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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24

amuse anybody I jes got myself into
trouble.
went to bed pretty early on Christ
mas eve so as to give my parents q
chance to get the presents out OF the
closet in mammals room, where they had
been locked up since they were bought.
KEEP my close on except my shoes, and
put my nightgown over them so as I'd
look white if any of them came near me.
Then / waited, pinchin myself to keep
awake. After awhile papa came into
the room with a lot of things that he
dumped ON Tommy's bed. Then man.
ma came in and put some things on
mine and in our two stockings that were
hung up by the chimney. Then they
both went out very quiet, and soon all
the lights went out too.
I KEEP ON pinchin myself and waitin
for time, and then when l was sure
that everybody was asleep got up. The
first thing went into was my sisters
room, and got her white fur rug that
mamma gave her on her birthday, and her
sealskin cape that was hanging on ths
closet door. / tied the cape on my head
with shoestrings and it made good bis
cap. Then put the fur rug around me
and pinned it with big safety pins what
I found on Tommy's carriers. Then l
got mammals new scrap basket, trimmed
with roses, what Mrs. Simmons broid-
cred fer the church fair, and piled all of
the kids toys into it. fastened it TO
my back with papa's suspenders, and
then started for the roof.
hurt my fingers some opening the
scuttle, but kept right on. twas snow
ing hard and I stood and let myself get
pretty well covered with fakes. Then
I crawled over to the chimney that went
down into our room and climbed up on
top of it. had brought my bicycle
lantern with me and lighted it so as
Tommy could SEQ me when came down
tbe chimney into the room.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24
LATEST MARKET REPORT,
st. Paul Union Stock Yards.

SOUTH ST.. PAUL. Dec. a, 1891.
HOGS-5@l0c higher. Quality fair. Yards
cleared to packers at $340G3.SO
CATTLE-Slow. Demand was better, but
still light. Little good beef cattle offered.
Prime steers, S37504.50, good steers, $2.5O03 IS;
prime cows, s2.2oD2.15: good COWS, Sl75Q1215:
common to fair cows, $l000L75; light veal
calves, $500 @4.0O; heavy calves, sl.5ON3.OO:
stockers, SI.5O@2.00; feeders, $2.GO02.50; bulls,
stays and oxen, $1.O0@2OO.
SHEEP-No receipts. A few followers
closed out at steady prices. Muttons, $500
4z5; lambs, S35004.25; stockers and feeders,
S2003.5J.
Receipts: Hogs, 200; cattle, $50; calves, Is.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24
Decided to Appoint Baker.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 90. 1T is stated
with positiveness here that the president
has decided to appoint Ex-C congressman
John 81. Baker, of Indiana, to the va
cancy ON the court of claims,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24

slLLYs SANTA CLAUS EXPERIENCE.

f COURSE l
don't believe in
any such person
as Santa Claus,
but Tommy does.
Tommy is my lit
tie brother, aged
six. Las Christ
mas / thought I'd
make some fun
for the young one
by playing Santa
Claus, but as al
ways happens
when l try to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24
Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO UNION SToCK YARDS,
Dec. Y, 1891. (
CATTLE-Market weak
HOGS-Market strong, l0c higher. Heavy,
90; mixed and medium, S36Ja3. 95:
light, $33503.S5.
SHEEP-MaTket firm.
Receipts: Cattle, 7,000 hogs, $4,000; sheen.
49, 1872
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24
Minneapolis Grain.

