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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
EAST GRAND Forks, Mimi,
Nov. 10th, 1890.

EDITOR GREAT WEST:
As you know 1 have failed to re-
ceive my favorite newspaper, the
GREAT West, now for three weeks in
succession, I thought my subscrip-
ton was run out, and I took so
cents and sent you. After that re-
ceived a postal card dated the 9TH of
this month wherein you state that
you are sending my paper every week,
in a bundle with four or five other
subscribers, who get their mail at the
same Office. Now 1 have waited and
asked for the G. W. bundle, but the
postmaster says there did not come
any G. W. to anyone in that office |!
want my post Office changed from
East Grand Forks, in Mimi, to
Grand Forks in Dakota. i never was
disturbed like this before with my
mail. p. ii. STROMME.
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WILLARD, Nov. 10Th, 1890

ST. CHARLES, Mich, Nov. Is, go.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Some unknown friend sent me your
paper of October 18th. In that /
saw that you were going to take up
the Land Currency question in earn
est soon, and as l have long been an
advocate of Land Currency I am de-
lighted to know that the reform pa
pers are fast coming to understand
that is the only thing that will save
the people from slavery. I send you
Stephen MaybelPs book on that
question, and if you have not got
one you will find it to be grand
work and useful to you, and if you
have one, please give it to live man
and one that will help us to move on
to victory. B. CoLvIN.
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EDITOR GREAT WEST:

EDITOR GREAT West:
I want to say a few words in your
most valuable paper just now. As
you know and all in the U. S. now
know, the slope of the Red River VAL
ley ON the east side of that stream
from Otter Tail County to the State
Line of Great Britain's Manitoba
made clean alliance sweep. Here in
this great Polk County, was not a
single republican plot able to stand
the racket. No, sir. We meant bust
ness, and we set our shoulders cat
'em." Secondly, I will state: I was
employed about four weeks to can
vas and lecture in the northwestern
towns of this county, and under this
work l had the great pleasure to find
that the GREAT WEST had come
among the settlers and had Weakened
them up out OF their political stupor.
This is fact and can be proved. Mr..
Irwin did well, though he did not say
anything to the GREAT West doc
trines but to testify to the same.
Hodgson's speech was somewhat
tame and tedious! and the cleaving
after money to campaign with, there
in that saloon city at east Grand
Fork, was hardly in it's place.
p. II. STRoNdME.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Some of the enemies of the Alliance,
and some of it's friends, have been
asking who the editor OF the GREAT
WEST was? Probably the best way
to answer is to take an article out OF
the well-known Detroit Free Press OF
the Goth inst. The first page OF this
journal is covered with the illustrated
opening chapters of a serial story
written by the Dr., and on the
seventh page is the following letter,
with a cut, etc. The biographical
sketch was written a year ago, when
the 'sstory" was purchased by the
Free Press, and is republished, part
ly, inasmuch as che st. Paul News re-
fers to the DR., as an Ignorant scrib-
bler:"
Everett ". Fish.
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR OF
'sTHE PARTING OF THE VEIL"
DR.. Everett w. Fish was born in
Livingston Co., N. Y, Dec. 2, 1915,
and hence is A years OF age. His an
cestry is of Vermont nativity for two
generations, when it crossed over to
North Ireland. He was brought up
by his grandparents, DR.. S. W. Patti
son and wife, at Ypsilanti, Mich, and
was educated at the Union Seminary
and State Normal School there, most
of the time under Prof. Joseph Ester
brook. Reading up into the sopho-
more year at Ann Arbor he entered
the university, but before renewing
his classical studies withdrew to the
medical and laboratory depart
ments.
He pursued the study of medicine
mainly from love Of the sciences con.
nected herewith attended two medi.
cal courses and two six months
courses at the laboratory, and sub.
sequently renewed them at St. Louis
He began the printers trade at IL
or IA years OF age, and never there
after wholly divorced himself from it
His medical and scientific work al
ways allied himself to publishing. Ht
established the Cincinnati Medica
Advance while Professor of Chemistry
in Pulte College, and has been con
nected with various medical publica
tions. He always insisted, when re
mOnstrated with for not practicine
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

KEYSTONE, Mimi, Nov. IL, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
The papers are now received, and
l take great pleasure in distributing
them. I never keep any but give or
send them where I think they can do
some good. I write and speak and
do all that I can to set our fellow
men thinking Of their duty to our re-
public, to themselves, and fellow
men. The gathering Of this immense
mass OF money into the hands of the
few who are highly educated, while
the producers, are ignorant is dan
gerOus. What government can we
expect from ignorance?
AxEL JoRGENsoN.
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Our New York Letter.
From Regular Correspondent.

