Francisco great. Above Madison the logs are burning ^..j ~x.Louiusl happened to him, came to him and in Jerry Pagels, a St. murderern sen The grass which their feet had ocli. orach the some rank in the early days lloJ fiercely, and the pungent smoke hangs Iura to Portland. At one time it is estimated kindly tones beseeched him to unbosom tenced to hang committed suicike in his that railroad presidents occupy now. pressed to earth had not yet recovered over the country for miles around. The that Holladay must have been cell. himself. With a sigh the journalist Northern Illinois fires are so numerous Ben Holladay was bluff old fellow, its position. Which way had their gaze himselyf worth $5,000,000. He devoted Prof. Thomas Baldwin of Sanfrau sue that the farmers have plowed the ground 3aid: "You know I've moved into the nearl been turned? To the south! What had rery hearty with his friends and very thte to the object of developingl Pacific cessfully repeated his feat of jumping from about their buildings in order to check the country." The city editor groaned, os they seen! Indiansthe dark-skinned blunt with those not fortunate enough coast, and soon lost a great deal of his a balloon in mid-air to the earth by the spreading of ths flames. for he knew it only too well. "You see race of hatershuman beings who glory connection Betweeh wit aid of his patent parachute. It is estimated moneey"i8n railroaa ,schemes. to have secured his good will. He had IVe been so stuck on the place that in having the hearts of tigers. Five I 186e9l that at least 30,000 people witnessed tht tlie th years and 1872 he lost nearly I've staid over there every night until many of the eccentricities which seem }he Terrible Drouth in Illinois. jump. His fall is estimattd at 1,100 feet, sixseven men againsthow many? ^7_ th ei last night, when I had some business Chicago Special The effects of thedrouth occupying one minute and twenty-four seconds,and to be natural with rich men who* be natural with rich men whose Later on we put the number at fifty. the building of the Oregon railroad. in Chir,igo ucre noticeable in many small he landed in shallow water in the that called me into town. I went and Fifty, painted, yelling, shrieking war- careers have sprung from small beginnings. v* He secured from the government between fires, but they convey no idea of the condition bay. finished what I had to do as quickiv as riorsnot a drop of pity in any heart He could be very arbitary with of things in the country immediately $260,000- and $400,000 for carrying possible, and took the 10 o'clock train not a feeling of mercy in any bosom. Three firemen were instantly killed and surioundingthe city. Never before have the his employes if the fit seized him, and the mails beteen Atchison and for home. I reached the station in four badly injured at St. Louis by falling They had caught sight of the whitetopped farmeis and residents of the suburbs suffered Salt Lake. When compelled to give again he could requite a favor in a walls. The dead are Barney McKernan, about twenty minutes. Now the road so from the heat and dry weather. All wagons, and were coming up up the stage business he settled in California Frank McDonald,Chris Hoell. The injured generous, whole-souled fashion which around the vegetables of the small gardeners to my house is through a little woods, from the Southtigers after human and there erected one of the are James O'Brien, fatally Jacob Feldtman, have been killed. All along the railroad made him a lion among these by whom around a cornfield, and accross two V/^ blood. severely William Zimmerman, severely tracks tbepiairies are on fire, and grandest mansions on the Pacific coast. meadows. It is a beautiful daylight be was reared. He was one of those Mat De Fore, Blightly. What did the pioneers say among Ever since he lost his money, which ,residents ol the suburbs are called out at road, but about the worst after-dark men who seem to take a grim delight themselves? On how many cheeks did The first vessel ever built on Lake Superior, happened some years ago, Holladay all houis of the day and night to extinguish pathway you ever came across. I was in surprising people and who do the the sunburn of the prairie give place to was launched at Baraga, near Marquette.in the flames when they threaten the had been planning to complete his all right until I struck the woods, and the presence of thousands. She will the paleness of anxiety and fear? They barns and houses. At Western Spring a most unexpected things at the most unexpected railroad to Portland. When he became though the moon was shining, the place carry 1,200,000 lumber, and will load at valuable gi ove of oung trees has been gathered together away from the wagonsthey momeuts. He was often involved, he deeded the remnant of his once, making one trip before getting her was as