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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22
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my God, boys, you are firing on o;;!
own men! Cease firing! DON'T lo!'
SEE THE STARS AND STRIPES THERE:
ON THE H1LL?' and his appeal WAS
heard. The firing at once ceased. ant.
a few moments later, us Corporal Gard.
ner took his place by my side, ha.i
Frustrated by the eXertion he had
made in the great heat, said: Poor
fellows, they have enough to face
without being fired upon from the rear
by our own men,
10 his action many a noble fellow
doubtless owed his life on that occ;ss-
ion, as the easy range made a roint
blank shot very effective. lhave hasti-
ly given these two incidents to prove
that as a soldier Corporal Gardner
knew his duty and bravely discharged
it. His heroic acts, although not it,
ly recognized at the time, afterwards
won for him commission from Gov.
R. E. Fenton, of New Yorl.--a m"-
mento, I doubt not. Mr.. Gardner yet
regards with pride, to whom the
writer of these lines presented the
facts. No brayer man than Mr.. Card
ner ever bore arms in any cause or iii
any country, and it has seemed to ne
fit and proper to place these facts be-
fore the ueOple with whom his lot in
life is now cast, in the rapidly develop
ing regions of the great west. No one
will be more surprised on seeing the
same in print, I am confident, than
this friend and comrade of other days
himself. Very Truly Yours,
ALBERT D. SHAW.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22
How to Test OleomarE arine.
De;lr:lnce.

The simplest aud surest test for
oleomargarine is to oheattAe substance
in IL small toy frying pan. Butter
will gradually get brown and smell
nicely, even wlseN alre;dy beginning
to burn black. Oleomaryarine Will
never get brown. but will directly II
the heating continues, change from
o,e;sr yellow fat to black, and emit
all the while the odor familiar t"
those who live near fat factory. y
little practice and attention Will en-
able any person not only to'dlstlnyuISh
bv sight and smell between eAeomar-
garine and butter, out even to find
out the approximate percentage "'
the for12qr.-Farmers llasq2'ue.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22
RAISE FLAX.

Minnesota's agricultural wealth is
almost unlimited even at this early
day, but there are fields of labor and
profit as yet left almost wholly un-
touched for the production of the one
great cerial, wheat. It is Of but CON-
paratively recent date that our i'm
portation of sugar began to diminish,
and the place of the foreign article
filled by home production, and we
look confidently forward to the day
when Minnesota will export sugar,
instead of importing it. These are
long strides toward wealth. A State
which is largely productive over and
above what it consumes approaches
very near independence. There are,
however, many things yet remaining
for Minnesota to produce in order to
become, in the fullest sense Of the
term, a productive State. One of
these is fax. The soil and climate
of our State is especially adapted to
it's successful growth. Our con-
sumption of linseed oil and oil cake,
together with paper and fabrics in
the composition of which flax largely
enters, is such as to render it the far
mers moral duty to his common
wealth, to produce it if he can, and
thus cut off the enormous sum of
money required to keep the people
supplied with the articles manufac-
tured from the plant. If any readers
of the FARMER have had any expert
enc in flax raising, we should be glad
to hear from them.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22
nesday and Thursday of the third week

nesday and Thursday Of the third week
in September.
1t was voted that the price of admis-
sion to the hall should be 25 cents to
all except those who are or may be-
come members of the association, who
shall at all times be admitted free.
Members also enter their stock or
vegetables free. This closed the ac-
tion of the executive committee on
Saturday, but they are not idle by a
long way, and we can assure our read
ers that the fair is to be held without
fail.
We have thus briefly given the
status of the Wadena Agricultural
Association, and it's merging from
comparative inactivity into life and
useful existence, because we deem it
an epoch in the history of the new
Northwest of almost incalculable i'm
portance. The recurring benefits Of its
annual fairs, both to it's individual
members and the country at large, can-
not be measured by a single thought
or fathomed at a glance.
In closing we will simply say that
all farmers who can endorse the socie-
ty and it's work, (and here let us re-
mark that it is not confined to county
boundary lines, but is open to alD are
urgently invited to pay to the secre-
tary, Mr.. s. S. Gardner, the sum of
$l.OO and sign the constitution, which
is in his possession, and thus become
members of the association. After
which they may enter for any or all
OF the premiums, and be admitted to
the exposition free. 1t is hoped that
as many as can will join immediately
and thus encourage the committees
who are laboring 80 hard for the sue
cess of the fair.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22
HALL & wHIPPLE, Proprietors.
Agricultural.
WHAT WILL THE EHARvEsTBEq

