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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
CUPID AND THE CAT.
A Suffering Feline Came Between Tw'
Souls That Beat as One.

A Suffering Feline Came Between Two
Souls That Beat as One.
He lives in Evanston, and during the
past two years has been paying his adj
dresses to one of the most charming
girls Oh the north side. The wedding
aay has not been named, but their en-
gagement was announced almost year
ago.
Several weeks ago, Willie they We're
walking home from church one Sunday
night, they ran across cat that was
wailing piteously on doorstep, "Do
YOU hear that, Jila:" she exclaimed
srasping his arm with Il closer grip.
There's something tae matter with that
poor little pussy. I'm !soing to SEQ what
aiis it"
"Nonsenser' he rcpliel. Lets 90 on;
the cat will take care Of itself"
"No; let's sec what is the trouble"
Without more ado tho young woman
ran up to the cat AMI was ho: fled to
find that the animal had evidently been
run over by wagon, as its spine was
dislocated and it was barely able TO
crawl by dragging its hind legs.
"She's done for, sure enough" com
mented the Evanstonial. "She won't
last long. Come on, now"
TIE girl suddenly Strengthened up to
her full height. "Do you mean to say
that you would leave any animal to
suffer like this? There is a drugstore
on the next corner Run over there and
buy an ounce of chloroform. Hurry,
now, there's dear!
Nonsense! You don't s--rpoac I'm
COIN, into the business i ,,occoi'i,lt sic!z
cas- on the streets at d i;;;,lt, DO yo,,? BE
sensible"
and YOU Cont suppose I,;1 Su;Is to
let this cat suffer here, do you? Go and
bring me a bottle of chloroform in
stantly."
Il won't do it."
"But insist"
"You certainly can't be in earnest?'
81 certainly am. If you don't do it l
will go after it myself"
"You want to make me appear ridic-
ulous?'
Hurry up, dear!'
For moment the young man did not
STIR. The blood rushed to his face, and
he began to grow angry. ''See here!'
he exclaimed "This is carrying mat
tiers entirely too far. l will permit no
woman to make fool of me like this.
I'll get your chloroform if you really in
sist, but warn you-you'l never have
chance to do such a trick again. will
never have anything to do with you
again. Mark thatr'
"Get the chlorofor1n." .-~
eff I do everything is over between
u.s.
Gail right; bring it."
Two minutes later a fine lace hand
kerchief saturated with the anasthetic
was applied by fair, white hand to the
nose of the suffering brute and the wall
ing ceased.
Here this story should end. A regard
for the truth, however, compels the adj
dition of the statement that the young
man thus far has actually carried his
threat into execution and the prospect
of that wedding grows DINNER and
dimmer.-Chicago Mail.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
A Successful Euse.

A couple of thirsty fellows who had
been loafng all the forenoon on the
quays at Stockholm were struck with
brilliant idea. They borrowed an old
brandy key and half filed it with water.
Then one of them slung it on his shout
der and took it to the nearest spirit
vault, where he stated that he had been
sent by one of the shippers in port to
have the keg filed with brandy.
"The captain is sorry he only got it
half full yesterday and thinks it would
be better to have it filled to the top"
The key was accordingly held under
the tap till it was full, and the fellow
hoisted it on his shoulder, but as he was
about to walk off with it he was stop
ped by the clerk, who demanded pay
ment for the spirits.
Hasn't our skipper a running ac-
COUNT"
"Certainly not"
"Bless me! must have gone to the
wrong shop! There is nothing for it
but to empty half the key back again."
This was no sooner said than done;
after which our hero merrily went in
search of his companion.-Dagblaedt.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
An intelligent Democratic frient

An intelligent Democratic friend
assures us that he is opposed to the
state bank currency in the Democrat
ic platform, but he thinks Cleveland
could overcome it. But is probable
that the 800 delegates who represent
ed the Democratic party at Chicago
knew what the party wants. Mr..
Cleveland is not bigger than the
Democratic party; he has no author
ity to set aside any part Of the plat
form. And if Cleveland should be
elected he would be under every OBJ
legation of honor and necessity to
carry out the policy Of the Chicago
platform in every detail. Mr.. Cleve-
lands vacillating letter is not calcu
lated to inspire the independent voter,
and the only safe thing to do is to
vote for Benjamin Harrison, in whose
platform everybody has confidence.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
Morris, Oct. Is, 1892.

