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young stock all of which were fat and showed signs of high blood. A force of mao were busily engaged potting op 700 tons of hay for winter use. The large winter eheda were located in are* ▼ine, wall sheltered from the bleak atorms of winter, and water ia famished by Jim oreek, whioh flows at the Tory doors of the same.At a meeting of members of the grand army post this afternoon, it was decided to gi?e an entertainment some time this week, perhaps Friday night Colonel Hay and Dr. Piper hare kindly volunteered their serrioes and it is probable that local musical talent will be aolicited to assist. Colonel Hay will give aome of hia hamorous readings, and Dr. Piper will give a scioptioan exhibition of some seventy original slides from the mineral, animal and vegetable world. All the objects te be exhibited are in their natural state so small as to be far beyond the ordinary viaion. Ho will also give an exhibition of a very superior compound mic^psoope, with objects adapted to its power. The objeot of the entertainment is to raise foods for improving the hall ooonpied by the post.UNITED STATES COURT.V. D. RumII on Trial Charged With the I**a* of Fraudulent Surveyor'* Scrip— Abstract of tha Taatlmuny.Monday Afternoon.Cross-examination of R. U. Piper, scientific expert oontinned: Specimens of other handwriting ahown to witness and the jary to show that some of the peculiarities pointed out by the expert as oommon to the Russell and Bart handwriting was also fonnd in many other handwritings.Among other documents introduced was a oertain letter not unknown to fame, signed by the name of “Henry 8. Canter, and also a letter signed by P. C. Shannon. Witness being asked it theeo two letters were in the same handwriting, replied that he wonld not state positively until he oould make a microscopic examination, but speaking from their general appearance be should say that they were.Witness being shown a paper, after examining it said from his examination he should give it as his judgment that the letter was written by Wm. D. Russell, but that judgment was from present examination and be would not say for sore until he had examined it under the microscope.This letter wss m reality one received by Gamble Bros, in Oct., 1881, from C. G. k 8. Burt of East Dnbuque, III.Another paper was shown witness, and after examining the same he ssid that in his jadgmeut it was the handwriting of Wm. D. Russell; that it resembled his hand very much; that he would not say for oertain until he had examined it under the microscope.This letter was one written to Tripp and Bpink by John D. Cameron.MB. DONBbLEYwas here re-called and identified certain scrip as having bee* brought by him from the general land office and as being a genuine piece of New Orleans scrip. The same was then shown to the jury.r. u. piper—ruxilUd and cross-examinatiou as above continued.Witness being shown a certain paper said be coaid not say whether it woe Cameron's or Russell's handwriting or not; that he would not form any judgment until he hod examined itontside; that he should guess it was not Cameron's writing but would not give it as a judgment. At about 4:30 p. m. the doctor stated that his health would not allow him to go on with the examination nntil to-morrow morning as ho feared be would break down entirely if he attempted to do so. The court thou excused him and the U. S. attorney called*. B. HAYS.I reside at Washington, am an attorney at law; have reeided there twenty-two years; have had considerable study and oomparision of handwriting; have made it a study for some 14 years.Have oompared some 6000 different handwritings and have been called in oourte in Maryland and District of Colombia.There may be as to genuine and no-genuine handwriting four classifications. First, the natural handwriting of the person; a disguised hand, which is au attempt to get as far from the natural as possible; the aseimulated baud, whioh is an attempt to imitate some other person's hand and the tracing hand which is the handwriting of another person oopied by means of tracing paper. There belongs to every handwriting conscious and unconscious characteristics.Witness being banded two papers said be had examined the same with a view to determining whether they ware both written by the same person.Witness then stated that that the Burt k Miller letter head was without doubt written by Wm. D. Russell; that the letter head was more studied in form than the general writing of Wm.D. Russell.Witness then prooeeded to illustrate the peculiar characteristics common to the Burt k Miller letter heads and to Russell's handwriting. Referring to the A. P. Burt letter, witness said this was written by Wm. D. Russell also; that the handwriting was attempted to be disguised; the two letters are written with different pens, bnt their general appearance is the same; there is a decided attempt at disguising, bnt none at as-simulating; the spacing throughout the whole is regular; the shading is peouliar, not being at all marked throughout; the slant is also about the same; the crossing of the ata,,# throughout is a dash, never a cross; there are no superfluous strokes in Russell's baud writing, the words end-toff abruptly; in attempting to disguise a band writing, the first effort is to disguise the capitals, and we find this done ia the 1 and J in the Burt letter; “M” being made as an enlarged small m is a peculiar characteristic of the