WHAT WILL THE HARVEST BE1
In Wadena and adjoining counties
there has, as yet, not been single un-
favorable circumstance to debar the
harvesting of one Of the most abund-
ant crops which ever blessed the in
habitants of this region. The spring
opened late and gradually. The frost
came out Of the gronnd fast enough to
enable the earth to absorb the mois-
ture of the melting snow, and when
the seed was deposited in the soil it
had the benefit of soil which had
been, by nature, perfectly prepared
for it. a cool dry season followed
which started the wheat from thor
ough root into a stout, heavy stalk.
About the time the moisture from the
snow had run short, series of show
ers set in and continued with more or
less regularity for two weeks,--the
weather remaining cool. Following
the cessation of the showers we got
few hot days for the benefit Of the
corn, and the wheat improved it's op-
portunity to run into straw. These
few hot days were followed by cooler
ones, with heavy dews in the night,
until at the present time, the sun shines
and the showers fall upon no country
Oh the face OF Gods foot stool which
can produce more promising outlook
than here. Nature seems to have ex-
erted herself to see what could be
done in the way of furnishing our
farmers with growing weather. The
sky, which has so far furnished us
such favorable conditions, is watched
daily with bated breath, and every
farmer has all unspoken prayer in his
heart every time he lies down for his
rest or rises to his daily toll. This
country needs good crop, (and it has
never yet had a failure). We have,
unlike other countries, the fortunes
of many men to retrieve; men who
have lost their all from the devasta-
ting failures in other countries, have,
many Of them, gravitated here; we
know of hundreds who, should the
crops turn out as now promised, will,
for the first time in long, long weary
years, taste the first exhilerating
draught of comparative independence
and freedom from debt. This is a
work worthy OF God, and worthy the
blessing q divine providence seems to
be bestowing. Already the harvesters
are singing in fields of barley and rye.
while the tinge of yellow which is be-
ginning in the wheat fields, ,admonishes
us that the ripening process is under
way. Should nothing happen now in
the way of an atmospheric calamity.
the wheat harvest will begin in about
two weeks and be the heaviest ever
known here.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22

Mr.. Valentine brought to our office
last week, a sample of timothy grass
taken from field on the prairie,
several stalks of which measured owe!
four feet long.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22

Crops in Iowa are reported better
than usual this year. although it is
rather rainy.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-22

orF1c1AL PAPER OF WADENA COUNTY.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
Poverty and Distress

That poverty which produces the great
est distress is not of the purse but of the
blood. Deprived of its richness, it be-
comes scant and watery, a condition
termed anemia in medical writings.
Given this condition, and scrofulOus
swellings and sores, general and nerv-
Gus debility, loss of flesh and appetite,
weak lungs, throat diseases and con-
sumption, are among the common re-
suits. Therefore, if yOn are sufferer
from thin, poor blood. do not hesitate,
but employ Golden Medical Discovery
which enriches the blood and radically
cures these affections by striking at the
root of the evil and removing the cause.
For all bronchial, throat, and lung
affections, severe lingering coughs, weak
lungs, consumption in its early stages,
asthma and kindred affections, DR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the
sovereign remedy, and has Outriveled all
its competitors. 1t is harmless in any
condition of the system, yet powerful tC
cure. Druggists sell it.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
Conformation Of,Trespassers :On Public
Lands.