Who said we couldn't raise apples
in Minnesota? Read the following
from the Farm, Stock and Home:
Minnesota has this year gained con-
siderable netoriety as fruit region.
Carload after carload Of the Duchess
ofOldenburg apples haTe been sent to
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri; states
upon which we have in the past de-
pended for a large proportion OF Our
apples. Our famous Wealth is fol
lowing suit. There ure orchards in
the state that have nat5el their owl
ers from $40 to 500 ~: a2:e, and
this ha, aNakenr an ins,'ca,: i'll o.
chardin.s greater than c>e: A&p"e
known. This i; likely to vveAt,. q
harvest 70: gool uu:sv'Y S,o;.;, ana
prove a. bonanza 70; interruptions
agents.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
When Nature

Needs assistance it may be best to
render it promptly, but one should
remember to use even the most per-
feet remedies only, when needed. The
best and most simple and gentle
remedy is the Syrup Of Figs, manu-
featured by the California Fig Syrup
Company. I'm
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
ADruggist Talks.

Will. F. Crawford, druggist at Des
Moines, Iowa, says it is remarkable
the way Cubeb Cough Cure sells, that
his customers speak of it in the high
est terms of praise. One man in par
ticular who has been troubled with
bronchitis for years, never found any
relief until he used the Cubeb Cough
Cure. He says it stops it at once. He
does not hesitate to recommend it for
all throat and lung troubles. For sale
by Fritz Buckentin. I'm
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE,

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Few
er Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chill
blains, Corns, and all Skin EruptIons,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re-
guired 1t is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded. Price
Is cents per box. For sale by Fritz
Buckentin, Morris, and Thorpe s. Tollif-
son, Hancock.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
From Kalamazoo.

NORMAN L1TcHY, Dies MONIES, Iowa.
Dear Sir-A box of Headache Cap
sules were handed to me and [ have
used them with perfect success. They
cannot be recommended too highly
Could not possibly do without them
in my house. I recommend them to
sufferers with this common though
terrible complaint. j. ENslNG,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
For sale by Fritz Buckentin. I'm
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-10-19
MURDERED BY ROBBERS.
Five Men Killed by Desperadoes in Mis-
sissippi.

IVe Men hIl1eu Dy DespeTAUOes IN MIS-.
sissippi.
JACKSON, Oct. 5.-This city was
thrown into intense excitement during
the day by the report that Wednesday
night five miles west of Deny, in the
southern portion of this county, two
white men named Ben Watkins and J.
D. Davis and negro were killed by a
band of four robbers and horse thieves.
The two white men are prominent citi-
zens. An armed posse is out in search
of the desperadoes. No effort will be
spared to effect their capture.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18

when he must have known from these
letters, as we'll as through his actions as
president of the "Soo'' railroad, that the
fault did not lie with the boards OF
trade, but was directly traceable to tho
millers and elevator men OF the Norths
west, aided and abetted by the railroads.
A direct charge is made against SenatOE
Washburn that as president OF the
800" railroad he co-Operated with the
elevator men in preventing competition
with the combination. 1t is asserted
one Underwood. not to ,furt
ers. and that by this means
competition was stifled. The evidence
of one man is given who says that had
this competition been permitted ha
could have paid the farmers larger
price for wheat than the combine eleva-
tors were paying and made as much
money in sixty days at selling wheat as
he had made in farming for eight years,
SO much less than its real price is being
paid for grain by the members of this
gigantic association. A fac simile OF
the letter written by Senator Washburn
is printed and the feelings of the junior
senator from Minnesota are not spared
in this arraignment of the moneyed men
of the Northwestern states. A cartoon
shows Senator Washburn's poverty
stricken" million dollar home as com.
pared with the ''palatial" mansion Of
the farmer. The Pillsburys are carr
toOned as robbing with one hand the
farmer and endowing institutions in
their old home in New Hampshire and
the University of Chicago and educa,
tional colleges in Minnesota with tha
other.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18

dents of railroads, elevator companies,
banks, ETC., there is very little doubt.
The letters were mostly written to the
Credit Lyonnais bank. in response to an
inquiry from that bank as to whether or
not the elevator companies of the North
west were paying dividends, if so how
much, and whether it would be safe to
lend them money for meeting their cur
rent requirements. No little part of the
sensation attending the publication of
the document will be the position of
the bank which wrote for confidential
inside information, obtained the conf
dence of the elevator magnates and mil
lerS, and then betrayed it.
At Tremendous Profit.
The book afjrms that the combine has
been paying for several years such low
price for wheat that it can sell it in
Minneapolis and Duluth at a net profit
of from 1917 to % cents per bushel. The
evidence begins with description Of
the Minneapolis Millers' association,
which is alleged to have been the COM
bine up to 1856. when Its charter eX-
pired. This organization, it is shown,
fixed what was known as the list
price" for wheat, and that the twenty
five or thirty elevator companies. each
running from 100 to $50 elevators at
country points, entered into articles or
agreement by which they agreed not to
pay over the list price. This agree
ment is set forth in the book. and par
ticular attention is directed to two
clauses. The first of these provides that
no offer over the regular lists to be made
for wheat in any case. and no offer is to
be made for wheat before it is delivered
up to the elevators. The second clause
provides that in no case shall the mini
mum dockage on unclean wheat be less
than one pound per bushel. The book
says that there are four methods by
which the farmerls robbed of his wheat.
These four robberles are alleged to be
committed at the country elevators, and
are In addition to other systematic
methods of robbery practiced at the
terminal elevators, and are boldly said
to be by the orders and under the di
rection of the officers of the elevator
companies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
sTIFL1NG A COMPETITOR.
The Method Employed to Get Rid
of q Man in the Way.