dark as a pantry. I got in so far completely destroyed and the neighboring talked in low tonesthey affable and occasionally he was bearish, property to his brother, and when in spars. that it was impossible to retrace my step. dwellings were only saved by the greatest sought to hide their fears from those the course ot time his brother refused efforts on the pait of the villagers. Along just as all men are who are as heavily The natives, I understand, use lanterns Postofflces discontinued: Minnesota: they loved. the Rock Island road things were even to restore it to him, Holladay demanded Cleai field, Stevens county. Name changed in their after-dark peregrinations, and, burdened with business cares as he And what of the women and children? worse. Fences all along the line of the restitution in the courts and received Dakota: Brookfield, Moody county, to as the cigar store signs sav, so will I in was. road are on hre, and the air is constantly Faces turned whiter than the Trent. Fourth-class postmasters ap- therefrom three-fourths of what he had the future but last night Idid not know tilled with the smoke of the burning prairie Like most of his class, he was a bold pointedDakota. Ferry, C. J. Newhouser snows of the New Yearlips quivered deeded away this custom, and I went stumblinoon, grass. At South Knslewood every one speculator, and would take almost any Rio, J. Buchanan Sogu, N. E. Slinds Argaville, with emotionlimbs trembled as the In 1864 and 1865, Holladay lost great was called out ol church recently to fight keeping in the path by the aid of a M. R. Claney, Colvin, H. H. Standish. risk where he thought there was a mind recalled stories of blood and cruelty. the fne, and when the male residents numbers of horses, mules, "stages, stations, few matches I had in my Docket. I chance of making anything. Altogether, And in each wagon some one were in the city, the ladies of the village hay and grain by the ravages of finaUy reached the cornfield" and then A new seeret organization known as the those who knew Mr. Holladay had to turn out and extinguish the flames. knelt and prayed to God to extend His the war between the Sioux and Chevenne I walked mto a ditch. I extricated "Brotherhood," in many respects similar in Denver in the carlv days remember Cattle are actually sunering for want of hand of protection. Indians. At this time it is estimated to the Knights of Labor, has been formed myself and proceeded on my journey, water and stand for hours lowing their hini as a kindly, eccentric man, fond of And now the wagons move on. For that he lost one half a million and has grown to considerable proportions and after several adventures with inquisitive distrebs. At Washington Heights water a joke, and always willing to help along a tune it is in close order, with the in New England. The organization does dollars clear. He immediately put a has been so scarce that it has been sold for cows I reached my home. anv worthy public scheme. brave husbands between danger and not believe in strikes, but uses the ballot five cents a pail and found a ready markat. claim before congress for that "amount, Now, thought I, as I put my key in the It is concluded, however, by those and co-operative institutions as weapons their loved ones. Then there is an accidenta but never received anything to conipea*sate door, my troubles are over. Alas, who knew him best, although there of warfare. It also asks that the government death-a somothing to cause him for his loss. Holladav had they had only just begun. It was a obtain possession by purchase of all was much that was remarkable in Ben S alarm, and the alarm soon becomes a been interested in one of the Pacific new key and a new lock, and they The Fires in Michigan. the telegraphs, telephones and railroads. Eolladay's history, there was l.ttle that Foi est fires are reported panic Heaven help them now! The steamship lines, and in a great many dispatch- Special had never met before, and did not take John Clay, the only remainiug son of was itself remarkable about the man. horses are pushed to a trotnow to a other large concerns in and about the lrom many points in Michigan, At to each other on first acquaintance. Henry Clay, died at his farm near Lexington, The greatness in which riches envelop gallopnow they are running in mad Pacific coast. Grand Haven 1,400 acres back of the Ky. After dinner he went out to superintend I worked away for a quarter of an a man was rather thrust upon him than cemeteiy were burned over, and the fire is excitement, urged by the whips of the repairs on a pump. While giving hour without results, and determined Holladay street in this city was named otherwise. He began his career in a still raging southeast of the city. Fires drivers and the shouts of the Indians. instructions to the workmen he fell after Ben Holladay, because of the to