Farmers Alliance Exchange 335
Broadway.
New YORK, Nov. 18th, 1890.
AS the time is near at hand, when
members of the Alliance from every
section will meet in National Conven-
ton at Ocala, Fla, 1 think an arti-
Gle, descriptive of Ocala and Florida
in general, would be of interest to
your readers. Florida, as you all
know, is the most southern of all the
United States, and is appropriately
s'The Land of Flowers. There is an
erroneous opinion prevalent, that
Florida produces no staple crop; but
We wish to call your attention to the
fact, that Florida's products for
1889 were ~, 486, $40, of which,
sawed lumber and timber were the
largest items, being $13,75O.OOO.
Cigars and manufactured tobacco
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

He has been on the operating table
six times, four times under Prof.
Moses Gum, at Ann Arbor and Chi
cago. An operation in 1882 almost
completely removed his difficulty,
after which he removed to the west
to get into outdoor occupation. For
three years he operated in stock in
Monona Co., Ia, then entered again
into the newspaper field. He began
publishing the Central Minnesotian
at Glenwood, Pope Co., Mimi, in
1887. He took a very radical stand
in the Farmers Alliance movement,
which is singularly strong in the
northwest. The result was that the
executive committee OF the state or.
eanization then called him to the
capital OF the state, st. Paul, to pub
lish an anti-monopoly organ for the
west. In st. Paul, in the midst OF his
newspaper duties, he wrote "Tht
Parting OF the VEIL" the opening
chapters OF which appear in this
number OF the Free Press.
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PAGEj
grain the opinion that the evils Wnlcn
the executive officers do not mean in this any renee
thing all
no than elsewhere am inclined to
and that the best preventive hasy legislation
moderate OF an intrinsic trun 20
BODY the of has and fatal gaon we
thisis puocratc
city and through city of known sympaone ana
light thoroughly probably ne
+v Warfare mon which the producer We do
perpated against the LABOR OF the
think Mr. Owen is wise thus conforming MS sent
mnts to the feelings agencies the commercial world
The alliances will reject sentiments
It this conservative feeling that Mr. Sprage said
aft would have been unfortunate Mr. he
could OF havek kept his pledges to the alliances
Let this matter 1t not to publicly
condemn Mr. Owen aud political
these only thing to decide whether whose con
sciences have not faithful factors
bate We will critse Mr.
Owen whether they satisfied with
nation under the rule cold and heaess
norations? Think kindy-bu think deeply and earnestly
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ANOTHER MAN WANTS TO KNOW WHO
HE Is?
PALMYRA, Otoe Co. Neb.,
II, 20, go.
EDITOR GREAT West:
The weekly Detroit Free Press"
dated Goth November, 1890, lies be-
fore me, and in it's multiform men
talities, I casually, accidentally or by
some laws regulating that singular
word in the English known as Coin
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MANKATo, Nov. 18th, 1890

MANKATo, Nov. 18th, 1890
EDITOR GREAT West:
The farmers have just handed in
their verdict upon the tariff. Public
sentiment agrees with us. The tariff
on flax-seed and oil is only in the in
terest of manufacturers. Will the
tariff men explain in what respect
does the tariff benefit the farmer. or
in other words if overproduction OF
fax causes decline in price why
don't the consumer get oil cheaper
At the next Congress our friends
will be there to defend our interest
and the present legislature coming
from the people, must take the trust
and shake them. Our friends must
remove every obstruction in the way
of free market. We are after JUS
tice. There must be a stopping place
in the injustice of interfering with the
honest markets. We are on to their
racket. JOHN DIAMOND.
HECTOR, Mimi, Nov. 18th, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Allow me to write a few lines to
you about the election we had in our
town of Melville.
I was afraid it would not turn out
very good, but we beat them all.
Renville County went for Owen. Mr..
Editor / think if we hang to the COW
we will yet lead her anyhow. We
must not be Disguised too quick.
Dear Sir, you must let us know in
your paper if you can get Irvine for
the farmers at low price for the whole
state? think it is best to stick to-
gether, and not get discouraged.
Do as Streeter says: shoulder to
shoulder, and hand in hand, forward
we march," GEORGE WELL.
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NELSON, Nov 18th, 1890

NELSON, Nov. : On' ho'o'
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
Enclosed please find official vote of
Douglas County. Douglas County
stood we'll by the Alliance ticket.
We have here at Nelson the largest
Alliance in the county, organized
last January; has now a member
ship of LOG. c. 81. JENSEN.
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SIN LAthrop's Accounts Gene 1nl
DELAvAN, Faribault Co., Mimi,
Nov. 18th, 1890.