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. z, 1891.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. closed &c; May OPEN
ing, &c: highest, a2c; lowest, 9lssc: closed,
911ac; January closing, s614c; on track, No. /
hard, s514c; No. l Northern, S716c; No. 2
Northern, Sl1S4c.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24

A popular uprising has occurred in.
Pernambuco, Brazil
The Federation of Labor will meet in
Philadelphia next year.
General Kenly, a veteran of the Mex j
can and civil wars, died at Baltimore
Sunday.
Miss Louise Lee Bayard, youngest
daughter of ex-Secretary Bayard, was
married to DR.. Frank Angel, of New
York.
The French institute. has granted the
Cuvier prize of $500 to the United States
geological survey for the excellence Of
its work.
The bottom of the Gaylord mine at
Plymouth, Pa, caved in. The damage
will exceed $40, 900. Two thousand men
are thrown out of work.
A dispatch from London saws that
Minister Lincoln will shortly send his
resignation to the president. The
rumor could not be confirmed by any
one at Washington.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24
THE postmaster general has

The postmaster general has executed
contracts with the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company for mail service on the
routes between New York and Colon,
San Francisco apd Panama, San Fran
cisco and Hong Yong, and with the Red
3D. line for service between New York
and Laguayra, Venezuela.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24

The Centaur Company Murray Street, York City
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24

WALTER HOGAN, PROP.
Sank Centre Agency, U. M. Tobey
g. Bro.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-12-24

News OF Carrent Interest Given Brief
Mention.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

Acapulco about the time the Col
ina sighted the Itata and return
ed soon after, it is quite likely
that she met her consort and warm
ed her of the Charleston's pursuit.
In that case the Itata probably
struck out a new course for home,
and it would be almost impossible
for the Charleston to find her.
With the chances of her escape SO
good. we do not take much stock
in the report that the insurgents
have decided to give her up to the
United States as soon as she reach
ed Chila-that is, unless they take
her cargo of arms out first.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION.

The Department of Agriculture
has recently issued report in re-
gard to the productive possibilities
of IL Q United States which effec
tually puts an end to all those
theories based upon the assump-
ton that we have about reached
the full measure of our agricultur-
al products. $50 far from having
reached the limit" says the re-
port, "we have not even ap-
preached it. One third of the
area of the country is either too
wet or too dry for present cult
vation and awaits irrigation and
drainage, while of the other two
thirds much is not included in
farms, and the farms themselves
are not utilized to their full capa-
city," The figures cited by the
report make the truth of this state
ment evident beyond all doubling.
A large part of the arid lands OF
the country have never even been
surveyed, but it is certain that by
irrigation millions of acres of this
area can be readily brought under
cultivation. In Maine fully two
thirds of the land is still unoccu-
pied by farms, and only one-fifth
part of the whole area of the
Southern States is under cultiva
ton. How large an area this Is
NAV be estimated from the fac
that in Florida alone there is one
hundred and fifty times as mucf
good cane land as is now used ir
the whole country in growing this
crop. In every section of the coun
try there is in fact large quantitie!
of land not yet in use which viii
become available as fast as the
increase of population renders i
profitable to drain and irrigate it
and these lands are among the
richest in the world. There Seems
to be no reason therefore for doubt
ing that the agricultural produc
ton of the country is capable o
an immense expansion and tha
we will be able to supply Europe
for many wears to come.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
THE CHASE OF THE ITAI,A. &.

When the Charleston left Aca-
pulco her officers we're reported to
have said that the Itata had about
three days start of her. We re-
marked at the time that we did
not know the grounds upon which
this estimate was based, since the
dispatches asserted that the fugl-
tive ship had not been sighted.
The arrival of the Colima clears
up the mystery. 1t seems that on
the 18th, just after leaving Aca-
pulco, coming north, a Chilean yes
sci, supposed to be the Itata, was
seen from the Colima, and on the
same day the Charleston was met,
about sixty miles behind. The
| Charleston was notified of the
whereabouts of the Itata, but put
into Acapulco for coal. She stayed
there until the evening of the 18th,
leaving about two days and halt
behind the Itata. If the Chilean
cruiser was making ten knots the
Charleston had about 600 nautical
miles to gain on her before over
taking her and supposing the
cruiser to make fifteen knots it
would take her just five days to
do it. But in that time the Itata
would have advanced 1 200 miles,
which would bring her off the Pe-
ruvian coast. There she might
meet other insurgent vessels and
be relieved of her cargo.
|. As. the Esmeralda put out Of
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