ring the bell but there is no bell, so are reported as very bad around Burch's most propitious time for men to make dead of heart disease. Mr. Clay wa3 sixtyseven We know how it will end. The night stage office which was situated at the I pounded away until I awakened mill near Cedar Springs. At Coleman the years old. He had no children. He money. He was so situated that he is coming down now, and we go into charcoal khns and a lot of wood were corner of Fifteenth and that street. every person in the neighboring was married about twenty years ago. had every opportunity to make it and camp. One night more will make no burned. In the vacinity of Cheboygan, The old barn where the stages were houses and every dog for twenty miles his would have been a densely stupid An order was issued from the war department difference with the skeletons lying on valuable pine, fences and bains kept were located in the block now ocpied around. My folks, however, slept the relieving Maj. Daniel J. Bash mental orgaims indeed had he not followed have been destroyed. Fire at Garden the grass two or three miles away. by the post office on Lawrence the sleep of the just. Then I tried the from duty until further orders, and directing City, a village in Big Bay de Noque, recently, up his advantage as far as it led The wolves have been there each night him to return to his home. Ma]. Bash, street. windows, all commendably locked aud destroyed the hotel and livery stable aim. for a week. it will be remembered, is the army paymaster of Robert A. MacDonald and six other barred. Then I scaled the gate and It is claimed that two men largely who was robbed of $7,350 belonging buildings. A fortunate change of wind We All Know Him. tried the summer kitchen. Locked, identified with the early interests of to the United States while on his way saved the business part of the town. Fires too. In my despair I broke a pane of The sun is an hour high as we reach to Fort McKinrey, Wyo., to pay off the Is there a newspaper editor living the new west were the making of Ben are raging in the northern pait of Kern glass in the sash next to the door, and troops stationed there last March. It is the spot. Here is an acre of ground county. At Sand Lake the fire got into Holladay that they simply put the who can listen to this sort of a thing understood that paymaster Bash is thrust my hand through the aperture on which a curse may ever rest. Here the pine slashing, and for some time came plastic clay into his hands, that he had for an hour and a half without wanting relieved from duty until the amount is and slipped the bolt. I entered, but, near devouring the village. The woods the wagons were headed offhere the intelligence enough to mould it and made good to the government, as this is to commit murder? A traveling gasbag, an fields in every direction about Cedar alas! only to find that the main kitchen husbands and sons made the fisrht which Eashion from it a thing that brought the custom in the army in case there is a 'Springs are on fire, and pretty much every,?ibody who should be branded. 'This door was impregnable. Sadly I retraced men make when the last hope is gone deficit in a pay officer's accounts. His him monumental wealth in days"to is engaged in fighting the flames, trying my steps and went into the yard and and despair comes like a dark cloud. is a Bore," bounces in on you when bondsmen will be held responsible unless come. That he failed to keep these to save farm property. Fire broke out amused myself and enraged the two relief is secured from congress. Onetwofourfiveall the wagons in the pineries near Grandville, and there the printers are clamoring for copy, enormous sums of money, and that he million dogs that belong around our are here, but broken and useless. The is danger of the village burning up. Fires became in time almost utterly bankrupt The police of Chicago think they have and there is no copy. part by heaving bricks at my wife's are also burning in the marshes near the bloated and half-devoured bodies of the discovered a clue to the motives leading only serves to demonstrate the The bore helps you out by saying city. St. Ignace was threatened with d. bedroom window. Peacefully she slept horses are here. The bodies of men, to the horrible murder of William Campbell, fact that the spirit of the age had taken struction, but a change in the wind saved a wealthy cattle man who was brutMy on. Then I went to the front door "Just ran in to tell you a capital littie women and children areno! You possession of him. the town. murdered at McPherson, Kan. again and kicked all the paint off it. thing I heard at a dinner party last cannot call a skeleton a body. You He was a genius and a beuefactor, The free delivery system has been ordered When I had bruised my feet sufficientlv night, and as soon as I heard it I nudged cannot