Probably the strongest evidence In
the book is that furnished by G. G. VOL
colt. 1t seems that in pursuance of it's
plan to stif1e competition the trust
bought up WolcOtt in LarImore. Dak.,
where he was buying wheat for himself.
a contract was made with him By the
Minnesota and Northern Elevator COM
pany by which it agreed to pay him
$1,000 per year for i've years for no
other reason apparent than that he was
| to stay away from Larimore, OAK, and
not buy wheat there. He had been pay
| ing several cents more buShel than
the trust paid, and of course the farmers
had been shipping their wheat to him
because they could get more money for
it. The history leading up to this con-,
tract is very interesting one and is set
forth in full in the book. 1t seems that
the Minnesota and Northern Elevator
company paid him for two and half
years and then stopped, and Wolcott
now has a suit against the company
IN st. Paul to recover the BALANCED
due him. 1t is asserted that the
combine resorted to all sorts of tricks
to keep him from buying wheat before
they finally made this contract with
him. During the two and half years
that the contract was lived up to by the
Minneapolis q Northern Elevator COM
pany. owned by the Pillsburys, Wolcott
received great many letters from .. M.
Amsden. general manager of the COM
pany, and these letters are the strongest
evidence presented by the book. One
of them, for instance, tells WOlcOtt that
Charles A. PiIlsbury requested him to
''Steer his man LouckS'' out of Pills
bury's territory. Loucks Is presidentofj
the Farmers Alliance of the Unitedi
States and is the man who is alleged toi
have been brought under the infuencel
of PillSbury, who was anxious to, do
away with the competition of the FARM
ers' Alliance Elevator company, run by!
the Farmers Alliance, through Loucks, !
then president OF the Dakota Farmers
Alliance. Another letter by Amsden
directs Wolcott to do what he can to-
ward preventing the establishment of
farmers elevator, which was calculated I
to break the power of the combination 1
at the point where it was proposed to
establish it.
In one letter Mr.. Pillsbury's manager
suggests to WOlcOtt to take an interest
in mill which certain Eastern men
were about to build at Park River. .Dak.,
so that Wolcott could be on the inside
and could induce the milling company
to become member of the combine, or,
if they refused, he could wreck it. All
of these letters by AmSden amount to
this, that WOlcott was to act in the in
terest of the combine in breaking up
farmers elevators, in running inde-
pendent buyers out of certain towns, in
manipulating Loucks so that he could be
prevented from doing the combination
any harm, and generally to strengthen
the combines power and influence, but
by means which were not only disrep-
utable, but would seem to be i'm direct
contravention of the anti trust statutes
of the state of Minnesota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
and side by side also with his state.

and side by side also with his state
ments that his company and all other
companies in the Northwest never, in
their most prosperous years, averaged
over ~ per cent profit. The testimony
before the house committee on agri-
culture and the state judiciary commit
tee seems to have been,ransacked by
the cOmpilers of the book, with the re-
suit that they have tangled up G. A.
Pillsbury and shown where he made a
statement in one breath and contra
dicted it in another. This testimony in
these two committee meetings was
taken, it will be remembered, in the
tight for the passage of the anti
option bill. The examination OF Mr..
PillsburY on those occasions brought
out statements which were in substance
that the elevator business and the mill
ing business of the Northwest were not
profitable, and that the wind-sellng on
the boards of trade throughout the
country and option trading were the
direct and only causes which he knew
for the failure of the farmers to get a
reasonable price for their wheat.
"a Gigantic Conspiracy" claims in a
very elaborate argument that tie wind
selling or option trading of the boards
of trade has nothing whatever to do
Will uGCTcdSluS GIl6 dIIlOullC WHICH the
farmer receives for his wheat, but that
the cause of the poor price for this ce-
real is found in the combination among
the Northwestern elevator men and
millers. 1t is sought to be shown that
not only do the Pillsbury- Washburn
milling interests in the Northwest de-
prive the farmer of fair cOmpen sation
for his crops, but that they also rob the
millers Of Indiana. New York, Mary
land, Michigan and other states wher-
ever milling is conducted by using
the best grade of wheat for their own
mills and permitting only the ''skin" or
mixed grades of wheat to 60 out to other
mills. 1t is claimed that they carry this
fraud to the extent of shipping ''skin''
wheat to Europe, and it is alleged that
the character of the wheat on the Eu-
ropean markets fixes standard price
and that that standard price governs the
price of wheat i'll the West and North
west. so that the effect is that the farmer
gets for his finest grade of wheat the
price of the cheapest grade. 1t is said
that the EUROPEAN millerS cannot COM
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
''''e AS<ss 70, q RkA4eAzfo
LETTER TO THE BANKER.