DELAvAN, Faribault Co., Mimi,
Nov. 18th, 1890. |
EDITOR GREAT West:
Nov. 7th, / sent you postoffice or
der for 1915 for five subscriptions
to the GREAT WEST. As / did not
get receipt of the same, and some of
the parties did not receive their pa
per last week, I thought would en-
quire if you had received the order.
Alliance No. 81 feels very anxious re-
garding the present condition of DR..
Fish, and they hereby send their con-
dolence to Mr.. Fish and the GREAT
WEST, and sincerely hope that he
may be better at this writing, and
that we may very soon hear from
him again, through the columns of
the G. W. The Alliance party of
Mimi, lean very heavily upon our
great Alliance Journal, and without
it's aid l fear we would not be able to
stand long. Give our personal re-
CARDS to the DR.. Would like the
post office address of Sec'y State ALI
ance. On April 18th sent Lathrop
5000 for charter for Delavan ALI
ance, No. 81. He replied that he
would send charter at once. At the
state convention l spoke to him
again. He replied that he would send
charter as soon as he got home, had
no blanks with him. Have received
no charter yet and members won't
pay without charter. N. McCooLY,
Alliance Lecturer, Faribault Co.
HE1BERG, Nov. 18th, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
am very sorry to learn about the
accident that happened to Mr.. Fish
and also for the Indictment. I praise
God that he will recover from both
But if money and perjury will gel
him in Jail it will be done. l an
quite sure of this for it is just sucf
men that the FLUTES want to sweep OF
the surface OF the globe=if they can
We Norwegians knew hc,tw the tw,
great retorrrIle OF Norway wer
trea"s d-Henderik Vargeland foun'
4 an early grave and Markustrane wa
J cast in jail and after getting out ha'
= to leave his native land. But peopl
at that time were too poor and ig
norant to hold up the arms OF thei
benefactors. I would like to sugges
j. to my brothers of the craft tina
we pay one dollar extra for tn
q paper, thereby aiding Mr.. Fish t
5 get Justice in the courts, as it may b
= a heavy burden for one man to Cal
Z ry. We must not let the enemy &c
t away with our best men, withor
J. rendering him assistance. If D.
q Fish is prosecuted without good an
sufficient cause there will sweep c.
clone down from Manitoba and
hurricane from the south up the Mi
}. sissippi. P.S. OLSON
Norman Co.
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TO issue or hberate interest bear
ing securities is to require more cur
rency to meet more interest.
What the people must have is
currency" The flash and crash
on Wall Street is but a snap COM
pared with the restitution culminat-
ing in the producing regions.
PPEsroNE, Mimi, Nov. 81, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT West:
We expect to organize q County II
o." tomorrow, and l will have your
credentials sent by night mail to-
morrow. ITO National Convention.
I wish you the best success in your
journey, and am very thankful for
the privilege of still counting DIR. F.
as a friend in body without wings
instead of imaginations with wings.
He can do better work on the staff OF
the GREAT WEST. J. A. BIGELOw.
Sec'y Pioneer Alliance and l. o.,
No. 1.
Credentials received all right, and
the delegate now on the route to
Florida. FOREMAN G. WI
WEST DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. II, 80.
DRs. FISH & FRAN:
Please send me the GREAT WEST OF
Nov. 18th, as some one took our
number of that date, here at the
hotel, and failed to return it. Not
having read it we cannot stand the
loss. Hoping, most sincerely, that
you are recovered from your sickness,
l remain, your true friend,
E. D. STONE.
P. S.-The Campaign was so much
on the Plutocratic side would not
contribute to it.
CLEVELAND O., Nov. II. 80
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
DEARCoMRADE:- Il desire to extenc
to you my sympathies in your trou
BILE. 1t is hard thing to convict {
rogue, or to fasten any crime on him
for he has been preparing for JUS
such a disclosure. But there is on
thing sure, an honest man Woul'
l treat with scorn such accusations a
made by the GREAT VEST, if the
were not true. w. SHuRTLEFF.
1875 Clark Ave.
Willard, Nov. 10Th, 1896
. DEAR FRIEND:
1t was with much pain and surpris
J. that read in the GREAT WEST {
: your misfortune, and do hope ths
: ere this y GU are again able to be OF
l. and attend to the great work OF r
= construction there is no other ma
;. so well fitted for the great task.
T. U Wrc1
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WoRTH1NGToN, Mimi, Nov. 10, 80.
DIR. FRAN:
1 am extremely sorry to hear of
DR.. Fish's accident and dangerous
illness, and sincerely hope for his
speedy recovery. We have too few
such workers as he, and to have him
taken from our ranks would be a
very great disaster indeed. Surely
we are not deserted by the giver OF
all Good to such an extent as his
loss to us would be. Give him nv
kindest regards and most earnest
wishes for his speedy recovery.
M. DOANE.
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John, he's the same shpalpane.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-06-19