A REUNION OF the veterans OF
the National and Confederate
armies of the late war has been
arranged to take place at Chicago
during the Worlds Fair. No ex-
hibit of American attainment will
be so interesting to students OF
political history as the cordial
greeting of those who fought
against each other in the rebel
lion. Most or all of the old bitter
ness has passed away, and the re-
naming leaders and soldiers will
meet with no unpleasant thoughts
and offer to the world a spectacle
such as it has seldom seen, of vic
tors and vanquished uniting in
celebrating the life and growth of
their common country.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
IMPORTANT OPINION.

Settlers on unsurveyed land III
the Alsea country, should notice
the following letter which is an
opinion by Hon. J. T. Apperson,
register of the United States land
office, in answer to Mr.. A. 2. Will
son, U. S. Deputy Surveyor, in
reference to the repeal Of the pre-
emption laws:
OREGON CITY, Or, March 6, 1891.
Mr.. A. 2. WILSON, Deputy U. 5.
Surveyor, Tillamook, Oregon;
DEAR SIR:-We are Of the opin-
ion that under the act of congress
of March 8, 1891, repeating the
pre- -emption law. that the act
makes provisions for all bonaflde
claims lawfully iniated before the
passage of this act, under any OF
said provisions of law so repeated,
may be perfected upon due COM
pliance with law in the same man
ner, upon the same terms and con-
ditions, and subject to the same
limitations, forfeitures and con-
tests as if this act had not been
passed.
A bonafde and actual settler,
who made settlement on unsur-
veyed lands, before March 3, 1891
and can prove his compliance
thereafter on said land of the re-
uuirements of the pre-emptlon
laws, will be entitled when the
land is surveyed and subject to
entry, to file and take title under
the pre-emption laws as they ex-
listed at the time when he made
settlement on the land.
J. 7. APPERsoN, Receiver.
All settlers on unsuryeyed lands
must make their filings within 80
days of the acceptance of the sur
vey. b. W. WILSON,
|. County Clerk.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

IT must be sad news to the
calamity howlers Of the democratic
stripe to learn that the surplus in
the treasury is gradually increas-
ing. The recent heavy drains
were because of the payments OF
the direct tax refunded to the
states. At its present rate of in
crease, the amount in the treasury
will be more than sufficient by
June 4th to meet the quarterly
pension payment of over $3O,OOO,-
900. Even should it not be sui
ficient, that would not mean that
the treasury could not meet the
draft; for there is still large
amount of the public money which
was lent by Cleveland's admins
tration to the national banks which
has not yet been returned to the
treasury. This could be called In
and would be ample to meet the
requirements.-Blade.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
SOME GOLD FIGURES.

Just at this time it is of interest
to recall the facts concerning our
expectation of gold. From 1861,
the year ill which the war began,
to 1877, a period of Is years, we
exported the enormous total Of
over $53O,OOO,O0O. Since 1877 we
have imported more than we ex-
ported every year except five
1884, 1885, 1886, 1889 and 1890.
In the decade from 1860 to 1870,
the net exports were $330,OO0,00
in that from 1870 to 1890, $780,
100000, and from 1880 up to May
Q, 1891, our net imports were
$1O9, 100000.
Our production of gold from
1860 to 1870 was $475,0O0,O0O;
from 1870 to 1880, 4O0,000,O0O;
from 1880 to to 1891, $330,00O,-
900. From 1860 to 1870 our pro-
duction exceeded our exports by
$40, 100000; from 1870 to 1880
by 100000, and from 1880 to
1891, our production plus our i'm
ports gave us $435,oOO,000 of gold.
In the years 1878 and 1879 we
took United States bonds instead
of gold; instead of Europe send
ing us the metal she sent us our
own bonds.
The exports of gold for the nine
months of the present fiscal year
that is, from July l, 1890, to
April 1, 1S91-were $25, ,797 $40;
we imported $17,517,640, making
a net loss of gold of IS, ,279,7 ,706.
Subtracting the imports we have,
in the ten months of the present
fiscal year, exported no more gold
than we have produced from our
own mines.-Toledo Blade.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
AS Memorial Day approaches

