The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-09-04
NEWSPAPER NOTES.


ready had ON his farm near Tracy. As
the flock passed through town the
number was estimated by various
stock men from 400 to 1900.
Sleepy Eye Dispatch: The Lam
berton Leader mentions Col. George
Shelton, Frank E. Kenney, Hon. 0. B.
Turrell and G. L. Webber as candi-
dates for the Republican nomination
for representative. With such list
to choose from Redwood county will
hardly make mistake and select q
poor representative.
Marshall Reporter: The beautiful
golden rod is in bloom, and nature
will soon awake up with the yellows.
The effect Of excess shows in the fact
that while in the elfete east the gold
en- rod is worth a nickel a bouquet,
here it wouldn't sell for dollar ton,
and the unromantic village council
hire it cut down as nuisance.
Anoka Herald: The Wilmar Re-
publican-Gazette publishes call for
full meeting OF Willmar Hut, ORR
entail Order OF Humility, for the pllr-
pose of nominating a state and coun-
ty ticket What's the matter with a
state convention of all those who have
received the great secret?' 1t would
bring together all the great minds in
the state, and could not fail to be pro-
ductive of good to the human race.
Midway News: A vote is all that
the republic has to give it's citizens
and it is all that monarchy denies to its
subjects. Yet, some men are impa-
tent, the moment nominations are
made, to give their vote away to the
first Off ce-seeker, or his authorized
agent, who comes around begging for
it. Why this haste? It is all you
hive under the government! Why
give it away? But above all why prom
Use it two months in advance?
New Tim Review: What specta-
Gle the Democratic convention of Wis
cOnsin must have been "a lot of sober
thinking men following themselves
hoarse over bitter attack on princi-
pies of the Bennett law, law which
has for its sole object the bringing up
Of all children in a knowledge of the
language of their adopted country
Does such a scene reflect credit on
the intelligence of the Democrats of a
state like Wisconsin,
Pennington Tribune: Go to the
caucus and select new men to repre-
sent you in the convention, and YOU
will have practically a new party with
all the prestige Of the old one and the
new one combined, and your chances
of success will be vastly greater than
by forming new party i'll any other
way. One thing in particular is nee
essary to remember, if you wish to do
this, and that is that 7 o'clock never
means 1870 in the call for caucus,
and if YOU do not want some of the
old timers with a fast watch to get
ahead of you, you must be Oh time
and take nothing for granted.
n. w. Agriculturist: Debt is al
ways a burden and is not to be light
ly incurred, but there are plenty of
men who have made money by going
into debt, and who never could have
made as much if they had not Dor
roVed money to start with. There is
good deal said, just now, in the pa
pers and political platforms about
farm mortgages. The facts are that
most of them were made to set the
borrower up in business on his own
farm, and without the mortgage he
would be working by the month for
somebody else. The man who has
anchored his family in a home on a
piece of land, which industry and fru-
gality will enable him to call wholly
his own in a few years, is better man
and better citizen for it, and in such
a case the mortgage is a blessing and
not curse to the maker of it.
n. ". Farmer: Col. Rodgers of
the Market Record in Minneapolis,
has been quoted freely by certain
Journals as eminent authority on crop
tat;stirs, and the unknowing or I'M
thinking are giving these reports great
publicity. Farmer q Breeder denies
that the Colonel has access to inform
alton not perfectly free to every one;
or that he can be authority on the
wheat crop of the Northwest in the
shock, much less before it is cut. These
crop statistic makers are now splitting
hairs as to whether the crop of Min
nesota and the Dakotas shall be nine
ty or one hundred million bushels.
Wheat is worth S1CO a bushel in the
Dakotas and would probably bring it,
were it not for these wholly unreliable
crop estimates of Rodgers, who is
simply the tool of. the wheat buyers;
his market Record now reports the
fax crop of the country as double that
of former years. The fax crop is. as
every one knows, very uncertain
quantity, but it is soon to be market
ed, see?
The general failure of fruit all over
the country approaches a fruit famine
In the New York market at this season
of the year it is customary to receive
100000 packages of summer fruit
each day from nearby states. Now
barely 1000 packages are received.
Many people Of small or even moder-
ate means have to forego the use of
fruit for the simple reason that there
is not enough to go around, and hence
the price is high. 1t is proving a lucky
time for California fruit growers. They
have practically monopoly of the
market, The crop is larger by one
third than it was last year, owing to
the increased acreage in bearing. The
price averages twenty per cent higher.
It costs 1925 to transport a carload
from Sacramento to New York, but it
comes in whole train-loads. The men
on the Pacific coast who have had the
shrewdness to plant largely of fruit
are now making lots of money, and
millions of people east of the Rocky
mountains are thankful for the relief
which California's supply affords from
what would otherwise be fruit
famine.-EX.