many narrow escapes from detection
Finally he reached the Siberian port Of
the Pacific, and found that there weIe
four foreign ships in port, including aa
English steamer. He went on board and
asked the Captain if he would take pas
senger to Japan. He replied ''Yes, for
$25." He then told the captain that he
had no passport, and asked if that would
make any difference. The Captain hesi-
tated, and he then told him his whole
story. Finally the Captain promised to
take him, telling him to come on board
next day. When he went to the wharf
the water was so rough that no boatman
would venture out, and he was in despair.
He finally, by offering one of them
large sum, prevailed upon him to make
the trip. When he got near the steamer
he saw two Russian officers on board
talking to the Captain. He buried his
face in his handkerchief and told the
boatman to row to the opposite side of
the ship. When he got there the stew
ard whispered him to be quick in getting
up the gangway, and once on deck he
found the officers were not there. The
Captain had seen him coming and taken
them into the cabin. The steward hid
him until the boat started, and that was
the last solitary confinement for him.
Altogether he has spent seven years IN
solitary confinement, and his exile in ST.
IBERIA lasted for eleven years. New York
Sun
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-06-19
An Important Official.

most important parsonage in mag
zine work is called the reader" To
him is submitted all manuscripts sent
for publication, and his opinion of their
merits largely influences the editorial
decision. The editor may occasionally
read some of them, but he has little
time for such work; so the manuscript
under consideration goes first to one
reader, and then to another, and per-
haps third. They do not sit together
like legislative committee, or a jury.
They may not be known to each other
but the editor receives from each q writ
ten opinion about the article, in which is
embodied usually graphic description
of its plot, style, and various qualities, to-
gether with an account of its upshot or
conclusion. With these documents in
hand he can decide whether he wishes to
use the article, and decide intelligently
without having read himself para
graph of it. Ii he has, as it frequently
happens, a marked division of opinion
to reconcile, he may allot it to O special"
reader, stating or Withholding, as he
chooses, this fact; or he may think it
important enough to dip into it far
enough to see for himself why any diff
ference in Judgment should exist. But
whatever is done, he is himself the
court of appeals, and no doubt balances
sometimes by mere ounce of evidence
or persuasion the fate of the article.
This careful scrutiny is observed mainly
when manuscript is submitted by writ
ers unknown to fame. When story
comes from the pen of well-tried au-
thor, the readers JUNCTION is merely
formal, as the editor has committed
himself in advance to use the story
ordered, and knows its writer's name
alone will make it successful. The
reader calls at the Office for his bundle
of manuscripts to read, or has them
sent to him. But he keeps as SHADY"
as detective and makes quite as many
discoveries as one of that fraternity
does. Many articles sent for inspection
have no merit whatever, and are not
even shaped to presentable form; for
there is o mass OF would-be writers al
ways arising who do not consider au-
thorship profession, and who suppose
that ink and paper being given, they
can surely prepare what the editor is
eagerly waiting for, 1t is only the
writer who does and can get his work
printed, who feels any doubt of his
articles acceptance.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-06-19
STOPPED THE FIGHT.
The Bulls were Doing Their Best
when the Turtle Interfered.