say that this bundle of cleanpicked inasmuch as he was progressive. It to be established at Janesville, Wis., the A. West Virginia Traged). the good lady awoke and let me in. I my wife and said to her, Til tell bones was a man or women. can not be said of him that his vast bervice to commence Oct. 1. At Point Pleasant, W. Va., for some talked for awhile, and then she said: Brown that to-morrow and he can put They are all here. Not a soul escaped. sums of money were allowed to lie and months past Amos and Bradley Townsend, At Butte, Mont., W. P. Schuale, an old It a blessed thing that the children it in his paper. I often tell him little Over the ghastly acre is strewn the rust unused. The millions that he cousins, has both been paying attention Philadelphian, shot himself dead. He had are asleep and can not hear such awful garments of the deadthe contents of things like that to help him out.' No, once owned were kept in active circulation, to Mibs Eunice Laidley. Each lover had lost $700 on Butte horse races and other language.' the wagons. In the circle about the thanks, old fellow no, thanks. It ain't begged her to accept him and to discard gambling, and in despair ended his life. and for that reason the world wagons are blood-spots on the grass. much trouble, and you can do me a the other. Recently both were at Miss is better that Ben Holladay was once a The following pensions have been grant "lam perfectly sure that every man, Laidley's home, and finally she declared Those pioneers did not die without revenge. good turn some dayl eh? Course you ed: Minnesota Widow J. B. Kinsley, rich man. woman, and child in the neighborhood that they should "draw' straws to decide But when the last one had Owatonna, original, A. Kenasten, Smith's can. old boy. There are those, perhaps, who will has me down as a thoroughly-abandoned who should become her husband. This Mills G. P. Reed, Bird Island R. Chisholm, fallen, what shouts of victory! What "Do you know I think I was born bear some yet tenderer memories of was agreed to, and Bradley Townsend won person, and I suppose a committee St. Paul H. Conrad, Kustar M. yells for vengeance! What a feast, for for an editor, Brown? Blamed if I the lady's hand. Amos at once withdrew this erstwhile hero of the famous Overland from the church will call and condole Keogh, Cordova P. Kearns, Minneapolis. tomahawk and scalping-knife! The and started for home, leaving his successful don't. Wisconsin: J. M. Menor, Eau stage line. Little is now known with my wife to-day. What makes wolves hiding away in the shadows of rival with the girl on the por:h. A lew Claire M. H. Sherman, Eau Claire N. "Lots of folks have wondered whv I in Denver of Ben Holladay's family me mad," he concluded, "is the certainty yon grove must have heard the shrieks minutes nftcr Amos' departure the report Lamphere, Kekoskee, A. C. Cole. Wilton didn't take up a journalistic instead of relations, which may have been somewhat that, while I could not get into of a gun rang out, and Bradley Townsend of affrightthe calls for mercythe E. Cheeseboro, Badger Mills L. H. Nichel, a business career. That's what they broken up when, some years a^o, the blamed place, the first burglar that was horrors-tricken to find that his sweetheart New London N. B. Hood, Lone Rock. prayers to God. The vultures sailing have! I've got the journalistic instinct Mrs. Holladay went to Europe to reside comes along will have no difficulty in had fallen dead with abulletthrough Dakota. E. Burnham, Millville, H. Deney. over-head must have quickened their in me so big I can't keep out of newspaper ,her heart. Amos, who is undoubtly the with her two daughters, whom she Jr., Florence: A. J. Dickenson, Huron. making his entrance and wandering wings as the horrible din of slaughter i ssassm has not since been seen. offices to save mv neck. But married to German counts after the unmolested all through the house. Capt. W. F. Marshall, United reached their ears. about this little thing I heard at the most approved fashion, which even the Philadelphia fall. States engineer, recommends the following dinnerparty. Blamed if it ain't rich. wives of the bonanza kings of the present The following patents have been issued: appropriations: Twenty thousand i That's what it is! No chestnut about dollars for Kenosha harbor, day cannot excel. Mrs. Holhday Wisconsin- H. E. Andersou, Chetek, stovepipe And we ride on. What use to tramp Sincerely. thimble, W. De Brock,Milwaukee,pneumatic Wis. $10,000 for Racine, Wis.