half, and in accordance with a custom then exist ing but now almost obsolete, he gave to the rela tives of a comely Indian maid named Julia $2.45, in consideration of which princely sum the comely Indian maiden was surrendered to him as a wife. The two cohabited together for several years; and although Mrs. Kelly was not introduced to the relatives of Michael, or into society as his wife, she maintained that relation to him according to the local custom then existing. As a result of their union, one child was born, who was known as Charles Kelly, and appears in this suit, claiming to be the lawful heir of Michael Kelly. It was held by the Supreme Court of Washington that the claim of the plaintiff could not be allowed; that the cohabiting together under such circum stances as existed in the case of Michael Kelly and the Indian maiden Julia, did not constitute a legal marriage; and further, that the claim of the plain tiff was more definitely barred by a territorial stat ute rendering void all marriages between white men and Indians. It is to be presumed, from the language of the court, that, the necessity of such alliances having ceased to exist, the offspring of the civil contract marriages of the early days will find some difficulty in establishing their right to inherit the wealth of the millionaires of the Pacific slope.
CONTENTS OF THE JUNE MAGAZINES.
The Arena. Insanity and Genius, Arthur McDonald; The Liberal Churches and Scepticism, M. D. Shutter, D.D.; Women Wage-Earners, No. VI., Helen Camp bell; Save the American Home, I. E. Dean; Arsenic versus Cholera, К B. Leach, M. D.; Does the Country Demand the Free Coinage of Silver, A. C. Fisk; Freedom in Dress, Frances E. Russell; Union for Practical Progress, B. O. Flower. The Atlantic. Mew Facts concerning the Pantheon, Rodolfo Lanciani; The Pygmies of Africa. John Dean Caton; An Island Plant, Mary Catherine Lee; On the River at Night, Marion Couthouy Smith; A National Vice, H. C. Merwin; Womanhood in the Iliad, Wil liam Cranston Lawton; Some Reminiscences of Dr. Schliemann, J. Irving Manatt: A Marine Observa tory the Prime Need of American Biology, C. O. Whitman; The Future of Local Libraries. Justin Winsor : The Hayes Administration.' Jacob Dolson Cox; The Educational Trend of the Northwest, D.
L. Kiehle; Miss Austen and Miss Ferrier Contrast and Comparison, Charles Townsend Copeland. The Century.
Caught on a Lee Shore : Pleasures and Perils of a Cruise on the Florida Coast (illustrated), Lieut. William Henn; The Death of the Prince Imperial (with portrait), Archibald Forbes; The Father of Modern Illustration (illustrated), August F. Jaccaci; College Athletics, Walter Camp; Notable Women : Christina Rossetti, Edmund Gosse; The Juno of Argos (by the director of the American School of Athens; illustrated), Charles Waldstein; " My White Roseo' Killarney" (illustrated), Jennie E T. Dowe: The White Islander (in four parts; illustrated), Mary Hartwell Catherwood; The Story of a Day (illustrated), Grace King; An Hour with Robert Franz, Henry T. Finck; The Public Health: the Duty of the Nation in Guarding it, T. Mitchell Prudden, M. D.; With Tolstoy in the Russian Famine (illustrated), Jonas Stadling: Writing to Rosina (illustrated), William Henry Bishop; Art, Florence Earle Coates; In Cowboy-Land (illustrated), Theo dore Roosevelt; Benefits Forgot, Wolcott Balestier; Mrs. Pettibone's, Dinner-Horn, Charles Battell Loomis; Uncle Obadiah's Uncle Billy, William Henry Shelton. The Cosmopolitan. The City of Brooklyn (illustrated), Murat Halstead; The Chase of the Chongo (illustrated), Charles L. Lummis; Sorosis (illustrated), Margaret M. Mer rill; The Rise and Decline of the Hawaiian Mon archy (illustrated), Herbert H. Gower; The Merrimac and the Cumberland (illustrated), T. O. Selfridge, Jr.; Omega, the Last Days of the World (illustrated), Camille Flammarion; The Deserted Homes of New England (illustrated). Clifton John son; The First Woman of Spain (illustrated), Syl vester Baxter; Notes of the Brussels Monetary Conference (illustrated). E. Benj. Andrews; A Traveller from Altruria, W. D. Howells. Harper's. An Artist's Summer Vacation (illustrated). John Gilmer Speed; The Evolution of New York (second part; illustrated), Thomas A. Janvier: The Empress of Austria (illustrated), by one of the ladies of her court; The Handsome Humes. Part I. (a novel: illustrated). William Black; Wyoming — Another Pennsylvania, Julian Ralph; The Refugees, a Tale of Two Continents (illustrated), A. Conan Doyle; New France under British Rule (illustrated), Henry Loomis Nelson; Pogit Way (a story; illustrated). Grace Livingston Furniss; Vivisection and BrainSurgery (illustrated), W. W. Keen, M.D., LL.D.; Horace Chase (a novel), Constance Fenimore Woolson.
