March 20, 1889
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington.
On February 22, 1889, the President signed the bill creating South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington states of the Union. South Dakota,—The great Prairie State, to which the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway has three main lines, reaching Ellendale, Aberdeen, Huron, Watertown, and Sioux Falls- Go to South Dakota via the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway and pass through St. Paul and Minneapolis en route.
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March 15, 1889
Trouble Brewing in Lower California, and Bloodshed Possible.
Great excitement exists in the lower California gold-mining camps, and thousands of desperate gold-hunters are breathing vengeance against the international company of English capitalists whose agents lay claims to the mines and are trying to shut out Americans and others. When it had became know that the company had sent to San Francisco for 5,000 Chinamen to work the mines, the American and Mexican miners held a mass-meeting and determined not to submit to the engaging of coolies.
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March 13, 1889
Four Sailors Drowned by the Wrecking of a British Vessel of the Pacific.
Port Townsend, W.T., March 6.—The British bark Port Gordon, loaded with general cargo from Liverpool for Puget Sound ports, was wrecked last Wednesday forty miles south of Cape Flattery, and four seamen were lost. The wrecked vessel was valued at $60,000 and the cargo at $90,000, fully insured. The cargo was owned by Balfour, Guthrie & Co., of Portland.
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March 8, 1889
Wild Cheering For The Statesman From Maine.
Washington, March 6.—The Secretary of State, Blaine, was one of the early callers to-day, and after shaking hands with the president he remained by his side talking to him for a few minutes and then passed out. Immediately he reached the open air he was recognized and the crowd cheered him to the echo and surged around him in a dense, excitable, clamoring mass. Mr. Blaine, it was evident, was Lightly pleased by the demonstration, and yet taken aback by the heartiness and spontaneity. Everyone wanted to grasp the Secretary’s hand, and he shook the outstretched hands which were thrust at him by the hundred men nearest to him. He tried to push out of the grounds, but the crowd would not let him off so easily. They had him surrounded and, not content with grasping one hand, the people seized that which was nearest to them, and at one time Mr. Blaine had hold of a dozen hands, six on a side. It took the Premier fully fifteen minutes to get off the porch, and for a few steps his path was comparatively unobstructed, but as he neared the lower gate the crowd again recognized him and made another rush, and again cheering and handshaking was resumed, and Mr. Blaine witnessed a repetition of the former scene. The crowd had so much superfluous enthusiasm that it cheered on the slightest provocation.
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March 7, 1889
Crime Rapidly Dwindling Away— A Splendid Record—Not a Failure by Any Means.
There is one particular in which Topeka leads the world. As the metropolis and capital city of Kansas she in the van of progress in the great campaign against life-destroying, crime-promoting liquor. This is one of the most notable features in Topeka’s prosperity and among her chief inducements held out to those in the East who contemplate moving their families to the Western country. The statement is made on the authority of Hon. Charles Curtis, the prosecuting attorney, that no other city in the world of like population is so free from crime as Topeka.
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March 6, 1889
Fredericksburg, Va., March 6.- Citizens of this city held a mass-meting Monday evening to consider the rumored sale of the land which lies buried the body of Mary Washington. Resolutions were adopted denouncing such a sale and pledging the people of the city to erect a monument over the grave. Mr. Shepard, owner of the land, denied that he had taken any steps whatever looking to the sale of the property, and had authorized no such steps by any other person. In addition he voluntarily gave a sixty-days option for the purchase of the land for $2,500.
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