to terminal points himself and
is obliged, therefore, to sell it to the
country elevators. Numbers of inde-
pendent buyers have gone to country
towns where combine elevators are pay
ing this low or list price for wheat, and
have paid the farmers higher prices.
but they have not been permitted to
continue paying a good price for wheat.
The trust is alleged to have gotten rid
OF them by one means or another. In
some cases it is said they were bought
off: in others they were intimidated,
and in others they were ruined by tricks
which, If the book did not contain so
much that was powerful evidence,
would read more like romance than fact.
The country elevators, by this cOmbina-
ton, each received q pro rata share of
the wheat brought in by the farmer, it
is claimed, and averaged up their profits
in such way that no one elevator had
any advantage over another elevator.
The heaviest part of the country elevat-
orS' profits, 1t is alleged, Is by the four
systems of robbery heretofore men
toned. A description of these four sys-
TENS is this:
First-The country agents alleged to
use brass kettle, graduated, into
which, by a simple trick and sleight-of-
hand, he let's the wheat fall. Because
tilC WIicdG Is ilOt SUlluly uUICSStu III
the kettle it is possible by manipulation
for four different grades to be made of
the same wheat. The wheat may be
the first quality of wheat, No. hard,
but by this device it is made to appear
to be only No. northern, which is
grade lower, and between which two
grades there is difference of four cents
per bushei. Running it down to the
lowest grade, which the agent is able to
do by skillful practice. there ls a steal
OF as much as IL cents on the buShel.
Second-This is the use of a seive so
coarse that it permits kernels of wheat
to go through it and fall on the floor.
The seive is used in determining the
amount of dockage- that is. the amount
of dirt or refuse in the wheat which
! must be subtracted from its proper
| weight. By the use of seve with
| coarse meshes the country agent is
alleged to steal five, six or seven
| pounds. as the case may be, out of
| buShel of wheat which weighs sixty
! pounds.
Third-The charge is made, and is
accompanied by an illustration, that the
country agent has board under the
| floor of the elevator, one end of which
is communicated with by nail under
! his foot. over which nail he puts his
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
The Nefarious Robbery Aided
and Allotted by the Repub-
lican Cabal.
Whitening Expose Of the Crime
Made by the Chicago
Herald.

Farmers In the wheat-growing states
Of the Northwest will be astounded by
The revelations made in book which
will be issued from the press today, and
which will lay bare for the first time
the vicious workings of combination
of elevator men, millers and railroad
men to deceive and swindle the farmer,
the merchant and the world at large.
For years it has been known that COM
bine existed in the Northwest to control
the output of wheat, but so widespread
and so powerful was its influence that
1t successfully baff1ed the efforts of con-
scientiouS men to expose its iniQuity.
The home of the ring is in Minneapolis.
From this favored point it has been en-
lbled to fasten its fangs upon such
great wheat-growlng states as the two
Dakotas, Washington and Oregon. But
while it was reaching out to delnde and
Iwindle the farmers of those states it
did not overlook the wheat-growers of
Its own commonwealth.
The Startling Publication
links the names of United States
Senator Washburn, Charles Pills
bury, the flour king" and
other elevator and milling men and rep
resentatives of the great railroad inter
ests to the Infamous ring. and the array
of evidence which it produces in eighty
pages of closely printed matter cannot
have any other effect than to bring the
thousands of farmers in the great wheat
belt to realizing sense of their peril
and an understanding of their impov-
erished condition. Throughout this
reign of Stealthy robbery and incredible
duplicity the combine has enjoyed the
all-powerful immunity which the Re-
publican par ty of Minnesota could ex-
tend to it. The exposure, now SO COM
plete and so unanSwerable, involves
not only the potent influence of the
men already named, but II. l.. Loucks,
president of the Farmers Alliance of
the United States, who is now Oh the
stump for the so-called Peoples party
In Texas, and who it is charged in the
book was brought under the influence
of Pil!sbury in most remarkable way.
No Escape for the Farmer.
The story of the Infamous career of
the ring explains to a great extent the
miserable condition of the farmer in the
wheat belt of the Northwest. At nc
time during its reign could he escape its
clutches. From dawn to dusk of each
day conspiracy existed ard still exists
to rob him of the full value of the result
of his toll. Out of this systematic plan
of robbery the ringsters have been
enabled to grow richer and richer and
to strengthen the gripof the Republican