Russell hand writing, we find it this form,axeept in the letterheads, where it is made with great care, because it is a copy fora printer; another peculiar mark is that Russell nearly always makes a pointed **«;” in Russell's Gunnison letter we find 116 pointed e” and twenty-three with a loop, and in the Burt letter ninety-nine are pointed and four looped; the connective “t” commenoes with the down stroke; the “k being made longer than the other email letters; the “da” - being nearly always mado with a blind or open loop at the top; the “Y” boing generally like the figure “7 were peculiar characteristics pointed out by this witness as belonging to the Russell handwriting, and in closing, the witness said from the special points above given, be had come to the conclusion that the anonymous letter was written by Wra. D. Russell, and it was one of the easiest oases he had ever examined.The court then took a recess until 8 o'clock to-morrow.Tuesday Morning.b. c. piper Jle-calUd: Cross-examination resumed, nothing specially new being developed. After s little time he was withdnMrn andOH AS. SWEETcalled by the proaeoution.He belongs to the firm of Cbaa. Sweet k Co„ of Fargo, D. T.—I reeoived a circular advertising scrip from Burt k Miller.The circular and a letter received from Burt k Miller were identified by witness and shown to the jury.L. II. FOLLETT.I am cashier of the Red River Valley National bank of Fargo.This witness identified a circular, some letters and telegrams as being received by bis bank from Burt k Miller on the subject of scrip, and were shown to the jury.L. B. PINNEY.I am an attorney and dealer in scrip; had some correspondence with Bart k Miller. Witness then identified certain papers as being his correspondence with Burt k Miller, and they were put in evidence.The croee-examiuatiou of Dr. Piper was then resumed and was followed by a re-direct examination during which the doctor stated that he was not able from a casual inspection of any writing, without submitting it to scientific tests, to state or form any judgment as to who wrote the same, nor did he think it possible for any person to do so.con. HAY,recalled and prooeeded with tbs direct examination;Witsess being handed a number of letters already identified as the handwriting of John D. Cameron, and also a number of pieces of scrip, stated that he had carefully examined and compared the same and that as a result of his ex-aminatiou he gives it as hia opinion that the letters and the face of the scrip were iu the same hand writing, that is, written by the same person.Witness then proceeded to show the ground on which he based his conclusions some of which are as follows:First, the making of a break betweenMn” and “d” wherever they occur together; second, the beginning of the letter 'V always with the down stroke; third, the slanting of the word and wherever it comes before a capital letter; fourth, the peculiar form of all his J’a being to form it open on the right side; filth, in making the capital “O'' likean enlarged small “o”; sixth, in making the capital “M like a large small “m and farther that the last upward point of the “m is higher than the others; seventh, that the “p” is usually made with a loop bottom; eighth, that no superfluous or useless lines are used, thus that the “es” is crossed with a dash.Before croes-examication of this witness the oourt took a recess until 1 o'clock p. m.Cr»ip Comment*.Parker Era: More grain will be raised in Turner oounty this year than daring any two previous years.The Nonpariel says that with a good corn crop Cedar county, Nebraska, will in all probability have $76,000 worth of hoga to market.Hutchiason County News: By Saturday night the small grain will be about all in the shock. The crop is without question the heaviest ever raised in the valley.Some exoellent specimens of Miner oounty wheat and corn have been exhibited. *The wheat was finally filled and the oora silkod and tassoled out and stood almost seven feet high.Dell Rapids Exponent: All the crops hereabouts are looking splendidly at present. Corn is making up for lost time and promises well. Farm ere commenced catting barley last week and wheat this week. Harvesting will be in full bloom next week.James MoMaater has thirty-fire acres of oora that has scarcely a hill missing, all of which is five feet and over in height He offered his son early in the spring a price per head for every gopher he aaoght in the proposed oorn field. He caught one hundred and fiighty gophers and the oora was not molested.Volga Gasette: The crop outlook is improving daily and even tha finest grumbler ia inclined to look on the bright side. Wheat, nlthongh not what it would have been had the fore part of the season been more favorable, ia still good for from 15 to 30 bushels per acre. Oats are splendid and mill yield from 66 to 70 bushels per acre. Cora, which until the past two weeks was rather backward, has taken a fresh start and promises a fair return.Far Bale.House on leased lot............... $150 00House on leased lot...............- 326 00House on leased lot............... 350 00House sod 3 lots..................... 860 00House and 1 lot, 66x150.......... 000 00House and 2 lots fenced, shade trees, well and cistern and every way desirable. Price- 1,000 00 On easy terms. J. P. Hayward,Real Estate Broker, 3d streetlt;
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Yankton, South Dakota, US
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