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Kange Big Creek
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Rosebud S D
On leftside
Horses branded
same on left hip or
shoulder
Range on Horse
Creek
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John H Hani an
Brownlee Neb
Also and
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Horses on left
shoulder
Uunge Goose Creek
and iortli Louo
Marshall Wblfenden
Kennedy Neb
Some a on the left
nin
Horses S on left
shoulder
Brand is small
Earmark Quarter
clip behind half cir
cle forward on leit ear
Range Lone Tree
Lake
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Louis F Richards
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Charles Richards
OioiTinian Neb
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Brownlee Neb
Also some below
leit hin
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Range Kissels
Ranch
Thomas Farren
Rosebud S D
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side or hip
F on left
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Antelope
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Wheeler Bros
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Range on the Snake
River and Ghambei
Iain flat
Louis J Richards
Merriman Neb
Cliarles H Faulhaber
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Paul Didier
Rosebud S D
Horses
Cattle hole in
each ear
Ranee Bie and
Little White Rivers
Brownlee Nebr
Either richtorleft
side on cattle
Horses same on
left shoulder
Left ear cut off of
cattle
Range Loup river
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Charles C Tackett
2 f bWAB
Rosebud 3 D
Range head of An
telope near St Marys
mission
Horses branded
on left thigh
William F Schmidt
W - ft I
S H Ivimmel
Rosebud S D
Also B4U on left
side
Cattle undercut on
both ears
Horses branded 4
on left shoulder
Range ou Antelope
and Spring Creeks
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John DeCory
Rosebud S D
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on Antelope Creek
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WORLDS YIELD Or GTTSTN
Deficiency in the Wheat Crop Will Be
50000ODO Bushels
Following is an abstract of the monthly
report of the Agricultural Department on
the European crop situation summarizing
ilie reports of European correspondents
to Statistician Hyde
Recent information -while it may in
some cases modify the crop estimates for
particular countries does not essentially
change the situation as regards the defi
ciency in the principal cereal crops of Eu
rope The outlook for wheat in the Aus
tralasian colonies continues good but the
prospects in Argentina are somewhat less
bright owing to drouth and frosts Ac
counts from India are quite favorable
both as to the Kharif crops harvested oi
to be harvested this fall and as to the
seeding of the Rabi crop to be harvested
next spring which latter includes the
wheat crop
The annual estimate of the worlds
wheat and rye crop issued by the Hunga
rian ministry of agriculture gives the
following revised results for 1897 com
pared -with 1896 Wheat production im
porting countries 800771000 bushels for
1897 886639000 for 1896 exporting
countries 1897 1341S06000 1896 1
452902000 total wheat production of
both importing and exporting countries in
1897 2142577000 in 1896 2339541
000 net deficit in 1S97 202895000 1896
130534000
The worlds rye crop is put down by the
same authority as follows 1897 1163
457000 bushels 1S90 1203185000 bush
els
Against the net deficit of approximately
203000000 bushels of wheat estimated by
the ministry they estimate that there is a
residue of from 145000000 to 170000
000 bushels out of former crops leaving in
round numbers from 58000000 down to
33000000 bushels as the quantity by
which it would be necessary to curtail
consumption if these estimates should
prove to be correct It is of course quite
likely that under the influence of high
prices consumption will be curtailed by
more than this amount and that existing
stocks will not be reduced to near the
point of complete exhaustion
Extremely pessimistic reports as to the
extent of the crop failure in Europe have
been circulated but the liberal quantities
coming forward for shipment have led
dealers bo receive such reports with incre
dulity It is probable however that much
of the Russian grain going to western
European markets is out of the more lib
eral harvests of former years and there
is evidence tending to show that the crop
of 1S97 is at any rate considerably below
the average
The markets of Europe Avill apparently
be inadequately supplied with good clear
barley suitable for malting purposes com
plaints on this score being common among
growers in large parts of Germany Austria-Hungary
and other countries includ
ing the province of Ontario in Canada
in which such barley is usually an impor
tant product
The European potato crop is apparently
a short one and the fruit crop is also de
ficient
Consul Eugene Germain of Zurich
Switzerland after an investigation of the
European fruit prospect expresses the
opinion that there will be a good market
for American apples and dried fruits this
season if growers will be careful to put
up choice stock only
He says Nothing smaller than eighties
in French prunes will pay to ship to Eu
rope and all other dried fruit must be uni
form in size and attractively packed
LONDONS NEW MAYOR
Something About the Successor of Sir
George Faudel Phillips
Horatio David Davies the new iord
Mayor of London was born in that city
in 1S42 He is a son of H D Davies of
the Avard of Bishopsgate city of London
and -was educated at Dulwich College
He has Served as lieutenant colonel of the
Third Middlesex artillery volunteers was
HOKAT10 DAVID DAVIS
sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1SS7
and was an alderman representing Bish
opsgate in 18S9 Mr Davies is a jus
tice of the peace for the county of Ivent
He unsuccessfully contested Rochester in
1SS9 was returned for the same borough
in 1S92 but was unseated on petition At
the last general election Mr Davies de
feated R H Cox liberal by 5S3 votes
He began life as an engravers appren
tice
pipi phi
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siti
There will be at least seventy five bats
men in the 300 class
Delehanty fell off amazingly in his bat
ting the latter part of the season
St Louis succeeded in linishin
about 25 games lower than
o J HO I
any other
club
Indoor baseball will flourish again in
Chicago tliis winter Dahlen Pfeffer
Lon- Griffith Parker and Ryan are a
few of the stars at this work
Milwaukee has had a very profitable
season It is said the profits -were 25
000 a good tribute to the excellent man
agement of Connie Mack
McGraw and Collins are undoubtedly
the finest third basemen in the business
when it comes down to a question of field
ing bunts says the Baltimore Herald
Young Callahan of Chicago has ripen
ed into one of the finest all round players
in the country In fact it may -ell be
doubted if he has au equal on the diamond
in playing all nine positions
Frnnk Donohues victory in the last St
Louis game was worth 300 to him Chris
Von der Ahe held out that sort of reward
to him Every Brown played ball to save
the sorrel topped twirler and sate him
thex did
DEATH IN A THEATER
FIVE KILLED IN A CINCINNATI
PLAYHOUSE
Ceiling Falls in Robinsons Opera
House and Wild Panic Follows
Frenzied Spectators Rusli Frantic
ally for the Exits Children Injured
Hugh Roof Truss Falls
The falling of the ceiling in Robinsons
opera house Friday evening gave Cincin
nati almost a repetition of the horrible
accident of 76 when the cry of lire in
the same opera house caused a stampede
in the audience and over 100 persons
were crushed to death Friday evening
the Holden Brothers Comedy Company
was producing Dangers of a Great City
and the curtain had just been rung up on
the second act when there was an omin
ous cracking heard all over the house A
moment later the house was in total dark
ness and 200 persons who had been seat
ed in the orchestra chairs were submerg
ed in a mass of plaster and fallen tim
bers The list at the hospital shows five
dead and twenty six more or less seri
ously injured In addition to these a large
number probably twenty five or thirty
were so slightly injured as to be able to
walk Iiome
The ceiling of the theater was in the
shape of a dome which was formed by
rafters rising from walls of the theater
aud joined in the center of the ceiling by
a circular bar of iron This bar was
fastened to the roof of the house by iron
rafters the whole forming the inside shell
of the theater This whole mass was pre
cipitated upon the heads of the 200 spec
tators The preliminary cracking and a
slight shower of loose plaster gave a short
warning being enough however to en
able many to get under the seats and
thus save themselves
Trampled Upon in the Rush
The gallery balcony and dress circle
-were untouched but the occupants of
these fearing that the worst was yet to
come rushed from the building and many
were crushed and trampled upon as they
attempted to get out Those who escaped
severe injury in the orchestra made a rush
for the stage which soon became a mass
of struggling humanity entangled in the
ropes and stays of the scenery which had
fallen upon the stage The cries of those
trying to escape and the moans and pray
ers of the injured were heartrending The
actors lied from the theater in their stage
clothes and escaped injury
All the lights in the theater were extin
guished by the breaking of the main elec
tric wire In five minutes 1he patrol
wagons and as many fire engines and lad
der companies were surrounding the the
ater and a howling mob was rushing
about interfering with the work of rescue
While the excitement was at its height
and men were cursing and women scream
ing in their frantic endeavor to escape
there came another crash It was the en
tire ceiling tearing away from the rafters
and tumbling down upon the masses of
struggling humanity It sounded like a
terrible whirlwind The noise was heard
for a square around and hundreds rushed
to the front of the theater but were met
and driven back across the street by the
streams of people rushing from the in
side Hundreds were crushed under foot
Cause of the Disaster
Among the first who entered the build
ing after the dome had fallen was Presi
dent George W Rapp of the Cincinnati
Chapter American Institute of Archi
tects
It was not that dome said he point
ing to the huge heap in the center of the
floor that caused the trouble The fault
lies with the roof trusses The house
has been built more than twenty five
years and the wood has shrunk until the
bolts and nails afforded the smallest pos
sible security One of these trusses had
rotted away from its fastenings it has
parted and thrown the two sections down
and they in their descent pulled the dome
Avith them
The damage to the structure was noth
ing at all to the stage comparatively lit
tle to the gallery which suffered most al
most nothing to the dress circle and much
less than one would think from the debris
scattered through the parquet where the
main truss landed The truss rested in
the parquet very much in the shape of a
capital letter Y The wonder is that so
few were hurt and of the few hurt so
many escaped with slight injuries
FUMIGATING THE MAIL
That Coming from Yellow Fever Dis
tricts Is Ail Disinfected
All the mail from the fever infected dis
tricts is perforated and disinfected by a
corps of mail clerks Armed with paddles