AS Memorial Day approaches
the question suggests itself, how
rapidly are the old soldiers dying
off? A Washington authority
saws that at the close of the war
there were about 100000 Union
veterans. The census reports
which are, however, more or less
imperfect-show about / 200, 900
of these now living. The pension
rolls carry about 100000 names OF
those whose claims have been al
lowed, and the deaths of pension
ers reported to the bureau aggre-
gate about 5000 per year. Tax
ing this as a basis of estimate, and
calculating that the deaths among
all soldiers are at the same ratio
as among the pensioners, it is fail
to presume that between $4,000
and 10000 veterans die every
wear. OF course, as the years go
on the ratio increases, and in the
next ten years they will drop OF
iar more rapidly than in the past
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

THERE seems to be some rules
that do not work both ways. Ii
one has the right to buy and sell
where he wishes, ought he not also
be allowed to buy and sell what
he wishes. Prohibition free trad
ers say no. Another free trader
who claims the right to buy what
and where he wants loudly and
strongly object to another man
buying labor in another country
1t will be observed, however, that
these inconsistencies are decidedly
democratic. A republican be-
lieves in a reasonable government
control and restriction OF all these
matters. Thus in order to become
consistent in all your views get
upon the republican platform at
once. You will find it made oi
home lumber, homemade nails
built by we'll paid home labor anc
planned by home talent. insteac
of imported lumber, nails, labor
and Golden Club brains.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

The Commercial Bulletin, re-
ferring to reports Of ravages of the
hop louse on the Pacific coast,
says: Cynical observers may class
this as properly coming under the
head of borrowed trouble, but
when the history of Wisconsin as
a hop growing state is looked into
it will be found that the presence
of the lice on the Pacific coast is
not a thing to be wholly ignored
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

The prize. fighters Corbett and
Jackson didn't hammer one
another hard enough in San Fran
cisco Thursday night to suit the
professionals and others who take
a adeep interest in such "sport,
and so the affair was considered q
draw on the sixty-first round. Ii
takes blood for satisfactory prize
fight.-Statesman.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

TOMORROW will be Memorial
Day. 1t is day set apart by the
nation in honor Of the departed
heroes who fought and died fol
our country and will be absented
in every city village and hamlet
in the union. Let all our citizens
ioin I'M the exercises tomorrow.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
THE PEOPLES PARTY.

The convention at Cincinnati
was stormy at times but it seems
to be we'll nigh unanimous in its
main purposes, for with scarcely a
single dissenting voice it adopted a
platform, elected a national COM
mittee and issued a manifesto to
the country announcing its en-
trance into the political field as a
separate and independent organiz-
alton under the name of the Peo-
ple's Party. The platform indorses
the demands made by the Farmers
Alliance at its various conven-
tions in regard to the currency and
the lending of money at two per
cent. upon -perishable products;
it demands free coinage of silver,
the prohibition of the alien owner
ship of land and the reclamation Of
all land held by railroads and other
corporations in excess of such as is
actually used by them. There are
many other planks in the platform,
such as the election of president
by a direct vote of the people, and
a demand for an income tax, but
it is on the currency, coinage and
the land question that the new
Dartv must make its chief fight,
and by these it will be judged.
All of them have long been before
the people and have been amply
discussed. 1t is quite certain that
neither the republican nor the
democratic parties would ever
have endorsed the platform as it
stands on these questions and there
was nothing left for the advocates
of them but to establish the third
party which they have done. The
decision on this point having now
been reached, puts an end to all
future speculation as to whether
the alliance will act with the
democratic party in 1892, and
raises in place of it the question
of who is 20 be the leader of the
new party in the presidential cam
paign. The only eminent states
man who could stand on the cur
rency plank is Senator Stanford
but the plank in regard to railroad
lands will probably exclude him
also. 1t is likely, therefore, thai
some wholly unknown man will
be named when the time comes
1t is as yet too early to form al
estimate of the consequence:
which the new party will effect II
the election. 1t is acting now ap
parently with a great deal of har
mony and enthusiasm, and If this
can be maintained there is nt
doubt that it will seriously Gu
down the republican vote in the
North and the democratic vote IL
the South, thus putting large
number of states in the doubtful
list and rendering the next cleo
ton one of the most uncertain
ever held since the formation O
; the government.-San Jose Mere
ury.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