The conference report on the bill re-
lating to public lands, provides that
when any land of the United States shall
have been entered, and the government
price paid in full, no criminal suit or
proceeding by or in the name of the
United States shall thereafter be hadiOr
further maintained for any trespass
upon or on account of material taken
from said lands; that no civil suit shall
be maintained for any trespass upon or
material taken from said lands in the
ordinary clearing of the land, in the
working of mining claim, or for agri-
cultural or domestic purposes, in the
maintaing of the improvements on the
land of bona fide settlers, or on account
of any material taken by any person
without knowledge Of trespass, or with
out fraud or collision, by any person
who i'm good faith has paid the officers of
the United States for the same; provided,
that the provisions of this section shall
apply only to the trespasses committed
prior to March I, 1879; and provided fur
ther, that the defendants in such suits
shall exhibit to the proper officers evil
dence of such entry, and pay all accrued
cost. 1t also restores the provision
reducing the price of lands within six
miles of railroads to 81 25 per acre where
they were placed in market at 81 80 per
acre prior to 1861.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1880


As announced in the TRIBUNE of last
week, the ChebOygan cornet band has ar.
ranged to give an excursion and grand
on Friday evening, July I'd. The indi-
cations are that it will be the great event
of the season. The new and handsome
sidewheel steamer City of EhebOygan will
leave her dock at ChebOygan at 6 P. M. OF
that day. Her mate, the popular inland
steamer Northern Belle, will leave the
head of Crooked Lake, bringing the Pc
tOskey band and large number Of Wis
itOrs from PetOskey, Little Traverse and
places on the G. r. & /. railroad. There
can be no doubt but that ChebOygan will
be largely represented on the occasion,
as already large number of our citi-
zens have signified their intention of be-
ing present. The music for the party
will be furnished by Prof. COrrazzi's full
orchestra, which is a sufficient guarantee
of its excellence. The supper will be
served by Mr.. VIM. Spencer, whose repu-
tatiOn as caterer is so we'll known as
to need no cOmmendatiOn from us. The
members of the band are determined to
leave nothing undOne to insure a grand
success and pleasant time for all who
may attend. The price of the tickets
which includes excursions. dance and
supper, per couple, is fixed So, which
every person, we think. will consider a
reasonable figure. Let everybody, with
their "wives, aunts and cousins" make
their calculations to attend the grand
opening and make it an occasion long to
be remembered.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
CONDENSED NEWS.

Competing ice factories in Augusta,
Ga, have reduced the price to half cent
a pound.
The total scores at the Edinburg inter-
national rife match are: England, l.
1913; Scotland, LOO; Ireland, 1881.
Wheat cutting in the southern portions
of Illinois and Indiana has fairly COM
menced, and it is said finer crop was
never harvested.
Montreal is acknowledged to have
about the finest wharves of any city in
America. The harbOr is lighted with
the electric light. - -
Ex-United States Senator James A.
Bayard died Sunday at Wilmington,
Del, from the effects of falling down
stairs week or two ago.
Dahlonega, Ga, is the new Jerusalem,
having its streets laid in gold. A vein
of gold four inches thick has been OPEN
ed in one of the principal streets.
A six-inch service pipe exploded at the
millers' exhibition at Cincinnati Mon
day, injuring two millers named Alfred
Osborne, of Palmyra, Ind, and L.. Becker,
of Galveston, Texas.
Gen. Hancock has thrown himself for
the race. He says nobody can be elected
President who pledges himself to the old
states right theory, or the disturbance
of the 14th and 18th amendents.
The governor of Colorado has declared
martial law at Leadyille, with Major
Gen. ID. j. Cook in command The, ex-
citement is intense, and is feared that
the strikers will precipitate an open out
break and bl0odshed.
One thousand dollars is large sum of
money to pay for a little piece of float
ing wood, but if it is found and can be
shown to be part of the missing ship
Atlanta, the British admiralty will pay
that amount to the finder.
The latest election reports from
Oregon indicate that the senate
will stand 16 Republicans to IA Dem
Ocrats, and the house 81 Republicans
to % Democrats, with more than an even
chance that the Republicans will have
II in the senate and 80 i'm the lower
house.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
OUT TO SEA.
Two Children, Adrift i'm a Small ScOw
Picked up ON Lake Huron by the
Steam Barge OnfOnagOn.

