Show ED I 1 TO R PA LS looe LOOK AFTER YOUR LAND TITLES IF ir people wish to secure to themselves the lands upon which they ruuth ruath il fhi V use ure all duh dun diligence to comply noih with the laws according to which they mas maj have llave the titles vested in themselves AS he the 1 the 11 government holds s the public domain chiefly for the tile benefit of those citizens who are disposed take it up according r to tp the laws it follows that no one can have a secure title to any eny portion of such land laud except as obtained from the tho government according to establish legal provisions it matters not what a man has done to improve a aleca of public land heran herau he can not net own it except by complying with the laws in force pertaining to the same many of our citizens outside of cily city limits have taken up government land under the preemption pre emption or the homestead laws and these theae laws must be complied with or title to the respective lands can not be had by the settlers are these facts properly considered by the settlers on such lands in this territory if they are not laud aud hud titles affected thereby are worth little or nothing if a man homesteads a piece of land it is a matter of primary importance 0 r tance tanco to him as respects his ra land 1 d that he comply with the laws governing the case and i unless he complies with them in fl time timo me he does not comply with them at all and consequently he risks losing his title and his bis claim and all the improvements prove ments he has made on tho the land it seems te to us that a large number of settlers on the public land lands lle lie need ed stirring up to a realization of 0 the situation in which they and their lands landh are ate in this regard at the present time we are credibly informed that homestead a applina r tibbs made seven years ago are running out or expiring at the land office in this city at the rate of twelve every day the time originally allowed by law was five years which was waa subsequently extended two years yeara making seyen seven years in all and with many of the homestead applications and entries in the land office m i this eity city time for perfecting the titles has basl run out and with others it is running out daily at the rate named without the applicants having taken the steps rec required bylaw by jaw to secure their ti viem xiem the people need stirring up in hi regard to these things because after the time named has expired they have no legal claim to the lands they have entered and improved it matters nothing what expense or labor they have put upon the lands when the time named has bas expired the tho claims of the settlers amount to noth nothing ingi the land reverts wholly to the government and any other person may go to the land office and enter itkor himself while the dilatory settlers lo their lands as well as all their improvements thereon if the settlers have their own interest at heart they will look after these things and proceed ac at once to comply with the brov provisions alons rions of the laws law so that they iny ins may rny obtain for themselves the title titie 3 to the lands lauds they have reclaimed cultivated and improved and not see them with all their improvements go into the li hands ands of others who have not spent a dollar on them elther cither in money or labor there is a small pamphlet published at the NEWS which contains the homestead and preemption laws aud and other material laws affecting the settling of public land up to date which all persons concerned would do well to ob talu so that they may have a proper understanding of what they have to do in order to secure a government title to their lands which should be done without any unnecessary delay MARRIAGE CONTRACT idis lils IT Is well known that people lecog recognized n faed under the term of free iov lov ers era do not believe in marriage by state or ecclesiastical laws but hold hoid that talat it should be considered V as s merely a private contract between the man and woman concerned eer ned the boston herald of january states elates that mary florence hull daughter of moses hull huil an avowed free louisr who demands that all marriage laws hhall bhail bo be repealed and that panties may be allowed to marry and divorce themselves undera andera general law of contracts has contracted a marriage of that private cou Pou traci tract sort with horace alvin alyin John johnson soll ft a ieather leather store storo clerk dork U tho a fann aann r name of hull nuil al johnson linson f from rom which it may be presumed that mary Is the best business man of the it rm yet the two wo members declare that they are very happy and contented the following is given as the contract between the two BUSINESS AND CONJUGAL CONTRACT BETWEEN FLORENCE HULL AND norace HORACE ALVIN JOHNSON we whose names are hereunto affixed do on this twenty sixth day of december id ia the year one thousand eight hundred and seven ty six of the christian era enter into a business and conjugal contract the firm to be known as hull and johnson we rezard regard re ard ourselves as in every sense of the word equal partners promising to strive to treat each other under all circumstances as becomes such we promise that we will not try in any other way than by advice or persuasion to control the actions of each other believing that neither church nor state has any business with our affairs we propose to live our own lives without reference i to tui either elther further farther than if necessary to give security to the commonwealth of massachusetts that our children should we be blessed with offspring shall bo be at least aa as well cared for as are a majority of those born in legal wedlock we further con contract tract thab that when mutual love shall no longer justify our conjugal union we shall part giving the as little trouble in our parting as wo we havo hivo h ivo in coming together the above document was read before sparky a party parly of friends and their opinions asked concerning it the remarks made were in the way of approval and nad and aad a ad good wishes mary and horace then stepped forward and signed tho contract this party was at al the residence of moses the father a sort of farewell gathering previous to the old gentleman making a journey to vineland N J where he lie had been summoned to appear in court to answer to the thu charge of