studded with short sharp nails they perfo
rate all letters papers and packages
m n
VADDLIXG BETTERS
When the mail is thoroughly paddled the
car is closed and the fumigating machine
lighted This is allowed to burn for an
hour or so and then the mail is fit to be
distributed The orders are explicit and
photographs going through the Southern
mails at this time are likely to turn up
with the eyes missing
The jury in the case of Valet Albert
V Sugdon charged with stealing jewelry
and from the house of Mil
lionaire Richard T Wilson in New York
brought in a verdict of guilty of grand
larceny in the second degree and strong
ly recommended Sugden to the mercy of
the court
All the salt furnaces on both sides of
the Ohio River near Point Pleasant TV
Va are closed owing to the rise in the
price of coal They are compelled to pay
224 per 100 bushels and say they can
not afford this
THE FORT SHERIDAN OUTRAGE
Inhuman Cruelty Perpetrated Upon
an Enlisted Man
There has been as much solemn ponder
ing at Wa hington over the Lovering
llaninnnil outrage at Fort Sheridan as
CATTAIX IOVKKIXG
reply
The following
morning he was noti
fied by the officer of
if the captains life
hung in the balance
When laj Gen
Brookes report from
his chief aid-de-camps
point of view
was received by the
Secretary of War
that official consider
ed it well and wrote
out his recommenda
tions to lay before
the President The
adjutant general also
examined the report
AVhen the President
saw the same report he thought of his
general commanding the army and sug
gested that it be laid before him Gen
Miles read the report and returned it to
the Secretary of War with a few oral
comments on the action which the Secre
tary proposed to take Then Gen Alger
carried the report under his arm to the
cabinet meeting aud the much handled
document was discussed by that body
Captain Loverings act at Fort Sheri
dan is very generally considered as one
of inhuman cruelty The Fourth regi
ment of infantry Col Hall commanding
is located at the fort near Chicago Sat
urday Capt Lovering was officer of the
loJILaJil mlrimFM
DRAGGING PRIVATE HAMMOND TO COURT
day Among the prisoners confined in the
guard house was private Hammond 11am
mond is not connected with the Fort
Sheridan command lie is stationed at
riattsburg X Y and a few weeks ago
asked for leave of absence to visit his
mother who lives in Chicago It was
denied him and he left without permis
sion There is a rule Avhich makes it de
sertion for a soldier to be absent from his
post longer than nine
clays without permis
sion II a m m o n d
came to Chicago and
on the ninth day sur
rendered himself at
Fort Sheridan and
asked the officers to
nriifv llin Phi
io a usu iiu at
placed in the guard
house to await thej
7 VI
mv vm
mmfiim
rarXfeffSSSVSl
the day Capt Lov imuvate hammoxd
ering to report for work He refused on
the ground that he was not a regular
prisoner Capt Lovering sent four men
to take him out of the guard house Ilam
mond lay d6wn and refused to move Lov
ering then directed the men to cross his
legs and tie tliem with a stout rope This
was done and then under direction of the
captain the men dragged Hammond out
of the guard house Down the steps of
the guard house Hammond was bumped
The four soldiers soon became sick of
iheir task They hesitated when they had
crossed the road and got on the stone side
walk The captain would have no delay
lie prodded the prisoner several times so
that in pity the four soldiers hurried on
with their terrible tusk None of them
had ever seen a soldier treated in such a
brutal way rnd they obeyed through fear
of similar punishment Hammonds face
-was distorted with pain and blood was
oozing from several wounds as he was
dragged along up the stairway to the sum
mary court There a light punishment
was meted out to him It is said that
Lovering prodded Hammond with his
sword as he was dragged along the road
STRANGLED BY BURGLARS
Farmer Adam Hoffman Is Murdered
Near Brimfield Ind
Adam Hoffman a wealthy bachelor
farmer living near Brimfield Ind was
murdered by two men whose intention it
was to rob him Hoffman sold a large
amount of wheat and stock the past week
and it is asserted that the men thinking
he had the money at his home committed
the crime while seeking the money
At midnight a farm hand living with
Hoffman was awakened by a noise in an
adjoining room which sounded like the
tramping of men The boy quickly crawl
ed under the bed and shortly after the
mien entered a lighted match was thrust
under the bed and the boy was discov
ered He was ordered from his hiding
place at the point of a revolver and plac
ed on the bed bound hand and foot and
securely gagged He was warned that
if he attempted to give an alarm he would
be killed
The men next went to the old mans
room Hoffman was ordered to pass over
his money He denied that he had any
money in the house saying that he never
kept money there The men began to
threaten and choke him to force him to
disclose to them his hiding place His
hands were firmly bound together and tied
to his legs his feet were likewise bound
and then fastened to the bed It is
thought the men continued the choking
until life was extinct The men then
searched the house from cellar to roof
but failed to find any money
of Minor Note
Daniel S Lamont has been elected pres
ident of the Northern Pacific Express
Company
Rev Dr Neweil Salbright professor of
Biblical and historical theology in theIliff
school of theology died at Denver after
a brief illness
One hundred carpenters employed at the
Trans Mississippi exposition grounds
struck work at Omaha The men ask
that the carpenters union be recognized
and that skilled labor alone be employed
in the carpenter work
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