At Stony Ford, N. Y, on the famous
stock farm of Charles Bachman, two
Holstein bulls were pasturing in differ
ent fields, one on one side of the Wal
kill River and one on the other side.
There had been bitter feud between
the two blooded animals for long time,
and few days ago one of the bulls took
position on the river bank in his pas
ture and beloved challenge to his en-
envy, the other bull This was quickly
answered by the Holstein, and he lost no
time in getting to the bank on his side
of the Waikiki The two bulls stood in
that way, believing, and muttering,
and paving dirt for a long time, each
working himself into deeper rage, until
at last one bull could contain himself no
longer and plunged into the river and
swan toward his rivals domain. The
rival did not wait for him to get there,
but jumped into the river and swan to
meet him. The two ugly animals, their
tempers uncooled by their bath, met in
midstream and attempted to have the
matter out right there. The lack of foot
ing and the strength of the current pre-
vented either bull from making any tell
ing assault, but each tried his best to do
battle.
While the bulls were butting and bel
lowing in futile rage in the stream, the
one that had jumped into the river first
suddenly gave tremendous below, and,
turning about, pulled back for his past
ure, believing Justify all the way and
shaking his head violently. He reached
~ H. Il, u al 1t nd
bled up the bank. Then the cause of
his sudden panic and retreat became APP
parent. A large swapping turtle, for
which the Waikiki is noted, had been at
tracted to the spot where the bulls were
fighting in the water, and, the tail of
this bull presenting an appearance to its
liking, the turtle had closed his power
full jaws on it well up toward the butt
end This attack in the rear was more
than the bull had calculated on, and he
pulled for home. When he got out of
the water he kept right on, tearing about
the field and making such rumpus as
that farm had never known before.
The other bull, when its foe retreated
so noisily and suddenly seemed seized
with a panic too, and swan back to his
pasture as quickly rs ne couia. men
he climbed the bank he gazed back at
the strange circus his rival was having,
and uttered not sound After tearing
about the lot two or three times the bull
the turtle had caught succeeded in shak-
ing the snapper loose. 1t was picked up
and subsequently sent to restaurant
keeper in New YorR city. The bull that
the turtle didn't catch has gone to the
bank and renewed his challenge every
day since the turtle broke up the fight,
but his rival pays no attention to it.
He evidently fears repetition of his
first experience. New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-06-19
The Iowa Meteor.

Jens Johnson, travelling agent of the
Northern Pacific, has brought to St.
Paul several specimens of the famous
meteor picked up from the spot where it
fell, twelve miles from Forest City, Iowa.
The specimens out-charcoal charcoal in
blackness where they have been exposed
to the air, and the inner substance is a
stcely gray. The wonderful thing about
them is their weight. Though un-
doubtedly metallic, the specimens are
remarkably light for their size, about
one quarter as heavy as an ordinary peb-
BILE of corelative proportions. AS will be
remembered one piece, the largest found,
weighed 110 pounds, and was purchased
by Professor Winchell, of Minneapolis,
for S1O5. But the professor only reached
Forest City with his prize. He bought
it from Peter Hogan, who found it on a
farm of which he is the lessee. The
owner of the farm has sued Hogan to
gain possession of the huge air traveller,
and the specimen is held until the decis-
ion of the suit.-[St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-06-19
Hotels That Use 5, 200 Towels Day.

"Do you ever wash your hands and
face in the washroom of big hotel"
asked curbstone speculator of Chicago
News reporter.
The question was singular one, to say
the least, but an affirmative answer was
returned.
"Well, if you have, did you ever give
a thought to the great number of towels
that are daily used? There must be at
least one thousand soiled towels sent to
the laundry daily
To discover just how many towels were
used daily in a big hostelry, the reporter
visited the Grand Pacific Hotel From
the head of the laundry it was learned
that on an average between four thousand
and five thousand towels were daily
soiled and washed
The washing process is simple and
rapid, for the reason that most of the
towels are only wrinkled when sent in.
Men rush into the washroom, cool their
hands and dry them on the towels. The
latter are not, strictly speaking, soiled.
Consequently all that is necessary is to
run them through the dryer, or rather
combination wringer-dryer, and there
you are. So great is the Importance of
this one feature of the large hotels that a
man is engaged especially to look after
the towel department.
At the Palmer House the foreman of
the laundry stated that probably six
thousand towels were used every day.
At other hotels almost as large number
was given.