THE people of Salem raised a
subsidy for the big woolen mill, it
being agreed that 100000 pounds
of wool a year should be manu-
ia tured into cloth. The mill used
more than this last year, which
was the first year, and is now on
the market for 100000 pounds fol
the second years run.-Statesman
Salem has made a good invest
nient in this, as we'll as several
other manufacturing enterprises
No enterprising city will let an
opportunity pass to establish solid
and profitable manufactures with
in its limits. The people of Cor.
wallis should be on the alert tC
capture some of these prizes
Factories is what we need to make
abusy and prosperous city. 1t is
within the power of our citizens
to have a paper mill and car.
riage factory established here dur
ing the present year. The can
merry project also lives in a dor
mant condition.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
THE Oregon Improvement Com

THE Oregon improvement Com
pany has imported negroes and
nut them in their coal mines at
Frarklyn, Washington, to take the
place of the striking white miners.
They say the men belonging to
labor unions are too uncertain and
are liable to quit or be on strike
when most needed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

AN exchange says: The Dalton
boys, who held up the Santa Fe
trains in Oklahoma, were deputy
United States marsnals under
Cleveland.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

WONDER if Cleveland will go
fishing on Decoration day this
wear. as was his custom when he
was president?
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
RAW AS BEEF-STEAK.
Baby's Fearful Suffering from Skin
Disease Covering Entire Body
Cured by Cuticura.

My baby was taken very sick when he
was three months old, and in few days be-
gan breaking out. We employed both OF
the home doctors, and they could do moth
ing for him. Then we sent for the best
doctor in Eaton Rapids, Mich, and he doc
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

REMEDIES any way; did not have any idea
they would do any good, but in less than
two months from the time we began giving
them to him he was entirely well, and not a
spot on him. His hair began growing right
off, and'we had thought he would always
be bald. headed. There was not spot on
his whole body. face, and head, only his
nose and ewes, but what was as raw as a
beef-steak. So poor there was not any
thing but bones. and so weak he could raise
neither hand nor head.
Mrs. FRANK BARRETT, Winfield, Mich.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
Cutjcuya EeSO!vent.

The new blood and Skin Purifier, and great.
est of Humor Remedies, cleanses the blood
of all impurities and poisonous elements
and thus removes the cause. while CUT1-
cURA, the great skin cure. and CUTIcURA
SOAP, an exquisite skin heautitier, clear the
skin and scalp, and restore the hair. Thus
the CUr1cURA REMEDIES cure every species
of itching. burning, scaly, pimply. and
blotchy skin, scalp, and blood diseases,
from pimples to scrofula, from infancy to
age. when the best physicians fail.
Sold every where, Price, CUTIcURA, SOC;
SOAP. 25; REsoLvENT. 81. Prepared by the
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION,
Boston.
sySend for elbow to Cure Blood Diseases.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29

tored him for two
weeks, and he got
worse all the time;
and then I took him
Ito jackson to a doc
itor who attends es-
pecially to skin dis
eases, and then he
got worse than ever.
Then I told my hrs-
band we had better
try the CUTICURA
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-05-29
. L. G.. ALTMAN, M. D,
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.

OFFICE-Oyer Nolan's Store, Second and Monroe
Streets
RESIDENCE-On Jackson Street. between Eighth
and Ninth.
OFFICE HOURS-From to IL m, and 2 to and
to p. m.