^ it. You know that Mr.oh, what's his is said to have queened it for a time in over this hell-spot in search of name? valve operating mechanism for hydraulic ^\ff& 1 $32,000 for Milwaukee harbor $200,000 Her little note Is folded neat name? Hanged if 1 ever could remember Europe, just as Mrs. Mackay does today, Of what use to dig a grave for these for harbor of refuge at Milwaukee bay, and elevators J. T. Greenwood, Beloitfire (Rough linen Is a dainty sheet), names. But you know him. Wears but her judgment in the" matter of bones? What to the world away beyond 200,000 for the improvement of the Fox extinguisher R. D. Whittemore, Chip, glasses sometimes, and is a little bald. And ere she signed her name she wrote, the choice of titled husbands for her and Wisconsin rivers, Wis. Of the Fox pewa Falls, halter. Dakota: G. E. Nichols, the mighty prairie that a few What is his name? I've heard it fifty daughters proved but ill-advised, as "Sincerely yours." river he says that the mills during the period Sioux Falls, snow excavator and automatic more of its millions have diedor how, of lpw water take more ihan the surplus times. You'd know it if vou heard it. dunper J. B. Winn, Watertonn, both Ben Holladay's daughters died of I know that you will tritely say or when. But we mutter a curse upon water from the pools above the Appleton I know you would. Well, he told the broken hearts, their royal husbands {lifting jack. She signs her letters every day, the human devils, and we utter silent and Menasha dams, thus reducing story and hanged if he didn't rtell it i A statement prepared ,at the treasury proving little more than fortune seekers. To friends and aunts (my rivals, two), prayers to God for the victims.Detroit the levels of Lake Winnebago and littla department shows that the cost of the well, too. Yes, he did. Isn't his name At one time Holladay brought his ''Sincerely yours." Free Press. Lake Butte des Morts, making navigation I silver bullion purchased by the treasury Hargrave? Seems like it is. "I'm sure aristocratic sons-in-law to"America and precarious. The evil is increasing, and if I know you'll say the phrase is old, 'for the coinage of silver dollars during the it begins with an H.' I'll tell you it cannot be checked the improvement ol gave them employment, but this Not lovineno, but rather cold [fiscal year ended June 30, 18S7. was Superstitions About Funerals. the river should not continue. where he stays. He's mauager or And yet 1 think she really meant proved rather an unsatisfactory proceeding, .{$34,503,615, while the cost of the bullion It is bad luck to whistle or hum the something or other or bookkeeper or and it is thought that the old "Sincerely yours." delivered on purchases was 24,649,342. Good rains have checked the Wisconsin may-be it's silent partner in the firm air that a band plays at a funeral. The cost of the silver bullion consumed in man was glad enough to pay their passage forest fires. And it has given courage to me the dollar coinage during the same period ofofhang it! What is that firm's back to Germany in order to get To ask if she'll consent to be, If two persons think and express the At Melrose, Mont., Z. C. Maddaux, a [was $25,349,274, and the number of silver During our brief terrestial trip, */_ name? Blamed if I couldn't kick myself rid of them. prominent merchant got into an altercation same thought at the same time, one of dollars coined was 33,266,831. Sincerely mine! for" with 0. A. Clayton and Charles Powers, them will die before the year passes. Tears ago Ben Holladay kept a little r-v^ I Life. The following pensions have been grantfed: ranchmen. A shootii.g ensued in You wish in the depth of your heart If two young girls are combing the \Jf^ grocery store in western Missouri In DakotaS. Hacket, Athol J. W. which Maddaux was fatally shot through It Had Gone. l' that he would kick himself clear down hair of a third at the same time, it may fact, it is claimed by some that ft was untoon, Case J. N. Templeman, Miller. the body by Clayton. Powers was shot stairs you'd like to kick him so far into MinnesotaWidow of S. Alexander, Watfcrville. through the hand. be taken for granted that the youngest not groceries which he sold, but bad He sat on a log on the banks of an 35fc Original: Z. B. Stilhvell, Lake space that he'd never get back of the three will soon die. Missouri whisky. However this may Three persons were fined in Washington Arkansas creek, when a traveler came ity, S. Alexander, Waterville. C. Winzer, again. But, ten to one he's one ol for swearing. If at the cemetary there be any unusual have been, Holladay was a good-natur- uron Lake, H. Jarvais, Henderson F. along and saluted: ordinary kind of country merchant those kind of fellows you have to treat ed delay in burying the dead, caused A test was made at the Edison electric [reeney, Minneapolis, S. Popin, St. Paul- fMi civilly, and so he rambles on and oo "Good-day, mister. Waiting for a by any unlooked-for circumstances, R. Smart, Shingle Creek J. Rouleau, St. light works St. Paul, of using petroleum for "whom every boby liked and who was to the bitter end.TidBits. raul- such as the tomb being too smalt to hold **jfc&i fuel and the result was quite satisfactory, not a bad fellow by any means. In the *'#MWjA'W8 the coffin, it is a sign that the deceased A barrel of oil was used to get up steam in year 1858 circumstances and the voice Post offices established: DakotaApilegate, "Ihat just what I am waiting for," two boilers, and fifty pounds was secured :|IM^ Moonlight in Dakota. of a friend called -.,7.m hi further west,v^d an is selecting a companion from among two boilers, thad an hftv thirtnonnda traa K^nro/d I "Le __,-. Campbell county. Fourth-class was thteareply. &$$(?