practicing practising what ho he preached TO PREVENT fraudulent voting biting THERE are a number dumber of fer ier persons persona sons song in mis this territory who mako make professions of great regard t for the purity of the ballot but who wb whenever enever i they get the chance chaleo to handle the vates votes are not correspondingly remarkable for practical regard for that purity rather bather have they a reputation for encouraging voting early and often by the less scrupulous of their own partisans parila partia ans yet these very immaculate characters make a great outcry every now and then theu about the practice in this territory as required by law of numbering the ballots cast and and argue sophistically that a secret ballot is the great cure all for alleged impurity of the ballot that Is for illegal voting it happens however that the secret ballot is a common institution in the states but notwithstanding that fact complaints of illegal voting are much more frequent and loud there I 1 han ihan they are a re in utah so much so that from different states we hea hear r of a growing inclination to fa fayon favor von vor the system of marking the ballots in some way similar to that which ia is provided by law in lu utah in order to secure 9 greater reater purity to the ballot A short time ago the report came that a change of this kind was strongly advocated in ohio and now a similar indication from old connecticut as will wili be seen by the following extrac tuni the caption placed at the beg beginning nning of this article from froin the bridgeport conn standard ot feb 2 an influential republican paper the mormons cormons have a very simple way of preventing ballot box stuffing and also of ascertaining which are tile the votes vates if any are cast and it is tile tl requirement that each vote bilut id be numbered and the name of the person casting it is recorded in the pell pelt book opposite the number if it any illegal votes are cast they can be easily descove discovered red and thrown ou out t if instead of recording the name of the voter lie he should bo be required aired to write his name on the all those who cannot read and wua and writ writs 1 would bo from voting li li any man bolea 1 on an other man s name the forgery could be easily detected by the evidence of the man whose name was used or by a comparison of hla hia real signature with the false faise one if fictitious names were used by repeaters it could usually be shown that no such voters lived jived in that district and generally we think this method is the simplest and surest of any possible provision to secure the purity of the ballot box the only objection to it being that sometimes men would be afraid to scratch their tickets or change their party from fear of onni ending offending somebody or of hurting their own interests directly or indirectly still a little strain upon some weak nerved persons would be much more than compensated for by bv the security that this method rivies gives for an honest vote 0 THE JEWISH restoration PUBLIC interest has las been considerably excited of late upon the subject of palestine and the increased number of jews residing there the last few years yeara and mamy many of the public journals have their say upon the matter the london spectator has the fol ful following lowing A curious carious rumor is afloat for which we do not vouch that the porte in its eagerness for money has offered to sell the hereditary pas pa halic shalle of the holy land to any candidate accepted by the jews in return for a loan the transaction would be one otie of the most singular in history but it is not beyond the range of possibility palestine needs nothing but tut irrigation and trees and though the jews dislike agriculture fellaheen blimm Bliff lelent sufficient might bo be attracted from E egypt the restoration ution of the jews ath with lord Beacons beaconsfield field for first king would bo be an incident romantic enough to satisfy even the imagination of the author of Eiro elro elroy ir 3 11 THE tele ELECTORAL bOrA commission MISSION THE creation of the tile tripartite plural electoral returns commission was hailed by many as as the ram caught T in the thicket the tho providential means whereby the vexed dennial election question was to be settled on its merits and consequently to tho the general satisfaction and the republic saved from the prognosticated disunion civil war and aD anarchy archy homo some persons ho however were wire not quite so 50 satis satisfied nie fie d that the dech decisions lons ions of the commission would be generally acceptable and nota not a few regretted that member members of the supreme court should be thus dragged into the mire of politics from which it was generally held that their high judicial offices were tacitly understood to be aloof it was further anticipated by various people that it would be impossible to preserve the commission from partisan spirit tand and leanings in which the judicial members would more er or less participate the ermine even not being sufficient to preserve them from the contagiousness of partisan company D Y so tso far the action of the commission has rather favored the views of those who were dissatisfied with it for in the votes and decisions of the commission to the regret of many of the nonpartisan non partisan public and also of many of the partisan public the partisan spirit has been apparent votes and decisions being evidently of a strictly partisan cam character and within strictly partisan lines it Is unfortunate that buchan such sueh an impression concerning the com commis mis alon alou should go out and still more unfortunate that thero there there should be any foundation for such an impression for por unless it is removed it will do 0 no credit to the members of the supreme court who compose a portion of the commission nor will it increase the public confidence in the impartiality of their future decisions on the bench in their own corrig courts if the supreme pourtious bourt Pour jus tius tite tife tit e have been kept entire entirely lv out of the electoral squabble it would have been much better but as most of them are in the commission it is certainly a desirable thing that their decisions and votes as me members cemers mers of the commission be kept hept as free as possible from partisan spirit or even the appearance of anything of that kind |