Two Children, Adrift i'm Small ScOw
Picked up on Lake Huron by the
Steam Barge OntOnagOn.
From the Bay City Tribune.
Capt. Kehoe, of the steam barge On
tOnagOn, which arrived at this port yes
terday, ,erelates to us an occurrence which
happened Sunday morning about II
O'Clock on Lake Huron, and which is
worth relating i'm these columns. The
OntOnagOn was blowing her way up from
Port Huron, with the barges Mary Stock
ton, F. III. OrtOn, VIM. Lewis, Harvest
and Eleanor to Bay City Sunday, and
when at point about ten miles off Point
Hope, Huron county, Engineer Worden,
who was standing on the StarbOard side
noticed a black speck bObbing up and
down with the sea a short distance out
from the steam barge, which he at once
concluded was boat, and by examining
it more closely could see the bodies OF
two persons in it. He at once informed
the captain who examined The object
with glass and could see that the craft
was a small scOw containing two chill
dren. He gave the proper signals and
the OntOnagOn was soon upon the little
cast-a-ways. They were two boys aged
four and six years respectively and the
boat in which they were riding had one
of its ends partially stove in. Mate
Henry VOsburg prepared heaving line.
and as the steam barge moved up along
side the little craft, he said. '"Here Bub
catch this line," to the eldest of the two
He looked up and cried, "0h, no, amt
coming on that big boat" and kept on
padding as unceremOniOusly as could
be. The yawl of the Stockton was low
cred and manned by some of the crew
and soon had the youthful sailors on
board the barge. They appeared not to
realize the danger they were in and
objected to being taken out of their own
craft. They told Capt. KehOe that they
resided at Point Hope and the captain
steered in the direction of the sandy
village on the west shore. When within
mile of the shore, a sailing scOw, COM
manded by number of men in search
of the two boys, was met and the little
ones handed over to their care. A num-
ber of women were aboard the craft
among whom was the mother Of the chill
dren. The meeting of the lost ones can
be imagined. The little fellows had
taken the scOw from shore with the i'll
tentiOn of padding around for time,
when the wind sprang up from off the
shore and took them off to sea. Captain
KehOe says that the boat in which they
were riding could not have stood the in
creasing sea much longer, and he thinks
that they would have drifted out of the
usual course so that it would be hardly
possible for a passing craft to notice
them. The names of the boys were not
learned by any of the officers on the On
tOnagOn.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
Marine,

