The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-06-12

EDITOR GREAT WEST:
l like your valuable paper very
much, for think it is one of the best
edited papers I have ever taken.
VIM. 81. KEENE.
SALTWATER, Mimi, June 8, 1891.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
DEAR SIR:-Will you please to kind
ly publish the following letter:
TO THE FARMERS OF MINNESOTA:
GENTLEMEN:-The State, at the de-
mand of the farmers of this State,
having engaged in the manufacture
OF binding Irvine at the State Prison
in Saltwater, now offers for sale in
limited quantities a superior article
of hemp Irvine at 9 cents per pound.
This enterprise having been estab-
lished for the benefit of the farmers
of Minnesota, we would urge all who
desire to make it a success, to club
together and order a few hundred
pounds at once. A few farmers in
each community can easily secure
enough of this Irvine to give it a fair
trial. When the farmers of Minneso-
ia demonstrate that they can sue
cessfully raise the raw material and
manufacture their own binding
Irvine, it will soon be good bye to the
Irvine Trust
Gentlemen, believe you run no
risk in ordering, as this is good
Irvine, and you may rely on a fair
deal. AS am in receipt of number
OF letters every week from different
parts OF the state, making inquiry
how to order, I would say that all
orders should be addressed to Albert
Garvin, Warden Minnesota State
Prison, Saltwater, MINI. The money
should accompany each order. Send
by express, P. 0. money order or
registered letter. No order should
be for less than 100 pounds, nor
more than 500. Yours respectfully,
ANDREW RICHMOND,
Chrm. Alliance Co. Committee on
Prison Irvine.
Mr.. Eric Olson was before the
Grain Investigating Committee Mon
day, and suggested his fitness for the
lunatic asylum. We have filed some
letters OF Eric's for use should COM
mission ever be called to examine
him. Not having any better author
ity at hand we clip the following
from the st. Paul Dispatch, John
Day Smith being the questioner:
"Where do you consider the seat of
the difficulty to be-"
"Well, I should say with the Pills
bury family. Charley Pillsbury is the
largest buyer in the United States.
understand he must control the mar
ket to certain extent"
Mr.. Olson stated that he consider
ed the Minneapolis elevators to be as
deep in the mud as the Duluth eleva-
tors we're in the mire. He referred to
the Holcombe stealing and also to
report that oats had been stolen
from Elevator AL, a public elevator,
and placed in Elevator Az, private
warehouse. He had this on the au-
thority of Tom Lucas, whom he had
asked to investigate the matter.
Lucas in turn had heard it from
some one else. When Mr.. Smith at
tempted to draw the witness out he
bristled up at once and reminded Mr..
Smith that one time he had not con-
sidered him competent as an &C
countant and he didn't care to testi-
fy very much. In fact, Olson was
very sore over the loss of the Duluth
job, and he could answer very few
questions. He brought the matter
up every few minutes in his testi-
mony: The one thing he was posi-
tive OF was that the GREAT WEST
was the official organ of the alliance
only in the mind of Editor Fish.
Mr.. Severance then produced an
editorial in that paper stating that
when C. A. Pillsbury became a bear
in the wheat market the Chicago
board OF trade building would stand
on it's steeple. Mr.. Olson said that
was matter OF opinion. He consid-
cred Mr.. Pillsbury ''half bear and
half bull" He said: 81 am respon-
sible for my own actions and opin-
ions. I am free United States citi-
zen. I can do and think as 1 please.
l don't care what the GREAT WEST
or any other West says
The above exhibits the fool to ad-
vantage. The GREAT WEST has been