^- in less time pounds in two an Go flat-boat up stream he soon became concerned in the government those present, and one oi the mourner^ ostmasterss appointed DakotaFair-urn, &mA. Dakota young lady was visiting a ,4 one-half tons oi coal. The oil is ejected G.O.Sanderson. !WisconsinBensitHlle, purchases of flour, which was to into the firebox by steam in an atomized friend in the east who had^ visited her if^'No. sir, I'm a government engineer. F. Bensit Owen, Nellie E. MarshallWuertsburg, iis supply Johnson's army at Fort Bridges spray, making a very hot fire. It Congress has appointed #48.000 in Dakota last summer. |J?/AJ^1|^ F. F. Wiengand. Monta- claimed that there is a saving of twenty to in the days of the Mormon war. Here jjsEJfrfc.i A Thoughtful Pa. to improve this river, and I'm waiting naPiperstone springs, G. Paul ^You don't know how I miss our sums"oas e. moneso it is bcalled. twenty-five per cent, in the cost of fuel be- he made large buy lif for a rise so I can find the stream. S^Count ForUtnehunterNow that we i A noted crookcalled "Russian Frank" was sides labor and time lovely Dakota moonlight," said the AV nnrl i furr jaa great deal. It was here he How long since you saw anythin* of (hot at and captured by a St. Paul policeJnan. c are married never more to part, I if nS The Rev.i.W. W. Dowley of Gloversville', territorial maiden. 3t ra jj i ,"-*-v ---i---:r About $90 in gold and silver and it?"Wall Street News. ver tt want to ask you if it was not a great N. Y., Holladay'.s ggJJ mone ,*U^, J? I860, when Uveral drills were found on his person. thi an( '..ZJnfV^f"? i J^f e th i.v"" 'Don't you think the moon is as nice pastorate a ate of the Woodland Park Baptist T IPCA _I. TT struggle for you to give up your luxurious jr Spencer was called and found that the here as at your home?" asked her I church., St. Paul, will begin his labors with Sour Mash. tJ. ban had been shot in the mouth, the bulpt church. ,...i *v..... Sabbata o.w. ,-_ o*.- mend, Maj. Kussell Waddell, became home and become the wife of a friend. this the first in Septem "Maudie, dear, how did you enjoy taking a downward couse and lodging seriously involved,"he sold the Overland ber. a comparatively poor man, yon "Oh, it isn't half so lovelv. You his neck. He was taken to the county the affair?" asked Susie, as they were express between the Missouri ought to see itit's perfectly "elegant Four boys, whose ages ranged from know. ail. He had first been engaged in blowing river and Salt Lake, of which he was fourteen to eighteen years, and a returning from the church picnic and makes it almost as light as day." jp a safe in Minneapolis. BrideOh, I went through that colored man were corralled at St. Paul the originator, to Ben Holladay, who "I did see it last summer and it didn't **Oh! it was just too lovelv." struggle long before I meet you. Pa |The corner stone of the State School at One of the boys acted as spokesman, and from that time on became prominently seem to me to be uny brighter than it Jwatonna, for indigent childern, was laid advised me to marry. "Why I thought it was jast horrid. said they were from Whelling, W. Va. and known as its proprietor and manager. is here." It Owatonna, with appropriate ceruonies. were on their way to the plains, where "WhatP'J What did you do to have such a 2ood The first trirp Holladar made he left *u*j uw no le UD,, well,, lasCsummerr Of course ilt 6' theo theo could could killl Indians Indians and and buffalo buffalo to to then then time?" -""Ssgh lu "Ob well last?summe of course i ,"V"'' "The piace^rf|gaged for twice hearts content. Thy had informed *ort .Leavenworth, an ambulance, wasn't but yon ought to see it thiysum JLwi Seymour and Mrs. Henry, who 'I dealt orut the lemonade," replied its value, and pa baa to borrow money thatt St Paull was besieged by hostife in- making the trip to Saltt Lake in six nrr iqped from Janesville have reached CanVli. was besieged bv hostile In- making the trio to Lake in six r mer sinc* sinoe the h^m ,f ^i^^ boom struck our place! Maudie. tohmd on to it unjal a#er the wedding. dians, and had come to offer their services, seven days, by the assistance of the :n safety. $ ^-^ft&gjggg Itisfiftv percent brighter. were on thi soar Pa 1*1^ government officersron- -of the quick- BeU. 4it Journal. i OmahA