The Champlain was in bound up
Monday.
The Oswegatchie called in bound
down Sunday.
The City of Concord was in, bound
up, last evening.
The steamer Keweenaw arrived up
Sunday morning.
The Lawrence was in bound up
Saturday afternoon.
The propeller Nashua called in
bound up Thursday morning.
The Lowell of the N. T. line called
in bound down Tuesday forenoon.
The propeller st. Adams called in,
bound down, last night abOutmid night.
The Vt. steamers Lawrence and
Milwaukee were both i'm yesterday morn
ing, bound down. -~---.
The schooner Otter arrived Tuesday
and loaded lumber from WetmOre q Co.,
and cleared Thursday for Chicago.
The Leviathan succeeded in raising
the schooner Two Fannies, sunk near
Elk Rapids, thus adding another feather
to her cap as the "bOss wrecker."
Last week the schooner Three Sisters
found the same stone the TrOwbridge
came to grief on i'm the channel at DetOur.
She was tOwed to the Sault in leaking
condition.
The Marine City arrived up early
yesterday morning. We understand that
hereafter she will arrive every Friday
morning, taking the PEARLS place, she
having withdrawn from the route.
The yacht Ida was raised and brought
down and is now hauled out at AmiOt's
ship yard, receiving repairs. The dam
age to her was not so serious as was at
first supposed.
The City of Cheboygan is at last
completed and this morning they had
about completed arrangements for
launching her. She is handsome little
craft and a credit to her designer, build
er and her owners.
We understand the steamer nj. w.
Wright is going to run regularly on the
route between ChebOygan, Mackinac and
Point st. Ignace. tits also reported that
the steam yacht Antelope, formerly at
Sault Ste Marie, is going on the same
route. This would make four boats on
the route which with the addition of the
regular lines of steamers which call at
these points ought to accommodate all
travel
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
The Cincinnati Convention.

The Democratic national convention
will meet in Cincinnati Tuesday of next
week, to select candidates to be beaten
by Garfield and Arthur. Who the vic
Tins will be cannot be determined be-
fore hand. The following is the New
York Herald's estimate of the strength
of the various candidates leaving out
the delegates from Kentucky and North
Carolina, which had not elected their
delegates at the time the estimate was
made.
Tilden, 1856: Bayard, III: Seymour, 6S;
Hancock, "a; Thurman, 81; Randolph, IS;
Field, A.; English, 2; Hendricks, 81;
Morris, g.; Chase, IA. Whole number of
delegates 73S; necessary to choice under
the twO-thirds rule, 492. Besides the
above list of candidates, there is large
and varied herd of dark horses cavOrting
all over the premises, including David
Davis, Gen. Palmer, Gen. Mcclellan,
Payne, Ewing, PendletOn, Potter, etc.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-19
Garfield at the Extra Session.

At the extra session of 1879, when
Thurman and Blackburn were leading
the forces of the Democratic party in the
attempt to cOerce the executive by StarY-
ing the government, Gen. Garfield said
ON the floor of the House:
desire to ask the fOrbearance of the
gentlemen on the other side for remarks
that dislike to make, for they will bear
witness that l have i'm many ways shown
my desire that the wounds of the war
should be healed, and that the grass that
God plants over the graves of our dead
may signaliZe the return of the spring
of friendship and peace between all
parts of the country. But am COM
PEELED by the necessity of the situation
to refer for moment to a chapter of
history. The last act of the Democratic
domination in the House 18 years ago
was striking and dramatic, but it was
heroic and whole sOuled. Then the
Democratic party said, "If you elect your
man as President of the United States
we will shoot your Union to death" And
the people of this country, not willing
to be cOerced, but believing they had a
right to vote for Abraham Lincoln if
they chose, did elect him lawfully as
President, and then your leaders in con-
troll of the majority of the other wing of
this capitol, did the heroic thing of with
drawing from their seats, and your rep
resentatives withdrew from their seats,
and flung down to us the gage of mortal
battle. We called it rebellion, but we
admitted that it was honorable, that it
was noble to give us the fell gage of bat
tie, and fight it out in the open field.
That conflict, and what followed, we all
know too well; and to-day, after Is years,
the book of your domination is opened
where you turned down your leaves in
1860, and your are signalizing you re-
turn to power by reading the second
chapter (nOt this time an heroic One)
that if we do not let you dash chapter
out of the book you will-nOt shoot the
Union to death as in the first chapter,
but starve it to death by refusing the
necessary appropriations. You, gentle
men, have it tin your power to kill it by
this movement. You have it in your
power, by Withholding these two bills, to
smite the nerve centres of our cOnstitu-
tiOn to the stiffness of death; and you
have declared your purpose to do it if
you cannot break down the elements of
free consent that up to this time, have
ALWAYS ruled in the government.